History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men

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BOROUGH OF COLUMBIA. Old Taverns.

— When

William and Amos Green, offered the property on the 24th day of December, 1814. in progress, John Reynolds (father of Gen. Reynolds, who was killed at Gettysburg in' 1863) and Jasper Slaymaker, a young lawyer of Lancaster, while on their way to Marietta, and when passing called out to the crier, "Six thousand seven hundred dollars !" They thought nothing more of the matter, but received notice that they were the highest bidders. And thus they became the owners of the " Ferry House." They held this property for twenty years. The erection of the bridge over the

John Wright procured a

tors,

charter for his ferry, he erected a tavern, which stood

at public sale

on the north side of Locust Street, opposite the depot of the Reading and Columbia Railroad, in the year

While the vendue was

1730.

was built of

It

two

logs,

stories high,

with a

large room at either end, with a passage-way between. John Wright, Jr., was the first person who kept this tavern.

He

remained thereuntil he married,

when he removed

to the

in 1734,

western side of the ferry,

where he built a hotel.

John Lowden, of Revolutionary fame, kept House prior to the war. He was the son of Richard Lowden, who married John Wright's daughter. He removed to Buffalo Valley, upon the Col.

the Ferry

river destroyed its profits. to

John Guy,

West Branch of the Susquehanna, from which place he raised a company of volunteers and marched to

He

Boston

ington

Joseph Jetfries came from Quaker stock in Chester He removed from there, about the year

County.

Hellam township, York

Co., where he kept was wagon-master for York County during the Revolutionary war, and at its close, in 1783, he removed to the east side of the He referry and took charge of the Ferry House. mained there until the year 1794-95, when the heirs 1774, to

He

of James Wright erected a

new

brick hotel near the

northern line of their property, the

site

of which

is

now occupied by the round-house of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, when he took charge of the new hotel. He removed to Lancaster, where he also kept hotel.

Frederick Stump first settled at Vinegar's Ferry above Marietta, after he came to this country from Germany. On account of malarial fever, wliich was then prevailing among the settlers along the river, he

removed to Maytown, where he commenced to keep tavern about the close of the Revolutionary war. From theuce he removed to Columbia in 1796, and rented the Ferry House and ferry. On the 14th day of February, 1798, he purchased twoacresand LotsNos.l, 2, and 3, which adjoined the first-named tract on the south, and all the boats belonging to the ferry, from Samuel Wright for the sum of two thousand eight hundred pounds. The hotel, which was new, stood on Lot No. 1. The two acres mentioned Mr. Stump sold to Samuel Miller, who laid the same out into lots. The ferry was the most profitable one on the tiver. He purchased the extensive brewery on West King

House in Lancaster City, which he afterwards sold to C. Barnitz, of York, Pa. He also purchased a large number of lots in Columbia. He died in Columbia in 1804. His widow and Sam-

Street west of the Stevens

uel

Evans, administrators of his estate, sold the hotel

and other' property to Samuel Miller,

who

rented the

hold and ferry to Joshua Ring. He also ran a line of stages from Lancaster to York. Mr. Miller sold the hotel aiid ferry-boats to Thomas Brooks Feb.

14, 181.4.

The

latter died before

tained possession of the property.

he ob-

His administra-

They

sold the property

the famous hotel-keeper of Baltimore.

was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. He to this county in 1815 and leased the WashHotel at Big Cliikis, where the Lancaster and Mount Joy turnpike crosses the same. He also established a line of stages, which ran between LanFrom thence he removed to caster and Harrisburg. Marietta and kept hotel in the large brick building adjoining Abraham N. Cassell. He purchased a farm a mile farther east, along the Lancaster and Marietta turnpike, from whence he removed to Columbia. His daughter, Ann, married the late Maj. Frederick Haines, of Donegal. The hotel was afterwards purchased by Joseph Black, and was thenceforth called Black's Hotel. After his decease it was purchased by his son, Joseph H. Black, who, by his integrity and good management, built up a very profitable business. He sold the property to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Their " round-house" occupies the spot where this famous hostelry stood. The " Sorrel-Horse Hotel" was built by Joseph Jeffries, who had been keeping the hotel upon the west-

removed

in 1776.

the Ferry House.

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ern side of the river.

It stood at the

corner of

Walnut

and Front Streets, the site of which is now occupied by the passenger depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. It remained in possession of the Jeft'ries until 1835, when Frank Boggs, who married Maria JeUries, purchased the property and enlarged it at the northern side. After the death of Mr. Boggs the property was leased by Chip. Parsons, Mrs. Ann Haines, and that prince of landlords, John Burr.

On

the opposite corner, adjoining

the store of

Houston, Barber & Gossler, the Washington Hotel was built by Jacob Gossler, who removed the old frame building, and erected a three-story brick addiHe was followed by Daniel tion fifty-one years ago. Herr and Joseph H. Black, and it is now owned by the The reputation of the house has always been latter.

"No.

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town was laid through which wagons passed Hence there were to the ferry was Walnut Street. several hotels along that thoroughfare which did a There has been no hotel on that large business.

For a period of

forty years after the

out, the principal street

street for

many

owned by

Cul.

years.

The

large brick building

now

McClure was owned by Charles Odell.

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

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Joshua Ring also kept the tavern. Occasionally a wandering theatrical troupe gave performances at this hotel.

Reuben MuUison kept the hotel on the east side of Commerce Street. He was also largely interested, Thomas Collins and others, in several

with the late

When

stage lines and was a railroad contractor. first

came

to

he

Columbia he ran the river in the spring He was a very active citizen.

of the year as a pilot.

His daughter married Thomas A. Scott, the great railroad magnate.

Charles Odell came from the State of

New York

and settled in Marietta, where he remained one or two years. He married Miss Lockard, of Hempfield, and removed to Columbia, and took charge of the

eighty years ago.

It stood

on the north side of Locust

Columbia National Bank. Moses Montgomery built a frame tavern on the north side of Locust Street above Third Street eighty years' ago. He had been in the Irish Rebellion, and came to 4nierica about the year 1799, and settled in Columbia. He raised a company of volunteers in 1812, and was preparing to go into the field when he got into a scuffle with Paul Wolf, who shot Street, near the

through a window at a candle in liis house out of pure mischief. He was thrown upon a pile of rails in front of the tavern, and had his collar-bone broken. In the early history of the place " cherry fairs"

and "harvest homes" were quite common. They frequently lasted several days. These were profitable

hotel west of Mullison's.

seasons for the landlords.

The " Black Horse Tavern," at the corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets, was kept by one Getz originally. He was follo^ved by Henry Knight. Jacob Corapfort kept the brick hotel on Locust Street, on the east side of the Reading and Columbia

The little corn or grist-mill Old Grist-Mills. which stood on the north side of Shawanese Run, a few hundred yards above its mouth, was built of .stone, two stories high, and about twenty-five feet square, in the year 1735. It was erected upon land of John Wright, and built by his son, James, and Samuel

Railroad depot.

James Sweeny kept tavern

in

a frame house which

stood back from Locust Street fifteen or twenty yards,

upon ground which

is

now occupied by the

'"

Franklin

House."

"The Lamb Tavern" was torn down a few years ago to make room for the Columbia National Bank, on Locust Street, between Second and Third Streets. It was a noted tavern in its time. There was a large yard attached to this property into which wagons could be driven, which made it a desirable place for teamsters to stop over night. The Kendricks, Binkley, and Michael Streiu (and his son, Jacob, many years after him) kept this tavern. Ezekiel Cook came from Little Britain township about the year 1812, and first kept tavern in the frame house, of which the Franklin Hotel is the successor, on Locust Street, near Bank Alley. He removed to Marietta, where he kept tavern a few years, when he returned to Columbia again, where he died fifty or more years ago. He was a candidate for sheriff in 1827, but was defeated. The " Washington Hotel" was built by Jacob Gossler. He was the son of Philip Gossler, who removed from York to Columbia about the year 1798 and established a coal- and lumber-yard. His son,' Jacob, married Miss Stump, daughter of Frederick Stump, wlio owned the ferry and Ferry-House. He dealt largely in real estate. Tliere were I'ewer changes in the ownership or management of this hotel than in

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Blunston, the old pioneer

settler.

The stream was

not large, but there was ample fall to turn an "overshot" wheel of more than twenty feet in diameter, which gave all the power required to drive the

machinery long enough pioneer

to grind the grists of the

settlers.

Samuel Blunston made his will in 1745, and devised to James Wright one-half of the "corn- and grist-mill." This little mill ran day and night in the spring of 1755, grinding flour for Braddock's army, and in 1758 for Gen. Forbes' army. The flour was packed in kegs and carried on pack-horses over the mountains to Fort Bedford. And upon several

other occasions the colonial authorities called upon

James Wright

to supply flour for the use of the asso-

ciated companies of rangers along the frontiers, and

supply the vagrant Indians at Turkey Hill. This mill and land belonging to it descended to Samuel Wright, the oldest son of James, and the founder to

of Columbia,

who conveyed

it

to his brother,

John,

laid out that part of Columbia called "John Wright's addition" in the year 1788. On April 1, 1807, James Wright, Jr., son of John, sold the mill, shad-fishery, and filteen acres of land to John Halde-

who

man, who sold the same, April 14, 1812, to Rudy Herr, Manor township, for six thousand seven hundred Jacob Strickler and his brother-infifty pounds. law, George Weaver, purchased this mill about the of

and

year 1818 from

Rudy

Herr.

They

tore

down the

old

any of the others. Tiie " Pine Creek Hotel" was kept by Mr. Withers fifty-five years ago, who was succeeded by the late Cornelius Tyson. It is located on Front Street below Union. Brown's tavern was kept by Jeremiah Brown, who

stone mill and built one of brick at the corner of Mill and Front Streets. It afterwards came into pos-

came from Little Britain, seventy years ago. The "Swan Hotel" was built by Samuel Eberleiu

run by steam power. The Fairview Grist-Mill

session of

William Atkins, Jonathan Pusey, George

Bogle, and is now owned by McBride and Maulfnir, who have introduced new machinery, and manufacThe mill is almost wholly ture " new process" flour.

is

located on the north

BOROUGH OF COLUMBIA. bank of Barber's Run near its mouth, at the southem boundary line of tlie borough. This mill was by James Barber, son of Robert Barber, the pioneer settler, about 1780. On the 7th day of May, 1791, William Barber, Esq., of York, and oldest son of James, sold the mill and fifty-seven acres of land to Judge William A. Atlee, of Lancaster, who resided in the mansion which stood where E. K. Smith, Esq., This property was sold by order of the Orresides. phans' Court. On the 28th day of August, 1795, Alexander Scott, Esq., and Mary, his wife, sold the onehalf to Alexander Anderson, who was sold out by Sheriff Michael Rine May 15, 1801, and purchased by James and William Miller. On the 11th day of

'built

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delphia in 1802, where he embarked in the iron and

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shipping business. He died on his farm at " Steamboat Hotel," in Chester County, Dec. 18, 1845. He

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left

and William Miller, of Washington County, and Alexander Anderson, of Lancaster, conveyed the property to John Haldeman, of Donegal, Mr. Haldeman land Jacob Strickler, of Hempfield. 'sold his interest to Mr. Strickler, from whom it went 'to his son, Jacob, and the latter's son-in-law, Ephraim Hershey, who sold to Samuel Truscott, Michael Shuman, and J. W. Stacy, who now own it. The first saw-mill erected at Columbia or neighborhood was built by Robert Barber, the pioneer settler in 1727, in the meadow boluw his dwelling, which stood near Kauffman's stone-quarries. There is noth-

Vaughan, a daughter, married Rev. Riley, of MonJoseph Smith married Mary, daughter of Col. Persifer Frazer and Mary Worrall Taylor, who was

trose; j

the granddaughter of Isaac Taylor, the surveyor of

Chester County. progenitors of a

William P. Beatty was appointed postmaster by Adams in 1802. He was the sou of

President John

Rev. Charles Beatty (of Log College memory) and Ann Reading, daughter of Governor Reading, of New Jersey. He was born in Neshaminy, in Bucks County, March 31, 1706, and died in Philadelphia, July 28, 1848. When Jefferson was elected President another postmaster was appointed. In 1825 he was appointed

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postmaster under President John

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which

front of

Walnut Street, adjoining Bank Alley. While hunting upon Mifttin Island, above the bridge, he was accidentally shot by a friend

The shore sloped gradually, and

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from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred Although he was not subject to fifty dollars. military duty, he procured a horse and marched with

form a pool

to float

and

across the river in 1838, to

boats to the

hanna and Tide-Water Canal

He was elected and re-elected eleven fifty-eight years. aged 1843,

times.

had a profitable owned by James Mifilin, Esq.

dam

The Wrights, who were

in 1831,

He died Jan. 22, In the year 1807 the quarterly receipts of the office were fifteen dollars, and for the year 1815 they were

there was a

which the old bridge ran, fishery on the west side. It was

erection of a

a minority in the county.

as stated,

Federalists, all united in his support.

Mifilin's Island, across

The

killed about the year

was elected sheriff in whose party was then in

His son John,

mayor of Lancaster

gravel bottom.

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and

1818, although a Democrat,

1804.

Robert Barber also liad a fishery opposite his land below John Wright's. The entire shore in front of the town was well adapted for fishing with a drag

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1807,

of the county in 1818.

James Wright and his lieirs. After his death, when the property came to be divided, in 1788, his son, John Wriglit, established a fishery near tlie mouth of Shawanese Run, which was sold with the Shawanese mill properly.

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in

of Lancaster, in the brick building he erected on

dam

seine.

Quiney Adams,

he held for twelve years.

and retained the position

ibelonged to

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ofl5ce

John Mathiot was appointed postmaster

the public ground, and

fish-

ferry, in

and Frazer were the military and

one established was at or

along the shore prior to the erection of the

.near the

Mr. Smith

number of distinguished

civil officers.

until he was elected sheriff His father, John, was a Huguenot, and came from France to Lancaster about the beginning of the Revolution. He removed to Columbia in 1798, and opened a dry-goods and grocery-store in connection with Michael Gundecker,

now left of it. Shad Fisheries.— There were but three shad first

Elizabeth; Rhoda;

ber of the Chester County bar; '

ing

The

mem-

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across the river.

Persifer

Court of Pennsylvania, and a distinguished

Pa.,

eries

:

Frazer Smith, Esq., late reporter of the Supreme

Iphia, I

several children surviving him, to wit

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August, 1801, James Miller, merchant, of Philadel-

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Capt. Jacob Strickler's

mouth of the Susque-

in 1812, expecting to

etfectually destroyed all

company

to

Kennet Square,

be mustered into the service of to some informality they

Owing

of the fisheries above that point.

the United States.

andPostmasters. ^Joseph Smith came Columbia about 179.3, and opened a store, in conJames Wright, in the lower room of the old Ferry House, which stood on the north side of Locust Street, near Front. \ post-oflice was established at Columbia in 1797, and Mr. Smith was ap-

were not mustered, and the company returned

Post-Office

to

Co-

to

lumbia.

nection with

Philip Eberman, a brother-in-law of John Mathiot, was appointed postmaster in the fall of 1818, and re-

pointed the office

for

first

postmaster.

The

receipts of

the year 1799 were $10.44.

He

tained the'position until he was succeeded by William P. Beatty, in

182.'j.

In 1837, Dr. F. A. Thomas was appointed postmaster under the administration of Martin Van

the

was the

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eighth child of Col. RoTjert Smith, of Chester County,

and was born Sept.

24, 1770.

He removed

to Phila-

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Guilford G. Claiborne was appointed postmaster

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

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under Gen. Harrison's administration iu tlie spring But for an accident he probably would not have received the appointment. After it was known in Columbia that Gen. William H. Harrison was elected President, in November, 1840, the Anti-Masons and Whigs of that place concluded that they would celebrate the event by firing a salute with a cannon in honor of the event, in the orchard of John L. Wright, between Second and Third Streets and Alleys " J" and " K." During the of 1841.

night before this was to take place some person When the file.

spiked the cannon with a rat-tail

time came to fire the salute there was great disappointment among the friends of Gen. Harrison. Col. Amos S. Green, Mr. Claiborne, and others, after working for more than an hour, succeeded in getting out the file, and proceeded to announce the fact by After firing it firing the cannon in rapid succession. three times, and Mr. Claiborne and William Dickey were forcing a wadding of sod down upon the powder, a boy attempted to jump or run across in front of the cannon, when he fell. Abraham Myers, who had his thumb upon the touch-hole, raised it, when the charge went off prematurely when Claiborne and Dickey had hold of the ramrod. The former had his arm shattered, which had to be amputated above the elbow. Dickey was knocked insensible, but recovered. There was a great deal of sympathy for Mr. Claiborne. He was appointed postmaster, a position he retained for twelve years. He was succeeded by A. P. Modernell in 1853, who died while in commission, and his widow

succeeded him, and held the position until 1861, when Henry H. Fry was appointed under President LinHe also died while in comcoln's administration.

widow was appointed to succeed him, and retained the position for twelve years, when Henry appointed, and is now the postmaster. Mullen was He enlisted in the " Cookman Rangers" in April, 1861, and marched to Camp Curtin, mustered into the United States service in Co. K, Fifth Regiment Pennwas sylvania Reserves, on the 21st of June, 1861

mission, and his

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appointed quartermaster-sergeant of that regiment in November, 1861 served three years, and was in all of the battles with the Army of the Potomac. After the ;

expiration of his term of service, on the 6th of June,

and was appointed One Hundred and NinetyRegiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was

1864, he re-enlisted as a veteran, first

first

lieutenant of Co. A,

taken prisoner at Weldon Railroad, below Petersburg, Va., on the 19th day of August, 1864, and was imprisoned at Libby, Va., Salisbury, N. C, and Danville,

He

Va., where he remained

was' mustered out with the

1645.

The

March 22, 1865. company June 28,

till

business of the office fur the year ending

amounted to iJ7822.88. Taxable Inhabitants in 1814-15,-The

in July, 1883,

the town during the war of 1812

shown by the following most of

whom

list

size

of

uppro.xiiiiately

is

of ta.xable inhabitants,

were heads of families

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BOROUGH OP COLUMBIA. 1827.— Chief Burgess, Robert

Joseph Mother, innkeeper, 1S29.

Moor.

Pliilip

Samuel

C.

Burgess, Jacob Matliiot.

Sjiear; Assistant

1828.— Chief Burgess, Robert Spear; Assistant Burgess, George Zeig-

Jacob Marley. niifman, innkeeper.

— Chief Bui-gess, John

Barber; Assistant Burgess, Jacob Mathiot.

lS30.—Cl^ief Burgess, Joseph Cottrell; Assistant Burgess, John Gonter,

McKean, lumbe

Jr.

Steplieu Bojer, minister.

1831.

Julin Bennet.

—Chief

Burgess, Joseph Cottrell; Asaistant Burgess, John Bar-

E/.ekiel Cook, innkeeper.

1832.— Chief Burgess, Robert Spear; Assistant Burgess, Michael Way. 1833.— Chief Burgess, John Ainis: Assistant Burgess, John Swartz. 1834.— Chief Burgess, Robert Spear; Assistant Burgess, Jonas Rumple. 1836-3G.— Chief Burgess, Robert W. Houston Asaistant Burgess, John

Joniitlian Clmlfant.

Kol.ort Clialfiint, blacksmitli.

Iknjamin Cumuiings JoiiuUian Deen, innkeeper.

;

Swartz.

Ilugli Dougherty, liatter.

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837-38.— Chief Burgess, John Arms

;

Assistant Burgess, John Swartz.

1839.- Chief Burgess, John Arms; Asaistant Burgess, Francis Boggs. 1840.

Henry Fialier. James Given.

Wm.

1841.

Isaac Vaughan, innkeeper.

Joseph Hunt, store-keeper.

William Hassen, innkeeper. Michael

Heisely,

gate-keeper

a

bridge.

James Jordon. Jacob Johnson, shoemaker.

John Way aith. Joseph Wade. Henry Welsh, shoemaker. Jaeob Witmer, lumber merchant. Slicliael May. Samuel Watt, shoHmaker. Paul Wolf, carpenter. Henry Quest, cabinet-maker.

William Kruchman. Jacob Loilheiser. innkeeper.

— Chief Burgess, John Arms Assistant Burgess, Samuel Slathiot. — Chief Burgess, John Arms; Assistant Burgess, Francis Boggs.

1843.— Chief Burgess, Richard Derrick

1844-45.— Chief Burgess, Tliomas Floyd; Assistant Burgess, Francis Bradley.

1840— Chief

Burgess,

Samuel

Grove;

1647.— Chief Burgess,

William

I'attun

1848— Chief Burgess, James Jordon

datlii

in

McClure, gunsmith. Mans, Jr., watcliDian.

in L. Stake.

Christopher Cortpnian, cooper.

nry Steel.

David Duulap, teacher.

ins

H. Slaymaker, store-keeper.

Joseph Enes.

lliam Todd.

Peter Epley, store-keeper.

lies

Kllllan Epley, store- keeper.

uuel Standsbnry, schoolmaster.

Samuel Fahnestock. Dr. Samuel Houston.

ristopher Taylor

Dr.

Todd, shoemaker.

omas Wright, turner. nea Wilson, cabinet-maker.

John Hudders. John

Civiftiist.

Whitehill, store-keeper.

iiuel

in Zeigler, cooper.

— The borough was incorporated in 1814.

Tlie principal ofBcers from that time to the present :

1914.— Chief Burgess, Christian Bienneman; Asslstuiit Burgess, John Dicks.

1814.—Chief Bargess, John Dicks; Assistant Burgess, Michae| Elder. 1810,-Chief Burgess, William Vickiy; Assistant Burgess, Thomas A.

Wilson.

1817.— Chief Burgess, William P. Beatty; Assistant Burgess, Thomas A. Wilson.

1818.— Chief Burgess, James Clyde; Assistant Burgess, John Snyder. 1819.— Chief Burgess, James Clyde; Assistant Burgess, Hubert Ricli1821J.— Chief Burgees,

William

Grier

;

Assistant

Burgess,

;

Burgess, George

Assistant Burgess, George

;

Assistant Burgess, Daniel Clml-

fant.

lliani

lliam Roxberry, barber.

Assistant

Weaver.

1850.-

Alexander Cowen, book-keeper.

Burgess, Francis

Assistant Burgess, Francis

;

Bradley.

1849.— Chief Burgess, John D. Wright

Samuel Urown.

.Assistant

Bradley.

Weaver.

Benjamin Barrey, barber. John Briggs, tailor. Martin Currie.

James Long, caipenter.

were as follows

;

1842.— Chief Burgess, Samuel Mathiot;

B. Hunt, luml.er merchant.

Janies

;

Assistitnt

Burgess, Nelson

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. Robert Barber who are now members of the Society

Borough Regulator, Samuel Wrigbt. CouyicU.—A. a. Guiles, president Puttou,

;

John

C. Clark, secretary

Sliiimau, William H. Pfahlcr,

Sliiiliael S.

Williai

;

Samuel Filber

George TiUe, Williiim H. Hardmaii.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. April 13,

John Wright. Samuel Blunston. James Wright. John Houston.

1726. 1729. 1744. 1791.

1811.

Fra

K.

Hun

John R. Eberleiu James H. Hunter John W. Houston.

James ClyUe.

April 15, 1SC2.

Israel Kloyd.

April 14, 1863.

Thomas

April, 1865.

Floyd.

William P. Beatty. 18.i5. Michael Streine. 1632. Jacob F. Markly. 1825.

April 14, 1S40.

April

Thomas

15, 1845. Dr.

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uel

April, 1867.

George Moore.

scendants of the pioneer

Mayer. Samuel Evans. John P. Frank. April, 1881. George Young, Jr. W. HaynesGrier. April, 1882. John P. Frank. April, 1875. B. R.

Samuel Evans

May

several days.

April, 1873. S. S. Clair.

Fisher.

April 13, 1853. Jai

April 10, 1855.

Da

12, 1857. Tli"

tion to

ing, they built a log

some time after Their number increasliouses. meeting-house upon the south

Street, near Lancaster Avenue. and only speaker was John Wright, Esq. Tills settlement, composed entirely of Quakers, was the only one that ventured to locate upon the extreme frontier of the province. The heads ofthe.se families all entered public life, and mingled a great deal with all classes of people, and hence we find that they were not very strict in discipline, but conducted their meetings in their own way, and for thirty years they persistently refused to ask to come under the jurisdiction of Sadsbury or Lampeter Quarterly or Monthly Meetings. The records of these meetings occasionally make mention of a Wright or a Barber being "read out" for "marrying out," or for being married by a "priest," a term by which they desig-

Union

Their

first

nated a minister regularly ordained, without regard

any particular denomination to which he may have belonged. To their credit be it said that nojgreater offense was ever charged to them. It often required a great deal of patience and persistence on the part of Friends to induce them to send to these meetings to

a testimony against themselves for these departures

from the discipline of the society. If we follow number of the descendants of these pioneer Quakers, we will find that they

closely the history of a

wandered much farther away from the time-honored ciistdins

of the society.

Some

of

them entered the

military service of their country, and others strayed

oft'

some were not averse

to

into the civil service, and

the chase and

field sports.

There are very few,

if

Lampeter Monthly Meeting

made

applica-

to hold

an "in-

dulged meeting" on first and week days. Samuel Wright, the founder of Columbia, gave the society a lot on Cherry Street, near Third Street, in

Friends, and hekl their meetings for

they came in private

settlers.

In 1799 the Quakers at Columbia

Meeting-Houses— The Friends, or Quakers.— The pioneer settlers were members of the Society of

side of

:

Sadsbury and Tampeter Quarterly Meetings fre quently selected two or more of their leading men tc go to the Susquehanna and talk to the Henipfield Friends,' and occasionally a public speaker stopped But little impression was made there and preached. upon them until Jan. 1, 1790, when Job Scott, a celebrated Quaker, who came from England, and after an extended tour through the Southern States, along the sea-coast, where he aroused the followers of George Fox to renewed action. On his return he preached at Pipe Creek, Manallen, Huntingdon, Warrington, Newberry, and York, thence to Wright's Ferry, where he remained at the Widow Wright's for He preached a number of times at her house, and awakened a strong feeling among the de-

John Eddy.

Samuel Evans. April, 1872. Frank Conroy.

Kohert Spear. 9, 1650. Samuel Brooks.

W.

Clark.

Ev

April, 1871. Morris Clark.

Lloyd.

April

J.

Ebur

,

I

David E. Brinner. May 3, 1861. Samuel Evans.

1807. Kohert Spear.

1816.

858. I

April 10, 1860. Join Eddy.

I

Friends.

any,

of the many hundred descendants of John Wright and

meeting-house on. It was not, however, until the year 1810 that the meeting at Columbia was established by " Cain Quarter," and in 1812 they were allowed a " preparative trust, to build a

meeting."

The

present brick meeting-house was erected about (Under the head of schools further

the year 1800. notice

is

made of

it.)

There are now living

who claim

to

belong

to

in

Columbia but two persons

the Society of Friends.

casionally Friends from a distance

meetings, but

when they

Oc-

come and hold

are gone the building

i?

closed up, sometimes for a year or more.

The Methodist Church.— On

ilie

day

13th

o:

July, 1803, Samuel AVright gave Lot No. 160, as laid

down on the plan of "Old Columbia," which was the last number on the "plan," and was situated at the south corner of Alley " K" and Fifth Street, measuring forty-seven feet on Fifth Street, and extending along said alley two hundred and thirty feet. This lot was conveyed to the following-named persons Samuel Goff-, Benjamin Wright, John Wright, Christian Herr, Christian Herr, Jr., Abraham Herr, David Musselman, William Todd, Robert Magill, Thomas Lloyd, Abraham Groft", Owen Bruner, William Torbert, John Boehm, James W. Newcomb, and Isaac SwartzwalThis lot of ground on the west side of ter, trustees. Cherry Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets, measuring sixty feet front and one hundred feet deep, upon which they desired to erect a Methodist Church, was purchased when every species of property was inflated. A part of the purchase money was paid, and a mortgage was given for the payment of the balance. No building was erected upon this lot, and :

the congregation continued frame church in the alley.

to

worship

in the little

•

-

BOROUGH OF COLUMBIA. The

'trustees

of the Ebenezer meeting-house, for

Methodist Episcopal Church, erected a frame meeting-house ui)on the rear end of this lot, measuring about twenty-five feet front and fort}' feet long. The pulpit stood at the north end. For thirty years the

this

was

congregation had no regular pastor. The pulpit filled occasionally by an itinerant minister, who

traveled

around the

The trustees named Manor township. They

circuit.

above resided principally in belonged to the circuit. When a four weeks' and six weeks' circuit was established, there were ministers enough to assign a pastor once a week to each congregation. Sometimes several weeks would intervene before the same pastor came

to the

same con-

(This little frame church was purchased by Stephen ground, and erected another It was burned down, one for the colored Baptists. and a brick one erected in its place, wliich has been

gregation a second time.

building

Smith,

in

the

alley

who razed

it

to the

converted into dwellings.)

membership of this church increased very Their meetings were largely attended, and this little church building in the alley was found entirely inadequate to accommodate tliem. They were generally poor people or in moderate circumstances, and Tiie

two-story brick dwelling-house for the sexton. The following-named members remain of those who belonged toYhe church when it was first organized as

Dean, widow of Benjamin Dean; Samuel Grove, who has been a very active of this church for fifty years, and has built up a fine circulating library of choice books (he a station in 1833,: Abigail

member

married (second time) Maria, daughter of the late Ephraim Eby (" miller") who is also a member of the

His

church.

first

wife was a Miss Stacy, of Stras-

burg, in this county); Catharine Lightheiser; Pru-

dence Suydam, widow of the late Henry Suydam (who was a director of the Columbia National Bank), and daughter of the late James Given, lumber merchant.

The present

trustees

of the church

Abram

are

Bruner, Robert Beecham, Daniel Stape, Jr., J. R. Witmer, John Paine, Henry F. Bruner, Samuel S.

Ephraim Hershey, S. H. Hoffman. WoM.\x's FuRiiiGx Missionary Society.— Presi-

Klair,

fast.

dent, Mrs. Richard

W. Humphreys;

Mrs. M. Bletz, Mrs. S. S. Nowlen

Vice-Presidents,

Recording Secre-

;

part of the town,

Mrs. Ella Meiser; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Julia Kauffman Treasurer, Miss Emma Patton. L.4.DIE.S' CiiUKCii Aid Society.— President, Mrs.

found

Richard

buy a lot in a more desirable and erect a larger house, and they up-hill work to collect from the public at

they were not able to

it

tary,

,

W. Humjihreys;

Secretary,

Miss

Mary

in the

Paine; Treasurer, Mrs. S. J. Bruner. The present membership is something over four hundred and fifty.

minutes of the Methodist Church records. John Goforth and J. Ledmeni were ajipointed to go to the

Assistant Superintendent, A. G. Guiles; Secretary,

large.

In the year 1829 Columbia

1

553

on Second Street and seventy-five feet along Cherry Upon the rear end of the lot they built a Street.

is first

mentioned

place.

In 1830 it was a large circuit, and reported two hundred and eighty-two members. Afterwards it was called Strasburg and Columbia Circuit until the year 1835, when it was organized as a station, and Francis Ilodson was

its first

stationed preacher.

On

the 10th

Elder and his wife, Charlotte, conveyed to William Todd, James Little, Joseph Cottrell, Abram Bruner, Jacob Matliiot, James day of August, 1832, Michael

Giren,

Thomas Lloyd, Abraham

.Alartin, trustees

Sherrick, and

Henry

of the Methodist Episcopal Church,

forty-eiglit feet of ground fronting on Cherry Street, and extending north along the east side of Tliird Street one hundred feet to a twelve-feet wide alley. They erected upon this lot a brick building forty feet fronting on Cherry Street, and e.Ktending along Third Street sixty feet, with a basement-room under the entire building. A gallery ran around three sides. The pulpit was at the northern end. The building was remodeled and enlarged in 18-lG by adding fifteen feet to the northern end. The ceiling of the basementrooin w:is also raised about one fiiot. In 1851 this cliurch was partially destroyed by fire, and the congregation worsiiiped for a time in Odd-Fellows' Hall. The congregation purchased a lot on the corner of Second and Clierry Streets, upon which they erected a church building in 1852, measuring fifty feet front

Sunday-Schools.— Superintendent,

;

S. W. Guiles; Assistant Secretary, F. G. Paine; Treasurer, A. C. Bruner; Chorister, A. Bruner; Librarians,

Maxton, James Schraeder,

J. S.

Annerler.

I.

Cookman Chapel Sunday School— This chapel was erected by the Methodist Episcopal Church a few years ago, at the corner of Fifth and Locust Streets, and is sustained and owned by the mother-church, at the corner of Second ami Cherry Streets. The olBcers are as follows

:

Superintendent, Simon Cameron

First Assistant, J.

W.

F.

Nowlen

May

;

Second Assistant,

;

Panics; Secretary, H. B. Dean; Assistant SecLibraretary and Treasurer, William K. Nowden rians, Thomas J. Wright, J. S. Snyder, C. W. Steven-

G.

W.

;

son,

I.

E. Graybill,

Harry Bonson

;

Chorister, C.

W.

Stevenson; Organist, Mrs. Thomas J. Wright. The Methodist Church is in a prosperous condition, and the churoli buildings are free from debt. There

have been periods of dissension in the congregation, caused generally by trouble between the pastor and the congregation.

The term

of service of the former,

was shortened, and a change of pastors brought harmony again. But for this arrangement in the policy of the Methodist Episcopal Church it would have been split in two, and two or more churches would have been erected in the place, and both doubtless would have gone into decay for want

when

this took place,

,

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

554

Since 1835 the church has had the following pastors: Francis Hodson, 1835; William Roberts, 1836Miller, 1838-39; James Cunningham, James H. McFariand, 1841; Joshua HumDavid Gardner, 1844; William H.

Elijah

37;

1840;

phries, 1842-43

;

Stephen Townsend, 1846; William Barnes, 1847-18; William Urie, 1849-50; William Bishop, 1851-52; Joseph Mason, 1853; William Cooper, 1854; J. W. McCaskey, 1855-56; William Barnes, 1857-58; J. Y. Ashton, 1859; J. Aspril, 1860; J. B. Maddox, 18G1-62; H. R. Calloway, 186364; William Major, 1865-67 S. H. C.Smith, 1868-70; Robert J. Carson, 1871-73; J. Dickerson, 1874-75; Theodore Stevens, 1876-78; Henry Wheeler, 187981; Richard W. IIuiii|ihries, son of former pastor, Elliot,

1845;

;

1882-84.

Presbyteriau Church.— In the summer of 1808, Collin McFarquahr and Robert Cathcart preached in Columbia occasionally in the Methodist meeting-house. In September of that year an unRevs.

successful effort was

made

to organize a society

and

In February, 1806, Rev. Nathaniel Snowdeu,

who

erect a house of worship.

had

settled

in

began

Lancaster,

preach here

to

statedly every third Sabbath, sometimes in the odist

Church and sometimes

Meth-

a storehouse or in

in

private houses.

On P.

the 29th of August, 1807, he ordained William

Beatty,

Graham

Esq.,

Moses

Montgomery,

ruling elders, and

on

the

James

and

following day

administered the sacrament of the Lord's Supper to about twenty-two communicants. Mr. .S:iowden received from eighty to one hundred dollars per

annum

which continued till 1808. In the spring of 1809 Rev. William Kerr engaged

for his services,

.

for one-fourth of his time,

hundred dollars per year

and received about one his services. At his

for

suggestion the following application was, on the 26th of

March, 1810, made "

We, the

eulscribers,

to the

Presbytery of

beg leave

to state tliat

New

Castle

a few famlliea of

:

tliis

place, any twelve or fourteeD, associated together about four years ago

This society was organised in due form by Rev. ders were ordained, aud the ordinances have sinci been occasionally adniinist

mitted to the Dauphin County bar in 1820.

He was

always aggressive, and as a young lawyer displayed great energy and fearlessness in prosecuting what he believed to be wrong..

Lebanon and Dau]ihin

He

took an active part in an

district, for alleged oflenses.

In 1835 he was elected clerk of the House of Rep-

by a union of the Whig and Anti-Masonic members, defeating Francis R. Shunk, the Democratic candidate. In 1837 he was secretary to the convention which gave us the Constitution under which Pennsylvania lived from 1838 to 1873, and at the adjournment of that body was unanimously thanked. resentatives

The

in a prosperous condition.

banking house is located at northwest corner of Locust and Second Streets.

E.

the

and

officers are

in IMay,

This bank

president; S. S. Detweiler, cashier.

Esq.,

until the British withdrew and abandoned their contemplated attack on that city. In May, 1817, he began the study of law under Hon. Amos Ellmaker, attorney-general, and was ad-

unsuccessful attempt to impeach Judge Franks, of the

being allowed.

First National

with a capital of $100,000.

1863,

,

5G9

twenty-four hours after the British had burned the capitol at Washington, and was the youngest man in

colonel finds special pleasure in recounting his

services with that body.

In 1839 he cast his fortunes with Columbia, and

went theVe to live, having been elected cashier of the Columbia Bank and Bridge Company. The company had a nominal capital of $150,000, but actually not more than $80,000 to $100,000, as a bridge costing more than $175,000 had been swept away by an ice freshet in 1832, and the loss had not been wholly

made

The

capital was afterwards increased, first and in 1837 to $322,500, with a change of title to Columbia Bank. In 18G5 the bank accepted the national bank law and became the Columbia National Bank, with a capital of $500,000, at which it still remains, with a surplus fund of $150,OOO. He has thus maintained official relations with the corporation as itsj;ashier and president for fortyfour years, during a period the events of which are

up.

to $250,000,

matters of local history. Col.

Shoch was,

in 1842, married to Mrs.

Evans, daughter of

Amos

Hannah

Slaymaker, of Lancaster

County, who was the leading manager of the line of Her stages between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. death having occurred in March, 18G0, he contracted a second alliance in August, 1805, with Miss Anna E., daughter of Robert Barber, of Columbia, Pa. In 1848, Col. Shoch was appointed aid to Governor

paratory schools before the establishment of the pres-

William Johnson, which by courtesy conferred upon

fnt school system, and continued at the Nottingham Academy, Cecil Co., Md. His further education and preparation for professional life were the result of pergonal application directed only by himself As early as 1812 he was recorder of patents under John Cochran, secretary of the land-office, and re-

him the title of colonel, a title by which he known than by his Christian name.

corder of surveys

in

then surveyor-general.

Andrew Porter, In September, 1S14, he joined

(he office -of

(be Harrisburg Artillerists, a

til^W

company formed within

is

better

In 1800 the colonel was a member of the State committee of the Republican party, and a delpfiatc Convenlion at Chicago which nominated Abraham Lincidn, the martyr President. During the war he was foremost in deeds of charity and patriotism, ami i)rcscNtcd to the first company formed in Columbia a beantilul and costly silk flag.

to the National

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

570

He always took a warm

interest in our public schools,

version

his violin, an instrument of unusual excel-

is

affords hira many happy hours. With a mind fresh and vigorous, and with a. remarkable activity of body and buoyancy of step, he

which

and through his active exertions and liberal donations the"Shocli Library," in honor of its patron, was established. Col. Shoch also took an active interest in local enterprises, and was at one and the same time president of the Columbia Gas and Water Companies, the Old Public Ground Company, and the Marietta, Chestnut Hill and Washington Turnpike-Road Companies. He was also treasurer of the Reading and Columbia

lence,

Railroad Company, but resigned in 1862, before going

one-story frame building which stood on the north

abroad on a continental tour. He was for ten years president of the school board of the borough of Columbia, during which period a spacious edifice, devoted to the use of the public schools, was erected, He served a term as director of the poor of Lancaster County, two terms as county auditor, was a trustee of

side of Locust Street below

Normal School, and director of the If Wrightsville, York and Gettysburg Railroad.

ing for an

has reasonable expectations of passing

started

confidence, then Col.

Shoch was favored abov

practical printer,

who

learned his trade in the bor-

established a printing-office

Second

Street.

in a

In the

following year he purchased a half lot of ground oa

the south side of Locust Street, nearly opposite

frame shop.

Upon

this lot

brick house, to which he etc.

He

his

he erected a three-story

moved

his printing-press,

probably used the third story of this

build-

he did not plaster the walls. The reaction in business and values of all kind after the war of 1812-15 left hira stranded, and his property was sold to James Cyde, Esq., in the year 1818, Mr. Wilson returned to York, thence to one of the Southern States, where he remained for many years,

i

\

all

The colonel was always an active worker in the Sunday-school cause. In the early part of his professional career he was both a teacher and superin-

Some

office, for

of his descendants reside in Wrightsville, York

Co.

William Greear published a small newspaper in Lancaster called the Hire in 1804. He removed his etc., to Columbia in the year 1812.

tendent of the Sunday-school of the Lutheran Church

Within the

more

Tlie

He

ough of York.

his fellow-citizens.

iu Harrisburg.

in

—

Susquehanna Waterman was the year 1811 by Thomas A. Wilson, a

Newspapers.

the Millersville

responsible official positions are a measure of public

many

years of usefulness.

last ten years his jfouthful

job-printing press,

enthusiasm for the cause has been specially ened, and his active services as teacher of a Bible class in the Columbia Fifth Street Presbyterian Sunday-

In the winter of 181-1-15 he was elected printer of

the

" Rolls"

his

by the Legislature, and he removed

He

returned to Co-

school, together with the erection, furnishing,

printing-press to Harrisburg.

dowment

lumbia and commenced the publication of a newspaper called The Columbian on the 24th day of July, 1819, in a two-story brick building he purchased from Dr. Eberle. Alter publishing eighteen numbers it

of their beautiful chapel

and en(named "Salome"

in honor of his mother), attests the sincerity of his

motives. In 1854, and for several years thereafter, he maintained at his own expense a public nightschool, employed teachers, and furnished books, etc., for the benefit of apprentices and other young persons who could not attend school during the day, and was happily rewarded by finding the school well attended. Many of the pupils since grown up have become prominent and well-to-do citizens, who gratefully acknowledge the advantages they derived from the

lu politics he h anti-Democratic, is

a

in full

been uniformly and radically great admirer of Tliaddcus Steaccord with Reiiublicau adminisis

I

'

integrity.

Thomas

in

1840 by

Taylor, and edited by N. B. Wolfe.

romance called ran through several numbers seems to have knocked the life fore the story was completed

been an eventful and busy life, and even now, whe he has just crossed the threshold of his eighty-sixth year, not a single duty is neglected, not a responsibility evaded, and not au energy

The

the "Bandit," which of the paper, which

out of the paper.

Be-

the pai)er ceased

The Monitor was established by Dr. William

colonel's ha

relaxed.

Having

The C'u/umbian w^as published

,'

to

exist.

tration.

The

|

editor wrote a

enterprise.

vens, and

[

After six or was suspended for want of support. eight months it was revived. It was not self-sustainaltogether in a few ing, and its publication ceased months He reftioved his printing-press to Washingmoiuns. He was a Quaker and a person of strict ton, D. C.

faithfully performed the duties of cashier

of the Columbia National

Bank

for a period of thirty-

nine years, he was, in December, 1878, elected its president, and notwithstanding his age, continues his routine of duties, beginnin /^

BOROUGH OF COLUMBIA. Samuel Nelson was born cation

Burlington College,

at

New

Jersey; studied

medicine and pharmacy in Philadelphia in 1811 and 1812

;

returned to Columbia on account of

iiealth

ill

591

Gen. William married Miss Jacobs, of Lancaster' County. He was engaged for many years in the manufacture of iron in Centre County. He had several sons. • Part of the family went to California, and part

finished his edu-

in 1791;

;

He

spent his time in the field and saddle for two or three

to Missouri.

years (we cannot refer to the exercise

Dr. Samuel married Agnes Humes, of Lancaster. They had sons and daughters. The doctor died in W^ashington, where his family now resides. One of his sons, a prominent army officer, died young of

which restored the health of Mr. Samuel N. Houston without remarking that he was of uncommonly handsome personal appearance; that in those days before fox-hunting was one of the lost arts, while he was distinguished for all manly and athletic exercises, he was especially was an active member noted as a magnificent rider) ofCapt. Shippen's troop of horse of Lancaster County, in the war of 1812 entirely regained his health, and in 1816 married Susan Strickler, daughter of Col. Jacob Strickler; they had five children, John James, Henry Howard, Emily Strickler, Eleanor Wright, Martha Mifflin. He died November, 1878, aged eighty-seven years. John James married Ann Blakiston, of Philadelphia. He was for many years engaged in transportation in Pennsylvania and Western States; lived the most of his life in Columbia, a few years in Pittsburgh, and died in Philadelphia in 1869. His wife survives him. They had no children. He was a wonderful man, and though with a slight frame and delicate constitution, he by determination end pure grit accomplished great results, and of him we can say he-died as he always lived,— ready.' Henry H., the seconS son of Samuel N. Houston, waj early at work in a mercantile house, and soon

yellow fevdr in Havana.

Horatio was an officer in the navy, and died young. Sarah Jane married Dr. Harris, of Bellefonte, Pa., and after his death married Mr. Yardly, a prominent merchant of Cincinnati. He lived but a few years. She lived several years a widow, and died in 1881, and is buried in the family burying-ground, Pequea

;

;

—

left it for

.

Eleanor

W.

Martha

Mifflin,

in

Louise

name), was born at the Houston farm, Wrightsville, on the 3d day of October, 1820. He left school at fourteen to enter the mercantile house of Mr.

They went

strict integrity,

John

This was probably the

in this section of the country for

high moral character, always on duty

Proverbially he dealt in " everything that grew, was manufactured,

or consumed." I

Lancaster County, was Esquire

I

This gave those with him a knowledge of the value ftt' products and material rarely ob-

During the five years young Houston was with him, say from 1834 to 1839, the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad (Wrightsville to York), theTide- Water Canal Wrightsville td Haver de Grace), the dam across tiie Susquehanna River, and towing-path bridge were being constructed, and supplies for most of the contractors and laborers on tained in one establishment.

—

(

and Louise.

John married Gertrude Truxton, daughter of Commodore Truxton, and had sons and daughters. Several of the boys were in the navy, and daughters is

day

himself, and kept his boys at their post.

ton, ^rst referred

James Buchanan Houston, Pacific Mail Steamship Company.

its

life. Mr. Futhey was a man of large means, great industry,

j

Ihe sons,

in Wrightsville.

qualifying boys for a thorough busine.ss

reside with

One

Futhey,

best house in

a family of six children.

married officers in the United States army.

Washington, D. C.

HENRY HOWARD HOUSTON.

the youngest daughter, married

The only other branch of the original John Housto, that remained and grew up in Samuel Houston, of Pequea Valley, of which family we regret we cannot give a full account. He married Miss Hopkins, of Lancaster, and had cliildren John, James H., Franklin, William, Samuel, Horatio, Sarah Jane, Martha,

in

Henry Howard Houston, the youngest son of SamNelson Houston, and now the oldest living grandson of Dr. John Houston, of Columbia (bearing his

S.

now

living with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Dr.

uel

died at fifty-five years of age, in 1881.

Philadelphia in 1860, where they

is

Samuel Houston,

Columbia, aged seven years.

Stephen Greene, in Columbia, in 1855. to

Valley, Lancaster Co.

Martha married Col. William Baker, of this county. They have several children. She died in 1881.

that of transportation.

Emily Strickler died

died in California.

these works were furnished by Mr. Futhey, which,

with the bulk of the trade of the rich region within

of

five

president of

miles of

busine.ss.

Wrightsville, gave

him an extensive

Houston's associates in this house were

and daughters.

Samuel M. Smith, afterwards a successful merchant; Samuel D. Young, who went ea'riy into the transportation business at the Columbia Canal basin, and at

«;i
^j6'^Jic^

BOROUGH OF COLUMBIA. He

distinguished portrait-painters of that day. lued his art as a portrait-painter in

boyhood was passed, and wliere

tlie city liis

pur-

wliere his

many

friends

593

writing verse, of which he printed a small volume called "

Rhyme of an

Artist," for private distribution.

Pie contributed essays and poetical pieces,

some of

kept

which were

friend

Burton's. Ge«

V

Christian Stholl, April

:

,;

I

1861

;

1

,

,

.

ls51

;

Janiee Moore,

i.

Uri'ch,

May

M. Martin, April 14,1866;

;

C.

M. Martin, April 14,1871; J. H. Zeller, April 14, 1872 Robert McFadden, April 14, 1873 F. A. Ricker, April 14, 1874; U. M. Martin, April 14, 1876 F. A. Eicker, April 14, 1876; John U. Zeller, April 14, 1877; Rubert McFadden, 14,

1868; C.

;

;

;

April 14, 1878 1881; Robert

;

R. U. Long, April 14, 1870

McFadden, April

;

F. A. Ricker, April 14,

14, 1883. .

Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity.— Ori^'iiutlly tlie Liulierans of this neighborhood IbriiR'd a part of the JIaytown congregation, but in the year 1827 the Mount Joy members resolved to form a churcli of their own. They at first met in the school-house, but the society increasing in size

they built a cliurch in 1829 (the corner-stone being

August

which occasion there was preachThe building .ing in both English and German). committee consisted of the following persons Samuel Dyer, John Beard, Peter Lindenmuth, Henry Waltman. The society was organized and the church built under the pastoral care of Rev. J. Frederick Ruthrautt', laid

15th, on

:

who commenced Dec.

with the congregation

his labors

He remained as pastor until March when he was succeeded by Rev. John H.

15, 1827.

15, 1832,

Berneheiin.

After the severance of his connection

with the church, in 1838, Rev. P. Sahm became pastor, and remained until 1835. Since that time to the present the pulpit has been

filled by the following Rev. Miller, 1835-38; L. Gerhart, J. W. Menges, 1849-

ministers, viz.:

W. Heilig, 1845-49 W. Scheide, for period

1838-45; 50

;

G.

William G.

Christ, 1852-55;

;

of three months

;

J. U.

Laitzell, 185(i-62; D. P.

Rosenmiller, six months, 1865; a Committee of Conference, 1SG6-67

;

J.

katlin, 1868-73; G.

Lamicke, 1877-81. tion has been served

W.

Early, 1867-68

;

F. )V. Weis-

H. Tiabert, 187 3-77; Since the

last

iT. J.

H.

date the congrega-

by a Committee of Conference.

United Brethren.— As nearly

as

can be ascer-

tained, there was preaching by the United Brethren

Mount Joy as early as 1829. Revs. Neidig, Rupp, and the Lights (Felix, John, and Casper) were for year.s accustomed to preach in what was known as tlie OKI lieil .Sclioiil hoiif-e, which was used as a preachingphtce by a number of ministers of ditlerent denomiin

and

class-

In 1865-6G,

for the building of

a house of worship.

AcCir-

(now Florin) May

25,

George Geyer, S. S. Rover, George Eby, John Miller, and John Shroff as trustees, with instructions to build a church in Mount Joy, in conformity with the discipline of the United Brethren in Christ. The corner-stone was laid July 28, 1867, by Revs. E. Light and W. S. H. Keys, D.D., and the church building dedicated Jan. 19, 1868, by Bishop J. J. Glosbrenner, D.D., assi.sted by E. Light, Father Stehman, I. Carpenter, and others. The church edilice was erected under the pastorate of Revs. Hackman and Evers, at an aggregate cost of seven thousand dollars, about five thousanii dollars of which amount was paid at the time of dedication and the remainder in 1875, during the pastorate of Rev. J. W. Etter, at which time the interior was also refitted at considerable expense. At the Annual Conference of IMiS, Rev. D. 0. Farrell was appointed to the circuit and served one year, after which Rev. J. C. Mumma served two years. At the Annual Conference held in Mountville. Pa., March 8, 1871, Mount Joy was constituted a station, embracing Strickler's Church and the town tif Mount Joy, and Rev. John Fohl appointed the pastor for one year. The church was served from 1872 to 1875 byRev. J. R. Meredith, and from 1875 to 1877 by Rev. J. W. Etter. In 1876, Strickler's Church was detached from Mount Joy and united with- Spring Garden Circuit. In 1878 a i]arsonage was built adjoining the church at a cost of about two thousand five hundred dollars, under the pa.storate of Rev. J. K. Fisher. In 1879, Rev. M. P. Doyle, of the Allegheny Conference, was appointed preacher Id charge until 1881, when he was succeeded by Rev. G. W. M. Rigor, who served two years. The church, since 1868, has been steadily growing in numerical strength and moral influence, and now numbers one hundred and twelve members. Rev. J. W. Etter is 1867, appointed

1858;

6,

Janies A. Patterson, April 14. ISBa

14, 1863; C.

way

cuit assembled at Springville

JoluiHon, April 14, 18B6; George R. Hendrickson, April 14,1868;

Robert McFadden, April

kept up regular

I

r M. Martin, Aj.ril X. Shay, June 10, 1

I,,

in

cordingly the Quarterly Conference of Lancaster

ir Ilrii.eman, Aliril 9,1801;

l.-GI; Jtliu

9,

,

1

_.,:-..

I,

.

.',

EobertMcFadden, April

W.

'

-

I

l:,:l

M;uliu, April

\|ri;

i.j,

'

He

the Lutheran Church of this place, aud thus prepared the

Hininirltimrk, ISSn.

Justices

0.

I

;

;

leader.

Rev. L. Peters, who was then preaching on Lancaster Circuit, took up a Sunday afternoon appointment in

;

M.

as

pyiyer-meetings for a number of years.

;

1881

own churches. In 1860 Mount Joy, with George

nations before they had their

F. Kborle, ISGO; D. Boyce and P. Hel-

H. KuTlz and C. Cnil.B, 1871

S.

;

Eli

;

!

I

I

I

I

the i)resent pastor.

Methodist

Episcopal

Church.'— There

was

a

classnieeting oigiinized here about 1834, of twenty

members, of which Samuel Mehlrum was the leader. Susquehanna Mission was a circuit, of which Mount Joy was one of the appointments, and the years and preachers as they appear in the general minutes are as follows: 1836, T. B. Tibbies;

and

J.

A.Watson;

1838, T.

l.S;i7,

Kumplion

T. B. Tibbies ;

1839-40,11.

Sutton; 1841, J. Edwards; 1842, J. Edwards and

H. Wythe; 1843, E. Reed and

J.

W. Arthur;

J.

1844,

;

MOUNT JOY BOROUGH. K. Berridge and

L.

S.

pastor in March, 1845, and resigned in the spring of

Pancoast; in 1845 the circuit

Mount Joy, and the preachers were R. Mcin 184G the circuit was and A. W. Milby called Marietta, and the preacher was R. McNaniee; 1847-48, John Ruth 1849, R. M. Greenbank 1850, R. M. Greenbank and S. R. Gillingham 1851, M. D. Kurtz and W. H. Burreli in 1852, Mount Joy became a separate cliarge, and G. W. Brindle was preacher, and in 1853 was again appointed 1854, J.

1847, being succeeded

was called Naiiiee

;

;

;

Gracey; 1855-56, Thomas Montgomery; 1857, Kirkpatrick;

1861, T.

1862-63,

O.

J.

Howard;

Cook; 1858, J. M. Wheeler; 1859-GO, A.

W. Landreth

1864-65, J. Stringer; 1866-67, J. T. Miller; 1868, A.

Howard; 1869-70,

S.

A. Heilner; 1871, J. Robinson;

1875-76, 1874, J. A. Watson Dungan; 1877-78, M. Graves; 1879-80, W. H. Aspril; 1881-82, C. Roads; 1883. Thomas Mont1872-73, T. Harrison

;

;

J.

gomery.

Browne

The old church was built in 1837, and sold in 1867. The basement of the brick church was dedicated Jan. The whole edifice was completed and paid 12, 1868. for in 1882,— value 810,000. Thechurch waschartered Sept. 2, 1867. The parsonage, valued at $1500, on the same lot as the church, was built in 1877, and has

enty-five

;

is

the Sabbath-school, si.xteen officers and

members of the church are: Trustees, W. H. Metzgar (.secre(treasurer), A. H. Comp, W. C. T. Reed, A. B. Cling, B. M. Root; Exhorters, Alexander Dysart, H. H. Mellinger, W. C. F. Reed, J. T. The

official

H. H. Mellinger (president),' tary),

E.

M. Trexler

Wilson; Leader of Class No. of Classes Nos. 2

and

3,

1,

A. Dysart;

Leader

pastor; Sunday-school Super-

iutendent, J. T. Wilson.

First Presbyterian

,

Church.'— This church was

organized by the Rev. E. Phelps, of the Third Presbytery of Philadelphia, assisted by the Rev.

William

Ramsey, of the First Presbytery of Philadelphia, on

day of December, 1839, and consisted at that time of eighteen members. William D. Slaymaker the 1st

Brown were elected as elders, and David McNeely and Amos H. Slaymaker as deacons. Rev. James W. Phillips, of the Presbytery of Winchester, and John H.

waa unanimously elected pastor Feb.

3,

1840, (ind in-

by the Presbytery of Harrisburg on the 19th June succeeding. The charter of the church was obtained Aug. 4, 1840, and the present house of worship was erected that year. The trustees under the charter, who presumably superintended the building, were Joseph Pinkerloti, David McNeely, Sr., Amos 11. Slaymaker, James W. Hendrickson, and James

(talleil

of

l,iiifd.

Rev. James

W.

Philli[)s, the first pastor, re-

signed his charge in the sjiring of 1S41, fall

and from the

of that year until February, 1845, Rev.

lerved as stated supply.

H.Loomis

Rev. -J. Miller was called as

The Rev.

S. 0.

Pinkurlon.

Whitcomb

by the Presbytery Sept. 28, 1882. The Presbytery the same month appointed Rev. Robert Gamble as stated supply until the next meeting of the Presbytery, iu April, 1883, when, on the unanimous request of the

I

church and congregation, he was again appointed as a supply for six months. The elders elected since the organization of the church have been David McNeely, Sr., Dr. A. Sheller, E. F. Witmer, Jacob Staulfer, Rev. N. Dodge, Thomas G. Wright, S. C. Pinkerton, and John McFarland. Three of the elders died while members of the session, viz., David McNeely, Sr., Rev. N. Dodge, and Dr. A. Sheller. John H. Browne, William D. Slaymaker, Jacob Stauffer, and E. F. AVMtmer, having removed from the bounds of the church and received their certificates of membership,

The present

ceased to act as elders.

officers of the

church are Rev. Robert Gamble, stated supply and moderator of sessions Thomas G. Wright, S. C. PinkThe trustees erton, and John McFarland, elders. are John Pinkerton, John McFarland, S. C. Pinker;

ton,

Simon

J.

Eby, and

S. S. P. Lytle.

The Evangelical Church.— The

first book of lost, but the deed of house of worship stands shows that it was bought Oct. 13, 1843, of D. Maurer. The trustees of the church at that time must have been David Grissinger and Lewis Halmler, of Richland (by which name the western portion of what is now this borough was called), and C. Hannebeger, of

records of this church has been

the lot on which

its

Mount Joy township,— at to

whom

least they

the pro[)erty was deeded.

were the persons The same year

that this lot was purchased, Rev. John Hensel then being pastor, a church edifice was erected. This was

used for thirty-seven years, or until 1880, when the present structure was built. It was dedicated by

Rev.

W. H.

llershey July 25th, and since July 25,

1881, the society which w able territory, viz., Heidelberg, Tulpehocken, Miihlbach, Matthias Dietz's, Swatara,

Que-to-pa-hil-la,

Donegal, Warwick, Leonard Bender's, Lancaster, Mode Creek, Coventry (Chester County), Oley (Berh County), and Skippack and Goshenhoppen in Montgomery County. In 1747 the congregation was visited by Rev. Michael Schlatter, the "father of the Ee-

formed Church in the United States." The next pwThen camo tor was the Rev. Conrad Templeinan. Rev. Bucher, mentioned in the deed. He came to thii country as an officer in the Indian wars. His chnrgo" was even more^extensive than Ranch's. During th*

war of the Revolution, from 1777 to 1784, Rev. Joha' William Runkel became the pastor. He was suo-j ceeded by Rev. Ludwig Lupp. Then came the pas^, The old log cliurcl torate of Rev. Jonathan Heister. no longer met the wants of tlie congregation, and, in^ asmuch as a town liad been laid out and settled upoo the turnpike, a new church was built. Thus in 1815 the corner-stone of the present church was laid. Rev. Henry Shairner was jiastor. His pastorate wai

Kurz, 1786; P. Bentz, 1792; J. P. Ernst, 1802; J. P. Cramer, 1806; W. G. Ernst, 1812; J. Strein, 1815; J. Speck, 1823; F. Ruthrauff, 1829; J. H. Bernheim, 1832; L. Gerhart, 1838; William Gerhart, 1847; M. Souilhaiis, 1852; William G. Laitzle, 1854; J. W. Early, 1866; F.' W. Weiskotten, 1868; G. H. Tra-

the longest in the history of the congregation, extend

bcrt, 1873;

IL J. H. Lemcke, 1877; JG. S. Seaman, This congregation was formerly embraced in an extensive pastoral charge which included congre-

gregation passed under a cloud of adversity.

1882.

followed by Revs.

ing over a period of thirty-four years.

The

lot

on

which the new church was built was donated by Leonard Negley, and a few ye;irs later his residence was purchased as a parsonage. This was afterwardi sold -by the trustees.

After his resignation the

hems, who served brief

Ilelfenstein jiastorates.

Then

con^

He wa«

and John for

Hoff-

many

;

^m ELIZABETHTOWN BOROUGH. church was supplied by ministers from neighboring charges until 1857, when tlie Rev. John Nailhi became pastor. During his pastorate the congregation recovered much of its former strength tlie church was modernized at considerable expense. For some reason, however, the latter half of the pasthe

years

torate

witnessed a serious decline in prosperity.

resigned

in

He

1868, and was followed by Rev. J. G.

Fritchey as supply.

He

labored faithfully and suc-

during which time the church He was instrumental in erecting a fine parsonage. In 1874, Rev. J. H. Pannebecker, the present incumbent, became pastor. During his pastorate the congregation prospered greatly. The membership rose from sixty to one hundred and forty, the church was renovated and beautified, and the congregation may once more be cessfully for six years,

was roused into

among

ranked in

the St.

new

life.

the leading ecclesiastical organizations

community. Peter's

Roman

Catholic Church.'— Among

who

settled near Elizabethtown of

the first Catholics

whom we have

knowledge were Henry Eckenroth and family, Conrad and Andrew Gross, George Witman, Peter and Anthony Youtz, John Kauft'man, certain

who came here

about the year 1752. Almost contemporaneous with these were the Eckels (now called Eagles), Allwines, Wades, Myers, Masand others,

in or

Ovendorfs, Wilsons, and others.

tersons,

The

first

were held in the house of Mr. Henry Eckenroth, and as most of the people were Germans, so the priests who at that time attended this mission were German missionaries, whose headquarregular divine services

ters

tion

were with the Jesuit Father.s at Conewago, a stanear Hanover, York Co., Pa. In or about the

was erected near the present named St. Mary's of the Assumption. This building was in use until the year 1799, when the new stone church was ready for divine worship and called St. Peter's. Father Louis Barth, who lived and was as.sociated with the Rev. Michael Egan (afterwards the first Bishop of Philadelphia) at Lancaster, had charge of this then growing congregation in the year 1795, and to his zeal and energy this present old church is mainly due, and his memory is still warmly cherished by the children whose parents dearly loved Father Barth. On the 10th day of July, 1798, the congregation was visited by the Right Rev. Bishop John Carroll, the first and at that time the only bishop in the United States. The church continued to be in charge year 1708 a log church site

of St. Peter's, and

8

|

of the

inirish

prie-st-s

of Lancaster, notably

among

whom was Tlernnrd

the venerable and well-known Father Ktennn, who took charge of this mission in

till' year 1825, ;ind continued its pastor until 1832, when the Kcv. Michael Curran, wdio resides at Harrisburg, became pastor, under whose administration the rear portion was added to'the church, which gives

it

Father Curran was

present cruciform shape.

its

succeeded in 1835 by the Very Rev. S.J.,

who

in turn

W.

Steinbacker,

was followed by the popular Father

Piefcc Maher, of Harrisburg, Pa.

In the year 1840, the Rev. F. X. Marshall was appointed resident pas-

tor.

Besides

making many improvements

in

the

church. Father Marshall directed the building of the

parsonage which adjoins the church. shall

was succeeded

in

Father Jlar-

1853 by the Rev. M. Filan, at

present the honored pastor of the Church of the

An-

who in turn was followed by the lamented Father John McCosker, who at the opening of the late Rebellion entered the army as cliaplain, and after the war the good and patriotic Father John lingered a short time in the hospital at Philadelphia, where he died in 1865. At this time nunciation, in Philadelphia,

members of the congregation consisted James Ferry, Henry Shitz, Joseph Strauss, J. Lynch, J. Halbleib, Henry Boll, Andrew Wade, Anthony Herkenroether, H. A. Wade, Daniel O'Donnell, John and Francis Eagle. James Boyle, Edward Sweeny, Paul Witman, Conrad Shafler, S. Ulrick, the principal of Messrs.

and others, all well-known families of Elizabethtown and vicinity at the present time. The priest who succeeded Father McCosker was the Rev. Hugh Magorien, who died and was buried here in 1864.

Father John J. ilcllvaine then took charge, who in turn was followed by the Rev. Charles McMonigle, under whose pastorate an important addition was made to the parsonage. Father Neal McMenamia followed in the year 1877, and to his zeal and energy is especially due the opening of a way leading from the main street to the church, called St. Peter's Avenue, an

improvement

Father

useful as

McMenamin was

it is

beautiful.

succeeded

1879 by the present pastor. Rev.

J. C.

in

the year

Foin,

who has

been very successful in making many new and necessary improvements in and about the church. During

windows of beautiful deand figures were put in the church also a tower and bell were added. The bell, the largest in town, was presented by Mr. Henry Boll. Other improvements, such as jiaintings and statuary of rare beauty, were recently added, so that the church is one of the handsomest as well as one of the oldest in the county. The Church of God (Winebrennarian) was organized ill 1837 at the house of Michael Cramer, and Abram originally consisted of just six members, Brenneman, Michael Cramer, Mrs. M. Cramer, Jlartha Kopp, Hannah Kopp, and Margaret Cramer. The first preaching to which these people and a limited congregation listened was in the brick schoolhouse. This and other places of worship served the little cliurch as a place for weekly meetings until July, 1853, when their present church was finished and appropriately dedicated. Rev. John Winebrenner preacliing the sermon on that occasion. The first settled pastiirof the church was Rev. Jacob Keller, who located in lilizabcthtown in 1838. Following his pastorate stained-glass

sign

;

—

HISTORY OP LANCASTER COUNTY.

620 him,

came Rev.

H. Tliomas.

E.

Since liis time the succession has been as follows, the pastors usually serving two years: Revs. Joseph Ross, 1842 E. H. Thomas, 1844; Joseph H. Bambarger, George in 1840,

;

U. Horn, Thomas Strom, 1845 David Kaylor, 1847 Abram Snider, William Mulleni.x, Jesse Hafleigh, Jacob Keller, 1849; Carlton Price, 1850; Abram Swartz, 1852; Jacob Keller, 1863 J. Hafleigh, 1855; George Zeigler, 1857 Carlton Price, 1861 J. S. Staum, 18(j3; E. H. Thomas, 1864; A. Swartz, 1865; W. O. Oweu, 1866; Thomas Beam, 1868; J. W. De;

;

picion pointing to towards his arrest.

he was watched,

;

shong, 1869; J. C. Seabroks, 1872; J.

W.

Felix, 1873;

M. Speese, 1877 Joseph B. Lockwood, 1879 S. B. Howard, 1881 S. W. NaiU, 1882. The church has a membership of about seventyfive, is in a flourishing condition both spiritually and temporally, and has in the past year given indication D.

Shook, 1874;

S.

J.

;

of the latter by the erection of a fine parsonage at a cost of twelve

hundred

left

It

was not until 1869 that the people were g

lins; Cashier,

Samuel Eby

Samuel Eby.—The

Clerk,

;

small,

John

Hertzler.

progenitor of the Eby family

America, if tradition be correct, is Theodore Eby,' a Swiss Mennonite, who, having suftered religious pe^ secution, left his native place, and about the year 1700 settled for a brief time in the Palatinate, or Pfaltz,

Germany.

About the year

1716,

Theodore Eby,

came

six scjns, all of

or farmers.

A

is

whom

i'nw

now Leacock

settled

townshi[).

He

were industrious mechanic*

years later Peter Eby, a

him

relative

and is ministered to at present by the Rev. L. R. Kramer, who has three or four other ap[)ointments in

of Theodore, followed

the county.

County, one named Christian locating on Hammer Creek, another (probably Peter) choosing a home on

Post-Office.— It is probable that the Elizabethtown was established as early as 1781; and that

post-otfice

George Redsecker was the first postmaster. The mail was received and dispensed at his tavern, the " Black Horse," for many years. The names of the postmascannot be obtained, but the succession since 1832 has been as follows: 1832, James McLaughlin; 1836, Jacob Redsecker; 1840, Samuel Redsecker; 1848. John Lynch; 1852, B. F. Baer; 1855, John A. Gross; 1860, William Wagoner; 1866, Miss Annie Wieland; 1878, Miss Rosa Raudabush. The office lias been kept successively in the Black Horse tavern, J. Dyers' building, the stone dwelling of Robert Ross, in Andrew Dissenger's store-room, and in that of J. .V. & A. G. Gross, in Lewiu's building. Financial— Borough Scrip— A Bank.— During ters prior to the last half-century

the period of depression following the financial panic

to

America.

The

soqb

of Theodore settled in various portions of Lancaiter

Pequea Creek, these two forming the branches family

known

as the Mill Creek,

Hammer

of the

Creek, and

Pequea Ebys. Peter, a grandson of Theodore, was a farmer, and probably the first Mennonite bishop in He was ordained about the year 1800, the county. and creditably filled the position both in the United States and Canada for many years. Peter was a positive man, of clear, native mind, a natural orator, and, though making no pretense to a thorough scholaatio training, commanded, both in temporal and spiritual His death matters, the deference of his brethren. occurred April

The

6,

1843, in his eightieth year.

great-grandfather of Samuel, the subject of thil

who now Upper Leacock township, on

biographical sketch, was Peter Eliy,

settled in

what

a farm of

is

three hundred acres.

He

had

sons, Peter,

Samuel, Andrew, Henry, David,

of 1837 the borough, like several others in the county,

Christian, and John, all of

promissory notes, or, as they were afterwards contemptuously called, " shinplastcrs," in deiiomina-

whom

followed farming

redeem-

employments, and one daughter, Ann. These sons, in accordance with their religious faith, were non-resistants, though during the period of the Revolution, when Washington was hard pressed by the British forces, Peter and Samuel, the eldest sons, voluntarily shouldered their own guns and Joined the Continental troops, and were at New York when the After the seizure of a quantity of city was captured. wheat, in the barn of Samuel Eby, four ol his .sons joined the army at Valley Forge during the winter,

ing in specie the notes that were presented, he found

and, having served as volunteers uiuler Washington,

that he had redeemed about sjx hundred dollars' worth

returned in the spring to their farm labor.

i.ssued

tions of 61 cents (" fips"),

12.}

cents ("levies"), 25

and 50 cents, and probably some for larger amounts. These were quite a convenience to the business community. They were roughly engraved and printed on an old Franklin hand-press in this place by a Ger-

man

printer

named

the borough of latter place

more than had tlial

mnny

of

Lietli, as

INIarietta.

came

to fool

up

becji issued. tliu

were also those issued by

When

the burgess of the

his accounts alter

It

was' then discoveied

notes were counterfeits, and sus-

Samuel and Peter lived and died U|ilace on Jan. 1, 1880, being conducted by the Burgess and Council. Speeches were made by J. H. Brubaker, Burgess, and Councilmen II. A. Wade, B. G. Groff, and M. Hess, expressing themselves as well pleased with the company and its apparatus. Speeches

used for Council chamber and school-house.

condition of the

built at a cost of four

in response

It was hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty-two cents, and Col. A. Greenawalt, Samuel Eby, Petec Holler, Jacob FcH-n;, and F. S. Bryaiis were appointed trustees; Samuel Eby, presi-

W.

Director, R. S. Ross.

were made by President D. D. Courtney,

R. S. Ross, J. G. Westofer, and others. 'i'he first

fire

that the

company were

steamer was at Mr. Sweeny's, on

May

at with their

29, 1880,

when

BOROUGH OF MARIETTA. they did efficient service in keeping the control

and saving

tlie

under

fire

large warehouse opposite.

company

In January, 1881, the

elected officers as

Courtney; Vice-President, J. C. Redsecker; Secretary, H. C." Lewis. Sept. 5, 1881, D. D. Courtney was elected delegate to Fireman's Association, held in Maennerchor Hall, city of Reading. follows: President, D. D.

The company President,

elected officers for 1882, as follows:

D. D. Courtney;

Vice-President,

C.

J.

Redsecker; Secretary, R. J. Seitz. In January, 1882, the

company held

a ladies' fair,

from which they realized nine hundred and fortytwo dollars and ninety-six cents, with which

it is

in-

some time to huild an engine-house. The following are the officers of the company at the D.Courtney; Vice-President, J. C. Redsecker; Secretary, J. D. Weigand Assistant Secretary, Harry Huntsberger; Treasurer, Tobias Kehlor; Foreman, J. R. Dickr; As.sistant Foreman, J. D. Weigand; Chief Engineer, G. W. Redsecker; Assistant Engineers, J. D. Weigand, R. J. Seitz, J. B. Buch, E. E. Coble, J. G. Stautfer; Chief Hose Director, J. S. Groff; Assistant Hose Directors, Tobias Kehlor, S. Y. Heisey, D. D. CourtFiremen, H. C. ney, H. H. Brubaker, R. S. Ross Bryan, H. U. Coble; Finance Committee, A. DissinProperty Protectors, J. G. Stauffer, ger, R. S. Ross A. Dissinger, Tobias Kehlor; Janitor, George W. tended at

present time: President, D.

;

623

sou Sheaffer, Sebastian Keller, Benjamin Sheffer, and

Joseph Buchanan as cliarter members. Jacob Redsecker was elected Noble Grand Jackson Sheaffer, Vica Grand; Joseph Buchanan, Secretary; and Se;

Tlie lodge has

bastian Keller, Treasurer.

now

forty

members, and owns the building, valued at three thousand dollars, in wliich is its hall. Fidelity Beneficial Society.— Tliis organization was chartered and openeil business on the 17tb of September, 1879. The following were the original officers: President, Col. H. M. Brenneman; V^icePresident, Daniel S. Will Secretary, E. B. Bierman Treasurer, A. Dissinger; General Agent, S. R. Hackenberger; Medical Director, J. W. Coble, M.D. Solicitor, William A. Wilson, Esq.; Directors, David W. Crider, York B. B. Brenneman, Elizabethtown George W. Hoverter, Harrisburg; S. Hackenberger, Si-., Bainbridge; A. Dissinger, E. B. Bierman, H. M. Breneman, J. W. Coble, M.D., S. R. Hackenberger, ;

;

;

;

;

of Elizabethtown; Clerks, Daniel Will, Bainbridge; B. F. Baer

and

II.

H. Brubaker, of Elizabethtown.

XXXI V.

CHAPTER

;

BOKOUGH OF MARIETTA.

;

Redsecker.

The company at the present time has forty-five men on tlie roll as active nienibers, and is in a tloiirishing condition, with the prospect of increasing its

in the county.

Btrength.

—

Cornet Band. As early as 1840 there was a brass band in the borough which had been organized by Dr. S. Keller, an effective instructor, whose activity in musical matters has extended through a period of

The band had much

nearly half a century.

to

do

in

famous Harrison campaign of 1840, but became more meritorious by 1848, and from that time to 1856 reputation that extended to otlier towns. At

the

liad a

this

time the band had a uniform and a

fine

brass instruments.

Cornet

The

W.

K.

full line

of

present Elizabethtown

Band was organized July

body comjjrised Dr. S. Keller,

19, 18G7,

and the

Sr., as presiden|t.

;

S. L.

Jacob liuch, treasurer and S. Keller, Jr., leader. The band waa uniformed in the following year. In 187(3 it was Yetter, vice-president;

Jeffries, secretary

;

;

incorporated viz., S.

with the

Keller, Jr.,

fdllowing cliarter juembers,

W. H.

Duliling,

Henry

Sliarlock,

J. P. Ocsehgan, J. W. Murray, Greenwalt, Pliilip Singer, J. D. Dohner, J. A. Goble, L. Scheetz, J. C. ^tambangh, G. A. Schwan, C. B. Shcrbahn, H. Louer, Frank Rutherford, H. J. Seitz, and R. J.

John C. Red.secker, E. Oreiser,

Marietta is located on the left bank of the Susquehanna River, forty-eight miles from its mouth, and twenty-five miles below Harrisburg, the capital of the State. It is two miles long and one-fourth of In po|iuhitiou it is the third town a mile in width.

H.

J.

Weijfaml,' B. F.

Seitz.

Elizabethtown Lodge, No. 128, I. 0. 0. F., was Jac.b Redsecker, Jack-

instituted Sept. 29, 1S1.\ witli

Along the

river shore the

ground

ing back from four to six hundred

is

extend-

level,

feet,

and

is

times overflowed with water during a freshet. the

first alley,

ground rises

in

some-

From

running parallel with Front Street, the

Waterford, or the western half of the town,

gradually lor a distauce of two hundred feet to

a terrace three hundred feet wide,

when another and

more abrupt ascent commences, and runs tance of four liuiidred

ground

feet to

for

a dis-

ground.

The

town ascends more the level ground along the

in the lower half of the

abruptly, and continues to

northern boundary of

Second

level

Street,

the sloping

tlie

town.

The turnpike,

or

was cut and leveled alung the side of

hill.

Through the centre

there runs from north to south a

rises upon the farm now owned by Abraham N. Cassel, and passes through the farms of James DufTy it passes the borough line at a point between the lands formerly owned by James Anderson and David Cook, and thence through the laud of

stream of water, which

;

the latter to the IVuiiM-lvania Canal, into which

it

now empties.

The Town Laid Out.— Waterford upon land, contaiuiiig three hundred

was

out

laid

acres, taken

by Robert NVilkins, an Indian trader,

in

the

up

year

HISTORY OP LANCASTEfl COUNTY.

624 1719.

In the year 1727 he sold

it

to

James Anderson,

each ticket commauding a prize; the price of each

the minister of Donegal Church, who, in 1740, by

ticket to be fifty dollars,

James and Thomas. Thomas and Mr. Anderson's widow released their interest to James, who gave tlie same to his son James, who gave it to his son James, who laid out the t(jwn of

were

will giive it to his

sons

Waterford. In 1719, George Stewart took up several hundred acres of land adjoining Robert Wilkins on the east.

He

died in January, 1773, and

came

liis

eldest son,

John,

and in 1738 he took out a patent for three hundred and fifty acres and allowance. On the 25tli day of November, 1748, John Stewart and his wife, Ann, sold the land to David Cook, wlio gave his son David two hundred and twelve acres adjoiniiii,' Mr. .Anderson's laml, who gave the same to his son David, wh(i hiid out the town of New Haven. David Cook also gave to his son James oue hundred and filty-nine acres adjoining his son David's tract on the east. On the 1st day of May, 1786, James sold his farm to Jacob Nelf, of Hempfield township, into possession of

tlie

land,

who died in tlie year 1798, leaving several children, among whom was a daughter, Catharine, who married Henry Cassel after her father's death. On the 17th day of April, 1806,

Henry Acher, the executor

of Jacob Ned's estate, sold to Henry Cassel one hundred and si.vty-two acres of the Stewart land, which

was probably his wife's share in Mr. Nefl''8 estate. On the 1st day of January, 1814, Mr. Cassel sold off on the river, to Jacob Grosh, for fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Grosh laid the same out into building lots, which now constitute the eastern section of the borough, which he called Moravian Town, but it was nicknamed Buugletown, which latter name it retained forty-five acres of this farm, fronting

many years. By reference to

for

the plan of the borough, it will be tlie boundary lines of the farms belonging Mr. Anderson, Cook, and Cassel formed an acute angle with the river front. The surveyor, Isaac Tay-

seen that to

lor,

in

commenced

to lay out lands for the

Indian traders

1719, at a point a short distance

below Conoy

Creek, and ran his lines at right angles with the river front.

The

several farms to the south of that line

were surveyed

in

side lines were

made

the

the river approached

braced in Marietta, ran in an

same week and

year,

and the

parallel to each other.

the

its

easterly direction,

which made the river

front an acute angle with these division lines.

much

Where

lower surveys, now em-

course turned suddenly and

Thus

explanation of what seems to have been a very awkwardly drawn plan of the town. in

Additions.— On .Nov. Jiuhlic notice that

19, 1803,

David Cook gave

he was the proprietor of a " tract

of land adjoining Mr. Anderson's plantation at

An-

derson's Ferry, and that he had laid out a town, to

be named

one

lots,

New Haven,

containing one hundred and which he intended to dispose of by lottery.

and the

titles

to the lut«

be in fee simple and free from ground rents." extended to Lumber Alley, a few hun-

to

'Phis plan

dred feet east of the " run" spoken

of.

This

alley

was latd out at right angles with the river shore, and extended north until it intersected the line of James Anderson's laud, forming a triangle.

A

few years later

^Ir.

Cook

laid

out forty-eight

first town jilan upon the which he called "New Haven Continued." At the time this town was projected measures had been taken to construct a turnpike leading from Adderson's Ferry to Lancaster, for the river business had increased wonderfully. Lots sold rapidly, and

building-lots adjoining Ins east side,

we

find in the first

year (1805) the following

lot-

Shews Baugh, Adam Bahn, Bar4in English, Martin Crider, John Coble, Henry Conn, John Longenecker, Lewis Leader, Jacob Bituer, Henry Sharer, John Smith, Henry Witmer, John White. holders:

The

following

is

a listof taxables for the year 1807,

in addition to the other list, which indicates the rapid growth of the place: Philip Giesey, Widow Hyland, Alexander McCnllough, Christian Longeneckcr, Frederick Heinselman, James Mehatfey, James Walton, James Agnew, John Hess, William Hamilton, Reuben Armstrong (colored), Thomas Clark. Following is a list of taxables in New Haven for

the year 1812:

Widow

uf

Reuben A.m.stmiig

BOROUGH OF MARIETTA. the river Iota,

was

to

be kept open for the use of the town

clear of ground-rent."

Although Mr. Anderson started his town one year than Mr. Cook, from the start it grew mure rajiidly, anil kept ahead of New Haven until the two

later

were consolidated.

The taxables

in

Waterford

Jacob Bitncr.

for the

year 1807 were:

J'etel NHt-el,

Henry Danunee. John McGlaughl Oliver Cuchian.

Jacob Groili.

George Hayelop. Jobli

Lung.

Jol.n l.ever.

The taxables

for th.

year 1812: Frederick Khiie.

George Kueisley. Blicliael Lauius.

J„bnUnrn8, joiner.

625

:

BOROUGH OF MARIETTA. erected

keepers,

The

The

very rapidly.

of

list

taverns,

store-

;

One

of the out-

By reference to the may be seen a number of "lost many that have an existence which

and speculate in building lots.

ofl'

came but few were able

stream of specu-

Clerks,

,.

assured.

Civil

1

ough previous to Jto54 not being accessible, the "

be given 1830.-Cliief Burgess, 1831

)k34.-PieB.ilenl of

Towu Clerk, William McElroy. Town Clei k, Williuiii McKlroy. Town Cleik, Suuinel S. Crush. Town llcr k, Willium McElioj'. .iLrabam Wuilej; Town Clelk, A.

Abrabum Zublio

-Cliicf Burgcsa, John

SiJiiiigler

l»m.-Cliief Bur^eas, Suniuel I8j;l,— CliitlEuiBuss, S;iniuel

Town

;

;

Miller;

11.

D. Miller;

Council,

John

J.

Libbart

;

Town

Clerk, A. N. CasBcl.

IM9.-rie,iJentof Council, John J. l.ibbait; Town Cleik, I. Hubs 1840.— I'rcsident of Council, Jacob Stuhl; Town Clelk, William Cbilda.

W. Goodman; Town

Clelk, William

Henry Sullzbach; Town

Clerk, *i|liam

Wl.-I'rehident of Council, John Cbilda.

I

1

'

,

\'

lli.aland.

1

II

.,

;,

iMinse; Town

J. J. l.iihail, S. C.

1S69,— Chief Burgess,

Council, H. D. Benjamin,

Hiesland, Burr Spangler; Clerks,

Simon

Thomas P.

Miitcli,

11.

Slen.'-e

;

Town

Council, Jacob Songniasler,

M. Kline, A. Sunimy, Robert

Carroll, Jr.;

Clerks, Jacob K. Wiiidolph, Lavid Matlis. 187u.— Chief Buii;e,s, Ceorge Sliriner; Town Council, David Both, J. Songmaster, Uobert Carroll, Jr., Fiank Hippie, S. Mutch; Clerk,

Tbeophilna Hiesland. 1871.-fbief Buigess. George Shriner; Town Council, B. Spangler, A. N. Cassill, Dr. H. S. Trout, S. Mutch, Frederick Walter; Cleik, Jacob

—

Windolph.

—Chief Burgess, Samuel Hippie, Sr.; Town Council, B. Spangler, S. W. Coble, John Shillow, Lewis Lin'"dermulh; Clerk, M. M. Caracher. 1873.— Chief Burgess, J. M. Lamalere; Town Council, John Z. LinderClerks, r; A. K. Ersman, M. Bl. Gilacher. Walui Fryl.iit-i mulh, I. iiizelere; Town Council, Jerome Hippie; r.;i_i -, -M 1874. Clin

—

Town

W3— I'roaident of .iJen

Council,

John Kline; Town Clurk, William

IM8-41I.— Pi esident of Council,

CI.

Clillda.

John

Henry Sullzbach Town Clerk, William ;

ISSO.-Preaident of Council, James Mehaffy, Jr. lMI.-l'r..9lJent of

Town

Longeneck

Council

Council, Suninel

Town

;

Oberlin;

Town

Clerk, Willbim

Clerk, William

Cbil.la.

1862-63.-PreBident of Council, Ileiiiy Sullzbach

;

Town

Cleik, William

Chllds.

1854.— Chief Burgees, Jonatlnyr Lazerlier; UlcBland, Thoinaa Zcll,

Town

Council, Benjamin F.

Henry Sullzbach, Simon S. Nagle, John Goodman.

Clerks, William Cbilda, Jr., Israel

I

I

11.

— Chi'!

11

1

I

V

'

1

'

^.

liriner;

Town

Council, C.

rachi

187C— Chief

ChilJs.

;

11

ll.,_i

John L. Weaver, Jeffei-son Thompson. 1867.— Chief Burgess Thomiis Slense; Town Council, S. C. Hiesland, George U. Goodman, Louis Honseal, F.Waller, Alexander Lindsay ; CIciks, T. llicaland. James W. Fidler. 1808.- Chief Burgess. James B. Claik; Town Council, G. U. Goodman, Frank llii.ple, John Barr, CbliBlianBucher, Samuel LindBay; Clerks, Phil. M, Kline, Melchorlierline.

1875.

I812.-Pre8ident of Council,

Blibgon

i

Hiestand, Jerome Hippie, David

18.17.— Piraiileiit of Council,

»

'

1872

N. Cuasel.

18a6-3fi.-No record.

1815.-

J

G. A. Majlii.g,

to

Organization.— The records of Marietta borwe can such otticers' names as can be gleaned Irom ordinance book," and only a partial list can thus

.

Abram Erisman, Tbeodoie HiestanJ.

18GC.— Chief

the final

give only

,

1863.— Chief Bnrgesa, Samuel Hijiple; .Town Council, C. C. P. Grosh, S. 0. Hiesland, Alexander Lindsay, Franklin Hippie, John Kline; Clerks, Theodore Hiesland, J. M. Anderson. 18U4.— Chief Bnrgess George W. Mehafly; Town Council, John J. Libbart, Benjamin F. Hiesland, J. P. Waller, H. S. Libhart, Uirard Koath; Cleiks, Abram AIbIcJ, Theodore Hiesland. 1805.- Cbiel I,.!..--, h II.,, Slense; Town Council, Barr Spangler, Jl.ijling, J. J. Libharl, A. H. Summy; H. I). l!i

weather the storm. The recovery of business prosperity was gradual but crash

i

;

Clerks,

the place, and, like birds of

When

!

:

place grew too fast; a large class of

the earnings of others.

,.

;

I

prey, lived

::],,

ii

;

:

and hoped to get the bulk of the business. Columbia had the start of Marietta by eighteen years, but the latter sprang into existence as if by magic, and commenced to crowd the heels of their Quaker neighbors, and for a few years rivaled the former in

The

;•

.

i.

river business

number of towns aloiig the river a few years the war of 1812, and each became tlie rival of

who overflowed

:

John

the other

lators

I

,

Israel

started a

population.

I,

I

,,,11,,

,1

,

1801

they owe to this speculative era. The extraordinary increase in the

disreijutable persons followed tlie

.

Crull, Thou.aa Slense, E. P. Trainer, Ueuiy S. Libbart Clerks, Goodman, Theodore Hiestiind. —Chief Buigess, Jomis Paik To« Council, Barr Spangler, H. S. M l,,,;j, .-.iimel Hippie, Sr.j Libbart, John Fulks, Fl.d.i, Clerks, James M.Al,der^oIi,,l il, C. C. P. Grosh, 1862.— Chief Buigeaa, Henry S. I, I.,,.., r-aiiiuel C. HieBtand Ml Fra.ikHipple.Jobn Kline, Al,

township histories

before

'

Stense.

ran

growths of this craze was the desire to lay out towns

towns," besides

,,

1858.— Chief Burgess, Samuel D. Miller; Town Council, TlicmaB Slense, JobnCrull, BarrSpangler, EJ««rd 1'. Trainer, Aaron 11. Sun, my; . Clelks, Meltbor lleiline, Franklin K. Moaey. 1859.-Cliief Burgess, Samuel D. Miller; Town Council, Barr Sliaugler, Thomas Slense, John Ciull, Aaron H.Snmmy.E. P. Trainer; Clerks, .William Chapman, Samuel Slense. 18C0.— Chief Burgess, Samuel U. Miller; Town Council, Barr Spangler,

Tarious kinds.

through the country like "wildfire."

,,

>

F.HIrM.i;,

The State Legislature was kei^t busy chartering banks, turnpikes, bridges, and trading companies of business

Council, Samuel Ober-

Henry S. Liblialt. .Jacob Songniaaler, Blicbacl Gable, Aaron H. Snmniy Clerks, "» illiam Chaimian, John Kaylor. liiiititf, (baibs Kcllj; To« n CoUhul, John W. Clark, M.i.:,^ . r.,Liumin _.;,, M i.i, Li.M .... Jol* ,1. 1.^1 i..,'t

branch of business tliroughout the country.

of

Town

IS.'U.— Unci

was one of speculation, succeeded by disaster in every

stimulation

;

iin,

merchants, and tradespeople was large also. half of tlie second decade of this century

first

This extraordinary

C27

1866.— Chief Bnrgcfa, Nicholas Cbai.man I

|llllg.»

M. Bucher,

HISTORY OF LAJ^CASTER COUNTY. nett,

and Jnc.b Songnia-stor; High

CoiiBtuble, Alleu R.

Ruby; Towi

BOROUGH OF MARIETTA. ried to

John Hollinger, who died

1829.

Mr. Brandt

was a house-carpenter during the few years after liis He died Dec. marriage, and then became a farmer. 14, 1842.

His father, Christian Brandt, was born 1795,

Sejjt.

12,

Elizabetli

Long (born

Abraham Long, who

resided near

and married (1827)

1808), daugliter of

to

Donegal Springs. He was a farmer, and resided on Brandt homestead during his lifetime. He was a member of the Mennouite Church, and an

the old

exemplary Christian. His death occurred Jan. 7, His eight sons were Jacob, born Oct. 11, 1870. 1829, who died from accidental scalding at the age of John, born Jan. 1, 1831, and married to three years Mary Ann Hossler Abraham, born Aug. 19, 1833, Christian, born married to Anna Mary Creider April 19, 1836, married to Susan Rhoads; David, born April 6, 1840, married to Maria Hess; Samuel, Soloborn Oct. 16, 1841, married to Mary StauHer mon, born Feb. 8, 1845 and Joseph, the subject of this article, who was born May 21, 1847, about one and a half miles northwest of Maytown, where his ;

;

;

;

;

were born and reared. farm and attended the public school of the neighborhood until eighteen years of age, when he began teaching school, and continued in the profession until 1878. In 1867 he

and

father, brothers,

He worked on

attended a

sisters

his father's

summer

session at the Millersville

Normal

and the following year graduated from Crittenden's Commercial College, Philadelphia. In 1875 he received a teaclier's permanent State certificate. In 1876 he was the chosen candidate of the Demo-

School,

cratic party for the State Legislature,

but the county

having been overwhelmingly Republican at that time,

The same

he was defeated.

married to Miss

Agnes May

year Mr. Brandt was

Nissley, oldest daughter

Joseph Nissley, residing near Hummelstown, Dauphin Co., and removed to Maytown. In 1878 he

of Rev.

was elected justice of the peace for his townsliip. East Donegal,

and

fulfilled the duties of the office, in

Connection with surveying and conveyancing, until

of the

when he was appointed cashier Exchange Bank of Marietta, which position

he

holds.

the spring of 1880,

still

—

Industries. The present Marietta Hollow-Ware and Enameling Company was organized ajid commenced business in 1876. Their works are located on the nortli side of

Pennsylvania Railroad, a short

dis-

tance west from the railroad station, and cover one aero of land,

donated by Mr. James Dutfy, who also

|

629

The

facture of their goods.

officers for

;

;

His transportation facilities are of the best, being supplied by both canal and railroad. The business oflice is adjoining his lumber-yard, corner of Bank This firm gives employment to

and Third Streets. about fifteen men.

The

saw-, planing-mills, and lumber-yard of B. F.

Hiestand Hiestand.

&

Sons was est.ablished

The

in

mills are at Chikis,

yard and

business office

They

Streets, Marietta. facilities

is

also

at

have canal and railroad

equal to any other firm, and are connected

with Columbia, York, and Lancaster by telephone.

They employ about twenty men

in their business.

In 1858 a steam saw-mill was built on the site now occupied by the depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad

by G. W. Mebafty, James Duffy, and a Mr. Vandevoort, and subsequently destroyed by fire and never rebuilt.

Klumpp's tannery is located on Locust, between Second Street and Prospect Alley, and was built as early as 1815 or 1816, by P. Moyer, who conducted the tanning business here for several years,

The Sultzbach tannery is located on the corner of Locust and Walnut Streets, and was built by Henry who was a native of Switzerland. Just

Sultzbach,

when

it

was built

is

not

now known, but uo doubt

bach, father of

facilitate work-

and lessen the cost of

^Jfe

tliis

Seventy-live

company

in the

men

manu-

owner,"

who

Henry

It

L.

as

subsequently passed into

The present company secured by purcliase

employed annually by

it

nearly ten thousand sides of first-class leather per

the hands of his son John, thence to

production of this kind of goods.

when

became the property of Kline & Wolf, who operated it for many years, when it finally passed into the ownershipof the present proprietor, John C. Klumpp, who remodeled the tannery and applied steam-power in the process of tanning, and is now able to turn out

early as 1812 or 1815.

tools, etc., to

and the ma-

Bank and Second

twenty-three thousand dollars stock of the company.

are

1850 by B. F.

chinery driven by water-power, while the lumber-

subscribed ten thousand dollars towards the original at a nominal sum the ])lant, blocks, machinery, etc., of a former company, who-ie buildings and property were deBtroyed by fire, and have also added new machinery,

1883 were:

James Duffy Treasurer and Secretary, George W. Mehatfy Manager, George F. Stibgen. The Marietta Marble- Works were established on Walnut Street in 1842 by M. Gable, who is still engaged in supplying all kinds of marble-work for Marietta and the surrounding country. The Marietta Machine-Shop and Foundry was established by George Roath, and.it is now owned by Spangler & Rich, and operated by Samuel B. Gramm. In 1807 or 1808, Henry Cassel, established the lumber business on the site now occupied by his son, A. N. Cassel, who, in 1848, became identified with the business, and in 1872 built the planing-mill now operated by him. About three acres of ground are covered by the lumber and buildings of Mr. Cassel. President,

j

Henry

Sultz-

the present Since his occu-

Sultzbach,

took possession in 1870.

pancy he has added one story to the main building, which is of brick, re-sunk the yard, and added steam to the

The tannery has at present a thousand sides of leather annually, men in their manufacture.

motive-power.

cai)acity of ten

and employs

six

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

630

The "Lancaster County Vaccine Farm" was esin April, 1882. under the firm-name of Alexander & Grove, consisting of Dr. H. M. Alexander and David M. Grove. In October, 1882, Mr. Grove withdrew, and Dr. H. M. Alexander became tablished

sole proprietor.

The

Montana, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, and all New England States. It was sent safely to Canada and South America. Schools. Joseph Jeffries, an Irishman, was one of the first teachers in the place. Prior to the time he taught in Marietta he had been teaching at the log school-house at Donegal Church, and he also taught at Brenneman's, near Canoy. He did not stay long in one place. The only scholars now living who went to his school are Dr. Nathaniel Watson, John Paulis, Hon. A. E. Roberts (now of Lancaster), Rev. A. B.

—

Grosh, Mrs.

Ann

Strickler.

William Pierce taught school for a few seasons, and in its connection was also a scrivener. He gave up teaching, and devoted his whole time to the publication of his newspaper and magazine. He came to Marietta after the war of 1812, and remained there several years.

Samuel Ross was the the hall

in

first

person

who taught

school

over the market-house, about the year

He was also chief burgess, and was a person of some prominence. James Townsen was contemporaneous with Ross,

1817.

but taught school only one or two winters. William Ebbles came from Elizabethtown to Marietta in 1817.

He opened

a scrivener's

time taught school. William Hull taught school in 1820.

office,

and

also for a short

several other teachers during the

first

There were decade in the

now remembered; none of them, however, are worth parThey belonged to that peripatetic class of teachers who came around in the fall of the

history of the town, whose

names

are not

ticular mention.

year and remained three or four months, and then took up their line of march for some other locality.

During that time no

A

was made

higher grade school

classical or

future and

eflfort

scholars J.

;

that was

left

for

a

more progressive generation. named Stoner and a Yankee named

person

Whitman

two years. George Briscoe was one of the

Maytown some

witness to

earliest teachers

in

He

of of

taught

its

years,

He

practical operation.

is

gone, but

not forgotten.

Aaron B. Grosh, son of Judge Jacob Grosh, was a bright and talented young man who taught school a few years in the Bell school-house, commencing about the year 1822. A year or two later he and his brother published a newspaper. He also became attached to the Universalist Church, and at different periods of his honorable career preached for that de-

Of the teachers born in Marietta he was the most brilliant. He was equally distinguished realm of letters. He is living in New York State, aged eighty. William Carter, a young man who had been study-, ing law in the borough of York, came tA Marietta about the year 1827, and taught school for several years. He returned to York, and commenced to gather material for a history of Y'ork County. He and Mr. Glossbrenner published the history about fifty years ago. It was about as large as the New Testament. Rev. Abel Charles Tliomas, the most accomplished and gifted of all the early teachers, came to MariettA about the year 1828, and taught school in the log building east of the Cross-Keys tavern, on Second Street. He was a Universalist preacher, and a fine elocutionist and writer. His character was above reproach, and he died loved and respected by his friends and neighbors. He moved to Philadelphia about forty-eight years ago. He embraced Universalism probably after he came to Marietta, and became a nomination. in the

preacher.

Thomas Marshall Boggs,

Rev.

the pastor of Done-

and Marietta Presbyterian Churches, was

a trained

number of years' experience. Both in Marietta and Mount Joy he had a class of boys he for college. His brother, John Boggs, who prepared

teacher of a

was

a

graduate of college, started an academy, and

taught the higher branches. The school went down Mr. Boggs was a most excelfor want of patronage. lent

and competent teacher, and

regret

among

He

it

was a subject

of

the citizens that his school was not a

entered the ministry of the I'rcsbytcriau

\ Rev. Timothy Simiison, a graduate of Montpelier came to Marietta in 1831, and took charge of the school above the market-house, which

College, Vt.,

for

the venerable ex-Judge JoliQ

and came from that place to Marietta about the year 1822, and opened a school in above the large room the market-house. He believed in corporal punishment, and the writer can bear at

Church.

and remained

is

William Riinkin belonged to the old school He was an Englishman, and was one

of years. 1822,

living

the few classical scholars of his calling.

success.

i.n

now

teachers.

also taught in the Bell school house. Mr. Geary taught school where Brisco was in 1820. Mr. Stansbury was one of the first teachers in the place. He remove'] to Columbia sixty years ago, wlirro hi' opened a school, and taught there a number

John V. Smith taught school

yeart'

Libhart.

gal

to establish a

taught school for a number of

in the one-story brick house east of the market-house, adjoining Maj. Huss' printing-office. The last of his

buildings erected for this special

purpose are as well arranged and equipped as anj' in the country. The stables are the only heated vaccine stables in the United States. Shipments of virus in large orders are made to all surrounding States, as well as to Missouri, New Mexico, Texas, California,

He

the borough.

BOROUGH OF MARIETTA. ,.;;

i^»

Mr. Rankin

rather a demoralized condition.

left in

He taught there one or two years, when he moved into a new two-story frame school-house built by the late James Wilson, one square northeast from the market-house. His school gradually increased, when he commenced to teach the higher branches. One other college student, named Graves, came from a Vermont college to assist Mr. Simpson. He

were some of his pupils. T^he school, under his master management, flourished while he had charge of it. He was called to a larger

viz.: S. S.

Larzelere, Jacob Gilinan, N. JIaloney, A,

The

Leader, A. Heiser, Samuel G. Miller. elected

'I

;

and

installed were

John

von, C. P.;

follows:

as

H. P.;

Carroll,

J.

M.

first officer*

S. S. Rath-

Larzelere, 8.

W. Jacob Oilman, J. W. Nelson Maloney, Scrib«; Andrew Leader, Treas. The encampment meets semi-monthly, on the firet ;

;

and third Thursdays of every month, Hall (Central Hall Building).

in Odd-FelloAi*

Its present officers are

George W. Bucher, C. P. Oristus A. Hippie, H.P.j Samuel L. Dellinger, S. W. Isaac B. Kauft'inan, J, ;

;

charter

members were

S. S.

Rathvon, John

Dougherty, F. K. Curran, W. L. Carter, John Carand Frank Plury. The first oflicers elected and installed were as follows: S. S. Rathvon*, N. G. John Dougherty, V. G. F. K. Curran, Sec. William roll,

;

;

L. Carter, Asst. Sec.

;

;

John

Carroll,

The

Treas.

lodge continued to meet and prosper in same building until 1874.

In the year 1873

its

new

hull

and pres-

W.

John Naylor, Scribe; E. D. Roath, Treas. The present membership is twenty-five (many have with' drawn and moved to other parts, which greatly re;

Though the membership ii encampment is in a healthy conditioo

duced the number). small, the fiuitncially.

M.— The

Ashara Lodge, No. 398, A. Y.

ent place of meeting was built, having joined with

and the lodge duly instituted Nov.

the Borough Council and Central Hall Association

5867, with

by fortyfive feet wide, and three stories high, the Odd-Fellows of Donegal Lodge, No. 129, putting on the third story, which was completed and furnished in July, 1874, when the lodge, by consent of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, moved into the new hall, and on the 11th day of August, 1874, the same was dedicated with imposing ceremony by Isaac A. Sheppard, G. M. Dr. John Levergood, D. G. M. Past Grand George Borie, G. W. and Past Grand Sire James B. Nicholson, G. Sec, with other prominent and distinguished Odd-Fellows assisting. The day will be long remem-

Past Master Robert C. Russel,

bered in the annals of this lodge.

John

in erecting a large hall, ninety-five feet long

;

;

The lodge-room

is

excelled by few lodges for neat-

The frescoing and furnishing of blend in harmony with each other. The

ness and comfort.

the room

all

room is fifty-four feet long and thirty-seven and height of story fifteen feet, with mouldtwo pleasant ante-rooms and one paraphernalia-room, and lighted with gas. The present number of members is eighty-five. The

size of

feet wide,

ings, with

M. Tiusley, N. G. Dr. John Naylor, Sec. Harry

present officers are Wilford

George W. Worral, V. G. >

By

E. D.

;

;

;

Uoatb, Esq.

warrant

for this lodge w;is granted Sept. 5, 1867, A.L. 58G7,

the

22,

1867, A

L.

following-named charter members;

Henry Landis, David

Roth, Past Master William H.

E.igle,

George H.

Frederick Baker, John R. Ditlenbach. The first officers were Rev. Robert C. Russell, W. M. Dr. Henry Landis, S. W. David Roth, J. W.; Eltla,-

;

;

William H. Ea^e, Treas.; George H. Ettla, Sec; Rev. Thomas Montgomery, Chap. John W. Rich, S, D. Christian Hanlen, J. D. Fred. L. Baker, S. M. C; Israel Hanlen, Tyler. ;

;

;

The

successive presiding officers were Robert 0,

Henry Landis, 1869; Harry

Russell, 1868;

C. Eagle,

1870; E. D. Roath, 1871-72; Christian Hanlen, 1873;

Verner Long, 1875; George H. Ettla, 1876; William Jones Bridells, 1877; Artliur Bennett, 1878; George F. Stibgen, 1879; John L. Jacobs, Joseph Fisher, 1880; Calvin A. Schallner, 1881; Jacob R. Windolph, 1882. The present ofiicers are: W. M., Jacob Rathvoa Windolph; S. W., James W. H. Johnson; J. W, Frank J. Mack; Treas., John Walter Rich; Sec 1 Strickler, 1874; J.

,

Edmund Horn; J. D., Viclur M, M. C, George Rudisill; J. M. C,

Shiter Geist; S. D.,

Haldeman;

Adam

Balin

S. ;

Abram Ferey

Pur.,

'

By

E.

1,

;

Chap., Past Master

Esq.

;; ;; ;; ;

;

BOROUGH OF MARIETTA. The time of i eeting is Monday evening, on or before full moon (every month, in OJd-Fellows' Hall. It has sixty. fcur members. John Naylor.

D. Roath; Tyler,

Waterford Council, No. 72, 0. U. A. M.,' was inand organized I)ec. 16, lSii7, by J. Kaylor Snyder, Deputy State Councillor, assisted by Ex-C. Jacob Weitzel and Ex.-C. Edward Rusing. The larter members were E. D. Roath, E. Rusing, Henry Amos Grove, W. Ocliard, George Rudisill, John PeCohick, Henry Pickel, Henry Reichard, ters, John 8»muel Scantling, Jacob Bowers, Isaac Snyder, John Montgomery, H. S. Book, George H. Hippie, A. EmsThe 6rst officers wilier, Samuel Thuma, and otliers. elected and installed were Ex-State C. E. D. Roath, Amos Grove, Rec. Sec. Henry C. John Peck, V. C. George Rudisill, Fin. Sec. 8. Book, Asst. Rec. Sec. Henry Ockard, Treas. Simon H. Mutch, I.; John W. Peters, Ex. Samuel R. Hippie, I. P. John BurItitutcd

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

1870.— P. Gottschall, W.

C. Jeff Thompson, V, C; A. Bopp, V. P.; S. E. Wisner, R. S.; S. L. Dillii.ser, Banker; David Roth, F. S. Jeff Thompson, W. C. John B. Taylor, V. C. 1871— John B. Taylor, W.C; John R^iff, V. C. Jeff Thompson, V. P. Gejirge H. Ettla, R S. S. L. Dellinger, Banker; Frank Thompson, F. S n. M. Mosey, W, O.; Isiael Ilanlen, V. C. 1872,— Israelllanlen, W, C. William ReiJ, V. C H. M, Mosey, V. P,; William H, Buller, R. S. S. L, Dellinger, Banker; Frank Thomp;

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

1872.— William Reid, W,

1873,— A. July

1,

W,

Sourhi.-r,

Amos

Grove, R,

S,

C,

C. ;

;

Aaron Sonrhier, V, C, William SIranss, V, C, William Reid, V, ;

P,

;

L. Bellinger,

S.

Banker

;

David Matlis,

F, S,

wero changed. William Strauss,

1873, the titles of officers

C, C,

D, H, Mellinsei', V. C.

1874

—D. H. Mellinger, C, C. Joseph G, Heinaman, V, C. ; George Prelate; E. J, Wisner, K. R. and S. S. L. Dellinger, M, Exc; D. MaUis, M. F. George Miller, C. C; J, G. Heinaman, V, C; Joseph G, Heinaman, Prelate; J. B, Kauffman, K. B. ;

Sillier,

;

;

andS 187S.— J. G, Heinaman, C, C; Samnal Reinhold, V. 0.; Araos Grove, Prelate; J. B Kauffman, K. R. and S. S. L. Dellinger, M. Ejtc. David Maltia, M. F. A. Grove, C. C, F, E. Krouse, V. C; George Conncilman, Prelate; George G, Lindsay, K. R, and S, 1876.— F, E, Krouse, C. C George Miller, V, C.; l3R.ac Metzler, Prelate; George G. Lindsay, K. R, and S, S. L, Dellinger, M. Exc, D. Matlis, M. F,; A. Ropp, C, C. J. Metzler, V. C, S. Keinhold, ;

;

;

;

;

ger,

0. P.

Edward Rusing, John Cohick,

Trustees,

;

Tliu

weekly,

Meetings are held on Monday evening, in Mechanics' Hall,

&

ibove Mills

1877— J.

forty-five.

is

hardware-store.

Co.'s

are Frederick Robinson, C.

officers

;

;

Prelate.

Mutch. membership

Simon H.

;

The present

Alexander Sar-

late

;

Metzler, C,

C; H. M, Mosey,

M.

F,

;

Andrew Williams.

Pre-

and S. S. L, Dellinger, M. Exc. David Samuel Reinhold, C, C. A, Williams, V. C; George

G. G, Lindsay, K. B.

Mattis,

V. C.

;

;

;

;

Miller, Prelate.

1878.— A. Williams, 0. C, D. H. Mellinger, V. C; Absalom Light, Prel.ite; H. M. Mosey. K. B. and S. S. L. Dellinger, M. Exc; David Mattis, M. F.; D, H. Mellinger, C. C. Absalom Light, V. C; J. J. McNicholl, Prelate. 1879.— Misalom Light, C.C; A. Bopp, V. C. E.J, Wisner, Prelate; H. M. Mosey, K. B. and S. S. L. Dellinger, M. Exc. D. Mattis, M. F, A. Bopp, C. C; A,Sourbier, V, C, George Miller, Prelate, 1880,—George H. Etlla, C. C. George Miller, V, C, Christ. Wanzel, Prelate; H. M. Jtosey, K. B. and S.; S L. Dellinger, M. Exc. D. Mattis, M. F, George Miller, C. C; C. Wanzel, V. C; Howard Eriaman, Prelate. 1881— Christ. Wauzrl, C. C. Howard Eriaman, T. C; Peter Baura, Pre;

;

Amos

Frank Thompmn, Jr., Asst. Rec. Sec; David Mattis, Fin. Sec; Henry Ockard, Treas.; Samuel Boughter, I.;' W. S. Bitnmons, Ex.; John Rial, I. P.; Thomas Martin, 0. P.; Trustees, Thomas Marlin, Edward Rusing, pn, V. C.

;

Grove, Rec. Sec.

;

George Rudisill. All the charter

bership cial

is

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

members had belonged

small, the council

to the order

Although the mem-

organizing this council.

before

;

in a prosperous finan-

is

;

;

late; D.

It.

R and

Mellinger, K.

Mattis, M, v.:

condition.

Howard Erisman,

S.

C.

;

L. Dellinger,

M, Exc; D.

P. Bauin, V.

C;

S.

C;

A, Ropp,

Prelate.

Donegal Lodge, No. 108, K. of P.— The order of Knights of Pythias was instituted at Marietta, Pa., under a charter granted by the Grand Lodge of

1882— Peter Baum,

0. C,

;

A. Light, V. C.

H. Mellinger, K. fi*and

M.F.

;

A. Light, C.

;

George Remick, Prelate

S.; S. L. Dellinger,

C; George Remick,

V.

;

D.

M. Exc; A, Sonrbier, C; Ellwood P. Bucher,

Prelate.

The first meetTemperance Hall,

Pennsylvania, dated Sept. 12, 18GS. ing of

was held

the order

Saturday, Sept. 12, 1868,

in

when

the following-named

became members of the order: David Roth, Jacob So'ngmaster,

George H.

Peter Gottschall, Isaac B.

Kaullhian, John Spangler,

W.

Samuel

Kline, Gotleib

Bucher, Clene Miller, Philip M.

Mayer, and

lowing-named elected George H. Ettla, SoDginaster,

W.

V. P.

I.

officers

Hostetter.

The

;

C.

;

;

W.

B.

Albert Ropp,

Frederick E, Krouse,

;

W. G.

;

Peter Gottschall,

KauOrman, O. S. The subsequent officers have been as follows: 1

c

p.

Uotli, ,

W.

C.

U.

S.

:

;

I.S.; Isaac B.

c.

fol-

were duly installed

David Roth, V. C. Jacob Henry M. Mosey, Rec. Scribe

Samuel L. Dellinger, Fin. Scribe;

KauH-

Gladfelter, II. S.

;

;

.\llii.rt

S.

Roiip,

'

L. D.lliiign

E. D. Hoath, Esq.

II.

C.

;

E, P, Bucher, V. C.; D. Matlis, Prelate

Mellinger, K. R. andS.; S

M.F.

;

E. P.

Bucher,

C.

C;

L. Dellinger,

R.

and

;

M. Exc; A. Sour-

William McNeil, V,

Gnimm, K.

C.

;

Frederick

S.

Ettia,

Henry M. Mosey,

E. Krouse, Albert Ropp,

man, George

D,

bier.

BrUBO, Prel.lte; Samuel R.

Samuel L. Dellinger, F. Jacob A. Wisner,

1883,— George Remick, C.

The present membership is ninety-one. The lodge now owns Temperance Hall. It also has an invested capitiil

of $3500.

Cassiopeia Lodge, No. 1705, G. U. 0. of 0. F.,^ was instituted at Marietta Nov. 8, 1875, with the following-named officers and members: Joseph M. William Staffi>rd, P. N. F.; Singleton Willis, N. F. F. Sebastian, P. N. G. Charles Jason, Sr., N. G. John M. Mallon, V. G. Charles Jason, Jr., E. S. Joseph M. StafTord, P. S. John M. Mallon, ChapArcher Sales, W.; lain; Charles Jason, Sr., Treas. Andrew-Black, G. William H. Cain, R. S. to N. G. Jeremiah Miles, L. S. to N. G. Josiah Fairfax, R. 8. to V. G. The growth of the lodge has been gradual from its inception until it now numbers thirty mem;

;

;

;

;

;

;

eph M, Stafford.

; ;

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

636

The

bers.

The names of the first pew-holders were Jami McClelland, James Agnew, Frederick Haines, Abi Varley, William McColoch, Barnard Brovro^; John Wilson, Andrew Boner, David Ferree, J Wilson, Joshua King, Samuel Hopkins, J

regular meetings of the lodge are held on

Tuesday evening of each week, in a building owned and occupied by the lodge on Fairview Street. In the community in which it is located this lodge is acknowledged to be a factor in shaping the morals of its members and leading the van in the field of usefulness. The present officers are William H. Cain, P. N. F. Joseph Maze, N. F. John Howard, P. N. G. Jeremiah Miles, N. G. William H. Rainbow, V. G. George Anderson, E. S. Joseph Fairfax, G. Daniel McCurdy, W. S. W. Benson, R. S. to N. G. William H. Geary, L. S. to N. G. William Mallon, R. S. to V. G. Charles W. Jason, Sr., L. S. to V. G. John ;

ham

Thompson, George Alstadt, John Heckrotte, Samuel McKinney, John Spangler, A. L. Evans, Samud Bailie, H. Heckrotte, Alexander Boggs, Esq., JgmH

;

;

;

whose membership are admitted all members of the G. U. O. of O. F. in America, their wives, mothers, widows, and daughters, and the unmarried daughters and sisters of all Odd-Fellows, who have or do aid the brotherhood. The regular meetings of the Household are held on the first Euth, No. 123,

Monday

in

view Street. Lieut.

to

each month in Odd-Folhiws' Hall, Present njembersliip, forty three.

F:.ir-

William Child Post, No. 226, G. A.

located at Marietta, Pa., was organized on 31st of

August, 1881, with twenty-two charter members. The first officers were: P. C, George H. Ettla S. V. C, Amos Grove; J. V. C, Thomas Marlin Adjt., J. H. ;

;

Druckemiller; Q.-M., Horace L. Haldeman O. of D., J. R. Miller; Chaplain, S. E. Wisner; 0. of G., John Kugle; Sergt.-Maj., Lewis Leader; Surg., William Smedley Q. M.-Sergt., F. J. Mack. The present ;

;

officers are: P. C, Amos Grove; S. V. C, Thomas Marlin; J. V. C, Absalom Light; AdJt., J. H. Druckemiller; Q.M., Adam Wisnian O. of 1)., John W. Riff; Chap., S. E. Wisn'r; Surg., William Smedley; O. of G., George W. Brooks; Sergt.-Maj., Lewis Leader; Q.M.-Sergt., W. S. Geiter. The post numbers at present seventy-five good-standing members. They meet the first and third Friday evenings of each month in Miller's Hall, Market Street. ;

The English Presbyterian Church was commenced A.D. 1821, and completed October, 1822. The building here reft-rred to was located on Gay Street, between Walnut and Fairview Streets, nearly meeting was held at the church by the appoint-

ment of the New Castle Presbytery, present, Rev. Stephen Boyer and Rev. James Latta, committee of said Presbytery for the ordination of elders, when the Rev. Stephen Boyer was called to the chair and David C. Whitehill ajjpointed secretary, and the following persons were nominated and elected elders: John Wilson, Thomas Dickey, Jr., William H. Diiffield,

James

Sterritt,

and James Agnew, who were by

the said committee regularly ordained and set apart as elders over the •English

Marietta.

Presbyterian Church in

James Noble, Mrs. Jane

Portar,

Campbell, John Gault, Mrs. Parks, Robert Jones. .In pursuance of public notice, given from the pulpit by the Rev. Philip Boyer, on 27th of October,

meeting was held, when James Mehaffy wu Thomas Dickey secretary, when was unanimously resolved by the pew-holdere pre»» ent that James Jlehaffy, Elijah Russel, and William H. Duffield be a committee to make application to 1822, a

appointed chairman, it

the

New

Castle Presbytery,

now

be received under their care.

sitting in Lancaster,

The

said comtnitte*

reported on the 28tli that they had attended

to tbt

duty of their ai)pointment, and the church was received as a member of the Presbytery of New Castle ; on the same footing as the other churches. A special meeting of the session of the Englisli Presbyterian Church in Marietta was held, according to

rom the

previous not

pulpit, Saturday, April

imas Dickey was appointed

1824, at which

8,

clerk

of the session.

In pursuanc

of previous notice, a meeting of the

congregation w

held on the same day in the church

at eleven o'clock, for the purpose of electing a pastor,

when

a motion was

made by James Wilson

of the session be appointed moderator. after

some

that one

Agreed

to

But few persons being present, H adjourn to meet at six o'clock in the

delayj_

was agreed

to

Met agreeably to adjournment, when it wai unanimously resolved that Orson Donghlass be and he is hereby declared the choice of this congregation as their pastor, and that a regular call be made out to

evening.

be presented

to

the Presbytery of

three-fourths of his time,

—

— on

New

Castle

three Sabbath

for

after-

and that James Mehaffy, Elijah four, James Sterrett, James Wilson, John Spangler, James Agnew, and Peter Baker be a committee to sign the call, and James Wilson be commissioned noons out of

op|)osite the cemetery.

A

!

to

R.,

Slienk,

Thomas Dickey, Jacob Stahl, S. Jacobs Hannah Hays, Henry Cassel. James Steele, John

Peter Baker,

;

Mallon, Chaplain; C. W. Jason, Jr., Treas. Joseph M. Stafford, P. S. Connected with this lodge is the Household of

John

Sterrett,

;

;

W.

Elijah Russel, William A.

Duffield, Francis Boggs, D. C. Whitehill, Mrs. Aoi, Curran, William Maxwell, Benjamin Garman, Jamji

;

;

Andrew Noble,

Mehaffy,

;

;

Russel,

present

it

to

Presbytery.

Agreeably to previcms notice, the congregation met on May 5, 1824, and adopted a charter for the government of the church, in which James MehiitTy, Elijah Russel, and James Wilson were made tiiu trustees, to act one, two, and three years, one trustee to be elected annually afterwards. This charter was presented to the Supreme Court May 17th, and approved Oct. 13, 1824.

BOROUGH OF MARIETTA. Orson Doughlass was laid before the Presbytery of New Castle, and being found in order, a committee was appointed to install him on the at

first

Friday

in

June, services to commence

Samuel Martin to James Latta to give the and congregation. The said the duties of their appointment

eleven o'clock in the morning,

637

The church supplied

Tlie call for the services of

itself

with preachers from the

time of the resignation of the Rev. Rankin till the time Rev. P. J. Tinilow became stated supply on Nov. 2t>, 1855, in which position he continued till April 4, 18G0, when a call was made and accepted. He was

Church and continued pastor till

preach the sermon, Rev.

regularly installed jjastor of the Presbyterian

charge to the pastor

in

committee attended to

time above specihed by installing Rev. Orson

at the

The Rev. Orson Doughlass supplied the pulpits of Donegal and Marietta Churches principally from Marietta Church, in 1822, till the time of his installation, in 1824, when he became the

the dedication of the

of both

Dienibers

churches.

of the

following

Donegal Church, were

from said church to in

The

persons,

dismissed

become members of the church

Marietta, as follows: Catherine Dickey, Rebecca

Dickey, Alexander

Rogers,

Hannah

Rogers, Peter

Mary Baker, Margaret Jones, Mary Jones,

Baker,

Catherine Longnecker, Elizabeth Jack, JIary Balie,

Nancy Smith, Ann Margaret McColoch, James Steele, C. FitzsimJacob Stahl, Nancy Stahl, Mary Fishbach,

David Ferree, Sophia Moulton,

May

1,

1860,

The Rev. William A. Fleming was

called as pastor

Samuel Lindsay and A. N. Cassel were elected and ordained elders March 17, 1867, by him. He resigned as pastor December, 1867. James Ab. Anderson and T. Heastand were elected deacons dur-

Nov.

Doughlass as pastor.

piistor

Marietta

his resignation April 18, 1865.

7,

1865.

ing his pastorate.

Rev. William

J. Bridells

was

installed pastor of the

English Presbyterian Church in Marietta Oct. 21, 1868. Rev. George Gamble preached the sermon ;

J. Timlow gave the charge to the pastor. Rev. John Elliott the charge to the people, William

Rev. P.

McAffee and Benjamin Olimit were and ordained Nov. 30, 1870, by him.

elected deacons,

He

resigned as

pastor January, 1878.

The church supplied

Charlotte Russel, Esther JIcKinney, Eliza Hertzler,

itself by consent of Presbytery from the time of the resignation of Rev. Bridells till Rev. John McElmoyle became stated supply, No-

Eleanor Sterrett, Samuel McClelland, Elizabeth

McMartha McClure, James Wilson, Rhoda

vember, 1878, and received a regular

Clelland,

ordained and installed pastor of the English Presbyte-

Davis,

mons,

Burtman, Blargaret Johnston,

Hannah McClelland.

The foregoing persons made application to the session, and were adnjitted to membership Aug. 24, 1824. James Steele and James Wilson were elected and installed elders December, 1826. Several elders removed from the neighborhood. Jacob Stahl and Henry Speice were elected elders Feb. 26, 1836, and ordained by Rev. Orson Doughlass. The Rev. Orson Doughlass resigned as pastor of the church

May

12, 1836.

Church

call,

and was

During Theodore Heistand, and Lewis Z. Lindemuth were elected elders, and ordained July 6, 1879. Theodore lleistand's resignation was acccepted November, 1881. Abraham Summy, J. S. Geist, and Daniel Ilgenfritz were also ordained deacons at the same time. rian

in Marietta, Pa.,

April 20, 1879.

his pastorate S. P. Sterrett,

The Rev. John McElmoyle resigned this charge March 1, 1883. Number of members reported to Westminster Pres-

In pursuance of previous' public notice from the

bytery in regular standing at the last meeting, 170.

meeting of the congregation was held in the church on the third Monday of April, 1S37, at which an election for pastor was held, which resulted in the unanimous election of the Rev. Thomas Marshall Boggs to preach every other Sabbath afternoon, he

This church and-the IMount Joy Church were originally taken from the Donegal Church.

He continued time of his death in

Union school, all denominaticnis taking part, in 1819, and was called the Marietta Sunday-School Associa-

pulpit, a

also

being pastor of Donegal Church.

pastor of both churches to the

Mount Joy, in October, 1850. The Rev. AVilliam A. Rankin was

and

regularly ordained pastor of the English Presbyterian

Church in JIarietta

for his whole time. It was durpastorate the present church was built in Market Street the old church on Gay Street was removed, and materials used in part in the construction

ing his

;

new church. The building committee of the present cluirch, James Whitehill, Jacob Stahl, A. S. Cassel, and Charles Kelly; John H. Goodman, architect. The church was completed and dedicated

of the

January, 1854. Tlie

May,

Rev. William A. Rankin resigned as pastor 1854.

in

with the Presbyterian

Marietta was one of the

schools established in

first

Sunday-

the State, and formed as a

tion.

1

elected

The Sunday-school connected Church

The following persons were presidents: Rev. WilJames Mehaffey, 1821-23; Rev. Orson Doughla.ss, 1823-35; Rev. T. M. Boggs, 1835-50; James Wiison,'^amuel Ludwig, and others, liam Kerr, 1819-21; Mr.

from 1850-68; William I.' Bridells, 1868-78; and was succeeded by Rev. JIcElmoyle, 1878-79; Mr. I. S. Geist, 1879 to the present time (1883).

This school was

first

organized in what was

known

removed to the small building east of Mrs. Eagler, where it remained (,ill the Presbyterian Church was built on Gay Street, when it was taken there. The teachers and managers were then nearly all Presbyterians. It be-

as the Bell school-Jiouse, but afterwards

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

638

came a Presbyterian Sunday-school

in

1823.

The

following have been elected superintendents of the

James Parks, 1819-23; .John Wilson, 182328; James Wilson, 1829; Thomas Dickey, Jr., 182930; Lewis Kellog, 1830-33; James Steele, 1833-34; Jame.s Wilson, 1834-64; Samuel Lindsay, 18G4-77; school:

Theodore Hiestand, 1877-80 superintendent at present, H. B. Cassel, 1880-83. The school was removed from the Presbyterian Church several years before the removal of the church to the house now on the northeast corner of Gay and Walnut Streets, and in 1854 removed to the room it now occupies in the Presbyterian Church, and that ;

did not number over twenty since its formation. The Methodist Episcopal, Reformed Lutheran, CathUnited Brethren, and African have established

it

olic,

Sunday-schools, towards which this school contributed

number of scholars. The present officers of the church

a large

Jacob Stahl, A. N.

Lindemuth

;

are

Cassel, S. P. Sterrett,

:

Elders,

Louis C.

Trustees, S. P. Sterrett, C. A. Shaftner,

B. F. Hiestand; Deacons, William McAfee, Tlieo-

dore Hiestand, J.

S. Griest,

Daniel Ilgenfritz.

Methodist Episcopal Church.— Just when the way to what is now the peaceful and quiet borough of Marietta is not definitely known. Neither is it positively known to the writer or any of his informers who he' was or how became, whether on foot, on horseback, or in a canoe. The probabilities are, however, that he camq down along the left bank of the noble old Susquepioneer of Methodism wended his

hanna, spying out the land as he came, and wherever a pioneer settlement was discovered, there the oldfashioned pioneer itinerant would unfurl the banner of his Master, and in the good old Wesleyau way, without fee or the expectation of reward, urge sinners to flee the wrath to come. The old pioneer preacher was truly a character; dressed in homespun, broad-brim hat, white necktie, if any at all, long, flowing locks of hair, silvered o'er with the frosts of

many

winters, falling gracefully over his shoulders,

he thus appeared the very embodiment of goodness. He always rode his best horse, for he never had but one at a time, and that would last him many years. His outfit for a four or eight weeks' journey around the circuit was an old-fashioned leather portipanteau fastened on behind the saddle, in which was, first, a small Bible and a Methodist hymn-book, next a change of linen (coarse shirt), a small supply of coarse bread and meat, to be eaten in case of necessity, and that necessity came many a time with the old pioneer itinerant on a six or eight ^hundred mile circuit. To one of these self-sacrificing saints of God, who took their lives in their hand and traversed the then wilds of Pennsylvania, scaling mountains, wandering through valleys, fording rivers, and braving the elements, is due the planting of Metl^odisin as early as 1800 at what is now the town of Marietta,

But few inhabitants were here

at that time, but

it

mattered not to the old veteran of the cross, who was simply obeying the divine command, " Go ye into all the world and preach my gospel." He could preaeh to the poor and lowly in the most unpretentious hut as well or better than to the king in his palace. "Like all other places, a " class" was to be formed at Waterford or New H.aven as a nucleus around which might grow up a prosperous society,

and

it is

believed that such a class was formed here

and possibly earlier. The is supposed to have been Benjamin he was known to be a leader as early as 1823 or 1825. Preaching services were held at private houses when convenient, and occasionally under .the spreading branches of some large tree, and from 1825 to 1830 the Methodists occupied that little long, low brick building on what is now Market Street, and now owned by Barr Spangler. In 1830 the society built a frame meeting-house on what was known as early as 1815 or 1820, first

class-leader

Garman,

for

many

as

years as Back Street,

now Walnut

Street,

on the site now occupied by the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Previous to 1830, probably as early as 1825, and no doubt with the view of owning church property, the following trustees were elected for this region of country: Benjamin Garman, Marietta; Henry Haldeman, Locust Grove and Lloyd, Esq., of Columbia. The Methodists continued to occupy their house of worship on Walnut Street until the building of their new brick meeting-house in 1850. From 1830 to 18t)5, or a little later, the Methodists had within their ;

congregation or adherents of that faith the wealth

and aristocracy of the town, and at present stands more than equal with their sister-churches. The original cost of the present church edifice, located ou

Second

Street, was about five thousand dollars, and in 1874 was remodeled and somewhat beautified at an expense of about three thousand dollars. In 1865 the society was^ incorporated with the following-

named trustees: Benjamin Garman, Jacob A. Wisner, Robert Carroll, George W. Clawgus, Alexander Smith, and George W. Worrell.

Among

the early

members of the

society, or those

belonging previous to 1840, we find the names of not only those mentioned previous to that date, but a Mr. Wormly, who was a trustee, Catharine Jamison, Catharine McMichael, Mrs. Kelly, Margaret G. Childs, Robert Carroll,

Mary

Carroll,

Hannah

Shill,

Mrs. Grosh, John B. Carter, a class-leader in 1839, Rebecca Carroll, Helen Cramer, Anna Shill, Maria Martin, Sarah Trump, and Catharine Souders. No

doubt there were many more, but we have no means of obtaining their names. From 1840 to 1860 the following-named persons were and are still some of the membership: Robert Turner, (icorgo Roodesill, Jacob Wisner, Abram Musscr, Mrs. Kramer, Mrs. Longenecker, James McClure and wife, Rachel Bowman, C. Stibian and wife, Jlrs. Rathvon. Among the jiustors who' have served this people

:

BOROUGH OF MARIETTA. gnd congregation previous to 1865

who

ing,

we

F. A. Muhlenberg,

find the follow-

From 18G3 we have

hnm.

of pastors

list

:

C.

1866-68,

McDermond

H.

79, J. 84, J.

erick li'ronk,

John Stringer; 1868-71,

;

1875-77, J. Lindermuth

M.Wheeler; 1879-81, C. Wood.

J.

;

Esq., Henry Haines, Sr., Henry Bear, Tobias Miller, John Longenaker (River), John Longenaker, Christian Miller, N. Keller, Daniel Grosh, John B. Haldenian, John Panles, Christian Heitzler, Christian Leib, John Greis, Barnabas Yates, David Martin, William Pierce, John Shank, Brice Curran, Valentine Von-

1877-

Wesley Ueiger; 1881-

1883: Stewards, James McClure, Sr., Jr., Harry Graybill, M. M. Caracher, Aaron Sauerbier. Class-leaders, Robert Turner, George W. Worrell, and M. M. Caracher. Trustees, Michael Gabel, Frank Lawrence, Adam Wiseman, Aaron Sauerbier, Amos IJowman, and Officiary,

auii

Jr., E. Allen, William HamChristian Metz, John Swar, Jacob Shinnig, Joseph Hamacher, George Fisher, Martin Grider, James McClellan, Sr., Valentine Grider, John Grider, Daniel Grider, Isaac Rohrer, Peter Baker, Henry Haldeman, John Zook, James Duffy, Christian Keesey, Jacob Sharer (Lancaster), William Cooper, William McClure, William Ridenbauch, John Welsh, Adam Reinhart, Jacob Strickler, a widow, Jacob Graybill, Joseph Heisey, John Monk, John Huss, Andrew Boggs, Christian Roth, Elijah Russell, John M. Patrick, Stephen St. John, John Myers, Patrick Downey, William Adams, Zachariah Moore, James

dersmith. Christian Metz, ilton,

Harry Graybill.

Church.— The

Zion's

following

is

a copy of the

original

subscription-paper for raising

wliich to

build this church

"

money with I

:

To the people of all religious denominations

"The building their

:

of meeting-houses for religious wor-

not only laudable, but a duty which

ship is

men owe

Creator, for the use of themselves and their posIt

terity.

is

therefore presumed that no arguments in

favor of

Mehaffy, Charles Nagle,

sary

Leibhart,

;

the building of a meeting-house are necesbut means to defray the expense of such a The number of in-

denomination being small, it would burdensome for each sect to build a meeting-

dividuals of each

house of their

own; but

building one for the the

all

common

burden will dwindle into almost nothing. proposed to build a meeting-house

therefore

borough of Marietta, for the of all

Folt,

common

for

It is

iu the

use and benefit

may

Henry

Shisler,

C. King,

Snavely, Cassell,

John Shaffer, ChrisJohn Shuck, Daniel

Christy,

Evans, Samuel Oberly, Groff & Fisher, John Sultybauch, Henry Sultybauch, D.

J.

Heckrote, Dr. King,

James

Steele,

John

Jr., I).

Lankard, A.

Stoner, J. Welshofer, J.

M. Whitson, H. B. Shafner, John Loucks, H. Hogman, Dr. Graham, S. Jacobs, Samuel Hairer, Andrew Noble, John Jloore, Joseph Landis, M. Danner, IM. Gardner, M. Welsh, Z. Spangler, George

Sheets,

di-

which meeting there shall be appointed perwhereon the building shall be and dimensions thereof, as also persons to collect the money so subscribed, and to provide the material and superintend the building, etc. "For the purpose above mentioned, and for no other, we, the subscribers hereunto, do promise to pay, on demand, to such person or persons as above mentioned, or their order, the several sums of money by each of us respectively subscribed and annexed to each of our names. " Witness our hands July, 1817." The f'rllowing is a list of the original contributors Jacob Orosh, Esq., John Roberts, Abm. Tublin, Jacob Rohrcr, Esq., Samuel Hopkins, Peter Longenaker, John Bates, Henry Cassell, David Reinhart, William Child, Esq., Henry Conn, Sr., David Cassell, Sr., George Dyer, George Hainbright, Thomas Wentz,

John

Dr. Muhlenberg,

J. Libhart, F.

denominations of Protestant Christians, to be such a manner as a maof subscribers present at a meeting to be called

the purpose by the five first subscribers

Tublin,

Schnavely, Peter Hummerickhouse, Christian Haldeman, J. Enyan, L. H. Stevens, Sebastian Kohl, J. Houty, John Gait, C. Suavely, H. Hubley, F. Hains,

all,

regulated, in all respects, in jority

John

tian IMiller,

Christians joining in

use and benefit of

Abraham

William Goodyear, John Shirts, Lewis Benjamin Steman, Jacob Etter, Benjamin Gamin, Henry B. Shaffner, John Leader, John Spangler,

building are absolutely wanted.

be very

Croft, C.

Abm. Breneman, George

James JlcClure,

,

John H. Goodman, Edward

Michael Hoover, Samuel Dale, Esq., B. Grundaker, B. Porter, Esq., Henry Shan,

J.

1873-75,

;

Jacob

Hershey, John Srimp, John Dimmerman, Henry Sultzbauch: James Buchanan, Esq., William Hinkle,

the following complete

Taylor Gray; 1871-73, S. A. Heilman

R.

Christ,

Etter,

1863-65, Joseph Gregg; 1865-66, Wil-

liam JEatthias;

John Rupley, John

Benjamin Steman, Benjamin Lefever, Samuel D. Miller, John C. Lefever, Frederick Moyer, Fred-

remembered by the older members

are

Revs. Sutton, Sumption, Edwards, Reed, Greenbank, Berridge, Kurtze, Librand, Petit, Pancoast, Gilling-

rect; at

sons to fix on the spot erected, the size

Small, J. S. Worley, A. Rutter, C. A. Barnitz, William Barber, John Gardner, William Mcllvain,

^

Thomas

Kelly,

John

Koons,

D.

Car^satt,

Morris

Small, A. Heastand.

The

subscriptions reached an aggregate of fourteen

hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty cents, and at a meeting of the subscribers, held in September of the same year, resolutions were adopted prescribing rules for their government, among which it was set forth that no sect or denomiinition should be excluded, "but each shall have an eipial right to said church agreeable to the subscription papers." The borough authorities gave permission for the erection ot the church on "the west corner of the

:

I

burying-ground," " lor the use of

all

Protestant Chris-

•

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

640 tian denominations,

none

be exclmled."

to

Tlie cor-

Jacob C. Burkhart was elected secretary of veatrj, following were appointed the building conimiU

ner-stone was laid on the 23d of August, 1818, and the

The

memorandum

tee, viz.:

deposited in

it

repeated the condition

be erected there was " for

Rev. R. C. Russell, Stejjhen F. Eagle, Dn

use

E. Haldeman, and E. D. Roath, treasurer; coat of

Protestant Christians residing in Marietta or

building proper and ground, nine thousand ninehuD"

its neighborhood, and joining this congregation as pew-hoiders or otherwise." The church was consecrated June 15, 1823. It appears from the record that no trustees were elected during twenty years, but on the 4th of December,

dred dollars. The church was dedicated Nov. 14, 1872, by the Right Rev. Mark Antony De Wolfe

that

of

tlie cluircli to

all

tlie

Samuel Eberly, Samuel Hopkins, Henry Sultz-

1843,

bauch, John Kline, Samuel P. Miller, Philip Ropp,

John Paules, and James

B. Shaffner

were chosen, and

trustees were regularly elected afterwards. In 1854 the German Reformed and Lutheran congregations were allowed by the trustees to place an organ in the churcli. The burial-ground in which the church stood became so full that it was found necessary in 1857 to restrict the privilege of

addition to

making interments

there.

An

was made by the borough, but burials

it

there have long since ceased.

The German Reformed and Lutheran congregations many

used this house as a place of worship during

About four years since the Lutherans ceased The Reformed Society became prac-

years.

to worship here. tically extinct

many

years since, but five years ago

it

was revived, and it has since occupied this house.Every religious society or church in the borough, except the Catholic Church, lias occupied this house in the early period of its existence. The house has not been greatly changed since its erection. A gallery has been added, a bell-tower has been built, and some changes have been made in its internal arrangements. It is a brick structure, and its seating capacity is

four hundred. St.

John's Protestant Episcopal Church, of MaSecond and Chest-

rietta,' located on the corner of

nut Streets (south of Second), was incorporated in 1865 (has a seal). The building is a brick structure, is

sixty-seven feet in length, and thirty-two feet in

width, with steeple and

bell,

and large basement.

The building was commenced and corner-stone laid in 186C, and finished in 1867. The finishing of the church inside

— the

pulpit,

altar,

arches of chancel doors,

pews, wainscoting, and church furniture

The windows

— are walnut.

are of stained or colored glass of differ-

ent colors (figures or representations and mottiies on

Robing room and pulpit on east side of chancel, and organ and choir on west side, making a very comfortable and pleasant house for worship. The Sunday-school and recitinj» rooms are in the basement of the church building. First rector called was the Rev. R. C. Rusnell. First vestry of the new church was S. F. Eagle, Dr. Edwin Haldcman, C. J. Nourse, E. D. Roath, Henry Wolf, William Kendig, Jacob Roth, and Jacob large chancel windows), with arched ceiling.

C. Burkhart.

Howe, bishop.

The corner-stone was

Right Rev.

Vale, Bishop of the Diocese of Neother Territories, conipoalnf

braska,

laid

by

tbt

Wyoming, and

one diocese. The church is in good condition and free from debt, and owns a fine brick rectory not far from the churek on Second Street. Within the last few years, under the charge of the last rector, Rev. Alonzo Potter Dil-; ler, many have been added to the membership. Pewl: free. The Sunday-school is in a flourishing condition, numbering one hundred and thirty-five pupili, thirteen teachers, and three officers; Albert D. \Vik(^ superintendent. Over two thousand volumes hare been purchased since the organiziition. A number of volumes have become soiled and worn out, and hare' been replaced by publications of later date. Names of rectors that have been called ami officiated as rectors are, viz. Revs. Robert C. Russell,' Charles H. Meade. William T. Davidson, James 0. Drumm, and Alnii/o P. Diller. The present vestry consists of the lullowing, viz.: Stephen F. Eagle, E. D. Roath, church warden; rector's warden George W. Mehafley, A. D. Wike, H. S. Stauffer, Simon F. Stibgen, Dr. George Reich, George F. Stibgen. A. D. Wike, secretary. Services were frequently held in Zion's Church prior to building and establishing St. John's pariah by Dr. Appleton and others for the membership io :

;

this locality.

Zion's German-English Evangelical Lutheran Congregation" of the borough of Jlarietta and vicinity, in Lancaster County, Pa., was organized in the

year of our Lord" 1855.

As

early, however, as 1852

the nucleus of the congregation was already formed.

Previous to this year the spiritual wants of Lutherans at Marietta were attended to by the

paa-

Lutheran Church at Columbia, Pa. In German Reformed of Marietta organized a so-called union congregation. Re Doer, a Reformed minister, preached for them eve7 two weeks. This arrangement, however, was contia ued only a little over a year. During the two year* following there was preaching occasionally by indi viduuls, some of whom proved themselves very worthtors of the

1852 the Lutherans and

less characters.

In the early part of the

summer

of 1855, Rev.

Merz, a Lutheran minister, came to M etta, and, making himself known, was asked hy the Lutherans to remain with them and become tlieif pastor. A congregation was organized and officers

George

JVI.

Uy

i

BOROUGH OF MARIETTA. No

elected.

written documents relating

official

we

congregation exist, as far as

the

to

linow, of this pe|

rioJ

save

tlie

His

Merz.

record of the ministerial acts of Rev.

first

entry

is

and the

July

1,

fiept.

19, 1858.

1S5.3,

the baptism of a

last,

cliild,

dated

an infant baptism,

also

I

,

His successor was found in the person of Rev. Jo-

Salem's German Lutheran Columbia, Pa. His ministration was brief Soon after he was elected pastor ibout one year. tLe congregation adopted a constitution, on the 7th It is signed by the pastor and of Xovember, 1858. fifty-six male members. The following are the names of tliiise who signed it, and are still living and members of the congregation: Ferdinand Zuch, Christoleph Sclunalzl, pastor of

Johann Meister, George Raum, Friedrick Bink, Wilhelm Westeuhuefc-r, Jacob Menge, Dionis Ziegelmeier, and Adam Kolb, Wilhelm

This constitution was superseded by aiioilier adopted on the 15th of January, 1860. lu tlie fall of 1859, Rev. J. A. Darmstaetter, who had completed his studies at the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg, Pa., and was called to the pastorate of Saleiu German Lutheran Church at Columbia, was

stood until the 26th of

August, 1878, when a congregational meeting was held and the erection of a church discussed. It was unanimously resolved to build. Matters were now

j

!

pushed, and on the 15th of September the corner[

stone was laid, and three months later the edifice was finished,

1

1878.

Theisinger,

Kuehler, Sr.

Thus things

building thereof.

Cljiirch at

pbtT

641

Church, a building erected by the contribtition of the Protestants of this place, and open to all denominations who wish to worship there. Rent was paid for the use of this building. In 1874 the congregation bought a lot on the corner of Walnut Street and Mulberry Alley. Two years later, in 1876, it put in the foundation for a church edifice, but owing to adverse circumstances did not proceed to the in Zion's

i

and dedicated on the 15th of December,

The

thirty-three

tower,

'

is

by sixty

feet,

and the

memory

built of brick, Gothic style,

structure

excluding buttresses; walls

In 1883 the congregation added a

sixteen feet high.

1

Women

Society presented the bell, in

of the four-hundredth anniversaryof the birth

j

of Dr. Martin Luther, born Nov. 10, 1483.

The

bell

weighs five hundred and eighteen pounds without" mountings, which are a present of the Young Folks' Society, and was consecrated on the 15th of ,fuly, the elected pastor of the congregation. He accepted, and fifth anniversary of Rev. Mueller's installation as The whole property of the congregation is aerved Marietta in connection with Columbia, residing' pastor. estimated at four thousand dollars, and is free of at the latter place and preaching at the former every two weeks. In 1859 a Sunday-school was organized, debt. The congregation numbers one hundred and of which Mr. Michael Stump has been tlie efficient thirty-six confirmed members, and the Sundaysuperintendent since 18G0. Mr. Christian Kolb and school one hundred and thirty-nine pupils and nine|

I

[

j

Mr.

Ferdinand Zuch served

in this

capacity also.

teen teachers. [

During the

hmg and

Btroiig.

the

nestly labored to

and have

it

make

the congregation self-sustain-

who would reside in German and English lan-

to call a pastor

His labors were crowned with success.

After

Serving the congregation for almost nineteen years, he

resigned

on the 24lh of March, 1878, retaining the

Congregation at Columbia and Chestnut Hill.

He

preached his farewell sermon on the 2d of June, 1878.

The congregation, now forming a separate charge, its present pastor, Rev. George Ph. Lutheran Concordia College at Fort Wayne, Ind., and of the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He accepted, and was installed on the 14th of July, 1878, by his predecessor, assisted by Rev. F. P. Mayser, of Lancaster, As one of the conditions of his call was to I'll. preach in the German and English language, and also to perform hia ministerial acts in either, as might be requested, he reorganized the German congregali'in into a German- English, when they adopted a new (;oiistitution on the 19th of August, 1878. The con-

1,

1855, to July 27, 1883, the following

ministerial acts were performed

congregation

Marietta and preach in the guage.

From July

service of the Rev.

grew and waxed With great self-denial and sacrifice he ear-

Diirmstaetter

ing,

faithful

by the pastors of the

j

congregation, as recorded in the church record: baptisms, 666; confirmations, 201;

communions, 2882;

marriages, 114; burials, 242.

Mary's Catholic Church.— Prior

to the year 1870 the Roman Catholics living in Marietta had been obliged to go to Columbia in order to hear mass, except during the time that Father Russell said mass For a long time they for them in their town hall. had manifested an anxiety to have a church in their town, where they might assist at divine service, and

St.

extended a call to

with the view of obtaining the erection of the desired

Mueller, a graduate of the

church, a suitable site at the intersection of Second and Perry Streets, one hundred and twenty by two feet, was purchased, the deed being in the names of the following trustees: Prof S. S. Haldeman, Jno. K. Fidler, and William H. Eagle. A part of the required sum for the purchase was collected and paid to Mr. Henry Ockard, the owner. In 1867 the deed of the lot was trans-

hundred and ten

made out

ferred by the trustees to the Right Rev.

James

F.

gregation, not being incorporated, obtained a charter

Wood,-Bisliop of Philadclpliia, in trust for the Uoman Catholic congregation of Marietta, Pa. The balance owing on the lot was paid to five hundred dollars

on the 23d of January, 1882.-

Mr. Ockard, Sept.

Until

the winter of 1878

without a church building of 41

was worshiped

the congregation its

own.

It

—

Russell, pastor.

—

23,

1869, by the Rev.

On Nov.

4,

James

J.

1869, the rite of the lay-

ing of the corner-stone of the church was performed

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

642

by the Right Rev. J. F. Shanahan, who, in the preceding year, bad been consecrated bishop of the new The sermon on the occasion diocese of Ilarrisburg. was preached by the Right Rev. Thomas A. Becker, of the diocese of Wilmington, Del. On the 7th of May, 1871, the chapel of the church was dedicated by the Right Rev. J. F. Shanahan to the great joy and delight of the people, and on the same day mass was The church is fifty by said in it for the first time. ninety-eight

feet.

The next important events in the history of the church were the opening of a mission by the Redemptorist Fatliers, and the blessing at its close on

The Sunday-school connected with this church was organized in April, 1883, with Christian Stibgeo as superintendent, with thirty-five pupils.

African Churches.— There are also two African churches or congregations in Marietta, of which no reliable iiiformation could be obtained as to date of organization, building of churches,

members,

first

names

of pioneer

preachers, or present condition of the

was stated, however, by persons cognizant of the fact, that both churches were in a flourishing condition, and well supplied with ministerial societies.

It

'•'

assistance.

the 16th of June, 1872, of a beautiful cross bestowed

lOGRAPHlCAL SKETCHES. -

on the church by Paris Haldeman, Esq., whose gen-

and in other ways is held in grateful remembrance by the people of St. Mary's parish. This cross surmounts the steeple of the churcli. The parochial school was opened on the 2d of September, 1873, and placed under the care of the Sisters of Charity, to whom at the same time was assigned the charge of the Sunday-school, which, up to this date, erosity in this

number of years, been presided over by Margaret Trainor. Before the numerical loss (written of further on) which the congregation sustained, the average number of pupils in the Sunday-school had been seventyfive; it is now about forty. Lack of employment in Marietta during the panicky times of recent years compelled many of the families of St. Mary's congregation to migrate to other districts where work could be had. In consequence of this diminution of the number of the parishioners, the fine church is only partially completed. While, however, the church had, for a

!Miss

proper

is

unfinished, the edifice possesses a magnifi-

cent basement, in which the children of the parochial school

are

taught, and on

With the

held.

aid which

Sunday divine

services

record here of the liberal pecuniary

non-Catholics of Marietta gave in the erection of the church, this brief history of its intlie

fancy closes.

subsequently transferred to the English Conference. In the fall of 1880, through the means of a special meeting, about forty persons were added to the

The house of worship,

located

in

West

Marietta, was built by the Methodist Society to be

occupied as a chapel, and

in May, 1880, sold to the them was dedicated in June same year. I'resent membership, twenty-six. The trustees for 1883 were A. R. Lutz, Alexander McAfee, Joseph McFarland,- George Geiser, and Samuel Stacks. Value of church property, eleven hundred dollars. Present pastor, Rev. Mr. Kramer.

TJnited l!ret)iren,

of the

He

was married to Miss Ann Bradley, and had ont James, who was born in the same county and township in Ireland, where he was an extensive contractor. He was a man of large acquirements and 'exceptional business capacity. He was married to Miss Catharine Sheridan, of the same county, uiid during the year 1800 emigrated to America, and settled in the city of Lancaster, Lancaster Co., fr»m whence he removed to Marietta in the same county. Mr. Dufl'y, aside from his business occupatioiiM in Ireland, was connected with the military service, and He idiia member of the Light Horse Cavalry. tinued his former business in Pennsylvania, i.(jnstructed the Marietta and Lancaster turnpike, the turnpike from Elizabethtown to. the Susquehanna River, and a large portion of the road from Carlisle to Baltimore via York Springs and Gettysburg. He also projected a portion of the borough of Marietta. In politics he was a Democrat, and in liis son,

—

This church was organized by Rev. William S. Lesher, with the following-named persons as the original members, who were also the first trustees: Abram R. Lutz, D. Detweiler, and Samuel Nye. This organization was at first connected with the German Conference, and 20, 1880,

church.

'

Newtown, Cunningham County, Donegal, Ireland, where he followed the vocation of leather-dressing.'

religious predilections a

United Brethren.

May

JAMES DUFFY. Jolin Duffy, the grandfather of James, was born in

and

t)y

Roman

Catholic.

Mr. and Mrs. Duffy had twelve children, of whom seven survived. in 1820,

The death

of Mrs. Duffy occuirr-l

and that of Mr. Duffy in 1836, Their son James was born

fifth year.

Sept. 16, 1818, where the uneventful

in his sixty-

in Mari.tta,

years of

childhood were spent, in the enjoyment of such iled educational

his liui-

advantages as the public schoul The boatman's cralt

the neighborhood afforded.

of >

-i

Susquehanna River at that early day oftercl the most inviting fiehl to young men residing along its shores, and here the young man sought occupation, first as a hand, next us steersman, from which he rose the

to

the rank of pilot.

He

continued thus employed

and the following year made a trip In 1848 he established a line of boats

Ku

until 1846,

to

rope.

for the

purpose of transi)orting coal from Pottsville to New York, in the interests of the Schuylkill Navigation Company. In connection with James Mehaffy, a son

:,

5^^^^

"^^^^yc/ ^z'al

who has charge

of the

j

whole.

The Strasburg High School has been

,

I

in charge of

Professor Charles B. Keller since'1872, and ranks as one of the best in the State, being almost self-sustaining from tuition fees of pupils attending from without

the district. |

In the school building

;

vania free school system

into possession of the two

ments of the borough until 1870, when a large and imposing two-story brick structure was erected on the

east side of Nortli

the Pennsyl-

come

south side of Franklin Street, west of Fulton.

1808 a brick building

now occupied as dwellings. The statement may be startling that

time of the enact-

school system, the Strasburg borough

buildings were sufficient for the educational require-

leading |)osition in educational matters. Prior to the nineteenth century teaching was mostly done by itinerant teachers going from house to house. About

both are

tlie free

buildings above alluded to by purchase.

days Strasburg has

attention to education, and has taken a

now standing was built on the Jackson Street by private contribution, which was incorporated by an act of the Legislature a few years after. This school was taught in its best days by a William Mackey, assisted by his sister, and was largely attended by iiu|)ils from the town and surrounding country. Another brick building of about the same dimensions and similar in general appearance stands about fifty yards from the south side of East Main Street, which was built some time after the enactment of the free school system

In

was torn down and converted into a dwelling. In the year 1856 was erected on North Jackson Street the Strasburg High School building, which was considered a fine building and large enough for the accommodation of the children of the borough. 1873

but since better modes of communica-

stores,

and

as eight

Misses Girvin as a private school for a few years.

is

a very excellent reference

library, placed there at a cost of more than a thousand dollars. Since 1876 from five to eight young ladies and gentlemen have graduated from the high school annually, most of whom have since taught very acceptably throughout the county. The annual attendance at all tlie schools of the borough is about

two hundred and twenty-five. .

Religion and Churches.— While

it

is

probable

that the people of Strasburg as a rule were not an ligious or godless people, yet

it is

irre-

the fact that there

are no well authenticated church records of the borough before 1812, when the Lutheran Church on

East Main Street was built. The donor of the ground upon which this church stands lies buried heneath the sidewalk in front of the church.

The church was built by lottery, and one old man now living says that he drew the sum of fifty dollars at the

drawing upon a ticket purchased by

his father,

STRASBUKG BOROUGH. he being but six years old at

llie

time.

tinued as editor until Jan.

two-story brick structure, with gallery and organ-loft, in

which

a pipe-organ

is

made by one Michael With-

ers,

residing in the neighborhood.

was

its

pastor from the time of

time of his death.

It

its

Rev.

concern to

its

iioi-^e

made by them at the time of their revivals was tdo much for their Lutheran brethren, and they were obliged to seek other quarters.

A

large brick steeple

had at one time been erected at the east end of the church, but when it had reached a few feet above

church proper the funds were e.xbausted, and in a few years after it was torn down and the material was used for tlie construction of the the roof of the

Strasburg Academy. About 1815 the " Old Jlethodist Church," as

I

'

many

Burying-Places.

In

ISliS

this

it,

and

it

was otherwise renovated and

Presbyterian, two

theran, one

half acres, which

was

lated.

is

by

prettiest,

and

and best regu-

monuments adorn its when trees bedeck

in the early season,

it is

a beautiful

i)lace.

Noteworthy People. — Among noteworthy individmay be mentioned Thomas H. Burrowes, who was born Nov. IG, 1805, in a small

meet-

Lutheran Church, and for some years ings In 1832, acted without any regular organization. November 21st, a meeting Wiis lield which resulted in the election and final ordination of William Russel and David Shirk as ruling elders, and the church edifice now standing on the corner of South Decatur and Franklin Streets was soon afterwards erected upon land jmrchased of David Shirk. The pastors who have served the church are Revs. Joseph Rarr, David McCarter, Solomon McNair, J. M. Rittenhouse, John R. Kugler, John McNair, D. D. Henry, E. Spayd, R. K. M. Baynuin, and Ezra Haney, the present incumbent. The (iresent trustees are Josiah A. Martin, D.D.S., William Spencer, Martin Drulinger, Jacob Bachman, and John Girvin. In 1871 the United Brethren in Christ purchased the old Methodist Church and renovated it, and held services in it until 1881, when debts had accumulated upon them to such an extent that they were obliged to sell it, the Good Templars becoming the purchasers, who converted it into a temperance hall by enlarging and otherwise improving it. In 1870, when the school board sold the Jackson Street school buildings, they were purcluised by Dr. Benjamin Musser, who afterwards conveyed the high school building to the Reformed Mennonite Church,

Lu-

themselves in living green and flowers bloom their

inipniveil

first

records, if

Methodist, and the

far the largest

Several large and costly

inclosure,

in tlie interior.

likewise held their

its

lost.

— Within the borough limits there

I

The Presbyterians

sold the

Strasburg Cemetery, inclosing about two and one-

found to be too small, and an attachment w.l> built to

when he

are no less than i\\e burying-places, namely, one

it is

called, was erected at the soutii end of South Decatur Street, which was occupied by the congregation until 1839, when a new and larger edifice was

on West Main Street.

1879,

it

years ago a scientific society, but

ever there were any, are

now

erected

1,

wdio continued the paper

was sold by the sherifl' to .'. G. Sutton. The office remained closed until .March, 1882, when George B. Eager again purchased it, and has since been doing only a job business. literary and debating' societies have at various times flourished here, and have been largely attended, [irobably the most successful seasons being those of 1880, 1881, and 1882, when meetings were held in Massasoit Hall, which has at times been densely packed by spectators. There also existed at one time

erection until the

erection, but the

W. Sandoe,

J.

December, 1881, when

until

J. J. Sliiiie

was also occupied by the

Methodists at the time of

659

the Slrasbuiy Free Press, a weekly paper, and con-

It is n large

uals of Strasburg bon.ugh

in the

[

house, a few doors west of Centre Square, which was torn

ddWH abnut

the year 1870 by David Reese, ou

the site of which stands the house

now owned by

I

Christian Kreider. at

He

Quebec and Trinity

received a liberal education

College, Dublin, Ireland,

where

some years. In 1831 he was House of Representatives, and was re1832. Being a Whig, and that party being

his parents rcsieiiuentIy ceased

at intervals

stanch friends of liberty, and of everything else that could elevate the character or promote the welfare of

to

Tliey were

tlie

most

efficient

supporters of

American cause during tlie great struggle for independence, and they have comj)arativoly done as the

much

for the

ligion as

support of learning, morality, and

any other

their descendants,

class of people.

who

still

re-

In these respects

iidiabit this township, are

not excelled by the people in any other section of the county.

Eden was ries

from Bart in 1855. The boundaof the township as at present constituted are

Paradi.se on

set off

the north, Sadsbury on

rain on 'the south, and

a length of

five miles,

hundred and sixty

Eden on

the east. Cole-

the west.

an average width

(jf

It

has

three

and

acres.

A short distance south from the middle of this township the great Chester Valley crosses it from east to west. North and south from this valley the surface

is)

rolling, like that of the other

southern part of the county. the( l.>>t productii

The

townships in the

soil, esjiecially in

be

Nickel-Mines.^— According to authentic history, the (iap mineshad been workedfor theircopperpriorto the year 1744, and from traditions of the neighborhood they were first discovered about 1718. For eighty or

a more intelligent, virtuous, and resolute class of men never settled any country." They have ever been the

society.

to

worked.

ninety years after their discovery they were worked

by four or five dill'erent companies; but none of those companies ever found sufficient copper pay expenses, and consequently they would work them at a loss for a time and then let tlieni stand idle till new parties would start them up again. In 1849, after the mines had been idle thirty or forty years, a stock-company was formed under the name of the Gap Mining Conipany to work them again for copjjer. They operated on a rather larger scale than the previous companies put up a twenty-five horse-power steam-engine for pumping and hoisting, employed a number of miners and laborers, and found considerable copper ore, which they sold to copper smelters in Boston and Baltimore, but there was not nearly enough to pay the expenses of working the mines. Nothing was then known here of nickel, although in mining coppep large 5,

aged sixty-tive years. JIary JlcClure, wlio died Oct. 12, 1758, aged sixtythree years.

William ilcClure, who died

aged seventy

17(iS,

years.

Samuel Anderson,

Esq.,

who

died Sept. 10, 17G4,

aged sixty-four years.

The following tionary war, are

yard

persons,

known

who

served in the Revolu-

to liave

been buried

in

tliis

John Caughey, Sr., Jose|)h Tweed, R James Thom|;son, and John .Mcl'luri.-.

who

Bailey,

jbert

serveil in (lie lsl2

war:

John Caughey, Jr., William McC^ray, Henry Byre, William Sampson, James JMcCord, William Boone, Andrew Thompson, and William McCUire. Also the following, who served in the late civil war Capt. Samuel Buone, (ieorge W. Good, Lewis Findley, Lewis Kaughman, Benjamin Young, and Jacob '

:

Ritz.

who served as an asUnited States navy from April 12, 1875, until the time of his death, .\.ug. 20, 1878. There are no sessional records of Middle Octorara liarr,

in 1823,

to the

known

settlement of the Rev. Joseph to the writer,

and hence no

definite information can be ascertained in regard to

the elders previous to that date.

Soloclass-

At a meeting of the Quarterly Conference, held at Columbia, Nov. 24, 1832, for Strasbnrg and Columbia Circuit, Christopher Masters, Solomon Hamar, and Charles Bender were appointed a committee to estimate the expense of building a house of worship on James Caldwell's land, near Georgetown. They proceeded to erect the church, which was completed and dedicated in 1833. It was a stouo structure, with a seating capacity of two hundred and forty. The dedicatory services were performed by Thomas Miller, who was preacher in charge. It was named Salem Jlethodist Episcopal Church. They made a graveyard on this church lot. This house continued in use until 1876, when it was taken down, and the present church edifice was erected on its site. This is a frame building forty-five by sixty-five feet, including two convenient class-roc ins. It cost about four thousand dollars. This society has always been I circuit appointmeiit. The circuits to which it las belonged have been altered from time to time as changing circumstances have reiiuired. In 1830 it wa-s under the harge of Strasburg Circuit, and the circuit preachers

j

!

I

,-ere D.tvid Be,t and X.itlianiel Chew; in 1831-32 it was included iu Strasburg and Columbia Circuit, and the circuit preachers were Thomas Miller, Elipbalet Reed, Richard Tliomas, Robert E. Morrison, and John Edwards; in 1833 it was connected with Soudersburg CirculL and the circuit preachers Thomas Miller and William Ryder. Ministers have since

served this society,

Also Edwin M. Martin, M.D.,

sistant surgeon in the

Church previous

Among

1

:

Also the following,

at private residences.

members were George Rockey, Hess, who was the

leader.

^Vha, after a labor of about 40 years in thh miuidtry of the Gospel anions

Among

active

j

Rev. JoliQ Cutlili-rlaon,

and dates: William Barclay,

first

mon Hamar, and Adam

When

Mr. Barr en-

tered on his ministry the following were elders

:

John

Revs. John

Lednum,

R. E.

Oram, Val-

row,

Henry Sutton, Allen John, William Rink,

J. B,

Dennison, Charles Harsner, G. W. Lybrand, W. W. Michael, B. T. String, J. C. Wood, Alex. Wiggins, J.

Downey,

Aspril, William

J.

Amthor,

J.

A. Cooper,

E. C. Yerke-s, L. D. McClintock.

This society

Gap and

James Steel. Robert Patterson, Samuel Morrison, and Samuel Paxton. On Sept. 11, 1831, Cornelius

town and Gap

;

:

entine Gray, Jonas Bissey, Samuel Grace, G. D. Car-

Patterson, Francis .McKnight, Alexander Morrison,

Collins, Thomas ^lorgan, Stephen Heard, Francis Caughey, and Alexajider W.Morrison were ordained elders. In 1840, John A. Love, Benjamin Fite, Jacob Ritz, and Robert Ferguson Were added to the ses-ion aUo the following "at vari.ms times: William \\...,u^, Thomas Ferguson, .\dam Drauckt-r, Peter Baii^li-

viz.

Morrison, John Edwards, J. A. Watson, R. Anderson, Dallas D. Lore, E. R. Williams, G.

is

now

associated with the churches of

These three con.stitute Georgeand have for their minister Rev. L. D. MeClint.iik. This church has generally Christiana.

(circuit,

hundred and Iwcnly, Tlie

Tluie

trustees :ire IV-ter

!-

Pickel,

a

lluuri^l.ingSunday-

William Phenc'Mr,

BART TOWNSHIP. Jesse McAllister,

Setli

David L. Keiser,

Tlioiuas,

Samuel H. TowhomkI, John V. Leech, Suiniu'l

Thomas

outstanding debts against the church so that the church could \>e consecrated. Those debts were soon

ll.lin,

after paid

^Villiallls.

Protestant Episcopal Church at Gap Mines.'— 4, 18.')G, on invitation from Capt. John Williams, Capt. Charles Dohle, and others, Rev. Dr. IS. 1!. KilChrist

been so instrumental

rector of All Saints' Church, Paradi.se, and Church, Leacock, Lancaster Co., Pa., held

Gap Mines.

at

This and subsequent meetings tor worship in the carpenter-shop led to and remeeting, held Aug. 26, 1S5G, at

men

sulted in a business

when it wa.s anGap Mining Company had offered

nounced that the

for

that

that trustees

be appointed

lowing-named persons were duly appointed, B. B.

Gap;

of Paradise;

Killikelly,

Adam K.

viz.,

The

John Showaker,

members were Capt. John W^illiams Davis Simpson and wife, John Showaker, Gossner, James Martin, William W. Withers, Miss Ann Withers, Mrs. Francis Lytle, Cieorge Pogson and wife, and possiblv one or two an.l wife,

Dr.

Mi-s

James Hopkin.s, of

liams, of

Gap Mines.

of Bart;

and Capt. Wil-

The

met with, coi\cluded by

The present vestrymen are John Hocking, Henry Conner, Samuel A. Hughes, Esq., Thomas H. Webb, John B. Murr.ay, and Capt. Charles The wardens are Christian J. Rapp an.l Capt. Doble; Sccretarv, John Hocking; Treasurer, Capt.

Christian J. Rapp, Dortion of the

iu

between these rocks, leaving large openings wide enough for a human being to enter to a considerable distance and in various directions. Another is called " The Rock Cellar." This is an apartment of considerable dimensions, of regular shape, formed in the solid rocks, easy of access, with light through the crevices of the walls. Here it is well known that

Since that time the

township has remained unchanged.

1

By Johu

B.

terri-

The

first

settlements seem to have been

made

in

Muddy Creek and that branch on which Good's mill was erected. The earliest warrants issued out of the land-oifice bear date in 1737. On Jan. 9, 1737, a warrant was obtained by ilobert the valleys of the Black

Warburton,

in jiursuance of

which a

tract of

one Inin-

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

674

dred and seventy-seven acres and the usual allowance of six per cent, for roads was surveyed. This tract exI

tended across Black

The

title to

it,

Muddy Creek

into Earl township.

by mesne conveyances, having become

vested in William Morris, he obtained a patent for dated Jan. 21, 1768.

In pursuance of another warrant dated Dec. 1737, a tract of two hundred

it

21,

and thirty-one acres and

allowance was surveyed on May 13, 173S, and also patented to said William Morris, Oct. 12, 1742. This tract adjoins the

above and

also

extended into Earl

township.

The name of William Morris stands prominent among the early settlers of Brecknock. Who he was and where he came from is not known, but the orthography of his name indicates rather Welsh than Teutonic extraction. He purchased extensive tracts of land from the Penns, who were the proprietors of the soil, and some time afterwards, on having sold a part of said land to Jacob Schneder, erected substantial sandstones, with the initials of his

graved thereon, as landmarks

to

name

legibly en-

designate the boun-

daries of his estate.

From one to two miles farther north, on another branch of Muddy Creek, near the site of the present village of Bowmansville, Jacob Good' and Christian Good, two brothers, with their brother-in-law, John Musselman, with their respective families, settled about the same time. These emigrants were Mennonites from the Palatinate. As the adjoining township of Ear! and the valley of the Conestoga in general had been settled at an earlier period, principally by emigrants from the same country and of like relig-

were anything but assuring and calculated to inspire them with confidence. The country was a wilderness, one vast forest, inhabited by wild beasts and Indians.

As yet

there were no roads, no houses, gardens,

fields,

or orchards.

Jacob Ciood had but two children, both sons, named respectively Peter and Jacob. He divided the ample Iiaternal domain equally between them. Peter with his family afterwards removed to Cumberland County. The younger Jacob was twice married, and had five sons and one daughter with his first and four sons and one daughter with his second wife. With his liiat wife and her children he emigrated to Virginia. His descendants by his first wife are still residing in the neighborhood, some of them on part of the original tract.

Half a mile higher up on the south fork of aaid branch of Muddy Creek, and about a quarter of a mile south from Bowmansville, Christian Good, brother of Jacob Good, the

elder, settled,

and erected

the

first

occupying the spot where Henry Von Neida is now situated. The original tract on which this brother settled was bounded on the north by a line running nearly due east and west through the present village of Bowmansville; on the west by the stream forming the boundary between him and his brother Jacob

grist-mill in the township,

the large fiouring-mill of Mr.

until

its

confluence with the mill-stream, thence south-

erly to Casper Messner's land,

On

south.

the east

which adjoined

boundaries are

its

it

on the

riot definitely

known.

WHiile this tract included a large area, it is believed that it was still considerably smaller than the

extensive territory of his brother.

lodging under the inviting shelter of a patriarchal

Whether the mill was built originally of wood or is not known, but tradition says that the mill and the dwelling were all under .one roof. Later a stone mill and se|)arate stone dwelling-houses were erected, which were removed to make places for more modern structures within the memory of many persona now living. In one of these dwellings religious ser-

tree, where he deposited such household goods as he had brought along with him, and with

ing-house.

ious faith, they received considerable friendly assist-

ance from that quarter. Jacob Gooil, arriving at the spot chosen for the erection of his new home, on the right

bank of the stream, a short distance below the

confluence of the two forks of the middle branch of

Muddy

Creek, about a mile below Bowmansville, took

white-oak

the assistance of his friends, the Earl,

commenced

Zimmermans, from

the erection of such a house as the

stone

vices were held before the erection of a separate meet-

possible tluit there was a time when

It is

same building simultaneously served the purposes of a mill, dwelling-house, and church. the

times and circumstances would permit.

Good

lie at once purchased the ground on which he had settled with his family. The deed, which is from John Penn, is

dren,

— six

sons,

named Jacob, was

dated in 1738, and embraced a tract of six hundred

jiiler

and twenty-eight acres and the usual allowance. This new home was completely isolated from the Its inmates were ignorant rest of the civilized world. of the existence of any neiglibors until one day the

among

clarion vpice of a cock greeted the ears of the pnter-

fami/iim wliile wandering through the woods at distance from his liouse.

This led

to the

some

joyous

dis-

covery that other settlers had also come to the same neighborhood. Then their Immediate surroundiiifrs

Christian

His

will

the old and musty papers in

is

It is

a paper

dated

filed

Muddy

1

of the

with

it

remains on

file

tlie register's ofiico

Creek, Aug.

11, 1757.

which serves but a poor

A

for a translation. memorandum of its probate in Will-Book B, page 184, states that the will,

apology

-in German, could not be recorded. The commences with a quotation from Hebrew ix.

being "

A

testament

is

of force after

provides that the widow

men

was fourteen years

old.

will

17:

are dead," and

(named Magdalena) and

children should continue the family iginally were Gutb aud

One

the grandfather of the com-

of these memoirs.

at Lancaster.

There

raised a family of seventeen chil-

sons and eleven daughters.

till

the youngest

The executors were Marks

BRECKNOCK TOWNSHIP. Groff (believed to be a son of tbe famous Hans) and

John Good, tbe oldest son, and concludes

witli

675

played in the erection of

an

this, in their eyes, so

mag-

nificent a structure. I

exhortation to tbe latter to be a proper example to his younger brothers and sisters, wbile tbey in turn

Jacob Schneder, a man remarkable in the early histSry of Brecknock township, on account of the advanced age to which he lived and the extensive tracts of land he owned in his time, purchased this property for his son, Baltzer Schneder, who moved on it April He in turn sold it to Christian Pleam, who 15, 1706.

I

admonished to be obedient and subject to him. At the same time U737) John Musselman located

are

on a tract of land about one niile north from tbe mill,

and along the north fork of said branch of Creek,

where

until lately

some of his

Muddy

lineal descendants

died in the old house

who used to relate the sayings of their greatgrandsire, that when be wisiied to earn a regular day's wages he could not obtain work nearer home than in

March

13, 1877.

It appears that Jacob Schneder must have been born about the time these early settlers first came into tbe township, for he died on his old homestead,

resided,

neighborhood of New Holland, a distance of over Between the Christian Good and John Musselman tracts a farm of one hundred and thirty acres was located, which at the time of the Revolution and afterwards belonged to Ullich Burkholder, of whom more will be said hereafter. About one mile farther north from Musselmau's

near Centre Church, July

the

eight miles.

four years.

He

related of I

9,

1829, at the age of ninety-

had been married

at the age of sev-

woman named

enty-five years to a

Kafroth.

him that he was displeased with

Baltzer because he had married a poor girl

It

is

his sou

named

Kitzmiller, but ultimately relented and purchased the

plantation above mentioned for him. I

place Francis Diller, a Swiss, erected the lery in

first

The

distil-

Brecknock, on land which until recently beFarther south from the place

I

where the Goods first settled, on both sides of the Eckert took up the tract of land afterwards owned by the Messners, and east of the Goods'

creek, Francis

settlement

Hermann

I

I

Deis settled on a tract afterwards j

owned by tbe Kern family. Another tract of land containing two hundred and seventy acres and allowance was surveyed in pursuance of a warrant issued to Casper Mason, wiiich was the Anglicized name of Messner, dated June 15, 174S, afterwards patented to

liini

I

mansion on the William Marris

changed and modernized, has its old walls still stauding, and is occupied and used as a farm-house. About one mile south of Bowmansville a man

named John Boehm commenced

I

dispersion of the

workmen, who

were drafted into the patriot army, interrupted the and the structure remained

l>rogress of the building,

incomplete until the close of the war. Thi.s dwelling-house is peculiar in its arrangement. The

Dec. 11, 17G0, the patent

others.

fireplaces arranged for

page

118.

Probably about the date of this patent the dwelling-house, which still remains standing and continues to be used as a farm-house, was erected on this tract. It is a two-story stone building, with high peaked roof, resting on extraordinary heavy framework, the main rafters of which are over a foot in thickness. There are still some outbuildings in the yard covered with tile which in all probability once formed a [jart There are only two apartof the roof of this house. ments on the first floor, a kitchen and a room with an enormously large stone chimney between them, containing a proportionately capacious fireplace on the first floor in the kitchen, and a smaller fireidace on the second floor, the chimney being double from tbe second floor upwards. of lead,

The window-sashes,

originally

have long ago been changed into wooden sash,

except a small remnant of the old relic which

still

remains in one of the kitchen windows. Tradition says that at the period of

its

erection a

built in front of

I

I

it.

There are

burning wctod on each side of the house. The house is well and substantially built, and is still in a good state of preservation. John Boehm, tbe pro])rietor of this mansion, was a man of courage and resolution. During the Revolutiouary war some evil-diposed persons took advantage of the non-resistant principles of the Mennonite settlers in the

neighborhood.

These iniquitous feloflScers, commis-

lows pretended to be government

sioned to impress horses, grain, and other valuable military stores, which they fraudulently appropriated to

their

own

use.

One Sunday

it

happened that

while Mr. Boehm attended divine worship, then held by the Mennonite society in a private house, Good's mill, one of these men made a raid into the neigliborhood, and had already captured several valuable horses and was about to carry them off, when Mr. Boehm was informed of the matter. He at once left the house where tbe religious service was held, pursued the robber, and when be overtook him attacked

him

and that numbers of visitors from 'the valley of the Conestoga c^mie to behold the architectural skill and splendor dis-

that he surrendered

ctiriosity,

is

the main dwelling and attached to

two-story stone dwelling of such size and character

was an object of wonder and

The breaking

either volunteered or

kitchen, with a large fireplace,

ii.

the erection of a

large two-story stone dwelling-house.

This tract adjoined the hereinbefore named Jacob Good and Christian Good and vol.

tract,

though

out of the war of the Revolution and the consequent

being recorded at Philadelphia, in Patent-Book .\A,

.

original

near Centre Church, in East Earl township, in which the aged patriarch, Jacob Schneder, died,

longed to the Steffys.

igorously wi with a piece of so vigorously

turned

in

triumph wi

horses to their owner;

at

broken fence-rail the victor re-

di;

troiib;

restored the

HISTORY" OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

676

Tliere was a very hirge two-story stone dwellingj

house, witli stone kitelien attached, built in the valley

of the Black

Muddy

Creek, on a i)ortion of the land

proprietaries hy the It was erected in before-named William Blorris. The carpenter em1795, by Christian Schiieder. ployed in its construction was Henry Oood, who, it seems, was also the architect of a inimlicr ut' other buildings completed about that iierind. The front has reis of regular cut hrown sandstone, which mained in almost perfect preservation to the present day. Another, perhaps yet larger, dwelling of .similar architectural style was erected in the same neighborhood by Peter lioehm in 18(12. There is a hall in the middle of the building, with rooms containing old-fashioned fireplaces, and the kitchen, with large fireplace on either side and brick or mortar lloor,

originally purchased from the

I

attached in the rear.

About the year 1740 the township was organized, and a tax amounting to one pound twelve shillings was assessed on its inhabitants. Leonard Pridenstow viaa

Part of the original

appointeasseil

into tlie

hands of

its

jirescnt

Emmert. About two miles lower down

tlie

owner, Andrew

same stream

is

the

former at BowmansDry Tavern— by another old thoroughfare leading from the Plow Tavern to Reamstown. At the close of the Revolutionary war the follow-

above list mentioned as belonging to Martin Frey. lu 1830 the present mill, whose site is about a quartet of a mile lower down the stream, wks erected by Ephraim Shober, after whose death it

ing were the principal lami-owners

Esq.,

ancient roads are crossed

ville and the latter at the

in

the township

:

mill property in

passed into the hands of bis son,

who now runs

Another

Reuben

E. Shober,

it.

mill existed from early times on

Muddy

Creek, in the southwestern part of the townshiji, the above

Martin.

list

mentioned

as

Since that time

belonging

it

to Dr.

pold's mill, Overholzer's mill, and Sensenig's Samuel Sensenig is its present owner. Another mill, not appearing on above list, is ate on

Muddy

in

Samuel

has been known as Lumill.

situ-

Creek, a short distance below the Dry

Tavern, where the saw-mill of Abraham Bixler, Esq., who died there in 1847, was situate. After his death

George Martin built the present now ftwned by Peter B. Oood.

grist-

and saw-mill,

From the list it apjiears that at that Good was the proprietor of a saw-mill and This

latter

hemp

was a machine

for spinning.

A

time Peter hemp-mill.

for prei)aring the fibre of

large slone, in the shape of

the frustnim of a cone, was

made

to roll

by machinery.

BRECKNOCK TOWNSHIP. hemp

propelled by water-power on the

spread out on

prepared for the purpose.

a circular tioor

At that time all the grist-mills spoken of had special machinery adapted to the luilling of spelt [Tritkuin a cereal resembling wheat, but covered with which had been brought by the early immigrants from their old homes across the water. It was also called " German wheat." ]5ut the cultivation of hemp and spelt has long since been abandoned, aud mills of that kind are no longer in use.

Spella,

thick husks),

The only physician who

flourished in these primi-

tive times in Brecknock was the above-named Dr. Samuel Martin, who owned the mill and farm spoken of before. This man did not pretend to have any scientific knowledge of medicine, but practiced uroscopy and incantations or powwows in connection with tlie use of home-made salves and nostrums. Among these may prominently be mentioned brand-

pulver (mortification powders), blutreinigung (blood purifier),

and a salve

was his grand to

death,

forte.

whom

stanching of bleeding wounds Patients in danger of bleeding

the doctor never saw and

miles away, were

by him instantly cured.

and grown persons suffering from the witches were promptly relieved

Such

doctor.

From

is

Among

to heal fractured bones.

his cabalistic feats the

who were C'liildren

his experience he

became

some

skilled in

degree in certain siiecial departments of

liis jirofes-

and if tradition can be trusted to any extent lie performed astonishing cures in cases of fractured

bones and by the application of his specific medi-

After his death his son, Peter Martiu, con-

His

tinued the practice of his father's profession.

the sacred " Gottes Acker,"

requiem over the graves of the dearoperty, and in

to Geortre Flory,

who

ISi;'.)

built the saw-mill ad-

joining, and in 1870 sold the property to A. B. Snyder,

the present owner,

Indiantown

grist-

and saw-mills were

l.nilt

on In-

Krh,

who

sold the property in 1832 to Jacob Jlershberger.

Mr.

dian River,

in ISlili,

hy Isaac, son of

Hcrshberger made some additions subsequently sold

to

John Ohejlin.

.l.din

and owner

to the mill,

The

ne.xt

was Samuel Millirjger, and alter his dceca-c in ISMI William Stober became the owner. In l.ssii he put in steam-power and otherwi-e improved the nulls, and is the present owner. Martin Weidi.ian kept a store in the house now owned by M. L. Weidmaji from 18:33 until 185;', when his son,"S. l\ A.

1875,

A

when

lie

Weidman,

ke[it

the old store until

died.

tavern was kept at the turnpike in the house

now owned by Zaeharias Furry lor tiearly or The landlords were Henry

thirty-three years.

enroth, George KIser, and 1837. first

is

The

now

tavern

occupied as a

lastly

ke[,t

quite Stut-

by John Elser

in

hy H. K. Wealand was

liotel in 18iJU.

Land-Owners in 1828.— The land-owners of what now Clay township, and located on the south side

of the l>(jwningtown, lOjdirata and Harrisburg turnpike, in 11S28, were:

:

CLAY TOWNSHIP. Hacknian's at Middle Creek,

and Jacob

Clay

iu

on sixty perches of land purchased from The school directors were Jonathan

1858,

in [

to\vnslii|).

i

United Brethren Meeting-House, near Newtown, known as Paradise Chiireh," was built by tlie United Brethren in 1.S47. Building committee and trustees, Jesse Paninibecker, Joseph Snyder, and Gideon Weid•'

Pastor at

man.

Siegrist Landis, ligioiis

tliat time, Simon Nolt; afterwards Kaull'man Ciders, and others. Ite-

meetings are held every two weeks.

Present

John H.

Miller, Jacob Hacknian.and David Free school was kept in the basement until when a new scbo(il-house was built in Newtown

trustees,

Eberly. 1880,

Sclwxd-teachers, Charles .Vnstead,

by the township.

Samuel Zentniver, P. P. Ilibslmian, William Enck, and David S. Enck.

Sandstone Meeting-House, known

as Ileinecke's,

!

Christian Bentz.

Kratz, Elias Enck, John Lowry, Jacob

Bollinger,

Elser, and Elias Wcdf Miller School-House was built by the township, on forty ferches oMaii.l purchased from Peter Miller, School directors, Samuel Shcnk, Christian in 1849. Risser, Martin Wcidmau, lliram Erb, John Keller, and Gabriel Bacr. Swamp School-House was built by the township, on forty |)erchcs of land purchased from Robert and George Dawson Coleman, in 1850. School directors

Samuel

same as in 184!). Fairview School-House was

the

built

by the town-

ship, on forty perches of land purchased from J(jna-

than Kraatz,

in 1855.

School directors, Martin Bentz,

on land purcliased from Jlembers from

Peter Martin, Elias Stober, Benjamin Bollinger, Jacob

Jacob Frantz, in about the year ISOO.

Eichelberger, and J(.hn Keller.

United Brethren for some reason took an interest and called themselves in German •' AlThe church was built for all religious denonuMations who contributed to build the same, with one exception. Elias Wolf, Benjamin Heinecke, and Levi Enck were trustees and building couimittce. The German Baptists hold meetings iu Previous to about this churdi every twelve weeks. 1835 the German Baptists held their meetings in private houses. Meetings were held every twelve weeks at the house of Rev. Jacob Pfaulz, also at Peter Bollinger's and Jacob Bollinger's, then residing along

Fetter School-House was built by the township, on sixty perches ol' land purchased from George FetSchool lian Frv, and ^^;^^uel Lincoln Wi^-ler.

Jlrs.

fifty-nine

He

conlined

and wa- nevrr an

him-elf ilo-ely to a-|.iiant after public

liis

busi-

iio>iti()n.

For several yr:ir- lo- »as a-.ociated witli Benjamin Wl^^le^ in the inanur.ntnre and .-^ale of millstones, under the firm-name of Weidman & Wissler. lie led a quiet and industrious life, and was held in genlie eral respect for his integrity and uprightness, gave liberally of his means to the support of all worthy enterprises, whether of a material or spiritual character, and strove by every means in bis power to perforin the full duty of a good citizen. Cut down in the prime of his life and in the midst of his usefulness, his early demise was attended with universal regret. He married, on Nov. 10, 1858, Mary A., daughter of J^cob and Magdalena Landis, of Ephrata

,

pounds, nineteen ^hillings, and .sixpence. This was the common ancestor of the family in this country.

He emigrated

from Durlacli, Germany, and was one uf He had two son^, Christopher and Jacob, and a daughter, wlio manied

the pioneers of Lancaster County.

L.

Weidman,

teller in the

Ephrata National Bank.

a'^/y^a^y

'

.^

ii

tJJ^

M

Ccc^i'^v^^^^-'tJiy^

EAST COCALICO TOWNSHIP. GEORGB The

W. STEINMETZ.

original ancestor of the Steiiiinetz family

ceeded John Erb

i

country was Cliarles Steinmetz, who einigratt from a [lortion of Germany lying along the rivi Rhine, during tlie latter half of the eighteenth eui

and

this

He was

tury.antl lainU'd at Philailelphia,

709 Erb family,

old family seat of the

then

Iii

in

at Clay,

and suc-

the business of hotel-keeping,

in

farming a portion of the old homestead, coui-

Is.Oo,

upon the enactment of

prohibitory

local

lIl'I

hntcl-keepiug, and in 18G2, upon the dealli (d J..liu

Eih, became F.,rJ.

where he

traveling

now Ephrata U|)

.narrie.l

w

Steiniiiet/.

one hundred and twenty acres of

neighborhofpd of the present

3sidence

i

Here he engaged advan

1

i

until his death, at the

i

eorge L.

agricult

:ed

;

age o

His children were eight iu nuinl Catharine, who married John Goover, ,f Ephral township; Charles; J(din Samuel; Sar; ried Andrew Bushong, .Taeob, Isaac, and David. family only three

(18S3),

viz.:

neither sought nor liositioii.

;

ed resident

. I

esides with hi

Saral

has con-

He was

been willing

to

and has

accept public

an earnest supporter of the late

war, and as a war I>enH)crat was active in raising

at the iMTsei

i

Samuel,

He

fined himself closely to his business pursuits,

(

Richland, Lebanon Co.

his present residence

I

;

writing

ill

a period of ibnrteen years,

lsi;7, l)uilt

cultivating large quantities himself.

years.

this large

(i'hiy lur

store property at that jioint, I

Bowman.

Having pursued farming

and farm.

Mr. and and the year following embarked in the mercantile business, in wduch he has since continued. He has also engaged e.N.tensively in the purchase and sale of tobacco, besides O|perations at

townsliip, Lane^ ister Co.,

owner, by purchase, of both the

j

r'

hotel property

l'„ggy

.M i>s

farther we,tw

still

the several quotas of soldiers required of his township for service in the field.

He

is

a

member

of the Brick-

I

daughter, the wife of'Hon. Anthony E. Roberts, of

officially

Jacob Steinmetz, father of our subject, was born in upon the tract originally settled by his father in Ephrata township, but removed to West Earl township in 1833, wdiere he engaged in farming at the place now owned by Solomon Grove. In 1845 he re-

of trustees at the present writing.

171)8,

moved

to Annville,

Lebanon

in

His wife was Catharine Gross (born 180(3), a native of Ephrata township, daughter of John Gross, who was for many years a liotel-keeper and merchant at Ephrata, and a large land owner. She is still living at Annville. Pa. The children were ten in number, namely C. P., residing at Annville George W. Reuben (deceased) Mary A., wife of Rev. Joseph Painter, of Myerstown, Lebanon Co. Charles H., a mercliant at Newmanstown, in the same county; Selinda, wife of Dr. J. G. Fritz, of Annville Uriah G., doing business in Philadelphia; Rebecca; Martin N. B., also in business in Philadelphia and Jacob L., a practicing lawyer at Lancaster, Pa., and a former member of the ;

;

;

among

Hiram Erb Steinmetz, was born I

all

worthy

and

liberal

the public-spirited and

progressive citizens of his township.

His only son,

Oct. 20, 1854.

entered the preparatory department of the

Valley College

18-51.

;

To

enterprises he has ever lent a cheerful

support, and he ranks

Co., wiiere he also pur-

sued the vocation of a farmer until his demise,

:

Lutheran Church, and has beeu connected with that body since 18G5, having served as deacon, and being a member of the board erville Evangelical

I

Lancaster; and Isaac, residing at Ephrata, Pa.

at

He

Lebanon

Annville, Pa., in 18G7, and was

j

graduated from that institution with the degree ol Bachelor of Arts in 1874. He received the Master'; degree in 1877. He has been postmaster at Clay since 1876,

and devotes much attention

work, acting,

among

to literarj

other things, as the local corre-

spondent of several leading newspapers in the county Mrs. George W. Steinmetz died on June 5, 1870.

;

;

CHAPTER

XLII.

Slate Legislature.

George W. Steinmetz was born at the old family When seat in Ephrata townsliip o[i .\ug. 11, 18li7. five years of age he removed wilh hi- father to West E;irl township, where the earlier yars of his life were passed upon the paternal farm, and in .-Utendance upon the common .schools of his locality. He

southeast by the township of Brecknock, southwest b

subsenuenlly enjoyed a higher course of instruction

Ephrata, and northwest by West Cocalico townshi|

at the

Ephrata Academy.

father, in

ISol.hecame

Upon

into posse

the death of his

KAST

OOCAI.rCi) TDWX.^IIII'.i

Geography and Topography.— This

is

one of

th

northeastein lowiiships of Lancaster County, and

bounded on

llic

i

imrtheast by Berks County, on th

HISTORY OP LANCASTER COUiNTY.

710 northwest, Lied's Ridge in

town Ridge

The

soil

southwest, and

tlie

Among

Adams-

this number we find that Everhard Rea • now the village of Reamstown, and pitched his tent under the spreadii branches of a large oak-tree, then standing on tl farm now owned and occufiied by John Lesher, ac joining lire village of Reamstown. The old oak-tn stood a little west of where now stands a large willo\ tree, near Mr. Lesher's house. Here, with none hi Indians as neighbors, Mr. Ream built his rude hu one hundred and sixty years ago, and after clearin a small spot of ground he procured a warrant, and 1725 a patent was granted him for about four hui dred acres of land, upon a portion of which the vi lage of Reamstown was laid out. For some time th nearest mill to Mr. Ream was on the Brandywim and his nearest neighbors, aside from Indi.ins, wei the settlers on Mill Creek. The attractions produced by Mr. Ream's littl clearing and the abundance of pure water induce settlers to locate in his immediate vicinity, and but few years elapsed before Mr. Ream was in the mids of quite a settlement of Germans. Prominent among Mr. Ream's sons was Tobi.x' who in 1760 laid out the town of Reamstown. G

located in " Zoar,"

in the northeastern part.

of the townsliip, exceiit on

vated portions,

very

is

fertile,

tlie

most

ele-

1723,

producing the ordinary and lierc as

cereals of this region in great abundance,

elsewhere in the county tobacco vated.

The

townsUi])

and the

west,

which traverses the its

is

is

successfully culti-

drained towards the south-

largest stream

is

the Cocalico Creek,

entire length of

tlie

southwestern boundary, and with

'

township near

its

ailiuents, the

Stony Run, drains a large porticm is known as Muddy Run, or Jluddy Creek, is on the boundary between this township and Brecknock, and receives branches from the which

largest of

is

i

What

of the area.

southeastern declivity of the water-shed that passes

southwesterly through the township from the vicinity

These streams supply water-power through the township.

of Adamstown.

for the mills that are scattered

Highways.

—The principal highway

is

the Lancas-

ter and I^.eading road, ])assing from Adamstown borough southwesterly through the township by the village of Reamstown. This road was laid out many years prior to the Revolution, and before the railroad era it was an important thoroughfare. The road was

laid out fifty-eight feet wide, but

much narrower by

it

has been

made

his children

the encroachments of land-owners

its

John died

Old Cocalico, and Derivation of Name.— The old township of Cocalico was divided in 1838 into East and West Cocalico and the township of Epiirata, since which time no change has been made in the boundaries of East Cocalico. It is said that the name Cocalico is a corruption Koch- Hale- Kuiuj, which means a cave or den of serpents, and that an abundance of these reptiles along the creek of that name suggested

I

divided and

I

Joseph 1

I

West

The

subdivided

old plarrtation has beei

till

it

is

now owned

b.\

Withers, Curtis Withers, Christian Martin

Daniel Hershberger, Moses Shirk, Philip Staufer. Frederick Andrews, John Heiser, and Alexandei

Other owners of large plantations there how much land they owned, oi

were, but just who,

where

it

was located we were unable

to obtain anj

reliable data.

I

j

Cyrus Ream, a great-grandson of Tobias Ream the founder of Reamstown, grandson of Henry Ream, and son of Curtis Ream, was born Dec. 12, 1812, in Reamstown, where he has since resided, and been held in high esteem by his fellow-townsmen. He served as a justice of the peace from 18.5G to 1881, when he was appointed a notary public, which commission he still holds. In 18G0 he was appointed census marshal for the townships of Brecknock and East Cocalico, also for the borough of Adamstown, and has also been trea-surer of the Reformed congregation of Reamstown

ISuchers, llubers, Kidlcrs, ydnvartzwallers, Leaders,

Mays, Mayers, Ilahns, Resslers, Beyers, Leets.Schlotts, Feirsteins,

S.

Gerhardt.

Schneiders, Killians, Docks, Forneys, Rupps, Balmers,

others.

at present. Christian

;

I

its title.

Grolfs, Wolfs,

known

in

herited his property.

I

Early Settlers.— Among the pioneers of what is now East Cocalico townsliij), and most prominently identified with its pioneer history, were the Reams,

and

little is

Ohio; George Juliana, married Jacol Kofroth. Three other daughters married to Michaei Wcitzel, William Wheeler, and a Mr. Sarbold. Jacob Hershberger received a warrant for and sub sequently patented about six hundred acres of huK along the Cocalico Creek, below Reamstown, upoi which he built a saw-mill on the site now occnpiei by Philip Staufer's mill. Mr. Hershberger had foui sons, Isaac, Abraham, Joseph, and John, who in

borders.

township nearly at right angles with the I,anca-;ter and Reading road. Another road through the township, and of considerable importance, is the one crossing the Lancaster and Reading road at Swartzville, near Adamstown borough. Other roails traverse the township in different directions, but those mentioned are the most important. The Reading and Columbia Railroad passes through the township near its northwestern boundary for twothirds the length of that line. Tiiis affords convenient communication between this township and Reading towards the northwest, and Lancaster and Columbia towards the southwest, and indirectly with Philadelphia, New York, and Ilarrisburg.

but

the oldest son, grew to man's estate and went

Another important highway is the Schaefterstown and Churchtown road, crossiiiL' the along

since 1869.

Weidmans, Hershbergcrs,

At the age I

to Ellas

of seventeen years he was apprenticed

Weilknecht

to

learn the blacksmith trade.

EAST COCALICO TOWNSHIP. whom

he remained about eiglit years, when he opened a shop and commenced business in Eeamstown on his own account. Here he carried on the blacksmitli business for about thirty-five years, when he retired from active -crvicu in that line. with

Taxables for 1780

I

w

lor

t

'

embraced

Dutrich Gugly, 50 Julin Gogly, 15U

h

JuhnGogb-.Jr-.l

k

HISTOKY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 14, ISIU.

j

Cyrus

U.-uni, April 9, 1861.

sS. Fry, ISSl.

Muddy Creek

Evangelical Lutheran Church.'—

This con^'iviiation was (irgaiii/.i-d ahoiit 17;iO, but tlio records do not commence till 1733. The first records of bai)tisms were by Peter MiiUer, and by Rev. John Christian Schultze. Rev. John Casper Stoever vishere as early as 1784, but he

ited the congregation

does not appear to have preached to this congregation

till 17i(i.

From

the time of

its

organization

till

hundred and five years, this sowas connected with that of New HoUajid, and to have been served by the same pastors. Rev. Tobias Wagner succeeded Mr. Stoever in A Rev. Stoever then 1749, and continued till 17.r)5. served the church till 1758, then Rev. John Samuel 1838, a jjcriod of one ciety

Schwerdtfegertill

17(13.

During the pastorate of Mr. Schwerdtfeger

the

their church prop-

Wi.luw Milk-r

congregation acijuired a deed

JiiiuU W..If, 1

erty,

%Viiluw Bi'ckf

was sold by tiie proprietors to the Lutlierun and the German Reformed congregations jointly, and An it has always remained their joint property. agreement was entered into by which each congrega-

the warrant

1744.

ol

which had been granted

for

in

It

tion obligated itself to follow the "Augsburg Confession" and the " Heidelberg Catechism," respectively.

The joint occupation and use of the property was also agreed on. The elders of the Lutheran congregation who entered into this agreement were Valentine Schneider, Stober.

Of

the foregoing

of taxalik's hut very few,

Fry, Casper

and

Lutz,

Philip

the part of the Reformed congrega-

ago, and only a small

by the owners of over a century portion of the pioneer lands

can be traced to the present owners. However, we can give a few of tlieni, as follows: The land owned

consideration one [lound eight shillings and eleven

by

pence.

any, of their descendants real estate possessed

,

Jacob

On

Henry HaHer, Christoi)her Shoup, Georj^e Helft, and Maneus Egly were the elders and signThe instrument was executed ers of the agreement. May 30, 1701. The deed was acquired March 25,

list

John Deltccfer Duvid lirlckcr

Henry

llcur

ia

now "

now own any

by

part of the

.I,.l,n

Ilartiimn,

"

1»;l:.c

K. Uli.i hulzei.

"

Chii-li.n

i,»ni-.l

if

tion,

In 1763, Rev. William Kurtz

continued

ttn

I

Knupp

Monlilion.

till

Knrluw A Co.

si.\ty

became

perches,

pastor, and

1781, succeeded by Rev. Daniel Schroe-

Ki-lliir.

der, '

and conveyed nine acres and

17G2,

who remained

till

1784; then came Rev. Val-

Melsheimer, who remained till 1790, succeeded by Rev. Ileinrich Moeller, who was pastor till 17',tl); then Rev. Peter Beng, till 18(il; Rev. John Plitt, till 1812; Rev. Peter Filbert, till

entine

Frederick

1823; Rev. John Frederick Engle, who died the same year (1823); Rev. Charles Kutze, who died in 182r>; Rev. John W. Reichard, a grandson of the till 1834; Rev. C. F. Welden. Rev. C. P. Miller, till 1841; Rev. Mr.

patriarch Muhlenberg, till

1838;

I

ukotcli

by Rev

Henry.

EAST COCALICO TOWNSHIP. Frederick,

1849; Rev.

till

Thomas Yeager,

till

1852;

Rev. Cliarles Reese, till 1857; Rev. R. S. Wagner, 18(10 Rev. S. R. Roycr, till 18(18 Rev. R. S. Wag-

till

;

;

1873; Rev.

ciety

years of

er^'ted.

Church consists of Rev. George Echternach and

and

till

S. S.

S.

.-i.'lnveitzor,

Amhrw

pastor;

Kiiuiut,

ekiers;

Peter Marso, Daniel Binkley, and Martin Althouse,

deacons; Martin Althouse, treasurer Cyrus Sower, trustee. Rev. Daniel llerz commenced preaching at Muddy Creek Church in 1822, and continued until his death in ISGil. Rev. S. Schwcit/.er, the present pastor, was installed in 187(!), and has at jire-^ent under his instruction eighty-live catechuinens, a much larger number tliaii under any uiher pastor during the history of the churLli. The lluidelberg Catechism is faithl'ully used in tlie classes. Present membership of church, three liundred and fifty. The first church building was a log house, but no record states when it was built. It was probably erected as early as 1730 or 1733. The second church was a stone building, and tradition says it stood about one hundred years. The ;

floor

was

laid or i)aved with bricks or flat stones.

stood partly on the ground on

It

which the present

church building stands. The present, which is the third church edifice, was built in 1847, and is also a stone structure rough-cast. The sacramental cup and ]jhite were presented by Michael Kegerisc, mid bear the date of 17(12. The bell lor this church was procured in 1850. The inscription on it is, "Cast by T. I. Dyre, Jr., Philadelphia, 1850. Muddy Creek Church, Lancaster County, Pa." The first organ in this church was purchased and set up in 1871. Its cost was seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. Early in the liistury of this congregation a school-house was erected on the church

It

its

The

it

and during the

worshiped

first five

private houses

in

In 1855 the present church edifice was

The

stone structure,

a

is

thirty-two feet in dollars?

in 1850,

existence

its

of members.

Henry, till 1883, sncceeded by llio present pastor. Rev. John H. Unlienhen. The consistory of the Muchly t'reek Relbrnieil ner, again,

713

was organized

size,

and

co-t

its

twenty-eight by

was one thousand

society has been uniformly prosperous,

present membership

is

sixty.

f.dlowing have been paslu'rs of this chure^i

Revs. Humel,

Laiher,

Krieger,

Sayler,

Adams, Jupe,

Ilarber,

Aile,

Martz, Schentler, Dentlinger,

/am,

:

Kingericht,

Frechrist,

Faihr,

Heitzler,

Wan-

and Singinfues and Sayler, the present p.islors. The class-leaders have been J. M. Salada, Henry Schlott, John Rae/.cr, and Jesse Frankhausen, the ner,

present leader.

Cemeteries. a large

— In the

number of

township of East Cocalico are

burial-places, mostly of a private

character, located on nearly as

many farms

as there

are burying-grounds.

Slany of the tombstones, more especially those of an earlier date, are of sandstone, of wdiich this township furnishes an abundant supply, the inscriptions upon which are so obliterated by the elements that it is

impossible to read the names of persons or date

of death.

Reamstown Cemetery may be found the following among the better preserved of the older stones: FredeHck Ream, born Oct. 11, 1771, died Jan. 21, 1858, aged 8(3 years, 4 months, and 11 days; Henry Ream, born Feb. 7, 17.MI, died Oct. 5, 1840, aged 81 years, 8 months, and 2 days; Samuel Ream, born June 4, 1772, died March 22, 1839, aged GO years, 9 months, and 18 days; Matthias Ream, born June 25, 1726, died Jan. 15, 1789, aged 62 years, 6 months, and 2 d:iys, and left nine children; Juliana Ream, widow of' Tobias lieam, born 1738, died 1824, aged 86 In the

years.

Echternacht, trustees; Stephen Hayman, Benjamin Lausch, elders; Franklin Khoads, Henry Siegfried,

In the Muddy Creek Cemetery are many interments. However, we give but a very few of the inscriptions for reasons above stated. John Nicholas Haller,born 1735, died 1813; Michael Weinholt, born 1754, died 1827; Philip Weinholt, born 1705, died 1823; his wife, Catharine, was born in 1775, and died in 1849; Adam Iloh, born in 1763, and died in 1838; his wife, Catharine, lies by his side, she was born in 1766 and died in 1848; Rudolph naberlig,born 1728, died 1812; Elizabeth Schlebach, born in 1725, died in 1823, aged 99 years, less 8 days; Jacob Kuger, born 1750, died 1825; Rosina Puhl, born 175-1, died 1828; Rudolph Miller, born 1743, died 1824; Catharine, wife of Jacob Schmidt, born 1750, died in 1818; Johann Peter Weisz, born 1753,

Epiiraim Brossman, deacons.

died 1821

pro])erty.

As nearly as can be ascertained the followdng teachers

have taught the parochial school and led the singHenry Krick (or Grick), 1800-10; Fleisher, 1810-34; Jacob Baker, 1834-00;

ing in the church:

Andrew

AVilliam Baker, 18GG-71

and leader to

in singing,

the present time.

;

Isaac S. Becker, organist,

1871-81

Andrew

;

William Baker, 1881

Fleisher served twenty-

and died in 1842, aged seventy-two years. Jacob Bakerserved thirty-two years, and died in 18(J9, four years,

aged seventy-five years.

The church

The

council consists of the pastor and

present membership

is

Henry

two hundred and sev-

enty-live.

Both the German and English languages are used

on older stones,

;

Martin Frcy, born

in 1722,

died in 1806.

Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church at Zoar, now Reamstown. As early as June 28, 1773, a deed for

Lot No. 51

in

Zoar was ^iven by Tobias Ream and Andrew Ream and Jacob Rupp,

Juliana, his wife, to exclusively. ^—

Evangelical Church of Reamstown.

— This

so-

for

buildimr a Preslivterian and Lutheran Church,

-

HISTORY OP LANCASTER COUNTY.

71

A

andburying-ground to be used by said congregation." The consideration was two shillings, and the land was subject to an annual ground-rent of four pence. On the 7tli of November, 1798, a receipt was given by Tobias Ream for eight shillings and four pence, tlie

amount of

school-house was erected on the church property an early period in the history of the congregation, in this house the children of the church have been taught for many years. Formerly services were conducted wjiolly in the German language in fhis at

and

arrears for ground-rent to tliat time,

used.

No

;

time.

German Reformed congreThe building committee on the

use of the Lutheran and gations," was laid.

Public Schools.

first

who

look with disfavor on

it.

At the time of the acceptance of the system there in the township nine schools, and to these another has since been added, so that the number is now ten, as follows: Reamstown, which has two schools in

1883.

one building, constituting a graded school; Denver, Wabash, Naalso two schools, or a graded school pierville. Slump's, Muddy Creek, Vera Cruz, and Weinhold's. Tlie houses at Reamstown and Denver are of stone, and have two rooms each for a primary and secondary school. Of the other sub-districts four have stone houses, and in two they are built of brick. The schools are kept during six months in each year, and the teachers' wages are from thirty-two to thirty-eight dollars per month. The number of children of school age in the township is fonr hundred and sixty-nine, and the ta.K levied in 1883 was $2629.33. The present school directors are I. K. Oberholser, president; John ('. Ueddig, treasurer; M. L. Gocklev, secretarv; William Coldren, John Waller, and C. R. Johns. The population of East Cocalico Poptllation. township in 1880 was 2226; Reamstown, 336; Union, now Denver, '220; Stevens, 63; voters, 575 on the ;

council consists of

the

pastor and j

Martin Jacobs and Samuel Fry, elders Michael Grimes and Reuben Fry, deacons; and J. R. Reddig, treasurer. Some years after the church was built a bell of one hundred pounds' weight was procured. This was used till 1848, more than a century, when a new one was purchased by the two congregations. Its weight was three hundred and four pounds, and its cost, with the necessary fixtures and hangings, was one hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents. In 1859 the two congregations, Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed, purchased an organ at a cost of five hundred dollars. It was dedicated October 22d and 23d trustee

;

;

l

'

i

i

'

of that year.

A

Union Sunday-school of the two congregations was organized between 1834 and 1835, and was for a number of years held in the old school-house in the rear of the church. The first superintendents were Dr. Frederick Ziegler and John Wilson, Esq. The present superintendents are Henry Grimes and Monroe Killian. The first leader of the choir was Jacob Fasnacht, oflficiated till 1826.

Peter Lied was then precentor

the purchase of an organ in 1859, a period of

thirty-three years.

Since that time the organist has

been the leader of the singing. The first organists were Samuel H. Oring, and Emanuel J. Killiaii, John Gring, and Isaac S. Becker, Muddy Creek Church. The present organist is Miss Emilia Lesher. I

ai

were

;

till

organiza-

So averse were the peo]jle to imposing on themselves additional burdens of taxation, and so strong was the prejudice against the system, that it was rejected by varying majorities till 1849, when it was accepted by a small majority. The feeling of antagonism to the system has gradually worn away since that time, and now but few are left

pastor was Rev. Peter Filbert, whose paswas from 1817 to 1823. He was followed in succession by Revs. John Frederick Engle and Charles F. Rutze, 1823-24; Samuel Trumbauer, 1824-56; A. D. Rosenmiller, 1856-58 R. S. Wagner, 1858-59; S. R. Boyer, 1859-68; R. S. Wagner, 1869-73; S. S. Henry, 1873-83; and the present paster, John H.

who

its

cepting the school system.

torate

Samuel Sleabach,

the time of

ship election on the question of accepting or not

is still in use.

The church

— From

tion the people of East Cocalico voted at each town-

Lutheran Church consisted of Adam Leitz and George Musser. The first elders elected were Adam Musser and George Withers, and the first deacons were George Long and Heinrich Schneider. The building was completed and dedicated on the 8th and 9th days of June, 1S17. The same building part of the

Unbehnen,

are this

church have been Faber, Frederick Harmer, Thomas Leimbach, 1824 William T. Gerhardtand A. Helfenstein, 1852; Samuel Seibert, 1853; William A. Good, 1856; Thomas C. Leimbach, 1860; Samuel A. Leinbach,1867; Stephen Schweitzer, from 1S69 to present

church was erected here nor was any society formed till 1817, when the present house was erected. The Lutherans in lleamstown had worshiped at Muddy Creek prior to that time. On the 4th of June, 1815, the corner-stone of this church, called the " Cocalico Salem Church, for the

The

German and English The German Reformed pastors ofticiating in

church, but latterly both

twenty-live years.

—

!

i

register's list for 1883,

Reamstown. — This village, first called Zoar, was by Tobias Ream, the son of Everhard Ream,

laid out

in 1760.

hard

to

Fifty-four acres were conveyed by Ever-

Tobias for this purpose.

land was divided into ninety-five

A

portion of this

lots

of seventy-twcj

perches each, or four jjerches front and eighteen perches deep, fronting on the old Lancaster and

Of these only sixty-five were sold Reading road. lots, and the balance were sold in one tract to The lots were sold, or rather Michael Kumler. as

EAST COCALTCO TOWNSHIP. (Pennsylvania currency), and were subject to annual ground-rent of tl.33 each, which is still collected, except in the case of one lot, on which for a cnnsidenition it has been shillings

ten

for

leased,

each

relinijnished.

Ream

town Tobias

Prior to the laying out of the

had erected a house of sandstone, one story in height.

was on the tract that was sold to Kuniler, and

It

it

having the same external appearance was sold by Jlr. Kuinler to Jacob Sliowalter, and by him to Henry Lesher, the present owner. The first house erected on one of the lots was the one in which Frederick Ream resided during his entire life. It was taken down about five years It was a log since and another erected on its site. house, and tradition says that an inn was kept there stands,

still

as at

It

first.

very early times.

in

It

is

remembered that a tavern was kept

in the

known

as the

of Christian Messner,

present hotel

Eagle Hotel, by a Mr. Keller.

Jacob Stahley afterward kept in this building a tavern and a store. It has always been kept as a hotel, and has had many landlords. Another hotel was kept at a very early

Adam

time by

known R.

were

many its

all

the others.

different parties.

Revolu-

to the

Reamstown

present

first

it

it

had was

Buck Hotel. It is now owned and kept Koch. Tiie house now owned and occupied by A. D. Carpenter was formerly kept as a hotel by John Ream. Another hotel was very early kept under the name of the Continental House. The known

as the

by Levi

names of the early keepers of this house are later

Of

lost.

names are remembered of Peter Peter Ruth, and Bauman. the last wdio

landlords the

Stipe,

•

entertained travelers here.

The building

stood on

now occupied by Odd-Fellows' Hall. It was down about thirty years since, but traces of its

the site torn

foundation walls a hospital

may

still

after the battle

was used as of Brandywine, and the

be found.

It

names of some of the patriots who died here are still traceable in the Lutheran and Reformed Church Cemetery.

now

chant that

since changed from

Zoar to Reamstown,

its

descendants.

founder and his

has never been the seat of any im-

portant manufactory or other industry, and has been gradual. houses, and

its

There are

in

general ajipearance

it

is

its

many

growth

very old

that of an anti-

quated town.

The population of the village of Reamstown (late is 35U. There are seventy-one dwelling-houses, one Lutheran and Reformed Church, one Evangelical Church, one post-office (J. R. Reddig, postmaster), three daily mails, two carriage-maker shops, one tinsmith-shop, one blacksmith-shop, seven shops manufacturing cigars, three shops manufacturing cigar-boxes, one saddler-shop, three shoemaker-shops, two stone-cutters' shops, one tailor-shop, two stores Zoar)

(kept by J. R. Reddig and Martin L. Gockley), three taverns (kept by Levi Koch,

Edwin

B. Shavers,

and

Christian S. Messner), two doctors (U. B. Kline and

William Trexler).

Denver

is

a

new and

enterprising

little

town

situ-

ated on the line of the Reading and Columbia Railroad,

and one-quarter miles from Reading, twentysix and three-quarters from Lancaster, and thirty and one-half miles from Columbia. Situated also on the left bank of Cocalico Creek, at the mouth of Swamp Run, and surrounded by a rich agricultural district, it is destined to become, at no distant day, one of the principal villages of Lancaster County. The beauty and grandeur of the not far-distant' hills, from the summits of which grand and enchanting landscape fifteen

scenes are presented to the gaze of the beholder.

These, with other nalural attractions, point to Denver as

one of the pleasant summer resorts of the near

future.

That portion of the land upon the west side of the railroad, on which the town is built, was formerly owned by Jacob Brubaker (deceased), and the land n]jon the east side by Widow Keller and Christian

is

the names.

The

it is

not

merremembered was Jacob Stahley, wlio

to recall

earliest

The building of the and the location of the

John

The

Lutz was a blacksmith here at a

date.

station,

Adam Musser was

still

earlier

a saddler, and had a shop in his

John Graft was

shoemaker in the beginning of the present century, and Michael Raezer was the village tailor at the same time. Andrew Ream was a tinsmith and manufacturer of hatchets in the latter part of the last century. Elias'Weitzel was a maker a

of spinning-wheels an'd reels that of furniture in

every house.

were then articles

Cieorge

Ream was

a

railroad to this place in 1863, station, led to the laying out

of town-lots by Messrs. J. Brubaker and A. R. Royer.

kept a store here nearly seventy years since.

hotel.

It

honor of

in

Keller.

Of the pioneer tradesmen and mechanics possible

down some seven years since. The name of the town waslong

has since been kept

It

The

kept by Charles Jlontelius, and sign -board the figure of a buck, hence

Hotel was on

Keys Hotel, and owned by Henry

This was a tavern prior

Rhoads.

tion, as

by

Musser, in the stone building now

as the Cross

715

wagon-maker, and his original shop is still standing. John Tamaney was a cabinet-maker, and John Gunder was a chair-maker. A tannery was erected here some tihie in the last century. It was rebuilt about fifty years since by William Musser, and was torn

first

building erected, aside from the then small

was that known as the " Miller House," built and named " Union Hotel," and subsequently to Miller House, having been built by S. H. Miller. The name of the town was changed from Union to Denver. The next hotel opened in this town was in 1877 by The S. M. Brubaker, and nanie.l .Merchant's H.uise. liroperly was sulHe,|Ucntly s.dd to K, S. Fasnacht, Himr^e on who, in 1882, built the present Merchant's in 1869,

changed

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

71f

the opposite side of the street, to which he transferred

The pioneer

this place in 1864

1

same year. what is now Denver was opened for business iu 1869, in the Miller House block, by S. H. Miller, who owns both hotel and In 1872, S. M. Brnbaker built the brick storestore. house opposite the Merchant's House, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and in 1877 converted the store into a hotel, and kept as sucli until 1882, when it was again converted into a store, and still occupied as such, by W. M. JIarburger, who

his liotel business the

The

1,

The "Denver Job

Printing-Office" was established

here in 1878, by J. G. Garman, the present proprietor. There are two quite extensive limestone quarries at Denver,

one owned and worked by the Reading

Iron Company, and the other owned by Reading parlies, but not

worked

at present.

of limestone are shipped from

lliis

Large quantities place and used in

The

coal

and lumber business was established

Ream, Jan.

J.

at

the

from Co-

1,

who

here was A. R. Royer,

and succeeded by A. 1870, who was 'succeeded, Jan. 1, 7,

1808,

1877, by J. B. Brubaker, the present postmaster.

—

Physicians. The doctors at Denver have been quite numerous. The first to locate was Dr. Sinesmach, iu 1870, who remained about one year, when he removed, and was succeeded by itinerants, who remained but a short time each. The present phys-

who

icians are Dr. P. O. Bleiler,

and Dr.

Hacker

J. B.

Religfious.

— The

located here in 1875,

in 1880.

spiritual necessities of the

citi-

for by several Christian denominations, worshiping here in two churches, the " Union," a free-for-all house of worship, and the

zens of Denver are cared

1

Dunkards, Old Mennonites, and Lutheran and Reformed in a church building of their own. Neither have a regular church organization at this place, but are attached to and supplied with preaching by established church organizations from other places. Stevens. A small hamlet and railroad-station, so named in honor of the late Thaddeus Stevens, is located on the line of the Reading and Columbia Railroad, on the west border of the township, sixteen and

—

three-quarter miles

from Reading' and twenty-five The railroad was completed

miles from Lancaster.

past this place in the

fall

of 1863, and station and fall of 1863

freight-house combined was built in the

and spring of 1864, and station-agent.

I.

W. Mentzer was

appointed

lie died in the spring of 1883,

Henry K.

his son,

Meiit/.er,

was ai)puinted

to

when

fill

the

vacancy.

was the frame residence of Samuel Burkholder, built in 1827, on its

The pioneer house

present

site,

at this place

a short distance east of Eberly's hotel.

The laud upon which the town is laid out was owned, previous to the advent of the railroad, by Jacob Reddig, who, in 1864, sold five acres to the railroad company, containing the land between the east side of the station building, and the wagon-road forming the western boundary-line of the township. The railroad company subsequently sold the same to JI. H. Shirk, and Abraham Base. I. W. Mentzer, Shirk and Base soon after sold their interest in the town lots to Mr. Mentzer, who became the sole owner. The second house built at this place, east of the

township-line,

the manufacture of iron at different points.

for

when

1877, the present agent.

The pioneer postmaster was commissioned Aug.

now operated by steady employment to

persons in the business.

was opened

The first station-agent to Sinking Spring. was A. R. Royer, who was succeeded Jan. 1, 1870, by A. J. Ream, and he in turn by J. B. Brubaker, Jan.

It is

gave steady employment to thirty persons. Another cigar-factory was established in 187'J by Jolm S. Nolde, who at present employs fifteen hands. In 1881, A. H. Hornberger commenced the manufacture of cigars at this jilace, and now employs six

at this jjlace

lumbia

Manufactures and Trades.— The old grist-mill was built many years ago, and is now owned by Christian Keller. The Denver tannery was built in 1860 by S. H. Gring, and subsequently purciiased by Christian

who employs eight men in the business. The pioneer cigar manufactory of this town was established in 1876 by J. M. Brubaker, who in 1883

rai^lroad station

first passenger train jjassed over the road

at this place

George Gensemer, who gives four men. The steam sash-, door-, blind-, and furniture-factory of E. B. Wolfe was built by him in 1882, and is located on Front Street. The pioneer blacksmith of this town was John Walter, who located here in 1872, and is at present the only blacksmith in the village. The pioneer shoemaker of Denver was J. D. Rider, who came here in 187.'{, and still continues to tap the soles of men. Christian Keller's brick-yard was established by Giger. him in 1875, and is now operated by In 1880, John B. Ranck commenced the manufacture of cigar-boxes in Denver, and in 1882 sold his factory to J. B. Hacker, the present manufacturer,

1877,

the transaction of business Dec. 26, 1863,

engaged in business. The fourth and last mercantile house established at this place was that of Hacker & Shirk in 1883, in a frame building on Main Street, east of the railroad.

present owner.

1,

dealet.

is still

its

by A. R. Royer, who was succeeded Ream was sucJan. 1, 1870. by J. B. Brubaker, the present

Ream

J.

ceeded Jan.

purchased the building in 1882. The next trading point established in Denver was the drug- and hardware-store of Isaac H. Jliller, also on Main Street, who located here in 18G9 or 1870, and

Keller,

Adam

by

!

store of

I.

W.

was the brick residence of the

late

Mentzer, just we-t of the railroad, built in 1864,

;

EAST COCALICO TOWNSHIP. occupied by Mrs. Mentzer and family. The Eberly House, a three-story frame building, adjoining tlie depot property, was built in 1882, by H. R.

nnd

There about tliirty dwellings at Strom's Staand a population of about one hundred. The post-ofiice at tliis place is in West Cocalico, and is

717

mill was built by Daniel S. Kinsey early in

The

still

the present century. Shirk, and in 1807

He

sold

in 1851 to

it

Eberly, the present proprietor of this hotel.

Michael Shirk.

was, in 1883,

present owner, R. A. Leinbach.

tion,

teen horse-power was added in 1881 by

mentioned in the history of that township.

There

no manufacturing at this place, other than by H. R. Eberly, who employs from

is

that of cigars six to ten

The pliice

hands in the business. and lumber business

coal

is

carried on at this

by Henry K. Mentzer.

avoid

stood farther

ter members: William Tobias, Stephen Siegfried, John Bard, Henry Stauffer, Chas. H. Rhoads, Gideon Kinzey, Jeremiah M. Sallada, Esaias Billingfelt, Isaac Mishler, Abraham Kegerice, Isaac Bucher, Abraham Lavan, Samuel Lutz, John Raezer, Samuel Shower. 1801-02, when It had a prosperous existence till many of its members became soldiers, and its meetIt was revived after the clo.se of the war, ings ceased. and it has been uninterrupted since. In 1878 its lodge-room and many of its records were destroyed

by

The

list

of Past

Grands

is

as follows:

S.

it.

is on Cocalico Creek a mile below Leiubach's mill, and three-fourths of a mile fmm Reainstown. It is a stone mill, two stories in height,

has two runs of burrs and a run of choppingIt was built, in 1817, by Christian and CatheKnop. It was purchased by Sebastian Gochley in 1821, and by his executors was sold to Benedict Bucher in 1853, and in 1804 his son, Monroe Bucher,

and

it

stones.

rine

the ]iresent owner, purchased

learned.

Ream,

J. Irvin, J. R.

Mishler,

D. IMentzer, A. Godschalk, J. S. Garman, W. Renogig, J. Hairn,

Nolde, J. Getz, J. G.

E. S. Royer, D. L. Grant, L. Lesher, J.

G. Root, E.

M.

S.

Ranck,

W. H.

Walter,

S. Enies, J. L. Elser, J.

An

his father's estate.

E. Kline, J.

A. J. Stober, J.

the stream, was built very early.

Bucher's mill

same

Kline, D. Sarah, A. J.

down

stood very near to the present one, and occupied a portion of what is now the street that goes

Seigfried, C. S.

Kinzey, E. H. Rhoads, J. Raezer, A. Bard, J. S. Royer, E. Billingfelt, J. M.

A

but

site,

fulling-mill stands on

— Gerhart's

mill,

on

Swamp

Creek, one mile

Henry Mishler early in It was .sold by him to Samuel the present century. Buttenmoyer, and by him to Samuel Bucher. Henry

Keller purchased

it

from Bucher and

Gerhart, the present owner.

Both

s(d(l it to

Ibuir

Peter

and feed are

ground here. Binkley's

stands on Stony Run, four

mill

from Denver.

miles

was built by William Binkley, the has a run of burrs and a run of

It

It

chopping-stones. is

on Cocalico Creek, halt

It

is

a four-story mill,

a mile

tlie

llr.-.t

two stories of stone and the second and third of wood. four run of stones, two of which are burrs and

two chopping-stones, only one of the latter now in use.

A

saw-mill

is

powe

uid the

this, and is driven l.y A-macliine also adjoins

attached to

water from the same pond. the n

It is

believed

in the latter part

Dec.

28, 1814, it

ticed

his wife, to

by the people of

investment.

many hands

this country^it

With the

decline of this

;

was a paying domestic in-

dustry, of course, the business of this as well as other

it still

It

stands there, with

condition.

Its

Distilleries. this township.

has long been its

dam

present owner

is

idle,

although good

in a tolerably

John Dougherty.

— There

have been five distilleries in These were erected by Andrew Bu-

Reamstown JlarJohn JlishReamstown; and Jacob Mishhr, three miles northwest from Reamstown. Tliey were operated during many years by the per.-ons who est;ililished them, but all have ceased some have been converted into dwellings, and some liave gone to decay. One was erected at Reamstown by Philip Bushong in 1835, and a steam-

shong, three miles southeast from tin

H. Fry, about a mile from Bushong's

;

;

half a mile northwest from

;

Comnjercial Mill from Reanistown. It lias

on the cannot be

Cocalico Creek, three-

afterward passed through

It

ler,

present owner.

erection

Honas Moore

Honas Moore and Catherine,

fulling-mills ceased.

Mills.

from the executors of

its

was sold by John Moore, and while the domestic manufacture of cloth was pracof the last century.

thousand dollars. from Denver, was built by

of

fourths of a mile below Stauffer's mill.

that this was Imilt by

Jr.

;

it

oil-mill preceded this

the time

Jacob Davidson. The present officers are: Thomas J. Eberly, N. G. \V. H. Walter, Sec; and Peter F. Eberly, V. G. John S. Royer, Treas. The present membership is fifty-four. There is in its treasury a surplus of two D, Trego, E. R. Stark, R. B. Schlott,

engine of six-

tlie

The second

fire.

An

]\Ir. Leinbach embarrassments caused by drougths. It is both a merchant- and a custom-mill. The machine-shop attached to the mill was formerly used by Henry Shirk as a manufactory of threshingmachines. It has been idle during the last five years. Two mills have preceded this here. The first, which

to

Cocalico Lodge, No. 408, I. 0. 0. F.— This lodge was chartered July 18, 1850, witii the following char-

by

Henry

was purchased by his brother, In 1881 it was purcliased by the it

maoh

cry

.n by

A large business was mill was added to it in 1838. carried on for a time, but about 1850 it was abandoned and the fixtures were removeil to Reading. A Icit stored there, and the which was caused by the civil

large (piantitv of spirits u ere

increase in

war,

made

its

value,

vny wealthy. and Flouring-Mill,

the ..wiier

Keller's Grist-

located near

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

718 the village of what

is

now Denver, and on

the line of

the local schools to such purpose that, at

the Reading and Oolunibia Railroad, was built prior to the present centnry by a man named Hare, or Baer,

I

and subsequently sold to James Carlin, or Carding, and by him sold to James Keller, father of Christian Keller, the present owner. It is a stone building, and contains lour run of

and

stoses, forever hereafter.

the tract was a saw-mill, standing on the site of the jiresent

saw-mill,

ijuently

luiilt,

adjoiniiig

the saw-niill

Jacob Hershberger previot

the

grist-mill

snbse-

!

having been built by deedi prop

terests in

In 17G2, Jacob Hershberger, willed to his three sons

—the

saw-mill.

Sr.,

made

a will,

— Joseph, Abraham, and

Whether

and

in

He

gives to his business in-

— including, besides manufacture, large dealings — his constant and watchful caie,

tobacco and cigars

and

Isaac

methods holds

in all his

to careful deliberation,

quick comprehension and sjicedy action, emergencies demand such ellbrt. Although no

as well as to

when

J(,hn's right by deed to the

simple or otherwise is not known, or was the same mill mentioned in the will

mill u as

in iVe

seekerafter oHice and no dabbler in

whether

it

abreast of the times, and holds

is

not definitely stated. In 1794 the e.xecutors of the estate of Isaac Hersh-

mer, and the twu latter suld in

179',)

he

.sold to

it,

jiolitical, as

well as the social, world.

gale to the Republican State Convention in 1881, and discliarged his trust with

.larob Klein.

The property

to Jacob Hower, wlio built the origupon the site of the jiresont one. It was then owned by Christina Long and John Long, and sold by the sheritf, in 1845, to Jacob and Abraliam Bowman, and in 184(i, Jacob Bowman became the owner, whose executors sold the mill property, in 1855, to Daniel Bowman, and in 185G the projjerty was purchased by Philip Staufer, the present owner. In 18G1, Mr. Staufer rebuilt the mills and miU-di at an expense of four thousand five hundred doll and christened the flouringmill " Wabash."

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a

member

has occu])ied

much

all

;

countv.

SKETCH.

E.ST

NOLDE,

COCALICO

when

young man, and settled in Franklin County, where he married Martha Strubc. She died in 1868. Of their three children, all are

living.

in 1840,

a

John, the only son, was educated

XLIII. TOW.N'SllIl

Geography, Topography, and Soil.— West Cocalico occupies the

subdivi.-ions of the county.

born' in

America

He

0. 0. F.,

was the representative from the lodge to the Grand Lodge is a member of Cocalico Lodge, No. 400, K. of P., and for three years represented that lodge in the Grand Lotlge. Public education has ever found in him an active and spirited advocate, and in recognition of his valuable and extended career as a teacher, he was called upon to serve ou the important committee on teachers' permanent certificates for the

Franklin County, Pa., Oct. 23, 1844. His father, Lawrence Nolde, emigrated from Gerto

I.

the otiices therein, and tor four years

jirominent manufacturer and tobacco dealer of Den-

many

zealous ability.

of Cocalico Lodge, No. 408,

CHAPTER BIOGRAPHKJAL S.

was a dele-

lleblK-nhci-

IVtcr /erbe,

George Hacker

JOHN

He

.'t

inal grist-mill,

was

he keeps duty to follow

|iolitics,

his

in 17'."7, to

then [lassed through the hands of Joseph Ciorges ajid

ver,

it

with earnest interest the progress of events in the

berger s(dd the mill property to Zent

and

age of

n'lli: of teacher. His maiden Ephrata township, Lancaster Co., and eniboldened by success, he determined to push on in the course he had chosen. The iinderta-kiiig proved a gratifying one in every sense, and for fourteen successive years— two in Kphrata and twelve in K.ist Cocalico— he continued to gain an enviable reputation as a diligeiit and skillful instructor. His last field was Reamstown, where for some years lie taught the grammar-scho(d. While teaching there he was married, in 1878, to Emma, daughter of J. JI. Sallade, of Reamstown. In 1879 he closed his experience as a teacher, and engaged at Reamstown in the business of dealing in cigars and leaf tobacco. In 1880 he added to his etiterprises a cigar manufactory at Reamstown, and in 1881 set in motion asecond factory, at Denver, to which point he then removed his residence. In his two factories he employs thirtyfive hands, carries on an extensive and fionrishing industry, and ranks among the foremost as a progressive,

was made

liberal-spirited citizen.

erty to his son.

tlie

twenty, he essayed the ellbrt

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north to south is

five miles.

is

It

most

northern pijsition of the Its greatest

seven miles, and

its

length from

greatest width

has Berks and Lebanon Counties on

the north, East Cocalico on the east, Ephrata on the

in 1

E. Shirk.

— WEST COCALICO TOWNSHIP. and Clay township on the west.

south,

extremity, popuhirly

count of

known

heing at

its

first

as Grtiben

The soutliern Land (on ac-

from

cleared

money was put up by the

hold the coin

to

whites, and

'

hazel-nut

when

ly

the arrow belonged to the

Indians. |

bushes witii the pick-axe),

The

undulating. saiid,

or wdiat

is

soil is

is

comiiaratively level or

—

a mixture of red loam and

generally called limestone land.

It

very

forest.

places the trees

in

some

ha\e been cut away and the

soil is

jiredominates,

but

cultivated.

The swamps and creeks which form the greater jiart township are north of this ridge. Two local names are applied to this swamp, viz., Lower and Upper Swamps. The forjner comprises the eastern and the latter the western section. On the extreme north we have the Cocalieo Ridge, where the land is quite hilly and not so fertile, being frequently badly washed by heavy rains. Upper Swamp is drained by the Cocalieo Creek, which comes in from Lebanon County on the northwest and flows east to John of the

and enters East Conear Denver. This swamp is also drained by numerous atiluents of the Cocalieo, of which HarLower Swamp nish's Creek is the most important. The is drained by Swamp Creek and its affluents. limestone region is drained by Steinmetz's Bivulet, which takes its rise north of Sclujeneck and Hows south into Trout Creek. The western part is drained by Indian Creek, which forms the greater part of the western boundary line. Railroad. The Reading and Columbia Railroad portion of the limestone region, calico

—

passes through the northeastern jiart of the townshi]),

with Reinhold's as the only station in the townshi|,.

This railroad was built

in lS(i:i-G4.

known of the InThey onee had along Indian Creek, which bears its present name

Indian Occupation.— Little dians huts

who

lived here

for that cause,

many

is

years ago.

but no legends are

left

Arrow-heads made of

flint

the fields at present.

It is said that

in

in

of their doings.

are occasionally found in

Lower Swamp who took part

Wyoming

an Indian lived

in the

1778, but this story

is

massacre of

not authentic.

In about 1814 some forty Indians can)e from farther

and passed through Reiuholdsville on their way draw their annual dues for their lands. While staying here they amused the whites by shooting sixpenves (which they seldom missed) from sticks stuck into the grouud, and sjilit at the top

west, to

the

fertile,

The chestnut

Philadelidiia to

came from Switzerland They laiuled at

daughter--

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and yields plentifully when under proper cultivation. North of this section the township is traversed by the iron-stone ridge, which crosses the State from Sinking Spring to Marietta. North of this ridge we find gravel laud, forming the southern base of the ridge which divides the limeThis gravel soil is comstone region from swamp. paratively fertile, and yields early and abundantly, on account of being exposed to tlie rays of the noonday sun and shielded from the cold winds by the The dividing ridge is mostly covered with ridge. is

Geuealog-y and Settlement of the Shirk Family. In \i:Vl, Mhieh Shirk, with six mhis and two

New

went l.ir

to

World.

home

to find a

in

Philadcli.hia, and

the vicinity of Lancaster, where they remained

In 178;i three of the sons, Ulrich, Cas-

a year.

the vicinity of Schueneck, this township, taking up

about

fifteen

three sons

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hundred acres of

is

the other

Peter— one

settled

known. Ulrich Shirk,

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who came with

father, Ulrich,

his

He was married to (Her mother's maiden name was Adaline Lawrence, and came from France.) She was born in 1720, and died in 1810. Ulrich Shirk reared a family of three sons and seven daughters, was born

;

Of

laud.

— Michael, Joseph, and

New

Holland, one along the Conestoga, and the other near Mount Joy. (Jf the two daughters nothing near

1711, died 1763.

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Annie Swar

Ulrich, born

in

1735.

May

IG, 1751, died

May

14, 1842.

He

was married to Maria Eberly, born Dec. 20, 1759, died June 20, 1831. David was married to Barbara Erb.

He

Michael, born

was married

1759, died

to

Dec.

2,

May

26, 1758. died April 4, 1827.

Barbara Flickinger, born July 26, 1820. Of the seven daughters,

Elizabeth was married to John

Fimk, Barbara to John Yagy, Annie to John Frantz, Kate to Joseph Bare, Magdalemi to David Gockley, Sallie to Adam Frantz, and Maria to George Frantz. Ulrich Shirk (born 1761) liad a family of twelve children, seven sons and five daughters,

viz.

John, David, Samuel,

:

Jacob, Ulrich, Joseph, and Peter, Annie, Catharine, Sallie. The last.-named son, Peter, Fanny Weaver. Their son, Moses,

Lizzie, Miali,

and

was married

to

homestead of the firstUlrich, and has a family of five daughters and one son. Michael Shirk, brother of Ulrich (born 1751), had a family of five sons and four daughters, viz.: John, Jacob, Michael, Joseph, Joel, Catharine, Nancy, Bevy, and Betsy. Of this generation Joel is the only one still living, and resides near Albion, Ind. The second son, Jacob, was married to Annie llanck, and had a family of thirteen children, six sons and seven daughters, viz. Henry, George, Jacob, Rudolph, Michael, Obed, Mary, Susan, Annie, Leah, Henry, born May 25, Lizzie, Sarah, and Hannah. 1812, died Dec. 13, 1878, was married to Miss Bncher, and had a family of two daughters and six sons. George died at twenty-five years of age. Jacob, married to Ann Brubaker, has a family of one daughter. Rudolph, nuuried to Bevy'Reinhold, has a family of six daughters and three sons. resides at present in the old

named

:

Michael, born Sept.

was married

to

20, 1820,

died Sept.

Mary Eberly; had

sons and two daughters.

He

a

1(1,

1881,

family of two

liehl the olliee of

county

treasurer for two years during the civil war, and served

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

720 a

number of years

as prison director.

Obed, married and five

to Elizabeth Eberly, has a family of five sons

daughters,

— Jacob, Edwin, Milton, Menno, Obed (de-

and Jacob married Su.san B. Wolf, Hilton E. to Lizzie Miller, and Jlenno to Susan ILigy. The following persons now live on the land first occupied by the original Shirk family: Rudolph Shirk, Moses Shirk, Obed Shirk, JMilton E. Shirk, Jlenuo Shirk, Daniel Steiumetz, Jacob Wcist, Adam Fry, Hiram Snyder, Peter Hagy, Jeremiah Zually, and David Brubaker. In 1780 we find that Ulrich, David, and Michael, sons of the original Ulrich Sliirk, were the only Shirks then living in the township of Cocalico, which proves that Casper and John had already sold The land their property and left for other parts. occupied by the first three Shirks extended from a ceased), Kate, Lizzie (deceased), Annie, Sallie,

Emma.

point three-quarters of a mile north of the village of Schoeneck to a black-oak a mile and a tpiarter south

Eberly,

who

original one

at present owns the greater part of the hundred and ninety-four acres.

In 1733 a tract west of Cocalico Creek, containing one hundred and twenty-five acres, was granted to Ulrich Carpenter, and in 1737 a tract of one huiKlred and fourtecli and three-quarters acres to George MasThese men did not comply with the rules of ters. agreement, and their contract was declared void. Eberly Tract.-In 1741, Israel Eberly obtained a tracts, containing two hundred and thirty-nine and three-quarters acres, for sixteen pounds and five shillings. This patent was granted in the fifteenth year of the reign of King George II., under the same conditions as that of Christian Stetler. This tract was afterwards successively owned by Christian Lichty, Christian Schleehty, Anthony Dornbach, John Dornbach, Jacob Dornbach, and Obed Dorn-

patent of these two

bach,

who

resides there at present.

—

About the same time Peter Tract. Bricker obtained a grant of a tract containing seven Bricker

of Schoeneck, from thence to Denver, and from Denver northwest to the place of beginning. Becker Family. In about 1737, I'eter Becker set-

or eight hundred acres, situated east of the Cocalico

tled a tract of filty acres of land west of Ulrich Shirk's

ing inscription

—

This tract is now owned by Ezra Becker, a descendant of the first settler. In 1730 a tract of land.

land containing one hundred and seventy-four acres was surveyed west of Ulrich Shirk's land, and north of Peter Becker's land.

Hyple Tract.— In fifty

inscription,

1738, on the IGth of August,

acres of this tract was granted to Paul Hyple.

This tract embraced the land on whicli the village of

Schoeneck

is

now

situated.

Stetler Tract.— On Aug. 12, 1738, Christian Stetler received a deed from John, Thomas, and Kichard

Penn

for the

remaining one hundred and twenty-four

acres for the consideration of nineteen pounds, five

and fourpence, lawful money of Pennsylvania. This deed reserved the right of three-fifths of the productions of all the royal, or money, mines, and one-fifth of the productions of all other mines, Also a tax of free from cost of mining and refining. one-half penny per acre was to be paid annually, on the 1st of March, at Lancaster, in specie or currency, whatever the exchange may be. If not i)aid within ninety days after the 1st of March, the contract be-

shillings,

came

In 175'J he built a house bearing the follow"Gottgesegne discs haus, und ales was da geget ein und aus; Gott gesegne ale sampt, und dar zu, das gamze lant. Gott alein die ehr, sonst keinem manschen mehr. Anno 1759 jahrs. Peter Bricker, Elizabeth Brickerin." The above German

Creek.

it.

dred and ninety-four and one-fourth acres, situated

west of Christian Stetler's land, and north of Peter Becker's, who, in 17til, sold one hundred acres to Peter Brubaker.

by Daniel Keller,

15ear,

Daniel

This tract wa^ successively owned Stophel Gselle, John Gsclle, John Keller,

Jacob Eberly, and

Henry

English, reads as

stands another bouse of the same size and make, but who the builder was we were unable to learn. It is at present owned by Jacob Smith. Weist Tract— In 1703, Jacob Weist bought a tract of one hundred and ninety-three and one-half acres of land, situated in the northern part of the

from Christian

townshij),

first

Stauffer Tract.— In 1742, on the 15th of SeptemAbraham Staufl'er obtained a grant of one hun-

into

miles farther south, on the west side, close to the Co-

17G0 sold it to Christian Newcomer for three hundred and thirty pounds. Newcomer afterwars their joy in cheeks were moistened with tears After being released from servitude, Cocalico township and obtained a pat-

about three hundred acres of land where Black Horse Hotel now stands. The greater part of his land lies in East Cocalico. Black Horse Hotel was

ent

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meet-

words, while their of gladness.

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Geoi »e Keily,

Henry

value £:nc, tax £107.

alue

acre

.50

KeinliolJ, 23

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,

£0(1,

bix £00.

vuluo £70, tax £50.

Williimi Rock, 3 acri

Jacoh Roland, 30 acr Ulricli Sluik, 130 uci

David

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SI, ill,.

I.

u;.

I'or

built

ing

by John Cones in 1759 and 17t;0. still used as a public-house, and

West

:

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the oldest

now living in the old valley. The Baptists of Ephrata early obtained a patent of

are

of land situated northeast of Schoeneck,

much

where they obtained

of their timber used for

building purposes at Ephrata. Hares, Millers, settlers

,

Cocalico.

HertZOg's Valley.— What is now known as Hertzog's Valley was first settled by a man named Wertz. .Afterwards Nicholas Hertzog came into possession of it, whose son, Nicholas, had a soli named Peter, who \v.is the father of Samuel, Peter, John, Daniel, and William. Of this generation Daniel was the father of Samuel, Daniel, and John, Saiftuel and Daniel

a large tract

-

This buildis

is

tavern in

Mlcl.,,.l

of what

The

llcdis,

IJolands,

and Keddigs were among the early

now Stevens' Station. 1780.— We compile the following freeholders who had possessions in

is

Taxables for uf names of

lirti

West Cocalico in 1780, with their assessment: Jacob Aiuwpg, 40 acrt-B, 2 liursus, 2 cows, value £1 :

0,

tax

JtiJ.

cowB, value £010

;

,

£191.

1. IX

-IX

Duvid UrkkiT, aio acres, 2

£100.

The above

list

of

names

taining the names of

may

all

is

taken from a

con-

list

the freeholders of Cocalico

who West Cocalico at that moved hither. The old list also contains several names of persons who lived within the present limits of Clay. From what we could gather the persons named in the above list retownship, and

contain the names of several

did not live within the limits of time, but have subsequently

sided on their respective plantations as follows:

Jacob Aiinveg lived near Roinholdsville, and was probably the son of ;\licliael Amweg, who settled there before 1745.

Abraham Bear lived on the farm now owned by Jacob Fry, near Stevens' Station. Henry Blumshine lived north of Revnholdsville. Henry Binkley lived south of Keinholdsville, on the farm now owned by Peter Gre.ss, and had the oldest tannery knnwnjii West Cocalico. George Brunner ifved near Keinholdsville, was probably the son of .lac.ib r>ruiiner, one of the tirst

£105.

£125.

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William Walter, 60 acres, 2 li.,raea, 3 cu«s, value £I2'J, tax £46. Jac.h Zinn, 00 acres, 2 cows, value £70, tax £45. Adolphus Zimmeruiaii, 60 acres, 2 horses, 2 cows, value £86, tax £50. Peter Zimmernuiu, 20O acres, value £400, tax £125.

settlers.

John, Christian, David, and Peter Uricker, berland, were the sons of Peter Bricker,

in

who

Cum-

settled

east of the Cocalico Creek, near Cocalico post-oflice.

168, t

hordes, 3

lax £S5.

(

to. .

)

acroa, 2

1

WWu John Hefly, 60 acres, 2 Joseph llelly, 15

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.«

acres, 4 horscs.'t

^

:

£,-,UL',

Nicholas llerlzog, 60 acres, 2 hoises, 2 cows, value £fj Jolm Jackey, 100 acres, 3 horses, 4 cows, value £242, t

40

tax £185.

Peter Becker and his mother. Widow Becker, lived one and a lutlf miles south of S.hdeiieck, near Indian Creek, on the farm now owned by Maitin liecker, a descendant of Peter Becker. Jo.seph and Christian ('(.mail lived about one mile north of Schoeneck. on land now owned by Jacob Conrad. Anthony and Jacob Dornbach lived on the land settled by Israel Eberly in 17-11, on the farms now owned by Obed and Jacob Dornba(di. Jacob Dissler lived near Cocalico Creek, one mile south of Cocalico iwist-oilice. Joseph and John Flickinger lived near Keinhold's Station John was the owner and probably the builder of tlie mill now owned by William Mellinger. ;

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. Henry Hyple

wiis the

owner of the present seat of

Civil List.

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Schoeneck, after the death of his father, Paul Hyple,

— Tlie

:iwn.--hiij olllcer=

following have been the principal from the time indicated:

|

the

first settler.

Samuel Harnish the builder

.of

lived on Harni^ii Creek,

the

now owned

mill

by

and was William

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Beehtel.

George Hoh lived near wliat is now Stevens' Station, on the farm now owned by .Vdani Shibaeh. Jo.seph and John Hefly liveil in the scnithern part of West Cocalico, on Indian Creek, on farms iiuw

owned by Jacob and Adam Nicholas Hertzog lived

iji

farm now owned by John Hart. Jolm and Josei)h Jackey were ijrobably the sons of Abraham Jackey, who w:is ,„„ (,ttlie pioneer settlers of the vicinity of Reinhold-ville.

Michael

Kegeri.-,e

lived

in

the vicinity of Black

Horse.

Eeinholdsville

is

located.

Adam, Joseph, and Christopher Oberly

lived on

farms west of Schoeneck, along Indian Creek. George Redy lived in the northern i)art of the town-

some of his descendants are still living. Jacob Roland lived on the farm now owned by Eev. Stephen Sweitzer, situated near Stevens' Station. Henry Reinhokl lived near Reinholdsville, and was probably the ancestor of the Reiiihokl family. L'Irich, David, and jMichael Shirk were the sons of Ulrich Shirk, who came with his father, Ulricli, iV.im Switzerland in 1732. Ulrich lived on the farm now owned by Moses, David, on the farm nnw owned by Rndol[.h, and Michael on one now owne.l by dbeil

ship, wliere

Shirk.

William Shoemaker was the sf>n of Peter Shoemaker, who settled near what is nnw Reirdiold's Station, some time in the year ISlo. Jacob Sunday lived west of the Cocalico Creek, on the farm now owned by Samuel Dornbach. Christian Weist lived in the northern part of the township, on the farm now owned by tUiristian Wei.st, a grandson of tlie first Christian. Michael and William Walter live.l on a farm situated onemilesouth of UeinholdsviUe, on

tl

Creek.

Jacob Zinn lived on the farm now owne. Smith, near Mengle's Mill. Adolphusand Peter Zimmerman were pr

John Zimmerman, who

w:i--

mie

ol'

t

settlers of the vieinily of Reinliold's Stati.m.

names mentioned in the ta.\-li>l and nut de here are names that are now well knuwn :

but can have no place 17S0 with sufficient authority.

h(jlders,

JUSTICES OF THE PE.\CE.

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Christian Newcomer lived near Schoeneck, on the farm now owned by Solomon liagy. John Ober owned the land on »hich the village of

sons of

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David Landis lived on the farm now owned by Christian Wenger, situate one mile west of Steven=', on Steinmetz's Run.

a.s.signrd

Ih

.liu-obCnell.

Henry

Wisi..

IS81-83. Sulonioii WeiiiliolJ. !

Keller.

Hertzog's Valley, on the

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WEST COCALIOO TOWNSHIP. master and station agent. During the summer Jlr. Reinhold had his house open as a resort for recreaM.uioy

ni, i„iu.i-6t

tion,

In

being generally patronized by Philadelphians. After his death the Jlr. Peinhi.lil died.

it

1S?0,

railroad cojnpauy

In 18(58

.

it

at incsL'iit,-

had G80

taxaliles.

Poiuilation

Bucher,

1880,

Sehoeneck.

— Tlie

village of Sclioeneck

aid

store

I

It

received

its

name from a

traveler who,

when he came to this spot, said, " Das ist ein selioen ("This is a beautiful corner"), which name In 1792, Jacob Hagy erected retained. it has since the lirst hotel, which has been kept by tlie following persons: Jacob Hagy, Jacob Shirk, Samuel Shower, Henry Apple, John \V. Jlentzer, Daniel Mishler, Henry Wechter, Frank Wechter, Jacob E. Lutz, and W. F. Stuber, the present incumbent. In 1847, Dr. Samuel Weist erected a store-house, which is at present Another storekept by his grandson, L. M. Weist. house, now owned by Ellas Slober, was erected by in

Previous to these stores a

1858.

was kept by Jacob Ilagy. In 1848, Jesse Keinhold built the first coachmakerbusiness till about an extensive shop, and did quite year 18G5,

when

the'tele-

when he discontinued

has a general merchandise years ago.

built several

The

Henry Bruner.

In

this

kept, with Mr. ]3rnner as and liiinber-yard is owned by Keinlii.Ul's Station Creamery was is

enal-

built in l.sM, and ..pened

business

f..r

June 18th of

that year, with aliout two thousand pounds milk per

At present it u>ei nearly live thousand pounds. The founders and i)roprietors are Schaflfer & Erb, from Crooked Hill, Montgomery Co., Pa. The present manager is M. P. Keith. Stevens is another village adjacent to the railroad, Stevens' Station and a part of the village being in East Cocalico. In 1855, Samuel Slabach built a large and commodious store-house, wdiich was occuday.

!

j

|

j

pied as a place of general merchandise

till

about 1870,

|

when Reuben Leisey opened a hotel in the same Since 1875, Elias R. Brown has been probuilding. In 1864, Jlichael H. prietor of a store and hotel.

small place of merchauilise

the

wdiich was

jiostniaster.

eck"

DanielBruner

ilupot,

a hardware-store in the spring

Owen Bruner

building the post-ollice

Henry Hyple some time between the years

1780-90.

fiiu'

i-lc,

who opened

of 1883.

2480.

out hy

a

hiiilt

was n-movud liom the hotel, which After the erecis now owiK'd by Ab-. llartman. tion of the depot, l'>,ra lIa^^i^^, ICsq., succeeded Mr. Reinhold as station agent and telegraph oi)erator, which ])OKition he still holds. In 1882 five new houses were erected. The most noted is that of John K.

graphotlice,

The townsliip has

j

|

Shirk succeeded in having a post-office established through tlie induence of Thaddeus Stevens, after whom it was named. Stevens' Station House was built

the business.

The shop was subsequently occupied as a suhmn James Shower. Later it was remodfleil, and is now owned by Jacob Fausnacht, as a private residL-nce. In 1868, D. M. Leisey, erected a second sho|., which liy

in 186.3

ceased.

by M. H. Shirk and I. W. Mentzer, both deIt is now under the niana»enient of H. K.

|

la

occupied for that i)urpose. The lirst blackmachine-shop were erected by Jacob

still

Mentzer, son of

one mile south of Sclioeneck. In These have been discontinued since about 18.04. about 1830 he began to supply the people with fresh beef during summer, and had the first butcher-shop in the township. Later butchers were Adam Sharp,

W. Mentzer, Adam Sharp,

Jr.,

and

M. Leisey. by John Ober.

I.

Reinholdsville was laid out in lots was at first called " White Hall," but during liuchanan's administration, Sepiire Benjamin Reinhold

Cocalico.

I

1

named

after

its

in

West

Thecom-

was born Aug. 6, 1724; died 1752. The present minThe Evangelical Lutheran ister is Stephen Sweitzer. congregation was organized in 1774. The pastors Revs. .Miller, Christopher Frederi.k, T. T. Yeager, C. C. Bees, M. llarpel, S. U. Vmyw, (i. II.

were

founder.

and commodious hotel in 1804, soon after the Reading and Columbia Railroad Company had opened nts road for business. This house was for a time occupied as a hotel, ticket-, post-, and telegraph-office, with .Mr. Reinliold as post-

who

now included

The German Reformed site as the present one. congregation was probably organized quite early. Its first known pastor was Rev. John Waltschmidt, who

in 1856.

Reinhold,

is

same

store

Reinhold's Station was

what

present fine building in which these de-

nominations congregate was mittee under wdiose direction the building was erected was composeil of Garlich Walter, Peter Burkholder, John Brunner, and Jacob Kegerise. Previous to the building of the present church these congregations had services in an old church wdiich stood nearly on the

I

name changed to Reinholdsand hotel were built about 1840, and are at present owned by Joseph Lutz. Another place of merchandise is the store now owned by Levi W. Mentzer & Son. It was built by John Showalter

Col. Jesse

The

built in 1806.

succeeded in having the

The

Ment/.er.

religious organization^ in ;

It

ville.

W.

The Swamp Evangelical Lutheran and the German Reformed Cangregation were the first regular

j

J.

I.

,

and

smith-

Shirk, 182-5, situated

built a large

Trapert, C. A. Fetzer, and E. S. P.rownmiller, the present incumbent. T'his congregation has at present ]

!

'

one hundred and lifty-two members.

Reformed Mennonites.— In

ISO.'),

Jacob Hagy,

;

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

724

Jacob Reddig, Henry Hibsinan, and Michael Oberly founded what was long known as Hacker's schoolhouse, situated one and one-half miles south of Schoeneck. Tiie school ground contained eighty-eight perches of land, and was bought for ten shillings froni Frederick Hacker. Tlie house and ground were paid After the death of one of the for by subscription.

The preachers of the Dunkards

Samuel

are Elder

Harley, Christian Bucher, and William Brisow. Of jMcnnonites, Christian Bomberger (deceased),

the

John 'Hess, and Christ. Risser. Methodists and Mennonites.— In 1870

the Methomeeting-house one and a half miles

dists erected a

north of Schoeneck,

known

as the

Sand Hill meeting-

This church increased rapidly for a number

trustees the twelve nearest adjacent neighbors were to

house.

such vacancy. The house was built elect one to one story high, wdth two compartments, one for school purposes and the other to accommodate the teacher and family. In 1839 this house was for the The house first time occupied as a place of worship. continued to be occupied as a place of religious service and for educational purposes till 1SC8, when the

of years,' but at present no regular meetings are held.

fill

house was purchased by the Reformed Mennonite denomination. Tlie house was then remodeled, and is

now

a fine building, with a seating capacity for three

hundred.

Steinmetz's Meeting-House, situated one-half mile east of fc-clioeneck, was built in 1853 as a Union meeting-house by the following persons Jacob Shirk, :

Peter Shirk, Christian Weist, Cliarles Steinmetz, and Rudolph Shirk. The house was built by subscription, and tiiose who paid fifteen dollars were entitled

This vote was to remain on to a vote of regulation. the property of the subscriber, as in case he should

The first minister was Christian Sagrist. Near Cocalico Post-Office is another place of worThe house was built in 1865 as a Union meetship. and school-house. It was occupied as a sclioolhouse till 1870, when a regular school-house was built. The meeting-house is now occupied by the Reformed Mennonites and Dunkards. ing-

Dunkards.— At

Reinholdsville the Dunkards built

a meeting-house in 1865, which

denomination only, except open to all denominations.

The United Brethren Reinholdsville

in 1S4S,

is

..ccupied by that

in case of a funeral

which

is

it

meeting-house

built a

open

is

at

denomi-

to all

nations.

Children of Sion.— Near Reinhold's Station, in 1874, the Children of Sion built a meeting-house, which occupied only by that sect. The Rev. Grumbine, the founder of that is

first

preacher was

sect.

A Sabbath-

would come into possesNo denomination is allowed to sion of the vote. hold regular services more fretjuently than every

school was opened at Stevens' school-house in 1872,

The use of the burial-ground is granted who obtain permission from one of the principal denominations now occujiying the house are the Reformed Mennonites and DunkThe fir>t preacliers of the Mennonites were ards. John Cohrand John Keepotts, and of the Dunkards,

continued for a longer period, closing a few years ago. On the 1st of July the Stevens Union Sunday-school

Samuel Harley. Mellinger's Meeting-House, situated three-quar-

teachers.

sell it the

person buying

it

eight weeks. to all those

voters.

The

Schoeneck, was built in 18(11, on condition that as many denominations as took ters of a mile east of

part in

its

building shoidd be granted the use of

it,

and that no denomination could occupy the house oftencr on Sunday than the other, unless in such a way as not to interfere with tlie other. The committee on building were Samuel Mellinger, William Stober, and John Gockley. The trustees till 1873 were John Gockley, Daniel Sharp, and Andrew llenly. Since that time Daniel Sharp, Henry Eberly, and Edward Drukenbrod have served. Tlie denominations taking part in the building were the Lutheran and Reformeilia

Ann, died unmarried;

Patterson

damage. At the N.ivemher sessions, in 1804, the inhabitants and vicinity petitioned t\,v a n,ad, " lieginning at or mar Samiu-I I'usey's mill, in Drumore, and ending at or near Thomas Clendenin's mill." Ihe petition set firth "That Rock Forge being lately ly pun :ar tin assess

aiid

appraisers

(

of Colerain

COLP]RAIN TOWNSHIP. tbeir proprietors

do evidently labor under great

dia-

.

HISTORY OF LANCASTKR COUNTY. WiltJAiii Ciuin, 1 lioiise,

cow; tax

1

1

,lnl,n

.:)0

I'.i^l.v.

£li;n; la\

1.

acn>, £428;

U,\

Paul

B() ;icres, £:iuil;

v^.lue, i:i29; tiix li-vivj, i

Williiini Kursnlli, Inx

;

acres,

9i;

total value,

2 liorses, £20; 5 cows, £15; total value,

;

300 acres, £30S; 4 liorses, £30

4 cowB, £12

;

;

£10; 2 cows, £0;

total value,

liuss,

30 acres, £34;

horse, £10;

1

1

cow, £0;

total value,

total value,£50;

£40 2 ;

£.50;

liorse,

I

£s

2 cows,

;

£0

total

;

value, £70;

lax levied, £24.

321

111,

£i;4; 2 liorses,

;

James

Naius Richej, 50acres, JuniPi

;

£li; totafvalue,

tax levied, £100.

Hubert Boss, Sr., 85 acies, £S0 tax levied, £5.

li'vii-.l,

tax levied, £75.

Saniii.l r,i,.g,

llulstoii,

Xo.'iu;

Jauies Glunn, 150 acres, ilOl £2:i;.

2co»s,

XJ3.

l.-vii.l,

Ficu,

cows, £12

4

aires, £108; 2 horses, £10;

Aiidri-w I'lirker, 200 acres, .£225

Foilli.SiJ iitics, £iiii;

I!..lioit

Kiiliuid

£10;

lior^e,

1

vied, £130.

Joliii l'all.-ib..ri,7ll

Williaui Iiol,isuu,2 horses,2cow8; tax levied, £80.

£200; tax levied, £50. lionie, £'J

cows,

:i

;

£'J

total

;

>

tax

UuliertCalbiuith,

jw, £3; total value,

tax

£Jfl-,

lev ie.l,

£30.

John Steward, 150

1

acres, £144

3 horsei

;

£1SI1; tax levied, £05. Jolili

Giliel,

lax

80 aci

William

£10; 3 cowa, £9; tola! value

,

£177

Saiiiple, 140 aci es,

3 lion

;

value,

£41

lL-vie,l,

IX levied, fllSs.

James

Gillii,.n',ta

Rol„Tl Gr,-gury,

ti

•y,

220 acres, £000; 2 lioraes, £20; 4 cows, £12;

2

tax levied, £200.

;

£0

;

total value,

100 acres, £1G5

;

2 lior»ea, £15

;

3 co«s,

£0

;

tot.il

value,

£40

;

Jol.u 2 horses,

£10

;

2 cows, f 15

total value, £.50

;

.teres,

£302

I

Geori;..

lor

a

£G0

;

.;:l;

1 liorse,

3

tract, 400 acres ,i:24

Wilson, 50 acres, £24;

;

li..rses,

1; 1

2 horses, £20; 5 cows, £15; total

;

value, £2.50

;

tax levied,

total value,

Hc('onnel,Sr., 20" acres, £273; 1 horse, £18 3 cows, £ value, £300; tux levied,£GS. Alexander May, 150 acres, £221; 3 horses, £30 3 cows, £9 1 ;

;

Cm

total

total value,

£55;

Uobert Oay. Samuel Buuliug. Siiiuuel iMcW illlams. Jo^eldl Miller.

John

JiuiiesOsliuMi.

its

£42;

JleCliiid

for Coleraiii

lulluw.^:

1804, WilliuMi liarelay,

"Spread Eagle," on Lan-

.£75.

Widow

Jidiu M.

cow, £3;

Mallll.-H I'aiKs.

were £223; 2 horses, £18; 3 cows, £0;

Jr., 2O0

1

The Early Tavern Licenses granted

horse, £10; 3 cows, £'J; total value,

£.300; lax levied, £'J0.

McColinel,

;

total

total value, £24.

James WalUei

Widow McKneely.200iicr

;

total value, £24.

.lames Walker.

Widow

cows, £21

£24; 4 cows, £12; total value,

£0;

James Cunningham.

;

7

;

Churchman,

acres, £131

;

Wal

£4.57 ;

Joaejih flawlord. 60 acres,

McClomin, 100

4 horses, £30; G cows, £18

;

£235; 4 horses, £24

value.

I

levied, £136. acres,

levied, £00.

acres,

levied, £142.

£152; Thoui.,

;»,

£12.

ows; tax

no

lOU acres, £14li; 2 cows,

ess,

LX levied,

1

es,

£30

caster road to Xew|ii)rt.

otal

180a, Ale.xaiider

from Strasburg

;

;

1

12;

luegro, I

Andrews, tavern on road leading

to Cliristiana.

Alexander Andrews, tavern on Newport road. 1807, William Haivlay, tavern on road Irom Lancaster to Newport. 1808, Ale.\;inder Andrew, iroin Strasbnrg to Newport; \Vi Itarel -read 1800,

COLERAIN TOWNSHIP. Kiiisey, "

Horse and

School Directors, Robert Hogg, Josepli

While, Thomas Whilsoi

Alexander Andrews, " Rising Sun," on road Newport; Jo.-jt'ph Kinsey, " Horse

1809,

lies

on road iVmn ClientMUt

l'2agle,"

Level to Newport.

Whitman, William McCullongh; Supervisors, Miller lliir-

Inspectors, William

Newport; Joaepli

Eagle," on road from Strasbiirg to

;

Auditor,

LoveU; Town Clerk, Ja J.imesM. Tun

W.

II.

Hogg;

Constable, A. P.

sor.J.imesJlcCullougli;

Simeon W. Swisher: Asseactors, P. Moore, Da->id Walker

and Eagle," on road

Supervisors, Franklin Ri

ngs; .Vnditor.John A. Swisher;

port;

Coiiftable,

from tSlrasbiirg to

I'roni Cliestniit Level to NewWilliam Barclay, ".'Spread Eaglu," on Newport

road.

James W.

InMiecltor,

;

Ai

For the years 187G- -80 the township officers are not given for want of pi oper records, and we can only

Kirkwood, kept by Josepli Rouii, the other Andrews' Bridge, Abrani Roop, proprietor.

one

1K7.-..— Judge,

at

at

give theni as follows l.^Constable, James \

TOWNSHIP OKFICEKS. John

18-18.— Conalulle,

Ilugg

Atscsaor, Winiiuii

;

IlcConuel; Auditor,

\V.

;

i:;ill.r.iiOi, Sr.

;

Director, David

Joseph Paxson, Hubert

liiv|ieclor8,

Director, Abruhiim

S. liool

;

W.

Galbreatli

;

Inapectora, Cornelius Collins, J. BichiirU-

Supervisor^, Robert Ferguson,

John Wliiteaido;

Scliool Dirce.

Ferguw.n, Cornelius C.dllns, U. Swi,her; Assessor,

Ilol.ert

William O.dbnuch

Auditor, Williiiui White;

;

Con>,tiible, Ilani.d

lluri.u, Cl.rU.ejrnaJlilner.

185U.— Jud^e.

De)ir>,

li.ivid

.1

lIUMtiiig; Inspectors,

Ahriim McCounel, liobei

John

Suppni..iois, U. Swisher,

Gi.ble

;

;

Abraham Ferguson,

Inspectors,

Cornelius CoUius, Jeremiah

;

School

McClenegbau

;

Jere-

Directors,

AnJitor, Wil-

1853.—Judge, Abraham Whit.Bide, Supervisor, Ehenezer Jackson j

Judge, a

II.

Roop.

E

18S3.— C.nst.-ible, William School Director, spector,

John

F.

Ma

A.

J.

Montgon,

—

Justices of the Peace. The following-named persons have been hi iiiored with the ollice of justice

Coh rain township

Inspectors, William

tion of

tiie

since the adop-

State Cons titution allowing townships to

elect .such officers

:

U. Swisher,

Supervisors,

llaslings;

Ueiiiy I'u.vson; Constable, Fiederick

Joel Sulton

Hugh M. Collins; J. B. Caughey; Inspector, Uogg; Town Clerk, Joseph

Supervisor,

s;

Auditor,

of the peace for

miah llaslings; Assessor, William Galhraith

sessor,

James V John

t

School Directors,

Cook.

;

William White, Apiil 14,184

i

As-

Directois,

IC.

Siinpsuu,

A

Galbiaith, Api

Girvin, J. D. llarrar;

W. S. Ferguson, John P. Marshall; James Richardson; Town Chik, Jerry Swisher. School

le,

Clerk, Joseph Roop.

Joseph Roop.

Williun. Whiteside, William White; Assess..r, William Clbrailb;

1851.— Judge, Willinm C. Worth

Hog

Town

;

Director,

K. J. Rogers;

1849.— Judge,

tors,

1882.— Cunsti

M. Keylor; Scho

Sutler-

Walk

Kiiieer; Auditor, Geoi

WhiteM.lo; Township Clerk, Cyrus Mil-

Jr.

lier,

soii

lOckliii

11.

Constable,

18.M

16G2.-Jndge, Wilson

I

Janic

,

LCnlb.ugh; Constable, David Walke

James

Supervisors,

A.

IJ

William R. White, Robert Hogg, N. Galbrailh

;

T.>wu Clerk,

J. 11.

S.

McOough; W. Swisher;

School

Direct.,

Auditoi, Willi.

Swisher.

1863.— Judge, Robert Hogg; luspecloi-s, William Davis, David Milk

McGough; Patterson; Town Cleik,

Constable, J. B. Swisher; Auditor, K. B.

B.

W.

li. Aohby. W. II. Whiteside; Inspectors, Ba.sbr Ciiugliey, Thomas Baker; Assessor, James flict'ullougli. 1SG6.— Judge, Samuel W. Dobbins, Inspectors, David Walker, Robert C. M.nrison; Sn|.ervisors, Thonnl^•. .lackson, William II. Wliitesido;

1864. -Judge,

School sessor,

Directors, George R, Ila.^tings, Robert

James McCulloUgh

Robert Hogg;

Town

ton: Assessor,

;

B.

Patterson;

As-

Constable, Joseph Shellender; Auditor,

Cleik, J. H. Swisher.

1867.—Judge, R.ibert Hogg

James Turner, Edgar PenningJames SlcCuUough; Sn|.ervisors, Samuel McConnel. ;

Insp.ctoiH,

time

;

K. Alexander. Inspector,

W. H. Hogg;

As3es.sor,

Walker. John Rent/.; School Diieclojs, Joseph While, Samuel Swisher; Constable, Wil-

James McCnIlungh; liam Ashby

;

Sniiervisois,

David

Audit.u', Robert I'atlel-son

;

Towu

Clerk,

James K.

1870.- Judge, Jomes R. Juckson; Assessor, James MeCnllongh; Su]ier-

is

point of

The pioneer house

probably the oldest.

is

in

Hugh .-Andrews, in the sumThejv is at thi,, place a ^tore kept by A Hogg, in which the |.o>t-ollice is kept, a blacksmilh-sho|i by Henry Wilkins, shoeshop by David Burnite, liarness-siiop by Elwood I'a.xson. Here, too, is the Union Church (Presbyteriauj, Union school, taught by Professor Andrews, and one physician, ])r. IC. C. Patterson. The name the hamlet was built by

mer of

.Messrs.

of the Samuel U. Swisher, Jose|ili L. tlcCommou, Cromwell BlackburM, Algernon Whiteside; Audilor, S. W. Swisher Towu Clcik, Jumes 1809.- Judge, Pennington Moore;

in the township,

Union, the principal village

situated southeast from the centre, ,

h;imlet of about forty inhtibitants.

a store by George S.

Truman,

hotel

is

a

Here

is

by Jose|)h Roop,

blacksmith-shop by Pearson Holconib, wdieelwrightshop by N. Oroir, (iood Templars' and Od.l-Fellows' The Hall, and one physician, Dr. T. IL Weiitz. ]».st-offiefe was in L^-s;! kept in Ihe store of G. S. Trum:in.

1872— Judge, William

S.

James McCullongh;

Davis; Inspector, Milton Snpervis.irB,

Ke)

Rohert Hogg, Ro

Andrews'

Bridg-e, a small

of the ()clor;u-a

(

'reck, contains

School Dircclois, David Walker, Jclemiah Masting,-

Utuip, a butel

l.v .\braiii

U.mp,

:i

hamlet on the banks store kept by Mill.in

;t

bbii-ksmith-sbop,

;iiid

;

HISTORY OP LANCASTER COUNTY.

732

name kept

of the post-ofTice

Roop's

in

Collins

a

is

is

Octorara, and in 1SS3 was

liamlct on the road from

Here was

Quarryville, at a cross-roads.

A

Lindley Hutton.

po.st-office

is

a store kept by

The Union High School originated number of citizens .d'Colerain and secure

to

better

Little liiitain for

I'acilities

those afforded by the

cliildren tlian

tlieir

to

establislied here

of a

townsliips

Union

Lindley Ilutton as postmaster. in the de^re

in Jnly, 1SS3, with

educating

common

James W. Andrews, A.M., wdio had for some years previous taught an academy at Hope-

scliools.

well, Chester

was prepared

Co., Pa.,

work of teaching here

to

enter

the

as soon as the neces.sary ar-

rangements could be made. A somewhat serious difficulty, however, jtresented itself in the want of a suitable building. There was no liouse in the neighborhood adapted at the same time to the nee.L of a school and to the peculiar sitiiali.m of a teacher almost wdioUy dejirived of the use of liis physical powers, as was },U\ Andrews. To remove this difliculty with the least p(jssible expenditure of money, David H. Cochran consented that a school-room might be annexed to his dwelling-house, ottered the free use of the ground for school purposes tor a jjeriod of ten years, and to avoid all controversy in the future agreed to sell his house to the proprietor of the proposed school at any time within the same period. The joint occupation of the i)roperty was terjninated in Ajjril, 1867, at which time Mr. Cochran sold The room having his interest to tiie present owner. been made ready, the school was opened on the 8th of August, 1859. Twenty-two jiupils atteniled during the

first

number increased steadily for The twenty-fourth year closed June, 1883. The whole nundier of pupils

term, and the

the next ten years. the loth of

enrolled during that time was six hundred and forty-

one

;

number

the average

thirty-two

;

a little over

in

attendance each term,

the average length of time each attended, one year the largest number in attend;

ance during any one term, forty-seven. Of the pui»ils taught in this school, one hundred and twenty have

been

engaged

periods.

15ut

in

teaching

for

longer or shorter

few have entered the three learned among them all hiil one min-

professions, there being ister, six

lawyers, and eight doctors.

of the pupils

may

The rejuainder

he found on the farm and the

rail-

way, at the editor's de.-,k, in the dentist's ollke, in the bank, the counting-house, the printing-olliec, and engaged in mercantile, manufacturing, and michanieal pursuits of various kinds.

schotr.itii.)ns

oiierations at this

was sold

to din'crent \>nr-

to exist.

Under the

many improvcnients

were made, lands in the vicinity were purchased and iiii])roved,

dwellings and store-houses built, the works

enlarged,

and

many hands employed

mining, hauling ore,

in

coaling,

All this stimulated other

etc.

and the cessation of operations was regarded as a calamity to the townshi|i and surniundbusiness,

ing conn

White Rock Forge was White liock Stalion and

located near

post-ollice,

what

is

1.

about

A

ISIiO.

saw-nnll and nail-factory, situated near the con-

fluence of the two branches of Octorara Creek, was

operated by Pliineas

.\sli.

The

ilate

of erection

is

not exactly known, but was a few years prior to 1S20. Morrison and ISevers' nulls were situated on the main

blanch of Oi-torara. The grain raised in those dajs fouml a market in Newport, carried tlience on horseback, there being no road-wagons used then. Instead of' of wagons, what were known as " sled-cars" were used

now

on the line

-mill, built about 1790, was Samuel Reyno and situated >,n west branch of Oclorara, about three hundred yards nortli of where White Rock Forge afterwards stood. The mill was in operation until

;

HISTORY OP LANCASTER COUNTY.

736

mained in coraiiiissioii for mure than tliirty yearn. He had two sons, Abraham and .Tamos. The WhiteLancaster came from this family, and also

excellent fertility and well cultivated, containing some of the best farms to be fouiul in Lancaster County. The population in 1880 was two thousand five hunctred and lifty.

'sides in

those

who

resided in Little Britain township are snp-

posed to belong to the same.

Watson commanded and was

September, 1777.

James

Li 1777, Col.

Concstoga Centre, near the centre of the township,

the Second liatlalimi of luililia,

at the battle of lirandyuine, on the

1

Rockhill in the northwest, Slackwater in the north, Safe Harbor in the west, and Ccdemauville in the

Ith of

This battalion was entirely raised and Drnmore town-

southeast are the chief centres of po[)ulation.

in Colerain, Bart, Little Britain,

It

James Porter was from Drnmore. J'he captains were John Scott, Little Britain; Joshua Anderson, Colerain; John Johnston, Little Britain Thomas Wliite, James Morrison, Drnmore Joshua Ellison, Patrick Marshall, Drumore John ships.

;

one paper-mill, one rolling-mill, one furnace, seven churches, ten schools, and one tannery. There were in 1883 six hundred and thirteen taxables. Value of real ami personal property is a little over one million hve hundred thousand dollars.

;

;

Paxton, Bart.

The major, Dovington Wilson, was from one

contains at present six hotels, seven stores, three

cigar manufactories, five post-offices, two grist-mills,

Lient.-Col.

of the

IN

adjoining townships.

The

first

Robert

Colerain; Britain

;

lieutenants

were

John

Cunningham,

.loseph WalUer, Little Robert King, Drumore King, who went from Lancaster, are descendants of this King); Miller,

Thomas

Clark,

(Robert King and Samuel JLirietta to

James Patterson,

Little Britain or

Drumore

(there

were families of same name in both townships) John Caldwell was from Little Britain or Drumore; William Ramsey, Drumore. Second lieutenants John Duncan. Alexander Hason, Joseph Tweed, John Reed, Thomas Neal, Samuel Jamison, William Calhoun (this was probably a relative of John C. Calhoun, as the father of the latter came from that neighborhood), John Shan-

rciis Te.ill.

rt-aaTiuU, Jr. Ill

irigf.

:

.\l,nil.ii

non.

John Gable and Abner and Jesse Davis served war of 1812.

as

soldiers in the

Colerain sent the following soldiers during the

war: Patterson MeCommon, James ]I. M, Common, Robert Kiehardson, John Rieliard>..a, Madison Lovett, Lorenzo Loomis, and J.-hn Phillips. civil

C

II

APTER

CONRSTO(:.\

XL V.

I

1776

liETWEEK THE

CONKSTOGA TOWNSHIP.

737

wliom they undoubtedly had made sales previously, although the act of Assembly required the mortgage to be Ibreclosed. It is evident, from the Miiiniief in which this uii|ilt'as;int duty was performed, that Mr. Postlelhwail w;„ licM m the highest esteem

and

l>y

to

tiieiii.

day of June, and granted to This tract acres).

Other Old Properties.— t.»n the

r.th

1727, a tract of land wa- Mirveycd

Benedict E>hleniau

(.six

hundred

now owned by

Christian E. Jliller, Christian HarGeorge A. Tripple, and others. On the one owned by Mr. Miller, Eshleman built a house in 17o

|iiinr tu

Ui'.i. ipervi«..rs;

174:1.— Plivid Jones, Jclin Po-itletlnvuit, uverseera uf llie 17-14.— .\Aim

and Stepheii

liieiiiieiiuui, urcibi^ers i.f

the

|m

Daniel Stejneniiin, John

1744-55.— N'.i records 1765.— SiiMUlcI Slyer, JhcoIi

IIiin.i.~li, ,

overseers of

(lie

poor.

ISOO.-Jolin Ilrenn.'nmn, Jr

Ki-c

,

Jiu-oh

Jin-.il.

Shiok, Henry

lle»3, Jolin liyers,

Good,

1761.— Abralomi Miller, John Mil

neS.-CeurpeS.iglHr, Chii=tian 1763.-Melclu,ir Bienniniuii,

.rseeis of the

po

dig,

Jacob

l!arr,

Samuel

Geoige Yentzer, John

llesh,

John

superv sors;

Good, Lewi.,

li.a-l.nian, Jr., nnditors.

Walfel, snperviaois; Chriblii.n Ken-

Sr., A.lani

llachinan, Ji., Lewis L'iban, Jacob llachm.iii, andib.is;

JohiiGo.id, town clerk. 1814.— Jacob ll.iverstick, Adam Warfi-l, supervisora Christian Keudig, Leuis Urban, i.nditora John Good, t..wn clerk. Christian Kendig, - K.i niiin, supervisors ISl.'i.- Christian riess,

I76.5.-XO re.ord.

ni;6.— Frederick Kallnon, Frcle

;

l7i-.7,-nrirh Wilier, Jacob G.icli

— ;

ITCS.— Henry Lesh, Geoigo Warfi 170'J.— Jacob fllennrt,

Jidm

;

in, ..inliloiv

1813.- J.ihn Bachnnin,

era of the poor.

17G4.-l!eneJiclJ:»hleii...M, Cl.ii»l

J.ihi. liacl

Iliain, snp.'rvis. -»;

1S12.— Ge..r[;e Urban, ll.-nry Urban, Jacob Ripley, John

eis of the poor,

I

Is...

John Eachnjan,

?rvi8.irs;

Wiilf.l

He»li, iindi isors

ISll.- Jacob \Var(el, John

John Cod, Henry

i,i..is;

;

1767.-

17C0.-S.,muel

Henry Re-h,

liurr, iin.lil

1808.— llicliial lless, nnisli.m Slu-iik, lles\i, George i;rl..in,iiii,lilois.

|....;

Jacob Ciyl

Uerr Joseph, Lewis

;

Url.a.i, ainlilors;

John

Goo.l,

town clerk.

I

1770.-Michael Overslake, Micl.a

ei-s

of the poor.

181|-..— Jacob Go.)d,

I771.-Abrahan, Xewcomer, I'eU

.

Abraham

O,.cheno.lr, supervisors;

L..mlis, supervisors;

Slanff.

Newcomer. S.imnel Myers,

ill.^,

O.ill,

\Villi,.ni

andito

1776.— Philip Swartz, Jacob Ston,

Abraham Newcomer, i.iiditor 1777.- The satne otliceis served tl n7».— Andrew Fehl, Jacob Sjnill

1.--

:McMiIlan, John llachrnan,

G.Joil,

J.d.n l!a.:l.man,

Adam

auditors.

chael

A.

1776.— A.lam Ken.lig. J.ic.b Mel: Eshlennin, A.lain

1,

iM^oi; John

Jul.n

ll.ss, J..l.n

John Dachman, Chris-

Slay, overseers of

n:. ,

1774.-I'avid

John Good, Adam

Warl

iditoli

lies.

llaverstick, supervisors;

John Good,

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. peiviaint);

3uls;

JUSTIOKS OF THE

ull, Al.ril 13,

1847.

Samuel

Jleliaffey

&muel Mohancy,

Juliii

CONESTOGA TOWNSHIP. one cooper-shop, four churches, three schools, and one shoe-store. Safe Harbor was hud out and huilt at the time of inet-niiikers' shops,

It has two schools, but at present only one house, the other (a brick) being destroyed by a storm a few

I

I

years since. In lSS2 the schools were hehl on the second floor of Odd-l;\llows' Hall, eighty pupils being in attend-

the erection of the iron-works at tliat phicr, tlmugli

nuniberof liouscs liad been jHit up tlu-ic prinr During the continuance ut' the oi.crato that time. tion of the iron-works it was the principal centre of quite a

ance.

The

tax assessed for 18S2 was §350

;

State appro-

I

population, but at present the greater part of the

houses are unoccupied. rolling-mill,

It

contains one furnace, one

one foundry, two

one drug-store,

stores,

one school-house, one church, two hotels, and a postoffice.

priation,

I

S500.

i

!

I

I

Colemanville was built

to

accommodate the

per-

sons em[)loyed in the iron-works there erected.

'

Slackwater.—The greater portion of the houses in this village are owned by .John A. Sclnjlier, owner of the paper-mills,

I

I

and are occnpieil principally by the I

employes of the mill.

Rockhill

is

estoga lliver, about ncidway

between Slackwater and

sliop,about twenty dwelling-houses, and a post-office.

—

Schools. The common school system was adopted by Conestoga township in the year 1S3G, which had :it that time 561 taxables.

In 1837'

it

;

total

receipts,

i?372;

W. W.

expenditures,

Bones, president;

George T. Rose, secretary; Theodore F. Patterson, Christian 15. Henry, George A. Tripple, treasurer Alonzo G. Hudson. The teachers of Conestoga township who were educated and began the work at home were: Joseph II. Urban, retired. Casper Hiller, now a fruit-grower and nurseryman. ;

Calvin B. Kendig, now of Butialo, N. Y. Adam Kendig, lately a German Reformed minister,

a small post-town situated on the Con-

Safe Harbor, contains a grist-mill, hotel, blacksmith-

had

teachers, and biu same year was j^Soll,

school-bouses,

1>

The taxkniid

pupils.

;?22

Present directors are

lor

tlii^

',)

John M. Kendig, now a minister of the Reformed Church in Ohio. John J. /ercher, deceased. Michael Benedict. Sterneman, now a dentist in Iowa. W. W. Woods, now of York County.

Chri--tian R.

Sumuel

L. FchI, (Jeorge J. Fehl,

now farming.

the State approi>riatiuii ua- >llJl.;5ri; total recci|its

Henrietta Costolo, now the wife of John \V. Gard-

for buildings,

James

j;.')75.

This is 'I'he luwir moni was a two-story brick buiblin^. owned by the town-lii|i, and the upper st.iry by a In l.sTiJ it was burned duwn, and stock company.

The

tenth school-house was built in

ISlir).

purchased the stock company's and built a school-hou.se with two rooni.s, but furnishing and using only the lower for school purthe school directors interest

All the school-houses are of brick or stone, and are valued at an average of jil2(J0 each. In 1877, or forty years after the adoption of the poses.

common

school system, the townsliip bad 10 schooland 50:i pupils. Tin- tax levied

houses, 10 teachers, wa.s

$3089.64;

State appropriation,

:si:io.U;

receipts, $5059.22; e.xpeiulitures, ;^-1522.-s7

;

total

ex|ieiided

for buildings, SrGOO.

For 18S2 the tax levied was priation, i;435.4tl tur total

;

total

siiCllJ.-.; Stat.-

rLrripIs, o|:;s.77.

appro-

h;xp,ndi-

teacliers'

expenditures, J44U8.U1.

Cash on

liand, 7:iu.7

The present directors are Amos Warfil, 11.11. K'url Andrew Good, Ailam Good, Jacob llainish, ai, Samuel Orossen. Safe Harbor Independent School District.Harl)

Iro

It Wii s part ol

((

.hen applic, d district.

E.

IK

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. which was

made

considerably larger.

ity is

about three hundred and

Ita [iresent

of this

members,

tlie

seating capuc-

fifty i>(-rs(jns.

Tlu-rc are at present connected fifty

summer

built of stone during the

lu 1882 the old building was remodeled and

year.

five

hundred

dollars.

in

The

who are the [.resent minister-. The African Methodist Episcopal Church was

the

_\

The

it

The

c.nnrr-

was dedicated

first

I'.enjamin k'neisK-y

Davis,

.X.nris,

J. F. Davis,

and

.\.

A. i:ol,in-.m.

J. F. H.imilt.m,

who

;

members of theehureli at >F>unt Tlie original members were Ewing,Ue(nge McC.unbs, Fenjaniin Stoner, Daniel Keller, and a number of others. The.se same peisoiis constituted the first board of The buildtriisiees, and also the building committee.

the present

minister.

ii..FS4'J l,y

Nel.o, Martic tuwiJship. .Morris Clark,

'

,

j

'

James

.\.

ing, a neat hriek, wa- linished early in the fall of 1S49, and was dedicated .at that time by Fev. J. Sanderson, who was ihe preacher in charge at that lime aner-mill; extensive extensions wore

ings arc in face

I.

the form of a hollow square, the open

-wards ihe public road leading from Slackwater

to .Millersville.

high.

Upon

The

front building

is

tiiree stories

entering the building we come into the

finishing-room, where the pftper

is

made ready

for

left of which are two twenty horsepower steam-boilers, used for generating tlie steam

is

The

Yentzer,

who

business was

first

J. R.

Yentzer's father in 1830, and by him carried on until 1862, when J. R. began and still continues. Mr. Yentzer employs an average of fifteen i\Ir.

persons, and makes upwards of one million cigars annnaHy, which he sells at wludesale and retail. lie

ships

many

and .Middle

of his cigars to nearly

all

of the ^Vesteln

Slales.

.Maris tlood liegan

in

.May, 1SS2, with one

liaiul.

shipment, to the

maiuUactured

at his factory

during the year over two

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

Y46 liundred and

fifty

lias in liis

Some

— 'Ihe

employ

of the

.Miller

8wit/erhuid. wliieh

and by him to Rudy Miller in 1763, and by Andreas Fehl in 1764, and by him to Jacob .AliUer in 1772, and by him devised unto his eight children', and in (Jrphan^' Court, held at Lancaster, it wa> decreed that John Miller have and hold tbe .same, etc., in US'l. and by him sold to Daniel lirenneman in 1784, and in th.^ >aiije year sold by him to Henry Lighty, and by him t.i Daniel Sterneman in 1792. He has held the Mili.-r, of inspector and judge

At present he is thousand per month, and

thousiind cigars.

inanufueturing over

fifty

in 17G1,

him

twelve per-

at present (July, 1883)

Prominent Families of Conestog-a. laniily ..riginally cauiu lr.,in /unch, The earliest one of the family of

ue were able

to learn

was Jacob Miller,

lie

received a patent for a tract of land in Cunestoga township, containing one hundred arre^ and the

bearing date April

of election, for

and Kicliaid Penn,

usual allowance, from Thuiiias

In additiiMi

named Abrabam,

willed the farm, wbhip in 1828, since

into

ill

is

iest

town.-h

1749,

tanner;

1!.,

Thr Warfel family

a retired farmer.

•

;

Jacob,

are other Warfels

I

farms (the one uiion which the ibildrrii oi .1, I'l.-ilethwhait are buried); David H., unmarried, residing on the old homestead; Fanny, married to John Becker, of Lancaster township anil John, unmarried. fr.

Micco.ive years.

prominent among wIkhu are Christian Warfel, who has been school director and auditor a number of years; George W., also a school director; Henry, a very extensive tobacco-raiser and

wlioni

to

John.

Andrew Fehl came

thr. e

to thi- lainily, there

in the towii^hip,

1, 174.s.

Jacob had a son

to

l.Si;;i

h,.

(\,and

tuok i- y,'l

him his same bu-iness

parliier-hip with

iiilu

ciiL'.igcd in

the

a -mall -cale in cMiiieclhin with

a Miiall

farm n(

C

This -ame property is session of George J. Fehl, one of Jacob, over thirty years.

me Ksi^

ir !,-

Samuel L. and Albert, residing clo-^e by the old homestead. It was on this fiirm that the first Court of General (.quarter Se— ion- wa- held while owned by John I'o-llruhail, and ha- m,w ben in the Fehl liunily over one hundred and twenly his other sons,

County

i

ption ol ,h,

cers fo

'

Crawfo r>

olHcers, ha. e

tirrd

.loliii,

:

d

C

I'eter

I'elr

in ISiW,

years.

The Warfel family came originally from one of the German states. Tliere were three brothers; two

with tb if

(

the justices of

Conestoga township, one in the nortl ern and the other in tiie southern part. I'eter Warfel lived on the farm belonging at ])re:

tlieni settled in

ent to William Kice, hi-

.-on,

.\dam, next owniii-

bad sevnal children,

same,

.\dain

beam,,

a iiienihcr of the

I

.r,:;

i-latm

i.f

e in

whirl, time he held several piuminnit his

nativ,.

wi.b.w aiul

township. live

II.'

ilie.l

in

lb

wliuin .Inh ISI2,pri,.r p..-iti,nis

[su'.,

sons and three daugbteis.

t

i

leaving

The

soi

ami one .laughter are yet living. Amo- is in Conestoga township. He was one the auditors of the township for three years, and at present serving his second term of three years i

as a school director.

Jacob, residing in Jlillersville.

John M., now residing 'on by Thomas and Uicbard

a farm originally granted IViin

to

Michael tinickel

Martin Kendig emigrate. from Berne, .'^wit/erl had two sons, Martin and Jacob. .Martin .l.iu,i;bter-. .loliii, one n( himarried Fanny Winner, ami live.l in Conestoga ti 1

j

I

}

'

He

three sons and two

.

0.

CONESTOGA TOWNSEIIP. keeping hotel in Coiieatoga Centre as early as 1804, oil what was tlien known as the road from Lan-

ship,

They had

to Ihirkliohler's Ferry.

'-'"pi

li^Mge

c.-'Pt.

Wiiiium u. wesson

Hesa.

ii.

Kcnilig.

three sons

and one daughter,— John, Jfartin, Daniel, and Martha. John married Elizaheth Kline, and Ironi lier had

and three daughters.

ii

WarM.

i.k.nt. Diivid

whom

he

j„|',',1

lia.l

one son and two daughters,— Benjamin

S., Sarah, and .S. heeame a praetieiiig phy.-'iand continued praeticing medicine until 1878. In 18(i3 he began [Hirehasing and packing tobacco, jiackiiig that year about two hundred cases, employing a capital of about five thousand dollars,

Catherine.

j

|

MaiiiM Duily. ,,',;"

it

and

and three large ones

in

k'ma'nm.

'

Frank

'so,ui„-e,-.

.K'r.:,„iai,'

Jacob

siiani,.

y,ad,.,nah

wVil'iim

omi" "

li'liu'c

A nun

ii,.yl«

Wiiiiaiu

ii

Milk.r

i)ra,jy.

liav,j s.

i

''"rlVlv'.n!.':,

w'i'ii!r'i'i

j,,,,,,

j^,i„,

i,,,,

iioak.

Aiii..b

J-b..

seventy

liands.

iK-nry

liankiu il'ac Mul'ser.

luT,

John McFarland.

litnja

Williani

Lancaster, packing this

The

Olie,ter Co., in

from Washington

i

'

doctor's father died

the year

184:).

He

I!.

Lyo

Noah Wailc Hiram Daily. Franklin SmiUi.

a,

ci...!!™

F,

Tnpi.lo.

i).

it

i''''i\" \m'','m

any pecuniary assistance. .\ll his miccc^s in life he owes to his determination in early Hie to Miccccd. His chihlren are D. (i. (associated with him in pucking tobacco, the name of the firm being Kendig & Son), C. Walter, William, Clara, and Esther. Dr. P. W. Clinger came from U|)per (^.Klord townshij),

May May

j„lin

ii,-i,i,i,.

,

employing a capita! of tw(j hundred ami twentv-five thousand dollars, employing .luring the sca=(.u' from t(i

i,,,

,

'

year (18,83) four thousand live hiindied ca>cs, and

sixty

ii.-i

jaim->

'

pie-ent u-ing

lie is at

'l'""",

n"'c,^,„utoy

!

and increasing the business to such an e.xtent that in 18G9 he liad to build a warehouse twenty-eight by tliirty-four feet, an.l in 1872 added to it another. .-i\ty feet,

A. Ciinpbcll.

j

Deiijainin

cian in 1S44,

twenty-eight by

Bmdy

'"•

After P^lizaheth's

he married E,ther ^aiigree, from

deatii

w

I,.

Jlillliij

i;,,,;"!!^;;,^"""

three sons

Wiiiiam Jucob

Jolin A. Uiol.

Trnpuell.

°

i;ri„ \vn«..n.

li,-

''"'"'^ I'lua.ne.

j,. '

\\\

j'!c,','i,'si,,m!'f.' 1

graduated

Universiiy, at Baltimore, Md., in

and came here and began the liractice of medicine in March of the same year. He was ijrominent in politics of the township and county, being a delegate from Conestoga many years until the adojition of the Crawfonl County >y-tcm, ,-inci- which he seldom takes any active part, lb- was examining the spring of 1843,

surgeon for the Xiiilh Congres.sional

l)i-,tricl fir

nine

The following i

under Lincoln-, and

years, serving a partof the time

field

the remainder of the time under Crant'- adniinislra-

ut

is

a

list

of

men who went

into

on the invasion of Peiinsyl

i-,|,,

,:,hm

i.i.

nt,

Ktn.iig.

i;

a-i"

(

iiiHm.

r

AUi.-n ilnil.

ibmy.

Jao.i.

'

owns one of the

llncst residences

in

L'lmc^toga Cen-

^

tre.

jnimJ WaiT,,',!^

Val.'i'.tin'jKu.i53l.-y,

Ja._,.l. li. ViriliL-l-.

SaMiu>-l S. 51,ball..y.

Dr. Ja.!! '.lTii'll',-r.''

s,,n,-,.| Call, sr.

cb, Ki.an Yont.or.

'

eouHict:

"

pers.uis ser\ cd as

"

Aan,,,

''' I)';,",''.',"!,'!""'''

Military.— The foUowing-hamed

I

sbp.k.

.M

kinla!" juLn'tnon.

icsi-

deuce.

k'I'iI!

jlV.'.'i.

11,,.,,,.,

'

remod-

handsome

kn.an.

E,

juhrKubu'r"""'

ii.ii/rn.ia

|.a'ui','i"i;'

as a hotel for seventy-nine or eighty years in f;oncstog.i

-Uiom

iki.j.nnin MarUit-y.

Mn...

Hull-

Jelferson Jledical College in lMiila.lcl|,l,ia, In March,

(

regarded,

:

to

her

iiis id

tlio'

on tbo some

gniiidcltildreii.

left tottiee,

tliiit if

'

Mie,

ke

tlielii

pursuance of

Iii

tlieir

lit

and

tliey

doo tliou

wo

Tayl

tlie-e instructions ]\Ir.

ceeded to the Susriuehaniia River

in the fall

.

and commenced his surveys at or near the m of Conoy Creek, and located three hundrei-l acres for James Logan, which he afterwards let Jonas Davenport have,

cor-

who mver

tonk out a patent for the laud,

to

part with

it

Immedi-

again.

ately below Logan's tract he laid out four liundred

iland.

fifty

to hi.

i-hi

i

li

reijuest thee to use tl.y

cunveni.

acres for Moses Coinb,

who

.Martha P.i/aiilnn, and zation have been

wile Hiid

mill sliould tuive

and of the peace elected in

Ilia

be dillicult to recoiic

talk hijh,

.in 51. C.mil.s'

and was compelled ,sep;

s..f li.iid to .vill

war

liiniself llie

!i/.iillon

11

iloutjt

1

Aiiliu

of the township was derived from that

believed that this

Dlo., 1719.

4tli,

Isaac Tavijik:

ill

of a tribe of Indians that formerly inhabited the region, it is

Old Peter's

ran froih ''Moor's i\lill," at Downingtown, Chester to Conoy Town. This letter was a private o'ne, and not intended for old Peter's eyes: "I'inlAD",

erly direction along the river.

though

as "

liistory

County,

"

tobacco, in abundance. Tills township enjoys excellent facilities for travel and transportation. The Pennsylvania Railroad and Canal pass tlirough it along the Susquehanna River, and several ])rincipal highways cross it fruui east to West. The river road, which was an early thoroughfare, traverses tlie township in :i northerly and south-

The name

early

in

named t'ruin Peter liizaillon, who trading-post at Conoy Indian Town, and which thus

lioa

CONUY

known

is

I

lirulli.M-,

.

.s„ld

who was or

a brother of

conveyed the .same

t'uinh.

I. ,1,11

]

:

Magistrates.— The justices of the i)eace in Conoy have been: Thomas Eagan, 1843; Jacob Foreman, 1S44; M. \V. May, 1847 Jacob Foreman, 18411; John Filbert, 1852; Joseph Engle, Jacob Foreman, 1S.J4 Christian S. Erb, Jacob Foreman, 18.j'.); C. S. Erb, Jacob T. liare, 1SG4 Jacob T. Bare, ISC'.i C. S. Erli, Frank .McXeill, 1874; Frank JlcXeill, 187'J. Members of Assembly.— Bertram liall.raiih was the fir.st citizen within the present limits of Conoy township who was elected to the Asseinblv. Frederick Hippie wa.s a county cirnniissiimer in 1842, and was at one time a member uf .\ssriiilily. Jacob Foreman, a native of Marviantl, was a lurrchant in Bainbridge. lie was elected to the .Vsseni;

;

;

;

for

JIartha Bizaillon, and adjoining- this last-meu-

tioned tract on the

e.ast,

nine hundred acres was sur-

j

veyed

for

James Le

a few years, sold

patent for

it

it

Tort, who, after occupying ,t.o

it

for

James Logan, w ho took out

a

for the first time.

This last-mentioned tract extended a short distance below (iroves'-^hock linn. When tlK-e several tracts of land were sold

and by lie

thi

whom

purchased,

tage on if

tlie

the land.

shown elsewhere of the Indian

fully

is

river

Lc

traders,

Ti

CONOY TOWNSHIP Joim's Kprscdpal Cluirch burying-

are buried at St. tlie " Com pass," a lew yunls ca^t

grouiid at

Salis-

ul'

bury township.

Bertram Galbraitli was the son of James Galbraitli, Jr., and Elizabeth Bertram (tlie only daughter of the Kev. William Bertram, the" Presbyterian minister, who located at Swatara, and preached at Paxton and Derry Churches in 172'.lj. He was born in Donegal in 1738.

He

received the best education the schools

In connection with his other he was taught surveying, and became an ac-

of that period alforiled. studies

complished land surveyor, which the large number of bis surveys

Land Department

is

fully attested

now on

at Harrisburg.

by

tile

in the

While yet

in his

company of " Kangers" during French and Indian war of 1755-58 and marched to Fort Hunter, located along the left bank of the Susijuehanna River, several miles above Harrisburg. minority he raised a

the

He in

displayed a great deal of

jiiilitary talent,

connection with his patriotic

which,

spirit, wa-, of incal-

culable service to his country, whii-h he M'rveil laith-

during the trying period of the Jicvohaii.n. liecame, and during the npo-e which pervaded the province between the Imliaa wais and that period, he was one of the foremo,!, and rendered fully

fore this conflict

the

moat valuable aid

in

lichall'

of the impioveiaenl

of the navigation of the iSusi|Uelianna Uiver.

When

the tocsin of

warwas sounded

at

Boston Har-

bor he raised a battalion of troops in the lown>hip of

Donegal

ajid

lieuuiiaiit of

vicinity.

He was

thf cuunty,

ajipoinled (he

whose business

organize, eijuip, ami place troops in the

required to meet every requisition

it

tiehl.

lir>t

^va^ to

He

wa--

made upon him

by the Sui)reme Executive Council or other proper authority. In cases of emergency he was eompclli-.l,

upon short

lioti.'e.

to

the vaiioii,

,-i;i-,M-

and put

had sul.-lientrnauts

military tax, aiid

in

in

srlrW a

(|U.,ta ..t loilitia

tlo-).i

in

tin-

vaiiou, .erliun, of

many

lield. th,-

Irom

He

countv.

749

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. egiil

in

were

in

1777 that Col. Oalliniitli and Cul. Lu^vrLy

Many

of the.se militia were sent to the I'rontiers

Lancaster

Iroiu

.soutli

I

the .saddle nii^ht and day, and were worn out

lesof

On

In July, V7S, he called out luur hundred militia

the 2Sth day ui February,

coumu. Join

Galbraith, took out a warrant of .survey for four bun

17o0,

dred and forty acres of land, which

conveved

On

located at tb

an

tract.

nd

bis

Melehoii

died

the 2i)th day of December, 1757

In

171'J

on the uTstern

On March wife

iti

for

,cd

lliet

17o:i.

Combe,

J.din

brother of JMartha Bizaillon, four hundred and

Jidin Galbraith and his wife, Dorcas, sold three htin-

30,

Elizabeth

ne hundred acres of the

to tb

of which laid upoi

mouth of Conoy Creek, the hulk the west side.

lie

upon both

ti

sitnate.l

17:iS, his

lies

;i

protect the settlers from the Iiulians,

On

and

boiou:jli,

Mi

the

fifty

[

dred and eijrhty-three acres of this tract to his t James, the father of Bertram. This ])art of tl lay on the west side of Conoy Creek. "On the 8tli day of ftlarch, 17(iO, James and Eliza-beth Galbraith sold this land to I'atrick W'nrk. It was afterward sold by the sherill and purchased by

acres on the west.

I-

this valuable farm at

On out

a,

the

4tli

jiateiit

came

lie

;

same

Jacob

and on the 4th day

llertzlcr,

the heirs of

James Logan and

two hundred acres of the

he same

f the son of Willia an emigrant from Ireland, fn>t wnrk. d Haldem'an, in this mill, which he allerv

NVih'y,

1

j

lleiiiy

•

f.

all

the river trade

away from Falmouth. The ttiriipike was constructed, and a large number of dwellings built along its route. The company abandoned the turnpike, and it was but

'

little

'

used, gra-s grew u|)on

its

bed, and occasionally

ehase.l.

Collins' Mill.-Tliis

mill

is

on Urubaki

Although

•en Haiii-

bridge and Falmouth, on bs4il

built in

the

riser

road,

by Sulomon Haldeman.

was

It

It

s

wholly

I

was abandnned, it was not thi.mgli which thi-

this turnpike

The eounlry

u.seless.

road passed became thickly settled, and the old road-

a stone j

and it lia^ three run- ,if ston •-. I-ac Kul,n> purchased the mill in l.S4;i. He Samuel Ebversole, and he to ihe ]>re^ent ou er, AbraThe mill ha- had nnly (jidina ry repairs liain Collins. building,

bed has been louiid

I

A

i

since

its

It

is

a briek building,

burr-stones.

In LSdii

John

Attached

from

(ioss.

thoamedam,

i-

to

thi>,

«uh

thre e

Bainbridge.

|

and driven by water

a-aw-mill.

ol

theie at an early d.iy.

It

ha-

year

,

hal

dozen

a

ship, about one

the southern pari of

and

I

had

honor of the commodore The lots in tlii, town

in

by that name, llainbridge. f

fanii-iiouse, that

owned by Henry Rreneinan. In that Henry and John B. Ilahleinan, who had becme

town, which they iramed,

dwellings in addition to the mills and di.-li llery. Ridgeville.— In 1S44 three houses stuu.l where this in

as 1813 the only buildings

were a

is

the owners of the Shaller farm, laid out thereon a

loen-t-ln

ahMUt

— As early

afterwards

|

'

«ere built

is,

tlie

been owned and occupied by a Sir. Shatfer, a stone tavern, owned by H. Galbraith, and another tavern,

!

Locust Grove. — Thi^ hamlel, which was

now

be a great convenience to

near the nuiiith of Conewago

w here liainbridge now

I

runs nf

wa--.ol.l totln^pre-, ntouiier,

il

becan-e of a profn-e growth

village

to

built

built on the hill,

,

bSo.-i.

was

Creek, on the ea-lein -ide. and another one was also

erection.

Pioneer Mill.— This mill, which is sii uated on Conoy tJreek, a mile and a half from the Sum uehaiina, was built by Jacob M. Engle and Elizabetli his wife, in

hotel

j

were

I

,li-p.,-ed

uf by luii'ny, which was not at that

time an unu-nal w.av ol' thus laid out was on the

|

town

-elliiig

h.ls.

m.rlli side of the

leading eastward Irom the ri\er

The town main

street

the railroad station.

at

|

Soon afterwards .lolm Smith and .Fidiii Seiplc purchased from Jacob Hnllinaii land on thesouth sideof

'

a half mile- fr.mi liainli

that year (leorge Slacks erecled two h,ai-e(d' l'\' loilery, and this part of the presThe whole iiaiiibridge wa- named (,'entrevi lie. was sub-equeiitly known by its present name. The

shnp^ and a blacksmilh-sln.p here, and tin (piired

the

name

of Stack-toun, which

within a few vear-. ha- fniirteen

It is

now

called

al-o di-posed

ent

i

\iuh,

He.

It

duellings, a store, a hiai k-

aiid a shoe-shop.

Falmouth.-riiilip Schneider to(,k up dred and eighly--e\ .n .uTe- cil land at tin Coiiewago t.'reek, cm the east si.le, ailjoinu James Rankin and Dr. George jiarri-, at t

e

bun-

l,.nu houM^ that was owned by B. Galbraith. The lii>t bhuksmilli was Abraham Braclit, so.m hdh.ucd by Henry Knster. The pioneer shoemaker wa> Julm Breining, and the earliest remembered tailor was Jacob Vofflesong. The first harness-maker wa.s George Kinney; the first jihysician was Dr. David Watson; the first druggist was Samuel Haekenberger. The earliest remembered school was ke[)t by a Jlr. Ba.xter in his own house. The growth of the town was slow till 1840, between which and 18G0 it was more rapid. Since the war of the Rebellion there has been but little increase. The

tioneler

pastor was Rev. T.

(i.

Von

Hot'.

1"he

first

Lutheran

The congregation

was subsequently .served by Kevs. Leonard (ierhart, Willian. (ierh.irt, H.D., .Maitni S.nidhau-, William (i.

Lail/.le,

Daniel

The

l;.

.Sleek,

Stine, J.

II.

first

r. A|.ple,

C.

1'.

.1.

W.

\Veavcr,

Early, .1.

V

.

1'.

T. Hoover,

ICekert,

.M.

11.

Hou-einan, the present incumbent. church coun.il,

in ISo.S, eonsistcl of the

following ehler.s ami deacon.s

:

John Ebersole.

in 1839, after

the properly was transferred to the Lu-

theran and Rcf.irmed people. They were John Ihining and John Weber. The fi.rmer members of this

church arc scattered from Pliiladelphia to Colorado. present Lutheran mend.ership numbers ninety-

The

live;

war,

During the late the Relormcd al.out luenty. when Gen. Lee and his rebel army invaded

result of this

committee

Iliick

meeting was the -election of

.•.msi.tin-

Neil, will,

of

.M.

a

building

W. May and John Mc-

Kaudeiiliau.J, as solicitor of con-

.Viinie

trihuuoiis.

Fi,.leiick llipide donated a lot of

nions.

Mav

In

and on the new church

2."ith

w.,s

,,f

IN 12 the

gr.mnd

work of building began,

of Heieuibcr, of the

1,S43,

ICIders

1844, Elder

same

year, the

dedicated. Elders Winebrenner and

Ross being the olliciating clergymen.

Li the year

Kyle and .^Lllnix served the circuit, tn M. F. Suavely was appointed as pastor.

In 184.'ia.new circuit was formed consisting of the

churches Joy, and charge.

By G.

Li

1841, Elders Ross and Tucker became the pastors of the circuit, and on ihc sicond .Mon.lay of ^L^rcl], 1842, the first tneeting was called to devise ways and means lor the erection of a house of xsorsl.ip.' The

Khlers, Jacob Vogel-

Deacons, Peter ILickenThe first trustees were elected

s(mg, Frederick Schmitt; herger,

sta-

a plain

is

dollars.

doctrine, as

The Lutheran and Reformed Church of BainHenry Haldcmai, in l,s-7

bridg-e' was built by Mr.

where they were

The church

fi)rce.

Present value, about three thousand

dred persons.

irj

,.

with a strong

brick btiilding, with a seating capacity of three hun-

at

Bainbridge, Eli/.aluthtown, and

Elders Strohin

Mount

and Deshiere served the

Li 184G the pulpit Wius occupied by David

Kyle, in 1847 by David Kyle and A. Snyder, in 1848 by Jacob Keller ami ,1. Haltlcigh, in 1849 by Jacob

HISTOKY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

756 Keller,

1S50 by Elders Strohiu nm\ C. Price, in

ill

and

by A.Swiirtz, in 1S53-54 by Jacob Keller, in 1855 by J. Halfleigli and William Clay, in 1S5G by J. IlalHeigli, in 1S575,s by George Sigler, in 1S50-GO by A. H. Long, in 1SG1-G2 by C. Price, in 1SG3 by J. Stanim, in 18G4-Go by E. ir. Thomas, in 1866 by W. O. Owen, in 1867 by A. H. Long, in 18G8 by Jacob Keller, in 1869 by J. M. Carvell, in 1870-71 by R. H. Pvhever, in 1872 by J. (J. Aller, in 1873 by William Erigler, in 1875-76 by At this I. S. Richmond, in 1877-7i» by D. S. Shoop. time the church erecteil in 1842 being old and the location no longer desirable, a meeting was called for the purpose of consultation, and at the meeting if was resolved to build a new house of worship, and accordingly a building committee was appointed conM-ting of George liean, Peter .Sides, Smniicl .•^lirolf, Harry Hijiple, and the (.astor, D. S. Sli,,op. ,^Ii. Pcan donated the ground in a dcsirabk- lo.-.ition in 'fhc thi' centre of the town, and near his rc^idirirc, building was compleliil in the spring of 1"4.

IJ,

when be

u.is elected sheriff

of the

He wa- abu iv-eleeied in 1743. Ill 1753 he was couimiosioned one a

i:A-riW

pai)[pisiair7

ai?

th?

mom..

^']im®

m

.

o^vitaa ji^j^

EAST DONEGAL TOWNSHU', command

of Col.

succeeded

ger,

in

James Burd

at great risk

and dan-

getting a fleet of bateaux, under

of Caiit. Daniel Lowrey, with provisions and ammunition for the troops. Wiien the settlers were being murdered around liim, and others fleeing from threatened attacks from the Indians, he appealed to the Governor and Council for ludp, but he stood his ground n)anfully and ranged witli his troops along

command

the Blue llidge.

His energy ujion this trying occafrom raiding the settle-

sion prevented the Indians

ments in Donegal township and the northern section In 1757 he was api)ointcd one of the of the county. to erect a fort at

commissioners

He accumulated

Wyoming.

He

a very large landed estate.

moved from the Swatara

to the Sustiuehanna, near

Harris' Ferry, thence to Pennsboro' township,

Cum-

berland Co., and was a|)pointed one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas for that county in 17G3. In 1777 he was appointed lieutenant of Cumberland County, but on account of his great age was unable He died to perform the active duties of the office.

aged eighty-three years, and left sevamong whom were Bertram, Robert was appointed Robert, Andrew, and J(din. He afterwards reprothonotary of Bedford County. moved to York, wliere he practiced law, and was

June

11, 17S(J,

sons and daughters,

eral

General Assembly from that county, and was afterwards appointed president judge of Huntingdon Countv. Andrew was an officer in the Revolutionary war, and M-rvrd with honor to hiuHclf elected to the

Gibson married a daughter of Andrew. John, the remaining srni, enlisted as a private in the Revolutionary war, being at the time a mere lad. He was taken prisoner at the batlle iiiiiiitlee

whuh met

in

Philadelphia on

In December of the the 15th day of .Inly, 1774. same year he was ajjpointed on a committee to watch suspected p.irties, and prevent them, if possible, from piirclia-.iiig tea or giving aid or Comfort to the enemy. He was elected to the Ccneral Assembly in 1775.

andwa'saisoaiiieiiiberot

convention nviied

Mary Waters, who was then

yjjars of age, by whom lie liail six children. His success in business from the time he became of age was remarkable. Although be, in common with other Inilian traders, met with very heavy losses during the Indian wars, and many of them were completely ruined, he continued to follow and remained in the business for forty years. His field of

twenty

A-cmbly

in 177t;,

set forth in btroug

and

State,

maid

guage, as forcible and unmistakable in tion

of re|>nblican principles as the

Declaration

and

ot

wliieli li.uiied ihe lirst ConsllliUlMii ol

which was

-post

itself.

the llie

)ioinled lanits

declara-

great nalioiial

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. In 177(5 he ruised a battalion, Sciilcli-Irisli

Presbyterians, in

made up

tlie

This was the only son who survived him. In bis lifetime he placed him upon a farm cjf twelve hundred acres at Frankstowii, on the .luuiata, where he marricc^ the daughter of Capl. .bilin llnlliday, the He had .a -on, Alexanfounder of.II,)llidaysl)urg. He married .Miss Homder, who was born in 17St!. b.Migh, who ,Ii,m1 in March, 1852. lie died in Aug-

entirely of

townsbips of Done-

Monnt Joy, Rapbo, and vicinily. He was encamped for some tiiin' in tlic vicinity of Middletown. gal,

After his companion

in

arms

:i)id

neisbbor, Col. Bertram (iulbraith, D..ncj;al

county,

eciually

who

patriotic

also raised a

and Derry, was appninted linitrnanl .,f tlir duties were enlari;ed, and it recinircil

ust, is:)4, ncai-

and three

liis

the duties assigned him.

When

expresses were sent to the

the different battalions in the

commanders of

summer

was found

in

commouwealth along

lives in

Donegal meeting-house. Services ended impromptu meeting of oltieers and outside of the meeting-house, under a

men convened large oak-tree

On

still

standing npar the front doors.

the following day the battalion was on

nuircb for the Delaware.

1

i

i

!

Col. Lowrey's, Col. Greenaj

wait's,

and m;

Newpo 1777.

and Col. Watson's battalions met

at Chester,

two daughters

liday-luirg, leaving

due

nl'

the daughters, Margaretta,

John

F.

Robert removed

to

Butler, Butler Co., Pa.;

He

;

served a

number

of years in

both branches of the Iowa State Legislature, and was

|

the

.1

Hopewell, Bedford Uo.

Davenport, Iowa.

the Delaware, he

abruptly, and an

1

hrother, resides in

of 1777 to call

out the militia and march immediately to Chester in defense of the

1

sons,

married Janus M. Kinkade, an ironmaster in Bedford County; Hetty never married; Alexander, her

great energy and physical endurance to respond to

a])pointed by the (lovernor

Centennial Exposition in

a commissioner to the

177().

lie

is

now

register-

general of the laud-otlice in Dakota Territory.

Lazarus Lowrey had four.sons and seven daughters. Lazarus, the son, also moved to Davenport, wdiere he died iu ISlJS, leaving one daughter and three sons, Robert died at Hollidaysburg in 1841 Caroline mar;

'

,

EAST DONEGAL TOWNSHIP. He

gave

without

who

died

17S0, the executors of Nathaniel

S^te-

huul to his son Xatiianiel,

tliis

iH>iie.

Oil ye|it.

Sali.hury township.

from his unele

prioi* to 1740.

out a [laljnt,

v,

'

Slrashur- town-l,i|i,

!

Thomas

17.S4.

upon

Leacck

farm in

this

api)ointed

mon

'

of the jusiices of

itiie

He

Pleas.

toui,~lnp,

w.i, a

Revolution, and

tlo'

prominent

\V.its.,n

Court of

patriot

the ad-

Anderand his

His

-rand-

Thomas

who

Bayly,

in 17'J:) to

rhildrcn this tarin

wli(;,-e

sold one hiimlnil and

ninety-

Frederick Stump, of Colnmhia.

died acres of land and

and

a grist-

e.xcntors of the estate of .T.dm

(

s:,w-niill

iaihr.iith in

c-onvcrlcd

limn the

17.-.7.

'

He was

into a stinehniise.

rini,

a zealous

matters then transpiring:

number own and neighboring townshi|)s. wife he ha.l .lane, born March 7, 1701

ministered the oath of allegiance to a large

Ry

his first

|

17i;2,

10,

KOo, married Chambers; KOs, married Ei .IdlVics; who re-idrd in Donegal; Na-

Mary, burn Sept. Margaret

(

'To

Will-.

1, ,,

i,

and Cldff

"D.. s,k:^i h.o.

'

cimr Ik„ne, th.

wlH.mairoda

.Miss

very

i„ „

Kv 0,e Dnid,"

II

.Mf

;>t

Lancaster County troops at

I'.alli-

I

Watson, the second son of David (1731was born in Stra-burg township, now Paradise Dec. 2o, 17(i2. He married Margaret Clemson, daughter of James Clenison, Eso., of SailsDr. .lolm

w.u'.mt u «„;„,: I-""

C., Natli.iniel, .Tobii C.,

Davi.l C. was aeaplain ;it

Rainbri.lge .so,m

ill

.Alargarct,

and S.irah

the war aflcr

D.ivid

!

Watson studied

large jiractice in

.Sarah',

born

i"' "i'"

";"

'^"^'

C.,

''.

,"

^..

![,. jo-

the war, where he

"[''\

.laine,

C.

I,,",'

and had a Donegal and iicighboring townships

l.'^Oi,

niedieiiie,

il^Oo so, „.as born

in

Donegal,

at

He

the

was licensed

lie

until his death, in bSSO.

18:;o.

>

J,'",'

He

preach the gospel April,

'

re-

eeived the degree of Doctor oi Divinity in 1847. to

'"'

married h^aias Kllmaker.

old luHiiestead adjoining the meeting-house.

„

..i

i

i,.

""

'

'";',','

"''."r, '„',!," ,,!„,'

attained a large practice. Natlianiel

,.;

''n.Ue

n'hZ'u'j'.sl"! '

C;.

o]' l.sli'.

r

li'-i

I

I7>

.Molly, Rarbrl,

*"""' a!",'

m.n,:..

0"-

180o),

were

'•^^-V

,"r'n'.'.i!'

town.ship,

ehildieii

when

,./

in

Ve ,

f i,.,

Tu«„,

I,.,in.

l,.,tl,

l!.„k>.„ o..i into

open

R°

duo.ls, foithB tines ip.m'd

tliii

em. So

Ihr

6t«U

I'-m- Sui,-

lIll^'-niTltjollri'.^rmi'^'^""^^^^

'

where

in ,iml una- Ihe

i-luJi!!:!^\^v,'lh.TJ2,,^'llll/'ihloijiAs Wauton,

Ilia

• Cuimw.ter

;

died Nov. Hi, 1S4.3; Wil-

2".,

He

nid tav.in, built hy .l..hn Ciall.raith at

and ardent patriot during the Revolutionary war. He was elected to the Council. The lollowing is a copy of a letter written by Jlr. Bayly, wliich fully explains the

i

tlir

of citizens in his

John, born Dec. liam, born Nov.

it

cun-

llie sherilf,

land.

the

j

•

to

2, 170:i,

Bayly, son ui Thom.as, imreliascd four hun-

.Tolin

ua,

He

hy

in 17(17

purrha-rd

the s(m of J.,hn liayly, to

seven acres

during the

rendered valuable service

when serving on various committees.

cau.se

t

.lames

deseended, ami

Watsun and Col. Mercer purchased the by Mr. I'atlerson, and Mi. Watsun moved

left

she eonveyed

aerei of this tract

|

.ATr.

land

171!l.

who on May

.Vmhos,,,!, the son of Rev. .Tames

ll.'Wassohl out

son.

1782, 17S3,

for

a

hundieil and twenty-

.\lig. S,.174;i, lur twr)

daughter, Kli/.ahelh Kelly, married

Leaeoek township, on the l'e.|Uea, and took up two hundredand fifty aeres, and whose daughter Margaret married Col. .Tames Mercer, a prominent ollieer in the Rrvolntionary war, in

inemher of the (leneral .Vssunihly

tlie

alj.iut,

death his witendier,

j

time to.etller of this hiiiiily,

'

,".,

Bayly

The

'

\[,

tli.it

l.y llic

the Con-til,lea wonl

ui-conlin-Iyt and mansion stood upon the land everal children. .lohn, being the oldest son, got the mansion lann, tor ulinli hr to(,k- out a patent tor 1731).

into [jossessioii of Mr. Wil-

and one son, John Lytic, to whom he gave the Wilkins land. J.dm sold "the farm to Andrew Hershey. He was compelled to jniy the children of William Wilkins, and get .an act of Assembly passed to give him authority to make a title to Mr. Hershey. During the Revolution John Lytic moved to Middletown, where be established a ferry, and from thence nioveil several miles above Harris' Ferrv, where he a^'aiii established a ferry.

Chester County, he

the peace.

Creek.

his wife, Jenet,

and was a very He was elected

the General Assendjly in 17:;o and 1732.

He came

Indian traders.

kins' land, situated a short distance

of Little Chikis

of which the eastern end of

belonged

when the township was

three

.

\

I

In 17N3 he =old to Daniel Staull'er,

iirel]ased the I'erry

of hind. For many years " Vitjcfrar's Ferry."

McFaniuahr.

cliihh. n

Henry,

Imrii

and running back about a ndlc an.l nnc-f.urtb, which embraced some land in \Vest Hemplield, where r.i- and Little Chikis Creeks unite, and also about two hundred acres between the two creeks. I'eter conveyed to John Gardner, who conveyed a portion

Christian

ol'

\7'A',;

born 17G0;

.,f

'hri-lian,

(

D^ivid, l)oni

W'iniker,

were

.^r.;

born 17'iS;

ITil:!

Flizab.-tli,

George, born

;

17(;.". ;

a mile,

.lobn, born 17bs.

of the land to

Cook was the son of David Cook, Sr., and the brotlu-r ol David Cook, Esq., who laid out New Ir ^^•^id«d upon a plantation his fathergave Haven. bini. It ua^ piul of the land taken Ufi by Samuel Fulton, and \\:is situale.l on the old Peter's road about one mil,- lu.nli of Maytown. He married Anna, daughter of .John Alliscm. Cook was a jir^-tice of the peace, and a niendier of tlie Ijegislature in 1801. lie owned several slaves, all (.f whom he man-

May

John

29, 1733, for

who

the river,

liortner,

who

two hundred

1

received a patent

ai.d thirty acres

sold the land to

.-^anincl

John Ross

along

in 1734,

wlio was sold out by the loan commissioners in 1738.

The land was then in the

jiurchased by

Thomas

F^wing,

who

previous year purchased two hundred acres of

I

the tiardner tract a.ljoining Ceorge .Stewart's land on

I'pon tbi^ land

the ca-t.

now two

are

tlu-re

Lndw ig Germany

grist-

one saw-mill, five anthracite blast furnaces, one rolling-mill, and the eastern extension of .M.iri-

Kwing

.Mr.

jiersoii ol

was

large moans, but

also

Chtircb

They

member

a

in

March,

17oL',

Cn^ek ab..ut a There was no Fntbeian

Little (.'bikis

Mount Joy.

the lu ighbm hood, and he attemlcd clinndi

walked there

hundred aci.s, surveyed for James Patterson. it was located in ColR^toga manor. Jame>, oldest son of Tlnmia^ F'.wing, b,,rn 173li, who b.eame a distinguished general in the Lev,, intiomuy war, and when in minority .served as lieiiteiiant in Praddoek's and Gen. Forbes" armies in the

Ho was

oi

He was

back again the same day.

an.l

one of the loiinder- of the Lutheran Church at Maytown, in 17ilo. His firm adjoined that of Thomas I'lmg.in. a ^^-olcb- Iri^h Presbyterian. There was a

took out a patent

for three

Indian wars.

married

came from

rrgularly at LancaMer, twelve miles away, and olten

most intelligent of the old pioneer .settlers. widow of .lame. PutIndian trader.

the iM day

(,)n

along

lay

south of

mil.'

one of the He mar-

ried, the .^eccnid timo, , the river, where he also established a ferry in 1779.

769

few days Annie was

!

elected in 1822 and 1824. Kills in his ,f

a

"

backwoc

DUcksk

He III.

entered the legislative

'

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

770 coiisi-tcd

~i(

seven daughters and two sons,

—

M:ii,'(l:i

Christina, Catharine, Elizabeth, Mary, and Frederick. marrio.l, the first .Ma-dalcna, horn July 10, 17G:i tiii.r, I. ,1,11 (iailbach. Their scjii, Jacob, removed to riiil.id, l|.liia, where he died aged seventy-two year>. loii;i,

Siwaii,

Ann

.loliii,

;

.

Ill, (I d, as her second husband, Caleb Way, who .„:;,.. to a Quaker family, and was the son of Cahdj Way, who kept tavern on the old road Icadinfrom Lancaster to l^hiladelphia, at Wagonlown, in Chester County. Mrs. Way married a third time, lier husband being John Ruth, wdio kept tavern in a

.^li.

II

I

lud.

1

while frame house on the street leading from the Maytown to Marietta. The house is

puldic -piare in

but used as a private residence.

stamlin;.:,

.lulni

Itmh

Ruth died in January, IslC. and owned tlie stone dwelling at the northwest corner nrgal to a Chester County family, The-e were the jiarents of Rayard Tayhn-. Hugh Wilson was the son of Hugh, and was horn near Donegal Church. He married a dan-bter of Rev. CMin McFarquahr, and nioved to .Maytown, died in l>oX, and Mrs.

Way

Laid.

sid.'

of

rriina-

\V,-,t

built

King

,""'

I^i'^^^?!'!,!'

„i,

"'

,„.

i

,

ih.'

m,

.m

v

i>.

Sn

„

i

^i

i

i

.

.-Ou-,. «.,.t

,iii,«cr

,iii

w. ., nnu-

H'J- K"'1.

uM

w.u.uut

th.,,1

nsv.pui.lutoUH

Frieaa imiy imvedo

..vmn-, i„r u,e

Sp^Jy

sdu't of

i

!wl"'7"'l'h!u mll'llu vZiuiirimp^^^

l.uM

''"

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^Vnui!'!

'— '"""

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in.i-i !,.

iimi

Hav

>

]i;iiii,

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i

im.

r,-i

.la

,.

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'i

i,,i

, .

"•y

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Hh

«iur „'„. ,ii.

i>, i,,,,

n-...

i^'-iY'''' '

.!'"Va,'!,',"i'Ih!'ij?,l\V!!m,

Town,.

i,-,

"^ i •m-'''-' ^i-.n "' >'"- ' '"-^ i'>i'^|-'.' '-ji''' i

•!"''

''!'Hu^!^^^^ '""'

'liin

"

-li'i^'-suilL^-x.iiiuZ 1 1 i,.,n,y si.-,l i,n a,

••r.ilu

ii„.h..i

f™"

'iv^-- -""treani of water which ran througli his plantation near Marietta, where he lived for the remainder of liis life. In the following year or two he also purcha--fd a farm along Little Chikis Creek just above its junction with Big Chikis Creek. For the years 1720 and 1730 he gave one-tilth of his time to the people of Swatara and Derry. He belonged to the " Old School," and being a person of strong convictions and Ibrcible expressions he suited liis congregation, who were of like faith and plainness of speech. Mr. Anderson married Mi^s (iarhind, daughter of Sylvester Garland, of Virginia, in February, 1713. She died at Donegal Dec. 24. 17:!G. Un the 27tli day of December, 1737, Mr. Anderson married Rebecca Crawford, tlie daughter ot Edward Crawford, of

ilies.«

Donegal.

among

JIh Anderson traveled tions in to

weak congrega-

the

soon after his return, on

The Presbytery and

insi.le

of

:

Tin- in

AlDl.aiiuik," tor tlie yciir 1774.

llu' cov.'i

iui.l rai.la lus f.ill.nvs,

viz:

" Tin'

I'l

" Ciiteclii-iii-

limil— "roller Twist D.-eclifs"— •'Tiirpentio^."

ye iiicml'ora of the cougreg.itioli of Doiieg.il taken

liow u X.i\

1

" 1778 Ai>r PresljyteryH aiipuintmentj of BU[>pIy " Eiist P,M.3ljoroui;h at Distn.-t

"Slirewabury

4tli

Sab

viz.

May

"Litlle Cainamiij;u2Salj July Ilanuvor. 5th Sab Angst"

'•

May

17, 1770,

Keceivsd of Salary for 1778 £22,14, 9 of an.

,i.,

Ball of Salary 1777,-172-10-7"

£2:),-i;-0

On another

page, the following; "1780 March, then gave ui

Mrs. Scot one hundred d.iUars" April

1780 From

3.

Wm

Wilson

name 178U— -i.x

in the

part of Stipend for year 1779, and pieces 2 guineas and a -silver dollar in

of the Congi.-gi

half Joanne.,-

C21-I2-C.

[ill

"7lh, April 1780 Then gave inoio in Loan

to

Mr. Hannah

:

dolars.

Appointments for 1780, 2, Sab., June, Slate Kidge.S, Sab., at ford, 2, Siib., August, Ilaiiovel-, 3, Sab., October, Carlysle." April 2.S, 1780, reeeive.l from James Wilson as Collect.a of for years 1770 and 171-0, four hundred dollars. May 10, gave in loan to Mrs. Hannah Scot, 70 ilollars. .May 20, received from William Miller

V.j

Joannes, fioin Willi

day of July, 1740.

tlie lilth

Mrs. Scot of Cont

" circiim^pei'tion, diligence,

The congregation agreed

to give

buy a plantation and

to

Uiiivi-i-siil Scot.s

on Iho

from wliich he died,

a cidd,

and faithfulness as a Cliri-ti.m minister." Rev. JosKi'il Tate wa> calUd to Donegal 1748.

"The

Syiioil declared frequently that

he was in high esteem for

pounds

by him in the almanac

is

uul while

irgini.

Opequan he contracted

member of his congregation and cd' tloii The following is a copy of memoranda

in

I

June,

him seventy

seventy

]i(innds

and eighty

lied

Hannah

Mrs.

dollars.

Sep. 15, gave Mis. Scot 4

I

Sep. 20, 17K0, then g.ive

1

salary.

On

the loth day of Dec-mlier, 174S,

Margaret, the eldest daughter Octorara. vice

He

was eccentric but

and the errors of the

d:

lie died

graceful speaker.

,-.

lie

Rev. A. lam

.if

marrie.l I'.oyd.

of

tearless in re|iri>vin

He was

tet.

a tluent ani

11, 1774,

aged

"Nov.,

VS-H

:

t

located. He preaclod at x'veial of the chiirciRs Cumberlan.l Valley and in Vii-iiiia, and was stated supply at I'.idfuid. He cime to Donegal an i

trial

a

soi

m

th.-

fall

..I'

177--..

Th

congregation were pleased with him, and they gav

him a

call,

which he

tavern of Samuel Capt.

Hugh

acce|.ted.

Scott, at 'Big

Pcdan'.!;

lie b.Kirded at th CMiikis,

known

tavern, wliere he continued

board for several years.

;

dayl

fiist

Nov.

].aid

Mis.

I7»l).

Hannah Scot f..r ni me a hard .1..I

She owes

the hard nioiieyTor stipends for years 1770 and 17^o,'

si.xty

and left his wife, Mai aret, and the following named children surviving hiun, vi/.. :\Iatthew, Adam John, Benjamin, Jane (.Vml i), Margaret (Mc Queen), and Sarah. Rev. Colin McFawjiii ai: wa- burn in Scotlaiu and educated at Edinburgh rmver-ily, where he als filled a position lis teaclieriii that institution. He\Mi a fine Greek and Latin scholar. In !77ri he came America to seek a place wheie he could settle, lea\ ing his family behind him until he wa^ perman. ml three,

prcirlnd a

11, 17S0, wliich

wages, inecediiig the

a t

After

j\[r.

McFarqiihar gave up his charge,

the death of his wife, Elizabeth, in 1SU5, he ren to

Lancaster and resided with his daughter, Mr-.

:

Willson. Subsequently he went to Ilagerstown,

he died Iti.v.

in

Ibis

Lrntlicrs

Will

I

\M ICiui; was born

e,,unly,

and

in

sisL^s.

\

ninety-three.

in IM^J. .i-nl

(

irt.il.er,

in

1777.

Bart i.hm

had

lie

His pan-nts were men, I.,

Kelormed Church. His fallua soon after hi, birth, and he was left to the care of a pious mother. He was sent to the -ele the

Associate

t

and l.rilliant career. He was seiii ferson ("College, at Cannonsburg, Washington 'o where ho graduated. He then went to Wilniiii Del., and became principal of an acadeni} aiel thus engaged cminecteil himself with the Pre-bu Church, and, in pni-snaiice of what lie deemed hisdutv to the cause ol reliL'ion, placed himself of a useful

ti

t

,

i

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. of New Castle Presbytery. In 1804 lie was by Pri'sbytcry to supply the congregation at I'a., where he preached for eighteen months. After one or two trial sermons L-eived a call from Donegal Church, and in 1807 he was installed, lie married JIary Elder, only daughter o( the

ciire

.sent

widow

I

tieiiig

I

to

farn

and

isuits,

H

Schools.— The tii.t M-hool house erected in "this township was built at tlie I'resbyterian meetinghonse at Donegal Sjiring, a few years after the church was built. School was only kept during the winter mouths. One of the earliest teachers was William Wright. An Iri.lu ,IellV

I

pl.Aving I

when

parlies

wen

the holy bonds

denly

in

!
s was born

He

in the

Htythree

to ^'ork.

towu nf

.Mid.llcl)ury,

practiced law in that State

tin-

Mr. Kerr,

towu

,

but

of temper, and he was extremely carel'ul nut to

the character of Mr. it

is

a

wound

pleasure to

logicul

Seminary

ll>-

at Pineeton,

Roads, in Chester County.

County.

His death

Ho

attended the

'flien-

New London

n'larried

o.'curreil in ISod,

who

Cross

Amelia

and he

,Iane,

left his

He

received the highest praise from a

num-

I

profc'ssion of the law.

The second spring

'

(dde,t

school-house stood

Dully'. P.irk.

iu

e.irly as

17:.i).

It

near

the

was a school-house as

think, however,

I

tliat

the building

'

lu-ior

to

that time

was used as a dwelling.

John Lowrey purchased the farm, about

:

a dwelling a fourth of a mile farther

and brought the water from the run to his

1

tier,

dwelling.

were

Tlie

ahvay..

lir,t

in

Wlieii

174G, he built

down

the run,

ditches near

cabins of the pioneer set-

near a spring or stream of

luiiU

\u

Irishman named .Murphy taught in this sclioolhou.e prior to the Uevoluliou. About the year ISDO,

]

Mrs.

ICvaiis,

seli.Md-liuu>c

who owned to

Mr.

the laud, rented the little log

I'.cll

and Sally; who remained

there hir ^evelal year-, cultivating a little patch of

the

and on leaving there

he took charge of the academy at

early history

members of the LancasCounty bar for the thorougli manner iu which he taught young men who entered the ministry and the

Dougl.i-,.

know

good iiualitiesof oueof Old Donegal's pastors from su authentic a source. He married a daughter of James Stewart, a preMding elder iu Dr. Ely's clinrch, in Philadelphia. He was a cousin of the late Stephen Don-la-s. He rcMgncd his charge in 18:1(1 and moved to Phila.lelphia, where he took charge of a .Marine Church, and afterwards became agent for one of the church missions. lli:v. Thomas .M.vksiiai.i. Hoggs was born near Cross Creek, in Washington County, Pa., June "iti, 1813, and w.as the son of John and Sarali Boggs. lie was a very bright boy, and far in advance of other boys of the same age. He was sent to an academy at Cross Creek village, under the care of his uncle. Rev. George Marshall, D.D. He entered Washington College, and graduated with second boniu-s in his class at the age of eighteen years.

its

her of college professors and

He was the mo-t iin~elli-li had a better ..pporlunity ti. un-

than his daughter, and

ill

While he resided in'May-

ter

'

the feelings cf any one. iius

ministers of Old Done-

pare-

scholar.

'

I

Xo one

ue

he

taught a class

'

i

deisliLud thoroughly

lie

i

a sho

having become impaired by e application to his studies, he went to Georgi e he taught school for a short time. After s fa lier's death he determined to study for the miuiM and I.igicame on to Princeton, where he pursued his tl cal course. returjUMl to It seems that he ogia al'ter being admitted to the gospel miui-tiy, w e he had charge of a congregation for a sliort tiui The father of Jlrs. Dougl.i.s.-, was very much opposed to her going so far away from home, and in couseiinence of his wishes Mr. Douglass gave up his charge in Georgia and aeeepted a call iu Old D.meg.il. .Mr.. Foiilke pay- aju.t and tceliiig li Imle I., her father's his health

of men.

w

gal Church, I

nb,. succeeded

.Ala

hve years ago. Colin IMcFarquh:

|

Kerr,

in

a past.l of Donegal.

1

James Willson. Mr. Kerr was not averse

Willium Marshall Boggs, now a pracCambria County. who was also

aiui sou,

lawyer

Elizabeth married Kev. John Edgar,

Harrisluirg,

j

'

'

|

'

ground iu the heart of a large woods. After Sally Bell removed to Miwietta, it was occupied by Samuel Craig, one of Charley Scwell's slaves, who drove Mrs. ICvaiis' coach. Alter he went to Ilavti, in lS2o, it was torn down,

Thomas Mar

EAST DONEGAL TOWNSHIP. an idea of lie

tlie

amount of

Ahraliarn N. Cassel,

his estate escheated.

one of

tlie

of the

movement, went

school directors of

township, hearing

llie

member

of the

was passed antliorizing

S,.iial,',

tliis trust

to

be

When

they enter the graveyard

*u.'ar

Maker,

it^

who a

owns

;cUo

About the erected

iiive-^tid

for tlie use of the schools of Donegal tso.-;>inent-rull tor

two

or three years. his brother,

growing family. Her husband purchased the hotel at the M)Uthwe-t corner of the square, which he carried on lur a few years, without, however,

much

Here

succe-s.

their

was born in XIM. In tiie tollowing year the family moved to a small frame house on thesouth side of the street leading west, and about oldest son, William,

hundred feet from the public square. luthis house their sons John, Simon, and James, and a mMi-i', who married a .Mr. 1!,,--^ wrre liiini. {'Iw family

tliree

removed Irom .Mavt.avn thence,

&

telVigencer, at

AVashington, as a journeyman printer.

He

Seaton, publishers of the National In-

returned to Harrisburg in

of the Penusijloaiiia

and entered

182:!,

Mowry

partn*rship with Charles

into

management Having becMi the

in the

l/itelli(jeiicfr.

and supporter of Governor Shulze, upon printer, he wa> honored by that executive with the appDintment of adjutant-

early friend

Simon and

John Cameron, took the oath of allegiance before James Bayley, who resided upon and owned the " Graybill farm," now owned by Abraham N. Cassel, Esq. Charles, son of Simon Cameron, learned the tailoring trade in Maytown. After attaining full age lie married Miss I'foutz, daughter of John Pfoutz, about the year 1794. The family wore poor, but what they lacked in this world's goods Mrs. Cameron made up for in energy and untiring industry with her needle. Site had a vigorous mind and an undaunted spirit that triumphed over what seemed to bo insurmountable difficulties that threatened to crusli her spirit, and challenge her husband and her own ability to support a large and In June, 1778,

Messrs. Gales

to Viiir-ai

'-,

Norlli

al

l-'criv,

and

Iroi'o

,herh'

his ceasing to be Slate

general of Pennsylvania.

Gen. Cameron at an early period took a deep indevelopment of internal improvements, and took extensive contracts upon the Pennsylvania Canal, then in process of construction. In 1826 he began building the .section between Harrisburg and Sunbury, and after this was well under way he took one or two sections on the western division of the canal. When Louisiana granted a charter to the State Bank terest in the

of that commonwealth,

should build Orleans.

a

the bank

[irovided that

it

canal fmin Lake Pontcliartrain to

(Icn. I'.uikmiii

New

took the contract for that

great win-k, wliich was then regarded by engineers as

undcitakiiig of the

the greatest started fur

men

New

In 1831

time.

He employed

Orlcaii-.

he

twelve hun-

and sent them by sea to that city. He, with his engineers and tools, went down the Mi^Mssippi Uiver, embarking at Pittsburgh, He spent nearly half a year upon the work, and deiii oiistrated beyond a duiilii its entire feasibility. He was recalled from his w.,rk on the Lake Pontcluirtrain dred

by

G.iiial

War

I'liilad.lpliia,

in

asii.iiiih.iis

under

(i,„.

,

Kat..n, Secretary of

.Maj.

fr,„,i

who

lacks,,,),

him

rcipicstt-d

to re-

turn todV'nn-,ylvaniaaiid or-.ini/,e a delegation to the

National Conventiuii, whirl, had been called to meet

and Martha [VUnitAi Caiuci., •hild,tilled to become the fanidu^ |h Gen. Simon Cameron. He w M: lie accompanied the family to .XorthumluTlaiiil County when he was about iiinO years of a-r, wline his father shortly afterward dying he was c.ist upon his

own

tice

t(j

exertions.

He

entered, in

the printing business with

181(5, as

an appren-

Andrew Kennedy,

editor of the Northumbarlaad Countii Gazette, at .Xurlh-

umberland, where he continued one year, when his employer, owing to financial reverses, was obliged to clo^o bis establishment. Being thus thrown out .if empl.iynient, he made his way by river-boat and on foot to Ilarrisburg, where he secured a situiilinn in the pi int-

James Peacock, cdil.ir uf the Repuhfivun, he remained until he had altaincil his maJanuary, 1821, he went to 1 )..ylrstiiwii,

ing-ollicc of

with

whom

jority. I'a.,

In

at the solicitation of

he published the hacks of the

same year

lie

Samuel

1),

Ingham, where In March

Cjuiiti/ jUeSxemjcr.

entered into partnership with

ill

Baltimore,

(ieii.

Baltimore

'aimouii rc-pccted the

Vice-I're-i, hairy. veiiti.,11 e\.a-

held

Mr,

V^m Buren

Tins wa.

llie

11,-^t

1,1

went

to

f,r the

National Con-

in llie r,ilted S;ale,.

.\ftcrthe Nali.,,ialCo,ivei,ii,,,i appoii.te.l a \i-il

summons,

a d. •legation that

.,t

the iuteiol

in

Wet

lo

,r

i,i

I

lall

iinore he

I'wiiit l,y r,,;\.

was

Jackson.

the winter of 18;i2 the Legislature chartered the

became

hank

at

From

the hrst the hank was successful, but the duties

.Mi.ldlclown,

of cashier were so

and he

llinitcil

that (Jen.

its

cashier.

Cameron sought

other fields of labor and nsdiilncss, although he

re-

He projected and Middlelown to Lancaster, lioiii Harrisburg to Lchfn,iii liar, 1.1,111- 1,, S,i,il,,in aiii,ii,aiid at llie-..L,i,e lime e:a\e large encouragement to the Cumberland Valley Railroad. .Vn,| in this c.n, lection it mav be >tal,Ml that the Northern Central Uailr,,a.l from Ian i>l,u,g I,, Baltimore was captured by him li,,in jlalli re interest- and made a mained there

tweiity-fi

created (he r.nlniad.

v,;

years.

Ii.,in

,

I

the publisher of the Bui/leslouiu Dciiiocrnt, ami the lerged their papers into the Bliris Cvunt;/ Ihmnwhich pnblicaticn was continued until the clo,r when the establishment pa-M'd ml,, the hands by purcliase cd' Orn. W. T. Pod-cis. The Ml the oH

(

home and oi-am/r.l

laiin, which was located on the Paxton ;ind Coiie-tojia road, between Thomas Harris, at Couewago, and the l'>e;ir Tavern, kept by Barnabus Hughes. He was major in Col. Lowrey's battalion He in 1777, and wa- :it the battle of Brandywine.

I

I

j

was a justice of the peace

moved

third of his tract, to :\Iartin Lindenuilh.

Robert Craig's family eon>i.ted of children,

viz.:

D.ivid,

lii^

wile and six

James Whitehiil,

Robert,

belongs

history

He was

County.

1

Rachel, Margaret, Elizabeth.

many

for

He

years.

a few niile- we^t of Conewtigo Creek,

subsequent

'

years 1780-81,

electe.l

to

properly the

to

and

re-

his

Dauphin

Assembly

fbr the

17-S'!.

j

Thomas Hamilton and John Cook resided with the familv. The latter was lir>t lieutenant in (\ii,t.

Capt. Roherl Craig married a Miss Whitehill.

and best known roads in the county w a- the old I'axton and Conestoga highway, U|")ii the l"il of which is the Lancaster, Eliz;ibethtown ,ind Mid.lletown turnpike, which foini> thedivi-ioi, line between this and Mount Joy

Roads.— One

'

To

of the oldest

James Whitehill Craig, Walter Bell, who.r second wife was a sister of Mrs. Craig, Sr., gave a

townships.

liortion of his estate.

out from the old I'axton

his son,

Samuel Woods settled near and had the following-iiaimMl

tlie

Couewago

liundied and

lifty

years ago a road was laid ro;id

where I^lizabethtown

tamily, viz.: Natlnui,

Uavid, William, Jennet, .Margaret," Peter

One

in 17(;o,

JCIi/,al.eth,

ami

Ab(jut the sanie time

;i

road was laid out from the

Cro.ss.

Peter

Wayland owned

In 17o0 a road was laid out from Thomas Harri;,' Couewago Creek, at or near the point

a tract of land called Peters-

burg near Conoy Creek in 1770. In 1773 he sold the land to Jacob Winner. Benjamin Whisler, .r.dm Neesly, Peter Rutt, Jacob

trading-post at

where the Lancaster, Elizabethtown and Middletown turnpike crosses th:it stream to Logan's Ferry and

j

j

Boyers, and David Coble

John Jamison and

owned the adjoining

farms. I

located upon land about one mile

a half west froni

Elizabethtown before the eommencemeut of the Revolutionary war. He was quar-

Conoy Indian town. The Falmouth and Elizabethtown turnpike was built

!

Much

in

1810-11,

ridicule has

connects those two towns. been made of this road by un-

anil

— HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. thinking persons, location r'oaii,

or

and

all

who were

No

condition. are

I'ree

toU-giites obstruct

to travel over

tribute to a corporation.

sons living along

entirely ignorant of

It is

route.

its

much

Tlie

without

it

its

the

iniyinsj

traveled by pcr-

i'arins

upon

either

side are generally small, and the buildings liave boon

located along

it.

There

and one town along

is

a succession of hamlets

its line.

The Lancaster, Jlount Joy, Elizabethtown and Harrisburg Railroad enters the township at Rheeni's and continues west near its northeastern boundary line, and crosses Conewago Creek at INIount Vernon Furnace. Tavern-Keepers. The Bear Tavern was the oldest Station,

—

one

in this

township, and was well

known

prior to the

It was here French and Indian war of 1755-G3. where Thomas Harris first opened his trading-post in 174G, and built the tavern. He sold the land in 1751 to Lazarus Lowrey, another Indian trader, and moved two miles farther west, to Conewago Creek. In June, 1753, Mr. Lowrey sold the place to Barnabus Hughes, who, prior to that time, lived in Lancaster borough. This tavern was located on the simth side of the great road which ran from Paxton to Conestoga Creek at a point where Conoy Creek crossed it. Barnabus Hughes was also an Indian trader, and was a very prominent man among the traders and in the neighborhood. Large sums of money were sent to him by Wharton & Co., merchants of Philadelphia, and he disbursed it among the Indian traders in their

behalf.

He

Hughes

died in the year 17C5, leaving three sons,

laid

out the village of Elizahethtosvn.

Daniel, John, and Samuel.

The last-named

chased the interest his brothers had

and the

latter

moved

pur-

in the property,

Harford County, Md.

administrators and heirs of Barnabus the tavern to

Mills.— The* first grist-mill erected in thistownship was built by Philip Gloninger on Conoy Creek in 1749. In the year 1759 he sold two hundred and nine acres of land and the mill to John Nissly and removed to the town of Libaaon. In the year 17S0, John Nissly, Sr., owned this mill and three hundred acres of land.

At the time John Nissly purchased Gloninger's owned some adjoining land. The followingnamed persons also owned adjoining land, which furnished a clue to the location and names of the pioneer mill he

Nicholas Boss and Peter Root on the Conoy Creek, and Jacob Ebersole, Peter Wayland, Benjamin Wissler, and John Nissly on the

settlers, to wit:

east side of

west side.

Peter Root built a grist- and saw-mill on Conoy Creek, above Ni-,.ley's mill, prior to the Revolutionary war. Gish's mill was built about the year ISOO, and first

mill on mill

and Harrisburg Railroad bridge. Good's Meeting-House.— One hundred and thirty

caster

ago. the

Kher.-.oles,

ship.

The most ])rominent

the pioneer

The

iiioneer settlers built their

meeting-houses

near a spring, and as near the centre of the settle-

two hundred and thirty-eight acres of land iVum Samuel Hughes. Having married Ann Alricks, a

ment which

stepdaughter of Col. Alex. Lowrey, he moved to this hotel at the close of the Revolutionary war.

beautiful spring, which feeds Brubaker's

Mr. Boggs commanded a company called the " Flying Horse" during the Revolutionary war, and

was on duty at Gen. Washington's headquarters for some time. He was at the battle of Brandy wine in He jnir1777, and in several battles in New Jersey. chased from Col. Lowrey a farm on the fiver about a mile and a half above Marietta. He built the brick dwelling-house, on the northwest corner of the square in Marietta, now occupieil by the Marietta JSef/ister,

about the year 181:i, to which place he retired to seek and comfort in his old age. He was a justice

leisure

of the peace for Donegal for

many

years.

He

was

one of the conimi.ssioncrs appointed by the State improve the navigation of the Su.-.ciuehunna River.

to

Men-

man, a Mennonite minister. He, however, located and near the river, in the heart of an Indian tr^iders' and Scotch-Irish settlement.

tavern and

all

nonite settlers in the township was MeJchoir Brene-

Elizabeth. tlie

of

(.Rutts),

Mennonite Donegal town-

othei-

families settled in the western part of

several miles farther east,

Capt. Alexander Boggs purchased

Rootts

Nisslys,

number of

Heisey's, Good's, and a

demptioners as well as kept hotel. In 1776 his family ami daughters, Tibby and

consiste.

Kev.

W. 0. Owen remained

HISTORY OP LANCASTER COUxVTY.

796

Since then the Rev. Alfred Well:

pastor until 1881.

has heen the pastor

•member of

tlie

Churches.

in

charge.

The church

is

his gifted daughter, Tlieodosia.

Tlie

years an extensive boarding-house was added and the

The first teacher J. Ross Ramsay; the last, Thomas^R. Our semi-private normal schools, aided

school flsurislied for several years. j

dollars.

was the Rev.

Old Mennonite Church.— Within the last ten years the Mennonites have rapidly increased in numbers in Drumore. In 1881 they erected a plain and comfortable house of worship a little north of Mechanics' Grove. It is known as the Mennonite Church at Mechanics' Grove. It is forty-six by thirty-five feet, and its erection was completed at a cost of seventeen hundred dollars. The original members numbered about twenty, among whom are Samuel Nissley, J. M. Swarr, Jacob Martin, Amos B. Miller, S. J. RessThe church was dediler, and Abraham Brubaker. It cated, free of incumbrance, in the spring of 1882. belongs to the Old Mennonite Church order. Bishop Benjamin Herr, Bisliop Jacob N. Brubaker, and Rev.

Nicholson.

Amos Herr

j

i

is

steadily increasing.

flourishing Sabbath-scliool

yearly

by large State appropriations, have closed

many

excellent private institutions of learning in

the unequal

Drumore township

competition.

common

cepted the

at that time 832

school system in

183-1,

ac-

and had

In 1837 there were 9

taxables.

and 220 pupils, supported at an In 1883 there were 15 schools and 15 teachers. The school near Murphy's Loup is composed exclusively of colored pupils. The whole number of pupils in the schools in 1883 was 743, 387 are males and 356 females. These are maintained at an expense of §4150 per year. The number of taxables in the same year was 018.

schools, 12 teachers,

expenditure of §3023.

Washington Lodge, No. 156, F. and A. M.— The Masonic fraternity of Drumore, known as the Wash-

The nnmThey have a

participated in the dedication.

ber of members

In 1852 an academy

building was erected at Chestnut Level, and in a few

;

Union Association of Baptis property is valued at fifteen hundred

Central

ington Lodge, No. 156, F. and A. M., was granted

of eighty pupils, under

The lodge

its

organized at the pub-

the superintendence of J. JI. Swarr.

charter in 1818.

Friends.— The Friends' meeting-house in Drnmore was erected in 1816. It is located one-half The land was donated by Jacob Shoemaker, and is a portion of the He land purchased by him of Jloses Irwin, Jr. inherited the same from his father, Moses Irwin, who in the year 1748 took out a [nitent for three hundred and nine acres of land, and in 1750 another patent for one hundred and fifty acres. Previous to the erec-

lic-house of Philip Housekeeper, in Chestnut Level.

The

'

first

Ramsay,

mile south of Liberty Square.

officers

S.

first

were Jacob Moore, W. M. John Prominent B. Moore, J. W. ;

W. Samuel ;

members were Gardner Furnace, John Kirke, Philip Housekeeper, John Keeler, John Muderwell, Wallace Null, John Robinson, Davis .Suavely, John Valentine, T.C. Tmnlinson, Oliver Watson, and

among '

the old

Richard Edwards. During, the Anti-Masonic war the members were compelled frequently to change their place of meet-

I

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tion of their present meeting-house the Friends asI

sembled

in

an old school building, one mile west of

ing.

I

Among

the oldest members are found the names of

Joseph Stubbs, David Parry, Jacob Shoemaker, Robert Clenden^n, Isaac Smith, Isaac Bolton, Joseph Smith, Simon Pennock, George Lamborn, Amos Walton, Jesse Lamborn, James Worral and wife, and Ezekiel Atkinson. The present elders are Jason Bolton and .Vlban Cutler. The meeting includes about one hundred

members, and

is

known

It

Nottingham

as the

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Drumore preparative

— Education

Rock, at a

thousand dollars. It is and Washington Drumore. Lodge numbers eighty-seven members. Its present David M. officers are William J. JlcComb, W. M. and Boffenmyer, S. W. Dr. J. M. Deaver, J. W.

hall at a cost exceeding five

a

Yearly Meeting.

Educational.

I5lack

met at the Running Pump, kept by a Mr. Elliott. Fear of injury to themselves or their entertainers compelled them to meet at different places, so At that time they fierce was the Anti-!\I)isonic fury. were greatly reduced in numbers. Henry Rush and David Suavely were sent at times to Lancaster to Lodge No. 48, for additional members to form a quorum. The Washington Lodge moved to Drumore Centre in 1857, and in 1868 they built their Masonic tliey

!

belongs to the Little Britain Monthly and Baltimore tiuarlerly,

meeting. ^Meeting,

Sometimes they met near

public-house kept by a Mr. Dripp's, at other times

the present location, on the south side of the road.

handsome brick

structure, three stories high,

the largest public hall in in

fully fostered by the Scotch-Irish

Drumore was element

care-

I

in its early

;

j

In 1770 the Rev. James Latta, pastor of Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church, was principal of a Latin school. The school was on the farm now owned by John Myers, about a mile west of the Friends' meeling-hoiise. Latin and English were thoroughly taught. Slany of his pupils became famous in after-years. After Mr. Latta retired from active service, the school was continued by his soh, Francis. Another son of the Lattas', for his classical acquirement-s, was selected by Aaron Burr as tutor for history.

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Edward

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T.—The Good

Lodge in Drumore is a surviving branch of the Drumore and In 1860, Thomas .Martic Temperance Union. Wentz of the Union noticed that very kw of those I.

;

.\mbler. Sec, since 1862.

0.

of G.

who needed

Templars'

instruction in temperance principles at-

I

He stated the fact to Hon. James Black, of Lancaster, who suggested the new organization known as the Good Templars as a remedy. tended the meetings.

i

DRUMOUE

TOWNSIIII'

J97

At that time there were less than a dozen lodges in until 1867 James M. Hopkins conducted the business alone. A flouring mill was erected near the site of Pennsylvania. During the year a lodge was inst'ithe old furnace in 18G8, and it took the place of a tuted, and the meetings were held in the old tan mill built by Jacob Baer and wife in 1708. This house, a little north of the dividing-line between mill was located soutii of the Furnace road, on^the Mertic and Drumure. The first officers were: ^^^ S., west bank of tlie Conowingo, near the Hopkins resiEdwin Shoemaker; W. A. S., Rev. K. Hambleton dence. The present substantial stone mill was built W. G., .Tames Ecklin W. C, Rev. J. JIcGhee W.M., Joshua Wilson; \V. I. G., John McKinley; by James M. Hojikins, who leased it and engaged in farming and dairying. The quality of the ore used William L. W. .S., Huckett; A. W. 0. G., Joseph Lamborn; W. D. 51., A. B. Lamborn R. II. S., Em- enabled Mr. Hopkins to manufacture iron of a supemor Bradley; L. H. S., Tilghman Tompson; Lodge rior grade, and he continued in the business longer Deputy, Edwin Shoemaker. The additional charter than any of the other old manufacturers in the vicinmembers were Thomas Wentz, Mary J. Wentz, Wil- ity. The iron manufactured was of the neutral grade. It differed from cold short and hot short iron, as it liam J. Wentz, John Wentz, Sarah A. Wentz, Empossessed great tenacity either cold or hot. 5Iuch of nior P. Bradley, Maria Penny, JIargaret F. Shoemaker, Jacob Cramer, William B. Hackett, Jeremiah Cooper, the product was made into car-wheels, and after a lapse of thirty years the wheels are free from bumps Louisa Cooper, Mary C. Cooper, and Eliza M. Mcand depression, ap]iarently as good as new. Ghee. The lodge was reorganized in Seiitember, Their present place of meeting is in the new The Conowingo Rolling-Mill was erected by Neff' 1871. & Kendric, and situated about two miles below the hall at Liberty Square, which they have occupied The lodge numbers eighty-five members. furnace on Conowingo Creek. It was purchased on since 1880. The Drumore Lodge, No. 509, 1. 0. 0. F., was in- the failure of the builders by Robert Coleman, owner of the Cornwall Furnaces, in Lebanon County, Pa. stituted on the 6th day of January, 1855. Its charter members were James Cain, S. D. McConky, Hugh W. Coleman sold the rolling-mill to James Sproul, and William in 1840 James M. Hopkins purchased it from Sproul. McSparran, John Fowler, Ritchie, John The mill was operated for a time by a Mr. Riddle, Shank, John Kennedy, H. Coombs, Charles Parker, and lastly, in 1843, by Col. Peter Sides. After a time H. D. Hildebrand, Henry Harner, Fleming McSparthe building disappeared, the dam was swept away, ran, Felix W. Sweigart, Newlin Thompson, Elkana Coombs, Lawrence Hippie, John Rus.sell, Edward and now there is scarcely a vestige loft to arouse a Hicks, William A. Towson, and Allen S. Steele. suspicion that a rolling-mill ever existed there. The officers first elected and installed were Allen S. Sickle-Mills. Sickles were extensively manufacJames Cain, V. G. S. D. McConkey, tured LJi Drumore at an early date. A sickle-mill was Steele, N. G. located on Fishing Creek, above the Penrose mansion, Sec. Felix W. Sweigart, A. Sec. and Newlin Thompson, Treas. George Sanderson, D. D. G. I\L, of Lan- another on McFarland's Run, north of StaufTer's mill, They and a shop south of the mill another on the Robert caster County, was present on the occasion. Moore farm, another on the farm* where George held their meetings in the ball-room over Fleming Long now resides, and one on Skelpie Run, built by McSparrau's store until Nov. 14, 1868, when they purchased i lot of ground adjoining the hotel in Thomas Johnston and William Wright. Stephen On it they erected a hall John Hamilton had^a steam sickle-mill on his farm. Fairfield of James Cain. convenient for their purpose, twenty-five by forty-five One stood near the bla.kMiiith-shop of Samuel WyThe bels, and one in the forks r. B. 1'. Sides was a surgeon in months' service. Dr. Iddings was also an Forty-ninth Regiment. army surgeon. The list of killed from Drumore include Robert Maxwell, John Smith, John Ritcliie, Jasper Morrisson, and JoM-pb Kyle. Slaves.— The la^t slaveholders in the township were Dr. Dong, who had f.-male slave, Judy Roilney. Col. Lon- owned .laiiir, Bodiiey. The Morrisons had \Vrif5ht,

Tennis,

\Vl.ip|.er.

Col. San.

wa, freed by law

slave, Kbrnc/a-r .(ack..,ii.

Drumore

in the future

we must

preserve and practice the virtues of our ancestors.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. FLE.MIXG McSPAKR.\N.

The McS|iarran family

is

one of the oldest

in

south-

ern Lancaster County, and most prominently and actively associated with

its

local history

and progress

its founder, James McSparran, settled there. James JlcSparran emigrated from the north of Ire-

since

land and settled with liis wife, whose family name was Fleming, near Peach Bottom, on the Susquehanna River, but nothing certain can be traced as to the time or circumstances of his emigration or settle-

ment, nor do his descendants

po.ssess

any history of

nor account of any branch of the

their aiiceslors,

yi^.rn-cur. at twenty-

The son James, the father of our subject, was born homestead in the year 17(34, and married Elenor Neel, daughter of Thomas anJ Gresall Neel, nee Penny, a member of an old and widely-extended

William Ankrim, father of Maryear.-, of age. Ankrim, hail a slave purchased at liis father's sale. Dr. James Ankrim owned a fenuile slave. Mint. Elijah Mackiulyre held many slaves. The last living slave in Di^imore was owned by William Ritchie. Her name was Phillis Bush. She was a light-colored mustee, with straight hair, and was long known as " Aunt Phillis." Her husband was Cicsar Augustus. At her death involuntary servitude ceased. j\laiiy of three

at the old

tin

family, the direct representative of wdiicli

writing (1883)

Level Church, on the Rogers

is

at

this

Tln.mas R. Neel, of Fulton town-

ship, Lancaster Co.

James McSparran died March

18, 1827,

and Elenor

Aug. 12, 1841, and were buried in what is known as " the old graveyard," near the present Presbyterian

the slaves weie buried in a colored graveyard on the

ridge east of Che^^tnut

If the liistory of

preserving.

shall be as honorable as that of the past

:>

a feiiialo sh.vr, Sail

799

Church

',

Chestnut

at

Level,

of which church the

family have always been energetic and steadfast

farm.

mem-

I

Past and Present Compared.— In

tlie

year

I77i;

liers.

James and Lienor were: 1st, James, and Laliella Fleming (twins), born May 2."., 1801. .lames married Amelia F. McCuUough, March 8, ls:;2, and died May 31, 18()3. His widow still owns Tlie is.ue of

and disbursements, £43

17s.,

about

year 1882, a huiulred and ten years visors of

Drumore claim

ship has increased with

is

is

now

.•^2J||.

later,

for

Fm

tlie

the >iiper-

the township

Granting that the wealth of the tow

disbursements. ison

?')0(i-1.77

its

the hne old

n-

The first covers an estimate for what Drumore, Little Britain, and Fulton i. alloled by William Steele. WilSamui^l ilorris.m, and Thomas, 'larke,

ried

auditors.

The

(

latter includes oidy Drtiniore (.reseat,

Aument, Jidin Moore, anil Solomon Gregg, auditors. Among the names promiand

is

2l',,

with

mar-

1S71.

lown..bips, .ind

liam .Me.Vlier,

lives

l-abella

]S27, and die.l

Dee. 14, ,lohn King, April Her' .laughter, Ellen, married B. F. Sides, M.D,, and Jeaiinette married Sanders McCullough. I'lie tbiid child was Thomas Neel, born March 6, 1803, and died .March 28, 1820; the fourth wnsGresall,

startling. iMartic,

homestead farm, where she

her daughter Lizzie anil son Sander-,

requirements, the I'ompar-

attested by ICIias

born Oct. !

31, 1804,

married June

2,

Morrison, and died Dec. 31, 1850; the

is.'.l,

lifth

Samuel

was Eliza

;

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. Martha, born Sept. 12, 1806, married James Barnes .July iC, 1827, and died (M. 5, 1853; tlie sixtli cliild was Jolin McSparran, born July 15, 1808, of wliom we furnisli a sketch tlie seventh, Elenor Jean, born Feb. 15, 1810, whom James Barnes married after the Elenor died Sept. 22, deatli of liis first wife, Eliza. 1874. The eighth, Uachel Neel, born Feb. 4, 1812, died Aug. 28, 1819; the ninth, Margaret, born Dec. 8, 1813, who married William Steele; she died May The tenth, Samuel, was born Nov. 20, 1815, 27, ISC.ti. and accidentally shot by his brother James, Feb. 18, Next, the eleventh child was born, our subject, 1837. Fleming McSparran, Sejit. 12, 1817. The next birth was that of twins again, Thomas Neel and William,

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them, tha

;

born Kov.

20, 1820.

E.sq.,

who

,

^Mississippi Rivers

in agriculture for a year.

from Pittsburgh

to

New

The

Orleans.

Keturning to Lancaster County, traveling from Pittsburgh on horseback, he, with Amen Stubbs, April 4, 1840, entered the business of lumber dealer on the Susquehanna, at Barnes' saw-mill, now known as Benton Station, on the Columbia and Port Deposit Kailroad, under the firm-name of Stubbs & McSparran, in which business he continued two years, when, sullering from bad health, he sold out? the busiFor the year 1842 he was ness to James Barnes. tax collector

for

his district.

The

following April

lumber business at the same Thomas, as partner, where he remained until March 15, 1845, when he i)urchased the store property at Fairfield, wdiere he spent While in the lundier busithe remainder of his life. ness, he and Joseph Woodward were contractors for rebuilding the public road around Mitchell's Rock, near Benton. The road had been washed aw.ay previously by the ice and high water, but the new contractors were triumphant, and built a road that hiis borne the iloods and battering of ice for years, and still remains an example of honest worknumship he returned

to

the

place, with his brother,

thoroughly done, istic

— thoroughness

l>eing a character-

of Mr. iNIcSparran, arud one secret of his success.

Dec. 30, 1840, he married his estimable wife,

Mary

William Fleming, Dec. 13, 1857 Marion, Sept. 19, 1859 Edgar Lyons, June 18, 1861 Isabel King, June 16, 1863; Margaret Steele, May 15, 1866 and Anna Pusey, May 4, 1867. Edwin died Aug. 14, 1867 Mary, May 10, 1855 Margaret, Sept. 10, 1866; and Anna, March 28, 1871, and Death never touched a fairer blossom or a brighter promise! Emma married David AVeidley, Oct. 2, 1876, to whom one child was born Elizabeth McSparran to o the live only from .May 17, IS' 1856

9,

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;

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—

—

following. I

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James M. married Laura and

settled

on

liis

j

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Went

De.

Two

farm near his old

children have been born to

child,

where he was engaged

1847,

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I

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marriage.

following year he spent boating on the Ohio and

3,

;

;

abeth, April

sister of the wife

was born March 7, 1S27. Fleming was ten years old when his father died, and James Penny, who was appointed his guardian, apijrenticed him when he reached the age of sixteen to William Eves, of Chester County, Pa., for two and a half years, to learn " tlie art, trade, and mysteries of tanning." After serving his apprenticeship, he worked on the farm at home for his brother, James, for some time. About the year 1838 he went to Illinois,

being a daughter, born Oct.

first

whom they named Emma Housekeeper; next came James Mahlo'n, Dee. 23, 1848; Lydia Ellen, Jan. 21, 1850 Edwin Pusey, April 26, 1851 Samuel Cheyney, Oct. 28, 1852; Mary Alice, Nov. 27, 1854; Ida Eliz-

j

lived but a short time

William married again, his Josepli second wife being Marcilcna Williamson. was the fourteenth child, born June 26, 1823, and Rachel, the lilteeiith and last died July 24, 1834. her

i

William married Alice, daughter of

James Caldwell, after

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Thomas married Lydiann Pusey, of Fleming.

E. Pusey, daughter of Mahlou Pusey, Puseyville, Lancaster Co., and opened his store at Fairfield A large family was born to the following spring.

them,— Guy Fleming and

John Walter. Samuel C. married Floretta C. Cain, Dec. 29, 1880, and they have named their one child Elmer Cheyney. Tliey also have purchased a farm and settled almo?t

within sight of the roof-tree " at home." place, store

and farm,

married children,

is

The homeowned by three of the unF., wlm

—

— Lyilia, Ida, and William

conduct successfully the business so well established l)y their parents, the other three unmarried children making their home with them. Fleming IMcSparrau is another example of the success of tlie Scotch-Irish tact and energy, exercised with temperance and forethought and guided by Certainly

honesty.

is

it

man when

the surest e^^idence of no-

whom

is

thrown

into social and business contact increase their for him day by day, grow warmer in

rc-;prct

bility in

a

as life's sun goes

those with

down

he

the western sk\

days of mammon-w.n-liii man who, though his lii

:id

genius of self-denial and

man

a brother,

a

the

cided, anil that success ork,

though he be on the lowest round

ride in

gressive agriculturists of his time.

has

been a delegate to both county and State conventions, and in 187'J was one of the Democratic Presidential electors for his native State.

descend,ants of

donable

-

father,

spelled, emigrated to this country

,

j

I

from one

(jf

the

Rhenish provinces of Germany about the middle of the last century, and settled on the west bank of the Delaware, where his son John, father of Joiiu N., was born Dec. 12, 1765."

HISTOkV of LANCASTER COUNTY. In

Ann

1802,

John Russell was united

in

marriage

to

Neal, a daughter of Jolin Ncaj.a noted educator

man

and a

his day,

in

of broad culture and of fine

Of

literary tastes.

the only child. fanner, had but

this union John Ncal Kussell was His father being a bu.sy, energetic

little

tion of his son.

time to devote

to

tlie

His mother, however, wlm

educawa-^

a

woman

of rare force of character, with a

catu

devoted

vdiiili-

j'ul

ning.

IiohkI-

t

ing-i

Join eral

lili.ral

much time and attenticju tu his At an early age he was sent to a

was no system that did not receive at his hands a fair trial. If it failed there was an end of it. If it sucit, but freely gave the benefit\)f his experience to others, and urged a trial by them. F.very im)n(jvement in agricultural -maeliinery founil its way to his farm, and generally remained there if it possessed any advantage over the ceeded he not only adopted

cdii-

ool at Chester, Pa., conducted by his relatives, nd Samuel Gumnicre, where he remained sevyears, and during which time he received a .sub-

•In

the

manner

of his farming

seriipulously painstaking;

so

Mr. Russell was

much

so,

indeed, that

the jirotU in dollars and cents was not unfrequently

He

(aten up in time and labor.

held religiously to

stantial education.

If at

seemed

tlie

Ihrcslioldof

to lure biiu

liis life's

work

into tlie field

cided taste lor which

lie

ot'

iulierited,

his inclinations literature, a de-

other influences

and considerations were iHijielling him elsewhere. care, reb])onsibilily, and toil of breaking up and farm of four hundred acres confronted hinj. The .^iiuatiou teemed to admit i.if but one solution. He was to be a farmer. This decision once reached, he entered upon his

The

IS, f

alter a time, his tarin

the model farms of

ere

its fields

in all its itself

Lam

and pastures,

to

ter

County

lie

;

as

so fer-

well kept, so com-

ajjpointments; a

reward

the worknni

known

me

thus, too, in

was the

his declining

reclaiming a worn-out

Mr. Russell was one of the

first in

to esjiouse the anti-slavery cause.

his neighborhood His inherent love

of liberty, and hatred of oppression in every form,

would no doubt have made him an abolitionist under almost any circumstance but finding himself placed most interested him were those that treated of agri- as he was directly in the highway leading from slavery lie educated himself anew. What he read to freedom, and only a lew miles from the slave borculture, at night he put in practice through the day. der, liis convictions concerning the subject of slavery Much of llie farm in Duniiiore was at this time were necessarily intensified. to under water that is say, there were several streams In several instances slaves were captured in his running nearly its whole length, and the valleys of immediate neighborhood and remanded into bondage. tliese were nothing more than stagnant swamps. The In one- instance an escaped fugitive slave woman observant farmer saw in these the future garden-spots living in his father's family was stealthily caught, To reclaim tliese waste places was the tied, and carried away in broad daylight. Occurof the farm. work of loiii: years, but it was successfully accom- rences such as these seem to have established a strong plished. ^\'llcu it is known that thorough draining bond of sympathy between him and^the unfortunate requires ditches to be sunk not more than fifteen feet' colored race. His house became known as one of the Nut apart, and\ that these ditdies when dug have to be principal stations on the underground railroail. carefully laid with side and top stones and then filled unfrequently as many as twenty fugitives at a time in with snudler stones, and top-dressed, it will be were rested and fed upon bis premises, and afterwards comprehended what a careful system of underdrain- conveyed away in wagons. ing means. Fifty dollars an acre is the estimated From 1840 to 1850 Mr. Russell felt justified in decost of such thorough underdraining. clining to participate in State or national politics, In si)eaking of this work in atter-years, Mr. Tvusdeeming the machinery of government as being at sell said it had paid him belter than any other work that period operated directly in the interest of slalie had ever done on the farm and no one who w.ilks very, anil llierefore unworlliy of his support. From over that rich green sward now can well ilonbt it. urdeiil and earnest supporter IS.'.i; liirward he was .in iSIr. Kusscil was also a pioneer in other liranchcs of of the i.rineiples an.l measures of the Republican was of one lirsl agriculture. He tlie in Lis section party. to Use lime as a manure. Firmly convinced .,f its effiThe cause of To cacy, he embarked in it boldly and extensively when in John N. Ras.sell. anywhere than others doubted and hesitated. That the end fully unfortunate vii drink he was ever ready justified the means was obvious enough when, a few mpathy, and scarcely any s.i extend the war years afterwards, the fruits of the farm had been ingreat where there was rifice was dee creased many fold, the uplands and valleys bad been remotest chance of reclaiming the fallen. Against in of verdure, and clad a robe the debt created in the the rum traffic he never ceased to wage the most face of the doubting wiseacres to pay for the fertilizer determined warfare. Among the strongest traits of Mr. Kii.ssell's charHis was eminently an experimental fiinn. There acter were his strict integrity, his high regard for work, as he did in everything, with a stern i>ur))ose and unswerving resolution. The books that now

;

;

;

I

II

t

'.Ut,CC-y

DKUMOHE TOWNSIHP. and his fearless tidelily to duty, as li under all circumstances. To the li such as these was no doubt measure due the calm and jjeaceful close of In 1830, My. Russell was united in ma Amelia Kirk, daughter of Elisha Kirk, ol' She survived him \,u liam, Cecil Co., Md.

s.

trutli,

stood

it,

cise of qualities

having died Marcli

lime,

He

12, I.S77.

children as follows:

liim

Ki-o

i

Slater

li.,

left

t

ju^lici

Am

peace and conveyancer. West Chester, I'a X., intermarried with George H. Kirk, superiiiUudent of the

Whitney Car-Wheel Works,

I'lnla.Uiphia

;

Mary, intermarried with Jacoh T. W'hitMUi, fanner, Fulton township, Lancaster Co., Pa.; Rachel 11., intermarried with William M. Hayes, a niLnibei ot Gcoige the Chester County bar. West Cheslei Pa ,

11.,

Montana; an H inn ih m Elwood Snudley, lumu 1 nit n

stock-grower, Utica,

termarried

with

1

township, Lancaster Co., Pa.

LEA

Some time

P.

liUOW.V.

prior to the Revolution

brothers by the

name

land to America, and

wit three

ir\

of IJrown emigr ited from Ire settled,

it is

tlnjught, ui CliCilLr

County, Pa., where David Brown, the hi>t ot the ile scendants of whom anything definitt is known w Dl Iih born on the ISth day of Decembei 17 )b children, James Brown, the father of our subjeit « i-.

i

born

in

Chester County, Pa., Jan. 2u

Brown married Diana Allen, who was 1757.

17'I2 b(

Their children were Allen, David

in

I)

M

im

ireli

lobn "mi

I

s il

is In James, Mercer, William, Jane, and Geoigt David emigrated with his family to Drunion liun ]

ship,

in

Lancaster Co., and bought loui

,

liundud

which is now owned Brown and Robert Evans, on which April 21, 1843. His wife passed away M ly

acres of land, part of

liam A.

bv \\ d In.

died

22, 1S48

James Brown, Svho was born in Chester Count), is above set forth, grew to manhood on the Drumore farm, and married Ann D. Pusey, who wis bom m Drumore, Jan. 30, 1706. The Puseys are an old Lancaster family, and came originally from England.

On

j

j

the death of his father (Daviil Brown), he received

will the farm of one hundred and fifty-seven now owned and resided upon by Lea P. I'rown. James carried on farming, as liad his ancestor-, bildie

by

acres,

He was

a Quaker, as was his wife by birtbHe died Nov. 10, 1852, Mr.s. Brown Nov. 4, His children were John, born Feb. 3, 181G; Lea P., Sept. 28, 1817; Samuel P., June 3, IXID; .Maiy D., D.c. 1, ISj:,; James A., I'Vb. 1(1, 1.S21 Emily, .Ian. 11, l.Si;7; and David, Nov. l.'r. I.Sl'8. Of these all are living but Samuel, Allen, and lanilv. On the home-farm Lea P. grew to manh.M.d, ..btaiiiing such education as could be ac(|uiriMl by a few

him.

riglit.

1853.

,

;

.

months' attendance Arrived at

account by

liis

at tiie district soiiools

majority, be started in

working part of

his

life

of bis time.

on his

father's

own

farm on

'

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

S04

where he died in 1792. His son, Thomas Patterson, was horn in 1705, and died Aug. Tliomas married Mary Tannyhill, and re25, 1828. sided on the farm liis father had owned, wliere their children Rebecca, Elizabeth, Samuel, Nathan, JIary, Margaret, Thomas', James, and Jane we e born. )f these, Thomas, the father of Miss Brow 1, was burn Feb. 13, 1700, and died July 30, 1857. He married Hannah AV. Pusey, Feb. 11, 1820. She v IS born Jan. To the were born 9, 1804, and died Jan. 26, 184S. seven children, namely, Ashmore, John L., Thomas M., Maria M., Elizabeth P., James H., and Samuel Of the PatterE., all of wliom are living but two. son family, one was Gen. Thomas Patterson, who led a force to the assistance of Gen. Hull during the siege of Detroit in the war of 1812, but did not arrive Britain,

Little

The

in time to prevent its surrender to the British.

general was also a brother John,

who

member

of Congress,

was

iis

his

represented a district in Ohio, ami

was for many years an associate judge in Belmunt County in the last-named State. To Mr. and Mrs. Lea P. Brown have been born three sons, viz., James H., born Aug. 9, 1854, died April 19, 1855; Thomas W., born Sept. 26, 1856, married Nov. 2S, 1882, to Miss Georgie A. Paxson and James E., born July 8, ;

found their way This honor belongs to Hans

until 1717 that pioneers

Earl township.

Graaf, a Swi.ss refugee, I

in

16%, and

after

who

arrived in Pennsylvania

remaining

for

some years

vicinity of Philadelphia first located in the

Valley.

A'hile in

fiiUMil his

way

into

jjursiiit

what

of his strayed horses he

familiarly

is

known

as Groft''s

within the limits of West Earl township. Pleased with the country, he had his wife, children,

Thai,

I

and chattels conveyed thither, and located on the stream now called Groff's Run, where he soon after took up land.^

man of more than ordinary was the principal person in the

This Hans Graaf was a

'

force of character; he

new settlement that sprung up around him, even to the time of his death, iu 1746; his name fre(iuently occurs in

the colonial records; he was one of the persons

named

to lay nut tile

"King's High Road," from Lan-

Along with many

caster to I'liihuleli.liia, in 1733.

others he was naturalized on Oct. 14, 1729, in the

He had already and when in that year the was organized the citizens honored both themselves and him in giving his name, Graaf, in its English equivalent. Earl, to the new district. The third year

nl'

the reign of George

II.

built a mill j.rior to 1729,

town.ship

foundation stones of the cabin he built

1865.

in the

Pcquea

I


elf did not sell in small quantities, but those towriship; he ami the c instable already named are who bought large tracts resold to others. The price the first township ot!i, er- of whom there remains any estalilished was about ten cents per acre, with a small record. quit-rent.- It is hardly necessary to say none is to be Township Divided.— For a period of one hundred lia.l heie at that price now. As the Palatinate was an lately sold and the mill building torn

lie

vania's choice for the Presidency in 1844.

18r)4

There as

Creek there are two, Bruhaker's, formerly Horst's, and the other, once Rein's, Roland's, Swope'.s, Neff's, and now Hoober's; these have als,, saw-mills belonging to them. The sixth ;iii>l last is Martin's, located on the fine stream known a- Martin's Spring. There

;

in

these are on the Conestoga and have saw-

known

'stream

of the convention that revised the State Constitution

was a member of the State Senate in ISlo, and was Speaker of that body in 1842 he was president of the great Whig meeting held at Lancaster in July, 1843, which proclaimed Henry Clay Pennsyl-

all

mils attaehed.

and Schuylkill Counties, and attorney-general of the State from 18IG to 1S19, and again attorney in 1828. In 1S32 he was the Anti->rasonic candidate for the Vice-Presidency, and a formidable competitor of

in 183(J;

811

and now Martin's; Sensenig's, now Bear's;

ner's,

New

Holland. with alinted

to

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY, located here in 1728).

In the same year an attempt

dwelling,

tself a

very old building,

— we cannot

go

to lay out the town of New Holland regufar astray in nnirking that as the spot whereon stood one of the first three houses, built about the same Twenty-five lots were surveyed oil' this tract, eacli one with a front of five and a depth of twentytime, hf the present town of New Holland. The one perches, subject to an annual ground-rent of- second well in this place was dug by a Mr. Brant at Before these wells were seven shillings. Doubtless those who had already the lower end of the town.

was made

'larly.

built houses along the .sinuous streets were unwilling to

conform

to the

new demand

.settlement

this is

it

name was

uncertain

;

bore the

lost

it

and regularauthority,

For many years

building progressed as before. its

for order

of compulsory

the absence

and, in

ity,

name

and that of

of Earltown.

New

after

When

but Hol-

to 1703, or perhaps later,

it was called New Its first name, Earltown, was derived from its having been the first as well as most important town Its .second name, New Design, was perhaps in Earl.' conferred uiion it when it was surveyed and laid out in 17C0. This name does iiot seem to have rnet with much favor, as it was soon lost and its jiresent one Nothing is definitely known whence came given. the name of New Holland. Its location is on the New Ilnlland turn pike, thir-

at the time of the Revolution

land.

teen miles in a northeast direction It

lies

to

Iroiii

Lancaster.

continuously on both sides of this road

lor

The New

Holi-.-vnd

tliere

is

— In

the

nothing more

permanently establish an English and German Fortunately, the record-book

scho authorized by an act of the General As.sembly, pa-^ed on May 20, 1767, to

to

the year 174G.

at the first

On May 18, 1744, John, Thomas, and Richard Penn, the then proprietors of Pennsylvania, conveyed to George Swope, Wendle Swecker, John Burger, Nathaniel Lightner, and Jlichae! Rein, by letters tion,

j

the close of

the present time.

stands on the northern side of the town.

Various prove that the entry was made by the Rev. John Casper Stoever, who served this congregation and one at Muddy Creek conmuinic^nts

to

patent, four acres of land for the use of the cotigrega-

entry in ihi^ record, and bears date of 1730.

until

;

1SG4

H.asslcr,

church goes back as far as May 1, 1730, which, it will be .remembered, was only two years after this town was founded. John Baltha.-ar Wundrich, son of Matthias \Vumlrich and hi.-, wil'e, is tlie first baptismal concurring circumstances go

Mr. Filbert, and served a short time, and died Au2'Jth of the same year; Rev. Charles Reutze, 1823-25; Rev. John W. Richards, 1825-34 (at this time there were under hi= charge the congregations of Bergstras.s, Muddy Creek, and Allegheny); Rev. C. F. Welden, 1834-38; Rev. W. F. Lehman, 1842 (he served for a few months only) Rev. John C. Barnitz, 1843-18; Rev. John Kohler, 1S50-64; Rev. John W.

gust

Holland.

raise the !

sum

of ,£499

19.ehmidl full., wed him.

In 1771 the Kev. John (iohreeht entered upon the pastorate, and held it nine years.

The ehureh was supplied occasionally until in 178G, when a Rev. Mr. Hautz became their jiastor and served until 178S. Rev. John Christian Wilhelms assumed charge in 1789, and served until 1802; Rev.

when

\\:
urt of Common Pleas. The sons and daughters of Henry Carpenter married and settled around him. Dr. Heiiiy

Henry /iuimerinan

children, of wliom

(or

were

Cari>enter, of Lancaster,

is

of the

fifth

generation

from Henry Carpenter, the original settler. The deSoon after the settlement scenilants are numerous. of Henry Carpenter in this section other families came in, among whom are theScliaeffers, Rifes, Mmiimas, Johns, Carvers, Kafroths, and

many

otliers,

who

settled in dillcrent parts of the township.

Mills.— West Earl boasta of having had within her bounds one oi' the first, and perhaps the first mill erected in Lancaster County. This stood on the south side of the Conestoga, right at the point where the Cocalico unites

Sollur, April, 1800.

E/.lii liuikh..liliT, |

1843.

1.1,

became

here given ,

Apiil 14, 1840.

—

Early Settlers. The first settler in what is now West I'-arl township was Hans Graaf. He was a refugee from Switzerland, and about 1G9G emigrated

the 18th of August, the

was presented

"we have viewed of opinion

Reigart, and Chis-

examine

comniittei; to

On

and report. their report

Adam

its

waters with that stream

;

it

was made a corner of Warwick township when that district was organized in 1720, and only through tliat fact has its existence been preserved from utter obHow long it was there prior to that date is livion.

|

Ruilolph Kriiiikhuuse, 1S78.

1850. I

Ezra Burkl.oWer, April

IB, 1851.

K.

11.

MM.

Julin

unknown.

A

visit to

1'.

LIoIj, 1SS3.

in a verification of the

\

Ituubuci K. Uilnur, April 14, 1803.

ists as |

the spot (Aug. 29, 187(1) resulted

inirkliul.l.T, IH8-J.

|

L. E. lluikliul.liT, A|>ril 24,

distinctly

record; the mill-race

and plainly

as

it

still

ex-

did one hundred

WEST EARL TOWNSHIP. and

fifty-four years ago,

memory

although no

some reason the people of

or tra-

this section did not see

fit

|

dition of

An

the spot.

among

has survived

it

and mentions

also found,

to accept the provisions of the school

I

1834, and

Hans

Graaf, the

and speaks had even then disapthese town-

lished that the people of to accept the* provisions

The

;

total

amount of money

to ten districts, the

dred.

i

—

;

it

j

i

hills

rippling

waters of the Coiiestoga, over whose bosom they once glided, are their only requiem.

Round

their

mute bhnuos

Is

liugerillg;

sources

is

still

continued.

In connection with

in

it,

Burkholder and W. J. Kaforth established newspaper called The West Earl Banner, which was discontinued in 1877. In the next year, E. H. Burkholder and M. S. Weber started The Guidlmj Star, a a

i

I

"And \vlio were they, tlio double dead? Now o'er them wiives oblivious sing; No boding trace of glory fled

all

1874, E. H.

and [

The

it.

of money received from

of Farmersville is situated on the Lanand Hinkletown road. The fir-t hou-e was A post-otEce was esbuilt in 1843, by Eckert Myers. tablished in 1855, at which time the village took its name. Dr. C. F. Groff was appointed postmaster, and served till about ISGO, when S. M. Seldomridge, the present postmaster, was appointed. In 1847, E. Bnrkholdcr cq.ened a printing-office,

which

camp-fires of the race that quietly

once burned brightly on the

The amount

caster

;

The

raised for school purposes

West Earl. The village

|

located.

the valleys that are lying around

estab-

compelled

At that time

was $5443, the amount expended was §5100.40. The township contains three villages and several hamlets,— Farmersville, Brownstown, Earlville, and

}

;

forest trees.

felt

In 1882 the districts had been increased number of pupils were five hun-

was §1919.39.

Grolf's

in

the law.

j

estoga.

sleep beneath

township

f

town liable for ta.xation township was divided into eight school districts, and in 1855 there were four hundred and seventeen pupils.

—

Churches. Ihere are lour churches in the township: one at Brownstown, denominated Evangelical Carpenter's, a Union and two Mennonite, one at Metzler's, and the other in Groff's Dale. Quite close to Henry B. Graybill's mill there is an It is on a hill of some ancient Indian burial-place. elevation, and was formerly overshadowed by lofty

is

(

there were five hundred an d tnity-five taxubles in the

was the builder and owner of this early mill. West Earl contains six grist-mills within her boundsave one, with a saw-mill attached, H. B. Grabill's, Wolfs (now ^Venger's), JIartin's, and Burkthese are all on the ConOn Groffs Run are two more, Abraham and Abraham Martin's, and also a saw-mill owned by Benjamin Sheafter. There are likewise two woolen-factories in the township, John K. Zook's, on the Cocalico, and .Jacob Musselman's, on Groff's Run this latter is an ancient and rather imposing structure, bulk near the place where Hans Graaf first

tl

j

ships,

holder's (formerly Bitzer's)

become

|

first settler in

aries, each,

law passed in

jireferred the old system.

In 184? the |)ublic school liad so far

as a mill-site,

it

of the mill-race, but the mill

peared.

those wlio live near

ancient deed, covering the spot, was

W

J. Mr. Weber retired in 1879, Kafroth purchasing his interest. The paper is now published by Burkholder & Kafroth. In 1880, M. S. Weber opened a printing-office and started a paper called The Matrimonial Times, which still continues, under the name of The Matrimonial

religious paper.

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1

.

The graveyard connected with Carpenter's Church much older than the building itself, and the ground was donated for burial purposes by a person named Casson, and was made free to all denominations. Henry Landis, one of the sons-in-law of Hans

The town is supplied with an abundance of water from a well situated on a hill northeast from the town, and which is brought down in pipes. Brownstown, in lioint of size and importance, is

Graaf, on Jan. 17, 1775, gave one acre of land for

direct mail-route between

the purposes of a burying-ground to certain persons,

was put up many years ago, since which time the place has progressed steadily. A post-ofiice was established about 1860. A. K.

is

in trust, for their

for ever.

This

was so used

is

use and that of the neighborhood the graveyard in Groff's Dale, and

many

years prior to

its

conveyance by

the deed of trust.

—The

known

have been taught in what is now West Earl township, was soon John Carpenter lived after the Revolutionary war. near the present site of Bolmerstown, and taught the Shortly afschool in his own house for many years. terwards a log school-house was built at Bolmerstown, another at David Martin's, and a third at Kemper's, on the Conestoga. These were the earliest West Eail schools, and, like all the rest, were built by the vol^Schools were trihutions of- the citizens. untary kept in the manner mentioned above until 1847. KmSchools.

(

first

school

to

Jieriew.

the second town in

Reading.

The

Homberger

is

first

West

Earl.

It is located

on the

Lancaster, Fairville, and

Ijuil.iing

the |)rescnt |)ostmaster.

The town contains two dry-goods stores, two blacksmith-shops, one carpenter-shop, one hotel, one tailorshop, one saddle- and harness-maker, one cigar manufactory,

one

btitclier-sho|i,

one wagon-maker, one shoe-

shop, two school-hinises, one Evangelical Church, to which there is belonging a grove, in which camp-

meetings have been annually held

A.moeting-1

for a

long series of

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. A

town. i.rosiMit

flniir-iiiill

was

years

mvci;iI

villa-i'

erocteil

on

tlie

before

site

ISOfl.

tlio

cif

It

was

ehildren, of

whom

ten attained adult age,

.Michael (deceased), Joel,

C.abriel,

viz.,

Marks,

Menno, Jlartha Maria (wlio

iwh.. inanicd Levi (irolf, of We.st Earl),

nianied Cliii-tian McUinger, lull.

Isaac Carpenter kept a tavern at 18:20 anil

Wlien

18:iG.

from Earl,

in

Earlville.

It

18;'13,

[ilacc

tlie

townsliip was separated

tlie

the i)lace assumed the

now contains

between

name

of

store, hotel, mill, selio.,1

ii

two carriage-sliojis, blacksniithand a cluircli (Carpenter's Union). In 1824 the Carpenter Church was erected of stone, house,

sli.ie---liop,

sliop, ciirar-lactorv,

and

for the use of Christians of all

Services are held bv the Lutheran,

.V little

what used

hamlet has L'rown

be known years

aiio a.

the old Reading road.

West

denominations.

German Reformed,

Earl.

The

•

Form The

\\'est l^arl

kepi

i

bv Jacob L. Erb.

(who

ol'

Strasburg township),

wHe

of Henjamiir West(who niarMover, of Strasburg), and Fanny (wh., marrie.l lleiijamin B. Grolf, of East Lampeter). Marks Wenger re.^i.b's in Leacock township, Gabriel, in West Lampeter, and Mennft, in Lancaster. .1.1. Wenger was born on his father's homestead, His earlier years in West Earl, on March 8, 1825. were [la.sscd upon the paternal farm and in attendance upon the district schools of the neighborhood. At the age of nineteen he went to learn the milling business with Jacob AVolf, at West Earl, on the site of his After a few weeks spent at that point liresent mill.

.^ii-;u.na,

oP

r,

ne.l

Imm:,iii,.

Wavne

li.Mijaiiiin

the

C.iinly.dliio), Elizabeth

1».

I

he entered the mill of his uncle, Daniel Groff, at Mill Creek, Leacock t'.wiiship, aii.l remained there until At that time the the death of his father, in 1S47. paternal farm was divi.le.l, his brother Michael rethe larm and Joel the other. Michael died at the early age of thirty-five. Joel continued to resi.k- .m and cultivate his farm until 1862, wdien he .li-poscd .d' it to Benjamin D. Moyer, and purchased the mill-pr.iperty of Jacob Wolf at West Earl, where he has since continued in the millAt the time of the purchase of the ing business. mill it was run on the old process of grinding with

ceiving one part .d

BIOORAPHICAL SKETCH. JOIOL WKXtiEK.

The

original ancestor of the

Wenger

fomily in this

country was Christian Wenger, or Winger, as

name was then

tlie

spelled, wdio emigrated from Switzer-

land to Americii about the year 1727.

On June

10,

him by John, Thomas, and Richard I'enn, two hundred and eighty-nine acres of land, in what was then Earl township (now West 1741, he had deeded to

I'^arl),

the consiect. He married Elizabeth, (laughter of Marks Grotf, and had a family of twelve

supported with

his I'amily during his lifetime.

was remodeled into a

grinding one hundred barrels of flour in twenty-four While a large amount of domestic grinding hours.

forty-foiir

I

it

of the best equifiped and finest mill-

properties in Lancaster County, having a capacity of

is

confined to the

other point*.

The

" l',rown>town

Mills," -

principal brands are

and "CI.! l»u.t,"'the i„lr...lu.-c.l

Wcii-cr

the

uii.b^r

a. In, ill,

partii._r~liip J., el

'.1

uith

bis

the eiiltivalion

..f

I'.uv

i..ller --.HI,

In i^

.1

.as

the linn

is

18S:!,

Mr.

Wenger,

int.)

In

-yst.-m.

a.i.iiti.iu U,

having been

n.,w

known

as

his milling oper-

engageii ipiite extensively in

t.d.aceo.

ndii-i

l.n.n.ls

(Mayt..n S.

He

to the niaiiM-jiiiient of his

always

known

the Best," " I'eerless,"

la^t 'tw..

liiiii, aii.l

Wenger .t S.,n. Mr Wenger

ations,

work

mercliant trade, large

of flour being shipped to Philadelphia and

has confined his

own

life-

jirivate concerns,

to a.-ccpt imlilic oUice.

He

has

movements tending improvement of his native county, and been in general sympathy witii the various evanHis personal honor gelical institutions of liis time. and integrity have never been called into question. He maj-ricd, in 1.848, Anna JL Swarr, daughter ol Martin and Elizabeth Mellinger, of East Hempfiel.l townshif), and has had seven children, of whom five to

a liberal lian.l all

the material

Clayton S., Lizzie (wife of Amos East Lampeter), Susan (wife of Clarence V. Lichtey, of Lancaster), A. Lincoln, and Alice

are living, viz.: Staufl'er, of

EDKN TOWNSHIP. Wenfe

1,

1842.

Hensel was continued until

when the junior member purchased

the entire

Mr. Haines in the business and building, having previously bought Jeremiah B. Haines' share Subsequently 'Sh-. Hensel admitted to

interest of

of the realty.

partnershii) for a term of years his l)rotlicr-in-law,

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. Henry L.

and

Uliler,

at different times his son, L. T.

Hensel, and son-in-law, G. J. P. Rant, finally

posing of his entire interest

him and

hardware

&

hiisi-

now

anutlier son,

ceased, of Charles C. Hensel

M.

Soulier.

More

recently a neat Methodist Church,

attiiched to the Fulton circuit, has been erected in the

the lattrr, ami {giving

to

his attention to the direction of the

ness establislied by

dis-

de-

Besides these

Co.

mercantile interests, stores have been established and

kept in the mean time by D. D. Hess, Renjamin Witmer, C. H. Geiger, Shant, and others, thongh the houses founded by Messrs. Hun-el alone have continued.

led also to the erection

Ii eil-ase

within late years of tuo .school-houses for the accommodation of a graded i)ublic school and the general growth of the village ami of its busifless importance establishment of the have been acc( ;

iollow village im-

local Industrie

provement, un

of one thousand or

more within

radius from

tl

its

cen-

Aforetime whiskey was freely used by the quarry-

men and

teamsters.

was sold

It

in large (luanlilies

in the store, and extensive purchasers were liberally " treated." Up to 1848 there was no tavern in Quarryville,

— as indeed

there was neither post-office, black-

But the event which gave

tlie

greatest impetus to

Quarryville was the construction of the railroad from

Lancaster to that point some years ago and

smith-shop, nor other essential of a country village,

nection with the Reading system (for a

except "the store."

of which see Internal

Haines

Rut when,

in the fdl of 1847,

&

Hensel built theirstone store building (now & Co.), the old frame store up as a house of public enlerLiiiiiueiit, without a bar, by George Shaub, tailor. In is:,l, James C. Ewing and .Jarol, N,li; pmrhaser, of the property, applied for a tavern lireii>e, whieh arou-ed a storm of opposition ironi the inerea-iug temperaiiee sentiment of the community, more I'-peeially among

Improvements).

its

con-

full history

Since the

occupied by C. C. Hensel

completion of this enterprise the village has rapidly increased in population and importance. It has be-

was

come

fitted

who

the residents of the lower 'end, sale of liquor at the plaee

to the

.,l.jecled

where their teain-ters and

other employees were eoiupelled to report.

In \sr,I

was obtained, and has never been lost to this hotel, while two others have since been li.ea-id. In 1837, Ur. Haines gave the name " Jiiai ly ville" lieun-,e

(

to the place in his application

of a

po.st-office,

which was

for the e-.talilidiiiient

lnnvevei

not,

gianted

,

had been Xew Providence and Spring Grove, with weekly mails. Until ISol there was no eliureh within three miles of Quarryvvjle, and no .'t otiiees

su|iplied

house, a mile distant,

lint

on

.liine

l',

ISM,

a lew

ol

the friends of religion, morality, and good order met at the house of

George W.

energy ami devotion pastor of

the

ol'

Ileiisel, ai

Kev.

IC.

A.

I

I

Gerjnan Reformed L

l.y

the

lis,

llien

at

New

Providence, took steps for the organization of a eongregation of this faith and the erection ol' a ehnreh edifice in the village.

On August

Kith of that year

the corner-stone of St. Paul's was laid, and Feb. 29, 1852,

it

was dedicated, and the congregation,

consist-

ing of some thirty members, organized by the election of Daniel Lefever, Peter Bush, Daniel Lumillicart, elders;

John Jlourer, Jacob Amnent, Henry Penny-

the outlet for the trade of a large portion of the

and passenger busiWithin the past year a bank, called the (^larryville National Bank, ou-,ind dollars, has been orwith a cajiital i'\' > lower end, and the freight iie-s

liom this point

i-

Irallie

very heavy.

1~

e

huilding for

its

pur-

lepaiatorv to the beginning

ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP. Christian and Samuel, two of ers

and

distillers

partners erally,

till

tlie sons, were farmon the old place, and they remained The members of the fumily, gen-

1SG7.

have maintained the charatter of honest,

in-

dustrious, substantial citizens.

The

following

is

a

list

of the justices of the peace

township of Eden since its organization J. Robert Evans, Henry H. Breneman, ISoo Harding Gilbert, Hardy Lovett, JSliO; Daniel D. Hess, ISCl; Robert Evans, 18G4; J. H. Gilbert,

in the

:

;

L.Thompson, 1870; J. H. Gilbert, Tilghman L. Thompson, 1874; J. H. Gilbert, 1879; Tilghman L. Thompson, 1880. Of the men and tamilies that were residents of what is now Eden township early in the ))ri'sent century the following are remembered The Barrs, who were quite numerous and owned much real estate. But two families remain. The Montgomery family, still represented by three 1865; IJobert Evans, 18G9; Tilghman

:

brothers

owning adjacent farms, wliich are

in a

high

state of cultivation.

The Risk family was prominent, but

it is

not

now

represented here.

The Eckmans are not as numerous as formerly. The Bushongs were well-known Eriends, as were

the

whose families still have representOthers were here at that perioil whose

Gilberts, both of atives here.

names cannot be

recalled.

the country, and great-grandfather of Hon. G. D.

Coleman, deceased, of Lebanon, is said to have named The area of the honor of Queen Elizabeth. it in township was formerly, when it included Clay, 25,521 Since its division from Clay it has 9921 acres. acres. Its population in 1880 was 1045. The surface of the township is hilly, and the soil is a limestone loam, gravel, and sandy red shale.

Hammer

Creek,

its

principal stream, traverses the

township in a southeasterly direction. It derived its name from the forge-hammers which were erected on It has a fall of about fifteen feet it at an early day. to a mile, and furnishes a splendid motor for the mills

Middle Creek forms the dividing line its banks. between Elizabeth and Clay townships. The princii)al element in the population of the township is German, called Penn.sylvania Dutch, an

on

industrious, economical

class.

Ne.xt to agriculture,

the manufacture of iron formed for

many

years the

Hopewell and Speedwell Forges and Elizabeth Furnace were located in this township, but they have not been in operation since 1857. The principal causes of their close were the dullness of the times and their distance from the railroad, necessitating the hanling on wagons over long distances of all the raw material and manufactured products.

chief industry.

They remain as witnesses to future generations of how industries may be changed by changing the means of transportation. Farming and stock-raising are now the principal industries.

The

staple crops are wheat, corn, oats,

and tobficco, and of these the soil produces well under The a thorough and practical system of cultivation. well-known Speedwell and Elizabeth stock-farms are

CHAPTER LIV ELI/.ABETII

829

TOWNSHIl

located in this township.

was organized in 1757. Its " Beginning at the land of original boundari Joseph Cratzer, bounding upon Heidelberg townshi]), Lebanon C; thence by the same to C'ocalico townthence by Cocalico to Warwick; thence by ship the same to the place of beginning." The boundary between Warwick and IClizabeth was not accurately defined, and disputes arose amimg the iiibabitants along this boundary as to which township had the right to tax them for the support In 1700 of the ])oor and the maintenance of roads. a meeting of the inhabitants of the two townships was held, at which it was determined to petition the court to settle this line, and to include a larger area in the township of Elizabeth. A commi.s.sioii was appointed to run this line, and it was so changed as El,IZ.\I!ETH tov

:

The

f pioper to ^tate here that of the number of houses built in that locality from 1750 to 1780 there are C|uite a nnmlier yet standing and in good condition, .\moiig them may be mentioned the one in which Amos ivonigmacher now lives, and the ones oeenpied by Israel Erb, IL Jlellinger, lrr,.k.l.fn-I.yci.Ttif.vtlmttl.ef..ll..«int'is.il,iK.|i»l..ftheNames

,

of ta.xable

^„„|

ur

^„„^,„„„ „r

Aiii.iu.it:, .n

..t

s„,|, ,„.,.,„„ „.|,u i,av,.

Aik-i.u.T

ni..i

i.,ic,.i,

I'iJi-ihty

i..

an.i suhscHle.l

ton-

me,

.i:.

the Oatii

.liu-cted b.v

an

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

riiilii.

JoIni

,l..c„bSI,enkle.

li:

rg,- linint-r.

Laol Kiitzenniyer.

EPHIIATA TOWNSHIP. Brother

1,

Amos (John Mylin)

;

•

Shontz;

Brotlier Eleiizer; 4, Brother

3,

Bi

2,

Tarbc lirollier

0,

Brother Agabus 7, Brother riiilemon 9, Brother Jemini 10, Brotlier Gidron; 11, Brother Natlianiel 12, ISrother Kenon 1-',, Brother 13, Brother Kiipinus; 14, Brother Saliiia

Shabia;

G,

;

Brother Jonathan

8,

;

;

;

;

;

;

10, Brotlier Laiacek

17, Brother 1, Mother Maria; 2, SisBugenia; 3, Sister Kathura 4, Sister Anestatia; Sister Ruclina; G, Sister Europina 7, Sister Va-

Javado; IS, Brother Maearines; and

•

;

ter 5,

)l)eil

'

;

;

;

Sister xVshanasia;

silla;

8,

Sister

Sophia;

13,

Jael

Sister

Rachel;

11, Sister

10, Sister

Melania;

Sister

Sister Constantia; 10,

Hanna;

19, Sister

12, Sister

Iphigania;

Sister

14,

;

9,

Catharina;

Sister

Tenobia

17, Sister

Zernia;

Sarah;

15,

18.

;

20, Sister Glaii-

dina; 21, Sister Eufasix.

was made hetux-en Samuel Ephrata, of the first part, and John Adam Kolp, Isaac Sensemer, John Martin, and Christian Ecstein, of Ephrata, trustees, of the second part, and 1, Hans Miley; 2, Jacob Meyer; 3, Henry Hocker 4,LudwiK Iloeker; 5, John Kypal; 0, Jacob Eicker; 7, Christian Luther; 8, Martin Funk; 9, Samuel Funk; 10, Peter Miller; 11, Jacob Funk; 12, George Miller; l.", Christian Rep; 14, Mun-in Graff; i:., Maiiiii Kroll and 1, Maiy 10, John Kelp, of Kplirata, yionu-a Eanderf; I, Kicker; 2, Barbara Meyur 3, Mary Feb.

1770, a trijjartite

3,

Eckerline, M.D.,

ol'

ilenry Sangniaster,

;

;

;

;

Ilaniiah Lichten

Mkillliil in thi, ornamental writing. .lre^s adopli-d bv Fried^ani for the brethren The and sifters of Ephrata was i„-a,ly tlie same as that Tli.y W(jre a cowl and gown of the Capuchin..

•Zenobia"

of wdiite,— linen in siimmrr, woolen in winter. The cowl of the sisters dillen-d a little from that of the brethren, and, as a matter

ul'

petticoat in place of tiow^crs

kind of gown, an.

I

the

/ii,i/.

;

course, they wore the

but they wore the same enseinbk'oi the dress of

both sexes was so nearly the same that the diHerence between monk and nun could hardly be discovered at a little distance.

'Both brothers and sisters went the weath.-r was to.) c.ld.

barefooted, exrept wli.

ii

the .Agapasor love- Ica-ls.

The building

••

Kcdar"

w:

the use of the brethren or iim

and much larger building w: named "Bethania." Cnniu-i ied meeting-room siiilirienll\ modate the wdiole suciety lor use

it

superseded the build

the Saturday meetings cmiti all

the years of the

Bethania and

in

its

,~elf

tered several smaller biiiklii

i.lonlinarydrinkiinong them be

schoid-housc,' prinling-ollice, ainnonry, bakery, others, used for dilleivnt purposes

The houses Bethania ami lively

an Jxcelleiit

.socict;

iinmed

by the brethren and

riar.i

sister^

were

.if w..o,l, a:

best skille.l

am

'

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

840 and even the

During

sisters often assisted in the labor at that

But after a short time they procured oxen and perform this worIainted the fidlowing inscription:

of age.

'

of the owners of the land upon whieh the hamlet is situated. in building a town, and when the place

j

!

to assume the dignity of a village a few of the inhabitants met ac the village tavern to fix upon a name, and finally selected that of New ]!erlin, by

began

1

j

whieh

it

has since been known.

Akron

,

a small hamlet and railroad station on Columbia Railroad. Here is a post-

is

the Reading and

|

oHice, store, etc., with a population of three

'

Valuation of

and twenty-five.

,

hundred

estate, :iMy-

lor 5 -liilliiig,,, the 7lh

Feb, -7,

the sexton's

Tbe eeiuelery adjoiniug the church is the restingmany of (lie piominent citizen,- of the Mir-

the purpo-e of

(!e(uge

Mary Klizabeth, gave a deed two acres .,f ground for two pounds len sbillini.;to Andrew Kweigart and Conrad Hreiiei-ei, in tniM. "for the proiier u-e ami behoof of the members of

loeeliier with

place of

church and calling a niinist. r. Then comes tbe 'Cbiiich I'.o.ik (recm-d) for the congiegati.m in E.arlingsDown, «hieh the .same has purelia,ed Oil

ilollais,

;

building a

trea-iii y

ihou-^aiid

Oberliii,

Uudolpb Hreneisen. of iuiek, and valued

is

fraiikford.

one hundred. Bergstrass Church.— The first notice of the church an article m

Boyer, George A. Trabert, C. A. Felzer, and E. Brownmiller, the present pastor. Present member-

leading

its

We

Lincoln Salem Church. —This is a Liillieran organand the house of worship built as a I'uion Reformed and Lutlieran Church. The fir.,l c.m^;regation was organized in February, ls52, and in ilie

S.

a road

Downingtown turnpike over hence

S. R.

John F. Engle, for a brief John W. Richards,

J. II. Umbeiilieii. the present pastor.

The

Peter

Tbcphilus Engel-

US; R. S. Wagner, lS(;9-73; 8. S. Henry, 1873-82;

,

of worship.

Slriner,

.I..lin

1825-34; S. Truuibaur, 1835-56; D. P. Rosenmiller, 185G-5S; G. :\I. Mertz, 1858-5!!; S. R. Boyer, 1859-

ization,

John

handsome

the

tci

present used by the congre-

at

pastor wu.

period; Charles Riitze, 1823-25;

years ago.

Trustees,

first

Peter Filbert, 1813-23; '

At each of the al)ove-named places of worship are cemeteries, each of which has been occupied a-> a Tlie land tinburial-place for over a hundred years. the cemetery at Royer's was donated by .\nio. l;,.yer, of the remains of and the first interment was that

spring of 1853 the

Tlie

it

;

gave way

l.S-iS

;

'

the same day, therefore

Michael Pfoutz, a, near as can be a-eerlained the inscription on t..mb.toue one hundred and

in

;

giving the membership an opportunity of attending

each

and

was a stood nearly a hun-

loud, from 175.3 until 17'.s J,, |,,i tiamuel Swerdfeger, from 1758-U3; William Kurt/., 17(i3-81 John Daniel iMederieli Mel.sheimer, 1785-90; Ifeinrich ]\[oeller, 17'.)I)-'J8; John Plitt, 1798-1813;

services are so arranged that they are

held at no two points U|)on

situate, lying,

'

I_m-

Schneter, 1781-S4; j

the

at the latter place.

issaul to

built al)ont the year 1753,

on the hillside

edifice

'

Springville, with

laii.l

lirst cliureli,

log edifice, weather-l)oarded

barns of some of the

members. Steinmetz Meeting also belongs to the West Conestoga District, and is situated we:,t Irom Ephrata village, on tiie line of the Reading and Columbia Railroad. The meeting-house at this place was built by the general contributions of the community, and religious purpo.ses. is occupied both for school and Present membership aixmt fifty. There are also congregations at Munima's and at

The

Earl townshi|i."

Ijeiiig in

of these large liouses of worship the aiuuial love-

[lureliaseJ in

l)evii

liail

niiieyears previc.u-ly, but the ducd was not given

untill7a2. '

hmd

This

l)urying-ground."

'

congregation liave lieen

live

Weriies and bis wile,

for

.

feet,

the corm-r-sloiie beiiiu

laid

iii

.M a

\

|sr,:i, ,

and the building dedicated llei..b,.r llltli ol the same year, 'fbe lii.~l paMor u a- Kev. (Ieoige fr.ibert, who reni.iiiud from ]SC,'.I to lS7:i, and was succeeded by Kev. C. A. Fctzer from 1874 to 1881, when he was

;

EFIIRATA TOWNSII succeeded by Re

E. S.

liro

845

Steef, Alice

pre

Jlellinger,

Reformed Church of Lincoln was 18.-,:!,

or;

year (he |>re^enl house of

in whicli

w

Sixth

iiized

shin «

and the Lutlierari eoiigrefratinii. The corner-stone was hiid Oct. 10, 1852, and hnu-e dedibuilt Ijy this

cated

May

Henry

Aiipel,

29,

The

1858.

George

meiiiheis were

original

Jacob lloffinan, Amelia Shirk, Francis Witniyer, Mary Rock, John Wolf, Elizabeth Rank, John Appel, Mary Banner, Isaac Beck. The first church ollicers were as follows: Elders, Henry Ajipel, Jacob Hoffman; Trustees, Francis Witmyer, John Wolf; Deacons, John Appel, Isaac 15eeker,

first

.pasior

was Rev. Daniel Hertz, who

re-

selves at the comniunion-table.

Of

namely. Elder George

and Mrs. Catharine have moved away,

Ki~^iiiL;i'r

Hershberger, have died,

and the remaining

this

number

two,

time of

fifteen are, at the present

and health ami the \ i^ilih- means of grace I'rom time to time. At the last communion held the number of communicants was one hundred and tliree. The organization at present is as follows: Elders, Jacob Gorgas, Ira B. Zwally, Daniel Irwin; Deacons, Martin Wolf, Samuel S. Erb, Daniel B. Mellinger; Trustees, Samuel Stuber, James Krick Secretary and Treasurer, L. E. Miller; Organist, L. writing,enjoying

I

tliiee

The

lirst

class of

catechumens were conlirmeil on eight persons:

April 27, 18i^, consisting

Elias

•^lory, Emma liellew, Sahm, Sarah E, Bent/., Ev: Joanna Flory, Kate T. Irwin, I'allnirine Demniv,

Mary A. Wolf. Oftliisclass.one, namely, Catharine Denimy, after-

wards Bingaman, died on Nov. 28, 1881. The second class was confirmed on Nov. consisting of eleven persons: Isaac Salim,

'.I,

Jolm liingaman. Third class, Nov. Myers,

Henry Wolf,

Samuel Witnier,

Mary Ann

1880,

2.',,

si.x

L;iina Eili, Jere Neese,

persons:

Henry

Anna Wike, Susan

Eightli class, on April 22, 1882: Christian Kramer,

Anna

Heistand, Lizzie

Benjamin,

Lizzie Rock, Mrs. .Fames

Henry

Mrs. Samuel

Jlillcr,

Kate \Vitmei-,

M. Kri.k, Anna Walker, I). Erb, Kate iroff, Frank (

Grotf.

on April

class,

21, 1883:

Lizzie Smith, Mrs.

Mary Young, Ada Nillen, Jacob SweiAlma Kallroth, Lizzie Urner, Susan McGuind, Su^an Weider, Henry Witmyer, Lizzie Faust,

gert, Lizzie Sweigert,

Adam

Diehl.

Bethany Church

located about one mile .south

is

from Ephrata village.

United Brethren in Christ. — During the year 1S71 meetings were frequently held at the house of Burton Keaner, and in 1872, at a Quarterly Conference held at New Holland, a board of trustees and building committee was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Levi

Hoover, John R. Buyer, and William G. Sprecher,

who

whereon stands their present on Church Street, in Ephrata village.

selected the site

church

The

was

brick,

cated

edifice,

corner-stone of the church edifice, which

(HI

laid

the

is

of

July

first

28, 1872, and the church dediSabbath of December of the same

year.

The above-named and in 1883 the

bers,

The

first

peroinis

were the original

mem-

numbered fifty-six. .Mumma, wdio served

inembcrshii)

pastor was Rev. JI. J.

two years, and was succeeded by Rev. J. F. Moneer, three years; Revs. S. R. Grabill and J. M. Gruff, one year; Rev. Israel Carpenter, one year; and Rev. P. A.

Bowman,

the

present

pastor,

who has already

served this j.rople four years.

New

Mennonites.--4"lii- branch of the Christian Church is represented in I'.phrata township and village, hut

have no

In.

use M-.sion of the farm.

He

has continued to reside on the old place ever since,

and

is

recogni/.ed as one of

tive fanners of his section,

tlie

successlul representa-

liesides his agricultural

Mr. Landes has engaged extensively in the purchase n]\(\ sale ol' horses, and is prominently knouM in that trade. He has always been willing to

(jperations,

c pateiited to

now Jona^

172li;

well

and

nther,.

Jeretniah tlie

]-:i.y,

Thomas Johnson Aug.

late

heirs of

was un the line

It

24,

James A. Caldtin. land that

..f

Browu and James A. Caldwell had one

of

heaviest law-suits ever tried in Lancaster County,

thousand dollars though this seems to be almost beyond the bounds of possibility. two patents for one hundred acres William Teague each; one called " Teague's Endeavor," June G, 1715; " the other, Teague's Forest," in the following year, 1716. These became the property of the Frazers, the costing,

frartin Gryder. The mill passed into the hands ot' Joel Sniedley, wlio rebuilt the mill in 1S33, and all tlie other buildings subse-

sold

it

to Jlartin

vised to

Christian

It uow belongs to Frank C. Pyle. The farm, after passing through several hands, is now owned by Elwood Srnedley in part, and part by Montgomery R. Gryder, sun of Christian Gryder

quently.

aforesaid.

Walter Denny about the same time took up a large This descended early son John, who, about 1756 or 1757, sold it to Joshua Brown, the ancestor of a large family of Browns, many of them still residents in the neighborhood, and some of them still ou a part of the same property. John Denny went westward to the neighborhood of Pittsburg, where some of his descendants rose to distinction, Hon. Harmer Denny, who represented that district in the United States Congress many years ago, being one of them. Daniel Carmichael took up one hundred and seventy-seven and three-quarter acres, Feb. 22, 1742-4H, to which he afterwards added one hundred and six and three-quarter acres, and left it to his son Thomas, who sold one hundred and ninety-one acres and ninety-six perches to Joshua Brown, Jr., and Joseph McCreary and Alexander Ewing, executors of Thomas Carmichael, to Abraham Medcalf, May 9, 1787. John Carmichael, another son of Daniel, had migrated to the western part of Pennsylvania, and " Carmichaelstown," near the Mononga'hela, in Greene County, owes its foundation to him and his descendants. The descendants of Joshua Brown still occupy must

tract southwest of the above. to his

of the land thus purchased by hiiu.

James Caldwell look up

Imndred and twelve

twi.

acres on Conowingo, east side, in ITTjI, iiu'luding the

"Rock Springs" (whieh have time, or before

on Aug.

it,

Ann Alexandir,

then

Hill,"

iit

estiiiiatiMl

its

2,

Nov.

22,

17.-.1,

ha

their

name

In

owner, a part of "Slate

eighty-five :;ht

l-st

L'iven

175U, purchased innn

acres.

and

Some time

FULTON TOWNSHIP. and three- fourtlis acres iiiid allowance, beside which he owned another farm in Fnlton towiishi]

teen

and also one

in Little lirilain,

now owned

l}y

851

and

subsequent development led to the heavy lawsuit already mentioned. Caldwell, who owned the adjoining land, anxious to share in the pro|]erty

Cieorg

rich de^josit,

been made

Pioneers.— Mo^t

Other

have now entirely

1

dijaiijieared

IVoni

1

dale

SL

name nor family to represent The names are retained in ancient writings, but those who bore them liave passed from the knowlforgotten,

and

known even

tlieir

to

Many

of

them are

former existence altogether unwho now own and occupy the

those

were cleared and cultivated by them. How few at the present day who cultivate their welltilled acres can look back and .see who it was that felled the primeval forest and first broke the virgin

Of

those

who

first

,

j

I

[

'

settled within the present limits it is

believed that only the Kings

and the Scotts can now claim to be residents of the land upon which their ancestors originally located. Some few may possibly claim descent from the original settlers througli the female line, but even these are believed to be few and far between. Most of them, either to better their fortunes or for some other reasons, have migrated to other sections, some to the South, some to the West, aud some perhaps become

of the needle lictueeii the

>urvey under which he ide with part of the William Whiteside, by will dated Sept. 26, Thomas and Abraham.

1748, devised to his two sons,

On

division,

Abraham obtained

the northern part,

llngh Sidwell between his two sons, Isaac and Nathan

and devised to his son, John Whiteside, who sold to Robert Black, April 26, ISOC. The southern part passed from Thomas Whiteside to Robert Roberts; sheriff sold to Abraham Whiteside; he to Caspar Sneider; he to Ulric Runner; became the property of Thomas Whiteside, after whose decease it was con-

Sidwell, but of this I have no proof.

lirnied

Robert Smith, May 80, 1750. Richard Stedman, .\ug. 16, 1749, 20 acres next to " His other his other land 72 acres in two pieces.

l;laek tamily,

'

It is

1S:](J.

now owned by John Reed, son of William

Reed. Isaac .Sidwell, Feb. 10, 1756, 70 acres. location of this tract.

It

may be

No

certain

a tract lying near

Kirk's Bridge, in Little Britain township, divided by

;

to

The

Robert Black,

who

wh.ilc

March

John Biggott, dated Pat1737. in all 2oi; acres and allowances. Jeiemiali Brown, by name of "Goshen,"

174:J,

14,

1,

ented to

on

warrant

a

to

1S08 (Book No. 63, page 33, etc.). Sold to Jeremiah Brown, Jr., Sth mo. 10, 1824 (Book C, vol.

March

now (jf

in

the

the war-

Isaac Williams, Feb. 23, 174S (1758), 40 acres; 51i

acres and allowances, on Puddle

mo.

is

are lineal descendants

ton townslup, adjoining

a

Dock Creek,

tract of 191

lowances, surveyed for Cornelius

in

Ful-

acres and al-

MeCree by warrant The whole

of Aug. 23, 1750, then held by Williams.

7,

5, ]iage 72, etc.).

Now

ILmnah Wood, and

the ])ro|ierty of his daughter,

Peach

(jthers.

Now owned II. Stulibs,

by heirs „i'e. A. Towson, Elan

and others. It lies along th« above \Vestbrook Station.

I5oitom Railroa.l,

100 acres at head

Roliert Stewart, .\ug. 24, 1744,

of two springs that

10, 1774.

Charles, C.

\T IS

NOW FfLTON.

rnii into Little Britain.

Josejih Walker, Nov. 14, 1S53, 14S acres 70 perches,

surveyed

May

26, 1818.

Lies northwest of William

Now

Barkley's five warrants in Little Britain.

be-

longs to Charles Hays, V. K. .\le-xander, and others. Is

cjuite

being a vacancy lying between

irregular,

other claims.

Lies south of White Rock.

James Walker, Dec. 14, same most likely referred i''

""^'

''''''>'•

to

'

John Warnorl-, Dec. nearly east of

1773,

20 acres. Isaac

in

Is

the

Walker's,

"'"""

Oak

'

H;, 1772, 12

acres 22 |.erches,

Hill, adjoinin- other

land

then

John Warnock. Now David Christie. William Waugh, May IS, 1752, 25 acres; May 30, Tliese two 1752, 125 acres, next to James King's.

held by

warrants, with another to

1S09,

,

Thomas Berry

of jMarch

Robert Pennell, Aug. 31, Now .store and tavern. owned by Andrew Charles, C. C. Caullmau, Al.ner Brown, and various others. In Fulton toun-.lii|i. 17, 174G,

were patented

to

including \Vakelield

William Waugh, Feb. 2, 1753, 100 acres; 14ii acres perches and allowances, southeast of the preNow owned by Abner Brown and Christopher C. Canlfman. Aii.lrew WliiO', Nov. 20, 1750, 25 acres. Included 82

ceding.

in .lolM- Mile,' ,ulih-|l ~ee,.

William Whiteside, Sept. acres .and

allowances;

104

13, 1744,

300 acres; 236 allowances.

acre* and

Abraham Whiteside, Dec. 13, 1787 northern part). The southern part pateuteil to Patented

to

(the

Cas-

John W. Swii'r, of Fui.to.n- Housk.—This most •xemplary and liiL;lily-e.>teemed citizen of Fulton ..wn.^hip, Lancaster Co., died at his residence at Ful..m

in his eighly-ninlh year. decea.sed was one of the oldest re-idents of the

House,

The

.ownship, and was well and favorably

known by a

'

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

85G was

by the community at large. He time of his death, a member of the for about seventy years, being one

higlily respected

jiad been, at the

Methodist Church of the

first

of the persuasion in the lower end of the

county, and was a zealous, active, and liberal supifis conversiou, with tiiat of porter of the church, his brother

George and

sisters

place in an old stone barn,

now belowing

to

James

Ellen and Martha, took

still

standing on the farm

Collins, in Colerain township,

which place they rode on horseback from their home for that purfiose. He was a member of Bethel Church, on Fulton Circuit, near his home, the first building of which he was largely instrumental ii] He was a deei) Bible student, and erecting in 1822. was remarkably well versed in the Scriptures. Mr. Swift died in the house in whicli he was born, a place known not only at home, but widely abroad as "Fulton House," the birthplace ol' Robert Fulton, the inventor. At the time the property was owned by the father of Robert Fulton, the great inventor, he fell into financial difficulty, and it was sold in 1772 by Sheriff Barr, then sheritf of Lancaster County, on a mortgage foreclosure, and purchased by Joseph Swift, to

eight hundred jjounds.

purchaser sent

is

liis

—

all

of

NOW

FULTON' TOW;

son

Joseph to the place, then in Little Britain, now Joseph Swift was a sea captain Fulton township. and knew nothing about farming, and brought with him George Rutzer, a |)raetical farmer, who worked Joseph Swift occupied the old Fullou the place. homestead, prospered, anil rai^ed a family of eight These four sons and four daughters. children, sketch,

IS

of the lute deceased, lor

of Philadelphia, grandfat

were the brothers and

AT

si^iters

whom, except

of the subject of

Non-Associators,

li>t,

-The a>

lar

t.ijm^^j !

^^^.

,,^^

ii\n'

y^

^^^^^^.

three sisters, arc dead,

having attained advanced ages. The surviving si>tei-.s are Mrs. Elizabuth Zl-11 and Mrs. Margaret Ewing, of Little Britain, Laiicastur '.,., and Mrs. :Martha JlorriThe family son, of Hightstoun, X. J., all widows. were all perrjons of large and fine ])hysii]Uf, \\ith hale and vigorous constitutions, the late deci-a-ied liavirig always enjoyed good health. The Fulton tract wa>, divided into f,nir farms, the homestead falling to John \V. Here he engaged in farming and also merchandising, building a store on the property in 1844, whicli he conducted successfully He brought the farm into a good for twenty years. state of cultivation ami made farming jiay, although until the construction of the Peach P.ottom Railroad a few years ago, which runs through the place and close to tlie buildings, it was remote from such facilities. The farm, containing one hundred and thirty acres, was bought a year ago for one humlred dollars per acre by his sons Harvey and Jo-eph, who have now large grain and loliaeeo warehoa-.es at Fulton

1777. ;

^

^i^^.

ik

^.^^^

^.^^

and

relation

^^.^H

^^^

,,,

(

House Station. Taxables for 1763.— The following

list

of persons

were on tlie tax-list of Little Britain for the year Hi)?,, and were residents of that part of the township

ti,„.|,^i,

wiiih.iii^ 'rh

m,-

\\';ii;:,'' ,;'

Ii;;

',,';

•''"";'

I

'^

joliuw.'

DOW

1

MONTCO-MEIiY'S

U

JiiiM.-s

.>Kl)ow.

1

..

:

FULTON TOWNSHIP. duty and enforce on contractors a compliance with the

terms of their contracts, they bring upon themselves the ill-will of the delinquents, and complaints of their Fulton township has

exactimis are loud and deep.

Oil the reverse of

lowing

tli

been fortunate in having supervisors who, disregarding clamor, have gone on doing their duty and redo theirs. And yet it lias been noticed that where a desire to avoid the censure of the covetous has produced a relaxation of strict authority,

indor.-ieineiit

" Tn the Oillerlnr

poiiuds tmrtl

/ur of Lillle Ur money ami thiee poiiinLs

ery and

KeDiiiiiidLT blmll bo allow

I

tlie

Il.ipliciil

(juiring contractors to

Given n.idor

My

hand Kovui'

SJ 1786

••D\

Educational. — The

the consequence has been a retrogression of the roads,

system was introduced into Little lirit;iin tinMisliip (including Fulton) in 1837, having at that time ten school-houses, eight teacluTs,

seliool

and three hundred pupils. for buildings the

number of

five fell to the

originally established at the store then belonging to

It levied a

sum

of .S2G76.

the division of the township in 1844 the

school-houses was

still

which

ten, of

Of course

share nf Kiilton.

lax

the system was

still

At

con-

tinued, the intelligence of the people sanctioning it, and the choice of "school" or "no school" being about this time taken away by legislative enactment. Since that time three new houses have been added to the number, and some of these have been renewed, adding to their

comfort and convenience,

it

being the boast

of the township that their schools are the best,

managed ami conducted, and the most

best ill

— the

effective

the lower end of the county.

Election and Duty of Supervisors.— By an act of March llj, 1808, the townships of

the Legislature of

:

;

Jeremiah Brown, but now of Samuel C. Wood, many years ago discontinued to make room for Fulton House and Wakefield about 18-53, and since restored Peter's Pleasant Creek, first called Rock, at Peach Bottom Grove, at the village of that name; Lyle, at the village of New Texas; Wakefield, established about 1853 at the store then kept by the Wilkinson Brothers, but now by Smedley & JLirsh, about one-half mile south of the Little Britain Friends' meeting-house; and Wrightsdale, on the line of Little Britain township, where the road from New Texas to Eastland crosses it, in the store now kept by Mr. Wright. ;

;

The Productions of the Township,

Fulton and Salisbury were authorized to elect three supervisors,

one

— one

— and

other places removed Irom the great centres of trade

and popnlatiiin, are chiefly agricultural, yet other proChrome duclinii> are not wanting within its borders. has been taken out in considerable quantities on its southern border, along the JIaryland Hue, and iron ore Magnesia also has been found is found in some places. and taken out in the "barrens," where chrome is found. The slate quarries al Peach Bottom were long famous, but are now not worked, York County furnishing as good an article at less cost. A few years ago a com|iany leased the quarries and made preparations for

for

supervisor to serve three years; their duty being to

divide the roads of the township into sections from

one-fourth to three-fourths of a mile in length, to sell the rejiair of these sections every three years to the

lowest bidder, having

first

specified the repairs to be

made and

givjjn notice of the time and place of sale, have charge and oversight of the whole work so to be done. Under this method Fulton township claims to have the best roads in this section of coun-

and

to

try,

and some travelers have recognized township from this fact alone.

into the

their entiance Tlii-;

melh(Ml

mending roads by contract is now generally called "the Fulton system," and is universally appnived in of

theory, while in,]iractice

it

much being

it

ex|)ected of

often

fails,

at once, or

either from too

more

fre(|uently

from the election of unsuitable or incompetent otHcers

Xo reason can be assigned why cannot be had at less cost under this system than any other if properly managed and enforced, to carry it into efl'ect.

better roads

liut,

nuforluuately, the thirst for gain inlluences a

doing an extensive business, but after very considerable expense incurred in imtting up buildings and providing machinery the enterprise was abandoned, and has not since been resumed. Brick and pottery-

ware are also made township.

helnre that. l.iiilt

in

a mill

and unless supervisors are watchful and energetic the fail

of

its

best effects,

and the roads

will

be neglected and subsL'f|Uent expenses necessarily increased.

On

the other hand,

if

supervisors do their

in the southeastern corner of the

,

Mills were established at a very early day. King's mill, on Conowingo, was in operation, as we have seen, at least as early as 1733, perhaps many years Gillespie's mill, on the

17.51,

nuu owned

system will

like those of all

two years, and

every year after that one

one year, one

Ibr

for three years,

upon the

reflection

itself.

Post-Offices,— Within the limits of Fulton township we liiid the following post-otfices, viz. Fulton House, taking its name, as does the township itself, from Robert Fulton, the inventor, at whose birthplace it was established about 18.53, .and still remains (loshen,

of $1945.27, drew a State approjjriation of i!llS7.G;>,

and expended

and consequently an unfavorable system

h.n-

liy

known

Frank

on this creek

(

al

'.

as .loci I'yie.

same stream, was mill, ami

Smcdiev's

.lushua Brown

liuill

an early day, p.Thaps alnnu

and which only a few years ago passed out of It now belongs to Joseph P. Ambler, and the name. 1700,

is

believed to

b('

the third in age within the territorial

limits of the township.

Jeremiah Brown's

mill for

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

85S

chopping feed and sawing Imnber, also lor cleaning clover-^eL-d. till tliat employment was superseded b)' jiortable nKuliine>, is nexl below, and was established at an early day. It is now the property of Samuel O.

Wood.

The

the Jast on

Wood,

grist-mill of G. B.

Conowingo within the

State,

month of Puddle Dock, was

at the

deceased,

and

is

early as 1794, and perhaps

many

year.^i

but

names have

tlioir

lati

icco-ililr to the general inquirer,

is

and wdiere

itrwill

made

,000 be entirely lost to ])osterity unless speedily

of con-

in operation

men;

.livion.or are oiilv relaine.l in

Stubb's mill, on Peter's Oreek,

siderable antiquity.

as these, as wdiere there are

1

1..'

I

as

nnitter of recor.l.

I'ate

be inevitably

before that.

and

dejjositories,

iiiucli

mm

lost, a>

reach these

to

is ilillicult

It

i)ri-

of their treasures must

has already passed away

li

I

It

now belongs

Kirk Brown has

Samuel Dorsey.

to

a saw-mill near the moutli of Peter's Creek long

beyond recovery. [

known

As tothe warof

Edward Wicks has a gristsame stream. It was formerly

as Boyd's saw-mill, wliile

j

up on the a fnlling-ndll, and was first built by Abraliam HutVer. Tliomas Smedley has a grist- and saw-mill, also a spoke- and bending-mill on Little Conowi;igo, i)artly run by steam. This jiroperty has been in the Smedmill higher

ley family for eighty years, but

improved as a mill

how

long

With

nut cfrtaia.

i
'' Puddle Dock Creek.

it

it

may

might be

it

in-

be brielly stated

that every call for troops was promjitly tilled so fir as the quota of this township

were raised,

army

the

Moneys

was C(mcerned.

and

liberal bounties paid, quotas filled,

demanded by

recruited to the full extent

the government.

In this no pre-eminence

claimeil,

is

promptness in this res]iect is mainly due the succosl'ul termination of the eontlict. The War Department contain full details

as to the general

has been

tluse

mav

IvlL'e-To,,! l'';nt..rv

the Rebellion, while

vidions to specify individuals,

records of the

on

of these contibulions anil of the services rendered,

Villages and Hamlets.— Tliere are no towns of the Un iMiiii, Oft! ach Ho taverns, a store, two ferries over the river Susquehanna, ami a considerable nujiiber of dwellings. It is not now, however, of the importance it was for-

and

to these the

curious inquirer

referred for

is

all

further particulars in this respect.

Ecclesiastical.— There are nine houses of worship

we come

the limits of the tnwn^hip. but wdien

in

to

inquire particularl\- into tloir origin, especially the

nqdy

moi-e ancient of them, the

merly, because of the decline in the alate business

ceived, [

is

too frccpientlv re-

"Unknown."

may be partly made up by the railroad being a station on the Columbia and i'oit

The Friends' Meeting-House at Penn Hill is undoubtedly the first of these in point of time. Friends

Deposit Railroad, and also the terminus of tlie IVmcIi Bottom Railroad, East Division. This mad is now

here, coming originally from Nottingham, were lor many years a part of Nottingham Jlonthly Meeting, and indeed, of that particular meeting. But on Gth mo. 14, IVt'.l, the Ibllowing appears on the records of N.)ttingham .Monthly Meeting:

here.

This

interest,

establishing a steam ferry to connect

it

with

its

miil-

York County.

dle division in

Pleasant Grove, toward the southern border, contains a store, a school-house, a

Good

" Friends, dweller.^ in

'i'eniplars' Hall,

and quite a number of dwellings.

New

nawiiigo, rcquot

Te.xas has a hotel, a store (now vacant), and

perhaps a diyen dwellings.

Penn Hill" (including Wakefield, for it is indillerently called by the same name) is a .scattered village lying along the road for half a mile or more, and contains a hotel, a store, a cabinet-shoj), and a Friends' meetiiig-honse called Little Britain, but more generally known as I'enn Hill, with numerous dwellin^is. mill,

neighborhood,

I'ormerly is

in

appoint,

Lancaster county, near Can-

a meeting for worship be al-

l.u-^ard

.fohn

Cook, Aaron .Miisgravc

how

consider

far

to tl.eir

Snull..

they

t..

may

I

tion of truth, of

vi-it

Hugh

Indian war

.of

r

his tomb-Ion,

•

in ijnr

No

Company

Little Britain

in

I

for

worship

' oi,

Iririi

wursl,

keeping a

report,

keep

a

After

.'

'

it

is

me tli

meeting

some

c(

lie

t

the Frenidi and

Presbyterian grave-

Kevolulionary war, and did doubt there were manv others who in

and

friends

the said friends >

fohn Scott, as we learn from

17.'")(1."

lho-.e

tin-

'''I

Patrick':

dolin

nieeti

early military history of this town-

mentioned that

Capt.

first

meet-

I'ennick,

be eajiable, to the rcputa-

involved in obscurity, more on account of a lack of records than of actual service. It is incident

in

on

qn,-st, this

keeping up a meeting

shi|> is

ally

r,

.lo-epli

j

near vicinity.

in the

Military.— The

King's, the oldest

ing

th.it

-.etiKd anii>)ist those friends, both

and week-days,

"

liradley's

and

loweil

2d mo.

ID,

l7iL'.

at tbr letiu.st

Britain, with

Meeting,

lis

"This meeting some time

since,

living in and near Little couru. rcnee .d-N.,ttingliani Jlonthly

of friend,

tlu'

a|>|.oinl,-d

the bulbil

the place win

a

.•omniittee

to

view and settle

FULTON TOWNSHIP. appears somewliat discommodious, they I

now

John Smith, Joslma Jolmso,,,

]..,ii,t

Thomas .soii

to

Carleton, Robert meet at James Kii

r.euis,

Monibelt, the organi/ation of this church, as well as that of Chestnut Level

ey have

'

and

are

The house occupied by

separated.

17(j3,

and the

down

set

other-., is

probabilitien

years ago waVi built in

proper

it

The

"unknown."

iheiu lot

as

two

the

tiiat

congregations were originally one, and

and .lames Robin-

viewed the place proposed

next

in poini ot time i-. I.iltle Kritaiii Presbyterian Church. In tlie • .Vulhriaic lli-.luiy ol Lancaster County," by

Pusey,

,lusl,,ia

Church—The

Little Britain Presbyterian

rec|iies

as to apmeeting would coiidcscond so and review tlie place again, order lor an allowance to build a nieeting-honse ill on. 'J'liis niectintr, in regard to their rii|iii~t, do ap-

lioiiitsome friends to view

afterward till

a few

conveyed in

[

and cunvenient to build a iMceting- llou-e on, that then the friends there may proceed aaordingly, and

make

report to our next meeting."

.')th

mo.

11,

1752.

"The

'

the following year with the building thereon.

on lands of Daniel Carmichael,

was the original

friends appointed by the

site

[

last

mei'ting to view the place proposed by the friends

and near Little Britain, in order for allowance iVnni (his meeting to build a meetingdionse on, repiHt that thi'V met and viewed the ground proposed by thc.^c frieiiils, who appeared pretty well satislied in the choice of the place, and are by this meeting left living in

to their liberty to

build a meetitig-liouse thereon."

Accordingly they proceeded

Samuel Boyd, Joshua Brown, and Vincent King, trustees of Little

one of those are

many

same ,

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is

of the church; and while this to suppose that it is merely burying-grounds of which there

room

ut'

The

sections of the country.

dilferent

in

true

P. King,

Chestnut

Level,

several

locations

being pointed out by tradition, one of which

is

the

Little Britain Church.

deiined. '

is

jirivate

now Thomas

old Carmichael location as already mentioned fur the

Since

land of MiJhael King, who, on iLirch 17, 1758, exeented a conveyance to

be true, there

luaij '

house on

to build a

It is

nnitter of tradition that a certain old graveyard, then :

17(i3 the >tatus of tiii>

],a>tor,

Its

with those

ot

lor

many

Chestnut Level,

ehuich has been well year, were the same ilividiiig his time be-

Gamble

ai^pears to

have

Ihitain Friends' Jleeting, for tive acre- of hind, uiiun

served in this capacity twenty years or more.

He

which the meeting-house was alreiuly bniit. This house becoming old and inconvenient,

died about

I-aac Williams,

brick house was erected

agood many years

ai:o.

a

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new

in

known ally in it

still

outside of the society as I'eiin Hill. Little Britain, iroin

bears,on the division

erection of Fulton

it fell

which ol

it

that

which

In'anches claii^ied to be the original

the other were schisniatii

This wa,

s,

Li

desigmtted

s

m

or innova

1

from about 1835

till

18— when

he retired from Little Britain and confined himself to Chestnut Level. From this time Little ,

itain v.

that

James White took charge

C. Rutter occupied (he pulpit |

employed the entire services of a minister,

Robert Alexander being the

ce^sively by Rev.

into the latu

Friends (commonly called (Juakers),

better

(Jrigin-

t

toi

Ballance's Meeting.— It is well ku the year 1S27 a division took place in

j"rit.V.

it is

liev.

and continued till his death, aliout 1815. Rev. JMr. Patton and Rev. Francis A. Latta were pastors of this charge, and Rev. Lindley

remains the meeting-place for this deiioiuimition Fulton township. It still bears the oliicial appelMeeting," though

K.v. .lames

17;i.').

s^nie time afterwards

>till

latimi c,f' Little Britain

tween them.

first,

followed suc-

Solomon .McNair. Rev. John Boyd,

Krv. Alonzo Michael, and .loseph present incumbent.

"B.

Turner, the

HISTORY OF LANCASTKR COUNTY. structure of rather small dimensions, but the power

tion of

and the membership increased till iu 1851 was erected in place of the old stone structure, and therein have they continued to worship till the iircsent day, though with varying success and fluctuating numbers. Sometimes large accessions are obtained, and then again by death, removal, and other causes the membership is considerably reduced. At the time the present house was built it I'ormed a part of Strasburg Circuit, and two preachers were placed upon it. Rev. Joseph S. Cook was

being

in

charge.

Since then

tlie

circuit has

1S3S,

Web-ter had been elected

Little

for

After the division of the township ami the

Britain.

there,

organization

a large brick churcii

ol'

Fnllon the fillowing have held the

office k)y election of its citizens, to wit:

.SiUiiiiel

Wicks, .\pnl

lU. IS.ir,

;

lo-L-li-cte.l.

SunniBl Wicks, .\piil Ui, 1S6I); re-eleutej. Jiiliies llauuii,

been

Uolt-n

11.11

April

0,

ISOl

;

l-e-l-lotli-d .ifter

lies ISir,; n.-ver t.,uk uut cj.n.iiio

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now one of the appointments on Fulton Circuit, whereof Rev. F. 51. Brady has the charge, and is the only preacher now

divided and altered, Bethel being

itinerating

,

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tlie circuit.

African Churches.— There are within the town.'\rethodi.-t Churches, each of them having been in existence for quite a number of years, one of them a short distance north of Penn Hill, on the Lancaster road, and tiie other now located at Arcadia Station, on the Peach Bottom Railroad. This last has been long known the country through as " Rigby," one of its prominent members at its organization, and who, with Elisiui Armstrong, furnished the ground u|ion which it was originally built some forty years ago, and which was about one mile south of its present location. The old house becoming inconvenient, a new location was selected and a new frame building erected about four years ago, which This church holds an they are now occupying. annual meeting on the second Sunday in August of each year, to which great niimbL-r-. tiinurcLMlc from considerable distances, wiiitL- as ui.ll a^ cuKircd, and the day of Rigby Meeting is lonk.-d forward to and

ship two colored

prepared for as an event of quite considerable im|)ortance. It is, in fact, the occasion of the neighborhood,

liife

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ce of J. D, I'.issniore, len [

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State and County Officers.— I'nlton townsliiphas ganization in 1844, viz.: ^lendiers of the Legislature, [

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Jeremiah B. Stubbs, M.D., 1847-48; John C? Walton, 1851-02; Day Wocjd, IStH-GJ ;' Jeremiah Brown, associate judge, ISol

;

S.

\V.

P.

]5oyd,

sheriff,

lSl50;

Slater Brown, jjriaon ins|)ector, date not at hand. j

Jeremiah Brown was also elected to the Legislature in l.SL'i;, to the Constitutional Conventicm of 13;17-3S, His and to Congress in ISl'J and again in 1844. the l.eLrishiliiie H'omi

Henry

C.irter

17',h;

lo IMH), inchisive,

was a njcmber of the

without

Constituti.jiial

Convention of 1874.

an immense crowd. Welsh Church.-lt only remains t.. notice the Welsh Church near Peach Bottom, Imilt lo accom-

and never

of Haiuia, deceased,

1

fails to attract

skhtchks.

i!io(;i;.\riin,'.\L

modate the men employed in the >late quarry, who were largely of that nationality, and many of whom became permanent settlers in the unrounding country, and who desired services in their own lanuguage, and who built a house for that pur|)ose and to close our list with what is called "The Tabernacle," a small frame building not far from the Conowingo Creek, erected to accommodate a small congregation

Robert Fulton, a celebrated inventor and engineer, was born in Little Britain township, now Fulton,

of Methodists gathered about 18S0, chietly through

lu-aetieed with

;

the labors of Rev.

Adam

Black, a local preacher of

the denomination, and under the charge of Fulton Circuit, F. M. Brady, preacher in charge, making them an occasional visit. Justices of the Peace.— Before tlie division of

and the erection of Fullon township, Robert Ma.\well had lor many years scrvi'd a^ a justhe peace by gubernatorial appointment up

Little Britain

tice of

ter,

and so had .John Webster.

Un.ler the Constitu-

KOIIKKT Fl'LTdX.

Lancaster Co., Pa.,

in 1705.

About the age of seven-

teen he went to Philadel|ihia, a talent

loi'

drawing and

p. u

ami began

to cultivate

trait-painting,

skill au.l pr.illt fir

which

lie

three or four years.

he Ni-ited l>ondon, where he devoted several years to the swiiu- luofession, under the tuition of In

178(j

Benjamin West, win, received hiiU.as an inmate into He ne.'it resided for two years in his own hou.se. Devonshire, and became aciiuaintcd with the Duke of Bridgewater and Lord Stanhope. About this time liis nieehauicil genius iuipellrd liin, to abandon iiaintiiiL',

ami

to

lolhiw the prolession of civil eiigi-

FULTON TOWNSHIP noer.

In

l/'JS

he

w;is eiigMgo

ect to ini-

prove inland navigation, liuv the idea of using steam

a.s

conceived

a

hind.

In

17'J(3

he puhli-hed

on Canal NaviLMthui."

He

in-

mother

for

!r.

i

vented a machine for s))inniiiL making ropes, for wliich he ub

Its in

i

i

Fr-H,,

luig-

"Treatise lie re-iiled

and the

861

was so successful that it excited great admiration, and steamboats were rapidly multiplied on the American rivers. The " Clermont" made regular passages between New York and Albany, at the rate of five miles an hour, but this rate was soon"iucreased by improved machinery, Several other larger boats were built under the direction of Fulton, wdio expended large sums of money in this way, though he received nothing for his patent. In 1S06 he married Harriet, daughter of Walter Livingstcm, by whom he had tour children. He possessed great personal dignity and agreeable manners, and many noble qualities of heart. In the midst of his triumph and in the height of jnosperity he died in New York, in February, I8I0. trial

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Among

.JEI(i:.\llAH

the early and

]JHO\VX.

iiitelliLieiit

settlers

in

Little

15ritain,now Fulton township, were the Browns, gen-

known

as -the Browns of Nottingham." As early as the year IGSO, James and William Brown, sous of William Brown, of I^igland. members of the Society of Friends, emigrated to America, and settled near ^Marcus Hook, on the Delaw^are Itiver. James married Honour Clayton. They had six children, four sons and two ilaughters. Their

erally

[iropose to follow.

In the year 1G99 a colony of Friends took up eighteen liundred acres of land in Nottingham, ChesCo., forty miles from Marcus Hook, and at that time " deemed far back in the wilderness." William

RIIBKRT FULTON.

ill

Paris,

ter

the family of Joel Harlow, where he dis-

ill

played his characteristic enterprise and iiigeiuiity in various projects and inventions, and in the study of the scienoes

He

and modern languages.

prietor of the

first

was the pro-

paiioraiiia exhibited in I'uris.

neinveiitefl,asulM:iarnie or plunging ImmI, called a torpedo, designed to he

induced Honajiarte

11-.11I

in

naval wai Lire, and

La

tn ap|jiiiiii \'idiiey,

Monge as a cominis.-iou tu examine made an experiment in the Imrhur ol

I'l, u-c,

and

guiding

made with

tlie

boat with ease.

partial

success,

at

llie-.l,

wlicii

he

for an hour, and Other tiiaf^ were expense ol the

the

French government, but as they at ia-t de. -lined to Fulton aeieptrd, in Isol, :m invitation from the English miiii-liv, who aU.i appointed a commission and made trials of hi^ torpeilo.

]iatronize the project,

appears, liowever, that the ICnglisli

It

New

York.

ing-ton,

Here,

L-.|..

he sneovded,

greatdi=coVeiy of .Mean,

Though first

boat, the

in

|S(I7, in

not give

perfecting the

those Friends were

for a

meeting-

JameS and William

Brown, before mentioned, and from these brothers have descended most of that name now residing in the southern ends of Chester and Lancaster Counties, Pa., and the northern end of Cecil County, in Maryland,

nnnibered by hundrcils, and extending

to the

eighth

Jeremiah Brown, above mentioned, in the year 1710, married Mary Cole, of Nottingham. Their children were Patience, Jeremiah, Joshua, and Isaac. Joshua was born 3d month o, 1717. He married llannali Gatchel, lntli niunlli l.'i. 17:W. Their oll^pring numbered eleven, ten of whom lived to manhood and womanhood. In the year 1758, Joshua Brown purchased five hundred acres of land in Little Britain, now Fulton township, Lancaster Co., and removed thereto, his eldest

adiiiilted to

On

this be'ailtilill

have been

who sueces>fiilly realized 11. In LSI17 hi, (nermont," was launched at New York,

larm. situated

ill

the (^iiiowingo

brirk dwelliiig-lioiise was which has braved the storm-, of more than a eeiitniy, and yet remains a sound huilding, occupied

Valley,

others had previously -conceived the idea is

Among

KoI.ert Liv-

ii.iMgatioii.

of steam navigation, F'ulton the

di.i

in co-„'p,.rati.Hi willi

donated them forty acres of land

house, graveyard, etc.

In isol he

it.

succeeded in remaining under water in

I'eiui

erected,

a

sab,lantial

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

86:3

Joshua Brown was an eminent minister in the society of Friends, and traveled extensively in the love of

gospel to

tlie

all

During the time of the Revolu-

different colonies.

tionary war he

felt it his

homes

their

in

duty

who

ehester, in Virginia,

While on that

well-known peace one of their number

After attending his funeral, and encouraging Friends to faithfulness under their suffering, he, in

(in

the

and a portion of his farm. He was a man posperseverance, and wa^ eminently successful in business. His supplies of grain at that time were chiefly drawn from the rich mills

sessed of great energy and \

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Virginia, as a j

companion, proceeded to visit the meetings of Friends in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and encourage Friends during that trying period to stand fast to their Christian testimony against all wars and

and died

18:23) on the mansion farm, leaving no children. Jeremiah, as has been stated, purchased his father's

died.

company with Achilla Douglas, of

sub^c-

year

their visit

who

Illinois.

Joslufa, the youngest son, lived

Friends at ^Vin-

been banished from

Philadelphia for no crime but for

their faithful adherence to ])rinciples.

to visit

liad

He

forty acres of land, a part of his father's farm.

died in the year 1805, leaving one son,

quently removed to

the meetings of the society in the

valleys of the Pequea and Conestoga, in Lancaster County, and the Codorus Valley, in York County, from whence it wa.s carted iu wagons to the mill, and

the flour in turn carted thirty miles to Christiana j

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Creek, Delaware, where phia, then the nearest

it was shipped to Philadeland most expediti(jus route to

a market.

About the year ISOO he purchased the extensive

In the latter State they were arrested by the au-

and cast into prison.

as spies

thorities

J.

Brown

Slate Hill, at Peach Bottom, in Lancaster County, on j

showed the friends at

officers his credentials

home and

the object of his mission

among

facture of roofing-slates.

After a thorough investigation, the judge of

them.

them

not dispense with the law."

J.

to prison, as

he could

Brown

replied, " It

whom

thou believest

is |

hard

to

commit such

be innocent."

to

He

to prison

nevertheless committed them to

prison.

The jailer and his wife were kind to them, and soon they were allowed the privilege of the town, returning to the jail in the evening to lodge. They held religious meetings in the court-house frequently, which the citizens attended and expressed their satisThe prisoners were offered their release on

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This they could not conscientiously consent and after a detention of about six months they were discharged. Notwithstanding this long and unexpected imprisonment, Joshua felt it a religious duty to visit the ditlerent meetings of Friends in the Carolina* and Virginia on his return home,' and, as turn."

15th day of the- Tenth n

children,

four,

blemished credit to^the present time, and at the time of his decease, in 1831, was perhaps its largest stockholder, holding in his own name one thousand shares Although active and energetic in busiof its stock. j

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ness, he did not neglect his religious duties. During life he was diligent in his attendance of all the meetings of the Society of Friends when health permitted, and for many years was an esteemed elder in Near the close of his life he built, at his the church.

a long

tlie

present

commodious brick meet-

ing-house at IVnn Hill, which to

gospel forty-eight years. his

In the year 1810 he, with others, established the Farmers' Bank, at Lancaster, an institution which has stood the test of all financial struggles with un-

own expense,

second year of his age,

Of

instrumental in procuring the passage of several acts

,

to,

he wrote, " 1 reached my habitation on the 2Gth of twelfth month, 1778, with a peaceful mind, having been a prisoner six months, wanting two days." This valuable Friend and unL-irines.

I

adjournal its

to

meet

in Philadelphia,

where

it

He

concluded

nection with Hon. Francis James, of Cbc-ler, and Hon. John Edwards, of Delaware County, tlio-e three counties forming the congressional di.-lint. In 1842 he was again unanimously nominated, and with his colleagues re-elected to the Twenty-suvcnib ConAlthough not accustomed to public sjieaking, gress. lie was a.ssiduous and diligent in his committeerooms, where, after all, the effective work is accomplished. During his term of service the well-known " tarifl" of 1842" was enacted, in support of which he took a conspicuous part, and which, during its continuance, proved so beiieticial to theextcn>ive

manu-

factures of his district. liis

second

devoted himself to his i.rivate

terni

..f

I'ongros,

alfair- until the

lie

year

common

schools,

neighboring seminary, but being a persistent reader of books and papers, he acijuired a vast amount of infurmation in this way.

In the year 1S40 he was nominated and electetion for integrity

township otHces, such

a day from Jiis jjoat of duty, and the record shows his position upon every question upon which the decision of that body was recorded. He again received the nomination, and was elected a few days before his death, which occurred on the liith day of October,

as .school director, etc.

lO.M.MOR .SMI

Emmor Smedley, eldest sn(in of I'^li and Elizabeth Smedley, was born in Little Ihitaiii township, on the His father, who 27th of the Seventh month, 1817. ircr of sorghum molasses, was a farmer and mainilUciur ester Co., Pa., on the 4th was born at Willislowii, Cheday of the Twelllh inoiith 1786. He came to Lancaster County in 180i;. His mother, a minister in the Siiciety of Friends, was born on the 14th day of the Filth month, 1786. She was frequently engaged in 1

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1865.

,

Day Wood was one of the most honored and highlyrespected men in Ivancaster County. His manners were

i

unobtrusive, retiring, and gentle; no appearance, no act of his could be regarded as challenging attention.

He moved among

his fellow-men with manifestations

of constant respect for their rights and their |iositi(m.

HLs widow, one daughter, and two sons survived him. T. Hoke, of

The daughter, Rachel, married Judge J. West Virginia, and resides in that State.

ehlest

at West Point Military Acadnuuried Miss Li/./.y'Wynn, of Chester County, and now is an ollicer in the regular army. The youngest son. Day, married Miss A. E, Wood, and resides on the old homestead, and follows the business

son,

Edward, graduated

emy

;

Pa.,

of farming.

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visiting the meetings of the neighborhood, as well as throughout the IState of Pennsylvania. Her last communication was at the funeral of an aged neighbor,

on wdiich oceasiou she addressed a large audience. She died on the L'ltli of the Tliir.l iiKoith, I8.5S. IK-r husband followed her seven years afterwards.

The

subject of this sketch

received a

school education in his neighborhood.

common-

For a number

of years he was engaged in the manufacture of mo-

0'^ -"^^t^^^^^

EMMOK SMEDLEY.

NEAL HAMBLETON.

4c^.7^-^C'^

FULTON TOWNSHIP. I;is9es

in

connection with farming.

On

the 11th day

until the spring of 18G3,

of Philadelphia,

went

in

urgent request

Wilmington,

Del.,

where he worked two and

of the front part of his right foot toin oil while at

work on an engine. Mr.. Hambletou was married in 181)9 to a daughter of Jeremiah Brown, and granddaughter of Slater Brown, one of the ])ioneers of Fulton township. Tu 1876 he moved to his uncle William Neal's, to care for him in his declining years, Mrs. Neal having died

NE.\L KAlIliLETON.

22, 1838, his

at the

renn-ylvania, and liually

to

which he had worked with a brother in Ohio. From Wilmington he wejit to Philadelphia, and worked in Sellers' machine-shop till ISti'J, when he was appointed one of the assistant boiler inspectors, a position of much responsibility, the execution of the law meeting with opposition by owners of old and dangerous After boilers which were ordered to be removed. three years as boiler inspector, he spent one year as foundry, large ornamental iron superintendent of a after which lie spent three years in traveling for the Rue Manufacturing Conijiany of Philadeliihia, introducing among railroad officials a new and ini]iroved steam injector. While in their employ in lS7o he met with a serious and painful accident, having all

;

Neal Hambletou was born

to

became

a half years in a machine-shop, tinishing a trade at

;

March

when

of his only surviving uncle, the late William Neal,

Second month, 1844, he married Elizabeth Adams: Tlieir children are Mary, Edith, and KircilThey, liowever, bnried two children, one an dia. infant son, who was named Enoch B., died on the 21st of the Eleventh month, 1843, and a very promising young man, over twenty years of age, wlio died on the 11th of the Third month, 1843. His name was Abel K. Mary E. married Enos W. Marsh they have two children, namely, Clarence and Emmor E. Kircildia married Joseph S. Townsend they have no children. About the year 18G8, Mr. Sniedley began the study of electrical medication under George W. Freed, M.D., and for a number of years has been practicing his He is a man of good sense and strict profession. integrity, is modest and unassuming, has no desire for public places, though he has often been solicited He was elected school director, to accept them. however, in 1877, and served with credit until 1880, when he resigned, against the wishes of the people.

of the

Morgan County, Ohio,

parents having emigrated from

Fulton townsiiip, Lancaster Co., Pa., to the Buckeye

in 1875. ]

State in 1830, the entire trip being

made

in tlie old-

In 1877, Mr. Neal

was

the. request of relatives,

at

I

fashioned Conestoga wagons, with bows over the top

declared a hinntic.and Mr. ilambleton was appointed

and covered with canvas or cotton sheeting. Neal was the youngest of a family of eight boys and four girls, and was left at an early age to care for himself, his father having died in 1845, and his motlier a few His first experience in earning a living years later. for himself was on a neighboring farm, where he worked a term of three years for the small sum nf seventy dollars, and from this small sum was com-

by the proper authorities

pelled to furnish his

own

clothing.

When

the mean time Jlr. Ilambleton purchased the farm upon which he now resides (formerly owned by thegreat-grandfatherof Mrs. Hambletou), upon which

he has erected the most elegant and sightly buildings Fulton township. At this place Mr. Neal made his home during the summer season,* and at whicli

in

place he died

June

30, 18SU, in his eighty-eighth year.

In the settlement of Mr. Ilanibleton's accounts as committee of William Neal, he was forced into several years of litigation, uhirh was finally decided in his favor in 1SS3, by the Siipienie Court of Pennsylvania. -iiie of the wide-awake, enterprising Mr. llaniMcton lainier> of Fulton, a> the general appearance and

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products of

hi.s

Ian,, will

fully attest.

He

has three

children,— Annie K-telle, William N.,and .Mary Elsie Hambletou.

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harked on board a steamer at New York for California, where he arrived after a long and tedious passage.

Here a new difficulty met him. He was far I'rom h(jme, and witliont money or friends, and no demand t.,r the kind of lalmr he desired, although he was He finally then in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. obtained work in a saw-mill, where he r.in:iiiicd two months, when at the ur;;.-nt rcpir-t ol llir diieelorof the school he had lelt in Waii.ii Connly, Ohio, 1„ returned to teaching again, miuh nnprnv.d m luallh. He remained here a teacher until •Hi. 1, w Ik n lir w.iit to McLean County, 111.; K. a^M^l hi-, l.i.,ll;rr m tlu'

continue the care of him.

In

sixteen

and a half wars of age he entered the " Albany Manual Labor University," at Albany, Ohio, where he remained one and a half years, working for liis board and tuition, and when at the age of eightini he commenced teaching school, teaching winters and returning in the spring. Thus he continued until the spring of 1850, when, on account of ill healtli, and with a cash capital of only sixty-six dollars, he em-

to

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KIUK.

Koger H. Kirk, -on of JoMali and Phehe Passmore liitli day of the Third numth, His paient> having died when he was very 1815. young, Pog.T ua- appivnli.ed to a miller. Aftrr fui-

Kirk, was Imuu on the

i-liin,-

histradr

lie

followed (he huMue-^s for a nuni-

Hr nia.iird Url.orali luoun, daui;liter and Hannah I'.rouu, of Pulton township, Co., l.a.na-.er and -„l,-,.,n,.„tly moved to that portion of Kulton lown.hip, l.an.-aster Co., known as -Pleasant (inne," appropriately named from its beauty, fertility, and pietures.pie suiroundiiigs, two

iM.Tof yrai--. oC Levi

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. miles distiuit from the Susquehanna River.

and good taste he has acquired which is liis present home.

o, the three daughll,egri-t-aiid-aw-niill and the ter, above ii.iiiied .-old

six children,

jamin, Elizabeth (Landes), Mary (Nelf).

dred acres of land lioi,, .lame. ICuii,;:, llic -nil ni Thomas Ewing, on the we-t ,-i.le ..f l.illle Clnki-

He

j

17ijtl.

of stone,

Some

who

erected a

new

grist-mill in 17G7

and a large double stone dwelling-hon-e.

additions were

made

lo

the mill in

17o5 by

'flu- .lolm Stoner's wife's name Jacob Kauirman. Benjamin Bear, of Hempfield, and was Barbara.

Henry

Mii--er, of

Laiie.i-ter

borough, executors of

the e-tate of the latter, on .luly 10, 1790, conveyed to Chri-tian Stoner, -miller," of Manor town-hip, the

ieh

M;

pike.

Ann

Her-liey, wle. iiianie.l Heriuan Long, was the

mother of eleven Ahral.ain,

eliildieii, ,luhn,

Jo-,e|,h,

Jaenb,

(Ilollinan), Klizaheth

(

'liri-tiaii,

Benjamin,

llenieui,

Martin,

(Lande-), and Samuel.

.Vnii Ileii-

.bably

EAST ITEMPFIKLD TOWNSHIP. The former setUed

belonged to the same family.

in

Conestoga to«'nshi[) about the same time that ChrisTliis tian settled on the Little Conestoga Creek. name has entirely disappeared from the annual

Baughman was one of the most enterprisGerman land speeulators in the county.

Jlichael

,

'

ing of the

His name

the year 1730.

olliee ab..ut

many desceuilants county who are now known

appears upon the records of the loanOn the 4th day of June,

first

assessment-roll, although there are scattered throughout the

asStayman, Stehnian, Steyinan, etc. Peter Swarr was also a Swiss Mennonite, and came II is profjorto America in 1717 with the Bi-ubakers. tion of the one thousand acres of land taken up by Hans Brubaker lay at the extreme upper end, along Swarr's Kun, and was known as Kaufl'nian's Run a number of years ago, and thus named on Scott's map published more than sixty years ago. This land lay along the King's Highway, which led from the Paxtang Indian town (now Harrisbnrg) to the Conestoga (now Lancaster City). He erected a grist- and sawmill npon Swarr's Hun; his son John erected a brick-mill upon the same ground in the year 1778. He employed the Hessian prisoners at Lancaster borough to do tlie work. Skilled labor was very scarce at this time, and he employed these prisoners

and

.\Iiddle Creek,

one acres at

\

manner

in wliich

.

for

two

About

owiu'd

Sl,enal,ei-er a

l.iinl

conlain

Miclmel liauglimaii

quuatilv uf

tlie

on

" De.vj*

inil

terms imii-

tlie

E*STm-RN."

'

hman

lnl7.'^8,l?a

dong Chikis Hon. Benjam

wlierc Ko.idv

el.:,

I

hundred acres

al-o took U]) four

Boehme

The

lived.

(•hampney- mai"ried a .Miss Bachman, There are tew of the the himilv.

•

He

Xell'.

and eleven

died

miel Xetf and a of

ler

Hans

Dr.

vidow,

ii

]-.li/,al,etli,

child,.Mi

I-

ri.d. first, to

Abraham

Anna

.Meyer;

iSwarrl, Lliz-

Susanmi (Ruth), Magdalena (Sehner), Catharine (Cassel), Polly, and Henry. .lohn Huber, E-.i., died in 1803, and left his wife, Ann, and Chrisiian, .Mary i.-^te.nan), Elizabeth (BachJohn Huber built a maip, and -\nna iStemaii.i on

.-ri-t-niill

l.itlle

Coiie-to^^a

thmai\ war,

uliicli w^,~ hiiriied

iian

it

icliuilt

Mary and inii-

i-

in

in

I'larhaia

one

prior to

down

the mill

17'.i>;.

The

llamaker.

th'e

Revolu-

in 17',l7.

Chris-

now owned by

is

stone maiision-

the largest and most substantial build-

ol

The Hubers

the couiily.

biiiU

it

in 1709.

ilenry Mn-elinan and

ing several hundred acres, fieorge

tiael- of

to

in the Cuurity ol Liuicaster,

^

hoii-e

sued to John Kanllinan

township.

sonnj of the land was disposed of

uivcy

al.elh (Miller),

They and several other scattering nieiiihers of tliis were taken to the work-lioiise in L.inr.ist, r borough for ])rotection, which only proved to he a trap and enabled their eneniies more easily to an-omplish their deadly work. In 1718 wamjants of >urvey were issued to Mieliael Kautfman f(n- live hundred and Ihirtv aere- ot land at Chikis Creek. The laud was divide.l and patent-

Manheim

great spring in

liis

a few weeks.

tribe

forty-

He took up a number of other tracts of land in Lebanon townshi]) and also in Conestoga JIanor. The following letter throws some light upon the

t

Jacob Xelf, Sr. descendant of V

,i

hundred and

four

|

absence of other help. In the latter [lart of December. 17U3, wdien the " Paxton Buy-" ilrstroyrd the Conestoga Indian town, a numlier i>( th.' Vidians were absent, several of whom un that laial DrI'luy luid ceinber morning were at I'etn- S\vair">. been for a few d^ays in that iiriu'lilM,ili,,ua Milin- and bartering brooms and ba-kil- willi the finiK r-. |.M,vi.l.'inial ciicniu-lanfe It seemed to Ikivc Ihmmi that they were al.-rnt IV,. m th.^ir vilhi-e "ii that .-vnitful night, but their span „( lile was only Im^lliencd in the

17:iS

in

nine acres more along the same creek at a Dutch settlement. And in the same year he took up thirty-

the'

adjoinin-

land.

with

the

mill,

which

lay

in

Hempfield and

East

mile nonhea-t of .lolm Kaullman'.- liaei

Michael Kaulfman had

a

lann of one hundred and

Hans Peter Snmmy.

Sr., a

Palatinate Mennonite

thirty-eight acre-, and Martin Kanll'nian a.l|oine.| uu

exile, arrived at riiil.idelphia in

the south with two hundred and loiiv twoaei,-, and

Kichard and Id i/,al.cll,," commanded hy Capt. Clni-lopher Clyimi, will, tamilv, c.m-i-ting of wife and M. 11-, Hans .laeoh. Hall- Peter, .Ii., Otto Frit/.,

and .laeoh Kanllinan owned the land on llie ra-t of Martin ICaulIiuan. .lohnand Miehael Ni-eley

Isaac side

owned farms on the south side of Martin's land. These larins embraced the land along Kanlliiiairs Run and th,' valh-y s.nitheast of LandisvlUe. They 1718 and

17-20.

Some

and own some of the

of their descendants reside upon lands.

A number have movc.l

tine

17:::;,

on the brigan-

'•

Hans Mi,hael, ami minor-.

Two

lev, .North

.lohaiinc-.

'flic

of the -on- -cllle, Marchiefly to agricultural

:

Barbara, and Elizabeth.

Daniel was born in 1816 in Penn township, but during his childhood be-

tha,

came a resident of East Hempfield, where the labors of a farmer engaged his energies until his recent re-

moval

to

He

the village of Petersburg.

daughter

Elizabeth,

of

married

Herman Witmer,

Dr.

of

Manor township, and had children: Martha (Mrs. Daniel Kreider), Herjnan

Amos and Benjamin,

\V.,

residing in Kansas, and David,

Herman W. was hnrn S,-|.t. home ..f his

early life at the

Petersburg aU'ordcil

]',,

1842,

and spent

The

fatlier.

his

village of

him advantages of education,

though of a limited character, after which his enerwere devoted to the interests of the farm until

his twenty-second year.

Mr. Graybill then began an extended tour of Western travel, wisely deciding that no advantages of education would atl'ord him superior for instruction

and observation.

On

of the second year, he

his return, at the expiration

became ticket- and freight-agent for the Reading and Columbia Raikoad at Petersburg, and also embarked in the coal and lumber business. He was married in 1S(J7 to

JIartha, daughter of

Henry

S.

Landis.

Jlrs.

Graybill having died in 18G8, he was a second time

married to Mrs. Kate Minnlcli, daughter of .Jacob

who

Mr. Graybill wa, married in 1872 to Jliss Frances Augusta, dangliter of John Bassler, of Petersburg. They have a daughter, Nora, and a son, John.

Swarr,

The tliat

died in 187U.

political creed of

a

Mr. Graybill has always been

of the Republican party.

terested in public

member

art'airs,

not actively in-

is

but has been for

He

many

years

has been largely iden-

with the growth and development of Peters-

burg, and

especially

dwellings within

its

prominent limits.

the cultivation of land

diate vicinity.

The

He

in is

history of the settlement along the river

the erection of also interested in

owned by him

in

the imn)c-

Graybill ftnuily formerly em-

braced the faith of the Dunkards, though the present generation are not followers of this belief.

many

of them

displayed and

is

an

their

in public affairs. The ferry which connected the great valley extending through the town-

prominence

York County to the Maryland line was the great thoroughfare over which the tide of emigration ship and

passed for many years, which was only interrupted by "Cresap's war" in 1730-.SS. The pioneer settlers at the ferry wereall Quakers, but they stood theirground

manfully.

Hempfield is bounded on the northwest by Big Chikis Creek, on the northeast by East Hempfield, on the southeast by Manor township, and on the west by the Susquehanna River.

It

contains an area of thir-

teen thousand seven hundred acres,

and

is

somewhat

smaller than the eastern division of the township. rich limestone valley, extending from the river

to its eastern

boundary

line, is

one of the most

fertile

in the State.

It is well watered, a stream flowing through nearly every farm. The land lying in the limestone valley u|)on the northeast side of Chestnut

Hill

is

also very fertile

and

easily cultivateil, but there

are fewer streams of running water.

In both of these

and barns are very large, which indicates prosperity and thrift. Chikis Hill and Chestnut Hill artf a continuous

valleys the dwelling-houses

range of hills commencing at Chikis Rock at the month of Chikis Creek, and extending across the township in an easterji direi-tion. This was surveyed and laiil out for John, Thomas, and Richard Penn, and was named Hempfield Manor. It contained twenty-eight hundred and sixteen acres. It was no doubt intended for a game |)reserve. It was subdivided into about sixty tracts, and sold by the heirs of the Penns after the Revolutionary war. No. 1 com-

menced

at Chikis Rock.

was the largest fifty acres.

of the county conjmittee, and also school

director of his township. tified

He

The

eventful one, not because of the number, but because

of the ability

The

gies

opportunities

TOWNSillP.i

composed of the western half of the originaj township of Hempfield. " West" was only prefixed to the name when the township was divided. There was no necessity for this to distinguish it from East Hemiitield, and it ought to have been stricken from the othcial records long ago. is

tract,

In.it

is

No. 2, which joined below, and contained two hundred and

now embraced

the farm of S. S.

Detweiler, Cunrod Swartz, Joshua Sourbeer, and the

Kline

The other The hind

from three manor was covered and oak timber. The Bethels, Barbers, Wn-hts. Sticklers, Garbers, Bachmans,'and Kauirmaris, ^^h,. ..wrud laniis in the heirs.

to fifty acres.

with a thick growth of

tracts contained in

this

elieslniit

valley, purchased small traels in

ihi- niancr, « hirl,

they did not inclose with fences, but retaine

John Tayh "If there

his friend,

the surrounding forest.

-

^

WEST IIEMPFIKLD TOWNSHIP. Hill was not discovered or developed until about the

year

183').

There

(See Chesnut Hill Iron Ore

a tradition

is

Company.) more than a hundred

that

years ago the precious nu-tals were lound in dillerent

along Chestnut Hill ami within the limits of Hempfield Jlanor.

jil.ices

In the month of An-n-t, ISSu, when an artesian sunk uinm the old l.iakard property, MOW owned by the Columbia Water Company, a vein ol' rich silver ore was found. No effort has yet been made to develop the ore. There Is a gleam of hope that the tradition may become a reality. Early Settlers.— The first settlement was made by .•^cotch-Irish an overflow from Donegal along Big Chikis, and by Mennonites wdio kept advancing up Little Conestoga and its western branches until they well was luiiig

—

—

met the former, a few miles east of Chikis Creek. Robert Spear located on Big Chikis Creek, upon now owned by Ciiristian Hostetter and M. S.

land

He was

llusser.

member

a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, and a

of Donegal Church.

His grandson, Robert Spear, erected the large stone mansion upon the IMusser farm. He became a large landholder. He was appointed a justice of the peace by Governor Thomas McKean about the year 1807, and was in commission more than forty years. He moved to Columbia in 1814 or 1815, and became a prominent citizen. John Knisely settled on the north side of the Lancaster and Marietta turn|)ike, about a mile east of

He

"Silver Springs" in 1718.

and to

eleven chihlien,

left

Cocalico),

Ann

died in the year 1758,

Michael (wdio moved

:

(Folwell),

John, Abraham,

thony,

viz.

Mary (Mumma), An-

Maria

Beverly

(Beaver),

(Harnish), Christian, Peter, and Joseph.

James Moore W.1S a

and

settled

on Big Chikis

He

Scotch-Irish Presbyterian.

a wife, Elizabeth,

left

d Jos

and

tt,

who was

He

in 1720.

died in 1736,

a sister of

Samuel

Ephraim

son,

877

the time of Henry's decease his mother,

who

was then an aged person, was living with him. She was then the widow of Christian Jlyers, by whom she had two s«ns, Christian and Abraham. The descendants of thi-, family are nuiner(jus, ami are scattered over this and the adjoining' counties.

Many Forry,

of

them

Jr.,

member

a

The

are large landholders.

who

late

John

inherited the old homestead farm, two

miles east from Columbia, and for a

number

of years

of the Legislature, was a direct descendant

of the old pioueer settler.

Josiah Scott, one of the

aged

fifty-eight years,

e:irly settlers,

and

left

died in 17(55,

a wife, Mary, and the

following children: Robert, Alexander,

Ann

(wife of

Bertram Galbraith, of whom an extended notice given in Conoy townsliip), Esther, and Jean. Scott owned the land on the east side of Chikis Creek, near the crossing of the Lancaster and Mount Col.

is

A short time previous to his death he completed a large stone dwelling and office. He

Joy turnpike.

owned a

large tract of land above Frankstown (near HoUidaysburg). He also owned a farm in LTpper Paxton, which he bought from Thomas McKee, the Indian trader. He was a surveyor, and was one of the most prominent citizens and largest laud-owners in the county.

Alexander

Scott, brother of Josiah

and Samuel,

died in 1787, aged seventy years, leaving a wife, Sarah, but no children. His sister, Grizel, married Hugh

whom he gave one hundred and thirty Rapho, upon which he directed a mill to be built. His sister, Ann, married Patterson, by whom she had sons, Samuel, James, and Eleanor. He also had a sister who married James Moor, and

Pedaii, to

acres in

another married

to ^Vi

Carr.

French an

tain in the

tecott

:ap-

dian war of- 1755-60, and war. He owned several

also in the Revolution

hundred acres of land Creek, where the Lann

adjoiningjponegal Church glebs Richard Mays settled near the Mi

t'arm

and

At

le east

side of Big Chikis

and Mount Joy turn))ike

II.

Jo-rpl

(ieorge Snyder erected, soon after the completion of the Lancaster and Waterford turnpike, a very

Christian Welty I.M.k out a patent for two hu.

large brick hotel half a mile east of Chikis Creek,

in 174:i

left a wife, f-ahella,

and

s,,iis

Richard.

and Mxty--rvun a.i,Mortliea.t nf

He

died in

il,,;

His land lay

in 174i;.

Laura-trr and

IVli.',

ar.d

the lollowiiiK

left

Daniel, Christian, llarbara

f.ntzi, ,fohn,

i

and also carried on a

a

thr early period of the war of

chil.

made

Jac.d.

verv ra|.idlv.

iiionev

whirlwind of town

In botli ventures, in

.listillcry.

t'urii

Marietta

lot.

he succeeded and was caught in the and wrecked.

ISlL',

lie

specnlalion

Henry.

John Forry Blunston\-,

settled

and the

of Chestnut Hill,

dam. Oct.

(

ni.on

iai l.rrV,

H;, 1727, in

who

(;,-,iyl.ills,

I,an.:,,i,.r I'oin.lv .rlll.-i,,

and hll a

wifr, \l,uv,

between Sa

Amnica

U

fr

thu >.imu- ve-^'l ulii.h br,

the lliestand>, Li|.liarts,

known

laud

aloi,- tlu- ..oulheni

lie caoie to

and

,ix

and olhiT 11,-

dird

i, ,,wi,

Nellsville, West(Wrightsville), .Manchester (on the island below ('-stand.

Hu{;entogloi

Josejiii

Josupii

Hogemoglcr

(J

John Ruber. Jacob Hogentogler(I»i

FrcJcricli lilair.

Joliu Kl.iir, weaver.

Barbara Kertz. Jacob Klair. Jacob Loiiclta.

Henry Lamb. Elizabeth Locliard.

James Long. Joliu Lir.tner.

Cliri=tian Musser. I'eter

George

MuBSer.

tJetz, gritit-uiill.

Jolin Gri-iJer,

two

grist-t

John Meldinm.

gler, Sr.

is

di-

the

in I81S),

Joshua Ring. Daniel Ileigait.

Caslii-r Sclirtoider.

879

HISTORY OF LANCASTP]R COUNTY.

880

The property

\vas purcliased by John HuUleruun ninety or more years ago, and was afterwards owned by his son Henry, who built a saw-mill on the western bank of the stream, and allowed the lied to the study of the sciences. At an early date he amused himself examining the objects of natural history about his a

home, and formed

small cabinet of rude anatomical preparations

letter to a friend,

dated 1844, contains

Methodist

a traveling

A

to stulf.

these words:

made

preacli>-r

and ol' lord-, whicli had taught him how

from rabbits, possnnis,

"I

niii-kr:it>,

in

to

viz.,

to

enter

(Ins father

on relnndng from Philadelphia his

lather,

called

at

that

time

and cents was never strong emnigh

repay him for the time spent in their accumulation. He says of himself at this period, " I preferred rainy

days ami muddy roads, when purchasers were few, and I was Icll undisturbed in the perusal of my books, a wdiii h I kept in a back otlice." The only

supply of

business letter extant addressed to Mr.

Haldeman

is

from a creditor, thanking him for an extension of time for the payment of a note then due. .\notIier anecdote he used laughingly to relate of himself, "I was elected ami reelected director of a bank on several occasion^, .ind niy evident pO]iularity gave me much satisfaction, untd 1 remembered I had never Yet he showed

ipiick jM-rceplion

and good judgment

collected shells on the banks of the

Susquehanna long before I knew the meaning of genus and species." That he was an accurate observer two facts, then new to science and discovered by liim, will show,

known

energetic and diligent in this undertaking,

to

amount of

Not caring

conducting a saw-mill on a pnq.crty

newly ac.piired by

Though

winters of IsfiS

Vnnsvlvania, especially those

study law,, ami his real future having

'

the greatest

1

the learned profc^Muns then

id

desire.l

every direetion, causing a friend onee to exclaim,

Yon have

(d'

on Chemistry ami Analnmy.

any

The

s[)ent in Philadelphia, attending lectures

University

the

at

re

there, re-

eurre.l

awdl

lir>t

,.f

-lie was i„v .K>k-

:

?83

the jiercgrine falcon of this country nests

rocks as in Europe,

and the eagle when unable

rob the fish-hawk, will himself dive for prey.

when nearly

In the spring of 1820,

lourtecn years

pecially in meidal calculation, anil gave sound advice.

He

inoposed building the mill without inclosing the cumbersome frame so long in vogue, but

saw- in the

even then discarded in the West, oti'eriug to go out and get exact information on the* subject. This was considered too much of an innovation to be pernntted.

He

uutde ])ractical suggestions regarding the

amount

of age,

of horse-power neec-siwy for the engine, the jiosition

emy

of the hot-ovens,

Mr. llal^eman was sent to the classical acadJohn Miller Keagy, of Harrisbiirg, Pa. His appreciation of this gentleman's ability was of Dr.

afterwards

shown by

preserved

resjieclively

Lancaster County," tion,

1871,

Besides

and the

the

several tributes to bis in

ISli'J,

Mombert's

memory

History of

liarnard's Journal of Educa-

]'eunsiiliiuiis.

can

Christian

lie

who

[jractically

devoted himself to

tlie

dignifying of .\merican industry and the protecting

American labor. Being a man of wealth and inllnence, he was often solicited to accept political otRce. These overtures he frequently declined, but

of

was once induced in the I-egislature

be a candidate for representative

to ..f

hi^ State,

when

lie

was trium|.h-

antly elected. 'Sir.

Myers was

a

most genial nature.

man

imposing presence and a His business principles were as of

and reliable as the pig-iron of his furnace. During some of his business projects previous to the became finan-

solid

construction of the Donegal Furnace he cially embarrassed, but speedily

this

connection

lii-^

and

interest, in full.

own wonls may be quoted

:

In " If

would drive twenty miles to ])ay it." Mr. Myers died at his home, " Norwood," in the suburbs of Columbia, on the '2'2d day of October, 1872. In his life he was universally respected, and his death was greatly regretted. Among the foremost self-made men of Pennsylvania her representative iron industry, tliej-e is no mure onorable name than that of James Mver-, of Duneil Furnace. In his death the State ha. lost one of er most uori-ht Imsine-s men and hest of citizens. 1

Isaac Myers

ohligatimi^, principal

knew of one

made settlement with

the mo-t honorable manner, ]jaying

his creditors in all his

dollar of an old de'ht,

I

1

.MK'ii u:i.

II.

Mciour;.

her of Mr. Moore was Michael, born 1;,

ill

I'eiin

l>.wn-l,i|..

vears of hi,

life

Laiiea-ter Cn.,

were spent.

He was

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUiNTY. Churcli, of wliicli he was a iiieiubor. curred, after a

life

]4th of February,

il

to

1

in

l>;i;ii,

His

Mieliael Ilert/.ler, his son, uas l,orn Jan. in

IVnn

toxvnshii,,

wlu-re

his

VdUthfiil

His limited npp„, innilies

spent.

afforded at

the

19,

many

;

He

a direct.;

f

c

15.

is

Hill Turnpike lieaii,

Company

in the Lutheran Church of tlie .Mcnnonit

faith, l„

ir

ollice.

is

now

|,ersunai

friend,

He

common

sense,

and

n^nlcr.-.

.Many

once reached the cars of

at

farmer for

tlie

many

his

present generaliun arc largely indebted

choice fruits and rare plants.

caster CokhIi/

I

It

ic

pike Cpinpa

(

iarlicr

community.

ind ha.

is tlic priiici]ial

lucli;

directors.

He

he is a Repubwas baptii;ed

He

Mr.

Lanca

stockholde.

its

was married

to

Mi~s Boughwalter, Feb.

lie

Andreas

1747.

G,

remained nneultivated until the marriage of James .,f Joseph, and gr.imlson of the original

the ancestor of the ])resent family of Sebhnniidge.

.lames, in 17oi;.

to

Dorcas Boughwalter, widow of Louis, »oM thi.^and

(iibbon^. son

In that year (iibboiis

came

James Gibbons and Deborah Hoopes to this

connty

to

live,

and

built a log

Ikiekwalter

cabin on the banks of Mill Creek, iiorlh of the pre-eiit

On Nov. 1^7, 17o7, hon.e. He w.is an

mill property of .\mo, l!n-l>on-.

he laid the corner-tone of his

.Vbraliain lioughwalter,

it

i-

Jacb Lmdi-.

In

patent Iraei,, Jae

'

dis familv,

very de-iron- of taking part

in

bis pnrno-e.

He

rccciveil a patent for

canic Friends ]::vans

ua-

funily

lor

lelative,

Friend.

and the

\l

wli.it

first

s.-veral

many

settler of this

In

lleiirv tion,

Fpon

this

|S-l.1the

'.v

tract

at tliv

time of her

de.illi

trad there are three stone hou-es

in

1S7S.

in a per-

I'.enj.uuiii

moved

tliei e.

is sulli-

the old surveys wa- a

'

i-

into'Laiidi, Valley, in

the eoinmon ancestor of

I'.irt

Landis

X. Luidi-, a de-e nd.int

occupies

llie

of this land laniily at in

two

I,

undiv.j and tw

el

remains

pre.-eiH, as

fifth

tin-

old Laiidi- hoinest. ad.

nal tract contained

male de-eeiidanl of Willi, nn F,\ans living on this iraet. Aaion S. an-, .bed, and hi- funily,-old the property and moved We-t. Uebeeea llvaiis, si-lei of .\aron S., owned part of this oriL'inal

name on

i„ Hie po--e-i>.n of the

last

I

received a

but one son,

the records cM.uit there

all

.Manheim town-liip, and

time this finiily be-

year-.

Froin

the Landis funily

known, bnt the liist Wi'lliam prominent Friend, a- were higeneiations. The Evans family

occupie.l this pr.q.erlv lor

iiad

and that lieiijaniin Landis received the from the London Conii.any. A grandson of

the original

not

i-

a quite

He

171S.

in

l.iinl

proof that the

p.ileiit

.'i,

F.vaiis. hi-

land, was a

lie came- to this conntr> iwid this

lor

mi-take,

1730,

ham

have taken ont

patent

eie.it

of rhiladelphia.

Ivsip,

said to

the records of the L:ui-

in

preacher,

common.

one thousand acres

171i;, sold it to John M,, ore, March By deed bearing date .Sept. 4, John Moore granted this tract to William i;vans. Col. John Ev.ins was a Calvini-t, bill Wil-

of land, and on

r,

by will

to

her -on, the pres-

S. .Met/ger,

name can be found.

After the death of Felix Binckimmediate family moved to Datipliin romity and bought a I'arm at thr iuiutiun (,l iIil- .Swatara and Spring Run, where their il.'.eendants .till reM.le. This property remained in a enllateral branch of the family lor some time after ley his

of Felix, the builder of

dwelling-house upon

t

le

the descendants of Felix

,

There

i>

a stone

I

!

'r

John Bincklev,

.'cords

have been

iuit

it

lost.

the property which belongs to a

i-,

received

The

has

in

Of

Metzger

S.

when the Shimlle family property they moved into it, and their

the

Graf!' tract

a,,

it

ever since.

was north of the pr.ivincial road,

the present village of liiidgeport.

With Jacob Gralf cuneerning the early

.andis there aie no records,

M.

very old hi>u.e, Mippo.ed to have been built

de.-cendants have ha.l |.os.essr,n of

mill jiroperty, MUpimsed to

this

have been built by Felix no aulheiilic date, as all r

mill.

On there

by Thecq.hiiii. Hartman,

emN

all

settler^.

r. cuds we have The Mn.gioves gave

the

j

as the present large

Land

from Benjamin Landis.

Martin Bare.

made

in

the

s

lamilv tiare their descent

their :

name

la-e of

to a road'

which

West Enteriai-e

to

led Irm,, the present vil-

the vieinitv of the village

The' ear

name

of

I

tUvu- property, as far

:

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY, learned, for

some

time, Init

we

coulil not find iiny au-

tlientic records of tliem.

In writing of tliesc early settlers

we

liave

called

them Palatines, except in a few cases wdjere tlicy to have come directly from Switzerland. Tlior Germans were all originally Swiss, but on account of seem

religious troubles they

had

left

taken refuge in the Palatinate. they are spojcen of as

their native land In

all

Palatines.

and

the did (.atenU

'J'hu

Pahitijiatc

seems to luive been the one spot dedicated to freedmn of thought for many years. The Electors Palaline were noble and generous men, and for many years Protestants.

many

Tiie Elector Frederick,

who

Ijefriended

was son-in-law of George I. of England, and enjoyed the friendship and protection of the English people during the reigns of Anne and Georjje I.

Swiss,

After the death of Frederick the election

fell

into

the hands of the Catholic princes of (iermany, and

good and faithful friend. Friends and Palatines during the Revolutionary War. Much has been said concerning the action of the Friends and Palatines with regard to the Revidutionary war. Tliey have been stigmatized as Tories and secret emissaries of King George. The testimonies of Friends and Palatines with regard to the bearing of arms were identical, and in this my the Priitestants

lost a

—

defense of these,

clude both

my

religiou-i

fellow-countrymen, -.ocictic^.

1

shall in-

These people have

always held the doctrine that the duties they owe to God are far superior to tiiose they owe kings or rulers. They also keep this belief sacredly and apply it to all the duties of life, and, as the meek and lowlv

tlH.rilies.

Afte

EAST LAMl'KTKR TOWiXSIIIP. day of September, 1787, llic Legishi the Statu, under the Goveriior.sliip ot'Tlioma

tlie ?ecnii(l

(~)n

tiiif ol'

Milllin, j.a.M-d

an art

fur establisliiM- uimI

iH-id-e acrn~s (',„ie-In-a

('reek

in

buildiiig

Lancaster

(

].asl

'nnntv

hila

is

li

"For

be as follows:

sliall

every Coaeh,

Landau,

Phaeton, Wagon, or other fonr Wheeled

Cliariot,

Carriage, the

sum

of one Shilling and sixpence

For

;

every Chaise, riding Chair, Cart, or other two wheeled

Carriage Nine Pence; For every Sled, one Shilling; l''i)r

every single horse and rider, four Pence; Foot for every head Sheep or Swine crossing the same."

Passengers„two ppiicc; and one [lenny of horned Cattle,

Section 3 provides that a passage twenty feet wide,

and straight line, on the north side anil at left free, open, and clear incumbrance or interruption whatsoever. A supplement to the above was passed by the Legislain a direct

both ends of said bridge, be

of every

making it obligatory remove the

had crossed

N\liirl, llic

].assaf.'e-way

to

llie

creek

at

buil.ling of the stone brid-e,

twenty

feet

wide

at

both

this

point

and leave

siile.s

a

of the

bridge, SO that all persons not \\isliing to pass over tlie

new bridge could be

free to pass

creek without crossing the bridge.

ami

re|iass

the

The bridge

Wiis

and the following advertisement was inserted by Abraham Witmer in the Journal, Nov. 8, linished in 1800,

tl,

Bieat

l,lea»,

;

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

896

expend so much time and money witiiout liope of immediate reward. In tliese virtues Abraliam Wit-

In 1749, Friends having increased so

to

This bridge

nier lias few imitators to-day.

is

still

in

was finished by the builder eiglily-three years ago, and it seems likely to be stiiuding as now ibr one hundred years to come. use just as

it

Friends'

Meeting- House at Bird-in-Hand.—

much

in

Lam-

peter that this house was not oidy too small to hold their meetings, but in too inconvenient a spot,

it

being

Varman's property, on a road now leading from the hamlet of Shelf Level toOrotf's Tfie Monthly Meeting held at Sadsbury apmill.

situated on a corner of

liointed a conimittee to confer with

Leacock Friends

with regard to a judicious choice of laiul for a meet-

seem

have pushed into the Peijuea and Mill Creek

to

Valleys very early

The

the eighteenth eentury.

in

Indians always had great faith in the peace and good

promulgated by that William Penn, thereibre

will principles of Friends, as

great

apostle

of

peace,

Friends felt more secure tluin many other settlers but even they were rather cautious not to move too The meetings in and about close to the frontier line. Philadelidiia, from which many of these Friends

came, were very anxious about their spiritual welfare, as seen by the following copied from the minutes of

Concord Quarterly ileeting: "At Quarterly Meeting, 6th mo. 13, 1722. It being thought necessary by this meeting to visit those few Friends that are removed to Conestoga, in order to deal with and advi-e some who want assistance," etc. "In order thereto this meeting ai)points .

Thomas Vernon, Aaron James, William Lewis, and Joseph Gilpin, and desires them to give an account 9th mo. 12, of their visit to our next meeting." According to the minutes, Friends' Meetings 1722. were held in Lampeter Ironi this dale im at private houses until 1732, when the follo\viug ajipeais on

tlie

Quarterly Meeting records: "

New Garden Monthly

fleeting reijuests to have a

ineeting settled at or near llattil \'ariuan's on every first

and sixth days of the week, which

this

meeting

allows of until further order."

Varman, whose name is mentioned in these and was a very im])orthere in both meeting and secular matters. He came to this country and settled in Leacock in It was upon his place that the first Friends' 1728. Hattil

records, was born in Ireland,

tant

umn

nieeting-houae built of logs,

was built in 1732. This house was and remained there until 1749. Until

1737 this meeting, called Leacock Particular Meeting, and the meeting at Sadsbury belonged to New Garden

Monthly Meeting

in Chester

County.

At date

'Jth

mo. 14, 1737, the following appears upon the records of Concord Quarterly Meeting: "Sadsbury and Leacock Particular Meetings, with the consent and ap|)robation of New Garden Monthly Meeting, request liberty of having a Monthly Meeting

among themselves

ing-house and

on a

lot

first

second day of the^veek in every month

further ordered, and that

it

be called by the

of Sad>ljnry Monthly Jleeling."

name

convenient

l(j

the gre.it piuvmcial r.jad in

land, situated east of this land, but not exactly ad-

but gave a twenty-foot wide alley with it it with the larger tracts. After the above deeds were executed and settled satisfactorily, the Friends at Lampeter removed the log meeting-house from the land of Hattil \'arman to the newly-acquired lands in Lampeter town-

joining to

it,

connect

and erected a meeting-house there. The land on the Varman tract lapsed to his lieirs, as there hud been no transfer of property, and tUerefore no deed-. The same logs wore used in the meetiug-hoii^e at Lampeter with an eye to economy and expedition, as there were not yet__any saw-mills in the town-hip. This log house serveil as a mcctiiig-honse until 1790, when, the meetings having become very large and the house very old, Frieiuls concluded to build a large brick meeting-house, divided into two parts,

ship,

suitable for holding

monthly meetings,

for,

according

the old usages of the society, the men ami women transact the business of the meeting separately. In iiursuance ol tliis irsulution Friends built, durto

ing the year^ still

brick meeting-house whici] iTins lum-c was built around aiid over new one was

179ii, llic

standing.

the old log

building, and, after the

erected, the old one

wished

till

Leacock

their meeting jirop-

letter, but the western jiart was in 1749 bought of Joseph and Grace Steer, who had bought it of John JIcNabb, son of the proprietary, William McNabb. John McNabb also gave one-half acre of meadow-

of the

on the

Friends at

move

Lampeter township. There are three deeds in the possession of Friends at Lampeter lor the land acquired there for meeting and graveyard [)uri)oses. All this land formerly belonged to William McNahb, by virtue of proprietary

distinct from

New Garden Monthly

to

more suitable ))lace. This committee consisted of Joshua Pusey, Nathaniel Pennock, Thomas Carleton, John Churchman, Jeremiah Brown, Joseph Brinton, Caleb Pierce, aiul William Harvey, Jr. These Friends conferred with Friends at Leacock, and in 1749 they decided to place tlie meeting-liousc

Meeting." "Alter coiisid. ration llu'reof this meeting does allow tlic Friend membcrs of Sadsbury and Leacock Particular ^Meetings liberty of hokling a Monthly Meeting lor discipline

for discipline settled

burial-ground.

having expressed a wish erty to a

new

one.

was taken log by log out the door This was done because Friends

occupy the same site, but did not wish to The meeting at Lamdisturb the weekly meetings. peter continued prosperous until the .schism of 1829, when it divided but su lar-e a nmjority remained as to

;

Friends, and so ivw the meeting

still

value of the land

s|ilit

held

its

in this

ull'

with the orthodox, that

own.

The

great rise in

tlie

township, and the movement

;

EAST LAMPETER TOWNSHIP. of

many toward

members of

the great

Wt-st,

this meetiiii; so

iiiiu-li

meeting was tal^-en to Meeting has been lield

ticular

there are so few

meeting.

ilulgctl

This, wliiili

that is

i-

it

now

bo rightly called the parent of the

tlio

that in \s',i thr

lieie e\ rr

members imw

out

tliiimed

S:iil?.bniy.

muiitlily

'I'hi-

Par-

sincf, |jut c.iily

an

so small,

in-

the church, consisting of forty perches, was bought from Sarah Griffith, and another section of land was purcha.scd from liejijamin B. Grotf in 1S5G.

site for

The

trustees

William

may

iiio>t lliiuri>liinL'

dure

the

early Friends held peculiar views with regard

considering them marks ui vanity and pride, and they forbade their members to plaie them upon the graves of the dead. At the time the meeting-house was moved from Hattil Varman's land to the present site there was a graveyard on the Varman pro])erty from which the bodies were not removed. As there were no tombstones, in time it was plowed over, but so great was the reverence for the dead that the site was not destroyed for nearly eighty years, and there were a few landmarks remaining within the

to tombstones,

memory of the writer of this article. The graveyard connected with the present meetingis

circuit with

Souders-

The clergymen have been as follows: 1779, Joseph Cromwell 1780, John Cooper, George Hair; 1781, William Glendenning, Samuel Rome; 1782, William Pailridge, T. Haskins; 1783, Reuben Ellis, John Ilagerty 1784, Lee Raybole, James Cromwell, I. Lambert; 1785, Ira Ellis, James Thomas; 178G, Henry Ogburn, Peter il. Moriarty 1787, Samuel Dudley, William Thomas; 1788, Robert Cann, John Hilbourn 1789, William Dougherty, James

burg.

Meeting.

house

Fro

in 1>

din the same

.Uk

Yearly Meetings on the ecmtinerit, the Illinois Yi-arly

The

were Jos,-ph Cooper, John Pdnkley, I-aac Conard, ami William tmen.

lI.Kir,

not older than 1749, and there are very few

;

;

;

;

Campbell

1790, Sylvester Hutchinson, J(din Cooper;

;

1791, J. McClaskey, J.

James

Lovell,

James

Robinson,

S.

Wainwright;

Miller; 1792,

Robert

1793,

Cloud, William Hasler; 1794, Isaac Robinson, Eli.sha

John Jarrell, Thomas Sargent, J. Robinson; 1790, Ephraim Chambers, James Stokes; Pelham;

1795,

kept, every grave markeii witii the

William Colbert, William P. Chandler; 1798, William 1'. Ciiandlcr, Daniel Higby 1799, William

of the

Colbert, J.

it, but a record of it has been number and name body lying there so with a little perseverance one can find any grave he wishes, and there is sufficient property belonging to this meeting-house to keep the graveyard in order forever, as the property cannot be used for any other purpose. /

tombstones standing in

;

Soudersbtirg Methodist Episcopal Church.^ The lot upon which this church was built was part of tlie tract of Philip and Leah Ferree, and was sold Li 1802 by Joel Ferree to John Souders in 1789. it was conveyed by lienjamin Souders to trustees, Jacob Souders, David liuss, J(}hn Keenege, Jacob Beam, Joseph Buckwalter, John Miller, and BeiijaSouders, for thirty-two pounds eighteen shillings, Pennsylvania money. The Soudersburg Church is among the earliest settlements in Metiiodism. Boehm, in his ''Ueminiscences," states that Methodism was introduced here Bishops Asin 1791. The church was built in 1802. bury and Whatcoat vi-iicd it in 1803 and officiated there. In 1804 the Philailelphia Conference met in a private room at tin- huu-e of Benjamin Souders, reserving the church for preaching, wdiich three times a day

was used

for

that

])reached twice during the session.

The number

was mie liundred and Bishop McKendree preached in the church

ministers

Asbury

Bisho))

purpose.

of

twenty.

present

in April,

1811.

In 1872 this church was rebuilt, and in additional lot was bonghl from Joel for the

purpose of an e.xlensinn

to the

an

ISV;-!

Lightncr,

I'^sq.,

graveyard.

Bird-in-Hand Methodist Episcopal Church, merly called Eriter|)rise Mutlmdist Episcopal

;

Heart, E. Larkiris, R.

h,

The

Braham

Stephen Timmon., H. Sncath, J. Thomas liam Hunter, S. Timmons, Robert .Mc( 'oy liam Hunter, John

1800,

;

;

ISOl, Wil-

;

1802, Wil-

liethel! 1803, A. Owen, William Brandon 1804, lleniy I'.oehm 1805, James 0^bu^•n, James Stephens; Isoi;, William Hunter, Dan Ireland 1807, Thomas Buck, W. Hover, G. Harmer 1808, Thomas Buck, John Miller 1809, James Smith, Thomas Buck 1810, James Bateman, John Walker; ;

;

;

;

;

;

;

H. Ross, R. Sparks; 1812, J. SandMitchell, William Torbert 1813, R. Sneath, William Torbert, Thomas Everard 1814, Asa Smith, J. ;Mitchell, J. Samson 1815, Thomas Miller, Phineas Rice 1810, David Best, Thomas Miller 1817, Robert Burch, John W*oolston 1818, Robert Burch, P. Price, W. Ilaster 1819, William Leonard, John Talley 1820, William Hunter, J. Woolston, William Ross; 1821, John Woolston, Henry G.King; 1822, 1811, T. Walker,

ers, J.

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

;

Henry Boehm, .laino llohlrich 1823, Henry Boehm, Wesley W. Wallace; 1820, Henry Boehm, W. W. Wallace; 1527, Henry Boehm, Daniel Parrish 1828, George Woolly, John Nichol-on; 1829, George ;

;

Woolly, T.

Cijtroll

;

1830, D.ivid

Ik-si,

Chew 1831, W. Thomas;

N.

;

Thomas Miller, Eliphalet Reed, R. 1832, Thomas Miller, Eliphalet Reed, John Edwards

R^'der 1834, John Leednum, R. E.Morrison; 18.35, John Leednum, J. Edwards; 1831), John lulwards; 1S37, Robert .Andcisou, Dallas D.-Love; 1838, Enos R. Williams; l.s:;;i, i;nos 1840, Samuel (irace, R. Williams, I). Best (sui.|ily) IS. Johnson, D. Best; 1841, Samuel Grace, J.D. Long; 1842, Gasway Gram, J. C. Owens; 1843, Gasway Oram, (;. 1). ('arrow; 1844, William i!. Goentuer, David Titu,; Ish"., William R. Goentuer, Henry

1833, T. Miller, William

;

;

l"i-

Chun

that time in private him^es in the neighborhood.

1797,

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

898 Saiulerson

hands of A. E. Roberts, Esq., assignee, who sold tlie hotel property to Benjamin Gralf. Benjamin Graff lied in 1853, and his executors sold this to John tiygfr, Fs,|. On the 1st dav of April, 1X65, it passed into the hand- of Levi R. lilioads, the present pro-

1846, Allen John, J. A. Wliittaker; 1847,

;

Allen John

James Hainier, Allen John; 1849, John D. Ourlis, James OoKlei'; 1851, Charles Karsner, W. C. Unl.inson l.s.Vj, (.'|i:iil.-> Karsner, J. N. King; l,sr,;i, \':,lfiitiiie (iiay. J. ii.

Jonas

1848,

;

liissey; ]8r)0,

;

Dennison;

Valentine (iray, A. Howard

18:)4,

is;,.-,,

;

Henry Sntton, Jlark liailey; 1S5G, George W. Leybranil, J. Dyson 1857, George W. LcybranJ, Ge(,rge Cnnimins; 1858, W. Rink; 1850, W. Rink, J. li.

d inn

Stewaril,

H.

.Sutton

Magce; 18G3-04,

IMlo, J. ('arr.rly at the ap-

Sr.,

'

9th day of May,

gave

17ii(l,

to

which John

Christopher Franciscus on

who bought

it

at thesherill's

Jacob .sliuriiiakcr. .\ccording to the foregoing sale^ and dc.d- tin- luiti must have been built by Jacob Slio, linker l.ctwe.-n the years 17.58 and sale of

I

1766.

ciscus

The

pro|,rrly

and Kosina.

was

-,1,1

by

(

'hri-toploT Fran-

his will', in 1772, to .lobn Witnier

Sr.,

Job movcl

17S3,

W

iml

wh.

I

In is

Locher family

KAST LAMPlijigton,

the

Kautfman 1847, and

Ilndolpli

Miller in

in in

of Sappinjrton

assignees

and from him

1841,

1852

it

Lemuel

to that of

to

Cyrus

to

passed from the ad-

nnnistrators of Miller to the possession of Jlichael -Aletzger,

the same mill which was built by Boughwalter stood

the present proprietor.

This was an old stand for Pittsburgli wagons, and in ISlfl its

proprietor expected

rtoiirishing

it

until this time

man named Marks

having bought the land around the hotel from the former proprietor, Wallace, laid it out in town lots and disposed of the lots by lottery; but these great hopes were blasted, and it has remained a suburban hotel to the present time.

the same vear, mill

Grati;

Early Innkeepers in Lampeter.— 1 7iio, August term of Quarter C>essions Court, the following persons

'

;

were licensed by the king (George

III.) to keep inns in Lampeter: Frederick Larger, Robert Eachns, George Aston, George Diehl, William Christie; ITGIj, Christo]iher Franciscus, James Gibbons; 1774, Timothy McCormick; 177'), John Witmer, Jr., Willis Davis, Hannah Hains 177S,' James Kerry, Julin Willson, William Hains; 1779, William Hains, George Mi-

\

I '

!

;

1780, Henry Shute, William Hains; George Bressler, Henry Shute, Salome Hains, John Jloore 1798, Jacob Hartman kept the " Birdin-Hand;" Gaynor Pierce, the "Seven Stars;" Ar-

chael Brecht;

;

I

17S1,

;

"Lamb;" Henry

Ivendrick, hotel,

we

ctinnot

tell,

but the mill

tit

this

time was very ohl, ami in ISoO

to be the centre of a

town, as in that year a

thur Travers, the

sum of £4350, currency of Pennsylvania, to ?10,800, on the 1st day of April, 1799. William Hamilton was a manufacturer of cloth, and condficted the Ini^iiiess on Peqnett Creek quite successfully, ynd when he bought this property he associated with himself James Porter as a partner. Mr. Hamilton carried on the business until his death in ISol. Jtimes Porter, son of the partner, and sonin-law of Hamilton, took the mill at the appraisement of the j.roperty, and carrieil it on until 1842, when he sold it to Benjamin Eshleman. Whether ton for the

to

Here

of Brid^^eport, in 1809.

vacancy with regard to ileeiU. The deed which David Witmer received wa.s a sheriff's deed, but

ii

j

I

now

it was luirned. Benjamin Eshleman built the

This pn.perty

standing.

now

In line

the

in

hands of the heirs of lienjamin Eshleman, he Imving died quite recently, and tis his only surviving sou, B. F. Eshleman, is a member of the Lancaster bar, the business is carried on by a tenant, Aaron Hartman, of East Lampeter. Bushong-'s Mill— The land upon which this mill stands is part ot; the London tract, for which James Gibbons received a title from the projirietaries in 1723. In 1732 his son, Joseph Gibbons, had the tract surveyed, and received a patent therefor. This mill was built in 1700 by James Gibbons, grandson of the original James. From the old records it appears that he was two years in building and preparing this mill for grinding and bolting flour. The inscription on the mill retids, " Built by James (Jibbons and Deborah G., 1770;'' ttnd in the Quarter Session records the fbllowiim

i

is

tippetirs,

Mttv 25, 1772:

"This day James Gibbon^, miller and boulter of

name unknown; Jacob Duchman, "The Fountain Inn;" and

Adam

Pickel,

"The

Blue Ball."

mtirk a-

—

lollou^:

Eshleman's Mill Property. In 1719, Jo-eph Bougliwalter, a Palatine, received a patent from the

Court ac.ordim;

Penn, for one hundred and lying on a branch of the 'om-scounty of Chester, province ol IV-nnsylvania. This land lay upon what is now .Mill Crci k, township of East Lampeter. The deed for thi- dart

carried .m

(iruprietaries, tl^e sons of lifty

acres of land

,1.

(iihlMoi-,;

whirli 'he requested

mi-ht he euterrd wnli the Clerk of (Quarter Sessions to law." James (ill. bolts carried on this mill until his doalJi, in ISlo, when by his will the

(

loga, in the

seems originally to have been taken by

1-aai;

Willitim

1)

Willi;

who, we suppose, resigned his claim to ,[o--r]di Joseph evidently built the mill, a^ in the deed granted by him and Barbara, his wife, to

drich,

Daniel

which time he added a story

llen-

iil;

it

the fine three-story mill as

to it

Boiighwalter.

Abraham Buckwaller, the mill property and water right are mentioneil. Abraham can led e American

limits.

etc.

Industries.— There are !

the churcli^

Ctimberland, Nov.

it?

consist of Od.l-Fellows, Masons, lied .^len,

acting in the

his grandson, then Benenext Jacob ISrubaker, then Peter Ebey, next Christian Herr, of Pequea, then Joseph Hershey, followed by Benjamin Herr, with Isaac Eby as as-

follows:

of dilferent sneielie-, with organiza-

tions elsewhere, are found within

smith-shops, and three hotels in the township.

capacity of bishop, and have guided the destiny of the Old

members

tlnnigh

Street,

man Reformed Society. Those who have been and

road with the Stras-

—

|

WiUnw

was built by the Old Mennunite^. Tliecliurtli in Lampeter, as well as the church near the intersection of the common road iind Strasburg turnpike, was built by the New Mennonites, and the fine structure in the village of Willow Street was built by the Ger-

common

burg turnpike, one about a mile south of the village of Lampeter (known as Musser's), one known as the Brick Church Cemetery, on the road leading from Lampeter to Willow Street, one in the suburbs of Willow Street, une near the residence of Benjamin F. .Mylin. one known as the Rohrer Cemetery, an.l one located near the Big Spring, known as Lefevre's. Outside of church members there are Societies. no organized societies in West; Lampeter township,

in-

Here looking at the relics, and viesving the grand panorama of nature, hours put on swift wings and Hy away. Churches. There are four church edifices in the

or noble deeds exalted.

Cemeteries. The cemeteries of the township, though a1 one time not so well cared for, have of late years become special objects ol^ regard. There are one in Lampeter, one eight of them in number,

hawks, made of Hint, that have hven tiirind u\< l.y The farm is a line slreU-h of upland, foiumanding a beautiful view of Lancavtcr City, and other the plow.

I

903

His remains repose in the cemetery attached to the l.nngenecker Church, and around them cluster meinonrs that will not grow dim so long as virtue is es-

sides being a genial host, takes great pleasure in >liun-

whom

village of

Lampeter has a population of 191

inhabitants, and the village of Willow Street 182. These villages, particularly in the summer time, wear an inviting appearance. There are four post-offices in the township, one in Lampeter, one in Wilh.w Street, one at Wheatland Mills, and one at Lime Valley. The Schools.— In no res]iect, within the recollec-

—

tion of the writer, has the order of things changetl j

he read medicine.

On

more

arriving at the age of matti-

in

West Lampeter township than

in respect to

}

or soon after, he married Elizabeth Herr, daugh-

rity,

ter

of

John Herr, by whom he had two John

son and daughter, the former being

I

children, a

her schools. 'of

In the long gone past almost any kind

a building, no matter

how

dark or dingy-looking

^

II. Mu.sser.

an able practitioner, and resident of the village of Lam[)eter, and the latter the wife of E. B. Musselman, of Strasburg. About this time, in connection

I

it

was,

the good

people of the township deemed

well fitted for a school-house.

.M.D.,

Luckily those days are

j

gone, and a brighter

bow

of promise spans the intel-

\

lectual mists, filling the future with hope, as the folj

with the practice of medicine, he took an active interest in the

lieconiing,' too, a

He

lowing

mercantile business, opening a store, and recognized light in county politics.

1

entered the ministry in 1851, and was created

18()3, and died of disease of the heart in aged sixty-seven years.- His was a life of usemainly in the amelioration of the sinner's condition, and gilded witli the glory of sui-cess.

bishop in

i

187G,

fulness, spent

I

rep(U-t of

her schools for the year to June

5,

The

be

1882, will abundantly prove.

|

;

.

ref.ort,

let

it

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

SKHTd

l!lO(il!AI'lll('.\l!V

MISSIOK.

Ltuic-ast

br:iiich

(

Kenjaiiii tlif

first

upon and Whitmcr,

Compare the above

reimrt with the

that of 1805, which will table,

and the reader

made

in

towiisliiii

report made,

in the fullowiiig

loiiiul

lie

will

lirst

readily see the advance

matter of scIkkiIs in West Lampeter the interval of time fiom ISo'j to 1882.

the iii

.f

Ml

or

the family of uliich this im-nioir

is

written,

Mnsser, Ihr graiulfatlier of our subject, f

whom

anything

ouiicil the larm at,

Turkey

is

He

known.

is

resided

owned Manor town.ship, Lancas-

by Jacoli S.

lately

Hill, in

County. He, Benjamin, married a 5Iiss Nicely, who bore him seven children, all of whom migrated ter

to

Newmarket, Cumberland

Co., Pa.,

where many of

still reside. For his second wife he married Maria Souders, whos,. cliil.lren were Ben-

their descendants

Daniel, who died young; John llivss; ami Li/zie, who married Abraham Hess. Of the sons, Benjamin was a farmer, and passed his .lays in his native county. Joseph became a plivsiiian and moved to Ohio, where he died, Icavin^j a son and two daughters.

jamin, Joseph,

Jlartin,

JLirtha, married

—

The present board of school directors and there never was a better is cdiiipoM'd ,il' the followino- gentlemen President, IJ. l'.. IKir; Secretary, H. M. Herr; Treasnrer, J. li. Hoiimt, H. .M. Musscr, J. B.

—

:

Kendig, A. Mowrer.

and gentlemen are regarded

as

the best of the profession, and are the teachers

Lampeter township

Lampeter, H. C. Fiekes Willow Grove, Miss E. R. Shanley Fairview, W. V. Lewis; Locust Grove, Miss Amanda Landes; Highland, Frank Shibley Temperance, Miss Lizzie B. Newswenger; Rock Vale, T. B. :Miller; Wheatland, Miss Mary Harvey. in

Martin was born .March o, IT'.K!, in the homestead in Slanor, where lie grew to manhood. After acquiring a common-school education he studied medicine with his father, who was a successful jjractitioner, and wlieii twenty-two years of age began the practice of

Lampeter S(|Uare, in this county, time had a large and successful practice. his property in Lampeter to his

his iirofession at

where he

in

In 1835 he sold

Tlie following ladies

among

to

:

;

;

;

nephew, Dr. Daniel Musser, and bought a farm about one mile south of Lampeter, on which he moved, intending to quit the practice of his profession, which he did as nearly as possible. On the farm then bought he died in 1848. In 1815 he married Annie, daughter of Jacob Hostetter. She was horn Fch. 7, 17!l(!. Their children were Maria, born ,liily ;!1, ISIG Abraham, July 15,1817; Jacob 11., Jan' 24, IMii Benjamin, 1S22; .Martin, June IS, Sept. 1, 1820; Hliuv, Oct. 1824; Martha, June 12, ls2o; Martin, .^^cpt. 14, 1X2? Daniel, June is. Is_".) .Vuna, .May .s, 1H;;1; Anna, .May i;i, is:;:j; .•Sii-annah, April 27, 1835; Gideon, .Inly 1, ls:;7; and lanma, Nov. 25, 1838. Maria, Abraham, Martin, .A.nna, and f.iideon died in infancy. Of the sons, Jacob II., Benjamin, and the second ]\Iartin became doctors. Henry, the fifth child, was born in Lampeter Sipiarc, wIutc In- remained until ;

;

The and

buildings are

bell;

(jf

mounted with dome

brick,

ullhin they arc parl..i-

point

in

.d'

light,

.-.,

;

ami desks,

flooring, seatijig,

in

shoit,

they cont.iin

everything that caie can invent, calcnhiled to ~p,

r.l

the mind and add to the comlort ..f the pnpil. They are built on elevated jdots .,f ground, with

an outlook taking in a wide extent of hill, valley, and forest, dotted with palace home and lowly cot, furnishing u pleasing landsca|]i' to the eye.

Justices of the for

West

Peace.— The justices

Lainjieter township, since

of the peace

adoption of

tln'

the State constitution allowing townships to elect

such Hpnry

have been

ollieers,

Ueiu-y

as follows

Oirpi'litiT, .\iiril 12, IS42.

CiMistliin Hosa, April 11, l.sja. Ciiilieiitc.t,

April

i;i,

Hj47.

Aliilieiia ,

(J.

S.

Curpenler,

Zoaher,

:

.\]iril II,

ISM.

larm, as heretofore .set forili, where his boyhood and young manhood days were passed. It was intended that he too should become a physician, and for a time lie read medicine, but abandoned it and

iliiy S, ISlo.

E. R. Miller, April, 1ST2. itc

ChristiiUi Hfsa, April 11, 1818. Clirisliiiri (l.,rdy,

April

0, l.Wd.

Levi llubfr, April 11, 1«51.

Uenry Levi

Miller, April 11, 1S6G.

Ilul.i-r,

Apiil

I'J,

lb.VJ.

S^iiiiiK-l

Weaver,

C.i-|,ir

Il;,i lu,,,ii,

A|,ril, 1S74.

Apiil,

IsT.",

S^mmm.I \\i,,i.i. A|.ol, 1-7.. Al|.l,,n. S.iiiiurl


^.CSVS^^^

LANCASTP]R TOWNSHIP. and members. ized,

and has ever been one of

is

He

many

Las

its

stalwart

Creeks

times represented his town-

ship in the county conventions, and

lias

many

A oak.

which the

He was

hn-lu's

one of the

stockholders in the Strasburg Hank, and ten

I

1

For his first wife he married Hiss Elizabeth Breneman, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth {Neff Breneman. She was born Jan. IS, 1825, and died Feb. ;!, 1879. To them have been its

directors.

)

hi-ook.

.The present area of the township

born four children, as follows: Milton B., Oct. 20, 1846; Ada, Aug. 28, 1847, died in infancy

born Feb. 17, 1852; Charles M.,

May

Henry

;

1,

E.,

1857, died

Milton B. graduated at Jefferson Coland was elected resident physician of Blockley Almsliou>e, which position he held fifteen months, when he openeil an office in the city of PhilaDee.

and

'

is

four thousand'

There are a very few acres and not tillable. assessment-list for the year

the earliest one

now on file in the commistime every one of the Swiss settled in the township in

is

At

sinners' otliee.

'

this

.Mennonite pioneers

who

1717-20 had gone to their long home: John Musser, Henry Besb, John Christy, George

delphia, where he has an extensive and lucrative jirac-

Henry

acres.

Early Settlers.— The U'll

lege, Pliihidelphia,

tice.

forty-five

called "crip])le land,"

'

1865.

1,

and

gronnil.

filled

liouse director for three years. first

years one of

thick gr.iwth of heavy tindier, such as hickory,

\valnut, originally giew upon the high Snnill scruh-oiik and hickory and hazelgrew in the swaiiipv giound, in which several streams had heir migin (now within the city limits). A rich loam was nndi-ilaiil with a clay subsoil. Limestone was aliiinilant, hut di^^'NslIIl'.l

'Miller,

taxes 1751), Cliristian

Jacob Hostetter, .laeoh Fetter. .laeoU Christian Shank, .Mirliael Shank.

LAXCAsii:i;

Kudy Hare,

I'liimharge,

Sliiiiek,

leolle.-lor of

fifty

years

in

the year 177(5

:

A^alentine Ba.ss-

Andrew Bausinan. Hans Behler, Conrad BIygert, Henry Christy, Hans Cliristy, Hans Detty, Daniel ler,

Lancasteh was its

boiiiuhirii^

(Uie of the original

as (K-lined

in

172;i

townships, and

were as follows:

'Beginniiig at the 'old Duri..r\' Ford (Dr. Hans Henry Nefl'j, thenrr (h.wn the w.-^t side of Conestoga

Creek to the Manor .Iik-.' Ihipc by said line to Little Conestoga Creel;, then.v up tin- said creek by Hemp'

field

(

I

township

|„

Manheini township,

t,,wns|ii|, tn tlie phi.,' of

lM--inning."

tlieiuv

l.y s:,id

Thr old

Saniurl Kanlc's mill, and

tur's For.l

was

where

(irallsiown road .anic to the neck.

is

tin-

ai

an older road than

..rigiiial

at a point

This

Pluladclpiiia road, whirh

ridge, half a milr larlhcr

down

In aiea Fan, aster was the smallest

(dthe

crossed at Witnua's the errek.

tlio

Dt.r-

I,

townships.

^Vhen the county-se:it was permanently hjcated, town-site two miles s(|Uaro w;is cut out of its nortliern part, whiidi divide.l its t,-rritory into two p:irts. This h;is always \n:vu an innniveni.-ncc to the citizens oC ;i

the township.

The land

bor.lering on Big alid Little Conestoga

liy .S.,„u,..t

Ev

Erisman, Jacob EJeneiser, Jacob Greider, JIartin Oreider,

JMichael

Henry (Jreider, Hans Abraham (irinewald, Hans

Trreider,

Greider, Jacob Greider, Getz, Williani

Emmanuel

Gram, Henry Herr, Rudolph Herr,

llerr, Christian

Lawienc

Herr, Jacob Hostetter,

Henry Lemon, Henry Miller, Hans Slienk.diriMiaii Shenk, Henry Shenk, HansSliwenk, I'le.leriek Welier, William Wei. I., James Webli, r. Sketches of Pioneer Settlers.— When the " new surveys" were made on the west side of the Conestoga, in the year 1717, tin' jiioneers came into the Hans

llo-ti'ttei,

Xiele.las

Adam

I.oeh,

Martin,

.lolin

,Ios,.|,|i

Klopfer,

Mendehaeii,

Slienk, Christian Shenk,

,1

township.

CominiMicing

the township settled

we

liiid

:rt

Dr.

where Samuel KanI;

the northeast corner of

Hans, Henry Nelf, lives, at

who

Big t'onestoo-a islli

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

906

and clover-mill and a farm. He died in 1808, and gave all of his property to his nephews, Samuel ami -Martin Light, who were the .sons of his brother,

hind where he was then settk>d

from tlie English five thousand Ave hundred most of wliich hxy in Lam|>ettr The doctor's hind was oji tlie west ^idr ( townsliip. theConestoga,whieli fell into Jlaidieimand l,:iHc:i'-lrr townships. In the year ITI'.S, Dr. Nelf and hi- wile, Franca, sold one hundred and lifty acres to Sehasliaii

grist-

Land Cojnpany, who had and

fifty-three acres,

.shopkeeper in

Gralfe,

l.aaea-lei-

t.Mvnstead.

.luhii .Light,

where

the* road

The

landing.

physician in the county.

townshij).

many

years disappeared from the

a— e-sinent-rolls

'//;.,.s"('radl,.," a

'

Francis Nelf wa-

'

was

a !Swi,s .Me

ther

down

.i

tled at the

Conestoga

lie

After he set-

married the widow of Idoyd,

Han-

brother of Dr.

mile,

and

He

Xelf.

-ettled about a udle far-

the creek, below hi- brother's location,

ill

and took up two luimlred and twenty-five acres, ])orlioii of which lay in the bend of the

1717,

the hirgest

lav

time in Switzerland.

or near Keigart's

at

year before he died.

creek lielow Wilnier'- bridge.

tirst

V'iut Marlic

the river cro-sed

at

It was a very unusual circumstance in the early days of the settlement to devise property to those not of the blood of the testator. In this case there was no discord betwrge

homestead farm, grist-, -aw aijil od-uiills he gave to his son Ahrahani, who also sold to tseliustiau (iralle, iu,1750. Dr. Nelf was the lirst regular praetieirjg Jaines

win.

mill wa. on

I'hi-

the soiitliea-1

o setlle.l there, and from thence he went tn Illinois.

who had

;

Franklin Cotinty,

in

tin-

Stale,

with his father and bnillier

and

.lolin

in

to

ISm; went

Canada,

lie

married JloUie Erb, hi. eou>in.

Benjamin, the seventh -nn ul Christian, Sr., also settled in Franklin ('.>iinly, anlian which bears their name. ilary, the second daughter of Christian, Sr., married Jacob Snyder, and had five sons and five daughters, all .dwhom settled in Canada. Elizabeth married Clnislian Snyder, and had to

settled in the valley

1

eight sons and three daughters,

all

of

w

HISTORY OF LANCASTKR COUNTY.

910

IKitr.mi/e.l bvits IViomlsiii Lain-asU-r City aiul Colunibiii aii,l

y object of

uNrwluT,'.

Alter Dr. Muliknl)^!-^;- was railed to take charge of a

eollege

Flushi.i^r,

at

Some

L.

the school

[.,

Atlee, JI.D.,

of the

erly

iiio~l

Thomas

'

j I

E. Franklin, attorney-at-law, |

George W. Hamersly, editor and publisher of the Lancaster Krami/ier, and Thomas F. Potter, trustees of this institute, sold tlie school biiildinjrs and farm of seventy-three acres to the Hon. Alexander L. Hayes, who sold the same to John Kelley, who sold to the Gionters, who sold to Christoplier Hager. Wagner's Academy for Boys was organized in It is located on the uurlh side of the Lancas1S74. ter and Columbia turnpike, about half a mile west from Lancaster. Tiie academy is under Catholic control, and is attended by a number of students from abroad. It was established by Professor J. 11. B. \VaLnier,

who

now an attnrney

is

at

'

j

!

I

turnpike, and the Cones-

The MillorsviUc kailmad and

(iuarrvville

road pa-s through tins township, also.

i

that establisliment languished

James Hum.-,,

.Mu-d

wl,

;

agreed to erect,

at his

near his .saw-mill, i

\Villi.ii,i

thllMig-iMill

on

the riiiladelphia

own

of stone

co-t, a niill-hoiise

si.xty teet

h.ng by

feet wide,

fifty

three stories high, and to erect a dwelling-house near

to

UF THE PEACE.

14, 1S40.

a

,.f

the mill-house, and also a stable. Jl'STICE.s

Casimr Souuuiu, April

..

and Lancaster turnpike, and now owned by the estate of Eshleman, James Houston, casliier of the Hranch Bank of Pennsylvania, located at the corner of West King Street and Prince, in Lancaster City, and now owned by the Hon. Anthony E. Roberts, and Joseph Ogilby, Jr., who associated themselves as Jacob Miller & Co., in the business of carding, etc., for the period of ten years and six months. Each of the parties paid upon the day the agreement was made into a common fund the sum of one thousand dollars, and agreed to jiay an additional sum of three thousand dollars each. Jacob Miller

j

Rail-

(See chapter

Mtvr

Mill Creek, near the ,io-,ing

the Lancaster

given the citizens of the town-hip unusual facilities for getting their producr to Lancaster market.

in the fu'tory.

and went into decay, all life left the village, and it is a mere hamlet imw. The city is gradually but surely growing up to it. It was thus named from James Humes, one of the proprietors of the factory. Manufactures.— Ill 180.:j, Jacob Miller purchased the old mill and water-power, a lid one hundred am fifty-nine acres of land from Jo in Swarr, which wa^ part of the Francis Xeif |u-opert\ On the 28th day JIarch, 1812, an agieeiiirnt was' nade between .lacnl. Miller, who resided u| and owiicil the farm and mills, and Samuel Whit.', ,liy--oods nieichant, Lancaster,

—

toga Shukwatrr Navigation (nnw out of use) have

:

.

Internal Improvements. Tlie Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike, the Lancaster and Columbia turnpike, the Lancaster and Marietta turnpike, the Lancaster .an.l Milhr-ville turnpike, tlie Rockville turnpike, the .ijril 15,1845. Clunrlea Tlloii, April

l:i,

1847.

'

G.orue

J.

rented

High, April, 1S74.

Cliiirlos Tliu.i, April, l.s75. ' j

Harris lloarilinaM, M.iy 23,

ISd'J.

lliram U. West, April, l^TU.

cent,

,Api lirtr,

Justi

i

ALirain

J..i

David

Dan

S. Builer.

Bee

7..

.t,,rk rr^ide in the

|

have since owned and kept

tlie

hou.se.

In 18S2 the

was well repaired, alterations were mad nd was retinished in good style by tlie present owner, er,

hor

huildin^r it

.^Ir.

ttle,

hogs, and ^heep, are bought and sold in

the

1

Gordonville.— Th

.racob S. Shirk, of Bird-in-llaiid.

and Jacob Wenger became the owners ot lands lying on the south side of the Philadelphia and Lancaster old road. They built several houses upon this land. The first one erected by tliein was a brick store-house, built about the year 1833, in which a Tliis store was carried on for some time by .Jacob. building afterwards came into tiie hands of Mr. Moses Eby, who enlarged the same and conducted the merIt was decantile business in it for a. long time. Imstroyed by fire on the 1st day of October, 1881.

oti

lilt

.T(iseph

1

village

the Penn-

ding from [

|

j

'

the Philadelphia and Lancaster old road, at Leacock meeting-house, to the old Philadelphia turnpike, at Paradise, passes through the village,

Peibre the railroad was constructed the land which

mediately another larger brick building was built on a more convenient i)lan upon the same site. -Air.

is now situated on the west side of that railroad was owned by Mr. Christian Hersliey, grandfather of the present Amos Hershey and brothers. The first dwelling-house erected was built by Daniel Gordon about 1^32, the same house now owned and occupied by When the railroad w.is comMr. Henry Eckert.

.son, Jason K. Eby, now owns the premises, and carries on the mercantile business. It is a g(jod

on the west

Eby's

business stand.

Wengers was

He

is

sold by

the present postniasti'r.

them

to .Mr.

Daniel /.ook.'xhe

i

|

1

I\Ir. tbirdon had an old warehouse standing .side of the railroad, in which business was carried on by himself. In 183(5 he built a storehouse upon the same nide of the railroad, in wducli store-hou-e a simv has been kept up to the i)resent

pleted,

land so sold gonsisted of a hirm lioiuing partly on the aforesaid old road, and rMeiidin-

back

sonlli-

wardacoii,ideral,le.listancelromlt; the old dwellinghon.^e, before

mentioned

as

being leeenlly torn down,

on tills farm, and a new brick house was erected some years ago by Mr. David Ilanck upon the IronI

stooil

part of the farm.

Plouses were built hinii time to

time upon the rest of the Wenger land, that is, upon such |)ortions of it a^ were siuiated immediately on

new house was .Mr. \Villiam .Maiialian. He commenced the business in ls:;ii, ami conducted the store up to 1839. He also at the same time earrie-l on the

this

warehouse business in .Mr. Cordon's warehouse. He was succeeded by Ilathoru Freeland, who also carAfter he ried on the store and warehouse business. (piit the store it was carried on by John Seldomridge for a lime, and afterwards by John-Smoker until the year ISiU, wlieii .Mi. .\mos Hershey became the pro-

upon the west side of the south street which runs in a southerly direction from the village. Those built along tlieold road were erected by Daniel Tioni,

prietor

Charles Sweigart, William Lytic, and others, and one was built fronting on the Xi-wpoit road by I'lionias

al>o built the jiresent warehouse, the old wtirehouse

built

Hiues.

Among

the

first

houses

side of tlie s30iw;urj

George Lyue.

of Leacock

The paper

is

I'.icu'hip (/ loii.jwri lo (Mpl. Itolaad's

headed

Cumpnilj.

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

•924

named Upper Leacock.

The

dividing

line, as

in

tlie

Nothing positive is known of the parents' death. Dr. Henry Carpenter had three sons John (afterwards

set

was to commence at a piiint near Hoover's mill, on Mill Creek, and to t'nilou- that stream in its winding course to the StuiniJtown ljridi,'e, and from thence tlie line was to extend directly north On the IDtli day of June, to East Lampeter township. 1843, by a decree of said court at Lancaster, Upper and created a new township. was established Leacock Pioneer Settlers and Incidents.— Among some of the first pioneers of this township were the Bushongs, fortli

—

petition,

Carpenters, Weidlers, IJnckwaltcrs, arorts,and Mixcls.

Abraham— and several daughJohn Carpenter was the great-grandl'ather of Col. Reah Frazer, of Lancaster City. Henry was the hither of Henry Carpenter, a land-surveyor and Dr. John), Heiiry, and

father of

penter, a physician

The

1

Dr. Henry, and

ol

and the grand.\bram Car-

I>r.

who

died in ISoG.

May

20, 1840.

probably the

C. Carpenter,

the county, both of

Lancaster City, are lineal descendants of the original Dr. Henry, and sons of the aliove-named Henry, who died in

184(;.

Emanuel Carpenter was live years idd when he came to this county, and it was thought that it was prior to the year 172.S when he settled in this town'"His influence was salutary, and he had the ship. In unbounded confidence of his fellow-citizens." 1747

he was appointed overseer of the poor, and

held that position^no lucrative one) for a

number

of

In 175G he was elected to the Assembly, ami was annually re-elected until 1772, when his health His refailed him, and he died in the year 17S0. mains repose in Carpenter's graveyard, along the Newport road, where a suitable monument many years afterwards was erected to his memory by his great-

years.

ICmaiinel (^ir]ienter, Jr., Mr. Reigart. pnnninent memlier of the e'ar]>eiirer t'amily, was elected to the Legi-lalure and h.'l.l that position during the Urvolulionarv uar. Jacob Carpenter is the only doceiidanl of this noted family who still

grandson, also a

•'),

pioneer settler of

On

the northwestern part of the township, that bordering

family of Swiss extraction, the paternal

name

in the year

beirjg

(

ter, also

I

County, Pa., about the year 1715, and settled near what is now LampeterSquare. He came from Switzerland, bringing with him a son about five years of age, named Emanuel. He had afterwariis five other sons, viz., Gabriel, Henry (afterwards Dr. Henry, a celebrated physician of his day). Christian, Daniel, and Jacob; besides two or more daughters, one of whom married a man by the name of (irubh, and another,

The

sons were located by the father on

first

three

land he

named owned

near and along Conestoga, and in what is now U|>|.cr Leacock and West Earl townships; and the other three on his land near his resndence in Lainpet.r.

.-.tate,

formerly oulied by

Emanuel

172',».

in

a

liiile

log house.

There seems

to be suHicient evidence to confirm the oft-repeated statement, for immediately after the erection of Lancaster County a violent discussion arose as to the

Other families of the name of :aip. liimmerous, are of English descent, lleinii'h Zimmerman (Henry Carpenter) was born alaiut the year 1078-80, and came to what is now Lancaster

Zimmerman.

a part of the

Carpenter but now by Jacob Kurt/., near Mechanicsburg, it is said by tradition that the first court that ever convened in L:in of They had nineteen children, and, with one ex«eption, a child was born to them every year, and to make up for wdiat they may have considered

lief

" lost time'' twins were born in the year 1744.

in tlie town of Lindau, France, not far from the river Rhine. They were Ifnijuenots, and wt-re made to feel the full

in

force of religious per.'^ecution then raging throughout

He was a silk-weaver, and in religious bea follower of John Calvin. While iroop.s were murdering his friends in tlir town he LMtliercd u|i a few articles and lied with liis family tu the ncitrhburliood of Strasburg, where he remained two years, lie died in Germany, leaving a. widow, ifary, and six children, who came to America in the year 1709 and settled in Ulster County, N. Y. When they left the Palatinate they were accompanied by a young man named

Le Fevre, who

Isaac

stated that his family,

who were also Huguenots, were nearly all put to death by the soldiers, and that he escaped with difti-

He came with the family to America, where he married Catharine Ferree. From Isaac Le Fevre the name has spread over

culty unhurt.

several States.

Mary Warenbuer in 1711 took out a warrant for two thousand acres of land in New Strasburg. Martin Kendig, who seems to have been the agent for the early pioneers, appeared before the commissioner of property, 10th Seventh month, 1712, with Maria and her son Daniel, and desired that a patent might be granted and conlirmed to Maria, but upon due consideration of the matter it was .lecmed l.t-st to confirm the same to her son Daniel and sojiin-law, She died in Concstoga, ConesIsaac Le Fevre. toga township, in 171(1. There must have been some neglect or delay, (or we find that a |iatent was issued 'to Daniel Ferree and l>aac Le Fe\re in 17:i.'i. Some years subsequent to tlii> time, when the parlies divided the land, it was discovered upon a resurvey of the s.ime that it contained three hundred acres more than the original survey, and a confirmation deed was made which embraced all the land. Isaac Le K.^I're also received a patent in his own name, Fourth month 15, ]71.'i, for three hundred

in

France

farm

in

1713.

in

Leacock.

this county.

William Liglitner, son of Adam, returned to GerHi- .jwned large .sugar and .-|iice [dantamany. tions U|)un one of the islands in the Eastern Ocean,

and he became

po.ssessed of a very large estate, to

wdiich a multitude of his descendants are

now

turn-

ing their eyes, anxiously waiting to divide and enjoy this

accumulated wealth.

His brother George also

returned to Germany. The Johns Family.— The Johns fandly, wdio are numerous and wealthy c'itizens of this tuwn-hip, are all dcscenclants of John Johns, who came to America with Hans Groff, and followed him to the " WhiteOak Tree," in GrofUs Dale, where he became a laborer for Mr. Groff. Mr. Johns was a religious refugee of Switzerland. He had hid himself in the attic of his house to seclude himself from his pursuers, and while looking out of a window he saw his large herd of

was being slaughtered by those who were in He was then compelled to flee and leave his estate to the mercy of his persecutors. After having accumulated some money by hard work for Jlr. Groff, he purchased a tract of land of two hundred and thirty acres of Emanuel Carpenter, cattle

search of his blood.

wdiereon he erected a house, which, with additions

and improvements,

is still occupied as a dwelling. This farm has never passed out of possession of the

Reuben Johns, wdioowns

Johns family.

l>resent, is the fourth

owned

The Lyne Family.— West first

this

farm

at

generation of J(dins that ha=

it.

iiioneer settler

warrant

for a tract

of HelVer's

Church the

was .lohn Lyne, who had taken

a

of land of over one thousand acres.

Philip Scott, a Scotchman, had been a laborer and

blacksmith for ]\rr. Lyne, and had his shop somewhere near w hat is now Weidler Kaehel's shop. John hundred acre.m l,v the name of David, who married 4th Eightli month, 1710, six hundred acie^. John Miss Scott. David liiol six boys,— John, William, Ferree, 2d Fourth nidiith, 1710, one hundred acres. Daniel, George, Ch. -ii-r, ;uid iabriel. Chester Lyne The Lightiier Family.— Adam Lightner and Maud, was a soldier ni' the war ol' 1S12, and some of hi->

acres.

Philip Ferree received a warrant 24th Sixth

month, 171G,

for three

(

descendants nin\ secutions along the Rhine, which ilmve tlimi^ands uf

county.

Holland, tiunre i,. Kn-hmd. Tliey were Lutherans. Their sun William was l,„ni in Germany. Nathaniel was born in 17oi), while Ids

liam, wlin went

Protestants

to

parents were encamped near Londorj. They came to Anieiica in the ^auje year, and kittled in Ulster County, N. v., among the La Kues, Ferrees. and Le

le-ide in

the eastern part of the

the otlier boys went west, except Wil-

.VII

til

(

'uiuberland, where he

learned jurist, and was afterwards judgeship of the County Court. "

became

elected

to

The Hamilton Family.— William Hamilton January, 17S2, and

a

the

died

and the following children .lied in 1810, was father of John Hamilton William, who moved to the West in 1810, where he died; and John, son'of Hugh Hamilton, was appointed to settle his estate. The thir.l son was John, and the fourth James Hamilton, who was a colonel in the Revolution; Robert, who was the father (if John; and Ann, who married James Walin

:

left

a wife, Jean,

Hugh, uhu ;

Tluy came

to Peipiea N'alley in the year 1723,

and

upon land near the old Peter's road, ui)On the northern boundary of Leacock township, and about a

settled

udlc northeast from the village of Inlcrcuurse.

Nathaniel married Margaret La Rue, who was born

i

TIPPER LEACOCK TOWNSEIIF. Nancy, the seventh Wade. For full sketch of ' Appleton's

Oul.

James

and two children, George, an only son, and one who married John McCausland, and b.ne him two children, Esther and Jane.

Tlioiuas

iiiarrifd

iliild,

lace;

.Jean,

daughter, Esther,

Ilamiltui,, ^fe

Encyclopedia."

John.Whitehill, third mhi of James Whitehill, of

The Owen Family.— It appears that among those -oujiht a home towards the closing years of the last is Upper Leacock was Benjamin Owen,

a wife, Mar-

who

Salisbury, died in January, 1779, and

century in what

garet,

ot'Quakerde.sccnt. Ilehought land north oI'Monterey,

Whitehill.

and near a large spring he erected a house and barn, which are now occupied by Daniel Kolp. Mr. Owen's influence was felt in the township for good, for he

William Wallace lUed in Leae.ick, in August, 1793, and left children,— Robert, James, Hannah, married a Mr. Calhoon, and wa,^ the mother of three sons and one daughter; .M.iry uiarried a Mr. Lennegan JIargaret, Josiah, ^Villian], and Thomas. Matthew McClung died in lSU:i, leaving a widow, Jlartha, and two sons, Matthew and Hugh. Matthew, Jr., owned one hundred acres of land, and was the Hugh, father of two sons, Charles and Hugh (2d). son of Matthew, Sr., was also a farmer, and owned one hundred acres of land, which he sold, April 4, 1814, to Jacob France. George Philip Bard died in 1793, leaving a wife, MarMichael, John, George, garet, and seven children, Jacob, Elizabeth, JMargaret, and Mary. Peter Eby, one of the pioneers of this township, died in 1794, and left eight children,— Peter, Samuel, Henry, Andrew, John, David, fliii-tian, and Anna,

man of refined taste and culture. lie served was then known as Leacock township as justice

was a wliat

represented the county in the State Legislature, and

Ann, Jonathan,

died in 178(!, le.aving three children,

and Benjamin.

John

-eea ol them along Smike Hill. have been fi>nud' Mich as arrow-heads, war-clubs, tomahawk., etc. On .lacob Stiiltzlus.s' farm, near deiil

—

named .Tames. John Stu g>, who d„ 'Ar.._:.. left a widow

There are no records of any

peaceful disposition.

dillirulty

1

children,

I'eter

a

another Thi)

Iliatt,

left

Robert, William, and Jolm

—

oek

174S, and left a wife, Elizabeth, and three John, Ann, and Thomas. John Morgan, another of tlie early resii

township, died in 174S, leaving' a brotlu-

tfiree children,

;

number of years; afterwards he

of the peace for a

and

lime

lo

l,a.>ket:,

..ell

pa^^ed

on

named l,v rea-un who uai^oned hi, wa\

road was >o I'eter.,

a,

ot'

they

an

Imlian trader.

—

-

HISTORY OF LAxNCASTER COUNTY.

Jiiui.^i;

\\c-i,-,i.

Township

Officers.

riie

ibllouing

ince John

Busliiing.

JU.STiCES

li;ive

been the

its orcaiiiz;ition

:

OF THE PEACE,

Epliniiin Bare. 1844. Wil

Kiuzer Bender.

1

Sarah Beitder.

1

Midi

Jiicub Brady.

1849.

Johr Join

1854.

Susanna Bei.dei

IS.'.S.

Jacob Jtla,=,

Jolin Bard.

1839.

Jiic-.bJnhns, liLMlllCIl

1874.

William Weidu Isaac Bushong.

n,

18134.

Daniel Bitzcr.

Elizabetli K,ii

Daniel Kache

Sr.

]8-,0.

1882. V. G. Ilarpel.

Isaac Bushong.

Lewis

—

:

1801. Peter Kellenberger. I

Chris.i

1846. Lewis

George Bald. '

Chl-isli

1847.

Jacob

Jacob Brubaker.

^'"'

Abraham Buckwalter.

1S48.

John J

Isaac Bessler.

1

I

David Bnck«/lltor, Christian Buckwalter.

George Bair. 1850.

John Barton. Joseph Buckwalter.

1851. Joseph Iliiffanl.

Moore Connell.

S.S.R utter.

George Carulhors.

1852. Peter StauflVr.

Klizabeth Cunninghan

Henry Krieder.

Ma

1863. Peter Kelh-Bbergf

Henry Kreider.

Robert Connell.

1854. Joseph Markk-y.

Nancy Carpenter.

J,»epl, Eby.

JanK'B Cooper.

Henry Caffrey. Thomas Evans,

Abraham Eby. Jonas

Eljy.

S.MiMifl

John

••

Kby.

El.y, Jr.

Jacob

Eliy.

Joiin Eshleman.

Christian Ebersole.

Mary

il.-niy Uesli.

Benjamin Kesh. John Rohrer. Rudolph Kudy. John Raub. Samuel Rouk. William Rogers. -I»aiali Sluiell.r.

falhariuo Seidle.

Kpley.

Philip Fasuacht.

Chnsljan Franhauser

John Grabill,Sr.

Abraham Cibbons. Abraham Cil.bons.Jr, Christmn Gral.lU. Catharine i:ioninger.

Barbara Good.

Homy

Guod.

John John Grahatn. Daniel Gruff. Daiiiul Gibbons.

George

Gn.ll.

Slultzfus,

n. L. Batten.

u.

n.

ROAD SUPERVISORS. 1846.

Bare, Es -urcecdod in trade by Martin,

Garber opened

as a private residence in 1800.

for the public

.lacob IIoll opened l.urg

Hotel,

where

UPl'KR LKA.COCK TOWNSHIP. The next in trade was Swope, wlio continued in the mercantile when G. G. Wenger, tlie present merchant, became a dealer in dry goods and groceries KiiKuiuel

business until 1872,

I^eacock post-ollice has been at this

at this stand.

place of business ever since this store was established.

More recently George I3ard opened an aL'riiultnral implement store, and is carrying on an i\lcu>ivr business. Harry Weidler, an old resident who is now eighty-three years old, had been for many years blacksmith. A. Holland and B. Rohrer, in 1881, erected a large tobacco

warehouse

in IMechanicsburg.

V. Andes & Son's Agricultural Implement Works and Foundry are the largest manufacturing establishment in Upper Leaoock, and are located in In 1849, Peter Vandersaal, a ma-

Jlechanicsburg.

erected a shop, twenty-five by thirty feet, in

cliiniit,

which he made agricultural implements. this (if

time that Mechanicsburg got

the mechanics this trade

its

drew

It was at name, on account

to

In

the place.

Valentine Andes, wlio came from Germany about 1838 with little means but much genius and mechanical ingenuity, purchased this place of busi1851,

two thousand dollars. He had in his employ first, but the business has grown to such magnitude that the main building is four times as large as the original one, and the large foundry, warehouse, and other adjacent buildings have been added. Twenty men are kept constantly at work in these shops. Some years as many as fifty horse-powers and

denback, associating themselves with S. R. Jlyer. The firm was then known as S. R. Jlyer & Co. In 1876 the senior member of the firm died, and a change was made. The widow of S. R. Jlyer, with J.

D. Buckwalter as manager, continued the business when another change in the firm-name

until 1883,

was made.

The

Also

ness for

in 1881.

Grotr& Son are

now composed of known over the

well

The

firm

the father and two sons, and

county.

is

The threshing-machine

with double wind-mill was invented in this shop, and jiatentod

by the

The Mechanicsburg Pottery, aid the

erected by Frederick Swope,

situated on a trian-

N ewpi

and pottery business

continued byjiim until 1850, when his son Henry took charge or the establishment. An additional has been added, and the main building, two

stiiries

—

for

fifty

institution

years.

in the

Moses Hurst

summer

of the same year S. C.

built their large tobacco warehouse,

engaged

(1883) is

in

and

the tobacco business.

the blacksmith, while Levi

Dunwoody

many years has been the village tailor. was the Bareville Physicians.— Dr. A. S. Ba physician of Bareville, and died July 1, 1883.

for

first

The

following

is

was born. Nov.

a brief sketch of his

time of his death.

life

:

The

doctor

making him sixty-three and fourteen days old at the

1819,

17,

years, seven months,

He commenced

reading medicine

was

in its infancy.

graduated from Jetfersou Medical College. The first four years of his practice was in the Lancaster County Hospital and Almshouse. He then

after that date

married the only daughter of James Vogan, of Voand moved to Bareville, where he established himself, and practiced medicine for nineteen succes-

ganville,

and unabated interest. once received the confidence of the community by his strict fidelity to his profession, and

sive years with great success

high, has been greatly enlarged.

Physicians. The first physician of Mechanicsburg was Dr. Isaac Weidler, who was born in York County, Pa., and graduated at Jett'erson University in 1825,

when that

now

with Dr. Atlee, of Lancaster, in 1841, and three years

firm.

gle formed by th,

kiln

residence of Solomon C. Groff was

palatial

erected under the supervision of tieorge Kellenberger

a

is

built the hotel,

which was the only house in Bareville until 1808, when John Mary, Jr., ei-ected the large brick house now occupied hy F. G. Ilarpel, Esti. The architect of this building was Christian \Venger, the grandfather of Difler D. Wenger. The hotel was first licensed by Adam Bare, who Mr. Overhad kept a store there jireviously. holtzer was the next in the mercantile busines.s, and opened a store in the large brick dwelling, and later built the present store-house, and was succeeded by Jacob Swarr. In 1855 the merchant was S. R. Myer. In 1870 a ])artnership was formed by John Kreamer, Harvey Rifts, and later by Harvey Rei-

four hands at

sixteen threshing-machines are built here.

Andrew

lety-thr e years of age.

for eighteen years.

iiKiiiied

931

He

practiced

Dr. Carpenter, a sou of Dr. Isaac

Weidler, is a native of Upper Leacock, and graduHe commenced the practice of medicine the same year in .Mechanicsburg, and is still in practice at that place. Bareville is a village one mile and a half east of

ated at Jefferson iledical College in 1850.

He

at

at large

was immediately recognized as a prominent jjliysiIn 1850 he received a nervous paralytic stroke which greatly impaired his usefulness. Finally, refilizing that he could not do justice to his Ijrofessiou without excessive labor, he retired from practice in 18G3, aiul removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was engaged in the wholesale commission

cian of the county.

In 18G7 he returned to Bare-

business for four years.

and there remained

until his death.

Mechanicsburg, beautifully situated on a water-shed between the Conestoga and Mill Creek. It consists

ville,

of about

invirsity, rouniKUccd the graduate of Jelfersoii practice of medicine in liareville in 1S74. noted William Weidman, a bachelor, wliu

flirty

dwelliirg.s,

nearly

all

of which were

The place is named after the first settlers, Andrew and Martin liare. Andrew I'.arc was tlie father of Adam Pare, who was elccte.l sheriff in 1830, and who died in 18S0,

built

during the

last

two decades.

Dr. J. W-infield

tio..,!,

..f

Cliester Counly, also a

I

land surveyor and

conveyancer, had

Bareville from 18iO until ISSO,

his

when he

olUc.

died.

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

'J32

of

said

him that he surveyed every

in the township.

many liis

years an apjirentice of Jlr.

successor,

foot of land

who had been

F. G. Ilarpel,

Weidman,

is

for

now

and received the instruments used by

the old surveyor.

The Bareville Trustee Association.— This or182.3, when Adam Bare, WilCarpenter, Abraliam Gerhart, John Deblin,

ganization-dates back to

liam

_William Michael, Martin Bare, Isaac Myer, and David Overholtzer met in an old schoobhouse, in what is now Bareville, and organized a debating society, Adam Bare being the projector of the society. He was a man of more than ordinary intelligence, holding during his lifetime important political positions in the county, at one time being

This

sherift".

The first store known as "Ander-

and Henry Murr, blacksmith.

ter;

that was opened in Monterey was

Of late A. Hershey & Bro., of Gordonville, have erected a large store building, and established a branch of their business in Monterey, under tlie management of Benjamin Ilershey. The Monterey Coach-Works were established by David Overley in 1877. At first there was but a small shop here, but as the business increased additions have been made, until now the shops cover Monterey has a daily mail. quite an area. The Common Schools.— There was no special effort made to put the common-school system in operation son's."

until

1847.

elected,

In that year a board of directors was

whose object it was The new board met

to put in force the

new

and the society was incorporated and known as the

Mechaniesburg, levied a tax on the taxable property and inhabitants, and appointed a collector, who failed to collect any of the tax, the sentiment of the township being against the system. In the following year another effort was made, but with a similar result. The members of this board resigned, and the court appointed a new

" Bareville

board,

society has been in session every year until the pres-

ent time, except two years during the late Rebellion.

In 1849, in order

to preserve this organization,

and

to

shield themselves against the anti-society sentiment

of the town, the society, by the suggestion of Dr. A. S. Bare,

applied to the State Legislature for a charter,

Trustee Association."

Tlie school-house

system.

who again

in

levied the tax,

which aroused the

has been rebuilt by the directors of the township and

indignation of the anti-schoolmen to such a degree

used for school purposes, but the trustees, who are elected on the third Saturday of May annually, still

that they positively refused to pay the tax, and they

hold their chartered rights by granting the house for all educational and religious purposes wdiich have a

tendency to promote the general welfare of Bareville. The original members of the corporation were Dr. A. S. Bare, George Brubaker, John Raff, J. S. Miller, The present trusJI. G. Wenger, Michael Wenger.

H. L. Batten, JIartin Sheaffer, and Jacob Eby. The original orgahization is still maintained and fostered by the trustee association, which is now known as the "Bareville Literary Society." This society has probably done more to shape and mould the character of many young men in this vicinity than any other influence. At first, the ladies of Bareville were not recognized by the society, but were afterwards admitted, and are now among the most active members. Hon. C. Hunsecker, Andrew Frantz, Esq., ex-County Superintendent Evans, Dr. Gibbons, Rev. D. W. Gerliart, and Dr. Moore, have at different times participated in the lyceum exercises. Monterey is a small hamlet on the Newport road, tees are

of about ninety inhabitants. origin.

When

Its

name

is

of peculiar

George Heller kept the hotel

at this

place during the INIexiean war, great excitement was created

when

Col.

Worth stormed the

fort of

Mon-

hostile towards the measure. The matto the Lancaster Court, and thence to Supreme Court, where it was decided that in the spring of 1849 a new board should* be elected by the

became very ter

was taken

the

people of the

district.

This board performed the

first

It ora; work in the towns! and collected the tax, made the appointment of teachers in July, and had the schools during

effectual educational ized, laid,

The members of this board were M. G. Wenger, John Samuel Benjamin Rohrer, Weidler, Bard, Reuben that year in successful oiieration for six months.

Seldomridge, and Wilson Brubaker.

From

this time forward steady progress has

been

made. The salary of the teachers at the adoption of tiie system was twenty dollars a month, but gradually, as the prejudice was removed, the term, in 1868, was increased to eight mouths, while the teachers' salaries ranged from thirty-five to forty dollars per month. All the old log buildings have been replaced with brick or frame structures. Neat patented furniture is found in nearly all the school-rooms. At a session of the school board, convened at G. Wenger's hotel, Sept. 21, 18(i7, a resolution was unanimously adopted that the township hereafter furnish tlie

text-books for the several scholars of the schools

Upper Leacock.

This

Mexico. Mr. Heller, then traveling in the western i)art of the State, was asked where he was " From Monterey," he replied. He related from.

of

when he returned, and the inhabitants In at once adopted the name as that of their town. 1850, George Murr erected the present hotel build-

and that all children had the necessary books. There are twelve schools in the townshii), including For the Bareville Secondary and Primary Scliools. the year ending June 1, 1803, there was levied a tax of 82793.79, and the average attendance for tlie same year was 374. The cost of instructing each puiiil was

terey,

tlTn iiicident

I!. T. is occupied by Adam Gehrnan. Seldomridge has been' for many years the saddler and harness-maker in this place Peter Sowers, cariieu-

ing which

;

act, at first,

popular, but slowly grew in favor. action in the schools was that

it

-was very un-

The

result of this

secured classification,

UPPER LEACOCK TOWNSHIP. There was levied a tax of >:'iG.38.0S Cor the year ending June 1, ISSS, wliilc tlie average attendance was 45G, making the in.'itruction of one scholar cost S"1.S1 a nmntii. ninety-nine cents per month.

time the school-houses were Imilt in 1850,

and rebuilt

in 1881

;

liareville

:

ML-chaincsbiirg,

Mill Creek, in 1850, and

rebuilt in 1SS2; Bard's, in 1853;

I

I

Stormstown, in 1853;

Primary, in 1S54; Stumptown, in

1858;

Secondary, in 1859; Locust Grove, in 18G0; Musser's and Myers', in 1SG3; Wenger's, in 1SG9. Jiareville

Gibbon's, iu 1862;

\

!

|

John Montgomery, who now holds honorable position in the State Normal School, M rsville, this county, and who is arecognizeil leader in educational circles, tauglit in the

Mechanic-burii si-lmol

tur a nuiii-

S;iiiiiiel Ik-linier, of years, commencing in 1N54. who has been connected with tlie same institution for a series of years, also commenced his professional life in the Bard school. Mr. Behmer was a firm advocate

lier

of tcm|ierauce,

and spoke frequently upon the subject. The following are the names of

School Directors.

—

the directors since the organization of the township; 1644.

Emanuel

S«o[,e.

c

HISTORY OP LANCASTER COUNTY.

934

Margarita Nunnamakcr, Salome Reimciisnider, Rudy, and Eva Biisliong. At the same

astor. The Mennonites and New Mennonites had their place of worship in early times in a pioneer school-

Children's Day.

.-i.ddresses

house near the Sluniptown

mad and

of the present meeting-house.

near the site

Among some

of the

John Krider and John Buckwalter, and among the latter John Landis, Abraham Landis, and Christian Resh. About the year lsi;{| .raeob Alusser gave land gratuitously upon

early preachers of the former were

,

which the .Mennonites erected a brick nieetijig-house, which they rebuilt and enlarged in the summer of 1882. The New Mennonites have no place of worship in the township.

The I

Ornish,

;

j

i

Hooker Mennonites

among

(so

the pioneer settlers of

called

Upper

Leacock. They are nuito numerous in this township. They boh] their meetings in private houses. The Bunkers, who are the German Baptists, are Thev have one place of worship also nnmercjus.

'

near Monterey.

I

or

becatise they wear hooks on their clothes instead of

buttons), were

;

;

first

waiter are the leading spirits of the school; 24tli

ollicers

;

the

ent Aaron Bender as superintendent. Mrs. Bender, the widow of J. W. Bender, and Miss Lizzie Buck-

pres-

and teachers are: Superintendent, R. R. Pleam; Assistant Superintenliip> in

county cau claim. When it was in contemplation to divide the township of Drumore, from which this was taken, and while one proposed one name and another offered another, with a prospect of considerable difficulty in settling the question, John Jamison, one of the oldest and most prominent citizens, said to the company, " We, most of us, came from Gredt Britain as our

King's

Picken's

finds its source near the centre of the town.s-lii[),

forty-

greater age than over one-half the

,Iaiiie>

West Branch of Octorara

Uoek, King's Bridge, and Fair Mount.

Pioneer Settlers and township has, perhap-, the in

the county.

Land Warrants.— This earlie-t

loeatiun of

laii.l

170) a survey of loon acres was

In

made

for John Wiliiier, by the name of Milcoiu Island (see map), wdiich he soon after transferred to Randal Janney, and he in turn to John Budd and Sarah Morrey. It is doiilitliil whether a settlement

Tlie idea was

was ever made by virtue ul ilii> hieation, for in 1715 Hudd and Jlorrey relinipii^hed it to the proprietaries,

favorably received, and the township then being or-

taking in lieu thereol two warrants tor 500 acres each,

native place.

memory

ill

ganized was dred years

I

|iropose the

Litlti

liritaiii,

accordingly. For over one hundimensions were unchanged, till in

separated from

])art

of

named its

1844 the territory belonging the

name

of our mother-country."

The remaining of Little Britain,

part, is

it

to

it

took the

now

was divided, and

name

of Fulton.

constituting the township

bounded on the northeast by the

braneli of Oetorara Creek, seiiarating it from Coleraiii; on the southeast by the main Octo-

weslern

rara Creek below

County

its forks, seiiarating it from Chester on the west by Fulton township, and on

;

Drumore township.

the northwest by

length from north to south its

greatest

width,

lioiii

is

e.xtrenie

very nearly eight miles

the Fulton

Grove Bridge, somelliiug over shape

Its

five

line

miles,

to

;

Henry Reynolds, each one taking 300

Pine

but

so irregular that the average widtli

is

which were afterward located in Philadelphia County. The Ross Tract.— In 1714, on the 5th day of November, Alexander Ross took out a warrant for 500 acres, which was located on the northern part of this tract. As these surveys were made by what was called the forest perch of six yards, instead of five and a half, it might have netted between eleven and twelve hundred acres. GatcheU and Reynolds' Tracts.— In 1735, Elisha Gatchell took out a warrant for OOU acres, which was

its

for wli

July

;h

37

acres and allowone obtained a patent, dated make 1100 acres, and i-s ry nearly 1200 acres, or,

would

scarcely be two-thirds of that figure.

The waters of

der Ross sold his part to

the (Jetorara Creek, cither the main

stream or

eh

its

western branch, wasli considerably more than onehalf of its enfire length of boundary. Besides these it ha-, iici eonsiderable streams, but quite a number of

being added

smaller streams, tributary to these or to the Conc-

the whole 1200 acres, togeth^

wiiigo.

(

»f

these the Little

Conewingo

rises

within

-.

tions,

but

to

little

early possessors. liy Jc.

still

them and

;

now remai

A

sniiill

|

belongs to the Jamisoi

4, 1742, added a warThese lands remained

many

years, other lands

iterw;

.'iiate

1)1

Ju/m

ini /iumint'sui

Maich E

S

3

l_

ALEXANDER fl'xfiK/it

liiif/

unfht

ELI

iintt',1 Xor.J'."/

John Jcu/iison

SNA GAT C HELL :U)OA,i-

,il/

,

'(I

7/^/^.

J'Tucf ,.y(>lJ hi/ /loss

liiiir J'."

/ "/?S

HENRY REYNOLDS J(J(J.{& all

-

Fidcitt .lull/ Q "^

S

It'll

rrunt

/7J->

.c

f 9

173 i'

e

I, (run .

I

DRAFT OF MILCOM ISLAND. Surveyed by John Wilmer 1704.

mi soil

/'^'//V.:-'.

6

ROSS,

A'ur//i,-;7/ pai'l o/' f/n\s'

tii

A-

:'

a'.''

/ 7J'.

LITTLE BRITAIN TOWNSHIP. descendant in tlie sixth degree of the original Henry Reynolds, still holds about 100 acres of

11

lineal

the original 300.

All the rest has passed into other

IkukK.

(iatchell's 300 acres

diviikil,

and conveyed.

been rej)eatedly sold. now the owners of

are

were early disposed

of,

The

late Joseph Ballance and since his time it has George Hershoni and others

held about one-half of

it,

The other

it.

half belongs to

Joseph C. Jamison, now or late Jacob Proctor, lately the AsLton girls, and others. Reynolds' 300 acres are now owned by James Peeples, William King, heirs of William N. Grillith, and others. Henry Reynolds, however, took uj) other land, some of which still remains to his family, thongh only a small part of

He boasto.! thai he owned st-vcn farms at one tinir, and that he cnld .tarid on hi-; nwn ground and view tlieni all. Hi, great gnin.lsou, .losiah Reynolds, held two hundred and twenty-six acres the whole.

-

of of

this,

which he devised

it still

olds,

remains.

The

to his children,

heirs of his son,

where most

John Reyn-

hold 132 acres of this; the heirs of his daugh-

Maria Peeples, have 20 acres; Sarah Philips, another daughter, had 35 acres, jiart of which she still retains; and Rachel J. Pickering, another daughter, has 29 acres. Beside what has been mentioned, and possibly some small pieces nut noted, all has jiassed into other luirnls. Verily, one -emTation gathereth together and anntlu-r .n'iirr:itinu -ratterrth abroa.l, -o ter,

to establish this fact.

Edward Pleadwell had a warrant tnmi the Propriecommissioners lor 700 acres, dated July 10, 1707, whereof 200 acres were surveyed July IG, 1717, on both sides of Octorara Creek, chiefly on the west side (being then in Chester County). This laud betaries'

came the

was one

Mod twenty-five acres on u i;:;7, and sold to David Havid siild to Samuel Reynolds in 1773, who sold to Roger Teague i, he to Samuel Carter in 1801, who sold to John, Abel, and Seth Kinsey in 1811. It now belongs to Samuel Connard and others, and is intersected by Raccoon Run. The village of Kinseyville is on this tract, the Kinseys having erected an extensive bla^ksmith-^ho|) and tilt-hammer on the run, ami built a nuuibrr nl houses lir>t

hiiiMin

I

Octorara Creek, taken up

Reynolds

in 1771.

Since Abel Kinsi y's dcalli

there.

into a spoke-factory, ajid

This tract was located as

Two hundred and

il

wa^ eouverteJ

now used as a saw-mill. being in Drumore township. is

thirty acres he took

up by warrant

piopi ily ol hi- daughter, Sarah, intermar-

who sold to Jose]jh Wood, now belongs to the Tyson Mining Gom]iaiiy, of Baltimore, whose chrome pits on this laud were long the most jiroductive in the world, and furnished a large proportion of the chrome of comried

.June

of the

937

two son-, Samuel and Reuben, and now owned by the iieirs of William N. Griffith, James Wood, Abner Carter, and others. Henry Reynolds took up 88 acrfs and allowances additional by warrant of In 17(i(; he 1745, now .belonging to James Wright. entered an application. No. 2104, on which 102 acres was surveyed to him, and ]iatented by the name of " Reynoldstown," now owned by heirs of John Reynolds and others. Another Samuel Reynolds in 1700 took 255'| acres on Octorara, now owned by David ."\I. Taylor, B. F. Taylor, and others. Three other tracts, coiit;iining together about 5(i0 acres, passed through the hands of dillerent men of the name of Reynolds (as well as divers smaller pieces) of which nothing now remains to any of them. One of these tracts of 137 acres, sold by John and Francis Rowland to Jacob Reynolds in 1795, is believed to be one of the seven farms owned by Henry Reynolds the elder, but the evidence is not at hand

with .rohn ir,,

1701.

rri,-,t.

It

merce. From the two facts of its being situated in a bend of the Octorara Creek, and being owned by Priest, the bend of the creek and the land within it lias long been known as " Priest's Neck." John Allison was a prominent man in the early days of Little Britain. His farm consisted of 330 acres on two warrants, one to himself and one to John JlcComb, now owned by John J. Kvans, William W. Evans, heirs ol Albert \\'\U„u, deceased, and others. He wa- a man ot' means, and sometimes

loaned money on mortgage.

Matthew Atchison.

Feb.

1743, warrant for 200

8,

acres including improvements,

now William

and Isaac Wilson's. by William M.ar-hall

confirmed by patent of

only as a s.piaU.r without right.

erties

.\pril 11, 17.32.

Tin

s(.-

iiro|i-

now belong to Aimer C. \Vood, Samuel Fite, Nathan Haines, deceased, heirs of ^Villiam

heirs of

A

Hilton, deceased, and others.

was patented joining his

to

first

tract of 145 acres

Henry Reynolds, JIarch 300 acres.

heldby Josiah

This

is

22, 1741, ad-

partly included in

Reyn.d.ls, and devised to his and partly held l.y William King, William Griffith's heirs, and others. Henry Reynolds sold 2:;:i acres to Samuel ]{eynolds, 1st iho. 3, 1745, and to Henry Reynol.ls, ,Ir., l>t mo. 10, 1747-4S. Samuel Revnolds took no 120 acres adjoining, and sold to liU

the land

children,

Ft

at

Scott's

appears to have been settled

February, 1748, ami had the survey of :\ralcolm Fisher, of Decejuber, Ml'^, tian-llrn-d tu him.lHiih

in

an earlier day. but perhap,

He is supposed to have been a stei,-son of William Baldridge, by a former wife, but this is uncertain.

John Atchison. Sept. 5, 173S, next to Matthew now Isaac Wilson's, P.oekius .V lilaek and was onrr owned bv Aaron Lovett, and It Il wa^ at hen.-e was 1,.,,- known as " Lovett land." one time llu-propertvolWilliam iib.son, of Oak Hill, who sold it to redeem the property of his nephew, Atchison,

otii.rs.

(

William

(iil.son, .Ir.

then in

dilfictilty,

and was

di-

William Baiclav had 113 acres surveved on war-

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY, rantdateJ Jhiy 13, 1736, foi-lSU acres on We^t HnuK'li of Octorara (then Dniinore lowiisliip), resurvfyeJ liy

rain. |

warrant of May 10, 1743, for inii ani^ incliuliiiL-: vacant land adjoining the above with it, ami ri'turiiud 3GG acres and 151 i)erches, after which aihlilinii-, urn-

is

of adjoining vacancies by three wan ants dated upon which 302 acres 14(i [jerclius were added, making the whole GG9 acres and allow-

,

Hugh Barclay, Joseph Miller, John Allison, and Robert Campbell two weeks afterwanl. Tluy divided the property into two parts, ami suld the

sold to

James

western, containing 300 acres, to

and the eastern, containing 3tJ7 ehanan Jan. 29, 1773, who sold

ratters. m,

acres, to (iilbert lUi128:]

acres to Walter

Buchanan in 1784. The western part now belongs to James S. Patterson, Bordley S. Patterson, and Xicholas H. Wells, whose wife with the other two are the grandchildren of James Patterson, to whom the western part was patented Aug. 31, 1809. The eastern part belongs to John P. Hays and James Hays, while Walter Buchanan's part has been largely divided. William Baldridge was an early settler who ap|)ears to have jmrchased the right of William Clarke, to a survey of 107 acres by virtue of a warrant dated Aug. 17:;^. :;:., At his death his son, Micliael, took the I'loperty, for which he obtained an entirely new warrant iu lii^ own name, on which a survey of 2781 aeres was n.ade to him Sept. S, 17S,S, and patented to

him by the name of

St. .Michael

April

He

l.\ !7s;).

had previously taken out a warrant (in 17(ill) or order for a vacancy adjoining Clarke's survey which he also suppressed. About 1802 he sold out here ami bought in Colerain. This land now belongs to Thomas Wright, Rockius, and Black and others. John Raidridge,

The

rain, afterward po.ssessed by Archibald White, who obtained two additional warrants in 1748 and 1749,

acres,

his right to the

th.-e

AValker,

found

ing-hoiise, Oi'ottinghani,

and

to liave

been carried to

made

or

This allegation is made on the strength of old account books in which the carriage is chargeil for. The wliole account is vague and indefinite, and while it may be true, looks very much as if it were apocryphal. James Brown had 134 acres surveyed by warrant of Jan. 13, 1744-45, in Colerain and Little Britain, to wdiich he added jointly with his son, Hugh, a warrant for two pieces adjoining, one in Little Britain and one in Colerain, estimated at 80 acres,

.fames

Brown

sold

Hugh Brown, May 4, 17G2, by will dated May 18, 17GS, whereby the other half was devised to Jix

with the niad

the township.

Otherwise the present boundaries

same

Lancaster township on the

as the original limits,

east, the

Conestoga Creek

on the southeast and south, and the .'^us(|nehanua River on the west and southwest. Surface.— The surface of .M;inor township is rolling

undertook to do he did well,

bear a portion of the public burdens.

hum

far

cor|;esp(iiiil>

of the townshi]) are the

and liilly thioughont. In the .-., and served one term as county auditor, but he con.^ented to be elected only because he thought it his

and

estoga,

,

,

Few

men have

ever lived imbued with higher courage, sounder judgment, purer patriotism, or more spotless

the western

liall ol

part

i

IS

siderable elevation,

boundary

line betwa

townships, this

IIAl'TEi;

iml \V(

.M:i

hill

Otherwise there are

LXV.

es

m

lengtl

lUg

i

the streams.

Streams.—The

eastern jiortion of

Manor

is

inter-

sected by the Little t.'onestoga Creek, which crosses

Location and Limits.— Alauor township, the wealthiest and most jjopnlous township in Lancaster County, occupies a tract of country embracing twentyfive thousand seven hundred acres, or a little over forty square miles, in the western portion of ter

Lancas-

that ))ortion of the town-hip, first in a southwesterly,

then in a southerly diicriion, and empties into the Conestoga at a point ahoiii two miles above the mouth

i

j

southern boundaries of tiie county. The Sus(|uehanna River forms its western and southwestern bnumlary,

JIanor

I

and central part of

ncjrthcrn

intersected by the west branch of the Little first in

a southerly, then in a

southeasterly direction, and empties into the Little

'

Conestoga about two miles above its mouth. Indian 'f own Run is a small stream about' two and a half miles in length, running in a southeasterly direction, having its source to tlie north of the site of the old Indian town, and *;mptying into the Little Conestoga nearly a mile above the mouth of the latter.

and the Conestoga Creek its southern audsouthea.-.ierii Lancaster township is on the east, ami I'a-l and West Hempfield on the uortli, E.ast Hcmplield being sejiarated from i\Luior by the Columhia and Lancaster turnpike, and West Hempfield by a bcnmd-

number of small streams. and Products.— The soil of .Afanor is a rich The cereals produced are wheat, corn, limestone. Besides these there are a

of a ridge of hills beginning near

to[)

is

Conestoga, which runs

limits.

ary line ou the

The

of the Conestoga.

I

County, about midway between the northern and

Columbia turnpike, at a point near the southeastern corner of We-t Hempfield. The [.opulation of the

Soil

|

^ranor township

in LS-Mi

was

five

thousand

and

an.l tifiy-

oats,

Ol' this

three.

Original and Present Extent.— INLuior tart

of Cartlige's tract, about two hundred

of the Little Conestoga Creek to

MANOR TOWNSHIP. hundred pounds. On Nov. 18, 1734, J;anes Logan and his wife Susanna bought two hundred acres from Jolin Cartlige.

Nov.

hundred iwres were granted

Thomas Ewing and Susanna,

liis

wife.

Feb.

to

lu, 17411,

Susanna (Ewing) Connelly sold to John ICeagy one hundred and filty acres. Dec. 31, 1739, Andrew Hamilton, ICsq., sold his manor of fifteen hundred acres to Michael Baughman for five thousand pounds. Michael Baughman sold to Abraham Stoner, blacksmith, of Warwick, and to Abraham Herr, two hundred acres. Nov. 21, 1751, John Keagy and his wife Ann sold to Jacob Miller one hundred and fifty acres. Oct. IG, 1738, a patent was given to Micliael Mayer and his wife Elizabeth for two hundred and seventeen acres. They gave this tract to their son, ^Michael Mayer, Jr. (June 22, 1745). Jlay 8, 1749, Michael Mayer, Jr., sold this tract to John Miller, blacksmith, of Lancaster, for six hundred pounds.

I

!

21, 1739, three

LTpon this tract Millersville

is

I

17G9,

1,

John

Killhoffer sold to

the present Breneman's tavern in 175S.

[

nent character

of

among

his brethren, settled in

Manor

u]) one hundred and eighty-eight Valentine Miller and his wife, Mary, settled in Manor in 175G. He left four sons, John, Valentine, Jacob, and Matthias, and a daughter, Elizabeth, married to Christian Stoner. John took

in

j

taking

1777,

acres of land.

]

I

land along the Conestoga, and Jacob and Matthias

:

land at the river.

]

I

I

of Hempfield, land in JIanor, adjoining hind of

Funk, John Miller, and Hans Frans, lying along the Little Conestoga, and having a mill on it. Sept. 10,1811, John B. Haldeman, of Donegal, and Ann, his wife, sold to Josei)h Charles, of Manor, land beginning at the river for six thousand five hundred dollars. This tract embraced one hundred and thirtyfour acres, and contained [)art of four tracts, the onehalf part of which Jacob Gish and his wife Mary sold to John B. Haldeman, Dec. 17, 18U8. The above tract was allotted to John B. Haldeman in 1809, by writ of partition. He married a daughter of Steman,

site

The Eev.

Christian Hershey, a Jlennonite preacher, a promi-

I

built.

John Stoner, Henry

acres, formerly

Nicholas Houghentogler settled near the

I

i

Nov.

951

James Patterson's two hundred acres, to John Keagy, who made a will in August, 1783, and gave the same farm to his sons, Jacob, John, Hudolph, and Isaac. hundred

five

!

;

Abraham Miller settled east of Breneman's tavern, which was built in 1793, and was formerly known as Mann's tavern. Jacob Miller lived on a farm of one hundred and fifty acres along the northern line of Manor, which farm he bought of John Keagy and Anna Nov. 21, 1750. In 1755, Jacob Miller sold the above farm to Part of this land belonged to Tobias Steman. Thomas Ewing sold

it

I

in

In

1739.

1758, Tobias

Steman

to Christian KanlVmaii.

embracing the old Indian Town came into the possession of the Musser family afler the destrucMarch 4, 178G, J(ilin tion of the Conestoga tribe. I^Iusser sold one hundred and sixteen acres of Indian Town to Christian Mellinger, and in 1793, Christian

The

tract

Mellinger sold

to John ^Mellinger, father of the late and grandfather of the present Dr.

it

Dr. Mellinger

four hundred

The land on which the old Indian Town was located is now owned by Jacob Habecker. On Feb. 2, ISIG, John Leman and his wife, Elizabeth, of Hempfield, John Funk and his wife, Alice, of Franklin County, Pa., John Witnier and Ann, of

1737.

Manor, Barbara Bare and

who owned the land. Andrew Kaull'man, who had obtained

and

a patent for

and si.\ty-two acres in Manor, died in His sons were Cliri.tiun, Michael, John,. Facob,

Conestoga,

Isaac.

James McMaster and his wife Elizabeth, May 14, 17G4, sold to George Mann, J(din Mann, and Bernard iMann one hundred and fifty acres, adjoining the lands of John ICeagy, Jlichael Thomas, Jlicliael Kautt"man, and James McMaster's other land. The Shumans settled in the vicinity of WashingThe ton borough, where their descendants still live. JIanns settled a little farther eastward, where their descendants now dwell, near Washington borough. Nov. 21, 1734, a jiatent was given to James Patterson and his wife Susanna, as joint tenants, for two

hundred

acres.

In 1741, Jacob Hostetter by a patent obtained two hundred and thirty-five acres. His sons were John and Abraham. Jlichael Atkinson, a Scotch-Irishman, who had received a patent for

Conestoga Manor,

Jlellinger.

fifty

left

acres on the north side of

a widow, Ann, and several

who

Bare, spinsters, of

-Alary

wei^; grandchildren of

Adam

Kendig,

John Steman, of Manor. sold Adam Kendig, who owned one hundred and twenty fifty

acres

each

to

acres in Martic township,

made

a will in 1804, leaving

his son. Christian, seventy acres.

The

islands ojijiosite the lower end of

Washington,

four in number, were called the "Isles of Promise."

George Shuman settlol in Manor in 1772 on the upper end of Turkey Hill. Hl- left four son-,— Michael, John, Henry, and Adam. The Sliumans afterwards settled in and anmnd the present borough of Washington, where their descendants yet live. Jacob B. Shuman, now (1883) seventy-nine years of age, who was three times a member of the Legislahas a large farm jusr easi of Washington borough, and on this farm is the house built by John Keagy and Anna, his

ture, the last time of the State Senate,

wife, in 175G.

To

tlie

eastward of Jacob B. Shaman's farm, on the owned by the

opi-osite sides of the road, arc the firms

Susan Connelly, widow, of Lancaster, sold her two

brothers

John

S.

Mann and George

S.

Mann.

These

:

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

952 are

;

among

the i)riiicipal f:irm8 in the t(nvM^hi]l, and

are the leading farms in

tlii.s

132, dated 1703; John Miller, 60, Jan. 19, JohnNewcomer,109, Joseph Nelson, 109, Jacob Mary Wright, 119, 1707 John Kendrick, Jame. Pratt, 232, 1708; Henry Buckley, 150,

Witmer,

vicinity.

.Conestoga ."Manor was surveyed Proprietary in 1717-lS, aecordiug

1764;

lur

the use of the

Wisler, 178,

to

the following-

558,

;

1709; William Wright, 257, 1770; Ulrich Rebur, 232,

order to Jacob Taylor, surveyor-general

John

:\Ianning' 105, 1772

Indian Town, 411;

;

Jacob Ashleinan, 340, 1774; Uoek, SOO.

Hlue

Fractions of

acres are ..milte.l.

mouth of

Coiie-toga ereek, from the

up the

river

the

as

"Thomas Penn eslinuited the value of Conestoga Manor, being sixty-five miles from the city of Philadeli)hia, 13,400 acres, at £40 per hundred acres, £5300, Pennsylvania currency. There is no date to the pa|ier from wdiich this extract is madr."' The foregoing extract slious wIkj took up land in

said creek as hir

land already granted to Peter

and then hyaline running from the said river to Conestoga creek, all which tract of land for the proper use and behoof of William Penn, Esq., Proprietary and Governor-in-Cliief of the said Prov(;li;iitier,

ice,

Manor during

.

hands,

March

chasers. acres.

It

l)atented.

1,

new purchasers. Farms were cultivated in every porTurkey Hill and the tract in the northwestern licjii.

This survey included more than IG.oiiii was afterwards sold in small trael^ and The following were the prijieipal pat-

part

1,

17:'.'i,

1723; the

Wright, 1600 acres, Dec. 13, smaller parcels to John Herr,

sold afterwards in

Rudy Herr, Jr., John Hershey, Andrew Kautliiuin

James

;

James Logan, 700

107 acres, Nov. 21, 1734; 1-5,

Brenner, Ghristian

Philip

Adam

Sioulfer,

lution,

Michael lianghman, 4Sy, Michael I'O, 1738; Michael Mayer, Sr., 217 acres, Oct. 10, 1737; Abraham Steiner, 03 acres, Jlay 3, 1740; John Wistler, 107 acres, July 3, :\Liyer, 131 acres,

I

'

Manor m,ou made Mennonite

i

both Feb.

Anna

1741; Jacob Kuutz, 100;

Ottila Betty Kolfer,

100; Jacob Hostetter, 475; John Shank, 1U7

acres,

that

town.hii, the nu.st higlily-

produelive agricultural district

Clitfer,

t'hri-tian Stake;

j

)iieetiiig-house

in

the

|

!

|

'

\cliBnmui.

I'ailt.

;

both May 25, 1750 Martin Funk, 237, Dec. 18, Jacob Wistler, 202 Jacob Shuck, 185, Aug. 18, Miller, 89, Valentine Ilaith, 2'J, Robert Beatty, 220, February, 170U; Samuel Herr, 247, John Keagy, 188, Henry Funk, 150, Jacob Wistler, 173, Ludwich and Friedrich Ziegler, 209, June, 1758

;

1759

;

;

;

Abraham and John

1700; John Witmer, 77,

Abraham

Miller, 204,

Ru-

dolph Hen, 170, Jacob Witmer, 77, November, 1701

James McMaster, 247, April, 1701 John Keagy, 150, Henry Funk, 177, David Hare, 195, John Miller, 150, George Adam Dustier, 112, John Correll, 209, ChrisMichael Kaulfman, tian Stoner, 244, all dated 1701 1 10, John Kauffinun, 118, Jacob Kaulfman, 107, Chris;

;

Kaulfman, 118, Abtnham Slciner, 200, John Wormley, 115, Jacob Wistler, I'J, John Kreemer, 184, Bartholomew Butt, 40, John Grair, 130, all dated 1702; Philip Ulweiler, 39, Ben-

tian

KaufTman,

103, .Alichael

jamin Miller, 220, David llyre, 60,

llenrv AtkniM.n and

.)r.,

Adam

94, Peter

Snyder,

Higging, 49, i'eler

A

in the

pushed about a mile and a half north of the original Following is an assessment-list of Manor for line. 1780, during the period of the Revolution:

;

ler, 140,

county.

was early erected

centre of the township, on the land now owned by The northern boundary of Jlanor was C. B. Herr.

j

July

30,1741; EdwardSmout, 113 acres, June 21,1743; Michael Baughman, 339, May 28, 1752 Abraham Hare, 424, April 22, 1751 Jacob Wistler, 125, Valentine Mil-

at

village of Millersville

Caspar Souler,

Unmmel, Lawrence

Fisher, Valentine

acres,

by George Brenner,

1737, afterwards held

Land was then valued

in all parts.

pro(luctive fields,

Pattison, j

July

be settled, and grist-mills and saw-mills

and orchards were planted. The was laid out' before the Revoand a tavern was erected on the site of the present "Black Horse" about 1769 or 1770. The toil and industry of the Swiss and German settlers in

Matthew

Killhaver, Chris-

(Jberholtzer, tian

|

Lintner, Jacob Killliaver,

lUidy Herr, Jacob Frantz, Godfrey Klugh,

to

from twenty-five to thirty dollars per acre. Good horses were valued at ninety dollars, and cows at fifteen dollars. Timber was cut down and large tracts were rapidly cleared and converted into highly-

ile.ssrs.

Andrew Stineman, Daniel

began

were erected

entees: Israel Pemberton, 3o0 acres, date of patent, Oet.

The among

the period before the Revolution.

lands of the township continued to be divided

1717-171S.'

Brenner, Jacub. Brenner, tbilip. Brenner, George (AJam's »on) Berg, .laeob.

Bonn, Jac„b. Bonn, Widuw. Bender, Miel.ael.

Domini, Blicbuel.

MANOR TOWNSHIP. Frey.Jolm. IVg, F,x-d.rick. Forseigli,

James.

FnulM, DaviJ.

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

954

In 1743, Mr. Ewing died, and within a year after she married an Irisli officer named John Connolly, who had been a surgeon in the British service. He was a strong Roman Catholic. By this husband she

one son, the subject of this sketch. After lier husband's death, which took place about the year 1747, she removed to Lancaster. Slie had a great deal of wealth, and it is j)resumed that she sent her son to the best schools the town afforded. She died Iiad

and it is supposed that her son was placed in charge of Col. George Croghan, who was his uncle.

in 1755,

Where

or with

lie

studied medicine

is

not

now

the tribes in the far West.

After the conquest

of Canada by the English, and the subjugation of the

Indians by Col. Biujuet, the French agreed to surrender all of their forts and |io.-.seasions east of the .Ahs-i,sippi River.

command

of

tliat

department.

He

arrived there

on the 5th day of September, ITCS, and took command, and set up a civil government. A number ot the officers were from Virginia and Pennsylvania, and he seems to have been followed by a large iiuiuLier of Indian

trader...

David Franks, an Imlian trader and merchant of Pliiladelphia, was cuiiiuiisjaiy of =ub>i>Lciice and jU|iplied the Royal Irish Regiment. A number of these Pennsylvania Indian traders, probably Wharton, Boynton, Gratz, and Croghan, established a very extensive store at Kaskaskia. On the Sth day ol December, 1768, Dr. John Connolly came to the Ka-,kaskia store and purchased some loaf-sugar, Bohea tea, tallow candles, and a pint of rum, and on the Oth instant he purchased various articles for housekeeping, such as knives and forks, spoons, table cloth,, tea-kettle,

daily,

etc.

He

purchased at this store almost articles were large quantities went with a detach-

and among the

of rum.

possible that he

It is

We find, however, that as surgeon. day of February, 1709, he formed a

ment of troops on the

II

til

partnership with Joseph iloUingshead, formerly of Burlington, N. J., and purchased at the Ivaskiiskia

amounting to four thousand nine liundrL-d and si.\ty-nine pounds, twelve shillings, and sixi)ence, and also boats and bateaux for one thousand pounils. These purchases were followed quickly by several store goods

other large purchases.

On

ernor of Virginia, and came to the Ohio to look after the ihterests of Virginia, claiming jurisdiction over the western part of Pennsylvania.

The adventurous, bold, and dashing character of Connolly, and his knowledge of the country beyond the Ohio and of numerous Indian tribes, whose language bespoke

fluently, led Dunmore to make a barHe was given two thousand acres of land at the Falls of the Ohio, where Louisville now is

gain with him.

was made commandant, with supreme power, at Fort Pitt, the name of which Dunmore changed, callin;id was the innthe original residents.

fe.ssor

a gradtiate of the school,

^lanor, at the

patent for to

isiil,

I'nil'e^sor

Harbor.— Israel

Safe

1873; Dr. S. T. Davis, elected in 1866; Dr. John

and seventeen

He was long most wealthy

"Black Horse

Normal School, of which

he was one of the founders.

AV. Hess, elected in 1867, etc.

jSIathematics,

its

Hotel" in 1825. He was the first jiostmaster of Milbeing appointed in 1820. He was also a of the Legislature during the winter of 186162. He was a leading member of the boMrd of trus-

Levi S. Reist, elected

the school twenty-eight years, eleven as

and was

erected the present

member

several years secretary; Charles Dennes, Esq., elected in 1865, several years secretary

He

and

lersville,

R. Barr, elected in 1856; J. B. Martin, elected in

elected in 1856, for several years secretary

died in 1882, at the age of ninety years. a leading citizen of the tfiwn,

;

J.

resident of Millersville, was b.u-n here in 1791,

Year-- b.'en

who

Rh...le-^,

siile ..f

kept by Benjamin :\Iarkley. in the central part of

lives

the village,

that .-ide of Sate

Safe Harbor there

llarb-'-r. is

a

A its

near the depot, which has

li..tel

is

the leading citizen

On

the

Manor

si.le

of

large bill.ju.t back of the

;

MANOR TOWNSHIP. buildings, whicli are

on

tlie

all, witli

eptions

tv

The other few

street along the Coiiestoga.

dwellings are along the road leading tu Millersville

and Ttirkey Hill.

Fairview.

— The town of Fairview, about two

niile«

south of Columbia, and just north of the borough of

Washington, was

laid

out in

ISll.

It

contained

forty-one building lots on fifteen and a half acres of ground on the bank of tlie Susquehanna liiver. The lots were disposed of by lottery by Stahl, innkeeper, Xov. 1, 1811. The town was laid out in streets, and is often called Sliultztown, from the many families by

the

name

of Shultz residing there.

In the old flour-

ishing days of rafting there were three taverns in the place for the the Jlanor

Haverstick saw-mill.

township school-houses is

One

accommodation of raftsmen. is

of

Levi

here.

the ])roprietor of a Uimber-yiird and a

The

old tavern kept here- by Magdalena

Stahl about seventy-live years ago was quite celebrated in its time.

Blue Rock.— The town of Blue Rock, just south of Washington, in Jlanor township, was laid out Jan. 7,

1814,

dred

by Josei)h Cliarles. It consisted of two hunfrom lifty-five to fifty-two feet front, one

lots,

hundred and thirty

feet deep, all fronting

on

streets

sixty feet wide, e.xtending to fourteen-feet alleys.

This

landing was considered the best ever offered for

sale,

being nearer Lancaster than any other shore on the

and fifteen miles from Strasburg. The soil and timber was superior to any other in Lancaster County, and the tract was well supplied with spring-water. Being the well-known Blue Rock farm, lot No. 24 was entitled to a new two-story dwelling-house, now occupied by Mr. Lewis, and worth seven thousand dollars lot No. 25 to an ice-house; No. 28 to a large new river,

barn, valued at

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

9G2 Ilighville;

two old Jrennonite

nieetiiig-liouses,

ve been the

one

near Slasonville and the otliei' (Ilahecker's) about a mile north of Tirenenian's (Cormefly JIaiin's) tavern. 'l'\,v

The Luther

Mcihndists have un organization at Safe Harhalf a oentury old, and their church edifice

had

is

a

frame structure almost as

! bri[aiioi-

Lane

had 21 schools; the seli("il urni wa- >ix innrjlhs; male teachri^ nml fLii;:ile tmchiT^;

there were 19

i:

J26 per nnonth was paid tu each >if tlie male teacher^, and $20 per nioiitli to .ach id' the female teachers;

—

Justices of the Peace. The following have been the justices of the jieace of J\[anor township since the adoption of the State Constitution of 1838, giving

i

were 585 male pupils, and 500 female jjupils i'A'.i was the average number attending school S2500 in taxes were levied for school purposes; $4]().15 was received from tlie State appropriation $2874.80 was received from the school tax collector; ^SOOO.oO was the cost of instruction S671.34 was paid for fuel and contingencies; 82111

tlicre

;

14 were learning (ierniau

each township its own justices of the peace Rudolph Wissler and John Shissler, elected in 1840; John Wright and John Shissler, 1845 George Hawthorne :

;

;

;

George Hawthorne and and John Shissler, 1850 John Shissler, 1855 Charles Denues, 1S57 Charles Denues and A. R. AVitmer, 1862 Tobias Kautlman, 1866 A. R. Witmer, 1867 Tobias Kaufi'man, 1871 A. R. Witmer, 1872; Abraham Frant;:, 1873; A. R. Witmer, 1877; Abraham Frantz, 1878; A. R. Witmer, 1882; Daniel H. Lintner, 1883. Members of the Legislature from Manor.— The following have been members of the State LegislaMemture from Manor township at different times. bers of the House of Representatives: Jacob Kimuiel, elected in 1803-10; Andrew Kauffman, 1837; Jacob B. Shuman, 1845 and 1846 Abraham Peters, Jacob B. Charles Denues, 1864 and 1865. 1861 Sliuman was a State senator, elected for three years, ;

;

;

;

renting, repairing, etc. In 1806,

Manor

liad 22 schools

male teachers and 12 female teachers; the average male teachers was !.".4.

;

and $1700 was the temporary

Manor had 24 months

;

teachers

schools

Old Tavern-keepers in Manor.— The following were tavern-keepers in Manor Iron) 1798 to 1809 inclusive

In 1882,

debt.

the school term

;

was

six

there vnere 16 male teachers, and 9 female

and

assistant

1

teacher;

$47.80

was the

;

;

;

school-houses,

])urchasing,

renting,

building,

$6822 were paid in teachers' salaries

;

etc.;

$1537.99 were

expended for fuel, contingencies, fees of collectors, and all other expenses; $3021.88 were the township's liabilities for seliool

purposes.

The JIanor school-houses, with few

exceptions, are

substantial brick buildings, supplied with bell and

cupola, with

the

latest

with globes, maps, and

improved school furniture, all

the necessary school ap-

For a period of about fifteen years Man(U' had a school term of seven months in tlie year, and pliances.

for

a short time higher salaries were paid to teachers,

but since 1876 the school term has been six months,

and the

salaries

school building for all

tlie

have lieen slightly reduced. is

in c.)nteiuplali..n

in

puldic schools nf that village.

A

large

MilUisvillc

Althou-h

:

179S,

Abraham

Peters, Jlillerstown

;

1799,

Michael Rinehart, on the road from Lancaster to Turkey Hill 1805, Samuel Petit, on the road from Columbia to the Black Horse, Christian IMellinger, on the bank of the Susquehanna, and Abraliam Peters, Millerstown; 1806, Edward Hughes, Cliristian Mellinger, on the road from Lancaster to Columbia, Magdalena Stahl,on the road from Columbia to Blue Rock, John Lewis, on the road from Columbia to Blue Rock, Jacob Martin, Blue Rock, John Stehman, on the turnpike from Columbia to Lancaster, Joseph ISdS, Julin Eshleman, on the Charles, Millerst..wn road to Safe Harbor, Julni Stehman, on the turnpike ;

average salary of each of the male teachers per month,

and $40.55 of each of the female teacliers there were 573 male pupils and 484 female pujiils 768 was tlie average number attending school 83 was the average percentage of attendance; $8270.52 was the total amount of tax levied for school and building purposes; $1058.41 was received from the State appropriation; $11,870.47 was received from taxes and other sources, except State appropriation; $12,928.88 were the total receipts; §4508.89 was the cost of

;

;

cost of school-houses, purchasing, building, renting, etc.,

;

;

months; there were 10

the school term was seven

;

;

was the cost of scliool-houses, purchasing, building,

I

j

;

Columbia to Lancaster, Israel Nestleroad, at the mouth oftheConestoga (Safe Harbor), Jacob Martin, on the road from Columbia to Martic Forge, John Lewis, on the road from Columbia to Blue Rock 1809, John Bender, on tlie road from Columbia to Martic Forge,, William Lewis, on the road from Lancaster to ]51ue Rock, John Rupley, John Stehman, on the turnpike from Columbia to Lancaster, Peter froii^

;

P.urk,

on the road from Lancaster to Safe Harbor, tlie road from Jlillerstown to the Slalil, on the road from

J(,seph Charles, on

Susciuehanna, JIagdalena

Columbia to Blue Rock. Election Districts.— Manor townshi]) has three New Manor, Indiantown, and election districts, New Manor embraces all the northMillersville. western section of the township, and the voters of this district cast their ballots at Breneman's (for-

—

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

done

Landis, who emigrated from Germany to the United !?tates on.the 2-kh of August, 1717. To Benjamin and Elizabeth were born two sons,—

and the voting for tliis district is Horse Ihitcl, at the uppei- end uf

section,

John and Beftjamin. John married Elizabeth Rudy, whose children were Mary, Benjamin, Anna, and

at tlie lUack

Millersville. •

Manor's Population in 1880. -The

of the Brack-

family was Ulricli, the great-grandfather of Jlrs.

bill

deposit their tickets at Jlrs. Sloner's tavern, at Iiij;liThe Millersville district embraces the wliolc ville. eastern

The progenitor

Elizabeth Brackbill.

merly Mann's) tavern. Indiantown comprises the southwestern section, and tlie voters of this district

His wife having died in 1816, he contracted second marriage with Anna, daughter of Jacob Hoover, to whom were born children,— Susan, Betsey, .Jacob H., David, Tobias, and Magdalena. The death Fannie.

census of 1880

gave the i>opuhitioii uf Maiiur tuwnsliio at oO.JS. Ol' this number about 1200 were in the village of Millers-

a

Millersville district had 2043 inhabitant-, Indiantown district had 1797, and New Manor district 121:5. It will thu> be seen that the village of had Mlllcr^ville had ahnn-i up, 1839,

when

missioner.

a resident of

([Uently a Republican, "

field.

Li

Mennonite

Manor, served

as

enmity cuin-

Li politics he was u Whig, and >idisc-

butnut

active in thr political

rcligiuns belief he

his

until

was

a

c'.iiMslriit

his drath, whirl, urrurred

Au-.

22,

1870, in his eighty-fifth year.

i:/.i;.\

The

11.

I..VNDI.S.

lUiS'lETTER.

was Jacob,

1741, purclia-cd uf the government the land nuw ill pus-e-iuu uf his great-great-grandsun, whu He had the .,ul.jert uf ihi- biugraphical sketch. i.-

whu,

ill

two suns, Abni.u and .lacb, who inherited the ancestral acres, the funiur uf h hum wa- the father uf a sun Benjamin,

.I.\C01J

.M.

prugeiiilur uf the Hostetter family

1.S44.

The

b-.ru

March 12, 17.'.:,, who died Feb. whu b.,aiuc heir tu a purtioii

latter,

itorsof the Landis fami ly were natives

and the date uf tljeir known. The giandlatl dugrtiphy was lienjami,

d,

mill

and

Kiidulph.

M., was burn Oct.

I'.eiijaiiiiu,

K;, I7;I(;, uii

the land uf which he devuted a

I

tl li

tall

4,

uf

,jL^c^ /f

c^J/^-c^/^s.

—

c

^-^^^^^^

'->\U.A.^i.e^''y>-T^.

(ije^^C^ "-C^

MANOR TOWNSHIP. fivating

He

and improving.

was, in politics, a Wliig,

He married daughter of Christian Miller, of York County, Pa., and had sons,— Ezra M., Jacob, and ChrisiiDfl

in his religious belief a Jleiinonite.

acres,

The death

tian.

of Jlr. Hostetter occurred

born Dec. 20,

18.38, at

of East Donegal

children are Harriet, Alice, Ida,

John

year.

successive generations in jjossession

still

married, in 1852, to Miss Barbara, daughter of

Jacob Zeigler,

March

His son, Ezra 51., was the house which had been for

22, 1858, in his fifty-sixth

which he

He was

Elizabeth,

965

became owner of the ancestral retains and on which he resides.

In 184G he

the farm.

(also deceased),

township.

Emma

and John Edwin.

Their

(deceased),

Mrs. Mann's

death occurred Feb. 10, 1881, in her lifty-fourth year. Her grace and beauty of character still live in the

of the family.

memory

Here his boyhood was spent eitiier at school or in In ISfiO he became owner of labor upon the farm. the property, and in February, 18G1, was united in

a

marriage to Miss Susan, daughter of Tobias Deitrich,

ship.

of

Manor township, who was also of German extracThey have had four cliildren,— Benjamin D., Jacob D., Mary, Lizzie (deceased), and Katy. The sons reside at home, where tliey render invaluable assistance to their father on tlie farm.

and a director of the Lancaster County

tion.

He

of his attached family.

Mr. JIann

member

is

a

is

in politics a

Democrat and

of the township committee of

He

is

at present

Manor town-

actively engaged in business operations,

member

jSTational

Bank.

of the board of trustees of the State

Normal School, appointed

,by the State.

His religious convictions lead him to su|)port all worthy denominations irrespective of sect, though educated in the l^utheran belief.

Mr. Hostetter usually casts his vote with the Demothough untrammeled by the claims of

cratic party,

party, choosing always the for office irrespective

most

eligible candidate

of his political

affinities.

own

time and attention demanded by his interests leave

nature.

little

leisure for

Jfr. Hostetter

is

afi'airs

The

jiiiX.

Abraham

business

Bernhart Mann, born

May

9,

1740,

tlie

in religion a supporter of

grandfather of John

S.,

and when eight years of age emi-

was, in accordance with the

among

when about nineteen years of age, from near Strasburg, a town of Alsace, now in Germany, but at that time a province of France. He located in the vicinity of Millersville, then called Millersburg, where, in

was

grated from Huilfenhart, Germany, to America.

He

hundred and was an industrious and intelliyears engaged in the distillery business, and also kept a tavern in an old log house, in which the subject of the present sketch was born. He died Feb. 5, 1818, aged seventy-seven 1777, he purchased ten acres for two

method of that period

seventy pounds.

gent man, was for

emigrants, sold for his passage-money to a

Mr. Stehman, of Lanca.ster County, with whom he remained until his majority was attained, after which he settled upon a purchase of eighty acres of land now

owned by

his grandson, the subject of this sketch.

He

married JIary Staunib Aug. 11, 1743, also of German ancestry, and had children, John, Bernhart, George, and Elizabeth (who became Mrs. Wormley).

i

:

and died March 25, 1870, in her ninetieth year. Their children were Bernhart, Jacob, Margaretta, 1780,

j

was a model landlord,

3,

temperate himself, and rowdyism or intem-

perance at his hotel. In the days before railroads were built, when goods were hauled in Conestoga wagons from Philadelphia to Pittsburgli, his tavern was a |io|iular antl nr)ted stopping-place fur teams

]

roiik:

t/i

!

During this time his devotion to his aged mother was a remarkaljle incident of his life, for on her account he delayed marriage until he was thirty-four years of age. On the ItJtli of October, 1825, he was married to Miss Fanny Gamber, of which marriage one son and six daughters survive. He continued the business of farming up to 18G2, and also carried

,

;

I

S., and George. Mr. Jlann during his lifetime espoused the tenets

died Dec.

strictly

careful that there should be no

\

John

He

many

Upon the death of his father, Abraham Peters took charge of the business, which he continued until He 1853, and at the samej,ime engaged in farming.

,

Marie, Elizabeth, Sophia, Catharine, Barbara, Sarah,

of the Lutheran belief.

He

years.

|

—

Mr. jMann's death occurred June 0, 1817, in his seventy-eighth year, and that of his wife April 21, 1821, also in her seventy-eighth year. Their son, John, was born on the paternal land JIarch 7, 1774, where his life was devoted to farming employments. He married Elizabeth, daughter of George Snyder, of East Donegal, Lancaster Co., who was born Oct. 8,

I'ETERS.

iiiilivi'

evangelical denominations.

all

.\i;i;aiiam

Peters « as our of the most distinguished

(ierman element of Lanrepresentatives of the caster County. He was born Aug. 21), 1791, near His father, also Millersville, Lancaster Co., Pa. named .\brahani Peters, emigrated to this country

of a public

1843, in his

scvciilielh year.

the business of saw-milling on the Conestoga.

(Ui '

His son, John S., was bom Nov. 20, 1810, on the homestead farm, the birthidace of all the members of the family and the scene of hisTifelong labors. He received but limited advantages of education, and at an early age engaged in the employments of

Through

his long

life,

though engaged

in active

pursuits, he was always public-spirited, lending his ^

and intluence to the promotion of many public enterprises. He was an earnest advocate for the conaid

•

sti

action of the turnpike from Millersville to Lancas-

HISTORY OF LANCASTP]R COUNTY.

96G

power. His judgment was sound and reliable. He weighed a question with deliberation, and decided it

company he was for many years president, and also gave his money and inlluence for the connection of the same two places by a street railof which

ter,

When

way.

the

common

in the light of a clear understanding,

school system was intro-

had

duced into Lancaster County it met with a determinrd opposition from a certain class of citizens, but ihrougli his able and persistent fight in its favor much of the opi)ositiou was overcome, and its introduction into He was his district was largely due to his influence. one of the early advocates of the county superintendency, and his support and infiuence did mucii to allay the prejudice with which this cillice was regarded in the county. In 1854 there was begun in Millersville an educational enterprise which eventually developed into the Mr. Peters was :\Iillersville State Normal School. one of the leading movers in this enterprise, and was elected the first president of the boanl of trustees, a position to which he was annually re-elected up to the time of his death. The institution was the pioneer of the normal schools of the State, and as it was it was with some were induced to subscribe

an experiment,

ditficulty that

the

citizens

for its slock.

By

his earnest solicitation of his friends lie

succeeded largely in having the

while to a discussion, and then, by a mere expression of his own opinion, silence argument and settle the question. Had he received a scholastic education in early life, he would have risen to high

him

its

administration.

qualified to be

writer of this sketch

remem-

and

In

commonwealth,

or

''

friends to place implicit confidence in his integrity.

'

(Jf

him

it,

good as you could as

County havnominating con-

could be truthfully said that his word was When he had pledged his word bis bond. rely on it with as much confidence as if the

agreement were signed or the deed reSo well understood was his- integrity that

articles of

the Republicans of Lancaster tlieir

tiie

about his thoughts and expressions, a straightforwardness in his business transactions that led his

his loyal support in hours of ditiiculty anil

18(51,

Governor of

palmy days of the Dcniocr.icy. But the crowning clement of .Mr. Peters' character was tliat of moral greatness. Xo one could associate witli him without feeling that tlie man was greater In an emphatic manner than his words or actions. an honest man's he exemplified the poet's liiir tlial There was a sincerity the noblest work of God."

anxiety.

ing a factional disagreement in

not

State,

the

bers with grateful feeling.s his words of kindly advice

history of the

even President of the United States. Even though a plain farmer, he was the intimate and confidential friend of James l!aili:inan and John W. Forney in

terest in the school,

The

the political

through his personal ambition, but on account of his By nature he was natural fitness for leadership.

He

it,

to listen for a

position in

taken, ajnl

always manifested a (h'c|i inwas proud of his connection with and was a wise counselor and a firm support to

As presiding ofiicer of the board Normal School, the writer has known

men's arguments. of trustees of the

he was so enthusiastic and confident of its success that he was always ready to aid in keeping up its financial standing.

sii

his conclusion

and neighbors

.stock

neighbors

de a'mistake wlien they followed his advice, re and honest was he in his convictions that ou a subject was worth more than most

dart

botanical speci-

settlers of the

of the township were originally

Darmstadt, in Germany. of

its

a great place of resort for lovers of that

some of the

According

northern

from Hessetestimony

to the

oldest inhabitants, the northern part

was settled by JIatthias Kreider

in or about the

year

lOOl, but in all probability his arrival was nearly a

He

score of years later.

settled ujion the southern

bank of the Peqiiea Creek,

a little to the north of the

present village of JIarticville. His tract contained two hundred acres, the stipulated price being one shilling per acre, or one cord of wninl for every acre of land.

wood

It is said that

that grew

upon

he

paiil

t.ir

his hind u ith the

it.

Other settlers from the "Old Country" soon followed and in a short time the region was The Dutcli element largely preponderates

thie first pioneer, settled. in the

northern

])arl

of the township, and the

same

plodding industry, desire to make money, simplicity of habits, general sameness of dress, peculiar religious traits that prevail

among

the

Germans

in the "

Old

Country" characterize their brethren in this section of the township. They cling to the customs of their ancestors with a tenacity which neither time, distance, nor surrounding circumstances can wholly obliterate. Tliese pioneer settlers were follovved in a short time by the families of the Goods, Hubers, Warfels, Hares, aud Millers. At a later period in the history of this township came the Sweigarts, Eshlemaiis, and the Shanks. The Good family came to the township at an early period of its history, the date of some of tlieir deeds running back anterior to the time when the commonwealth purchased the right of tlie heirs of Penn. They settled south and west of the present village of Marticville, and their descendants still occupy the land purchased by their forefatliers. The family •

name

is

township.

closely identified with

the history

They have been foremost

ments, in furthering

all

[irosperity of their section,

of the community.

It

in

of the

improve-

that might conduce to the

and

in

promoting the good

may be mentioned as a number

the history of this township that of a

fact in

of po-

honor that have been conferred upon the township by the voters of the county the mcmliprs of the fiood family have held the largest share, and at present Jniiii J. Good, son of Daniel sitions of trust or

Giiod,

who once

held

the

important position

of

the

They

at a very early period of its existence.

magnificent growtlis of tlie mountain laurel (Rhododeialron maxiinuin), shut out the locks,

fai^iily

neighborhood of Marticville, and

to-day occupy a large portion of the north-

Among

its

prominent- members now living are Henry Huber, who has held that position for a period of thirty-si-^c years; Jose])h Huber, one of tiie progressive farmers of the northern end Benjamin Huber, also extensively engaged in the farming business; David Huber, of Marticville; and David H. Huber, engaged in farming in the southern section. Later on in the history of the townslii[) came the Eshlemans, who liave contributed by tlieir ability in developing the agricultural facilities of the northern section in no small degree. The section of the township along the Susipiehanna River south of the mouth of the Pequea Creek was settled by the Chirks, jMcCrearys, and Heads early in postmaster at Marticville,

;

the eighteenth century, they, with the family of the Neels, having taken up all the land from the river to and including much of what is now known as Mount Nebo. All the above names have disappeared from the list of taxubles except the Chirks and Neels, who still live upon the land occupied by their fathers, and are numbered among the more progressive men

of the section.

The Clark

family has always been closely identi-

with every religious and educational enterprise, James Clark having been secretary of the school board for a period of nine years, and for a long time been an official member in the Mount Nebo Methodfied

ist

Episcopal Church.

The McCreary family has always been noted

for its

zeal in the cause of education, charity for the needy,

liberai-mindedness, sound judgment aj)on

pertaining to the

common

welfare,

and

all

its

matters

members

were among the best informed upon almost all toi)ics that could be mentioned. William McCreary, the last of the name in 'this township, and who died in 1808, had during his lifetime given liberally to the church of his choice (the Jlount Nebo Presbyterian). At the time of its organization in 1854, Mr. McCreary jjlaced one thousand dollars on interest, and directed that the interest of the sum and fifty dollars of the jirincipal should be used each year as long as it lasted to pay the salary of the minister. This church has. also a small circulating library, the gift of William McCreary, who gave his own private library and one thousand dollars to purchase new books. The committee on purchase consisted of Messrs. Will. Ed. McCreary, Thomas Stewart, and S. C. Stevenson. The southern part of the township was settled by the Scotch-Jrish Covenanters about the year 1740 or mi. Among tlie earliest settlers were the following: David Jones, John Marshall, William Andrews, James Stewart, the Duncans, Grays, Dixons, Hoyds, Stecles, McCaugliliiis. Robinsons," Whorrys, Whites I'cgaiis, and So>lu-s. .None of tlieir drsccndants, a^

MAIITIC TOWNSHIP. known, now

far as

live in the townsliip except the

Pagans (mentioned elsewliere) and Mary Jane, wife of Thomas E. Ambler, who is a lineal descendant of the Boyds, being a granddaugiiter of John Boyd, who in

1752 settled upon the land

Wike, of Columbia. The oldest house in

and

hospitality, public-spiritedness, devotion to the cause

of the right, sober, industrious, and pious men. laboredi earnestly for the

We

was

built

by

known,

us

might mention also the names of the RcrbinJohn Robinson, who came from

I

His father, Samuel Stevenson, had some years, and taught achool in this

Manheim

scendants

now

inson

a

Of

his de-

livi)ig in the township, Isaac H. Robmerchant doing an active business at Bethesda, and Thomas Robinson, lately retired from farming on account of increasing age and declin-

iifsDiuic-ui

.

is

ing health, who now lives with liis son-in-law, James F. Harner, an enterprising man. Thomas

in 1807.

township, also in

They

good of the community.

Iieland near the close of the century.

is still

lived here for

noted for their

sons, descendants of r

occupied as a dwe :ig-liouse by the present owner, Ellen Kehoe. In this house John Stevenson, father of the writer of the i)resent sketch,

was horn

this family are

j

now owned by Milton

this part, and, as

the oldest in the township, in 1755,

969

members of

All the

township, this county.

Cully, a descendant of George Cully, also lives in j

Some of

this part,

in the

ship, noted for his hospitality

his old subscri|)tion lists are still preserved Stevenson family, showing hint to have been a good penman, a very necessary qualification for a

school-teacher in that day. He was also a surveyor and scrivener, and wrote many of the legal documents required at that time.

the later settlers here may be mentioned Wentz, who came from Due Run, Chester Co., and for a number of years was justice of the

James Pegan, grandfather of the present family of

land in Martic township, near the village of Bethesda.

I

This tract was known as " Pegan's Fancy." A patent for this land was issued to Andrew Pegan, bearing

I

in 1792,

peace. He whom have

;

raised a large family of children, .some of

date 1810. j

been closely identified with the later

Among those still

tory of the township.

his-

living in the

three

I

Church since

its

erection in 1843,

time to the present has been in churcli.

number of

official

mentioned, was the

for several

;

(1883)

of

he also

I

The

it

From

a tobacco merchajit in the city of Lancaster, and

(with occasional interruptions) for a t

John Simpa daughter of Roger Douts.

James Pegan,

number of years.

the grandfather of the i)resent family,

served as a soldier in the Continental

father of the family,

was married to this union resulted eight childien, James, Mary, Sarah, Robert (deceased), William (deceased), Jane, and Bartholomew, and one who died in childhood. The family, especially the male members, are men of note in the community in which they live. James, the oldest, has held several offices of trust and profit in' the township. He was auditor of the township for many years, and held the office of assessor from 1840 up to 1858. Bartholomew was a member of the school board for

Mn

MARTIC TOWNSHIP. and lield the position of secretary in thai hndy tor

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. ,

M.iy 24,

>, 211

letnict of Ijicr,

Mia.ll.-lou, Oi-orgc. April 13, 17i7, o Miil^lU

t.iii,

I£:iuiscj,

./.

f;ciirge. liii,

Fob.

5,

Vi:.,

r,i)

Marcli 20, 1741, 10"

by Rujandus Bnibaker. Ui-aJ,

James, March

Kuail, JaiuBS, Julv

H

1,

lu, 174S, 50 acr

1755, 70 acr..s,

1-ot,

ai-res.

ISI)

acres,

li.M.I

.

Iwu McLuugl comprising ut].

Tlie

Joiiii S. ll.iriiiT, Isaac J.

MARTIC TOWNSin M:u-tic townsli

Marticville is sitimted in the nortlierii part of the township, about nine miles south of the city of Lancaster. It contains about two hundred inlial)itaiits, ?.'.0.

the salary ranging from

]ire-^ent, thuiiudi

in

taxation,

schools, a term of six I

In the above-

taxation aggregated 82800, the term

of school six montlis, and

whole, this view, especially in the

of the

mon

lax levied

It is situated in the midst of a region noted for the grandeur and beauty ol' its landscape scenery. J''roni Armstrong's Hill, a little to the east of the village, may be seen one of the grandest landscape sceiie-i to i be found anywhere within the limits of the county. Looking to the north from this point of observation, you behold an e.xtended view of hill and dale, dotted with smiling fields, sleeping groves, isolated farmhou.ses, and an ever-varying panorama of beauty, until the view is lost because the eye does not possess the powrr to pierce the distance beyond. On the n(irtliwe~l the observer has a magnificent view of the .Susquehanna Uiver, bordered with wooded slopes, and, a

At the date of the acceptap:il

The communicants

|)ird

;is

also a graveyard adjoining the ('liiinli

-iirh

Methodist Church in the Safe

Harber

("ireuit.

Mount Nebo Presbyterian Church.— This of wor.-hip

is

charti'red utidei' the

name

byterian Congregation of Mount Nebo.

what

commonly known

ol'

place

the Pres-

It is located at

an old ground of the forefathers of the present geneWhen the first interment took place we have no means of knowing. The oldest tombstone in the yard bears tliis in-cription, " William Neil,' Feb. 8, is

as Clark's graveyard,

burial

ration.

!

I

would

sliuut

Methodist

Mount Nebo, which was occuas

the building of the

first

at that place.

Kosciusko Lodge, No 374, 1. 0.0. F.-This lodge was instituted Sept. 2:i, 1S4'J, and was at that time located in the village of Mount Nebo. The first officers consisted of the following: N. G., Mifflin Elliott; V. G., John Hess; Sec, George Campbell; Assist. Sec., Cieorge McCombs; Treas., Samuel Harnish. The lodge continued to meet in the hall at Mount Nebo until 1853, when, to secure more commcjdioiis quarters, the hall of the Sons of 'I'emperance at Raw-

Muilt

lie

at

as eaiiv

bofoi

:

;

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. Since its removal to Rawlinsville the lodge has enjoyed a degree of prosperity seldom equaled by lodges

W.

|

F.

'

At present the lodge owns its own and has between four thousaud and five thou-

outside the cities. hall,

Below we give the names of those who have

Mifllin

Elliot,

Proudfoot,

John Hess, Samuel

Thomas

township

is

the

ir(jii

oldest

industry in

Martic

which commenced in

iiidu-try,

the township' at Martic Forge, prior to the Revolutionary war.

The

records of the

of this place of business arc

filled

Harnish,

Drumm.

Martio Forge.— 'flie

sand dollars at interest. This lodge is centrally Ideated, in a good neighborhood, and must continue to prosper in the future as it has done in the past. the chair of Noble Grand from Sejitember, 1849, to October, 1883

Shade, John Duffy, F. P. Dully, H. C. Cloud, B. Huber, C. H. Armstrong, Daniel .Vrmstrong, Bay-

ard Reinhart, John

no means of arriving

'

of this

jilace.

lost,

first

establishment

and hence we have

at the exact date of the starting

In looking over the records, as far as

to us, we find that on March warrant was issued to Abram Smith, James Smith, and Thomas Smith. This is probably the first recorded sale of any portion of the property now

they have been accessible

J.

Stewart, Benjamin Gontner, Wil-

17, 1737, a

liam Crawford, F. Shoflstall, L. D. Taylor, Hugh O'Neal, John Alexander, John Monteitli, Thomas Labezius, J. C. Otto, Frederick Hill, D. M. Dunkle,

known

as

Martic Forge.

For the purpose of showing

j

William Ramsay, T. R. Johnson, H. Haimon, F. Brenneman, William N. Gibson, John Conrod, 0. T. Soulsby, John McFalls, W. 15. Langert, Elias Aument, D. M. Moore, C. A. Derrick, Juhn Galen, S. C. Stevenson, J. B. Laird, David Smitli, Henry Sholtstall, Albert Hagen, Hugh Armstrong, B. F. Armstrong, J. B. Dunkle, Brice Clark, Henry Brenberger, Amos Groir, F. S. Hess, George A. Dunkle, William Heaps, Ambrose SingliJton, James S. Ewing, Alfred Stewart, William K. McFalls, John H. Carter, C. H. Armstrong, David Ernharl, T. J. Armstrong, B. F. Jones, Samuel Hart, J. R. Shank. The followingnamed members have served as secretary for the terms set ojiposite their names: George S. Campbell, one term; W. il. C.muay, one term; William A. Crawford, Icur terms; Franklin Young, one term; Samuel Allison, one term; John Alexander, one,

through what changes

this

property has passed we

subjoin the following brief of Sept.

I

(],

17(;9.

title

James Webl),

;

Esq., sold furnace

and

forge and 3404 acres of land in ^Martic township to

Ferguson & Mcllvaine, as the property of Thomas Smith & Co. September 12th. Ferguson iV Mellv;un sold furnace and forge to Adam Hoopes. June 2, 1770. Adam Hoopes and wife conveyed furnace and forge to John Malcolm, George Monroe, Samuel Patterson, and John McCalmont,to each one-

j

1

I

j

'

fourth.

|

May

John Met'almont and others

25, 1771.

sold

[

the one-eighth part of Marlii' and 127o acres of land

!

to

|

terjii

;

J.

W.

Deaver, one terra

;

j

;

'

;

;

rad, lour terms;

John Galen,

Thomas

six terms; S.

Lebazius, sixteen terms; t'.

i

Y'oung,

in trust for

Anthony Yeldale, James Berwick, James

Longhead, John Clark, Zachariah Neiman, Robert Fox and Daniel Longstreth, William Hazelwood, Peter Sutter, and Alex-

Stevenson, seventeen

Graves, aud the said John

terms.

Treasurers for the same time have been as follows: Samuel Harnish, two terms; John Mmiteith, thirty-

one terms; Grofi;

sold the

Fox and William Juto, Robert Morris, James Hahlane, William Hazelwood, Nicholas Bernard, Stacy Ne|>ham, Peter Sutter, James Fulton, Alexander Gresham, John -Kidd, Peter Daniel Longstreth

terms; George Tangert, four terms; L, D. Taylor,

one term D. M. Dunkle, one term William N. Gibone term; F. Brenneman, one term John Con-

John .Malcom and others

22, 1772.

one-fourth, part of Martic Forge to John

Mifllin Elliot, seven

son,

Joseph

June

;

^lu.sgrove.

Jlichard Donaldson, two

four terms;

Mifllin

O'Neal, eleven terms;

Thomas

lenii>;

.\iiio>.

one term; Ihi-h

Elliot,

Lebazius, six

Feb. IS, 1774.

-Male

fourth part of Mii

tenn.-,

\Vl

a .Monlgo

Frank Breneman, tour terms; Jacob Reese, .^ix lei mis. I'resent membership of this lodge, one hundred and

and .Matthias Wil

forty-three.

of Martic Forge

Pliny Lodge, No. 423, Knig-hts of Pythias.— This lodge was organized .March U, 1S74. U meets at RawlinsviUe in the Odd-Fellows' Hall on Wednesday evening of each week. It was organized with thirty-six charier members. The lodge is at present

lid Feb. 23, 1775.^ eighth part of Martic Forge to .Michael Welsh.

part.

1

:

Samuel Jones,

Matthias Wilkins sold a moiety of

gomery, who then sold one-fourth part of the forge and laud. December -8111. William .Montgomery sold onefourth partof the forge and land t,r.MiclK'iel Hilligas. Sept. 0, 1778. Joseph Montgomery and wife sold his one-fourth part of :\Iartic Forge to Michael Hil-

a very i)rosi)erou3 condition, nundtering eighty members. The' following |)ersons have filled the Chancellor Commander from its organization,

date (1883)

th p; llig:l>.

one-fourth part of Martic Forge to William Mont-

eliair of

C. Stevenson, S. A.

Sept. 28, 1777.

t

|

in

in 1874, to the present

John Male

S.

Wright, D. M. Moore, B. F. Armj

,[. \\ Yost, M.I)., L. U. McClune, William Wenlz, .\mos .McFalls, Daniel L'reamer, Cieorge

stn,ng, 11.

j

!

To

the

to .Michael

Hilligas

martk; township. one undivided fourth piirt of Martiu, liqual to six twenty-fourths, purchased from William Montgomery,

185i5.

tlie

j

George

the one-eighth part, equal to three tweiity-fourtlis,

))urchased from

equal to six

part, ,

Joseph Musgvove, and twenty-fourths,

lames Fulton and others, anioniitinu' twenty-fourths Michael llilligas, in

jiarts,

fifteen

said

were pun

iiarliirr>iii|i

liy

h:i-f,l

llie

wilh Matthias in the

convey-

Ililligas alone, there are only

ances |for twenty-one thirty-fifth parts of the fourth

purchased from James Fnltim and others, the remainheing

ing fourteen thirty-tilths jiarts

uuclaiiiied or

June 2G, 1783. George Ege released amounting to five twenty-fourths parts, (Slough,

who then

ard

his interest, to Jlatthias

held ten twenty-fourths parts.

Michael Hilligas conveyed

Sept. 27, 1792.

Footman and

to

Rich-

others, surviving assignees of Jlat-

bankrupt, the interest which Matthias Slough owned in the works, the title to which was in his own name, as well as Mr. Ege's share, w hich had thias Slough, then a

previously been sold by

him

the wdiole to fifteen twenty-fourths [larts of the forge, etc.

March

11,

1793.

Richard Footman and others,

surviving a.ssignees of Matthias Slough, sold his share in the estate (viz., ten

twenty-lburths parts thereof) to

George Ege.

March

13.

Michael Hilligas sold

man and George Ege

to

and others, and

Robert Cole-

the one-eighth part, e(iual to

three twenty-fourths, purchased from

John Jlalcohn

his one-third part of fifteen twenty-

fourths, equal tofive twenty-fourtiis,

which he held

in

partnership with Matthias Slough and George Ege,

amounting to eight twenty-fourths. Sept. 30, 1793. John Miller, sherilf, sold the oneeighth [lart of Martic Forge and land to liohert Coleman and George Ege, late the property of John

the whole

Welsh. July

8,

George Ege sold

1803.

his one-lialf of all the

to

Robert Coleman

Martic lands purchased and

Coleman and George Ege in comgranted and conveyed to them in fee as ten-

held by Robert

pany, or ants in

common

;

purchase-money two thousand

five

hundred |»ounds. Same day. George Ege sold to Robert Coleman all the share and interest in the Jlartic proi)erty which formerly belonged to Matthias Slough, and wdiich he purchased from the assignees

;

consideration

money

hundred pounds. Robert Coleman, his one undivided half part of forge and lands to Edward JSrien, lor six thousand five hundred pounds. four

Jan. 30, 1804.

1S2.J or

Janus Coleman inherited

1820.

iNIartic

Assignees of George Sheriff of

[Steele .sold the forge to

Lancaster County

—

Slough, amounting in

to

Steele.

.sold Martic Forge to* the firm of Davis & I'otts, the |ireseiit owners (1883). Robert S. Potts, the present manager of the Martic Works, is a relative of Isaac Potts, who is mentioned in Weems' "Biography of Washington" as being a man of note during the struggle of the colonies for independence. What was known as ^Martic Furnace was not within the present limits of ^Martic township, but was situated in what is now Providence township, near The forge, the present site of Rreneman's mill. down to and during the time of Edward Brien, was run nniinly by slave labor. The burial-ground of these slaves may still be seen in this townshi]), in a piece of wood on the left-hand side of the public road leading from Marticville to Jlount Nebo. Tiie next oldest indu^try of the townDistilleries. ship were the distilleries. The first distillery was on the road leading from Bethesda to Snaveley's mill, on Muddy Run. The date of its establishment, owing to the lack of records, cannot be ascertained. A second distillery was operated in the neighborhood of Martic Forge. A third stood upon the property now occupied by David Fehl, near Marticville. A fourth was in existence upon tlie property now owned by John G. Good. Of three of these, namely, the one upon Felil's property, the one at Martic Forge, and the one upon Good's property, no authentic date of their erection and discontinuance can be given, in consequence of the paucity of the records relating thereto. A fifth distillery was operated upon a piece of land now owned (1883) by the Goods, and known as Good's mill. It was built by a man named Shank, and was called Shank's distillery. This lastnamed distillery was built in 1793, discontinued as a distillery in 1830, and converted into a flour- and feed-mill, which is carried on at the present date

1802.

tnnii

in llu- wliol.- in

Slough and George Ege, though the deeil was

name of M.

1858.

Robeiit Potts.

tin- him- fniiilii

jjun-lia-MMJ

977

Heirs of James Coleman sold the forge to

'

(1883).

The Hagen Axe-Factory.— A which

this

township

is

third industry for

noted, and which

is

peculiarly

a child of the township, was the manufacture of the celebrated " llagen Axe."

The exact date at wdiich the manufacture of tliis instrument was commenced John Ilagen, the grandis not definitely known. father of the present Hagen family in this section, was the first person of the name who manufactured these axes in this townslup.

He died before his oldest

was of age. This son learned the trade to his two brothers, Davis and Elijah. Elijah Hagen discontinued the trade, but Davis continned to work at the business until within a short

son, Joshua,

and taught

it

a steel furnace.

and in 1831 he erected This proi)erty.at that time consisted of six thousand four hundred and seventy-four acres,

time of his death. He taught the art to his five sons, Bascom, John, Albert, Davis, and William. These

valued at $72,100.

descendants of the pioneers of this business continue

Forge from his

Gl

father's estate,

;

;

^1

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUiNTY. Hngen axe

njanufacture of the

lie

Miniut Nebo Brick-Yards.— A

ood

lit'

touii>hii>

lie

luunufacture of brick.

upuu

o])enod. Tlie

Heiney

brick

first

in 1S13,

but

t-arri

Sweigart, "Seven Stars," on the road from Columbia

Mar

Frogjown James Brown, " Mermaid," on the road from Lancaster to McCall's Ferry. In 180G: 'John ."\IcCanless, "Spread Eagle," on the road from Lancaster to JlcCall's Ferry; Henry Herr; Thomas Robinson; Sebastian Sweigart, "Seven Stars," on the road from Lancaster to Martic Forge.

tlie

briek-

first

made here was made

tlie

to

This busine^^s

spot where

tile

industry

the neighborlioud of

lii.-i

ill

In 1805: John McCauless, "Spread Eagle," on the road from Lancaster to McCall's Ferry; Sebastian

in the

at the i)reseiit day. fourtli

first

l)y

Isaac

brick-yard was opened

by D. S. JIcElhaiiey in 1847, and continued by hiui

up

to the present day.

made

brick are

The

are in

demand

In 1800: John Sluup, on the road from Lancaster McCall's Ferry; M:iry Sweigart, "Seven Stars," on the road from Slieiik's ]\[ill to Newport; James Brown, "Mermaid," on ihe n.ad from .McCall's Ferry

which these

clay from

a lacustrian formation covering an

is

made irom

area of about ten acres, and the brick all

;

to

it

over the county.

Furniture Manufactory.~A fifth iiuUistry is the manufacture of furniture, carried on at JMount Nebo by S. C. Stevenson. At tliis i)lace are manufactured The all kinds of bedroom and kitchen furniture. proprietor of the furniture warerooms is also engaged in the business of undertaker, and in a period of fifteen years lias coinniitted to the earth more than

to Christiana.

five liuiulred persons.

continues at the present day.

OtherTrades.— The following-named persons

A

hotel was opened about the year 1780

property

now occupied by Daniel

upon

a

Carrol, about one

mile east of McCall's Ferry. It was opened by \\'i\liam Patterson, and sold by him to William Neal in 1810, wdro discontinued the hotel. at McCall's Ferry,

carry

is

A

hotel

was erected

on the Susquehanna River, and

The present

of hotels

list

as follows: F. B. Grolf, "Cross-Keys," Marticville; " Exchange Hotel," Rawlinsville

on the trades of blacksmith and wheelwright: Marticville, James Creamer, blacksmith; Albert Guiles, wheelwright. Raw linsville, wheelwright, Henry Hei-

Crispin Taylor,

ney; blacksmith, JohnHagen. Bethesda, blacksmith, John W.Sweigart. Drytown, blacksmith, John Miles. Mount Nebo, Albert llagen, wheelwright; John

Ferry

Amos

McFalls, "Rawlinsville Hotel," Rawlinsville;

Christian Ufileman, "Hotel de UlUeman," McC:iirs ;

" Fairview," better

known

as the "Slab."

lirown, blacksmith. Mills.

— Martic

as follows

township has three

One near

:

Snaveley's mill, on

on Muddy Run, not

Hotels.— The

mills, situated

far

first

El;

Marlicville, called (iooil's mill

Muddy Run, and Wentz's

from the village of Bethesda.

Organization and Description.— Jlanheim was one of the original townships of the county, and as such its boundaries were agreed upon at "a meeting of magistrates and citizens" held June 9, 1729, and confirmed by the Court of Quarter Sessions on the The s'econd Tuesday of August in the same year. boundaries were described as follows: "Beginning by Peter's road, at a curufr of Donegal and Warwick townships, near the htad ni' Little Conestoga Creek thence down the said road by Warwick township to

hotel within the limits of .^lar-

tic townshiii was called the Cob Hotel, and stood upon the road leading from Mount Nebo to RawlinsThe ruins ville, about one mile Irom the latter place.

may still be seen upon the farm of John and the hill near the upon which the hotel stood still retains the name

of this hotel

Seigfreid, near Rawlinsville, site

of Cob Hill. hotel,

still

Though

memory

the

of ihi^

tlie first

lingers, the recollection of the date of its

building has laded from the

famous hostelry was one ville,

memory

in

;

of man. Another

the village of Rawlins-

known as Oldfield's Hotel, from the circumman named Oldfield having been the jironumber of years. Tlie hoiiM' in which

I

stance of a

I

]irietor lor a

was

Conestoga Creek; thence down the -aid creek to the thence Old Doctor's (Hans Henry Nrir>) Konl westerly by Lanca'*tcr township on a direct line ti) ttle Conestoga, at the upper sidu of I'.'ter lioni;

was

land;

erected about the beginning of the present century.

of beginning."

this

famous

It still

now

]ilace

of entertainment

kcjit

used as a horse-stable.

It

was the

first,

and

tli:

is

These boundaries have not bee

maternill

for

changed, but the extension of the City slightly reduced the terrilc

Manheiii

stands in the village of Rawlinsville, and

number of years the only building in the village. Weapiiend the following list of hotel licenses granted in IMartic towhsliip for the years named The tavern licenses granted in .Martic in 1804 were as follows: Sebastian Sweigart, "Seven Stars," on the road from Lancaster to IMartic Forge; James Rrown, "Mirmaid," on. the loud from Lancaster to

Lancasti

I

a

making

its

Because

:

McCall's Feiry.

LXVII.

mill, also

jjouthern line irregular. tif its

proximity

to

Lancaster

as for other reasons, this townslii|)

j

is

f'ity, as

\

iliiekly sett

and its lands are very valuaMe. Tliey have gi worth, however, i'ndcpeiuhntly of this circumstai

MANIIEIM TOWNSHIP. are few, if any, better agiiciiltunil propeitiea to be

county than suine of tho.se which are to Manheira, and tlicre are probaldy none tliorouglily or sy:,U'inatieally w.nked.

found in

tlie

he seen

in

whieli

are more

That this is a particularly rich spot in the county of the State would he vil

lluc.ry

April

ir. Kililv!,

1

1

part, list.

Jliiy 8,

1K05

H,.n,yll.Ku.,t/,.\|.,il,

isur,,

Henry A

Slii

finer, April, 1870.

r. niiii-, April, 1870.

A. C. li.y.13, April,

lt>71.

0. C. llniisecker, April, ls75.

A. G. Illyus, 1879.

A.

0. lllylw, 1880.

wdio lived

Oregon, which was adopted. increased in

size,

and

is

near by,

The

and was

name

(if

village has since

a thrifty, pleasant

place.

about thirty houses, some of which are and has and wheelwright-.shop, shoemaker- and blacksniith-sho[is, two butcher-shops, four cigar manufactories, a gristmill, and a Union Church, in which the Dunkers, New Mennonites, and United Brethren all have meetings and preaching. The house was built in part through the contributions of the jieople living in Oregon and the vicinity, 'and five hundred dollars were given for the purpose by JMrs. Anna Bushong, of Reading, whose maiden name was Myers. Her parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents were buried here close to the It contains

large, three-story structures with square roofs,

one

hotel, a dry-goods store, a coach-maker's-

in the

county outside of Lancaster.

MANHEIM TOWNSHIP.

f

Samuel Be:iiMva=

and

Hist tavern-kei-per before

tlie

983

posing of his interest

to the

He

company.

was suc-

pre-'cnt

ceeded as superintendent by Adam II. Lindsey, of Greenville, Conn., a practical paper-mill man of largfe experience. The machinery was purchased in Worcest|;r, Mass., and was of the most approved kind,

John Bear was the grandson of Samuel

consisting of three large rag-engines, one seventy-

and William was the great-great-grandson of Samuel. Five generations of the family have been hinillords here in the past hundred years. The iieople of Oregon anticipate that some advantage will accrue to the town some time in the future from the quarrying of marble, u-hicli is said to unOregon is now tlu' teiiniiui^ of derlie the village. the Eplirata turnpike, and ha^ a daily mail and stage. Binkley's Bridge.— This iiamc, muv borne by a small settlement and a |Hi-,t-ollire on the 'onestoga, in the eastern part ol' .Manheim, had its origin in the building of a bridge over the creek at that locality by Christian Binkley. This was said to be, and un-

two-inch Fourdrinier machine, and a four-roll stack

John

after the Itevohitioii. to

18:!(;,

years.

Beai- kept

and then Abraliani 8henk kept

110111

it

quite a term of years, landlord.

and Ivan Dear

is

IS-JS

toi- iii:niy

it

Graybill and William Bear carried

it

tlie

on

lor

Bear,

(

doubtedly was, the It

was built

bridge,

stone bridge in the county.

first

the construction of Witmer's

i)rior to

which was

in

ascertained in 17S9.

and as nearly

1798,

The

as can

be

bridge cost about seventeen

of calenders for making super-calendered book-pajier. mill was started for the purpose of making what are known as book and news print papers of machine and super-calenilered liiiish. A large and successful business was carried on until it was burned Nov. 2.5,

The

isy::;.

The tavern later

Legislature grant

him

Binkley sought

the privilege of

to

making

ho afterwards transteired the bridge

to the

a

public in

consideration of one thousand pounds " in gold silver coin,

it

however, was refused, and

lii^ petition,

toll-bridge.

have the

current lawful

and

money of the State of

Pennsylvania." -This was raised by voluntary sub-

and the amount was in all supplemented by an appropri-

scription in the vicinity,

probability afterwards ation by the county.

erected until

its

The

bridge stood as originally

centre span was

undermined and

away by a freshet April 1, 1857. In 18C8 the entire structure was torn uway, and in 18G'J the wooden bridge was built, which was destroyed by tiro carried

Nov.

been rebuilt. by the bridge was also by Christian Binkley and sold by him to a Mr. 25, 1882.

The built

It has not yet

old grist-mill close

the Printers' Paper-Mill

became the property of Company. This company

was ofganized in the

of 1865 in Lancaster City,

Garver.

In

ISGIJ this

mill

fall

the enterprise originating with the newspaper pub-

and the company when organizeil consisted John 1. Ilartnian and John A. Ileistand, of the Exaiiilnev ; li. A. and C. K. Baer, of the Vulk:esM,,ii of his descendants.

His ehiMivn

were .Michael, .Mailin, Philip, and Valentine, succeeded 1791.

to

Philip

the li.une-tead jiroperty, and die.l

Philip's

wife.

Eve

Catherine," bore

following ehildren:

in

him the

Michael (1749-1827 1; Martin (1709-18(36), was a clock-maker in Lancaster; Pliilip Adam, a farmer in York Ccmnty Anna .M. of Henry Zelimcr, of Lancaster; .Margaret Frederick Holfman, of Manor town rine, wife of Nicholas Hess, of Lam these ehildren, Michael succeeiled |iroperty, owned some two hi'ind ;

supervisor of .Manheim township

1(

and

From

his correct

smitliiiig for a number of years, and bouglit the old hotel known as the " Fiddler's Green," of wliich he was the hospitable landlord until 1854, when he built a brick resilience, now the home of his daughter Mrs.

in tlie

acres of the homestead property,

1821 to 1882 he served as surveyor, and knowledge of mathematics has made his name familiar for his preciseness and care in establishing the boundary lines of farms and lots in the vicinity. On July 30, 1832, he was appointed by Governor George Wolf a justice of the peace, and held the office by reappointment until 1S50, and by election and re-election until 1875, a period of fortythree years, when he was succeeded by Christian L. Hunsecker. During this long period of public service his judgment of right between parties was publicly acknowledged by his continuance in office, and very seldom were his decisions appealed from to the caster.

alter his marriage, in 1823,

he removed to Xetfsville, wdiere he carried on bhick-

strict integrity in his

si.\

In 1SG3 he removed to his present residence on the Lititz tiirnl)ike, about three and three-quarters miles from Lan-

learned the

lid

black-Mijitli's trade.

member

the township, and a

Lutl

;

His wife, Anna, a daughter of Zachariah Miller, was born Feb. 8, 1802, and died Sept. 1(5, 1882. Their ehildren are Catherine, born Dec. 21, 1824, wa.s married in 1843 to George Hambright, a harness-maker, wlio removed from Lancaster and settled in Netl'sville in 183ii, where he carries of

a}re

tile

Elizabeth

a-fd bevcnry-scveii years.

isy.l,

1(1,

Sijnon,

bi-utlicr,

jr

t

Church «( Lancaster. His wife, daughter of Henry tiliitz, bore liim cliildron, who o grew to maturity, as follows: Catherine, died in 18: thewifeof MichaelT^ane (formerly " Lehn"); iCichael, died in 1827 Martin, dieil in 1820; and Henry, the only surviving child, subject of this sketch. He was born on the homestead April b, 18u4, obtained a good education in the schools of his native place, and for five winters folof

Jacob Miiinirh, an old" an. resiiei-ted citizen of Manheini lownshiii, Lancu^trr Ou., I'a., died at

another brotlier,

985

higher courts. ;

j

I

JACOB ESBEX3IIADE. Jac

n-liad«'s father, Peter l'2-.benshade (17(19-

184.1 ive (if Germany, settled in Strasburg township (now Paradise), Lancaster Co., Pa. He was then a young man, without money, but posse.ssed industrious and correct habits, self reliance, and a re.soluticm to do something for liiinself. By economy and judicious management he became the possessor of a farm of si.\ty-six acres and considerable means l»e>i.le^. He instilled into the minds of his children ].nietieal ideas, and gave thein a practical education in business matters pertaining to the farm instead of attempting to give them what he was unable to, tlnn-ough education in mathematics, English, and clas-

—

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

9SG

Philadelphia (appointed by the Governor), dent of Ilarrisburg in 1883, and of age;

,l..-e|,li,

a farnu-r in

is

is

Jacob, grandfather of Henry Haverstick, died about lS;!;\aged seventy-Hvo, in Cones'oga township,

a resi-

seventv-six vears

whcie hr

Ea^t LainiieUi tuwnshii.,

Lancaster Cu.

riioy

„[,„„ hnndre.l and

settled on a lam,

Manheini iather until

t.iwi.-.hi|.,

i.urelia^e.l,

tweii

;,t

near Uinkley'- luid-.'

and

uliieli

in

lU

,,

added to nt s.nne six hundred acres of valuable farm huel in the -anie township, a jiart of which he has already divided his children.

He

Mr. E-lien~hadesi)ent his time from boyhood to nearly lour.-inre years of age in agricultural pursuits, and has accuninhitcd a large eonipeteney outride his Lancaster County

in

has aina,-.ed a greater fortune than

lie

by the

[.rollts

I

l

I

Of

desired by

many

in

;

in

subject

I^andis,

and a

connected.

township.

township;

.Ma

Ids parents, hut subscipiontly united

id'

1883 in Maidieim

in

an education.

He had

184G,

Manheim

added ten

acres.

larm in

1852,

his

farming until 1876. year.

assistance

in

marriage

West Earl town-

owned by ills father. Here he remained until when he purchased one hundred ami thirty-four

acres of land in

June,

little

.\fter his

life,

he settled on the Car|ienter firm,

since

ad-

school iluring his boyhood

coiiiiiion

pecuniarily in starting out in

ship,

township, to which he has

He

built a brick residence

and successfully carried on He retired from farming in that

IIo built his present brick residence adjoining

farm property in 1875, purchasing a small plot of

ground from Jacob Esbenshade for that puri)0se iu Ur. Haverstick was school director for sis 1874. years following iMd, and was one of the organizers

HENRY n.WKK.STICK.

of the Nelfsville

Lire

1,,-urance ("ompaiiy.

id'

Man-

heim townsliip, iu 187S, of which he has been a and the treasurer since. His ciiildren ar Martha B., wife of Jacob E. Rank, of Lancaster tow iship; Elizabeth B., wife of John apho township Catherine B., wife J. Breneman, of director

I

'

of Tobias D.

[

i

Ma

;

till,

of W^arwick townshii)

;

Anna

John l;. (bicker, of Warwick township; Mary B., Henry I .Amelia l;.,and Abram L. Haverstick. The two si ns carrv on the homestead farm. B.,

inesident of the State

mill, in I'eouea township.

.lacob, a farmer

;

.\Li,ior

Henry Haverstick had the ordinary

for obtaining

his

now Musselman's

this sketch

the old lio.uestcad in Lancaster

Both were living

vantages of the

widow of

Normal School at Millcrsville. His great-grandfather, Micliael Haverstick, came from Germany, ami settled on a large tract of land between Wabank and iMnville, on the Cimestoga Creek, in Lanea-k-r Coiinlv. He had f.nr son-. William was a silvcismilli in Laiica-tcr; l;iidol|.l,, iMichael, and Jacob fnmers (m the homestead. Michael Haverstick also had a mill on the Conesloi;a,

.in

IL

1881.

Henry Haverstick was born in Conestoga township (now Pe.piea), Lancaster Co., Pa., Jan. IS, L'^LS. In January, 1840, lie married Elizabeth, dauglitcrcd' John and Elizabeth Baii^in.in, ol' Lancaster township, •'^hc was born March 11, 1817. in the same county, Her father was a native of Laubcisheim, Germany, who settled in Lancaster township in 1802, on the Andreas Bausnian property (his uncle's, who came from Germany in 17(30), where he reared his cliildren. Her mother was the sister of Hon. Abraham Peters, first

settled

(Jatlierine

Henry Haver-

with the Mennonite Church, with which his wife was

on

sister of his first wife, in

ol'

Lancaster towMsl,i|.; Levi, of

of the church

township

Henry Haverstick).

lie married his present wife, Elizabeth,

Jacob

whom

Justice of the peace for a long period. A school-house was built by the people in the year

years old.

1829, and used for a religious meeting-house as well

years the changes have been most markt Grove is five miles cast of Elizabethtow

as for educational purpo^es without

change

until

about

its

Milton Grove.'— This village is comparatively in infancy, and it is but recently that the wlieel of

progress has been set in motion.

I'or the past ten .Mi

.

,

and

idace

A

on an elevated piece of ground, from wdiicli the eye sweeps over a great expanse of beautiful valley scenery. Adjacent

news

trustees of the old one, with the

.fill.

town ball, and the play-ground a beautiful shaded park. 'Jlie school directors of East Donegal built a brick schoolbuilt another story

liouse in

ship, I

18.")1

but

it

upon

(t

it.

is

n(jw a

in that i)art of the village in this

was destroyeil by a storm soon

ojnplrtion, wliich resulted in the injury

and a number

of his pupils.

A

town-

after

ol' tlie

soon proved to be too small, and *as sold

The sehoordirectors then

it

for a dwell-

built a larger

iroui

abroad,

lis

location

is

flows the Little Chiiiuesalunga (or Chikis), a splendid stream of water, abounding with tisli, and beautifully hedged on both sides with a fine belt of timber.

About the year 1820 there arrived

its

teacher

few years later another

school-house was built noith of the railroad, but ing-house.

:

lew

a

in this locality

German immigrant named Ilardtman, who

same year purchased a land, including

now

located,

tliat

and

large

]i(irtii>n ipu

laid out a

in tlie

unimproved which the village is

tract of

(on>iderable

number of

1

PARADISE TOWNSHIP. building lots to eatablisli a

His extensive

niantuwn.

coupled with

be |iuielia>e

means, and

ordiniiry

nl'

real

e-tale,

one

tlie extravai^aiit lial.it^ lie b.nl aeiiiiired,

led people to conjecture that a

town

man

lie

was

n|'

lair liiiportiiMi-

anticipated in the near Inline,

liiil

settlement cauie llardtiiKiu was

a

nf aliuve

to

tciiv,

fell

when Benjamin Grosh,

one

shoe-.store, hanies

.

obligations of his creditors, and the pmspretive town

tivated until 1S49,

two meat-markets, llouriug-mill, blackand house-painter, cigar manufac-

furniture-

taijiiring establishmeiit,

iiiami factory, coopering establishment, one physician, one justice of the peace. Benjamin Grosh, the first t^ettler of this village, died at his residence here iu .Vpril, 1881, having been a resident of the place he

lueel the

like a clap of thunder iVuui an unclouded ^^ky. Hardtnian suddenly disappeared, and the land ajraiu reverted to the original owners. It remained uneul-

line hotel,

.smilli,

ua^

wlien the day ul

iinal.le

995

cluding groceries, queensware, boots and shoes, drugs, notions, cedarware, etc., two boot and shoemakers,

veai

tliirtvi

Esq., pur-

chased a large parcel of the land, platted and located the pre.sent village and named it Centreville. same year be erected a large frame dwelling and

The

CHAPTER LXIX.

store-

house on the northwest corner of the S(juare, where he carried on a successful mercantile business until

when

1871,

Frank

B.

lie

sold the store

property to his son,

Grosh, who, after conducting the same busi-

ness for a period of eight years, retired,

of

it

together with

brother,

est

Cirosh, the

F.

Eli

present proprietor.

on the west by Strasburg, on the sou and Sadsbury, and on the east by an area of eleven tlmu-and nine liui

t:

principal portion of

the present hotel by Samuel M. Grolf in

very

in

this

year that

Nurseries" were Esi].,

who

the

1857.

It

celebrated "Centreville

commenced by Daniel

E. Gingrich,

did a thriving business for a

number of

Flis nurseries and name gained fame, but the war of tlie Rebellion followed and his stock depreciated, and he shortly became iinancially embarrassed. To meet the obligations of his creditors he disposed of his entire stock at sacriticing prices, and now the once famous nurseries are no longer in existence.

years.

In 1862 the founder of this village utilized the only vacant corner on the square by erecting a fine residence, which in later years he occupied as his

Further building improvements were then abandoned for a number of years in consequence of the Rebellion, and it was not until 1870 that a new impetus was given to the place which enhanced iu value the land within its limit.. There were then .mly live buildings

all

tcild,

but by the in>trumentality of

founder the wdieel of improveiueut was

The same year a Mount Joy and ville.

A

set in

its

motion.

post-route was established between Sunville,

Lebanon

Co., via Centre-

named Motley was establislied in Frank B. Grosh was appointed post-

post-ofTice

the village, and master.

Subsequently, at the

.solicitation

of the

1

by Bart, Eden,

lisbury.

Itba.s

and

eiLdity-

Ired

f.irmed

was organized

fertile,

and

is

jiart

Strasburg,

(d"

surface

is

tributaries.

is

m

The

undulating and

cons onsidered one of the finest agri-

cultural tracts ol liind in the county.

Valley, and

liut

a separate township.

a

thi

It

is

in

Pequea

drained by Pequea Creek and its many soil is mainly limestone, except iu

The

the .southern part, which

is

crossed by the

Mine

Hill,

and is les. fertile. Pequea Creek, its principal stream, forms the northern boundary and supplies the motive-power to lour of the principal fiour- and grist mills. P. Schum's cotton- and woolen-mill It

abounds with

;p

is

also situated on this creek.

variety of fish,

summer months many an hours on

its

cool

and during the hot

angler whiles away the

and shady banks. its

many

tributaries, drains the

principal part of the townshi]).

Paradise was organized in 1843, and was first named Pequea, but the name was not satisfactory to some of the inhabitants, and

it

was subsequently changed

to Paradise.

Early

Settlers.— 'I'he first settler

of Paradise town-

ship was IMary Ferree (formerly called came here in 1709 with six children.

Feme), who Mrs. Feiree

came from the town of Landau, near the Rhine, in France. Her nuiiden name was Warrimbere, ami she

citi-

the name of the village and post-oflice were changed to Jlilton Grove. Buildings were now put up in rapid succession, and mtn of various occupations were seeking homes in the jirosperous village. Milton Grove now has a general dry-goods store, inzens,

It originally 18-ia it

London Run, with

homestead.

East Lampeter,

SIX acres.

were the only ones erected prior to ISoo, when Mr. Abram Grolf built a stone house in the eastern jiart of the village, which was followed by the erection of

was

township

iicasterCumity,

bounded on the north by Leacock an

These two buildings

corner.

iradise

young-

The same year the village was located Christian Groff, of Honey Brook, Chester Co., erected a building on the opposite

Geography and Topography.—

and disposed

interest in stock to his

bi.^

tion in France.

Mary Ferree was the

po.,=cs.-,or

of two

thousand three hundred acres of land, situated south of the Pequea Creek. She died in 171G, and was buried By A.

ll.Suiilh, M.D..

-

\(P

HISTORY OF LANCASTKR COUNTY. Cemetery, wliich was selec located in about tlie centre of her

in Carpenter's

ami

is

he

his

Hans Tl.is

part of

tlie

tuwii.-,liip

wa.

t^iktii

ami

p,

y

nanuM Pequea, but

s

It

,vaslaidout, in bsf;, .vas

Tlie western

should he called Pane

.nice ha. retained fr.mithal

I'd

M:i

up hy

Croti; and consisted of one tlion>aiHl aciv^. was bought by Louis Dubois, and be.pi.atlird liy

came here

first

settled

in the possession of tlie

still

deseemlants of

:\Iattliias

Slayniaker.

When Mary

Ferree and family arrived

ley of Fequea, she

in tlie val-

was met by Beaver, chief

the

nt'

tribe of Indians that inhabited this section of conn-

Beaver, with the humanity that dis-

try at that time.

tribe, gave up to the emigrants his wigwam. On the following day he introduced them to King Tanawa, who resided on the Great Flats. King Tanawa had known William Penn, and called him the " Indians' friend."

tinguished his

Tanawa was

sold his land to William Penn,

and

it

lie

was afterwards

bought by the early settlers. King Tanawa's renuiins, with tliose of many of his tribe, were buried on an elevation of ground in Paradise, since named Lafayette Hill, and now used as a burial-ground by All Saints' Protestant Episcopal Church. His grave was marked by a pile of stones, which has since been removed, and i)art of his bones are

preserved in the neighborhood.

still

Thoroughfares.-Among faresare

the principal tlK.rough-

Lancaster and Williaiii.-tnwn turnpike,

tlie

the Strasburg road, and the Jline Hill

which traverse the oldest of these

is

r.,ad, all

towiishi|i Iroin easi to west.

of

changed

to

The population of Paradise is It has two extensive earone tannery, one hotel, owned and S'ieholas Danner, a drug-store, owned J. Hoover, one general store, owneil by .Mr (

and

'arnthers

Witmer, and conducted A. P. Witmer. There

bakeries, One blacksmith-shop,

by T. F. are

three

four cigar-factories,

two tinsmiths, and an extensive coat- and lumberyard, conducted by A. K. Witmer's Sons. The building now occn]iied by this firm was originally a stable connected with the hotel, and owned by Samuel Letevre. This building has been enlarged, and is now a large two-story stone and frame structure, the first floor being used as a general wareroom, and the second for the offices of the Lancaster County JIutual Fire Insurance Company. In 1843, A. K. Witmer built a railroad from the main line of the Pennsylvania Pailrnad to the present warerooms, distance, about one-

—

half mile,

— wliich

is still

of coal, lumber, grain,

a chief of the five nations, and always

displayed a friendly feeling toward the whiter,

it

nhal.ilaiit-.

by Matthias SUvyniaker, wIjh

in ISIO with five sons: JIatthias, Ileniy,

John, Daniel, and I.,awrence. The latter startnl to the West and was never seen afterward. It i~ supposed he was killed by the Indians. The remaining sons were married, and a lari,re portion of the land is

it

liking the name,

diip.

him to his sou-indaw, riiilip Ferree, son ul' Mary, and adjoined her estate. The eastern jiart of tlir township was

the Legislature,

ipplied to their representative reiireseiitat and had

Williamstown

is

used for the transportation

ice, etc.

a flourishing village in the east-

named from the who kept at that time The second building u a- a hotel, and

ern part of the township, and was first

builder,

a small store.

Amos

Williams,

by Nathaniel E. Slayniaker. At present there is one hotel, kept by Jacob Bair, one general store (Harry Brackbill being its proprietor), one shoemaker, one saddlery, and one butcher.

There are twenty-three

houses and one hundred and thirty

inli.ihitaiits.

Kinzer Place.-— Harry Kinder, in l^.'A, built a hotel at what i- now e.dl.'d Ki.izer Place for the accommodation of the jailroad wcirkmen, it being the lime whin the I'eiiiisvl, ania Kailroad was being con-

The

ds

the Strasburg mad, whieh was iaid

mg

Ihi

IK

out as a public higliway during the administration of William Penn. The roads lunuing ncU'th and south are Cherry

liamstown.

11

ill,

I'.hud.

The Mine

Ilor-e, liellmonte, llill

namely, Kenneagy's road. llill

all

is

road, Coal llill road, and

and Wil-

crossed by five roads,

Wolf Rock

road.

Liuville's Hill

Cedar road,

of which intersect wilh the .Mine Hill road on the

top of the

The Pennsylvania Ilailroad. which has a station at is now the great avenue of travel and

I^eaman Place,

and from

transportation. to

Paradise.— In

this township.

1S(I4 the village

now

called Paradise

was made a post-town, and, needing a name, it was called Paradise from an expression of Joshua Scott (publisher of Scott's map of Lancaster County), who, others,

being the present p..-.tnii-lre-s. Chri-tian Hershey e^ Bro. have a large coal- and lumber-yard and general store at this ]ilaee.

hill.

while standing

Passmore as a hotel, and also by the railroad company as ticket-ollice and waitiiiL'-room. Kinzer postAikeil is in the same building, Mrs. Joseph

ofliJe

in

Leaman Place.— Prior of

Henry Leaman wdiere Leaman erected

1835, Mr.

this

village

a hotel,

has from the

Oraduallv

hist beiii

n.-ed

now

The

hotel

as the pa-senger depot.

a little vilhi-e eaiiie inio exisleiiee,

illici.

In

is.

and soon afterward

arailro.ad slalion was cstabli-hed there.

the liiiddle of the turnpike with

and looking over the country, remarked that

to the construction of the

Pennsylvania Railroad there wasonly the farm-house

and

it

PARADISE TOWNSHIP. Railr.iad

Harristown.

—

wa-

luunk-t

'I'lii-i

Th.MiKis Harris, uIk, was

,,iie

the

>.t

I

The

has a popiihiliou of ahoiit one hiiiulnML

sHiool

i-istou'ii

ratidii

tlu- tii\\ iisliiij

ill

iVum

iL-ctors

of

it

s.lu".l systLMU ha.l

lit'

The

tlie

erection of the

Esbenshade, and four others whose names ciinmit

The number

boani

first

Daniel

consisted of

ac-

lica'ii

;rtrasbiirg heliire tlio sLjia-

l'aia.li,,e.

alter

c'lecti.Ml

llai-

h)cate.i Llmv.

is

Public Schools.— The ce|)tcil

:

of sub-districts at

ol

tliat

lie

.li-

t(i\viishi|i

lli-ri,

Meiijaiiiiii

a-en

taiiied

.

lime was seven,

As time has -one on new and more tasteand c'onvenient liouses juive taken tlie places of and the only one still in use is the llarrislown

or ol'ioj;s. ful

these,

school-house, a stone structure.

The 1,

iiresent sub-districts in tlie towii-lii|. are

Paradise; No.

No.

Centre; No.

L',

llarristowii

-I,

No.

;

.".,

;;.

:

No.

Williaiii-low n

Willow (iiove: No.

;

o,

Cedar Hill; No. S, ^i. ring Valley; No. 9, Jihick Horse; and No. 10, Lucust Grove. Of the.se the schools in Nos. 1 and 9 are graded schools, with two teachers each. The houses in these distriets liellemonte; No.

aiv three of in

7,

.sloiie,

lour Iniek,

tjood eondition,

and

all

and

lliive of w,M,d, all

with

luniislied

modern

improveil tixturcs.

The annual school term

in

the

t()wiislii|i

has during

'many years [jast been sometimes seven and soinel lines eight months. The wages of teachers are from thirty to forty dollars |)er month. The ])resent teachers are Miss Celia Gable, Miss Carrie Norton, John Weaver, Mrs. Martha Rowe, :\Hss Lizzie Bair, Thomas G. Wise, INIrs. Clara Bair, Harry Denlinger, li. A. Book, Alfred Leslier, Miss Annie Plienegar, and Miss Emma Wiker. The present directors are ISi'iijamin Ranck, president; D. D. Edwards, secretary .laeol, E. Ranck, treasurer; C. H. Hershey, H. C. Mus.er, and Daniel Esbenshade. Tlie number of children in attendance in 1883 was five hundred and eighty-five. ;

All Saints'

Church (Protestant Episcopal).—

On July

ol, 1841, a

house of

Amos

a

jnirisli.

meeting was held

at the public-

Witiner, for the purpose of organizing

The persons

present were

Redmond Con-

Adam K. Witmer, .lolm ^ate., Eshelman, Jr., David Witmer, J. Yates ConyiiL'ham, and the Rev. E. Y. Buchanan, rector of Christ Church, Leacock township. The following vestrymen were elected to .serve until Easter .Monday, 1842 Redmond Conyngham, J. Lightner, A. Iv. Witmer, ynghani, J. Lightner, J.

:

J. Y'eates, J.

Isaac

I'.

liointed

Eshelinan,

Light ncr.

The

Jr., first

Conyngham, two named were ap-

J.

Y'ates

wardens, and Jtev. E. Y.

Biiehaiiaii

was

elected rector.

time there was an ellort made to organize a parish anJ secure funds for the bnildinc; of a church at Carpenter's Cemetery, but these ell'orts Previous to

tliis

|.rov

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

998

( the renovated house of worship attractive in

There

try.

a ceinetory on

is

cliurch, covcrin- an area of it

is

hv

iiieh.srd

usrd

one of the most

is

Present officers

internal arrangements in the conn-

its

and

a hiirh

the north side of

Wiker, V. G.

tlu^

W.

;

;ire

U.S.

:

W.

0.

I'.ilw

Imvu

Kemli^', N. G.

Tiva-.

,

;

Elmer

Howard JEillcr, Tliis is among the

aid-, Srr.

;

and ani.,nir the tirst in the and r,,nvrt nindc of working, Insurance Company. —d'hc l.aiic.ist.r 'ounly ^[n-

oldest lod-es in

j

rnunty

'

meniliers of the church for the

|.riiiei|ially l>y

Asst. Sec.

i

one and .HU-lialf acres; ,ili:,l frn.,-, and is

s„|„t:i

D.

;

State,

tlie

for its rarefnl

(

'

hiinal ol their (ka(f

Old Mennonite Church,— This church

He

locate.l

is

William Hen. Henderson

committee consisted of .lacol, l).-iilinger, John Dcnliiiger, Samuel Ehy, and John [Zollinger. Services are lield every two weeks, and a large congregation is always present. The following is a list of the minis-

(i.

\Villiaiii

On

is

and

at the i)rescnt time,

and Jacy

iliarge

in

.lohii

Konk

church

1880 the

di

F

Da

W:

d

.\i

.\nion it, and other improvements added. buried on these grounds are the Fence-, Car

Lightners,

Witiners,

a

li-t

of the present officers: Jidiii

The Wenger Carriage Factory, Paradise,— In Witmer erected al the east end of the

\^i~, A. K.

villageof Paradise (on a tract of land purchased from .fae.ib Witmer, his unelel a small, one-story shop,

uhudi WIS

Frantz Cemetery. —This cemetery was 181.-,

,

l.a

took iiossession of

tin.'

-hop and

1-

who.sc son, Joseph F.

suee,.,.ded

hy Francis Snyder,

Wenger, carried on a thriving

years,

It

id

w ho continued there two years, the shop then lieing

of

taken

on the north

It is located

il.

id

school-house originally stood on these groni

possession of by a younger brother, .lacolj Wenger, the present proprietor, and has been carried bv him for fifteen vears. einl of the one-tory wlieidwright-shop there now st:inds a larue t!iree-tory imihling, employing

oil

'he first

rson buried in this cemetery wa- Maria Frantz.

Pequea Lodge, No. institnied

Feb.

161,

Hi,

V. G.

ph

Graybill, Treas.

It

Isu;,

John

.Miller,

;

building in that

-This lodge Soudersbuig, with

0. 0. F.

I.

in

following oflieers: William

aiiuel

Iiri(k

P.

.Mi.hael, N.

F. Lefevre, A. S.

;

i.

(

ess

red

.re,

is

r

lie

tVom

A[r. Aino-,

Witmer, and they are

its

iiidred

h

rew and

joining his hotel. .lohn F. Reese,

who condueted

years and established a '

i

when

the right and

li.xtures,

d d.dlars.

Its'

membership

is

\

'

In

charge of the i)usiness, and ccniducted of two years,

organization this lodge has initiated two

and twenty members.

the bu.-iness for two

large trade.

1S77, JMr.

Reese withdrew from the firm and Mr. Frew took

Since the

on Saturday evening of each week. of

twenty-five thousaml dollars.

in 1S75, built a

The meetings were held in place for a number of years,

their mecliiiL'- in his building, over the

is

Frew's Carriage Factory. Mr. Nicholas Daunt

;

Jo-

the hMl-e, concluding to remove to Paradise, pro-

)W holdin-

for eight

and was followed hy his brother, A. E. Wenger,

1

A

II.

on

-,

e:irriaL'i'-iiiaking.

d

the turnpike, on the Bellemont and Intercom

e

I'arricil

Cox removing to Lancaster, was who continued thecarriaL'e busine-s until his death, in 18oS. The property was th.ai sold by A. K. Witmer to .lolui Wenger,

t-

on land donated by .Jacob Frai

.lohn Denlinger.

is

bv

W

business in the manufacture of ciirriages

aliout

siinii,

oeeni.ied as a wi.eelwn-lit

ilrst

M: '

ie

Lefevres, Stambaehs,

is

Witmer, secretary and trea-nrer; Directors, SamSloeum, president, X. I", ."-^laymaker, A. K. ^Vitiiier, 0. L. Himes, A. P. Mellvain, John N. Woods, Hr. S. 1!. Sami.le, John Seldomrid-e, .loseph F. Wit-

171().

Ferree, Isaac

Slayniaker,

uel

conntiy became more densely po|Milaled, was used as ;i pnbli,' bnrviii- idaee.a el.arler er

this

F,

S.

.Vtter the

and

ollicers xTere

lir^t

Jan. 14, 1851, N. E. Slaymaker was elected to

fhe following

Carpenter's Cemetery, —This is tiu'oldest lunyingin tlie townsliip, and is .itnat.'d on an rlcvatioii of ground at the junction of tlie " lilack Horse" road with tlie Strasburg Railroad. Previous to her death, Mary Ferree selected this spot (which is -itiiated in about the centre of her former possessions) as a burying-])lace liir hcr-rlf and familv, and she was the first to lie within its .piirt walls. ]l,-r death

groniid

occurred in

The

and Henry

of secretary and treasurer, and the aia.li-e townshi]., an.l is

owned by (icr-e

HISTORY OF LANCASTKR COUNTY. ISeiler.

It

life in Leacock towiiship. He married Knox, and ha,l si^ .hildrm, viz., Lyle, Of Sally, Rubert, JIargaret, \V.lliam, and .loliu. tlu^e, William was the .mly one who married, and whnMirvivc-,al the pie-eut writing 1883). He gi\w up on the paternal larin in Leacock, ami attended

built in 1825 by Michael Jlussleniun,

\v:i

ten years ago,

intil

ibT,

present

its

when

it

The

owiiei-.

bv Ehun Tn.ut,

mill

Isabella

is

a small

an.l, tli(,u;:h

his

pa.s3ed

was bought

(

Evergreen

Mill,

owned

i:,h

ml located on I'equea Ci vk, iill, with two burrs and two chopping-stmie

the district >clin.,K of the neiL'lihoi h

i

resent

lessee,

Jlr. Christian

llershev,

is

;

mill

is

in

that arduous line of

the age

,\t

employ ment

He

he attaincl the age of iwenlv-live years.

until

.riving business.

London Vale Mill.-This

1.

of >i.\teen he ueut not to labor am..ng the faruicrs,

and continued

i

then entered the service of the Pennsylvania

situate.l

liail-

I

on Run, and owned bv Silas K. l.-hlenni

1

road

Company, and

filled

the position of supervisor

On

of a section six miles in length for live yetirs.

Osceola Mill was originally an old forge called Springwell lorge. hi ISUli Ueorge Eckert, K^(|., built

same site, which was held by liim until was then sold to Israel Rohrer, who s.dd it Rohrer, ami the name was changed from .^/^s%

^

'^

'

•

/'

-^

£!74; J. G. Cassel and Charles Piehm, 1875; John JI. Cassel and Jonas B. Erb, 1870 Cyrus R. Dnhncr and Samnel Shirk, 1877; S. S. llauenstein and Samuel D. Holler, 1878; Henry E. Hershey and Samuel H. Erb, 1879; Samuel Shirk and Joseph Hernly, 1^80; Geor.L'e HeruKUi aiulD. E. Shimpi; 1881; Samuel II. Ihli an,l Jnhu II. Krcidcl, ISSl'; I'ctcr /,. II.

Ilcruly, HS:;.

Supcivi-ors

and

and de-

its

and it is quite a flourishing place. H. S. Suavely, one of the descendant^ of the original Smively family here, is running a large steam- and water-power tlonring-miU at this place,' with a grain elevator attached Idie of a capacity of about eight thousaml bu-liel-. mill was fir»t built by Jacob Snavely in l.si)7. and run

;

.and Jarnl, llrrt.ly,

the

ling

name from the juiu'tion of the two roads. It had its oriiriu in This is a new iilacu byname. l.S(i7, when the L.tncaster Branch Railroad was built, rived

ted school^ direotors.

Havid \Vcidinan

the iutersc

is

Columbia and La

8alim, 1870.

Hrrsh,.y and ,luppo>ed

wluM-e

S.

,r.

Her,-hev,

is

Here, too,

is

apple-jack in the township distilled,

spirits

the !ife-pre>erving

main^.

:

1S4S; .lacobErli

first

have been

to

but only the spot

were

di-tilled

re-

ller^hey, a descendant of the i)ioneer

carrying on the mercantile business

at

_

and John IJainhcruvr, ls};i: I-;,ac l;,tnilicrger auil Jacob Kitler, IS.Ml; W'illiai.i .-^chrciner and Christ, Her^hev, l.S.-.l; lieujamin Bodd.u t and Ijnil Keener, ls5:"i. 1S52; Emil Keener and Benjami .Mc (No record from 1853 to 18(i4.) lie and Joseph Connelly, 1804 1!. Mciiuaid and ICmil

,

.

I!e-ides

p,

warehouse, and

j

'

beaul la-t

llicse

i

and

oal-yard,

very

a

been creeled within the

railr.iad .Icpot ha-,

.liimbi

lew

the finest limestone

;

there are a hotel, black-

this

smitl

farii.

j

Keener, 1805; Ellas E. Reist ami .lacol. L. Dommoy, 1.S06; satne for 1807; P.M. Will ami 11. Ilelman, 1808; Ellas E. Reist and

P.M.

Will, 1809; election

H. Gibble and Peter M.Will; I'.enjamin J. Mcljuaid and Emil Keener, 1870; Benjamill J. .Mc(^iaid and George Herman, 1872. .\o recon of IS71.I .Vbram R. Hershev and Jacob Krall, I.ST:; Henry II. 'a^-cl and Jacob Krall, 1874; lleiiiy H a.-e Cissel and Abrum E. Belim, 1875; Henry H. llcr^hcy am and Emil Keener, 1870; Henry William B. Miller, 1.S77-8S; Samuel Hiclim am Thomas Kcath,187'.l; A. A. Zook and Samuel Dielim IS.mi; same in issl William B. .Miller and 4'boma

the county |

'

(

(

!•:.

;

Kealh,

1.SS2;

V.

R.

.Met/.er

and William

II.

.Miller

of Lancaster, village

little

five. !

erected a oltice,

commodious warehouse,

blacksmith-shop, and

large quantities of limestone,

of lime,

per cent, .-hipped

annuallv.

l.irge .\

place.

by fiir the oldest town, computing Iron lis lime i> the time tlie church near by was built, beginning was about one hundred and liliy year back, and it has changeil names several lime-, bavin: been originally called White Oak, whi.h name still given to another little hamlet about one mil, west of it. Unionville is built on the old Xewpori This was ,,m road, leading toaMount IIoi^c Furnace.

exhaustible ,piaiility

of

thecddotand most implntani thoroughfares known

and

it

is

now.'.illed the l.ititz

and Mount Hope road

vein

\'ernoii,

is

also toumi at this

of

lown, and White

The

the

to

named because limcloiie

half a mile south of

hotel, cigar-h.ctorv,

.1

of

The land originally belonged

familv, and the place was

ro.ad.

of which ar,; moulding sand, ten

quantities

high and eight feet wide,

Villages and Hamlets.— There are three smal towns of note, Peiin, rnionville, and .hincti.m

i

The

Thi- place is fimous for which yiebl ninety-two

are burned here auiinally.

leet

is

ticket-office, post-

other buildings.

place has a eoal-vard, and large drawing and other Over fifteen thousand bushels of lime limekilns.

188;;.

Unionville

is

Hershey farm populalic Lime Rock, merel railroad, about one mil de west of Litit/., was lirst breated by Dr. J. C. Brob.st in the year 1880, who ;

of October, 1809, Josiah

(

thriving

l.ime

there.

.if


t-ollice, are

Lime liock. Schools.-The system of education

unction, and

hre.

in

Penn b.wn-

;

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

1004

The buildings were small, dingy log cabins meetiiig-Iiouses. The school apparatus con-

per pupil.

and old

sisted of several ilat tables

a

;

Tge wood-stove, with

1

a capacity of holding very near one-fourth of a cord

of wood

a (aw books, such Hook, Rose and Pike Aritlnneti ;

;

s

Byerly's Spelling-

s,

some very old Ger-

days that sarred book was used as a class-book

tliose

a slate-pencil, oltentimes made out of a gravel-stone; a goose-quill, a solution of indigo for ink, and about six sheets of pajier (foolscap) sewed together for a

copy-book; the times,

A

no blacklmard,-. often

a

teacher

siiitalile

to

day laU.avr, wlm wa.

\vorn-,.ut

obliged to give from three

to tuur

le=sons a

day

iii

reading, which was considered in old days absolutely

Very little attention was paid to arithGrammar, geiigra|ihy, and mental arithmetic

necessary. metic.

were not known, and wlu a powerful Oppo-itiiin, in a great measure.

n

iMtriMlucL-d

llr^t

whuh It \\a,

retarded

met with

tliiir itolmc---.

the duty ol the teacher

oftentimes to givr the pupils douhle ncitations,

and German, mo~tly

lish

in

the

J'lng-

Te^talnent.

X(j

The teacher had to set them, other words, head them, some in mixed Eng-

printed copy-books. or, in

lish

and others

desired.

in Penn.-.ylvania Dutch, just as parents This mode uf teucliing went'on wilii little

improvement better

umd

edncaliDii

uiioul

Is-lS,

juanile-led

when

itself,

and

a desire

the

lor

" free

school system" was accepted, and siine the school.

have been

\

:

VRNN TOWNSriIP. Ilersliey tliese

and David

Ilostetler

a fine spociiiien of

is

family restiiig-pluccs, neatly

an

witli

iiicluscil

Israel

(I.

.lolin

L.

Israel Zartman, treasurer; Mohler, Martin Melzler, and Ephraim S. The company has been in a very

Erb, secretary

;

Hoover, Esqs.

which lie liurieil the Hersheys nidstly. On the form of David Hosteller (proper) is one in-

nourishing condition, and

closed with a stone wall substantial enou;.'h

erty insured

iron fence, in

another hundred years, where the

some of

descendants

tlieir

to the early history

Many more and farms.

.

lie

to

dating hack-

all

of the settlement of the families.

smaller ones are found on

many

other

of them are well preserved, and the

!^[ost

places of the dead marked with sandstones liaving Ocrmaii inscriptions, the letterings of wdiich are so much obliterated by time that they cannot very easily

made out. The Manheim Fairview Cemetery figures very jirominently among the fields of the dead of recent It is situated in Penn township, a short disdate.

he

tance southeast of

Manheim

borough, on an elevated

on the south side of the Manheim and This association was charCourt of Common Pleas of Lancaster the tered by County, May 25, 1874. "The corporation >h,ill have tract of land

Lancaster turnpike-road.

jiower to contract for, purchase,

of land

fee-simple

in

in

and take eonvi yanee

Penn township,

in

said

)iot exceeding twenty acres in the whole." is nicely laid out in blocks and walks, and otherwise ornamented. The slope of the ground and the cemetery can be seen for miles. is northward, The first managers were Abraham Kline, John M. Dunlap, Jacob H. Kline, Moses G. Miller, J. B. Bom-

county,

The cemetery

White first officers Abraham Kline; Secretary, John M. Dnn-

bcrger, D. F.

President,

Hamaker, and Jae

F. R.

on the

value of prop-

hail a total

of December,

:;l-t

1.^-^2,

of fifteen

and

Hostetters

buried,

last

;

hundred and twenty-even houn.laries of Lancaster

(

dollars.

It,

lindts are the

Vinnty.

The Fanners' Creamery Company of Manheim (Limited).— The manufacture of butter and cheese was commenced in Penn township in March, 1883, by tlie above-named company, which erected a very fine building expressly for that purpose in the beginning of 1S83, a short distance southeast of Manheim borough, and fitted up the same with all the latest im-

proved machinery best adapted for the production of pure and good butter aiul cheese, at a cost of ten An eight horse-power engine thousand dollars. moves the machinery. The main building is two stories, thirty-six by thirty-seven feet, with a wing sixteen by thirty-six feet, one and a half stories high, and an engine-house fourteen by twenty-two feet.

Whire's circular cheese vat, Burrel & Whitman's milk vats, and Blanchard's churn are used. To these machines is added a Danish Centrifugal Cream Separator, a powerful machine that takes the cream out of the milk immediately. This creamery eiuploys The names of the officers and directors of four men.

creamery are John B. Heist, president; Ellas E. Amos H. Iler-hcy, secretary; Jacob i:. Shimp, mendiers of the

this

Heist, treasurer;

P. Hostetter and David

board.

II.

Jacob Weidman.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

Corporations.— The" Penn Township Mutual Fire A >'>. John Stehman, Esq., was appointed in [ilaee of l.iijlit, re-iLTned, and served in this capaeity nnlil De.-. I, |Si;i;, at which time Israel G. Erb wa- appointe.l secretary ,,ro Irm. until June 2, iMis, when In- was unanimously elected secretary and trea-nrer of the

at

Abraham

it,

-cs.^ion lie

vole again-t

t;i

and \\

it,

;

a stand against

tinned K,

in l^^oS,

he

doing on the .lourual, April

House Journal.)

do' so

a- in the llotrse.

It

may

)nit his 111,

1S3S.

he stated

it,

while

during the

After giving his reasons for so

(Page

1151!,

that after the

HISTORY OF LANCASTP]R COUNTY.

1006

State luid expumloil nearly one million ilollurs on

douhtful project, elected to

llie

was during

it

was abandoned.

IK- \va,

Hoii.se of Representatives in

this session that the siirplns

the United State-, hy n.-ulntiun of

lt;:!i;.

revenue uf

the hands of the Legislature.

ple direct, offered a joint resolution, Feb. 20, 18:i7

(House Journal,

vol.

i.

born Oct.

-

!

I

authorizing the State

p. 51)3),

I

treasurer to redeem two million dollars of the State

February 23d, on motion, the said resolution was considered in committee of the whole, when, after considerable discussion, the opposition succeeded in having it postponed to March 13th, when it could not be reached again. At this time there was a strong improvement feeling, and log-rollindebtedness.

ing became the order of the day.

The

born Nov.

betli M,,

!

I

0,

and had David .M.,

1.S19,

ISl'll;

oceiinrdSrpt.:io,l,S21 (ileeeascd); ICliza-

wli..se birth

(.'iingres.s (se.ssion

ronnsylvania's share being nearly four million dollars, and wisliing to secure a portion of it to the peo-

.Vnna M., born Jan.

childieii:

Ii

of 18;35-3G) distril.u!iii- -aid Mirplu- am.ing the several States, fell into

township, on the loth of February,

llie

a,i;aiii

1,

21, ISii;

ls2i;: .fohn

Feb. 21, 1*:0;

Christian M., born Feb.

.laioli

M.

Fanny iL,

;

M., wlio^e birth occuri'ed

llrnj.iiuiii

M.,

l)..rn

July

31,

1832;

and Peter Jacob M. was Ijorn (3et. 1, 1826, and spent his boyhood on the farm which was origiiuilly purchased from the government by Ulrieh Burkhard, and has been for generations in possession of the family. His advantages of education were such as were afforded by the early schools of that jieriod, after which he assisted his father at the blacksmith's craft, and also gave substantial aid in the cultivation 2,

1835 (deceased)

;

M., wlio died in infancy.

of the land.

On

the death of his parent, which occurred Oct. 14, others of the family, inherited the

1867, he, with

paternal estate, which they

said surplus

still

own and

cultivate,

j

was all scattered to various projects excepting five hundred thousand dollars, which was distributed

among

the several school districts of the State.

He

was again elected to the House of Representatives in 1837, and again under the new constitution in 1843, and served during the session of 1844. In 1850 he was elected a director of the poor for Lancaster County. He was re-elected in 1853, and was president of the board dtaring the last five years. Feb. 11, 18(55, he a.ssisted in organizing the Manheim National

Bank, of which institution he has been In 1869-70 he was travel-

president fourteen years.

ing over the western jiortion of the United States as far as California, and the same year made a donation

with Jacob M. as business manager. In politics Mr. Eberly was formerly a Democrat, I

and

later

embraced the

jirinciples of the

j

Uepubliean

party, though not actively interested in the political issues of the day.

Much

of his leisure

is

his fine library of thirteen

devoted to literary pursuits, hundred volumes embracing

the standard works on history, science,

art, and modern and contemporary poets. The curi'ent periodicals of the day are also found-upon bistable. Jlr. Eberly was educated in the Mennonite faith, and is still one of its devout adherents, and a member of the Old Mennonite Church. all

religion, together with the best editions of

borough of Manheim of three acres of woodhind containing a spring of water, near said town, to be used as a public grove. This the town Council properly named after the donor. to the

CHAPTER LXXI. JACOIi

The

iM.

EBERLY.

earliest representatives of the

i'eqVe.\

was Michael Eberly, whose son Henry was married to a daughter of Ulrich Burkhard, and resided upon land now owned by the subject of this sketch, in conjunction with his brothers and sisters. The birth of Henry occurred in 1718, and his death in 1758. His three sons were Henry, John, and Jacob. The lastnamed was born Jan. 27, 1752, and died Dec. 2, 1810. He married Anini, daughter of Jlichael Witmer, their nuptials having occurred Nov. 20, 1781. Their children were Henry, born in 1782; Mary, in 1784; Anna, in 1787; Jacob, in 1700; John, in 170(3; and Henry, in ]7;w.

Jac.li iCberly,

who

is

the father of the sub-

was born homestead. He at an early age a blacksmith, and later^ beeamo ried I'anny, daughter of David

ject of this biography,

township.

Eberly family

emigrated from Germany to America during the year 1700. They were followed by others, among whom

Hec. 30, acquired

17',iO,

tlie

a farmer.

mi the

trade of

He

mai-

Jlellinger, of .Manor

Geography and Topography.— This

is

one of the

several interior townships of the county,

and

lies

south of the county-seat, between Pequea and Conestoga Creeks. It was originally a part of Conestoga

township, aud organized into a separate municipality in 1853. It

is

bounded on the northeast by West Lampeter,

southeast by Providence, south by Martic, southwest

by Conestoga, aud north and northwest by Lancaster township. The surface of the township is somewha: rolling, and the soil well adapted to agricultural purposes. Large quantities of corn, hay, oats, and wheat are produced from its fertile soil, and, in fact, Pequea ranks among the best farming districts in Lancaster County. Picsides the agricultural products of the township, Pequea is noted throughout this section of country as producing the best cmality of stone lime

./

tffZ'-

«^

^

PEQURA TOWNSHIP. townsliip

is

Creeks and

(Iniined

:iu

lidiu

wlncli the

Conestoga

t

name, tonus the north ami

rives its

1

tlieir sniull trilmturir-^.

Pequea Creek,

Tlie

by the requeu

i

boundary, wiiile the Conestoga the s(jiitl eastern boundary. There are no extnii points in

tliis

township, the higlie^t of

Mount Pajiuissus, abi West WiUuu- vilhicre. The tgwnship traversed from norlliu

ever,

is

proljably

southeast from

i.s

east in

by the Lancaster ami i^Juanyville

l,bi

U,

1875 and later.

Pioneer

Pequea.— Just when wedded his way to what is now

Settlers

in

the

sturdy pioneer Pequea township and " warranted his tract," or "staked out his claim," is not delinitely known, yet it was

some time prior to 17S0, as the assessment-roll of that year for old Conestoga township, of which Pe(]uea was then a part, contained the names of the following land-owners, assessed in that year, and located as stated below. The valuation of ivrojierty was at that time in pounds, shilling.--, and pence, and may appear at tirst sight to be enormous, but when we take into consideration the fact that it was then that the colonists

were

in

inijeiiendt'uce,

the midst of a desperate struggle for

and large revenues had

to

be forth-

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

1008 and valued

in

1780 at

He

t:2000.

also owiie.l tlirco

valued at .£500, anil two cows at fSOO.

horse.s

!

The

owned

Kiiidi.ir

in

17S0 one hundred and seventy-five

aeies of hind, valued by the a^.^ess(ns at

t;70llO,

!

present owner of the farm

Amos

is

three

horses at £700, ;uid three emvs at £;iOO.

MeCallister. \

John

near the southwest line of the

He.ss lived

township, and owned sixty aeres valned horses valued at .£400, and three ...w^

pre.sent

.£10(10, twi.

.£200.

Hess

.laeidj

Cood

the present owner

is

at

Harnish Family.— David llarni^ll lived on the fane nnw owned hy Mieliael C. llarni.li, a little

.it

si.ulli

the n|d

lamily there was IJenjaniin, w ho-e lii-l wile was Mi-,- M'ary He-s, and for hi- second wile he manied Mr-, k'ate Leonard, and now lives in llluioi- D.ivid, maiiied -Miss Parbara Miley, and iio» lives near Hollinger's. tannery. West Lampeter t..\Mi-liip: Martin, married lAUss' Snsan larni-b, and lived in Pcpiea until he died; Amo>, married Mi- L,//i,- K. iidi-. aid lives near Oralfs .Mill-; Mnharl, marri. d l..llin..;er, and lives i:ila in Mi-oini; Abiain II.. inanied .Mi- .Mary Sliabb, and livr- .,t \Vr-t Willow Annie, married lo Amos .Maurer, and died m ISsl; Li/zie, marrird Amos

the

about

years

Miss

niar-

son. died before reaching his majority,

lilili

Michigan;

.Vndrew « a, iM.rn 011 the old liomeslead Aug. 2, 1,S08, and in due time succeeded to his father's estate. He was lii>t marin

many

married

>he next mariiea\id,

Thelandisnowowne.l hy.Iolm Huber, tiie

his

Kavid Harnish were

four horses valued at £10oo, and three

a descendant of

he farm eanie in p,,s,e-^ion of .Mirliael

trom

i.,

cowsati:500.

W'-i Willuw. li.ivid |.iiivli;i-,.d tliis who was tlie warrantor of the

resent merchant, who

;

erick,

J. II. liro,.!;,, April, IBS3.

linger

&

Brother,

who

still

W.

G. Mel-

continue the business at

ls.;t,.

and also own and conduct a like business at Baumgartner Station. Christian Miley established the harness business in the Herr block in the spring of 1883. A post-office was established at this place April 16, 1879, and was named " West Willow," with Henry S. Herr as postmaster, who still holds the ijosition. the old place,

—

West Willow. This beautiful and enterprising little town is nearly miihvay along the northern boundary line of the township, and on the line of the Lancaster and Quarryville Railroad. Among its very early settlers were Christian Suavely, John Mehatfy, and the Haniish family. There was nothing jieculiarly attractive about the locality as a commercial or manufacturing centre, but merely the nearness of two or three settlers to each other attracted others, and the result is a thriving town in the midst of a wealthy agricultural district. As late as 1820 there were not a dozen dwellings within the limits of what is now the village. Its growth was quite gradual

j

1

!

'

New Danville. — This village is in the northwestern part of the township, four miles from the city of

Lancaster.

from 1820 to 1875, when the building of the Lancaster

and Quarryville Railroad gave a new impetus to the little town, and it now boasts of a population of about two hundred and (ifty. The pioneer merchant at this place was Henry Huber, who kept a small store in what is now tlie east part of the village. His successors in that part of the town were Peter Zercher, Jacob Charles, and Dr. Green. The old Huber store stood on the site now occupied by tlie residence of Martin ililey. ^\'llile ,rncob Charles was in the mercantile business he built the store-house now owned and occupied by the United Brethren as a house of worship. The ne.xt merchant here was A. W. Harnisli, who built and kept a store in the building near the railroad station now occupied by Andrew Mehatly, Jr., as a

In 1830 {(^consisted of eleven dwellings,

The tavern was kept by Christian Zercher, in the same building where Jacob B. Jliller now keeps a store. The wagon and blacksmith-sluqis u ere eairied on by Jacob Oyman and Jacob Jolin=ou. .Mr. Zercher's successors in the tavern were John Zercher, Jacob Heiney, Michael Zercher, and Daniel Grofft, who was the last landlord A hotel had been kept ten years prior in that house. to 1830 where Jplin L. Breneman now resides. Daniel Conrad established a hotel wdiere Abram B. Harnish now resides about 1840. In this liotel Isaac Reiuey, Samuel Shrode, John Good, Abram Wartle, William McAllister, George Conrad, and Henry Con-

a tavern, and two smitheries.

j

j

rad have been landlords.

I

I

i

to

The first store was kept by John Uhoier, who sold John Zercher, and he kein it for a lime in his Another store was established by Henry

hotel. I

Herr, and both were closed after a few years. Heiner also traded during a short time. In

Mr. 1851),

I

Daniel Conrad,

Jr.,

and Benjamin Yerdy established

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

1010 a store, and since

time stores have l)een l;e]it bv William T. Yoiiatt, Robert Green, Henry Conia.l, 'and the present merchant here, Jacob B. Millir. Al intervals the place has been without a store. tliat

The wagon-makers have been Jacob Oyman, Andrew Zercher, Benjamin Johnson, Joseph ^filler, Jolm Ellmyer, John D. Staiiffer, and Abram Snavely. In another shop the business has been carried on by Daniel Conrad, Jr., Charles Riddle, Amos Ilarnish, and 'John D. StautTer. Thfe following have been blacksmiths here: Daniel Courad, Benjamin Conrad, George Conrad, Henry Conrad, James Johnson, Samuel Hess, Benjamin Jlorton, Jacob Johnson, ^Villiam Rote, Daniel Hess, and George Lutz. The present blacksmiths are John Myers and H. S. Hersh. The village was formerly known as Stuniptown but when the post-oflice was established it was chris-

iheii

Wesley that they left the comforts and convenience* of the mure civilized communities ami

(i|.U's (,r

luished out into '

New

Danville, because, as

who

lieujde

is

it

said, several

name of Daniel reThe town now has twenty-four dwell-

bore the Christian

sided here.

two wagon- and l)lacksmilhand a physician.

ings, a tavern, a store,

shops, a shoe-shop,

Educational.

— Just when, wdiere, or by

pioneer school-house in what

was built

is

is

whom

the

now Pequea township

as profound a mystery to the oldest inhab-

itants as the question of

who was

however, that the lower end of the township. ]jrobabilities are,

According

to

made

it

The

Cain's wife.

was somewhere

in

the report of the board of school

Monday

June, 1883, there were seven school districts and as many school-houses

directors,

in the

the

first

in

Mount Parnassus, Mount Washington, Valley Harmony Hall. During the

township, named as follows:

Stevens, Quarry Hall,

School, Danville, and

year ending in June, 18S3, schools were taught seven five male and two female teachers, the male teachers receiving forty-four dollars and forty cents per month, and the females forty-five dollars per month. There were in the township one hundred and seventy-seven male and one hundred and fifty-six female pupils of school age, with an average The rate of tax on the attendance of ninety-one. dollar was one and one-quarter mills, and the total amount raised by tax for school purposes was 12095.94.

months by

pioneers and their families. I

1

1

j

came weak, and

For books,

salary, $2184; contingencies, $312.62

;

etc.,

teachers'

About 1847 the

As its surroundings have changed, the society has at times been a part of one charge or circuit and then of another, but has never

collector's

and

are curiosities to the clines

upon

The

W.

Jacob Heidleliach, tre ger, secretary L. Brenneman, president; F. H. '-^henk, and Jacob ^IcCallister. Methodist Episcopal Church.— In ;

iiart

of the township of Pciiuca stands

G. Jlellin-

; Job

Hube southern Id

house

now

nearly a century

modern church-goer, who

his upholstered

re-

pew, seeking natuie's

old meeting-house has large galleries, box-pews,

and a seating capacity of about three hundred. The society hivs no records from which a list of the pastors The present membership oi' the can be learned. society

is

about

fifty.

Surrounding the old church building is a cemetery, which originally contained about one acre of land, ti) which has lately been added two acres, making three acres in all, and here many of the early Methodists

and other settlers of the vicinity lie buried. Mennonites. -A. Mennonite Church was

—

built uf

stone in 1755, about three-fourths of a mile south from the village of New Danville. It was taken down in 1878,

To

and rebuilt the same year.

this

church

is

attached a cemetery.

New Mennonites.— A at

New

church of the Danville

New Mennon-

many

years since,

attached a cemetery of about an acre.

pjirt

of the township a house of worship

was built by the Old Mennonites in 1848. It was a stone building, and it stood till 1879, wdien it was taken down and a brick structure forty-two by sixty a

school directors for 1883 were

old house,

sweet restorative, wdiile his well-paid pastor is trying to dispense the bread of life to his immortal soul.

feet in size

The

ceteras, $5.

The

been a station.

old, has had only ordinary repairs, and is yet in a Its internal arrangegood state of preservation. ments are in the style of one hundred years ago, and

board, $25

e.t

society was revived and reorganized,

in the old stone cluirch.

treasurer's fees, $87.73; salary of secretary of school ;

The society subsequently beabout ten years no services were

since which time services have been regularly held

was built

:

for

shijjed at Strasburg.

In the south

school-houses, $24.23;

monument

held here, yet the few remaining Methodists wor-

to this is

rei)airing

of labor, gath-

this old

was formed, a society organized, and the stone meetbuilt, and in it for several years religious

services were held.

and

!?101.56;

field

ing-house I

ites

received from State appropriation from county treasurer, $420.37, and balance

Near

to their zeal in the cause of the Master was one of the " Jlethodist preaching-places," and here a class

S29G.45

;

wilderness of this then i>ew

ering together wliere they could a few of the sturdy

The township

from previous year, $310.79. The expenses for the year were

tin- tlicn

cuimtiy and iicw and unijiviting

;

tened

infancy, yet so aggressive were the dis-

its

ill

Methodism was

built in 1791 of stone.

iif \v(irslii(i,

was erected

in its place.

To

this

church

cemetery of about an acre and a half is attached. United Brethren.— A society of United Brethren

was organized at Willow Street in 1860, but it erected no house of worship. Meetings were occasionally held in a public hall at West Willow till the spring of 1883, when a lot, on which stood a house, a part of wdiich was a storeroom, was purchased fur the so-

PEQUEA TOWNSHIP. ciety

by Benjamin Friek,

un(

1011

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

]012

neighboring school, and later the MiUersville Normal

Annie (Mrs. Charles Deitri Mr. Mrs. Mellinger still reside in Manor town^liip. Their (deceased),

William G., was born Sept. 12, istil_ m the pahome, where his boyhood was pa>-cil. 111^ educational opportunities were confined to iii-.t ruction at the neighboring school, and later attendame ut (hu graded school in MiUersville. He then engage.l in farm labor, and at twenty-eight years of age married Miss Elizabeth H., daughter of (ieorge Kreider, of Pequea. township. Their children are Elizabeth (deceased), Jacob K., Catherine K., Annie IC, Su>an K., Henry K., Benjamin K., and Amos K. Mr, Mellinger, in 1874, removed to West Willow, in Pequea township, and devoted himself to farming pursuits. At a later period he embarked with his brother in the coal and lumber business, which still engages bis In politics he is an ardent Republican, attention. but seldom devotes his energies to the political couHe was honored by election for tlicts of the day.

School.

The

tilling of the lands,

embraced

in

bis

sou,

father's estate, occupied his time until twenty-three

ternal

years «f age, after wdiicli he engaged in the burning of lime in

Manor

H5

years.

township, where he remained three

then rfimoved to liaumgardner's Station,

Pequea township, and became a jnirtner w^ith his lirother, William (J., in tlo' c(ial and lumber business, the firm being William (!. Mellinger & Brother. in

Their business venture has been a successful one, a large and increasing tr.ade having rewarded their efforts. JNIr. Mellinger is a Republican, but not an

worker

active

in

the political

He

field.

is

a con-

tributor to the support of all religious denominations,

though of Mennonite predilections. Benjamin G. Jlellinger was on the 27th of January, 1S76, married to iMis.s Annie F., daughter of ChrisTheir children are tian Charles, of ^lanor township. Albert C, Annie C, Fannie C, and Lizzie C.

j

I

the third term as scliool director of his townshiii. His early religious training was in harmony with the

creed of the Mennonite faith.

jonx

1

BENJA.MIN

The

G.

MELLIXl.EK.

subject of this biography

amin

:\r.

and

a son of

is a grandson of the Jacob E. .Mellinger,

sex1':r.

The ancestor of the Sener family came from Germany about the middle of the eighteenth century

I

and

settled in Lancaster

County, where several gen-

erations have succeeded him,

i

and where

his descend-

ants have been characterized by industry, thrift, inThe family was early tegrity, and as good citizens. identified with the Lutlieran

and many of

its

members

Church

are

still

at Lancaster,

connected with

that religious denomination.

Jacob, grandfather of John Sener, and son of the owned a small farm in Manor township, where he died in his forty-first year. His wife, Magdalene Nell', who died in her eighty -sixth year, bore him children,— Godlieb,- Jacob, drafted progenitor, was a mechanic, and

in the

i

war of

181-2;

John, Christian, Frederick, Bar-

John Wagner; Mary, wife of Jacob Anna, wife of v^ife of John Nelf John Rupley Susan, wife of Henry Shepard and Catherine, wife of Benjamin Lawrence. Of these

bara, wife of I

Bletz

;

Elizabeth,

;

;

;

:

'

children, Godlieb

(formerly spelled

Gottlieb)

suc-

ceeded to the homestead property in Manor township, was a farmer during his active business life, a plain uid unostentatious man, and a Jlennonite in religious iaith.

He

died in June, 1805, in his eighty-first year.

daughter of Jacob Eberly and Barbara Funk, of East Hempfield, who died in 1800, aged seventy-four years, bore him children,— ilary, Elizwife of Amos B. Shuman, of Manor township abeth, deceased, wife of Christian Lintner, of Lancaster township; Jacob, deceased, was a I'armer in East Hempfield; Anna, wife of Benjamin Herr, of West Lampeter; John, subject of this sketch God,rh; Harriet, lieb, a merchant in Washington bor Martha, lie Kate, wife of Benjamin Getz, of Jloun Hi'^ wife, Elizabeth, a

;

s;i(i;. Prior to that time Rev. Tolbert preached regularly for some time at the house of Robert Bruce. The church was built of stone, size twenty-eight by In 1853 an additional piece of land was thirty feet. purchased of Daniel Good and George Warfel, and a stone attachment of twelve feet was built to the church the same year. In 1876 the old stone structure was taken down and the corner-stone of a new church took its place in July of the same year, Rev. Frederic Brady preaching the sermon on that occasion. By the 3d of December, of the same year, a neat brick edifice was completed, the dedicatory sermon being preached by Rev. C. F. Turner. The present membershii) is twenty-seven; value of church property two thousand two hundred dollars. There is also a good-sized burying-grouud in connection with this church property. )f tliosewho have preached at regular intervals to members of this congregation have been Revs. Tihbh'>, Hand, Reed, Miller, Sumption, J. .MeGee, Bay-

McGee, Horwell, IliWood, the present

nuni, r.o.line, Gregg, William

imu, Shaier, Collins, and R. C. pa-tor.

A

who

resides at

supi

Mount Ncho.

was organized early in the history Tihnau TIkhusou being among its first

.--^unday-school

of the church, 1

A

intendents.

Ihjurishing school

is

now

A. M. E. Church,— The African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1872

Union Bethel

at the

1

tor,

The

house of S.imuel Slewanl.

the members jjresent

for

organization

Charles Stewarfl, Ha'unah

following were \Villiam Proc-

;

Rollins,

Mary Jane

Sweeney, Mary Green, Maria Rollins, Stephen this meeting .\t Sweeney, and Sophia Steward. William Proctor, Samuel Steward, and Stephen Sweeney were elected trustees. Previous to this time Kev,. Holland and Henry served this people at their Tie

New Bowman ;)art

Church.— .\huut [jice of hmd in the

Mennonite donatcl a

of the township

upon whi.-h

tin.-

is;j:!

jiorthw

New Mem

The main

building

is

f

eight by thirty-two feet, with an attachuifut

lo

of their society.

Icct .s.piare.

The value

of the church prop,

Henry Bowman la hi John Ilerr, Jacob Bowman, and .lohn Ivohr tered to them in the pa-t, and Henry Weaver Keeports, and Christian Howry are th.' p eight hundred dollars.

hahi

le

be Used

erected a log building, weathcr-boaidcd, lor thi fit

1.^72, llisle.p

wa-, i>ler

id.

.\.

.1.

Shorter

olliciatiiig.

dedicated the lollowiuc spriuL'.

who served

was Elder 11. Paden, Ehlers .lackson

U.

Iheni

aft.

i'

(

i,

umes, Henderson, .)

,

The The

lir,-

the Iniilding of

H. Eewis, lollnwed

Davis, and

Tl

I,,

l.v

t

he

Rev.

Davi.-,,

Rol

Hamilton, the

l.ast,,r.

Methodist Episcopal Church.— In the

sju

sus-

tained, an. 1 in charge of J. H. Royer.

;

a-
in the winter season until he was sixteen \r.ns nld. In his twentieth year he taught a >( liMol fur three months at a school-house on the Valley r..;i,l, aUuiit half a nnle from Hawksville.

mile north of the Maryland

The

was what might

front ranks of his medical brethren in the county.

moved

Jiis

father

township, where John

be called a self-made man. As time moved on he soon l)roved himself to be a man of marked ability and superior medical jutlgment, taking his place in the

life

it

twelve years old

Providence, Lancas-

He

Strasburg township, but in early

which now com|)oses the township of Fulton. There, on the 16th of October, 17'J3, he was born, at

a.

I

ter Co., as his field for practice.

in

Little Britain township, in this county, in that part

of

to the village,

remaining about a year. The following year Dr. Benjamin Musser located in tlie village, remaining several years, afterwards moving to Straaburg township, then to the borough of Strasburg, where he died in July, 1883. In 1850, Dr. John K. Raub, a student of Dr. Benjamin Musser's, graduated at the Philadelphia College of Medicine; in 1851 he practiced a short time at Eden, Lancaster Co., then at Hawksville about a year, when he moved to tjuarryville, where he practiced the profession of his choice for three years.

W.

wards opened a separate

the township, continuing for several years, and then

President,

Vice-President, J. G. Sides

Edwards. The whole cost of instruments was one hundred and twenty-one dollars and ten cents. After a short time a uniform for each member was contracted for, the whole bill amounting to five hundred and fifteen dollars and seventy-four cents. A very fine band-wagon, built by J. Wenger, Paradise, was purchased by the band, at a cost of three hundred dollars. Ecknian

quired.

Dr.

sociated with his precejitor, and a few years after-

M. W. Raub opened an

The following was the organization:

New

Leah, daughter of John Peoples. Two of Lclia S, and G. J. P. Raub, are still

living.

,

D. 0. Showalter, Daniel S. Fisher, and Edward Bow-

in

to

his clnld'ren, '

man.

W. H. Richardson

in years, in the midst

life, surrounded by family and he was called from time by death in June, He was

friends,

married

W. H.

1021

Yet young

]S07,«in the thirty-ninth year of his age.

it.

as follows:

wards,

'

person

Societies.— The Xew Providence Cornet Band was organized July 30, 1880. The original members were

around.

of an active and busy

the nieetiiig-

luiild

Tlie haul was occupied as

donor

for miles

'

last

of his -eludars

who then attended

his school

was buried in May, 1883, aged eighty-six years, John Mowrer, a rc>iaeiit uf this township. At that time there was not a single house in what now comprises the village of Quarryville. At the termination of his first quarter in teaching he returned to his father's, and remained working on the farm until the fall of 1815, when, at the solicitation of Christian Herr, he undertook to teach a sclioid in his neighborhood, in Lampeter townshiji. There he continued as a teacher until the spring of 1821, when he commenced farming, having married in 1817 a daugh-

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HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

1022

.

In 1830 his name was brought before the county convention as a candidate for the Legislature, without

honors, lives on the lioniestead in this township. lie married Maria, daughter of John Brackbill. Their

knowledge or expectation.

His name and cliaracter being hut little known throughout the coiuily, his friends failed in their attempt to have liini nimiinated. The next year tliere wasa (H.-ipo^ition to iimke a change, and his friends succeeded in placini; liis name ujion the ticket and electing him. IK- wu> reelected in the fall of 1832 and 1S33. In ls:;4 he was nominated and elected a member of the Senate for a term of four years, and in 1S3S was re-elected to the Senate for another term of four years, thus making eleven years which he served consecutively in the his

children are John, Ida, Angle. Carhitta, and Jlaria.

The,elder Peoples died in 18G2, iifthe sixty-ninth spring of 1883,

A

short distance south of Strohm's,

man

which came

In 1833 he purchased a small property in Providence

by.

(then Martic) township, where he continued to reside

moved

He

to

has

trust.

He was

one of the

directors of the Strasbnrg Bank,

and

first

built a mill about 1813.

Some

frc

of th

Henry Brenesome of

It is of stone,

an old furnace which stood close

1

which are

dour-sills,

same place. Furnace Run the above mills.

A

board of

cast,

came from

is

Royer, and

He

the motive-power for

on

W'Oolen-mi

Strohm's,

assisted in the

was one of the first board of directors of the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company, and secretary thereof for thirty-six years, and He was president of the its president for two years. Big Spring and Beaver Valley turnpike from its first organization to the present time. He was treasurer of the school board of Providence township for six organization thereof.

gri>t-

the

then

Lancaster City, where he at i)resent resides. in the mean time filled various minor offices

and places of

her eighty-sixth

by ilartin Iluber about twenty-six years ago, its present owner, John Strohm, Jr., being the contractor. It was built upon the site of an old mill which was among the first in the county.

In 1845 he was elected to Congress, and in 1847 was making four years in Congress.

He

died, in

slie

mill, built

Legislature of his native State.

1882, a period of forty-nine years.

when

Mills and Manufactories.— .\side fmni the

re-elected,

until

His widow survived him until the

year of his age.

nov

had been operated I

j

same stream, north of

the

n o[)eration.

It

was built by Cyrus

the successor of an old woolen-mill that

is

for

many

years.

The woolen-mill

at

New

Providence, above mentioned, owned by Nel-nn Dyson, manufactures satinet, blankets, flannels, yarn, and carpets.

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An

Old

Landmark.— In

the western

jiart

of the

township, on a farm now owned by Isaac DiUer, of

Lancaster City, an old furnace was operated before [

He

years.

Revolutionary days.

has, as assignee, trustee, executor, or ad-

Piles of cinder

mark

its

loca-

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more estates and acted as guardian more minors than any other man in the county during his time. He was for twenty years an acting niinistrator, settled

I

for

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Cannon-balls were cast at this

tion to this day.

fur-

nace during the time of the Revolution and hauled by teams to Wilmington, Del. In those exciting times

j

justice of the peace in Providence township. j

Providence, Lancaster Co., about 1822.

He

was

one of the most active and energetic men in the towncommunity in which he lived of his day. scriptural adage might well a|)ply to him "Whatsoever thy hand findet to do, do it with thy

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ship and

than solid

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The

The

let it fall into their hands they chilled it, the mass of cold iron remaining there to this time. has been gradually filling up around the

soil

seat of the old furnace, so that at present the farmer

I

can idow over

might.-

He

men who worked there atone time became alarmed, thinking that the English were close upon them, just about the time they were ready to cast, and rather the

John Peoples, a native of Chester County, moved to

built a large store-house

r

ilwellHig-liouses,

it

without

interfering with the plow-

its

share.

Railroad.— The

ihops in the village and blacksmith- and wheelwrii of New Providence, aside from other buildings outHe served the county in the caside the village. pacity of director of the poor, and was generally

bia

t^uirryville

and Reading Railroad

Branch of the Colum-

intersect-s

the townshi|>

from the northwest, passing through the township in a southeasterly direction, having a station and ticketj

among

the foremost in every enterprise or undertak-

ing beneficial to the community.

He was

married

I

to j

Susan Miller. They had sons named Abner, Hiram, and John M., and daughters, Annie, Mary, Anumda, and Leah P. The daughters married George Witmer, John Eohrer, John Tweed, and Dr. John K. Raub. Abner, the oldest son, married Martha, dangliter of John Hess, and is living in Strasburg township. Jdhn M., the third son, married Maggie Royer, of Pottstown. He at this time is Professor of Mathematics in the State Normal School at Lock Haven, Pa.

Hiram, the

second

.son,

who

attained

legislative

[

!

ofiice at

New

one and a named by donated a mentioned

Providence, and a flag-station about

half miles farther south called Hess, the

company

in

them

for

the above-

purpose.

HlOGRAPHKlAL SKETCHES. OIIN .STKOHM.

Hon. John Stn. (then Little

Brit;i

,vas

>cj

honor of John Hess, who

half-acre of land to

born

in

Fulton tow

Lancaster Co., Oct.

IG,

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^^^'^"{ jx. ^If/J^u

PROVIDENCE TOWNSHIP. lives in Iowa; John, Jr., of Lancaster County; and Samuel, who lives in Los Angeles, Cal. John Strohm, Jr., is a well-known resident of Providcnce.towM^hip. He was Ix.rn Dec. 14, 1824, enjoyed only a coiiinu.a scIhioI eiliicati(jn, and at the ago of

His ancestors were of Geniian origin, and emigrated from Wiirtemberg. David, liis fatlier, embarl:ed for country

tliis

in

company with

liis

but on

jiarents,

tlie

voyage his father died, and was buried at sea. The widow, witli her ^lmal] family of two sons and a daugliter, landed at I'liihidelidiia, and finally settUd

twcnly-om? wiiit

Lancaster County,

who was

the

In 1855 he began to ojierate the now owned by him in Providence township, where he has since continued, having made valuable additions to and improvements in the property. He is a Republican in politics, and has tilled various im-

came

mother of the subject

The in

latter

enjoyed but meagre educational advan-

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In the year 1S04 his father purchased a farm

Strasburg township, and in the spring of 1805 oc-

it. From that time he was able to attend but a few months in the winter season. He was, however, a great reader, and lillrd hi^ mind from

portant

with a large amount ni vahialilc informaand by close study and research fitted himself for a teacher, a calling whicli he pursued for a number of years in liis native county. In 1817 he married Susan Bair, (laughter of John Ilerr, of West Lampeter

office

I

townshij), continuing the business of teaching until

1821,

when he resumed the avocation

the Legislature of the State, and succeeded in

being elected by a hanclsome majority. elected to the

Lower House

in

He

was

re-

1832 and 1833, and in

1834 was elected to the Senate for four years.

During the war he was i)0Stmaster at Smithville. He married Fanny, daughter of Daniel Mylin, of West Lampeter townHarry, a ship, and has had three children, viz. clerk in the county treasurer's office at Lancaster; B. Franklin, in New Mexico; and Elmer, in Col-

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orado.

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JO.SIAH BURGESS. t

Josiah Burgess was born at Leesburg, Lancaster His father, John Burgess, Co., Pa., on i\Iay 5, 1818.

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kept the hotel at Leesburg for many years, and was well known throughout the southern part of LanAt an early age Josiah was comcaster County.

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He j

was re-elected

to the

Senate

in

1838 for a second term [

making eleven consecutive years during which he was a member of the State Legislature. In 1842 he was elected iiresident of the Senate, the duties of which office he performed with so much fidelity that no appeal was ever taken from his decision. In 1844 he was elected to represent his district in the National Congress, and in 1845 took his seat in that body. He was re-electese was hiougbt to Lancaster for interment, but tbe holly ol' Noah was never found, nor any They were brothers-in-hnv traces of it discovered. Of David Evans, ex-county superintendent of puhlic

The ,

I

scho(dsof Lancasici-tAmnty.

The John

store propeil>

and

Staulfer,

Near tbe

Manbeim

the foot of tbe

village, at

road,

county,

Ik

dishlh

a

is

vin-

on by Henry

he.-n

1

Kanfiinairs d.- iihi\

and the iuseriptinus are completely dehieed on the Son.f dale hack to 1710, IVl'O, a„d so on, old ones.

Tbese

villages of this

enty-five acre^

Wolf

>

I,

I

cessively to .M jbael

and Jlount Joy imblie road, two miles from the former, and five miles from the_ latter jdace. It is an anti(|iiated town, and received its iireseiit

chael Kaulfman

and Jacob' Ka

caster

ami

I.

F. Dilfender

it

on the

tbe oldest in as

early

a

owned and carrie, has been known a

than seventy-five year^

pail ol one

hundred and sev

Con

f'jom him they have passed sue

township are small and few.

:;,

is

bill

Old which was deeded to one

rad

in 17

It

distillerv is

and

m.M.' a

,o.

-

the date.

Sporting IliU'is one of tbe largest. It is beautifully located (,n a considerable bill on the ol,

Williain Tate, 1710,

Curne, Jacob Willis, Evan Williams, Margaret Williams,

children,— Mary, Fran-

left

cis,

i

Xohleville, and William Clayton, an

A^hK'nlan, 1710,

title

papers:

James Musgrave, Daniel O'Connell, William Smith, 1710; JamJs Thompson, 1750; An.hvw llnnnpson,

I

servants into the i.rovince at the settlement thereur,

1800; Jo.seph Twee.l (a

sol.

Her

in

the Kev.iliitioii),

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SADSBURY TOWNSHIP. Gen. James Steel, 1816

Evan

Jell'rie.s,

Calvin Cooper (blacksmith), Gariier Pierce (innkeeper), 1«08 Amos ;

;

Slaymaker, William Ramsey, Benjamin Irwin, William Reu, John Cooper (ruller), Jeremiah Cooper (fuller), islu; James Noble, William Noble, George

Kalph BUth Jolm Murni Jul]

11

.Ii.liii

Mitclii

Slfisci

LeoiKii.l I'ic

Cooper, 1SU5; William Noble, William Black, ISIO; Chamberlaii Joshi Kiel Houston, 1809; Levi

Pownall, 1811; Josiah Kennedy, 1811.

The following were

sbury in

taxable^

175(j

Thoiniia

l,t

I'liliiL-k ill

Miutliew

Robo

1

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

DiiviJ Uri.wn ijii

Atles.

Louglic-iic

.lajuiis

John

Christiana,

CooiKT.

Ciiiig.

sliip,

i.s

al

,f

It is

Widow

so called,

(

tlie

town in Sadslniry towiiOctorani and Pine

tlie

eastern boundary of Lancaster County.

on laud that was granted to twenty-one servants, and which has hence heen known as "ser-

Josiiili Cliiiiiiberlii t'oinin-.ji

tin-

at llie Ju

Creeks, on

JaUH-s Craig.

vants' land," or the "servants' tract."

The accompanying

illustration

shows an exact; site, and also of

view both of the configuration of the

the location of the buildings, which formed the nucleus around which Christiana has grown.

The dwelling to the right of the railroad track, the double building to tlie left, and nearly opposite, foundry and blacksmith-shup. with the third, having the

'i^^n-^-r^ -'

^•'« =— ^^>iM!^h^^^.J~-^

John McCrea.

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railroad to form the dam-breast, constituting the water-

wheel-house and machine-shop.'were

same time by William Noble,

all

erected at the

and were put

in 1833,

in operation the following year.

This was at the time the State was constructing the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, to connect with Alicliael Miison

the line of canals westward.

Mr. Noble, for many years previous to that time, was engaged more extensively in general manufacturing enterprises than any one else in the southern section of the county. site

Octorara, hilip

Rockey.

A

little

distance soutli of the

of his foiindry-works, on the

store,

— was

his

same

sticnni,--the

merchant-, grist- ami ^aw-niill, blacksmith-shops, and at

wheelwright- and

about the same distance farther down, and iroximity

\\\

close

to

.voolen-factory,

-ImHi

and

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SADSBURY TOWNSHIP tenements.

With

facture of lime.

farm was connected tlie niaiuiShortly after tlie completion of tlie tlie

rur

railroad, ho built the warehouse which for many years was inckuled in the category of Nohle's foundry, Noble's mills, Xol.le's factory, and Noble's warehouse, the latter more recently named North Bend from the abrupt bend in the road at that point. Thus it will be seen that Mr. Noble had concen-

in

To

liam

tlie

such

:

Jlr.

Noble's

made

available.

The inconvenience thus labored under, along with the prospective needs of the railroad, were the Incentives which brought into e.^istence the original im-

provements which are shown

in the engraving and years following, Mr. Noble, with a practias a partner, continued to carry on the business of making castings for mills, factories for several

cal

and

foundryman

machinery, as well as that of building and repairing railroad cars, etc. Finally, Mr. Noble withdrew from the foundry business, and leased the works fiirm

Col. James Boon and William Dripps, who continued to operate the work until the spring of 183S, when Mr. Dripps secured a site and erected a foundry to

and machine-shop at Midway, just west of the railroad bridge over the Brandywine at Coatesville here, from the increasing iron-works, he tensive and successful business, and took the

stores,

one

hardware store, one grocery, three millinery-stores, two drug-stores, two physicians, two restaurants, a bakery, three shoe-shoj.s, one merchant tailor, one barber, two tin-shops, two blacksmith-shops, one agricultural impk-mentnvarehouse, one coal- and lumber-yard, and three livery stables. Christiana Lodge, No. 417, F. and A. M., was first

instituted

Kirkwood

at

in

18G8,

as

Colerain

Lodge, No. 417, with James P. Andrews, W. M. Pennington Moore, S. W. Simon W. Swisher, J. W. Jeremiah P. Swisher, Treas. James P. Andrews, Sec; Ebenezer Rogers and Wi am Webb, ch. members. In 1873 the lodge was removed to Christiana, and Its name was chi^nged to Christiana Lodge. The communications of the lodge are held in Masonic

jirinci-

Hall, a building

and business energy, and by the middle of 1844, from a gradual running down and general dilapidation of the works, all operations had ceased. In 1844, Hugh McClarron built a warehouse near where the railroad warehouse now stands. There

is

largely

owned by a stock company, which composed of members of the lodge. The

Worshipful Masters have been James P. Andrews, Pennington Moore, Simon W. Swisher, Ebenezer j'. Rogers, William S. Hastings, Bordley S. Patterson, Horatio S. Kerns, John D. Harrar, Philip S. Bush, Benjamin H. Pownall, George M. Knight Cyrus Singerfield, an.l Isaac N. McGowan. The present oflicers

.Mr.

McClarron was during some years eng.aged in the grain and produce business. These wei-e the first business enterprises in the town of Christiana, which was then known as McClarronville.

are Thomas J. iMarsh, .W. M.; Thomas R. Hirst, S. W. Henry Hoover Hamilton, J. W. Samuel Slokom, Treas. and Edwin Garret, Sec. The present membership is sixty. ;

In the summer of 184(3, S. L. Denney purchased from Mr. Noble the foundry and twelve a'cres of

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land.

that time there were in the town the farm buildings of Samuel Slokom, a hotel, now J. D. liar-

place.

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pal part of the business from Noble's works to his After that Jlr. Noble did not succeed in getting men who were jjossessed of practical skill

At

From this commencement till the ))resent time the town has had a steady growth, except in times of financial depression, and it is one of the most active business towns in Lancaster County. .Many of the buildings here were erected by Samuel Slokom and J. D. C. Pownall. The present population of the town is estimated at eight hundred. It has four general

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own.

He revived the foundry, and also erected and put in operation a machine-shop, which subsequently grew to be the iiiii)ortant industry known now as the Christiana Machine Company. The establishment of this business, of course, brought an influx of workmen to the place.

rough the town

at present, and its change to the present route, in 1854, has of course had its influence in shaping the development of the

facilities

fabrics to the

it

The railroad at that time ra some distance fartln east than

own manu-

an absolute necessity, while ordinarily such repairs as could not be made in the mills Lancaster could supply, yet Philadelphia was his main dependence, having his own teams transporting his flour and woolen city,

store,

from his works

revert to'the foundry

Walter now At that time the town was named Christiana honor of Christiana Noble, the first wife of \Vi\'.

Noble. In addition to the warehouse, Pownall and Dickinson erected two brick dwellings, a brick which is now a part of the store occupied by Samuel Carter.

actual wants, and went far towards advancing the general interest and welfiire of the communities for many miles fectories rendered

store,

stands.

and successfully^developed a number of the most useful and needed enterprises, such as were trated

calculated to supply

1033

Ivlward Lainmey's house, now Franklin Ihunplirey's, Thomas McClarron's dwelling, the warehouse, foundry, and machine-shop. In the spring of 1847, Jloses Pownall and Joseph C. Dickinson jnirchased land here from Jlr. Denney, and built a warehouse where the establishment of Brinton s

Christiana Lodge, No. 52, organized -Doc.

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5,

18o:;,

11.

1,

C.

0. of G. T.,

was

first

Herr acting

as

tir^t

Worthy Chief, and Hannah W. lirinton as tir«t W.nthy Vice. The lodgestarted with a membership of twenty, afterwards increased to more than one hundred. Thi= was for a number of years a successful and liighlv interesting lodge, but finally

gave up

its

it

decreased in numbers, '"and

charter.

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY.

1034

In the winter of 1877 a few of the old members reorganized and procured a new charier. Under tlie

double track from the Pennsylvania Railroad, and erected coal-bins with a railroad track on trestles

above them. An elevator was built in this warehouse at an early date, and was at first operated, by horse-power> but in 1882 a wire cable for working the elevator and driving a corn-sheller was extendeil Brinton from Davis' lumber-mill to the warehouse. Walter is the present proprietor.

was James D. Reed, with Josei)hine Williams, Worthy Vice, and reoriranization the

Wortli}' Chief

first

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The

^Mary Plooper, secretary.

lod-je

has been in sue;

operation since

ces:--ll Henry ,

jehr

W. W. Wallace, Daniel

Parish; 1S2S-29, George Wooley, iohn Nicholson, T. McCarroll 1S30, Daniel Best, Nathaniel Chew; 1831-32, Thomas Miller, E. Reed, R. W. Thomas, John Caldwell; 1833, Thomas Miller, William Ryder; 1834-35, John Lednum, R. E. Morrison, John Edwards; 1830, John Edwards, J. A. Watson; 1837, Robert Anderson, Dallas D. Lore; 1838-39, E. R. Williams; 1840-41, Samuel Grace, J. D. Long; 1842-43, G. Oram, G. D. Carrow 1844^.:,, W. K. Goentner, H. Samlerson 1840-47, Allen John, J. A. Whitaker; 1848, James Harmau 1849-50, John ;

;

1851,

;

W.

About

and Christiana.— l%iS(i-Q\ W. H. Burrell; 18G2, Joseph Dare, R. W. Jones; 1SG364, H. B. Mauger, R. W. Jones; 1865-66, V. Gray, L. J!. Hotl'man 1867-G8, Samuel Pancoast; 1869, Asbiinj, Wasteland,

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Chrlftiann,

Christiana Presbyterian Church.— Prior to 1859 there was no Presbyterian Society in Christiana and

no house of worship of that denomination, and the ten-

Presbyterians residing there belonged

to

instrumental

in

the acconi|)lishincnt of the work.

Services were lield in this chajiel on alternate Sun-

days during

many

\Villiani

.\lbert,

when

his forges.-

Of

this establishment the old stone coal-

house alone remains.

About 1815, James Sprout built two forges on the same stream, two miles south from Christiana, where '

he carried on the manufacture of iron successfully during thirty years and l)ecanie wealthy. The forges Were run for some time after Mr. Sprout ceased to work them by Janie^ t ;„„dijian and his son Charles, but they have

known built

n,.t

They were

recently been worked.

a- the S;id>bury forges.

About

a

mile below

the.^e,

Riugwood Forge was

by Oleimnt and Brook Buckley, a few years to the erection of the Sadsbury forger. it for some years, and were succeeded

suli^eipieiit

They conducted

by the well-known John McGowan, who carried on the business a

number of

years.

It also

be operated,' and, like the others,

to

is

has ceased

going

to de-

years without the organization of

Latta was succeeded by Rev. W. F. P. Noble, and lie by Rev. J. W. Edy, he by Rev.

a society here.

1825,

—

the

church at Atglen. In that year a chapel was erected in Christiana, and a Sunday-school was establishcil there. This chapel was built by general subscription, and Rev. Jame.s Latta, then of Atglen, was actively

till

was taken down, and a woolen-factory was erected its site by Jeremiah Cooper, a grandson of Calvin. It was burned, and was rebuilt by Lewis Cooper, a son of Jeremiah. It has been converted into a chojiping-mill, and it is now owned by Cyrus Brinton. Forges. Prior to the Revolution, Jlichael Withers built a forge on Octorara Creek, between Christiana and Steeleville, near where Sprout afterwards built it

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and Mount l'leam„t.—\8'i)71, J. Aspril; 1N72, William McMichael. J'feasan/.—lii73, W. McChristiana and Mount 5. Michael; 187.^75, E. Potts, F. B. Harvey; 1876-77, L M. Gable; 1878, W. P. Howell. 6. CAm/('(U(a.— 1879, J. A. Cooper; 1880-82, I-l C. Yerkes; 1883, L. D. McClintock. 7. Mount r/easant.—Ul[\ D. U. Shields; 1880, IL U. Sebring; lSS2-'83, D, T. Smyth.

Octorara

on

;

A.-aiier-niill.

Irwin's Mill.— erville, a

i

Valk-y Uun, south from Coop-

»n

brick grist-mill was erected about 1825, by

was afterwards owned by his son, Ellis P. Irwin, and was used as a grist-mill till 1853, when it was burned, and it has not been rebuilt. It had a run of burr, and another of chopping-stones. Near Smyrna, on a Townsend's Saw-Mill. Samuel Irwin.

It

—

branch of Cctorara Creek, i> a saw-mill that was built by John Towiiscnd in Isll, and was owar.l by

him many son,

years.

It

then became the property

Jacob R. Townscnd, the present owner.

stone building, and unless taken down long after its " occupation is gone."

Spring Mill, on

a

branch of the

from Smyrna, was built by

(

it

)ctorara,

ol'

his

It is a

will

remain

one mile

Towuseud, ."^r., in 1841. It was operated during many years by his son, William Townsend, and in accordance with the conditions of the will of |]ortion of his I). it

\y

.

estate

Bissell, wdio

to the

its

,7idin

builder

till

1877,

operated

present owner, J.

it I

it

continued to be a

when

it

was sold

to

three years, and sold

]03e,

the act

In

Sept. 10, 1777, Col. I'houi

while making a charge ui" Potter dismounted and

and sent him Tl„nnp-on was

his horse, Col.

founty,

fell,

tli

to

1771), d.

1:;.

Tl

.1.

1

ele

Ewi

1;

Alter the exinr.iliou of hi, term as eouneilur he n

turned to Sadsbury towiishiii. He engaged in business with Col. John Steel, also

married a daughter

Thompson

at Steelville, in the

Robert Bailey.

of

wh Co

jiurchased several hundred acres of Ian

along the Octorara Creek.

manufacture of paper, and

the business successfully

lor a

He

engagi

after carrying o

number

of years

one years a director in the Lancaster County Mutual Insurance (.'onipany, and for the la-^t two years its

pointed sub-lieutenant of the county, and died

president.

Sadsbury townshi])

joined the Society of Friends in 1844. He married Jan. 4, 1837, Mary, daughter of Isaac and

He

Deborali Walker. Mrs. Sh)kom was born in Sadsbury township, April (i, 18t)G. Their children- living are Susan, Dora D., Isaac W., and INIary U. Susan is wife of Thomas J. Houston, genera! manager of the Chester RoUing-Mills, in Delaware County. Dora is the wife of William II. Sproul, connected with the same works. They have two children, Sam-

1

retired to his farm in Sadsbury.

Col. Robert

Cajit.

Robert,

Thompsim, brother of James, was

Andrew

i

in the fall of 1783.

Tiioni].soii, a

commamb

aj

brother of James an

d a coiuiiany of militia in Cliesti

County. He was eomnii-sioned by tiovernor Sinn Snyder major of the first Hattalion .of the Ninel; seventh Regiment of Militia. During theRevolutii Andrew Thompson moved to York County, wdiere was appointed a justice of the peace. At the clu; of tlie war he returned to Sadsbury township wit I

his brother

Jame-.

uel E. and William C.

Bank of Christiana, married Laura V. Shyrock, of Newtown, Va. Children,— Samuel and Charles. Mary R. is the wife of James Sproul, farmer, reIsaac W., cashier of the National

siding in Highland townshiiJ, Chester Co.

Children,

— Dora and Anna. Mr. Slokom as a business

is

a

man

man

of strong practical sense, and

has few superiors

character, wonderful energy, in wdiatever he undertakes. ters of

every-day

life is

average of men, and

is

;

of great force of

and an untiring worker His judgment in mat-

greatly superior to that of the so recognized by tliose wdio

kmiw him. An intuitive knowledge of hunnin nature is a marked feature of his character, and has been an ]Sfo man in the community wliere lie lives_ wields a wider influence or is more universally respected.

important agency in his career.

CH

A

PTER LXXV.

S.\i.i,s);

ItY

jW.X.s'lII

The

township of Salisbury embraces the Pequea The Welsh Valley at its, eastern or upper end. JMountain forms its nortliern boundary, and the Mine and Gap hills lie on the south. The two ranges meet

on

tlie east,

inclosing the valley ou three sides.

The

Pequea Creek have their origin in and, joining the main branch, flow into Leacoek towndiip at Hiinsecker's mill. The surface of the country is rolling and is underlaid tributaries of the

the surrounding

hills,

wdtli limestone, thus securing a soil rich in the inor-

ganic elements of

jilant food

I

lly

Jo

and

also

good drainage.

SALISBURY TOWNSIII tnip-dike that crosses the county IVoin theiist to soiitliwest

pusses th

in-ville, Spiiiii; Gardi'n, Iiu\

The

,

soil

ill

of the hills « ill

I

the

north

olKi

Mine Ridge.

Thoroughfares. ,Ugh

thl

illords, a

.diice

ol

tliis

-Mike"

rllv

hare,

the villages ni,

lUl.l

l.L'll

ll

is

Heth;

eh.aied

i

Jones,

laiiiel IS,

Cookson, for John Gosling, 35;

15; William Clark,

ASSliSSMENT-LIST Knit

i:..

17J4

WW HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. TAX-LIST OF SALISBUUY FOB ,

Kobcit Jlc}

0/ Per«„«s Farmiiio

oit

,

41K) »cie8. 1 ni-k'TO.

JBiiies IK'liileri

SALISBURY TOWNSHIP.

Siimuel Join

CliiLiU'8

t

Da

Hubert I'm Daniel I'lo

Jol.iiTiirliot.

S.iiiiui'l

Juliti

Jeiiiilnga.

Au.ler

Willi.i.ii

Dn

Jnlin KiiU.

r

[IISTORY OF

Jul.

Ji.llius

WkIs

AlcliiUiil.lJ Willi,-.*! Ik.

John

Evaiib,

.Sauiui'lJoli

Jul.M

Puvid

\Vi,llii-

Mc-Uii.le.

LANCASTER COUNTY.

SALISBURY TOWNSHIP. \nd Cohiiiibi:i

tion„ftlu;0:ittai

X.w

V(uk.

Tin

Ihc

)

JI.

!^.

Kltiis

AvAse
lor of l'c>(piea Uhnrch in April, 17()9, in the south of Scotland, in the

1,

Pequea Church

1818, his pa>toral relation willi ihat congre-.i-

He

was dissolved.

died near Z;uie>ville, Ohio,

in February, 18j!7.

The 1806.

June 10, communion April,

min Keenen.

records of the church bear date

first

The nund,er

of

members

in

was at. Conipassville Hall. He aged seventy-five years. The successor of Mr. Wallace, the Rev. Thomas S. Long, was born near Sad=bury ville, Chester Co. He was installed May 7, 18G7, and was succeeded by Rev. Robert Ennis, o( Schenectady, N. Y., in September, 1871, who, after four years, was succeeded by Mr. W.

soon afterwards. private houses.

Methodist Church.

was built

— The Methodists had

ized.

ing Asburv Church

of the nn

in

Sa sbury town>hip, and many

illuci

111

number

The four persons who were probably of that sect. church has now a large number of adherents in this Their meetings were formerly held in township. private houses, but tliere has recently been a schism in the church, and a portion of the members have

1

'

erected a neat and ings.

The

commodious house

for their meet-

other portion continue to meet in the Those who took an

private houses of the members. .

'

new church were Samuel Umble, Gideon and Sanniel Lantz. The last two are min-

active part in building the L.

KauHmau,

Stollzfus,

C. L. Kaufiman, Jac.

Pequea Baptist Church.— This church was founded

walk tochunh.

Millwood United Brethren Church.— The Unite Brethren MisMon held meetings house during the years 1877-7'J. latt(^r

large con-

in

that

congregal to

now

society has

I

no place

Jacob Swartzwelder, an early and zealous mem-

The

1841.

in

here at the beginning of the present century, 'file tax-list of 1770 contains the names of three or

Evangelical Church was oigan-

ber of the society, was largely instrumental in found-

For a time they held meetings in church buiUling was erected near

Amish Church.— The Amish were few

of public worship in Sali^bury prior to the year 1847,

Mount Airy

A

gregatioM.s at these places.

C. Alexander.

wlien the

the last half-

Hess' mill in 1837, and rebuilt anil enlarged in 1877. The meeting-house at Old Road, east of White Horse,

18t;(i,

!;),

,

Mennonite Church.— It is only within

Mr. Arthur was succeeded by Mr. Amazi Babbit, who was ordained and installed April 5, 18lil. The successor of Mr. Babbit was Rev. John Wallace, who was born about four miles fiom Parkesburg, Chester Co. He assumed the pastorale of Pequea Church Nov. 5, 1833. He resigned Sunday, July 8, 18G6, and preached his farewell sermon October 3d. following. The last serm..n Mr. Wallace preached Oct.

of the Evangelical Association

century that the Mennonites have become numerous Peter Eby, afterwards Bishop Eby, in Salisbury. moved into the township in 1701, and the Hersheys

1819, was seventy -four.

die.l

erected in

Charter members, Albert V. Hurst, Thomas F. Spence, Reuben Martin, George S. KauH'roth, Peter Reeser, Josiah March, Samuel Rife, Daniel Warfel, Jolin Voder, David M. On.ff, Jonathan Kurtz, and Benja-

;

May

'.

.l.alicated.

of Peebles.

tion

.Mouer, minister.

(

Elias Diem, Jonathan Kurtz, and William Dewees were the founders of the church. The roof was blown reort' in 1878, and the building was repaired and

cliurch was without a |)astor.

His successor was the Rev. William

M:

1S4S or 184;). Nicholas Harting donated the ground Nichcdas Harting, lor the building and graveyard.

of Dr. Smith, the

after the death

/,.

de'di

I)

V.rvl,

Mount Airy Evangelical Church was

respect and esteem justly due lo siniiular iiKril."

For two years

Trustees,

Samu.d

Wliitehill Keel, and

pmii

congreiiation, in te^linmny or

tlie

'

ISSI.

I'.rrkcliris.-r,

d.

Dr.Sm

liftv

rethren Church was

Mount Ziqn United

17!t;f,

uiiai.iiin,u,|y a.iiive

thefir.-stday of Oetoher next, the lriiMee>

year

tliey elected a

at

Millwood school In the

fall

of

tli

board of trustees consistin

The Baptists have in 1844 by Rev. John Jenkins. but one place of public worship in the township. The congregation at present numbers about one hundred. Philos Lodge, No. 152, K. P., at White Horse, was chartered

Wor-t,

May

Isaa'c

2.j,

Cliarlrr inenibeis:

ISlii).

H. MaM.n,

,lu,liua

Koo,,,

I.

Dillcr

I'liilip

1).

Mower, A. Benedii John Berkeheiser, David Doutrich, Daniel Warfe Jeremiah Futer, and William Hamilton. Under tlici

Samuel ^^. Ki-scl, t.iroige F. Shnltz, D. Roseboro, John 11. Di.'ni, Nnac Diller, John iMason, George Duehman. Salisbury Township Mutual Insurance Com-

cated Nov.

pany wa^

of seven

members,

liU,

187!).

vi/..,

/..

C.

Handwork, William

chartered

Ba.xter,

in

January, 1S77, and has

its

;

AIJSBURY TOWNSHIP. office

The

Wljite Horse.

iit

on the (Uh of i:[:uch tlie

first

rolhnvill^^'

was made a member of the Continental Congress, in which lie served till 17S-J. In 17.SII he was appointed lieutenant of Lancast.T Comity, and in 17K:J he was In 1784 he elected" councilor of the same county.

policies were issued

The

rollouiiit; uie

David V. Stiiltzlu., Joim C. William Meutzer, .Joseph Hainillon, Cliiis-

eliarter meiiibers

Linvill,

:

Wanner, .T,din K. Miller, Henry Souders, .I.ieob Umble, William Marlin, .lohn Mason, li. S. Weiler,

was one of the coiiimi-sioneis to nitify the Iijdian of"Forts Stanwix and Melniosh. He was A-MMiiMy of Pennsylvania in He died suddenly in Novem1782, 1785, and 1780.

tian

treaties

George G. Worst. I'resenl hoard nf directors: Jolin K. ^Iiller, .Jacob Unible, A. .1. Montgomery, I!. F. Weaver, Peter Sonders, Gcorfie G. \V(irst, William Martin.'^I. 1'. Cooper (president), and John G. J.invill

elected to the General

His wife, to whom heuas married in 178G. was Miss Sarah Richardson. Robert Armor emigrated from Ireland, when a boy, with his grandfather, Robert Gault. Jan. 8, 1734, he took uj) a tract of two hundred acres of land near the head of Pequea Creek, between James Gault and William Wilson. His children were John, Mary,

ber,

17G2,

(secretary).

Mills and Manufactories.— The exact dates of the mills have not been obtained. fir.-t Daniel Cookson undoubtedly built the first mill on

buildintr of the

the Pequea. site

It

was a log structure, and was on the

of the fine mill built in 1832 by

derson near White Horse.

Thomas

Samuel, Martha (who married Robert Jenkins), James

G. Hen-

(who served with

was buiit at A mill was erected near the Leacock line by John Houston in the year 1752 or IToS. The present building was erected by Christian Hess about 1800. Frantz's mill was built by John Anderson, probably between 1791 and 1800. Wilson's mill was erected by John Wilson about 1825, on the site of an old distillery. ShipIien's fulling-mill was built prior to 1820 by Samuel Marlin. The water-power was afterwards used for grinding corn. The building was burnt some years ago, and has not been rebuilt. Joshua Haines' clovermill once did a large business liulling clover-seed. It is now used as a saw-mill. It has lately been renewed by M. P. Cooper, and is the best saw-mill in Gall's

niill

the eastern pari of the county.

grandfither of James A. and

J.

dm M.

In 1843

he erected a large brick store and dwelling, w here he has continued in business to the present time. He

was elected a member of the Legislature in the years He was also elected to the State Sen1849 and 1850. Mr. Baldwin is a public-spirited citizen, and has long been identified with the moral, intellectual, and social advancement of the community in

ate in 1857.

which he resides. Moses Brinton moved to Salisbury from Leacock in 1789, and purchased a part of the James Whilehill His firsl wife was a 'Whitson, and their chiltract. dren were Caleb, wdio irtarried first Ann Fox, and

Ann Richards; Elinor; Elizabeth, married Hannah Mary and Jacob, married His sec nd wife was Hannah Chain-

second

Robert Eby

Ann

;

;

Bernard.

—

and they Jiad children, Samuel, married Elizabeth Lewis; Josh a, married jMav Passmore

berlin, i

i

and Joseph. Buckley's forge, and carried

Daniel Buckley bull on the manufacture of

nil

elected to the Legislat

re

He

1800.

— Clenu-nt, reuuiijied

late

turned his attention to mercantile business.

wood, was built by David Henderson, date not known. It was rebuilt by F. Diller Baker in the year 1844.

He

the

Robert Baldwin came from Chester Coiyity in the year 1827, and taught school until 1830, when he

Seldoniridge's mill was erected by Leonard Ellmaker,

pre-ent at the ilelrat of (h^u. Braddock.

the

in

Buyers).

Eby's mill, at Mill-

and rebuilt by John Newhauser about thirty years ago (1853). Buckley's forge was built by Daniel Buckley, probably before the year 1800. The iron business was continued for many years by his son, George W. Buckley. The property is now owned by David F. Stoltzfus, and the water-power is no longer used. Early Settlers and Prominent Families and Persons.— Samuel .r. Allee was born in 1731), of English parent.-. At the age of sixteen, by reason of his aiiibiiiun and d.iring, he became the commander of a

as lieutenant

distinction

Revolution), and Jane (who married Robert Buyers,

an early time by one of the Gait family.

married Sar

,

He

for

many

in

1794, 1798, 1799,

years.

was

and

Brook, and had children,

ISrook, Harriet, married George W Grubh; Anna .Maria, Sarah, and Eli/,a, marrieil Joht ,

Yeates. lirisi.nei-,

dians.

once by the French and once by the In-

On

leaving the service

he engaged

in

the

study, and afterwards in the practice, of law, and at

the breaking out of the Revolution he became a drill-

master

among

ICarly in 177i> he

X'alleysilie lie

County. the Pequea and Chester

his fellow-citizens in Lancaster

lirsi

raised, in

John Buyers married Lelitia Patton in Irelanil and came to this country in 1735. The warrant foi Bu Barnii

John

oid because of non-

on part of the pur-

cha-ei

s

r(-imcnt of Ktate infantry,. d wliirh

.r

was n,ade the colonel. At the battle of l.oiihe made a very hononilde record, and was

f

Maud

taken prisoner. He sulfered a severe imprisuiinienl of eighteen months, and after his release, in 177S,

1733, to

led lull

couipl

received his patent

two hundred and till-

ivers'

liny.

gram l.iinilv

has

re-

to

the

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUN'TV. on the he;nl-\vutei the The chiUh-en of Robert and Jane Buyers

the

settlers

first

paper called the Palladium.

Pi

Kli/.a

and

MaJiMisev),

>arah

(wh„

n.arried

a

John Buyers married Sarah McCally, and had Sarali.

Sarali

Miss Caldwell,

sister

married Thomas

1

Robert,

who

I

Peter

Anna Maria; and

;

Sarah, married Rev. Calvin Stewart, D.D.

;

I

;

I

;

1

;

;

j

I

May

18,

thirty-six acres of land on

hundred and His children were .lames, J.d.n, Thomas, Hannah, who married Josqdi Haines Mary, married Henry Oest; an,l Rebecca. James had a son, James, who married Margaret Heard and left a son, James Clemson, who was a 17H), for six

Peqnea.

member

of the Legislature in the years 1777-79.

He

was also a justice of the peace. He had sons, James and John, aiid seven daughters. His son, James Clemson (4th), served as justice of the peace, and his grandson, James Clemson (.5tli), served in the same capacity. (The foregoing is. from ^'Harris' History.") Kcnhcii ChamlxTs moved to licthania from Chester County about the year l,s:n,aiul established a weekly

;

—

,

'

:

C;lenison obtained a warrant, dated

He was

:

Robert Buyers was captain of a company of Salisbury militia during the Revolutionary war. Tradition says that, during her husband's absence, jNIrs. Buyers sowed the wheat out of her aiimn and attended to the general management of the farjii, (bus showing a spirit and determination wortliy of a descendant of old Robert Gault, wdio came here to found a home in the unbroken wilderness. Andrew Caldwell emigrated to this country from Scotland prior to 1718, and purchased two liundred and eighty-five acres of land on Old Road, near Salisbury and Leacock line. He married Ann Stewart in 1718, and had a son, Andrew, who married Isabella Andrews. Andrew Caldwell, son of Andrew and Isabella Andrews, married Ann Buyers, and had sons William P. (married Sarah Buyers) and Andrew. William P. Caldwell left four sons,— John, William, Robert, and Andrew. Rev. David Caldwell, D.D., was the son of Andrew and Ann Caldwell.

James

;

Eby married Margaret

Salisbury in 1791.

also lives in Illinois; David,

deceased;

Gains married Phebe Morris. Heiss, and moved to a minister and afterwards bishop in the Menuonite Church. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, and was widely known and respected. Names of Peter Eby's family Peter, married Elizabeth Weaver; Susan, married David Hoover Christian, married a Witmer; Barbara, married John StauH'er Annie, married Abraham Hershey; John, married a Roop Henry, married a Senand senich Elizabeth, married Jacob llershey Maria, married Daniel Wanner. William RobertGault, liisson James, his son-in-law, Wilson, and grandson, Robert Armor, then in boyhood, emigrated from Ireland at an early time in the It is supposed they settlement of Pequea Valley. settled about the year 1710. James Gault married a Miss Alison, and had five gons, Robert, John, William, James, and Thomas. Thomas had two soiui, James and Alexander. Alexander married a Miss Gilkeson, and had two sons, William and John. John had no family. William married Miss Patton, by whom he had five children: John Gilkeson Gault, deceased; Mary Jane; W. P., who married Miss Black; A. W. and Martha A., Cbal/ant, and had a son

j

III.,

he would

—

Crawford, son of Col.

[

;

the

an a|)ple-tree. Joseph Dickinson married Elizabeth Miller, and purchased land on l\'i|uea (Jreek in 1733; had chilJoseph, Gains, and seven daughters. His land dren, was divided between his sons. Joseph married

'

;

Sterling,

oil

He once announced deliver a lecture in a neighboring on the "Oppressive Money System," admittance ten cents. His theological views were what would, be at the present time termed " Agnostic." He died about 1851 or 1852 from the ett'ectsof a fall from

[

James Crawford, of the army of the Revolution. Their children were Thomas, who became a prominent Presbyterian minister in York County James, who moved to Illinois and died; John, who resides in Illinois

also carrird

the currency, and main-

oii

school-house

of

William P. Caldwell. His eliildren were Andrew C, Margaret, and Jane. Andrew C. married Miss Kennedy, daughter of Maxwell Kennedy; ]\[argaret married William S. Kennedy; Jane niarried Rev. John Wallaee, and was his second wife. James Buyers married Eliza Free.huid. Letitia

notions

conduct mercantile transactions. that

Buyers married

Patton

He

phy--ici;ui.

iK-i'idiar

laiucd that barter was the true system on wliicli to

eliil-

married William

r. Caldwell.

late of

Thomsonian

He had and

continued to publish

Juhii

Ga.ilt).

dren— Robert

He

lor several years. He also had a book-bindery; it and wrote and published n book on "Thomsonian He prol'cs>cd to be Practi(«e," for the u-cof lamilies.

James, ami Letitia. Robert A. Kiiyers married ICIi/al.eth M, ;';lll had .liildreii.-J.diii M, Junius A, (uh,, n.arried

R()l)ert A., Pattoii,

!

j

,

!

;

who married John

Magill.

In absence of any recorded dates,

that the (laiilts weie in lV.)Uea.

among

it

is

safe to say

the very earliest settlers

Hubert (iault landed

in

New

Castle,

and

started out in search of a place to settle in Penn's

Woods. He selected a spot to locate at the head-waters of one of the branches of Pequea Creek, on land now

owned by A.

J.

Montgcnncry.

He

went back

to

New

Castle for his family, but on his return could not find the place he

hat se

ither he leSrne

of

2d of

Daniel Coleman

house,

children -of Isaac

1

born- as Ibllows

They were the parents of Isaac's motlier. Gains Dickinson was the son of Joseph Dickin.son, who came to America from Ireland, though he was He settled on said to be origintilly from England. Pequea Creek, in Salisbury township, and liis sons.

several years.

Division of the

lies of Brooke, in Montgomery, and Kinsey, in Bucks County, that were among the very early settlers in

three

Deborah Gains and Juseph, inherited his estate. Diekin>,.ii, the daughter of Gains, was the mother of Anna Dickinson, of Isaac Walker. The celebrated Philadelphia, was the great-granddaughter ol' Gains. Isaac was reared on the homestead of his ancestors, in Sadsbury, on wdiich his father had erected a schocd-

Gap

and Columbia Railroad, in which position he eontiiiLied during five years, alter which he was for three years engaged in mercantile business at Smyrna. In October, 1847, he purcliased the mansion farm id' his ancestors, near Gap, and during more than thirty years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1872 lie purcliased a square of ground in Gap, including the " Penn Spring" and the "Shawnee Garden," the home of his mother's ancestor, and he has since endeavored to assist in building up the village of Gap. He now (1883) is engaged in the business of general merchandise on the place which he purchased eleven years since. Mr. Walker was m.arried Nov. 2, 1831, to Eliza Ann, daughter of Abner and Mary (Kinsey) Brooke, of Sadsbury. She was of the highly respectable famiPliil.idelphia

great-granddaughter, iMary Newlin, married (Jains Dickinson.

number

Porter, he was appointed

the eleirue of the didicult

to

erected a

and lunnded the village of Smyrna,

In the winter of 1839, under the ad-

s!idsbury.

in

they heing the oldest

He

with the niereanlile liusine^s.

years

in

and ninety mile- up the Brazos River vaii, in

Milam

('onntv.

The

w^ar liad

to

Port Snlli-

then closed.

SALTSTUIRY TOWNSHU' ISVAl' I.IVIN'OSTOX.

Winfu'l .«llsl,i|,,

red

I.

CticMer Coiiiily, thfu uiuU'i

tlu-

James

In

fcrsoii

aiul

l-'raiK'is

L;aiu.

College, whore

lie

uluu.tj,' ls:!()

ol

llrvs.

il,r

,nuir,l

reiiiaiiUMl iluriii); the

end of whieh time he

year, at the

lu-

ua.-, oblit;e,l

hen nr Wilhau; ;nid ,l;ine (Allison) Li William LiviiiirMou, em

111. LT.ui.llMlhei,

.1,1-

jiiiiKir

U, leav tl

Pn.s|>e(?t,

i

North

Church," which iiiilil a lew years llie cross-roads about one and a lialf miles sniitlica-t of Strasburg borougli, where the .Mine Hill ruad ami the road from California Store to .S(mderbburg eru^s each other, ft is about im[>ossible to ascertain just when it was built, but there are records in existence wliich

churchyard near was built by the church about It was under the auspices of the church, but was not a denominational school. .-Vn old man, now ill his nincty-si.xth year, says that the benches and desks were made of saw-mill slabs. .\bout one mile north of this, on the farm now owned by JIartiii Shirk, was another liouse, made of hewn logs, of about the .same pattern as the last Providence;

.he

\

About the

time

this

much

by Benjamin Fl ith

of Strasburg,

!

Some

adjoining families.

few farmers had

houses during the winter season, and

into their liun

a

|ir(il>alily

certain lainier,

bought a

|)ig

little

one of

The next morning, put the

|)ig

a bag and carried

ill

utter astonishment a tiny girl

The

hind the stove.

Irach.a-

lor

when

greu up

li..th

and

raiseiiiee uitli

the exception ol" one year, during whieh he lived in Stra^bnrg, and was a mendier of the cojunnssidii lirni of Herr, Breneman & Co. In ISM he erected a shop

manufacture of agricultural implements near and has since been cjigaged in mechanihe always had a natural taste. has also done couMderable work a^ a builder and

for the

his residence,

cal pursuits, ior u-jiich

He

millwright, .and has since

eiiltivated

hi-

iarni

by

iiro.Ky

ISOii.

Mr. Breneman has always t;d;en an active part in the politics of the comity, and has hehl the leading offices of his llie

member

touiwhip, -uch as as-e-snr.

of

school boaril lor twelve years, and justice of the

peace

He was

for fifteen years.

warm

a

sU[iporter of

the late war, and served for nine months in the

field

in 18C2 as first lieutenant of Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-second Regiment of Pennsylvania

Volunteers. Immediately after the battle of Gettysburg he raised a company of three-months' men, which was attached to the Fiftieth Regiment of Pennsylvania militia, and was known as Company B.

With

this

company Mr. Breneman served

in

the field

in defense of the State, holding the rank of captain.

He

was elected

and served

sheritf of Lancaster

County

for three years in that office.

nized as one of the enterprising

men

He

in is

1875,

recog-

of his township,

respect. His children are is held in general Winona S., Park P. (attending lectures in the medical department of the Universit^y of Pennsylvania), Anna M., Joseph P., Lizzie M., Maud M., Herbert N., Jennie May, and E. Lida Breneman.

and

ISA.AC (JROFF.

The

GroflT family

is

of

German

origin.

John

Grotf,

the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, resided

farm now owned by Francis

an early day on the He Mylin, near the village of New Providence. married and had a large family of children, among whom were Henry, Simon, Isaac, Daniel, Joseph, Martin, Jacob, Michael, John, Susan (who married John Heckman), Elizabeth (who married Frederick Grail), and another daughter (who married Martin at

Grail).

Isaac

(1770-1.S-1

LANOASTKR COUNTV, fruni

:

art l'l,lli|,

t..

lit-

urcliased a farm and erected a machineshop one -mile farther up the creek, and there respring,

He

still

John was the father of the subject of this sketch. He was a maker of posts and rail-fences by trade, and followed that occupation during tha greater portihiii. the new system began secnd Monday in June, 1843. The lirst rate of taxation for school purposes was asAmong sessed at five cents on 'a hundred dcdlars. the resolutions passed was one that no child should

board that there

present school districts are Buch's, Warwick,

JIartin's, Fairview, Lexington, Union, BrunLookout, Sunnysido, Jlillport, Pleasant View, Upper Rothsville, Lower Rothsville. F. S. llackman is president, P. AVitiner treasurer, and

nerviUe,

Henry

S.

Miller

secretary of

the

present school

Ijoard.

The

village of Lititz

is

a s|iecial school district,

having a separate organization. Lititz.

— The

spelled Litiz,

name of this village was formerly and the correct spelling has been a mat-

ter of dispute.

Some

eral ordered the

to opien a school.

The school-houses were

The Rome,

office

from Litiz

years since the jMstinaster-gen-

change of the spelling of the postto Lititz.

The settlement

at Lititz

though the village was not laid out of the village was made by Rev. Nathaniel Seidel and John Renter, and was named from a village in Bohemia. The property was owned entirely by the Jloravian Brethren, and all its early interests, both religious and secular, were conbegan

in 1754,

until 1757.

The plan

Eari.y lNl.usTiili:s.— About the first manufacmaking of organs by David Tauneberger. Tanneberger w;is a native of Germany, and manufactured organs in Lititz as Among the organs made by him was early as 1765. one used by the Moravians of Lititz, built in 1787 and used till 1879, a iieriod of ninety-two years. Early in 'the nineteenth century Matthias Tshudy was engaged in the manufacture of chip hats. TImv were ijuite celebrated at that time and were sliip|i.d turing of any, note was ihe

New Orleans, a di.stance at that day which was a much greater obstacle to successful trade than in this age of steam and electricity. About

as far south as

11

r.1

c;^-/^

WARWICK TOWNSHIP, ISIO,

William H. Rauc

the

Lititz brct/.el." oi

•'

idly called.

He

was sue

legai) L'VAt'\, '.\v,\

present building was completed.

tlie

as

upon

hiss..

tlu-

Saniu,l

IkHween 1S20 and 182-t a maltdiouse was bnilt on Broad Street, near Carter's Rnn, where the residence now .stands. Its iirst jiroprietor was Michael Greidcr, who .sidd to Jacob B. Tshudy about 1830 was burned in 185G, but immediately a new one was built, a large brick building, now standing on AVest Main Street. Mr. Tshudy conducted it till his death in IsCil, and was .-.ucccM'/led by I!, li. Tslniily; was u^ed as a maltdiou-e lill date ol :\rr. It. R. of Dr. ]{?iel)uck

;

lUicli

.t

In 1833, John Kreiter ajiplied to the town trustees for permission to build a brewery and malldiouse.

This was uiven

in the hopi- that the nse of malt liquor would take the place of spirituous li(]Uors then in use (chtircli records). It was owned in succession by Christian Kreiter, Micliael Muicke, Jolin Hamm, and Rauch & Tshudy (F. M. Rauch and R. R. Tshudy); was burnt in lS(i5, and immediately a new one was built by Keller & Tshudy. This brewery is now the property of Henry Zort m, and stands

southwest of Lititz Sprinir.

tock of goods first store-keeper who owned hi was Jacob B. Tshtnly, and to 1843 there was but one other store, the one ow: d by the Moravians, and at that time kept by Ferdinand Lennert. In 1843,' N. S. Wolle bought frjm the .Moravians the store kept by Lennert, and continued in the business,

The

in Lititz

ii

being succeeded by his sou. In 1843 there were in Lititz two shoemakers, Jacob

Greider and George U. Thomas; two tailors, Jacob Rock and Charles W. Sturgis two harness-makers, ;

Frederick Keller and Daniel Kryder

;

two tinsmiths,

James Mikscli and Jonas iMeyer; two cabinetmakers, Samuel Liebtenthaler and Alexander Sturgis two tobacconists, John Graelf and John Hamm one blacksmith, one chairmaker, Aaron Traeger ;

;

;

one doctor, Levi Hull one potter, Jacob Sturgis; one postmaster, Frederick /itzman one baker, William F. Ranch one stone-cutter and J. P. Christiitn, H. Ranch; one cooper, Samuel Kryder; one wheelwright. John Mcllhennry; one tanner, two Jacob Geitner; one brewer, Jacob Weitzel watchmakers. Christian Hall and F. L. Lennert; one owned who also malt-hotise, by Jacob B. Tshudy, owned the oidy lumber-yard. 1'i;e^t:nt BnsfNEs.s In n:uE.STS.— The Lititz National Bank was organized in February, 1880, and began business March 1, 1880. Its i)resident was John B. pA-h, and its cashier M. T. Huebner. It began business in a building uexfdoor to Haydn IL Tshudy's store, and remained there for about one year, when its Charles Grosli

;

;

ICvaus,

.bilin

;

;

;

K.

as

interest in

organization was a private degosit

bank, whicU htgan business June

pivsmi

thu arlich-

in 1878; is now used by Brother as a tobacco warehouse.

its

same now

The only banking

Digauization.

Lititz prim- to

111;

Tshudy 's death

its

nv.-)

Capital, seventy

Its oflicers are the

llionsand dollars.

it

in l.u>

Ur,| i(s H. A. Ranch, who om ISlir,, when lie failed. ,Iusins V. Slui-is, ]irn|]i-ietor, made some improveinrnts iu and now conducts the bnsiiKss.

just

1

1,

1807, operated

by

Evans, Emanuel Kautfman,

William

Tshudy, and M. T. Huebbusiness when the new bank

Keller, R. R.

which closed its began operations. John B. Eiui.— Jacob Krb, the great-grandlather of John B., emigrated from Switzerland, and settled in that portion of Lancaster County now known as Clay township, where he was both a farmer and a thriving miller. He was a member of the State Legislature when its sessions were held in tlie city of Philadelphia. Among his children was John, who served during the war of the Revolution as teamster for a ]ieriod of three years, having left his home for that purpose at the age of sixteen. He was married to a Miss HoU, whose children were John, Samuel, Isaac, Joseph, Jacob, David, and three daughters. Mr. Erb followed the occupation of his father, and was a man of much intluence in the county. His son John was born in Elizabeth townslup Nov. 3, 1780, where his life was spent as iK-r,

farmer, miller, and, for a period of thirty-five years, as

a populiir landlord in the same township.

In politics

he was an Old-Line Whig, and served a term of three He married Miss years as county commissioner. Barbara Bergelbach, of Lancaster County, and had children,— Hiram, John B., Henry B., and a daughter, Pri.scilla, who became Mrs. George W. Steinmetz.

Mr. Erb's death occurred

in .fune, 1802, in

his sev-

enty-seve»itli year.

was born Jan. 5, 1812, at the patmial hijine, where his boyhood was spent. The limited advantages of education afforded at Iflie public scliool were supplemented by more careful study at a later day, while both the farm and mill meanwhile occupied his attention. In 1837 Mr. Erb purchased the farm of his father, and in November, of the same year, was married to Leah, daughter of Samuel Keller, of Warwick township, to whom was born a son, John K., wIki died iu his seventeenth year. Mrs. Erb's death ocr lined in September, 1858, and n B.

I'lis.

he contracted a second alliance, in 1801, with JIatilda, daughter of Abram Lane, of Manheiin township.

He resided u[ion the farm until 1858, when Lititz became his liome and is his present residence. Mr. Erb in early life engaged in teaching, and also made himself proficient in conveyancing and surveying, which has for thirty-five consecutive years engaged his attention.

He

was

the principfes of the tice

of the peace.

when

also,

^\'llig

He

a representative of

party, for

two terms jus-

has since that time joined the

ranks of the Democracy, though not actively particiOn the organization of jiating within party lines. the Lititz

mains

its

NationalBank president.

lie

was elected and

In religion, he

is

still re-

a sU|iporter

;;

HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. of

eviingelical

iill

member

lieini;

of the Mt

It

iMr.

I.iti

Hr

jml^ eiic

was kept at the hotel. Prior was distributeil froni Lancaster.

ollice

Tilt;

lieeii

:i

of great iielivity and usefulness, wliicli

.-eoiie

the a

iiriil.ably

aa

he

felt dis-

I

the collector concorning his giving or not giving, for

we

will

occasioufd by the emallneSB of

To-day the organ, lately built by Brother Tanneberger (it has twenty registers) for the Lutheran Church at Lancaster, was conDi'o. 2G.

Dr. -\dain Kuhii was here several days ago to ask that our trombone playeis^ might assist on this occasion. Accordingly live secrated.

Wahl,

ill

Neuwied, a famous maker. It was, however, made by Brother was linished iu August, 1792, at a coat of

bchniuz, of the same place till

ue

hundred and

;

forty-live florins.

The hose

cost seventy tlorins, and if

their present broke

The engine was shipped, neckerclii.f,, whicli cost si.vtcii lloiins. • by the giace ol Uod," as the bill of lading reada, in September, reached

New York in January, 17'J3, amounting to £1U I'Js. 9' ^.i.

1'liiladelpliia in It

oplo.theie being n

February, the whole freight

compulsion in regard

needed extensive repairs already in 1795.

to

mailing

llieni,

as

it is still

u

Almost every trade exi ejit printing was carried on There was a smith, tailor, bal ner, mason, tileuuiker, tinsmith, Biiddter, linen and
t the regular church events. 177S. From Dccemlicr liHli ol the previous year until Atigust liSth of

tills

yrar, a

hospital

for aiiont

two hundred sick iind wounded American soldiers was established in the Brethren's House, which liad to be vacated for the purpose, itnd various officers and doctors were quartered in houses' in the village.

Soon

continued. pital,

after the establishment of the hos-

camp-fever broke out

and

five died,

in the village,

among them one

many were of

trfie

pas-

Familiarity with thesoldiers had an injurious influence, especially upon the youth of the village, the effects of which were experienced lor tors of the church.

many

Over one hundred of the

years.

They were buried

No

in a field to the east

traces of these graves remain.

PnyDo'a.Tanii

,

In

iiriniiie roiifr.iilicfnte,

to

from the abjuration

(

mi.saed with good hopes and a letter from the President of Congress to the Assembly, which was in

session at Ltmcaster. in a

The

latter

body received him

very lionorable way, invited hitn to be present

and gave him a seat among their members so that he could give verbal explanations. The death of their pre-idcnt postponed detinite at their sittings,

action.

A

pleasing incident occurred during this time in

of an American lieutenant, Abraham Boemper, wlio handed us a package of (manuscript) reports, which had arrived in Philadelphia, church had been seized in the camp, opened, and wdien found to be very innocent mattei- bad been resciieil by the lieutenant, who took the trouble to deliver them to us

the arrival

himself

On in

the

27tli

of

May

the resolution nf the Assembly,

adopting the report of a committee appointed

for

the purpose, was published, saying that" although the

of the village.

which it is intended, the House is, nevertheless, ready and willing to grant the petitioners every encouragement ami protection in their power which may ajipear consistent with the duty they owe their constituents and the welfare of .the United States of America." The

Dr. Allison,

Blicli

for a release

Yorktown York), where it was presented to ConIt was favorably received, and he was dis-

gress.

who

Assembly cannot grant the

]ietition in

theway

in

diary goes on to describe the painful discovery that was made that twelve of the adult memlicrs and a number of the younger men had, before the rcsolntiim of the Assembly was published, secretly taken the test oath, a step to which they had been in

considerable ;

and an oath of allegiance

soldiers died.

had the chief direction of the hospital, [ireserved the best order, and kept the people from molestation. In August there came a report that the whole of Lititz was to be vacated and used as :t general Itospital. A de]iutation from the Bethlehem tiuthorities waited on chwcinit/., Iroiii

diary, without going into

th;it

entrance into

now source of

L-oiitl

llie liifthieli David Tan from the country nicmheis, w

Awj.2. The militia comiuiuy of the towiiBhi]. ha.

mentions

aftrr a

the Test Act, which hud been pas-cd by {'nirjrr,

for "

for "

sou" read "brother."

Codoms" read " Codorus." "Jacob" read " Josepli."

[om, for :up, for

" Reeses" read "Reeves."

op, for "

Teech" read " Leech " eifer"

oler'read"nigl

I

Allen, I'etor, 10. Aliuslioiise, 212.

Attorneys, aiiinission Allee, Williom

of, 224.

Ausmtus,

226.

Attorueys.fit-litw, liat of, 244.

Atlee, Dr. Eilwhi A., 249.

Aldoraterrcn, Dr. G. W., 250. Atlee, Dr.

John Light,

Aichmiller, Dr.,

2,')7.

25^!.

Aguew, D. lUyes, M.D., LL.D., AlUright, Dr. Fniiicis

G

273.

,282.

Ale.xiiniler, Dr. H.

M.,239.

Anuor, Dr. Smith,

298.

AngstJidl, Dr. John, 298.

AiMish, -iU. ,344.

AB.icuUur.il Atlee, Willi.

KviLrigt.liciil A»SDCiiitii)ii, 049.

,

l'

hat.facturie.s,

A. SI,.(i49.

C..'".!.

N D E X.

1094 Courts,

r.rg,iiii/al

epeciiil, iil.

justices of, 224, C.sr|.e„tcr, Dr. Cul|jl,crl.~Mii,

Cuwiin, Dr.

II,

Ur.

W.

I,., 2t;:).

CiiriH-nler, Dr. J. Bales, 2G3.

Cabsiiiy, Drs. A.

M.

.and

P.,

272.

Cocluaji J^lr. KklmrJ, 274. Clingcr, Dr. I'uter S., '277. CoJu|,ton,

Di-.

Craig, Dr.

Ale.-s.iuiler, 2j2.

Charles, Dr.

William, 230.

J.icoli, 283.

Cuttrell, Dr. Juaepli

Cox, Dr. Tliomas Clark, Dr. U.

J.,

F,

289.

B., 2S0.

204.

Chaiconl furnaces, 301. Coleman, Uubert, 'Mi. Canals, 314.

Couewagii,

.314.

Susquehanna, 315. Susquehanna and Tide Water,

316.

Conestoga Navigation Companies, 317. Cooksun, Thomas, 302. Cope, Caleh, 3G7. Carruthers, Oeorgo, 404. Cochran, John J., 509.

Caumruu,

Col.

James, 53G.

, 53a.

post-office a

Diumorotow.ialiii.:

Wiishiuptou Lodge, F, and A, M., 706. Good Teinidiirs' Lodgo, 7QC, Drnriioio

Lod^C

I.

0. 0. F., 797.

Hoar famjly, llerr. Daniel,

iiatoii,

Dr. John

rsloii,

Ur. Willi

ivnrd, Dr.

In.lmu

John,

Invin, Dr. Willlaui B.,291. lljns, Dr. K.linund D., 292.

Iron manufactnre, 301.

Iron Ure Company, Chestnut Hill, Intel nal Dr. George, 263.

Dr. Heuiy, i53.

.,

inklin, M.D.,278.

George

.

M.

Dr. Gulbruith. Juhu,

J., 279.

Herr, Dr. Boujumin, 2

10.

B.,29

Gitsori, Cul. JdIhi, 19.

llei-Bbey, Dr. E.

Gil.son. Col. Georgia, 19.

Ilarker, Isaac D.,

29.J.

HomiL-opiithy, 297.

Hamilton, Dr., 297. ,

Ci.I

Barlmm,

52, 62, 749,

Ililobeuer, Dr. 0. T.,

Ham

5

riaii

Harry, Dr. F. M., 298.

Hai

Kanff

ria DeiituI .\83oi;iat

HibSlan.l, I'eler W.,

l),!

HuLley, llidiael and Robert M,, M.D., ,

Ilr.

Glacksri, Dr.

George, 233.

.Micliiiel,

Gstohell, Dr. J. Giirber,

Grubb,

I1r.

A.

Cilrli.^,

C,

ifiO.

IIu

Ada

,

Hubley,

1,

,

I

303.

30

i.

'J

291.

Charles Millei

11., 29i.

>«ell,

3ul.

jiiiitsb,

Carl n., 371,

•Hiilali,

Chailos A.,

Graff, Subastiuii,JC2.

!

Rpv. K,i

Houston^ Hu:^9,

,044.

Jo

lloffiliai,.

,045.

George, 60O.

Ilildebraod,

.I.icob,

0G3

Herchelrotli family, 7U Hollsebold'ir

and Stobt

Helshberger, Jarob, 71 Harrar, Daniel, 728. ,

Ca»i

.740.

naiilemaii, Jacob, 750. Haldelilan. Jobii B.,

Hugbus, Uarnabas,

7.-.7

7Ht>.

IliliBbman family, 834.

llambleton, Neal, 800.

improvements, 3n9.

Loniy,

DiiniBl, 1«.

Moalier. Geu. Jorcmiali, 307.

M,i«lmll,jAmo8lI.,

towu

Miirlic

lU.;.

MulilfiiOurg, Kav. Ui.

V,.

H. E., 440.

iners in, 024, 025.

804

Mussor, Dr. J. Ili-nry, 2G2. Medical S*(.-iety, Luncustei

807 :ity

and 1812, and 1812,

024.

625.

814, 02U.

,

niclifslii, 974. inelei

of nieJiciil societies, 206, 207. Mclliiiger, Iloiiry S., M.D., 278.

Mowery,

Dr. Jacob L., 239.

,

schools, 630. ,

.

Melzga

,

Daniel, 293.

and academy,

Sauiuel H., 29S.

female seminary, 631.

itory

early

later teachers iu, 631.

Lancaster County, 19,

:137.

977.

,978.

978.

Mount Joy township,

787.

in, 987.

legend of baltle of cave

iu, 987.

and hermit,

9>

settlements in, 989.

Itolirerstown District, 337.

early settlers, 989.

Stniaburg District, 338.

Hammer Creeli

(

Indians

public schools, 631.

,

P., 970.

Factory, 977.

indu

Isaac, 284.

Marlh, William, Sol.

.Marietta

ll.-iuy, 1017. S.,

1(1

and Subiiuehi

barihs in, 004.

North,

giis-works, 605.

Friendaliip Fire

M., 241.

John

Neff, Dr.

A'braham, 248.

U,, 247.

Nell, Dr. Chrislian, 248.

Company

Casiphia Lodge, F. and

A..

in,

Nissen, Dr. J. F., 252.

M.,

Nonia, Dr.

Mount Joy Lodge, Cave Lodge, K. of

I'.,

6J6.

Olaogo Tribe,

R

,M., 006,

I.

Hugh

Neff, Dr.

0.

I.

0. 0. F.

U

E., 287.

Kowpher, Dr. John J., 291. Nevin, John W., D.D., LL.D.,

423.

Ni-.sley family, 700.

Nolde, John S.,718. Niel, Lieut. Neir, Dr.

Thomas,

794.

Hans Henry,

905.

Neff. Francis, 900.

Nissleya, 990.

land-lilb

Nisaley, Martin, 1020.

Incorpori

Noble, William, 1032.

Myer population

of, 613.

11,

Miuiiich

h

!

INDEX. Bretlircn, 343. lit,

erected, 211.

rnttiTSOi),

David Watson, 236.

Perkins, Pr. JuUn D., 251.

Perkins,

Ilr.

Elisha, 251.

Purcell, James, M.D., 203.

Power, Dr. .James, 263. Parke, Dr. .\.t\ B., 287. Plank, Dr. E. H., 289. Parry, El.y, M.D., D.D.S.,

SlIO.

Population of