History of Northumberland Co., PA - Chapter 44



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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
MILTON

    DR. JAMES AND JANE (STARRETT) DOUGAL, natives of Ireland, and early
settlers of Milton, were married, October 14, 1793. The former was a
graduate of the College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, Scotland, and was
practicing medicine in Ireland when he became involved in the Irish
rebellion of 1798, and was compelled to escape in disguise to the United
States, whither his wife and two children, James and Margaret, followed
him. He located in Milton, Pennsylvania, where he erected the stone house
in 1803 now occupied by his grandson, and practiced his profession until
his sudden death, July 18, 1818, caused by a fall from his horse. He was
the pioneer physician of Milton, and a gentleman of marked ability and
patriotism, whose loyalty to the emblem of freedom in his adopted home
was as fervent as his hatred of tyranny in his native land. During the
war of 1812 he did all in his power against English oppression, and sent
his son, James S., into the ranks of his country's defenders to fight
for the flag of liberty.

   Dr. JAMES S. DOUGAL was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, October 7,
1794, and came to Milton with his parents, Dr. James Dougal and wife,
where he received a good education. He read medicine with his father,
and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1817. Upon his
father's death the following year he succeeded to his practice, and for
fifty-eight years he was actively engaged in the duties of his
profession. He served in the war of 1812, against the oppressor of his
native land. In politics he was originally a Democrat, but in later
years united with the Republican party. Doctor Dougal was married, July
2, 1818, to Sarah, daughter of William Pollock, and sister of the late
ex- Governor James Pollock, who was born, July 16, 1799. She died April
1, 1873, and he survived her until May 23, 1878. They had a family of
eight children: James, a physician, and William P., both deceased; Sarah
Jane, widow of James Gilmour; Mary Louisa, wife of R. H. Duncan, of
Washington, D. C.; Caroline, deceased wife of Horace A. Beale, of
Chester county, Pennsylvania; Margaret P.; Charles H., of Milton, and
Elizabeth E., wife of Robert Bailey, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Doctor Dougal was a gentleman of enterprise and public spirit, and was
for many years one of the leading citizens of his adopted home.

   CAPTAIN WILLIAM P. DOUGAL was the second son of Dr. James S. and
Sarah (Pollock) Dougal, and grandson of Dr. James Dougal, the second
resident physician of Milton. He was born, December 28, 1823, in the
substantial stone house erected by his grandfather on the corner of
Front and Mahoning streets, Milton, Pennsylvania, early in the present
century, and was educated at the old Milton Academy. In early manhood
he engaged in farming in Union county, and followed agricultural
pursuits until 1860. Upon the breaking out of the civil war he at once
gave his active support to the Union cause. and September 4, 1862, he
was commissioned first lieutenant of Company D, One Hundred and Fiftieth
(Bucktail) regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, which company he recruited
in Union county, where he then resided. His regiment was at once sent
to the front, and afterwards became celebrated as one of the fighting
regiments of the Army of the Potomac. Lieutenant Dougal was promoted to
the captaincy on the field of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, where he was so
severely wounded as to necessitate his retirement from active service,
and he was finally discharged, February 1, 1864. The firm of Murray,
Dougal & Company was organized the same year, and the Milton Car Works
established, with which Captain Dougal was actively identified until 1878,
when he withdrew from the firm and lived a retired life up to his death,
July 8, 1890.
   Captain Dougal was twice married, first to Sarah Clingan, of Union
county, who bore him one daughter, Sarah, wife of William C. Lawson,
Jr., of Milton. His second wife was Agnes, daughter of Robert and Eliza
(Montgomery) McCormick, of Milton, a descendant of two well known
pioneer families of the West Branch valley. Seven children were the
fruits of this union: James; Robert; William; Eliza; Charles; Agnes, and
Margaret, all of whom are living except the eldest. Captain Dougal was a
member of the Presbyterian church, to which faith his widow and family
also adhere, and in politics he was an ardent Republican. He was a
director of the Milton National Bank, and always manifested a deep
interest in the social and material growth of his native town. He was
affable, kind, and generous in all the relations of home and family, and
in business life he was recognized as the soul of honor and integrity.

   CHARLES H. DOUGAL, physician, was born in Milton, Pennsylvania,
September 20, 1838, son of Dr. James S. and Sarah Dougal. He received a
good common school education, and subsequently entered Princeton
College, New Jersey, where he graduated in the spring of 1859. He then
commenced the study of medicine in his father's office, but in 1861
entered the United States service under General Stoneman, as a medical
cadet. He was taken prisoner, July 1, 1863, and was confined in Libby
prison five weeks, when he was exchanged and assigned to duty at
Eckington hospital, near Washington, D. C., where he remained until the
following September. He then returned to Milton and resumed his medical
studies, and in March, 1864, graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania. He has since been one of the active practitioners of
Milton, and has built up a large practice. Doctor Dougal was married,
January 4, 1866, to Annie M., daughter of Samuel Oakes, of Montour
county, Pennsylvania. Two children were born to them, one of whom is
living, J. Starrett. Mrs. Dougal died, March 26, 1873, and he was again
married, March 19, 189l, to Miss Emma Clinger, of Williamsport.
Politically the Doctor is a Republican; he has been chief burgess of
Milton and has served in the borough council three terms. He has also
served in the school board. He is an adherent of the Presbyterian
church, and a member of the G.A.R. and the Masonic fraternity.

   Dr. WILLIAM McCLEERY was for many years one of the best known
medical practitioners in the county. He was a native of Dauphin county,
Pennsylvania, and a son of John McCleery, a merchant of Harrisburg and
subsequently of Milton, who died on his farm near the latter place.
William removed with his parents to Milton in boyhood, read medicine
with Dr. James S. Dougal, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College
in the class of 1827. For more than thirty years he practiced his
profession in Milton and the surrounding country for miles in every
direction, and shared with his contemporaries a large and lucrative
practice. Doctor McCleery married Margaret, daughter of William Pollock,
and a sister of the late ex-Governor James Pollock, who bore him six
children, five of whom survive: J. P., of Milton; Mary, wife of Joseph D.
Potts, of Philadelphia; Julia J., wife of Jesse Merrill, of Lock Haven;
John, of Milton, and William P., of Troy, Pennsylvania. In 1857 Doctor
McCleery turned over his practice to his eldest son, Dr. J. P. McCleery,
and engaged in the lumber business. He erected the first steam saw mill on
the river at Milton, and followed the lumber trade up to his death,
December 4, 1867. His wife died fourteen years prior to his decease.

   J. P. McCLEERY, physician, is the oldest son of Dr. William McCleery,
and was born in Milton, Pennsylvania, November 13, 1832. He received a
good education at the schools of Milton and McEwensville. He began the
study of medicine with his father, and attended Jefferson Medical College,
of Philadelphia, graduating in March, 1857, and since that time has
practiced his profession in Milton. June 4, 1870, he was united in
marriage with Margaret S., daughter of John McCormick, of Lewis township,
this county, and by this union they have five children: Annie M.; Mary H.;
Martha G.; William, and Josephine P. Doctor McCleery is a Republican in
politics, and the family are adherents of the Presbyterian church.

   ABRAHAM STRAUB was born in Milton, Northumberland county, December
9, 1794, son of Andrew Straub and twin brother of Isaac Straub. He
received the ordinary education of that period, learned the tanner's
trade, and carried on a tannery in Milton until 1824, at which time he
sold out and joined his brother Isaac in what were known as the
Birchwood Mills, on the island opposite Milton, where they were engaged
in the lumber and milling business a number of years. They invented and
introduced into their mill the first reaction water wheel probably ever
used in the State. They also had a railroad track to their mill and
yard. In 1832 and 1833 they erected the first bridges over the West
Branch of the Susquehanna at Milton, which were carried away by the
flood of March 17, 1865. In 1834 Isaac retired from the firm and went
to Lewistown, where he engaged in merchandising. Abraham continued to
operate the mills until 1840, when he took down the grist mill and moved
it to Muddy Run, two miles above Milton, where he continued the milling
business until 1853, when he sold the same and erected a bridge across
the Susquehanna river at Uniontown. After the completion of this
undertaking he turned his attention to the invention of a centrifugal
pump. He was a self-educated surveyor, and became one of the foremost
in this section of the State. November 29, 1821, he married Nancy
Balliet, whose father was a native of Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and a
settler in Limestone, Montour county. They were the parents of the
following children: John Andrew, deceased: Ambrose White, who died in
infancy: Stephen Daniel, of Hagerstown, Maryland: Elizabeth Caroline,
wife of Rev. William Goodrich; Clement Calvin, of Milton; Ambrose White,
of Philadelphia; William Alfred, of Cumberland, Maryland, and Mary Louisa,
deceased. He died, August 21,1864.
   Isaac Straub left Lewistown in 1838 and went to Cincinnati, where
he died, December 17, 1875. Christian Straub taught school and engaged
in merchandising in Schuylkill county, where he served as sheriff; he
was also elected to the Pennsylvania legislature and to Congress, but
died before the expiration of his term, and was buried in the
congressional burying ground at Washington, D. C.

   CLEMENT C. STRAUB was born in Milton, Northumberland county,
Pennsylvania, November 23, 1833, son of Abraham and Nancy (Balliet)
Straub. He attended the public schools and academy under Reverend
Dieter, and was for many years engaged in the mercantile business. For
the last twenty-five years he has been engaged in building portable
mills in connection with his brother Ambrose, the inventor, their place
of business being in Philadelphia. He is a director in the First
National Bank of Milton. February 17, 1864, he was united in marriage
with Elizabeth A., daughter of Justus Swenk, of Milton. She died, May
24, 1872. Mr. Straub is a prominent Republican, and was for many years a
member of the school board and town council.

   JOSEPH MARR was one of the pioneers of Turbut township, Northumberland
county, the site of his home being now embraced in the borough of Milton.
He was born, June 15, 1750, in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, where he
married Susannah Frampton of the same county, born April 27, 1754. In 1792
he purchased three hundred seventy-nine acres of land from the widow of
Turbutt Francis, a part of a tract known as "Colonel's Reward," lying on
the east bank of the West Branch, immediately north of Milton. It must
have been well improved property, as he paid at the rate of four pounds
per acre for it. In 1793 he settled upon his purchase, where he died,
September 3, 1796; his widow survived him until December 27, 1826. They
were the parents of six children: Mary, who married Robert Martin; Hannah,
who became the wife of William Hull; David, who died, February 14, 1819;
William, who died, December 18, 1823; Joseph, who died, October 5, 1804,
and Alem, who became quite a prominent lawyer and politician and served
two terms in Congress.

   WILLIAM HULL was a native of Sussex county, New Jersey, born July
17, 1771, and settled in Turbut township, Northumberland county,
Pennsylvania, in the last decade of the eighteenth century, where he
married Hannah Marr, January 12, 1797. Her father, Joseph Marr, came
from Northampton county, Pennsylvania, in 1793, and located immediately
north of Milton. She was born, March 23, 1777 and was about sixteen
years old when her father settled in this county. To William and Hannah
Hull were born fourteen children, only nine of whom reached maturity:
Susan, who married Samuel McCarty; Elizabeth; Jesse; David; Alem:
William P.; Thomas R.; Sarah A., who married John H. Brown, and Hannah
M., who married Robert M. Slater. William Hull died upon the homestead
farm in 1828; his widow afterward moved into Milton, where she died,
February 10 1858 in the eighty-first year of her age.

   DR. THOMAS R. HULL, youngest son of William Hull, was born on the
old homestead near Milton, February 19, 1815. He here grew to manhood,
and received his early education at the old Milton Academy. About 1832
he entered Lafayette College, and subsequently read medicine under
Doctors James S. Dougal and William McCleery, and graduated from
Jefferson Medical College in 1838. He commenced practice at
Washingtonville, Montour county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until
1861, when he removed to Milton and continued in the active duties of
his profession up to his death, May 25,1586. On the 23d of February,
1843, Doctor Hull was married to Elizabeth McCormick, who survives him.
Seven children were born to this union: Margaret Mc.; William; Alem P.;
Thomas R.; Harry B.; Edward L., deceased, and Elmer S. Doctor Hull was
a skillful, careful, and conscientious physician, and enjoyed a large
and lucrative practice. Politically he was a Republican. and was a
member of the electoral college which elected Lincoln to the presidency
in 1860. He was chief burgess of Milton two terms. and always took a
deep interest in the public schools, and was a member of the board of
education several years. He was an attendant of the Episcopal church
and a man of unquestionable integrity and upright character.

   WILLIAM HULL, dealer in coal and grain was born in Montour county,
Pennsylvania, June 30, 1846, and is the eldest son of Dr. Thomas R.
Hull. He was educated in the Milton schools, and in 1869 he began
clerking for his uncle, William P. Hull, and continued in that capacity
until the death of the latter in 1876, when he and his father purchased
the business and conducted it under the firm name of William Hull. On
the death of doctor Hull in 1886, his son, Thomas R., became a member of
the firm, which has since been known as Hull & Company. Dr. Hull is also
interested in the lumber business at Jersey Shore and Pine Creek,
Pennsylvania, and is a stockholder in the Milton Trust and Safe Deposit
Company. He was married, July 4, 1872, to Emma, daughter of Samuel
Leidy of Milton, who has borne him two children: May, and William P.
Politically Mr. Hull is a Republican. and is now serving his ninth year
as school director.

   THE McCORMICK FAMILY. The ancestry of the McCormick family is
traced to James McCormick, of Londonderry, Ireland, one of the signers
of a memorial to William and Mary in 1689. His son, Thomas McCormick.
was born in 1702 and immigrated to America in 1735, locating in Paxtang
township, Lancaster (now Dauphin) county, Pennsylvania. In 1745 he
removed to East Pennsboro' township, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania,
where he died in 1762. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Carruth,
and they were the parents of six children. The eldest, Thomas McCormick,
was born in the North of Ireland in 1727, and died in East Pennsboro'
township, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1778. In 1756 he married
Jean, daughter of John and Mary (Patterson) Oliver.
   Of the five children born to this union the eldest, John McCormick,
removed to Northumberland county in 1794 and was the progenitor of the
branch of the family to which this sketch more particularly relates. He
was born near Silver Spring, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, March 26,
1757, and died in his adopted county, September 22, 1815. He married
Ann, daughter of John Sample, and they had issue as follows: Elizabeth,
who married John Cook; Robert, who married Mrs. Eliza Wood, nee
Montgomery; Jane, who married John Sample; Maria; John, who married
Martha Giffen; William, who married Rachel Slote, and Sarah, who became
the wife of David Davis.

   ROBERT M. MCCORMICK, eldest son of John and Ann McCormick, was born
on the old homestead in this county, January 25, 1796, and died in
Milton, whither he had removed from his farm, September 10, 1873. He was
married, May 4, 1830, to Mrs. Eliza Wood, widow of Dr. Thomas Wood, of
Muncy, and eldest child of David and Agnes (Shaw) Montgomery. She was
born, April 27, 1800, upon the old homestead in what is now Lewis
township, and died in Milton, February 1, 1876. Six children were born
to Robert and Eliza McCormick: David M., who died in childhood; John,
who died in early manhood; Robert, who was killed by guerrillas at
Bardstown, Kentucky, December 29, 1564, while serving in the Seventh
Pennsylvania Cavalry; Charles C., a gallant soldier of the same
regiment, since deceased; Agnes, widow of William P. Dougal, and William
C., of Kansas.

   GENERAL CHARLES C. McCORMICK, deceased, was born in Paradise, Lewis
township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1838, and
died, January 31, 1884. His parents were Robert and Eliza McCormick. He
was reared on the homestead farm, and manifested a great love for books
and a desire to improve his mind. He attended the McEwensville Academy
and the Lewisburg University, and took a course at the Pittsburgh
Commercial College. He removed with his parents to Milton in 1860. At
the breaking out of the civil war he was among the first to respond to
his country's call, and, owing to his military tact, indomitable energy,
and unquestionable bravery, he gradually arose from the rank of private
to that of brigadier general. October 9,1861, he enlisted in Company D,
Eightieth Regiment (Seventh Cavalry), and November 18, 1861, was
promoted to captain of Company L; January 10, 1865, he became colonel of
the regiment, and was brevetted brigadier general, March 13, 1865, for
long, faithful, and gallant service. He was mustered out, August 23,
1865, and was promoted after the war to the rank of major general of the
National Guard of Pennsylvania. He fought in the Army of the Tennessee
as a cavalryman, and was wounded at Bardstown, Kentucky, and Selma,
Alabama. The bullets received at the latter place remained in his body
until his death. He participated in the battles of Murfreesboro, Stone
River, Alexandria, Chickamauga, Macon, Dallas, Atlanta, Columbia, and
Kennesaw Mountain. At the close of the war he returned to Milton and
purchased an interest in the firm of Murray, Dougal & Company, car
manufacturers, from which he retired in 1877. June 30, 1868, he married
Charlotte A., daughter of L. M. and Sarah (Blake) Wright, of Troy, New
York, and to them were born three children: Robert C., a student at
Cornell University; Helen C., and Walter W., now attending school.

   THE FOLLMER FAMILY are among the earliest settlers of this portion
of Northumberland county. George Jacob Follmer was born, December 4,
1738, in Berks county, Pennsylvania. His father with an older brother,
Michael, emigrated from Germany in 1737, and located near Reading, Berks
county, Pennsylvania. In 1778 Michael and George Jacob came to this
county and located in Turbut township. They took up a large tract of
land, built their cabins, and engaged in clearing and improving the
same. George Jacob Follmer married Catharine Walters and reared a family
of twelve children. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war five
years, and a Democrat in politics; he was elected as a member of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1794 and continuously from 1798
to 1802, and was elected to the Senate in 1803. He died in 1804 before
his term expired. From these two brothers sprang the Follmer family,
which now has several hundred descendants in this county.

   DANIEL FOLLMER, youngest son of George Jacob Follmer, was born in
Northumberland county, June 9, 1786, and was a farmer by occupation. He
was colonel of a militia company for many years, and participated in the
war of 1812. He was associate judge of Montour county one term. He
married Susan Diffenbecher, a native of Columbia county, Pennsylvania,
who died in 1836. Eight children were born to this union, three of whom
are living: Conrad, of Kansas; Mary, widow of John A. Eshbach, of Iowa,
and J. M., of Milton. His second wife was Mrs. Rachel Grier, by whom he
had one child, who died at the age of twelve years. Mr. Follmer was a
member of the German Reformed church, and served as elder many years. He
died in 1873.

   J. M. FOLLMER was born in Limestone township, Montour county,
Pennsylvania, May 3, 1825. He attended the public schools and Danville
Academy, and has been engaged in farming, lumbering, and stock-raising.
In 1863 he enlisted in Company E, Thirty-seventh Militia, received the
appointment of regimental quartermaster, and was honorably discharged
August 4, l863. He was a charter member of Bryson Post, G.A.R. of
Watsontown, and chaplain of Henry Wilson Post, Milton. In 1865 he was a
candidate for the legislature, but was defeated. In 1888 he was elected
to the House of Representatives by a majority of about two hundred. In
1850 he was united in marriage with Susan, daughter of J. P. Hackenberg,
of this county. Seven children were born to this union: Emma; Matilda,
Mrs. C. G. Wilson, of St. Mary's, Pennsylvania; Edward H., who died at
the age of one year; Ada, Mrs. J. G. Bower, of Watsontown; William H.,
physician, of Milton; Roland B., of Philadelphia, and John H. Mr.
Follmer was connected with the Masonic order for twelve years, and Royal
Arch three years; he is a member of the German Reformed church, was an
elder several terms, and has been superintendent of the Sunday school
for many years. He is now engaged in the insurance business, and
represents several of the strongest companies.

   SETH CADWALLADER was one of the pioneer merchants of Milton, in
which town he settled about 1812. He was born in Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania, October 11, 1796, and after coming to Milton engaged in
clerking, but subsequently went into business and followed merchandising
until 1854, when he retired. On the 3d of February, 1824, he married
Elizabeth, daughter of George Hammond, and a native of Northumberland
county. Her father was one of the first settlers of this part of the
State, was captured by the Indians during the Revolutionary war and
turned over to the Hessians, and was held a prisoner five years. Eleven
children were born to Seth and Elizabeth Cadwallader, only three of whom
are living: Hammond, of Juniata county; Albert, of Milton, and Kate,
wife of James McConkey, of Philadelphia. The parents died, August 24,
1863, and June 3, 1880 respectively.

   ALBERT CADWALLADER was born in Milton, Pennsylvania, October 11,
1841, was reared and educated in his native town, and was engaged in the
grocery and provision business until 1879. October 20, 1868, he married
Annie L., daughter of Andrew Supplec of Philadelphia, and by this union
they have seven children: Gertrude H.; Austin S.; Seth Iredell; Mary
Louisa; Kate E.; Bertha May, and Albert. During the Rebellion he
volunteered in Company A, Third Pennsylvania Militia, and later in
Company E, Twenty-eight Emergency Men, and was afterwards appointed
agent for the United States sanitary commission to distribute supplies
to the sick and wounded soldiers at the front. In politics he is a
Republican, and was elected county treasurer in 1871, the first
Republican ever elected to that office in this county. He served five
terms as chief burgess of Milton, and has also been a member of the town
council. He is secretary and treasurer in the Milton Knitting Factory,
and has been a director of the Milton National Bank for several years.
Mr. Cadwallader is a member of Henry Wilson Post, G.A.R., and served as
quartermaster of the same four years. He and family attend the
Presbyterian church.

   SAMUEL T. BROWN was for many years one of the best known business
men of Milton, where he lived nearly half a century. He was born in White
Deer valley, Union county, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1798, and was a
descendant of an old Puritan family that settled in that valley at an
early date in its history. He learned the tanning trade, and in 1830 came
to Milton and purchased the property now known as the Milton tannery,
where he carried on business over thirty years. During this time he became
actively identified with the growth and progress of the town. He was a
stockholder and director of the old Northumberland Bank more than twenty
years, and was one of the organizers and directors of the First National
Bank from its inception up to his death, June 4, 1875. Mr. Brown was
twice married, first to Nancy Woods, June 18, 1819, who bore him five
children, three of whom grew to maturity: Cyrus; J. Woods, and Oliver.
The two last mentioned are dead. He married for his second wife
Elizabeth A. Young, of which union one child was born, but died in early
youth. His widow survived him until October, 1883. Mr. Brown was an
excellent citizen, a good neighbor, a man of sterling business
character, and a kind husband and father. Politically he was a Democrat,
and in religion a consistent member of the First Presbyterian church of
Milton.

   CYRUS BROWN, druggist, was born in White Deer valley, Union county,
Pennsylvania, May 25, 1824, eldest son of Samuel T. and Nancy (Woods)
Brown. He was educated at the schools of Milton, and the Lewisburg
Academy, after which he entered a drug store in Philadelphia, where he
remained until he acquired a thorough knowledge of the business. In
1854 he returned to Milton, and established his present drug house,
which is now the largest in the county. He was burned out in May, 1880,
with a loss of fifty thousand dollars, outside of his insurance, but
rebuilt the same year, and in 1882 erected his present store. Mr. Brown
handles white lead in large quantities, and is the inventor and
manufacturer of the Red Horse powder. He is a believer in printer's ink,
and is probably the most extensive advertiser in the county. In 1859 he
married Louisa B., daughter of David Krauser, who died leaving one
daughter, Hettie L. He was again married, January 1, 1876, to Mrs.
Rebecca H. Rhodes, widow of Doctor Rhodes, of Milton. Politically Mr.
Brown is a Democrat; he has served as city councilman, and is a member
of the Presbyterian church.

   J. WOODS BROWN, deceased, was born in White Deer valley, Union
county, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1826, son of Samuel T. and Nancy
(Woods) Brown. He attended the Milton Academy, also the McEwensville
Academy under the Rev. S. S. Sheddon, D. D. He entered Jefferson College
in the spring of 1846, and graduated from that institution in 1848. He
then read law one year with Samuel Hepburn, of Milton, and afterwards
entered the law school at Easton, Pennsylvania, under Judge McCarty and
Henry Greer, and graduated in 1851, when he returned to Milton and
engaged in practice. In 1853 he entered into co-partnership with W. C.
Lawson, which relation continued successfully until 1880. After the
great fire of that year in Milton neither partner cared to continue in
the practice of law. Mr. Brown was an active and influential Democrat
and a leader in the local councils of his party. In 1862-63 he represented
Northumberland county in the House of Representatives in the State
Legislature and occupied a prominent position in that body. He held a
number of positions in civil life, in which his fidelity and
conscientiousness were prominently manifested. He was the principal
factor in the organization of the First National Bank of Milton in 1863,
was elected its president, and continued in this office until his death.
He was a remarkably quiet and unobtrusive man, yet possessed of that
courage which always prompted him to follow the line of duty in a
forcible, and oftentimes aggressive, manner. His conceptions of right
and his condemnation of all things that reflected the image of
impropriety made him a fearless advocate of good. January 29, 1851, he
married Maria, daughter of William and Catherine Polk, of Easton,
Pennsylvania. Seven children were born to their union, four of whom are
living. Mr. Brown died, January 6, 1888.

   WILLIAM HEINEN, deceased, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, in
1817, son of Doctor Heinen, who emigrated from Germany and married Miss
Etzler, of York county, and practiced medicine in that county before
removing to Milton. William Heinen came to Milton with his parents when
a child, and received his education at the Milton Academy under Rev.
David Kirkpatrick. He started in life as a clerk, and served an
extended apprenticeship. In 1835 he, in co-partnership with Jesse
Schreyer, established the mercantile firm of Schreyer & Heinen. He
remained a member of that firm until 1866, when he withdrew and retired
from active business in 1870. He married Anna M., daughter of Henry
Funk, of Bucks county, by whom he had eight children, three of whom are
living: Catharine, wife of D. M. Krauser; William A., and T. C. Mr.
Heinen was one of the organizers of the Milton National Bank, and served
as a director many years. He was a prominent member of the Lutheran
church, and a Democrat in politics. He died, July 19, 1879; his widow
died in 1885.

   WILLIAM A. HEINEN was born in Milton Northumberland county,
Pennsylvania, October 16, 1850, son of William and Anna (Funk) Heinen.
He received his education in the Milton schools and Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and in early life turned his attention to
farming. In 1870 he became a member of the firm of Heinen, Schreyer &
Company, but retired from the same in 1880, and has since returned to
farming. He is a director in the Milton Trust and Safe Deposit Company,
the Milton Iron Company, the Milton Gas Company, and the Milton Driving
Park and Fair Association, a stockholder in the Milton Water Company,
and a member of the Milton Bridge Company, also one of the organizers
and secretary and treasurer of the Milton Creamery Company. Politically
he is a Republican. October 8, 1889, he married Mary, daughter of S. J.
Shimer, of Milton.

   T. C. HEINEN was born in Milton, March 11, 1859, son of William and
Anna (Funk) Heinen. He was educated in the schools of Milton, after
which he entered the mercantile business as clerk, and succeeded his
father as a member of the firm of Heinen, Schreyer & Company. He is a
stock-holder in the Milton Iron Company, the Milton Knitting Company,
the Milton Water Company, the Milton Gas Company, and the Milton Driving
Park and Fair Association. In 1885 he married Carrie V., daughter of D.
W. A. Belford, of Milton, and has one child, Catharine E.

   WILLIAM CHAMBERLIN was born in New Jersey, September 25, 1736. He
was lieutenant colonel in the New Jersey militia, and served in the
Revolutionary war. He was married in 1758 to Miss Tinbrook, who bore
him seven children. March 3,1771, he married Ann Park, who bore him four
children, and died, November 12, 1779. In 1782 he married Margaret
Park, and by her were born four children; she died, April 29, 1791, and
August 16, 1794, he married Ann Mary Kimble, and to this union were born
eight children. He was twenty-three years of age at the birth of his
first child, and seventy-six years of age at the birth of his twenty-
third child. He died, August 21, 1817. His oldest son Lewis, while on a
visit to his father, was killed at the battle of Germantown, October 4,
1777, by a cannon ball. About 1792 he removed to Buffalo valley and
purchased six hundred acres of land, in what is now Kelly township,
Union county, where he lived in prosperity until his death. He was a
prominent member of the Baptist church. His last wife came of an old
family. She was familiar with Washington Irving, George Washington, and
others. She was a member of the Presbyterian church, and having a very
retentive memory, committed many chapters of the Bible to memory. She
died, March 4, 1859.

   MOSES CHAMBERLIN was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, November
8, 1812, youngest son of William and Ann Mary (Kimble) Chamberlin. He
was reared on his father's homestead and educated at the schools of that
period. At the age of twenty years he went to Lewisburg and served an
apprenticeship of three years at the tanner's trade. In 1833 he removed
to Milton, engaged in the mercantile business, and followed the various
occupations of milling, lumbering, and farming until 1874, when he
retired from active life. He purchased the land and laid out what is
known as the Chamberlin addition to Milton, and also laid out and sold
land upon which Watsontown is situated. He was married in 1835 to Mary
Ann, daughter of George Correy, of Milton, who died, August 15, 1838.
One child was born to this union, Elizabeth H., widow of William
Follmer, of Watsontown. He was again married in 1840 to Jane H.
Montgomery, daughter of John Watson, of Watsontown, and to them six
children have been born, four of whom are living: William, of Milton;
Caroline, Mrs. A. O. First, of Bellefonte; James, of Harrisburg, and
Frank, an attorney of Milton. Mr. Chamberlin is a Republican in
politics, and has served in the several municipal offices of his town.
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and has served as
trustee, recording steward, class leader, Sunday school superintendent,
etc.

   JOHN HAAG, deceased, was a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania,
and after marrying Mary Knauss, of that county, he removed in 1896 to
Turbut township, Northumberland county, where he followed farming until
his death in 1867; his widow survived him until 1882, and they were
consistent members of the Lutheran church and the parents of seven
children: John, deceased; Catharine, deceased; B. K.; Elizabeth,
deceased; Rebecca, who married William Balliet and lives in Montour
county, Pennsylvania; Hettie, wife of William Gouger, also of Montour
county, and Sarah, deceased.

   B. K. HAAG, merchant, was born, January 9, 1817, in Berks county,
Pennsylvania, and is a son of John and Mary C. (Knauss) Haag. His
education was received in the subscription and common schools. At the
age of twenty-one years he left his father's farm to begin a business
life for himself, his first employment being in the general mercantile
store of Geddes, Green & Walls at McEwensville, this county, where he
remained four years. Following this were four years' service as a clerk
in a general store in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. In 1847 he came to Milton
and formed a partnership with T. S. Mackey & Son, under the firm name of
Mackey & Haag, dry goods and hardware. At the expiration of two years
Mr. Haag withdrew from this connection and joined Montgomery Sweney, and
for one year did a general dry goods and grocery business, under the
firm title of Sweney & Haag. After one year's association with the
concern of Haag & Caldwell, the stock was divided and Mr. Haag kept a
store for a period on the present site of the Milton National Bank. In
1853 he established his present hardware and book store, which was
conducted under the firm cognomen of Haag & Brown until the panic of
1857, which compelled Mr. Haag to assume all responsibility of the
business, and since when he has been alone until joined by his son-in-
law, John Buoy. In 1869 he purchased a lot south of his present
hardware room, of Elizabeth Miller, and in 1865 erected buildings on the
same. In 1875 his business block was burned, rebuilt, and again burned
in 1880, and soon after rebuilt the second time. Besides this handsome
brick block, he has constructed many dwellings in the town of Milton,
including the Hotel Haag, which magnificent structure was erected in
1890 at a cost of over seventy-five thousand dollars, and opened up for
business on April 1, 1890. Mr. Haag was married, February 20, 1852, to
Sarah Schuck, daughter of Philip and Catharine (Diebert) Schuck. She
was born, July 19, 1821, in Union county, Pennsylvania, and to her union
with Mr. Haag have been born six children: William A., deceased; Mary
E., the wife of John Buoy; Charles H., deceased; Sallie, deceased;
Thomas J.; and Hettie, the wife of C. A. Chapin. Mr. Haag was
postmaster while at McEwensville and also trustee of school funds at the
same place. He was appointed one of the distributing committee of the
relief funds after the great fire of 1880. He was a director of the
National Bank of Milton from 1865 to 1875.

   WILLIAM C. LAWSON, president of the Milton National Bank, was born
in Union county, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1817, son of Joseph and Ann
(Clingan) Lawson, natives of Lycoming and Lancaster counties,
Pennsylvania, respectively. Roger Lawson, the original ancestor of the
family in America, came from the North of Ireland in 1720, and settled
at Bohemia Manor, Maryland, whence John Lawson, grandfather of our
subject, removed in 1785 to Lycoming county, Pennsylvania. Joseph
Lawson was born and reared in that county, and subsequently went to
Union county, where he married Ann Clingan, whose parents moved from
Lancaster to Union county in l801. He was a prominent farmer, and both
he and wife died in that county. Though originally a Democrat he became
a Whig during Jackson's administration, and ever afterward voted that
ticket.
   The subject of this sketch was reared in his native county, and in
1830 commenced attending an academy at Milton, then under the charge of
Rev. David Kirkpatrick, where he spent two years and a half. In 1835 he
entered Delaware College, at Newark, Delaware, from whence he was
graduated in 1838. After leaving college he began the study of the law
in the office of James F. Linn, of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and
completed his studies under Judge Reed of Carlisle. He was admitted to
the bar of Cumberland county in 1840, and the same year opened an office
in Greenville, Mercer county, where he practiced his profession until
the fall of 1843, when he located in Milton and was admitted to the bar
of Northumberland county, April 1, 1844. Mr. Lawson continued in active
and successful practice at this bar for about forty years, but the fire
of 1880 having destroyed his home, office, and library, he concluded to
abandon the active duties of his profession, and he gradually gave up
the practice of the law and has since devoted his attention to his
private affairs. He was one of the organizers of the Milton Savings
Bank in 1858, and since July, 1860, he has been president of that
institution and its successor, the Milton National Bank, continuously,
up to the present. He also has been president of the Milton Bridge
Company for many years.
   Mr. Lawson has been twice married. His first wife was Hannah P.,
daughter of James P. Sanderson, of Milton, to whom he was wedded,
October 19, 1843. She died in 1854, leaving two children: James Lawson,
cashier of the Williamsport National Bank, and Mrs. William B.
Chamberlin, of Milton. His second marriage occurred in April, 1858, to
Mrs. Ann D. Shannon, daughter of James Strawbridge, of Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania. She died December 11, 1885. In religious faith the
Lawsons have been Presbyterians since the coming of Roger Lawson to
America in 1720, and our subject has been a member of that church since
early manhood. He has always taken a very deep interest in the progress
and prosperity of the Milton church, in which body he has filled the
office of elder since 1859. In politics he was originally a Whig, and
since the birth of the Republican party he has been an active supporter
of that organization.

   SAMUEL WILSON MURRAY was born at Lewisburg, Union county, Pennsylvania,
October 16, 1829. He was educated at the old Lewisburg Academy under Hugh
Pollock and his successor in that venerable institution, John Robinson.
When he was about seventeen years of age he went to Lancaster, where his
father then resided. Two years later he went to Portland, Maine, and
entered the Portland Locomotive Works for a term of three years for the
purpose of learning the trade of a machinist. At the expiration of his
time at the Portland Works he spent a year and a half at Vernon, Indiana,
and in Rhode Island, after which he returned to Lancaster and was employed
for the three succeeding years as draughtsman in the Lancaster Locomotive
Works.
   In September, 1856, he went to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and in
connection with William Vanderbilt and Charles Bowman engaged in the
machine business under the firm name of Vanderbilt, Murray & Bowman. About
the middle of the following January their works were entirely destroyed by
fire. They immediately purchased another establishment then owned and
operated by John B. Hall, but during the following summer came the great
commercial crash of 1857, and this, together with their losses by fire,
crippled the firm to such an extent that they deemed it expedient to
resell the works to Mr. Hall and retire from business. Mr. Murray then
returned to Lancaster, and shortly afterward went to Pittsburgh, where he
was employed a year in the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The
succeeding year be spent in the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia.
   In the fall of 1860 he returned to Lewisburg, and became interested
in the firm of Slifer, Walls, Shriner & Company, which was about to
engage in the manufacture of agricultural implements. In February,
1864, he came to Milton, and in connection with several other gentlemen,
founded the Milton Car Works, with which enterprise he is still
identified.
   Mr. Murray was married, December 17, 1866, to Sarah Matilda Meckly,
a daughter of Dr. John Meckly, of Milton. and two children, a son, John
Heber, and a daughter, Helen Beatrice, are the result of this union.
   While a resident of Portland, Maine, Mr. Murray cast his first vote
at the municipal election at which Neal Dow was elected mayor of the
city and which resulted in the enactment of the famous "Maine Law." He
became at that time a convert to the theory that prohibition was the
only practical remedy for the evils of intemperance and he has remained
a life-long adherent to the cause. In early life he joined the Methodist
Episcopal church, to which creed his parents and sister also adhered,
and he has been a prominent leader in church work for many years. He
has been a liberal contributor to religious and benevolent purposes and
his business career furnishes evidence that a competence can be secured
without the sacrifice of religious principles or honor.

   CHARLES HEBER DICKERMAN, manufacturer of railroad equipment, was born
in Harford, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1843. His
father, Clark Dickerman, was a native of Guilford, Chenango county, New
York, born June 12, 1803, and a son of John and Thankful Dickerman. The
family traces its paternal ancestry back to 1635, when Thomas Dickerman
came from England and settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts. At his death
he left two sons: Isaac and Abram. The latter married Mary Cooper, and
died at New Haven, Connecticut, leaving a family of eight children; the
fifth child and oldest son was also named Abram. He married Elizabeth
Glover, who bore him four sons, the third being John Dickerman, who
removed to Brattleboro, Vermont, and married Esther Sperry. Nine children
were born of this union, the fifth, also named John, being the founder of
the Guilford branch of the Dickerman family. He married, in 1789, Thankful
Smith, a native of Granby, Massachusetts, and a daughter of Seth and
Thankful Smith, the former having served with the rank of colonel in the
Revolutionary war. John Dickerman was born in Vermont, March 17, 1764, and
served in the Revolution nine months, being employed as a scout during the
latter part of his service. He learned the blacksmith trade in New Haven,
Connecticut, and about the year 1800 moved with his family from Vermont to
Guilford, Chenango county, New York, where he followed blacksmithing and
farming. Both he and wife died in Otsego county, New York, November 6,
1848, and October 7, 1856, respectively. They were the parents of eleven
children, Clark, the father of our subject, being the seventh in the
family. He was twice married, first in November, 1829, to Eliza Knapp, who
died, November 9, 1830. He was again married, October 14, 1833, at Gibson,
Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, to Sarah Adelia Chandler, born June 30,
1815, who bore him the following children: James Bedell, and Eugene
Durand, both deceased; Eliza Knapp, wife of Ralph H. Eaton; Charles Heber;
Payson Kingsbury, and Mary Louisa, wife of Clement R. Woodin. Clark
Dickerman was a physician, and died at Harford, Susquehanna county,
Pennsylvania, August 5, 1853. His widow is still living at Hazelton,
Luzerne county, aged seventy-six years.
   The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools and
at Harvard University, and for several years was a teacher in the public
schools of Susquehanna and Luzerne counties. In 1862 he was registered
as a law student in the office of Daniel S. Dickinson, Binghamton, New
York, but in 1863 he abandoned the law and accepted a position with
Carter & Son, coal operators, at Beaver Meadow, Carbon county,
Pennsylvania. In 1868 he removed to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and
engaged in the coal commission business. In 1869 he became interested
in the Chapman Slate Company, Chapman Quarries, Northampton county,
Pennsylvania, miners and manufacturers of roofing slate and other slate
products, and was elected secretary of that company, and in 1870 was
chosen general manager. In 1880 he became associated with S. W. Murray
in the manufacture of freight cars, and removed to Milton, where he has
since resided. Mr. Dickerman is secretary and treasurer of Murray, Dougal
& Company, Limited, and is a director of the First National Bank of
Milton. During the past eleven years he has taken a prominent part in the
social and material development of his adopted home and is today one of
the best and most favorably known citizens of Northumberland county. He
has always been an unswerving, uncompromising Democrat, and a fearless,
outspoken advocate of Democratic principles. Three years ago he was
elected chairman of the county committee, and has been twice re-elected to
the same position. Under his wise and vigorous management the party has
been twice successful in carrying the county, and filling the offices with
stanch Democrats.
   Mr. Dickerman was married, March 10, 1869 at Beaver Meadow, Carbon
county, Pennsylvania, to Joy I., daughter of William and Margaret
Carter, natives of Cornwall, England, where Mrs. Dickerman was born.
Four children are the fruits of this union: Adelia Margaret; William
Carter; Grace Beatrice, and Joy Chandler The family are attendants of
the Presbyterian church, and Mr. Dickerman is a member of the Masonic
fraternity.

   SAMUEL JOHNSTON SHIMER, senior member of the firm of S. J. Shimer &
Sons, was born in Bethlehem township, Northampton county, Pennsylvania,
December 3,1837, son of Abraham B. and Margaretta (Johnston) Shimer,
natives of the same county and of German and Scotch descent,
respectively. Mr. Shimer was reared upon the old homestead in Bethlehem
township, and during his youth he followed the daily routine of farm
life. He attended the public schools of his neighborhood, and finished
his education at an academy in the borough of Bethlehem. Throughout his
early manhood Mr. Shimer was engaged in farming, but in October 1871, he
came to Milton for the purpose of joining his brother George in the
lumber business, whither the latter had preceded him in the spring of
1869 and commenced operations under the firm name of Applegate, Shimer &
Company. Their first purchase consisted of a tract of eighteen hundred
acres of heavily timbered land in Union county, from which they cut the
timber, and, converting it into lumber, hauled it to Milton, their
nearest shipping point. Subsequent purchases increased these operations
until the product of about three thousand acres of fine timber lands had
been cut and marketed.
   During this period in 1873, an event occurred that has proven an
incalculable benefit to the firm - the invention of a matcher-head by
George and Samuel J. Shinier, which is recognized as one of the most
valuable inventions of the century. In 1872 the firm established a saw
and planing mill in Milton, with a small machine shop attached, which
was operated up to its destruction by the fire of May, 1880. They then
rebuilt the plant as a machine shop for the manufacture of cutter heads
and other specialties, and from that time forward devoted their whole
attention and energies to the prosecution of the new business. In 1884
George Shinier retired from the firm, and our subject became sole
proprietor. He afterwards took into partnership his sons Elmer S. and
George S., and the firm then became S. J. Shimer & Sons. In the fall of
1888 they assumed control of the Milton Manufacturing Company's plant,
which they have since operated successfully. In the spring of 1889 Mr.
Shimer invented and patented a valuable machine for cutting washers, to
the manufacture of which the latter plant is principally devoted.
   Mr. Shimer was married, September 27, 1860, to Catharine A., daughter
of Isaac and Catharine (Clemens) Stout, the former a native of Northampton
county and the latter of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and both of German
origin. Mrs. Shimer was born in Northampton county, and is the mother of
three children: Elmer S.; Mary C., wife of William A. Heinen, and George
S. The whole family are members of the Presbyterian church, and are ardent
supporters of the principles and measures of the Republican party. Mr.
Shimer is one of the corporators of the Milton Trust and Safe Deposit
Company, and a director and vice-president of that institution. He is
widely known and recognized as a gentleman of commendable enterprise and
public spirit, as well as one of the most successful manufacturers of the
West Branch valley.

   P. C. JOHNSON, secretary and assistant treasurer of the Milton Iron
Company, was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, April 22,1828. His
grandfather, Christopher Johnson, was a native of New Jersey, settled in
Union county in 1787, and died there in 1837. He served as captain in
the Revolutionary war seven years. Jonathan C. Johnson, father of our
subject, was a native of Union county, and married Elizabeth Coldren of
Northumberland county. They were farmers by occupation, and removed
from Union to Centre county in 1832, where the father died in 1874 and
the mother in 1888. They reared nine children, eight of whom are living:
Josiah, of Centre county; William E., of Illinois; J. C., of Lock Haven;
Maria, Mrs. Levi Dixson, of Centre county; P. C., of Milton; Joel H., of
Centre county; Daniel J., of Centre county, and Emily Elizabeth, Mrs.
McMully, of Centre county. The subject of this sketch was reared and
educated in Centre county, where he removed when four years old, and
remained on the farm until he was twenty years of age. In 1857 he
entered the employ of the Hecker Furnace as book-keeper, and has since
been engaged in the iron business. He came to Milton in 1872, and was
one of the organizers of the Milton Iron Company. In 1801 he married
Margaret A., daughter of Samuel Lowrie, of Montour county, and they are
the parents of three children: Newell Lowrie; William Howard, and James
Curtis. Mr. Johnson is a member of Bellefonte Lodge, F. & A.M., a
Republican in politics, and a member of the Presbyterian church.

   JOHNSON B. GODCHARLES, of the firm of C. A. Godcharles & Company,
manufacturers of nails, was born in Crescent, Lycoming county,
Pennsylvania, October 1, 1851, son of Henry and Esther (Price) Godcharles.
He was reared in his native town, and received his education at the
township schools and Bloomfield Academy, after which he learned the nailer
trade, and has since followed that occupation. In 1870 he went to Towanda,
Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and was a member of a cooperative
manufacturing company two years, and from there went to Lycoming county,
and was engaged in business until 1875; he then removed to Milton and
worked at his trade until 1888, and then became a member of the present
firm. Mr. Godcharles is a director in the Milton Trust and Safe Deposit
Company. In 1877 he married Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of George Baker,
of Milton. They have one daughter, Sarah Baker. Politically he is a
Republican, and is connected with the F. & A.M.; both he and wife are
members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

   CHARLES E. COUP, shipping clerk of J. B. Godcharles's nail works,
was born in Tuscarora, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, November 14,
1848, son of A. Nelson and Elizabeth (Rank) Coup, of Union county,
Pennsylvania, and of German descent. The family removed to Chillisquaque
township, this county, in 1851 where the father followed carpentering.
After completing his school days the subject of this sketch traveled
through the western States; in 1869 he enlisted in the Eighth Cavalry
Regiment of the United States Regular Army and was stationed in Arizona
and New Mexico in service for five years. He was married in June, 1876, to
Sarah M., daughter of David S. Carbaugh, of Milton, and to this union have
been born eight children: James H., deceased; Clara M., deceased; Annie
E., deceased; David A.; Martha D.; Charles E.: Samuel L., and Isaac I. Mr.
Coup has been with his present employers since 1877, and has held the
position of shipping clerk since January, 1889. He is a Republican in
politics and his wife belongs to the Evangelical church.

   E. F. COLVIN, proprietor of machine shop and foundry, was born in
Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1855, son of Israel and Eliza
(Smith) Colvin, natives of Massachusetts. His father was a carpenter
and millwright by trade. He died in 1876: his widow still survives him.
They reared six children: James W., of Wilkesbarre; C. W., of Plymouth;
Jess W., of Scranton; H. P., of Tunkhannock; Louisa M., of Dalton,
Lackawanna county, and E. F. The subject of this sketch was reared in
his native county and educated at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston,
Pennsylvania, after which he learned the machinist trade at Wilkesbarre,
Pennsylvania. In 1880 he removed to Milton and worked at his trade
until 1885, when he purchased his present business. In 1876 he married
Elizabeth, daughter of Abram Fairchild. of Chillisquaque township, and
to this union have been born three children: Abbie E.; Dora M., and
Dix. Mr. Colvin is a stockholder in the Milton Knitting Company, the
Milton Creamery, the Milton Driving Park and Fair Association, and
Montandon Paint Works.

   FREDERICK MALCOLM KELLY was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania,
July 1, 1856. He was educated at the university in Lewisburg, (now
Bucknell University) from which he was graduated in 1875, being the first
grandchild of that institution. In 1879 he came to Milton where he became
connected with the Milton Iron Company, of which he was made secretary in
1882. He held this position six years, and in September, 1888, was made
general traveling agent, which he resigned to accept his present position
with the Milton tannery. Mr. Kelly possesses great business ability, and
is recognized as one of Milton's prominent business men. His is a
stockholder in the Milton Iron Company, one of the directors and ex-
secretary of the Milton Driving Park Association, a stockholder in the
Milton Water Company, and a member of the Milton Board of Trade.
Politically he is a Republican.

   JACOB FETTER, lumber dealer and proprietor of a planing mill, was
born in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1836, son of Samuel and Mary
(Wise) Fetter, natives of Cumberland county, this State. His father was
a carpenter by trade and moved to Sunbury in 1832. He was captain of a
militia company and was familiarly known as Captain Fetter. His wife,
Mary Wise, was born, September 23, 1802, and died in 1879, while he was
born, February 18, 1798, and died in 1887. They reared a family of six
children, four of whom are living: Henry G., a retired photographer of
Peru, Indiana; Rebecca, wife of Gideon Conrad, of Purdytown; Jacob, and
James H., who resides in Peru, Indiana. Our subject was reared in
Sunbury and received a common school education. He learned the carpenter
trade, which he followed from 1854 to 1880, when he removed to Milton
and, in 1881 established his present business. In 1860 he was married to
Jane Ann Gossler, daughter of Samuel Gossler, of Sunbury. To this union
were born two children: William G., who married, October 20, 1887,
Margaret B. Kremer, a daughter of Daniel Kremer, of Philadelphia, and
James Herbert; both of the sons are engaged in business with their
father. In 1865 he went out as a corporal of the Seventy-fourth
Pennsylvania Volunteers. He is a member of Sunbury Lodge, No. 22, F. &
A.M., is a Republican, served nine years as school director of Sunbury,
and with his family belongs to the Lutheran church of Milton.

   D. CLINGER, lumber manufacturer, was born in Lycoming county,
Pennsylvania, November 18, 1837, son of Henry and Susanna (Wagner)
Clinger, natives of Chester and Berks counties, respectively, who
removed to Limestone township, Lycoming county, in 1828. The father
purchased a large farm, and erected thereon a grist mill and saw mill,
and also purchased a mill site and built thereon a tannery: He became
one of the representative men of the county. He was a prominent
Democrat, colonel of a military company in the early days, was justice
of the peace many years, was county commissioner, and a general land
surveyor and conveyancer. He served as elder in the Reformed church for
some years. He died in 1854. Eight of his children grew to maturity, six
of whom are living: John, of Winchester, Virginia; Abraham, of
Williamsport; Daniel, of Milton; Mary, wife of Michael Sypher, of Antes
Fort, Lycoming county; Catharine, wife of Adam Baker, of Winchester,
Virginia, and Susan, wife of John Knouf, of Milton. The subject of this
sketch was reared in Lycoming county, and was educated at the township
schools. In June, 1867, he came to Milton, and became a member of the firm
of Balliet, Dreisbach & Clinger, lumber manufacturers. He has since
purchased the interests of the other members, and for fourteen years he
has conducted the business alone. Mr. Clinger is a stockholder and
director in the Milton Trust and Safe Deposit Company, and also one of the
executive board. He has stock in the Milton Knitting Company, the Milton
Water Company, and is the president of the Milton Driving Park and Fair
Association, and director in the Milton Creamery Company and the Milton
Record Publishing Company. He is an active Democrat, and is a school
director of Milton and treasurer of the school and building fund. In 1860
he married Sarah Amanda, daughter of Israel and Leah (Moore) Gann, of
Lycoming county, and by this union they have six children: Harry R.; Edgar
M.; Frank W.; George W.; Joseph A., and Daniel J. Mr. Clinger has served
as elder in the Reformed church for many years. He is a director in the
Young Men's Christian Association, and a member of Milton Lodge, F. & A.M.

   H. G. COHILL was born at Williamsburg, Blair county, Pennsylvania,
August 25, 1858, son of Andrew A. and Mary Jane (Mapes) Cohill, of
Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, and New York State, respectively. His
father removed to Williamsport and accepted the position of general
superintendent of the Pennsylvania canal. During the Rebellion he was
employed by the government as a civil engineer. He died in Williamsport,
December 4,1887. His first wife died, June 20,1861; by her he had two
children: Edmond P., of Hancock, Washington county, Maryland, and H. G.
His second wife was Annie E. Egan, by whom he had five children, three
of whom are living: Andrew A., a civil engineer; Ella Maud, and Thomas
W. The subject of our sketch was reared in Williamsport and educated in
the public schools, after which he engaged in railroad contracting and
building. He built four miles of the Shamokin, Sunbury and Lewisburg
railroad, also the Wilkesbarre and Western from Watsontown to Millville,
and was connected with the Reading railroad, building the annex from
West Milton to Milton. In 1888 he organized the Milton Knitting Company,
erected the building, and became one of the heaviest stockholders, and
held the position of secretary and treasurer up to a recent date. He is
a director of the Milton Trust and Safe Deposit Company, a stockholder
in the Milton Driving Park and Fair Association, and one of the auditors
of the same. February 22, 1883, he married Annie L., daughter of Maurice
Van Buskirk, of Milton, by whom he has two children: Thomas Haskins and
Maurice Blanchard. Mr. Cohill is a member of the Presbyterian church,
and politically is a Democrat.

   ISAAC F. RITTER, proprietor of the Ritter Granite Works, was born
in Chillisquaque township, June 9, 1865, son of Solomon H. and Annie E.
(Miller) Ritter, natives of Northampton county, who settled in
Chillisquaque township in 1842 and still reside there. The subject of
this sketch was educated in the township schools, and Pottsgrove
Academy, and remained at home until 1885, when he came to Milton, and
engaged in his present occupation as an apprentice. In 1887 he engaged
in business on his own account at Lewisburg, and in 1888 purchased his
present business. Mr. Ritter is a stockholder in the Milton Knitting
Company. He is a member of the Lutheran church, and politically is a
Democrat.

   CHARLES NEWHARD was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, March 17,
1823, son of John and Eva (Reber) Newhard, natives of that county. In
1837 they removed to Montour county and engaged in farming. The father
served in the war of 1812, and was a prominent and consistent member of
the German Reformed church. He died in 1858; his widow still survives
him with her son, Charles. Their family consisted of eight children,
three of whom are living: Charles; Isabella, Mrs. Peter Carr, of Montour
county, and Cyrus, of Sunbury. The subject of this sketch was reared on
the homestead farm, and received his education at the public schools. He
remained with his parents until 1847, when he engaged in the lumber
business on Muddy run, two miles from Milton. He later built two saw
mills in Milton and was engaged in manufacturing lumber twenty-one
years. The mills were both destroyed by fire; the first mill burned in
1864, the second in 1877, and since then he has retired from active
business. He was reared a Democrat, and voted with that party until
1860; since then he has been an active member of the Republican party.
In 1887 he was elected county commissioner, and served three years in
that office. In 1850 he married Anna M., daughter of David Eckert, of
Turbut township. Five children were born to this union, one of whom is
living: William G., in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
at Sunbury. Mr. and Mrs. Newhard are members of the German Reformed
church of Milton, and for twenty-eight consecutive years he has served
as deacon and elder in that organization.

   ROBERT WILSON, deceased, was born near Williamsport, Pennsylvania,
in 1810, and subsequently became a resident of the State of New York
until about the year 1844, when he returned to his native county and
followed the saddler's trade in Williamsport. In 1850 he removed to
Milton, where he continued his trade. In 1856 he devised what is known
as the "Wilson fly net" for horses, had it patented in 1858, and with
the machinery invented by him, he engaged largely and profitably in the
manufacture of that article. In 1863, at the age of fifty- five years,
he volunteered and served three months in the defense of his country. He
married Luccetta, daughter of Dr. Henry Heinen; she died in 1853, leaving
three sons: William E.; Henry H., and Reuben F., the last named being the
only survivor. He was again married in 1860 to Mrs. Rebecca Overpeck, and
died in 1870.

   MICHAEL FARLEY was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, April 5,
1829, son of Abraham and Rebecca (Wolf) Farley, natives of Union county,
and of German ancestry. They reared six children; those living are:
Abraham, residing upon the homestead in Union county; Jacob, of White
Deer township, Union county, and Michael. The subject of this sketch
was reared upon the farm, and received but three months' schooling. In
October, 1849, he removed to this county, and first settled in Turbut
township, and in 1859 located on the site of his present homestead in
South Milton. He was engaged in manufacturing brick twenty-four years,
in the butchering business twelve years, and since 1855 has followed the
dairy business and farming, being the proprietor of the South Milton
dairy. During the war of the Rebellion he furnished two substitutes for
the Union army. In March, 1857, he married Hannah, daughter of John Hoy,
of Turbut township, and three children were born to this union: John;
William E., deceased, and Harry M. Mr. Farley is a Democrat in politics,
and has served as assessor of Turbut township. Though a contributor to
several churches he is not connected with any denomination, but his wife
is a member of the Lutheran church.

   WILLIAM RIDDELL, farmer, was born in Turbut township, Northumberland
county, Pennsylvania, March 4, 1830. His grandfather, Charles Riddell,
emigrated from Ireland, and was among the very early settlers of Delaware
township, where he remained until his death. He reared a family of eight
sons and two daughters. Charles Riddell, the father of our subject, was
reared in Delaware township, and was a farmer by occupation. He married
Catharine, daughter of William Stadden, of Turbut township. In politics he
was a Whig, and served as township supervisor eight years. He was one of
the charter members of the Presbyterian church of McEwensville, and for
many rears served as deacon of the same. He died, January 6, 1860; his
wife died, February 21 1865. They were the parents of three children:
William; Mary, Mrs. Samuel Eckert, of Milton, and Margaret, Mrs. Oscar
Hartranft, of Michigan. The subject of this sketch was reared and educated
in Turbut township. December 11, 1856, he married Annie, daughter of David
and Elizabeth (Chrissman) Eckert, natives of Northampton county,
Pennsylvania, and by this union they have one child, Mary Ellen, Mrs. C.
F. Balliet, of Milton. Mr. Riddell followed the occupation of a farmer
until his retirement from active life, and has since resided in Milton.
He is a stockholder in the Milton Trust and Safe Deposit Company and the
Milton creamery. He and family are members of the Lutheran church, and
he has served in the office of deacon.

   GEORGE W. STRINE was born in Mifflinburg, Union county, Pennsylvania,
March 15, 1818, son of Matthias and Catharine (Welshans) Strine, natives
of York county, Pennsylvania, and early settlers of Union county. His
grand-father emigrated from Germany and served in the Revolutionary war.
The father of our subject removed to Milton, April 1, 1818, where he
worked at his trade and boat building. Prior to this he was engaged in
saddletree making at Mifflinburg, Union County, Pennsylvania. He was an
elder in the Lutheran church many years. He died in 1861; his wife died in
1858. They were the parents of nine children, four of whom are living:
Henry; George W.; Daniel, and Matthias. The subject of this sketch was
reared and educated in Milton, and learned the trade of boat builder,
which he has followed about thirty years, twenty of which he was a
contractor, and built boats for the Pennsylvania Canal Company. He was
also engaged in farming about ten years. In 1841 he married Mary, daughter
of Frederick Burnman, who died in 1883 leaving three children: Melancthon;
Mary, wife of John Peeler, of Milton, and Alice, wife of Lewis Small, of
York county, Pennsylvania Mr. Strine has been an active member of the
Democratic party. He was postmaster at Milton under James Buchanan's
administration, was elected sheriff of Northumberland county in 1875, and
served one term, and has also served several terms as councilman and
member of the school board of Milton. He is a stockholder in the Milton
Knitting Company and the Milton Bridge Company. He is a member of the
Lutheran church, in which he has served as elder.

   WILLIAM A. DEAN, retired farmer, was born in Montour county,
Pennsylvania, October 27, 1827. His father, Joseph Dean, was born in
that part of Columbia county which is now attached to Montour county,
Pennsylvania He was a farmer by occupation, and was captain of a company
in the war of 1812. He served as treasurer of Montour county, also as
associate judge ten years, and was a Democrat in politics. He was an
elder of the Presbyterian church for many years, and became a wealthy
and influential citizen of the community in which he resided. He married
Adeline Cole, of Fishing Creek, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, by whom
he had eight children: William A., the oldest, was reared and educated
in his native county, and has followed the occupation of farming and
surveying. In 1872 he purchased a farm in Lewis township, this county,
where he resided until 1884, when he retired to Milton. October 3,
1853, he was married to Susan, daughter of John and Mary Gauger, of
Montour county, Pennsylvania She died, March 3, 1881, leaving two
children: Mary Ada, wife of John Z. McFarland, of Watsontown, and
Jessie, wife of George F. Richmond, of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was
again married, January 8, 1884, to Louisa McCurdy, daughter of Jacob
McCurdy, of Union county, Pennsylvania. He has always been an active
Democrat, and for twenty years was a justice of the peace for Montour
and this county. From 1886 to 1888 he represented Northumberland county
in the State legislature. He is a stockholder of the Milton Trust and
Safe Deposit Company, and one of the examining hoard of the same. He is
a member of Danville Lodge, No. 224, F. & A.M., and with his family
belongs to the Presbyterian church.

   WILLIAM P. WENDLE was born at Muncy, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania,
August 16, 1840, son of Peter and Sarah (Buck) Wendle, natives of that
county. His father was a wagon maker by trade, and prominent in
Democratic polities, served as county commissioner, and in various other
offices, and was a member of the Evangelical church. He died in 1868;
his wife died in 1848. They reared a family of eight children, six of
whom are living. D. B., merchant, T. P., carriage maker; P. E., cabinet
maker, and Ellen, Mrs. Joseph Gibson, all of Philadelphia; Jane, Mrs.
Phelix Axtel, of Iowa, and William P. The subject of this sketch was
educated in the schools of Muncy, went to Indiana in 1856, where he
learned the trade of cabinet maker, and in 1861 enlisted in Company H,
Twentieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner in North
Carolina, was honorably discharged because of physical disability, and
returned to Muncy, where he engaged in business. In 1863 he married
Ellen J., daughter of Daniel Blue. In 1871 they removed to Indiana, and
in 1874 came to Milton, where he engaged in cabinet making until 1879,
when he was elected justice of the peace and has since held that office.
They have three children: Carrie Ida, wife of Reverdy J. Bramble, of
Winchester, Virginia; Nellie T., and Elizabeth M. Mr. Wendle is a
member of Henry Wilson Post, G.A.R., the Knights of the Golden Eagle,
and K. of P. He and family attend the Lutheran church, and politically
he is a Republican.

   SPENCER L. FINNEY, merchant, was born in Buffalo valley, Union
county, Pennsylvania, February 16, 1834, son of James and Elizabeth
(Johnson) Finney, farmers by occupation. His father was a Republican in
politics, and filled various township offices in Union county. About
1864 he removed to Milton, where he died in 1876; his wife died in 1872.
They reared seven children: Elizabeth, wife of John S. Lawson, of
Milton; Mary H.; Spencer L.; Margaret S., widow of J. H. Haines, of
Genesee county, New York; Eleanor, wife of B. Young, of Mifflinburg,
Union county, and James R., of Lawrence, Kansas. Mr. Finney was reared
on the homestead farm and received his education at the township
schools, and at the old academy on Broadway hill, Milton, Pennsylvania.
At the age of eighteen years he came to Milton and entered the store of
William Heinen & Brother as clerk, and has since been engaged in
mercantile pursuits. He established his present business in May, 1856,
starting in a small way, and had become one of the prosperous merchants
of Milton when the fire of 1880 burned him out, with a loss of twenty
thousand dollars above all insurance. He immediately rebuilt his present
store room, where he conducts one of the leading mercantile establishments
in Milton. He is a stockholder in the Milton Knitting Company and the
Milton Trust and Safe Deposit Company, of which he is one of the
examining committee. Politically he is a Republican, and has served as
chief burgess of Milton two terms and as member of the town council
fifteen years. In September, 1856, he married Sarah W., daughter of
Elias Wertman, of Columbia county. Mr. and Mrs. Finney are members of
the Presbyterian church, in which he has served as trustee and librarian
many years, and has been a ruling elder for about twenty years. He is a
member of Henry Wilson Post, G.A.R., of Milton. In 1862 he served as
corporal in Captain Thaddeus Bogle's company of Emergency Men that went
out to assist in repelling the rebel invasion of that year, but saw no
further active service.

   W. A. SCHREYER, merchant, was born, June 9, 1833, in Milton,
Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, a son of Jesse and Maria (Heinen)
Schreyer. He received his education in the common schools and at an
academy at Lewisburg. In 1848 he was employed as a clerk in the
mercantile establishment of William Heinen at Milton, where he remained
until 1852, when he was transferred to his father's general store at
Lewisburg. Upon reaching his majority he was taken into partnership by
his father and continued to do a mercantile business in Lewisburg until
1861, at which time he became the company part of the general mercantile
establishment of Heinen, Etzler, Roush & Company, located at Milton, and
has ever since been connected with this house. He and W. C. Lawson laid
out what is known as Lawson and Schreyer's addition to Milton. He is a
director in the First National Bank of Milton, and is president of the
Milton Iron Company. He was first married in 1861 to Mary E. Young, and
has four living children: Maria, who married W. R. Kremer; Rebecca Y.;
John Y., and Henry H. Mrs. Schreyer died in 1876 and he was subsequently
married to Octava L. Kelchner, and to this union two children have been
born: Kate W. and Sarah L. Mr. Schreyer is a Republican and one of the
best known and most highly respected citizens of the community in which
he resides. He and family are adherents of the Presbyterian church of
Milton.

   HENRY KOERBER, merchant, was born in York county, Pennsylvania,
April 19, 1834, and is a son of Jacob Koerber, also a native of that
county. He was educated in the common schools and learned the cedar
cooper's trade which he followed for several years. In 1865 he came to
Milton, where he worked at his trade until 1870, when he established his
present grocery business. In 1864 he enlisted in Company H, Two
Hundredth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until the close of the
war. He was married in 1856 to Sarah Agnes Wasser, daughter of John
Wasser, of York county, Pennsylvania. He is a stockholder in the Milton
Knitting Company, the Milton Trust and Safe Deposit Company, and the
Evangelical Publishing Company, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He belongs
to Henry Wilson Post, No. 129, G.A.R., and Mutual Lodge, No. 84, I.O.O.F.,
is a Republican in politics, and one of the progressive business men of
Milton. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

   C. F. FOLLMER, insurance agent, was born in Turbut township,
Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1838, son of Daniel and
Sarah (Lance) Follmer. Daniel Follmer was a son of Henry and a grandson
of John Follmer, the first of the family to settle on Limestone run in
Turbut township. The subject of this sketch was educated at the township
schools and the McEwensville Academy. He engaged in farming until about
1864, when he established his present business, representing many of the
host companies of America and England. Mr. Follmer is interested in the
Buffalo Milling Company of Lewisburg, and the old homestead in Turbut
township. He is secretary and treasurer of the Milton Gas Company, and
one of the directors of the First National Bank. In 1872 he was united
in marriage with Abby, daughter of William F. Thomas, of Moorestown, New
Jersey, and by this union they have two children: Henrietta and Annie G.
Mr. Follmer and family are members of the Presbyterian church, and
politically he is a Democrat.

   J. R. SMITH, proprietor of a furniture and music store, was born in
Centre county, Pennsylvania, October 17, 1838, son of William and
Isabella (Reighard) Smith, natives of Union and Centre counties,
respectively. They removed to Union county, where the father died, and
where the mother still resides. The subject of this sketch was reared in
Union county from the age of four years, and received his education at
the Mifflinburg Academy, after which he engaged in teaching. He
subsequently removed to Columbia county, Pennsylvania, and was engaged
in the mercantile and boat building business three years, and then went
to Mooresburg and one year later to Pottsgrove, this county, where he
conducted a mercantile business until 1884. In November, 1879, he
established his present business in Milton, and was burned out in May,
1880, but immediately started again under a tent, and continued his
business until the completion of his present mammoth store room, which
is erected upon the former site of the Academy of Music. He now has the
largest wholesale and retail establishment of the kind in the county,
and one of the largest in the State. Mr. Smith is a stockholder in the
Milton Trust and Safe Deposit Company. He is a member of Milton Lodge,
F. & A.M., the Watsontown chapter, and the consistory of Bloomsburg. In
December, 1869, he married Sarah C., daughter of William Reed, of
Pottsgrove, by whom he has two children: William R. and John R. G. Mr.
Smith is a Presbyterian, while his wife is a member of the Lutheran
church; in polities he is a Democrat.

   J. J. FAUSNAUGHT was born in Milton, Northumberland county,
Pennsylvania, Angst 3, 1839, son of George and Mary (Swartz) Fausnaught.
His grandfather, John Fausnaught, was a native of Germany, and located
in Milton between 1800 and 1805. His children were: George; Catharine;
Henry, and Joseph. George Fausnaught, father of our subject, was born
in 1806, and was a millwright and distiller by trade. He died in 1842.
His widow married J. M. Huff, of Milton, and died in 1878. The children
of George Fausnaught were: David, who died in infancy; Catharine,
deceased; George, and J. J. His widow had six children by Captain Huff,
four of whom are living: Martha, wife of J. C. Balliet; Laura M.; Harry
E., and William A. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public
schools and began life by working in a planing mill and sash and blind
factory, which he followed six years. His step-father was proprietor of
the Huff House, and after his death he conducted the same from 1874 to
1879. Previous to this, however, he had been engaged in the mercantile
business, was burned out in 1880, and started again in 1881. In 1866 he
was united in marriage with Adelaide Cherry, of Steuben county, New
York, by whom he has two children: Mary Matilda, and James Cherry, of
Boston, Massachusetts. He is connected with the F. & A.M. and I.O.O.F.,
has been a member of the German Reformed church thirty-three years, and
has served as elder and as superintendent of the Sabbath school for
several years. Politically Mr. Fausnaught is a Republican, and has
served as chief burgess of Milton one term.

   JOHN Y. BUOY, member of the firm of B. K. Haag & Company, was born
in Milton, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1851, son of
James and Eliza (Yearick) Buoy. His father was a cabinet maker by trade,
a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and served as steward and
treasurer of the same many years. Politically he was a Democrat, and was
candidate for sheriff at one time. His wife died in 1854, and he was
again married, to Eliza Cronmiller, of Union county. He died in 1861,
and his widow in 1885. Seven children were born to the first union,
five of whom are living: Sarah, of Olean, New York; Charles W., pastor
of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, Philadelphia; Clara, Mrs. P. L.
Hackenberg; James, grocery merchant, and John Y. By the second marriage
there was one child: Thomas, of Penfield, Clearfield county,
Pennsylvania. The subject of this sketch was reared in Milton, and
received his education at the public schools and the Williamsport
Commercial College. In 1869 he went to Williamsport, entered the office
of the general superintendent of the Pennsylvania railroad as train
dispatcher, and held that position until 1887, when he removed to Milton
and became a member of the present firm. In 1882 he married Mary,
daughter of B. K. Haag, by whom he has three children: Robert; Charles,
and John. He is a member of the Williamsport Lodge, F. & A.M., and
politically is a Republican with Prohibition proclivities; he is the
present treasurer of the borough of Milton. Mr. Buoy and family are
members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is steward.

   G. W. IMBODY, merchant, was born in Milton, Northumberland county,
Pennsylvania, February 22, 1852, son of George and Julia (Heintzelman)
Imbody, natives of Berks and Northumberland counties, respectively. His
father was a shoemaker by trade, and came to Milton about 1844. He
enlisted in 1862 and was honorably discharged in 1865. He was a
Republican in polities, and a member of the German Reformed church. He
was killed by accident in 1866; his wife still survives him. They reared
seven children, five of whom are living: William, undertaker, of Milton;
John H.; George W.; Henry J., and Cyrus B., a druggist of Bridgeport,
Connecticut. The subject of our sketch was reared and educated in Milton
and learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed until 1870, when he
engaged in the mercantile business as clerk, and in 1883 established his
present grocery business. In 1877 he married Clara, daughter of Samuel
Shuman, of Catawissa, by whom he has one child: Bertha Irene. Mr. Imbody
is a stockholder in the Milton Knitting Company. Politically he is a
Republican, and he and wife attend Christ Evangelical Lutheran church.

   JOHN T. FISHER, merchant, was born in Union county, Pennsylvania,
January 21, 1854. His father, Thomas T. Fisher, was born in Lycoming
county, Pennsylvania, and was a blacksmith by trade. He married Annie
Addis of the same county, and April 1, 1849, they removed to Union
county, where they still reside. Their children are: Addis, of Union
county; Emma J., deceased; Kate E., wife of Philip Davis, of
Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Margaret A., wife of Robert Hartzel, of
Williamsport; Hannah B.; Edna J., of Williamsport; Victor B., of
Newberry; Bennette, and Dollie, of Williamsport. The subject of this
sketch was reared and educated in Union county, and learned the
blacksmith trade, which he followed until May 27, 1885, when he was
appointed clerk in the railway mail service and ran from New York to
Pittsburgh on the Pennsylvania railroad. He was promoted to chief clerk,
November 1, 1888, having his office at Harrisburg, and held the same
until April 4, 1889. He then came to Milton and became a member of the
firm of Stahl & Fisher. He was married, February 8,1882, to Martha
Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Riddell, of Milton, and they have three
children: Charles Merrill; Frank Monteville, and Ralph Stewart. Mr.
Fisher is connected with the F.& A.M. and I.O.O.F. He is a stockholder
in the Milton Record, and politically is a Democrat

   J. H. STOUT, druggist, was born in Milton, Northumberland county,
Pennsylvania, June 1, 1856, son of Charles Stout, a native of
Northampton county, Pennsylvania, who came to Milton with his parents at
an early date. He was a carpenter by trade, and married Elizabeth, a
daughter of J. B. Holler, and reared a family of fourteen children, ten
of whom are living. He served as deacon in the Reformed church for many
years. The subject of this sketch was educated in Milton, and in 1876 he
entered the drug store with the view of learning the retail drug
business, and clerked for a number of years, in the meantime attending
the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. In 1884 he embarked in business
for himself, opening a new drug store on Broadway where he is still
located. Success began from the day he and his assistant - his brother,
Charles E. Stout - opened up their doors. In connection with the drug
business he is sole proprietor of Dr. D. Waldron' S Improved Liver Pills,
having had the doctor's signature patented in Washington, D. C., "Trade
mark No. 14,745." His trade in this liver pill is growing wonderfully,
even extending as far as Florida. He is a member of the Reformed church of
Milton, and one of the progressive business men of the place.

   GEORGE C. STAHL, merchant, was born in Paradise, Lewis township,
Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, August 24, 1858, and is a son of
George Stahl. He was educated in the common and public schools, and
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from which he
was graduated in 1883, and in 1886 the degree of A. M. was conferred
upon him by this institution. He taught in the common and normal
schools, and for one term he was principal of the McEwensville public
school. For a time he was connected editorially with one of his home
papers, was deputy post master at Milton under President Cleveland's
administration, and was once a delegate to the Democratic State
convention. He is a Democrat and was elected a member of the Milton
Council in 1890. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, the
I.O.O.F., Encampment and Patriarch militant, Masonic order, Knights of
the Golden Eagle, and Royal Arcanum. He was married near Turbutville,
this county, December 18, 1884, to Lillie B. White, born in Milton,
Pennsylvania, July 9, 1859, and is a daughter of James White, born in
Kempton, Bedfordshire, England, January 15, 1819, and Isabella (Frymire)
White, a native of McEwensville, this county. By this union he has one
child, Isabella D., born November 12, 1885. Mr. Stahl belongs to the
Reformed church.

   JOHN HENRY KREITZER, wholesale and retail grocer, was born in
Milton, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1858, son of
Washington and Catharine (Lore) Kreitzer. He attended the public schools
and when fourteen years of age engaged himself to a boatman as driver on
the tow path. At the close of the season he found employment at William
Price Hull's grain and coal office two years, after which he attended
school until 1877, and was engaged as clerk until 1881, when he
associated himself with James Buoy, trading under the firm name of Buoy
& Kreitzer. The same year he was elected auditor for three years. In
1883 James Buoy retired from the firm, and Mr. Kreitzer took charge of
the entire business. In 1884 he was elected borough councilman for three
years, and in 1887 was elected ward committeeman. He is a director in
the Milton Board of Trade. February 11, 1886, he married Mary Catharine,
daughter of George H. and Amanda C. Ettla. Mr. Kreitzer is a member of
the Presbyterian church, and served as secretary of the Baptist Sunday
school nine years. In politics he is a Republican. He is a stockholder
in the Milton Knitting Company, also stockholder and auditor of the Milton
Driving Park and Fair Association, and a stockholder in the Milton Trust
and Safe Deposit Company.

   H. M. OVERPECK, dealer in stoves and tinware, was born in Milton,
Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, February 21, 1862, son of George W.
and N. E. (Hougendoubler) Overpeck. His grandfather was a native of
Berks county, and settled in Turbut township previous to 1836. The
father of our subject was born in this county in 1839, and was a
merchant by occupation. He was a member of the One Hundred and Thirty-
first Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served two years. He is a member of
the German Reformed church, and of Mutual Lodge, I.O.O.F., and in
politics is a Republican, He died in 1876; his widow still survives him.
They reared two children: H. M, and John R., of Philadelphia. The
subject of this sketch was reared in Milton, and received his education
at the public schools and Eastman Commercial College, Poughkeepsie, New
York. In 1884 he married Emma E., daughter of David Hertz, of
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is a member of Mutual Lodge, I.O.O.F., and
politically is a Republican.

   W. H. HACKENBERG, attorney at law, was born at White Pigeon, Michigan,
May 14, 1859, son of P. L. and Mary E. (Hood) Hackenberg. His parents
removed to Milton in 1861, where he received his education in the public
schools, after which he read law with his father, and was admitted to the
bar in 1881. He immediately formed a partnership with his father in the
practice of law, which continued until 1889 when his father retired from
the firm. Mr. Hackenberg's large practice is entirely due to his own
efforts and his thorough knowledge of his profession. He is recognized as
one of the leading young lawyers of the county, and is a member of the
examining board of the Northumberland county bar. Politically he is a
Republican; at the age of twenty-one years he was elected justice of the
peace, and was probably at that time the youngest man in the State holding
that office. After serving one half of the term he was compelled to resign
on account of his increasing law practice. Mr. Hackenberg was twice
elected burgess of Milton, and was a delegate to the Republican State
conventions in 1886 and 1890. In 1878 he married Mary H., daughter of D.
H. and Susanna Krauser, of Milton, and by this union they have two
children: James Osborne and Nina K.

   ALLEN S. HOTTENSTEIN, attorney at law, was born in Liberty township,
Montour county, Pennsylvania, son of Charles and Veronica (Kauffman)
Hottenstein. He was educated in the public schools of Turbut township and
Milton Academy, and remained on his father's farm until twenty-two years
of age, when he went to Berks county, this State, and taught school. He
was a member of the first faculty of the Keystone State Normal School at
Kutztown, Berks county, Pennsylvania, which position he resigned to accept
the principalship of the high school of that place. He subsequently began
the study of law with H. H. Swartz, judge of the orphan's court of Berks
county, and was admitted to the bar at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, January
14, 1871. He removed to Scranton, where he practiced his profession for
ten years. In July, 1881, he returned to Milton, the home of his youth,
and has since engaged in various occupations in connection with his
profession. Politically he is a Democrat and is considered a leader in
the party of the community in which he lives. While residing in Berks
county he was in the internal revenue service and also held the office
of justice of the peace. He was appointed postmaster of Milton, July
26, 1886, by President Cleveland, serving his full term of four years,
two of which were under a Republican administration. In 1867 he was
married to Mary E., only daughter of Daniel Zimmerman, of Berks county.
She died, August 2, 1869. He was again married, on the 24th of
September, 1870, to Henrietta Frances, daughter of Frederick W. Graff,
of Philadelphia, by whom he has seven children: Bessie May: Lulu Graff;
Katie Veronica; Annie Boneta; Ethel Margaret; Henry Kauffman, and Robert
Lee. In 1884 Mr. Hottenstein became connected with the Milton
Economist, which he successfully conducted until 1888. Starting with an
old Washington hand press, he refitted the office with steam power and
Campbell presses and increased the circulation from six hundred to one
thousand nine hundred copies. Mr. Hottenstein and his family are
members of the German Reformed church.

   SAMUEL T. SWARTZ, attorney at law, was born in Milton, Northumberland
county, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1859. His father, George P. Swartz, was
born in New Berlin, Union county, this State, and his mother, Eliza
(Truckenmiller) Swartz was a native of McEwensville, Northumberland
county, Pennsylvania. The subject of this sketch was admitted to the bar
of Northumberland county, September 6,1881, and began at once to practice
in Milton, where he has since remained.

   CLARENCE G. VORIS, attorney at law, was born in Danville, Montour
county, Pennsylvania, January 29, 1851, son of A. G. and Rebecca N.
(Frick) Voris. His father was born, November 14, 1817, in Chillisquaque
township, Northumberland county, and his mother was born in the borough
of Northumberland, January 15, 1815, and died in Danville, August 25,
1887. His father is a builder and contractor, and has resided in
Danville since 1840. They were both members of the Presbyterian church,
in which his father has served as elder for many years. Five of their
children grew to maturity: Elizabeth A., deceased; Mary; Clarence G.;
Louisa, and John G. The subject of this sketch was reared in Danville,
attended the academy of that place, and graduated from Lafayette College
in 1872. He read law with Silas M. Clark, now a member of the Supreme
bench, also attended the Columbia Law School, of New York City, and was
admitted to the bar of Indiana county in the spring of 1876. In 1877 he
opened an office in Sunbury, where he practiced his profession until
January 1, 1887, when he removed to Milton, and formed a co-partnership
with Colonel John McCleery.
   McCleery & Voris are attorneys for the Milton Trust and Safe Deposit
Company. He is a Republican in politics, and is a member of Mahoning
Lodge, F. & A.M., of Danville. In March, 1888, he married Mary G.,
daughter of Captain Charles J. Bruner, deceased, of Sunbury. Mr. and
Mrs. Voris are members of the Presbyterian church.

   J. HUNTER MILES, physician and surgeon, was born in what is now
Columbia county, Pennsylvania, in 1844, and is a son of Rev. J. G. and
Isabella (Hunter) Miles, natives of Centre and Northumberland counties,
Pennsylvania, respectively. He was reared in Lock Haven and
Williamsport, and educated at the public schools of those cities. He
read medicine with Doctor Brown, of Port Carbon, Schuylkill county,
Pennsylvania, and was graduated from Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, in 1872. He began his professional career in
Limestoneville and Muncy, this State, and located in Milton in the fall
of 1872, where he has built up an extensive practice. He was married in
1872 to Florence Runyan, daughter of G. B. Runyan, of Montour county,
Pennsylvania, by whom he has one daughter, Elizabeth R. In 1862 he
enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-first Pennsylvania
Volunteers, and after a service of nine months, re-enlisted in Company
C, Two Hundred and Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers and was honorably
discharged at the close of the war. He is one of the directors of the
Milton Driving Park and Fair Association, in politics is a Republican,
and with his family belongs to the Baptist church.

   J. S. FOLLMER, physician and surgeon, was born in Turbut township,
Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1852, son of Daniel and
Sarah (Lover) Follmer. His father was born in Turbut township in 1805,
and was a farmer by occupation. In politics he was a Democrat up to the
war, served in the various township offices, and was trustee of the
Follmer Lutheran church many years. He died in 1887; his wife died in
1882. They reared four sons and four daughters: Mary E., wife of Charles
Engle; William G.; Margaret; C. F., insurance agent of Milton; Elmira,
wife of William Raup, of Lewis township; Daniel H.; Susan L., and J. S.
The subject of our sketch was educated at the public schools of Milton
and at Limestone Academy. He read medicine with Dr. C. H. Dougal, and
graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1876.
Previous to this he had served an apprenticeship in the drug business,
and after practicing medicine one year, he engaged in the drug business,
which he has since followed. In 1879 he married Lizzie B., daughter of
Peter Voris, of Chillisquaque township, by whom he has two children:
Fred Voris and Malcom Murray. Doctor and Mrs. Follmer are members of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and politically he is a Democrat.

   JAMES A. OSBORN, physician and surgeon, was born in Philadelphia in
1840, son of Peter and Rebecca (George) Osborn, of that city. He was
educated in Philadelphia, read law in Washington, D. C., graduated from
the law department of Columbia College, and was admitted to the
Washington bar, but never practiced. He read medicine with Dr. Seth
Pancoast, of Philadelphia, graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College
of Philadelphia in 1875, and came to Milton, where he has since been
engaged in an extensive practice. He married in 1884 Anna H., daughter
of Rev. A. M. Barnitz, of York, Pennsylvania, by whom he has two
children: Harry and Herbert. Politically the Doctor is a Republican.

   H. C. STICKER, D. D. S., was born in Reading, Berks county,
Pennsylvania, September 24, 1838, son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Gift)
Sticker, natives of Philadelphia. His father was a paper manufacturer by
trade, and also a hotel keeper. He came to Milton at an early day and
became proprietor of the Washington House, and continued as such until
his death, which occurred in 1856. He was a Democrat in his early life.
He was a member of the Reformed church; his widow survived him until
1877. Their family consisted of eleven children, of whom the following
are living: Eliza, wife of Abraham Martz; Catharine, wife of Col. Thomas
Swenk; Isaac, a resident of California; Louis, a resident of
Philadelphia; Charles, a moulder, residing in Milton, and H. C. The
subject of this sketch was reared in Milton, and received his literary
education in the high schools of that city. His professional education
began in Milton, and was completed in Philadelphia and New York. His
practice in Milton has extended over a period of thirty years. In 1863
he was married to Rosetta, daughter of William Smith, of Milton, by whom
he has four children: Laura; Hattie; Lake, and Carroll. He at one time
belonged to Company A, Third National Guard of Pennsylvania. He is a
Republican, and has served as burgess of Milton for three consecutive
terms, also in the town council and as school director.

   REV. M. J. CAROTHEBS, presiding elder in the Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Evangelical Association, was born near Carlisle,
Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1825, and is a son of
William M. and Fannie (Clark) Carothers, also natives of Cumberland
county, and of Scotch-Irish extraction. Their ancestors were among the
very early settlers of that county. The subject of this sketch was
reared on the farm until the age of twenty-one years. His literary
education was obtained in the common schools and the Union Academy in
his native county. Before reaching his majority he began preaching,
having been appointed to the Bedford charge in Bedford and Somerset
counties, this State, which position he filled creditably for one year,
and was then transferred to the Somerset charge in Somerset and
Westmoreland counties for one year. Following this was a service of two
years in the Perry charge, two years in Cumberland county, and two years
in Shrewsbury, York county, this State. He was then two years at
Hagerstown, Maryland, and from there went to the Cumberland charge two
years. On account of failing health he was granted a vacation of one
year, after which he was on the Leesburg charge, Cumberland county,
and then transferred back to Shrewsbury, thence to Lock Haven and New
Berlin. In 1867 he was elected presiding elder and stationed in the
Centre district, and at the end of four years was re-elected and
stationed in the Lewisburg district, which he also served four years. He
was again elected and stationed in the Williamsport district and after
this in the city of Williamsport for one year. He was then elected
conference agent to raise money to pay off the mission church debts,
after which he was again elected elder and stationed in the York
district. In 1872 he came to Milton, where he has since resided in
charge of the Lewisburg district. He has been a member of the General
Conference since 1854 and of the Board of Missions since 1870. In 1848
be was married to Elizabeth Weller, a daughter of Ludwig Weller, of
Somerset county, Pennsylvania, by whom he has five children: Carrie
Belle; Amanda Elizabeth, wife of Bishop R. Dubs, D. D., of Cleveland,
Ohio; James Moran, of Albany, New York, special agent of the Phoenix
Fire Insurance Company; Flora Jane, wife of James M. Taggert, of Milton,
and John Weller, M.D., of Somerset, Somerset county, this State. Mr.
Carothers is a Democrat, and has served as president of the Milton
school board three years. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and
also of the I.O.O.F. He is president of the board of trustees of the
Central Pennsylvania College at New Berlin, this State.

   JOE. A. LOGAN, editor and publisher of the Miltonian, was born in
Milton, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, son of Samuel and Rose
(Sties) Logan. His father was a native of Philadelphia, and removed to
Milton in 1840, and died in September, 1863; his mother was born in
Germany, and still resides in Milton. The subject of this sketch was
educated in the public schools and an academy. In December, 1880, he
became publisher and proprietor of The Miltonian. He was married, in
1882, to Lulu, daughter of Enos and Isabella Tilden, natives of
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, respectively, and to them were born two
children; Bolton and Inez. Mr. Logan is a Republican in politics; he
has served as a member of the town council, and held the position of
postmaster under President Arthur. He enlisted when fifteen years old
in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers,
served until discharged, re-enlisted in Company E, Fifty-first regiment,
and served until the close of the war. He is a past post commander of
Henry Wilson Post, G.A.R., and a member of the F. & A.M. Mr. Logan is a
stockholder in the Milton Trust and Safe Deposit Company and the Milton
Driving Park and Fair Association.

   WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, editor and publisher of the Record, was born
at Huntington Mills, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1847, son
of Conrad and Julia Smith, the former a native of Germany and the latter
of Pennsylvania. His primary education embraced only three months'
attendance at the public schools, but through the passing years he
devoted his spare time to study and reading, and thus obtained a wide
and diversified knowledge of men and books. At the age of twelve he was
apprenticed to the copper and tinsmith trade, and at seventeen engaged in
business for himself. He carried on tinsmithing several years, and then
sold out and took control of the Independent Weekly at Benton, Columbia
county, Pennsylvania, which he published four years. In September, 1876,
he came to Milton and established the Argus, which he edited and published
until March 23, 1889. The Economist and Argus were then consolidated,
the Record Publishing Company organized, and the name changed to the
Record, of which Mr. Smith became editor and general manager. After the
great fire of 1880 he procured the loan of two freight cars from the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and with characteristic energy and
enterprise had an entirely new printing office in operation within four
days, bringing all the necessary materials from the eastern cities, and
not missing a single issue of the Argus. Mr. Smith was married, June 25,
1869, to Mary J. Gibson of Rohrsburg, Columbia county, Pennsylvania.
Seven children have been born to them, four of whom died in early
childhood. The living children are as follows: Julia A.; Elizabeth G.,
and Cleveland R. Politically our subject is a stanch and active
Democrat; he is a member of the Royal Arcanum, and the United American
Mechanics.

   ROBERT W. CORREY, machinist and postmaster, was born in Milton,
Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, December 26, 1833. His father,
George Correy, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, January 24,
1786, a son of Robert and Rachel Correy. He came to Milton when a young
man, started one of the first wagon maker shops in the town, and was the
manufacturer of the old Dearborn wagon a number of years, after which he
was engaged in the mercantile business twenty-five years. He was a
public spirited man, and was highly esteemed by all. He was one of the
organizers of the Presbyterian church, and a member of the same over
fifty years; in politics he was a Whig. He married Susan, daughter of
John Evans, of Roaring Creek valley, Columbia county, and reared a
family of seven children, four of whom are living: Rachel; Hannah M.,
wife of E. W. Chapin; John K., of New York, and Robert W. The subject
of our sketch received his education at the public schools, and learned
the trade of machinist. In 1855 he and his brother John K. engaged in
the mercantile business, succeeding their father under the firm name of
J. K. Correy & Company, and continued about twenty years. Mr. Correy
then engaged in the foundry and machine works under the firm name of
Correy, Bailey & Company, and continued until 1873. He then became
employed in Shimer's matcher-head factory as machinist, and has since
held that position. In 1856 he married Lucretia, daughter of John
Murray, by whom he has four children: George, a machinist in Milton, who
married Belle Hagenbach; John M., druggist, of Milton; William, and
Robert Irwin. Mr. Correy is an active member of the Republican party,
and has served as overseer of the poor fifteen years. He and wife are
members of the Presbyterian church. June 26, 1890, he was appointed
postmaster at Milton, and August 27th following took possession of the
same, with his son, John M., as deputy.

   I. D. GRESH, professor of music, was born in Montour county,
Pennsylvania, April 22, 1852, son of Jesse and Mary (Derr) Gresh,
natives of Berks county, who came to Northumberland county about 1832,
located in Chillisquaque township, and afterwards removed to Montour
county, where they lived until 1877. The mother died in 1869, and the
father died in Milton in 1884. He was an elder in the Lutheran church
for many years. They reared twelve children, five of whom are living:
Joseph, of Washingtonville, Montour county; George D.; Ephraim; Sallie
E. Odell, of Haverstraw, New York, and I. D. The subject of our sketch
was reared in Montour county, and received his education at the township
schools and Bloomsburg State Normal School. He also paid close attention
to the study of music. He removed to Milton in 1873, and engaged in the
mercantile business for two years, and since 1876 has been the organist
and leader of the choir of the Presbyterian church. He married, December
22, 1874, Clara, daughter of Samuel Lerch, of Lewis township, and has
four children: Cyrus L.; Mary Edith; Theodore Ralph, and Maurice Evans.
He is a member of Mutual Ledge, No. 84, I.O.O.F., and a Knight of the
Golden Eagle, Castle 265. Politically he is a Democrat, and takes an
active part in the success of the party. Mr. Gresh is a member of the
Presbyterian church, and his family of the German Reformed church.

   CHARLES A. KRAM was born in Milton, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1867.
He was educated in the common schools of his native town and at the
Milton Academy under Professor Elias Schneider, and graduated at the
Milton high school in 1884. During the years l884-89 he taught a sub-
grammar school in the Milton school district. In the fall of 1889 he
entered Bucknell University at Lewisburg, but, owing to a protracted
illness, was obliged to discontinue his studies. In February, 1890, he
was appointed to a position in the census bureau, and is now in charge
of a section of the tabulating force of the office. Mr. Kram is an
active young Republican, and was elected borough auditor when twenty-one
years of age by the largest majority on the ticket. Since residing in
Washington, D. C., he has been pursuing studies at the Georgetown Law
School, an institution whose halls are filled with hundreds of Uncle
Sam's ambitious sons.

   JOHN W. ROMBACH (originally Rambach), was born in Luzerne county,
Pennsylvania, October 5, 1847, son of Silas and Sarah Rombach. He removed
with his parents to Watsontown in 1859, where he attended school until
1866, after which he took a business course at Reading Commercial College.
He was then engaged as a clerk in the general store and postoffice of
Captain Shay at Watsontown one year, and in 1870 went to North Carolina
and clerked for a lumber company two years. He returned to this county for
one year, and then located at Hall's Station, Maryland, on the Baltimore
and Potomac railroad, where he engaged in the lumber business, sawing
timber for railroads, the United States government, and foreign countries.
In 1881 he removed to Milton, and is now engaged in farming. In 1874 he
married Clara, daughter of William and Catharine (Wagner) Faux, of
Riverside, Pennsylvania, natives of Columbia county, and to this union
have been born four children: Sallie E. Howard; William Jesse; Katie Faux,
and John W. Mr. Rombach is a director of the Milton Trust and Safe Deposit
Company, the Pleasant Valley Creamery Company, and the Milton Driving Park
and Fair Association, and vice-president of the latter. He is a member of
the Lutheran church. He is a member of the town council and in politics is
a Democrat.

   THOMAS A. MURDOCK, station and freight agent for the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company at Milton, was born in Milton, June 20, 1847, and is a
son of Thomas M. Murdock, who was born in Chillisquaque township in
1803, and a grandson of Augustus Murdock, the first white male child
born in Fort Augusta. His great- grandfather was of Scotch ancestry and
came to America on account of religious troubles. He was with Braddock
at the time of his defeat, and was afterwards stationed at Fort Augusta.
His son, Augustus Murdock, learned the trade of a cabinet maker and
lived and died in Chillisquaque township. He reared seven children, all
of whom are dead. Thomas M. Murdock became a carpenter by trade, married
Eleanor Wilson, a native of Montour county, Pennsylvania, and located in
Milton, where he died in 1872. His widow died in 1874. To their union
were born six children: Sarah M., wife of C. W. Tharp of Milton; R. H.,
agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Corry, Pennsylvania; Jane
Mary, widow of William Marsh, of Milton; Nathaniel W., who died in 1860;
Thomas A., and Elizabeth Ellen, wife of George Barclay of Milton. Our
subject was reared and educated in Milton. He learned telegraphy and
worked six years in Sunbury for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In
1872 he was appointed passenger and freight agent at Milton and has
since held that position. In 1870 he was married to Margaret L. Gray,
daughter of P. W. Gray, of Sunbury, by whom he has five children: Edna
G.; Helen; Donald; William, and Fannie. Mr. Murdock is a Republican.
Captain William Gray, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Murdock, was a
Revolutionary soldier and one of the charter members of the Society
Cincinnatus. He married a sister of Captain Samuel Brady and General
Hugh Brady, both noted in Indian warfare.

   L. O. CLINGER, agent for the Adams Express Company, was born in
Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, January 31, 1852, son of J.