JOSEPH E. SANDS (deceased)was born July 18, 1811 in Mifflin Twp, Columbia Co., Penn. His ancestors came from England, the pioneer of the name being John Sands, who was obliged to leave his native country on account of religious persecution. He settled in Berks County, Penn., and from him are descended all of the name in this county. The father of our subject was John, son of Daniel, who was a son of the pioneer John. Joseph E. when a lad was brought by his parents to Briarcreek Township, Columbia County, and during his minority worked for Andrew Hunlock, who carried on a woolen mill. While in his employ, he learned the business thoroughly, and in 1835 came to Greenwood Township. That year he married Esther Lundy, and 3 years later came to what is now Mordansville, and built a woolen mill, which is now operated by his son, C.L. He carried on that business up to the time of his death, which occurred Feb.24, 1881, of apoplexy, at Philadelphia. He had visited the above city with his son Charles to buy goods, and while there died very suddenly, while making his purchases. He was buried with Masonic honors, of which fraternity he was an honored member, and his remains now repose in Orange Township, in the McHenry Cemetery. In speaking of Mr. Sands, he can well be called a representative man in Columbia County. In politics, he was a Republican though not a partisan. He was appointed the first postmaster at this place, and in 1875 was elected county commissioner, and served with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. He was generous and liberal, and his hand was ever ready to contribute to the wants of the needy. He was a successful business man, and was always in the front when the general interests of the people were at stake. He reared a family of seven sons and one daughter all of whom married. Three of the sons served their country in the civil war, and Mr. SANDS, himself, went out with the militia when the Southern forces invaded the State in 1863. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 519 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JAMES P. SANDS, merchant and postmaster, Mordansville, was born in Greenwood Township, this county, October 24, 1854, and made his home with his parents until his marriage, which took place December 20, 1877. He received his education in the public schools of Mount Pleasant Township and at the Greenwood Seminary, Millville. When a boy he assisted his father in the woolen-mill and store and learned the trade in the mill. In 1875 his father gave him an interest in the store and the firm was J. E. Sands & Son until November, 1879, when James P. bought the interest of his father and conducted the business alone until August 14, 1883, when he sold an interest to Howard E. Eves, and the firm was Sands & Eves until March 19, 1886, when Mr. Sands bought the holding of his partner and has since conducted the business alone. In September, 1886, he commenced the erection of a new building for a store and residence, 27x40 feet in ground area and two stories in height. He carries a complete line of general merchandise, his stock being valued at about $4,000. He was commissioned postmaster at Mordansville by Marshall Jewell, postmaster, in December, 1875. He is at present connected with the schools of Mount Pleasant as director, and has also held the position as auditor of the Columbia County Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanical Association. He was married in this county to Miss Susan A. Eves, a native of this county, daughter of Benjamin K. and Mary W. (Welliver) Eves, both natives of this county, former of whom died in this county in June, 1879, and is buried in the Friends burying-ground, at Millville; later resides with a sister at Williamsport, Penn. Mr. and Mrs. Sands are the parents of four children, three now living: Justin Earl, George Eves and Mary Esther. Mildred Lucy is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Sands are members of the Society of Friends. He is a member of Oriental Lodge, No. 460, A. F. & A. M., at Orangeville, and has held the office of Junior Warden. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 520 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

HIRAM SCHULTZ, farmer, P. O. Iola, was born in Greenwood Township, July 25, 1816, eldest son of John Schultz. The latter was a tanner by trade, which he followed for several years. He bought 339 acres and settled on the farm now owned by Ezra Eves, near Sereno, and here he died. He reared six children: Hiram, Daniel, lydia, Melinda, Harriet and Zebulon. Hiram was married first November 10, 1837, to Sarah Houghton, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Crysters) Houghton; she died leaving six children, five now living: Joseph, Mary J., John, Julia and Sarah E. He next married October 4, 1851, Harriet, daughter of Benjamin and Rebecca Watts. To this last union the following named children were born: Charles W. (in Trenton, N. J.), Clarence W. (residing in this township), Samantha (wife of Jeremiah Howard), Woodward, Emma (wife of William Greenlee, of Millville), Savilla (wife of John W. Cox, of Nebraska), and Lawson. Mr. Schultz settled here in 1837, when the land was covered with timber; this he cleared, and now has ninety-six acres in all. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for fifty years, and has held several official positions in the same. In politics he is a Democrat.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 531 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

ABRAHAM SCHWEPPENHEISER, farmer, P. O. Mifflinville, was born in Mifflin Township, Columbia Co., Penn., January 3, 1822, a son of John Jacob and Rebecca (Sutton) Schweppenheiser, the former a native of Columbia County, this State, and the latter of the State of New Jersey. They lived in this county until their death. John Schweppenheiser followed farming during life, and died February 20, 1866; his widow died in September, 1880, and both are buried in the Mifflin Cemetery. Abraham was reared in Mifflin Township, and has always made his residence at the old homestead, and farming his occupation. He married, in Lycoming County, on the 24th of May, 1847, Miss Elizabeth P. Clark. Her parents are both deceased, and are buried in Lycoming county. Mr. and Mr. Schweppenheiser are the parents of seven children, of whom six are living: Catherine, wife of C. R. Henderson, in McDonough County, Ill.; Ella, wife of George Milton Lehman, in Mifflin township, this county; Lydia Alice, wife of Aaron A. Bredbenner, also in Mifflin township; Martha, wife of Jacob Knecht, resides in Berwick, this county; Miranda, wife of R. S. Wintersteen, Mifflinville, and Wilmina Jane. Mr. Schweppenheiser has ninety acres of land, all of which is under cultivation. He is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and his wife of the Methodist. He has served as supervisor two years and as school director of Mifflin Township eighteen years. In politics he is a Democrat.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 513 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

THOMAS SEABORNE, merchant and farmer, P.O. Newlin, was born in the county of Hereford, England, November 8, 1842, a son of Philip and Catherine (Harper) Seaborne, (the latter of Welsh descent) and both natives of England. They were the parents of nine children: William, John, Catherine (deceased), Elizabeth (deceased), Margaret, Thomas, Mary, Anna, Jane (deceased). The father who was a farmer, died in June, 1886. Our subject was reared on a farm in his native country and also worked in the fireworks in Wales. At the age of twenty-four he took passage at Liverpool for America, and after a voyage of eleven days landed at New York, May 23, 1866. He intended making Chicago his destination, but finding his funds insufficient he stopped off at Minersville, Penn., and worked in the mines one year. He then farmed three years for a man who wanted an English farmer, after which he married and moved to Columbia County, where he rented a farm in Locust Township. After six months he moved to Centralia, and there engaged for six months in mercantile business until 1872, when he bought the property where he now resides. Here he engaged in mercantile business until 1874, when he sold out his stock to Lee & Rhodes, moved to Ashland, Penn., and again engaged in mercantile business until January, 1877. At that time he moved back to Newlin, where he has since been engaged in mercantile business, carrying a general stock. He was married, in November, 1869, to Margaret Bryant. Mr. and Mrs. Seabrone are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He owns forty-six acres of land and his store building and residence, and his way of doing business is sure to lead to success. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 498 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

COL. ANDREW D. SEELY, whose portrait is shown on the opposite page, one of the valued citizens of the town of Berwick and superintendent of the paint department of The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company of that town, was born in Berwick, May 5, 1842, and is a son of Nathan and Catherine (Krisher) Seely, and a grandson of Samuel and Margaret (Cortright) Seely. Samuel Seely's birth-place is not known, but he resided in Strasburg, Pa., nearly all his life, engaged in farming and teamstering. While hauling a load of goods from Philadelphia to his home town he was killed in a runaway accident. He was united in marriage with Margaret Cortright who bore him five children, namely: John; Nathan, Hannah, Huldah, and Andrew. Mrs. Seely formed a second marriage union with Samuel Santee and they were the parents of three children: Samuel, Isaac and Robert. The father of our subject was born in 1810, and was a blacksmith by trade, having served an apprenticeship to that trade in the shop of Thomas Cole of Berwick. He moved to Orangeville, Pa., where he embarked in business on his own account, but later removed to Berwick where he followed his trade the rest of his active days. He served as major in the state militia; as inspector of the Second Brigade; and as captain of the Light Horse Artillery. He also served as constable of the town. He erected the house in which Lyman Fowler now resides. His wife was Catherine Krisher and they were the parents of two children, namely: Andrew D., our subject; and Fanny E, The latter became the wife of G. D. Jacoby of Berwick, and they reared the following children: Warren; Boyd; Kate, the wife of H. S. Williams; Mary, deceased; Sally, who is the wife of H. J. Sitler; Annie, who is the wife of G. F. Vandoozer; and Etta. The father of our subject died in 1865. Andrew D. Seely acquired a good education in the common schools and then learned the trade of a stonecutter and worked for Capt. A. H. Rush of Berwick until the breaking out of the Rebellion. April 20, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, 16th Reg., Penna. Vol. Inf., which was one of the first companies sworn into the Union service during the Civil War. Three months later he re-enlisted in the 84th Regiment, which, on account of the loss of men, was later merged with the 57th Regiment. When our subject was mustered out, on July 25, 1865, he was sergeant of his company. Returning home he was employed at the works of The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company, where he now has charge of the paint department and has some twenty men under his supervision. August 27, 1870, our subject was made captain of the Jackson Guards, serving at Scranton, Pa., in 1871; December 31, 1871, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 17th Regiment and served during the riot at the Susquehanna Depot in 1874; he saw active service at Wilkesbarre and Hazleton, at which places he was on Maj. Osbourne's staff; in 1877, on the re-organization of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, he was made aide-decamp of the Third Brigade under Gen. Siegfried; he was also made aide-de-camp on Gov. Pattison's staff with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Col. Seely did effective service during the riots at Homestead, Pa. He has assisted in quelling all the riots in the state and has won the highest praise for the good judgment he displayed. Col. Seely on March 25, 1878, was joined in the bonds of matrimony with Miranda C. Stackhouse. Our subject is a member of the Knights of Malta; G. A. R.; Society of the Army of the Potomac; Knights of the Golden Eagle; P. O. S. of A.; Camp No. 32, U. V. L.; Lodge No. 436, B. P. O. E., of Blooms-burg, Pa.;.and Col. A. D. Seely Camp, No. 25, Sons of Veterans. He has been a member and chief of the fire department for the last seven years; has served as burgess of the borough of Berwick; and as health officer eight years. Mrs. Seely is a member of the Women's Relief Corps, and is a very active worker in the organization. Col. Seely occupies a residence, No. 309 East Front street, which is one of the finest in the borough and is equipped with every modern improvement. Col. Seely holds a commission on the retired list of the National Guard of Pennsylvania and is entitled to be the guest of the governor of Pennsylvania upon all state occasions. (Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District, Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY: 1899. Consisting of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Sullivan Counties, pg. 409 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

CAPT. I. H. SEESHOLTZ, merchant, Catawissa, was born in Catawissa, Columbia Co., Penn., November 14, 1837, a son of Philip and Mary (Hull) Seesholtz. His father was a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of New Jersey, and both were of German descent. His paternal grandfather came from Germany and located in Northumberland County, near Sunbury, where he owned a farm and cultivated it until his death. Subject's farther, a native of Northumberland County, Penn., was a potter, which trade he followed a number of years. He came to Columbia County about 1830 and located in Roaringcreek, where he resided several years, and then moved to Catawissa, bought property and followed his trade a few years. He then bought a couple of farms and turned his attention to agriculture, which he followed until his death in 1872. He lived in one house over fifty years; was a Republican in politics. He was the father of the following named children; Matilda, Phfaler, Jeremiah S., Christian B., James M., Edmund H., Isaac H., William (who was killed at the battle of the Wilderness), and Sarah C. Sharpless. Our subject attended school until 1859, when he read medicine and attended two courses of lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Sixth P. R. V. C., "Iron Guards," and served under Capt. Wallace Rickets. He was appointed and served as second lieutenant six months; resigned and enlisted in Company H, Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was soon commissioned first lieutenant; in a short time he resigned and joined Company C, One Hundred and Eighteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and rose to the position of captain. In June, 1865, he was mustered out. He participated in nearly all of the battles of the Army of the Potomac; was wounded September 20, 1862, at Shepardstown, Va., by a gunshot, which disabled him from duty for three or four months. He was again wounded by a gunshot in 1863, at Peeble's farm. Capt. Seesholtz was a brave soldier, to which is due his promotion. At the close of the war he returned home and engaged in mercantile business, which he has since carried on. He keeps a general line of merchandise and fertilizers, and his stock is valued at $5,000, insured. He owns four houses and four town lots and his store building. He married, in November, 1880, Martha Poland, and they have one child, Sarah P. Mr. and Mrs. Seesholtz are members of the church. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the G. A. R., Post 170; is serving as quartermaster, and has held most of the offices of the post. He is a member of the school board of which he was president in 1885, and is its present secretary. Politically he is a Republican. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 407 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

HERMAN A. SEVISON, practical horseshoer, coachsmith and wagon-smith, Stillwater, is descended from a Holland ancestor, who came to America prior to the Revolution. One of his sons was the grandfather of our subject, and first lived in New Jersey; later came to this State, settling in Snyder County, where his son Michael, father of Herman A., was born. Michael learned the trade of a carpenter, at which he worked until a short time before his death. He was considerable of a traveler, having visited most parts of the United States both before and after his marriage. Seven years of his life were spent in the State of New York. He took contracts to erect buildings, and made considerable money, but his wife being accidentally drowned while he was yet a young man, he went away, and for a long time strove to forget his loss among new scenes. He finally settled in Appanoose County, Iowa, where he remained for five years. He returned to Pennsylvania in 1868, and located in Delaware Township, Northumberland County, with his son, Thomas, with whom he remained five years. He then lived with the subject of this sketch until his death in 1875. His wife, Sarah Catherine Ire, was born in Selin's Grove, Snyder County, March 8, 1799, and was accidentally drowned November 16, 1847, in a new and unfinished well that had just been dug on the premises in Delaware Township, Northumberland County. It was supposed she slipped and fell off the planks which had been temporarily laid across the top. Mr. and Mrs. Sevison had twelve children, only two now living: our subject and his sister Lavina, wife of James Hollopeter, a coachsmith, living in Clearfield County, Penn. Six of the family died when quite young, and four when arrived at maturity, as follows: Sarah, who died in Iowa; Sophia, died in Delaware Township, Northumberland County; Thomas, in the same place, and Harrison, in Northumberland County. Herman A. was born August 22, 1841, in Lewis Township, Northumberland County, and his mother dying when he was not quite five years of age, he was taken by Cornelius Rynearson, who reared him. When he was sixteen years of age he went to live with John G. Oakes in Lycoming County for a year; then to Ohio and New York for a year, and in the spring of 1858 began to learn the blacksmith's trade with William Hood, at McEwensville, Northumberland County. There he remained three years. On the breaking out of the war he enlisted (the first volunteer from that place) in Company G, Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteers; served three months, and the following year again enlisted for nine months, this time in Company B, One Hundred and thirty-first Regiment. In 1864 he enlisted, determined to see the close of the war, in the Seventh Veteran Volunteer Cavalry, and has three honorable discharges, of which he may be justly proud. He was a brave soldier, and took part in five of the great battles of the war, besides skirmishes, especially while in the cavalry. After his second return from the service he married, in September, 1863, Miss Lucretia Van Dine, who died in 1879, the mother of four children, all living at the present time, viz.: Sarah C., wife of Mr. Kahler, of Bloomsburg; William A., who has learned his father's trade and works in his shops in Stillwater; Margaret L., who lives in Bloomsburg, and Elizabeth C., living near Millville, Greenwood Township. August 3, 1882, Mr. Sevison married, as his second wife, Miss Emma, daughter of John Mull, who has born him one child, John F. On his return from the war, Mr. Sevison was sought out by his old employer, William Hood, and given charge of the shop in which he had learned his trade, and there remained a year and a half; thence to Limestoneville, Montour County, where he was in business two years; thence to Catawissa three years, and in December, 1885, came to Stillwater, where he bought a fine residence, and is doing a good business. Mr. Sevison has no time to give to politics, but his record as a soldier shows that he was not backward when his country needed his services. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle - 1887, pg. 453 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

HENRY SHAFFER, retired farmer, P. O. Fowlersville, was born in what is now Centre Township, this county, December 8, 1818, son of John and Susan (Dietrich) Shaffer. Henry Shaffer, the grandfather of our subject, came to this county in its early days from Berks County, Penn., and located in Briarcreek Township on land now owned by Alfred Steiner. He bought two pieces of land, one of which contains about 160 and the other 25 acres, all covered with a heavy growth of timber; brought his family with him and set about clearing up a space sufficient to put up what buildings it was necessary to have. The log house which he erected contained a living room and a kitchen, and he also put up a log barn. At that time of course there were not many conveniences, and although there was plenty of meat to be obtained, they often had to stint themselves in other necessaries of life, and sometimes had to cook their wheat bran for bread. He afterward put up a frame house, which is now occupied by Alfred Steiner. He died about 1843. His first wife, whom he married in Berks County, had preceded him in death by a number of years; his second wife survived him. He is buried at the Brick Church, of the Lutheran denomination, in Briarcreek Township. John Shaffer, father of the subject of this sketch, was born at the old homestead, in Briarcreek Township. He made his home with his father until he was married (although he worked out part of the time), and some time after that event he bought a tract of land adjoining where his son, Henry, now lives. From there he removed to where Henry resides, and here he lived and died. He had learned the carpenter trade with a man named Daniel Merkle, and this he followed, together with farming, until about two years before his death. He had been married in this country to Susan Dietrich, and they were the parents of seven children, of whom four are living: Henry; Angeline, wife of Levi Ganett (they live in Briarcreek Township); Susan, widow of Stephen Crawford (lives in this county), and Julia, wife of Jacob Slager (they live in Binghamton, N. Y.) The deceased are Phoebe; Elizabeth, wife of Peter Wenner, and Emily, wife of Mahlon Hicks. The father of this family died May 9, 1863; the mother died September 12, 1861. They are buried at the Brick Church, in Briarcreek Township. Henry Shaffer, subject of this sketch, was born in the house where he now resides, and which was built by his grandfather, Jacob Dietrich. He was reared to farm life and has lived in this house and on this place where his father located when he first came to Centre Township, all his lifetime. He was married in this county, December 31, 1861, to Miss Mary Ann Creasy, a native of Mifflin Township, this county, and daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Nungesser) Creasy. Her father died in the spring of 1860, her mother about 1848. They are both buried in the Creasy family graveyard. Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer are the parents of two children, one of whom died in infancy. Their living child is named Sarah Alice. Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer are members of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Shaffer has been connected with the schools of the township as director, and has been supervisor of the township. He is a democrat politically; is a member of the Briarcreek Grange P. of H., and has held the office of steward in Centre Grange. He is the owner of 80 acres on his home tract and 160 on another farm also in Centre Township. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 425 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM SHAFFER, farmer, P. O. Lime Ridge, was born in Briarcreek Township, this county, December 30, 1821, a son of Francis and Nancy (Hetler) Shaffer. The Shaffer family is originally of German descent. Francis Shafffer was born in the vicinity of Bethlehem, Penn., where he was reared, but came to this county when a young man, and bought something over 300 acres of land in Briarcreek Township. He found this land covered with a heavy growth of timber, while wild game abounded. He commenced by clearing up enough space on which to erect his buildings, and when he had got enough land cleared for that purpose, he used the timber so cut down in the construction of his log cabin, etc. There he lived until his death. He was married in this county to Miss Nancy Hetler, a native of the county, born on the Mifflin Hills, and whose parents were early settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Shafffer were the parents of five children, of whom four are living: William; Nathan, living in Jones County, Iowa; Catherine, wife of Samuel Daluis, living in Maine township, this county; George Washington, living in Greene County, Iowa. Mary married Benjamin Miller, and both are deceased. The mother of these children died about 1831, and was buried in the Brick Church graveyard, in Briarcreek Township, this county. Francis Shaffer died in October, 1833, and is also buried in the Brick Church graveyard. By the early death of his parents, although he was the eldest of their children, William was left an orphan before he was eleven years of age, and he was reared by Philip Freas, for whom he worked for his food and clothes until he was sixteen years of age. He then worked for Mr. Freas by the month, and after one year he worked for Andrew Freas by the year for two years. He and Andrew Freas and William Hoffman then bought a canal boat, and James K. Polk then being in the zenith of his popularity, they gave it his name. They followed boating in the coal trade from Pittston to Columbia for one season, and then sold out the boat. Mr. Shaffer, taking sick the same fall, was unable to do anything the following winter. In the next spring he commenced farming on the old place of his father, and taking the farm at the appraisement he worked it a year and a half and then sold it. He then removed to Briarcreek, near Bowman's mill, farmed for Thomas Bowman, and hauled flour into the coal region for about eighteen months; then rented the Briarcreek grocery, where he carried on mercantile business for four years; then removed to the Rittenhouse mill, and was engaged in operating that mill and hauling flour, etc., to Hazleton, Beaver Meadows, and other places in the coal regions. He was here altogether four years, and then removed to another place, and was engaged for one year in huckstering to Hazleton. He then bought the farm where he now resides, and moved to it the following spring. This was in 1856. Mr. Shaffer was married in Luzerne County, Penn., May 7, 1844, to Miss Sophia Mowery, a native of Mifflin Township, this county, and daughter of John and Catherine (Hetler) Mowery, the former of whom was born near Mauch Chunk, Penn., and the latter in Mifflin Township, this county. The father died in 1824, his widow surviving him until about 1871. They are both buried at Mifflinville, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer were the parents of seven children, of whom four are living: Winfield Scott, married to Miss Flora Mosteller (they live in Briarcreek Township, this county); Wesley, married to Miss Rachael Freas (they live in this county); and William Madison, who lives with his parents. Fannie Dorcas, Sarah Jane and Mary Minerva are deceased. Mr. Shaffer has 237 acres, being one of the large land holders of Centre Township. Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer are members of the Lutheran Church. He has held the office of county commissioner for three years, having been elected about 1871. He is a member of Centre Grange, No. 56, P. of H. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 426 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

William M. SHAFFER, farmer, Bloomsburg, was born in Montour County, July 8, 1835, and is of English and Scotch ancestry. His father, Samuel Shaffer, was born in 1809 in Lewisburg, Penn., and was a son of Matthias Shaffer, for many years toll-keeper at Lewisburg. Samuel learned the trade of a cooper, came to this county in 1848, and contracted for getting out limestone for the Bloomsburg Iron Company six years. He subsequently became a large landholder, owned some 250 acres near Bloomsburg (our subject living on 100 acres of it), and 140 acres at Millville. In early life he was a Methodist, but later he joined the Lutheran Church, and died July 31, 1881, leaving a large estate. He married, when not quite twenty, Margaret Culp, a daughter of Peter Culp of Montour County, Penn. They had twelve children, ten now living: Mary, married to Michael Snyder; Henry, married to Catherine Whitenight; Matthias, married to Mary Zeigler; David, married to Hester Johnson; William M., our subject; Samuel, Jr., married to Catherine Zeigler; John, married to Lydia A. Lee; Jane, married to Benjamin Lee; Simon C., married to Sarah Culp, and Charles, married to Elizabeth Zeigler. April 8, 1858, our subject married Catherine A., daughter of Thomas Fry, and by this union seven children were born: Hiram A., born February 20, 1859; Mary M., born June 13, 1860, now the widow of Paul Cadman, and has one child, Pauline; Hester J., born February 16, 1862; Henry, born April 20, 1864; Thomas, born December 16, 1867; Ellen, born June 16, 1868; William, born October 6, 1869. The mother of this family died October 27, 1869, a member of the Reformed Church, and was buried in Rosemont Cemetery. Mr. Shafffer's second marriage took place December 2, 1872, with Mary Johnson, a daughter of David Johnson of Beaver, this county, and by this union there is one child, Martha E., born September 25, 1873. Mr. Shaffer is a Republican, a member of the Lutheran Church. He is a farmer and has ninety-three acres under cultivation. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 360-361 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

BARTLEY E. SHANNON, miller, P. O. Stillwater, is a son of Richard Shannon, whose grandfather came from Ireland and settled on the west branch of the Susquehanna, where some of his descendants still reside. Richard Shannon was born in July, 1812, at White Deer, Union County, and is now seventy-five years of age, and has almost all his life been engaged in farming. He is now employed in the car shops of Jackson & Woodin, at Berwick, and is an active and hearty man. He married, in 1834, Miss Mary, daughter of Abraham Lewis, of Union County. She was born in 1818, and is yet living. Eight children were born to her and her husband, two of whom died in infancy. The living are William, married to Emma Boone, and living on Black creek, Conyngham Township; Isaiah, unmarried, in Berwick; Samuel, married to Sarah Hoofnagle, and died in Berwick; Wesley, married first Annie Linden, and, after her death, Alice Stevens, in Berwick; John, who resides in Berwick, and our subject, Bartley E., is the fourth son, and was born October 20, 1850, in Bloomsburg, where his parents then resided. In infancy he was brought to Centre township, where his youth was passed. When quite young he began to farm and attend school in winter until he was sixteen years of age. He then began to learn the trade of a miller at Fulners's mill, I that township, where he remained ten years. Thence he went to Mifflin, where he had charge of the Yohe mill for two years; thence to Beach Haven, where he conducted a mill for D. G. Driesbach for four years; thence to Jonestown mill for a year, and in 1886 came to Stillwater to take charge of the mill at this place. June 12, 1873, he married Elvira, daughter of Samuel Zimmerman, of Orangeville, this county, who was born September 12, 1849, and had always lived with her parents until her marriage. They had six children, on of whom died in infancy. The living are Bruce E., Clark W., C. A., Howard L. and Mattie. Mr. Shannon is a young man of excellent reputation, and since he has lived in Stillwater has won the good will and respect of its people. He and wife are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Stillwater. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle - 1887, pg. 454 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JOSEPH L. SHANNON, the largest and best equipped meat market in Danville is that conducted by Joseph L. Shannon, the subject of this biographical sketch, and his son, under the firm name Shannon & Company. The establishment is located on Mill street, in Danville, but Mr. Shannon makes his residence in Riverside. Northumberland County, where he owns a fine home at D avenue and Sixth street. Mr. Shannon was born in Muncy township. Lycoming County, September 14, 1832, and is a son of Jesse and Rebecca (Lewis) Shannon. His grandfather was Daniel Shannon, who was a native of New Jersey and a pioneer farmer of Northumberland County, Pa., where he lived during his latter days. He was the father of the following children: Daniel; John; Jesse; Wesley; Susan; Mary; and Hettie. Jesse Shannon, the father of our subject, was born in Milton and, after learning the cooper's trade, moved to Bloomsburg, Columbia County, in 1834. He followed his trade in that town until 1843, when he moved upon a farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits until he retired to spend his declining years in ease. He passed into the unknown beyond in 1884, at the advanced age of eighty years. He served as constable of Bloomsburg for three years, and was also tax collector for some time. He was one of the old pioneers who established the Methodist Episcopal Church in Bloomsburg and vicinity and helped to build two churches. He was an active worker in the Sunday School and was a liberal supporter of the church financially. He was united in marriage with Rebecca Lewis, a daughter of Joseph Lewis, and they were the happy parents of the following children: Samuel, who died at the age of forty-three, was a Methodist minister; Joseph L., in whom the interest of this sketch centers; John W.; Jared Y., deceased; Jesse, deceased; James, who died in childhood; and Mary J., the wife of H. F. Omens. Mrs. Shannon passed to her eternal rest at the age of forty-nine years, and Mr. Shannon formed a second alliance with Annie E. Evans, and their children were: Joshua A.; Sarah R.; and one who died in infancy. Joseph L. Shannon attended the public schools and at the age of eighteen years became an apprentice to the harnessmaker's trade with John Markle of Providence, Pa. After a period of three years he moved to Bloomsburg, Columbia County, where he entered the employ of J. K. Grotz, remaining with that gentleman until 1854, wnen he engaged in the boating business for one year. He then associated himself with a Mr. Bomboy, under the firm name Bomboy & Shannon, in the meat business at Bloomsburg, which they followed with good results until the spring of 1862, when the firm was dissolved by mutual consent. In October, 1862, our subject was drafted to serve in the Union Army during the Civil War, but sent a substitute. In 1865 he enlisted in Company B, iO3d Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., as a sergeant, serving faithfully to the close of the war. In 1866 he again opened a meat market in Bloomsburg, to which he added a complete stock of groceries, and conducted it with good results until 1870, when he disposed of it and took up his residence in Riverside, where he has since resided. On market days he conducted a curb market in Danville until October 1, 1884, when, in partnership with his son, Jesse H., he established a meat market on Mill street in Danville, which they still conduct. Mr. Shannon's varied experience and comprehensive knowledge of the business has given to him the skill by which he is enabled to choose only the best meats for his customers. He not only handles beef, but deals in pork, mutton, lamb, veal and poultry, as well as cured and smoked meats and sausage. The firm does a very large business and numbers among its patrons the leading citizens of Danville. Our subject is a courteous and agreeable gentleman, highly esteemed in business circles as a man of strict integrity, and fully deserves the success he is meeting. On May 17, 1853, our subject was joined in wedlock to Anna M. Hess, a daughter of Jacob and Margaret Hess of Bloomsburg, Columbia County. To them have been born the following children: John Lewis, deceased; Anna Maria, deceased; Ralph C., a florist of Riverside; Jesse H., who is in business with his father, married Maggie Gulick, and they have three children, Helen, Ethel and Clyde; Charles L., deceased; Rebecca Jane, the wife of William Kimble; Emma A., the wife of R. B. Bird, a record of whose life appears elsewhere in this Book of Biographies; Joseph Wellington, Esq., a resident of Philadelphia, with an office at 1414 South Penn Square; Sophia Ann, a teacher in the public schools, is one of twins born to her parents, the other dying in infancy; Eva Mary, who is Mrs. John Landua, also had a twin sister who died young; and Catherine Elizabeth, a teacher. Mr. Shannon has been very active in public affairs and was chief burgess of Riverside for four successive terms. Religiously he is a Methodist and in 1871 organized the first class in the Sunday School of the M. E. Church, and the meetings were held in the school house. In 1872 he assisted materially in building a church edifice for that denomination, in which Grace Episcopal Church is now located. In 1878 he aided in building the present M. E. Church, of which Rev. F. S. Vought is the present pastor, and has since acted as steward, trustee and an active class leader. Mr. Shannon's portrait is shown on another page in connection with the above sketch. (Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District, Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY: 1899. Consisting of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Sullivan Counties, pg. 327 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

BENJAMIN F. SHARPLESS, proprietor of the Eagle Iron Works, Bloomsburg, is a native of Locust Township, this county, born in 1841, a son of Joseph and Mary E. (Foster) Sharpless. At the age of twenty years (in 1861) he enlisted in Company A, Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, served about three years and participated in the following engagements: Dranesville, second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Bristoe's Station, New Hope Church and the battles of the Wilderness. At Antietam he was wounded by a bullet, the force of which, however, was spent by striking his belt and accoutrements, otherwise it would have passed through his body. He was mustered out June 13, 1864, returned to Bloomsburg, and six months after began learning the trade of an iron molder. That was in January, 1865, and in April 1868, he formed a partnership with Mr. Harman, under the firm name of Sharpless & Harman, and bought the foundry of Joseph Sharpless, Three years afterward the partnership was dissolved, and our subject has conducted the business alone up to the present time. Mr. Sharpless was married, in 1866, to Sophia Hartman, a daughter of Charles Hartman. Mr. and Mrs. Sharpless have four children: Joseph L., Charles H., Ray F. and Arthur W. Mr. Sharpless is a member of the Methodist Church, and in politics is a Republican. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, Bloomsburg, pg. 360 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

GEORGE H. SHARPLESS, clerk, P. O. Catawissa, was born may 29, 1852, a son of John and Sarah Ann (Harder) Sharpless, natives of Catawissa. Benjamin Sharpless, grandfather of our subject, came to this county while a young man, and was one of the originators of the Catawissa Paper Company, with which he was connected until his death in 1855. At the time of his death he was ninety-three years old, and his wife had preceded him a number of years. They are buried in the Quaker Cemetery at Catawissa. Our subject's father was reared in Catawissa, and in early life was employed in the paper-mills. He erected the building which is now known as "the corner drug store," there kept a general stock of goods and operated the store until his death in 1868. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Catawissa. His wife died in 1852 and is buried in the Quaker Cemetery at Catawissa. Both were members of the Society of Friends. Our subject was reared in Catawissa and received his early education in the schools of that place. In 1861 he entered the Kingston Seminary where he spent two years, and in his nineteenth year became a student at the Westchester Classical Institute, where he also spent two years. He then returned to Columbia County and commenced business in a store, building on what was then known as "the Willetts farm," but now as "the Sharpless farm." He continued in this place doing business for three years, when he came to Catawissa and entered the employ of C. F. Harder, with whom he remained until taking his present position with A. S. Truckenmiller, in May, 1886. He was married at Catawissa November 23, 1873, to Miss Ella Schmick, a native of Norristown, Penn., and a daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Baldy) Schmick, natives of Catawissa, where the latter still resides, the former having died in Norristown, in 1855, where he was general manager of the canal. Mr. and Mrs. Sharpless have four children: John, Gilbert, Kate and Anna. The parents are members of the Lutheran Church. In politics he is a Republican-Democrat. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 407 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JOSEPH SHARPLESS, Bloomsburg, is descended from John Sharpless, a native of England who immigrated to America about two months before the first coming of William Penn, and settled in Chester, Delaware Co., Penn. The first of his descendants to come to Columbia County, was his great-grandson, Benjamin Sharpless. The family were originally members of the society of Friends. Benjamin was born in 1764 in Chester County, and died in 1857. When a young man he crossed the mountains and settled in Sunbury, where he bought and operated a grist-mill, and also taught school for some time. He subsequently moved to Catawissa, where he purchased a farm and also a grist-mill adjoining, now the site of the paper-mill at Catawissa. Here he established a paper-mill and paid for years nine cents per pound for white rags, and manufactured paper by hand. When young he learned the saddler's trade, but never followed it in this county, except to make his own harness. He married Hannah Bonsell, also a member of the society of Friends, and by this union there were eleven children, two of whom died young. Those who grew too maturity were as follows: Mary Ann, deceased wife of Dr. Wadsworth of Catawissa, this county; Eliza, unmarried, and now eighty-three years old; Edward, married first to Betsy Roth, and after her death to Nancy Pancoast, now a resident of Marion, Ohio; William was three times married, and now resides at Catawissa; Joseph, married Mary E. Foster of Catawissa; John, married Sally A. Harter; Harriet, married George Reifsnyder; Sarah, married Louis Yetter; and Kersey married Mary Margaret Harder. Joseph Sharpless of Bloomsburg was born December 6, 1808, and reared to the paper-mill business with his father, with whom he remained until twenty-six years of age. He then began on his own account and has been identified with the business interests of Bloomsburg and of the county since, and for thirty years conducted what was known as the Sharpless Foundry, at Bloomsburg. Several years ago he sold the foundry to his son, and has now retired from active business. Mr. Sharpless is a Republican and has served his vicinity in such local offices as member of the council, school director, and during the war was an earnest supporter of the Union cause. Mr. and Mrs. Sharpless have had nine children, seven of whom grew up: Harriet R., born February 23, 1837; Lloyd T., born March 18,1839, married Mattie Waggenseller; Benjamin F. born May 22, 1841, married Sophia Hartman; Loretta A., born January 4, 1843, married Jefferson Vanderslice, of Ford County, Kas.; Clara, born November 12, 1844, died April 4, 1849; Elizabeth A., born September 7, 1846, married Wesley Eyre of Bloomsburg; Araminta E., born November 24, 1848, married Jasper Wilson; Mary Ellen, born October 16, 1852, died September 9, 1855, and Harry F., born October 4, 1863, now in Ford County, Kas. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, Bloomsburg, pg. 359 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)
JOSEPH SHARPLESS, an honored and highly respected citizen of the town of Bloomsburg, was for many years proprietor of a foundry on Center street and a leading business man, being one of the substantial citizens who made the town what it is to-day. Shrewd and energetic in his business affairs, he accumulated a handsome competency which enabled him to retire in 1879 and spend the declining years of his life in the peace and quiet of private life. He is a son of Benjamin and Hannah (Bonsall) Sharpless, and was born at Catawissa, Columbia County, December 6, 1808. Our subject is descended from John Sharpless, a native of England, who came to America at about the same time as William Penn, and located in Chester County, Pa. There the family lived for many years, Benjamin Sharpless, the father of our subject, being the first to settle in this district. He was born August 7, 1764, and after reaching man's estate he learned the trade of miller. In 1795 he crossed the mountains and located in Sunbury, Northumberland County, where he operated a mill for two years in partnership with Robert Coburn, but later was associated with Enos Sharpless. He also was employed as a teacher in the schools for some time. In 1805 he disposed of his business and moved to Catawissa where he purchased a farm adjoining the village, which is now laid out in town lots, and carried on agricultural pursuits. Four years later he purchased a gristmill and conducted it with much success until 1812 when he built a paper mill in company with John Clark on the site of the present paper mill and manufactured paper by hand, making it of rags as pulp paper was at that time unknown. He lived a long and useful life and passed to his final rest May 28, 1857. He owned a fine home in Catawissa which was erected by him in 1835. In Philadelphia in1782 he was united in marriage to Hannah Bonsall, a daughter of Edward Bonsall, and the following children blessed their union: Mary Ann, who married a Dr. Wadsworth; Eliza, who died at the advanced age of ninety-four years; Edward; William; Joseph, the subject of this biographical sketch; Bonsall, who died in infancy; John; Harriet, the wife of George Reifsnyder; Sarah, the wife of Louis Yetter; and Kersey J. Mr. and Mrs. Sharpless were faithful members of the Society of Friends and liberally contributed to its support. Joseph Sharpless, our subject, assisted his father in the paper factory until he attained his majority, when, in 1841, he went to Roaring Creek and engaged in the general merchandise business for five years. His next business venture was at Berwick, Columbia County, where he conducted a foundry for two and one-half years. He then became interested in the manufacture of charcoal and pig iron at Foundryville, at which he continued until 1849. He then moved to Bloomsburg and purchased the Morse foundry on Center street, where Mr. Rollin's house now stands, and there operated the Sharpless Foundry for thirty years. He was extensively engaged in the manufacture of stoves, coal-breakers, and other articles in that line and by the use of good judgment in his management met with almost unbounded success. His rise to a place of prominence in the affairs of the town was due entirely to his own efforts, as he began life without capital and step by step worked his way to the front rank The career of this worthy gentleman is an excellent example of thrift and industry and the results thereof, and is well worthy of imitation by the coming generation. Since retiring from his foundry business in 1879 he has not been actively identified with any business although he is indirectly interested in several enterprises. Characteristic of the family, he has reached an advanced age and appears to be many years younger than the record shows. He is still active and light upon his feet, making from one to three trips to the postoffice every day regardless of the inclemency of the weather. His is a well known figure upon the streets of Bloomsburg and heartily enjoys paying his friends a visit at their places of business. He is a man who holds the esteem and respect of all for his many noble traits of character. He resides in a fine home on Main street which he erected in 1854, and also owns considerable real estate in the borough, having erected many handsome residences. On February 4, 1836, Mr. Sharpless ,was joined in a marital union to Mary Ellen Foster, who was born July 7,1817, and is a daughter of John F. and Eleanor (Hallingshead) Foster. She has been a faithful and loving wife and mother, and a true help-meet to her husband in every sense of the word, adding materially to his success in business. She is enjoying the best of health and lives in the midst of a large circle of old friends by whom she is dearly loved for her true womanly character. This happy union has resulted in the birth of nine children, namely: Harriet R., born February 23, 1837, resides at home, adding to the comfort of her aged parents in their declining years. Lloyd T., a grocer by occupation, was born March 18, 1839, and married Mattie Wagonseller. Benjamin F., born May 22, 1841, was twenty years of age when he enlisted in Company A, 6th Reg. Pa. Reserves, in the Civil War, and continued in the service until mustered out in June, 1864. He then learned the trade of a moulder and in 1868 became a partner in the firm, Sharpless & Harman, proprietors of the Eagle Iron Works, and later succeeded to the ownership of his father's establishment at Bloomsburg, which he operated with good results until 1893, when he remodeled the building, which is located on the corner of Center and Sixth streets, and fitted it up for stores and dwellings. He now occupies a portion of it with a well stocked shoe store which is proving a very remunerative business. He was united in matrimonial bonds to Sophia Hartman, a daughter of Charles Hartman, by whom he has had six children, namely: Joseph L., a clerk, Charles H., a grocer, Ray F., Arthur, and two who died in infancy. He is also president of the Bloomsburg Land and Improvement Company and is one of the good substantial citizens of the town. Loretta A., born January 4, 1843, is the wife of Jefferson Vanderslice; Clara, born November 12, 1844, died April 4, 1849. Elizabeth, born September 7, 1846, married Wesley Eyer. Araminta E., born November 24, 1848, married Jasper Wilson. Mary Ellen, born October 16, 1852, died September 9,1853, Harry F., born October 4, 1863, is an extensive real estate dealer of Pueblo, Col. Politically Mr. Sharpless is an unswerving Republican and has frequently served as councilman and school director. He and his beloved wife are liberal supporters of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which they have been attendants for many years. (Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District, Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY: 1899. Consisting of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Sullivan Counties, pg. 556 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

REV. EDWARD A. SHARRETTS, one of the oldest ministers of Columbia County, who has had charge of the Lutheran Church at Briarcreek, Columbia County, for the past twelve years, was born in Carlisle, Pa., October 8, 1825, and is a son of Frederick and Catherine (Gaugler) Sharretts. Frederick Sharretts, the father of our subject, was born in Beavertown, Snyder County, Pa., and in his early manhood learned the trade of a harnessmaker, which business he followed a number of years. When the War of 1812 broke out he enlisted in the army and at the close of the war held the rank of major. Returning to that part of Union County now known as Snyder County, he followed fanning a few years and then moved to Carlisle, Pa., and after residing there a short time he became register and recorder of Cumberland County, which office he filled several years. In 1838 he moved to Johnstown, Pa., where he became collector of tolls on the Pennsylvania Canal and the old Portage Railroad, having been appointed by Gov. Ritner. Later he took up his trade as harnessmaker, which he followed until his death. Politically he was a stanch Whig, and served as justice of the peace for a number of years, and up to the time of his death. In religious views he was a member of the Lutheran Church and served as deacon and elder of that church a number of years. He was united in marriage with Catherine Gaugler, a native of Snyder County, and as a result of the union seven sons and six daughters were born to them, namely: Rev. Nicholas G., deceased, who was a Lutheran minister residing at Indiana, Pa.; Elizabeth, deceased, who was twice wedded,—first to John Rudisill, and upon his death, to Moses Canon of Johnstown, Pa.; John Frederick, a retired citizen of Baltimore, Md., who was for many years a clerk for the U. S. Government at Washington; Isabella, widow of the late William Swartz of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Benjamin, deceased; William, deceased; Cordelia, deceased, who was the wife of William Dysert of Gettysburg, Pa.; Jacob R., a soldier of the Rebellion, who is a resident of Johnstown, Pa.; Susanna, who married John K. Sheyock, both now deceased; George E. W., a prominent merchant of Smicksburg, Pa.; and Edward A., the subject of this sketch. Edward A. Sharretts supplemented his primary education received in the common schools by a thorough and complete course of study at Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, and graduated from that institution in the class of 1851. He then entered the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, where he remained one year. He then taught school at Selinsgrove, Pa., for eighteen months, and while there accepted an offer made by John S. Crumbach, then principal of the Lancaster High School, to assist him in teaching his classes and to study theology at the same time, and a short time later was licensed to preach by the Lutheran Synod of Pennsylvania, in 1853. Rev. Mr. Sharretts was ordained at Bloomsburg in 1854 and remained in charge of the Bloomsburg charge six years, when, on account of his health, he moved to Mount Pleasant, Pa. After a rest of six months, he accepted a pastorate at Orangeville, where he remained six years. He next had charge of the Lutheran Church at Danville, Pa., and then was called to Muncy, Lycoming County. This charge was composed of two churches, Muncy and Hughesville. He remained there three years. He then returned to Columbia County and accepted a call to the Briarcreek Church, remaining there eight years. He was then sent to Espy to preach, and after nine years of service there returned to Briarcreek, and has retained his position as pastor of the church for the past twelve years. Rev. Mr. Sharretts has been a minister of the Lutheran Church for forty-five years. Our subject is a member of the Masonic fraternity; has been a member of the board of directors of the Susquehanna University for the past ten years; was one of the founders of the Susquehanna Synod, and has been a member since it was organized, in 1868. He has been united in marriage three times; his first wife was Sophia Strickhouser of Gettysburg. His second wife was Charity Creveling, a daughter of the late Andrew Creveling of Bloomsburg, and to this union three children were born, namely: Luther Keller, an employee of the B. & O. R. R. at Brunswick, Md.; Andrew Frederick, a machinist residing at Berwick, Columbia County; and Edward Lincoln, who is employed by The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company of Berwick. He formed a third matrimonial alliance with Eliza A. Kelchner, a daughter of Abraham Martz Kelchner, deceased, who was a prominent citizen of Briarcreek township, Columbia County, Pa. Mrs. Sharretts died November 26, 1898, aged sixty-four years and three months. As one who has labored long-and well in the service of the Master, we take pleasure in announcing that a portrait of Rev. Mr. Sharretts appears on a preceding page in connection with the above sketch of his life.(Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District, Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY: 1899. Consisting of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Sullivan Counties, pg. 333 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

LAFOREST ALMOND SHATTUCK, M. D., proprietor of the Bloomsburg (Penn.) Sanitarium, was born in Cornville, Somerset Co., Me., January 15, 1846. He obtained his literary education at the schools of his native town and at the Skowhegan Academy. When but fifteen years of age he began teaching school and in 1862 began to read medicine in the office of Dr. Green at the Boston Medical Institute, where he had excellent opportunities to study surgery and surgical diseases. A year later he entered the medical department of Harvard, and for five years in college and hospitals was a close student in the allopathic school. In 1868 he took two courses of medical lectures at Philadelphia, graduating with honors. Being ambitious and desirous of a greater knowledge of the eclectic system of practice, then attracting considerable attention, he entered the Eclectic Medical College of the city of New York where he received the ad eundem degree in 1869. He then commenced the practice of his profession at Augusta, Me., making a specialty of surgical diseases and soon came into prominence through his success in critical operations considered impossible of achievement by older surgeons. In 1870, in addition to his professional duties, he assumed the editorial charge of the American Literary Review, which he ably conducted until the spring of 1871, when failing health compelled him to relinquish all business cares and take a much needed rest. In the autumn of that year, being desirous of a larger field of practice, he decided to locate at Chicago, and started for his new field of labor in September. While remaining over for a week at New York City to attend the National Medical Convention as a delegate from the Maine Eclec[t]ic Medical Society, of which he was secretary, the great fire at Chicago occurred, which decided him to remain East. It was at this time he was urged by the president of his New York alma mater to accept the chair of demonstrator of anatomy at that college, but modestly declined, and proceeded at once to locate for the general practice of his profession at Bridgeport, Conn., where he enjoyed a large and lucrative practice for eleven years, and where he attracted attention, not only as a skillful surgeon, but for his remarkable success in diphtheria and his discovery of a remedy for the cure of Bright's disease. In the autumn of 1882, his health again breaking down through overwork and the influence of the coastal climate, he sold out at Bridgeport and purchased the institution at Bloomsburg, a sanitarium possessing superior facilities, such as baths of all kinds, mental and physical rest, massage, electricity, Swedish movements, etc., for the treatment of nervous, kidney and chronic diseases, in which he has acquired a high reputation. Dr. Shattuck comes of good old New England stock, being the eldest son of Luther Tarbell Shattuck, who, with Prof. Shattuck of Harvard College, Judge David O. Shattuck, the Whig candidate for governor of Mississippi in 1841, Lemuel Shattuck, the historian and compiler of Shattuck's memorials, Judge Francis W. Shattuck, of California, Judge Joel Parker of Cambridge, Mass., Hon. John A. Dix, and the Rev. Morgan DIX, of New York, were descendants of William Shattuck [Shattuck Memorials, pages 57 to 289,] who died in Watertown, Mass. Dr. Shattuck was married, April 17, 1872, to Miss Ella Frances Mosher of Augusta, Me., an estimable and talented lady, connected with some of the best families in Maine and one of the heirs of the English Mosher estate. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, Bloomsburg, pg. 361 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

THOMAS W. SHERWOOD, superintendent of rolling-mill, The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Co., Berwick, was born in Montour County, Penn., Feb. 3, 1856, a son of Eli and Ellen (Kemp) Sherwood, the latter a native of Pittsburgh and of English descent. His father was also a native of England and left his native country when he was twelve years of age. He settled with his parents near Danville when there were but a few houses in that place. He learned the puddler's trade in Danville and followed it until 1877, when he moved to Berwick, where he has since resided, and has charge of the puddling department when it is in operation. He is the father of eleven children, eight of whom are living: Thomas W., Mary, Joseph, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Anna, Bertha and Sallie. At the age of ten years our subject went to work in the ore mines, and after remaining there eight months left and went to school three months. He then went to work in the mills at Danville, at the age of eleven, carrying water for the puddlers two weeks. He then ran iron from the squeezer to the rolls about one year, and worked around the rolls five years in the same mill. He worked in Northumberland mills one year. In 1875 he came to Berwick and entered the employ of The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company. He was first engaged to help the puddlers, then squeezing the iron, until he received in juries which necessitated his arm being amputated at the shoulder. As soon as he was able to resume work he was engaged in one of the offices, and there remained until the fall of 1878. He was then appointed superintendent of the rolling mill, which position he still fills. He married, in January, 1880, Fannie McBride, and one child has blessed their union, Mabel T. Mrs. Sherwood is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge, No. 240.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 394 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JAMES M. SHEW, proprietor of the Bloomsburg Paper Company, manufacturing waterproof paper for cartridges and blasting, also for mining, packing, etc., and one of the highly esteemed residents of the town, was born in Baltimore County, Md., September 9, 1831, and is a son of Joseph and Mary (Shew) Shew. Joseph Shew, the father of our subject, was born in London, England, and during his boyhood days came to the United States and located in Baltimore County, Md. He was a man of more than ordinary intelligence, was a farmer by vocation, and also followed surveying. He acted as constable for several years, and when the War of 1812 broke out offered his services in defense of his country and was probably an emergency man in the protection of Baltimore. He was wedded to Mary Shew, of Scottish origin but a native of Virginia, and a family of four children was born to this union, namely: Our subject; Henry, who died while en route for Denver, Col., on business in behalf of the Order of Railway Conductors, he having been a conductor on the Baltimore Central R. R. a number of years; Jacob, a machinist and engineer at Port Deposit, Md.; and Mary, wife of Charles Heiser of Baltimore, Md. James M. Shew, the subject of this biographical sketch, was but seven years of age when he began to serve an apprenticeship in the paper mills of Baltimore County, which were owned by William H. Hoffman who is now deceased. He remained in the mills for forty-four years, during which time he was promoted several times; in 1858 he was promoted to manager of the entire plant of four mills, Gunpowder, Marble Vale, Clipper, and Rockdale, all of which are located in Baltimore County, Md. Upon the death of William H. Hoffman, the proprietor of the mills, his sons fell heirs to the entire plant, and, wishing to reduce the expenses of the mills they lowered the salaries of the employees, and our subject was one who refused to accept a reduction in his pay and accordingly quit. He came to Scott township, Columbia County, Pa., and purchased a half interest in the Trench Paper Mills located in Fishing Creek township, and the firm name became Trench & Shew; later Mr. Trench sold his interest to J. H. Maize and the firm name was changed to Maize & Shew. After being connected with this paper company nearly two years, his former employers, the Hoffmans, wishing him to return to them, offered an increase over his former salary, and bought J. H. Maize's interest in the paper mills of Fishing Creek township, thus relieving our subject of the obligation of partnership, and Mr. Shew returned to Baltimore. After managing the Baltimore mills three and one-half years, he returned to Bloomsburg, and in 1892 became sole owner of the paper mills of that town. The mills are operated by the magnificent water power of the Fishing Creek. The mills have a capacity of two thousand pounds of paper per day and give steady employment to nine men. A few years ago our subject bought the Hulshiser shops near his home and does all kinds of blacksmithing and repairing. In politics Mr. Shew is a strong Republican, and his party gave him the nomination for associate judge and, although not elected, he received more votes than any other Republican that ran on the same ticket. On February 6, 1852, Mr. Shew was united in marriage to Anna Mary Fisher, a daughter of Lewis Fisher of York County, Pa., and to this union eleven children were born, namely: Sarah, deceased; Margaret J.; Lydia, wife of Robert J. Ruhl; Rebecca, who wedded John B. Kidd of Baltimore, Md.; Mary, wife of D. S. Richards, also of Baltimore, Md.; James U. M., whose sketch may also be found in this work; Josephine, united in the bonds of wedlock to George B. Smith of Scott township, Columbia County; Irene, wife of William M. Ent of Light Street, Pa.; Phoebe; and John W., a paper manufacturer of Bloomsburg. Mr. Shew is a member of the following fraternal orders: Washington Lodge, No. 265, F. & A. M., of Bloomsburg; Bloomsburg Chapter, No. 218, R. A. M.; Mt. Moriah Council, No. 10, R. & S. M.; Crusade Commandery, No. 12, K. T.; Orient Conclave, No. 2, Red Cross of Constantine; and Caldwell Consistory, S. P. R. S., 32° N. M. J. Mr. Shew's portrait accompanies this sketch, being presented on a previous page.(Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District, Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY: 1899. Consisting of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Sullivan Counties, pg. 183 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JAMES U. M. SHEW, whose portrait is presented on the opposite page, one of the bright and hustling young business men of Light Street and general superintendent of the Bloomsburg Paper Mills, was born in Gunpowder, Baltimore County, Md., May 6, 1869. He is a son of James M. and Anna Mary (Fisher) Shew, and grandson of Joseph and Mary (Shew) Shew. Joseph Shew, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of London, England, who, when young, immigrated to America, locating in Baltimore County, Md., where he engaged in the cultivation of the soil. He was also a surveyor and followed that profession in connection with farming. He was constable of his township and was a veteran of the War of 1812, serving as an emergency man at Baltimore, Md. He was united in the bonds of wedlock with Mary Shew, a native of Virginia, and they reared a family of four children, namely: James M., the father of our subject; Henry, who died while en route for Denver, Col., on business in behalf of the Order of Railway Conductors,—he was a conductor on the Baltimore Central Railroad a number of years; Jacob, who resides at Port Deposit, Md., and is a machinist and engineer by trade; and Mary, the wife of Charles Heiser of Baltimore, Md. James M. Shew, father of our subject, was born in Baltimore County, Md., September 9, 1831, and at the age of seven years began working in the paper mills of Baltimore County, which were owned by William H. Hoffman. He remained in the mills forty-four years, during which time he was promoted several times, in 1858 being made manager of the entire plant, which consisted of four mills, Gunpowder, Marble Vale, Clipper, and Rockdale, all of which are located in Baltimore County. Later he removed to Bloomsburg and purchased a half interest in the Trench Paper Mills of Fishing Creek township, the firm being known as Trench & Shew; two years later he returned to his former employers and again managed the Baltimore mills for three and one-half years. He is now a resident of Light street. He is owner of the Bloomsburg Paper Mills, and also conducts a blacksmith and repair shop. Politically he is an unwavering Republican and firmly upholds the principles of his party. On February 6, 1852, he was wedded to Anna Mary Fisher, a daughter of Lewis Fisher of York County, Pa., and a family of eleven children blessed their happy home, namely: Sarah, deceased; Margaret J.; Lydia, who wedded Robert J. Ruhl; Rebecca, the wife of John B. Kidd of Baltimore, Md.; Mary, united in marriage to D. S. Richards of Baltimore, Md.; James U. M., the subject of this review; Josephine, wife of George B. Smith of Scott township, Columbia County; Irene, who married W. M. Ent of Light Street, Columbia County; Phoebe; and John W., a paper manufacturer of Bloomsburg. The father of our subject is a member of Washington Lodge, No. 265, F. & A. M., of Bloomsburg; Blooms-burg Chapter No. 218, R. A. M.; Mt. Moriah Council No. 10, R. & S. M.; Crusade Commandery No. 12, K. T.; Orient Conclave, No. 2, Red Cross of Constantine; and Caldwell Consistory, S. P. R. S., 32nd degree, N. M. J. James U. M. Shew received his intellectual training in the public schools of his native town and at the age of eighteen years began working in the paper mills of Bloomsburg, which were owned by his father. Since 1894 our subject has been general superintendent of the mills and is one of the most popular workmen in the plant. He is also recognized as one of the most valued citizens of Bloomsburg and is held in high esteem for his many excellent traits of character. Mr. Shew is a member of Washington Lodge, No. 265, F. & A. M. of Bloomsburg. Politically he is an ardent Republican. On May 23, 1888, our subject was united in the bonds of matrimony with Permelia A. Brown, a daughter of the late Charles Brown, and they are the parents of two children: Guy, and Helen Martha. Dr. Fredrica, the maternal great-grandfather of our subject's wife, was a native of France and was a physician in the American Army during the Revolutionary War. Joseph Brown, the paternal grandfather of our subject's wife, was a resident of Bloomsburg and was the progenitor of a family of sons, namely: William H., bookkeeper and paymaster on the Lehigh Valley R. R. and a resident of Cunningham, Pa.; Hiram, a resident of Beech Haven, Pa.; George, proprietor of the Central House of Bloomsburg; Clark, died at Hamburg, Pa.; and Dr. Robert, deceased, who was a well-to-do physician residing at Tower Hill, Pa. Charles Brown, the father of Mrs. Shew, was born in Bloomsburg and during his younger days learned the trade of a tailor which he followed a number of years. He was for some time foreman in the tailor-shop owned by George Burch of Manayunk, Pa. He passed from this life February 29, 1887, at the age of fifty-nine years. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and was well versed in Masonry. Religiously he was a member of the Methodist Church. He was united in wedlock with Lydia Fredrica, a daughter of Henry Fredrica, formerly a resident of Mifflinville, Columbia County, Pa. Five sons and two daughters blessed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, namely: Clark W.; Joseph, deceased; E. Reed; Albert C; Daniel L.; Martha J., wife of William Newman; and Permelia A., wife of our subject. (Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District, Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY: 1899. Consisting of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Sullivan Counties, pg. 583 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JACOB SHOEMAKER, contractor and farmer, P.O. Mordansville. The Shoemaker family was among the early settlers in this county. The pioneer was Abram Shoemaker, who came from Jersey and located in Columbia County. His wife was Margaret Mellick by whom he had nine children: Mary, Andrew, Jacob, Kate, John, Isaac, Michael, Margaret and Abram. Jacob, the father of our subject, was born July 14, 1789, and married Martha Kinney, and to them were born ten children: James, Elsie, John, Abram, Philip, Jane, Margaret, Jacob, Elisha and Levi. Jacob, the subject of this sketch, was reared in Madison Township on a farm, and at twenty years of age began learning the carpenter trade, which he followed for six years; then engaged in farming, which he carried on continuously until about 1878, since when he has carried on his trade. In 1873 he located on the farm he now owns, which he has carried on since in connection with his trade. He married, August 13, 1857, Mary, daughter of Cornelius Vanhorn. Mrs. Shoemaker died March 11, 1886, of pneumonia. To this union were born seven children: Ida, Jane, Elnora, Townsend, John, Harriet and Warren. Mr. Shoemaker has been a member of the Methodist Church about thirty years. Mrs. Shoemaker was a member of the same. In 1884 Mr. Shoemaker was elected director of the poor. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg 505 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JACOB F. SHOEMAKER, farmer, P. O. Orangeville, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, February 17, 1821, and came to this country with his parents when he was thirteen years of age. They located first in New Brunswick, N. J., where his mother died eighteen days after arriving in this country. His father then moved to Easton, and six months later went to Hamilton, and later to Huntington township, Luzerne County, at which time Jacob F. was fifteen years old. The latter worked on farms and also on the canal for nearly seven summers. In 1848 he bought a team and farmed on shares the farm of Bernard Tubbs, Town Hill, Luzerne County, and the next year farmed James Hill, where he remained five years; then came to the farm of Samuel Creveling, in this township near Van Camp. After residing there two years, he bought, I the spring of 1857, the farm in the southwest part of this township, which has since been his home. December 28, 1848, he married Miss Ellen, daughter of Henry Traxler, of Hunington Township, where Mrs. Shoemaker was born September 7, 1830. Mr. Shoemaker is a quiet man, who attends strictly to his own business. He and Mrs. Shoemaker are prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Rohrsburg, of which he is steward and trustee, and has been for many years. For a long time also he was class leader, but increasing years have caused him to relinquish active work in the church, though not to cease his labors in its behalf. He is widely known as one of its most liberal members. He and Mrs. Shoemaker now enjoy the fruits of a well spent life. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle - 1887, Fishingcreek Township pg. 454 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

J. C. SHULTZ, farmer, P. O. Jerseytown, was born in Montour County May 22, 1843, the eldest son of William and Eliza (Kinney) Shultz. William Shultz was born February 14, 1814. Eliza was a daughter of Rev. John Kinney, son of James Kinney, and old Revolutionary soldier. Peter Shultz, subject's grandfather, married Sallie Robbins, and they had the following children: William, Jonathan, Jacob, James, Henry, Dr. Benjamin F., Mary and Peter; all reared families. To William Shultz and his wife Eliza were born the following named children: John C., Dr. P. H. (deceased), David A., Sarah E., and Oliver P. John C. came to this township when eighteen years of age. At the age of twenty he began life for himself, farming the homestead farm. He was married May 25, 1865, to Mary J., daughter of William and Sallie (Kitchen) Johnson. They have four children: Harry E., Ada B., Beryl B. and Sadie F. Mr. Shultz has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for twenty years, and is trustee of the same.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 505 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JAMES M. SHULTZ, farmer, was born February 26, 1828, in Benton Township, this county, son of Samuel and Mary (McCarn) Shultz, latter born in Philadelphia. Daniel Shultz, the father of Samuel, came to Greenwood Township, this county, from Northumberland County, in 1808. Their children were Mary C. (deceased wife of James Kile), Hugh (deceased), Rebecca (widow of Peter Applegate), William (deceased), Eliza (wife of Ezra Stephens). The father died in October, 1827, and the mother in May, 1834. Our subject was reared in Fairmount Township, Luzerne Co., Penn., till he was seventeen years old, when he came to this township and learned the carpenter and millwright trade of Peter Hess, for whom he worked in all seven years. After this he followed lumbering four years; then again worked at his trade on his own account till 1870, in which year he again took up lumbering, which he followed till 1874, since when he has engaged exclusively in farming. He located on his farm in 1868, having bought 174 acres which he still owns. Mr. Shultz was married, February 5, 1850, Elizabeth, daughter of George Mosteller, and they had eleven children: Charity, wife of William Clinger; Lany (deceased); Eliza, wife of Moses Savage; Samuel (deceased); Peter K.; Mary, wife of A. Cole; Richard; Henry Allen (deceased); Eldora; Rena M., and Philip. Mr. Shultz was elected supervisor in the spring of 1885, and has served as constable.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 542 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JOHN B. SHULTZ, farmer and miller, Rohrsburg, is descended from one of the early families of this township. His grandfather, Daniel Shultz, settled here prior to 1800 and located three-quarters of a mile from Rohrsburg, when the place was a wilderness. He married Elizabeth White, who bore him Philip, James, Isaac, Samuel, John and Sarah. Daniel died April 30, 1852, aged eighty-three years, one month and twenty-eight days; his wife, Elizabeth, died March 24, 1853, aged eighty-eight years and three months. Subject's great-grandfather was Philip, whose ancestors came from Germany and settled in New Jersey and later removed to this locality, as mentioned before. Philip died April 5, 1816, aged seventy-five years; his wife, Barbara, died September 20, 1828, aged eighty-four years. James, the father of John B., married Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Stucker and Catherine (Peeler) Stucker. Four children were born to them: Ellen, John B., Catherine and Esther. Ellen resides in Orange Township, the wife of Daniel Kline; Catherine married John Moore and resides in this township; Esther married John H. Parker and settled in Greenwood Township. The father of this family was a farmer, which pursuit he followed until his death; he died May 23, 1826, aged twenty-six years, eight months, sixteen days; his widow, Elizabeth, died July 17, 1873, aged seventy-seven years, seven months, four days. John B. was born Aug. 17, 1821, on the homestead near Rohrsburg. He was reared a farmer and when of age turned his attention to the management of the mill, which he now owns and which he conducted up to 1884, when his son assumed charge of it. He married Hettie, a daughter of Jonas and Mary E. (Miller) Hayman. They have two children living, Jonas and Lestie. Jones resides with his parents, married to Dora Henry. They have one child, Lelie Maude. Lestie is in Iowa, the wife of Clark Kline. Mr. Shultz is a Democrat and a member of the Grange.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 480 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

PETER K. SHULTZ, farmer, blacksmith, etc., P. O. Central, was born March 30, 1856, in this township, near Central. He lived under the paternal roof until 1878, on November 17, of which year, he was married to Miss Helen, daughter of Collins Sutliff, who settled in this township and died on the property where Conrad Hess lived. When of age our subject learned blacksmithing at Cole's Creek with B. F. Peterman, and after finishing his apprenticeship commenced his trade at Central, where he worked two years (till 1883), then moved to his present place, having bought seventy-four acres of land, the Sutliff property, at that time all woodland, and here he has now the finest place between Benton and the North Mountains, all the improvements having been made by his own exertions. He has about twenty acres cleared. Here he has also built a shop, in which he does blacksmithing and general woodwork repairing. Mr. and Mrs. Shultz have two children: Hurley G. and Marvay Dane. The family attend the services of the Methodist Protestant Church. In politics Mr. Shultz is a Democrat.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 542 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

FRANKLIN L. SHUMAN, associate judge, Catawissa, was born in Beaver Valley, Penn., October 6, 1834, a son of Christian and Elizabeth (Henderhot) Shuman, both natives of Pennsylvania and of German descent. His great-grandfather came from Germany at an early day. His paternal grandfather, John, was one of the early settlers of Catawissa Township, and here purchased a farm where he lived until his death. He was a leading citizen and a substantial Democrat. Our subject's father, Christian, was born and reared in Catawissa, and when about eighteen years of age, moved to Northampton County, this State, where he learned the tanner's trade and worked at it some time. He then moved to Beaver Valley, this county, where he bought a mill property, which he operated several years, and also carried on tanning. In 1855 he entered mercantile business at the same place. He owned three farms, a grist-mill, tannery, store and hotel, all of which he had in operation at the same time. He at one period possessed considerable wealth, but owing to misfortunes it was very much reduced at the time of his death. As a Democrat he took a deep interest in politics, and, although never an aspirant for office, had a great influence over his Democratic friends. His death occurred in 1885. Our subject was reared in Beaver Valley, this county, where he attended school until he had reached the age of nineteen years. Being of a very ambitious character he longed for something higher and made up his mind to do something for himself. He commenced to work for his father at one thing or another on his farm, in the store and the mill, and so continued until he was married, when he engaged in the lumber business, keeping hotel at Beaver Valley, which industry he carried on until 1873. In the meantime he had owned a half dozen farms, but disposed of them, except twenty acres adjoining Catawissa, which he still retains. In 1870 he built a house in Catawissa into which he moved, but which was destroyed by fire June 7, 1885. He then erected a large two-story frame house, built on the same spot, in which he lives at present. He had only resided here a short time after his first move when sickness attacked his family, and he was compelled to abandon his home here and seek other quarters. However he was not long in making up his mind, so he moved back to his old home in Beaver Valley, and again embarked in mercantile business, to which he soon after added coal trade, also carrying on a number of trades while living here. He moved back to Catawissa in 1875 where he has since lived. In 1881 he bought the ZARR farm, which consisted of forty acres, adjoining Catawissa, and laid it out in town lots, which is known as "Shuman's addition," on which there have been erected over 100 houses within the last few years. The schoolhouse, one of the finest in the county, is also built on this addition. In 1884 he put in water-works in the town, which he and his sons control and are the individual owners of, although, under a chartered company, it is all in the Shuman family. In the fall of 1885 he laid out a new cemetery in Catawissa in the east end of Shuman's addition. In 1876 he was elected associate judge, and after serving his first term and performing his duty so manfully, he was re-elected in 1881, and is now serving his second term. He has also been justice of the peace several terms. He married, July 27, 1854, Angeline, daughter of Minessa and Susanna (Hosler) Michael and to them have been born four children, only one of whom survives--Paris H., married to Ada BOYER. Mr. and Mrs. Shuman are members of the St. John's Lutheran Church. In politics he is a Democrat. He has probably done more for Catawissa since living here in the way of building it up than any other man in the vicinity. In educational interests, public improvements and all that pertains to progress and advancement of the town, Mr. Shuman has taken an active and prominent part, and the record of his life will live, in the memory of those whose rugged ways he smoothed and softened, after he has passed away. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 408 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM K. SHUMAN, farmer, P. O. Catawissa, was born in Columbia County, Penn., in 1849, son of John F. and Catherine (Breisch) Shuman, both natives of Columbia County and has always made it his home. He lived with his parents up the time of his marriage, when he and his brother, J. C., bought a farm in Maine Township, which was conducted by J. C., while William K. remained on the home farm, which he bought in the spring of 1885, having sold out his interest in the other farm. William K. was married in this county April 18, 1871, to Miss Emma J. Hess, a native of Columbia County and a daughter of Philip and Catherine Hess. Her parents are residents of Espy, Columbia County. Mr. and Mrs. Shuman are the parents of two children, both living: Minnie Eudora and Charles S. Mr. Shuman has about 145 acres of land, of which between ninety and 100 are under cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Shuman are members of Immanuel Union church. He has been supervisor of Maine township for two terms and is a Democrat politically.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887 pg. 509 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

J. A. SHUMAN, farmer, P. O. Mainville, was born in what is now Maine Township, Columbia Co., Penn., October 31, 1854, a son of Rudolph and Susannah (Seidel) Shuman, both born in Columbia County, where they lived until their death, the former dying in October, 1881, the latter in August of the same year; both are buried in Immanuel Union Churchyard, in Maine Township. The father was a farmer in the latter part of his life, but previous to that was a merchant, an iron master, having for many years operated an iron furnace and forge near Mainville. Our subject was reared in Columbia County and has always made it his home. He commenced his education in the common schools of his district and finished in the normal school at Bloomsburg, where he attended eight terms. During the time of his attendance at the normal school he had taught two terms in Schuylkill County, North Union Township, and Maine Township, Columbia County, respectively. After finishing his schooling he taught three more successive terms in Maine, then one term in Beaver and two more in Maine. He was then married, March 19, 1878, to Miss Fannie Hartsel, a native of Columbia County and a daughter of Joseph and Matilda (John) Hartsel, members of early families, and now residing in this township (see page 507). Mr. and Mrs. Shuman have one child-Clyde. After marriage they located where they now reside, which is the old "Shuman homestead," and where our subject commenced farming. He is at present secretary of the school board of Maine Township, having been a member of the board and its secretary since 1884. Mr. Shuman has 156 acres of land, about 125 of which are under cultivation. He and his wife are members of Immanuel Lutheran Church. In politics he is a Democrat. The Shuman family were among the early settlers of this county, and the grandfather of our subject was, in the early times, owner of very large tracts of land in this vicinity, making his home where W. M. Longenberger now resides in Mainville.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887 pg. 509 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

DR. JESSE E. SHUMAN, who has a thorough knowledge of the medical profession, has been actively engaged in practice in the village of Jerseytown since 1891 and is patronized by the leading citizens of that vicinity. He is a son of John W. and Harriet (John) Shuman, and was born July 30, 1869, in Mainville, Columbia County. The Shuman family is of German descent and has been connected with the history of Columbia County for many years back. Jacob Shuman located where the village of Mainville now is about the year 1802, being one of the early settlers of that community. He settled upon the farm on which his son, John W., now resides, and there conducted an inn and followed the occupation of a farmer the remainder of his life. He also engaged in lumbering. Religiously he was a faithful member of the Lutheran Church. He was united in marriage to Mary Miller of Limeridge, Columbia County, by whom he had four children: Abraham, a farmer of Morris County, Kans.; John W., our subject's father; Erastus, a broker of Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Lloyd, a farmer of Catawissa township. John W. Shuman was born on the old homestead at Mainville, April 30, 1847, where he is now residing and is engaged in agricultural pursuits. For a time he was engaged in lumbering and in lime-burning at Limeridge, but later turned his attention to farming. He owns 204 acres of land under a high state of cultivation, upon which is a good home and fine buildings. Mr. Shuman is a man of high ideals, is well informed on subjects of current interest, and stands high in the estimation of his fellow-citizens. At the age of sixteen years he displayed his patriotism by volunteering his services to the cause of the Union, and served for a period of nine months. Politically he is a Democrat and has served as justice of the peace about thirteen years. In religious attachments he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a trustee and an active worker. Socially he is a member of Catawissa Lodge, F. & A. M.; and of the Patriotic Order Sons of America of Mainville. He was joined in wedlock to Harriet John, a daughter of Jesse John, who was formerly a farmer of Catawissa township, but now resides with Mr. Shuman. This happy union resulted in the following issue: Dr. Jesse E., in whom the interest of this sketch centers; Warren, a student of Dickinson College; Myron, a student of the Bloomsburg State Normal School; Howard; and Edith. Dr. Jesse E. Shuman, after completing the prescribed course in the Bloomsburg State Normal School, taught for three terms, and in 1888 began the study of medicine with Dr. J. J. Brown of Bloomsburg. He then took a course in the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in May, 1891. Immediately thereafter he took up his practice at Jerseytown, Madison township, where he has remained from that time to this. He acquired a large and lucrative practice and quickly won his way to the good-will of the citizens of that section, establishing an enduring reputation as a skilful physician and surgeon. He is of genial and good-natured disposition and has many friends among his patients. He is vice-president of the Columbia County Medical Society and of the State Medical Society of Pennsylvania. January 1, 1892, Dr. Shuman was joined in hymeneal bonds to Mary John, a daughter of the late Briton and Hannah (Fetterolf) John. Mr. John was killed by being kicked by a horse at a comparatively young age. One daughter, Harriet. John, has blessed our subject's home. Fraternally our subject is a Mason and belongs to Washington Lodge No. 265 of Bloomsburg. Both Mr. and Mrs. Shuman are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Jerseytown, Pa. (Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District, Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY: 1899. Consisting of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Sullivan Counties, pg. 125 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

THOMAS J. SHUMAN, merchant, Beaver Valley, was born in Beaver Township, Columbia Co., Penn., March 6, 1842, a son of Christian and Elizabeth (Hendershot) Shuman, natives of this county, and of German descent, the great-grandfather of our subject having been of German birth. His grandfather was one of the early settlers of this county, locating near Catawissa, where he followed farming until the time of his death. Christian Shuman, father of our subject, was born in Columbia County in 1805, and learned the tanner's trade at Bethlehem. On starting out for himself he located in Beaver Valley, and built a tannery which he conducted for several years, also keeping a hotel. He owned a large farm as well, and besides hotel-keeping and tanning carried on agriculture. He was also engaged in mercantile business for a few years. His wife died in 1881, he August 14, 1885, and they are buried in Harriger's Church Cemetery. They were the parents of eleven children, eight living: Joseph, Elizabeth (wife of Daniel Gearhart), Frank L., Catherine (wife of Henry Croll) William, Johanna, Thomas J. and Charles. The father was quite a prominent man, well known, and has held the office of justice of the peace for over twenty years. Thomas J., our subject, was reared on a farm and remained at home until twenty-four years of age. He then engaged in railroading on the P. & R. Railroad and was in its employ about sixteen years. In the spring of 1885 he embarked in mercantile business at Beaver Valley, and so continues, carrying a general line of merchandise and owning the building which he occupies. He married, May 22, 1866, Miss Lucy Sont, and four children have been born to them: Harvey, Clark, Dora and Willie. Mr. and Mrs. Shuman are members of the Lutheran Church. He has held the office of supervisor two years.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 373 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM K. SHUMAN, farmer, P. O. Catawissa, was born in Columbia County, Penn., in 1849, son of John F. and Catherine (Breisch) Shuman, both natives of Columbia County and has always made it his home. He lived with his parents up the time of his marriage, when he and his brother, J. C., bought a farm in Maine Township, which was conducted by J. C., while William K. remained on the home farm, which he bought in the spring of 1885, having sold out his interest in the other farm. William K. was married in this county April 18, 1871, to Miss Emma J. Hess, a native of Columbia County and a daughter of Philip and Catherine Hess. Her parents are residents of Espy, Columbia County. Mr. and Mrs. Shuman are the parents of two children, both living: Minnie Eudora and Charles S. Mr. Shuman has about 145 acres of land, of which between ninety and 100 are under cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Shuman are members of Immanuel Union church. He has been supervisor of Maine township for two terms and is a Democrat politically.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887 pg. 509 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM H. SLATE, a progressive and energetic business man of Bloomsburg, is a member of the Hawley-Slate Furniture Company. He was born at Williamsport, Pa., March 13, 1866, and is a son of George Slate, now deceased, who was the proprietor of a large tannery and was also engaged in the manufacture of leather belts. The father of our subject was a self-made man and after accumulating a fortune he retired from active life in 1885. He entered the world of rest at the age of seventy-five years. Our subject was educated in the public schools of Williamsport. He was a dutiful son and remained at home during his younger clays. Starting out to battle against the tide of life, he engaged as a clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and after clerking for four years he worked in the engineer's department, where he remained three years. In November 1893 our subject moved to Bloomsburg, and purchased an interest in the book and stationery store on Main street owned by W. H. Brook & Co. He continued in -that line of business until September, 1897. When the North Branch Furniture Company was organized he sold his interest in the book-store and became assistant manager of that company. July 1, 1898, the Hawley-Slate Furniture Company was organized and succeeded the North Branch Furniture Company. The company employs over 100 skilled workmen, who turn out fine work, and ships its goods all through the Eastern States. It operates two plants, one 60 by 80 feet and the other 50 by 100 feet; the machinery is operated by an engine of one hundred horse-power, and the company also supplies its own power for the electric lights by which the buildings are lighted. Mr. Slate was united in the bonds of matrimony to Nellie C. Packer, a daughter of John B. Packer of Sunbury, Pa. They reside in a neat little home at No. 27 Fifth street. (Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District, Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY: 1899. Consisting of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Sullivan Counties, pg. 208 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

CHARLES P. SLOAN was born March 12, 1840, and recieved his education in the schools of his native place. At the age of eighteen he began learning the trade of carriage trimming and painting. In 1862 he enlisted, and was appointed sergeant in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and six weeks later participated in the battle of Antietam; also was in engagements at Fredericksburg and at Chancellorsville. He had enlisted but for nine months, and at the expiration of his term returned to Bloomsburg, and has since been engaged in the carriage business. Mr. Sloan was married in 1863 to Phoebe A. Lott, a daughter of Dr. G. W. Lott of Orangeville. They have four children: Hattie L., Frank H., Lilla G. and George G. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, Bloomsburg, pg. 361 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

M. C. SLOAN & BRO., carriage manufacturers, Bloomsburg. The firm consists of M. C. and C. P. Sloan, and the business was established in 1826 by William Sloan, father of the present proprietors. His shop stood on the site of the present Lutheran Church building on Market Street, and he manufactured the first "Dearborn wagon" in this vicinity. He followed manufacturing large numbers yearly, employing men who would start with fifteen or twenty and sell them throughout the country. In 1832 he erected the shops occupied by the present firm, with the exception of the wood shop, which was burnt and rebuilt in 1843. He was born near Lime Ridge, this county, and died in 1864, aged seventy two years. His wife, whose maiden name was Margaret Thorton, was a native of Bloomsburg, died in 1875, and both are buried in resonant Cemetery, Bloomsburg. In early life he was a carpenter and while stopping at a hotel in Bloomsburg, a man named Wells, a wagon-maker, came along. Up to that time there were no one-horse wagons in the neighborhood, and the landlord insisted on Wells making one, so Mr. Sloan accompanied Wells to his (Sloan's) farm, adjoining town, and from the fences secured sufficient seasoned oak timber to make one. This was the first one-horse wagon ever made in Bloomsburg, and was after the style commonly known as "Dearborn." This was the start of Mr. Sloan's long and successful career as a carriage manufacturer. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, Bloomsburg, pg. 361 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

M. C. SLOAN was born at Bloomsburg in 1826, and after acquiring a good education in the Bloomsburg schools he learned the carriage-making business, and in April, 1853, became a partner with his father under the firm name of William Sloan & Son, and has ever since been identified with the business as proprietor. He was married in 1853 to Miss Emily Pursel, and they have the following named children: Maggie T. (now Mrs. W. C. McKinney, Dodge City, Kas.), W. Clark, Anne W. and Morris R. Mr. Sloan is a substantial and enterprising business man. The present firm of M. C. SLOAN & Bro. was formed in 1864 after the death of their father, and manufactures the finest kind of light work. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, Bloomsburg, pg. 361 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

A. C. SMITH, farmer, P. O. Jerseytown. John Smith, the great-grandfather of A. C., was born April 11, 1750. He married Nellie McFall, by whom he had the following children: Henry, Francis, John, Elizabeth, Margaret, Hugh, Elisha B., Anna and Alexander M. Henry was the grandfather of A. C., and by his wife, Mary Creveling, he had the following children: John, Henry, Jackson, Creveling, Margaret, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Delilah, Mary, Martha and Nancy, all of whom were reared to maturity. John, the father of A. C., was born in this township and married Margaret Sheep, and to them were born Henry J., Mary J., John W., Andrew C., William E., Elizabeth E. and Thorton A. Andrew C. was born October 20, 1849, in this township, and February 17, 1870, married Mary, a daughter of J. M. and Susan (Brugler) Girton. After marriage he settled in this township, where he has since resided, locating on the farm owned by Susan (Brugler) Girton's heirs, consisting of 176 acres, known as the John Brugler farm. He has three children; Susan M., Lloyd G. and Emma M. He is a member and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church.( of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 505 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

AARON SMITH (deceased) was born January 2, 1820, on the banks of the Susquehanna River, Hanover Township, Luzerne County, and was the eldest of ten children. His parents were of German descent and moved to Columbia County when he was fourteen years of age. He was reared on the farm and received a good common-school education. In 1843 he married Miss Charlotte A. Campbell, of Scotch descent. He was converted about 1842, joined the Methodist Episcopal Church and served as class leader about thirty-five years, or up to the time of his death. He contributed largely to church and church funds, and was a great pillar of support to the Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was a member from the time of his conversion. After the death of his first wife he married Amanda L. Davis in the spring of 1884. He took a trip through the Western States and returned home in the summer of 1884 and died June 14, 1885, aged sixty-five years, five months and twelve days. He was buried in the Hamiline Cemetery. There were born to the union of Aaron and Charlotte A. (Campbell) Smith, Firman S., born January 27, 1844; Richard T., July 4, 1845; William A. and Alice A. (twins), June 3, 1856, and died in infancy, and H. Wilber, February 26, 1860.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887 Benton Township pg. 382 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

AARON SMITH, farmer, P. O. Buckhorn, was born in Frosty Valley, August 7, 1821, a son of David and Catherine (Heiner) Smith, who came to this county from New Jersey, and were among the earliest settlers of this part of the county. After living her awhile David Smith, who was born March 31, 1781, bought a farm near where his son now resides, and which is owned by Peter Werkheiser, the country at that time being a wilderness. After living o the place for some time he rented a farm in Frosty Valley, where he lived until 1840, when he moved to Briarcreek and resided two years; then moved to the farm where his son Aaron now lives, which he bought some years before, on which there had been a house. Here he resided the remainder of his life, dying October 23, 1856. His wife died about 1832, and later he married Annie Liedy, of this township, whose family were old settlers in this part of the county, but have now all emigrated west. By his first wife Mr. Smith had a large family, of whom the following are living: John, in Illinois; Samuel, in Michigan; Isabella, wife of Samuel Holder, resides in Milton, Northumberland County, and Aaron. Our subject worked on the farm until he was eighteen years old, when he learned the milling trade, which he followed eight years. He then resumed farming, which he has since followed. In the fall of 1858 he bought the home farm from the estate, and has since resided there. January 1, 1843, he married Rachel Fowler, daughter of William Fowler, of Nescopeck, Luzerne County, and the following named children were born to their union: Boann, born January 3, 1844; Sarah Alice, born April 26, 1845, wife of Charles Tittle, of Bloomsburg; Fanny Dianathy, born May 5, 1846, died September 14, 1857; Ella Udora, born September 26, 1854, wife of George Erwin, and resides in West Hemlock Township, Montour County; Emma Jane, born April 26, 1850, married William Gulliver, and died April 11, 1872, leaving one child; Hugh W., born February 9, 1857, married Mary Gillaspy, and died October 11, 1885, leaving one child; Clara Bell, born September 15, 1862, died March 23, 1863, and Norman Ellis, who was born June 11, 1847, and worked for his father until he was of age. March 3, 1870, he married Miss Mary, daughter of Levi Cox, of Bloomsburg, and who was born March 20, 1851. They have had five children: Lucius C., born May 14, died August 14, 1871; Edith Lavina, born August 15, 1872; Nellie Irene, born May 15, 1874; Hugh Otis, born August 19, 1877, and Lizzie Ira, born April 21, 1882. Mr. Smith has held several township offices, and was sheriff of the county one term. He is now warmly interested in the prohibition cause, and was a delegate to the State convention of the Prohibition party which was held at Harrisburg in August, 1886. He and Mrs. Smith are members of the Baptist Church in Madison Township, and he is spoken of by his neighbors as a straightforward, plain-spoken man, and one whose word can be relied upon. He has been superintendent of the Union Sunday-school at New Columbia for twenty years past. When David Smith first came here there was but one log cabin where Berwick now stands, and he often used to tell of the difficulties and hardships he encountered in making a home, having no one to assist him.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 487 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

FIRMAN S. SMITH, P. O. Raven Creek, is a son of Aaron and Charlotte A. (Campbell) Smith and was born in Benton Township, Columbia Co. He lived with his parents on the farm assisting his father in the summer and attending school in Benton District in winter until he was nineteen years of age. He then attended school for one year at New Columbus Academy, Luzerne county, after which he taught school during the winter of 1863-64 in Benton District. He enlisted at Troy, Bradford Co., Penn., March 31, 1864, for three years or during the war, and was in the following engagements: Wilderness, Mine Run, Spottsylvania Court House, Va., North Ann River, Cold Harbor, and the charge in front of Petersburg, June 17 and 18, 1864. His company was later detached from the regiment to serve in mortar battery, and engaged in all the artillery movements in front of Petersburg, throwing over 6,000 shells in the rebel works and blowing up three magazines. The company was relieved from the battery August 24, 1864, and ordered back to join the regiment. At Ream Station, Va., Mr. Smith was taken sick and sent to the division hospital in front of Petersburg; thence to City Point; thence to Fort Schuyler McDougall General Hospital, N. Y.; furloughed November 1, 1864, and remained at home sick eighty-four days. He returned to the hospital January 23, 1865, and served as ward master at general kitchen department until discharged June 17, 1865. During the winter of 1865-66 he taught school, and in 1866 married Miss Huldah R. Dodson, the daughter of George and Hannah (Seely) Dodson. In 1867 Mr. Smith attended Commercial College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and graduated August 15 of the same year. He engaged in mercantile business at Mahonoy City in 1868. Subsequently he returned to Benton Township, Columbia County, where he purchased and located on a farm, and has since been engaged in farming and teaching, having taught twenty-three terms. The following are the names of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Lenore Estelle, born March 5, 1867; Minnie Gertrude, born July 17, 1868; Aaron Raymond, born December 31, 1869; Fannie Evada, born August 16, 1871, died July 10, 1875; Jennie Adrielle, born May 6, 1874; Ada and Eva (twins) born and died March 20, 1873; Ninolia Theberne born May 18, 1876; Susie May, born May 1, 1879; Carrie Josephine, born March 28, 1881; Permillie born November 19, 1882, and Geraldine, born November 5, 1884. Mrs. Smith is of English descent on the paternal and German on the maternal side, and was born August 5, 1846. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887 Benton Township pg. 382 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

GEORGE N. SMITH, tinner, Orangeville, was born in Luzerne County, Penn., in 1849, the third son of Conrad and Julia Ann (Watman) Smith. Conrad was a native of Bavaria, a blacksmith by trade, and emigrating to this country settled in Luzerne County, Penn., where he remained until 1868. He then came to this county and located in Orangeville, where he died in 1873; his widow in 1874. They had a family of four sons and four daughters. George N. began to learn the trade of tinner with his brother, and worked for the latter in this place for three years. In 1873 he bought his brother's interest, and has since continued in the business himself. He married, September 24, 1872, Blanche P., daughter of Jonas Kisner. Mr. Smith is a member of the I. O. O. F., No. 264, Mountain Lodge; is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been identified with the business interests of Orangeville for eighteen years, and makes a specialty of iron tin roofing and spouting. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg 526 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JAMES E. SMITH, the thriving town of Berwick is well represented by a thorough-going, wide-awake and energetic class of business men, among whom J. E. Smith is prominent. He has served two years as president of the borough council. He is senior member of the widely-known firm of Smith Bros., dealers in general merchandise, and is a member of the firm of Lilley & Smith, shirt manufacturers. Our subject was born in Morris County, N. J., August 22, 1859, and is a son of Isaac S. Smith, a retired merchant of Stephensburg, N. J. The great-grandparents of our subject, on both the paternal and maternal sides, were of Scotch-Irish origin and were born in the North of Ireland. The paternal great-grandfather, Isaac Smith, came to this country and located near Blairstown, N. J., where he followed farming. He married Miss Wintermute of Sussex County, N. J., and they reared the following children: John; Charles; Enoch; Isaac; Henry; Joshua; Nathan S.; and Sarah A. (Cook). John Smith, the grandfather of our subject, resided near the old homestead all his lifetime, was a farmer and was prosperous and prominent. He was united in marriage with Katharine Kinney of New Jersey, and to them were born the following children: Isaac S., the father of the subject of this biographical sketch; Margaret; Katharine; Sarah; and Rachel. Religiously, John Smith was a Presbyterian. Isaac S. Smith, in October, 1857, married Ann Elizabeth Beatty, eldest daughter of James and Sarah A. (Fritts) Beatty of Pleasant Grove, N. J. To them were born: James E.; Florence; Willard; Mary F., deceased; Bertha; and Katharine. James E. Smith has been engaged in the mercantile business ever since he attained his majority. In 1887 he moved to Berwick, and in March of that year he and his brother, Willard Smith, embarked in the mercantile business, succeeding Freas Brothers. In 1889 they moved their store to the corner of Front and Market streets, where they occupy a large and commodious store-room. They enlarged their already extensive stock, and now carry a complete line of dry goods, groceries, crockery, and all the other articles suited to the wants of every household that go to make up a general store. The store is one of the largest of its kind in Columbia County, and such has been the character of the proprietors, their dealings being always honorable and upright, and their manners genial and affable, they have secured a large trade. In 1896 the Berwick Manufacturing Company was established with our subject and Mr. Lilley as proprietors. They have erected a large two-story building, 30 by 90 ft., with an engine room 15 by 20 ft., on the corner of North and Pine streets. They employ seventy hands, who are constantly kept busy in the making of men's shirts and ladies' shirt-waists. Mr. Smith has purchased the W. B. Freas residence, which is a very handsome house, and makes it his home. He also possesses other houses and is the owner of a large tenement house on Railroad street. Our subject is one of the leaders of his community and takes an active interest in the affairs of Berwick. He has served on the school board; has been a member of the town council six years, and is active in Christian work, having joined the church in childhood, of which his father is an elder (Pleasant Grove, N. J., Presbyterian); on removing to Pennsylvania he transferred his membership, and is now serving as a ruling elder and trustee in the First Presbyterian Church of Berwick. He was united in the bonds of matrimony with Hattie Petty, a daughter of M. H. Petty, a prosperous farmer of Briarcreek township, who was born in Wilkesbarre, Pa. His father, William Petty, was born in Northampton County, Pa., and was a son of John Petty, who came from Connecticut to Northampton County, and was one of the pioneer farmers of that section. William Petty was a farmer and was extensively engaged in lumbering. In 1827 he moved to Luzerne County, Pa., where he purchased a large tract of land in Hanover township, and erected a grist-mill, which he operated in connection with farming. He passed from this life in 1869, aged eighty-three years. His wife was Lydia Stroh, who was born in Berks County, Pa., and died in 1883, at the age of eighty-six years, leaving the following children: Peter; Levi; Amy; and Mathias H. Mathias H. Petty, the father of our subject's wife, was born November 25, 1832, and on December 28, 1854, he wedded Mary Pell, and left his father's home to establish one of his own. He followed farming fourteen years in his native township and six years in Salem township; in 1876 he moved to Briarcreek township, Columbia County, where lie has since been engaged in his chosen occupation. He owns one of the best farms in his section of the county and is recognized as a leader in the community. He is the father of ten children, all of whom are well-to-do citizens in the various localities in which they reside. They were named as follows: Hattie, the wife of our subject; Amy; Samuel; William; Charles M.; Margaret; Mary; Louise; Edyth; and Emily. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of three children, namely: Rose Lee, born in 1885; James Howard, born in 1887; and Arthur Mathias, born in 1893. Mr. Smith is a past master of Knapp Lodge, No. 462, F. & A. M.; a member of Berwick Lodge, No. 246, I. O. O. F.; Washington Camp, No. 105, P. O. S. of A.; and Royar Arcanum. His portrait is shown on a preceding page. (Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District, Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY: 1899. Consisting of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Sullivan Counties, pg. 529 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JOHN M. SMITH, who formerly was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Madison township, Columbia County, where he owns an excellent farm of 200 acres, is now a resident of Jerseytown, where he is living in retirement. He is a son of Elisha B. and Mary (Miller) Smith, and was born on the Smith homestead, near Jerseytown, March 8, 1826. John Smith, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of New Jersey, who located in Briarcreek township, Columbia County, where he remained a few years before removing to Madison township. In the latter place he purchased a tract of 400 acres of land and followed farming until his death. He and his wife Eleanor reared the following children: Henry; John; Francis; Hugh; Alexandria; Elisha B., the father of our subject; Elizabeth; Margaret; and Ann. Elisha B. Smith, after reaching manhood, succeeded his father on the old homestead in Madison township, where he was successfully engaged in cultivating the soil all of his life. He was called to his final rest in 1844, at the age of fifty-one years. In his political affiliations he was a Democrat and voted uniformly for that party. Religiously he was a member of the Reformed Church. He was united in the holy bonds of wedlock to Mary Miller, a daughter of Joseph Miller, a farmer of Mon-tour County, Pa., by whom he had three sons and two daughters: John M., the subject of this biographical record; Joseph, deceased, who was a farmer in Michigan; Margaret, deceased, who was the wife of George F. Fague of Muncy, Pa.; Elizabeth J., a maiden lady who resides with our subject; and Wilson W., a well-known business man of Hazleton, Pa. John M. Smith was reared on the farm and obtained his education in the common schools of his native town, after which he took up the occupation of a farmer. He resided on the old homestead, where he owned 200 acres of land and followed farming with excellent results until 1897, when he was enabled to retire from active labors and spend his declining years in the enjoyment of well-earned rest. He is now residing in the village of Jerseytown, where he has a large circle of acquaintances who hold him in high esteem as an estimable citizen and a true friend. During the Civil War he was unable to enter the service and consequently paid $600 for a substitute. Mr. Smith is a musician of considerable ability and for twenty-five years was teacher of a singing school. In 1862 our subject was joined in hymeneal bonds to Mary Pursel of Frosty Valley, Hemlock township, and they are the parents of three children: Elizabeth; Herman D., a bookkeeper of Williamsport, Pa.; and Gertrude. Mrs. Smith was called to her final rest in 1885, at the age of fifty-four years. (Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District, Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY: 1899. Consisting of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Sullivan Counties, pg. 123 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JOHN P. SMITH, proprietor of "Shuman's Hotel," P. O. Beaver Valley, was born in Shamokin, in the Mahoning Valley, this county, April 2, 1854, a son of Aaron and Mary E. (Fry) Smith. John Smith, his grandfather, was born and reared near Trevorton, Northumberland County, this State, where he farmed, dying there in about 1882. Aaron Smith was born in Irish Valley, near Trevorton, and lived there until about 1832, following the trade of stone-cutter and stone-mason. In 1832 he removed to Shamokin, where he followed contracting on stone-cutting and mason work, and has erected most of the large stone structures in that city for the last twelve years, among which may be mentioned the Polish Catholic Church. He followed business actively until the time of his death, December 12, 1883. His wife died in March, 1882, and both are buried in Irish Valley, Northumberland County. Our subject was reared in Shamokin, and at the age of sixteen commenced railroading on the Shamokin division of the Northern Central Railroad. He acted as brakeman on a freight train for about five years, and then went on the passenger train for about eighteen months; was then employed at flagging for about two years for the Pennsylvania Company, on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Road. After that he was appointed to a freight conductorship on the Sunbury division, which he held until March, 1883, when he resigned on account of feeble health. Later he took charge of the hotel which he now controls, and bought in December, 1885, a piece of land in Beaver Township, consisting of about fifty acres, to which, in March, 1886, he added thirteen acres and twenty perches. He was married in Black Creek Township, Luzerne County, June 18, 1873, to Miss Mary C. (Fry). Her father was a soldier in the civil war; was captured by the rebels, and died during the latter part of the war in Andersonville Prison, where he had been confined some four weeks. Her mother resides at Brandonville, Schuylkill County, and is now the wife of Henry CRroll. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of two children: Cora Belle and Gertrude. Mrs. Smithis a member of the Reformed Church. Mr. Smith is a member of Lodge No. 22, A. F. & A. M., at Sunbury.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 373 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

RICHARD T. SMITH, farmer, P. O. Taurus, was born July 4, 1845, in Benton Township, and remained on the old homestead until 1872. In 1873 he worked on the N. W. R. R., and in 1875 located on a farm in Briarcreek Township, this county, one year, removing thence to Nescopeck. He came to his present home in 1878, buying a farm of ninety-seven and a half acres. This was the George Dodson estate, is well cultivated and kept neat and tidy. Mr. Smith began teaching in 1869, and followed that profession for four successive winters, and again in 1875, since which time he has devoted his attention to farming, but still takes a great interest in educational matters, and likes to see all modern improvements in school work succeed. Besides teaching and farming he has engaged in lumbering for three years at Nescopeck, his family residing on the farm. At present he is engaged in conjunction with C. A. Wesley in erecting a large planing-mill and sash and door factory at Benton this county. Mr. Smith married, February 5, 1870, Frances, daughter of George and Hannah (Seeley) Dodson, and the following children have been born to their union: Torrence C., born January 21, 1871; Anna C., May 24, 1872; Edna G., May 23, 1876; Verdie E., December 4, 1877; Atta M., May 5, 1879; Lane T., December 17, 1884, and Firman E., November 13, 1885. Mr. Smith is a member of the I. O. O. F., and keeps the Taurus postoffice. George Dodson, the father of Mrs. Smith, came to Benton Township in 1839 from Town Hill. He was born February 1, 1804, near Harveyville, Luzerne Co., Penn., and died January 20, 1885, at his home at R. T. Smith's in Benton Township, Columbia Co., Penn. Until his marriage he made his home at "Dodson's mill," on Pine Creek, in Huntington Township, Luzerne County. July 10, 1828, he married Hannah Seeley, who was born in Salem Township July 4, 1806 In 1839 Mr. Dodson and his wife came to Benton Township, this county, where he took up a tract of land, 450 acres in all, covered with timber, and began to make a home out of the wilderness. Until 1866 he lived in a small house, which was situated across the road from the present residence of our subject. Later he erected the house which still stands there, but which has been greatly repaired. Here a large family was reared as follows: Susan B., born May 28, 1829; Mary Ann, April 14, 1831; Elias E., February 2, 1833; Margaret S., December 5, 1834; James T., June 11, 1837; Charles M., June 17, 1839; Caroline B., December 13, 1840 (died April 11, 1876); Chester S., January 6, 1843; Hulda R., August 5, 1846, and Frances A., December 17, 1848. Mr. DODSON was a man universally esteemed in Benton Township, and his death was deeply regretted. He was true to his principles of right, very evenly dispositioned, and reared a family worthy of himself. His widow makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. R. T. Smith.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 382 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

SAMUEL SMITH, sheriff of Columbia County, Bloomsburg, is a native of Butler Township, Luzerne Co., Penn., born May 8, 1841, a son of William and Elizabeth (Washburn) Smith. The former was a native of New Jersey and came with his father, Samuel Smith, to Luzerne County when he was a boy of six years. He was a prominent farmer and when his son Samuel was but three years old moved to Nescopeck, where our subject was reared until the age of eighteen years; then he began learning the blacksmith trade at White Haven, Penn., with his uncle, John Washburn, and after completing the same carried on the business in Nescopeck Township for four years. He was then employed by the Dupont Powder Company at Wapwallopen for two years. In 1869 he moved to Fishing Creek Township, this county, where he bought a farm and carried it on for fourteen years. In 1883 he moved to Stillwater and followed blacksmithing for three years. Mr. Smith is a Democrat and has for the past ten years, taken an active and influential part in the politics of the county. He served Fishingcreek six years as member of the school board, and in 1885 was elected sheriff of Columbia County, and is the present incumbent. He married in 1861 Hannah Harter, and thirteen children have been born to them: Aaron Freeze (deceased), Alice Margaret, William Jacob, Clara Ann, Eudora, John Clark, Albert Newton, Amanda Ella, Samuel Theodore, Charles Day and Daisy Delphine (twins), Leona Mabelle and Hannah Edna. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 361 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

SAMUEL E. SMITH, farmer, P. O. Berwick, was born in Mifflin Township Feb. 9, 1828, a son of Samuel and Jane (Engle) Smith, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Mifflin Township. His great-grandfathers on both sides came from England and fought with Wolfe at the capture of Quebec. They afterward settled in New Jersey, purchased a farm and followed agriculture. The maternal grandfather, John Engle, came from New Jersey to this county in the latter part of the last century, while he was a young man, remained a short time, made a settlement, returned to New Jersey, where he married; then came back to this county and resided until his death. During the Revolution he drove four horses too an ambulance, and on one occasion the heads of the two leading animals were taken off by a cannon ball. He was among the early settlers of Mifflin Township, and used to farm the old Henry Rittenhouse farm, now owned by S. J. Conner. Samuel Smith was quite young when he came too this county. He followed farming and was accidentally killed by a train of cars. He reared a family of twelve children, nine of whom are still living. Samuel E. was reared in Mifflin Township, and there remained until the spring of 1865; in 1866 he moved to where he now resides and bought a farm of seventy-one acres, on which he has made all the improvements. part of his land is in the borough of Berwick. In 1850 he married Esther A. Hull, and they are the parents of four children, two of whom are living: Boyd M. and Ida M. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has served two terms as auditor, and has also served as supervisor and overseer of the poor. Our subject's maternal grandfather, while in the Revolution, was sent out to capture some cattle, which were in a field surrounded by a brush fence, and while thus engaged he received a buckshot wound. Mr. Smith's father owned the first iron plow in this county, which he ordered made when he first settled at Mifflin. His nearest market at that time was Easton; fifteen and twenty bushels of grain were counted a big load.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 395 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

CLINTON CREVELING SNDYER, C.E., Espy, Columbia Co. - Engaged in engineering.(Record of the Men of Lafayette: Brief Biographical Sketches of the Alumni of Lafayette College from Its Organization to the Present Time By Selden Jennings Coffin, William Baxter Owen, Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) Published by The College, 1879 pg.114 Contributed by Vicki Hartman)
CLINTON CREVELING SNYDER, C.E., Scranton. - Born at Espy, Columbia county, May 19, 1854; since graduation he has been draughtsman for the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company at Scranton. (Record of the Men of Lafayette: Brief Biographical Sketches of the Alumni of Lafayette College from Its Organization to the Present Time By Selden Jennings Coffin, William Baxter Owen, Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) Published by The College, 1879 pg. 327 Contributed by Vicki Hartman)

DANIEL SNYDER (deceased), 1783-1855, was born in Northampton County, Penn., and was a son of John and Elizabeth (Stickler) Snyder, also natives of the same county, and he was one of six children, viz.: Catharine, married to Gen. Robert Brown, a gallant soldier of the Revolutionary war, elected to Congress several terms; Susan, married to Philip Wolfe; Mollie, married to Harness Neeley; John, a tanner at Watsontown, Northumberland County, where he died; Peter and Jacob. Our subject attended the English schools of his native county but a short time, and when about twenty-one years of age his father died, and he and a brother entered into a partnership on a farm. In one year Daniel became dissatisfied with farm life and withdrew to learn the tanner's trade. In 1809 he married Mary Magdalene Mickley, born April 2, 1792, in Allentown, Penn., daughter of Peter Mickley, who was born January 18, 1772, and Sarah Biery Mickley, born January 30, 1773 (Peter Mickley was a grandson of John Jacob Mickley (or Michelet) who came from Amsterdam, Holland, in the ship "Hope," of London, arriving in Philadelphia, August 28, 1733). Mr. and Mrs. Mickley had the following named children: Mary M.; Catharine, married to Daniel Berkholder; Sarah; Hannah; Susan; Christina; Jacob, and Charles. In 1810 Daniel Snyder came to Columbia County and bought twenty-six acres lying now within the limits of Bloomsburg, paying for the same L550 (550 pounds). He returned to Northampton County for his wife, and was told that the little stream which ran through his new farm in Columbia County, on which he intended to locate a tannery, would occasionally run dry. He for a time contemplated giving up his claim. Finally he started on a second trip to accomplish his original purpose. On the route he met Squire Hutchinson, who was going to Easton with a load of wheat, and the Squire assured him that the stream was a never-failing one. Fully convinced, he returned to Easton and employed Squire Hutchinson to haul him, his family and all to the little log cabin, which stood where now Second and East Streets, Bloomsburg, meet. He brought with him some leather, which he hoped to exchange for hides, but everybody who had pelts for sale wanted money, and Mr. Snyder, having only $100 left after erecting his tannery, was a second time discouraged, because he had to pay money for hides and sell leather on trust. A Mr. Wertman, who lived near, observed the pluck manifested by our subject, and offered him a few hundred dollars, which sum was accepted, and with which the foundation of his future success was laid. In ten years he was able to build a two-story brick house, and later turned it into a hotel, known as the "Forks Hotel." He subsequently rented it and moved into another property erected by him. His industry and economy added daily to his possessions, and aside from the tannery he owned considerable town property and five or six large farms, before his death. He was elected to the State Legislature a number of terms, and worked with all the energies in his power to secure the county seat at Bloomsburg. History tells in this work his complete success. His ever faithful consort, who still survives, blessed him with ten children: John, born December 3, 1810; William, born March 12, 1813, married first to Regina Worman, second to Mary Funk; Sarah A., who married Dr. William Petrikin, the father of Mrs. Gen. W. H. Ent, mentioned elsewhere; Melvina, who married Elisha Barton, the father of Mrs. Alice John and Mrs. Dr. Lazarus; Polly, born July 24, 1821; Daniel, born April 19, 1824, married Sarah W. Creveling, by whom he has Clinton C., a civil engineer, now in Florida; Mary B., married to William Milens who lives in this county, and Anna, who died young. (Daniel has followed the planing-mill business and is now a farmer and resides in Bloomsburg, and his aged mother lives with him. He has been overseer of the poor and is a worthy, upright man); Matilda, born January 18, 1827, married Rev. Henry Funk, a Reformed minister, the father of Nevin U. Funk, mentioned elsewhere; Mary C., born September 18, 1829, married Dr. F. C. Harrison; Martha Alice, who married Dr. T. C. Harter; Clinton B., born June 22, 1837, and died single December 13, 1852. In this volume appears an elegant steel portrait of Hon. Daniel Snyder, made from the latest photograph that could be found. It was contributed by Daniel Snyder, Nevin U. Funk, Mrs. Melvina Barton, Mrs. Sarah A. Petrikin, Mrs. Dr. Harter, C. W. Neal and Frank P. Billmeyer. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 362 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM SNYDER, born march 12, 1813, died October 11, 1867, married first to Regina Worman (by whom he had two children, both now deceased, to wit: Charles W. Snyder and Emma H., who was the wife of Mr. Clinton W. Neal), secondly, to Mary Funk (by whom he had one child, Anna Dora, now the wife of F. P. Billmeyer). William succeeded to the tanning business of his father, which he pursued with vigor and great financial success, and became one of the leading business men of his native town of Bloomsburg, and one of its most wealthy and substantial citizens. Every enterprise that had for its object the promotion of the best interests of his fellow-citizens, and the improvement of his town found in him a strong support. His purse, as well as his mind and hand, was ready for every worthy object. He was one of the chief promoters and contributors to the erection of the Bloomsburg Literary Institute, which grew and expanded into the now beautiful and stately normal school of the Sixth District. Besides giving his counsel and labor and thousands of dollars to this great and noble educational project, he with his sister, Mrs. Martha Alice Harter, donated the beautiful and extensive grounds attached to this institution. He was its first treasurer, in which office he continued to the time of his death. He laid out the William Snyder addition to the town of Bloomsburg, and it was while he was engaged in this and other plans of kindred public improvement that he was called away to his rest. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 363 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM B. SNYDER, of the firm of SNYDER Bros., merchants, Roaringville, was born in Locust Township, this county, June 29, 1858, a son of Mayberry and Margaret (Yeager) Snyder, natives of Pennsylvania and of English-German descent. His grandfather, john Snyder, came from New Jersey to this county at an early day and located in Mifflin Township, where he bought a farm, and died in 1852. His maternal grandfather, Yeager, was a stanch Democrat, and took an active part in politics; served one term as commissioner of this county. Our subject's father was born in Mifflin Township, this county; moved to Locust Township in 1847, and purchased a farm in 1866, where he has since resided and is still engaged in agricultural pursuits. He is the father of two children: William B. and John W. Our subject was reared on a farm and received a liberal education. In 1882-83 he was clerk in the postoffice and store of Jacob Yeager at Slabtown, and December 1, 1884, with his brother John, embarked in mercantile business, which he has since continued under the firm name of Snyder Bros. They started on a small scale, but their business soon increased, when they were obliged to seek more roomy quarters. They recently finished a fine two-story building, 26x32, with glass front in store-room, erected at an expense of $2,000. The Messrs. Snyder are enterprising young men, and deserve great credit for their manner of conducting business. William B. was married to Ida J. Cool December 1, 1886. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 498 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WM. H. SNYDER, prothonotary of Columbia County, Penn., was born in Orange Township in 1840, a son of John and Catharine Snyder. His father, a native of Berks County, Penn., of German descent, when a boy came to Columbia County. He was a stone-mason and plasterer by occupation, and served as constable of Orange Township for seventeen years. He was elected sheriff of said county in 1852, and re-elected in 1858, serving in all two terms or six years. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and died in 1878 aged sixty-seven years. He was married to Miss Catharine, a daughter of Henry Wolf, who also came to Columbia from Berks County, where he had been engaged in teaching German school. Mrs. Snyder is still living at Orangeville at the age of seventy-eight years. They had eleven children--four boys and seven girls--three of whom are dead: Mary C., Frank R. and John H. Wm. H. Snyder was educated at the Orangeville Academy and Greenwood Seminary, and began public school-teaching while a minor, which profession he followed for fourteen years. In 1872 he was elected county superintendent of public schools of Columbia County, which position he held for three terms or nine years, then declined serving longer. During this time he registered as law student with E. R. Ikeler, Esq., and was admitted in 1882; was elected prothonotary in 1884, which position he holds at present. He was married in 1868 to Miss Sarah M. Fleckenstine, daughter of Nathan and Catharine Fleckenstine, of Orangeville. Her ancestors are also of German descent; her father is a member of the Reformed and her mother of the Lutheran Church. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder had six children, of whom but one, Paul R., an infant, is living. John B. died in 1879; Willie R. in 1881, and Jennie C., Charles J. and George R. but a few weeks apart, of diphtheria, at Orangeville in 1884. They were aged respectively sixteen, thirteen and nearly two years. All are buried in Orangeville Cemetery. Jennie C. was a member of the Reformed Church, of which her parents are members. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, Bloomsburg, pg. 363 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

PHILIP WESLEY SONES, P. O. Sereno, sawyer and foreman of the Benfield Mills, was born May 20, 1832, in Moreland Township, Lycoming County, son of Peter and Savilla (Lowe) Sones. The paternal grandfather of P. W. was named Peter, as was also his great-grandfather, the latter of whom served through the Revolutionary war, and lived to the advanced age of ninety-eight years. Philip W. was reared in Moreland Township until ten years of age, when he removed a few years, and about the year 1853 he located in this township, purchasing the farm he now owns, and has since engaged in lumbering; for several years he has been foreman and sawyer in the Benfield mills. In May, 1853, he married Mary Ann, daughter of Lewis and Catharine (Hunter) Chamberlain. They have five children: Calvin L., Sarah C., Susan E., Lewis E. and Mary E. Mr. Sones is a member of the Evangelical Association, also of the Iola Lodge, I. O. O. F.; has been school director for twenty years, and is overseer of the poor. In politics he is a Democrat.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 531 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

A. W. SPEAR, farmer, P. O. Light Street, was born in Wayne County, N. Y., November 4, 1848, son of Rev. N. and Diantha (Wells) Spear. The former was born in Ware, Mass., and was there reared until he was a young man. His parents died when he was young, and he went to Wayne County, N. Y., where he followed tailoring and kept a store and postoffice. He removed from there to Wayne County, Penn., and there became connected with the American Tract Society and the American Bible Society, in the interests of which he traveled a number of years. He then acquired a taste for the ministry and educated himself for it with these societies. From Wayne County he removed to Scranton, Penn., and after severing his connection with these causes, he removed to Orangeville, this county, where he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church. He preached at Orangeville, at Raven Creek Church, in Benton Township, at Rohrsburg and afterward at New Columbia, Hemlock Township. He also preached at Light Street. This and Hidlay Church in Centre Township were his last charges. He retired from the ministry in 1882, and then bought property in Bloomsburg, where he has since resided. He is now the county agent of the American Bible Society. He has a farm of seventy-six acres in Centre Township. A. W. was ten years old when his family removed to Scranton and two years later moved to Orangeville, and lived with his parents, except seven years in Berwick and Wilkesbarre, Penn., working at the machinist's trade until he was married, when he located on his father's farm, where he now resides. He was married at New Columbia Church, this county, December 24, 1878, to Miss Anna M., a native of Montour County and daughter of Cornelius and Rosanna Steyer. Mr. and Mrs. Spear are the parents of two children: Eunice F. and Ruth W. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church, of which he is an elder. He is secretary of the Columbia County Sunday-school Association; is also one of the county auditors, and is an auditor in the Briarcreek Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 426 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

TILLMAN STADLER, painter and trimmer, P. O. Millville, was born August 24, 1841, in Turbotville, Northumberland Co., Penn., eldest son of Isaac and Caroline (Keener) Stadler. August 23, 1850, his father dying, he was placed in the care of strangers, and was brought up by a strict Presbyterian, who gave him good school advantages and who had designed to fit his protégé for the ministry, while Tillman had aspired to become a physician. This conflicting of previously formed plans resulted in an estrangement between the two, and Tillman, having received the elements of a classical education, and being ready for the second year in college, now gave his attention to teaching, and continued until the breaking-out of the Rebellion, when he enlisted April 24, 1861, in Company G, Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, for three months. After serving his time he returned home and was prostrated with camp fever for several weeks, but, after teaching one term of school, gained his health, and August 1, 1862, enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, for nine months, and was promoted to first sergeant. After serving out his time he went out with Company C, Two Hundred and First Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (time of enlistment one year), as color corporal, and served until the close of the war, being for six months of the last enlistment on detached duty as chief clerk of court martial in Alexandria, Va. After returning from the service he went to Lewisburg, Penn., and worked under instructions as carriage painter and trimmer. After his graduation he worked in various localities in the State, and since the fall of 1868 he has been permanently located in Millville in charge of the painting and trimming department in the noted Millville Wagon Manufactory. He was married in 1867 to Elmira, daughter of Peter Fogleman. They have two children: Frank and Ada M. Mr. Stadler is a member of the Christian Church; of the A. Y. M., Bloom Lodge No. 264; of the I. O. O. F.; and the G. A. R., Bryson Post No. 225.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 481 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

AUGUST STAUDER, tanner, Rhorsburg, was born September 17, 1837, in Reistenhausen, Prussia, a son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Hoenig) Stauder. His parents had a family of five children, August, Caroline, Frederick, Rosa and Della, none of whom came to America except August. At the age of thirteen August began to learn the tanner's trade, serving five years' apprenticeship, after which he traveled for five years and worked in many places. In 1864 he landed in New York and worked in the Steinway Piano Manufactory for some months; then went to Elizabethtown, N. J., where he worked in a tannery, returning after a year to New York, where he worked at his trade. A year later he went to Scranton and worked for some months in Huntsdale and Wilkesbarre, Penn., and in the latter place was foreman in a large tannery. He then moved to Light Street, where he worked as foreman for a time; then moved to Briarcreek and for four years worked for Joseph Conner, and during the four years saved $1,999, and with the money came to Rohrsburg and purchased the tannery of Perry Smith, and eighteen acres. Here he has since resided and has added to his land from time to time until now he has ninety-two acres. He has erected the principal buildings and operates the tannery. He married, September 22, 1874, Sarah E. Fry, who was born in this county, a daughter of Frederick Fry. Mr. and Mrs. Stauder have four children: Maggie, Rosa, Joseph and Bertha. Mr. Stauder is a member of Albright Church, and politically is a Democrat.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 481 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JAMES M. STAVER, who owns a half interest in the establishment of E. C. Caswell & Company, one of Bloomsburg's most prominent industries, and a highly respected citizen of that town, was born in Pine Creek township, Lycoming County, Pa., February 21, 1855, and is a son of John and Mary (Nicely) Staver. The father of our subject was also born in Pine Creek township, Lycoming County, Pa., and upon growing to manhood moved to Jersey Shore, Pa., where he embarked in the lumber business and became one of the valued members of the community. He was united in marriage with Mary Nicely, and they were the parents of four children, named as follows: Lizzie, deceased; Carrie, widow of A. J. Sypher; Martin Luther, a prominent real estate and insurance man residing in Jersey Shore, Pa.; and James M., the subject of this sketch. John Staver, who still resides at his home in Jersey Shore, is now eighty-two years old. In politics is a Prohibitionist, being greatly opposed to the use of intoxicating liquors. James M. Staver was reared and educated in Jersey Shore, Pa., his father having moved there while James was a mere lad; during his early manhood he worked on his father's farm and at the age of seventeen engaged as a clerk in the store owned by Howard & Staver, remaining there until 1876, when he engaged in business with his father, under the firm name John Staver & Sons. In 1882 he removed to Bloomsburg and accepted a position as bookkeeper and cashier for Caswell Brothers & Company. In 1888 he purchased a one-third interest in the business and later increased his share in the business to one-half interest. The Bloomsburg Woolen Manufacturing Company was established in 1882 by E. C. Caswell and S. A. Caswell; they erected a three-story building, 54x124 ft., with a boiler and engine room 26x36 ft., at a cost of $15,000; fitted the plant with 14 looms and the latest improved machinery to manufacture fancy dress goods, the factory and machinery costing in the neighborhood of $30,000; they use only XX fine merino wool, and employ some 40 hands. Upon the death of S. A. Caswell, E. C. Caswell bought out his heirs, and the business was conducted under the name of E. C. Caswell & Company. In 1888 our subject was taken in as partner, and a dye house, 30x36 ft., added to the plant. The building is heated throughout by steam supplied by a 50 horse-power engine; they have three sets of cards and 1,260 spindles. At 1 o'clock, September 30, 1896, a tornado passed over the town of Bloomsburg, completely destroying the upper floor of the mills, by which the firm sustained a loss of $8,000. Ten days previously a hail-storm had demolished over 1,000 windows. The building was immediately rebuilt and in two months business was again in full sway. The goods manufactured by this firm are of the finest quality and are shipped directly to New York City, where they own a large wholesale warehouse, and from there they are shipped throughout the United States. Mr. Staver is a stockholder in many other enterprises of Bloomsburg, and is regarded as one of the most progressive business men of his community. Mr. Staver is a member of La Belle Valley Lodge, No. 232, F. & A. M., Jersey Shore, Pa.; past high priest and treasurer of Bloomsburg Chapter, No. 218, R. A. M.; past grand master and treasurer of Mt. Moriah Council, No. 10; past E. M. commander and treasurer of Crusade Commandery, No. 12, K. T.; V. J. G. W. of the Ancient and Accepted Order of Scottish Rite; member of Enoch Grand Lodge of Perfection; past E. S. P. G. master of Zerrubabel Council, P. of J., 16th degree; G. O. of Evergreen Chapter of Rose Croix, 18th degree; second Lt. Com. of Caldwell Consistory, S. P. R. S., 32nd degree; past junior general of Orient Conclave, No. 2; and member of Lu Lu Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. of Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Staver's portrait is shown on a preceding page. (Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District, Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY: 1899. Consisting of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Sullivan Counties, pg. 545 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

C. W. STEAD, agent and operator on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad at McAuley Station, was born in Bloomsburg, Columbia County, October, 19, 1856, a son of Samuel and Mary (Long) Stead, the former a native of England. The parents reside near Muncy, Lycoming county. When our subject was ten or eleven years of age his parents moved to Lycoming County, Penn., and there he resided until coming to Columbia County to fill his present position. He entered the office of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad at Muncy, about 1876, and served an apprenticeship. He worked as extra operator at the different offices of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad between Lofty and Williamsport for over two years, and was assigned to his present position in April 1882.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 374 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

EZRA STEPHENS, farmer, P. O. Central, was born in Sugarloaf Township, Columbia Co., Penn., January 31, 1820. His father was a native of Connecticut, and descended from ancestors who came over in the Mayflower. The great-grandfather of Ezra in an early day moved from Massachusetts to Connecticut, where the grandfather died, and from which State the father of Ezra went to the State of New York when nine years of age; there he lived until the age of nineteen years, when he settled in Columbia County, Penn., where he remained until his death. His birth occurred in 1798. Ezra Stephens lives at present in Jackson Township, attending to the saw-mill of A. Stewart, located in the northwest corner of the township. His life has been spent in Sugarloaf Township (except during his term of service in the army), where he cleared up a large farm in his time, and now owns a good property. October 16, 1862, he was drafted in the United States service, and served until August 11, 1863, during which time he was at Fortress Monroe, Newport News, Yorktown and Whitehouse Landing. He was a preacher at one time in the Methodist Church, but has to some extent abandoned the calling. Mr. Stephens has reared a family of seven boys and two girls.(History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 542 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

GEORGE W. STERNER, register and recorder of Columbia County, Bloomsburg, is a native of Madison Township, this county, born April 2, 1846, a son of John S. and Juda (Trump) Sterner. His father is a contractor and builder and has carried on that business extensively in Bloomsburg, and through the county from 1837 to the present time (1886), besides brick-making and farming. George W. was educated in the public schools and normal school of Bloomsburg, also attended Dickinson Seminary at Williamsport, two years, and one year the State Institute at Ypsilanti, Mich. After finishing his studies he engaged in teaching, and followed that profession for thirteen terms, six of which were spent in Bloomsburg. He was married August 6, 1873, to Mary A., a daughter of Ira Davenport, a merchant and banker at Plymouth, Luzerne Co., Penn. In 1874 he built the large store-building on the northeast corner of Second Street and Murray's Alley, part of which he occupies as a residence. In that year also he began the business of a contractor and builder, brick-maker, etc., which he followed until the fall of 1877. He has always taken an active part in the politics of the county, and in 1868 was a delegate to the county convention, also served in that capacity for several consecutive years. In 1875 he was elected assessor in the west district of Bloomsburg, and was a member of the Bloomsburg Council. In 1878 he was a candidate, though not nominated, but in 1881 was nominated and elected register and recorder; re-elected in 1884, and is the present incumbent. To the duties of his office he is very attentive; his books and records are models of neatness, and his courteous treatment of all who have business with him, whether official or otherwise, is the well deserved cause of his universal popularity, not only as a trusted public official, but as an honored and respected citizen. As an ardent Democrat there is none more loyal to his party; as a citizen he is enterprising and substantial, and as a soldier he was brave and patriotic. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered in August 6, 1862, for nine months. The regiment was soon ordered to Camp Whipple near Washington; was part of the reserve at second Bull Run, and was afterward attached to Gens. Sumner's and Couch's corps, Third Division, Third Brigade of the Army of the Potomac. He participated in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and on the expiration of his term of service, returned home. August 31, 1864, he enlisted for one year in Company E, Two Hundred and Ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in which he was appointed second sergeant of the company and subsequently color-bearer sergeant of the regiment. The regiment reported at Bermuda Hundred and participated in skirmishes in and around that vicinity, and afterward took part in the fight at Hatcher's Run, Fort Steadman and in the charge on the enemy's works in front of Petersburg, Va., April 1, 1865, and subsequently was engaged with the Army of the Potomac until the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. After the battle of Petersburg he was in command of the company until mustered out May 31, 1865, when he returned home and resumed the occupation mentioned previously, remaining, however, with his father until of age. Our subject's religious convictions are Methodist. Mr. and Mrs. Sterner have four children: Hattie E., John D., Mabel Estella and Mary Edna. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 363 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

Dr. A. P. STODDART, Orangeville, was born in the city of Philadelphia, June 25, 1857, a son of John A. and Mary C. (Kennard) Stoddart, the latter a daughter of Rev. Joseph H. Kennard, a prominent divine of that place. Our subject was educated in Philadelphia, commenced reading medicine in 1877, and graduated from the Hannemann Medical College March 10, 1880. He then began the practice of his profession in a hospital of his native city, where he remained a short time. He then moved to this county and engaged in the practice of his profession in this township, where he has an excellent patronage. He married in April, 1883, Lizzie B., daughter of Joseph Lilley, of Light Street. Dr. Stoddart is a zealous member of the Masonic order, Oriental Lodge, No. 460, A. Y. M. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg 526-527 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM STOCKER, farmer, P. O. Catawissa, was born in Northumberland County, Penn., March 9, 1822, a son of Alexander and Jane (Shannon) Stocker, who were born near Belfast, Ireland. His grandfather, Samuel, came from Ireland at an early day, and settled in Northumberland County, this State. He first contracted on the canal, but soon adopted farming, which pursuit he followed during life. His parents were married on coming to America, and settled in Northumberland County. There his father contracted a few years on the canal, but in 1831 moved to Rush Township, where he followed farming. In 1833 he moved to Danville, where he farmed and did teaming. He lived here until 1840, when he moved to Columbia County and settled in Franklin Township, where he farmed until his death, which occurred April 8, 1868. Our subject was reared on a farm until twenty-five years of age, when he learned the carpenter's trade in 1847 in Schuylkill County, and followed it twenty-one years. In 1855 he bought the farm where he now lives, but remained on it only one year. In 1869 he moved on the farm now owned by Charles Hughes. Mr. Stocker now owns 247 acres of land, two first-class houses and three fine farms. He was married in May, 1850, to Christiana Yetter, and they have one daughter, Sarah J., wife of Washington F. Manhardt. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg 463 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

ELLIS S. STOKER, farmer, P. O. Stillwater, was born May 17, 1842, in this township. His father, John Stoker, occupied the farm now owned by John Zaner until 1844, when he moved to a farm of 300 acres, which he had purchased across the creek, and which is now occupied by Ellis S. There he died in August, 1853, sixty-three years old. He was a man of great integrity and benevolence, and took deep interest in the Christian Church, of which he was a leading member. His wife, Esther Bright , died February 14, 1880, aged eighty-one years. Their children were as follows: Jacob, who died in this township; Sallie Ann, wife of Elias McHenry, of Benton; Russell, in Iowa; Phebe Ellen, wife of William Hulme, of Benton; Almira, wife of Jos. F. McHenry, of Stillwater; Louisa, wife of Daniel Edgar, of Luzerne County; James F., of Philadelphia; Martha, wife of John V. McHenry (she died in 1862); William Mc., of this township, and Ellis S., our subject, is the youngest of the family, and was but twelve years of age when his father died. He remained with his mother, working on the farm and in the saw-mill until his marriage, when he moved to that part of the farm where he now resides, and which he received from the estate. Five or six years ago he erected a fine substantial house and out-buildings, to which he removed, and in August, 1886, bought back the old farm of 170 acres and two sets of buildings. June 21, 1863, he married Miss Hannah A., daughter of Thomas Davis, of Benton Township. She was born May 22, 1838, and has borne her husband three children: Howard Dell, born in April, 1864, and died at the age of three weeks; Lewis A., born May 1865, and Hilbert Stanley, born April 3 1873, both of whom live with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Stoker are members of the Christian Church. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle - 1887, pg. 454 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

OLDEN STOKES, tanner, P. O. Forks, is a great-grandson of James Stokes who moved from Bucks County to the Bear Gap, Northumberland County (near the Montour County line), and where he owned all the property on what is now the grist-mill, and there died. His son, Joseph, came to Roaringcreek Township, this county, and was the first teacher and surveyor (making the original surveys) in that part of the county. He and wife, Mrs. Rebecca (Lee) Stokes, settled in that part of Roaringcreek which is now Locust Township. He died in Bucks County forty-five years ago, aged about seventy years. His wife died in Locust township. He had a numerous family, and his descendants are still to be found in the county. His son, James, the father of Olden, was born in 1791 and died in 1860. He followed carpenter work and cabinet-making during the summer, and taught school in the winter seasons, but in his latter years devoted himself exclusively to teaching. He was a member of the Society of Friends and a leading member in meeting, of which he was for years clerk. His tastes were literary, and he contributed considerably to papers and periodicals, and was also a poet of no mean order. His wife, Deborah, daughter of Mahlon Hoar, was born about the same year as her husband and died in 1861. Their children were Hampton, who died when a young man; James, in Minnesota; John C., who died in Scranton, Penn., in 1885, and Olden, our subject, is the second child, and was born August 3, 1826. He received such an education as the times afforded, and in 1844 began to learn the tanner's trade, at which he worked many years in Catawissa; thence to Berwick, and later to Black Creek, Luzerne County, where he remained four years. He then spent three years in Hollenback Township, same county. He then bought a tannery at Foundryville, in Briarcreek, which he operated fourteen years; then sold out and bought a property at Martzville, near Berwick, where he resided two years, when he exchanged it for the property he owns in this township, on Huntington Creek, where he resumed the tanning business. July 1, 1866, he married Eliza, daughter of Michael Fort, of Lehigh County, where she was born in 1827. They had two children, one of whom died in infancy, and Hannah Janie, born January 7, 1868, who lives with her parents. Mr. Stokes was born and reared among the Society of Friends, but his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle - 1887, pg. 455 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

SOLOMON STRAUSER, farmer, P.O. Roaring Creek, was born in Northumberland County, Penn., August 15, 1825; a son of Peter and Mary Adams) Strauser, natives of Pennsylvania and of German descent. His grandfather, Casper Adams, came from Germany, settled in Northumberland County, where he bought a large tract of land, and followed farming all his life near Elysburg. Our subject's father was born in Berks County, Penn., and while young went to Northumberland County, where he followed farming a number of years. In 1834 he removed to where our subject now resides, bought 100 acres of land, to which he afterward added, and there lived until his death in 1856. He was the father of ten children, four of whom are living: Mary, Solomon, Levina and Peter. Our subject was reared on the farm; at the age of twenty-three married and moved to Slabtown, where he worked by the day for one year. After his father's death he bought the farm of 111 acres and moved on it, where he has since lived. He married, August 15, 1847, Louisa Helwig, who has borne him eleven children, seven of whom are living: David, John, Nathaniel, Sarah (wife of Richard Adams), Elias, Harney and Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Strauser are members of the church. He served as overseer of the poor and has been supervisor eight years. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 498 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

ALONZO J. SULT is the well-known proprietor of the Berwick Steam Laundry at No. 318 East Front street, Berwick, one of the most successful in Central Pennsylvania. He has not only a large patronage in Berwick, but an established reputation in the principal cities in this section of the state, having a good custom in Scranton, Wilkesbarre, Catawissa, Pittston, Northumberland, and many smaller villages. He is a son of Daniel and Catherine (Geddes) Sult, and was born in Berwick, April 4, 1845. He is a grandson of Peter Sult, who was born in Northampton County, where he followed the trade of a cooper until 1823 when he moved to Berwick, Columbia County. There he followed his trade until his death and was a very prosperous man. He served in the borough council and was supervisor for a number of terms. He was united in. marriage to Magdalena Kester, and they reared the following children: James; Stephen, of Lockport, N. Y.; Julia, wife of John Switzer; Mary, wife of David Wagoner; Daniel; Charles of Peoria, Ill.; Sarah, wife of C. A. Becker; Eliza, who married James Hover; and William, a resident of Peoria, Ill. Mr. Sult died at the age of seventy-four years, and his worthy wife was sixty-nine years of age when she closed her eyes in final sleep. Daniel Sult, father of our subject, was born in Northampton County, Pa., and came to Berwick with his father when young. He was employed as a mechanic by The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company, after which he was track manager for the D., L. & W. R. R. from Kingston to Northumberland. He then worked at the carpenter's trade until 1863, when he was employed in the pattern shop of The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company, continuing until his death, at the age of seventy-four years. He was united in marriage to Catherine Geddes, a daughter of Thomas Geddes, and they were the happy parents of four children: Sarah, who married a Mr. Reichard; Adelia E., deceased; Alonzo J., the subject of this personal history; and Jessie P., deceased. Alonzo J. Sult received his intellectual training in the public schools of Berwick, after which he learned the trade of a stationary engineer. He was then in the employ of The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company for thirty years after which, on January 1, 1893, he became proprietor of the steam laundry which he has-since conducted. The laundry occupies a two-story building, 35 by 43 feet, and is supplied with the latest-improved machinery which enables him to do first-class work in every respect. The plant is heated throughout by steam, and lighted by gas and electric lights. By his courteous and straightforward manner of dealing with every one, Mr. Sult has worked up a good patronage which will compare favorably with any in this section of the state. He employs only skilled workmen and the work turned out is always satisfactory to his customers. He has a comfortable home on the same lot with the laundry, which he has remodeled and supplied with all modern conveniences. Mr. Sult was united in matrimonial bonds to Nancy J. Boyles, a daughter of James Boyles of Berwick, and they are the happy parents of six children, namely: Walter M., bookkeeper for the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. at Wilkesbarre, Pa., who married Elizabeth Campbell, and they have one daughter, Margaret; Daniel, assistant to his father, who married Ella Brown, by whom he had one son, Alonzo; Lloyd F., a bookkeeper and stenographer for the P. & R. R. R. at Wilkesbarre, who wedded Elizabeth Stifnagle; William B., a laundryman, who married Ida Berkheimer; Robert E. P., who is a student; and Margaret, the first born, who died at the age of two years. On July 2, 1862, Mr. Sult enlisted in Company H, 84th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., but was discharged October 3, of the same year, owing to an attack of typhoid fever. He again enlisted with Company B, 194th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., and received his discharge November 5, 1864. February 7, 1865, he re-enlisted in Company A, 74th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., and served until the close of the war, receiving his discharge August 29, 1865. In political views, he classes himself as an Independent. Socially he is a member of the P. O. S. of A., and the Knights of the Golden Eagle of which he is past chief. (Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District, Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY: 1899. Consisting of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Sullivan Counties, pg. 235 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

G. W. SUPLEE, Bloomsburg, was born in Chester County, Penn., July 29, 1825, to Samuel and Catherine (Rinewalt) Suplee. The Suplee family are of French extraction but for several generations have been residents of Pennsylvania and have followed farming. Samuel was born and reared in Chester County, where he married Miss Catherine Rinewalt, also a native of the same county. To them were born five children, four now living: George W.; Emeline, widow of Charles H. Soper of Los Angeles, Cal.; John R., in Lawrence, Kas., and Mary, wife of Robert Evans, in Philadelphia. Sarah is deceased. Samuel Suplee died April 23, 1875; his widow survived him just ten years, dying April 23, 1885. They are buried in the Green Tree Church graveyard, in Upper Providence Township, Montgomery County. He had farmed in that township until ten years before his death, when he and his wife removed to Philadelphia, where he lived a retired life. Our subject was reared to the age of nine years in Chester County, when his parents moved to Philadelphia, and three years later to Montgomery County, where he lived until the age of thirty-two years; then he bought a farm in Anthony Township, Montour County, and farmed here for eight years. He then sold out and bought a farm in Madison Township, Columbia County, where he resided until April, 1886, when he bought a residence property in Bloomsburg, moving to the city and renting his farm. He married in Montgomery County, April 4, 1852, Miss Sarah Hamer, a native of Montgomery County, and daughter of Humphrey and Mary Hamer. When Mrs. Suplee was a child her mother died, and her father in 1845. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Suplee, four of whom are living: Antoinette, wife of Cyrus DeMott, in Madison Township; Gertrude, wife of Albert Girton in Madison Township; Horace G. and Annie. The deceased are Emeline, Mary Catherine, Sallie Wells and George, who was accidentally killed by falling from a window of the normal school where he was a student, January 25, 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Suplee are members of the Baptist Church. While a resident of Montour County, he was justice of the peace for one term, and held many township offices while a resident of Madison Township, Columbia County. He has a farm in that township of 135 acres. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, Bloomsburg, pg. 364 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

HORACE G. SUPPLEE, who efficiently served as manager of the Farmers' Produce Exchange from 1886 until he purchased the establishment in 1898, is one of the leading citizens of Bloomsburg. He was born at White Hall, Pa., October 27, 1859, and is a son of George W. and Sarah (Hamer) Supplee. His grandfather was Samuel Supplee, who was a prosperous farmer of Chester County, and who married Catherine Reinwald, both of whom lived to reach an advanced age. George W. Supplee, the father of our subject, was born near Phoenixville, Chester County, and settled on a farm in Montour County in 1857, and eight years later purchased a farm at Jerseytown, upon which he made many improvements and followed agricultural pursuits for many years. Subsequently he sold the estate, which is now owned by A. J. Zeis-loft, and retired to Bloomsburg, where he resided until his death, in October, 1896, aged seventy-one years. His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Hamer, was born July 1, 1826, and is a daughter of Murphy and Mary (White) Hamer, both of whom died at an early age, and were survived by the following children: Martha; Jane; William; James; Sarah, our subject's' mother; Hannah; and Robert. As a result of their union Mr. and Mrs. Supplee became the parents of the following children: Antoinette, wife of C. De Mott; Gertrude, whose union with A. Girton resulted in the following issue,—Raymond. Frederick, Otto, Robert and Archie; Horace G., the subject of this personal history; Anna, who married J. Nuss, and has two children, Ruth and Preston; and George, who died at the age of seventeen years. Horace G. Supplee, after completing the prescribed course in the public schools, attended Greenwood Seminary and the Bloomsburg State Normal School. He then engaged in teaching for seven terms, or until 1886, when he accepted his present position as manager of the Farmers' Produce Exchange, one of the most enterprising concerns in the town. It was established in 1882, in a large brick building, three stories high, which was erected at a cost of $8,000 and was incorporated with a capital of $10,000. In the fall of 1898 Mr. Supplee purchased the entire plant. He carries a complete line of general merchandise, grain, fertilizers, plaster, salt, groceries, flour, feed, hay, wooden and willowware, boots, shoes and all kinds of country produce; in fact, everything that is needed by a housekeeper, including furniture and carpets. The store is well arranged, neat in appearance, and everything about it has an air of prosperity, which bespeaks the excellence of Mr. Supplee's management. The Exchange is very desirably located, being situated at No. 601 Market street. Mr. Supplee was united in matrimonial bonds to Eleanora Bryfogle, a daughter of Daniel and Emma (Gould) Bryfogle, and they are the happy parents of two children: Mabel, born in Bloomsburg November 4, 1889; and George W., also born in Bloomsburg February 21, 1894. Mr. Supplee served in the town council one term. He is a Republican in his political views. He is a member of the Baptist Church, of which he has been a deacon for several years. Socially, he is a member of Washington Lodge No. 265, F. & A. M.; Chapter No. 218, R. A. M.; Crusade Commandery No. 12, Knights Templar; and Caldwell Consistory of Bloomsburg, of which he is treasurer. (Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District, Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY: 1899. Consisting of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Sullivan Counties, pg. 309 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

Wesley W. SUTLIFF, dentist, Runyan, is a grandson of Miles Stuliff, who, with his wife, came from Connecticut and settled in Huntington Township, Luzerne Co., Penn. There they had a farm and also a hotel, which was probably the first in the township, and their both died. They had eleven children: Bernard, Stiles, Daniel, Abel, Wells, Washington, Wesley, Miles, Hannah, Amelia and Roxana; two now survive: Daniel, in Huntington Township, and Hannah, widow of George Souder, in same township. Abel was the father of our subject and was born May 2, 1808, and died in the same township June 28, 1868. His wife, Lydia Brader, was born October 27, 1809, and is now living on the old home in Luzerne County. Abel was a large landholder, owning three farms; he was a member of the Baptist Church, and his wife is also a member. They had fourteen children: Miles M., in Shickshinny; Samuel B., a farmer; Rosanna E., unmarried, with her mother; Roxana, widow of Andrus Zimmerman; John W., a farmer; Amelia M., wife of John W. Kingsbury; Sterling D., a farmer; James M. a farmer, all in Huntington Township; Ross C., died in that township, leaving a wife and son to survive him; Bernard, died in infancy; Cornelia A., wife of John A. Fulkison; Emma T., wife of Bingly Franklin; an infant, who died unnamed, and Wesley W. The last named was the sixth child, born on the home farm September 30, 1838, and lived on the farm until he was twenty-one years old; then worked and earned enough to attend school three years. He graduated in 1863 at Crittenden Commercial College, Philadelphia. While attending the Orangeville Academy he was drafted, and after serving some months was discharged on account of disability. In July, 1863, he served in the emergency corp at Chambersburg. For a year after graduating he worked as clerk and agent, and August 27, 1864, enlisted for three years in Company B, One Hundred and Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serving until the regiment was discharged. He was then transferred and made corporal to Company B, One Hundred and Eighty-eight Pennsylvania, and served until December 14, 1865, when he was finally discharged at City Point, Va. Coming home he accepted an agency, at which he worked until 1873, when he began the study of dentistry in the State of New York, and has since followed that profession. In 1874 he built the residence in Asbury, this township, which he has since made his home. His practice covers a large territory, which he visits at regular intervals. When Dr. Sutliff built his home he determined on making it a model one. This he has succeeded in doing, taking water from a spring fifty rods from his house. He has it conducted in underground pipes to his house and barn, in both of which he has an unfailing supply. In the house, by an ingeniously arranged system of pipes of his own invention, he runs a thirty-inch wheel from a huge tank, containing seventy-five barrels of water, in his cellar, which operates a churn in his buttery above, a gate, which is regulated in an instant, guaging the supply. This wheel also gives the power, by a connection below, to run an ice-cream freezer. When not in use the water can be shut off in a moment. The overflow from the tank runs through a large trough in the cellar, in which is kept butter, cream, etc. From there the waste water is conveyed through pipes into a large fish pond, in which are German and French carp. The apparatus, entirely of his own invention, is simple, practical and a great labor saver. November 9, 1871, Dr. Sutliff married Catherine, daughter of Peter Eveland, of Asbury. She was born December 24, 1838, and has borne her husband two children: Bruce E., born in Huntington township October 4, 1873, and Myrtie M., born in Asbury, March 16, 1875, died February 20, 1880. The Doctor is a member of the Mountain Lodge, 264, I. O. O. F., of Orangevile, also of the K. of P., of the Grange, and of the Colombia county Agricultural Society. He is a member of the Baptist Church, of which he has been deacon, but Mrs. Sutliff is a member of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle - 1887, pg. 455 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

M. A. SWANK, merchant, Catawissa, was born in Catawissa Township, this county, May 6, 1845, a son of Jacob and Lydia (Waterhouse) Swank, natives of Pennsylvania and of German descent. His grandfather, George, lived in Northumberland County, Penn., where he owned a farm and followed agricultural pursuits all his life. Our subject's father was born in Northumberland County, and was a brick-maker by trade, which he followed until coming to this county, in 1838, and for a number of years thereafter. He was then employed by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad for about eleven years; then took up farming and gardening, which he has followed since. He resides about two miles east of Catawissa, where he owns a farm; is now in his seventieth year, but hale and stout. He was the father of nine children, six of whom are now living: Sarah Getchey, Martin A., Wellington, Elwood, Clara Irwine and Anna Getchey. Our subject was reared on the farm, but, being crippled, never worked much on it. He attended school until he was about eighteen years old, and remained at home until the spring of 1877, when he engaged in mercantile business in Catawissa, and here has since remained. He carries a general line of groceries and dry goods valued at $5,000; has quite an extensive trade and is one of the leading merchants of the town. He married in 1881 Louisa Geist, by whom he had two children: George and Ethel. Mr. and Mrs. Swank attend the services of the Church. (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg. 408 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)