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THE HISTORY 
 
 l)F THK 
 
 WAGENELEB FAIL! IN AIEBICA, 
 
 With Kindred Branches. 
 
 Edited and Oompiled by 
 
 GEO. W. -^AGENSELLER, A. M., 
 
 iMiddleburgh, Pa. 
 
 "Those who do not look upon tliemselveg as a link connecting the past wltli 
 the future do not pertorm their duty to the world."— Daniel Webster, 
 
 MIDDLEBVROH, PEJiXA.: 
 WAGENhELLER PlIBllSHISTG COSIPANT, 
 
 1898. 
 
JBatered Aocordlng to Act ol Congress 
 In tlie year 1898 by 
 OBOKQE W. WAGENSBLLER. 
 
 All Tights reserTed. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Ln presenting this volume of family history to the 
 public and especially to those most interested in its con- 
 tents, the author feels a great pleasure, but mingled with 
 this he finds a strong under current of regret. The data 
 long ere this should have been collected and preserved. 
 Now, alas ! we know not how much has been lost. The 
 information now obtainable concerning the revered founder 
 of our family in America is very meagre, but we still hope 
 that time and research will yet reveal some important in- 
 formation so much coveted. The argument was used by 
 some of our good friends that the publication of this vol- 
 ume should be delayed in order to secure more time and 
 hence additional opportunity to make further research. 
 This idea is a good one, but in order to get the book pub- 
 lished, it was necessary not only for the author to con- 
 tribute his services, but to select a time and opportim- 
 ity to publish the book at a minimum cost in order to 
 avoid the imfortunate condition of a losing venture, which, 
 even with the strictest economy, is not yet assured. With 
 all this the author was compelled to rob his business of 
 much valuable time in order to accomplish this result. 
 Hence, any additional delay would militate too much up- 
 on time that requires a more substantial reward. It is a 
 pleasure, then, that so much has been accomplished, but a 
 regret that so much must be left unearthed. 
 
 The appearance of this volume, at this time, must 
 not be misconstrued to mean that no additional research 
 
WA GEN8ELLEB HI8T0R Y. 
 
 shall be made, but on the other hand, putting the informa- 
 tion already collected into the hands of those most inter- 
 ested, all will be in a better position to make research and 
 notes upon all connecting lines, jot them down upon the 
 blank pages in the back part of the book in order to pre- 
 serve them. The time will come sooner or later when 
 such information can be used. If any errors have occur- 
 red, and we know there have, for it is an impossibility to 
 handle so many dates without errors, also note these upon 
 the blank pages and report them at once to the undersigned. 
 
 In our work we have had the co-operation of a great 
 many different persons who faithfully did their share of 
 the work and to all of them we acknowledge our sincere 
 gratitude for their devotion and loyalty to the preserva- 
 tion of the family records. We desire especially to ac- 
 knowledge in grateful remembrance the invaluable services 
 of Mrs. M. H. Hazzard of West Chester, Pa.; Hon. A. B. 
 Longaker, Norristown, Pa.; Mr. William Summers, Con- 
 shohocken, Pa. and to Mr. Henry S. Dotterer, 1 305 North 
 Thirteenth Street, Philadelphia, who is the author of the 
 "Perkiomen Region," a bound volume treating largely of 
 the original Wagenseller locality, from whose pages we 
 drew a great deal of data. There are many others who 
 deserve special mention here, but space forbids. There is 
 another class, and one entirely too large, who have neg- 
 lected to answer even a single letter. It is this class who 
 have erected barriers to the speedy and effectual dispo- 
 sition of a labor of love. 
 
 In the compilation of this work, after examining a 
 number of different systems, we have adopted the one in 
 use as the most popular and the one most easily followed. 
 Every character is numbered and whenever one of them is 
 to be taken up later for a more complete consideration, a 
 plus (+) mark is prefixed to the number. The exponents 
 are used to designate the generations to which a character 
 belongs, thus, WILLIAM^, {John^, Christopher'^,) p. 37, 
 indicates that William belongs to the third generation ; 
 John, his father, to the second, and Christopher, his grand- 
 
1 1 U GENSELLER HIisrOR Y. 
 
 father to tlie first generation. The frontispiece represents 
 the headstones at the graves of John and Margaret Wag- 
 enseller in the Old Trappe buryiug-ground in Montgomery 
 County, Pa. Those who are not familiar with the Ger- 
 man, will find a free translation of the inscriptions on page 
 19. In the back part of the book, page 209, will befound 
 a picture of the Post Printing Office, where this his- 
 tory was published. 
 
 Witli this introduction we submit this volume to the 
 interested reader asking for lenient criticism for errors and 
 that censure for deficiencies be placed where they properly 
 belong. 
 
 Respectfully submitted. 
 
 Middleburgh, Pa., 
 August, 1898. 
 
Wagenseller Chart for Four Gen= 
 erations. 
 
 ANN MARY 
 
 m. 
 JoUn Derr. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER <, 
 
 m. 
 Anna Clirlstlna 
 
 JOHN M. 
 in. 
 
 Margaret 
 
 Hohrnetter. 
 
 JOHN 
 
 m. 
 
 Ellzabetli Weldiier 
 
 CATHERINE 
 
 SUSANNA 
 
 ANNA MARIA 
 
 >IAR1A 
 
 MARGARET 
 
 Ueorge 
 
 Margaret 
 
 Ahraliam 
 
 Fanny 
 
 Abigail 
 
 Tliamzen 
 
 EUzabetli 
 
 PKTER 
 
 m, 
 
 Susanna Longaker 
 
 Jacob 
 
 John 
 
 Catlierlno 
 
 Hannah 
 
 Benjamin 
 
 Joshua 
 
 Peter, jr. 
 
 William F. 
 
 Susanna 
 
 Henry 
 
 ELIZABETH 
 
 CATHERINE 
 m. 
 
 Davia Haag. 
 
 WIT.UAM 
 
 ( James 
 
 J Geori^e 
 
 Ann 
 Rebecca Nellor. L John ; 
 
 JACOB 
 m. 
 V irartha Schrark. 
 
 John S. 
 
 David 
 
 Levi 
 
 Sarah 
 
 Margaret 
 
 Martha 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
Index to Illustrations. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Headstone of John and Margaret Wageuseller, 8 
 
 Dr. P. R. Wagenseller, 73 
 
 Dr. B. F. Wagenseller, ----- 79 
 
 Harry W. Wagenseller, - - - - - 85 
 
 William J. Wagenseller, - - - - - 91 
 
 M. Luther Wagenseller, ----- 97 
 
 George C. Wageuseller, ----- 107 
 
 George W. Wagenseller, - - - - - 113 
 
 Mrs. Palmer and Mrs. Schofield, - - - 119 
 
 John J. Wagenseller, - - - . . 145 
 
 Dr. Jno. Montgomery, - - - - - 151 
 
 Jesse Benner Evans, _ . - - . 157 
 
 Prof. W. F. Gearhart, 163 
 
 Post Printing Office, - - - - - 209 
 
History of Wagenseller 
 Family. 
 
 1. CHRISTOPHERS WAGENSEIL.— The first 
 evidence discovered of the name "^\^ageuseller" in this 
 country was prior to 1734. It was then spelled "Wageu- 
 seil". In "Rupp's Collection of Thirty Thousand Immi- 
 grants" who arrived at the port of Philadelphia between 
 1727 and 1776, the name does not a'ipear. On page 474, 
 however, ot the same volume under the heading, 
 "Names of 465 German, Dutch and French Inhabitants 
 residing in Philadelphia County prior to 1734," there 
 is found the name of " Stoifel Wagenseil " who paid a quit 
 rent on 150 acres of land in Hanover township. 
 
 At that time and up to 1784, what is now Mont- 
 gomery County was included in Philadelphia County, Pa. 
 In 1734 Hanover township comprised all of the present 
 townships of Xew Hanover, Upper Hanover, Douglass 
 and Pottsgrove and the borough of Pottstown. In 1741 
 it was divided into the first three townships named. The 
 quit rent mentioned above is a reserved rent in the grant 
 of land, by the proprietary by the payment of which the 
 landholder was to be freed from the other taxes. Quit 
 rents were not uniform; they varied troni one shilling sterl- 
 ing per hundred acres to six shillings per annum and in 
 other instances more. 
 
10 WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 Hanover township, as it existed in 1734, covered 
 the whole northern part ol what is now Montgomery 
 County. It lies in the Valley of the Perkionien creek. 
 That entire region, in the pioneer days, was called Faloh- 
 ner Schioamm — in English Falkner Swamp, alter Daniel 
 Falkner the agent of the Frankfort Company. On the 
 25th day ot October 1701, William Penn istfued letters 
 Patent granting to the Frankfort Company composed of 
 inhabitants of the city of Frankfort-on-the main, in Ger- 
 many, and represented in Pennsylvania by their attorneys, 
 Daniel Falkner and Johannes Jawert, a tract of land * * =^ 
 known as the great tract containing 22,377 acres. It 
 comprised pretty nearly what was Hanover township in 
 1734, when we have the first record ot Stoffel "Wagenseil. 
 StofFel is a nickname or German name ior Christopher 
 and llupp's way of spelling "Wagenseiler" is probably an 
 error as the name in that day was spelled Wagenseil — a 
 purely German name. 
 
 What part of Europe Christopher Wagenseil came 
 from has not been fully established. There are hosts ot 
 the pioneers from that section who came from Palatinate 
 in Germany. Frequently a shipload of people coming 
 from the same locality in Germany would settle in the 
 same locality in the new world, but this does not by ar.y 
 means prove that Christopher came from Germany. There 
 are among the older generation of the descendants living, 
 who think they have had traditional information that tlie 
 founder of the Wagouseller family upon this continent 
 came originally from Holland. This question remains to 
 be determined positively as well as the time he arrived at 
 the port of Philadelphia. There are no comjtlete lists of 
 arrivals prior to 1717 and the writer is not sure there 
 were any at all. In 1717, the Provincial Governor Keith 
 and his cabinet became alarmed at the great influx of for 
 eigners and ordered lists of all immgrants deposited with 
 the government. It was also ordered that all toreigr.ers 
 must take the oath of allegiance to the Crown. Christo- 
 pher may have come over prior to 1717 or between 1717 
 
WA0EN8ELLER HIS20RY. 11 
 
 and 1727. Then again the lists arenot complete. Quite 
 otten there was sickness upon the arrival of the vessel and 
 the sick were isolated and became absorbed with the people 
 of the frontier without taking the oath ot allegiance. This 
 probably explains why there is no record of our ancestor's 
 arrival. 
 
 The name of his Avife as given in his will on file in 
 City Hall, Philadelphia, is Anna Christina. They were, 
 no doubt, married before coming to this country, as upon 
 tlie church records of that region, which then were well 
 kept, ^xti find no record of ther marriage. 
 
 Cliristopher evidently did not retain his original pos- 
 session of 150 acres of land or else he sold off a portion of 
 it to some one else. ISTearly all the early settlers in this 
 region secured their land from the Frankfort Company 
 through their American agent, Daniel Falkner, but we 
 have no record ot Clu-istopher having secured his from 
 them, but it is probable that he did as the Frankfort 
 Company had possession of the entire Perkiomen region. 
 It seems from his will that the tract Christopher owned 
 prior to his death contained only 101 acres and this was 
 again reduced to 50 acres by a sale to his son in-law, 
 David Haag. Whether this was a part of this original 
 150 acres we have not been able to determine. AVe ap- 
 pend a copy of the will which explains itself. Upper 
 Hanover township is in the extreme north-eastern corner 
 of Montgomery County, in the vicinity of Pennsburg. 
 As taken from the records the Will is as follows : 
 
 WILL No. 222, AT CITY HALL, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
 
 BOOK M., PAGE 387. 
 
 MADE JUNE 13, 1760, PROBATED OCT, 22, 1762. 
 
 \\'AGENSEIL, CHRISTOPHER. 
 In the name of God, Amen, whereas, I Cliristopher 
 Wagenseil, of Upper Hanover township, in the county of 
 Philadelphia and jDrovince of Pennsylvania, yeoman, find 
 myself in an advanced age and very weak in body but of 
 sound miiid and memory, thanks be to God, therefore call- 
 
12 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 ing to mind the mortality of my body and knowing thai 
 it is appointed for all men once to die, therefore do I make, 
 publish and declare this my last will and testament in the 
 following manner, that is to say, ImjJiimis, I give and 
 bequeath to my only son, John Wagenseil, my plantation 
 situate in Upper Hanover township in the county of 
 Philadelphia aforesaid adjoining the land of Jacob Hystaad 
 and Jacob Moyre containing about 50 acres of land, be 
 the same more or less, it being part of one hundred and 
 one acres of land, the remainder having been formerly 
 sold and released by me to my son-in-law, David Haag, 
 with the condition that the Perkiomen creek shall be the 
 division line between the said 2 tracts, together with the 
 house, outhouses, barn, stables and all that is uailfast to 
 the buildings, with all the cleared land, meadows, orchards, 
 garden fencing and wliatever is improved thereon so as it 
 at present doth stand. Together also with one horse, one 
 mare and a colt of 2 years old and three cows, one heifer, 
 one calf, six sheep and foiu- lambs and two hogs as also 
 one cart, the plow and swingle tree and what belongs to it 
 together with the collars and gears, the saddle, and bridles, 
 the table, the iron stove, the iron kettle, the largest iron 
 pot, one cliest, the gun, two axes, croping hoe, a mall and 
 two wedges, a hatchet, dung hook andforks, together with 
 all sorts of household goods and tools together also with 
 eight shears with winter corn in the ground. To have 
 and hold my said plantation and tract of land with the im- 
 provements with all and vvery other the appurtenances 
 aforesaid unto my said son, John AV'agenseil, and to his 
 heirs and assigns and to their only only jffoper use and 
 behoof forever. But all that subject, under ajid with the 
 following conditions and restrictions, that is to say, that T 
 hereby accept and reserve for myself and my wife, Anna 
 (Christina, iiill jn-ivilege and liberty to live upon the said 
 plantation in tjie honse where we now live until the time 
 of our death and my said son John shall yearly give to us 
 during our life time nineteen bushels ofliai and five bnsli- 
 els of wheat, two bushels of buckwheat, one bushel of 
 Indian corn and one fat hog to weigh one lumdrcd and 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 13 
 
 fifty pounds weight and shall keep and hold for us a cow 
 in his fodder in summer and winter time as a;ood as his 
 own, for our use and shall yearly plough and sow for 
 us one-quarter acre with flax seed, he shall also yearly 
 give us six jiounds of wool. I except and reserve also for 
 myself and my wife the half part of the small kitchen 
 garden and part of the other cabbage land and garden and 
 also the equal third part of the apples, peaches and what- 
 ever grows in the orchard. They shall also have liberty 
 to take as much turnips as they may have necessary for 
 tlieir own use. He, the said John Wagenseil, shall give 
 to his s:iid father and mother the sum of thirty-five shill- 
 ings, lawful money of Pennsylvania and shall cut yearly 
 fire-wood for them as much as they may have necessary 
 during their lifetime and further do I give and bequeath 
 te my eldest daughter, Anna Mary, now the wife of John 
 Dur [Dirr] the sum of 25 pounds, lawful money of Penn- 
 sylvania, and to her heirs and assigns to be paid her by my 
 said son, John A\'^agenseil, or his heirs, or successors, one 
 year after the death of me and my wife, Christina, and 
 further do I give and bequeath to my yoimgest daughter, 
 Elizabeth Catherine, now the wife of David Haag and to 
 lier heirs and assigns the sum of 25 pounds, lawful money 
 of Pennsylvania to be paid her by my said son, John 
 Wagenseil, (jr his heirs or successors two years after the 
 death of me and my wife as aforesaid, and I do hereby 
 further, with the consent of my ^vife, Anna Christina, give 
 and beq'th to my said two daghts my beding and chest 
 Avith the clothing belonging to my said wife that the same 
 may be equally divided among and between them, after 
 the death of my wife with the condition that all my re- 
 maining household goods and t(jols shall be and remain 
 for my said son, John Wagenseil, and for his heirs and as- 
 signs or ever as above mentioned and further it is my will 
 that in case any more money shall be required for the 
 payment of my land then agreed on with my son-in-law, 
 David Haag that the same shall also be paid by my son, 
 John W. or his heirs or successors, and I do hereby desire. 
 
14 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 that all may be done and performed according to this my 
 last will and testament but further is it my will that as 
 concerning our yearly subsistence that after the death of 
 the one or of the other of us the half of the above said par- 
 ficvilars shall cease and determine and only the half part 
 thereof be given by my said son to that, that may survive 
 the other, and I do hereby certify, nominate and appoint 
 my beloved wife, Anna Christina, to be the sole executrix of 
 this my last will and. testament and I do hereby declare this 
 and no other to be my last will and testament in witness 
 and confirinatiou whereof I have to this my last will and 
 testament set my hand and seal on this thirteenth day of 
 June Anno Domini, one thousand seven hundred and sixty, 
 [Signed] Christopher Wagenseil. 
 
 Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said 
 Chris. Wagenseil as and for his last will and testament. 
 In the presence of us as witnesses: 
 
 John Martin, 
 Frederick LiJfBACH, 
 David Siiultz. 
 
 Pliila., Pa., 27 October 1762, there jicrsonally ap- 
 peared Frederick Ijimbach and David Shultz, two of the 
 witnesses to the foregoing will and ilies. Frederick 
 Limbach on oath and thes. David Shultz on his solenui 
 affirmation according to law did declare he saw and bear- 
 ed Chris. ^V. the testator therein named, sign, seal, 
 
 publish and declare the same for and as his last will and 
 testament and that at the doing thereof ho was of sound 
 mind, memory and understanding to the best of their 
 knowledge. William Rumsted, Reg. Gen'l. 
 
 Be it remembered that on 27 October 1762, the last 
 
 will and testament of Chris. W. ,dec'd, in due form 
 
 of law was jiroved and probated and letters testamentaiy 
 were granted to Anna Christina W., executrix, in the said 
 deceased estate and to bring an inventory thereof into the 
 Regd. Gen. office at Phila. on or before tlie 27 ■of Nov. 
 next and render a true aecouut when thereunto legally re- 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 15 
 
 quired. Given iiuder the seal of th^i said office. 
 
 Wm. Rumsted, Regd. Gen'l. 
 
 The above document itself diicloses considerable infor- 
 mation concerning Christopher, who is the ancestor of a 
 great many liundred descendants, both living and dead. 
 From this we learn that Christopher and Anna Christina 
 liad three cliildren 
 
 + 2. i. Ann Mae y2. 
 
 + 3. ii. Elizabeth Catherine. 
 
 -|- 4. iii. John. 
 
 2. ANNMARY,^ (C/msfojo/uTi).— Ofthe daugh- 
 ters of Christopher A\^agenseil, very little has been dis- 
 covered at this late date. Ann Mary married John Derr. 
 It is Said that John Derr at one time owned the land 
 where the town of Pennsburg now stands. The records 
 of the old Lutheran church at Pennsburg were gone over 
 by Rev. O. F. Waage, the present pastor, who has not 
 been able to find any record concerning the birth or mar- 
 riage ot these people. There was found, however, a re- 
 cord of baptism as follows : 
 
 Elizabeth Catherine, daughter of John and Anna Maria 
 Derr, born Kov. 11, 1760, liaptized Nov. 14, 1760. 
 Sponsors, David and Elizabeth Haag. 
 
 In Henry S. Dotterer's "Pennsburg Region," nage 39, 
 from the docket of Michael Croll, Justice of the Peace, is 
 taken : 
 
 "June 4, 1787, John Derr assigned John I^esh to Jacob 
 Zepp to serve him the remainder term of his indenture." 
 There was a Lorentz Derr living in that region at the 
 same period who was probably a brother of John. We 
 find a record, "Sarah, daughter of Lorentz and Maria Derr, 
 born May 28, 1762, baptized May 30, 1762," and "John 
 Martin, son of Lorentz and Maria Derr, born Feb. 18, 
 1760. Sponsors, Martin and Maria Gertrude Derr." 
 The name Derr is still prominent in Montgomery County. 
 Franklin Derr, a marble cutter from the upper end of 
 Montgonacy County, went to Norristown prior to 1850 
 
16 WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 and amassed a fortune. One of the monumentsof his skill 
 is the Montgomery County Court House, at Norristown, 
 Pa. One ot his sons is still living there. Samuel S. 
 Derr resides in Pottsgrove township. 
 
 3. ELIZABETH CATHEKmE^ ( Christopher') .- 
 Hhe was married to David Haag some time between 1748 
 and 1758 as talcen from the records ot the Goshenhoppen 
 church. David and George Haag arrived from Europe 
 Sept. 7, 1748. David's age is given as '2^, hence born 
 17'^H, probiibly in Germany. During the latter part of 
 the last century the name Haag seems to have been all 
 through that section of the state, all perhaps descendants 
 of David and George. This name like that of \\ agensel- 
 ler has entirely disappeared from the assessment lists of 
 Montgomery ( 'ounty. It may have changed to Haak or 
 Hawk, names tliat are now scattered thi'ough that section. 
 In Rev. (_'as]ier Stoever's record, 1730-1779, thenauieaji- 
 pears frequently. In this list we find that Elizabeth 
 [ VVagenseller] Haag was a sponsor at tlie baptism of Jolm 
 George Haag, born July 9, 1758, baptized July 23, 1758, 
 a son of George Haag, Jr., and M'ife Anna Margar of 
 Xortldcill. 
 
 4. JOHN'- [fjlirhliijtlier'). — According to Christo- 
 plier's will ])revi()usly given, this is Ids only sou, without 
 whom the name M'ageuseller would not now be in America 
 and from whom all l)earing the name are descendants. 
 There seems to be discrepancy in the records of his birth. 
 From the old Pennsliurg eluu'ch records we glean: 
 
 "John, son of Christopher and Christina Wagensei;, 
 born June 24, 1730, baptized July 15, 1739. Sponsors, 
 John and Aiuie Maria Bast." On his tombstone in the 
 old cthureh at the Trappe it .says, he was born June 24, 
 1737 which corres])0nds to his age on the tombstone. The 
 former is probably corretjt as the error was more likely to 
 occur through the lapse of time. He was confirmed in 
 the Lutheran church near Pennsburg, Philadelj)hia County 
 Pa., at the age ot 14 years on Go<xl Friday 1853. This 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 17 
 
 too would seem to prove that he was born in 1739. ■ He 
 married Margaret Honnetter, a native of Montgomery 
 County and a daughter of Andrew Honnetter, who owned 
 a farm in Douglass township, by deed dated Jan. 1, 1750, of 
 107 acres and 100 perches. The will of Andrew Honnet- 
 ter is dated April 2, 1777, and John Wagenseller and 
 Earned Gilbert are the executors. In the records of the New 
 Hanover Church, located 6 or 7 miles west of Pennsburg 
 and 5 miles north-east of Pottstown, we find the baptismal 
 record of Andrew, son of Andrew and Dorothy Honnetter, 
 born May 2, baptized June 25, 1758, The son, Andrew, 
 is a brother of John Wagenseller's wife and the others are 
 her parents. The graves of her parents are in the New 
 Hanover Church yard within 3 yardsof the present build- 
 ing. The original New Hanover Church was erected in 
 1767 and the present church is the third edifice. The 
 Honnetter graves are marked : 
 
 Andrew's is a red Triassic sandstone with a German in- 
 scription partly illegible. Translated it reads : "Here 
 rests the body of Andrew Honnetter * * * * Dec. 19, 
 1711 and died Apr. 26, 1777." This is only 8J weeks 
 after he made his will, above mentioned. The other, a 
 blue Norristown marble with the German inscription well 
 preserved: Here rests one who died a member of this 
 church, Dorothy Honnetter. She was born October 28, 
 1717, and died March 14, 1792, aged 74 years, 6 montlis 
 and 15 days. She was the wife of Andrew, born 1711. 
 In volume XVII, Pa. Archives, 2nd series, p. 177, "Jo- 
 hannes Honetter arrived Oct- 30, 1738, aged 36," hence 
 born 1702 and Andrew was born 1711. They were 
 doubtless brothers and Andrew, for some reason, failed to 
 qualify. Such cases are not infrequent. Quite a number 
 of the passengers of the vessel in which Johannes arrived 
 settled at New Hanover. This has been corrobated. An- 
 other person of the same name is found though differently 
 spelled. Anna Barbara Hornecker (1737-1812) married 
 George Peter Hillegas (1637-1810). They were the an- 
 cestors of Rev. Michael Reed Minnich, the well-known 
 historian and author, who now resides at 3200 Powelton 
 
18 WA0EN8ELLEB HISTORY. 
 
 A^e., Philadelphia. Valentine Honnetter, born Dec. 8, 
 1778, was in Captain Philip Hahn's Company, Fourth 
 Battalion, Regiment of foot, commanded by Colonel Wm. 
 Dean, in the army of the Revolution. 
 
 Andrew Honnetter married Margaret Gotshall Mar. 
 28, 1750, 
 
 Catherine Honnetter married Henry Schweinhard 
 Jan. 22, 1799. These two marriages are taken from the 
 record in the New Hanover Church. What relation 
 Anna Barbara, Andrew and Catharine have to our ances- 
 tor, the wife of John Wagenseller, we have not discovered, 
 but we give the data here for the benefit of those who wish 
 to make an additional research. John Wagenseller and 
 his wite, Anna Margaret, were the sponsors for Anna Mar- 
 garet, daughter of Henry Engel and wife, Catherine, 
 daughter born Oct. 25, 1763, baptized Feb. 26, 1764. 
 It will be noted that here John Wagenseller's wife's name 
 is given as Anna Margaret and on the tombstone it is Mary 
 Margaret. Henry Engel and wife, in turn, were the 
 sponsors for Catherine, born Dec. 3, 1764, baptized Apr. 
 7, 1 765, a daughter of John and Margaret Wagenseller, 
 an account of whom will be given in regular order in this 
 work. If Engel's were not related, they must have been 
 near neighbors. 
 
 We now come to the details of the life ot John, the 
 only male representative of the Wagenseller family in this 
 country. Like his father, he followed the occupation of a 
 farmer. Having inherited the 50 acres on the Perki omen 
 from his father, he tilled this soil for some time, but we 
 we have no means of knowing how long. His father died 
 in 1762 and then he certainly lived on the Perkiomen, and 
 even in 1754 when his daughter, Catherine, was baptized 
 by the pastor of the New Hanover Lutheran Churcli, we 
 might suppose he still lived there, but this is no proof as 
 in those times the pastor of the N. H. L. church was also 
 pastor of the Lutheran church at Trappe or New Provi- 
 dence in Providence township, now divided into Upper 
 Providence and I^ower Providence. At any rate John and 
 
WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 19 
 
 his family moved to Providence towDship near the old 
 Trappe church. There he died as did also his wife. Both 
 are buried in the old grave yard. B. F. Schlicher, who 
 for eleven years was sexton of the church and cemetery, 
 writes concernipg their graves : "They have tombstones 
 planted in the ground. The graves are not in a very nice 
 condition." Dr. B. F. Wagenseller of Selinsgrove visited 
 the cemetery some years ago and corroborates the statement 
 of the sexton. The inscriptions are : 
 
 Johannes Wagenseil, 
 born June 24, 1737, 
 died Sept. 29, 1799, 
 aged 62 years, 3 mos. and 5 days. 
 
 Mearia Meargartha Wagenseil, a born Hohruetter, 
 born April 12, 1740, 
 died Nov. 9, 1811, 
 aged 71 years, 6 mo., 27 days. 
 
 The papers relative to the settlement of John Wagen- 
 seller's estate are on file in the court house at Norristown. 
 In these papers some peculiar ways of spelling the names 
 are observed. In most places it is spelled Waggon&eller 
 and in a deed given by John's heirs written by his son, 
 Peter, the name is spelled Waggonsailer. It appears that 
 John stuck to the original German name as it is found up- 
 on his tombstone and his children after numerous experi- 
 ments finally adopted the present form, Wagenseller, which 
 is used by all the descendants except the descendants of 
 Amos and Thomas Weidner, sons of George Wagenseller 
 of the Wabash, a grand son of the one now under consid- 
 eration. They spell it Wagonseller. The inventory is as 
 follows : 
 
 AN INVENTORY 
 
 of the goods and chattels of John Waggonseller, deceased, 
 
 taken this 14th day of October 1799 by the subscribers. 
 
 Sworn August 14th 1799. . . f Henry Pawling. 
 
 Wm. R. Atlee, Register. "P ' \ John Shannon. 
 
20 
 
 WAGENSELLEB HISTORY. 
 
 
 £. 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 To wearing apparel, 
 
 8 
 
 15 
 
 
 To horse saddle and bridle, 
 
 25 
 
 10 
 
 
 To cash in the house. 
 
 9 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 To bonds in the house, 
 
 572 
 
 10 
 
 
 To book accounts, 
 
 308 
 
 19 
 
 10 
 
 To ten plaie stove, 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 To one ditto, 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 To one breakfast table. 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 
 To 1 dining table. 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 To 2 ditto, 
 
 
 12 
 
 6 
 
 To 1 clothes press, 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 To 24 hour clock, 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 To cupboard, 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 
 To a case ot drawers. 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 To books. 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 To Philis' time, 
 
 7 
 
 10 
 
 
 To 1 old stove. 
 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 To old lady's bed, bedstead and curtains. 
 
 7 
 
 10 
 
 
 To 13 table cloths. 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 To 2 bed cases. 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 To 5J yds. check. 
 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 To 8 sheets, 1 bed cover and 2 pillow cases. 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 
 To 1 coverlid, • 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 To 1 table cover. 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 To 2 yds. calimanes, 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 To scatacklings in bofet, 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 To 14 chairs. 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 
 To 2 pair of cards, 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 To 1 pair sheep shears. 
 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 To 1 gun, 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 To a small looking glass, 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 To a new spinning wheel. 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 To 2 old ditto. 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 To upper featiier bed. 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 To 1 bed and bedstead, 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 To 1 ditto. 
 
 1 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 To 1 chaff bed. 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 
 To 1 old ditto. 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTOBY. 
 
 21 
 
 
 £. 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 To yarn for a coverlid, 
 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 To 12 lbs. woolen yarn, 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 To 4| ton yarn, 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 To 1 old chest with drawers. 
 
 
 3 
 
 9 
 
 To 1 pillow and some cotton, 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 To 2 hemp haokels, 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 To 1 looking glass. 
 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 To bed and bedstead. 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 To 1 chest with drawers. 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 To J share of hoop net. 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 To 14 lbs. sole leather, 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 To 1 old cart and some flax seed. 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 To a bed and bed stead, 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 To a lot of upper harness leather, 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 To 21 bee hives and straw stand. 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 
 To 1 pair butter boxes and suodLries, 
 
 1 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 To 1 cask vinegar, some salt and old casks. 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 To 4 lbs. feathers and wagon cover. 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 
 To 2 looms and lot of gears. 
 
 7 
 
 10 
 
 
 To 4J lbs. wooKng yarn. 
 
 
 13 
 
 6 
 
 To 1 dresser with a platte on it. 
 
 3 
 
 10 
 
 
 To 1 pair stillards. 
 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 To 1 doughtrough. 
 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 To 1 clover seive. 
 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 To 30 earthen pots. 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 To 6 cedar buckets, 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 To 3 cedar tubs. 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 To churn and kealler. 
 
 6 
 
 5 
 
 
 To 1 dripping pan and sundries. 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 To 2 kettles, 1 gridiron, 1 bake oven and 1 
 
 
 
 
 frying pan. 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 
 To 3 flatirons, 
 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 To 1 coffee mill, 3 candle sticks, 3 lamps 
 
 
 
 
 and 1 box iron. 
 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 To 1 pair andirons, 2 pair of tongs, 1 shovel 
 
 
 
 
 and pot rack, 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 
 To 1 pair of bellows, camp kettle and 
 
 
 
 
 candle moles. 
 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
22 WAGEN8ELLER HISTOHY. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 To 1 watering pot, 1 earthen jug, weights 
 
 and scales and 13 lbs. bees wax, 15 6 
 
 To 2 augers, 2 hand saws, whip saw 
 
 and drawing knife, 10 6 
 
 To 4 weeding hoes, spade, 2 shovels 
 
 and grubbing hoe, 
 To large brass kettle, iron kettle, dutch oven. 
 To iron bar pick, mall and wedges, 3 old axes. 
 To lot of old iron, 10 old sickles. 
 To 1 scythe and cradle, grindstone, 3 scythes 
 
 and sueads, 
 To 3 hhds., 3 barrels and 6 old casks, 
 To 1 wheelbarrow, 1 sled and 1 stage wagon. 
 To 1 apple mill, 
 
 To 16 bags, 8 bushels buckwheat, 13 bu. rye. 
 To 1 windmill, half bushel, etc.. 
 To 8 rakes, 2 pitchforks, cutting box, 
 To 2 turnip knives, 1 old saddle and bridle. 
 To 4 chains, 1 hobble, 2 dung forks. 
 To 1 dung hook, 2 plows, 2 harrows, 
 
 wagon, slay. 
 To 14 hives of bees, 2 single trees, 4 chairs. 
 To 3 set of horse gears and collars, 2 pair 
 
 rope traces, 2 cruppers. 
 To 15 tons of hay, 500 sheaves of oats. 
 To 40 bushels of rye, 70 bundles of flax. 
 To 1 blind mare and 3 colts, 
 To 1 beef cow. 
 To 1 white cow. 
 To 1 brindle cow, 
 To 1 bell cow. 
 To 1 black cow. 
 To 1 young cow. 
 To 2 bulls and 1 heifer, 
 To 12 sheep. 
 
 To 1 1 acres of Indian corn in the ground. 
 To a lot of corn fodder, 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 
 t 
 
 15 
 
 9 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 17 
 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 1 
 
 9 
 12 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 3 
 
 18 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 11 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 9 
 
 
 62 
 
 10 
 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 
 25 
 
 10 
 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 
 22 
 
 10 
 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 
WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 
 23 
 
 
 £. 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 To 11 acres of wheat and rye in the ground, 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 To 7 J acres of land, 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 To a patch ot potatoes and pumpkins. 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 To 2 large hogs, 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 To 2 large hogs, 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 To 6 shoats, 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 To 25 bushels of buckwheat at Longacre's, 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 To 2 shoats, 
 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 To some buckwheat on the premises 
 
 
 
 
 computed, to be 25 bushels. 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 
 To \ of the seine and boat, 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 To 1 wool wheel. 
 
 
 16 
 
 
 £1306 1 4 
 
 ESTATE ACCOUNT. 
 [dated Nov. 7, 1801.] 
 
 The account of John and Peter Wagenseller, admin- 
 istrators of the estate of John Wagenseller, late ot Provi- 
 dence township, Montgomery County, deceased. 
 
 The accountant charges themselves. Dr. 
 
 £. e. d. 
 
 To amount of inventory filed in the Re- 
 gister's office at Norrifitown, 1310 2 2 
 
 To advance in sale of goods, 109 11 10 
 
 £1419 sl4 
 Errors excepted. 
 
 John Wagenseller, 
 Peter Wagenseller, 
 Affirmed and subscribed, 7 Nov. 1801. 
 
 Thomas Potts, Eegst. 
 Pd. Contra the pray allowance. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 By cash paid register for letters of admin- 
 istration, 1 4 8J 
 By cash paid for stamped paper, 4 2 J 
 
24 
 
 WAGENSELLEB HISTORY. 
 
 £. 
 
 s. 
 
 By cash paid for proving appraisements 
 
 anc 
 
 expenses, etc., 
 
 1 
 
 18 
 
 5 
 
 By cash 
 
 paid John Pawling, 
 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 By " 
 
 li 
 
 John Adams, 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 By « 
 
 tt 
 
 Crawford & Long, 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 By " 
 
 i( 
 
 John Essick, 
 
 1 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 By « 
 
 11 
 
 David Sower, 
 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 By " 
 
 11 
 
 William Gray, 
 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 By " 
 
 11 
 
 Isaac Jacobs, 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 By " 
 
 ti 
 
 Thomas Mason, 
 
 1 
 
 19 
 
 ^ 
 
 By " 
 
 a 
 
 Moses Jones, 
 
 
 16 
 
 6 
 
 By " 
 
 li 
 
 Jacob Longanacre, 
 
 1 
 
 
 2 
 
 Bv " 
 
 a 
 
 Derrick Gasseberry, 
 
 
 15 
 
 10 
 
 By " 
 
 ({ 
 
 Peter Wagenseller, two notes 
 
 
 
 
 and interest, 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 
 By cash 
 
 paid Morris Jones, 
 
 
 4 
 
 4i 
 
 By « 
 
 
 Lewis Horning, 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 By " 
 
 
 John Riner, 
 
 1 
 
 18 
 
 6 
 
 By « 
 
 
 Jacob dinger. 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 2 
 
 By " 
 
 
 David Sower, 
 
 
 7 
 
 6 
 
 By " 
 
 
 Dr. Isaac Huddleson, 
 
 
 18 
 
 9 
 
 By " 
 
 
 Philip Hummelright, 
 
 55 
 
 15 
 
 
 By " 
 
 
 Peter Madders Vendue Cryer, 
 
 5 
 
 12 
 
 6 
 
 By « 
 
 
 Samuel Keen Poor Tax, 
 
 1 
 
 9 
 
 3 
 
 By " 
 
 
 Conrad Swineford, 
 
 2 
 
 9 
 
 
 By " 
 
 
 Robert Tyson, 
 
 
 10 
 
 2 
 
 By " 
 
 
 John McCleland, 
 
 1 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 By " 
 
 
 John Edwards, 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 By " 
 
 
 Nathan Potts for I. Markley, 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 9 
 
 By " 
 
 
 Robert Miller, 
 
 1 
 
 19 
 
 1 
 
 By " 
 
 
 Thomas Adams, 
 
 
 17 
 
 9 
 
 By « 
 
 
 David Widener, 
 
 5 
 
 18 
 
 10 
 
 By " 
 
 
 Benjamin Royer, 
 
 2 
 
 11 
 
 
 By work done by Peter and William on the 
 
 
 
 
 plantation after the decease of their 
 
 
 
 
 fatl 
 
 ler 
 
 about 1 month and a quarter 
 
 
 
 
 each, 
 
 
 7 
 
 10 
 
 
 Ijy William Wagenseller threshing the grain, 3 
 
WAGENSELLER HI8T0RY. 25 
 
 £. 8. d 
 By vendue expensesto Peter and William 
 
 Wagenseller, 
 By cash paid Elisha Evans Bond, 
 
 3y It (( <l II II 
 
 J3y (( <( « l( ll 
 
 By commissisons on settling the above 
 
 estate 4 per cent 
 By cash paid Register for filing amount, etc., 
 By " " for presenting to court and 
 
 certified copy, 
 By cash paid Clerk of Orphans' Court, 
 By " " one year's iiitere«t on bond due 
 
 Elisha Evans, due April 1, 1802, 6 
 
 Balance due the estate, 938 11 5 J 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 
 106 
 
 
 
 112 
 
 
 
 50 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 56 
 
 15 
 
 8 
 
 , 1 
 
 1 
 
 16 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 15 
 
 6 
 
 £1419 14 OJ 
 Montgomery County ss. 
 
 I, Thomas Potts, Esquire, Register for the 
 probating of Wills and the granting of Letters of admin- 
 istration in and for the county of Montgomery, certify that 
 a notice of the filing of the account of the estate of John 
 Wagenseller, deceased, by the administrators was put up 
 in my office and that due proof was this day made before 
 me that three other notices were put up, one at Morris 
 Jones', one at Valentine Shalor's and one at William 
 Fitzgerald's — three of the most public places in the neigh- 
 borhood of the parties — and that all the said notices were 
 set up thirty days before the time agreeably to the Act of 
 Assembly in such cases made and provided. 
 
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 
 ninth day of November one thousand eight hundred and 
 one. Geo, M. Potts, Dep'ty Regs't. 
 
 Montgomery County, ss. 
 
 I certify that at an Orphans' Court 
 
 Seal held at Norristown in and for the 
 
 of county of Montgomery held the tenth 
 
 County day of November in the year of our 
 
 Ix)rd one thousand eight hundred and 
 
26 WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 one before the Honorable John D. Coke, Esq., and his as- 
 sociate justices of the said court the within account was 
 duly confirmed. Witness my hand and the seal of the 
 said county. T. Swainb. 
 
 True copy. 
 
 The signatures of John and Peter Wagenseller, ad- 
 ministrators, are clear hair lines, regular and neat and 
 evidently written with a good quill pen. The bond is 
 dated October 14, 1799 to which their signatures are also 
 attached. The children of John and Margaret Wagensel !er, 
 as recited in a deed on record at JN orristown, are: John, 
 Catherine married to Conrad King, Susanna married to 
 Conrad Swinehart, Mary married to Benjamin Royer, 
 Margaret married to Mathias Walter, Peter, William and 
 Jacob. There were eight children the dates of whose 
 births range as follows : 
 
 John, born Dec. 14, 1763. 
 Catherine, born Dec. 3, 1764. 
 Susanna, born Feb. 2, 1768. 
 Anna Maria, born May 20, 1770. 
 Maria Magaretha, born June 2, 1772. 
 Peter, born Sept. 24, 1774. 
 William, born May 25, 1778. 
 Jacob, born 1782. 
 
 The above named children down to and including 
 Anna Maria were baptized and are recorded on the books 
 of the old Pennsburg church except Catherine. The re- 
 cords of the others are not found there. From the Trappe 
 church records in the Pennsylvania German Society 
 publications, we note ,that Maria Margaretha Wagenseil, 
 born June 2, 1772, was baptized Nov. 1, 1772, hence 
 John must have moved from Upper Hanover township to 
 Providence township 1771 or 1772. In the assessment 
 books of Providence township for 1785, John was assessed 
 wife 125 acres, 4 horses and 4 cows; 1786, 125 acres, 3 
 horses and 4 cows. Amount of tax $5.50. His assessment 
 continues down to 1799, the year of his death. Prior to 
 1 784, the records were kept at Philadelphia and the 
 
 + 
 
 5. 
 
 i. 
 
 + 
 
 6. 
 
 ii. 
 
 1 
 
 n 
 t ■ 
 
 iii. 
 
 + 
 
 8. 
 
 iv. 
 
 + 
 
 9. 
 
 v. 
 
 + 
 
 10. 
 
 vi. 
 
 ! 
 
 11. 
 
 vii. 
 
 + 
 
 12. 
 
 viii. 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 27 
 
 assessment books foi" that period could not be obtained at 
 the Gity Hall. "l/he assessment of the 125 acres of land 
 continues up to the time of his death. In addition to the 
 land in 1798 John was assessed with 3 horses and 4 cows 
 valued (including land) $1520, amount of tax. $5. 74. In 
 1799, 2 horses and 4 cows valued (including land) $1410^ 
 amount of tax $5.50. 1800, no assessment, hehavingdied 
 in 1799. 
 
 CHILDREN OF JOHN AND MARGARET 
 WAGENSELLER. 
 
 "We now take up the children of John and Margaret 
 Hoimetter Wagenseller and treat the record of each se- 
 parately and in the order of their birth giving to each the 
 consecutive number previously assigned. 
 
 5. JOHNS (John^, Christopher^) born Dec. 14, 
 1763, baptized Jan. 23, 1764. Sponsors, John and Mag- 
 dalena Derr. He married Elizabeth Weidner Feb. 5, 
 1787. She is the daughter of Abraham and Margaret 
 Weidner, born Sept. 25, 1767. The Weidner record is 
 taken from an old family New Testament printed in Ger- 
 man at Germantown, Pa., in tlie year 1769. John was 
 the proprietor of the Red Lion Hotel in Uwchlan town- 
 ship, Chester County, Pa. He died August 5, 1811, at 
 Red Lion Hotel, aged 47 years, 5 months and 21 days. 
 His wife, Elizabeth, died Feb. 6, 1838, aged 71 years, 6 
 months and 11 days. Both lie buried in Pikeland ceme- 
 tery, about 2 miles east of Chester Springs, Chester coun- 
 ty. Pa. 
 
 They had seven children: 
 -(-13. i. George, born Jan. 8, 1788. 
 
 + 14. ii. Margaret, born May 15, 1789. 
 
 + 15. iii. Abraham, " Aug. 16, 1791. 
 
 + 16. iv. Fanny, " July 10, 1793, 
 
 + 17. v. Abagail, " May 17, 1795. 
 
 + 18. vi. Thamsen, " June 18, 1797. 
 
 + 79. vii. Elizabeth, " Sept. 14, 1800. 
 
 6. CATHERINE^ (John^, Chistopheri), born Dec. 
 
28 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 3, 1764, married Conrad King. They had nine children who 
 will receive consideration elsewhere outside of the family 
 tree. Catherine died 1820 at the age of 56 years and 
 Conrad died in 1880 at the age of 80 years. 
 
 7. 8USA1WA*, {John^, Christopher^), born Feb. 
 2, 1768, baptized Mar. 6, 1768. Sponsor, Susanna Hon- 
 netter. Married to Conrad Swinehart. We have very 
 little information concerning the Swineharts. Some arriv- 
 ed from Europe Sept. 11, 1732 and others, Sept. 14, 
 1754. We have some Swinehart data which we will give 
 for the benefit of those who wish to trace the connection. 
 In the scope of our work we have not been able to do it. 
 
 Feb. 1, 1737, Joseph Mayhuw and Elizabeth Swine- 
 hart were married. 
 
 Mar. 3. 1795, Michael Sweinhart married Christina 
 Gilbert. 
 
 1779. — Andrew Sweiuhart signed a petition against 
 calling a convention for the purpose of amending the con- 
 stitution. 
 
 Married : 
 
 May 20, 1783, Schweinhard, Anna Maria to Michael 
 
 Alteudorfer. 
 Sept. 24, 1751, Schweinhard, Eva Barbara to Lud- 
 
 wig Pickel. 
 Dec. 9, 1746, " Eva Catherine to John 
 
 Wm. Reifschneider. 
 Dec. 11, 1796, Schweinhard, Eva to Michael Reyer. 
 Oct. 20, 1805, " George to Susanna Sehler. 
 
 8. ANNA MARIA', {John\ Christopher^), born 
 May 20, 1770, Sponsors at baptism, John Derr and his 
 daughter, Anna Maria. Married Benjamin Royer. He 
 is probably a descendant of John Michael Reyer (Reier, 
 Reiher, Royer) who is the founder of the family in Penn- 
 sylvania. He was bom in Schwabbach, Wurtemburg, in 
 the year 1686. His parents are John Michael and Anna 
 Catherine Reiher. He married three times: First in the 
 170-, Anna Maria Seeland, daughter of Dietrick and 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 29 
 
 Amelia Maria Seland of Nurembuig. ^jhe died in 1742. 
 Second, in the year 1743, Maria Catlierine Schneider, 
 daughter ot Henrich Schneider and Catheriua (maiden 
 name Schuler) liis wife of Asclipissen in the electorate of 
 the Palatinate. Maria (Jatherina Schneider was born in 
 1713 and died in 1750. Third, Sept., 1751, Maria 
 Christina Hcepler, a widow, born Nov. 18, 1718in Borna, 
 in the electorate of Saxony. John Michael ileyer with 1 
 sons came to America Sept. 1732. The former was the 
 father ot 24 children, ten with his first wile, six with the 
 Second and eight with the third and the husband of Anna 
 Maria Wageuseller descends from this liardy stock. 
 
 9. MARIA MAKGARET3, {John\ G/iristopher^), 
 born June 2, 1772, baptized Nov. 1, 1772. Sponsors, 
 Peter Lange and Maria Margaretha. (Peter Lange arriv- 
 ed from Europe Sept. 15, 1749). She married Mathias 
 Walter. From whom Mathias Walter descended we have 
 no positive proof in our possession. The Peunsburg church 
 records show that a Mathias Walter and a John George 
 Walter, botli old enough to be the father of Margaret's 
 husband, lived in tliat section. It is probable that one of 
 these was the ancestor of xVlargaret's husband. We ap- 
 pend the data found on the records ot the Pennsburg 
 church for the benefit of those who desire to continue the 
 search. 
 
 June 1, 1765, Mathias Walter was elected Elder. 
 
 John George, son of Mathias and Elizabeth Catherine 
 Waiter, born March 5, 1742, baptized June 4, 1742. 
 Sponsors, George and Margaretha Heilig. 
 
 Maria Barbara, daughter of Mathias and Anna Maria 
 Walter, born Feb. 1, 1757 and baptized Mar. 6, 1757. 
 
 Anna Margaretha, daughter of Mathias and Anna Maria 
 Walter, born May 2, 1758, baptized May 14, 1758. 
 
 Othee liECOBDS, Miscellaneous Soueces. 
 
 Jacob Walter, Phila. County, took the oath of allegi- 
 ance Sept. 7, 1740. 
 
 Mar. 28, 1750, Matthew Walter married Ann Maria 
 Haag. 
 
30 WAOENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 Apr. 25, ] 817, Catherine Walter died, aged 56 years. 
 
 Aug. 18, 1787, Catherine Maria Walter died, aged 
 18 years. 
 
 Sept. 1, 1839, Margaret Walter died, aged 81 yearp, 
 10 months and 21 days. 
 
 July 13, 1846, George Walter died, aged 83 years, 9 
 months and 20 days. 
 
 The Walters in this country are very numerous. 
 One Jacob Walter came from Europe about the middle of 
 the last century and settled in Snyder County. From him 
 descended hundreds most of whom are now living near the 
 spot where Jacob originally settled about two miles trom 
 Middleburg, Pa. Many of Jacob's descendants have 
 taken Horace Greely's advice and have gone west. If 
 some one were to investigate, the result would be, the dis- 
 covery of a connecting link that would prove all of these 
 descendants from the same common source — including 
 Margaret Wagenseller's husband. 
 
 10. Petee^, [John^, Christopliei-^), born in Mont- 
 gomery (then Philadelphia) county, Pa., Sept. 24, 1774, 
 was married in Lower Providence township, Montgomery 
 county, to Susanna Longaker, Jan. 7, 1800, by Rev. 
 Henry Geisenheimer. Susanna Longaker was born in 
 Chester county. Pa., Jan. 28, 1781. The ancestry of 
 Susanna is distinguished. In 1733, Ulrich Longeuecker 
 (Longaker) aged 69 years came from Europe, tradition 
 says from Switzerland near Zurich and landed in Philadel- 
 phia Aug. 28, 1733 and took the oath of allegiance. He 
 came in the ship Hope of London, Daniel Reed, master 
 and with him were Ulrich, Jr., aged 22 years, and Jacob 
 aged 19 years. It is probable that Ulrich, Jr. and Jacob 
 were sons of Ulrich, Sr., at any rate, we have proof that 
 Jacob, the 19 year old immigrant, is the grand father of 
 Peter Wagenseller's wife. About 1746 Jacob Longeneck- 
 er married Susanna Longenecker, the widow of John. 
 (Probably Jacob's cousin.) Jacob and Susanna Longeneck- 
 er had two sons, Jacob and Peter and five daughters, 
 alome, wife of .Jacob Bleim, Mary of Mr. Wisler, Esther 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 31 
 
 of Henry Khodes, Magdalene of Jacob Ruth (now Root), 
 Susanna of John Brower. Jacob, of the above list, married 
 Catherine Detweiler, a daughter of John Detweiler. The 
 family of John Detweiler consisted of four sods and nine 
 daughters. Jacob Longaker (the name now changes) the 
 father of Peter Wagenseller's wile was born Mar. 10, 1756 
 and died July 28, 1807, aged 61 yrs., 4 months and 18 days. 
 Catherine, the wife of Jacob, was born Mar. 15, 1758, 
 died March 10, 1816, aged 57 yrs., 11 mos. and 25 days. 
 Susanna, the eldest daughter of this couple, is the person 
 wh(j became Peter Wagenseller's wife in 1800. She is 
 said (o have spoken Geruian fluently, but that will not 
 deny her Swiss ancestry. Her family in Switzerland has 
 a coat of arms. Being que-tioned concerning her, i:i. 
 nephew, Hon. A. B. Longaker, of Norristown, wnles . 
 
 Susanna Longaker ^Vagenseller, it is true, was the daugh- 
 ter of parents born in Chester County, whose language or 
 speech in the family was German and German well spoken, 
 and written by her ancestors. Her grandfather Jacob 
 Langenecker, wrote his name to his will in good German 
 penmanship. Daniel Langenecker, her uncle, I think 
 a Mennonite preacher wrote a good Genuan hand, both as 
 regards orthography and penmanship. Ihavea photograph- 
 ed letter under date of 1734, written by him. His son, 
 David, was also a Mennonite preacher, and his signature 
 is a fine specimen of German penmanship as apjaears by 
 his will registered in Phila. The fact that this ancestry 
 was educated Geruians residing in Switzerland and by 
 tradition of French origin, or as persecuted Huguenots de- 
 parted from France about 1572. In civilization and by 
 education many of tliese colonial settlers were at least 100 
 years educationally in advance of other Europeans. 
 
 "My father at the age of eight years did not speak the 
 English language and removing into an English neighbor- 
 hood when he was a young man, had lost all knowledge 
 of speaking Geroian and never again acquired it so that 
 he C(Aild be said to l)e able to speak it \vell. 
 
32 WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 "Schools were established as early as 1750, both in 
 Chester and Montgomery counties amongst the Longaker 
 families, and Peter Longaker, my uncle, and amongst the 
 eldest of the family was a school teacher. My uncle, 
 Abraham, was a doctor. My father was a justice of the 
 Peace, sheriff of the county, member of the House of Re- 
 presentatives two years, colonel of Militia and ten years 
 one of the associate judges of the county. My aunt, Susan 
 Longaker, was a lady of great information — full of know- 
 ledge of all the events ofcoh)nial times, of the family, ntQ., 
 and a very pleasant and great talker, without a suspicion 
 of German accent in her speech. It is probable she did 
 not, like my father, forget her German speech, as she was 
 amongst the oldest and my father of the youngest of the 
 family." 
 
 Susannah died in Pekin, Tazewell County, Illinois, 
 Apr. 29, 1862, aged 81 years, 3 months and 9 days. 
 
 Peter Wagenseller, having married only 7 days after 
 the 0])ening of this century, purchased a farm in 
 Providence township and followed the occupation of a 
 farmer. He nuist have attained some prominence as we 
 learn from the history of Montgomery County p. 1056 that 
 he was constable of Upper Providence township in 1809. 
 On page 1048, we observe that he was elected jutice 
 of the Peace, Dec. 4, 1816. 
 
 He was commissioned by the beloved Governor Simon 
 Snyder, Dec. 24, 1816, and the same is recorded at Nor- 
 ristown. The following is a copy of the Commission : 
 
 SiivroN Snydee, 
 
 Seal of Com. of 
 
 Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania ss. 
 
 In the name and by 
 the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Simon 
 Snyder, Governor of the said Commonwealth, to Peter 
 Wagenseller of the county of Montgomery, Esquire, sends 
 greetings: Know you that reposing esjiecial trust, and con- 
 fidence in your integrity, judgment and abilities, I, the said 
 
WAOENSELLER HISTORY. 33 
 
 Simon Snyder, have appoiated an(J by these presents to 
 appoint and commis&ion you, the said Peter Wa^enseller, 
 to be a justice of the Peace in the district numbered two, 
 composed of the townships of Providence, Limerick and 
 Perkiomen in the county of Montgomery hereby giving 
 and granting unto you full right aud title to have and ex- 
 ecute all and singular the powers, jurisdiction and authori- 
 ties and to receive and enjoy all and singular the lawful 
 emoluments ol a justice of the Peace aforesaid agreeably 
 to the constitution and laws of the Commonwealth. To 
 have and to hold this commission and the office hereby 
 granted unto you, the said Peter Wagenseller, as long as 
 you behave yourself well. Given under my hand and 
 seal of the state at Harrisburg this 24th day of December 
 in the year ot our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 
 sixteen and of the said Commonwealth the forty-first. 
 
 By the Governor. N. B. Boilean, Sec'y. 
 
 Recorded Feby. Brd, 1817, at Norristown, in Book No. 
 2, page 11. 
 
 The old Peter Wagenseller homestead passed into the 
 hands of the Pennypackers. Mr. John B. Pennypacker, 
 born 1831, of Phoenixville, Pa„ writes : "The old house 
 is just as it was sixty years ago, a very pretty old stone 
 farm house. My father built the barn there and the long 
 line of red cedars in front of the house and the white ash 
 trees on the opposite side of the road I helped to piant. 
 It is to-day quite a quaint and pretty home owned by 
 a gentleman who, I think, resides in Philadelphia. I 
 have traveled my share in our own country and from Port- 
 land to the Mississippi, I have never found a finer agricul- 
 tural section than the surroundings of the home of your 
 great grand-father, Peter Wagen?eller. Susanna Wagen- 
 seller, old Peter's wife, was a sister ot Judge Henry Long- 
 aker. His son, A. B. Longaker, of Norristown, was a 
 member of the state legislature some years ago, and an ex- 
 judge himself, Sept. 6, 1897." In 1887, Mr. Pennypack- 
 er wrote an article for the "Norristown Herald" which is 
 so full of information that we will give it complete. It 
 
34 WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 follows : 
 
 LETTERS FROM PORT PROVIDENCE. 
 
 The Families akd Fa ems of Sixty Years Ago — 
 Time's Changes, &c. 
 
 Sixty years ago Peter Wagenseller owned the farm at 
 present in possession of Thos. P. Walker, and lying one 
 mile north of our village, having purchased it from John 
 Jacobs, who was perhaps the largest land owner of this 
 part of Gilbert's manor. The tract embraced about eighty 
 acres. Old Peter had married Susau Longaker, a sister of 
 the late Judge Henry Longaker, formerly of your bench, 
 and his family consisted of six sons and two daughters, 
 viz : Jacob, John, Benjamin, Joshua, Peter Jr., William, 
 Catherine and Hannah. So that the old gentleman was 
 pretty well lixed for help. Jacob, the eldest of the sons, 
 studied medicine, and located at Selinsgrove, in Union 
 County, where he married and soou built up for himself a 
 line reputation as a physician, and a lucrative practice. 
 John, the second sou, was a tailor by trade, and carried on 
 his business in a little shop which stood a short distance 
 south of the old house in which John Bartholomew, Sr., 
 died, and near where his son, John, has, for the past forty 
 odd years, carried on smithing; but he afterwards I'emoved 
 to the "Corner Stores" in Chester County. The little 
 shop and the old house, like their tenants, have long since 
 passed away. 
 
 Peter, Jr., died at the old home when about sixteen or 
 seventeen years of age, and Benjamin, Joshua and William 
 remained upon the farm with their father until some years 
 later, when he sought a new home in the West. Of Peter's 
 sons, John alone married here, marrying a Miss Norton, 
 sister of Samuel Norton, who some thirty years ago resided 
 inPhoenixville. 
 
 The daughters, Catherine and Hannah, married 
 brothers, Matthew and Hamilton Chain, sons of old Mat- 
 thew Chain, who formerly resided near Norristown. Old 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 35 
 
 Peter found his purchase to be a profitable one; prices of 
 farm products were satisfactory, and his crops all he could 
 desire. So having accumulated some two or three thous- 
 sand dollars in cash, he purchased the hills lying on the 
 north side of Egypt road, which then, as at present, passed 
 between the two tracts. 
 
 The price paid was seventy-five or eighty dollars per 
 acre, without buildings of any kind whatever, which was 
 certainly a pretty high figure. 
 
 The ensuing autumn the old man's corn cribs showed 
 an exhibit of which any of our most 2>ractical farmers of 
 to-day might feel a very just pride. 
 
 But prosperity oflen very unexpectedly takes wings, 
 and this Mr. W. realized not many years later. When the 
 upjier or hill tract was purchased, a mortgage was given, 
 which covered not only that, but also the first tract or pur- 
 chase of 80 acres. A "tidal wave" of low prices set in, 
 and eventually the entire tract fell back into the hands of 
 the original owners — Penn's heirs — -at the nominal price of 
 $13 or $14 per acre. We think, Gen. Cadwallader, of 
 Philadelphia, afterward acted as agent of the Penns for 
 this property, and it remained in his or their hands until 
 about 1848 or '49, when it was purchased by Joseph S. 
 Pennj'packer of Gen. Cadwallader, for thirty-six or thirty- 
 eight dollars per acre. The tract at that time comprised 
 one hundred and ninety-eight acres, but has since been cut 
 up and sold to other parties, while the original tract is 
 the pleasant home of Thomas P. AValker. 
 
 After Peter Wagenseller left the property it soon be- 
 came a splendid blackberry patch, for it was overgrown 
 with briers and bushes ; and when we were boys, say thirty 
 five years ago, we never thought of going anywhere else 
 than here to fill our baskets with the choicest berries. 
 
 After the property was sold the old man sought out 
 anew Egypt in the wilds of the west, whither he went with 
 his family. Benjamin, William-still single-accompanied 
 him, and John closed up his business, and with his wife 
 
36 WAOENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 and two children the party waS complete.- While on the"' 
 journey West, John's wife had been in delicate health, 
 grew worse and died. Not very long after, Catherine, 
 who had been left a widow, together with Hamilton and 
 his wife, also took up the subsequent idea of old Horace 
 and decided to "go West." William, the youngest of the 
 boys, did not remain with the family very long after they 
 had left for the new El Dorado, but came back to Selins- 
 giove aud studied medicine with his brother Jacob. 
 
 Old Peter never returned to witness what time had 
 done for the Valley of the Schuylkill, and particularly to 
 Gilbert's Manor, for He who calls but once for all haslong 
 since summoned him to the happy hunting ground above. 
 
 Thus one at least of the first families of sixty years 
 ago has passed from onr midst, and we have no one left of 
 the nanie of ^V'agenseller in our vicinity to-day. 
 
 Felix, per 
 
 John B. Pennypacker. 
 Port Providence, May 4th, 1877. 
 
 In the spring of 1834, Peter went to the West as 
 above stated. It seems that Peter's son, John, had a small 
 tract of laud and this Avas sold before departing for the 
 West. There is on record at Norristown a deed dated 
 Dec. 15, 1832 entered on book 65, page 50 for 3 acres in 
 Upper Providence township deeded by John Wagenseller 
 and his wife Mary Ann to John- H. Umstead, Witnesses 
 to the deed, Peter Wagenseller and Anthony Vanderslice. 
 Acknowledged before Peter Wagenseller, Justice of the 
 Peace, Dec. 15, 1832.' The trip to the West (Ohio) was 
 not made as easily then as it is now. Peter and his family 
 drove out requiring about 20 days to make the trip. May 
 24, 1834, Peter wrote a letter to his brother William 
 giving a full description of the journey. William's 
 daughter, Mrs. Margaret Young, near Pheonixville, Pa. 
 still has the letter in her possession. It is dated at Colum- 
 bus, Oliio. His life in Ohio was exceedingly short for he 
 
WAQEN8ELLER HISTORY. 37 
 
 died in Franklin county, Ohio, June 14, 1835, aged 59 
 yearb, 8 months and 20 days. His widow later moved to 
 Pekin with her son, Jeshua, and there died at a good old 
 age. 
 
 There were ten children boru to Peter and Susan 
 Wagenseller, as follows : 
 
 Jacob, born Jan. 2, 1801. 
 
 John, born Dec. 17, 1802. 
 
 Catherine, born Nov. 29, 1804. 
 
 Hani^ah, born Apr. 25, 1807. 
 
 Benjamin, born Nov. 4, 1809. 
 
 Joshua, born July 5, 1813. 
 
 Peter, born July 6, 1815, died at the 
 
 old home, Sept. 10, 1830. 
 WilUam Findlay, born Nov. 15, 1817. 
 Srsanna, born May, 20, 1820, died 
 
 May 27, 1820, aged 7 days. 
 He^ry, born April 18, 1826, died 
 i.pr. 24, 1826, aged 6 days. 
 WILLIAM^, {John\ Christopher^ ), born May 
 Rebecca Neilor, who died Oct. 20, 
 1 844. ile was a hotel keeper in West Pikeland township, 
 Chester County, Pa., and died July 22, 1868. To them 
 were born 5 children : 
 
 30. i. Jaiaes, born Nov. 28, 1808, married 
 
 Harriet Hartman of Pikeland, now 
 decraned. They had no issue. Res- 
 idence, Philadelphia, He died July 
 16,, 1868. 
 + 31. ii. George, born Aug. 17, 1812. 
 
 32. iii. Ann, born Apr. 14, 1815, married 
 Frederick Holman, died June 23, 
 1885 at Chester Springs, Chester Co., 
 Pa. They had one child, Wm. Wag- 
 enseller Holman, born Dec. 1834, 
 married Lydia Katherine Wagensel- 
 ler, daughter of Dr. Jacob Wagensel- 
 ler. Catherine is dead, buried at Se- 
 
 + 20. 
 
 i. 
 
 -H 21. 
 
 ii. 
 
 + 22. 
 
 iii. 
 
 + 23. 
 
 iv. 
 
 + 24. 
 
 V. 
 
 -f 25. 
 
 vi. 
 
 26. 
 
 vii. 
 
 + 27. 
 
 viii. 
 
 28. 
 
 ix. 
 
 29. 
 
 X. 
 
 11. A 
 
 VILL] 
 
 25, 1778, I 
 
 narriec 
 
38 WAGEmELLER HISTORY. 
 
 linsgrove. A son of Wm. and Cath- 
 erine, H. C. Holman, resides at 2544 
 North Eleventh Street, Philadelphia. 
 + 33. iv. John Neilor, born April 11, 1817. 
 34. V. Margaret Hornetter, born Oct. 28, 
 
 1818, mai-ried John Young ot Ches- 
 ter Springs, Chester County, Pa., 
 Oct. 7, 1845, the latter having died 
 March 7, 1895. Mrs. Young is still 
 living in Chester County, about six 
 miles from Phoenix ville, Pa. She is the 
 oldest female descendant of the Wag- 
 enseller family living to-day and the 
 last and only survivor of the fourth 
 generation in this country. John and 
 Margaret Young had seven children 
 as follows: 
 
 (1) William H. Young, born Apr. 
 12, 1847, married Jan. 30, 1873, 
 Abbie A. Mc Williams, who died July 
 26, 1895. They had two children, 
 Charles, born Jan. 13, 1876 and 
 Hemer, born Apr. 27, 1878, now at 
 Gettysburg College. Wm. resides at 
 Anselma, Chester Co., Pa. (2) John 
 Shafer Young, Sept. 20, 1848, marri- 
 ed Rebecca Moses, resides at Anselma, 
 Pa. No issue. (3) Joseph A. Young 
 born April 19, 1851, married May 
 29, 1879 to Kate Mellon of Phoenix- 
 ville. In 1878 he formed a co-part- 
 nership with A. E. Eachus establish- 
 ing the firm of Eachus and Young, 
 who are now one of the oldest mercan- 
 tile firms in Phoeuixville, Pa. No issue 
 (4) Geo. Wagenseller Young, born 
 Aug. 24, 1852, married Annie Bourne, 
 Sunbury, Pa. He is now in the mer- 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 39 
 
 cantile business in Newton, Kansas. 
 This union was blessed with three 
 children, S. Cameron, Charlotte 
 Bourne and Edna . (5) Franklin Young, 
 born Apr. 1st, 1854, died in infancy. 
 (6) Ella R. Young, born Dee. 30, 
 1856, married Dec. 12, 1877 to 
 Sylvester Pennypacker of Chester 
 Springs, Pa. To them are born two 
 children, Chester C, born Jan. 5, 
 1879, and John Young, born May 29, 
 1883. (7) Annie M. Young, born 
 Jan. 9, 1863, married Jan. 9, 1884 to 
 Henry C. Dewees, now reside at An- 
 selma. Pa., with 3 children, Margaret 
 Young, born Oct. 4, 1888, J. Hanse, 
 born Sept. 19 1890 and Ida Eliza- 
 beth, born Nov. 17, 1896. 
 JACOB,* {John*, Christopher^), born 1782, mar- 
 ried Martha Shrack. The Shracks are a decidedly numer- 
 ous branch in this country, hence it is impossible to get 
 the correct line of ancestry of Martha without special re- 
 search upon this line. No less than 5 male persons with 
 the name came to this country. Johannes Shreyck, (Lan- 
 caster county) took the oath of allegiance July 3, 1743. 
 Some Shreyck's (Shrack) arrived Aug. 28, 1733, and in 
 1717 John Jacob Schrack with two sons, John Joseph and 
 Philip came to America. The Shracks are numerous in 
 Montgomery County to-day, in fact, all over the eastern 
 and central portion of Pennsylvania, especially in Union 
 County. Tliis is to be expected where there were so many 
 immigrants. 
 
 John Jacob Shrack who came from Germany in 1717 
 settled in Providence township west of Perkiomen creek. 
 He brought with him his wife, Eva Rosina, and 4 children. 
 He was a Lutheran and joined with others of the New 
 Hanover, Providence and Philadelphia congregations in 
 1733, in commending persons sent to Europe to collect 
 
40 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 money to build churches in Pennsylvania and in 17o5' — 
 '39 in urging the ecclesiastical authorities in Germany to 
 send a suitable preacher to serve these congregations. 
 Muhlenburg came in the fall of 1742 in response to these 
 petitions. Shrack died in the early part of the same year 
 at the age of 63 years. 
 
 Muhlenburg landed at Philadelphia on Thursday, 
 November 25, 1742. The following Sunday he preached 
 at New Hanover and on Monday the 29th, wrote in his 
 diary: "Three elders of the congregation accompanied me 
 nine miles down to New Providence for the purpose of 
 •onfieringwith the deacons here and stopped with the widow 
 Shraok, whose husband, a deacon, and one of those who 
 often petitioned the Rev. Mr. Ziegenhagen for a minister, 
 died the past summer." Jotin Jacob Shrack was natural- 
 ized in the ytar 1729. He kept a public house, called the 
 Trap, which gave name to the village, which is retained 
 to the present day. His widow and afte;' ward his sons, 
 continued the public house, which was widely known. In 
 the chui-ch register of the Lutheran church at the Trappe 
 is the Shrack family record, placed there probably by 
 Rev. John Casper Stoever, the predecessor of Muhlenburg. 
 From an old subscription list of the Trappe church dated 
 1760 for the support of Rev. Muhlenburg, pastor of New 
 Providence Lutheran Congregation, we find John Schrack 
 gave one pound, ten shillings, Jacob Schrack, 1 5 shillings 
 and Christian Schrack, 12 shillings. Only one other gave 
 as much as Jacob and no one gave more. The children 
 of John Jacob and Eva Rosina Schrack were; 
 
 BoEN IN Germany. — John Joseph, born Oct. 9, 1712; 
 Naturalized in 1729 or 1730. 
 
 Philip, bcrn Jan. 21, 1714, married Maria . 
 
 They had issue : Jacob, born Nov. 29, 1740; John 
 born May 31, 1742; Henry, born Feb. 5, 1744; 
 Maria, baptized Apr. 17, 1748; Philip, bornNoy. 3, 
 1750, baptized Apr. 1, 1751 (Rev. Henry Melchoir 
 Muhlenburg and hie wife, Anna Maria, being the 
 .rponsors). Maria, wife of Philip Schrack, was buri- 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 41 
 
 ed Sept. 23, 1766, aged 51 years. 
 Eva Barbara, born May 1, 1716, married Jolm 
 
 George Cressman, Dec. 9, 1735. 
 BoEN At Sea. — Maria, born at sea Ocl. 26, 1717, 
 married John Adam Simon Kun, Dec. 11, 1740. Her 
 name is given in the record of marriage as Anna 
 Maria Savina Schrack. 
 BoEN In Pennsylvania. — John Jacob, born April 
 8, 1724, married Maria Elizabeth Muhlhahn, March 
 22, 1750. 
 Catherine, born July 17, 1726, married June 20, 
 1753 to Hugh Bradford, M'ho was buried June 1, 1756 
 at the Trappe. 
 Christian, born Oct. 4, 1727. 
 Elizabeth, born April 13, 1729. 
 John Nicolaus, born June 23, 1730. 
 
 Widow Eva Eosina Schrack died October 19, 1756. 
 She was a native of the imperial city of Ulm ; married 
 John Jacob Schrack in 1711. Her age was Q8^ years. 
 April 7, 1732, Jacob Schrack paid a quit rent of 18 
 shillings and 9 pence on 500 acres for 25 years in full 
 (in Providence township.) 
 
 We have no data to prove that Martha Schrack is a de- 
 scendant of John Jacob, but as Jacob Wagenseller lived in 
 the very neighborliood with the Schracks, went to the same 
 church with them, it was an easy matter for Jacob to meet 
 jMartha, gallant her to her father's home, whisper words of 
 love and aifection to her and invite her to join him in per- 
 petuating the name Wagenseller for many a generation. 
 This they did, for to them we credit a family of seven chil- 
 dren : 
 
 + 35. i. JohnShrack, born Nov. 16, 1808. 
 
 + 36. ii. David, born 1812. 
 
 + 37. iii. Levi. 
 
 + 38. iv. Sarah. 
 
 -|- 39. V. Margaret. 
 
 + 40. vi. Martha, born 1818. 
 
 + 41. vii. Elizabeth, born Sept. 2, 1S20. 
 
42 WAGEN8ELLER HI8T0RY. 
 
 13. GEORGE'', (John^, John% Ohristoj'jher,''). Born 
 at Red Lion hotel, Chester county, Pennsylvania, January 
 18, 1788, married Leticia Cavender who was born October 
 3, 1788 and died September 29, 1863. In 1821,_we pre- 
 sume they lived in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, dince 
 their son William says he was born there. He moved to 
 Ohio in 1825. In 1839 he moved to Crawford county, 
 Illinois. Here George died April 18, 1857. A letter 
 was published in the Argus printed at Robinson, the coun- 
 ty seat of Crawford county, asking for information con- 
 cerning some of George's descendants, but we failed to re- 
 ceive even a single reply. Some of them as we shall see 
 later moved up to Terre Haute, Ind. George lived near 
 the Wabash River and for want of a better distinction, we 
 have called him "George of the Wabash." 
 
 George and Leticia had seven children as follows : 
 
 4-42. i. John Cavender, born July 24, 1813. 
 
 -|-43. ii. Thomas Weidner, born Nov. 19, 
 
 1815. 
 
 -|-44. iii. Abram, born Sept. 2, 1818. 
 
 + 45. iv. William, born June 24, 1821. 
 
 + 46. V. Amos, born March 30, 1824. 
 
 47. vi. Elizabeth, married Hugh Mathus 
 
 with whom she had three children, 
 Louisa born Oct. 21, 1848, died 
 1872. Martha born 1850, and 
 George born 1853. 
 
 48. vii. Thamzen, born Oct. 15, 1830, and 
 
 died March 21, 1839. 
 
 14. MARG AUV.T\{John^,John\Christojjher^), born 
 May 15, 1789, at the Red Lion hotel, married Benjamin 
 Ramsey and died Sept. 12, 1849 of Dropsy, aged 60 years, 
 3 month and 27 days. Benjamin died Sept. 4, 1855, at 
 the age of 76 years. He was a blacksmith and a wheel- 
 wright. Both lie buried in the Goshen Baptist Church 
 burying ground, near West Chester, Chester county. Pa. 
 This union was blessed with a large family of twelve chil- 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 43 
 
 dren. (1) Joseph Wagenseller Ramsey, born Jan. 12, 
 1809, married March 11, 1841 to Albina Wollerton who 
 died Jan. 30. 1878, aged 63 years. Joseph, her husband, 
 died June 23, 1853 aged 44 years, 5 months and 11 days. 
 Both are buried in the Goshen Baptist Church burying 
 ground. They had three children. He was a school 
 teacher. (2) Thomas Ramsey, born Sept. 10, 1812, mar- 
 ried first, Ann S. Louden, died June 13, 1840, second, in 
 1850, Margaret E. Thomas. Thomas had one child with 
 his first wife and three childi-en with his second wife. He 
 died Feb. 6, 1877 and is buried in the Goshen Baptist 
 Church burying ground. (3.) Mary Ann Ramsey, born 
 Aug. 28, 1815, died July 12, 1853, aged 37 years, 10 
 months and 15 days. Buried in Goshen burying groujid 
 with the others. She had one child. (4.) Sarah Ann 
 Ramsey, born Feb. 8, 1818, married Feb. 27, 1860, to 
 Joseph Lewis. She was the mother of two children and 
 died Feb. 14, 1872. (5.) Elizabeth Ramsey, born Nov. 
 19, 1820, married William >yalls and died Feb. 15, 1897 
 of pneumonia. She resided in Philadelphia, is the mother 
 of one child and is now buried in the Goshen Baptist 
 Church burying ground. (6.) Thamzen Ramsey, born 
 March 3, 1823, married Dec. 11, 1843 to Johh Hibberd, 
 who died Aug. 16, 1862. Thamzen resided at West 
 Chester, Pa., was the mother of two children and died of 
 paralysis Sept. 28, 1897. (7.) Minerva Ramsey, born 
 July 31, 1825, married Oct. 22, 1846, Richard Monroe 
 Shepherd, who died jSTov. 17, 1896. Minerva was the 
 mother of six children and died Nov. 16, 1897. Mr. 
 Shepherd and his wife formerly resided on their farm at 
 the Grove, W. Whiteland township, Chester county. Pa. 
 They were members of the Grove M. E. Church. Later 
 they resided at Malvern, Chester county. Both are bur- 
 ied atGreeumount Cemetery, A\^est Chester, Pa. (8.) John 
 Weidner Ramsey, born Aug. 31, 1827. He went South 
 and nothing has been heard of him since the war, when 
 he was in Tennessee. (9.) Angeline Ramsey (Twin to 
 Caroline), born March 7, 1830, married January 1, 1852 
 
44 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 to Harry Ash who died Sept 10, 1896. She was the 
 mother of seven children and died Jan. 31, 1892. Both 
 are buried in Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 (10.) Caroline Ramsey, (Twin to Angeline), born March 
 7, 1830 and is now dead. No date given. (H.) Julia 
 Ramsey, born Oct. 31, 1831, married first John Shepherd, 
 now deceased, and second Isaac Massey, also deceased. 
 She resided in Philadelphia, was the mother of three chil- 
 dren with her first husband and one child with her second 
 husband.. She is buried in Greenmount Cemetery, West 
 Chester, Pa., having died March 1, 1895. (12.) John 
 Ramsey, born Nov. 4, 1810 and died Nov. 17, 1814. 
 
 15. ABRAHAM*, {John^, Jnhw^, Christopher^), born 
 Aug. 16, 1791 atLionyille, Pa. Married Catherine Myers, 
 daughter of Captain Thomas Henry Meyers of Philadel- 
 phia. He kept store at Red Lion, Pa. He died in Otto- 
 wa, Illinois, Januaiy 31, 1868. Catherine was born in 
 1800 and died June 28, 1847 at Glen Moore, Chester 
 county, Pa. Their issue was 5 children : 
 
 + 49. i. Julia Matilda,* born Dec. 13, 1826. 
 
 + 50. ii. Mary Elizabeth, born May 3, 1830. 
 
 + 51. iii. Thomas Meyers, born Aug. 14,1833. 
 
 + 52. iv. John Andrew, born Dec. 11, 1836. 
 
 + 53. V. Emily Law, born Dec. 3, 1839. 
 
 16. FANNY^ {Jolm^, Johv^, Christopher^), born 
 
 July 10, 1793, married first Evans, second 
 
 Joseph Beidler, died Aug. 28, 1870. Buried in Green 
 Mount in West Chester, Pa. She had one son with her 
 first husband. All are dead. 
 
 17. ABIGAIL*, (Jo/wi', John^, Christopher^), born 
 May 17, 1795, married Joseph John, near Yellow Springs, 
 Pa., who was born July 11, 1790 and died April 15, 
 1833._ Abigail died Feb. 17, 1855. Joseph and Abigail 
 had six children as follows: (1.) Jerome John, born 
 Dec. 28, 1815, died January 19, 1896, married Elizabeth 
 J. Cornman, who died March 1895. Five children. (2.) 
 Gates John, born Sept. 10, 1818, died July 19, 1896, 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 45 
 
 married Aana Maria Vandever. Widow resides in Phoe- 
 nixville. Eleven children. (3.) Jeffery John, born 
 March 6, 1823, died Nov. 22, 1883. Married Katherine 
 Mason. Widow resides in Phoenixville, Pa. They had 
 one son. (4.) Jason John, born May 2, 1825, died June 
 17, 1852, married Louisa Supples. They had one daugh- 
 ter. (5.) Park John, born April 17, 1828, never mar- 
 ried, died Sept. 11, 1845. (6.) Joseph John, born Dec. 
 7, 1832, married Clemintina Green, now deceased. Jo- 
 seph died Feb. 22, 1877. No issue. 
 
 18. THAMZEN*, {John^, Joh-n?, Christopher^ (Some 
 places spelled Thamozin and Thamsen) born June 18, 
 1797, married John Marshall, son of Joseph Marshall of 
 near Wilmington, Delware, May 22, 1816 at Philadelphia 
 by William Staughton, D.D. Thamzen is buried in Green 
 Mount in AVest Chester, Pa. Her husband went West and 
 nothing was heard from him for years. He died out there. 
 They had a family of six children. (1) Abraham Mar- 
 shall, born March 17, 1819, died June 22, 1857. Wife 
 died May 21, 1857, both are buried at Green Mount in 
 West Chester. Three children are still living in New 
 York. (1) Joseph Marshall, was born Aug. 17, 1821, he 
 was married three times. With his first wife he had 6 
 children, with the second, 2 children. He resides at Ba- 
 tavia, Clearmont Co., Ohio. (3) Susan Crosley Mar- 
 shall, born Sept. 14, 1823, married Henry Barrett Free- 
 man, who died Feb. 12, 1878. Susan is still living in 
 excellent health at the age of 75 years. They had six 
 children. Three are liying, one is W. H. M. Free- 
 man, a successftil jeweler at 18 and 20 Market Street, 
 West Chester, Pa. (4) George Wagenseller Marshall, 
 born Feb. 24, 1827, married first Amanda Ann Lewis, 
 second Abigail Cecilia Jenkins, third Sarah Elizabeth 
 Wilson. With the first wife, he had 2 cliildren, second 4, 
 third 3. Residence, 819 Sunbury Street, Shamokin, Pa. 
 (5) Agnes Ann Marshall, born August 3, 1830, married 
 first John Letsford, second Joseph Lilley, third Albert 
 Buckingham. With her first husband she had 2 children 
 
46 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 and with the second one child. Residence, 1532 Green 
 Street, Harrisburg, Pa. (6) Theressa Elizabeth Mar- 
 shall born Oct. 6, 1833 married first Washington Mentz 
 Silvers, second Richard Thomas Shepherd. With her 
 first husband she had 3 children and with the second, one 
 child. Residence, 1504 North Sixth Street, Harrisburg, 
 Pa. 
 
 19. ELIZABETH'' {John^, John'', Christopher^). 
 [Erroneously numbered on page 27.] Born Sept. 14, 
 1800, married Joseph Riter in 1821 and died May 29, 
 1855 aged 55 years. Husband died Sept. 1, 1866. They 
 had seven children : (1) James Monroe Riter, born 
 Nov. 1821, married Eliza Neely 1869 and died in 1872. 
 Widow died Dec. 1890. One child, Samuel Neely Riter 
 was born to tbem in 1870 who now resides in Pittsburg, 
 Pa. (2) Delbit Clinton Riter, born Feb. 23, 1825, died 
 June 30, 1896. Wife is dead and a son Grant Riter re- 
 sides in Chicago, Ills. (3) Hannah Coleman Riter, mar- 
 ried Philip Reymer July 21, 1859, who died in March 
 1893. Widow resides at No. 17, Bidwell Street, Alle- 
 gheny, Pa. There were 4 children to this union, (a) Ida 
 Blanche Reymer, (b) Clement Canghey Reymer, (c) Anna 
 Elizabeth Reymer, married Roderick Totien, Dec. 1892 
 to whom was born Elizabeth Riter Totten, Dec. 8, 1893, 
 (d) Phillip Reymer, Jr., died August 1895. (4) ICliza- 
 beth Riter. (5) Margaret Riter, married Jacob Meyers 
 1870, now resides at Colorado Springs, Colorado. (6) 
 Thomas Benton Riter married Sophia Ann McCallin April 
 14, 1875, now reside at No. 5612 Ellsworth Ave., E. E., 
 Pittsburg, Pa. They have 4 children : James died Aug. 
 24, 1892, Mary Alice, Joseph and AVilliam Riter, the last 
 of whom died in June 1890. (7) lona Rebecca Riter, 
 married Alexander Andrews of Pittsburg and died Dec. 
 1880. They had one son Joseph Cummings Andrews. 
 
 20. JACOB* (Pefe/'S, John', Christopher'^), born Jan- 
 uary 2, 1801 in Montgonaery county, a physician by pro- 
 fession. He was liberally educated having graduated at 
 
WAGEMELLER HISTORY. 47 
 
 the University of Pennsylvania. He established himself 
 in the practice of medicine in his native county, but about 
 1827 located at Selinsgrove, Snyder (then Union) County. 
 In addition to practicing medicine, he carried on the mer- 
 cantile business, keeping a general store and dealing exten- 
 sively in grain. For quite a number of years he was in 
 partnership with his brother, William F. Wagenseller, in 
 the old stand at the canal when nearly all the product of 
 Snyder county was hauled to Selinsgrove. He was thus 
 engaged at the time of his death which occurred at Selins- 
 grove April 27, 1847. He had abandoned his profession 
 some years previously. He was a man of fine business 
 qualities and made a success in life. He became promi- 
 nent in public affairs. He was a whig and as such was 
 elected to the State Senate in which body his intelligence 
 made him a useful member. He was active in party af- 
 fairs, and a man of influence in the community, as well as 
 a leading spirit in every movement calculated to develop 
 the resources of the county and advance the interests of 
 Selinsgrove. He served two terms in the Senate, being a 
 member at the time of his death, representing Juniata, 
 Mif&in and Union Counties. On January 27, 1829, he 
 was married by Rev. Daniel Weiserto Mary Richter, born 
 Dec. 25, 1810, a daughter of Peter Richter, a man who 
 was prominent and influential about Selinsgrove. Mary 
 died March 4, 1863. Their union was blessed with eight 
 children : 
 
 4-54. i. Peter Richter', born Dec. 8, 1829. 
 
 -|-55. ii. Sarah Susanna, born Dec 15, 1831. 
 
 56. iii. LydiaCatherine,bornDec. 31, 1833. 
 
 Drowned July 1, 1836 at Selins- 
 grove, Pa. 
 -f 57. iv. Mary Elizabeth, born Feb. 27, 1836. 
 
 -{-58. v. Benjamin Franklin, born Feb. 17, 
 
 1838. 
 59. vi. LydiaCatherine, born Oct. 22. 1840, 
 
 married William Wagenseller Hol- 
 man, son of Ann, who was a daugh- 
 
48 WAOENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 ter of William^ and Rebecca Wag- 
 eiiseller. (See Number 32, in this 
 family tree page 37.) 
 
 60. vii. Mattie Virginia, born March 22, 
 
 1843, was married to Lloyd Thomas 
 Sharpless March 5, 1862, by Rev. 
 Franklin Gearhart. He was bom 
 March 18, 1839 and is a wholesale 
 and retail Grocer at Bloomsburg, 
 Pa. Their family record shows 3 
 children : Benjamin Franklin, born 
 Feb. 7, 1863, died Feb. 21, 1863 ; 
 Mary Lillian, bom Jan. 14, 1864 
 and Julia Foster, born May 29, 
 1879. 
 
 61. viii. John Jacob, born July 16, 1845, 
 
 married first March 19, 1872, Mary 
 A. Willier, born Jan. 23, 1852, 
 died March 19, 1879. To them 
 were born two sons, John Carrol 
 born Sept. 2, 1874, died Nov. 18, 
 1877 ; Freddie born June 2, 1876, 
 died Nov. 13, 1877. John was 
 married second to Clara Hughes, 
 born March 15, 1851, died Dec. 
 27, 1891, married third Feb. 15, 
 1898 to Jennie A. Mears, born Aug. 
 2, 1862. He resides at Blooms- 
 burg, Pa., and is a traveling sales- 
 man. 
 21. JOHN^ (Pete/'S, Johv'^, Christopher^), born De- 
 cember 17, 1802 in Montgomery County, Pa. Married 
 to Mary Ann Norton, Dec. 25, 1823 by Rev. Charles 
 Moore. She was born September 2, 1805 and died May 
 19, 1834 while moving from Montgomery County to Co- 
 lumbus Ohio with her husband's father, Peter. He mar- 
 ried, second. Catherine Briggs in 1835. She was born 
 December 8, 1810 in Montgomery County, New York 
 
+ 63. 
 
 ii. 
 
 + 64. 
 
 iii. 
 
 65. 
 
 iv. 
 
 WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 49 
 
 and after her husband's death, which occurred January 2, 
 1845, she married (1847) Stacy Taylor. Catherine died 
 March 28, 1853. John was a tailor. 
 Children, first marriage : 
 + 62. i. SamuelNorton5,bornFeb. 21,1827. 
 
 Araminta, born April 17, 1829. 
 Mary, born April 14, 1832. 
 Matilda, married first Taylor, se- 
 cond Stephenson of Illinois. 
 
 66. V. Sarah Ann, died at the age of 14. 
 [Among the old family papers there is a record of 
 
 Susanna died in 1821 or 1827 aged 23 months and 22 
 days.] 
 
 Second marriage : 
 
 67. vi. Jacob, born Jan. 8, 1838. About 
 
 1863 he went to California for his 
 health. Nothing was ever heard 
 from him and he is supposed to have 
 been killed upon the plains. 
 
 68. vii. Emily, born near Columbus, Ohio, 
 
 Jan. 10, 1840, married William 
 Clemens of Massachusetts May 9, 
 1 865. She died at Columbus, Ohio, 
 of Consumption July 31, 1897. 
 They had 2 children : (1) Cath- 
 erine Belle, born March 25, 1866 
 atPekin, Ills., married Marion T. 
 Henderson of Wellington, N. Y. 
 They have one child Avenel, born 
 Feb. 9, 1886. Residence, Hutchi- 
 son, Kansas. (2) Allen Briggs, 
 born Feb. 2, 1869, a life insurance 
 agent, resides 595 Bryden Road, Co- 
 lumbus, Ohio. 
 
 69. viii. John, born March 29, 1845 and 
 
 died at Columbus, O. in 1867 of 
 Consumption hastened by exposures 
 in the Civil war. 
 
50 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 70. ix. GeorgCj born . Died at the 
 
 age of 19 years. 
 
 22. CATHERINE^ {Peter^, John'', Christopher^}, 
 born November 29, 1804 in Montgomery County, married 
 first Matthew Chain, who died in Franklin County, near 
 Columbus, Ohio, March 1835. He was the son of Old 
 Matthew Chain. She married second Elijah Timbrel and 
 died at Pekin, Illinois in 1872 of Cancer in the breast. 
 With her first husband she had 4 children and 2 with the 
 second: (1) William P., who resides in Kansas and has 
 4 children, Ida, William, John and Charles. (2) Joshua 
 Wagenseller, is said to be living at Byron, Ogle Co., Ills. 
 His wife died 1893. (3) Kate and (4) Matilda. Se- 
 cond marriage : (5) John drowned at Memphis, Ten- 
 nessee while serving his country in the War of the Rebel- 
 lion. (6) Benjamin, died Dec. 1, 1861 with the measles, 
 at .Jefferson City, Missouri, while serving in the army. 
 
 23. HANNAHS (PeterJ, John?, Christopher^), born 
 April 25, 1807, married William Hamilton Chain, a 
 brother of Matthew, who married Hannah's sister, Cather- 
 ine, above given. They were married March 1, 1831. 
 William was born August 19, 1809 and died in Franklin 
 County, Ohio, October 8, 1 855. Hannah died May 20, 
 1880 atLewistown, Illinois. To them were born six chil- 
 dren : (1) Sarah Susanna, born Dec. 27, 1830. She 
 married Dr. Clinton C. Fisher of Jacksonville, Ills., in 
 1858. They moved to Los Angelos, California where they 
 both since died, he Feb. 10, 1893 and she Feb. 10, 1897. 
 They had 5 children of whom Willie, Charles and Florence 
 are dead. Walter E. and Harry reside at Ijos Angelos. 
 ^rhe former is a ship surgeon running to South America. 
 (2) Theodore Hamilton Chain, born Oct. 30, 1833, died 
 May 22, 1852. (3) Mary Ann Chain, born August 2G, 
 1836. Married Westy F. Criss, March 4, 1856. He is 
 a liotel keeper at Carthage, Illinois. They have no issue. 
 (4) Jacob Matthew Chain, born July 2, 1836, married 
 Amelia Frances Sim ms, Feb. 26, 1862. They have six 
 children of whom Ainelia and Frank R. are dead and 
 
WAOENSELLER HISTORY. 51 
 
 Frank Siinras, Myrtle, Leo and Ray are living with their 
 parents at Utica, Nebraska. (5) William Hamilton 
 Chain, born; June 13, 1841, married Nellie Smith and 
 died March 16, 1887 at Bushnell, Illinois, where the 
 widow, aged 55, and their children Nelle H. and Charles 
 C. now reside. The latter is publisher of the McDonough 
 Democrat, at Bushnell. (6) James Albert Chain, born 
 Dec. 22, 1847 and about 1873 married Nelle Henderson of 
 Indianapolis. They resided in Denver, Colorado and had 
 no children. Both Albert and Nellie were drowned in the 
 China Sea, October 12, 1892 between the island Formosa 
 and the Main land in the wreck of the Bokhara. Nearly 
 all on board perished. Albert was in poor health ; in the 
 hope of improving it, they were making a tour of two j-ears 
 around the world, when unfortunately they were ship- 
 wrecked in the storm. Nellie was a fine artist, made 
 many sketches, landscapes, etc. and sold them to Prang 
 for Chromos. Some of her oil paintings sold as jiigh as 
 $800.00 a piece. 
 
 24. BENJAjNIIN^, {Petei^, John^, Christopher'^), born 
 Nov. 4, 1809, married July 20, 1842 Elizabeth Doyle, 
 who was born August 9, 1826. He died at Pekin, Illi- 
 nois, March 15, 1844 and left one son : 
 
 -^71. i. Theodore L.^, born April 18, 1843. 
 
 25. JOSHUA*, (Petej-8, John''-, Christopher^), born 
 July 5, 1813 in Providence Township, Montgomery Co., 
 Pa. Married Harriet Rupert, May 1, 1840. She was 
 born July 26, 1823, a descendant of Prince Rupert, who 
 was a prominent man of the Royal family during Crom- 
 wc4rs time and died March 17, 1873. Joshua died at Pe- 
 kin, Illinois, July 21, 1882. He was a prominent man 
 in his dav. He was offered a position in President Lin- 
 coln's Cabinet. We shall give a more complete sketch of 
 his life in another part of this book. Joshua and Harriet 
 left a family of 5 children : 
 
 J-72. i. Albert Elons, \^^^ peb. 1,1841. 
 
 ^73. ii. William Heury, bornFeb. 1, 1845. 
 
52 WAGEN8ELLEB HISTORY. 
 
 74. iii. Benjamin, born Jan. 6, 1847, and 
 
 died Feb. 6, 1848. 
 
 75. iv. Laura Catherine, born Nov. 28, 
 
 1849, married Algeia Parker in 
 1870 from whom she is now di- 
 vorced. Algelia Parker is the only 
 brother of Mrs. Robert G. Inger- 
 soll, the wife of the noted Infidel. 
 Mrs. Parker resides at 3608 Ellis 
 Ave., Chicago, Ills. She has a 
 daughter, Daisy, born Feb. 8, 1871 
 who ill 1890 married William Trim- 
 mer, and they too reside in Chicago. 
 -f 76. V. Frank Rupert, born Dec. 30,1851. 
 
 Joshua and Harriet had six other 
 children now deceased. Minnie 
 born March 30, 1854 and died 
 April 20, 1863 ; Josephine, born 
 Jan. 2, 1857, died March 4, 1858; 
 Alice, born Feb, 26, 1858 and died 
 March 5, 1858; Lida, born, Aug. 
 21, 1859, died Dec. 9, 1863 ; Har- 
 riet M., born Dec. 16, 1861, mar- 
 ried March 7, 1878 to D. W. Rider 
 and in 1885 to Gideon Alexander. 
 She died Jan. 5, 1888 at Indianapo- 
 lis, Indiana. She had one child, 
 Hattie Rider with her first husband, 
 born April 3, 1880 and died 1886 ; 
 Charles Grant Wagenseller born 
 Aug. 10, 1864 ani-died Feb. 28, 
 1873. 
 27. WILLIAM FINDLEY*(Pete-3, John', Chris- 
 topher'^), born Nov. 15, 1817 in Montgomery County, Pa. 
 Went to Columbus, Ohio, with his father in 1834, but 
 soon returned to Selinsgrove. where he engaged in business 
 with his brother Dr. Jacob. He represented Snyder Coun- 
 ty in the State Legislature and died Aug. 10, 1876. The 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 53 
 
 Middleburgh Post, then published by Hon. Jeremiah 
 Grouse, under date of August 24, 1876. says: "Col. 
 Wm. F. "Wagenseller died at bis residence in Selinsgrove 
 last Wednesday. Col. Wagenseller was one among the 
 leading business men of the county and much esteemed by 
 all for his fair-dealing and conscientious regard for truth 
 and honesty. He was a man of liberal education, rare bus- 
 iness qualifications and sound judgment. As a man of 
 means he always contributed liberally to eyery charitable 
 and religious purpose. He was one of the pillars of the 
 church — a conscientious, exemplary Christian gentleman. 
 He represented Snyder County in the Legislature and was 
 esteemed as an able legislator. He was one of those men 
 who always had a due deference for the opinions of others 
 and only exacted the same for his own. He was a positive 
 man and those who sustained business relations with him 
 knew precisely how they stood. He was sociable, courte- 
 ous and dignified. We have lost a valuable citizen and 
 we deeply sympathize with the bereaved relations." 
 Among his descendants we note five children : 
 
 -|-77. i. William Jeremiah^, born Mar. 23, 
 
 1889. 
 
 -)-78. ii. Martin Luther, born Sept. 6, 1840. 
 
 79. iii. Ada E., born June 17, 1842, never 
 
 mrrried and resides with her mother 
 at Selinsgrove, Pa. 
 
 80. iv. Benjamin Newton, born Oct. 17, 
 
 1846, died 1863 of lock jaw, aged 
 17 years. 
 
 81. v. Alice Laura, born March 12, 1849, 
 
 married June 22, 1876, Rev. Eman- 
 uel Benton Killinger who was born 
 March 9, 1848 and now resides at 
 Trenton, N. J. No issue. 
 Col. Wagenseller was married to Amelia Bergstresser, 
 who was born June 26, 1816 and is still residing in Se- 
 linsgrove, Pa. 
 
 31. GEORGE*, {WilUariv', 101111^, Christopher^),hoTU 
 
54 WAOENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 Aug. 17, 1812, never married, was a member of the House 
 of Representatives at Harrisburg from Schuylkill County 
 elected by the democrats. He was one of the three Dem- 
 ocrats to vote for Simon Cameron, a Republican, for the 
 United States Senatorship from Pennsylvania. Simon 
 Cameron and the Wagensellers of that period were very 
 fast friends. It was through Joshua Wagenseller of Pe- 
 kin that Simon Cameron was appointed to a place in Presi- 
 dent Lincoln's Cabinet. Another evidence that the Cam- 
 eron- Wagenseller esteem was great lies in the fact that 
 George's brother, John N., named a son in honor of the 
 United States Senator. At the time the subject of the 
 three Democrats voting for Cameron, was widely discussed 
 and is still well remembered over the State. In 1892 the 
 writer was asked by one of the most prominent men of 
 Philadelphia whether that Wagenseller who voted for 
 Cameron was any relation to him [the writer]. We of 
 course plead ignorance, not having known anything about 
 Ihe occurrence. This conversation is recalled only to show 
 what prominence the matter attained at the time. Hon. A. 
 B. Longaker, a nephew of Peter Wagenseller's wife, was a 
 member of the House when the event occurred in 1857. 
 He writes concerning it as follows : "George Wagenseller 
 was a member of the House from Schuylkill County and 
 his colleague was Lebo. I was a member of the House in 
 1857 and acted as teller upon the part of the House when 
 Cameron was elected over Forney by the votes of three 
 Democrats, Maneer of York, Lebo and Wagenseller. Page 
 5, of House Journal of 1 857 gives the roll of members and 
 page 51, the votes in joint convention. I was a member 
 of the House during the session of 1856 and Speaker of the 
 House in 1858. I know nothing of the details of the life 
 of George Wagenseller of Schuylkill County. He was of 
 dark complexion, dark, if not black hair, strong physical 
 structure, about 6 feet, 2 inches tall, large square chest, 
 somewhat of the cast of an Indian, good-sized head, prom- 
 inent but rather heavy nose, either gray or dark eyes, 
 weight about 215 to 225 pounds with no extra flesh, but 
 
WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 55 
 
 had a strong and powerful muscular development." At 
 one time he was Superintendent of a Division of Sunbury 
 and Erie Railroad and resided at Sunbury. He died Dec. 
 15, 1873. 
 
 33. JOHNNEILORS {William', John", Christo- 
 pher^), born April 11, 1817, married Sarah McVeigh, who 
 who died September 26, 1863. They lived at Tamaqua, 
 Pa,, but later, about 1852, moved to Pekin, Illinois, where 
 they lived four years then went to Sing Sing, New York. 
 He spent the last 16 years of his life in the hotel business. 
 He died Feb. 27, 1881. They had 4 children : 
 
 82. i. James", born Jan. 4, 1851, never 
 
 married, died March 7, 1889. 
 -|-83. ii. Simon Cameron, born Aug. 13, 
 
 1852. 
 + 84. iii. George, born Aug. 28, 1862. 
 
 85. iv. SarahElizabeth,born July 31, 1865, 
 
 resides at Shamokin. Pa. 
 
 34. JOHN SCHRACK* (Jacob^, Johr)^, Christo- 
 pher^), born Nov. 6, 1808, married to Margaret Wynn, 
 who was born in 1810 and died May 17, 1889, aged 79 
 years. They had no children. Since printing the notice 
 of Jacob, John Schrack's father, we learn that he died 
 about 1852 or 1854 of Dropsy caused by heart and kidney 
 trouble. He owned a large farm, but he did no work, as 
 he was a retired gentleman. Jacob was born in Chester 
 Countv, Pennsylvania. 
 
 35. DAVH) SCHRACK*, {Jacob^, John^, Christo- 
 pher^), born April 16, 1812 in Chester County, Pa. He 
 was married twice, first Sept. 11, 1834 to Ann Myers 
 Wynn with whom he had ten children, and second to 
 Hannah McCracken with whom he had no issue. He 
 was a contractor and builder and died in 1873. The line- 
 age of David follows : 
 
 + 86. i. Martha*, born Jan. 14, 1836. 
 
 -j-87. ii. Mary, born June 16, 1837. 
 
 + 88. iii. Margaret Ann, born Oct. 7, 1 840. 
 
 + 89. iv. Levi, born Oct. 4, 1842. 
 
56 WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 90. V. John Ellis, born March 26, 1844, 
 
 married Mary Lentz of Montgom- 
 ery County. Residence, Roxbor- 
 ough, Philadelphia, Pa. To them 
 were born six children. Only one 
 survives, Mary Delia, born Jan. 16, 
 1870, married June 3, 1896 to 
 Harry C. Martin of Rox borough, 
 Phila. They have one daughter, 
 Mary Delia Martin. 
 
 + 91. vi. Harriet, born April 2, 1845. 
 
 92. vii. Frances Rebecca, born Dec. 29, 
 
 1847 and died of Dysentery, Sept. 
 21, 1851. 
 
 + 93. viii. James, born Jan. 1,1849. 
 
 94. ix. Fannie, born Dec. 7, 1852, at New- 
 
 ton Square, Pa., married July 5, 
 1868 to Harry G. Mason, a son of 
 John D. and Sarah L. Mason. Har- 
 ry was born in Chester County, 
 J une 4, 1 846. Tliey have one child, 
 Mary Ellen, born April 19, 1869, 
 mai-ried June 28, 1891 to Robert 
 Birkmere, formerly of the Falls of 
 the Schuylkill. Harry G. Mason 
 is a hotel proprietor at Eighth and 
 Morton Ave., Chester, Pa. 
 
 95. X. Bertha, born Sept. 24, 1857, mar- 
 
 ried July 16, 1870 to Edward Ri- 
 ley of Chester, Pa. They have 
 three children, Margaret Annie Ri- 
 ley, born July 15, 1885, graduated 
 from Chester High School 1897 
 and from Normal School in June 
 1898, Fanny Mason Riley, born 
 Sept. 1, 1882, a high school student 
 and Harvey Pierce Mallison Riley 
 born Jan. 7, 1885 and died of 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 51 
 
 Membranous Croup,. Mar. 19, 1S'91. 
 
 37. LEVI*, {John^, JacolP; Christopher^), born in 
 Chester County, Pa., married to Catherine Worthington. 
 The Worthingtons in this country are descendants of noble 
 English ancestry, two of them having settled up East and 
 one in Maryland. Both are dead. They had two ohil- 
 dren. Levi fell down stairs and died from injuries sus- 
 tained. 
 
 + 96. i. John, born March 27, . 
 
 97. ii. Daughter, now deceased. 
 
 38. SARAH*, (Jacob^, John"^, Christopher^), married 
 James Pearson with whom she had ten children including 
 twins. Among them are Mrs. Hannah Ann Woodwart of 
 Marshaltown, Pa., Mrs. Emilene Aiken of Honeybrook 
 and Samuel Pearson of near Downingtown. 
 
 39. MARGARET* {Jacolfi, John^, Christopher'^), 
 married James Montgomery, with whom she had two chil- 
 dren, Retta Montgomery and Dr. John Montgomery, a 
 successful physician, who now resides in Chambersburg, 
 Franklin Couuty, Pa. 
 
 40. MARTHA*, {Jacob^, John*, Christopher^ born 
 1818, married to William McCarraher, formerly a resi- 
 dent of West Chester, died 1884. No issue. 
 
 41. ELIZt^BETH*, {Jacob^, Johi^, Christopher^), 
 born Sept. 2, 1820, married in 1842 to John Donovan, 
 who was born in 1820 and died in 1865, aged 45 years. 
 Elizabeth died November 20, 1891 at Delaware, Ohio, 
 aged 71 years. They had nine children (1) EUousia, born 
 Feb. 22, 1845, married John Olney Aug. 22, 1867. 
 Residence, Delaware, Ohio. (2) Sarah, born Nov. 25, 
 1846, died Sept. 9, 1854. (3) Taylor, born Nov. 20, 
 1848, married Ida Mason Sept. 20, 1881, residence. Sun- 
 bury, O. (4) Levi, born Oct. 9, 1850, and died Sept. 
 3, 1859. (5) Martha Emma, born Sept. 21, 1852, 
 married Thomas S. Clark Oct. 31, 1877. Residence, 137 
 North Union Street, Delaware, O. Thomas Clark was 
 born Jan. 13, 1850 in South Boston, Massachusetts. Their 
 children are Harry Webster, born April 27, 1878; Flor- 
 
58 WAOENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 enee Gail, born May 16) 1880; Thomas Herbert, born 
 Sept. 15, 1882 ; Martha Pearl, born Nov. 15, 1884 and 
 Francelia Grace, born July 20, 1887. (6) Mary Isabel- 
 la, born Oct. 29, 1854, married Charles L. Giviner. Res- 
 idence, Delaware, O. (7) John Donovan, born May 5, 
 1856, unmarried, address, Delaware, Ohio. (8) Thomas 
 Jefferson, born April 2, 1860, married Elizabeth Witt- 
 linger May 27, 1886, residence, Delaware, O. (9) Harry, 
 born July 7, 1862, married Carrie Giviner, residence, 
 Delaware, Ohio. 
 
 42. JOHN CA VENDER", {George^, John% John", 
 Christopher^), born July 24, 1813, married Jane Rebel 
 and died in September 1870 near Rolla, Missouri. He 
 used to live in Crawford County, Illinois. His brother, 
 Amos Wagonseller, Solomon, Kansas, reports that John C. 
 had six cdildren, three sons and three daughters, as follows : 
 
 98. i. David*, born Nov. 24, 1845. 
 
 99. ii. William is married and has two 
 
 children. 
 
 100. iii. George. 
 
 101. iv. Leticia, married to Howard Mills 
 
 and died soon after. 
 
 102. V. Nancy married William Wager, no 
 
 issue. 
 
 103. vi. Isabel, married Albert Williams, 
 
 no children. 
 
 43. THOMAS WEIDNER*, {George^, John^, John\ 
 Christopher^), born Nov. 19, 1815, and in September 1849, 
 was married to Jane Montgomery. He died April 20, 
 1865. It is supposed that he too lived in Crawford Co., 
 Illinois. He had three sons and one daughter. They are : 
 
 + 104. i. James K.«, born July 17, 1850. 
 
 105. ii. Robert P., born Aug. 11, 1852, 
 
 married first to Nancy Gaines and 
 second to a Miss Johnson. With 
 his first wife he had a child 
 who died in infancy. 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 59 
 
 ry • ' ) Martha, born Jan. 29, 1855. 
 
 in-7 '^^' 1 William J., born Jan. 29, 18 
 
 107. IV. (, ' ' 
 
 108. V. John D., born Oct. 10, 1857 and 
 
 died Oct. 1, 1861. 
 
 109. vi. Albert C, born July 29, 1862 and 
 
 died April 15, 1876. 
 
 44. ABRAM», {George*, John^, John^, Christopher^), 
 born September 2, 1818, married Barbara McGowen. 
 Abram is still living at Indian Camp Guernsey Co., Ohio. 
 In September, 1898, if he lives, he vrill be 80 years old. 
 Now he is the oldest living Wagenseller upon the Ameri- 
 can continent. None of the Wagensellers have ever lived 
 to be very old. Among the oldest was William (11) page 
 37, who was more than 90 years old when he died. We 
 have made a desperate effort to get a letter from Abram or 
 his family, but we could not accomplish it. The Post- 
 master at Cambridge, the county seat of Guernsey Co., 
 says, " Abram comes occasionally to this place to transact 
 business. He lives at Indian Camp, this county. " Abram 
 and Barbara had six children, three sons and three daugh- 
 ters : 
 
 110. i. George", born May 8, 1845 (single.) 
 
 111. ii. John, resides at Indian Camp, O. 
 
 112. iii. Stephen, married, has two children. 
 
 113. iv. Elizabeth, born May 24, 1843. 
 
 114. V. Nancy. 
 
 115. vi. Leticia. 
 
 45. WILLIAM^ {George*, John?, Johv?, Christo- 
 pher^\ born in Beayer county, Pa., June 24, 1821, was 
 married first Feb. 4, 1844 at Palestine, Illinois to Eliza- 
 beth Waldrop, who was born Feb. 3, 1818 and died March 
 4, 1864 while William was in the war. He was married 
 second July 30, 1865, to Eliza A. Gomerand now resides 
 at Hamilton, Missouri. He was the captain of Co. F., 
 Fifth Illinois Cavalry. While he was in the army his 
 father, his mother, his wife and one brother died. At the 
 age of 14 young William left home and went to the far 
 
60 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 "West. He returned to Crawford County, Illinois in 1841. 
 He is now 77 years of age. He had nine children, six 
 with the first wife and three with the second wife, as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 First marriage. 
 
 116. i. Louisa*, born July 16, 1845, died 
 
 May 17, 1856. 
 + 117. ii. Thomas Harlan, born Jtily 7, 1847. 
 
 118. iii. Allen, born, Feb. 14^ 1849 and 
 
 died March 4^ 1856. 
 
 119. iv. Mary E., born Nov. 9, 1851, in 
 
 Illinois, married May 1, 1875 to 
 Daniel Coahran, now reside at Bur- 
 bank, Los Angelos Co., California. 
 They have three children (1) Wil- 
 liam Thomas Clifford Coahran, born 
 Feb. 21, 1876, died Aug. 11, 1877. 
 
 (2) Leon Carl Coahran, born June 
 21, 1879 and died Aug. 81, 1880. 
 
 (3) "\\^alter Harlan Coahran, born 
 August 16, 1883. 
 
 120. V. Jo. D., born May 30, 1853, is un- 
 
 married and resides at Robinson, 
 Crawford Co., Ills. 
 
 121. vi. Martha, born June 11, 1825, died 
 
 Oct. 6, 1856. 
 Second marriage : 
 
 122. vii. George M., born July 17, 1866 is 
 
 unmarried and when last heard from 
 was in Indian Territory. 
 
 123. viii. Blender Pearl, born June 4, 1868 
 
 and died Oct. 16, 1894. 
 
 124. ix. Jessie, born March 11, 1872, re- 
 
 sides at home and teaches school. 
 
 46. AMOS', {George*, John% John^, Christopher^) 
 
 born March 30, 1824. He was married three times, first, 
 
 Sept. 24, 1848, toMalinda Rich, who was born June 4, 
 
 1827 and died Nov. 29, 1856. Second, Sept. 6, 1857 
 
WAQENSELLER HISTORY. 61 
 
 to Jemima Snapp, who was born Dec. 12, 1830 and died 
 Sept. '29, 1872. Third, Sept. 26, 1874 to Elizabeth Rog- 
 ers, who was born June 14, 1843. Eesidence Solomon, 
 Kansas. He is the father of 14 children, 4 with the iirst 
 wife, 6 with the second and 4 with the third. To him we 
 are indebted for the list of the descendants of George Wag- 
 enseller of the "Wabash" The descendants of Amos and 
 of his brothers John C. and Thomas, spell their name with 
 an "o", thus : " Wagonseller. " Amos was born in Bea- 
 ver County, Pennsylvania and when he was only eighteen 
 months old, his father moved to Guernsey County, Ohio. 
 When he was fourteen years old, his father emigrated 
 farther West and settled in Crawford County, Illinois. 
 When our subject had lived eighteen or twenty months in 
 Illinois and had been sick most of the time, he returned to 
 Ohio, where he remained until he reached his majority. 
 He then went back to Illinois and worked for his father 
 on a farm. Having found farming rather uninteresting, 
 he turned his attention to fast horses and became quite a 
 sport. Finding that he could neither drink nor swear 
 very copiously, he became dissatisfied with that kind of a 
 life and parted with his fast stock. He bought a farm, 
 was married and settled down to farming and stock rais- 
 ing. During the winter he spent much of his time teach- 
 ing school. Those were happy days for him ; he had a 
 good wife, an excellent farm, plenty of stock and some 
 children. But there were dark days ahead, for after hav- 
 ing been married only nine years his wife became ill and 
 passed to her eternal home, leaving him alone with four 
 small children, two daughters and two sons. In the ne- 
 cessity of the occasion he married again, sold his farm 
 and moved to Indiana. He had a neighbor who was Dej)- 
 uty Sherifi. The latter was taken sick and was unable to 
 attend to his official duties. The pajjers were placed into 
 Amos' hands to serve, which led him right into the Sher- 
 iffs offi.ce and continued in service there for five years. 
 After his services as Sheriii were no longer required, he 
 served for several years as County Assessor. Tiien seeing 
 
62 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 a splendid opportunity, he hired several men and opened a 
 carriage and wagon shop. He was a natural genius him- 
 self and soon became an efficient workman in wood. On 
 Sept. 29, 1872, he had the misfortune of losing his second 
 wife. In 1877, the Texas boom gave him the fever to go 
 down to the cow boys, and consequently moved down there 
 where he remained for ten years. During the last three 
 years of his stay with our Texas brethren, the weather was 
 very dry, times became very hard, and he, with many 
 others, left the State. Finding himself out of employment 
 he again turned his attention to teaching school. Salaries 
 paid were small and this provided for him only a scant 
 living. Realizing that prospects were not very good, in 
 1877, he moved to Kansas with only $2.65 in his pocket. 
 His three links (Odd Fellowship) introduced him into good 
 society and brought him plenty of work as a carpenter. 
 His life seemed to have been marked off in periods and it 
 was about time for him to have another misfortune. On 
 the very day that Corbet and Fitzsimmons battled for the 
 championship of the world, his house was entirely consum- 
 ed with fire and everything lost but the beds, clothing and 
 furniture. The accumulation and the fruits of eight years 
 of industry and of toil was swept from him in a single 
 hour, as he had no insurance. Things looked very gloomy 
 for awhile, but his good friends, the members of the Odd 
 Fellows, came to his relief. While they gave him sub- 
 stantial aid tlie}' did not restore him to where he was be- 
 fore the fire. He had been in substantial circumstances 
 two or three times, but in his old age, he finds himself with 
 but little of this world's goods. He is now (1898) seven- 
 ty-four years old, too old, he thinks to make another raise. 
 A letter to the writer, he closes by saying, " Life has been 
 a failure, " meaning, of course, his own. la this we fail 
 to agree with our aged relative. It certainly was not as 
 pleasant as his many friends would wish it to have been, 
 but there is no one, we verily believe, reading these lines, 
 who will say that his life has been a failure. The chil- 
 dren of Amos are as follows : 
 
WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 63 
 
 First marriage. 
 
 125. i. Dora«, born Aug. 13, 1849, mar- 
 
 ried to Stephen Wortman, who died 
 Oct. 2, 1889, aged 41 years, 6 
 months and 21 days. Dora died 
 Dec. 21, 1881 aged 32 years, 4 
 months and 8 days. Their home 
 was at Carlisle, Sullivan County, 
 Indiana. To them were born three 
 children ; Richard Austin, born 
 Feb. 15, 1874; Charles Phillip, 
 born Dec. 17, 1875, died Sept. 8, 
 1886, and Sarah Elizabeth, born 
 Nov. 6, 1876, now resides at Car- 
 lisle, Ind. 
 
 126. ii. Sarah Elizabeth*, born Aug. 22, 
 
 1851, married Hubert Eldred and 
 died Sept. 26, 1890. Widower's 
 residence. No. 1538 Liberty Ave., 
 Terre Haute, Ind. 
 -f-127. iii. William Riley, born Dec. 11, 1853. 
 
 128. iv. John Martin, born March 26, 1856 
 
 in Crawford County, Ills., was mar- 
 ried Jan. 23, 1885 to Anna Mills, 
 who was born in Terre Haute, Indi- 
 ana, June 28, 1871. He is con- 
 ducting a Drug Store at No. 103 
 Ohio Street, Terre Haute, Indiana. 
 They have a son, Earl Amos, born 
 Nov. 29, 1895. 
 Second marriage. 
 
 129. v. Elizabeth, born June 9, 1858, died 
 
 March 11, 1860. 
 
 130. vl. Mattie, born July 31, 1860, was 
 
 married in October, 1889 to Dr. 
 Charles Combs of Guthry, Indian 
 Territory. They have two children. 
 
 131. vii. George M., born Dec. 12, 1862, 
 
64 WA0EN8ELLEB HISTORY. 
 
 was married August 20, 1889 to 
 Sallie Preston of Marshall, Illinois. 
 He resides in Solomon, Kansas, 
 where he conducts the business of 
 dealing in Farming Implements. 
 They have a daughter, Irene, born 
 July 16, 1890. 
 
 132. viii. Charles P., born Nov. 24, 1864, 
 
 married June 27, 1895 to Cintha 
 W. Root, who was born 1858. He 
 is a Telegraph Operator and Ticket 
 Agent. They have two children, 
 Charles Albert and Amos Sheldon. 
 
 133. ix & X. Twin Boys, not named, born April 
 
 1, 1867 and died April 11, 1867. 
 Third marriage. 
 
 134. xi. Ada May, born August 1, 1875 at 
 
 Oaktown, Ind. and died Jan. 11, 
 1882. 
 
 135. xii. Birtis Franklin, born July 14,1879 
 
 and died Jan. 3, 1882. 
 135. xiii. Infant son (twin to lona) born Mar. 
 
 14, 1883 and died Mar. 15, 1883. 
 137. xiv. lona, born March 14, 1883. Going 
 
 to school at Solomon, Kansas. 
 49. JULIA MATILDA^ {Abraham^ Johrfi, John\ 
 Christopher^), born at Lionyille, Pa. Dec. 13, 1826, mar- 
 ried Dec. 25, 1842 at R. to John Irey of Spring Forge, 
 son of Peter Irey. Julia's husband died Sept. 26, 1893 
 and the widow now resides at No. 349 Church Street, 
 Phoenixville, Pa. They had a family of eleven cliildren : 
 (1) Henry Meyers Irey, born at Springton Forge, Feb. 
 19, 1847, was married Jan. 27, 1880 to Nellie Isabella 
 Henderson of Ottawa, Illinois, who was born August 23, 
 1864 in Lasalle County, Ills. Residence, Genoa, Nebras- 
 ka. They had nine children. (2) Amanda Catherine 
 Irey, born Nov. 14, 1848 at Springton Forge and died 
 March 9, 1850. (.3) Isabella Christian Irey, born June 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 65 
 
 17; 1850 and died June 25, 1861. (4) George Godard 
 Irey, born April 23, 1852 at Glen Moore, Chester County, 
 and was married Dec. 19, 1878 at Morgantown, Berlcs 
 County, to Anna Broadbent who was born in 1858. He 
 resides in Omaha, Nebraska and has a family of three chil- 
 dren. (5) Ella Irey, born Jan. 23, 1854 and died Oct. 
 2, 1855. (6) Annie Meyers Irey, born July 17, 1856 
 at Isabella Forge, married Oct. 16, 1879 to Kinzer Van 
 Buskirk, a hardware dealer in Fottstown, Pa., who ^vas 
 born April 5, 1848. They have o children. (7) Hor- 
 ace Beal Irey, born Jan. 1, 1859 at Isabella Forge, mar- 
 ried June 28, 188B to Sarah Chrismau, who was born in 
 Chester County, 185S. He has been pron)inentin political 
 and financial affairs, having been County Treasurer of Oma- 
 ha, Nebraska, where he, his wife and 2 children now reside. 
 (8) Ellen J. Irey, born Feb. 12, 1861 at Isabella Forge, 
 married Feb. 21, 1898 to Mikli'ed Stephenson, who was 
 born June 21, 1870 in Omaha, Neb. They reside in St. 
 Louis. He is a Civil Engineer. (9) Lizzie M. Irey, 
 born August 14, 1864 at Isabella, married March 30, 
 1892 to Dr. Charles More Benham, a homeopatliic doctnr, 
 who was born Sept. 5, 1865 and now resides in Phooiii};- 
 ville. Pa. They have two children. (10) Norman Wai- 
 ter Irey, born Oct. 8, 1868, near Isabella and died Feb. 7, 
 1888 while attending the Inter-State Commercial College 
 at Reading, Pa., he became ill suddenly and died within 
 nine days. (11) Lorena May Irey, born Dec. 19, 1870, 
 married Oct. 8, 1892 to Walter E. "McConnel of Honey- 
 brook, Chester County, Pa. They had three children. 
 ^V''hile Mrs. McConnel was on a sijort visit to her mother 
 and sister in 1897 at Phoenixville, she was seized with 
 lock jaw and died June 8tli. John Irey, the father of 
 these children, went West four times. He went west in 
 1856, 1864, 1882 and 1893. He was a carpenter and fol- 
 lowed that trade until 1843. Then he went into the iron 
 business with Dr. JohnB. Chrisman of Coventry at Spring- 
 ton Forge. In 1851, he retired for four years. In April 
 l,'s.')6 Irey and Butler bought Isabella Forge from David 
 
66 WAGENBELLER HISTORY. 
 
 Potts. Tliey continued the business for several years 
 when Mr. Irey bought Mr. Butler's interest and ran the 
 business alone until 1865 he sold to Levi Smith. Mr. 
 Irey and his wife then moved about a mile away where 
 ihey lived for 30 years and reared their family. Henry, 
 the eldest son, soon after graduated and took up 1600 acres 
 of land in Western Nebraska. The liard times, drouth 
 and hot winds sometimes was against him. Horace went 
 West in the 80s, first to Illinois then to Omaha, Nebraska, 
 where he has been for some years and became quite pros- 
 perous. He was twice elected County Treasurer. Since 
 1893 the West has not prospered much. The Exposition 
 now in progress in Omaha (.June 1898) is expected to give 
 an impetus to business West of the Mississippi River. 
 
 50. MARY ELIZAJBETH5, {Abraham*, John^, 
 Johin?, Christopher^), born May 8, 1830 at Lionville, Pa. 
 She married Dr. B. G. Miller, who resides at 1509 Second 
 Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois. They have 3 children liv- 
 ing and married : (1) George Meyers Miller born March 
 27, 1852, married July 2, 1878 to Mary E. Diller. They 
 have three children and reside at No. 222 Third Street, 
 Ft. Madison, Iowa. (2) Clara Elizabeth Miller born 
 Dec. 12, 1854, married Dec. 25, 1878 to Alfred J. Taylor 
 of Fremont, Nebraska. They have five children. (3) 
 Benjamin Griffith Miller, born May 4, 1858, married Jan. 
 25, 1877 to Nellie Karsting. He is the General Foreman 
 of Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company and 
 resides at 202 Oak St., Ft. Madison, Iowa. 
 
 51. THOMAS METEEB, {Abraham*, John?, John\ 
 Christopher^), born Aug. 14, 1833 at Lionville, Pa., mar- 
 ried April 26, 1862 to Mary Melinda Rice of Perryville. 
 He died Feb. 7, 1871 at Pontiac, Ills. His widow married 
 Richard Stratton, of Peoria, Ills. Thomas had three chil- 
 dren : 
 
 138. i. John Abraham Jesse*, born July 
 
 18, 1863, died June 14, 1864. 
 
 139. ii. Juniata Watres, born Aug. 20, 
 
WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. G7 
 
 1865, married June 28, 1891 to 
 John T. Green of Pontiac, Illinois 
 Two childreu are recorded to them, 
 Mabel May, born '^o\. 28, 1893 
 and Francis Fern, born Sept. 22, 
 1896, died April 5, 1897. 
 
 140. iii. Willie Willikson, born March 30, 
 
 1867 and died Oct. 11, 1871. 
 
 141. iv. Harry Wrye, born Oct. 26, 1868 
 
 at Newport, Perry County, Pa. 
 When he was only a year old his 
 parents moved to Fairbury, Ills. 
 He was only a little more than two 
 years of age when his father died. 
 At the age of 18 years he went to 
 North Platte, Nebraska, for his 
 health and after his health improv- 
 ed, he taught school. He attended 
 a Business College at Bloomington, 
 Illinois and afterward followed farm- 
 ing again as it agreed better with 
 his health. He is now farming a 
 half section of land and raising 
 stock. (See Portrait in this work.) 
 He resides at Fairbury, Livingston 
 Co., Illinois and has a son John 
 Richard, born Sept. 6, 1897 to him 
 and his wife, who was Frances Em- 
 ma Goold of Woodland, Indiana, 
 having been married March 7, 1894. 
 52. JOHN ANDREW', (Abraham*, John^, John^, 
 Oiristophei^), born Dec. 11, 1836, married May 18, 1864 
 to Emily Johnstone. He established a book-printing es- 
 tablishment and continued it until a year or so ago, com- 
 pelled to retire to prolong life, he turned the business over 
 to his son. For many years he has resided at 142 Price 
 Street, Germantown, Philadelphia, but he has quite re- 
 cently moved to Pittsburg, Pa. They liad six children : 
 
68 WAOENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 142. i. William', born June 28, 1865, and 
 
 died June 30, 1865. 
 
 143. ii. Jane Johnstone, born April 23, 
 
 1867, married Nov. 28, 1893 to 
 Sherman Smith a Photo-Engraver, of 
 Pittsburg. They reside at 229 
 Fairmount Ave,, Pittsburg, E. E. 
 Pa. To them have been born two 
 daughters, Edith W., born July 23, 
 1895 and died July 27, 1895, and 
 Miriam Wagenseller, born Oct. 18, 
 1896. 
 
 144. iii. Mary Meyers, born June 20, 1869, 
 
 married Nov. 5, 1891 to William 
 H. Ball, a banker. They reside at 
 30 East Washington Lane, Ger- 
 mantown, Pa. and have 3 children, 
 Wm. Whitney, born Nov. 16, 1892, 
 Emily Wagenseller, born Aug. 1, 
 
 1894 and Frances Dowling, born 
 June 10, 1897. 
 
 145. iv. Eliza Hong, born May 29, 1872 
 
 married May 11, 1893 to William 
 H. Whitney, a banker of Philadel- 
 phia. Residence, 59 West John- 
 son Street, Germantown, Pa. They 
 have one child. William Henry 
 Whitney, Jr., born March 4, 1894. 
 
 146. v. Hudson, born May 8, 1874, mar- 
 
 ried Mary Mackie Neilor. He is 
 the successor of his father, who es- 
 tablished a commercial and book- 
 printing business in 1860. He is 
 doing business at 31 South Sixth 
 Street, Philadelphia. They have 2 
 sons, Hudson Harry, born Nov. 7, 
 
 1895 and John Andrew, Jr., born 
 Feb. 16,1898. 
 
WAaENSELLER HISTORY. 69 
 
 147. vi. Joh a Ray, born Jan. 28, 1878 and 
 
 died Sept. 27, 1890. 
 
 53. EMILY LAW^ {Abraham^ John^, John*), 
 Christopher^), born Dec. 3, 1839 in Uwchlan Township, 
 Chester County, Pa., married May 7, 1882 to Newton 
 Smith, merchant of Ulster County, N. Y., who died in 
 Ottawa, Illinois, Dec. 10, 1884. Widow resides at 217 
 Second Ave., Peoria, Ills. To them were born 7 children : 
 (1) Andrew N. Smith, born June 14, 1863, married May 
 
 19, 1886 to Alice . He is a Wholesale Grocer at 
 
 Pontiac, Illinois. (2) Jane Emily, born Dec. 19, 1865, 
 married June 13, 1888 to Daniel Welpley of New York 
 City, a traveling salesman. The)' have one son. (3) 
 Henry, born Feb. 3, 1868, died Feb. 9, 1868. (4) Wm. 
 H. Smith, born April 2, 1869, is a cigar manufacturer at 
 Peoria, Ills. (5) Edwin E. Smith, born June 23, 1872, 
 is a Hotel keeper at Pontiac, Ills. (6) Jared Miller, born 
 April 19, 1876, is a Financial Secretary and resides at 
 Peoria, Ills. (7) Eva A., born Dec. 14, 1881, died 
 Dec. 17, 1881. 
 
 54, PETER RICHTER5, (Ja<io¥, Feter^, John'', 
 Christopher^), born Dec. 8, 1829 in Selinsgrove, Union, 
 
 (now Snyder) County, Pennsylvania. In his youth, he de- 
 voted his time principally to attending the schools of his 
 native place, which in that day already were conducted by 
 earnest and experienced men, In his classes he ranked 
 high and was noted for his close application to study and 
 the rapid progress he acquired. At the age of sixteen he 
 entered the preparatory department of Pennsylvania Col- 
 lege at Gettysburg, and graduated with honors from the 
 said institution in the summer of 1852. Having in the 
 mean time, given his attention to the study of medicine un- 
 der the preceptorship of the late Dr. Henry Huber, of 
 Gettysburg, he, upon his graduation from College, entered 
 the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College, at Phila- 
 delphia and graduated Medicinae Doctor in 1858. Upon 
 receiving his Medical degree, he returned to Selinsgrove, 
 and commenced the practice of his profession. Here he 
 
70 WAOENSELLEB HISTORY. 
 
 remained, engaged in active practice, for a period of twen- 
 ty years. Dr. P. R. Wagenseller was a faithful and ear- 
 nest physician. He had a love for his profession, was a 
 close student, and, as a consequence, was always apace 
 with the advancement made in the science of medicine. He 
 frequently contributed articles to the various medical works 
 published in his day, and exhibited in his productions an 
 intelligence and mastery that placed him in the frontranks 
 of his calling. So great was his skill as a physician, and 
 so great the esteem and confidence in which he was held, 
 that his early demise, at the age of 4B years, in the midst 
 of his usefulness and activity, was a source of sincere re- 
 gret on the part of the community in which he lived. In 
 connection with his practice, he was also for many years a 
 partner with J. G. L. Shindel, in conducting the principal 
 drug-store of the place. On July 19, 1854, he was joined 
 in wedlockto Miss Catherine Chritzman, daughter of George 
 and Mary {nee Ulrich) Chritzman, of Gettysburg. 
 
 In addition to the practice of his profession. Dr. 
 Wagenseller occupied from time to time, positions of honor 
 and trust. In 1864, during the Rebellion, he was the 
 examining surgeon of enrollment board of the fourteenth 
 district of Pennsylvania. He afterward became the exam- 
 ining physician on pensions, which appointment he held 
 to the time of his death. At different periods he was a 
 member of the Town Council and was also the Chief Bur- 
 gess of the Borough of Selinsgrove. In educational mat- 
 ters he took a deep interest, serving as school director in 
 the public schools, and as director of Missionary Institute, 
 now Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa. At Mis- 
 sionary Institute, he was elected lecturer of Physiology 
 and Hygiene and' occupied the same office in the Susque- 
 hanna Female College. He was a consistent member of 
 the Lutheran church at different times being an officer of 
 the congregation to which he belonged. By hisprecept, his 
 example and his means, he was ready to further all good 
 and worthy objects. In life he ranked with the good and 
 useful citizens of the place, and in death, which occurred 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY, 71 
 
 August 18, 1873, has left to the public a legacy of good 
 works and Christiau example. Dr. Peter liichter and 
 Catherine Wagenseller were the parents of six children : 
 148. i. Mary Amelia*, born July 18, 1854 
 
 and died in infancy. 
 + 149. ii. Franklin Jacob, born Oct. 8, 1855. 
 
 + 150. iii. George C, born June 30, 1857. 
 
 151. iv. Lemisa Albertha, born Dec. 29, 
 
 1859, married June 16, 1881 to 
 Dr. B. F. Emerick, a prominent 
 physician and druggist of Carlisle, 
 born in Northumberland County, 
 Nov. 4, 1859. They have an in- 
 teresting family of three children : 
 (1) Anna Catherine, born March 
 25, 1882. (2) Paul Wagenseller, 
 born March 11, 1886. (3) Alford 
 Benjamin, born Oct. 6, 1891. 
 
 152. V. Gertrude A., born Sept. 29, 1861, 
 
 and died in infancy. 
 
 153. vi. Annie E., born Sept. 2, 1865, mar- 
 
 ried Jan. 19, 1886 to J. Alfred 
 Strohm of Newville, Cumberland 
 County, born March 31, 1859. He 
 is a traveling salesman and resides 
 at Carlisle, Pa. One son, G. Alfred, 
 to them was born March 22, 1895. 
 55. SAKAH SUSANNA^, {JaGoh\ Pdei^, John", 
 Christopher^), born Dec, 15, 1831, married July 15, 1851 
 to Jesse Benner Evans of Uwchlan, Chester County, Pa., 
 who was born Oct. 3, 1824. Mr. Evans' mother was Eli- 
 za King, daughter of Conrad King and Catherine Wagen- 
 seil. (See Chapter on King descendants.) J. B. Evans 
 and Sarah Susanna Wagenseller were the parents of six 
 children : (1) Benjamin Franklin Evans, born July 23, 
 1851, married June 14, 1877 to Essie E. Guthrie. They 
 have three children, Clarence G., Bessie and Gertrude. 
 Residence, Downington, Pa. (2) Lida E. Evans, born 
 
72 WAQENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 July 29, 1854, married August 1, 1877, by Rev. Jersey, 
 to Clark Pierson, Editor of the Record, Lambertville, N. 
 J. They have two children, Jessie, boru June 24, 1880, 
 and Grace, born Jan. 10, 1882. (3) Lewis Wilmer Ev- 
 ans, born Sept. 28, 1856, married Kate Fockler. They 
 have one daughter, Edna G., born Feb. 11, 1886. He is 
 a compositor on the Philadelphia Public Ledger. (4) Mat- 
 tie Evans, born July 2, 1860, married to William W. Mc- 
 KinleyDec. 16, 1832 with whom she had a daughter, Ma- 
 bel, now deceased. Mrs. McKinley died Dec. 15, 1884. 
 
 (5) Abbie Evans, born Sept. 20, 1863 died, Nov. 1, 1884. 
 
 (6) Gertrude Evans, born April 17, 1868 and died Dec. 
 7, 1884. 
 
 57. MARY ELIZABETH^, {Jacob*, Peter^, John% 
 Christopher''-), born Feb. 27, 1836 and was baptized Aug. 
 29th of the same year. She was a child of early religious 
 convictions, was converted at a Methodist Meeting in a 
 school house in Selinsgrove the year following her father's 
 death in 1848. Promises made at the bedside of her dy- 
 ing father hastened this change. She was married to Rev. 
 Franklin Gearhart of Danville, Pa., a Methodist Clergyman 
 on Jan. 13, 1854. Rev. Franklin Gearhart was born, op- 
 posite Danville, Pa., June 19, 1821, near what is now call- 
 ed Riverside, on a farm. He was converted in Oct. 1839 
 at 18 years of age in the old Mclntyre Church near Cata- 
 wissa while escorting his aged grandfather, Jacob Gearhart, 
 a Local Preacher, to the meeting. Jacob Gearhart was 
 also known as Judge Gearhart. Franklin was the son of 
 Jacob Gearhart, and Amelia Housel. His father was 
 known as 'Squire Gearhart. Jacob Gearhart and Amelia 
 Housel were married Dec. 12, 1813. Amelia Housel 
 Gearhart died Oct. 6, 1836. Isabella Gearhart died Dec. 
 10,1850. Jacob Gearhart was sent to the Pennsylvania 
 Assembly by the Democratic party. Jacob Gearhart, Jr., 
 Franklin's father, was born March 17, 1893. Amelia 
 Housel Gearhart born March 12, 1762. Franklin was 
 the second son and fourth child. He entered the ministry 
 in 1845, was instrumental in the conversion of at least 
 
DR. P. R. WAGENSEr.T.ER, 
 
 1S29— 1873. [xo. .54.] 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 75 
 
 3000 souls, died peacefully at Williamsport, Pa., Feb. 1, 
 1890 and was buried in Selin's Grove. Their children are 
 as follows : (1) Olin Gearhart, born at Mifflintown, Jan. 
 21, 1855, died Feb. 12, 1855. (2) Edmund Bremen 
 Gearhart, born at McVeytown, Pa., Sept. 7, 1856, was 
 born again, Aug. 1870 at Watsontown, licensed to preach 
 in 1874 and graduated at Dickinson Seminary, Williams- 
 port, Pa., later at Drew Theological Seminary, New Jer- 
 sey and still later at Syracuse University, New York, af- 
 terward taking a degree by study for the degree, Ph.D. 
 Has been an Insurance Agent the past four months. He 
 was married by Rev. F. H. Clark to Miss Alice Estelle 
 Dunham, Sept. 7, 1882, of Bridgeport, New York. They 
 had three children, Grace, born Oct. 29, 1886, died Sept. 
 9, 1887. David Dunham, born Aug. 8, 1888, in Palmy- 
 ra, N. Y. and Edmund Bremen, Jr., born May 21, 1892 
 in Cananduagua, N. Y. Residence, No. 1202 Corbin St., 
 Syracuse, N. Y. (3) Georgia Ridgely Gearhart, born in 
 Selinsgrove, Oct. 3, 1859 and graduated at Wesleyan Fe- 
 male College, Wilmington, Delaware. She married Sam- 
 uel Lewis Haia of Houston, Texas. He was born in 
 Reading, Pa. They had three children, Martha, born 1886 
 Louisa, born 1888 and Clarence Gearhart, born 1890, died in 
 1892. Residence No. 215 West 23d St., New York City. 
 (4) Mary Amelia Gearhart, born inBloomsburg, Pa., Jan. 1, 
 1862, died atMcEwensville, Oct. 20. 1862 and was buried at 
 Milton. Franklin Swallow Gearhart, born at Catawissa, 
 
 June 14, 1864, was married in 1892 to Dolly . He 
 
 is now in Alasl^a. (6) Wilbur Fisk Gearhart, born in 
 Hanover, Pa., June 18, 1868, married Miss Anna Mid- 
 dendorf of Louisville, Ky. She was born Oct. 5, 1859 in 
 Louisville, Ky., where they now reside at 311 West Wal- 
 nut St. They have no heirs. He has charge of a Gym- 
 nasium being a fine Athletic teacher. (7) Lloyd Sharp- 
 less Gearhart, born in Watsontown, March, 1, 1872, was 
 married in 1896 in New Orleans to Mrs. Gussie Gresham, 
 who is a New York State woman, born about 1875, no 
 heirs. He is also an Athletic Teacher. Residence, Corner 
 
76 WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 Sixth Aveuue and 59th Street, New York City. Mary 
 Elizabeth's life has been spent in looking after her family 
 and for God and humanity. 
 
 58. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN', {Jacoh\ Pete,^, 
 Johi^, Chrldopher^), born Feb. 17, 1838 in Selinsgrove, 
 Union (now Snyder) County, Pennsylvania. In 1851 he 
 became a student in thepreparatory department of Pennsyl- 
 vania College, Gettysburg, and still later he was a student 
 at the University of Lewisburg. Coming from a family 
 distinguished for its medical ability, he, at an early age, 
 turned his attention to his pi'ofession, and, in 185G, began 
 reading with Dr. Samuel Wagenseller atPekin, Ills. Dur- 
 ing 1858 and 1859, he read with his brother, Dr. P. R. 
 Wagenseller, at Selinsgrove; then he became a student in 
 the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, 
 Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1860. In 1861 
 he opened an office in Beavertown, Snyder Ct)iuity, Penn- 
 sylvania, and in August 1862, he was commissioned by Gov- 
 ernor Curtin, as Assistant Surgeon ofthe 139th P. V.I. On 
 January 31st, 1863, he was commissioned Surgeon with 
 rank of Major. In September 1868, he was mustered out 
 with the Regiment. When the 201st Pennsylvania Regi- 
 ment was ordered out, Dr. Wagenseller was commissioned 
 Surgeon with the rank of Major and so served until the 
 close ofthe war. Amougthe difficultdutiesperformed was 
 the burial early in September 1862, bythe 139th Regiment 
 ofthe Union Soldiers who had fallen in the battle of Bull 
 Run about a week before and still lay on the field exposed 
 to the hot summer sun. Most of the Confederate dead 
 had already been interred and the soldiers ofthe 139th un- 
 der a flag of truce performed the last sad rites over the 
 neglected bodies of our fallen heroes, burying fifteen hun- 
 dred in three days. 
 
 Since the close of the war, Dr. Wagenseller has been in 
 active practice at Selinsgrove, his character and ability 
 winning him a high rank among his professional brethren. 
 He is a member of the Snyder County Medical Society; of 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 77 
 
 the State of Pennsylvania and the American Medical As- 
 sociation. In the two first named he has served as Presi- 
 dent. For 25 years he has been surgeon of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad and at onetime he filled the chair of Phys- 
 iology at Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove. At all 
 times a Republican, he has for many years been identified 
 with the organization of his party and has been a delegate 
 to a number of state conventions and to three national con- 
 ventions. In 1868 he was an elector and cast his vote for 
 Grant and Colfax. In 1869 he was connnissioned by Pre- 
 sident Grant as Revenue Assessor of the 14th district com- 
 prising the counties of Dauphin, Juniata, Northumber- 
 land, Snyder and Union and served until 1878. During 
 the fi)llowing year he was a candidate for the State Senate 
 and during the same year he was appointed Examining 
 Surgeon of the United States Board of Pension Examiners. 
 During 1882 he received the Republican nomination for 
 Congress. In local affairs he has always been extremely 
 active and has officiated as a member of borough council 
 and was several times elected chief burgess. He served 
 as postmaster of Selinsgrove under President Harrison's 
 administration. He has also been identified with business 
 interests to some extent and was formerly a director in the 
 Snyder County Bank. In the new telephone company 
 which erected lines in Snyder County during 1897, he su- 
 perintended the construction of the line and is now one of 
 the leading directors of the concern. In religious faith he 
 is a Lutheran and since early manhood he has been a 
 member of the church. Socially he is connected with the 
 Masonic Order as a member of Lafayette Lodge. On 
 March 25, 1861, he was married to Maria A. Schoch, 
 daughter of Jacob Schoch, and he has only one child, Mar- 
 tha Jeneatte, born August 18, 1862, who on Oct. 1, 1885 
 married Martin L. Snyder. The result of this union is a 
 daughter, Marie, born Aug. 19, 1887. Mr. Snyder has 
 been studying Theology and is now completing his course 
 at Susquehanna University. He has been called to Bed- 
 ford, Bedford County, Pa., to fill the pulpit of the Luth- 
 
78 WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 eran church of that place. Dr. Wagenseller is a leadiug 
 physician of Selinsgrove, a man of ability aud has through 
 force of character become prominent and has come to the 
 front as a leader of men. 
 
 62. SAMUEL NORTON*, {John\ Peter^, John", 
 Christopher^), was born Feb. 21, 1827. He was married 
 aud had two daughters and one son. He resides at Ukiah, 
 California, and in a letter dated Jan. 6, 1898, he says that 
 his wife and children are all dead. He has two grand- 
 children living. 
 
 63. ARAMINTAS, (^John\ Peter^, John?, Christo- 
 pher^), born Apr. 14, 1829, married March 14, 1850 to 
 Reuben Bergstresser wlio was born in Selinsgrove Jan. 9, 
 1824 and died in Denver, Colorado, May 10, 1888, of 
 apoplexy. Araminta died in Pekin, Illinois, of typhoid 
 pneumouia, Jan. 25, 1861. Reuben Bergstresser is a bro- 
 ther of Amelia Bergstresser married to William F. Wag- 
 enseller, now deceased, (see No. 27, page 53). Reuben 
 and Araminta had four children, two are living and two 
 are dead : (Ida Bell Bergstresser, born Dec. 30, 1850, 
 married Sept. 27, 1871 to John Anthony Jones, who was 
 born August 10, 1846. He is a rejil estate agent and 
 loan broker in Bloomington, Illinois. They havesix child- 
 ren, (a) Frank Edgar Jones, born August 4, 1872, is now 
 in the scientific department of the American Lucifer Prism 
 Co., at No. 1127, "The Rookery," Chicago. He left the 
 North-western University in February 1897 to accept the 
 position, thereby cutting himself off 3 months' short of 
 graduation, (b) Albert Reuben Jones, born Sept. 14, 
 1874, is in the class of '99 at the North-western Univers- 
 ity, Evanston, Illinois and will be a disciple of Blacikstone. 
 (c) Flora B. Jones, born Dec. 15, 1876, is a student of 
 Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, (d) Harry 
 Wagenseller Jones, born 22, 1879, a student of the high 
 school, gathers news and inclines to journalism, (e) Roy 
 Bergstresser Jones, born Sept. 19, 1884, and (f) Clara 
 Burnell Jones, born Jan. 29, 1889, (2) Edgar P. Berg_ 
 
<l^^/Zi^^r^ 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 81 
 
 stresser, born Nov. 7, 185B and died March 21, 1873. He 
 was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun he had in 
 his buggy while driving from Pekin, Illinois, to visit 
 Spring Lake on a hunting expendition. (3) Flora Berg* 
 stresser, born Aug. 6, 1858, married James Mills Burnell, 
 who was born Oct, 9, 1851. They have two children, 
 Jennette Louise, born May 2, 1886 and Ruth Marguerite, 
 born May 9, 1888. They reside at 1658 Humboldt 
 Street, Denver, Colorado. Mr. Bunnel is business mana- 
 ger of tlie "Rocky Mountain News." He bought one-third 
 interest in the paper in 1886 and later increased his stock 
 to one-half ownership. In 1891 he sold out his interest, 
 but since then lie has been induced to again accept the posi- 
 tion of business manager. (4) Frank Bergstresser, born Dec. 
 30, 1860 and died August 20, 1861. 
 
 64. MARY', {John\ Peter^, John'', Christopher^), born 
 April 14, 1832, married three times, first to John Taylor 
 Perkins, who died May 12, 1852, second in 1854 to Wil- 
 liam Scott Rankia of Monrovia, California, who was born 
 in 1816 and died Oct. 29, 1890, aged 84 years, third, on 
 June 9, 1897, to Lewis Lutz of East Las Vegas, New 
 Mexico. She is the mother of four children, one with the 
 first husband and three with the second. (1) Annie 
 Josephine Perkins Avasborn May 2, 1852 in Pekin, Illinois, 
 married Nov. 19, 1873 to Milton Randolph Moore of 
 Tepeka, Kansas, who was born Sept. 27, 1846 at Summit- 
 ville, Indiana. They now reside at Arizola, Pinal County, 
 Arizona. Mr. Moore is a war invalid having been shot 
 through the right lung, Oct. 8, 1 864 when but 1 8 years old. 
 He was a member of the House of Representatives from 
 Pinal County in 1894. He is a journalist by profession. 
 They have had five children : (a) Thomas, born in Topeka, 
 Kansas, Aug. 30, 1874, died in Chicago, Illinois, March 
 23, 1890 and was buried at Monrovia, California, March 
 29, 1890. (b) Eda Viola, born Oct. 22, 1876 in Topeka, 
 Kansas, married July 7, 1896 at Florence, Arizona, to 
 George E. Sanders, of Arizola, Arizona, (c) Kirk Tonner, 
 born Oct. 4, 1882 at Topeka, Kansas, (d) Roy Webb, 
 
82 WAGENSELLEE HISTORY. 
 
 born May 20, 1884, at Topeka and (e)Nino, boruNov. 11, 
 1885 at Topeka. (2) Lizzie Rankin, born 1857, mar- 
 ried to P. C. Carpenter of Las Vegas, New Mexico, vviio 
 was born in 1849. No issue. (3) Algernon Sydney 
 Kaukin, born Aug. 25, 1859, married Nora Norris, who 
 was born 1848. They reside in Topeka, Kansas. (4) 
 Mary Edo Eankin, born 1863, married Sept. 21, 1885 to 
 C F. Moore of Monrovia, California, where they now re- 
 side. They have two children, Algernon, who is dead and 
 Sidney H., born July 6, 1894. Mary Rankin Lutz is en- 
 dowed with more than the usual amount of intelligence 
 and mental vigor. She is the author of many brilliant and 
 touching poems. She is five feet, two inches tali and weighs 
 135 pounds. Her husband has weighed 265 pounds, but 
 has been reduced to 189 pounds. He is of German de- 
 scent and has four children, all married, and three grand 
 children. The author can not refrain from quoting from 
 Mrs. Lutz's letter: "I think that married life isjnst what 
 we make it ourselves and now we want to get all the good 
 out of the lottery of life and as we journey toward the set- 
 ting sun and approach the end, we hope to find more of the 
 beautiful and the good. The world is as beautiful now 
 as it has been, life is as sweet and flowers bloom as fair as 
 when I was young." On the very day she was sixtyyears 
 of age, surrounded by the solitude and loneliness of wid- 
 owhood and having thrust upon her the unwelcome thovight 
 that not even a child of hers was in the state, under such 
 circumstances, she penned the letter we publish below. 
 The thoughts expressed are characteristic of her life, hence 
 we deem no apology necessary for the introduction of this 
 letter as a portion of her sketch. The letter is as follows : 
 MRS. LUTZ'S LETTER. 
 
 WRITTEN WHEN SIXTY YEAES OF AGE. 
 
 "My Dear Friend. — The Calender says I am sixty to- 
 day. I have passed the half milestone and left it behind 
 on my way. Am I ol d? Do you ask ? Why no. My 
 heart is still young. My limbs they grow tired sometimes 
 and are not very young, I look back on this jouruey of 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 83 
 
 life and dim vista of years. I still see the sunshine, the 
 shadows, the smiles and the tears, and the face of one dead 
 cut down in his vigor and prime, before he reached life's 
 spring or early summer time, and one just as dear who 
 reached his three score years and ten. He loved me, with 
 all my faults, he was one of the best of men. Each one 
 formed a link in the chain of my very life and heart, but 
 God wills that, sooner or later, all loved ones must part. 
 I can still see the bended knee and fairy little faces, who 
 once kuelt at my side in their accustomed places. Then 
 when their evening prayers were said, and kisses, two and 
 three, were given, they were tucked in bed as warm as 
 could be. Now girls and boys stand before me grown to 
 be women and men. It is then human nature asserted her- 
 self over and over again. Each one loved another and 
 went out to other homes. That is why I sit here so quiet, 
 so still andalone. Do not think I wish to repine to mur- 
 mur, or even complain, I would not, if I could, call either 
 one back to this home nest again. All have been happily 
 married and all are contented in life, and I do not regret 
 that I have been made mother or wife. The only regret 
 that I have, is we live so far apart, I so long for dear Edo's 
 baby, to love and press to my heart, and sing him the 
 songs, I sung to her mother long ago, when I hushed her 
 to sleep in the twilight and played her peek-a-boo. How 
 Sweet to remember those precious times, when I lulled 
 each one to rest. Those tender babes, how I loved each 
 one as they lay upon my breast ! My children call me 
 blessed, and always do remember, when all my birthdays 
 come, as well the twenty-fifth of December, and children's 
 children being to us the link that in life's chain quite stays 
 with me sometimes because he thinks he must be only 8 
 years old but can sing, play the piano and many other 
 things, still how can I help to think of dear hands and 
 voices I loved to touch and hear? They are all away from 
 my side to-night, and I only hear the echo. Only two 
 years ago to-day, we two sat here alone, my hand was soft- 
 ly folded in one forever gone. And we sat like two silly 
 
84 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 children, just like when we were young. We talked of 
 birthdays, wedding days came in for a share, we thanked 
 the Lord for His goodness, His kindness and loving care." 
 Mrs. Lutz's life and character is interesting to study and 
 an honor to those who gave her being. 
 
 71. THEODORE L.^, {Benjamin*, Petei^, John^, 
 Christopher^), born April 18, 1843, married at Chillicothe, 
 Illinois, Sept. 6, 1866 to Emiiie Lander, who was born 
 August 30, 1845. He resides at No. 645 Everett Ave., 
 Kansas City, Kansas. Theodore was but an infant when 
 his father died and Joshua Wagenseller, his uncle, cared 
 for him. He was a Soldier in the late War. They are 
 the parents of six children ; 
 
 154. i. Alien Lawrence*, born in Chilli- 
 
 cothe, Ills. June 22, 1867. Resi- 
 dence, Kansas City, Kansas. 
 
 155. ii. Harry Lander, born Nov. 3, 1870, 
 
 married May 11, 1897 to Leonora 
 Hill, who was born in New Or- 
 leans, Louisiana, Feb. 22, 1876. 
 
 156. iii. Ernest Elmer, born Dec. 11, 1872 
 
 and died Nov. 19, 1878. 
 
 157. iv. John Charles, born March 15, 1875, 
 
 died July 28, 1 876. 
 
 158. v. Clara Alice, 1 m • i ^ , 
 
 159. vi. Clarence Clay, I T^^»°^' ^"''^ 0«*- 
 
 22, 1879. Residence, KansasCity, 
 Kansas. [While compiling this 
 history the author has had the pleas- 
 ure of receiving from Miss Clara 
 Alice, an invitation to attend the 
 graduation exercises of the Kansas 
 City High School, May 26, 1898 
 of which she is a member.] 
 72. ALBERT ELON', (Joshioa^ Peiei^, John'', 
 Christopher^) ,born Feb. 1, 1841, was married to Mary E. 
 Hammer at the home of the bride in Fekin, Illinois, by 
 Rev. E. P. Livingston, March 27, 1873. They are now 
 
HAItrtV W. \\A(:K.V.SKrj>KJ{, 
 
 t'ArKBIliV, IIJJXOI.S. 
 
WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 87 
 
 divorced. She was married Feb. 24, 1897 to Hubbard 
 Sylvester Latham. Albert was a soldier in the late war 
 and now resides at Manito, Illinois. The issue of Albert 
 and Mary are five children : 
 
 160. i. Laura May, born Aug. 25, 1876, 
 
 married Sept. 30, 1896 to Charles 
 Peniel, Operator, Jerseyville, Ills, i 
 
 161. ii. Harry, born January 10, 1874, is 
 
 a Motorman, Springfield, Ills. 
 
 162. iii. Cora, born Feb. 12, 1879. 
 
 163. iv. Flora, born May 25, 1883. 
 
 164. V. Ira, born Feb. 20, 1887. 
 
 7J. WILLIAM HENEYs, {Joshua\ Peter^, John", 
 Christopher^), born Feb. 1, 1845, married Oct. 17, 1866 
 to Ophilia J. Leighton, who was born Feb. 17, 1848. 
 They now reside at No. 2310 Twenty-first Street, Omaha, 
 Nebraska. He was born in Topeka, Tazewell Co., Illi- 
 nois and received a common school education. At the age 
 of nineteen years he enlisted May 2, 1864 in Co. C, 139 
 Illinois Infantry, and held the rank of Second Corporal 
 for the term of 100 days, having been discharged Oct. 24, 
 1864. In 1867 he formed a partnership with his father 
 and continued business in that shape until the father's 
 death in 1882. Then his brother, Frank E,., was substi- 
 tuted as a partner in his father's place. The new firm 
 continued in business until 1887, the partnership was dis- 
 solved by mutual consent and William Henry embarked in 
 business alone. In 1892, he removed to Peoria, Illinois, 
 and in 1894 sold out and moved to Omaha, Nebraska. 
 Here he formed a partnership with his two brothers-in- 
 law in the Hoofing and Pile Driving business. The 139th 
 Illinois Regiment, to which he belonged, was used for 
 guard and provost duty in Illinois, Kentucky, Missoiu-i 
 and Tennessee. Mr. Wagenseller has in his posession 
 a certificate of thanks from the best President that ever 
 lived. It is a just pride with which he cherishes that doc- 
 ument. The Document reads as follows : 
 
88 WAGEN8ELLER HI8T0BY. 
 
 THE UNITED STATES VOLUNTEER SERVICE. 
 
 THE president's THANKS AND CEETIPICATE OF HON- 
 ORABLE SERVICE. 
 
 To Corporal William Henry Wagenseller, — 
 
 Whereas, the President of the United 
 States has made the following executive order returning 
 thanks to the Volunteers for One Hundred days from the 
 States of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, to wit, 
 
 Executive Mansion, 
 Washington City, Oct. 1, 1864. 
 
 The term of One Hundred days for which Volun- 
 teers from the States of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Wis- 
 consin, volunteered under the call of their respective Gov- 
 ernors in the months of May and June to aid in the recent 
 campaign of General Sherman having expired the President 
 directs an official acknowledgment to be made of their pa- 
 triotic service. It was their good fortune to render effi- 
 cient service in the brilliant operations of the South-West 
 and to contribute to the victories of the National Arms ov- 
 er the Rebel forces in Georgia under command of Johnson 
 and Hood. On all occasions and in every service to which 
 they were assigned their duty, as patriotic Volunters, was 
 performed with alacrity and courage for which they are 
 entitled to, and are hereby tendered the NATIONAL 
 THANKS, through the Governors of their respective 
 States. The Secretary of War is directed to transmit a 
 copy of this order to the Governors of Indiana, Illinois, 
 Iowa and Wisconsin and to cause a certificate of their hon- 
 orable service to be delivered to the officers and soldiers of 
 the States above named who recently served in the Mili- 
 tary forces of the United States as Volunteers for One 
 Hundred Days. Now, therefore, this certificate of Thanks 
 and of Honorable Service is conferred on Corporal Wil- 
 liam Henry Wagenseller in token of his having honorably 
 served as a volunteer for One Hundred days in C. Com- 
 pany, 139ih Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 
 
 Given under my hand at the City of Washington this 
 
WAQEN8ELLEB HISTORY. 89 
 
 15th day of December, in the year ofour Lord one thousand 
 eight hundred and sixty four. 
 
 By the President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 
 
 Edwin M. Stanton, President of the U. S. 
 
 Secretary of War. 
 
 William and Ophilia Wagenseller had five children 
 as follows : 
 
 165. i. Fatina May, born Nov. 14, 1867, 
 
 married May 22, 1889 to L. C. 
 Loel of Pekin, Illinois. They have 
 three children (1) Henry Wagen- 
 seller, born Dec. 22, 1890. (2) An- 
 na Maude, born Sept. 2, 1893. (3) 
 John Frederick, born March 22, 
 1896. 
 
 166. ii. Fannie M., born Jan. 7, 1871. 
 
 167. iii. Joshua Eugene, born Oct. 27, 1874. 
 
 Afflicted with epileptic fits. 
 
 168. iv. William Henry, Jr., born May 26, 
 
 1878. 
 
 169. V. George Rupert, bornDec. 11, 1884. 
 
 76. FRANK RUPERT', {Jonhua*, Peter^, John^, 
 Christopher^'), born December 30, 1851, was married in 
 Pekin, Illinois January 16, 1873 to Agnes Reynolds by 
 Rev. S. D. Bell. Residence, 312 Buena Vista Avenue, 
 Pekin, Ills. He is dealing in Dry Goods, Notions and 
 Leather Goods at 302 Court Street. This union has been 
 blessed with six children : 
 
 170. i. Jessie May, born Nov. 7, 1873. 
 
 Married June 15, 1892 to Gus. 
 Vincent Lincoln, of Peoria, Ills., 
 now City Salesman for Robert 
 Stevenson and Co., wholesale drug- 
 gists of Chicago. Resides now at 
 No. 250 East 60th Street, Chicago 
 Illinois. No issue. 
 
 171. ii. Clara Daisy, born Nov. 8, 1875. 
 
90 WAGEN8ELLEB HISTORY. 
 
 .172. iii. FrederickAlbert, bornDec.5, 1877. 
 
 Is in business with his father. 
 
 173. iv. Frank Edward, born May 20, 1881. 
 
 174. V. LeroyReyuolds, born Sept. 11,1885. 
 
 175. vi. Paul Weldon, born July 31, 1896. 
 All the children have been baptized in St. Paul's 
 
 Episcopal Church. The two daughters are confirmed 
 members of the same church. 
 
 77. WILLIAM JEREMIAH', (m'ffiam Mndley*, 
 Peter^, John', Christopher^), born March 23, 1839 and 
 died Aug. 3, 1895 in the borough of Selinsgrove, hence at 
 the time of his death he was 56 years, 4 months and 10 
 days old. Early in life he made his home with Henry 
 and Catherine Bickhart in Washington township, who lat- 
 er moved to Penns township near Kantz postoffice. His 
 education was obtained in the public schools. Oa Novem- 
 ber 5th, 1861, he was married to Rebecca Forry, daugh- 
 ter of John and Esther [Zerbe] Forry of Penn township. 
 His married life had not continued very long until the cri- 
 sis of the late Rebellion arose and the call to arms of able- 
 bodied men to defend the Union of this country brought 
 him to the front. On the 28th day of October 1862, he 
 entered the service of the United States as Corporal of Co. 
 F., 172ud Regiment of Pennsylvania Troops. His term 
 of enlistment expired and he was discharged Jan . 28,1863. 
 He again enlisted and was assigned to Co. D., 208th Regi- 
 ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was mustered into 
 service Sept. 5, 1864 and was appointed to the position of 
 Sergeant of his Company. He was mustered out June 1, 
 1865 at the close of the war. His Commission as Ser- 
 geant was handed to him, Oct. 5, 1864, at Bermuda Hun- 
 dred. He engaged in the fight at Fort Steadman and in 
 the capture of Petersburg, Va. 
 
 At the close of the war, he returned home and settled 
 down to pursue the life of a civilian and for several years 
 engaged in farming. In 1875 the Grange Movement be- 
 came prevalent and June 18th, Penn Grange was organized 
 and Mr. Wagenseller became its first worshipful master. 
 
W. J. WAGEXSELLER. 
 
 SSO-D,-,. [x„. 77.1 
 
WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 93 
 
 The Snyder County Pomona Grange wasorganized in 1881 
 and for several years he was the Presiding Officer of this 
 body. 
 
 In 1883 the Grange idea of establishing co-operative 
 stores became a reality and a place of business was opened 
 in Selinsgrove. The corporation was known as " Farmers' 
 Exchange, Limited " and W. J. Wagenseller was chosen as 
 General Manager and Superintendent. This business was 
 carried on until November 1890 when he voluntarily re- 
 signed and retired to private life until his death. He never 
 aspired to a political office though upon several occasions 
 he was elected to fill positions in the district where he liv- 
 ed. He was a member of the Reformed Church at Selins- 
 grove and an officer of the congregation. The widow and 
 children as found below all reside at Selinsgrove, except 
 George, who resides in Middleburgh and is editor and pub- 
 lisher of the "Post." William J. was very methodical. 
 He began to keep a diary when he first entered the service 
 of Uncle Sam and he continued the keeping of it every day 
 up to the time he took his bed with his final sickness. 
 These daily records, now preserved, form a history of his 
 daily life in minute detail and they contaiji many interest- 
 ing notes of the people with whom he came in contact. 
 Loyal to the duties of manhood he forged his way to the 
 front as a living example of good citizenship and a worthy 
 type of christian fortitude. By his sober, diligent and ag- 
 gressive habits, he threw about himself the armor of a 
 strong protection against the vices and snares of every-day 
 life and clothed himself with that mantle of inspiration that 
 draws to itself the exalted opinion of manly virtues. Wil- 
 liam J. and Rebecca Forrer Wagenseller are the parents 
 of ten children : 
 
 176. i. Kate Alice*, born Feb. 22, 1862, 
 
 is unmamed and a milliner at Se- 
 linsgrove, Pa. 
 
 177. ii. Mary Louisa, born May 17, 1864 
 
 and died Aug. 25, 1865. 
 + 178. iii. John Franklin, born Aug. 1, 1866. 
 
94 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 -f-179. iv. George Washington, born April 27j 
 
 1868. 
 
 180. V. Infant son, born April 28, 1870 
 
 and died May 5, 1870. 
 
 181. vi. Ida May, born May 5, 1870. 
 
 182. vii. Anion 8ylvester, born Nov. 11, 
 
 1873. Married August 8, 1897 to 
 Jeneatte Smith. They have a son, 
 Bruce Sylvester, born February 23, 
 1898. Residence, Selinsgrove, Pa. 
 
 183. viii. Anna Celesta, born June 10, 1876 
 
 and died Feb. 17, 1882. 
 
 184. ix. Charles Henrv, born Dec. 9, 1877 
 
 and died July'24, 1878. 
 
 185. X. Infant son, born Sept. 30, 1881 and 
 
 died same day. 
 78. MARTIN LUTHER^, (William Flndley*, 
 Petei^, John?, Christopher^), born Sept. 6, 1840, married 
 December 7, 1865 to Carrie L. Kistner, who was born 
 July 13, 1840. Residence, Selinsgrove, Pa. He received 
 his early education in the public schools, and when Mis- 
 sionary Institute (now Susquehanna University) was found- 
 ed he was enrolled as one of the first students. After com- 
 pleting two years, his health failed, and he was compelled 
 to cease his attendance at school. He, however, after that, 
 taught one year in one of the public schools of the county. 
 When the Civil War broke out, he left his occupation as a 
 clerk in a store, and enlisted as a private in Co. F., 131st 
 Regiment, Pa. Vol. Inf. and served with distinction, having 
 been mustered out as a Lieutenant of the Company. He 
 participated in the engagements of Antietam, Fredericks- 
 burg, and Chancellorsville, also on the raid known as 
 Burnside's Muddy March. Upon returning home again, 
 he entered a store as clerk. In 1866, he entered into part- 
 nership with his father in the mercantile business under 
 the firm name of Wagenseller & Son. His father died in 
 1 876 and about a year thereafter, he closed out tlie busi- 
 ness. In 1864 he was made a member of the Masonic 
 
WAQENSELLER HISTORY. 95 
 
 Lodge (Lafayette No. 194) of Selinsgrove, was its efficient 
 Secretary for many years, also Treasurer, and filled the 
 positions of Junior Warden, Senior Warden and Worship- 
 ful Master and also Representative to the Grand Lodge. 
 In 1866 he passed through the Chapter, Council and was 
 made a member of the Crusade Commandery, located at 
 Bloomsburg, but from all of the above, he has resigned ex- 
 cept the Lafayette Lodge. In February 1867 he became 
 a charter member of the first Grand Army Post in Snyder 
 County (No. 28) but owing to the carelessness of its offi- 
 cers the Post was finally disbanded. In 1880 he again be- 
 came a member of the Grand Army in Capt. Davis Post, 
 No. 148, located at Selinsgrove. He was Adjutant for a 
 number of years. Officer of the Day, and Post Commander 
 three years. It was often said of him that it was only 
 through his work and influence that the Post was kept 
 alive. He was repeatedly appointed on the Staff of the 
 Department Commanders, also of the Commander-in-Chief 
 of the United States and for three years in succession he 
 was elected a member of Department Council of Adminis- 
 tration, and also many times selected to inspect Posts and 
 Districts. In early life he identified himself with Trinity 
 Lutheran Church, and Sunday School as a scholar, teacher 
 and Librarian. The latter position he held for over twen- 
 ty-five years and still continues in the work. He was 
 president of the County Sunday School Association for nine 
 years in succession during which time the association meet- 
 ings largely increased in interest and attendance. At the 
 age of 16, he became a member of the Choir attached to 
 the above named church and he still occupies a place there. 
 In 1877 on account of the resignation of Mr. Geo. Schnure 
 as a member of the Board of Directors of Missionary Insti- 
 tute (now Susquehanna University) and at the instance of 
 Mr. Schnure our subject was elected to fill the unexpired 
 term of Mi*. Schnure. He has continued ever since to be 
 a member of the Board, having been its efficient Secretary 
 since 1887. While a student of the school he helped to 
 organize the Philosophian Literaiy Society being for along 
 
96 WAGEMELLER HISTORY. 
 
 time its Secretary and he remained a true and staunch mem- 
 ber for many years. Mr. Wagenseller has always been 
 strongly attached to the Institution, and as a member of 
 the Board has done much to gain for it, its present success. 
 In all the time of his membership of the Board, he has 
 very rarely missed a session. In politics he has always 
 been an ardent Republican, working for the success of 
 those principles. Was never anaspirant for political office, 
 although many times solicited, he always refused. He has 
 been an advocate of the temperance cause and now in his 
 daily life is a living example of the principles he has es- 
 poused. 
 
 To M. L. and Carrie L. Wagenseller have been born 
 five children : 
 
 186. i. Edgar Newton, born Mar. 6, 1869, 
 
 and died Feb. 19, 1870. 
 
 187. ii. Luella May, born July 29, 1871, 
 
 and died June 1, 1873. 
 4-188. iii. Benjamin Meade, born June 22, 
 
 1873. 
 
 189. iv. Carrie Mabel, born Jan. 14, 1875 
 
 and died Sept. 2, 1894. 
 
 190. V. William Ralph, born Nov. 18,1879. 
 83. SIMON CAMERON', {John Neilor\ William?, 
 
 John^, Christopher^), born Aug. 13, 1852, in Tamaqua, 
 Pennsylvania. His father's family moved to Pekin, Ills., 
 where they lived four years and then moved to Sing Sing, 
 New York. In 1872, after his father's death, he went to 
 Suabury, Pa. to his Uncle George and secured employ- 
 ment with the Northern Central Railway Company. After 
 ten years' service with the Railroad Company, he went in- 
 to the mercantile business in Shamokin, Pa. and remained 
 in it until 1894. He was then appointed as postmaster of 
 Shamokin by President Benjamin Harrison and was com- 
 missioned to serve for four years, which he did very suc- 
 cessfully. It was our subject who introduced the free de- 
 livery system in Shamokin during his term. He has held 
 the position of Assistant Burgess of Shamokin. He is now 
 
M. i,. U AOEXSKI.LER, 
 
 selixs(;rovk, t>a. [xo. 7H.] 
 
WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 99 
 
 in the insurance business having formed a partnership with 
 Samuel Heckert. They are doing business under the name 
 of Wagenseller and Heckert. On April 13, 1878 he mar- 
 ried Laura M. Bittenbender. 
 
 S. C. and Laura are the parents of four children, as 
 follows ; 
 
 191. i. Walter B.«, born Jan. 10, 1879 and 
 
 and died April 8, 1880. 
 
 192. ii. Harriet S., born Feb. 26, 1882. 
 
 193. iii. Sarah McVeagh, born Feb. 5, 1884. 
 
 194. iv. Mary E., born March 30, 1887. 
 84. GEORGES, {John Neilor*, William^, John^, 
 
 Christopher'^), was born August 28, 1862, at Sing Sing, N. 
 Y. He received a common school education and attended 
 the private school of Prof. Rambo at the Trappe, Mont- 
 gomery County, Pa. for one year. On the sixth day of 
 December 1881 he was apprenticed for four years to the 
 Machinist trade at the Sunbury Shops of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company. He received his certificate as Machin- 
 ist, December 6, 1885. On March 8, 1888, he was ap- 
 pointed Engine House Foreman at Nescopeck, N. and W. 
 B. of the Penna. R. R. Co. Pie was married to Mary E. 
 McClow who was born March 1 864. They have a family 
 of six children : 
 
 195. i. Simon Cameron*, born Oct, 18, 
 
 1886. 
 
 196. ii. Laura, born March 20, 1888. 
 
 197. iii. George Oliver, born Oct. 7, 1889 
 
 and died April 20, 1896. 
 
 198. iv. James Kerchner, born Sept. 19, 
 
 1891. 
 
 199. V. Anna Marguerite, born Oct. 30, 
 
 1893. 
 
 200. vi. Mary Elizabeth, born Sept. 2, 1895. 
 
 86. MARTHA^, {David Schrack^, Jacob^, John% 
 Christopher^), born Jan. 14, 1836, married Sept. 11, 1853, 
 in Philadelphia by Rev. M. G. Clark of the Temple Bap- 
 
100 WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 tist Church, to Seth Huniphrys, a carpet aud yarn manu- 
 facturer, born Dec. 25, 1827, resides at Gladwyne, Pa. 
 They are the parents of seven children, (1) Seth G. Hum- 
 phry s, born Sept. 27, 1854 and died Sept. 25, 1855. (2) 
 Mary Ellen Humphreys, born April 10, 1856 and died 
 June 12, 1868. (3) Anna M. Humphrys, born April 
 23, 1858, married January 2, 1875 to Alfred S. Heft. 
 Anna died June 16, 1887. This union was blessed with 
 three children, Seth, born Nov. 18, 1879, Bessie, born 
 Sept. 1, 1881 and Jacob, whodied in infancy. (4) Clara 
 Maud Humphrys born May 21, 1860, married July 31, 
 1879 to Dr. Alfred Mellersh, who was born Sept. 7, 1847 
 and now resides on the Corner of Lyceum and Manayunk 
 Avenues, Manayunk, Phila., Pa. They have five chil- 
 dren : Martha, born Aug. 26, 1880 ; Anna, born June 10, 
 1885; Mary, born June 6, 1888; Alfred, born Jan. 2, 
 1890; Edith May, born Sept. 20, 1896. (5) Enos 
 Humphrys, born Feb. 18, 1863, married Dec. 12, 1888 
 to May V. Towns, who was born Dec. 3, 1861. Resi- 
 dence, Narbeth, Montgomery County, Pa. They have two 
 children, Seth, born Dec. 20, 1889 at Ardmoreand Alfred, 
 born April 25, 1894. (6) Seth I. Humphrys, born Nov. 
 2, 1869, and died Oct. 29, 1875. (7) Mary Bessex Hum- 
 phrys, born April 25, 1872, married November 10, 1892 
 to Frank C. Marshall of Haverford, Pa. They have a 
 daughter, Anna Maud, born Sept. 9, 1893. He holds a 
 lucrative position with the Real Estate Trust Company, 
 No. 1340 Chestnut Street, Phila. 
 
 87. MARY5, {David Sohrac¥, Jacob^, John^, Chris- 
 topher^), born June 16, 1837, married May 8, 1857 to 
 George Mallison. She died June 18, 1865 of a complica- 
 tion of diseases. They had six children : (1) James 
 Mallison, born Dec. 12, 1858, unmarried, resides at Clies- 
 ter. Pa. (2) Harvey P. Mallison born Feb. 6, 1860, 
 married to Katherine Grayham, June 27, 1888. Resi- 
 dence, Lansdowne, Pa. They have 5 children, Mary, 
 born May 12, 1889 ; George, born Feb. 3, 1891 ; Cather- 
 ine born November 1892; Harvey born March 1892 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 101 
 
 and died June 16, 1896 and Dorothy born January 
 1898. (3) Anna Mallison, born August 6, 1862, 
 married June 28, 1894 to Adam Witteman. They have a 
 son, George, born May 22, 1895. Residence, No. 419 
 North 33rd Street, Philadelphia. (4) George Mallisoa, 
 born March 6, 1864 and died Aug. 12, 1888. (5) Jo- 
 sephine Mallison born April 24, 1866. (6) John Albert 
 Mallison born May 9, 1869 married Aug. 5, 1890 to 
 Kose Snyder. They have one child, Alva, born Jan. 19, 
 1892. Residence, Hinkley Avenue, Ridley Park, Pa. 
 
 88. MARGARET ANN', (David SchraeM, Jacob^ 
 John'-, Christopher^), horn Oct. 7 1840, married Jan. 31, 
 1862 to Samuel E. Happersett. Residence, No. 221 New 
 Street, "West Chester, Pa. They have six children, (1) S. 
 Humphrey Happersett, born Dec. 6, 1862, married Sara 
 Benly March 24, 1887, residence Uwchland, Pa. They 
 have a family of five children. (2) John W. Happersett, 
 born March 2, 1864, married March 1, 1893 to Rachael 
 McClintctck. Residence, Downingtown, Pa. (3) Rachael 
 A. Happersett, born Dec. 26, 1866, married March 28, 
 1888 to S. Wesley Jones of Downingtown, Pa. (4) Louis 
 W. Happersett born Nov. 5, 1869, married June 15, 1893 
 to Martha E. Griffith. Address, Downingtown, Pa. (5) 
 David Warren Happersett, born Dec. 29, 1873, resides at 
 West Chester, Pa., and Samuel E. Happersett, born Feb. 
 14, 1875, died March 4, 1881. 
 
 89. LEVP, (David Sohrao¥, Jacob^, John', Chris- 
 topher^), born Oct. 14, 1842, married Alice Raney. Levi 
 swallowed four false front teeth and died of starvation, af- 
 ter undergoing an unsuccessful operation. The widow re- 
 sides at 3911 Melon Street, Philadelphia, Pa. They had 
 two children : 
 
 201. i. Anna, married John Pavet with 
 
 whom she had two daughters, Ma- 
 bel and Florence. 
 
 202. ii. Wellington, resides with his mother. 
 91. HARRIET', (David Schrac¥, Jacob*, John^, 
 
102 WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 Christopher^), born April 2, 1846, married Harry Town- 
 send who resides at 26th and Poplar Streets, Philadelphia. 
 They are the parents of ten children : (1) John Town- 
 send, born March 8, 1864, married Aug. 15, 1888 to Car- 
 oline Byrne who died Aug. 17, 1895. Address, 26th and 
 Poplar Sts., Philadelphia. They have had two children, 
 James, born March 12, 1891 and Edith born June 11, 
 1894. (2) Ida Townsend, born Dec. 17, 1865, married 
 June 6, 1888 to William Ziegler, who resides at 31st and 
 York Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. They have four children, 
 Gertrude, Edna, William and Raymond. (3) Anna Town- 
 send, born Feb. 8, 1868 married June 16, 1888 to Frank 
 Fritz, who now resides at No. 1263 North 26th Street, Phil- 
 delphia. They have two children, Viola and Frank. (4) 
 Sarah Townsend, born May 8, 1872 married Nov. 14, 
 1891 to Edward Brown who resides at No. 863 North 
 26th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. They have one child Ethel, 
 born Sept. 13, 1894. (5) Martha, born Nov. 6, 1874, 
 married Nov. 11, 1896 to Harry Didall, who now resides 
 at 1263 North 26th Street, Phila. (6) William, born 
 Feb. 10, 1870, married June 29, 1893 to Bessie Win- 
 nings. (7) Harry Townsend, born May 13, 1877. (8) 
 Seth Townsend, born May 30, 1880. (9) Harvey Town- 
 send, born April 23, 1882. (10) Mary Townsend, born 
 Aug. 17, 1884. 
 
 93. JAMES', {David Schrach*, Jaoob^, John?, Chris- 
 topher'^), born Jan. 1, 1849, married March 20, 1883 to 
 Esther A. Moore, who died Nov. 9, 1896. Residence, Glen 
 Moore, Chester Co., Pa. He was born in East Brandy- 
 wine township, Chester County, Pa., and moved to Wal- 
 lace township in 1856, to Glen Moore in 1883 when he 
 was married, moved to Downingtowu in 1885, where he 
 remained only one year, returning to Glen Moore in 1886 
 where he now resides. He is one of the few Wagenseller's 
 who has accumulated considerable property, having attain- 
 ed a commercial rating of $50,000. He owns considerable 
 property in Wallace, East and West Nantmeal and West 
 Vincient townships, three houses in Glen Moore, where he 
 
WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 103 
 
 lives. A large park was opened in Glen Moore on Arbor 
 Day in the Spring of 1898 and he generously contributed 
 the land for the entire park. Upon the occasion of the 
 formal opening, he was given a vote of thanks and three 
 ringing cheers for the magnanimous gift. He had been a 
 farmer, but he now lives retired. He has settled several 
 large estates and now has several to manage. He is the 
 guardian and trustee for several estates and returns more 
 money as state tax on interest bearing money than any one 
 person in Wallace township. He and his wife, Esther, 
 are the parents of two children : 
 
 203. i. Margaret A., born Nov. 9, 1883. 
 
 204. ii. David Earl, born Feb. 14, 1890. 
 96. JOHN', {Levi*, Jaoob^, Johrfi, Christopher^'), born 
 
 March 27, , twice married, first to Elizabeth V. Sirlee, 
 
 now deceased, and second to Mary C. Irwin. For many 
 years he kept a general store at Thorndale, Chester Coun- 
 ty, Pa., and contributed largely to the public spirit of the 
 village. The iron works of that place having been closed 
 and many people moved away as a consequence, he closed 
 his business there and in the Spring of 1898 moved to 
 Pottstown, Montgomery County. He is now manufactur- 
 ing and selling some medicine. He is the father of 9 chil- 
 dren, 3 with the first wife and 6 with the second wife, as 
 follows : 
 
 First 
 
 marriage. 
 
 205 
 
 i. Carrie', born 1867, now deceased. 
 
 -1-206. 
 
 ii. Alvin Worthington, born March 
 
 
 26, 1869. 
 
 207. 
 
 iii. Clement Levi, born 1871, now de- 
 
 
 ceased. 
 
 Second Marriage. 
 
 208. 
 
 iv. Harry Ellis. 
 
 209. 
 
 V. Frank. 
 
 210. 
 
 vi. John Edgar. 
 
 211. 
 
 vii. Anna. 
 
 212. 
 
 viii. Florence May. 
 
 213. 
 
 ix. Nellie Irwin. 
 
104 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 114. JAMES K.8, (Thomas Weidner^, George*, John^, 
 Johr^, Christopher^), born July 17, 1850, married Polly 
 Ann McCarter, Aug. 17, 1876. Residence, Birds, Lawrence 
 County, Ills. To them were born seven children : 
 
 214. i. James W.^ born Dec. 21, 1877 and 
 
 died Sept. 1, 1895. 
 
 215. ii. John W., born Dec. 26, 1879 and 
 
 died April 25, 1881. 
 
 216. iii. Eliza J., born March 22, 1882, 
 
 married May 22, 1896 to Sullivan 
 W. Richards. To them, a son, Al- 
 bert Clinton®, was born May 28, 
 1897, a representative of the eighth 
 generation. 
 
 217. iv. Bertha B., born June 1, 1884. 
 
 218. V. Albert H., born Dec. 17, 1886. 
 
 219. vi. Emma E., born Sept. 6, 1892, and 
 
 died Sept. 27, 1892. 
 
 220. vii. BurniceE., born Sept. 22, 1893. 
 117. THOMAS HARLAN«, {William?, George^, 
 
 John^, Joh'n?, Ghristoj)her^), born Julv 7, 1847, was never 
 married, and was killed June 23, 1897 by a fall of earth 
 in a gold mine at Rico, Dolores County, Colorado. He 
 was a member of Co. H., 135th Illinois Volunteers in the 
 late war. Captain T. H. Wagenseller, as he -was called, 
 was in partnership wilh W. W. Parshall in the gold min- 
 ing business. We quote the following from a local paper 
 at Rico, Colorado: 
 
 " He served eighteen months in the Union army dur- 
 ing the late war as a member of Co. H., 135th Illinois, and 
 since that time he has taken a great interest in military af- 
 fairs, and was captain of the Rico military company a num- 
 ber of years, and was a member of the staff of Governors 
 Routt and Mclntire, with the rank of colonel. 
 
 The past seventeen or eighteen years he spent in min- 
 ing and prospecting in the San Juan country, a greater por- 
 tion of this time being spent at Rico. He had been very 
 hopeful during the past few months, and was sure that his 
 
WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 105 
 
 portion of the proceeds from the Enterprise lease would en- 
 able him to be independent for the remainder of his life. 
 
 Captain Wagenseller was a good friend and open en- 
 emy. He was at all times patriotic and chivalrous, and 
 while he angered easily, he was quick to forgive. 
 
 During the few days just prior to his death he had 
 commenced to make arrangements for his approaching mar- 
 riage with Miss Flora Keltow, one of our most highly re- 
 spected young ladies, who has the sympathy of the com- 
 munity in her bereavement. In addition to the loved one, 
 Mr. Wagenseller left a father, brother and sister to mourn 
 his untimely demise. 
 
 The funeral occurred from the Peciple's Congregation- 
 al Church under the auspice of the Improved Order of Red 
 Men, of which order he was a member of good standing. 
 The remains were laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery of 
 Silver Crescent Lodge No. 40, I. O. O. F., the last sad 
 rites being performed by tlie comrades of Hazen Post, No. 
 63, according to the ritual of the Grand Army of the Re- 
 public, the salute to the dead being fired by Sons of Veter- 
 ans. 
 
 RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. 
 
 Resolutions of veterans of the war of the rebellion 
 upon the death of our late comrade, Thomas H. Wagen- 
 seller. 
 
 Whereas, Death has again entered our midst and with- 
 out warning taken from our midst late comrade, T. H. Wag- 
 enseller, thus thinning our ranks that cannot be filled, and 
 recognizing in him a comrade of solidierly bearing and 
 conduct, of patriotic and loyal principles, who fought a 
 good fight and responded to the last bugle call ; it is there- 
 fore 
 
 Resolved, that we extend to the relatives and bereaved 
 ones that fraternal sympathy which comradeship during the 
 severe test of fire in the time of war ripened in the hearts 
 of all true soldiers." 
 
 Committee. 
 
106 WAGEMELLER HISTORY. 
 
 127. WILLIAM RILEY«, {Amo!.^, Gewgt^, John?, 
 John^, Christopher^), born Dec. 11, 1853 in Crawford Co., 
 Illinois. He was married in Jacksboro, Jacks County, 
 Texas by Judge Williams of Indiana, Nov. 12, 1879 to 
 Kosa May Putnam who was boru at Iljchester,j Fulton 
 County, Indiana, April 21, 1864 and went to Texas in 
 1878. William R. was raised in Indiana and wentto Texas in 
 1 875. He is an expert Blacksmith and now resides at Pel- 
 la, Wise County, Texas. They are the parents of seven 
 children : 
 
 221. i. Dora Theresa^, bord April 9, 1881, 
 
 married Jan. 3, 1897 to J. D. Kile, 
 with whom she had a daughter, 
 Sarah MayS, born Oct. 16, 1897, 
 one of the few representatives of the 
 eighth generation. 
 
 222. ii. Mary Malinda, born May 9, 1886. 
 
 223. iii. John Riley, born Jan. 23, 1889. 
 
 224. iv. Pearl Jone, born July 9, 1892 and 
 
 died Jan. 21, 1898. 
 
 225. V. Amos Warren, born Jan. 16, 1893. 
 
 226. vi. Bertha May, born Sept. 25, 1894 
 
 and died July 4, 1895. 
 
 227. vii. Clata Leota, born Aug. 7, 1896. 
 149. FRANKLIN JACOB«, {Peter Rkhtei^, Jacob*, 
 
 Petei^, John', Christopher^), born Oct. 8, 1855, in Selins- 
 grove, married Dec. 17, 1878 by Rev. H. B. Belmer to 
 Mary L. Keely, daughter of Z. S. Keely of Selinsgrove. 
 His early days were spent in attending the public schools 
 of his native place. When about twelve years of age, he 
 entered Missionary Institute (now Susquehanna University) 
 at Selinsgrove and pursued his studies continuously until 
 the spring of 1876. He then entered the Medical depart- 
 ment of tlie University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, 
 graduating from that institution as a full-fledged doctor in 
 1878. In the spring of 1883, he was elected a member of 
 the Town Council of Selinsgrove and has been re-elected 
 continuously ever since. He is now the presiding officer 
 
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WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 109 
 
 of the Council. As a public officer he has made a brilliant 
 record and has done much to improve the town. Shortly 
 after his election as a member of the Town Council, that 
 body determined to construct a system of water-works for 
 the protection of the town against the ravages of fire and 
 for the conveniences it would afford the citizens in the re- 
 quirements of daily life. The young physician was thor- 
 oughly imbued with the idea that the town needed such 
 improvements and vigorously advocated the introduction 
 and construction of the plant. He has been a representa- 
 tive of the State Board of Health and as such has been a 
 most vigilant officer in caring for evidences and extending 
 precautions against the spread of any contagious or infec- 
 tious diseases. During the Summer of 1897 the Penn 
 Telephone Company was chartered by the Commonwealth 
 of Pennsylvania and Dr. F. J. is a heavy stock-holder and 
 a director in the corporation whose lines extend all over 
 Snyder County and make connections with all important 
 points in Union and Northumberland counties. In the 
 introduction of tlie shoe factory just opened in Selinsgrove 
 and the construction of the large new buildings for that 
 purpose, he filled a most important position as a member 
 of the building committee, giving to the new industry a 
 great deal of time and money. He has always been iden- 
 tified with every progressive movement of his town or 
 county during his day. 
 
 As a careful, conscientious practitioner and close med- 
 ical student, he has no superior in Snyder County. Ever 
 watchful of every change in his patient and a diligent re- 
 gard for his on her welfare, he enjoys a large and lucrative 
 practice in a community where the name, Wagenseller, has 
 been continuously associated with the practice of medicine 
 for three-quarters of a century. 
 
 The descendants are : 
 
 228. i. Harry Franklin^, born January 12, 
 
 1880. 
 
 229. ii. Florence Louisa, Iwrn April 16, 
 
 1881. 
 
110 WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 150. GEORGE C.«, {Peter Riohter^, JaGo¥, Peter^, 
 John^, Christopher-^), born in Selinsgrove, June 30, 1857, 
 married June 1, 1881 to Lula, eldest daughter ofFranklin 
 J. and Catherine Schoch of Selinsgrove. His early educa- 
 tion was obtained in the public schools of his native town. 
 Later he entered Missionary Institute (now Susquehanna 
 University) and continued until he was eighteen years of 
 age. Then he entered the drug store of his father, after- 
 wards be.ujuiing its proprietor. He continued his services 
 in the drug store until 1884. He still retained the drug 
 store, but now he entered into partnership with his father- 
 in-law, F. J. Schoch, in the business of Milling, dealing in 
 Grain and Coal and continued in these business relations 
 until 1894 when the partnership was dissolved. Mr. 
 Schoch retired from the business and George became the 
 sole proprietor of the business, which he is still successful- 
 ly conducting at Selinsgrove. He is a prompt, careful and 
 j udicious business man carrying with him the esteem of all 
 with whom he comes into contact. During this time he 
 has not been without some recognition in public life. He 
 has earned the title of being a shrewd politician, whose in- 
 fluence is always noted when the returns are counted. In 
 the borough of Selinsgrove, he served two terms (6 years) 
 as school director. He was then elected a member of the 
 Town Council and after serving only one year, he resigned 
 in 1880 to accept the position of County Treasurer of Sny- 
 der County, which he held until Jan. 1, 1893. In the 
 spring of 1893 he was elected Chief Burgess of Selins- 
 grove and held the office for three years. In May 1898, 
 he was recommended by Congressman Mahon to be the 
 postmaster of Selinsgrove. He is yet a very young man 
 and has a bright future before him. George and Lula 
 have two children : 
 
 230. i. Frank Schoch, born July 14, 1883. 
 
 231. ii. George Jacob, born Jan. 10, 1886. 
 
 178. JOHN FRANKLIN«, ( Wllham /.«, William F.*, 
 Petei^, John"^, Christopher^), born Aug. 1, 1866, unmar- 
 ried, educated in the public schools, Bloomsburg State Nor- 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. Ill 
 
 mal School and Missionary Institute (now Susquehanna 
 University). The early inclination of his youth and man- 
 hood took him to teaching school and thus to impart to 
 the rising generation the ingredients so essential to true 
 manhood and the proper development of noble citizenship. 
 He has taught both in Union and Snyder Counties. He 
 lives with his mother at Selinsgrove. 
 
 179. GEORGE WASHINGTON*, {William Jere- 
 miah^, William Findley^, Petei^, John^, Christopher^), born 
 in Penn township, Snyder County, Pa., April 27, 1868, 
 married Miriam Orwig, daughter of Dr. John W. and 
 Margaret [Zellers] Orwig of Middleburgh, Snyder County, 
 Pa., Oct. 22, 1896. She is a descendant of Gotfried Or- 
 wig, a native of Germany, who emigrated to America in 
 1741 and whose lineage will receive consideration in an- 
 other j)art of this book. The boyhood days of Geo. W. 
 Wagenseller were spent upon his father's farm, much of 
 his time being devoted to wholesome out-door work. In 
 1889 when he was fifteen years of age his father became 
 the General Manager of the Granger's Store at Selinsgrove 
 and for several years George clerked there during the sum- 
 mer months, while attending the public schools in the win- 
 ter. In March 1887 he entered Missionary Institute, now 
 Susquehanna University, at Selinsgrove, having secured the 
 necessary funds for his tuition and books through the dili- 
 gent and careful saving of many small sums. On June 6, 
 1889, he was graduated, and during the following summer 
 he became the Principal of the public schools of Cowan, 
 Union County, where he taught with marked success for 
 one year graduating five students on May 15, 1890. In 
 September, of the same year he matriculated as a student 
 of Bucknell University, at Lewisburg, Penn., entering the 
 junior class. His summer vacations were devoted to can- 
 vassing by which he earned money enough to pay the ex- 
 penses of his entire course, and on June 22, 1892, he was 
 graduated from the classical course with thedegree of A.B. 
 Three years later he was granted the degree of A. M. from 
 his Alma Master. 
 
112 WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 During the summer of 1892 the Pennsylvania Na- 
 tional Guards were called out to quell the riot at Home- 
 stead, Pa., and Mr. Wagenseller went with the Lewisburg 
 Company, spending eighteen days on duty. In August, 
 1892, he accepted the position of Professor of English and 
 Science in the Coatesville Academy, but in the following 
 January, having learned that his salary was in jeopardy, he 
 resigned. In April, 1893, he began work as Principal of 
 the Teachers' Normal School at Kermoor, Clearfield Coun- 
 ty, Pa., the course being completed in June. During the 
 following summer he was offered three positions within 
 ten days, viz : The Presidency of Palatinate College, at 
 Myerstown, Pa., the Assistant Principalship of the public 
 schools at Clearfield, Pa., and the Principalship of the 
 Bloomfield Academy at New Bloomfield, Perry County, 
 Pa. He accepted the latter and held the position until the 
 spring of 1894, when he resigned to engage in the News- 
 paper business, the one occupation, he so much adored 
 above all others. On March 17, 1894, in partnership with 
 A. E. Cooper, he purchased from Thomas H. Harter, The 
 Middleburgh Post with the entire printing plant. This pa- 
 per was originally established about 1844-5 in New Ber- 
 lin, Union County, Pa., by Christian Moeser and was 
 known as the Union Demohrat, a strong whig paper, pub- 
 lished in the German language. In 1850 the Demohrat 
 passed into the hands of Israel Gutelius. He continued its 
 publication in New Berlin until 1853 when it was moved 
 to Selinsgrove. It was continued as a German paper until 
 1861 when it was converted to an English paper and the 
 name was changed to The Post. During the closing days 
 of 1866, Jeremiah Crouse purchased the Post and moved it 
 to Middleburg, beginning publication the first or second 
 week in January, 1867. In December 1882, T. H. Har- 
 ter became the owner and remained at the helm until 
 March 17, 1894, when Wagenseller & Cooper purchased 
 the plant as above recited. The partnership, thus formed, 
 was short-lived for Dec. 12th, the same year, it was dis- 
 solved, Mr. Cooper retiring and Mr. Wagenseller became 
 
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WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 115 
 
 the sole owuer and has since ably conducted the enterprise 
 alone. Feb. 3, 1898, the plant was moved into a large 
 two-story structure near the center of Middleburgh, erect- 
 ed especially for this printing plant. It is in this building 
 ■where the "History of the Wagenseller Family in America" 
 first saw the liglit of day. The Post is a strong Republi- 
 can organ, free to expose wrong-doing in public life at any 
 time. It was through the industry and vigilance of our 
 subject that the influence of the paper was greatly extend- 
 ed and he has added to the printing plant from time to 
 time such modern devices as are required in an up-to-date 
 office. He is a member of Lafayette Lodge, No. 1 94, Free 
 and Accejtted Masons, located at Selinsgrove. 
 
 Early in 1896, learning that there never had beeen a 
 united, determined eflort made to gather the data concern- 
 ing the Wagensellers in this country, and much less to 
 have it published, he set to work to accomplish that result. 
 He never realized what a massive and cumbersome task he 
 had undertaken. He had everything to learn and met 
 many stumbling blocks, but an indomitable will surmount- 
 ed all difficulties that were surmountable. This volume is 
 given as the result of his eiforts ; where deficiencies occur, 
 it is owing to inability to get replies to inquiries. The ex- 
 tent of his success in this undertaking must be left to the 
 reader. Our subject resides at Middleburgh, the County 
 Seat of Snyder County, Pa. 
 
 188. BEiSTJAMIN MEADE", {Martin Imther% Wil- 
 liam Findley^, Peier^, Johrv^, Christopher^), born June 22, 
 1873, educated in the public schools of Selinsgrove and 
 Missionary Institute, having graduated from the latter in- 
 stitution in 1891. Later he entered the Junior class at 
 Bucknell University, Lewisburg, from which institution 
 he has since graduated. He taught one year as Assistant 
 in the Academy at Rising Sun, Maryland and now holds an 
 important position in the public schools of Milton, Pa. 
 
 206. ALVm WORTHINGTON", /oAw», Levi*, Ja- 
 cob*, John^, Christopher^), born March 26, 1869. His oc- 
 
116 WAQEN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 cupations have been various during the period of his man- 
 hood, having secured his first experience, that of general 
 clerk in his father's store at Thorndale, remaining with 
 him until he was 21 years of age, in the meantime having 
 attended their district public school, Downingtown High 
 School and one year at West Chester State Normal School, 
 He left his home as a Telegrapher with the Penna. Railroad, 
 remaining with that Company for two and one-half years 
 when his ambition to follow Horace Greely's advice set 
 his mind on seeing the West. He resigned his position 
 with the Penna. R. R. and started for Denver ; soon after 
 arriving there he accepted a position of Asst. Agent with 
 the Union Pacific R. R. at Pine Grove, Colo., remaining at 
 that point just nine months, when he was transferred to a 
 similar position at Idaho Springs, Colo., on the Colordao 
 Central R. R., at which point he served both the Union 
 Pacific R. R. and later the U. P. D. & G. Railway. About 
 ten months after his arrival at Idaho Springs he was oifered 
 a position in Reading, Pa. with S. M. Hess & Bro. as 
 book-keeper, etc. and accepted it. He left this firm's em- 
 ploy in March 1895 having in the meantime accepted a 
 position in the office of the Southern Pacific Co. in Phila- 
 delphia. In Nov. 1895 he went to the Philadelphia Bourse 
 as Assistant to the Secretary, leaving their employ in Feb- 
 ruary 1898 to engage in his present M'ork, that of Secre- 
 tary to the General Passenger Agent of the Plant System 
 of Railways and Steamship lines at Savannah. His address 
 is No. 311 Jones Street, Savannah, Ga. 
 
 [This completes the Main Genealogical Tree of Chris- 
 topher Wagenseil. The remainder of the book will be de- 
 voted to kindred branches of the family, sketches of persons 
 not herein given and Notes of interest to the Family, Au- 
 thor.] 
 
Descendants of Catherine^ Was^enseh 
 ler and Conrad King. 
 
 In compliance with the announcement made near the 
 top of page 28 under the consideration of No. 6 in the fam- 
 ily tree, we devote this chapter to the King branch of our 
 family. With the greater portion of this branch there is a 
 double relationship to the Wagensellers through the Evans 
 family. This chapter is compiled almost entirely from in- 
 formation collected by Jesse Benner. Evans of Uwchlan, 
 Chester County, the husband of Sarah Susannah Wagen- 
 enseller (No. 55, Family tree.) Ezra Evans, the father ot 
 J. B, Evans, married Eliza King, a daughter of Conrad King 
 and Catherine Wagenseller. Catherine was born Dec. 3, 
 1764 in Upper Hanover township, Philadelphia, now 
 Montgomery County, Pa., was baptized at the New Han- 
 over Church, April 7, 1765, by the pastor of that church. 
 She married Conrad King, who is reported to have died in 
 1880 at the age of 80 years, hence born in 1800. This is 
 certainly an error as they have children born prior to that 
 time. Conrad and Catherine had nine children. We are 
 not provided with the dates of birth, hence we can not in- 
 sure a Chronological order. The children are as follows : 
 
 JOHN KING BEANCH. 
 
 I, John King. We have failed to receive a com- 
 plete record of John King's family. He has a son, Conrad, 
 still living at the age age of 83 years and a son Joseph G. 
 residing at Uwchlan, Chester County, Pa., married to 
 Mary Beaux. They have three children (1) Charles A. 
 
118 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 King married to Alice Latshavv. He is living in Colorado 
 and is divorced. They have three children. Names un- 
 known. (2) Sarah King married George A. Wolff, a 
 Methodist minister residing in Philadelphia. They have 
 two children, Florence and Gertrude. (3) Frank P.King 
 
 married Miss Beerbomer, now deceased. No issue. 
 
 He was married the second time and has since been di- 
 vorced. 
 
 II. George King, who died at the age of 20 years. 
 
 THE KEELY branch. 
 
 III. Mary King, married to Mathias Keeley. To 
 this union five children were born : 
 
 1. John Keely, married to Mary Longenecker. They 
 had six children: (1) Wm. P. Keely married to Annie M. 
 Hazlet, now reside at Phoenixville, Pa. (2) Clarence H. 
 Keely married Emma Snyder. They reside in Phoenix- 
 ville with two children, Gordon and Thomas A. Keely. (3) 
 Mary Ann Keely, married Cyrus Moser. They have an 
 only child, a son, William Moser, married to Anna Brook, 
 who reside at Birdsboro, Pa., and have a daughter Mary 
 Moser. (4) Edward M. Keely married Mary Hazlet. 
 They have 2 sons, Lincoln and Elmer, and reside in Phila- 
 delphia. (5) Stevena B. Keely married John Widroder. 
 No children. Residence, West Philadelphia. (6) One 
 of John and Mary Keely's children died in infancy. 
 
 2. Joseph Keely, the second son of Mathias, mar- 
 ried Anna Markle and died recently at Spring City, Pa. 
 At the time of his death he was President of the National 
 Bank of Royersford and alsoBurgess ofSpring City. They 
 had two children, (1) Oliver B. Keely married Mary Stauf- 
 fer. Oliver and Mary had a daughter, Clara, now de- 
 ceased. Mary resides at Phoenixville. He was successful 
 foundryman and was killed in a railroad wreck at Spuyten 
 Dy ville in N. Y. He was a Past Master of Lodge, No. 
 453, F. and A. M. (2) Lovina Keely married to Enos 
 Shantz. They are both dead, and an only son, Joseph K. 
 Shantz, resides at Spring City, Pa. 
 
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WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 121 
 
 3. Catherine Keely mai-ried Joseph Kimes both of 
 whom are dead. They had five children : (1) Josephine 
 Kimes married Albert Hancock, now deceased, to whom 
 were born Frank Hancock, a doctor of West Philadelphia 
 and Catherine Hancock of the same place. (2) Eliza. 
 (3) Catherine. (4) Emma Kimes. All unmarried. (5) 
 Sarah Kimes, married first to William Cammel, now de- 
 ceased, and second to William Brady, now deceased. A son, 
 Harry Cammel, resides in Philadelphia. 
 
 4. Levi Keely moved to California soon after the 
 discovery of gold and owned an extensive fruit farm. He 
 married a woman out West with whom be had two chil- 
 dren. All are dead. 
 
 5. Mary Ann Keely died at the age of 16 years. 
 
 THE DOLBY BEANCH. 
 IV. Catherine King married Abram Dolby. They 
 had eleven children: 
 
 1. Abel Evans Dolby of Vineland, N. J., born about 
 1815. 
 
 2. Newlin Dolby, married Sarah Allison, both dead. 
 
 3. Sarah Dolby, twin sister of Catherine, born April 
 6, 1817, married George Schofield, now deceased. They 
 had two children : (1) Cecelia Jane, married William K. 
 Hanson. Kesides at Haddonfield, N. J. and has two un- 
 married daughters. (2) Ida Melvina, unmarried. 
 
 4. Catherine King Dolby, twin sister of Sarah, born 
 April 6, 1817 in Uwchlan township, Chester County, Pa. 
 Married Dec. 28, 1837 to Mifflin Leonard Palmer. " He is 
 a Morman Elder, a polygamist in belief, not in practice, 
 feeling that one wife is enough. The Palmers now reside 
 at 512 State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. They had 8 
 children as follows : (1) llebecca West Palmer, born Oct. 
 2, 1838, near the Eagle, in Uwchlan, Chester County, Pa. 
 She was married Feb. 6, 1862 to Lewis A. Harper, who 
 died August 4, 1889. They had six children, (a) Kate 
 Palmer Harper born April 6, 1863 and diedNov. 13, 1867, 
 (b) Sallie Harper born March 28, 1866, died April 18, 
 
122 WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 1866, (c) Ella Phoebe Harper, born Dec. 1, 1867, (d) 
 Charles Morris Harper, bom Feb. 3, 1870, died May 27, 
 1873, (e) Benjamin Franklin Harper, born Sept. 28, 1874, 
 (f) Brinton Conrad Harper, born July 1, 1870 died May 
 1, 1882. These children were all born in Reading, Pa. 
 The widow and children now reside at 718 Chestnut St., 
 Heading, Pa. (2) Phoebe Conch Palmer, born Jan. 9, 
 1840, near Eagle in Uwchlan, Chester Co., Pa., married 
 July 31, 1861 to John G. Schaffer, who died Dec. 31, 
 1889. No issue. Residence No. 511 State St., Salt Lake 
 City, Utah. (3) Belinda Dolby Palmer was born in 
 Brandy wine township, Chester County, Pa., Jan. 31, 1842. 
 She was married Sept. 27, 1862 to William A. Bringhurst 
 of Salt Lake City, Utah. They had ten children, (a) Wm. 
 A. Bringhurst, Jr., born Sept. 29, 1863 in Salt Lake City, 
 married March 30, 1886 to Martha Granger. They have 
 six children: William Walter, born Dec. 25, 1886; Arch- 
 er, born April 23, 1888; Clara, born Nov. 16. 1889; Ben- 
 jamin, born June 5, 1891; Selinda, born Feb. 5, 1893, 
 Laura, born Aug. 14, 1895. (b) Howard Bringhurst; 
 born Aug. 14, 1865 in Salt Lake City, was married to 
 Laura Davis to whom was born one child, Howard Leland 
 Bringhurst, April 10, 1897. (c) Eliza Buthula Bring- 
 hurst, born March 14, 1868 in Toquerville, Washington 
 County, Utah. She married Marion Kleinman with whom 
 she had four children : Howard Conrad, born Jan. 22, 
 1889; Mifflin, born November 8, 1892 ; Maroni, born 
 April 30, 1894 and George, born Aug. 4, 1896. Of the 
 four children, the first three were born in Toquerville, 
 Utah and the last at Oneida, Bannock County, Idaho, (d) 
 May Ellen Bringhurst, bom February 3, 1870 in Toquer- 
 ville, Utah, married to Walter Flack. They have three 
 children, all born in Toquerville, Utah : Selinda 
 born Jan. 12, 1891 ; James, born Feb. 19, 1893 and Wal- 
 ter H., Jr., born Oct. 23, 1895. (e) Mifflin Morris Bring- 
 hurst, born Feb. 26, 1872, (f) Lorenzo Bringhurst, born 
 March 13, 1874, (g) George R. Bi-inghurst, born March 
 3, 1876, (h) Franklin P. Bringhurst, born Jan. 19, 1878 
 
WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 123 
 
 in Toquerville, Utah, (i) Daniel Bringhurst, born Sept. 22, 
 1879, died April 8, 1882 and Henry Bringhurst, born 
 Dec. 17, 1881, The entire family reside at Toquerville, 
 Utah. (4) Eliza Evans Palmer, born Nov. 24, 1844 near 
 Liouville, Uwchlan township, Chester County, Pa., mar- 
 ried Nov. 2, 1867 to Edwin Frost. They have five chil- 
 dren, (a) Edwin Palmer Frost, Jr., born April 7, 1870 at 
 St. Thomas, Lincoln Co., Nevada, (b) Nettie Palmer Frost, 
 born Mar. 5, 1874 in Salt Lake City, Utah, (c) Bessie Sula 
 Frost, born Aug. 11, 1877, (d) Roy Palmer Frost, born 
 Sept. 18, 1880, (e)Leo Palmer Frost, born Feb. 19,1885. 
 Pesidence, No. 337 Second East St., Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 (5) Alphonso Morris Palmer, born Feb. 19, 1847 near 
 Lionville, Chester Co., Pa., married Dec. 28, 1868 to 
 Mary Frost. They had 12 children as follows : (a) Min- 
 nie Palmer, born in Idaho Nov. 5, 1870, married Got. 16, 
 1889 to Harry W. Matthews. They had four children, 
 Harry Harold, born Oct. 30, 1890 ; Clarence Elbert, born 
 Dec. 31, 1892 ; Leo, born July 14, 1895, and Elmer, born 
 Dec. 26, 1897. (b) May Catherine Palmer born Oct. 30, 
 1872, died May 8, 1884' (c) Zusetta Eliza Palmer, born 
 Oct, 7, 1874, married Dec. 5, 1894 to Charles Cundioh. 
 They have two children, Charles Lester Cundich, born 
 Nov. 25, 1895 and Mary Edith Cundich, born Sept, 26, 
 1897. Residence, Taylorsville,Utah. (d) Alphonso Mor- 
 ris Palmer, Jr„ born July 21, 1877. (e) Sarah Edna Pal- 
 mer, born Oct. 29, 1879. Ruby Palmer, born Nov. 2, 
 1881. (f) Rufug Leonard Palmer born Sept. 15, 1883, 
 (g) Bertie Conrad Palmer born Jan. 10, 1886. (h) Ros- 
 well Potter Palmer, born April 11, 1888. (i) Phoebe Ef- 
 fie Palmer, born Oct 17, 1890. (j) Mifflin Earl Palmer, 
 born Oct. 5, 1892 and Abrara Dolby Palmer, born Sept. 
 19, 1894. The birth places and places of residence of the 
 above is Taylorsville, Salt Lake County, Utah. (6) Sarah 
 Buthula Palmer was born at Loag's Corner, West Nant- 
 meal township, Chester County, Pa., Jan. 30, 1851, mar- 
 ried Feb. 12, 1872 to John C. Sharp. They have two 
 children : (a) Joseph P. Sharp born at Vernon, Utah, Sept. 
 
124 WA0EN8ELLEB HISTORY. 
 
 5, 1874 and (b) James Palmer Sharp born Aug. 17, 1877. 
 Residence, Vernon, Utah. (7) Laura Irene Palmer, born 
 Oct. 28, 1857 in Reading, Pa., died Oct. 2, 1858. (8) Es- 
 ther Palmer, born July 17, 1860 in Reading and died July 
 21, 1860. 
 
 5. Eliza Evans Dolby married Abner J. Huzzard. 
 Both are dead. They had five children : (1) Myra Ger- 
 trudeDolby married Wesley Engle to whom are born three 
 children : (2) Catherine died at the age of 15. (3) Died 
 in infancy. (4) Rudolph married Anna Dorian. No is- 
 sue. (5) Ella Marion, unmarried. 
 
 6. Selinda Dolby married Benjamin Jacobs, now 
 deceased. They had four children : (1) Brinton Jacobs, 
 married Kate Williamson and to them has been born cue 
 daughter. (2) Marry Emma Jacobs, unmarried. (3) 
 Selinda Jacobs married Edward Humphrys. Two sons. 
 (4) Laura Jacobs, now deceased. 
 
 7. Lewis Dolby, married Mary Dixey. They have 
 three children, (1) Lansing Dolby, deceased. (2) Howard 
 Dolby married and has two daughters, and (3) Lewis 
 Fletcher Dolby, unmarried. 
 
 8. Thomas Dolby, died in infancy. 
 
 9. Melvina Dolby married Peter S. Davis. No oflF- 
 apring. Residence, No. 3934 Lancaster Ave., Phila. 
 
 10. Conrad King Dolby married Mary Lewis. They 
 have a daughter, Ada. Residence, Morton, Delaware Co., 
 Pa. 
 
 11. Emma Margaret Dolby (now deceased) married 
 John Davis. They have one son, Geo. B. Davis, married 
 to Augusta Copeland who also have a son. Mrs. Peter S. 
 Davis and George B. Davis are in business at 3930-3936 
 Lancaster Ave., West Philadelphia. 
 
 PETER KING BRANCH. 
 
 V. Anna Maegaeet King, married Peter King, 
 (first cousin.) To them were born six children : 
 
 1. David King married Harriet Williams, residence. 
 West Pikeland, Pa. They had one son, Peter, who mar- 
 ried first Ellen May Gunkle, now deceased, and second 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 125 
 
 Martha King. Residence, West Pikeland, Pa. Peter and 
 Ellen King have tliree children, Harry Clinton, Anna 
 Betchtel and Hattie Williams King. 
 
 2. James King, died young. 
 
 3. Moses King, now deceased, married Matilda 
 Lahr. They had eight children : (1) William Rnfus 
 King, now deceased, (2) Hannah Koberta King married 
 R. Jones Patrick of West Chester, Pa. They have three 
 children, Ambrose Park, Elwood Earl and Mary Elsie Pat- 
 rick. (3) Smith WatkLns King, now deceased. (4) Am- 
 brose King, also deceased. (5) Syl tester King. (6) Theo- 
 dore King. (7) Ida May King, now deceased, and (8) Leah 
 Margaret King of West Chester, Pa. 
 
 4. Aaron King, now deceased, married Mary Train- 
 er Mancill. Residence, Phoenixville. They had one 
 daughter, Sallie Kate King, now dead, married to Freder- 
 ick William Holmes with whom she had a son, Leon Ed- 
 gar Holman. 
 
 5. Catherine Elizabeth King married Peter Wells. 
 To them we credit three children : (1) Sallie Emerson 
 Wells married to George Pennypacker of West Pikeland, 
 Pa. (2) Daniel Edgar and (3) John Sherman Wells. 
 
 6. Jesse King, born March 1, 1829 married Sept. 7, 
 1854 to Lovina Miller, a daughter of John and Sarah Mil- 
 ler. Residence, Norristown, Pa. They had two cliildren, 
 Luther M., who died in infancy and Alonzo P. King, born 
 July 26, 1865, married Kate Ryan, a daughter of P. and 
 and Jenny Ryan. They reside at Norristown, Pa., and 
 have five children in their family record : (1) Madaline 
 King, born March 5, 1891, died June 5, 1897. (2) Jesse 
 King born Feb. 19, 1892, died June 15,1897. (3) Marion 
 King, born Dec. 8, 1894.' (4) Alonzo King, born Oct. 29, 
 1895, and (5) Jenny King born Feb. 6, 1897. Jesse King 
 of Norristown, the grand-father of these, has devoted some 
 time to Scientific pursuits. He has written up and pub- 
 lished "The Mosaic Account of Creation," and hasin manu- 
 script form an "Elementary Work on Geology." ready to 
 go to press as a text book to be taught in schools. 
 
126 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 CONRAD SHEARER BRANCH. 
 VI. Hannah King married Conrad Shearer, both 
 deceased. They had eight children : 
 
 1. Catlierine K. Shearer, married first, Henry Fet- 
 ters, seconci George Wiegaud, all deceased. Two children 
 with the first husband, Wm. Dallas and Isaac Fetters are 
 dead. Four children were tlie fruit of the second mar- 
 riage, (1) Ella C. and (2) H. Virginia Wiegand are un- 
 married and (3) E. Gerti ude Wiegand married Samuel L. 
 Watson who resides at No. 16 North 19th Street, Phila- 
 delphia. They have five children, Katie E., Samuel L., 
 Ethel, Walter B. and George W. Watson. (4) .John S. 
 Wiegand married Alice Richardson. Residence, No. 16 
 North 19th Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 2. Elizabeth Siiearer, married ^Villiaul Frederick, 
 both deceased. They had two children, Ella Frederick, 
 now dead, and Mary T. Frederick, married George O. 
 Miller of Providence, R. I. They have two heirs, Harold 
 and Florence Miller. 
 
 3. Dorothy Shearer, married William Strickland, 
 both dead. They had four children, two daughters and 
 Conrad are dead. Willamina, now dead, married Wilnser 
 W. Baker. They had three children of whom Clara and 
 Bessie Baker are dead and Edna resides with her parents 
 on Berens St., West Philadelphia. 
 
 4. .John B. Shearer married Mary J. Slierwood. 
 Residence, Philadelphia. They are the parents of 
 four childi-en, Mary T. Shearer married to A. Eugene Pen- 
 newell, Antoinette S., now dead and Ara S. and Elmo 
 Shearer. 
 
 5. Margaret K. Shearer, unmarried. 
 
 6. Mary Shearer, now dead, married Robert Todd. 
 They had three children, a son Frank Todd, married Han- 
 nah Roth, Johanna Todd married Thomas SJiarj) and An- 
 nie Todd married to Howard Street. Thomas and Joanna 
 Sharp have a son, Pearl. 
 
WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 127 
 
 7. Conrad Shearer married Alice Bockins. A child, 
 name unknown, is dead. His whereabouts are unknown. 
 
 8. H. Rebecca Shearer married George Lambert. 
 
 EZRA EVANS BRANCH, 
 yn. Eliza King, born Dec. 6, 1799 married May 
 23, 1823, to Ezra Evans who was born Dec. 27, 1788 and 
 died May 13, 1874. Eliza died Dec. 81, 1885. They 
 had two children. 
 
 1. Newton Evans, born March 2, 1823, died July 
 14, 1897, married Hannah Acker, who was boru Jan. 23, 
 1824. They are the parents of seven children : (1) Mary 
 A. Evans married William D. Stitiler who have three chil- 
 dren, Carrie, Penniah and Anna Stitiler. Residence, Ches- 
 ter Springs, Pa. (2) Ezra Evans, now deceased. (3) Isaac 
 Evans, married Mary Ellen Smedley, to whom are boru 
 Clayton, Alice, Newton and Hannah Jane Evans. Resi- 
 dence, Mathews, Pa. (4) Acker Evans of Uwchlan, Pa. 
 (5) William D. Evans, M. D., married Ada Moore. No 
 issue. Residence, Philadelphia. (6) George W. Evans, 
 Ticket Agent, Angora, Pa., and (7) Carrie Evans who died 
 in infancy. 
 
 2. Jesse Benner Evans of Uwchlan, Pa., born Oct. 
 3, 1824 married July 15, 1851 to Sarah Susanna Wagen- 
 seller, born Dec. 15, 1831, the daughter of Dr. Jacob Wag- 
 enseller, late of Selinsgrove, Pa. For full list of children, 
 see No. 55, page 71. 
 
 WILLIAM MOSES BRANCH. 
 
 VIII. Harriet King married William Moses who 
 was born Sept. 4. 1804 and died May 12, 1893. Harriet 
 King Moses was born June 14, 1803 and died April 8, 
 1891. Seven children were born to them. 
 
 1. Geo. D. Moses, born May 11, 1827, married first, 
 Susan N. McWilliams, who died March 14, 1850. He 
 married, second, Mary Tatem. Residence, 40th and West- 
 minister Ave., West Philadelphia. Seven children are cred- 
 ited to the union with his first wife: (1) Robert M. Moses 
 married Mar. 25, 1874 to Hannah Clerenstine. They had 
 
128 WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 seven children, Mary S., dead, George H., William L., 
 Harford C, Robert H., Frederick E. and Ernest C. Mo- 
 ses. (2) Henrietta E. Moses, married Nov. 9, 1874 to 
 Emanuel E. EUwanger of West Philadelphia. They have 
 two children, George D. and Susan Moses Ellwanger. (3) 
 William N. Moses married May 1879 to Sarah Greeves. 
 Residence, West Philadelphia. To them are born five off- 
 spring: Robert N., Ralph Greeves, Edward L., Helen 
 and William Moses, the last mentioned being dead. (4) 
 Amelia V. Moses married to William Walls to whom is 
 born a son, Clarence W. Walls. (5) George C. Moses, 
 dead. (6) John O. E. Moses, dead, and (7) Margaret 
 S. Moses married to Charles R. Kentzler. No issue. 
 
 2. NewlinD. Moses, born Feb. 8, 1830, Residence, 
 Merlin, Pa. 
 
 3. James L. Moses, born Sept. 27, 1832, married 
 Julia Martin. They have one daughter, Ella May Moses 
 who is married to Frank Happersett Wells. 
 
 4. Henrietta Moses, born Nov. 19, 1833. 
 
 5. William E. Moses born Dec. 14, 1837, married 
 to Lizzie Mahan Dec. 25, 1873. They have two children, 
 Edgar and Horace R. Moses. 
 
 6. Anna Lizzie Moses, born Dec. 23, 1841, died 
 Deo. 26, 1842. 
 
 7. Anna Margaret King Moses, born Nov. 26, 1843, 
 died June 3, 1858. 
 
 IX. Rebecca King married John West. 
 
Peter Wag:enseller*s Letter. 
 
 From Peter Wagenseller to his brother, William, de- 
 scribing the former's journey from Chester County, Pa., 
 to Columbus, O., in the spring of 1834, just a year before 
 Peter died. The letter is written in a neat clear hand «n 
 a large double sheet of paper. No envelope or postage 
 was used, but the letter bears the Columbus, O., dating 
 stamp. May 22 and "25" which doubtless represents 25 
 cents postage. The letter is as follows : 
 
 Columbus, May 24, 1834. 
 
 Dear Beotjiee, — You must excuse me for not writ- 
 ing sooner. My head and my hand were so out of order 
 from traveling that I could not compose myself to write 
 until this day. Now I am going to give you an account 
 of our journey. In the first place, we started on Thurs- 
 day, April 17, and went as far as Peter Longaker's. 
 Mother and Mary Ann were not well and we stopped there 
 until Monday, the21at,when we started and went to 3 miles 
 above Reading, thence to Harrisburg, Carlisle, Shippens- 
 burg, Chambersburg, Bloody Run, Bedford, Somerset, 
 Mt. Pleasant, and Robbstown on the Youghiougheny, a 
 stream not as large as the Schuylkill, and thence on to the 
 Monengahela river, where we crossed in a flat. They 
 generally cross in a horse boat, but owing to the low w.iter, 
 the horse boat did not run. This stream is twice as large 
 as the Schuylkill. Williamsport is on the bank of the 
 Monongahela. Then we went to Washington and Alex- 
 andria on the Virginia line, then to Wheeling on the Ohio 
 river. There are a great many smaller towns between the 
 
130 WAGENBELLER HISTORY. 
 
 places mentioned. I will now explain the road and the 
 principal towns of the state of Ohio through which we 
 passed. Canton is on the Ohio river, opposite Wheeling. 
 At this point the Ohio river is large. We crossed it in a 
 flat that runs over of itself ia a very short time. We next 
 passed through St. Clairsville, Morrisfown, Fairview, 
 Frankfort, Washington, Cambria, Zanesville, then crossed 
 the Muskingon on a brigde. The bridge forks in the mid- 
 dle, the one bridge comes out above Licking Creek and 
 the other below Licking Creek. From Zanesville we 
 traveled on the National Road to Akron and Columbus, 
 iiaving arrived in this city on Satui-day, the 10th day of 
 May, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. We v/ere then all 
 here excejjt John and his family and mother. Mary 
 Ann was somewhat unwell and they remained back one 
 day. They arrived here Sunday afternoon all in good 
 health and spirits. Upon our arrival we drove up to a 
 tavern kept by David Brooks, where we remained until 
 Monday afternoon. We then moved into two small houses 
 and that is where we are now. We have been looking 
 around for farm land. There is some land 5 or 6 miles 
 from CoIuml)us offered at $S to $25 per acre. [Here the 
 writer describes some farms and gives prices which he and 
 Mattliew Chain examined with a view to purchasing.] The 
 situation of this town is on high ground, the main street 
 running North and South on the Sciota river, the ground 
 descending gradually both ways. The city is large with 
 a great many excellent brick buildings. There are about 
 40 stone taverns. The water here is rather hard on account 
 of its being limestone water. I would rather live on a 
 farm than in town altogether among sti-angers; you 
 feel somewhat lonesome. There is a market twice a week 
 and you can get anything you want. 
 
 Now I must tell you of the troubles we have had 
 since we came to this place. We moved on the 1 2th day 
 of May to our present homes. .John and we live in two se- 
 parate houses on the same lot and Matthew Chain and 
 Hornetters live two squares away in one house. On Sat- 
 
WAOEMELLER HISTORY. 131 
 
 urday, the 17th, toward evening Mary Ann took sick and 
 on Monday morning, the 19th, at 4 o'clock, a young 
 daughtei was born. Mary Ann appeared to be as well as 
 could be expected. When she was in bed about an hour, 
 slie began to complain of having pain. The doctor was 
 again sent for and everythi ng possible was done to relieve 
 her, but all in vain. At seven o'clock the same morning, 
 she was a lifeless corpse. The spirit had fled and nothing 
 was left but a lump of clay. We hope she is resting 
 with Jesus where trouble shall cease and harmony 
 abound. She said when confined that she was not long 
 fur this world; for what reason, she did not say. May the 
 Lord have mercy upon us and God grant we may meet 
 together in rhat world above where there is no mourning, 
 nor weeping, but singing praises to the Lord forever and ever. 
 On Tuesday, the 20th, ten o'clock was the hour appoint- 
 ed for the funeral, at which time the mother was laid in 
 the cofEn and her daughter in her arms. A minister by 
 the name of Mr. Hough addressed the audience. His 
 text was taken from I Samuel, 3:18, "It is the Lord, let 
 him do what seemeth him good." There is a large scope 
 of country between us now and between Rebecca and 
 Susanna, our wives. Our lives are at God's disposal; our 
 time is in his hands and if we never see each other in this 
 world, may it please God to unite us again in the world 
 above where Jesus reigns foerever and ever. We are all 
 well and trying to get the thing most needful for our 
 souls. I am your most aff. brother, 
 
 Peter Wagekseli.ee. 
 To AVilliam Wagenseller. 
 
 The original copy of the above letter is in the posses- 
 sion of Margaret Young, the youngest child of Wm. and 
 Rebecca Wagenseller. She is still living and resides at 
 Anselma, Chester Co. She is the oldest female descend- 
 ant of Christopher Wagenseil living and is the last and 
 only living representative of the fourth genereation in this 
 countrv. 
 
Susanna Long^aker Wagenseller's 
 Letter. 
 
 Through the courtesy of Mrs. M. E. Gearhart of 
 Bloomsburg, we are permitted to publish the following 
 letter written at the age of 81 years, only a few weeks be- 
 fore Susanna died. The letter is written in aclear, neatand 
 steady hand and is addressed to Mrs. Gearhart, her grand- 
 daughter, as follows : 
 
 Pekin, Illinois, Feb. 19, 1862. 
 My Deah Daughtee, — I received your letter to-day 
 and was glad tohearfrom you. You forgot to tell me wheth- 
 eryour baby was a son or a daughter. I am glad to hear 
 that all the folks are well and that Eddy can read in the 
 Bible. My health is poor, I am very feeble at present 
 and have not been t© church all this winter. My lungs 
 are affected and I feel as if I would drop off" at any time. 
 Our family are all well except myself. We have a nice 
 daughter two months old. We call it Harriet M. Wag- 
 seller. I feel satisfied and happy, more satisfied and happy 
 since we have had these protracted meetings than before. 
 The meetings have continued for about six weeks and they 
 have had a great many conversions. We have an excel- 
 lent minister, Kev. Mr. Williamson. Salvation has come 
 to our house and I feel very much rejoiced. I felt as if 
 I ought to get up and make a noise too. Joshua Wagen- 
 seller has experienced religion. He told me that the 
 Holy Spirit had been striving with him for about three 
 years, but he thought he would resist it, but could not on 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 133 
 
 Sunday night four weeks ago. After they had all gone 
 up stairs to goto bed, he told Harriet [iiis wife] that they 
 ought to have family worship. Slie said they ought to 
 have had it long ago and he came down and had prayer 
 and now we have family worship everymorning and even- 
 ing and ask a blessing at the table. Religion has wrought 
 a great change in this household. The next day he went 
 to Hanover, and before he came home, he went to the store 
 and and had a talk with Reuben and Lot and he 
 said they all three cried like children. When he came 
 home, he entered my room and told me all about it. He 
 cried aloud. I thought then that my prayers had been 
 answered. William Chain's wife has also been converted . 
 I feel contented and happy, much more contented since 
 Joshua has become a child of God than I did before. I 
 hope he will hold out faithfully by the grace of God till 
 death comes. I hope to make my way to Heaven and I 
 will try to do His will. 
 
 We have a young men's prayer meeting every Sun- 
 day afternoon and a union prayer meeting every Friday 
 evening. Joshua attends ail of them and seems to be so 
 earnest about going to church. My health is very poor. 
 Some days 1 feel pretty well and others I can scarcely 
 move about. My appetite is very good, but I have no 
 strength, I am very weak all of the time. I have the 
 consumption and am somewhat dropsical. I am in my 
 82nd year. 
 
 You wished to know about all the friends. Cath- 
 erine and Timbrel were here to-day. They are well. 
 Catherine's health is not very good, but it is better than 
 it was some two years ago. I suppose you have heard 
 
 Benny Timbrel was dead. He went to war and had 
 
 [Here the letter must close as the last sheet has been lost or 
 mislaid.] 
 
 By Way of Explanation. 
 
 We should state that Susanna, Peter's widow, was 
 living with her son, Joshua, at the time the above letter 
 
134 WAGEN8ELLEB HISTORY. 
 
 was written. The letter was probably written by some 
 one for her, as she grew up in a German neighborhood 
 and was compelled to take her education in German or 
 have none. She learned to read English from her chil- 
 dren when they learned to read. She was a good reader, 
 a very bright intelligent woman for her day and very 
 companionable and industrious. The "Eddy" spoken of 
 in the letter was Mrs. Gearhart's oldest son, who was then 
 five years old. He read at four. He is preaching again, 
 but he is not in regular work. Preaching has been his 
 life work so far and will probably continue to be. 
 "Benny Timbrel" spoken of is the son of Catherine Wag- 
 enseller Chain Timbrel, (seepage 50). "William Chain's 
 wife" is the wife of Catherine's eldest sou. Her name is 
 Lou. 
 
 Susanna, the writer of the above letter, is described as 
 having a fair cotnplexion with bright blue eyes, gray or 
 white hair. 
 
 The paper upon which the letter is written bears a 
 beautiful national emblem consisting of two right hands 
 clasped across a scroll of paper representing the Constitu- 
 tion of the United States, over which floats in brilliant 
 array the Stars and Stripes. Beneath the scroll is repre- 
 sented a tomahawk and other implements of warfare used 
 during the colonial period. It was just such a design as 
 Joshua would be likely to use during a period of civil 
 strife. 
 
Jesse King's Letter. 
 
 NoERiSTOWN, Pa., May 2, 1898. 
 Geo. W. Wagensellee, A. M., 
 
 My Deae Sie: — I received a communica- 
 tion from you a few days ago, which gave me great pleasure 
 to receive. Some three months ago my niece, Mrs. Geo. 
 Pennypacker, wrote to me for a genealogical record of my 
 family, stating that a friend wanted the information. Who 
 that friend was, I knew not; neither was it important I 
 should know. I gave her a synopsis of it and thought 
 no farther about it. Although I consider myself but an 
 unimportant atom of the Wagenseller aggregation, still it 
 affords me pleasure to think that I am yet remembered 
 with those who gave me existence in this troublesome 
 world. My grand-mother, Wagenseller, who was the 
 mother of my mother, I do not remember. I remember 
 my grand-father, Conrad King, and always will recollect 
 riding with my uncle, Geo. Orner, (who had married my 
 father's sister), in his "gig" in the train of my grand- fath- 
 er, Conrad King's funeral. 
 
 The second wife of Conrad King, my mother's step- 
 mother, I well recollect. Her maiden name, I think, was 
 Baugh, but Catherine A\'agenseller, grand-father's first 
 Avife, I do not recollect. 
 
 My mother often spoke of her mother getting violent 
 spells of cholic, which were periodica 1 with her, when she 
 or her sisters would hasten over the fields to a neighbor by 
 the name of "Still" so that Mrs. Still woidd come to 
 grand-mother's aid. 
 
136 WAQEN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 I well remember Wm. Wagonseller, brother to grand- 
 mother King, who was an uncle to mother. He and his 
 wife, Rebecca Wagenseller, often visited my father's home, 
 that was Peter King's near Pikcland churches. 
 
 I well remember the political meeting at Chester 
 S]irings, when David R. Porter wasrunuiiigfor Governor, 
 when James Wagenseller with others were firing an old 
 cannon called the "Diana," when, by a premature dis- 
 charge, Mr. Wagenseller had his arm shot oif. He was 
 the eldest son of three, James, George and John, who with 
 Ann Holman and Mrs. John Young formed the family of 
 Wm. and Rebecca Wagenseller. 
 
 I was not aware who our pioneer was. Do I under- 
 stand you to say it was "ChristopherWagenseil"? There 
 is no doubt it was. 
 
 Who was Geo. Wagenseller designated "of the 
 Wabash"? I knew Geo. Wagenseller, son of Wm. Wag- 
 enseller, who identified himself in politics to some extent, 
 as a protege of Simon Cameron. Or it was current poli- 
 tical gossip at that day that he had the favor of Simon 
 Cameron who was often quoted as the "winebago chief" 
 by his opponents. I was but a boy and knew nothing of 
 their political differences, only from erratic conversation 
 among politicians of that day. 
 
 I have studied the science of Geology in the fields 
 from nature and have written it exactly in harmony with 
 Genesis, which will be a valuable adjunct to the Holy 
 Scriptures. 
 
 On the 21st day of September 1893, 1 went to a field 
 near the outer edge of our borough and there discovered 
 crystaHzed Indian com which had evidently been planted, 
 cultivated and husked by the Antediluvian race. On a 
 subsequent visit to the same field I obtained a specimen 
 rock with a corn cob in it, projecting about f of an inch 
 above the surface of the rock, all bearing evidence of hav- 
 ing been hnsked and piled on heaps ready to haul home 
 
WAGENSELLEE HISTORY. 137 
 
 when the dread cataolysai came, which wasNovember 17th, 
 1656 years after the creation. 
 
 I am glad to know that there has been energy enough 
 found in one of our family to write up a work as import- 
 ant as the one you are engaged on. Very truly yours, 
 
 Jesse King. 
 
Life of Joshua Wagenseller, 
 
 WHICH WAS WRITTEN RY W. R. BRINK IN 1873. 
 
 "Joshua Wagenseller was a native of Montgomery 
 County, Pennsylvania, born July 5th, 1813. He was the 
 fifth child of Peter and Susanna (Longaker) Wagenseller. 
 Mr, Wagenseller, father of Joshua, was a native of Mont- 
 gomery County, Pa., and his parents were of German de- 
 scent. He followed farming as the vocation of his life. 
 He emigrated to Ohio about the year 1834 and settled in 
 Columbus, Franklin County, where he resided until his 
 death, which occuri'ed about one year after. His wife, 
 mother of Joshua, subsequently removed to Pekin, Ills., 
 terminating a useful life in 1862, while residing with her 
 son, Joshua. Mr. Wagenseller was a man who, by the 
 even tenor of his disposition, had many friends ; by his 
 industry he provided well for his family and by precept 
 and example exerted an influence over those committed to 
 his care, which exerted a wholesome influence over his 
 children and prepared them to become, by their industry 
 and intelligence, useful citizens and prominent business 
 men. He left the beautiful and picturesque scenery of 
 of his native country and for the benefit of his family he 
 followed the march of empire Westward, whereafter a lim- 
 ited sojourn in his western home — barely one year — he 
 was taken from the embrace of the tender objects of his 
 affection and called to try the realties of the future state. 
 
 The subject of this biography acquired his early cul- 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 139 
 
 ture mostly at Green Tree Seminary, in his native county 
 when he aeqiiired a knowledge of the rudiments of a good, 
 practical business education. His first business engage- 
 ment after completing this course was in a wholesale dry 
 goods house in the city of Philadelphia, M'here he obtained 
 a position as book-keeper and accountant. The next busi- 
 ness engagemet was with his brother in Union county, 
 Pa., where he remained about two years. Here he became 
 familiar with the retail dry goods trade. We would re- 
 mark that these experiences of his early life laid the foun- 
 dation for that successful business career which in after 
 life distinguished him in his subsequent mercantile trans- 
 actions. He was now of age, and, looking westward for a 
 richer field in which to engage, he went to Columbus, Ohio, 
 and erected a saw mill on Elm Creek, and was engaged in 
 the manufacture of lumber about three years, or until the 
 Spring of 1837, when he removed to Illinois and settled in 
 Pekiu, Tazwell County. Mr. Wagenseller formed a part- 
 nership with his brother, Benjamin, and under the firm 
 name of B. & J. Wagenseller. He began in Pekin, a 
 course of mercantile life, which business he has since fol- 
 lowed. This original firm ceased in 1844, by the death of 
 his brother. They went through the financial crash of 
 1840 unscathed. This firm did not represent, at thistime, 
 a large financial capital, but were rich in muscle and en- 
 ergy, and by dint of that industry which knows no failure, 
 they stood on a firm basis. Since the dissolution of this 
 firm, Mr. Wagenseller has been at the head of subsequent 
 business houses, and although he has been identified with 
 other businesses largely in life, merchandising has been his 
 leading vocation. He has been engaged in milling, cover- 
 ing an aggregate of nearly ten years. He rebuilt and own- 
 ed the first good grist mill propelled by water in Tazwell 
 county. Mr. Wagenseller began life on his own account 
 with small financial means, and his subsequent success is 
 the result of that combination of native powers coupled 
 with his experience. He early learned the value and ne- 
 cessity of economy and industry in the accumulation of 
 
140 WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 wealth. By liis energy and correct judgment, he has grad- 
 ually advanced financially until he takes a place among the 
 opulent business men of Tazwell County. We mention 
 this fact simply to illustrate what can be achieved by a 
 proper energy when backed up with good business qualifi- 
 cations. 
 
 Mr. Wagenseller was married May 7, 1840, to Miss 
 Harriet, daughter of Henry and Naomi Rupert, of Pekin, 
 formerly of Virginia. As the fruits of this union, they 
 had a family of six children. Mr. Wagenseller and wife 
 are both members of the Congregational Church of Pekin, 
 and are among the original members of that church. Mr. 
 Wagenseller, in addition to his mercantile business, owns 
 and carries on a farm near Pekin. He also owns a large 
 area of land located in Iowa. He has been successful as a 
 speculator in real estate, and has exhibited good judgment 
 and skill in management and conducting of his large and 
 varied business operations. Politically in early life, Mr. 
 Wagenseller became a whig. His first vote for President 
 was oast for Gen. William H. Harrison, in 1836. He was 
 anti-slavery in his sentiments, and the following circum- 
 stance, as related by himself, opened his eyes to the 
 inhumanity of the slave traffic. While on a trip to New 
 Orleans, on a steamboat, a slave owner came on board with 
 a woman and six children. He witnessed the revolting 
 spectacle of a slave girl sold on the block. "That scene," 
 said Mr. Wagenseller, "made me ever afterward an abo- 
 litionist." On the disorganization of the whig party, to 
 which he has since been strongly attached, he voted 
 twice for the Immortal Lincoln and twice for the vigilant 
 Grant. He was acquainted with Mr. Lincoln and Avith 
 his policy he cheerfully acquiesed. He was a firm suj)- 
 porter of the Union cause in this portion of state and was 
 not of that luimber who faltered when the nation's life was 
 in peril. Mr. Wagenseller has been required to represent 
 the interest of his ward for several years in the common 
 council of the city, and was vice president of Peoria, Pekin 
 and Jacksonville Railroad Company. He has been one 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 141 
 
 of the active, public-spirited citizens of Pekin for thirty-8ix 
 years. Here briefly review the life of this veiierabhi citi- 
 zen, we find in his history tlie portraiture of a man who 
 has, by his own energy risen step by step to a position of 
 wealth and importance among the citizens of Taz well coun- 
 ty. His career has been marked by a good combination 
 of business talent and moral rectitude which has given him 
 an appropriate place in the affections and estimation of a 
 large circle of acquaintances. He is appreciated for what 
 he truly is, in the fullest sense of the sentence, a self-made 
 man, with whom industry, self-reliance and business have 
 become habitual. As a husband and parent, he is kind 
 and afifectionate. He has virtues peculiarly his own. 
 His conceptions are not brilliant, but substantial. He is 
 not imaginary, but real. His candor is embellished with 
 honor; his acts are more the result of methodical thought 
 than of impulse. Such is a brief view of some of the traits 
 which make up the character of Joshua Wagenseller, who 
 is a successful business man, needs no eulogy, as therecord 
 of an active upright life, for nearly forty years, leaves a 
 more faithful record in the minds of his numerous ac- 
 quaintances tlian it would be able for us to portray in the 
 brief lines of his sketch." Joshua Wagenseller died on July 
 21, 1882. 
 
 From another source we get the following : Joshua 
 Wagenseller was Treasurer of the Illinois liiver Railway 
 for a term of four years, also was Treasurer of the Pekin 
 Mechanical and Fair Association for three years. Hewas 
 a very warm friend of Abraham Lincoln, and on account 
 of Joshua's good business qualifications and mature judg- 
 ment, President Lincoln tendered to Mr. Wagenseller, a 
 cabinet position. Owing to Joshua's extensive business in- 
 terests and possessing such strong domestic ties, he de- 
 clined the magnanimous offer of the immortal Abraham. 
 While forming his Cabinet, President Lincoln frequently 
 consulted with Joshua and it was through the latter's re- 
 commendations, largely, that Hon. Simon Cameron was 
 
142 WAQENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 appointed to a position in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet. Diwing 
 the war he gave a great (leal of time and money to help 
 the soldiers in the field. 
 
 It was through his influence that the citizens of Pekin 
 organized and carried to successful completion a Sanitai-y 
 Fair for the relief and benefit of Illinois soldiers. Nearly 
 $3000.00 was raised in a week. Joshua was one of the 
 original abolitionists of the West and was a staunch Re- 
 publican all his life. In his early life in Illinois, he was 
 interested in the under-ground railway, so called on ac- 
 count of assisting fleeing slaves through the country to 
 freedom (Canada.) 
 
 He passed away in a ripe old age, after a long, active 
 and useful life, having long held a leading position in local, 
 business, political and social life. His memory is cher- 
 ished by many besides his immediate relatives to whom 
 his clear, practical good sense, seasoned by kindly feeling 
 for the young and enterprising just entering the active 
 scenes of business life ; he manifested character by acts 
 and words of more value to them as capital than silver 
 and gold. His body and that of his wife lie buried in 
 Lakeside Cemetery at Pekin, Illinois. 
 
Theodore L. Wagenseller. 
 
 Theodore L. Wagenseller, who resides at No. 645 
 Everett Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas, (No. 72, page 84), 
 is the only child of Benjamin Wagenseller. Benjamin and 
 his brother, Joshua, moved to Pekin, Tazwell County, 
 Illinois, in the year 1836 and opened a store of general 
 merchandise. The firm did business under the name of B. 
 and J. Wagenseller until the death of Benjamin, March 
 15, 1844, when Joshua became the successor and sole pro- 
 prietor of the business. Young Theodore lived with his 
 mother during his childhood years. His mother married 
 again and the family moved to Montrose, Iowa, opposite 
 Nauvoo, Illinois, a Mormon town. A.t Nauvoo is the 
 birth-place of Mormonism. It was at this place that Joseph 
 Smith, the Mormon leader, attempted to delude his fol- 
 lowers. He had some heavy planks placed out in the 
 Mississippi river about six inches below the water's sur- 
 face, so as not to be visible to the naked eye. He was 
 going to prove to the people that he was the second Christ 
 and could walk upon the water. Either incidentally or 
 accidentally a section of his plank walk was washed out. 
 When Joseph Smith was walking upon the concealed 
 plank walk, his eyes turned toward Heaven and oifering 
 up his devotions to Lord Jesus Christ, he suddenly dropp- 
 ed to the bottom of the river. Not being a swimmer, he 
 would have been drowned, had not some of his friends 
 come to his rescue. He afterward apologized to the con- 
 gregation for the accident. 
 
 Leaving Montrose, Iowa, the suburbsof this Mormon 
 
144 WAGENSELLEB HISTORY. 
 
 settlement, the family moved to Keokuk and then to Des 
 Moines, Iowa. It is now the capital, but then it was noth- 
 ing but a "wild and wooly" country. It was the head- 
 quarters for an Indian agency and several tribes came in 
 every year to receive their annuities. The pay was red 
 blankets, beads, and all sorts of trinkets. 'The family 
 was located on a farm at Lacouia about 30 miles south of 
 Des Moines. For Theodore it Vi^as life in real earnest. 
 During the Spring, Summer and Autumn it was all farm 
 life. No church was nearer than eight or ten miles. 
 Late in November a s chool was opened in a small log 
 building, four miles distant. Theodore went to this school 
 every day, rain or shine, reporting at nine o'clock in the 
 morning and returning at four o'clock in the afternoon. 
 Sometimes the snow would be three feet deep. The last 
 week in January the school usually closed. While at- 
 tending school, he was require(J to arise at four o'clock in 
 the morning and it would be seven before he could com- 
 plete all his chores. His mother being anxious to give her 
 son a better education, she sent young Theodore to Chica- 
 go, where he devoted a full school year to hard study. 
 While in Chicago, he lived with his grandfather, Law- 
 rence Doyle. Leaving Chicago, he returned to Pekin to 
 live with his uncle Joshua, attending school and working 
 iu a store, morning and evening. 
 
 When the war broke out he enlisted in Company E., 
 47th Illinois Infantry Volunteers, Aug. 16, 1861 and the 
 regiment was immediately ordered to Benton Barracks, St 
 Louis, Mo. and afterward to Jefferson City, Mo., where they 
 spent the winter. In the spring they were moved to Boon- 
 ville. Mo., where they embarked on transports for Cairo, 
 Illinois. Their regiment was then brigaded with the Fifth 
 Minnesota, the Eighth Wisconsin, the Eleventh Missouri 
 and Forty-seventh Illinois Inf. Vols, commanded by Ma- 
 jor-General Joseph A. Mower. The Eighth Wisconsin 
 was presented with a young American Eagle, which was 
 with them iu every battle in which they were engaged. 
 Theodore was in the following named battles : 
 
JOHX J. WAGEXSEI.I.EK, 
 
 ULOOMSlUIltCi, PA. [r. 14S.] 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 147 
 
 1. New Madrid, Mo., March 20, 1862. 
 
 2. Island No. 10, March 22, 1862. 
 
 3. Farmington, Miss., May 22, 1862. 
 
 4. Coruith, Miss, May 28-29, 1862. 
 
 5. luka. Miss., Sept. 19, 1862. 
 
 6. Cornith, Oct. 3-4, 1862. 
 
 7. Jackson, Miss, May 14, 1863. 
 
 8. Canton, Miss, May 20, 1863. 
 
 9. Assault on Vicksbnrg, Miss, May 22, 1863. 
 
 10. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., which surrendered 
 
 July 4, 1863 to Gen. U. S. Grant. 
 
 11. Fort DeRussey, La., April 18, 1864. 
 
 12. The Red River Expedition under Gen. Banks. 
 
 13. Tupilo, Miss, July 14-15, 1864. 
 
 This is a good war record. He was mustered out of 
 service October 11, 1864 at Springfield, Illinois. 
 
 Returning to Pekin, Illinois, he clerked in a dry 
 goods store antil the spring of 1866 when he went farther 
 west and was engaged in making the preliminary survey 
 for the Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad. In 1866 he 
 was married and located permanently in Wyandotte City, 
 Kansas, now changed to Kansas City, Kansas. Here he 
 was agent for the United States Express Company for a 
 number of years and afterward was appointed agent in 
 Kansas City, Missouri, which position he held for a num- 
 ber of years. In 1883 he became a traveling salesman for 
 the purpose of selling lumber, which occupation he follows 
 more or less at the present time, affording ample opportu- 
 ty for recreation. 
 
 In politics, he has always been a Republican, casting 
 his first vote for Abraham Lincoln. Ever since, upon Na- 
 tional questions, he has voted in harmony with Republican 
 principles, and has never had occasion to regret his choice. 
 With such satisfactory results in the past, he pro- 
 poses to espouse Republicanism to his dying day. 
 
John Jacob Wagenseller. 
 
 John J. Wagenseller, No. 61, page 48, was born in Se- 
 linsgrove, Snyder County, Pa., July 16, 1845. He was 
 educated in the public schools of his native place, where 
 he resided until the year 1862, when he moved to Blooms- 
 burg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania. He accepted a 
 clerkship in a general store at Bloomsbuj'g under his 
 brother-in-law, L. T. Sharpless. In 1865 he entered Dick- 
 inson Seminary at Williamsport where he completed his 
 education. Returning to Bloomsburg he again entered the 
 store as clerk and continued that occupation for two years. 
 
 Then desiring to broaden his usefulness, he accepted 
 a position as traveling salesman throughout the central 
 portion of Pennsylvania, for a large house in Philadelphia, 
 at the same time making his home at No. 340 East Second 
 Street, Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania. 
 
 He has continued and is yet following the same occu- 
 pation. During the invasion of Pennsylvania by the con- 
 federates he was in the service of his country. In 1878 
 he was the senior partner in the firm of Wagenseller & Co., 
 Jobbers in Notions, etc. He retained his connection with 
 this business for five years. On account of too much work 
 coupled with ill health, he sold his interest in the business 
 and began work again on the road as a salesman. He re- 
 sides at Bloomsburg, Pa. and is a member of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church of that place. 
 
Dr. John Montgomery. 
 
 Dr. John Montgomery, a leading physician of Cham- 
 bersbiu'g, Franklin County, Pa., is a son of John Mont- 
 gomery and Margaret Wagenseller(No. 39, page 57,) born 
 in Brandy wine Manor, Chester County, Pa.,Dec. 29, 1835. 
 He has resided in Chambersburg since 1844. After at- 
 tending the common schools he was sent to the "Lititz 
 Academy for Boys," then under the charge of John Beck, 
 principal 1846-8. He entered the Chambersburg Acad- 
 emy, remained there a while, served a three years' appren- 
 ticeship in the drug business and then entered the office of 
 Dr. John Caster Richards, a celebrated physician of Cham- 
 bersburg, Pa. In October 1856 he entered Jeiferson Med- 
 ical College, Philadelphia and graduated March 9, 1 858. 
 He began at once to practice in Chambersburg, where he 
 soon attained a large and lucrative practice. He was jail 
 physician from 1 860 through the war. His hospital ex- 
 perience was large and varied during the war, in the hos- 
 pitals of his to^vn, where large numbers of sick and 
 wounded were cared for and the services of our home sur- 
 geons were much desired. After the burning of the town 
 he formed a partnership with his former preceptor. Dr. J. 
 C. Richards, Aug. 1864 which continued for more than 
 eight years. The subject of this sketch has always pur- 
 sued the practice of his jjrofession in Chambersburg ; hav- 
 ing in 1896 associated with him his son, Dr. P. Brough 
 Montgomery. He has been a prominent Free Mason since 
 1858 and is a life member of Geo. Washington Lodge, No. 
 143, having served as its W. Master many years. He 
 
150 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 has also been a member of Geo. Washington R. A. Chap- 
 ter, No. 176, for almost forty years. 
 
 The present Medical Society of Franklin County was 
 organizedJan. 19, 1869, the first society of 1825 having 
 long ceased to exist. Dr. John Montgomery was one of 
 the organizers of the present society and has been its most 
 active worker. He has filled all the positions and is the 
 only member who has had the honor of serving twice as 
 president. He has been a member of Medical Society, 
 State of Pa., since 1871, was first Vice President 1874 
 and 1895 and has been a Censor of his district for many 
 years. He has also been a prominent member and fre- 
 quent delegate to the American Medical Association. He 
 was appointed by President Arthur a member of the first 
 Board of U. S. Medical Examiners in Southern Pennsyl- 
 vania, Nov. 1884 and held the position of Secretary of the 
 Board. This heretained until March 1897, a period of 
 13 years, a portion of five separate National administra- 
 tions. He has been for many years one of the visitors ap- 
 pointed by the Board of Public Charities of the State to 
 inspect the Charitable Institutions of Franklin county. 
 
 Dr. John Montgomery married Feb. 6th, 1862, Cath- 
 erine Ann, the fourth daughter of Peter Brough, who 
 was a prominent citizen of Chambersburg. To them were 
 born on Dec. 29, 1862 two children, Peter Brough and 
 Margaretta and on March 23, 1875 were added to the 
 family James H. and John Curtis. Margaretta Mont- 
 gomery was born Dec. 29, 1862, died Jan. 22, 1889, aged 
 26 years, having passed through a beautiful life. Her un- 
 ostentatious works of charity were mostly known to her- 
 self. She seemed not to live for herself alone, but always 
 quietly hoping to help some deserving sufferer. She had 
 never been in robust health and was the constant compan- 
 ion of her mother. Her death was a source of mourning 
 and sorrow to all classes of the community, notably the 
 afflicted and despondent class. Her remains are interred 
 in Cedar Grove Cemetry. She made a bequest for the found- 
 ing of the Teachers' Library of the Central Presbyterian 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 153 
 
 Churcli of which she was a member and Suuday School 
 teacher. The growth of this Library contimies by the 
 frequent donations of books of high class, from her many 
 loving friends. The Library was at once named The 
 Retta Montgomery 3Iemorial Library. 
 
 Peter Brough Montgomery was born at Chambers- 
 burg, Franklin County, Pa., Dec. 29, 1862 and has al^ 
 ways resided at the place of his birth. He graduated at 
 Public High School in 1879 and then entered the Cham- 
 bersburg Academy then in charge of Prof. J. H. Shoe- 
 maker. In 1881 he took up the study of medicine in the 
 office of his father, Dr. John Montgomery, and graduated 
 at Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York in 
 1886. He at once returned to Chambersburg, Pa. and 
 began practice with his father, thus establishing the well- 
 known firm of Drs. J. Montgomery & Son. In 1887 he 
 was nominated by the Democratic party for Coroner and 
 was elected by the largest vote ever given a Democrat in 
 Franklin County. While Coroner he was connected with 
 some of the most important murder trials in the history of 
 the County. In 1892 Dr. Montgomery received the nom- 
 ination at the hands of the Democratic party, for the State 
 Legislature to represent the 33d District, composed of the 
 counties of Franklin and Huntingdon, but was defeated in 
 the land-slide of that year, although he ran largely ahead 
 of his ticket. He is a member of the City Council serv- 
 ing a second term, having been twice elected by a hand- 
 some majority, in the Second Ward which politically is 
 overwhelmingly against him. 
 
 Nov. 27, 1889 he married Jessie Snively, oldest 
 daughter of E. J. Bontrake, Esq., a prominent lawyer and 
 large real estate owner of Chambersburg, Pa. To them 
 one son was born, William Erdman, July 12, 1892. Dr. 
 Montgomery has been on the Staff of the Chambersburg 
 Hospital since it was established in 1897 by the Children's 
 Aid Sotiety. December 1898 he entered into partnership 
 with William G. Greenawalt, David L. Greenawalt and 
 John C. Montgomery, forming a firm of Greenawalt & 
 
154 WAGEN8ELLER HI810RY. 
 
 Montgomery, wholesale and retail Drugs and Dental Sup- 
 plies. This company started business by the purchase of 
 the four largest drug stores in Chambersburg, and is to- 
 day the largest and most substantial Drug Company in the 
 Cumberland Valley. Although a member of this firm he 
 continues the practice of medicine. Dr. Montgomery is 
 prominent in Masonic circles and is a Knight Templar. 
 In 1896 he was appointed by the State Board of Health, 
 Medical Inspector for Franklin County. He is a member 
 of Franklin County Medical Society, the Medical Society 
 of State of Pennsylvania and the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 James Montgomery was born in Chambersburg, Pa., 
 March 23, 1875. He was educated in the Chambersburg 
 High School and Chambersburg Academy, studied medi- 
 cine in the office of his father, attended four courses of med- 
 ical lectures in Phi'adelphia, graduating at the Medico 
 Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, May 31, 1898, and 
 will in all probability locate in his native town. 
 
 John Caster Montgomery born March 23, 1875, at- 
 tended the Chambersburg High School and Academy. He 
 served apprenticeship with W. G. Greenawalt, graduated 
 from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, March, 1896, 
 passing the State Pharmacy Board and receiving the de- 
 gree of Registered Pharmacist. In December, 1897, he 
 was the promoter of the large and substantial wholesale 
 and retail Drug Store firm of Greenawalt & Montgomery, 
 having in possession four fine storas. They are large man- 
 ufacturers and are on the jobbers' list and in consequence 
 have advantages in large purchases and discounts. In 
 manner affable and pleasant, possessing so many friends 
 and the attributes of making friends, and being recognized 
 by old business men as one of the most astute among them, 
 his business prospects are assured. He is a Free Mason 
 and a member of Geo. Washington Lodge, No. 143. 
 
 DR. JOHN MONTGOMERY'S ANCESTRY. 
 James Montgomery, our subject's grand-father, first 
 
WAQENSELLER HISTORY. 155 
 
 emigrated from the neighborhood of Ballymena County, 
 Antrim, Ireland in 1798. His ancestors came from Scot- 
 land on account of religious persecutions. They were de- 
 scendants of theEglinton Branch, whose lineage is traced 
 to the year 900 as coming from Normandy, &c. He came 
 to this country a young man, locating in Chester County, 
 Pa., where he married Susannah Johnson Dec. 22, 1801. 
 He was naturalized by the Court in West Chester in 1804. 
 He was a successful business man having considerable es- 
 tate for that day. He died in 1810, aged 50 years. Su- 
 sannah, his wife, died in 1818, aged 46 years. Both are 
 buried at Brandywine Manor. They have two children, 
 James and Nancy, who married Moses Miller of Chester, 
 long since dead. James Montgomery was born in Chester 
 County, Pa. in 1808. Both parents died before he was 
 10 years of age and he was comparatively among strangers. 
 He secured a common school education, meagre of course 
 at that day. He was apprenticed to Alex. Marshall, a 
 relative, to learn the trade of harnessmaking, with whom 
 he served his time. He married Margaretta, daughter of 
 Jacob AVagenseller. (Record lost in the burning of Cham- 
 bersburg.) They lived for a short time at Rising Sun, 
 Lancaster County and at Brandywine Manor, Chester 
 County. They had two children, Hannah Ann, who died 
 in infancy and our subject. James Montgomery left Ches- 
 ter County in the Spring of 1837, having purchased a 
 small farm in Letterkenny township, Franklin County, 
 Pa. Soon after he exchanged this property to Christian 
 Bilger for a Wayside Iron in Upper Strasburg, Franklin 
 County, which was at that time on one of the great thor- 
 oughfares of travel for the large droves of stock of all kinds 
 going east. In 1844 he disposed of this property, sojourn- 
 ing for six months at Shippensburg and in Sept. 1844 
 purchased and occupied the large hotel property in Cham- 
 bersburg north of the Center Square on the main street of 
 the town which was enlarged and improved. This prop- 
 erty, known as the Montgomery House, remained in the 
 family for 50 years. It was recently disposed of by the 
 
156 WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 estate for a large price, being one of the most valuable 
 properties in the town. This was the second change in 
 owners in over 100 years. This property was all destroy- 
 ed in the burning of Chambersburg, July 80th, 1864, by 
 the Rebel Cavalry under Gen. McCausland, the loss to 
 this estate approxiaiating $20,000. A large four-story 
 building was quickly reared and leased as hotel and stores. 
 James Montgomery, who was always held as a man of 
 sterling qualities, diedMarchl?, 1858. Margaretta Mont- 
 gomery, one of the best known and universally beloved 
 women in the country, died June 1st, 1876 and with her 
 husband is interred in Cedar Grove Cemetery. 
 
 The ancestry of Dr. Montgomery can be traced back 
 to Roger de Montgomery of Normandy who lived about 
 900. Unfortunately, the name of his great-grand-father 
 is missing, which must form the connecting link. This 
 family were Presbyterians and this is the reason, theanees- 
 tors left their native heath on the land of the Scots. The 
 ancestry includes: Hugh d. 1545, the first Earl of Eg- 
 linton titled by King James IV, 1507-8; son of Alex- 
 ander, d. prior to 1484, second Lord of Montgomerj' ; 
 son of Alexander, d. 1452, Master of Montgomery ; 
 son of i, lexander, d. 1461 first Lord of Montgomery, 
 titled by James II, 1448-9; son of Sir John of Andros- 
 san d. prior to 1429 ; son of Sir John of Eaglesham ; son 
 of Sir Alexander of Eaglesham, knighted by Robert 
 Bruce ; son of Sir John of Eaglesham ; son of Sir John 
 of Eaglesham; son of Alan of Eaglesham; son of Sir John 
 of Eaglesham; son of Robert of Eaglesham; son of 
 Philip; son of Arnulph, d. 1119, Earl of Pembroke; 
 son of Roger, Count of Montgomery, commanded the 
 vanguard of William the Conqueror's army in the battle 
 of Hastings 1066 ; son of Hugh D. de M.; son of Wil- 
 liam de M. ; son of Roger de M. ; son of Roger de 
 Montgomery of Normandy. 
 
J. B. EVAX8, 
 
 UM't'HLAX, PA. 
 
 [p. 159.] 
 
Jesse Benner Evans. 
 
 The subject here named represents a character doubly 
 related to the Wap;enseller family. He is the husband of 
 Sarah Susannah AVagenseller (see No. 55, page 71) and a 
 descendant of Catherine Wagenseil and Conrad King. He 
 is a native of Uwchlan township, Chester County, Penn- 
 sylvania and spent his early years on a farm, having been 
 educated in the public schools. He taught school a while 
 but being not congenial to his taste, he abandoned the call- 
 ing. He studied dentistry with W. P. Lambert of Phila- 
 delphia and for three years practiced at Phoenixville, then 
 returned to farming in Upper Uwchlan township, where 
 he has resided ever since. He was married in 1850, not 
 1851, as stated on page 71, where a full list of his chil- 
 dred and grand-children will be found. Being reared iu 
 the Democratic faith, he voted that ticket until the trouble 
 created by a stubborn desire to force slavery on the people 
 of Kansas. He, being naturally opposed to slavery, left 
 the democratic party and has since been acting in harmony 
 with the principles of the Republican party. January 22, 
 1853 he received the degree of an Entered Apprenticed 
 Mason in Phoenixville Lodge, No. 75 and on February 
 1 9, was passed to the degree of a Fellow Craft Mason and 
 March 19, was raised to the degree of Master Maaon. He 
 subsequently resigned his membership and assisted in the 
 organization of Lodge, No. 446, of which he is still a 
 member. In November 1859, he was baptized into the 
 Fellowship of Windsor Baptist Chnrch. Frequently he 
 has been treasurer, deacon and trustee of the congregation. 
 
160 WA0EN8ELLEB HISIORY. 
 
 He has been a scliool director for ten years and a justice-of- 
 the-peace for two terms in a township where his political 
 party is in a hopeless minority. Feeling the weight of 
 more than three score years and ten, he has been compelled 
 to cease the active labors of life, resigning them to younger 
 men. His postoflfice address isUwchlan, Chester County, 
 Pa. 
 
Benjamin Franklin Evans, 
 
 Is a native of Phoenixville, Pa., the son of J. B. and Sarah 
 S. [Wagenseller] Evans. He was educated in the public 
 schools of Upper Uwchlan township and at Millersville 
 State Normal School. At the age of 19 he went to Phil- 
 adelphia where he remained until January 1, 1876. The 
 year following he spent as traveling salesman for a Notion 
 Firm in Bloomsburg, Pa. April 1, 1877 he began farm- 
 ing. In March 1877, he moved to Downingtown and was 
 employed in a planing mill until Jan. 5, 1895 when he 
 bought the Coal, Wood and Lumber Business, he now 
 controls. In February 1898 he formed a partnership with 
 C. E. Walker for the manufacture of Ladies' hosiery. In 
 February 1891, he was elected Tax Collector of the Bor- 
 ough of Downingtown and has been re-elected ever since, 
 consequently at present holding the office. Post Office, 
 East Downingtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania. 
 
Prof. Wilbur F. Gearhart. 
 
 Wilbur Fisk Gearhart, a son of the late Rev. Frank- 
 lin Gearhart and Mary Elizabeth Wagenseller Gearhart, 
 wasborninHanover, Pa., JunelS, 1868. As a baby he 
 was very delicate and sulFered severely from pneumonia 
 during the first year of his existence, but by careful nurs- 
 ing and hygienic training he developed into a strong and 
 robust boy, and at the present writing he is an all-round 
 athletic and physical instructor of considerable ability. 
 
 As a child he attended the public schools in various 
 Pennsylvania towns, and afterwards took a special scien- 
 tific course at the Dickinson Seminary of Williamsport, 
 Pa. He graduated at the Brooklyn Normal School of 
 Physical Education in the spring of 1890 and has since 
 that time taken a Special Anatomical Course at the Louis- 
 Tille, Ky. Medical College. After finishing his course at 
 Brooklyn he accepted a flattering ofier from the Louisville 
 Athletic Club, the membership of which was composed of 
 the cream of Louisville's society people. He remained in 
 charge of the above club three years and four months, es- 
 tablishing an excellent reputation as a gentleman, an ath- 
 lete and instructor. After leaving the Louisville Athletic 
 Club he opened a private Academy of Physical Culture of 
 his own and in addition accepted the instructorship of the 
 Y, M. H. A. of Louisville, and tliat institution has flour- 
 ished greatly under his instructions. On his 24th birthday, 
 June 18, 1892, he wedded Miss Anna Middendorf, a tall, 
 handsome and popular Louisville belle who has made an 
 excellent wife. His abilities as an athlete and physical 
 
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 instructor, as well as his moral and mental attainments, 
 have been recof^nized not only by his immediate associates, 
 bnt also by the pnblic press throughout the country. 
 
 As au athlete he has a record of which our family can 
 be proud. He has achieved a record for a double foot 
 liigh kick of 7 feet, 6 inches. In making this sort of a 
 jump, tiie athlete must keep his feet side by side without 
 any turn over, kicking tlie object with both feet at the 
 same time and alighting on the floor on both feet at once, 
 no other part of the person touching the floor. It is a 
 most difficult feat and one that few athletes can accom- 
 plish without a great deal of practice. He has been main- 
 ly instrumental in bringing into prominence several ama- 
 teur athletes whose names are now known throughout the 
 East and the South, and as he is not yet in his prime, and 
 i.s completely wrapped up in his profession, he will doubt- 
 less long continue to perform yoeman's service in the field 
 of physical culture to which he is by nature and inclina- 
 tion so well adapted. 
 
Joseph Marshall. 
 
 Joseph Mashall, son of John Marshall and Thamzen 
 Wagenseller, (No. 18, page 45) was l)orn August 17, 1821, 
 iu Wilmington, Delaware. Among Joseph's early recol- 
 lections is his father's hurrahing for General Jackson. His 
 first schooling was obtained iu his native place. Wlien he 
 was nine years of age, he went to live with Benjamin 
 Chandler in the state of Delaware where he remained un- 
 til he was sixteen years of age. He was to have three 
 months' schooling each year, but he seldom received one. 
 He went to the state of Ohio in 1837 to learn the mold- 
 ing trade with his uncle, George Marshall, of Madison- 
 ville. His uncle failed and then brought young Joseph to 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, and from tliere he moved to Batavia, 
 Clearmount County, Ohio, where he now resides. There 
 he lived with his uncle, Edward Marshall, for a short 
 time. He went to learn the carpenter trade witli William 
 Lytle and worked for him about six years, tlien entered a 
 partnership and has since folkiwed his trade up to within 
 the last few years. He was married first in 1S45 to lie- 
 becca Leads, Avho died in 1856 and second in 1857 he mar- 
 ried Rebecca Ann Ross who died in 1880 and third on 
 Dec. 29, 1884 to Frances Butler. With his first wife he 
 had seven children, Ruth Elizabeth, born 1845, now the 
 wife of Rev. G. D. Gross of Colburn, Ind.; Susan Agnes, 
 widow of William S. Moore of Baltimore, Md.; George 
 M. and John M. died in manhood ; Thamzen, lona, Thressa 
 and Viola died iu infancy and Alfred A., who now resides 
 in DeLamar, Nevada. AVith his second wife lie had three 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 167 
 
 children, Oliver Freeman, born Sept. 17, 1859 and died 
 Feb. 8, 1891 ; Thallie A^ictor, born October 26, 1861 ; 
 Daniel Lyman, born 1863and died in 1864 when about 16 
 months old. There has been no issue with his third wife. 
 Joseph Marshall has eiglit grand-children living and one 
 great-grand-ehild. None of his children are now living in 
 Oiiio and none of his grand-children live there except a 
 little daughter of Oliver Freeman IMarshall, who was 
 named Olive after her father. 
 
 Our subject has played a proraiuent part in the com- 
 munity in which he resides. He was township trustee 
 from 1862 to 1864, has been a member of the Board of 
 Education for the last twenty years and still holds the 
 position. For forty-eight years he has been a member of 
 the Masonic Fraternity and he is now the past-master of 
 Batavia Lodge No. 104. He never voted for a democrat 
 except AVilliam J. Bryan. He belonged to the Militia, 
 went to Camp Denilson, slept on a board for two nights 
 and was then discharged for disability. Joseph Marshall 
 or "Uncle Joe" as he is familiarly called, is in his 77th 
 year, is tall, straight as a boy and will always be like a 
 boy as long as he lives. The boys and girls love this old 
 man and say there is more fun in him than in those of 
 younger years. 
 
 P. S. His father died in Williamsport, Indiana. 
 Joseph's house was destroyed by fire April 19, 1898. 
 
William H. Young. 
 
 William H. Young, first son of John and jM;ivgaret 
 Hohrnetter [Wagenseller] Young, see No. 34^ page 38, 
 was born in Philadelphia and when quite young removed 
 to Charlestown township, Chester County, Penna. A few 
 3'ears later, 1851, the family moved to West Pikelaud. 
 When ^V'illiam grew into youth and manhood he attended 
 the Freeland Seminary in Montgomery County for two 
 years, then spent several years teaching school and travel- 
 ing. His wife died at Lionville in 1895 at the age of 47 
 3'ears. He lived at Lionville from 1893 to 1896, then re- 
 moved to his present residence, the old Ri.-^iug Siiu farm 
 and tavern, the family homestead along the old Couestoga 
 Road. At this place his grand-father, William ^Vagen- 
 seller, spent so many years of liis life kcejiing tavern and 
 farming. 
 
 In politics he has adhered to the principles of the 
 democratic party. He was tM'ice elected justice-of-the- 
 peace, and several times school director of his district and 
 has held minor offices in his township. He is not wealthy, 
 but is one of the active and progressive men in the com- 
 munity. He is ever reafly to lend a helping hand to en- 
 hance the interests of the community which was so highly 
 lionored hv his nuich esteemed ancestors. 
 
The Royer Connection. 
 
 In describing character No. 8 on page 28, we were 
 totally ignorant of Benjamin Royer, the husband of Anna 
 Maria AYagenseller., or Mary Wagenseller as she was call- 
 ed in the home, and even now we are not over-burdened 
 with information concerning him. We are told without 
 proof that the father of Benjamin Royer, is Michael Royer 
 (Reyer.) Michael Royer was born about 1844. married 
 April 24, 1864 to Rosina Seybert. They were the parents 
 of at least five children: (1) Michael Royer, who was 
 married Dec. 11, 1796 to Eva Schweinhard; (2) Rebecca 
 Royer, who was married Nov. 25, 1804 to George Spatz ; 
 
 (3) Catherine Royer married about 1800 to David Roth ; 
 
 (4) Benjamin Royer, our central subject, born 1769, mar- 
 ried about 1792 to Mary Wagenseller and died in 1823. 
 His widow died in 1845 at the age of 75 years ; (5) David. 
 
 It seems that Benjamin Royer and his wife, Mary 
 Wagenseller, left a family of eight children : (1) Their 
 oldest son, John H. Royer, was born in Limerick town- 
 ship, Montgomery County, Pa., Feb. 22, 1792 and died 
 very suddenly, March 17, 1875 in Phoenixville, Pa. He 
 was married in 1821 to Rachael Lesher of Pottstown. 
 Having been quite prominent in his day, he was editor of 
 several different newspapers at various times and places. 
 Mrs. A. F. Borden of Philadelphia is a daughter of John 
 and Rachael. Benjamin and Mary's other children were 
 (2) George, (3) Rosanna, (4) Margaret, (5) Sarah, (6) Sam- 
 uel, (7) Maria and (8) Benjamin, Jr. 
 
 When Benjamin Royer died in 1823 the widow. 
 
170 WAGENSELLER HISIORY. 
 
 Mary Wagen seller, and her eldest son, John H. Koyer, 
 were the administrators of BenjamiQ Koyer's Estate. June 
 5, 1801, Benjamin Royer of Chester County purchased 
 land adjoining David Royer. 
 
 Having disposed of the meager information concern- 
 ing the descendants of Benjamin Royer, we must look after 
 his ancestry. If Michael Royer is the father of Benjamin, 
 as stated, Michael must be the eldest son of Johann Carl, 
 who is the son of John Michael Reyer, described on pages 
 28-9. Johann Carl Reyer is a son of the first marriage, 
 
 born Dec. 15, 1711, married Elizabeth . Helived 
 
 in Providence Twp., Montgomery, Co., Pa., where he own- 
 ed at his death a plantation of 150 acres of land. He was 
 known as Colder Royer and Charles Royer. He died 
 Oct. 29, 1780 and is buried in the Trappe Lutheran bury- 
 ing ground. The plantation was valued at £785, gold 
 and silver, lawful money of Pennsylvania and the widow's 
 dower was £15 13 4 yearly. Michael Reyer, the oldest 
 son, the father of Benjamin, took the plantation. We should 
 say here tliat we have no proof for saying that Michael the 
 sdn of Carl is the same Michael that is the father of Benja- 
 miu, but circumstantial evidence points that way. We feel 
 positive that this is tlie true condition. The following ex- 
 tracts from the records of Philadelphia give particulars as 
 to the land owned by Carl Royer and afterward by Michael 
 Royer. 
 
 September 6, 1735, John Penn, Thomas Penn and Rich- 
 ard Penn, the proprietaries granted to James Steel two 
 thousand acres of land situate on the northeast side of the 
 River Schuylkill, adjoining the Manor Gilberts, under a 
 yearly quit rent of one shilling sterling for every hundred 
 acres. 
 
 James Steel in his lifetime sold, but did not actually 
 convey, to Colder Royer a part of the foregoing tract for 
 £1 50, of which £24 was paid. On the 9th of January, 
 1745, the heirs and legatees of James steel (he having died) 
 conveyed to Colder Royer, of Providence township, in ful- 
 
WA6ENSELLER HISTORY. 171 
 
 fillment of the foregoing bargain, one hundred and fifty 
 acres and forty-seven perches, situate in Providence town- 
 ship, and bounded as follows : Beginning at a post in a line 
 of land lately granted to George Moyer, thence by Philip 
 Si tsler's and David Phillip's lands southeast 139 perches to 
 a post, thence by Jacob Nutt's land southwest 173 perches 
 to a post, thence by lands of Jacob Cough and George 
 Burson northwest 139 perches to a post, thence the lands 
 of Conrad Rabell and George Moyer northeast 173 perches 
 to the place of beginning. 
 
Descendants of John and Esther 
 [Zerbe] Forry. 
 
 Mrs. Rebecca Wagenseller, widow of William Jere- 
 miah Wagenseller (No. 77) is the daughter of John Forry 
 (Forrer) and Esther Zerbe, who were married in Berks 
 County, Pennsylvania, by Rev. Thomas Leinbach, October 
 28, 1832. John Forrer (it is so spelled in his German 
 Bible dated 1833) was born March 25, 1805 in Berks 
 County, Penna., probably in Heidleburg township. Es- 
 ther Zerbe, his wife, was born Nov. 20, 1814 in Berks 
 County, Pa., and died in Penn township, Snyder County, 
 Pa., August 27, 1874, aged 59 years, 9 months and 7 days. 
 John Forry died in Penn township, January 2, 1865 aged 
 58 years, 8 months and 24 days. John Forrer moved 
 from Berks County, Pa., to Perry township. Union Coun- 
 ty, about 1840. The district is now West Perry town- 
 ship, Snyder County, near Richfield, Juniata County. He 
 was a fuller and conducted a woolen mill there for several 
 years. He then moved to the Island near Kantz, in Penn 
 township, Snyder County and continued in the same busi- 
 ness for several years. The march of progress brought 
 later devices for the manufacture of woolen goods and 
 consequently he abandoned the business and went to farm- 
 ing. The mill he then occupied, was destroyed by fire 
 about 1874-5. Leaving here, he moved to a farm near 
 Duck's mill, halfway between Freeburg and Kantz, then 
 to Boyer's farm along Middlecreek and finally to Col. 
 Henry C. Eyer's farm in Penn township, J mile below Se- 
 linsgrove, where he remained until he died in 1865. His 
 
WAQEN8ELLER HISTORY. 173 
 
 last will and testament dated September 9, 1864, probated 
 Febrnary 20, 1865 is on file in the Middleburg Colirt 
 House. John and Esther Forry were the parents of six- 
 teen children, most of whom have grown into manhood 
 and womanhood, are all living, are all married but one 
 and nearly all have grand-children. Their list of children 
 are as follows : 
 
 1. Edward Forry, born in Berks County, Pa., Au- 
 gust 23, 1833, baptized by Rev. Fred Herman. Sponsors, 
 George and Magdalena Forrer. George, the sponsor, was 
 an uncle of Edward's father, who possessed a large estate 
 and died without immediate heirs and the distribution of 
 his estate became the bone of contention in the courts until 
 the estate was very nearly parcelled out in attorney fees 
 and costs. Edward now resides at Freeburg, Snyder Co., 
 Pa. He was married December 18, 1859 by by Rev. A. 
 B. Casper to Sarah Ann Jodon, who was born May 10, 
 1836. He is a carpet weaver of ability. They are the 
 parents of four children : 
 
 i. B. Franklin, born April 14, 1860, 
 married Sept. 5, 1880 to Amanda 
 Elizabeth Moyer. They reside in 
 Selinsgrove and have five children, 
 Edward Nathaniel, born June 20, 
 1881 ; Mabel May, born Jan. 28, 
 1885 and died Sept. 2. 1891;Cha3. 
 Arthur, Iwrn Feb. 11, 1891 ; How- 
 ard, born March 13, 1893, and Roy 
 born Nov. 26, 1894. 
 
 ii. Simon Peter, born Aug. 2, 1862. 
 
 iii. John Thomas, born June 2, 1866. 
 
 iv. Mary Effie, born Oct. 13, 1871, mar- 
 ried to Joseph Roush. 
 
 2. John Forry, born in Berks County, Penna., Sept. 
 28, 1834, baptized by Rev. William Hendel. Sponsors, 
 John and Maria Stub. The latter is a sister of John 
 Forry's father. John resides at Elkhart, Ind., has a large 
 
174 WAGENSELLER HI810RY. 
 
 family and quite a list of grand-children. Quite a number 
 of unsuccessful requests were made for data cencerning 
 them. 
 
 3. Levi Forry, born May 29, 1836, baptized by 
 Rev. William Hendel. Sponsors, Isaac and Rebecca Noll. 
 Died young. 
 
 4. Amanda Forry, born in Berks County, Septem- 
 ber 29, 1837, baptized by Rev. William Hendel. Spon- 
 sors, Daniel and Harriet Fisher. Married Lt. William H. 
 Gemberling, born Sept. 22, 1837, and they live at Selius- 
 grove. Pa. They have had eight children. Two ofthem 
 Anna and Charles are dead. The living are : 
 
 i. Esther, born April 20, 1856, mar- 
 ried Feb. 15, 1873 to Harry L. 
 Noll, who was born Aug. 7, 1850. 
 They reside at Myerstown, Leba- 
 non County, Pa. and have two chil- 
 dren, E. Bertha, born Sept. 23, 1873 
 and William H., born Nov. 20, 
 1875, is married and has one child 
 dead, 
 ii. Calvin Augustus, born August 3, 
 1858, married June 5, 1879 to 
 Mary C. Miller, daughter of John 
 J. Miller of Selinsgrove. They re- 
 side at Mifflinburg and have ten 
 children, Blanche, Harry, Maude, 
 Edwin, Paul, Susie and an infant 
 son, who are living. Irwin, a twin 
 to Edwin and a pair of twins are 
 dead, 
 iii. Lydia Amelia, born June 11, 1863 
 married Sept. 1, 1885, to Perry L. 
 Romig. He is a bridge builder of 
 great skill. His permanent address 
 is Selinsgrove, Pa. They have one 
 son, William Isaac, born May 27. 
 
WAGENSELLEE HISTORY. 175. 
 
 iv. Martha Jane, born Nov. 27, 1870, 
 married Flem. Seesholtz of Suu- 
 bury. Their first child, a daugh- 
 ter, is dead, the second a son, Eu- 
 gene Sciiroyer, is living. They re- 
 side at Suubury. 
 
 V. Jeneatte Bell, born Jan. 10, 1872, 
 married July 17, 1890 to Newton 
 Absalom Bowes, born Aug. 8, 1868. 
 Tiiey reside at Middleburgh, Pa. 
 and have had six children, Amanda, 
 born Sept. 4, 1891 ; Twins, Miner- 
 va Mary and Esther Lagotta, born 
 Nov. 26, 1893, died the same day ; 
 Joseph Robert, born July 9. 1895 ; 
 Paul Snyder, born Jan. 8, 1897 
 and an infant son born June 6, 1898. 
 vi. Agnes May, born Oct. 2, 1877, 
 married Nov. 12, 1896 to James F. 
 Moyer. They reside at Selinsgrove 
 and have one son. Perry Fisher, 
 born June, 1897. 
 
 5. Jonathan Forry born in Berks County, Penua., 
 Nov. 22, 1838, baptized by Eev. Hendel. Sponsors, Jon- 
 athan and Maria Klopp. Mrs. Klopp is a cousin of Jona- 
 than Forry's father and Mr. Klopp at one time owned the 
 large grist mill in Selinsgrove, now in the possession of 
 Howard Davis Schnure. Jonathan Forry formerly resid- 
 ed in Penn township, Snyder County, but for the last 15 
 years he has resided at Milton, Pa. He married, 1861, 
 Deborah Grissinger, who was born in Northumberland 
 County, May 1, 1841 and was baptized by Rev. Shindel. 
 They have had born to them a family of ten children : 
 
 i. Charles Albert, born in Snyder 
 County, was twice married, his first 
 wife having died. He has several 
 children, resides at McKees Half 
 
176 WA0EN8ELLER HISIORY. 
 
 Falls, Snyder County and Ib pro- 
 prietor of the hotel at that place, 
 ii. Clara Elizabeth, born Jan. 3, 1864, 
 baptized by Rev. Hottenstein in 
 Snyder County, married Feb. 29, 
 1 884 to George B. Shoemaker. They 
 reside at Milton, Pa., and have two 
 children, Jennie Bartley, born Jan. 
 8, 1885 and Frank, born April 3, 
 1891. 
 iii. Anna, born Aug. 2, 1865 in Snyder 
 County, baptized by Rev. Hotten- 
 stein, married Oct. 11, 1888 to 
 James D. Mumma of Milton, Pa. 
 They are the parents of three chil- 
 dren, Harriet Deborah, born May 
 3, 1889; Sarah, born Aug. 10, 
 1890 and Joel Benton born Sept. 
 8, 1892 and died Dec. 8, 1895. 
 iv. John Harvey, born May 9, 1867, 
 baptized in Snyder County by Rev. 
 Hottenstein. 
 v. William Oliver, born November 15, 
 1868 in Snyder County, baptized by 
 Rev. Hottenstein, married Feb. 10, 
 1895 to Amanda Felmy to whom 
 was born Oct. 3, 1895, a daughter 
 named Ruth, 
 vi. Sarah Albertha, born in Snyder 
 County, Aug. 31, 1870, married 
 Jan. 3, 1890 to Frank Munson. 
 They have 5 children, George Lee, 
 born Aug. 1, 1891 ; Wm. Ray, born 
 Oct. 24, 1892; Ella Jeneatta, born 
 April 10, 1894; Charles, born 
 July 12, 1895 and Jennie May born 
 Jan. 8, 1877. 
 vii. Martha Jeneatte, born in Snyder 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 177 
 
 County April 30, 1872 and was 
 baptized by Rev. Haiise. 
 viii. Forest Meaker, born in Snyder 
 County, April 10, 1874 and was 
 baptized by Rev. Hause. 
 ix. Jeremiah Foster, born in Snyder 
 
 County, Jan. 28, 1876. 
 X. Lillian May, born in Snyder Coun- 
 ty, Oct. 5, 1879, was baptized by 
 Rev. J. M. Reimensiiyder and died 
 Kov. 10, 1889. 
 
 6. Rebecca Forry, born near Richfield, within the 
 limits of Snyder (then Union) County, Pa., Nov. 20, 1840, 
 baptized by Rev. Seibert. Sponsors, the parents. Mar- 
 ried Nov. 5, 1861 to William Jeremiah Wagenseller, with 
 whom she had ten children, as follows : 
 
 i. Kate Alice, born Feb. 22, 1862, 
 is unmarried and a milliner at Se- 
 linsgrove. 
 ii. Mary Louisa, born May 17, 1864 
 and died Aug. 25, 1865. 
 
 iii. John Franklin, born Aug. 1, 1866. 
 
 iv. George Washington, born April 
 27, 1868. Married Oct. 22, 1896 
 to Miriam Orwig, daughter of Dr. 
 John W. and Margaret [Zellers] 
 Orwig. Residence, Middleburg, Pa. 
 V. Infant son, born April 28, 1870 
 
 and died May 6, 1870. 
 vi. Ida May, born May 15, 1870. 
 
 vii. Anion Sylvester, born Nov. 11, 
 1873. Married August 8, 1897 to 
 Jeneatte Smith. They have a son, . 
 Bruce Sylvester, born February 23, 
 1898. Residence, Selinsgrove, Pa. 
 
 viii. Anna Celesta, born June 10, 1876 
 and died Feb. 17, 1882. 
 
178 WAGENSELLER HI810RY. 
 
 ix. Charles Henry, born Dec. 9, 1877 
 
 and died July 24, 1878. 
 X. Infant son, born Sept 30, 1881 and 
 died same day. 
 
 7. William Forry, born March 11, 1842, baptized 
 by Rev. Seibert, now deceased. 
 
 8. Alfred Forry, born July 20, 1843, a cripple, 
 baptized by Rev. Seibert, a Reformed minister, and died 
 August 19, 1879, aged 36 years and 29 days. 
 
 9. Elmira Forry, born Oct. 29, 1844, in Union 
 (now Snyder) County, was married first to Mathias U. 
 App, July 6, 1873, now deceased, and second, Feb. 25, 
 1896, to David Reed, born June 10, 1839, now reside at 
 Adamsville, Cass County, Michigan. M. U. App was 
 first married to Matilda Bealer. Gertrude Irene, a daugli- 
 ter of Elmira, born May 9, 1862, was married by Rev. H. 
 B. Belmer, Jan, 1, 1878 to Samuel L. App, a son of M. 
 U. and Matilda App, born Oct. 31, 1850. To Samuel 
 and Gertrude App are born three children, Anna Merinda, 
 born Nov. 3, 1879, died Sept 18, 1880; Harry, born Jan. 
 15, 1881 and Susan Elmira born Oct. 2, 1883. 
 
 10. Lydia Forry, born in Washington township, 
 Sept. 19, 1846, baptized by Rev. Leise, married Norman 
 Fisher. She has a daughter, Minnie, married to William 
 Hughes, a prominent attorney at Missoula, Montana. They 
 have a son, Arthur, now resides at Alvira, Union County, 
 Pa. A daughter Hattie and other children reside at home 
 on the old Fisher homestead on the Isle of Que, two miles 
 south of Selinsgrove, Pa. 
 
 11. Mary Ann Forry, born in Washington town- 
 ship, Oct. 21, 184y, baptized by Rev. Leise. Sponsors, 
 parents. Married by Rev. C. G. Erlenmeyer, March 9, 
 1875 to Jocob Martin, who was born January 12, 1852 
 and now resides at Goshen, Indiana. They have five chil- 
 dren : 
 
 i. Hattie Jane, born Sept. 25, 1875. 
 ii. Barbara Ellen, born Dee. 8, 1876, 
 now deceased. 
 
WAQENSELLER HISTORY. 179 
 
 iii. William Newton, born May 17, 
 
 1878, now dead, 
 iv. Nettie Dora, born No ^■. 18,1879. 
 V. Anna Mabel, born Sept. 8, 1886. 
 
 12. Elizabeth Forry, born in Washington iownship, 
 Sept. 9, 1850, baptized by Rev. Leise, married Nov. 3, 
 1867 to W. N. Fisher, who was born Oct. 10, 1846, and 
 now resides on the Isle of Que, about 2 J miles south of 
 Selinsgrove. To them have been born six children : 
 
 i. Lydia Dora, born Jan. 23, 1869. 
 ii. John Christian, born Sept. 9, 1870, 
 
 and died Jan. 23, 1871. 
 iii. Franklin Foster, born Jan. 18^ 
 
 1872. 
 iv. Carrie Olevia, born Aug. 12,1873. 
 V. Dennis Roscoe, born Aug.|17, 1875. 
 vi. Edna May, born May 14, 1878. 
 
 13. Samuel Boyer Forry, born in Snyder (then Un- 
 ion) County, Pa., Aug. 25, 1852, unmarried. Resides 
 with Mrs. Sarah Fisher, on Isle of Que, near Selinsgrove. 
 
 14. A son, born Jan. 12, 1854, died in infancy. 
 
 15. Calvin Forry, born Feb. 28, 1855, baptized by 
 Rev. Leise, married Oct. 29, 1874 by Rev. C. G. Erlen- 
 meyer to Alice Daubert of Port Treverton, Pa., who was 
 born July 18, 1857. They now reside near Kantz, Sny- 
 der County. They have two children : 
 
 i. Sarah S., born July 10, 1875, mar- 
 ried July 22, 1894 to Forest E. 
 Holtzapple. 
 
 ii. George Robert, born Aug. 24, 1878. 
 
 16. Catherine Forry, born Nov. 25, 1857, ba])tized 
 by Rev. Erlenmeyer. Sponsors, Conrad and Catherine 
 Fetter. She married Frank Duck. They have a son, 
 Foster, and reside near Kantz, Snj'der County, Pa. 
 
 We stated that John Forrer and his wife Esther Zerbe 
 came from Berks County to Snyder (then Union) County, 
 Pa., 1839-40. As their children were baptized by Revs. 
 
180 WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 
 
 Herman and Hendel, pastor of St. John's Reformed church 
 in Heidleburg township, Berks County, we infer they re- 
 sided near there. The church is known as Hain's church 
 and is located one mile north of Wernersville. Tliis con- 
 gregation was organized about 1732 and hence it is one of 
 the oldest in Berks County. The present pastor of tlie 
 church is Rev. W. J. Kerchner, No. 115 South Third St., 
 Reading, Pa. 
 
 The aucestry of John Forrer and Esther Zerbe has 
 not been traced. There were two immigrants to Pennsyl- 
 vania. Johannes Forrer, (Page 11, Pennsylvania Ar- 
 chives, Vol. XVII) arrived in the Ship Friendship of 
 Bristol, John Davies, Master from Rotterdam, qualified at 
 Philadelphia Oct. 16, 1727. On page 432, the same vol- 
 ume, we learn that Johannes Forrer arrived in the Ship 
 Brothers, Capt. William Muir from Rotterdam, qualified 
 Sept. 30, 1754. This is probably the grand-father of John 
 Forry for we learn (page 335, Vol. II, Pa. Archives) that 
 Johannes Forrer of Berks Couuty took the oath of allegi- 
 ance, March 30, 1755. 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 Zerbe. — They came over land from Schoharie, N. Y. 
 to Tulpekocken, Berks County, Pa., and settled in the 
 Weiser colony 1723-7. They were a prominent family. 
 
 Peter Sarvey, probably Zerbe came from Albany, N. 
 Y. to Tulpehocken, Berks County, Pa. in 1723. 
 
 1 756. — Jacob Zerbe is named a referee in the docket 
 of Peter Spyker, Esq., at Tulpehocken. 
 
 1779. — John Zerbe, Michael Furer (Forrer), Chris- 
 tian Zerbe, Benjamin Zerbe and Daniel Zerbe of Berks 
 County, Pa., signed a petition against calling a convention 
 to amend the constitution of the state. 
 
 March 24, 1782. — Jacob Zerbe married Maria Kline. 
 
 Historical Register. 
 
 These notes are given for the benefit of those who 
 may wish to continue the search. 
 
The Orwig Genealogy. 
 
 This chapter on the Orwig genealogy is an after con- 
 sideration and was not originally intended for this history 
 and hence at this late period it is impossible to make it 
 complete. We will give it as complete as possible in ac- 
 cordance with our statement on page 111. 
 
 1. GOTTFKIEDi ORWIG.— The founder of the 
 name in America was Gottfried Orwig, born, it is supposed, 
 in Brunswick, Germany, August 24th, 1719, and was 
 among those whose names are given as qualifying October 
 2nd, 1741, arriving at the port of Philadelphia from Rot- 
 terdam in the ship St. Andrew, Charles Stedman, Master. 
 His age is given in the list as 22, which agrees with the 
 tombstone record at Orwdgsburg. Owing to the large in- 
 flux or foreigners, it was deemed advisable to compell all 
 to take oath of allegiance to King George II. Accord- 
 ingly, all males over sixteen years of age were compelled 
 to take the oath, and as soon as they were landed were 
 marched to the Court House for that purpose. (See copy 
 of oath in preface to Pennsylvania Archives compiled by 
 W. H. Egle, State Librarian ; also see Rupp's 30,000 em- 
 igrants into Pennsylvania, page 148. Also, see page 213 
 Pennsylvania Archives Sect)nd Series, Vol. 17.) 
 
 Rev. J. B. Orwig of Ellsworth, Kansas, iu a letter 
 dated March 19th, 1896, says: "Great-grand-father, Gott- 
 fried, stayed in America a few years and then went back 
 to Germany when, after a few years' visit returned to Amer- 
 ica, bringing with him his wife, Clara, maiden name un- 
 known. During the Revolutionai-y War a company of old 
 
182 
 
 WAGEN8ELLER HISIOBY. 
 
 men was organized, Germans, eighty in all. (See cottage 
 Cyclopedia, page 695.) It was called the Old Men's Com- 
 pany. Their captain was nearly one hundred years old, 
 drummer ninety-four, the youngest nearly seventy. In a 
 history of Pennsylvania the names of this company are giv- 
 en and Gottfried is among them. This surely is my great- 
 grand-father." 
 
 Gottfried Orwig and wife settled at a place called 
 Maiden Creek, near Reading, Penna. in 1743, on lands 
 purchased from the Iroquois Indians but afterwards re- 
 moved to Sculp Hill, one mile south of the present town 
 of Orwigsburg in Schuylkill County. He and his wife 
 were buried in the old Lutheran Church Yard at the foot 
 of Sculp Hill, opposite the old red church. Their tomb- 
 stones have the following inscriptions ; 
 
 Hier ruhet 
 GOTTFRIED ORWIG, 
 
 Geboren den 24 August 
 
 1719, 
 
 Starb den 26 May 
 
 1804. 
 
 Alt 85 jahr, weniger 2 monat. 
 
 Translation. 
 
 Here rests 
 
 GOTTFRIED ORWIG, 
 
 born August 24th, 1719, 
 
 died May 26th, 1804, 
 
 age 85 years, 
 
 less 2 months. 
 
 Hier ruhet 
 
 CLARA ORWIG, 
 
 Ehefrau des 
 
 GOTTFRIED ORWIG, 
 
 Geboren 
 den 26 January, 1716, 
 
 Starb 
 
 den 5 January, 1788. 
 
 Alt 72 jahr, 
 
 weniger 3 woche. 
 
 Translation. 
 
 Here rests 
 
 CLARA ORWIG, 
 
 wife of 
 
 GOTTFRIED ORWIG, 
 
 born 
 
 January 26th, 1716, 
 
 died January 5th, 1788, 
 
 age 72 years, 
 
 less three weeks. 
 
 The children of Gottfried and Clara Orwig are as 
 follows : 
 
 2. i. Catharine, born Dec. 4, 1748. 
 
 + 3. ii. Peter, born at Maiden Creek, Berks 
 
 County, Penna., July 8th, 1750, 
 
WAGEN8ELLEE HISTORY. 183 
 
 died at Orwigsburg about 1807, 
 married to Hannah Webb. Dates 
 of her birth and their marriage un- 
 known. She died about 1831 at 
 the home of her daughter, Sarah 
 Hoover, in Milesburg, Penna. and 
 was buried in Milesburg. 
 
 4. iii. Maria, bornDeeember 19th, 1751. 
 
 5. iv. Henry, born at Maiden Creek, De- 
 
 cember 6th, 1753 ; married Eliza- 
 beth Haring (No children.) Was 
 private soldier in ^'he Revolutionary 
 "War, in Col. William Thompson'.s 
 Riflemen, Capt. Geo. Nagle's Com- 
 pany, one year from June 1775; 
 afterwards he was an Ensign of the 
 Second Company, 4th Battalion 
 Berks County Militia, commission- 
 ed May 10th, 1780. Was in the 
 skirmishes about Boston, and later 
 in the battle of Brandywine ; died 
 December 18th, 1836, and was 
 buried at Orwigsburg. 
 
 6. V. Elizabeth, born October 8th, 1756. 
 + 7. vi. George, born March 11, 1758. Of 
 
 Catherine, Maria and Elizabeth, 
 daughters of Gottfried, nothing is 
 known but their names and dates 
 of birth. 
 3. PETER^ (Gottfried^), born July 8, 1750, mar- 
 ried Hannah Webb. He assisted his father to found the 
 town of Orwigsburg in 1796 as did the other sons, Henry 
 and George. The children of Peter and Hannah Orwig 
 are: 
 
 8. i. Maria Rebecca, born April 17, 1774, 
 
 married Miller. 
 
 9. ii. John Henry, born Dec. 27, 1775. 
 -|-10. iii. Samuel, born Oct. 3, 1779. 
 
13. 
 
 vi. 
 
 14. 
 
 vii. 
 
 IT). 
 
 viii. 
 
 KJ. 
 
 ix. 
 
 17. 
 
 X. 
 
 1S4 WAGENSKLLER HTSTORY. 
 
 11. iv. Esther, born Oct. 14, 1788, mar- 
 
 ried ^Vm. Boij;o-s of Mileshurg, Pa. 
 
 12. V. iSarali, mi'.n'iwl Jacoli Hoover of 
 
 Brush ^'al!f■^^ Pa. 
 Hfiiry, lived in .Schuylkill Cminty. 
 !-]!izabeth, horn Aug." "i.""), 1700. 
 Jacob, born JSIay 25, 11',)-. 
 John, lived in Wheeling. 
 Joseph (youngest) died at Akron, 
 i). Left two sons and two daugh- 
 ters. 
 18. xi. Mary, married Silar. 
 
 7. GEORGE^, {Gottfried'), born March 11,1758. 
 He is tlie youngest (jhild and was born at Maiden Creek, 
 near Keading, Pa. 
 
 In July, 177() enlisted and served five n)onths in the 
 llifie Company, commanded by Ca]>t. James Olds, and dm'- 
 iiigthis service was engageti in the battle of Long Island, 
 and ill the battle at Wliite Plains ; In Augu.st, 1777, he 
 en li,~'ed as a substitute for Philip Shots, and .served two 
 moiitlis as a private in the company connnanded by (Jaj)t. 
 Ja('(]!i \Vlietstoise, and was engaged in the battle of Bran- 
 dyw iiie ; In tlie winter of 1 778 enlisted as a substitute for 
 his l)nit!ier, Henry Orwig, and .served one month as a pri- 
 vate iit Plvniciiitli Meeting, alv nt twelve miles from Phil- 
 adeljiiiia; in March ami Ajiril of the same year .served 
 two miiiiti'is as a priviite at White Marsh about ten miles 
 from I'liiiaiielpliia, under tlic coinmarid of Col. Ijindamute 
 and Lt. Col. George May ; In Sept. 1778, served about 
 two months at Ft. Jenkin.s, as a private under the officers 
 last named. He married Maria Magdalen Gilbert,( daugh- 
 ter oi'(Jonrad <jilbert) born Aug. 10, 1758; died Jan. 30, 
 1841. George Orwig died March 2, 1841, at Mifflin- 
 burg, Pa. 
 
 George Orwig was appointed Ensign in tlie 6th Com- 
 pany, second J'>attalion, Berks County Militia, April 21, 
 1783. (See l\aina. Archives Vol. 10, page 191). 
 
WAQEN8ELLER HISTORY. 185 
 
 SOME GILBERT DATA. 
 
 Conrad Gilbert, the father of Mrs. George Orvvig, is 
 represented as a "taylor" who bought, January 27, 1761, 
 from Ludwig Heriug of Douglass township, Montgomery 
 County, Pa., 23 acres and 32 perches of land partly in 
 McCall's Manor. Conrad Gilbert and his wife Anna 
 Elizabeth had children as follows : 
 
 1. Mary Magdalena, born Aug. 10, 1758, baptized 
 by the pastor of the New Hanover Lutheran Church, Sept. 
 3, 1758. Sponsors, Adam Brobst and wife. 
 
 2. Catherine, born Sept. 2, 1760, baptized Sept. 28, 
 1760. Sponsors, Andrew Yoerger and wife. 
 
 3. Anna Elizabeth, born Aug. 25, 1762, baptized 
 Sept. 12, 1762. Sponsors, Andrew Yerger and wife. 
 
 4. Andrew, born Sept. 26, 1764, baptized Oct. 21, 
 1764. Sponsors, Andrew Yerger and wife, Catherine. 
 
 5. John Peter, born July 25, 1766, baptized Aug. 
 17, 1766. Sponsors, John P. Steltz and Susanna Ivuhle 
 (Keely.) 
 
 6. Anna Maria, (?) born Dec. 23, 1770, baptized 
 Jan. 13, 1771. Sponsors, John George Schweinhard and 
 wife Anna Maria. 
 
 7. Salome Gilbert burn Dee. 9, 1772, baptized Dec. 
 25, 1772. Sponsors, George Gilbert and wife Maria 
 Salome. 
 
 8. Christina Gilbert, born Sept. 29, 1775, baptized 
 Oct. 15, 1775. Sjionsors, Henry Gilbert and wife, Chris- 
 tina. 
 
 The Gilbert family in Falkner Swamp was a numei-- 
 ous one and is hard to trace and if my readers will pardon 
 the allusion in this connection to Barnerd Gilbert men- 
 tioned on page 17, time may perhaps evolve the discovery 
 of the relationship between Conrad and Bernard Gilbert, 
 both of whom took the oath ofallegience on the same day, — 
 Sept. 23, 1760. There were two persons by the name of 
 Earned Gilbert, which does not lessen the confusion of the 
 
186 WAGEN8ELLER HISIORY. 
 
 Gilbert aggregation, but the Bernard who took the oath of 
 allegiance the same day with Conrad must have been Ber- 
 nard Gilbert, Sr., married to Mary Elizabeth Meyer. 
 This couple is the father of Bernard Gilbert, born March 
 9, 1766, baptized by the pastor of the New Hanover Lu- 
 theran Church, March 30, 1766. Sponsors, Henry Schirni 
 
 and wife, Magdalena ; married Susanna , perhaps 
 
 Hornetter, as Andrew Hornetter had a daughter Susanna 
 and Bernard Gilbert was one of the executors of the will 
 of Andrew Hornetter as was also John Wagenseller, a 
 son-in-law. When the exact relationship is proven, as it 
 doubtless can, it will show a relationship between the 
 Orwig's and the Wagensellers of the Revolutionary period 
 through the Gilberts. Bernard and Susanna Gilbert had 
 cliildren : 
 
 1. Henry, born Sept. 24, 1791, baptized by the 
 pastor of tlie New Hanover Lutheran Churcli Oct. 9, 
 1791. Sponsors, Bernard and wife, Mary Elizabeth. 
 
 2. Magdalena, born Feb. 7, 1797, baptized Feb. 
 11, 1797. Sponsors, Bernard Gilbert, Sr. and wife. 
 
 3. John, born Nov. 7, 1801, baptized Jan. 3, 1802. 
 Sponsors, John Adam Gilbert and wife Magdaleda. 
 
 4. George, born Nov. 8, 1803, baptized January 
 29, 1804. Sponsors, John Gilbert and wife, Elizabetli. 
 
 Tlie author believes that the relationship here sug- 
 gested between tlie Gilberts, AV'agensellers and Orwigs, 
 can, and will some day be solved. 
 
 George Orwig, about the year 1812 moved from 
 
 Berks County, to Union County, Pennsylvania and settled 
 
 near Mifflinburg. Both he and his wife are lying in the 
 
 old burying-ground at Mifflinburg, Union County, their 
 
 graves being overgrown witii long grass, but marked witli 
 
 headstones. They are the parents of twelve children : 
 
 19. i. George, born Jan. 17, 1780 and 
 
 died near Bellevue, O. February 1, 
 
 1852. While in Union County, 
 
 Pa., he owned the large farm in 
 
 AVest IJufTalo township now the 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 187 
 
 liouie of John A\'atsoii. Mrs. Isa- 
 belle Baker, a graDcl-daiighter, re- 
 sides at BellevLie, O. 
 -20. ii. John, born July 21, 1781. 
 
 21. iii. Jacob, boi-n April 18, 1783, lived 
 
 and died at New Berlin, Pa., Jan. 
 23, 1859. They had one son, Jo- 
 seph, now deceased, and a daughter, 
 Han-iet, married Jan. 16, 1851 to 
 Col. Charles Kleckner, who served 
 in the Civil ^7ar and now resides in 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 22. iv. Isaac, born Feb. 27, 1785 at Or- 
 
 wigsburg. Pa., and died there Oct. 
 10, 1872. His son, Isaac, lives 
 there now and another son, EUwood 
 L., resides at Lansford, Pa. 
 -23. v. Abraham, born Feb. 26, 1787. 
 
 24. vi. Henry, born June 27, 1789, mar- 
 
 ried to Clara Wagner and died 
 Feb. 7, 1877, without issue in Mif- 
 flinburg. Hewas the administrator 
 of his father's estate. The admin- 
 istrator's notice is published March 
 12, 1841 in the New Berlin Union 
 Star. 
 
 25. vii. ^lary Sarah, born Aug. 27, 1791 
 
 and died Oct. 9, 1792. Atanother 
 place we find the name of this one 
 Salma Maria. 
 
 26. viii. Maria Magdalena, born December 
 
 5, 1793, married Ephraim Hack- 
 man and died June 20, 1866 in 
 Adamsburg, Snyder County, Pa. 
 
 27. iv. Rebecca, born Feb. 21, 1796, mar- 
 
 ried Thomas Crotzer and died in 
 ]Mifflinburg. They left two sons, 
 H. W. and Charles Crotzer. 
 
28. 
 
 X. 
 
 29. 
 
 xi. 
 
 30. 
 
 xii. 
 
 188 WAGEN8ELLER HI810RY. 
 
 Samuel, born April 6, 1798. 
 William, born March 22, 1800. 
 Hannah, born July 1, 1802, never 
 married and died in Mifflinburg 
 several years ago. 
 
 10. SAMUELS, {Peter"', Gottfried}-), born Oct. 3, 
 1779, married Elizabeth Hammer, who was born August 
 6, 1779, a member of one of the pioneer families of Berks 
 County, Pennsylvania. Samuel died near Grove City, 
 Penna. about 1859. By his wife Elizabeth Hammer, he 
 had twelve children as follows : 
 
 31. i. Rebecca, born Sept. 22nd, 1798 
 
 married James Bell. 
 
 32. ii. Hannah, born October 29th, 1800, 
 
 married Arthur McNichol. 
 + 33. iii. Daniel Hammer, born October 6th, 
 
 1803. 
 
 34-5. iv. & v. Twins, born October 24th, 1805, 
 died in infancy. 
 
 36. vi. Elizabeth, born March 24th, 1807, 
 
 married Gilbert L. Lloyd. 
 
 37. vii. Esther, born May 21st, 1809, mar- 
 
 ried Henry Crocker, residing at 
 Seneca, Kansas. 
 
 38. viii. John Wesley, born December 17th, 
 
 1811, married Katherine Lenhart 
 of Mifflinburg. 
 
 39. ix. Mary Ann, born November 17th, 
 
 1814, married Hugh Sharp. 
 
 40. X. Tsabella, born August 4th, 1817, 
 
 married William Herring. 
 
 41. ■ xi. Samuel Webb, born October 1st, 
 
 1819, married Elizabeth Auton. 
 
 42. xii. James Bell, born Sept. 4th, 1823, 
 
 married Sarah Catherine Albin. 
 Died at Ellsworth, Kansas, Jan. 
 24, 1898. 
 
WA0EN8ELLER HISTORY. 189 
 
 15. JACOB*, {Peter', Gottfried^ born May 25, 
 1792 at Tuscai'ora, Pa. Married Rebecca Mains of Berks 
 County, Pa., who was bom Aug. 6, 1795 and died Sept. 
 30, 1854. Jacob died near Badley, Penna. Dec. 22, 1865. 
 By his wife Rebecica, he had eleven children : 
 
 43. i. Joanna, married John HoUeubaugli. 
 
 Residence unknown. 
 
 44. ii. Temperance, born at Salem, Ohio, 
 
 July 23rd, 1815, married Joseph 
 G. Butler, Sr. Residence, War- 
 ren, Ohio. 
 
 45. iii. Henrietta, born , married 
 
 Jesse Bird. Dead. 
 
 46. iv. Jane, born , married A. 
 
 Loveland. Residence, Monticello, 
 Wis. 
 
 47. V. Samuel M., born , married 
 
 Sophronia Bean. Dead. 
 
 48. vi. James W., born Nov. 18, 1824, 
 
 died February 27, 1894, married 
 Sarah Steen. 
 
 49. vii. ISIary Ann, born , married 
 
 Corydon Bean. Residence, Rock 
 Creek, Ohio. 
 
 50. viii. Robert L., born . Lives in 
 
 Virginia. 
 -f51. ix. Rebecca Ellen, born Feb. 15, 1832, 
 
 married first David Watkins, second 
 husband, Slathiel Pettitt. Both hus- 
 bands met accidental deaths. 
 
 52, X. Hannah M., born , married 
 
 Isaac Pettitt. Dead. 
 
 53. xi. Thomas, born . Died in 
 
 infancy. 
 
 20. JOHN^ (George^, Gotttried% born July 21, 
 1781, moved to Mifflinburg in 1782 with his father and 
 became one of the most prominent men of the community. 
 
190 WAGEKSELLER HISIORY. 
 
 In 1820 he was the postmaster ofMifflinburgand for many 
 years was a merchant at that place. In 1826 there was 
 an advertisement running through the papers by John and 
 Henry Orwig. John followed his brother George to 
 Ohio and died in Bellevue, Sept. 25, 1844. 
 
 When John went west he located at Black Swamp, 
 west of Fremont, Ohio, then a very heavy timbered com- 
 munity. Here with his boys, then quite young, they 
 prepared a farm in the soil so black and rich. Joseph did 
 not accompany the family west, but remained in Miffiio- 
 burg to follow his occupation, that of dentistry. While 
 John was in Mifflinburg as a merchant, he occupied the 
 large two and a half story brick building opposite the 
 Deckard Hotel. Failing in business, he gave up all and 
 with his family he emigrated in wagons to Ohio. 
 
 He was the father of nine children : 
 + 54. i. Joseph, born Nov. 12, 1801. 
 
 55. ii. John, born Dec. 1803, was mar- 
 
 ried by Rev. Fries in 1825 to Ma- 
 ria Bright. He was a doctor and 
 died young. 
 
 56. iii. Susanna, born July 24, 1806, mar- 
 
 ried Oct. 6, 1825 to Daniel Aubel 
 (now spelled Auble), who died at 
 Wardsworth, Ohio, Dec. 23, 1872. 
 Susanna died at Akron, Ohio, Nov. 
 21, 1887. Daniel Auble in early 
 life was associated with "Jimmy" 
 Cummings, as they called thegenial 
 Dry Goods Merchant in Mifflinburg. 
 Daniel was considered a good bus- 
 iness man and very popular, but he 
 lost all his property, which was 
 taken to pay claims, — made secure- 
 ty for others. They had a family 
 of four children, (1) James A., now 
 living in Newberry, Pa. (2) Mary 
 Elizabeth, married Lutz, 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 191 
 
 now deceesed. Widow resides in 
 Fiudley, Ohio. (3) John H. Au- 
 ble, now resides in Akron, Ohio, 
 was quite successful in business hav- 
 ing accumulated a fortune of $75,- 
 000 in Real Estate, Insurance and 
 other business, but the last 15 years 
 he lost by investments in corpora- 
 tions, $50,000 of it. He was a 
 soldier in the Civil War. When 
 his parents were poor, he bought a 
 cozy home for them at Wadsworth, 
 Ohio, and paid the last of the debt 
 upon it when he returned from the 
 war. (4) Charles H. Auble died 
 in infancy. 
 
 57. iv. Daniel, born Jan. 5, 1809, died at 
 
 the age of 60 years. 
 
 58. v. Mary Elizabeth, born April 20, 
 
 1811. She was three times a widow 
 having married first, Bur- 
 ton ; second, Harsh; third, 
 
 Sherk. She raised children 
 
 with each husband and died at 
 Bellevue, Ohio, about 1885. 
 
 59. vi. Catherine, born Oct. 14, 1813, 
 
 married William Roush, raised a 
 large family and died near Clyde, 
 Ohio, about 1883. 
 
 60. vii. Maria, born March 11, 1816, mar- 
 
 ried to Thomas 
 
 Roush (brother of William, the 
 husband of Catherine.) She also 
 raised a large family, lived and died 
 near Clyde, Ohio, about 1883-4. 
 60a. viii. Henry, born Oct. 27, 1818, was 
 
 married, had a family of about sev- 
 en children, was in the Civil War, 
 
192 WAQEN8ELLEB HISIORY. 
 
 lived in Michigan and died in Kan- 
 sas about 1892. 
 
 60b. ix. Sarah Ann, born June 2, 1821, 
 
 married to Joshua Harsli, who still 
 survives and lives uear Chicago, 
 Illinois. Sarah died about 1886. 
 
 60c. X. Samuel, (youngest) born Jan. 13, 
 
 1824, served in a Michigan Regi- 
 ment of infantry in the Civil War 
 and died a prisoner of war at An- 
 derson ville, having starved to death. 
 His widow and two childred sur- 
 vive him. 
 
 23. ABRAHAMS, George', Gottfried'), born Feb. 
 26, 1787 in Schuylkill County, Pa., married Dec. 25, 
 1809 to Elizabeth Wagner and died at Orwig's Mill, in 
 Lewis township, Union County, Pa., Dec. 16, 1852. His 
 wife died Dec. 9, 1828 and both are buried in the old 
 grave yard at Mifflinburg, Pa. They had six children : 
 
 + 61. i. William W., born Dec. 25, 1810. 
 
 62. ii. Sarah, born Dec. 2, 1812, never 
 
 married, died at Bonfield, Illinois, 
 in 1877. 
 
 63. iii. Henry, born March 12, 1814, mar- 
 
 ried Eliza Lebkicher of New Ber- 
 lin. He died April 5, 1880 and 
 was buried at Mifflinburg. He was 
 a miller by trade. Four children 
 grew to maturity, Cliarles H. of 
 Millmont, Union County, Pa., Phil- 
 lip S., a minister who died Ln York, 
 Pa., Harvey residing at Lewisburg 
 and Clara A., married to Horace 
 B. Caw lev, now residing in Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y. 
 
 64. iv. Elias, born July 15, 1816, married 
 
 Rebecca Wolfe and died March 16, 
 
^AOENSELLER HISTORY. 193 
 
 1892. He had one sou, Charles 
 W., married April 16, 1871 to 
 Alice ^V^alter of New Berlin, now 
 resides on the homestead in Hartle- 
 ton. Pa. His mother has her home 
 with him. 
 
 65. V. Abraham, born July 18, 1818, mar- 
 
 ried Amelia Hoffman, emigrated 
 to Illinios in 1849. He has since 
 died and the widow with two sons 
 and two daughters all reside in 
 Kankakee County, Ills. 
 
 66. vi. Mary Ann, born, July 26, 1821, 
 
 married to Wm. F. Hixson, moved 
 t« Illinois in 1854, died about 
 1888. Her husband and four chil- 
 dren live in Bonfield, Kankakee 
 County, Ills. 
 
 67. vil. Caroline, born Aug. 29, 1823, mar- 
 
 I'ied John T. Smith, moved to Illi- 
 nois in 1855 where her husband 
 died about 1878-9, when she with 
 her three sons moved to Des Moines, 
 Iowa, where she still resides. Er- 
 astus, an attorney, practices in Den- 
 ver, Col., Calvin, a doctor, and Al- 
 va, a printer, resides somewhere on 
 the Pacific Coast. 
 28. SAMUELS, (George^ Gottfried}), born April 6, 
 
 1798, married Mary Meyer. Both died at Mifflinburg. 
 
 Samuel died Sept. 7, 1872, aged 74 years and four months. 
 
 They had five sons and three daughters : 
 
 69. i. Mary Jane, born Aug. 25, 1830, 
 
 married May 24, 1853 to Jacob C. 
 Hendricks. She died Feb. 14, 1898 
 at Decatur, Ills., leaving five daugh- 
 ters, Mamie, of Decatur ; Helen, a 
 teacher in the Chicago schools • 
 
+ 70. 
 
 iii. 
 
 + 71. 
 
 iv. 
 
 + 72. 
 
 V. 
 
 194 WAOENSELLER HISIORY. 
 
 Mrs. E. W. Smith of Denver, Col.; 
 Bertha, also of Denver and Mrs. G. 
 M. Hart of Detroit. Mrs. Hen- 
 dricks is survived also by her hus- 
 band and two sons, Arthur of De- 
 catur and Harry of Denver, Colo. 
 69. ii. Eeuben George, born May 12, 1832, 
 
 resides at 357 E. 42nd St., Chicago, 
 Ills. 
 
 Thomas Gilbert, born June 24, 1834. 
 Samuel Henry, born Aug. 18, 1836. 
 Joseph John Ray, born June 30, 
 1838. 
 
 73. vi. Benjamin Meyer, born Aug. 31, 
 
 1840; died Oct. 28, 1867 at Des 
 Moines, Iowa. Buried at the old 
 home in Mifflinburg Cemetery. He 
 was Lieut, in Battery E., First 
 Penna. Light Artillery, Army of 
 the Potomac. 
 
 74. vii. Sarah Louise, born Dec. 1, 1842 
 
 and died Sept. 10, 1881 at Mifflin- 
 burg. 
 
 75. viii. Rebecca Hanna, born July 10, 
 
 1845, is Librarian of the Iowa Pat- 
 ent Office, Des Moines. 
 29. AVILLIAM3, {Georffe:", GottfriecP), born IMarch 
 22, 1800, lived orer a mile north-east of Orwig's Mill, 
 where he owned a saw-mill and a farm, near Pleasant 
 Grove, Lewis township, Union County, Pa. He died 
 Feb. 25, 1869 and is buried at Mifflinburg. William's 
 youngest son, Edward G. has a son Nelson B. Orwig, who 
 resides at Liniestoneville, Montour County, Pa. Edward 
 G. Orwig died some years ago and his widow, Ann Re- 
 becca, died March 20, 1898 at the home of her son. Nelson, 
 at the age or 79 years, 11 mouths and 20 days. Her only 
 daughter is Mrs. Samuel J. Reed of Mifflinburg. The fu- 
 neral took place at Pleasant Grove, Union Co. Gottfried's 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 195 
 
 old Family Bible, printed in 1743, is in the hands of Nel- 
 son B. Orwig of Limestoneville, Pa., who is the son of Ed- 
 ward G., son of William, youngest son of George, 
 who was the youngest son of Gottfried 
 and Clara Orwig. In 1836 there was written in 
 the Bible : "This Bible shall not be sold and shall re- 
 main under the name from one generation to the other. 
 This is the wish of George and Henry Orwig." From the 
 Union Star, published as New Berlin, Pa., July 3, 1840, 
 we observe that William Orwig (now under consideration) 
 published the administraror's notice in the Estate of Solo- 
 mon Kutz, late of Hartley township, Union County, Pa. 
 Edward G. (son of William) was born Aug. 7, 1823 and 
 died Sept. 27, 1894 aged 71 years, 1 month and 20 days. 
 Edward's wife, Ann R., was born March 31, 1818 and 
 dietl as above stated. 
 
 33. DANIEL HAM^MERS {SamueP, Peter\ Oott- 
 fried}), born Oct. 6, 1808, died at Bellevue, Ohio, Sept. 
 21, 1892 of Bright's disease. He was married Feb. 14, 
 1828 to Catherine Martz Hopper, who was born Feb. 21, 
 1811 in Montour County, Pennsylvania and died near St. 
 Louis, Michigan, March 1885 of hydrothorax. They are 
 the parents of eight children : 
 
 + 76. i. John Hopper, born Feb. 23, 1829. 
 
 77. ii. Susanna H., born Aug. 20, 1831 
 
 at Warrior's Mark, Pa. and died 
 Dec. 20, 1832. 
 
 78. iii. Samuel Abner, born March 24, 
 
 1833 at Centreville, Snyder Coun- 
 ty, Pa. Married Martha Black, 
 born in Londerry, Ireland and died 
 in Bellevue, O., about 1888. He 
 lives at Bellevue, O. He has a 
 son Dr. A. D. Orwig born Aug. 
 29, 1855, residing at Corner of 
 Collingw'd Ave. and Monroe Street, 
 Toledo, Ohio, and a son, George, a 
 
196 WAGENSELLER HISIORY. 
 
 lawyer, and a daughter, Cora, both 
 also residing at Toledo, O. 
 78.a iv. Arthur MoNichol, born Feb. 17, 
 
 1835 at Centreville, Pa., married 
 Mary Gilbert, is a farmer and a 
 pensioner i-esiding at Mansfield, O. 
 
 79. V. Virginia Martha, born April 21, 
 
 1838, near Mooresburg, Pa., mar- 
 ried Ithamar Butler Jan. 22, 185 . 
 and died in Chicago, April 9, 1890 
 They had three children, (1) Joseph 
 M., born Aug. 18, 1858 at New 
 Rochester, Ohio, married to Mima 
 Ashbaugh, born near Hagerstown, 
 Maryland. They have one child 
 Helen Logan Butler, born July 14, 
 1886. He resides at Youiigatown, 
 Ohio, is Assistant Secretary of 
 Brown-Bonnell Iron Co. and has 
 furnished us valuable data for this 
 genealogy. (2) Clarice Virginia, 
 married to Attorney William N. 
 Ashbaugh was born near Niles, O., 
 March 22, 1860. (3) Miles Ev- 
 erett, born near Niles, Ohio, Jan. 5, 
 1862, never married and is follow- 
 ing tlie occupation of a farmer. 
 
 80. vi. Alexander Ross, born May 8. 1840 
 
 and died Sept. 8, 1842. 
 
 81. vii. Nathan Jaines, born Nov. 9, 1843 
 
 at Warren Ohio, married Sarah Al- 
 lis and resides at Forest Hill, Mich. 
 or Mansfield, O. 
 
 82. viii. Lucy Ann, born Feb. 22, 1845 at 
 
 Price's Mills, Ohio, and died March 
 5, 1845. 
 54. JOSEPH*, (John«, George^, Gottfried^), born 
 Nov. 12, 1801, was twice married, first to 
 
WAGENSELLEB. UTS TORY. 1&7 
 
 with whom he had two danghtei>, one Catherine, wlio was 
 married Sept. 10, 1844 by Rev. A. B. Casper of Middle- 
 burgh, Pa., to George Noeoker. The family now reside 
 in Milton, Pa. The other daughter married and went 
 west. He was married second, Dec. 24, 1829, to Anna 
 B. Keller, who was bora June 17, 1810 and died July 4, 
 1874. Joseph was a successful dentist in Mifflinburgand 
 accumulated considerable money, but most of it disappear- 
 ed. He died Aug. 2, 1879. By his second marriage, he 
 had twelve children : 
 
 83. i. Sarah Elizabeth, born Dec. 3, 183 1, 
 
 married Feb. 26, 185G to AVilliam 
 Colpetzer and died in Kansas, Jan. 
 18, 1881. Her husband was mur- 
 dered by the Missourians, May 19, 
 1858. Several years before the war 
 of the Rebellion, Mr. Colpetzer re- 
 sided in Kansas, near the Missouri 
 line. The question of Kansas be- 
 ing admitted as a free or a slave 
 state was agitating the people of his 
 state. Mr. Colpetzer was a prom- 
 inent man and an able speaker and 
 used his talents making public 
 speeches to pursuade the people of 
 Kansas to have a free state. Just 
 across the line in Missouri resided a 
 lototslave holders whothreatened to 
 kill him if he persisted in making 
 anti-slavery speeches. He paid no 
 attention to their threats, but they, 
 true to their promise, came to his 
 house at night and demanded a 
 peaceful surrender. He was in a 
 position to kill them, but prefering 
 to die innocent rather than to live 
 with human blood stains u])on his 
 hands, he surrendered. The ^lis- 
 
198 WAGENSELLER HISIORY. 
 
 souriaiis took him with others, and 
 placed them in a row near Bloom- 
 ing Grove, Linn County, Kansas 
 and all were shot down — martyrs 
 to anti-slavery convictions. After 
 the tragedy the widow and herchil- 
 dren came back to her father's home 
 at Mifflinburg, Pa. 
 
 84. ii. Samuel Phineas, born May 18, 
 
 1834. Married Dec. 9, 1856 to 
 Mary Transue. He is a retired 
 Lutheran clergyman, having also at 
 one time followed dentistry and is 
 now devoting some time repairing 
 watches, clocks and jewelry. He 
 served in the late war and among 
 other engagements participated in 
 the capture of Petersburg, ^''a. They 
 have three children, Annie married 
 to Griggs Lantz, resides in Pitts- 
 burg, Pa., Milton, the operator and 
 ticket agent at Houtzdale, Pa., 
 married to Anna Fisher of Salem, 
 Pa., and Sadie, married to J. Ward 
 Diehl, now residing in Philadelphia. 
 
 85. iii. Amanda Lucretia, born Feb. 6, 
 
 1831, married June 6, 1858 to M. 
 O. Eilert, now residing in North 
 Carolina. Mrs. Eilert died March 
 27, 1885. He was a soldier in tlie 
 Civil War. They have three chil- 
 dren, Lizzie, married to Oscar Carey 
 of Watsontown ; Charles, married to 
 Beckie "Welsh of Watsontown, Pa., 
 is the General Manager and book- 
 keeper of a business in North Caro- 
 lina and Nellie, married to William 
 Schuyler of Williawsport, Pa. 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 199 
 
 86. if. Andrew Jackson, boru Oct. 21, 
 
 1836, married Alarcli IS, 1861 to 
 Sarah Browers and died iVIay 16, 
 1880. A daughter, Emma married 
 to Eugene P. Leonard, resides with 
 her husband at 1235 "L" Street, 
 Lincoln, Nebr. Andrew, or "Jaciv," 
 as he was called, was a soldier in the 
 Civil War and was shot througli 
 the lower jaw in front of Peters- 
 burg by a sharpshooter, from the 
 effects of which he died at Banner- 
 ville, ^V^est Beaver township, Sny- 
 der County, Pa. 
 
 87. V. Lunciuda Ann, boru April 1.", 
 
 1838, married Dec. 1, 1857 to 
 Aaron Weary and died Feb. 25, 
 1870. Aaron died in 1897. They 
 had quite a family, among them are 
 Francis, John, who resides at Lev/- 
 isburg, Anna (dead), ISIazie and an- 
 other daughter. 
 
 88. vi. :\lartha Jane, born Dec. 29, 1839, 
 
 married March 24, 1864 to ^\\\- 
 liam A. Orr. They have a son, 
 Allen, unmarried, who is a Real 
 Estate, Fire and Life Insurance 
 agent at Lewistown, Mifflin Coun- 
 ty, Pa., and a daughter, Grace, mar- 
 ried to Smith, engaged in 
 
 the mercantile business in West 
 Virginia. 
 
 89. vii. William Patterson, born March 13, 
 
 1841, married in San Francisco, 
 California Oct., 10, 1866 to Emma 
 Dean. He served in Co. E. Fifty- 
 first Penna, Regiment and later in 
 the First U. S. Cavalry having 
 
200 WAGENSELLER HISIORY. 
 
 gone through the same cDgagetnents 
 as his brother, John, a list of which 
 is given elsewhere. When he was 
 discharged from the service in Cal- 
 ifornia, he secured a position in the 
 Custom House in San Francisco. 
 About 1871 he moved away up to- 
 ward Washington and Oregon. 
 From 1871 to 1898 nothing could 
 be learned of him thoiigh nimierous 
 letters were addressed to him. In 
 1898 word was received that he 
 died, 1895, in the soldiers' home in 
 Washington (state). In the battle 
 of Upperville, Va., a horse ^was 
 shot under him. 
 
 + 90, viii. John Wesley, born Feb. 22, 1843. 
 
 91. ix. Malinda Delilah, born Oct. 2,1844, 
 
 married March 7, 1867 to John 
 Yeatter and died June 4, 1890 at 
 Muskegon, iSIichigan. He is still 
 living there. They have a sou, 
 Clarence, a daughter Florence, mar- 
 ried and Minta, who is dead. 
 
 92. X. Mary Melissa, born May 15, 1846, 
 
 married Oct. 10, 1869 to Andrew 
 Hudgason, who resides in Liewis- 
 burg, Pa. aud has hve children. 
 Mary died Dec. 1, 1885. 
 
 93. xi. Joseph Clark, born Feb. 13, 1849, 
 
 is married, has a family, is a den- 
 tist, has accumulated some property 
 and resides at Herndon, Northum- 
 berland County, Pa. He has a son, 
 William, in the . regular army, a 
 son, John, attending college at New 
 Berlin and other children. 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. 201 
 
 93a. xii. Susau Matilda, born Feb. 28, 1852, 
 
 never married, died Feb. 21, 1874. 
 61. WILLIAM W.\ {Abraham^, George^, Gott^ 
 fiied?-), born Dec. 25, 1810, married Susan Rishel of Cen- 
 tre County, Pennsylvania and died in Cleveland, Ohio, 
 about 1887. At the age of 18 years, he entered the min- 
 istry of the Evangelical Association and became quite 
 prominent in the church. Later he became Bishop and 
 was editor of a German church paper, called the 5ofec/(a/"fer, 
 for a number of years. He was one of the founders of 
 Union Seminary, now Central Pennsylvania College at 
 Xew Berlin, Pa. and was its first President. This school 
 was opened in January 1856 and our subject was Principal 
 and Professor of Moral Science and the German language. 
 In 1859 he resigned to devote more time to his chosen call- 
 ing. By his wife, Susan, he had seven children : 
 
 94. i. Sarah A., married to David Har- 
 
 lacker, now reside at Cleveland, O. 
 
 95. ii. Aaron W., like his father, was a 
 
 minister and also resides at Cleve- 
 land, Ohio. 
 
 96. iii. Thomas R., who was a member of 
 
 Co. E., 142nd Regiment, Penna. 
 Volunteers. Died 1862. 
 
 97. iv. Mary C, married Rev. Josiah Bow- 
 
 ersox and died in Oregon. 
 
 98. V. Susan M., married Prof. Eli Hoff- 
 
 man, died in Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 99. vi. Lizzie, married to Rev. S. L. W'iest, 
 
 now residing in Harrisburg, Pa. 
 
 100. vii. iNIartha, married and died in Cleve- 
 
 land, Ohio. 
 
 101. viii. Ada, married and died in Cleve- 
 
 land, Ohio. 
 101a. ix. George, is a prominent physician 
 
 and surgeon in Cleveland, Ohio. 
 70. TH0:MAS GILBERT^ (SamueP, Georg<^, Gott- 
 friecP-), born June 24, 1834, married Feb. 6, 1864 at Mid- 
 
202 WAGENSELLER HISHORf. 
 
 dletown, N. Y. to Mary E.Sipp. He was iu the Civil 
 War and after his marriage his wife went with him to his 
 Battery at Yorlitown and they began their married life in 
 Rebel barracks. A daughter, Mary Gilbert, was born to 
 them Feb. 24, 1865 and died Jan. 26, 1897. They had 
 an adopted daughter, Mrs. Mabel A. Sneat, who is the 
 mother of four children. Thomas G. is at the head of the 
 Iowa Patent Office established in 1870, located at 201 
 Fifth Street, Des Moines, Iowa. During the war he was 
 Captain of Battery E., First Penna. Light Artillery. Dur- 
 ing the siege of Yorktown, in 1862, while on staff duty, 
 he was ordered to discover a suspected rebel earthwork 
 near York Creek. With field glass and portfolio in hand, 
 he cautiou-sly reached a wooded spot on the bank of the 
 creek and saw a marshy flat on the otlier side and a build- 
 ing and "Johnuies" on a rise beyond the marsh. Feeling 
 safe he stood up and with his glass searched theiuterveniug 
 space, when three rebels arose in tiie marsh and fired right 
 at him. Closer calls in battle may have occurred, but 
 not realized daring the excitement at such times. In the 
 patent office of Iowa he has built up an immense business. 
 He has just been nominated for Congress on the Prohibi- 
 tion ticket. 
 
 71. SAMUEL HEN]iY^ {SanmeP, Georgtfi, Gott- 
 fried^), born Aug. 18, 1836 at Mifflinburg, Pa., married 
 May 28, 1878 to Maggie Hayes of Mifflinburg. He was 
 educated in Mifflinburg Academy and Lewisburg Univer- 
 sity and Lewisburg Academy and spent two years at tlie 
 Yale Law School where he graduated and was admitted 
 to the bar of Union County, Pa., Dec. 14, 1857 where he 
 has skice practiced. He was twice elected to the State 
 ijegislature, first in 18(>4 from Union, Snyder and Juniata 
 district and second in 1865 from Lycoming, Union and 
 Snyder district. He was the Republican nominee for 
 Congress in 1882 and in 18S4 for State Senator. During 
 the war he served as a private in Co. D., 28th Regiment, 
 (emergency men). He now resides at Lewisburg, Union 
 County, Pa. 
 
WAOENSELLEB HISTORY. 203 
 
 72. JOSEPH JOHN RAY', {SamueP, Georgf, 
 Gottfried^), born June 30, 1838 at Mifflinburg, Union 
 County, Pa., married April 18, 1865 to Jane Whiteside 
 Stees, who was born at Oakland Mills, Perry County, Pa., 
 Sept. 9, 1841. She was the daughter of Dr. A. C. Stees 
 and Margaret !Mitcliell [^\lliteside] Stees, bui-ied at INlil- 
 lerstown. Perry County, Pa. Joseph K. has held numer- 
 ous important public positions in Pennsylvania and Iowa. 
 He was a captain in the Civil War and Assistant Libra- 
 rian of Penna. They are tiie parents of six children, all 
 born at Mifflniburg except Reuben George who was born 
 at Harrisburg. The list is as follows : 
 
 102. i. Margaret Mitchell born May 18, 
 
 1866. 
 
 103. ii. Mary Gilbert, born Dec. 30, 1867, 
 
 married Oct. 6, 1897 at Des Moines, 
 Iowa, to Henry G. Everett. 
 
 104. iii. Clara Beaver, born Feb. 20, 1871. 
 
 105. iv. Joseph Ralph born Nov. 26, 1872, 
 
 is now at Yale Law School. 
 
 106. V. Louisa Hayes, born Nov. 10, 1874. 
 
 107. vi. Reuben George, born Aug. 9, 1877. 
 76. JOHN HOPPER^ (Daniel Hammer'^, SamueP, 
 
 Feter^, Gottfried}), born Feb. 2?., 1829 at Mooresburg, Pa. 
 married Jan. 8, 1852 to Hannah Maria Hoover, born at 
 Edenburg, Lawrence County, Pa., Aug. 10, 1827. They 
 reside at Forest Hill, Michigan. They are the parents of 
 four children : 
 
 108. i. Alice Emma, born Nov. 28, 1853 
 
 and died Oct. 28, 1856. 
 
 109. ii. Harry Ithamar, born Aug. 2, 1857 
 
 at Newport, Portage County, O., 
 married Catherine Brack, born at 
 Roxheim, Rhenish, Prussia, April 
 11, 1861. They reside at Winnet- 
 ka, Illinois and have a family of 
 four children, Sherman Brack, born 
 at Big Rapids, Mich., April 12, 
 
204 WAGENSELLER HISIORY. 
 
 1886; Emily, born at Wimietka, 
 June 22, 1888 ; Harry Douglass, 
 born July 2, 1891 ; Raymond Lloyd, 
 born Feb. 3, 1896. Harry I. fur- 
 nished some valuable data for this 
 genealogy. 
 
 110. iii. John Fremont, born at Paris, Ohio, 
 
 Aug. 8, 1859 and died at Forest 
 Hill, Mich. Aug. 2, 1879. 
 
 111. iv. Charles Isaiah, born at Greensburg 
 
 Cross Roads, Ohio, Feb. 19, 1864, 
 married July 3, 1889 to Minnie A. 
 White, who died at Forest Hill, 
 Mich. March 8, 1896. Charles I. 
 resides at Forest Hi 111, Mich. By 
 his wife, Minnie, he had three chil- 
 dren, Harry Lee, bora May 22, 
 1890, Lena Nell, born April 30, 
 1892 and Zelma,born Oct. 9, 1895, 
 all natives of Forest Hill, Mich. 
 90. JOHN WEBLEY5, {Joseph*, John^, George^ 
 Gottfi-iecU), born Feb. 22, 1843 in Columbia County, Pa., 
 married June 4, 1868 to Margaret Zellers, born, Sept. 25, 
 1841, in Union Couotv, the daughter of Samuel Zellers, 
 born May 1, 1809, died May 27, 1871 and his wife, Su- 
 sanna [Stout] Zellers, born Dec. 15, 1815 and died April 
 22, 1877. They lived in ^^'est Buffalo township and are 
 buried in the old cemetery at Miffliubnrg, Pa. In 1849 
 when John was only 6 years old, his father moved to Mif- 
 flinburg where his boyhood days were spent. He was only 
 18 years old wlien the war broke out, but he was deter- 
 mined to goto the war and he enlisted Sept. 13, 1861 in 
 Co. E., Fifty-iirst Penna. Regiment Volunteer Infantry. 
 He was transferred to the Regular Army Sept. 26,1862 
 and was assigned to the position of Bugler of Co. B., First 
 U. S. Cavalry. He had enlisted for three years, but they 
 offered to give a rebate of six months to those wlio would 
 re-enlist tor three years in the regular army. Conseiiuent- 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 205 
 
 ^y his first term of enlistment expired Feb. 13, 1864 when 
 he re-enlisted for three years and was finally discharged 
 Feb. 13, 1867 at Camp McGarry, Nevada. ' At theclose 
 of the war, he embarked with the regulars at New Or- 
 leans, Jan. 1, 1865, for San Francisco, California and oper- 
 ated against the Indians in California, Nevada and Oregon. 
 During the Civil War, he took part in the following en- 
 gagements : 
 
 Burnside's Expedition. 
 
 1. Roanoke Island, N. C. 
 
 2. Newberne, N. C. 
 
 8. Camden Plains, N. C. 
 
 Army of the Potomac. 
 
 4. Second Battle of Bull Run. 
 
 5. Chantillo, Va. 
 
 6. Fredericksburg, Ya., April 18, 1862. 
 
 7. South Mountain, Va., Sept. 14, 1862. 
 
 8. Antietam, Va., Sept. 17, 1862. 
 
 9. Chaucellorsville, April 29, 1863. 
 
 10. Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3, 1863. 
 
 11. Shepherdstown, Pa., July 10, 1863 
 
 12. Catholic Station, Aug. 1, 1863. 
 
 13. Battle of the Wilderness, May 8, 1864. 
 
 14. Spottsylvania, Va., May 8, 1864. 
 
 15. Sheridan's Raid, May 9-20, 1864. 
 
 16. Yellow Tavern, Va., May 12, 1864. 
 
 17. Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, 1864. 
 
 18. Travilliau Station, Va., June 11, 1864. 
 
 19. Winchester, Va., July 19, 1864. 
 
 20. Manasses Gap, July 23, 1864. 
 
 21. Front Royal, Va., Aug. 16, 1864. 
 
 22. Weldou Railroad, Aug. 20, 1864. 
 
 23. Berryville, Va., Sept. 3, 1864. 
 
 24. Opequam Creek, Sept. 19, 1864. 
 
 25. Fisher's Hill, Sept. 21, 1864. 
 
 26. Wainsboro, Va., Oct. 14, 1864. 
 
 27. Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864. 
 
206 WAGENSELLER HISIORY. 
 
 28. Richmond, Va., April 3-9, 1865 which surren- 
 
 dered to Lee. 
 Other Engagements. 
 
 29. Williamaport. 
 
 30. Boonsboro, July 1-12. 
 
 31. Falling Water. 
 
 32. Brandy Station. 
 
 33. Stanton, Va. 
 
 34. Uppervillc, Va., where he received a sabre cut 
 
 in the head by a Kebel. 
 
 While serving as a despatch carrier for General Pat- 
 rick, Provost Marshall General, he was carrying a mes- 
 sage from Fredericksburg to Aquia Creek over a Cordu- 
 roy Road, the horse stumbled and fell upon the right foot 
 of our subject and injured it so severely that the effects 
 are still noticeable. 
 
 After his discharge in 1867 he returned to his home 
 in Mifflinburg and studied dentistry with his brother, Sam- 
 uel P. In April 1868 he located at Middleburgh, Snyder 
 County, Pa., the following June he was married and iu 
 July he moved to Middleburg and practiced his profes- 
 sion continuously up to this time with the exception of 
 four years from April 1876 to April 1880 which he speut 
 in Watsontown, Pa. For the past 30 years he has enjoy- 
 ed a large and lucrative practice in his chosen profes- 
 sion, most <jf the time, having exclusive control of the 
 territory. In politics, he, at all times, is a Republican 
 and is a firm believer in the causes his party has espoused. 
 
 The children of John and Margaret Orwig are: 
 
 i. Lillian Susanna, born Jan. 11, 
 1869, married Dec. 26. 1889 to 
 Harry H. Harter of Hartleton, Pa., 
 wlio was born Sept. 7, 1867. They 
 now reside at Xorthuraberlaud, Pa. 
 where he is engaged in mercantile 
 pursuits. They are the parents, of 
 two sons, Wilmer Orwig, born Oct. 
 
WAOENSELLER HISTORY. 207 
 
 9, 1890 and DeBriceon OrwigHar- 
 ter, born Sept. 11, 1893. 
 ii. Miriam Ellen, born July 18, 1875, 
 married Oct. 22, 1896 to George 
 Washington Wagenseller, Editor of 
 the "Post," Middleburgh, Snyder 
 County, Pa., a full sketi-h of whom 
 is given on page 111. 
 iii. Infant daughter, born Feb. 23, 1 883 
 died Feb. 26, 1883, aged 3 days. 
 NOTES ON ORWIG GENEAJLOGY. 
 Elizabeth Hammer, wife of Samuel Orwig, No. 10, 
 page 188, was a member of one of the mostprominent pio- 
 neer families of Berks County, Pa., and was a most esti- 
 mable woman. She was a second cousin of Daniel Boone. 
 Samuel Orwig was about five feet, two inches in height, 
 spare build, of light complexion, a farmer by occupation. 
 His brother Jacob was about five feet, six inches in height, 
 stout, of light complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, mill- 
 wright by trade, also taught school, he having a school at 
 onetime at Salem, Ohio. Daniel Orwig was a short, dark- 
 complected man, very quick on his feet and strong. His 
 wife was tall, large, had light eyes, of light complexion ; 
 had quite a good education and was a beautiful writer. 
 Thomas Orwig, son of Samuel, son of George Orwig, of 
 Mifflinburg was a captain in the Union Army in the Civil 
 War as was his brother Josejjh. Afterwards Jeseph was 
 Secretary of the State of Iowa. Daniel Orwig'* sons, John, 
 Arthur and Xatlian were in the Union Aruiy during the 
 Civil Wdv, Nathan being with the Michigan troops who 
 captured Jeff Davis. Jacob's son, James, who in Civil 
 ^\'ar on the Union side. Samuel P., John W., William P. 
 and Andrew J., h<iiis of J()sej)h, were also in the (Jivil War 
 witlj the Pennsvlvania "N'oluiiteers. 
 
 The Orwigs, on account of their German origin and 
 earlv environments, have been toa great extent farmers, al- 
 though the younger generation now coming on are profes- 
 
208 WAGEN8ELLEB HISIORY. 
 
 sional men, lawyers, doctors, ministers, one of them having 
 been a bishop of the Evangelical Church at Cleveland, O., 
 civil engineers, dentists and merchants, a very few of them 
 working at trades. 
 
 Gottfried Orwig moved from Berks County as early 
 as 1747 and settled at Sculp Hill, one mile south of the 
 present town ofOrwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Pa. They 
 were among the very earliest settlers north of the Blue 
 Mountains. The land upon which he settled belonged to 
 the Iroquois Indians. The cemetery where Gottfried and 
 Clara are buried is near the "Old Red Church" (Lutheran) 
 near Orwigsburg, Pa. Gottfried is described as small in 
 stature, powerfully built with strong, broad shoulders. 
 
 In 1779 George Orwig of Berks County, Pennsylva- 
 nia signed a petition against calling a convention to change 
 the Constitution of the State. This doubtless is the son 
 of Gottfried. 
 
A Rambling: Review. 
 
 When our common ancestor came to America and 
 settled in Pennsylvania, nearly all was a dense forest. The 
 foreign immigrants landed at Philadelphia and when the 
 land was all taken up, the new-comers moved farther and 
 farther in order to acquire a title to land that had not yet 
 been taken up, moving to the North and West along the 
 ISchuylkill and Delaware Rivers. When Christopher 
 Wagenseil and his wife, Anna Christina, landed, they 
 found the land all taken up and occupied North as far as 
 to the Perkiomen Creek. Here he selected and took up 
 for himself 150 acres of land situate on both sides of the 
 Perkiomen Creek not far from where the town of Penns- 
 burg now stands. This region then was Hanover town- 
 ship, Philadelphia County; now it is Upper Hanover 
 township, Montgomery County, and is situate at the ex- 
 treme north-eastern corner of Montgomery County. 
 
 A conception of this region at that period, formed by 
 us now, must necessarily be inadequate and to a large de- 
 gree far from the real conditions then existing. Here in 
 the thicket, the forest, and the wilderness, surrounded by 
 the Indian and his tomahawk, our forefathers felled the 
 trees, built habitations and began the cultivation of the 
 Soil. The Perkiomen Valley was ricli, and its land invit- 
 ing, hence it soon found an ample quantity of good indus- 
 trious settlers t« till the soil. The colonists came here for 
 religious freedom and a more aggressive class of people 
 could not be found anywhere upon the face of the globe. 
 Six generations have tilled the very soil our ancestortill- 
 
212 WAGENSELLER HI810RY. 
 
 ed, each in its turn encountering hardships, confronting 
 perils, achieving triumphs, peculiar to its epoch. At the 
 outset came the struggle to wrest a livlihood from the vir- 
 gin soil. The presence of the Indians, distrusted and 
 feared, was a source of anxiety night and day. Intercourse 
 with them had to be carried on with the utmost discretion. 
 It thrills us to contemplate the hazards to which our an- 
 cestor was subjected in this regard. The liberty of con- 
 science guaranteed by William Penn brought people of 
 many and diverse religious convictions. The several de- 
 nominations organized congregations, built churches and 
 school houses and it is said to the credit of most of the 
 early German and Dutch settlers, their church records for 
 completeness show a remarkable improvement over those 
 of the present day. In fact the church records of to-day 
 too frequently are entirely a missing and an unknown 
 quantity. The colonial settlers had a struggle for exist- 
 ence, but their church records were generally well-kept. 
 The War of Independence for eight years was part of their 
 daily life. The battles of Brandywine and Gerniantowu 
 were at their doors. Valley Forge was only across the 
 Schuylkill. The contending armies crossed and recrossed 
 the Perkiomen and the Shippack and marched up and 
 down tlie highways of tliis section of Pennsylvania. The 
 inhabitants here were not only observers of these stirring 
 events. Many patriotic spirits rendered heroic service 
 during the entire war. Christopher, the founder of the 
 Wagenseller family upon this continent, was not a partici- 
 pant in the Re^'olutionary War as he died in 1762 about 
 13 years before tlie war began. His son, John, was the 
 only mature male representative of the family living dur- 
 ing the Revolutionary ^\'ar. Up to this time we have 
 not yet discovered authentic proof that he \vas in the war, 
 but the probabilities are that lie was. Bernard Gilbert (who 
 too was probably married to one of Andrew Hornetter's 
 daug'hters) was a captain in the Revolutionary War. Ja- 
 cob Shrack, the father of Martha (wife of Jacob Wagen- 
 seller p. 39) was a captain in the Revolutionary War. 
 
WAGENSELLER HISTORY. .213 
 
 History tells much of the glorious deeds of our people iu 
 those days ; careful research will bring to light much more. 
 Then followed the era of growth and expansion, of the 
 building of bridges, turnpikes and canals, of steam and 
 railroads and all the other evidences of civilization and 
 modern invention. 
 
 Old Christopher, our ancestor, must have been a man 
 of noble and positive character. He came three thousand 
 miles braving the dangers of a tedious ocean voyage, that 
 he might enjoy a larger manhood than was possible under 
 the social and political conditions then existing in Europe. 
 He was a man of high principle, chafing under the fetters 
 which bound him in his native land. Had it been other- 
 wise, had he been lacking in manly spirit, he would have 
 slavishly submitted to the oppressions imposed upon him 
 and his faithful wife, borne their degrading burdens, lived 
 their humble lives and passed into inglorious oblivion, as 
 did those before them, and as have done those who remain- 
 ed behind. The fertile lauds of Pennsylvania extended to 
 him the hand of welcome and offered to him the opportun- 
 ity of a broader and a nobler life, to uutrammeled effort, 
 to religious freedom. In fact, the Perkiomen Valley 
 needed him to cleanse the wilderness and make it yield. 
 Of heroic stuft he was made, and no less, his wife, Anna 
 Cliristiua, who came up into the Perkiomen Valley. 
 
 Here was Christopher in the prime of life with the 
 proud possession of a lovable and admirable wife. They 
 bid farewell to many loved ones iu Europe and set their 
 hearts upon a new country and a new life. A hard strug- 
 gle in Pennsylvania forests lor their maintenance was a 
 sweeter arid more wholesome conception of life than the 
 conteniphition of tlic oontimiatiou ofpea^^aiit sulijection of 
 Europe. Pr()iii|)ted l)y the hij^li and n(>l)le cliaraciirsthey 
 possessed, the \va} of civilization was plain and easy. Xot 
 only must the soil be tilled, but the cradle must be filled. 
 Christopher and Anna Christina in 1760, at the making of 
 the will had only one son and two daughters as explained 
 elsewiiere. The last will and testameut of the founder of 
 
214 WAGENSELLER HISIORY. 
 
 our family, for exactness and minute detail, has no equal 
 scarcely in modern documents of a similarjcharacter. The 
 paper was written by David Shultz, one of the witnesses. 
 David Shultz was a surveyor and conveyancer and the law- 
 yer for 50 miles around in Upper Hanover township. His 
 residence was near the New Goshenhoppen Reformed 
 Church. One night, he being away from home, an em- 
 ployee of his attacked and killed Mrs. Shultz in cold blood. 
 For many years it had been said that the miscreant had 
 been a slave of which Shultz hadanumber. In the grave- 
 yard nearby a stone is erected with the epitaph : Anna 
 Rosina Shultzin, murdered June 14, A. D. 1750, aged 29 
 years. Funeral Text, Jer. 9: 21. Death came into our 
 windows," etc. 
 
 The best idea we can now get of colonial life is large- 
 ly speculative. Ah, could we but look into the homesand 
 hearts of the people of that yeriod and read the history of 
 our paternal and maternal firesides ! Every day's detail 
 of their existence would make an interesting page iu our 
 history and with what avidity would we grasp such an 
 opportunity! In too many instances oblivion denies the 
 boon. Very few indeed are the glimpses we get of the 
 life, the character and the struggles of Christopher and 
 his wife during the eventful period of their existence, or 
 even theironly son, John, who moved to Providence town- 
 ship before the Revolutionary War began. After the de- 
 feat of (jur armies at the battle of Brandy wine and Ger- 
 mantown, during the dark hours when Washington had 
 his quarters at Valley Forge, this region was largely 
 drawn un for needed supplies, and its people were called 
 upon to (Contribute assistance and render important ser- 
 vices. The larger farmers, if uot regularly connected with 
 the army, were impressed with their teams into the service 
 when occ:asion demanded, to transport ammunition, stores 
 and the wounded ; of the last named, so the story goes, a 
 farmer hauled a load all the way from the field of Brandy- 
 wine to the hospital at Bethlehem. Providence township, 
 where Christopher's son, .lohn, resided during the Revo- 
 
WAGENSELLEB HISTORY. 215 
 
 lution was ia imminent peril and was tlireatened with 
 danger after the battle of Germantown, so much so, that 
 Father Muhlenburg, then far advanced in years, sent a 
 portion of his family from his home in Providence to New 
 Hanover for safety. John^ M'agenseil attended divine 
 services at the Trappe church and he, his wife and his older 
 children no doubt frequently heard Father Muhlenburg, 
 the Patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, preach 
 to the interesting flock at the Providence worshiping house. 
 The original Trappe Church was built in 1743. The new 
 church was built in 1852 and was remodeled in 1878. 
 In 1893 the congregation celebrated the sesqui-centennial 
 of the Old Trappe Church and a Memorial Volume, giv- 
 ing the history of the church, was Written by the pastor, 
 liev. Ernest T. Kretschmann, Ph. D. and was published 
 by the congregation. Most of the family tradition of its 
 connection with this landmark of pioneer worship are lost, 
 or at least failed to reach us. Kev. Henry Anastias Geis- 
 senhainer, who officiated at the marriage of Peter Wagen- 
 enseller to Susanna Longaker (p. 30), was pastor of this 
 church from 1813 to 1821. Where he served as pastor 
 iu 1800, when he officiated at this marriage, we have fail- 
 ed to learn, but it may be explained that he was a supply 
 preacher about this time at the Trappe. In 1796 Rev. 
 John Frederick Weiuland was the regular paster of the 
 Trappe Church, but during this year his name had been 
 stricken from the roll of the Synod, in consequence of the 
 unfortunate habit of drink, which he excessively indulged. 
 He subsequently conquered the habit and continued as pas- 
 t<ir up to ihe time of his death in the fall of 1807. It may 
 have been that. Dr. Henry Greissenhainer served the con- 
 gregation temporarily about 1800 and hence officiated at 
 Peter's marriage. Rev. Frederick William Geissenheiji- 
 er, Sr.jD. D. and his son, Kev. Frederick William Geis- 
 senheiner, .Jr., !>. D., became subsequent pastors at the 
 old La Trappe church mo.-e commonly called the Trappe. 
 "Perkioraen" is one of the several Anglicized adap- 
 tions of "Palikehoma," un Indian word meaning "vvliore 
 
216 WAOENSELLER HI810RY. 
 
 cranberries grow. " " Trappe " may return some day to 
 its original name, " Trap," pure and simple ; who knows ? 
 With our forefathers "trap" was rather a favorite name 
 for a tavern ; and both this village and a hamlet on the 
 road to Neshaminy Falls owe their present designation to 
 the fact that a tippler in each locality once excused him- 
 self to his wife, on returning home at an unduly late hour, 
 saying that he had fallen into the "trap." This may look 
 like a made-up story; but in truth, for the origin of this 
 Montgomery county "Trap," we have the authority of H. 
 M. Muhlenberg, who was here in the earliest days of tlie 
 settlement; and in the case of the other, the e])isode occur- 
 red within the memory of men now living. 
 
 The descendants of the early settlei'S of this region, 
 like the Wagensellers, are scattered far and wide across 
 this great continent. From 1734 to 1790 all the Wagen- 
 sellers upon this great continent resided upon the soil that 
 is now included in Montgomery County, Pa. About 1790 
 the process of separation began. Of John and Margaret 
 Wagenseller's children, John, the eldest, crossed the line 
 over into Chester County and opened the Red Lion Hotel, 
 Catherine married Conrad King and they went to Chester 
 County, the old homestead being near Uwchlau, Chester 
 County. Dr. Jacob, a son of Peter, emigrated to Sel ins- 
 grove about 1827 and his brother, William F., followed 
 him later. Peter and his other children started the pro- 
 cession A\'est in 18.34, settling at Coliunbus, O. George, 
 of the "Wabash," left his father's home at the Red Lion 
 Hotel and went to Beaver County, Pa. about 1820, then to 
 Guernsey County, Ohio and later to Crawford County, Il- 
 linois. Thus the separation began and now the name 
 Wagenseller has entirely disappeared from the assessment 
 books of Montgomery County, save one exception. John 
 Wagenseller of Thorndale, Chester County, in April 1898, 
 moved to Pottstown, Montgomery County, not more than 
 14 miles from where Christopher tilled the soil more than 
 150 years ago. Pottstown used to be, and is still fondly 
 called by sonieold folks, "Potts Grove." John Potts, thg 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 217 
 
 miller and iron manufacturer, who laid it out in 1752, was 
 born in Germantown in 1710 and died in 1868, "a gentle- 
 man of unblemished honor and integrity, known, beloved 
 and lamented," said the Pennsylvania "Gazette" of that 
 period. His elegant mansion still stands on the east side 
 of Main Street. This country is beautiful, jjicturesque 
 and fertile and for the lover of history is a prolific spot to 
 visit. The historic Perkiomen Creek, whose placid waters 
 flowed silently and incessantly passed our revered ances- 
 tor's home calls to mind the highest ideas of sublimity. 
 Of all the spots in creation for Christopher Wagenseil's 
 descendants to visit, this, without doubt, would be the 
 most interesting. The town of Pennsbnrg, the one near- 
 est to his home, is now an educational center, full of life, 
 business and activity. V^n love to linger in deep thought 
 and reverential feeling whilecontrastingthe present Penns- 
 burg with this region a century and a half ago, but duty 
 calls us on to more recent family developments. 
 
 The sketches and details of the various characters that 
 go to make up this history show to what extent our family 
 has assisted in the development of this country. We find 
 them in stores as clerks and proprietors, in schools as 
 teachers, in colleges as professors, on the road as salesmen, 
 in railroads as officers, in politics as influential individuals, 
 in legislative halls, prominent in the medical profession, in 
 editorial chairs, in manufacturing and industrial pursuits, 
 conducting printing houses and more than a dozen were in 
 the civil war fighting to maintain the Union of American 
 States. In a thousand different ways have the various 
 characters here represented played an important part in the 
 progress and development of this republic. 
 
 ^rrSCEI.LAXEOUS DATA. 
 It has been ncaessary to introduce a brief chajiter un- 
 der the above heading in order to effectively use some data, 
 that arrived too late to incorporate in thefamily tree where 
 it properly belongs. 
 
218 WAGENSELLER HISIORY. 
 
 The family record of George Wagenseller Young, 
 (pages 38-9) who resides at Newton, Kansas, shows the 
 birth of three children, Cameron Wagenseller Youug, born 
 in Siinbury, Penna., Nov. 17, 1875; Charlotte B. Young, 
 born July 26, 1877 in Sunbury, Penna. and Edna Wash- 
 burn Young, born in Newton, Kansas, Oct. 9, 1887. Mr. 
 young is in partnership with W. F. Kaufman in the Gro- 
 cery Business. He was married to Anna F. Bourne, 
 January 10, 1875. 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa., May 30th, 1898. 
 Data contributed by Michael Beed Minnich. 
 
 Philadelphia Co. Will Book "O" p. 136, No. 99. 
 
 Ulrich Hornecker, Will made July 3rd, 1767, pro- 
 bated July 29th, 1767. Leaves a wife, Magdalina. Is- 
 .sue, eldest son Joseph, not yet 18 years of age, sou Joho; 
 daughters, Margaret, Barbara, Mary Barbara. Executors, 
 his brother John Hornecker and Peter HiUegas (evidently 
 George Peter.) Residence, Rockhill township, Bucks 
 County, Pa. 
 
 Admiuistration, Bucks Co., Pa., 1782. 
 
 Administrator, George Peter Hillegas. 
 John Hornecker. 
 The late Geerge Nyce had considerable data concern- 
 ing the Hornetters. Mr. Nyce spelled the name "Hornet- 
 ter" but the above contributor thinks it, should be spelled 
 "Hornecker" and considers the ancestors of Jolin^ Wagen- 
 seller's wife (pages 17-18) the same ashis own. The date 
 of birth of George Peter Hillegas should be 1735 instead 
 of 1637, a typographical error on page 17. 
 
 Addanda to No. 89, page 101 : Levi was married 
 Feb. 15, 1867 to Alice Raney (or Rennie). Their first 
 child, Anna, was born Nov. 1, 1868, married Dec. 18, 
 1883 to John Pavitt to whom two children are born, Ma- 
 bel, Oct. 4, 1884 and Florence, April 25, 1886. Levi's 
 second child, Wellington, was born Dec. 4, 1870, is still 
 unmarried and resides with his mother at No. 3858 Lin- 
 wood Street, Philadelphia. Levi died in 1878. 
 
WAGEN8ELLER HISTORY. 219 
 
 Since putting into type the article on the Bchraclis, 
 pages 39-41, we learn that Martha Schrack, the wife of 
 Jacob^ Wageuseller, was the daughter of Captain Schrack, 
 a soldier of the Revolutionary War. He was an officer in 
 the command of General Wayne fi-om the beginning to the 
 close of the war. He was one of the men who escaped 
 death in the Paoli Massacre. His commission and sword 
 are still in the possession of the Schrack family. A great 
 many of the family records of Jacob Wagenseller were de- 
 stroyed in the Chambersburg fire during the war. The 
 marriage certificate of Jacob and Martha [Schrack] Wag- 
 enseller, some naturalization papers, old deeds, administra- 
 tors' and executors' papers, were sent away before the 
 burning of the town and hence these were saved. The 
 above we learn from a letter written by John Montgomery 
 of Chambersburg dated June 8, 1898. 
 
 Here is the lineage of David Wagenseller, No. 98, 
 page 58. Some discrepancy in date of birth will be noted. 
 Which is correct, we cannot say. David was born Dec. 
 17, 1844, was married to Sarah Gillam, born Jan. 6, 1849 
 and died Oct. 9, 1894. To them we credit the birth of 
 eight children : 
 
 1. Ella Jane, born June 10, 1869 and died July 
 23, 1870. 
 
 2. Nancy H., born April 1, 1871 and was mar- 
 ried to R. H. Higgins, to whom a daughter 
 was born June 28, 1894, another representa- 
 tive of the eighth generation. 
 
 3. Lillie T., born Oct. 8, 1872, died Sept. 12, 
 1873. 
 
 4. W. H., born Dec. 9, 1873, married Lizzie 
 Sawyers. They have a son born March 22, 
 1897, another of the eighth generation. 
 
 5. Laura A., born April 6, 1877. 
 
 6. Benjamin F., born Jan. 16, 1879. 
 
 7. Ortiiie C, born Jan. 3, 1883. 
 
 8. Lena I., born Dec. 29, 1889. 
 
220 V/AGENSELLER HISIORY. 
 
 Valentine and Catherine Hornetter, had a son George 
 Hornetter, born Sept. 13, 1790, baptized Nov. 1790 by 
 the pastor of New Hanover Lutheran Church. Sponsors, 
 George Gilbert and wife, Susanna. This information may 
 not apply to our family, but we give it here for reasons 
 given before. 
 
 The author was in hopes of finding some trace of the 
 graves of Christopher and Anna Ciiristina Wagenseil be- 
 fore closing this volume, but a diligent search in the old 
 Pennsburg burying ground revealed nothing. The graves 
 may not have been marked or the bodies may have been 
 buried on the plantation as was so often done by the peo- 
 ple of colonial times. The churcli they attended is called 
 St. Paul's. It was here also where their son, John, was 
 baptized. It was known by the people of that vicinity 
 as the six-cornered church, which unfortunately was de- 
 stroyed by fire in 1895, A modern church was erected in 
 1896. This location of Pennsburg is a beautiful one. The 
 town stands on a knoll with a valley on two sides for sev- 
 eral miles. Hundreds of farm houses dot the valley and 
 are in full view from the eminence of the town. The 
 town has a population of 1200 inhabitants and has a good 
 system of water works. 
 
IKDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Acker, Hannali, 127 
 
 Adams, John and Thomas, 24 
 
 Alien, Emllene, 57 
 
 Albln, Sarah C, 18S 
 
 Alexander, Gideon, 63 
 
 AiUs, Sarah, 196 
 
 Allison, Sarah, 121 
 
 Altendorter, Michael, 28 
 
 Andrews, Alexander, 46 
 
 App, M. v.. 178 
 
 Ash, Harry, 44 
 Ashbangh, Mlna and Wm. N., 196 
 
 Atlee, William E.. 19 
 
 Auble, Daniel, 190 
 
 Anton, Elizabeth, 188 
 
 Baker, Isabella, 187 
 
 Baker, WUmerW.. 126 
 
 Ball, Wm. H., 68 
 
 Bealor, Matilda, 178 
 
 Bean, Corydon, 189 
 
 Bean, Sophronla, 189 
 
 Beanx, Mary, 117 
 
 fleerbomer, , 118 
 
 Beiaier, Joseph, 44 
 
 Bell, James, 188 
 
 Benham, Dr. Charles M., 65 
 
 Benly, Sarah, 101 
 
 Bergstresser, Amelia, 58 
 
 Bergstresser, Reuben, 7S 
 
 Bird, Jesse, 189 
 
 Black, Martha, 195 
 
 Bocklns, Alice, 12T 
 
 Bollean^. B., 33 
 
 Boggs, William. 184 
 
 Borden, Mrs. A. F., 169 
 
 Bourne, Anna, 38 
 
 Bowersox, Joslah, 201 
 
 Bowes, N. A. , 175 
 
 Brack, Catherine, 20s 
 
 Brack, Sherman, 203 
 
 Bradford, Hugh, 41 
 
 Brady, WllUam, 121 
 
 Brlggs, Catherine, 48 
 
 Bright, Maria, 190 
 
 Brln?hurst, Wm., 128 
 
 Brobst, Adam, 195 
 
 Broadbent, Anna, 65 
 
 Brook, Anna, 118 
 
 Browers, Sarah, 199 
 
 Brown, Edward, 102 
 
 Buckingham, Albert, 4S 
 
 Burnell, James M.„ 81 
 
 Burton, — , 191 
 
 Butler, Ithamar, 196 
 
 Butler. Joseph Q., 189 
 
 Butler, J. M., 196 
 
 Byrne, Caroline, 
 
 10a 
 
 Cadwallader, General, 
 
 3S 
 
 Cammal, William, 
 
 in 
 
 Carey, Oscar, 
 
 198 
 
 Carpenter, P. C, 
 
 S3 
 
 Casselberry, Derrick, 
 
 24 
 
 Cavender, Letlcla, 
 
 42 
 
 Cawley, H. B., 
 
 192 
 
 Coabran, Daniel, 
 
 60 
 
 Chain, Matthew, 
 
 SO 
 
 Chain, William H., 
 
 60 
 
 Chrlsman, Dr. J. B., 
 
 6a 
 
 Chrlsman, Sarah, 
 
 60 
 
 Chrltzman, Catherine, 
 
 70 
 
 Clark, Thomas S., 
 
 57 
 
 Clemeus, WllUam. 
 
 49 
 
 Cllnger, Jacob, 
 
 24 
 
 Coke, John D., 
 
 26 
 
 Coombs, Dr. Charles, 
 
 63 
 
 Colpetzer, Wm., 
 
 18T 
 
 Copeland, Augusta, 
 
 124 
 
 Cornman, EUz. J., 
 
 44 
 
 Clerestlne, Hannah, 
 
 127 
 
 Crawford and Long, 
 
 84 
 
 Cressman, J. G., 
 
 41 
 
 Crlsa, W. F., 
 
 60 
 
 Crocker, Henry, 
 
 188 
 
 Crotzer, Thomas, 
 Cundlck, Chaa. L., 
 
 187 
 
 123 
 
 Cammlngs, James, 
 
 190 
 
 Dauoert, Alice, 
 
 179 
 
 Davis, John and Peter, 
 
 124 
 
 Davis, Laura, 
 
 122 
 
 Dean, Emma. 
 
 199 
 
 Derr data, 
 
 15, 16 
 
 Derr, John. 13, 
 
 15, 28 
 
 Derr, John and Magd., 
 
 S7 
 
 Dewees, Henry C, 
 
 39 
 
 Dldall, Harry, 
 
 108 
 
 Dlehl, J. Ward, 
 
 198 
 
 DlUer, Mary K., 
 
 68 
 
 Dlxey, Mary, 
 
 134 
 
 Donovan, John, 
 
 57 
 
 Dolby, Abram, 
 
 121 
 
 Dorian, Anna, 
 
 124 
 
 Doyle, Elizabeth, 
 
 51 
 
 Duck, Prank, 
 
 179 
 
 Dunham, Alice E,, 
 
 75 
 
 Eachus, E. A., 
 
 38 
 
 Edwards, John, 
 
 24 
 
 Ellert.M. 0., 
 
 9S 
 
 Eldred, Hubert. 
 
 63 
 
 EUwangei', Emanuel K., 
 Emerlck, Dr. B. P,, 
 
 128 
 
 71 
 
 Bngle, Wesley, 
 
 124 
 
 Essick, John, 
 
 24 
 
 Estate Acct., Jno.WageuBeller, 
 
 23 
 
222 
 
 WAQEN8ELLEB HISIORY. 
 
 Brans, 25, 44, Tl, 127, 159, 161 
 
 ETerett, H. G., 203 
 
 Fallsner, Swamp, 10 
 
 Fetter, Conraa, 179 
 
 Fetters, Henry, 126 
 
 Felmy, Amanda, 176 
 Flsner, 50, 174, 178, 179, 198 
 
 Flack, 'Walter, 123 
 
 Fockler, Kate, 72 
 
 Forrer Data, ITS 
 Forry, Rebecca, 90, 172, 179 
 
 Frederick, William, 126 
 
 Freeman, H.B,, 45 
 
 Fritz, Frank, 102 
 
 Frost, Edwin and Mary, 123 
 
 Gaines, Nancy, 58 
 
 Gemherllng, Wm. H., 174 
 Gertiart, 72-5, 162 
 Gilbert, 28, 184, 185, 196 
 
 GlTlner, C. L. and C, 58 
 
 Gomer, BUza A., 59 
 
 Goold, Frances E., 67 
 
 Granger, Martha, 122 
 
 Gray, William, 24 
 
 Graynam, Katlieryn, 100 
 
 Green, JoHn T., 67 
 
 Green, Clemlntlna, 45 
 
 Greeves, Sarah. 128 
 
 Gresham, Mrs. G-ussle, 75 
 
 Griffith, Martha E., 101 
 
 Grlsslnger, Deborah, 175 
 
 Gunkle, Ellen M., 124 
 
 Guthrie, Essie E., 71 
 
 Haag, Anna Maria, 29 
 
 Haag, David, 11, 12 
 
 Haekman, Ephrlam, 187 
 
 Haln, Samuel L., 75 
 
 Hammer, Elizabeth, 188 
 
 Hammer, Mary B., 84 
 
 Hancock, Albert, 121 
 
 Hanover township, 910 
 
 Hansom, Wra. K., 121 
 
 Happersett, Samuel E., 101 
 
 Harlng, Elizabeth, 183 
 
 Harlacher, David, 201 
 
 Harper, Lewis A., 181 
 Harsh, Joshua, 191, 192 
 
 Hart, Mrs. Q. M., 194 
 
 Harter, H. H., 206 
 
 Hartman, Harriet, 37 
 
 Hayes, Maggie, 202 
 
 Hazlett, Annie M., 118 
 
 Hazlett, Mary, lis 
 
 Helt, Alfreds., 100 
 
 Helllg, Geo. and M., 29 
 
 Henderson, M. T., 49 
 
 Henderson, Nellie, 51 
 
 Henderson, NelUe I., 54 
 
 Hendricks, Jacob o., 193 
 
 Herlng, Ludwlg, 185 
 
 Herring, William, 188 
 
 Hlbberd, John, 43 
 
 Hill, Leonora, 84 
 Hlllegas, G. p., 17, 218 
 
 Hlmmelwrlght, Philip, 24 
 
 Hlxson, William F., 193 
 
 Hoffman, Amelia, 193 
 
 Hoffman, Ell, 301 
 
 Hohrnetter. Margaret. n 19 
 
 Wagenseller, 
 
 HoUenbach, John, 
 Holman, Fred, 
 Holman, H. C, 
 Holman, Wm. W., 
 Holmes, FredW., 
 Holtzapple, F. E., 
 Hornetter Data, 
 Hoover, Hannah M., 
 Hoover, Jacob, 
 Hopper, Catherine M.. 
 Horning, Lewis, 
 Housel, Amelia, 
 Huddleson, Dr. Isaac, 
 Hudgason, Andrew, 
 Hughes, Clara, 
 Hughes, WlUlam, 
 Humphreys, Seth, 
 Huzzard, Abnei' J., 
 Hystaad, Jacob, 
 Ingersoll, Mrs. Robert, 
 Inventory ol J 
 Irey, John, 
 Jacobs, Ben]., 
 Jacobs, Isaac, 
 Jenkins, Abigail C-, 
 Jodon, Sarah A., 
 Jones, 
 
 John, Joseph, 
 Johnson, Miss, 
 Johnstone, Emily, 
 Karstlng, Nellie, 
 Keely, Mary L., 
 Keely, Mathlas, 
 Keely, Susanna, 
 Keller, Anna B., 
 Keen, Samuel, 
 Keltow, Flora, 
 Kentzler, Charles R., 
 Kile, J. D., 
 KlUlnger, Rev. E. B., 
 icimes, Joseph, 
 King Branch. 
 King, Conrad, 
 King, Jesse, letter. 
 King, Peter, 
 Kleckner, Col, Chae., 
 Klelnman, Marlon, 
 Klopp, J. and M. 
 Kunn, J. A. S., 
 Kutz, Solomon, 
 Labr, Matilda, 
 Lambert George, 
 Lauder, EmlUe, 
 Lange, Peter, 
 Lantz, Griggs, 
 Latham, H. 8., 
 Latshaw, Alice, 
 Lebklcher, Eliza, 
 Lelghton, Ophelia J., 
 I/enhart, Katherlne, 
 Lentz, Mary, 
 Leonard, E. P., 
 Lesher, Rachael, 
 Letstord, John, 
 Lewis, Amanda A., 
 Lewis, J oseph, 
 Lewis, Mary, 
 LlUey, Joseph, 
 Llmbach, Frederick, 
 
 18!) 
 
 3T 
 
 88 
 
 87,47 
 
 125 
 
 179 
 
 17, 18, 218, 230 
 
 203 
 
 184 
 
 195 
 
 24 
 
 72 
 
 24 
 
 SOD 
 
 48 
 
 178 
 
 100 
 
 124 
 
 18 
 
 52 
 
 19 
 
 64 
 
 184 
 
 24 
 
 45 
 
 172 
 
 44, 78, 101 
 
 44,45 
 
 58 
 
 67 
 
 66 
 
 106 
 
 118 
 
 185 
 
 197 
 
 24 
 
 105 
 
 128 
 
 106 
 
 53 
 
 121 
 
 117 
 
 te, 28, 117 
 
 185 
 
 124 
 
 187 
 
 122 
 
 175 
 
 41 
 
 195 
 
 125 
 
 113 
 
 84 
 
 29 
 
 199 
 
 87 
 
 118 
 
 192 
 
 87 
 
 188 
 
 58 
 
 199 
 
 169 
 
 45 
 
 45 
 
 43 
 
 124 
 
 45 
 
 14 
 
WAQENSELLER HISTORY. 
 
 223 
 
 Lincoln, Q. v., 
 
 89 
 
 Loel, L. C, 
 
 89 
 
 Long-aker Ancestry, 
 
 30-1 
 
 Longaker, A. B., quoted, 
 
 31 
 
 Longanacre, Jacob, 
 
 24 
 
 Louflen, Ann S., 
 
 43 
 
 Loveland, A., 
 
 189 
 
 Lloyd, Gilbert L„ 
 
 188 
 
 Lutz, , 
 
 190 
 
 Lutz, Lewis, 
 
 81 
 
 Madders, Peter, 
 
 ta 
 
 Mahan, Lizzie, 
 
 128 
 
 Mains, Eeftecca, 
 
 189 
 
 Malllson, George, 
 
 100 
 
 ManclU, Mary T., 
 
 125 
 
 Markle, Anna, 
 
 118 
 
 Hartley, I., 
 
 24 
 
 Marshall, F. C. 
 
 lOO 
 
 Marsball, Johli, 
 
 45 
 
 Marshall, Joseph, 
 
 166 
 
 Martin, Harry C, 
 
 56 
 
 Martin, Jacob, 
 
 178 
 
 Martin, John, 
 
 14 
 
 Martin, Julia, 
 
 128 
 
 Mason, H. G., 
 
 56 
 
 Mason, Ma, 
 Mason, Katherlne, 
 
 57 
 
 45 
 
 Mason, Thomas, 
 
 24 
 
 Massey, Isaac O., 
 
 44 
 
 Matthews, Harry W., 
 
 123 
 
 Mayhuw, Joseph, 
 
 28 
 
 McCallln, Sophia M., 
 
 46 
 
 McOarrahar, William, 
 McCleland, John, 
 
 57 
 
 24 
 
 McCUntock, Eachael, 
 
 101 
 
 McConnell, Walter E., 
 
 65 
 
 Mccracken, Hannah, 
 
 55 
 
 McGowen, Barbara 
 
 59 
 
 McKlnley, Wm. W., 
 
 72 
 
 McNlchol, Arthur, 
 
 188 
 
 McVeagh, Sarah, 
 
 55 
 
 McWlUlams, AhWeA., 
 
 38 
 
 Mcwmiams, Susan N., 
 
 127 
 
 Mears, Jennie A., 
 
 48 
 
 Mellersh, Or. Alfred, 
 
 100 
 
 Mellon, Kate, 
 
 38 
 
 Meyers, Catherine, 
 
 44 
 
 Meyers, Jacob, 
 
 46 
 
 Meyer, Mary and Mary E., 
 
 193, 186 
 
 Mlddendorf, Anna, 
 
 75 
 
 Miner, , 
 
 183 
 
 Miller, Dr. B. G., 
 
 66 
 
 Miller, Geo. O., 
 
 126 
 
 Miller, LOTlna, 
 
 126 
 
 Miller, Mary, 
 
 174 
 
 Miller, Kohert, 
 
 24 
 
 Mills, Anna and Howard, 
 
 63, 58 
 
 Mlnnloh, Rev. M. H., 
 
 117 
 
 Miscellaneous data, 
 
 217 
 
 Montgomery, James, 
 
 57 
 
 Montgomery, Jane, 
 
 58 
 
 Montgomery, John, 
 
 67, 149 
 
 Moore, Ada, 
 
 127 
 
 Moore, C. F,, 
 
 82 
 
 Moore, Milton M., 
 
 81 
 
 Moore, Esther A., 
 
 102 
 
 Moser, Cyrus, 
 
 118 
 
 Moser, Eeteeca, 
 
 38 
 127 
 
 Moses, William, 
 
 Moyer, Ellzaheth, 
 
 Meyer, James P., 
 
 Moyre, Jacob, 
 
 Muhlhahn, Maria E., 
 
 Mumma, James D., 
 
 Munson, Frank, 
 
 Neely, Eliza, 
 
 Nellor, Kebecca, 
 
 Nellor, Mary, 
 
 Noecker, George, 
 
 Noll, Harry, 
 
 Noll, Isaac and Rebecca, 
 
 Morris, Nora, 
 
 Norton, Mary A., 
 
 Olney, John, 
 
 Orwlg, Genealogy, 181' 
 
 Orwlg, Gottlrled, 
 
 Orwig, Miriam, HI, 
 
 Orr, Wm.A., 
 
 Palmer, MlfflLn L., 
 
 Parker, Algela, 
 
 Patrtck, R. Jones, 
 
 Pawling, Henry, 
 
 Pawling, J ohn, 
 
 Pearson, James, 
 
 Penlel, Charles, 
 
 Pennewlll, A. Eugene, 
 
 Pennypacker, 
 
 Perkins, John T., 
 
 Pettlt, Isaac, 
 
 pettlt, Slathlel, 
 
 Plckel, Ludwlg, 
 
 Plerson, Clark, 
 
 Potts, David, 
 
 Potts, John, 
 
 Potts, Nathan, 
 
 Preston, SalUe, 
 
 Quit Rents, 
 
 Kamsey, Benjamin, 
 
 Ramsey descendants, 
 
 Raney, Alice, 
 
 Rankin, vvm. S., 
 
 Reed, Mrs. S. J., 
 
 Relfschnelder, Wm., 
 
 Review, A Rambling, 
 
 Reyer, Michael, 
 
 Reyer data, 88, 29, 
 
 Eeymer, Philip, 
 
 Reynolds, Agnes. 
 
 Rice, Mary M., 
 
 Rich, Mallnda, 
 
 Rlchter, Mary, 
 
 Richardson, Alice, 
 
 Elder, Hattle, 
 
 Riley, Edward, 
 
 Rlner, John, 
 
 Elshel.Susan, 
 
 Rlter, Joseph, 
 
 Rogers, Elizabeth 
 
 Root, Clntha W., 
 
 Romlg, Perry L., 
 
 Roth Hannah, 
 
 Eoush, William and Thomas, 
 
 Royer, Benjamin, 24, 86, 28, 
 
 Eoyer connection, 
 
 Royer data, 29, 29, 
 
 Eumsted, Wm., 14 
 
 Eyan, Kate, 
 
 Sanders, Geo. E., 
 
 88-6, 89, 
 
 88, 
 
 101, 
 
 211 
 
 178 
 
 175 
 
 12 
 
 41 
 
 17B 
 
 176 
 
 46 
 
 37 
 
 6S 
 
 197 
 
 174 
 
 174 
 
 82 
 
 48 
 
 67 
 
 208 
 
 181 
 
 IVI 
 
 199 
 
 121 
 
 52 
 
 12G 
 
 19 
 
 24 
 
 67 
 
 87 
 
 126 
 
 125 
 
 81 
 
 189 
 
 189 
 
 38 
 
 72 
 
 56-6 
 
 , 25 
 
 24 
 
 64 
 
 9 
 
 42 
 
 43 
 
 218 
 
 81 
 
 194 
 
 28 
 
 217 
 
 39 
 
 169 
 
 46 
 
 89 
 
 ce 
 
 60 
 
 47 
 
 12G 
 
 52 
 
 56 
 
 24 
 
 201 
 
 46 
 
 Gl 
 
 64 
 
 174 
 
 136 
 
 191 
 
 169 
 
 169 
 
 169 
 
 , 15 
 
 125 
 
 81 
 
224 
 
 WAGEN8ELLER HISIORY. 
 
 Sohaffer, JoSn Q., 
 
 122 
 
 Towns, May v.. 
 
 lOO 
 
 Schlrm, Henry, 
 
 186 
 
 Townsend, Harry, 
 
 103 
 
 ScHoon, Maria, 
 
 77 
 
 Transue, Mary, 
 
 198 
 
 ScUocli, Lula, 
 
 110 
 
 Trimmer, Wm., 
 
 52 
 
 Scliofleia, George, 
 
 121 
 
 Tyson, Robert, 
 
 34 
 
 Schrack data, 
 
 39, «, 2i9 
 
 Ulrlch, nee. 
 
 70 
 
 Bchraclc, Martna, 
 
 39 
 
 Umstead, John H., 
 
 36 
 
 Schuyler, Wm., 
 
 198 
 
 VanBuskIrk, Klnzer, 
 
 68 
 
 Scnwelnliard , J. Q., 
 
 185 
 
 VandersUce, Anthony, 
 
 36 
 
 Schwelnhart, Eva, 
 
 169 
 
 WagenseU, Anna C. , 
 
 11, 12, 13 
 
 Seeslioltz, Flem, 
 
 175 
 
 Wagensell. Christopher, 
 
 9, 14, 220 
 
 Seiiler, Susanna, 
 
 28 
 
 From where he came, 
 
 10 
 
 Seybert, Boslna, 
 
 169 
 
 Will or, 
 
 11 
 
 Sliannon, John, 
 Shantz, Enos, 
 
 19 
 
 Original possession ol, 
 
 11 
 
 118 
 
 Wagenseller.— 
 
 
 Sharp, Hugh, 
 
 188 
 
 Abigail, 
 
 27,^44 
 
 Sharp, Thomas, 
 
 126 
 
 Abraham, 
 
 27.44 
 
 Sharp, John C, 
 
 128 
 
 Abram, 
 
 42,59 
 
 Sharpless, Lloyd T., 
 
 43 
 
 Ada B., 
 
 53 
 
 Shearer, Conrad, 
 
 126 
 
 Albert Elon, 
 
 51,84 
 
 Shepherd, John, 
 
 43 
 
 Alice Laura, 
 
 53 
 
 Shepherd, Richard M., 
 
 42 
 
 Alvln Worthlngton, 
 
 103, lis 
 
 Shepherd, Richard T., 
 
 46 
 
 Amos, 
 
 42, 60 
 
 Sherk. , 
 
 191 
 
 Ann, 
 
 37 
 
 Sherwood, Mary J., 
 
 1-26 
 
 Anna Marie, 
 
 26,38 
 
 Shoemaker, George, 
 
 175 
 
 Anna Mary, 
 
 15 
 
 Shultz, David, 
 
 14 
 
 Aramlntha, 
 
 49,78 
 
 Sllar, , 
 
 184 
 
 Benjamin, 
 
 37, 61 
 
 Silvers, W. M., 
 
 46 
 
 Benjamin F., 
 
 47, 76 
 
 Slmms, Amelia F., 
 
 50 
 
 Benjamin M., 
 
 96, 113 
 
 Slpp. Mary B., 
 
 202 
 
 Benjamin N., 
 
 63 
 
 Smedley, Mary E., 
 
 12T 
 
 Catherine, (3rd gen.) 
 
 26,27 
 
 Smith, Mrs. B. W„ 
 
 194 
 
 Catherine, (4th gen.) 
 
 37 
 
 smith, Jeneatte, 
 
 177 
 
 David, 
 
 58, 219 
 
 Smith, J. T., 
 
 193 
 
 David, 8., 
 
 41,55 
 
 smith, Nellie, 
 
 51 
 
 Elizabeth, (1800) 
 
 41 
 
 Smith, Newton, 
 
 69 
 
 Elizabeth Catherine, 
 
 15,16 
 
 Smjth, Sherman, 
 
 68 
 
 Elizabeth, (1820) 
 
 27,46 
 
 Snapp, Jemlna, 
 
 61 
 
 Emily, 
 
 49 
 
 Sneat, Mabel, 
 
 203 
 
 Emily Law, 
 
 44,69 
 
 SDyder, Bmma, 
 
 118 
 
 Fannie, 
 
 56 
 
 Snyder, Martin L., 
 
 77 
 
 Fanny, 
 
 27. 44 
 
 Snyder, Rose, 
 
 101 
 
 Frank Rupert, 
 Franklin Jacob, 
 
 52,89 
 
 Snyder, Gov. Simon, 
 
 32 
 
 71, 106 
 
 Sower, David, 
 
 124 
 
 George (1783), 
 
 27, 42 
 
 Spatz, George, 
 
 169 
 
 George (1812), 
 
 37,53 
 
 Stauffer, Mary, 
 
 118 
 
 George (1862), 
 
 55, 99 
 
 Steen, Sarah, 
 
 189 
 
 George C, 
 
 71, 110 
 
 Steese, Jane W., 
 
 203 
 
 George M., 
 
 6S 
 
 Sheltz, J. P., 
 
 18.5 
 
 George W., 94, ill. 177. 207 
 
 Stephenson, , 
 
 49 
 
 Hannah. 
 
 37 
 
 Stephenson, Mildred, 
 
 65 
 
 Harriet. 
 
 56, 101 
 
 Stltller, Wm. D., 
 
 127 
 
 Henry, 
 
 37 
 
 Stratton, Richard, 
 
 166 
 
 Jacob, (3rd gen.) 
 
 26, 89 
 
 Street, Howard, 
 
 136 
 
 Jacob, (4th gen. > 
 
 37,46 
 
 Strickland, Wm., 
 
 136 
 
 Jacob, (5th gen. i 
 
 49 
 
 Strohm, J. Alfred, 
 
 71 
 
 James (1808), 
 
 37 
 
 Supples, Louisa, 
 
 45 
 
 James (1849), 
 
 68, 142 
 
 Swalne, T., 
 
 26 
 
 James K., 
 
 58, 104 
 
 Swlnetord, John, 
 
 24 
 
 John. (2nd gen.) 
 
 
 Swlnehart, Conrad, 
 
 26. 28 
 
 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 
 
 19, 26, 37 
 
 Swlnehart, data. 
 
 23 
 
 John, (3rd gen.) 
 
 33, 36, 27 
 
 Tatem, Mary, 
 
 127 
 
 John, 4lh gen.> 
 
 37,48 
 
 Taylor, — — , 
 
 49 
 
 .Tohn, (6th gen.) 
 
 49 
 
 Taylor, Alfred J., 
 
 66 
 
 John, (No. 96,) 
 
 67, 103 
 
 Taylor, Stacy, 
 
 49 
 
 John A., 
 
 44, 67 
 
 Thomas, Margaret E., 
 
 43 
 
 John C, 
 
 43, .58 
 
 Timbrel, Elijah, 
 
 50 
 
 John E., 
 
 56 
 
 TodQ, Robert. 
 
 126 
 
 John F., 93, 110, 177 
 
WA GENSELLER HISTOR Y. 
 
 225 
 
 Wagenseller— continued. 
 
 John J., 48, 148 
 
 John N.. 38, 55 
 
 .lohuS., 41,55 
 
 Joshua, ST, 51, 138 
 
 Julia Matilda, 44, 64 
 
 Laura C, 52 
 
 Levi, (4th gen.) 41, 57 
 Left, (5th gen.) 55, 101, 818 
 
 Lydla Catherine, 47 
 
 Matilda, 49 
 
 Margaret (No. 14), 2T, 42 
 
 Margaret (NO. 39), 41,42,57 
 
 Margaret Ann, 65, 101 
 
 Maria Margaretta, 26 
 
 Martha, (No. 40), 41,57 
 
 Martha, (5th gen.) 55, 99 
 
 Martin Luther, 53, 94 
 
 Mary (1832), 49. 81 
 
 Mary (1S37), 55, 100 
 Mary Elizabeth (1830), 44, 66 
 
 Mary Elizabeth 1836), 47,72 
 
 Matlle Virginia, 48 
 Peter, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 34, 129 
 
 Peter, Jr., 3T 
 
 Peter Elchter, 47, 69 
 
 Samuel, Dr., 76 
 
 Samuel Norton, 49, 77 
 
 Sarah, 41, 58 
 
 Sarah Ann, 49 
 
 Sarah Susanna, 47, 71, 127 
 
 Simon Cameron, 55, 96 
 
 Spelling of name, w 
 
 Stotfel. 9 
 
 Susan L.'s letter, 1-32 
 
 Susanna, 37 
 
 Thamzen, (4th gen.) 27 
 
 Thamzen, (5th gen.) 42 
 
 Theodore L.. 51, 84, 143 
 
 Thomas Harlan, 60, 104 
 
 Thomas Meyers, 44, 66 
 
 Thomas Weldner, 42, 58, 1-51 
 WUliam, (3rd gen.) 24, 25, 26, 3T 
 
 William, (5th gen.) 42. 59 
 
 William Flndley, 37, 47, 62 
 
 William Henry, 51, 87 
 
 wmiam Jeremiah, 53, 90, 1.S7 
 
 William Riley, 63, 106 
 
 Wager, WUliam, 
 Wagner, Clara, 
 Wagner, Elizabeth, 
 Waldrop, Elizabeth, 
 Walls, William, 
 Walls, WUUam, 
 Walter, Alice, 
 Walter data, 
 Walter, Mathlas, 
 WatMns, DaTld, 
 Watson, Samuel L., 
 Weary, Aaron, 
 Webb, Hannah, 
 Weldner, Elizabeth, 
 Wells, Frank H,, 
 Wells, Peter, 
 Welpley, Daniel, 
 Welsh, Beetle, 
 West, John, 
 White, Minnie A., 
 Whitney. WUUam H„ 
 Wldener, David, 
 Wldroder, John, 
 Wlegand, George, 
 WUUams, Albert, 
 WUUams, Harriet, 
 WUller, Mary A., 
 Winnings, Bessie , 
 Wltteman, Adam, 
 WlttUnger, Elizabeth, 
 Wolfe, George A., 
 Wolfe, EeDecca, 
 Wouerton, Alblna, 
 Woodward, Hannah A., 
 Worthlngton, Catherine, 
 Wltman, Stephen, 
 Wynn, Ann Myers, 
 Wynn, Margaret, 
 Yeatter, Andrew, 
 Yerger, Adam, 
 Young descendants. 
 Young, G. W., 
 Young, Margaret, 
 Young, WllUamH., 
 ZeUers, Margaret, 
 Zerbe data, 
 zerbe, Esther, 
 Zlegler, WUliam, 
 
 68 
 
 187 
 
 192 
 
 59 
 
 43 
 
 128 
 
 193 
 
 29-30 
 
 86,29 
 
 iSi) 
 
 126 
 
 199 
 
 183 
 
 27 
 
 138 
 
 125 
 
 69 
 
 198 
 
 128 
 
 204 
 
 68 
 
 24 
 
 US 
 
 126 
 
 68 
 
 124 
 
 49 
 
 102 
 
 101 
 
 58 
 
 118 
 
 192 
 
 43 
 
 67 
 
 57 
 
 63 
 
 65 
 
 55 
 
 200 
 
 185 
 
 38, 39 
 
 818 
 
 36, 38 
 
 168 
 
 204 
 
 180 
 
 90 
 
 lOX