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GEORGE H. DAGLE, a farmer in the Tuckahoe Valley, in Point Township, Northumberland County, was born Feb. 29, 1868, in Chapman Township, Snyder Co., Pa., son of John Frederick Dagle.John Frederick Dagle was born April 8, 1836, in Germany, and came to America when sixteen years old. Settling at Selinsgrove; Snyder Co., Pa., he lived there until March, 1870, when he removed to Point Township, Northumberland County, making his home on the farm now owned by his son George H. Dagle. He was a blacksmith, and followed his trade in Snyder County and also after settling in Point Township, where he was a successful farmer. Mr. Dagle retired in 1904, after which he lived at Milton, Lewisburg and Northumberland, making his home in the latter borough at the time of his death, Oct. 30, 1910. He was always willing to give his services to the promotion of the general welfare and was an active and useful citizen, having served Point Township as school director and overseer of the poor, and he served many years as a member of the council in the Lutheran church, to which he belonged as do also his family. In political sentiment he is a Republican. He married Elizabeth Ertley, who was born June 15, 1838, and died Sept. 4, 1898, in her sixty-first year; she is buried at Northumberland. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Dagle: Mary married H. F. Geise; Sallie married E. H. Luckhart; John is a resident of Augustaville, Pa.; George H. is on the home farm; William is a resident of Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland Co., Pa.; Charles makes his home in Sunbury, Northumberland County. George H. Dagle received his education in the public schools of Point Township, and was reared to farming, working for his parents until he reached his majority. After that he continued at home until twenty-five years old, when he married and began farming on his own account in Point Township, as a tenant for ten years, until he was in a position to buy a place of his own. In 1904 he purchased his father’s farm in the same Township, a tract of 145 acres especially adapted to fruit growing. Here he has since carried on general farming, and his thrift and industry have been well rewarded. In 1894 Mr. Dagle married Lillie C. Gibbons, daughter of James and Caroline (Garman) Gibbons, farming people of Point Township, and to them have been born four children: Carrie E., Forest F., Jane A. and Mabel O. Mr. Dagle is a member and official of Trinity Lutheran church, in Point Township. Politically he is a Republican. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 448 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM DALIUS, who lived from early manhood until his death in Upper Augusta Township, Northumberland County, was born Feb. 16, 1800, in Berks County, Pa. On coming to this county he settled on a small farm, a tract of eighteen acres, which he cultivated, and where he passed the remainder of his long life, dying April 2l, 1882, at the age of eighty-two years, two months, five days. He is buried at Lantz’s church. He was a Lutheran in religious faith. Mr. Dalius married Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold, who was born Aug. 11, 1805, in Berks County, and whose father died when she was a child. She was reared in the family of her older sister, Mrs. Komp. Mrs. Dalius died Dec. 10, 1869, aged sixty-four years, three months, thirty days. Seven children were born to their union: (1) Caroline, born April 1, 1827, died July 26, 1896, unmarried, and she and her sister Sarah are buried in Pomfret Manor cemetery, at Sunbury, where a large monument has been erected to their memory. (2) Sarah, born May 3, 1830, died Aug. 23, 1896, unmarried. (3) Eliza married Benjamin Lake and lives at Shamokin, Pa. (4) Mary, who resides at No. 324 Market Street, Sunbury, is a member of Zion’s Lutheran Church in that borough. (5) Louisa died when thirteen years old. (6) Catharine and (7) Margaret twins, died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Dalius also reared another girl, Louisa, who took their name and made her home with them. On Aug. 28, 1893, she was married in Buffalo, N.Y., to Walter T. Keiner, and their home is in Sunbury, Miss Mary Dalius residing with them. Mrs. Keiner became the legatee of the Dalius estate. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg.633 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JOHN DANIEL, a farmer of Jackson Township, Northumberland County, belongs to a family which was established in this county by his great grandfather, Heinrich Daniel. The Daniel family first settled in Berks County, Pa., upon coming to America, the emigrant ancestor settling there in Bethel Township, prior to 1754. He was a farmer and landowner. In 1790 Jacob Daniel (brother of Heinrich, who came to Northumberland County) was living with his wife and seven daughters; in Heidelberg Township, Berks County to the east of Bethel, lived Godfrey Daniel, another brother. To this day there are representatives of the family in the locality where they first settled after their arrival in this country.
Heinrich Daniel, great-grandfather of John Daniel, was born July 6, 1755, in Bethel Township, Berks Co., Pa., and coming to Washington (then Jackson) Township, Northumberland County, located on a tract of 110 acres upon which he erected the original set of buildings. A log house he built in the year 1800 is still standing. On this place Heinrich Daniel lived from 1774 until his death; which occurred Nov. 7, 1841. His wife, Maria Magd., died in 1823, aged sixty-five years. Their home stood near the mountain. They had a number of children, among whom were Heinrich and John Adam, the latter succeeding to the ownership of the farm.
John Adam Daniel, son of Heinrich, was born June 8, 1795, was a lifelong farmer, and succeeded to the home place, retaining the ownership until a few years before his death, when, becoming lame, he sold it to his son Jared. After the latter’s death it was purchased by his brother John, whose son Adam Daniel owned it subsequently, until 1907, in which year H. J. Donmoyer purchased it. John Adam Daniel died June 1, 1878, and he is buried at St. Peter’s church, Mahanoy, where all the Daniels since the time of Heinrich, the pioneer, have been interred. He was a Reformed member of that church, and being a good singer was chorister there for some years. He was married three times, his first wife being Rosanna Wagner, his second Polly Rubendall and his third Esther Freymoyer, who was born Feb. 22, 1804, and died March 30, 1881. All his children were by the first union, namely: John is mentioned below; Elias died at Hepler, Pa.; Joel lived and died near Hepler; Adam and Jared died on the homestead; Polly married Abraham Blasser; Catharine married Benjamin Rubendall; Lydia married Levi Drumheller.
John Daniel, son of John Adam, owned the old homestead on which he was born April 10, 1815. He died there Sept. 3, 1897, after a life-time spent principally in farming, though he had learned the trade of shoemaker and followed it in his earlier manhood. In politics he was a Democrat, and he was a public-spirited citizen, taking a hand in public affairs and filling a number of local offices; he was supervisor of Washington and Jordan Townships for a number of years. He also held various church offices; serving many years as elder. Mr. Daniel married Catharine Swartz, who was born Oct. 10, 1817, and died Nov. 13, 1897, and they are buried at St. Peter’s church, at Mahanoy, in Jackson Township. They had the following children: Elias, who died when twelve years old; Sarah, Mrs. Elias Crissinger; Emma, Mrs. Henry Crissinger; Adam, who owned the homestead until 1907 and now lives, near Herndon, Pa.; John; and Catharine, who married Nathan Latsha.
John Daniel was born April 10, 1850, in Jordan Township, son of John and Catharine (Swartz) Daniel, and obtained his education in the subscription schools of the home district which afforded rather limited opportunities, however. He was reared as a farmer and continued to work for his father until his forty-eighth year. After his father’s death he began farming for himself in 1898, in Jordan Township, where he was located for five years, in 1903 coming to the place in Jackson Township which he purchased that year and which has since been his home. He has a farm of eighty-eight acres, originally an old Latsha homestead and later known as the Henry Roger farm. Mr. Daniel is a substantial and respected citizen, and his affairs are in prosperous condition.
In November, 1885, Mr. Daniel married Louisa Kobel, who was born Jan. 16, 1858, in Cameron Township, this County, daughter of Daniel and Eliza (Kerstetter) Kobel, and died April 17, 1909. She was the mother of one child, Charles Wilson, who was born Feb. 17, 1887, and is still at home with his father. Mr. Daniel is a Democrat in politics and of the Reformed faith in religion, he and his family worshiping at St. Peter’s Church, at Mahanoy. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 275 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JOSEPH H. DAVIDSON, justice of the peace, was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, December 29,1831, son of William and Elizabeth (Hempton) Davidson, natives of Ireland and Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, respectively. After the death of his father, which occurred a few months after his birth, his mother removed to Schuylkill county, where the subject of this sketch was reared and educated. He learned the painter's trade, and at the age of eighteen years returned to Wiconisco, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, and entered the employ of Miller & Company as a clerk, where he remained ten years. In 1859 he accepted a position in West Virginia, where he remained a few months, when he returned to Schuylkill county and entered the employ of P. W. Sheafer of Girardsville. He then entered the United States service as assistant dispatcher and commissary to the railroad employees of the Orangeville and Alexander railroad. In 1862 he was transferred to the post commissary department under Captain Wilson, of the regular army, and was stationed at Warrenton Junction, Virginia, and at other points at the front. He returned home and again entered the employ of P. W. Sheafer as superintendent of his coal business at Mahanoy Plane, where he remained until 1879. In 1880 he located at Shamokin and engaged in the grocery business a short time, after which he worked at his trade. In 1857 he was elected justice of the peace, and has served in this office continuously to the present time. Mr. Davidson was married, December 8, 1856, to Harriet M., daugh ter of Michael Shaffer, of Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, and by this union they have had eight children, five of whom are living: Emma, wife of J. C. Connor; Eleanor; Harry; Annie E., and Edith. Politically he is a Republican. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 963 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

H. E. DAVIS, coal operator and dealer, was born, June 7, 1845, in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, a son of John and Agnes (Swineford) Davis. He was educated in the common schools and at Missionary Institute, Selins grove. At the age of eighteen years he was employed by the Empire Stove Company at Meadville and Greenville, Pennsylvania, for one year. In 1867 he became a clerk in the First National Bank of Sunbury, remaining until 1869, when he was married to Miss Kate Haas, daughter of Henry Haas, then proprietor of the Central Hotel of Sunbury. In the fall of 1871 he began representing Hall Brothers & Company, who were sole agents for the Mineral Railroad and Mining Company and the Lykens Valley Coal Company, and remained with them until 1881, when he became a member of the firm of Hall Brothers & Company, continuing until 1883; from the latter date until 1889 he was agent for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. During 1889 he was made vice-president and general manager of the Bethel Coal Company; he is president of the Sunbury and Northumberland Street railway, president of the Sunbury Electric Light and Power Company, a director of the contemplated Southern Central railroad, a director of the First National Bank of Sunbury, and was assistant burgess of Sunbury one term. He has two children: Helen A. and Mary C. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 855 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)
HENRY EYRE DAVIS, Judging by results there seems to be something in the atmosphere of Pennsylvania which develops talent for practical affairs. In every section of the Commonwealth there are to be found young men who have disclosed tact and capacity for business enterprises, and without the class schooling, which is applied elsewhere, they master the details and conquer the intricacies of commercial life. Among those who have conspicuously achieved this distinction is Henry E. Davis, of Sunbury, Pa., whose portrait precedes this sketch. He was born in Selinsgrove, Snyder County, on June 7, 1845, and is a son of James K.and Agnes (Swineford) Davis. He was always a bright and industrious boy. He received his rudimentary education in the public schools, and took a course in the Selinsgrove Missionary Institute, a modest but efficient institution of learning, which won deserved praise in the state in its time. At the age of twenty years young Davis began his business career and has been active in affairs ever since. His first experience was as clerk in a store in his native town, in which position he served one year. Then he removed to Meadville, Pa., where he obtained a position in a large retail dry goods store and remained a year. In 1867 he entered the First National Bank of Sunbury, Pa., the most extensive institution of its kind in that section. He remained there some years and mastered every detail of the business. But the arduous nature of the work impaired his health and he was compelled to relinquish the position and seek employment of a less confining character. In 1871 he became the representative of Hall Brothers & Co., a Baltimore firm, which was the sole agent for the sale of anthracite coal mined by the Mineral Railroad & Mining Company and the Lykens Valley Coal Company, both companies being owned and controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. His district embraced Pennsylvania and the West, and his office was located in Sunbury. He held this important relation to the business interests of his community for ten years. At the expiration of that time he severed his connection with the firm he served so long, so faithfully and so well, and went into the business of buying and shipping anthracite coal on his own account. The venture met with gratifying success from the outset, and has been prosecuted with characteristic energy ever since. Some years ago he added to his business the industry of mining and shipping bituminous coal from mines which he acquired in Somerset County, Pa. Mr. Davis has always been one of the most progressive citizens of his adopted home, and every enterprise which promises the promotion of the business and the development of the material interests of the community has found in him a willing promoter. He was first president of the Sunbury & Northumberland Street Railway, which was built by Hon. S. P. Wolverton, F. P. Abercombie and himself. He is president and general manager of the Bethel Coal Company, of Somerset County, Pa.; a director of the First National Bank of Sunbury, the institution in which he spent several years of his early life; and a director of the First National Bank of Selinsgrove. He was also president and one of the foremost promoters of the Sunbury Electric Light & Power Company, which was among the first and is now among the most perfectly equipped electric plants in the Commonwealth. In addition to that he has always been among the first and most active men in the community to advocate progressive ideas and improvements in the affairs of the town, and many of the advanced steps which mark Sunbury as among the leading towns in the interior of the state are traceable to his enterprise and foresight. He is a trustee of the Mary M. Packer Hospital of Sunbury. Mr. Davis is an active and earnest Democrat. Naturally a man of his progressive spirit would be called upon by his party to serve in official capacity, and he has proved himself not only useful, but faithful, in the discharge of municipal functions imposed on him in town council, the school board and other honorary capacities. He has frequently been delegate to state and county conventions, and has discharged every trust which he has accepted with scrupulous fidelity and notable intelligence. But he has never consented to take an office of emolument, and to those who have suggested such compliment his invariable answer has been that he had too much business to attend to, to sacrifice his time in the discharge of public duties, which there were plenty of competent persons willing to assume. But while he thus abstained from political aspirations on his own account, he has always been zealous and active in the advancement of his friends, and thus exercised an important influence in the affairs of the county. Of honorary offices, however, he has had a full share, and in 1876 the Democrats of Northumberland County named him for state senator, but he readily yielded the district nomination to his friend, Hon. A. H. Dill. When Mr. Dill resigned to become the Democratic candidate for governor two years later, the eyes of the party naturally turned to Mr. Davis, but he was among the first earnest advocates of Hon. S. P. Wolverton. In 1878 he was a member of the state committee, and in 1880, during the Hancock campaign for presidency, was on the electoral, ticket for the Twenty-seventh Congressional District. In 1886 he was one of the secretaries of the Democratic State Convention, and was an earnest advocate of the nomination of Hon. William A. Wallace for governor. In 1898 he received the Democratic nomination for Congress. He has always been a liberal contributor to the party campaign funds and is regarded by the Democratic leaders of the state as one of the safest party counsellors and most sagacious political advisers. On October 18, 1869, Mr. Davis was married to Kate C. Haas, a member of one of the most respected families of Sunbury. The fruits of the union are two accomplished daughters, Helen A. and Mary C. Mr. Davis lives with his family in a beautiful and comfortable home in Sunbury, the hospitalities of which he takes delight in dispensing to strangers visiting the town.(Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY, 1899 , pg. 273 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JOHN DAVIS, engineer at Locust Gap colliery, was born in Buckley, Wales, November 7, 1849, son of Thomas and Anna (Reed) Davis. He was reared and educated in his native town, and served a six years' apprenticeship at his trade. In 1869 he immigrated to Pennsylvania and located at Mahanoy City, where he found employment at Lawton's colliery. He subsequently went to Colorado, where he spent two years, and returned to Doutyville, Northumberland county, where he remained four years. He then located at Locust Gap and has since filled his present position. Mr. Davis has been twice married. His first wife was Alice, daughter of John and Ellen (Reed) Boyer, natives of England and Scotland, respectively. She bore him four children, all of whom are dead: Anna; Ellen; Sarah, and Thomas. His second wife was Anna, daughter of William and Sarah Rodgers, of Shermanville, of which union four children have been born: Thomas; George; Emma, and Sarah. In politics Mr. Davis is a Republican, and is an adherent of the Episcopal church. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1065 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

MORGAN DAVIS, outside foreman at Mt. Carmel colliery, was born in Minersville, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, November 25, 1836, son of Reese and Mary (Williams) Davis, natives of South Wales, who came to America in 1829 and settled in Minersville. His father followed mining for a time, and was subsequently superintendent of mines fifteen years. He was a resident of Mt. Carmel eleven years, coming here in 1853, and sunk the first slope in the county. He removed to Centralia in 1864, where he filled the position of inspector for the Lehigh Valley Coal Company until his death in January, 1870. He was the father of eight children: Sarah, who married M. Watkins; Rachel, who married John Lewis; Morgan; Mary, who married William Davis; Isaac; Reese, deceased; Reese (2d), and Elizabeth, deceased. Our subject was reared in Schuylkill and Northumberland counties, received a common school education, and has been engaged in the mines since early boyhood. He was for many years an engineer, and has held his present position since 1868. In August, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, was promoted to first corporal, and served under Generals Buell, Rosecrans, and Sherman. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Stone River twice, but escaped both times. He served three years and two months, and was honorably discharged from the service. Mr. Davis was married, September 7, 1861, to Deborah, daughter of John and Ann (George) Plyer, of South Wales. They are the parents of five living children: Mary A.; Morgan; Reese A.; Deborah, and Lillian. The family are adherents of the Congregational church. Politically Mr. Davis is a Republican, and is a member of the G.A.R. and the Masonic fraternity. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1054 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

U. Q. DAVIS was born at Limestoneville, Montour county, Pennsylvania, July 16, 1821, read medicine with Doctor Ludwig of that place, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1848. His practice was begun at Lewisburg, Union county, Pennsylvania, whence, in 1856, he removed to Milton, where he resided until his death, October 5, 1887. During the civil war he served as surgeon to the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers. His son, Sidney Davis, has succeeded to the practice of his father. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 267 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JACKSON DAY, grandfather of Mrs. Walter J. Leonard, was a native of York county, Pa. For a number of years he lived at Millersburg, Dauphin Co., Pa., where he conducted the work train, and he died at the age of sixty-five, in about 1891, at that place, where he is buried. He was a member of the United Evangelical Church. He and his wife Jane (Beck), who was also of York county, had a family of eight children.
Noah Day, son of Jackson and Jane (Beck) Day, was born May 1, 1851, at Shrewsbury, York Co., Pa., where he received his education. He began railroading at the early age of fifteen years on the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s work train at Millersburg, and after serving as flagman and fireman in turn became engineer, being engaged in that capacity for thirty years before his death. He was yard engineer at DY. Mr. Day was well known among railroad men, was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, of the Pennsylvania Relief Fund Association and of the Veteran’s Association. He held membership in the First United Evangelical Church at Sunbury, and in politics was a stanch Republican.
Mr. Day’s first marriage was to Alda Gilbert, who is buried at Millersburg. By that union he had two children: Frederick, who lives at Stone Harbor, N.J.; and Jennie, who married Samuel Kobel and lives at Millersburg, Pa. On Oct. 12, 1876, Mr. Day married (second) Margaret Yeager, daughter of Christian Yeager, a native of Germany, who lived at Georgetown (Dalmatia), Pa. Mr. Yeager married Sarah Burrell who was from Lower Mahanoy Township, this county, and they had children: George, Alexander, Sarah, Peter and Margaret (wife of Noah Day). Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Day: Clara, Mrs. Walter J. Leonard; Cora M., wife of Jonathan Kunkel of Sunbury; Jackson, who died in infancy; Virgie V., wife of Ralph Bailey, of Williamsport, Pa.; Daisy, who died in infancy, and Verlin E., wife of Charles B. Smith, a railroader, who has a daughter, Geraldine Elizabeth (they reside with Mrs. Day).( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 963 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

SAMUEL HALSEY DEAN, one of the educators in Northumberland County in recent years, is superintendent of schools at Mount Carmel.(Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY, 1899 , pg. 679 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM A. DEAN, retired farmer, was born in Montour county, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1827. His father, Joseph Dean, was born in that part of Columbia county which is now attached to Montour county, Pennsylvania He was a farmer by occupation, and was captain of a company in the war of 1812. He served as treasurer of Montour county, also as associate judge ten years, and was a Democrat in politics. He was an elder of the Presbyterian church for many years, and became a wealthy and influential citizen of the community in which he resided. He married Adeline Cole, of Fishing Creek, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, by whom he had eight children: William A., the oldest, was reared and educated in his native county, and has followed the occupation of farming and surveying. In 1872 he purchased a farm in Lewis township, this county, where he resided until 1884, when he retired to Milton. October 3, 1853, he was married to Susan, daughter of John and Mary Gauger, of Montour county, Pennsylvania She died, March 3, 1881, leaving two children: Mary Ada, wife of John Z. McFarland, of Watsontown, and Jessie, wife of George F. Richmond, of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was again married, January 8, 1884, to Louisa McCurdy, daughter of Jacob McCurdy, of Union county, Pennsylvania. He has always been an active Democrat, and for twenty years was a justice of the peace for Montour and this county. From 1886 to 1888 he represented Northumberland county in the State legislature. He is a stockholder of the Milton Trust and Safe Deposit Company, and one of the examining hoard of the same. He is a member of Danville Lodge, No. 224, F. & A.M., and with his family belongs to the Presbyterian church. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 994 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)
WILLIAM A. DEAN, late of Watsontown, had been a resident of that borough only a few years at the time of his recent death, but he was a well known citizen of this part of Northumberland County, where he passed the latter half of his long life. His earlier years were spent in the adjoining section of Montour County, and he came of an old family of this region—upper Northumberland County and the adjacent territory of what is now Montour county. He was active in politics and public affairs for a number of years, and had given honorable service in various positions.
Mr. Dean was born Oct. 27, 1827, near Washingtonville, Columbia (now Montour) Co., Pa. The family is of English origin, and his great-grandfather was one of General Wolfe’s aides-de-camp at the battle of Quebec, in 1759. At the close of the French and Indian war he returned to England, where he died. His son, Joseph Dean, grandfather of William A. Dean, was impressed on board an English vessel, and brought from England to America. He served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and after its close married Esther Florel, and settled in Montour (then Columbia) County, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Dean, son of Joseph and Esther, was born in what is now Montour county in 1786, and died in 1867. He was a farmer by occupation, and proved himself a man of enterprise and intelligence in business matters, accumulating considerable means. He was an influential citizen of his day, serving one term as treasurer of Montour county and ten years as associate judge. He was a strong Democrat in politics, and in religion a member of the Presbyterian church, in which he served many years as elder. Progressive and energetic, he took a leading part in The affairs of his time. A young man when the war of 1812 broke out, he entered the service and attained the rank of colonel. He was twice married, his first union being with Mary Pollock, daughter of James Pollock, of Anthony Township, Lycoming Co., Pa., and she died about 1822, leaving one son, Joseph. Mr. Dean’s second marriage was to Adeline C. Cole, of Fishing Creek, Columbia Co., Pa., and member of an old family of that county. She had three brothers and one sister, as follows: Ezekiel, Isaiah, William (who was county commissioner of Columbia county) and Helen (Mrs. Samuel Lowery). Mrs. Adeline C. Dean died in 1858, at the age of fifty-one years. She and her husband are buried in the Derry cemetery adjoining the church of that name in Montour county. To their union were born nine children, the family record being as follows: Joseph married Mary Ann Gehrlinger, by whom he had two children, Margaret (Mrs. James Pollock) and Wallace (who married Ella Foust), and by his second wife, Margaret (Corneleson), he had five children; William A. is mentioned below; Jane married Russell Sheddon and had one son, Clarence, of Gardner, Kans.; Mary married William Clingan and had children, Charles (of Kansas City, Mo.), Margaret (wife of A. Brown, of Lewisburg, Pa.), Jean (Mrs. Price, of Galesburg, Ill.) and Helen (Mrs. Pennfield, of Connecticut); Ursula is the widow of Daniel Gouger; Alice married F. J. Foster, of Kansas, and had children, Dr. Dean Foster (of Stamford, Conn.), Andrew (an electrician, of Joplin, Mo.), Hugh (an electrician, also of Joplin, Mo.), Lloyd (of Harper County, Kans.) and Peggie (Mrs. Fulton, of Harper County, Kans.); Martha married Capt. Samuel Bryson and had children, James, Dr. Howard, Nellie and Janette; Helen and Susan died young; Oliver H. is a member of the law firm of Warner, Dean & McLeod, of Kansas City, Mo. (Mr. Warner, the senior member, is United States senator from Missouri).
William A. Dean, oldest son of Joseph by his second marriage, was reared and educated in Montour County, where he followed farming and surveying until he purchased a farm in Lewis Township, Northumberland County, in 1872, removing thereon. He lived there until 1884, when he gave up arduous labor and settled at Milton, making his home in that borough until 1906, in which year he removed to Watsontown, at which place he spent his remaining days, in retirement. He lived on Main Street, above FirSt. He died June 9, 1910, in his eighty-third year. Though farming was his principal vocation during his more active years, Mr. Dean had other interests of importance and was chosen to a number of public positions, in which his services were highly satisfactory. He served over twenty years as justice of the peace, in Montour and Northumberland counties; represented the district including Northumberland County in the State Legislature from 1886 to 1888; was school director some years, and for three years secretary of the school board; was deputy sheriff under Robert Montgomery, and upon his death, in 1892, was appointed sheriff to complete the unexpired term. He has always been an enthusiastic Democrat, and has been delegate to a number of county and State conventions. He was a stockholder in the Milton Trust & Safe Deposit Company and served as member of the examining board. Mr. Dean was made a Mason in Danville Lodge, No. 224, F. & A.M., in 1850, later transferring his membership to Milton Lodge, No. 256, to which he belonged until his death. He and his family were associated with the Presbyterian church. Although past eighty at the time of his decease, Mr. Dean was active and vigorous for one of his years, possessed a good memory, and was greatly beloved for his kindly spirit and admirable disposition.
On Oct. 3, 1853, Mr. Dean married Susan Gauger, daughter of John and Mary (Billmeyer) Gauger, of Montour County, and she died March 3, 1881. This union was blessed with two daughters: (1) Mary Ada married John Z. McFarland, of Watsontown, and they have a family of seven children: Dean, who is a mail carrier on the rural route from Watsontown; John Z., who married Maggie McGee, of McGees Mills, Clearfield Co., Pa., where they reside (they have two children); Jessie, who graduated from Bucknell University and is now teaching at Altoona, Pa.; Sarah, a student at Bucknell University; Oliver H.; Francis; and George. (2) Jessie is the wife of George F. Richmond, of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
On Jan. 8, 1884, Mr. Dean married (second) Louisa McCurdy, daughter of Jacob and Ann (Day) McCurdy, of Union County, Pennsylvania. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 407 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

SAMUEL DE ARMOND, retired farmer, was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, March 22,1811, son of Samuel and Esther (Wallace) De Armond. His grandfather emigrated from Scotland to Ireland, from there to America, and located in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. The De Armond and Wallace families came from Dauphin county to Northumberland county about 1793, and settled near the present site of the Warrior Run Presbyterian church. Samuel De Armond was the father of seven children, but two of whom are living: Thomas and Samuel. He died in 1818, and his widow in January, 1851. The subject of our sketch was educated in the old log school house, and followed farming as an occupation until 1873, when he removed to Watsontown to live a retired life. He was married in 1842 to Rebecca G. Ferguson, a native of this county, and to this union were born five children: Hadssah G.; William W.; Andrew W.; Thomas D., and Samuel E., all of whom are dead except the last mentioned. Mr. De Armond and wife are members of the Warrior Run Presbyterian church. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1078 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

SAMUEL EDWARD DeARMOND, retired, and one of the most highly esteemed citizens of Watsontown, Northumberland County, Pa., was born in Delaware township in the county in which he now resides, first seeing the light of day near the Warriors Run Church on June 9, 1855. He is a son of the late Samuel and Rebecca G. (Ferguson) DeArmond, a grandson of Samuel and Esther (Wallace) DeArmond, and a great-grandson of Thomas DeArmond, whose wife's name has not been handed down in the family record. Our subject comes of a family whose founders were among the earliest settlers in this state and he possesses among other relics a deed for land purchased by his great-grandfather, Thomas DeArmond, as far back as 1793. This deed, which is of great historical interest, was given by John and Thomas Penn to Frederick Watts and is dated June 22, 1775. It conveyed a tract of 100 acres which subsequently was bought by Thomas DeArmond and now forms part of the estate which finally descended to the subject of this sketch. Educated in the public schools and at the Bloomsburg State Normal School, Samuel Edward DeArmond has devoted his ability and energy, substantially, to excellently caring for his parents and successfully managing the estate. He has been a large dealer in real estate and has been also foremost in promoting thegrowth and progress of Watsontown, in which he always has taken an active and most helpful interest. Our subject is a stockholder in the Farmers' National Bank of Watsontown, which owes much of its prosperity and success to his energetic and wise efforts. As have been his father, and mother and the family back for generations, Mr. DeArmond is a Presbyterian. In politics he is a Democrat, but never has aspired to hold office. Thomas DeArmond, great-grandfather of our subject, with his wife and children, came from County Donegal, Ireland, to this country and first located in Dauphin County, this state. In 1793 the family removed to Northumberland County, the head of the family buying the tract of land heretofore referred to. Thomas DeArmond partly cleared the land and passed the remainder of his years upon the spot chosen as his final home. He and his wife lived to "ripe old age" and both peacefully lie in the cemetery at Warrior's Run Church. Their children, so far as the family can state, were three sons,—Samuel, John and Robert. Of these, Samuel was born in Ireland and was ten years old when his father settled in Northumberland County. Samuel assisted in clearing the tract of land, followed farming all his life and died in 1842. His wife survived him until 1851, when she, too, was laid in the cemetery at Warrior's Run Church. Their children were: John; Thomas; Samuel, father of our subject; William; Hester; Martha; Margaret; and Mattie. The father of our subject, Samuel DeArmond, was born on the farm herein mentioned on March 22, 1811. He received a common school education. He and his brother Thomas were left the handsome estate to which they added considerably until it became quite a valuable property. Samuel was unusually successful in his ventures and he retired from active farming or other pursuits in 1873 and built the handsome brick residence on the southeast corner of Sixth and Mum streets in Watsontown where he died April 3, 1898— twenty-five years to a day since he arrived in the township. This residence is now occupied by our subject and his wife. Thomas remained on the farm until his death. Samuel was a Democrat and somewhat active in local politics. He served as auditor of the township and a member of the school board in Watsontown. Mrs. DeArmond, mother of our subject, passed from this life November 1, 1898. She was born September 20, 1812, and was a daughter of Andrew Ferguson of Northumberland County. These children were the results of the happy union of Samuel DeArmond and Miss Ferguson: Hadasah G., William W., Andrew Woods, Thomas Dutton and Samuel Edward. Our subject was united in marriage on January 26, 1899, to Kate D. Ball of Philadelphia. A portrait of Mr. DeArmond is shown on a previous page.(Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY, 1899 , pg. 435 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

THOMAS DE ARMOND, retired farmer, was born upon the farm where he now resides, February 10, 1807, son of Samuel and Esther (Wallace) De Armond, and brother of Samuel De Armond, whose sketch appears elsewhere. He was educated at the subscription schools of his boyhood, and has followed the occupation of farming all his life. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1156 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

HARRY R. DEETER, superintendent of the Lewisburg, Milton and Watsontown Passenger Railway Company, at Milton, was born in Paradise, this County, April 11, 1872. The Deeter family has lived in Pennsylvania for several generations.
Jacob Deeter, the grandfather, was born in Montour County, Pa., and on reaching manhood took up farming in Chillisquaque Township, Northumberland County, where he died in 1850. He was a deacon and elder in the Methodist Episcopal church, to which his wife also belonged. He married Eliza Ann Barr, a native of Lycoming County, Pa., born April 3, 1821, died June 17, 1859, and buried at Paradise Church. To this union were born two children William A., mentioned below; and George M., who died unmarried. After Mr. Deeter’s death his widow married Daniel Karchner, born March 26, 1814, died April 27, 1889, and buried at Paradise Church. To her second marriage were born Russell K., vice president of the Reid Tobacco Company, and residing at Milton; Martha J.; Anna R.; Nora, deceased.
William A. Deeter, son of Jacob and father of Harry R., was born in Chillisquaque Township, Jan. 19, 1846, and followed farming all his active life. In politics he was a Democrat, and he always took a great interest in the welfare of his party. He was twice a candidate for county commissioner, being the nominee of his party both times, but was both times defeated by small majorities at the polls. He served as tax collector in his district. Mr. Deeter was a deacon in the Lutheran church many years. In 1892 he came to Milton where his death occurred July 18, 1894, and his remains were interred in Paradise cemetery. In 1871 he married Margaret Gouger, daughter of John R. Gouger of Montour county. She now makes her home in Milton. This union was blessed with two children, Harry R. and May N.
Harry R. Deeter received his education in the local schools in Paradise, and for one term attended the Milton schools. For five years he was employed by the Reid Tobacco Company, at Milton, and for one year was traveling salesman for a Philadelphia house. On June 1, 1899, he entered the service of the L. M. & W. Passenger Railway Co., as chief clerk, and was advanced to superintendent on Jan. 1, 1911.
Politically Mr. Deeter is a Republican, and he has served on the election board of the Second ward of Milton. He is a member of the Lutheran church. His fraternal connections are with Milton Lodge, No. 256, F. & A.M.; Warrior Run Chapter, No. 246, R.A.M.; and the Improved Order of Heptasophs.
Mr. Deeter married Ida M. Lowe, daughter of Thomas J. Lowe, of Watsontown, and they have one daughter, Margaret R. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 355 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

W. A. DEETER was born in Chillisquaque township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1846, son of Jacob and Eliza Ann (Barr) Deeter, natives of Montour and Lycoming counties, Pennsylvania, respectively. They were consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was deacon and elder. The father died in 1850 and his widow married David Karchner, who died in 1889; she survives him and resides in Milton. Her first marriage gave her two children: W. A. and George; and her second marriage four children: Russell K., of Williamsport; Martha, Ann, and Nora, all of Milton. Our subject has resided upon his present farm since the age of four years. In 1871 he married Margaret Gauger, daughter of John B. Gauger, of Montour county, this State, and by her has two children: Harry and May. He is an active Democrat, and was the candidate of that party for commissioner in 1888. He is a member of the I.O.O.F., and with his family belongs to the Lutheran church, of which he has served as deacon fifteen years. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1124 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM H. DEETER, justice of the peace in Coal township, was born in Hegins township, Schuylkill County, Pa., December 13, 1861, and is a son of Peter and Phoebe (Boyer) Deeter and a grandson of Andrew Deeter. Andrew Deeter was of German parentage and lived the greater part of his life in Schuylkill County, Pa., where he followed the occupation of a farmer. Later in life he removed to Lykens, Dauphin County, where he died. Peter Deeter, our subject's father, first saw the light of day in Hegins township, Schuylkill County, Pa. He received the ordinary education of a farmer's boy, and, like his father, when grown to manhood followed that occupation for a livelihood. He was among the first to respond to his country's call for troops in 1861, and enlisted in the 76th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf. After his discharge from the service he re-enlisted in Company K, 76th Regiment, as a corporal and served three years and ten months, taking an active part in many engagements and in one battle was wounded in the shoulder. He received an honorable discharge, returned home and again turned his attention to farming for a short time, after which he found employment about the public works in Schuylkill County until 1870, when he located permanently, in Shamokin, and has since been engaged in the transfer business, general teaming, etc. Politically Mr. Deeter is an earnest Republican and is always gratified at the success of his party. William H. Deeter, the subject of this personal history, received a common school education in Shamokin, after which he was given a finishing course in the high schools of Dauphin County. While a boy he spent his hours not employed at school at the breaker as a slate-picker. Having completed his education he returned to Shamokin and taught school for about one year; then he went into the mercantile business in Shamokin and continued at that for about two years when he disposed of his stock at a good profit and began clerking in another store, following this occupation for about two months. In 1890 he was elected justice of the peace for Coal township by a large majority. He at once established an office and was so fair and honorable in his legal dealings with the people that he was re-elected at the close of his first term by a still greater majority. Mr. Deeter's record stands clear and clean, he having made an honorable and upright judge. Our subject's mother was born September 27, 1838, and is a daughter of Daniel Boyer, a native of Orwigsburg, who removed late in life to Hegins township, Schuylkill County, where he passed the remainder of his days, respected and honored by his pioneer neighbors. Cinderella J. was the only daughter of Peter and Phoebe Deeter; she died at the age of five years and twenty-nine days. April 26, 1894, our subject was joined in the holy bonds of matrimony with Mary Sophronia Taylor, a charming and accomplished lady; both ,are well andfavorably known and have numerous friends in all parts of the county. Politically our subject is a Republican, never fails to take an active interest in political matters in his township, and has served a number of times as a member of the election board.(Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY, 1899 , pg. 524 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

AMOS K. DEIBLER, district attorney of Northumberland County, has been engaged in legal practice at Shamokin since 1902, and was elected to, his present position in 1907. Mr. Deibler was born Feb. 11, 1869, in Shamokin Township, this County, where his grandfather, George Deibler, was a pioneer settler.
George Deibler was born in Dauphin County, Pa., and came to Northumberland County about 1812, locating in Shamokin Township, where he purchased land in 1813 and followed farming the remainder of his active days. He was one of the substantial and respected residents of his section, and Deiblers Station, in Shamokin Township, was named for him. He and his wife, whose maiden name was Bastian, are buried at the Brick Church, at Reed’s Station. They had children as follows: Daniel, William, Jonathan, John, George, Susan, Hannah, Rebecca, Harriet and Catharine.
John Deibler, son of George, was born in Shamokin Township in 1836. He learned the trade of stone and brick mason, which he followed until he was about forty years old, after which he devoted himself to farming, on property he still owns, about a half mile south of Deibler’s station. He retired in the year 1903, moving to Snydertown, where he now makes his home. Mr. Deibler has long been a stanch Republican in political sentiment, and he served the Union as a soldier during the Civil war. He was Township treasurer before his removal to Snydertown. To him and his wife, Sarah (Reed), daughter of John I. and Sarah (Arter) Reed, have been born nine children, namely: Grant who died in infancy; Almeda, married to Frank Washington, of Snydertown; Amos K.; William F., who is now superintendent of boiler works at San Francisco, Cal.; John E., a contractor and builder, of South Carolina; H. S., living in Sunbury, this county;. Thomas J., of Snydertown; George W., and Agnes. The two last named are still living with their parents.
Amos, K. Deibler received his early education in the public schools of the home locality. Later he attended Bucknell University, from which be was graduated in 1899, with the degree of A. B., and for a year after he taught the high school at Turbutville, meantime reading law with C. B. Witmer, Esq., at Sunbury. He was admitted to the bar in June, 1902, and in the fall of that year established himself in the borough of Shamokin. His offices are in the Masonic Temple building. At the election held Nov. 7, 1907, Mr. Deibler was chosen to the office of district attorney by a majority of 2,265, and had the distinction of being the first successful Republican candidate for the office in thirty-six years. This circumstance alone would indicate the measure of his popularity and the confidence in which he is held by those among whom he is pursuing his life work.
Mr. Deibler is very well known in the fraternal bodies in Shamokin, holding membership in Shamokin Lodge, No. 255, F. & A.M.; Shamokin Chapter, No. 265, R.A.M.; in Bloomsburg Consistory, thirty-second degree; in the Temple Club; the I.O.O.F.; the Red Men; the Sons of Veterans; the F.O.E.; and the P.O.S. of A. His religious connection is with the Methodist church.
On April 24, 1901, Mr. Deibler married Ella Farrow, daughter of William and Isabella (Wilkenson) Farrow, and they have had one daughter, Isabella. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 592 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JACOB R. DEIBLER, who follows farming in Shamokin Township, having a fine property at Snydertown, is a well known member of a family which has been settled in that section of Northumberland County for several generations. He was born in Shamokin Township March 6, 1857, son of Jonathan Deibler, and grandson of George Deibler, the pioneer settler here.
George Deibler was born in Dauphin County, Pa., and came to Northumberland County about 1812, locating in Shamokin Township, where he purchased land in 1813 and followed farming the remainder of his active days. He was one of the substantial and respected residents of his section, and Deiblers Station, in Shamokin Township, was named for him. He and his wife, whose maiden name was Bastian, are buried at the Brick church, at Reed’s station. They had children as follows: Daniel, Mary, Jonathan, Hannah, George, William, John, Catharine, Elizabeth, Harriet and Rebecca.
Jonathan Deibler, son of George, was born in 1825 on the old homestead at Deiblers station, which farm is now owned by R. S. Aucker, of Shamokin. He was reared to farming, and always followed that vocation, becoming a well known and highly respected citizen of his district. He died Aug. 27, 1887, at the age of sixty-two years, and is buried at Reed’s church in Ralpho Township. His widow, Elizabeth (Reed), daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Duttinger) Reed, now (1911) eighty-three years old, makes her home with her son Jacob at Snydertown. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Deibler, namely: Flora A., who is married to S. Ellis Klase and lives in Snydertown; Jacob R.; and Emma C., who is married to Wallace Hoover and lives at Riverside, this county.
Jacob R. Deibler received his education in the public schools of the home locality. When a young man he taught for one term, at the American school in Shamokin Township, but he did not care for the profession and decided to devote himself to farming, in which he has been very successful. He bought the old Jones homestead, at Snydertown, having a tract of 135 acres under excellent cultivation. Mr. Deibler has been progressive and thrifty, and has shown such good judgment in the management of his own affairs that he has been called upon to participate in the administration of public matters, having served as Township auditor, school director and borough councilman; he is still filling the latter office, which he has held for seven years. He has taken an active part in the work of the school board and council, having been president of the former and secretary of the latter body. Politically he is a Republican. In religion he is a Lutheran.
Mr. Deibler married Rachel A. Zimmerman, daughter of George and Sarah (Fasold) Zimmerman, and they have had four children: Helen E., Wallace H., Luther E. (who died in infancy) and Warren E. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 619 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

DIETRICH. The branch of the Dietrich family to which Samuel and Levi Deitrich, prominent citizens in their respective communities, belong, is descended from one of eight brothers of that name who came from Germany about 1740 and settled at Philadelphia. John Michael Dietrich, son of one of these eight brothers, was born in Philadelphia before the beginning of the Revolutionary war. When the battle of Brandywine was fought, in 1777, the Dietrich family lived near that now famous battlefield, and his mother took him and other small children into an underground cellar for safety. John Michael Dietrich served as a soldier under Maj. “Mad Anthony” Wayne, in 1794, in the Indian wars; and later he served in the war of 1812, receiving for his services four grants of land in Schuylkill County. It is probable one or two of these grants were located below Sunbury, in Northumberland County. After living for some time in Schuylkill County (where he was among the first settlers at what is now the site of Pottsville) he moved to a place, below Sunbury, in what is now lower Augusta Township, and he farmed one of the islands of the Susquehanna river, all of which are embraced in Lower Augusta Township. At this place he remained some years, and some of his children were married while the family resided there. Later he returned to Schuylkill County, locating in the Deep Creek Valley, in Barry Township. There he died at an advanced age. He was a pensioned soldier at the time of his death. He was a cooper by trade. After leaving Philadelphia he had lived in Longswamp Township, Berks Co., for a time, and there hie was married to a Miss Seasholtz. Thence they moved to Schuylkill County. He was tall, raw-boned and of dauntless courage, and possessed a roving and adventurous disposition, taking part in several wars. His ten children, five sons and five daughters, were: Conrad never married; Jacob never married; Philip was killed in the coal mines at Mount Carmel, Pa.; John was married and some of his family now live at Mount Carmel; George is mentioned later; Polly married George St. Clair; Betsy married Daniel St. Clair, brother of George; Hannah married Adam Snyder; Susan; Sally married Jacob Derr. George Deitrich, son of John Michael, was born in 1809, at Pottsville, Schuylkill County. In 1871 he moved to Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, where he died Nov. 3, 1895. He was a laborer, and for a number of years was employed in a brickyard, continuing to be active until late in life. His wife was Hannah Oyster, and their union was blessed with the following eleven children: Eliza was burned to death when twenty years old, at Newcastle, Schuylkill County; Harriet married Lance Parker, and they live at Shenandoah, Pa.; Mary, never married; Kate married Abraham Fry; Hannah never married; Elizabeth married Peter Kauffman; Sarah married Thomas Moser; George died aged four years; John died aged twenty-two years; Samuel is mentioned later; Levi is mentioned later.( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 253 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

LEVI DEITRICH (DIETRICH), justice of the peace and prominent citizen of Mount Carmel, Northumberland County, was born at Llewellyn, Schuylkill Co., Pa., in 1857. He began work at the coal mines as a slate picker when a mere boy, and followed the occupation of mining many years. In 1871 he came with his parents to Mount Carmel, where he has since made his home. Mr. Deitrich is a Republican and has been active in promoting the welfare of his party. In 1897 he was elected constable of the borough of Mount Carmel, serving in this office nine years, until, in the spring of 1906, he was elected a justice of the peace, which office he now fills with merit. Mr. Deitrich was also overseer of the poor of his district for some years. Mr. Deitrich is popular socially. He is a member of the I.O.O.F., the P.O.S. of A. and the Improved Order of Red Men. In 1882, when the Anthracite Fire Company of Mount Carmel borough was organized, Mr. Deitrich was a charter member, and for many years was its efficient treasurer; for twenty-one consecutive years he rang the fire bell In May, 1878, Mr. Deitrich was united in marriage with Susan Stutzman, daughter of Adam and Susan C. Stutzman. To this union were born seven children, as follows: Elmer, George W., Clarence, Levi, Jr., John, William, and Annie (who died when three and a half years old). Mrs. Deitrich died May 7, 1899, aged forty-four years, six months, twelve days.( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 253 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

SAMUEL DEITRICH, former sheriff of Northumberland County, and at present warden of the county jail at Sunbury, was born in Schuylkill County June 21, 1854, son of George Deitrich. He began working in early youth in the coal mines, and followed the mining business until 1884, after which he conducted a hotel at Mount Carmel for five years. In 1894 he was appointed warden of the Northumberland County prison and served as such six years. In 1901 he was elected to the office of sheriff, in which he served in 1902-03-04. In 1909 he again received the appointment of jail warden, in which office he has since served. Mr. Deitrich has been active in Republican party affairs since 1880, and has served frequently as delegate to county convention, being a power in county political circles. He is financially interested in various business enterprises, and is a man of substance and prominence, occupying an honorable position in the community he has served so ably as a public official. He is a large man, six feet, two inches in height and weighing 240 pounds. In 1876 Mr. Deitrich married Margaret Jane Manney, daughter of Dennis Manney, and to them have been born six children: Mary married Claude Savage, and they live at Northumberland; Della is a school teacher at Mount Carmel; Maud married John Noadhecker and they live in Sunbury; Dr. George A. graduated from Mount Carmel high school and from Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, later attending four years and graduating from the University of Pennsylvania (1910); Ada died in infancy; Margaret is at home.( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 253 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)
SAMUEL DEITRICH, liquor dealer and bottler, was born in Llewellyn, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1854, son of George and Hannah (Oister) Deitrich, natives of Pennsylvania, who removed to Mt. Carmel in 1870, where they now reside. Our subject was reared in Schuylkill and Northumberland counties, and received a common school education. At the age of nine years he commenced working in a breaker at the mines, and subsequently followed mining for eighteen years. In the spring of 1889 he embarked in his present business in Mt. Carmel, which he has continued up to the present. He was married, April 8, 1876, to Margaret Manney, of Mt. Carmel, who has borne him five children Mary; Idella I.; Maud; George, and Ada. Mr. Deitrich is a stalwart Republican, has served one year as constable of the borough, and three terms in the council. He was one of the original members of the fire department, and has always taken an active interest in its prosperity. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1050 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

A. MILTON DELCAMP is proprietor of the “Locust Mountain House” at Mount Carmel, having one of the oldest and best established hotel stands in that vicinity. He took charge of this place in June, 1906, and has done a thriving business, his management having proved a success from the start. Mr. Delcamp has passed all his life at Mount Carmel, having been born there Nov. 9, 1870, son of Daniel Delcamp.
The Delcamp family is of French origin and the name was formerly spelled De La Camp. Mr. Delcamp’s great-great-grandfather came to this country from France in 1753, settling in Philadelphia. His son Peter, the great-grandfather of A. Milton Delcamp, settled at Minersville, Schuylkill Co., Pa., where he died at an advanced age. He was a farmer by occupation. His children were William, Philip, Peter, John, and one son who settled in Ohio.
William Delcamp, son of Peter, was born in 1803 at Minersville, and died in 1869 at Llewellyn, Schuylkill County. He was a blacksmith by trade, and followed that calling for many years, also engaging in farming. He married Rebecca Faust, who died at Mount Carmel and is buried in Alaska cemetery, and they had a family of six children: Eli, Matilda, Anetta, Joseph, Daniel and William. Three of the sons served in the Civil war, namely: William was a member of Company A, 50th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was killed at the battle of the Wilderness. Joseph also served as a member of the same company and regiment. Daniel enlisted in the same command (Company A, 50th Regiment) in February, 1864, from Pottsville, and served seventeen months, until after the close of the war; he was wounded in the left cheek and still carries the mark.
Daniel Delcamp, son of William, was born Nov. 2, 1837, in Branch Township, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and has lived in Mount Carmel since 1867. He followed mining for a period of fifty-one years, retiring in 1910. By his first wife, Bella Klinger, who died in 1872, Mr. Delcamp had two children, William and A. Milton. His second marriage was to Sarah Eisenbach, daughter of George Eisenbach, and eleven children have been born to this union: Charles, Matilda (married John Morgan), Edward, Elmer, Maude (deceased), George, Ida, Irene (deceased), Robert, Raymond and Flossie.
A. Milton Delcamp received his education in the public schools of Mount Carmel. He began work as a slate picker, being thus employed for two years after which he was engaged at selling milk, five years. He then attended school again for one term, following which be was employed by William Klees, in the butcher business, for three years, and later became a bar clerk. In February, 1900, he entered the employ of I. K. Wetzel, and in June, 1906, took charge of the “Locust Mountain House” as proprietor. The hotel has twenty-seven rooms, and is conveniently equipped. Mr. Delcamp is well fitted for the hotel business, having the faculty of making his guests comfortable and well satisfied with the service they receive and an obliging disposition which not only meets but anticipates the demands of his patrons. He does a profitable business and deserves the success he has won.
Mr. Delcamp is well known in the local social organizations, belonging to the P.O.S. of A., the Sons of Veterans, the Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Anthracite Fire Company. Politically he does not adhere to the principles of any one party, voting independently, and his hotel is the voting place of the 1st precinct of the Third ward.
On Aug. 7, 1904, Mr. Delcamp married Hetty Grove, daughter of John and Elizabeth Grove, of Mount Carmel, and they have had two children, Dorothy and Sarah. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 675 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JOHN J. DELANEY, local manager of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, was born in Forestville, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1859, son of John and Sarah (Dougherty) Delaney, both natives of Schuylkill county. His paternal grandfather, John Delaney, was a native of Canada, and settled in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, about 1810. His maternal grandfather, Patrick Dougherty, a native of the North of Ireland, settled in early life in Pottsville, where he held the office of justice of the peace fifteen years. John Delaney, father of our subject, was inside foreman at different collieries for many years, and was killed at Eagle Hill shaft, July 9, 1870. He was a soldier in the Rebellion, serving in the Sixteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers three months, and fifteen months in the Forty-eighth regiment. Our subject was reared in Pottsville up to the age of twelve years, and afterwards lived in St. Nicholas until 1874, when he located in Mt. Carmel, Northumberland county. For several years he worked in a breaker, firing and running the engine at Alaska shaft. for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. In 1882 he engaged in the sewing machine business, which he followed in Mt. Carmel and vicinity until May 26, 1890, when he removed to Shamokin and became local manager for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Mr. Delaney was married, December 26, 1879, to Mary, daughter of John and Ellen (Flanigan) Flynn, of Mt. Carmel, who has borne him four children: John, deceased; Ellen; Sadie, and Margaret. Politically he is a Republican, and is a member of the Sons of Veterans, at Mt. Carmel. The family are members of the Catholic church. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 966 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JOHN P. DENTLER, farmer, was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1842, son of William C. and Christianna (Raup) Dentler, natives of this county. His paternal grandfather came to this county in 1812, and located near Turbutville. He was the father of six children: John, who was associate judge of this county; Frederick; Franklin; William; Rachel, and Maria. William C., father of our subject, began life by working on the Pennsylvania canal, and afterward chose farming as an occupation. He served ten years as justice of the peace, and was an elder in the Lutheran church at the time of his death, November 7, 1866. His widow died, March 28, 1873. They reared a family of five children: William; Savilla; John P.; Mary C., wife of D. A. Engle, and Jennie, wife of Samuel Comley. The subject of our sketch was educated in the public schools, and has followed the occupation of farming all his life. He was married, January 13, 1870, to Jennie A., daughter of Philip Raup, of Turbutville. She died, July 11, 1888. They had two children: Lillie and Roy. January 1, 1890, he married Sarah Leinbach, of McEwensville. Mr. Dentler is a director of the Watsontown National Bank, and is a member of the Lutheran church, in which he has served as elder, deacon, and trustee. Politically he is a Democrat. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1149 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

DEPPEN. Christian Deppen, the founder of this family in Pennsylvania, came hither from the German Palatinate, arriving (qualifying) at Philadelphia Sept. 16, 1736. He crossed the ocean on the vessel “Princess Augusta,” from Rotterdam, Samuel Merchant master, along with a number of others from the Palatinate, their wives and children—in all three hundred souls, according to the historian Rupp. On the “List of Ships Foreigners” his name is given as Christian Dappen, and his age as thirty years. In the Captain’s book his name appears as Christian Teppe. In his will his name is written, in plain English, Christian Deppe. Thus we find that there has been considerable uncertainty concerning the correct orthography of the name. It appears often as Deppe, Depew, and Dupee, and some genealogists declare its original form to have been that of the old French Huguenot name, DePui.
Christian Deppen settled near Womelsdorf, in Heidelberg Township, Berks Co., Pa. In the tax lists of Heidelberg Township Christian “Deppy” is assessed as follows: 1767, on 300 acres, 3 horses, 3 cattle, 3 sheep; 1768, on 150 acres, 4 horses, 4 cattle, 5 sheep; 1779, on 220 acres, 5 horses, 15 cattle; 1780, on 395 acres, 5 horses, 12 cattle; 1781, on 395 acres, 5 horses, 8 cattle. The will of Christian Deppe, of Heidelberg Township, is on record in the Berks County courthouse, as made Sept. 27, 1775, and probated in 1782, the year of his death. It was witnessed by Philip Moyer, John Casper Reed, and Adam Kalbach, and it begins thus: “I, Christian Deppe, an aged yeoman of Heidelberg Township, Berks County.” As the will contains no reference to his wife, it is presumed she was dead at the time it was made. At the time of his death Christian Deppe also owned fifty acres of land in Northampton County. In his will he refers to his “eldest and beloved son, Johannes, who shall have fifty pounds over and above his other share.” His children as named in the will were: Johannes; Barbara (married Peter Zimmerman); Anna (married George Yeakly); Treanic; Elizabeth; Thomas; Peter; David, who died in 1804 (his German will is on record in Berks County courthouse); Joseph; Jacob; and Abraham, who died in 1840 intestate, and whose heir was Richard Boone, of Heidelberg.
Joseph Deppy (one of the older sons of the pioneer Christian) in the Federal Census Report of 1790 is recorded as a resident of Heidelberg Township, and as the head of a family consisting of himself, wife and three sons above sixteen years of age.
Christian, Peter, William and George Deppen, natives of Berks County, were pioneers of Northumberland County. They located in that section now embraced in Jackson and Washington Townships; in 1778 the name of Christian Deppen appears among the list of pioneers of Mahanoy Township (both Jackson and Washington were originally embraced in Mahanoy Township). This Christian Deppen and Peter Deppen, who were pioneers in Northumberland County, tradition states were sons of the ancestor Christian Deppy. The name of Peter is found in the will, but Christian is said to have been a heavy drinker, and poor probably on that account, and for this reason he was not mentioned in his father’s will. He was unlike his brothers. Early in the nineteenth century he went to Mercer County, Pa., where he died. He was married three times, and among his children were son Washington and daughter Betsy.
Peter Deppen came, as stated, from Berks to Northumberland County; after living there a short period he went to Ohio, finally settling in Missouri, where he was a prosperous farmer. His descendants in Missouri and the West are said to be many. Among his children were sons Zetic and Andrew.
William and George Deppen, mentioned above as having settled in Northumberland County, were grandsons of the ancestor Christian through his oldest son, John, and from these two spring all the Deppens now living in Northumberland County.
Whether Christian Deppy, the ancestor, was a Roman Catholic or not is uncertain, but tradition states that he was. His son Joseph was a Catholic, as were the latter’s children, and a number of the family still adhere to that faith. Most of the name now living in Reading are members of St. Pauls Catholic Church. There were sixteen persons by the name of Deppen in the Reading city directory for 1908.
William Deppen, one of the two grandsons of Christian mentioned as settling in Northumberland County, was a native of Berks County, born Nov. 20, 1779. He and his brother George settled near Herndon, in Jackson Township, in 1810. He is buried at Stone Valley Church, in Lower Mahanoy Township, where he died. He was a hat-maker by trade, but followed farming in Jackson Township. His wife Magdelene (Seiler) bore him twelve children, namely: Abraham, Alexander, Isaac, John, David, William, Leah, Sallie, Caroline, Lydia, Mary and Elizabeth (who died in infancy). The father, William Deppen, who is buried at Stone Valley Church; died Sept. 3, 1848; his wife Magdelene, born Sept. 15, 1790, died Feb. 2, 1862. Their son David, born Aug. 29, 1824, died Feb. 21, 1850.
Abraham Deppen, son of William, born Sept. 8, 1812, died Aug. 13, 1899, and is buried at St. Peter’s Church, in Mahanoy Township, where his wife also rests. He was a farmer, and also dealt in land and cattle, meeting with such success in his operations that at the time of his death he had an estate valued at $100,000. He was a resident of Herndon at that time. In 1832, together with a man named Mowery, he cleared the first five acres of what is now the site of the borough of Shamokin. In 1844, with his family, he left Jackson Township in a Conestoga wagon drawn by three horses and moved out to Wayne County, Ohio. They arrived a day or two too late to take possession of the land for which they had arranged, so the family lived in their wagon and with a cousin until the land tangle was straightened out. This, however, was only the beginning of a series of troubles. They lived for two years upon the farm they had taken up, but the rust killed the wheat crop, and they subsisted on corn cakes and corn bread, pork and chickens, unable to obtain money or other food. Mrs. Deppen became so homesick that Mr. Deppen hitched up his Conestoga wagon and took her back East, the four children remaining alone upon the farm until the parents returned, after an absence of ten weeks. Then Mr. Deppen became homesick, and after another year the entire family returned to the old location in Pennsylvania. The last year in Ohio the wheat and corn crops had both frozen, and the family lived principally on soft corn and pumpkins. It was in 1846 that they made the return journey, and when they arrived at Liverpool, Perry Co., Pa., the pair of horses he drove were Mr. Deppen’s only possessions. He settled on the opposite (east) side of the Susquehanna river, and, purchasing five thousand bushels of potatoes on his father’s indorsement, obtained a new start. In 1847 he went out to Ohio again to harvest his wheat crop, which was excellent. Just fifty years afterward he went back again, to visit his old farm, which he had sold to Alexander Deppen, who became a successful farmer thereon. The land improved greatly under cultivation.
In 1854 Abraham Deppen purchased half of the 300-acre island located in the Susquehanna river between Port Trevorton and Herndon, the other half being owned by a man named Strickler, who was the first man upon it. It was first known as Strickler island, later as Strickler and Deppen island. Mr. Deppen retained his interest until 1868 or 1869, when he sold to Peter Ziegler, since whose death his son George has owned it. The island comprises three hundred acres of the finest and most fertile land in the upper part of the State.
Abraham Deppen married Mary Snyder, of Upper Mahanoy Township, born in 1811, died in 1868. They were the parents of four children: Louisa (married Mr. Reuben H. Muth), George (of Herndon, Pa.), Joseph (of Mount Carmel, Pa.) and Alexander. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 901 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)
DEPPEN. The Deppen family of Northumberland County to which George Edward Deppen, lawyer of Sunbury, belongs is descended from John Deppen, of Berks County, Pennsylvania.
(I) John Deppen had children as follows: David, of Berks County; Peter, of Berks County, whose children were Alexander, William, Isaac, George, Andrew, Catherine, Lizzie and Rebecca; Christian, whose children were John (by first marriage), Washington, Harriet and Elizabeth (by second marriage) William, great-grandfather of George Edward Deppen; Henry, whose children were Gabriel and two daughters; and George, whose children were William (father of G. W. Deppen), John, Isaac, a daughter whose name is not given. Catherine and Elizabeth.
(II) William Deppen, son of John, was born in 1782 in Berks County. He married a Miss Maurer, and they were the parents of ten children, namely: Mrs. George Snyder (born in 1811), Abram, Isaac, David (died unmarried), Alexander, William, Mrs. Witmer, Mrs. Boyer, Mrs. Bower and John.
(III) Abram Deppen, born in 1812, died in 1899. He was a sawyer and farmer by occupation, and cleared the first five acres of the present site of Shamokin. Later he removed to Locust Gap, where he followed farming. After his marriage he lived in the house which Pat Hester subsequently occupied, and there his son George was born. He then moved to what was called the Deppen plantation, his father’s farm, and later purchased a part of the White Island. near Herndon, finally removing to Herndon, where he died. He accumulated considerable property during the course of his industrious life.
In 1833 Mr. Deppen married Mary Snyder, who died in 1868. They had four children: Louisa, born in 1834, who married Dr. R. H. Muth; George, born in 1836; Joseph, born Dec. 2, 1837, now of Mount Carmel; and Alexander, born in 1839.
(IV) George Deppen, born in 1836, spent his early life upon the farm. In 1867 he moved to Herndon and began the grain, flour and feed business, which he still carries on. During the Civil war he served as postmaster at that place, and for thirty years, with but one intermission, he served continuously as justice of the peace. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. His wife, Mary (Mertz), born in 1847, died in 1898. They had the following children: Lizzie, born in 1870, who married H. E. Snyder; Laura, who married H. E. Engle; George Edward, born in 1873; and Harvey C. (born in 1874), Charles P., Sue, Carrie, John E., Nettie, Raymond and Abram Earl, at home.
( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 120 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

ALEXANDER DEPPEN, a retired farmer now living at Dornsife, was born Aug. 16, 1839, in Washington Township, Northumberland County, son of Abraham and Mary (Snyder) Deppen. He was reared to farm life, and when twenty years old began farming on the upper part of White island, where he remained in all for thirty-three years engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1889 he came to Jackson Township, and he has since carried on two large farms, though he is now retired from active labor. He made his home in Herndon from 1904 until the spring of 1910, when he moved to Dornsife. For seventeen years he lived on his farm at Dornsife. Mr. Deppen is a Democrat in political opinion, and a Lutheran in religious faith.
In 1859 Mr. Deppen married Catharine Stepp, daughter of Bastian Stepp, of Jackson Township. She died in 1885, at the age of forty-two years, the mother of a family of seven children, two sons and five daughters: William S. (of Dornsife), Charles (of Altoona, Pa.), Agnes (who died at the age of twenty-four years), Emma, Minnie, Jane and Lizzie.
In 1904 Mr. Deppen married Mrs. Sarah A. (Kerr), Stewart, widow of James Gordon Stewart. Mrs. Deppen had eleven children by her first marriage, James (who has a son, James Edward), Mary, Edward, Sadie, Jane, and six who died young. Twenty years ago Mrs. Deppen and her first husband, with six children, went from Pittsburg to Seattle, Wash., where they kept house for a year, then moving to Portland, Oregon. Mr. Stewart then went to California, thinking he would like it better, but as he did not he returned to Oregon, and they kept house there for two years. The youngest child died and was buried out there, after which the rest of the family returned to Pittsburg, where Mr. Stewart died. In a few years Mrs. Stewart, with her youngest daughter, went out again to Oregon, where she has two married daughters. On the trip out eight mountain robbers held up the train six miles out of St. Paul, at Fergus Falls, Minn., blowing the express car to pieces with dynamite, and this delayed them so that it was eight days before they arrived in Portland. Mrs. Deppen stayed there a year with her two daughters, returning to Pittsburg. One of her sons lives in Lancaster, Ohio, one in Coreopolis, Pa.; one of her daughters lives in Harrisburg. She has one sister living in Pittsburg, and one in Shiremanstown, Pa., and two brothers in Washington, D.C.
Joseph and Sydney Ann (Horn) Kerr, parents of Mrs. Deppen, were natives of Allegheny County, Pa., and the father was a tailor by occupation. He was a Scotch Presbyterian in religious faith. He died in 1869, and is buried in the South Side cemetery, at Pittsburg, while the mother, who died in 1885, is buried at Baltimore. They had a family of thirteen children, Lizzie, Robert, Thomas, Julia, Emma, Sarah A., and seven who are deceased.
Mrs. Sydney Ann (Horn) Kerr belonged to a noble German family. Her father came to America when young, and here passed the remainder of his life. His father, a man of wealth and high rank, died, and the son was notified and summoned to claim his inheritance, but he was afraid to cross the ocean, and never received the property.( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 903 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

BENJAMIN F. DEPPEN, one of the foremost business men at Trevorton, is the leading merchant of that town and variously identified with its industrial progress. He established his general store there in 1889. Mr. Deppen was born in Jackson Township, this County, in 1847. The history of his family in this country goes back to the early part of the eighteenth century.
Christian Deppen, the founder of this family in Pennsylvania, came hither from the German Palatinate, arriving (qualifying) at Philadelphia Sept. 16, 1736. He crossed the ocean on the vessel “Princess Augusta” from Rotterdam, Samuel Merchant, master, along with a number of others from the Palatinate, their wives and children—in all three hundred souls, according to the historian Rupp. On the “List of Ship’s Foreigners” his name is given as Christian Dappen, and his age as thirty years. In the Captain’s book his name appears as Christian Teppe. In his will his name is written, in plain English, Christian Deppe. Thus we find that there has been considerable uncertainty concerning the correct orthography of the name. It appears often as Depp, Depew and Dupee, and some genealogists declare its original form to have been that of the old French Huguenot name, DePui.
Christian Deppen settled near Womelsdorf in Heidelberg Township, Berks Co., Pa. In the tax lists of Heidelberg Township Christian “Deppy” is assessed as follows: 1767, on 300 acres, 3 horses, 3 cattle, 3 sheep; 1768, on 150 (?) acres, 4 horses, 4 cattle, 5 sheep; 1779, on 220 acre, 5 horses, 15 cattle; 1780, on 395 acres, 5 horses, 12 cattle; 1781, on 395 acres, 5 horses, 8 cattle. The will of Christian Deppe, of Heidelberg Township, is on record in the Berks County courthouse as made Sept. 27, 1775, and probated in 1782, the year of his death. It was witnessed by Philip Moyer, John Casper Reed and Adam Kalbach, and it begins thus: “I, Christian Deppe, an aged yeoman of Heidelberg Township, Berks County.” As the will contains no reference to his wife, it is presumed she was dead at the time it was made. At the time of his death Christian Deppe also owned fifty acres of land in Northampton County. In his will he refers to his “eldest and beloved son, Johannes, who shall have fifty pounds over and above his other share.” His children as named in the will were: Johannes; Barbara (married Peter Zimmerman); Anna (married George Yeakly) Treanic; Elizabeth; Thomas; Peter; David, who died in 1804 (his German will is on record in Berks County courthouse); Joseph; Jacob; and Abraham, who died in 1840 intestate, and whose heir was Richard Boone, of Heidelberg.
Joseph Deppy (one of the older sons of the pioneer Christian) in the Federal Census Report of 1790 is recorded as a resident of Heidelberg Township, and as the head of a family consisting of himself, wife and three sons above sixteen years of age.
Christian, Peter, William and George Deppen, natives of Berks County, were pioneers of Northumberland County. They located in that section now embraced in Jackson and Washington Townships; in 1778 the name of Christian Deppen appears in the list of pioneers of Mahanoy Township (both Jackson and Washington were originally embraced in Mahanoy Township). This Christian Deppen and Peter Deppen, who were pioneers in Northumberland County, tradition states were sons of the ancestor Christian Deppy. The name of Peter is found in the will, but Christian is said to have been a heavy drinker, and poor probably on that account, and for this reason he was not mentioned in his father’s will. He was unlike his brothers. Early in the nineteenth century he went to Mercer County, Pa., where he died. He was married three times, and among his children were a son Washington and a daughter Betsy.
Peter Deppen came, as stated, from Berks to Northumberland County, and after living there a short period went to Ohio, finally settling in Missouri, where he was a prosperous farmer. His descendants in Missouri and the West are said to he many. Among his children were sons Zetic and Andrew.
William and George Deppen, mentioned above as having settled in Northumberland County, were grandsons of the ancestor Christian, through his oldest son, John, and from these two spring all the Deppens now living in Northumberland County.
Whether Christian Deppy, the ancestor, was a Roman Catholic or not is uncertain, but tradition states that he was. His son Joseph was a Catholic as were the latter’s children, and a number of the family still adhere to that faith. Most of the name now living in Reading are members of St. Paul’s Catholic Church. There were sixteen persons by the name of Deppen in the Reading city directory for 1908.
George Deppen, one of the two grandsons of Christian mentioned as settling in Northumberland County, was born June 21, 1787, in Berks County, Pa., and in 1810 came to Northumberland County with his brother William, as previously stated. He was a lifelong farmer, and upon his removal from his native county settled on the farm now owned by Isaac Tressler, a tract one and a half miles north of Herndon. This place he sold, and purchased an adjoining farm, on which stood a gristmill. From the latter property he removed to the farm now owned by his grandson, Samuel Deppen, a fine place of fully 200 acres in Jackson Township. He died Feb. 7, 1850, and his wife, Maria Madg. Greise, a native of Berks County, born April 3, 1785, long survived him, dying Aug. 11, 1869. They are buried at St. Peter’s church, in Mahanoy Township. He and his family were Reformed members of St. Peter’s, which was a Union Church, and he served as an official; he was an old-time Whig in political opinion. To Mr. and Mrs. Deppen were born four children: Rebecca, who married John Haas, of Sunbury; William; John, who died at Herndon; and Isaac, who spent most of his life at Herndon and died in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.
William Deppen, eldest son of George, born in 1814, was a merchant in Jackson Township and at other places in this county for forty years, at one time owned much real estate, and was a prominent man in his section. He engaged in the mercantile business at Augustaville when a young man, and was subsequently at Mahanoy, in Jackson Township, for eighteen years. In the spring of 1860 he located at Trevorton, where he was a merchant for about two years, until his retirement from business. He died Jan. 8, 1876, and is buried at Mahanoy, in Jackson Township. He was a member of the German Reformed Church, and a Republican in politics. His wife, Susan Lantz, who survived him, was of Lower Augusta Township, this County, and to them were born children as follows Mary, Samuel, William (all three died young), Benjamin F., George W., Richard L. (of Shamokin) and Sarah A. (living in Trevorton on the old homestead). George W. Deppen, who was cashier of the First National Bank of Sunbury, died in January 1909.
Benjamin F. Deppen attended the schools of the home locality, later Millersville State normal school, at Lancaster, Pa. Having been appointed agent for the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company at Trevorton, he filled that position continuously for twenty years, and as such became one of the best known men of this district. In 1889 he began what has proved to be a highly successful business career, opening the general store at Trevorton which he has since conducted, and which he moved to its present location in 1898. He has the principal trade of the kind in the town, his patrons coming from a wide area. Business has occupied all his attention, his interests having broadened until, he is now identified with a number of enterprises. He is a trustee of the Trevorton Silk Mills, and a director of the Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Company of Shamokin, and in 1910 he succeeded the late Charles Fritz in his connection with the First National Bank of Trevorton. Mr. Deppen is a Republican, but takes no part in polities.
Mr. Deppen’s first wife, Susan (Herb), daughter of Daniel Herb, of the Mahantango Valley, died in 1888, at the age of thirty-eight. In 1893 Mr. Deppen married (second) Louisa Leitenberger, daughter of Charles Leitenberger, who was killed at Minersville, Pa., by the kick of a horse. Four children were born to Mr. Deppen’s first marriage, namely: Laura M.; Susan M.; Samuel H., born in 1876, who died in 1905 (he married Mamie Holshue and they had two children, William Frank and Donald H.); and William Ralph, who married Eva Kline and has two children; Russell C;. and William Robert. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 58 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)
B. F. DEPPEN, merchant, was born in Jackson township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1847, son of William and Susan (Lantz) Deppen. He was educated at the public schools, and was appointed agent for the Philadelphia and Reading railroad at Trevorton, which position he filled twenty years. In 1889 he established his present business. Politically Mr. Deppen is a Republican. He married Susan Herb, who died in 1888 leaving four children: Laura M.; Susan M.; Samuel H., and William R. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1223 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

HENRY C. DEPPEN. (best known as “Harry” Deppen), son of George, was born Dec. 26, 1875, in what is now the borough of Herndon, then a part of Jackson Township. He obtained his education in the local public schools, and has been assisting his father ever since he was nine years old. He has continued to be associated with him, and is now the active head of the extensive business, into which he has infused new life by his energy and enterprising spirit. A number of the lines recently added to the original trade were taken up experimentally as promising incidental gains to the bulk and returns of the business, and have proved most profitable. The Deppens have the bulk of the borough trade in coal and feed, and their patronage extends all over the Mahantango Valley. Aside from this enterprise Mr. Deppen is interested in several local industrial concerns, and he and his brother George have been associated for some time as established agents for a number of the old-line high-class fire insurance companies. Mr. Deppen’s business activities, however, have not made him indifferent to the public welfare, and he has been prominent in the administration of the borough government ever since it was instituted. He was elected a councilman at the first general election held after the organization of the borough, and has served continuously to the present time, being the oldest councilman in point of service, though the youngest in years. He has served two years as president of the council, and has been chairman of the ordinance, finance and Street committees. Politically Mr. Deppen is a Democrat, and has considerable influence in the party He is a member of the Reformed congregation of Zion’s Church, at Herndon, and useful in the work of that organization as he is in everything else which interests him. He is at present serving as secretary of the church consistory. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 903 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

GEORGE DEPPEN, son of Abraham, was born in 1836 at Locust Gap, Mount Carmel Township, Northumberland County, and was reared in Jackson Township, whither his parents removed during his early childhood. He attended the subscription schools, and spent his early years in farm work. In 1863 he embarked in the mercantile business in Snyder County, Pa., and later engaged in the same line at Herndon, of which town he is now one of the oldest residents. In 1868 he engaged in the grain and leather business, buying and shipping grain and dealing in hides for sole leather, etc., and has built up a large and lucrative trade in that line, being one of the most substantial citizens south of the Line Mountain in Northumberland County. The scope of the business has become so extended that many commodities are now handled, Mr. Deppen shipping grain and coal in large quantities, and dealing extensively in hay, feed, flour, leather and stoneware, while he also trades in wood pumps, shingles, terra cotta and galvanized pipes, his line being very comprehensive and a great accommodation to the local trade. He has always been recognized as a most progressive man, and has amassed a comfortable fortune. Mr. Deppen is one of the oldest justices of the peace in Northumberland County, in point of both age and service, having been first elected in 1865, though he did not take his commission at that time because the recorder had returned it just a day or two before he called for it, he delaying acceptance. He holds seven commissions, one for one year (by appointment) and six for five years each. He is a Democrat in politics, as are also his sons, and is a Lutheran in religious faith, though all his family adhere to the Reformed faith. In 1868 Mr. Deppen married Mary Mertz, of Freeburg, Snyder County, who died Aug. 17, 1898, at the age of fifty-one years, the mother of a large family of children, eleven of whom survive: Lizzie J. (married Harris Snyder), Laura (married Howard J. Engle), George E. (an attorney at law of Sunbury, Pa.), Henry C. (who manages his father’s business at Herndon), Charles P. (car inspector at Herndon), Susan M., Carrie L., John E., Nettie I., Laurence R. and Abraham E. Ruth Alice died in infancy. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 902 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)<.br> GEORGE DEPPEN, grain and leather dealer and justice of the peace, was born in 1836 at Locust Gap, Mt. Carmel township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania. son of Abraham and Mary (Snyder) Deppen. He was reared in Jackson township, to which place his parents removed during his early youth. His education was obtained in the subscription schools, and his early life was spent in farming. In 1863 he embarked in the mercantile business in Snyder county, and later followed the same business at Herndon, Northumberland county. In l868 he established his present business, the buying and shipping of grain and dealing in hides for sole leather, etc., and has built up quite a successful trade. Mr. Deppen was married in 1868 to Mary Mertz, of Freeburg, Snyder county, who has borne him the following children: Lizzie J.; Laura: George E.; Henry C.; Charles P.; Carrie; John E.; Susan, and Ray. Mr. Deppen is a member of the Lutheran church, and in politics is a Democrat He is now filling his third term as justice of the peace of Jackson township, and is recognized as a progressive citizen. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1235 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

(V) GEORGE EDWARD DEPPEN received his primary education in the local schools, and later attended the academy at Freeburg, Snyder County, for three years. In 1890 he entered Ursinus College, at Collegeville, Pa., and in 1893 became a student at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa., from which institution he was graduated, in the classical course, in June, 1894. He then took up the study of law with H. S. Knight, of Sunbury, and was admitted to the bar May 3, 1897, the same year opening his office in Sunbury, where he has since devoted himself to the practice of his profession. He is connected with various social bodies at Sunbury, belonging to the Temple Club, to Maclay Lodge, No. 682, F. & A.M., Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R.A.M., and Mt. Hermon Commandery, No. 85, K.T. He is a member of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, having served as regimental sergeant major, battalion adjutant, and being at present inspector of small arms practice of his regiment with the rank of captain. He takes an active part in local polities as a member of the Democratic party, and is a member of the Reformed Church, in which he is active in the Laymen’s Missionary movement. On April 17, 1901. Mr. Deppen married Laura Koons, of Collegeville. Pa. They have had one daughter, who is deceased. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 120 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JOHN ERNEST DEPPEN, son of George, was born May 15, 1881, at Herndon. He began his education there in the public schools, later attending Susquehanna University, at Selinsgrove, for two years. After assisting his father in business for a time he took a position as traveling salesman in New York and eastern Pennsylvania, and has since been successfully engaged in that capacity. He has been a member of the 12th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, since 1898, and holds the rank of first sergeant. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 903 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JOHN H. DEPPEN, who is a resident of Jordan Township and well known in his section of Northumberland County, is a carpenter by trade and has also engaged in farming, and he is widely known in his connection with the official life of the county. He was born Jan. 9, 1865, at Hebe, and is a son of Henry W. Deppen, who was born in Jordan Township and passed all his life there, dying at the home of his son Charles, at Hebe, Oct. 20, 1902, aged sixty-eight years, one month, two days. He followed his trade, that of carpenter, in his own and surrounding neighborhoods, and was employed as such for over twenty years by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad company. He owned a forty-acre farm in Jordan Township, and cultivated it for some years, meantime also continuing his trade. He held a number of local offices, serving as school director and assistant assessor, and he held the offices of elder and deacon in the Lutheran congregation for St. David’s Church at Hebe, to which he and his wife belonged. They were faithful members of that church and deeply interested in its welfare. Mr. Deppen was a Republican in politics. He married Amanda Lettich (Lettig), whose parents were residents of near Elizabethville, in Washington Township, Dauphin Co., Pa., and she died several years before Mr. Deppen, on Aug. 19, 1896, aged forty-nine years, eight months, one day. Mr. and Mrs. Deppen are buried side by side at St. David’s Church. They were the parents of the following children: Elizabeth, deceased, wife of William Kopenhaver; William Thomas, who died in infancy; Sarah, who married Charles Ludwig; John H.; Emma, wife of Henry Schwalm; Samuel, of Elizabethville, Pa.; Salarah, married to Wilson Knorr; Charles, of Hebe; Daniel, of Hebe; Arthur, who died aged eleven years; and Harvey, who died in childhood.
John H. Deppen received, his education in the public schools of Jordan Township and when sixteen years old began to learn the carpenter’s trade. He followed it for about three years, and for another three years was an employee of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, later commencing to farm in Jordan Township, near Hebe, where he was thus engaged for a period of fifteen years. Mr. Deppen has had numerous public responsibilities, having served the Township efficiently as school director, auditor and election officer, and he was appointed postmaster at Hebe during the Harrison administration, under Postmaster General Wanamaker. He continued to hold the position twelve years, resigning when he received the appointment of turnkey at the Northumberland County prison. He gave highly satisfactory service in that capacity under George Hancock for three years. In 1900 he was census enumerator of Jordan Township, and was again appointed in 1910. For many years he has been one of the active workers of the Republican party in the lower end of the County, was committeeman of the party in his Township for twelve successive years, has been delegate to a number of county conventions and in 1907 served as delegate to the State convention, when John O. Sheetz was nominated for the office of State treasurer, to which he was elected.
In 1884 Mr. Deppen married Catharine Troutman, daughter of Simon and Sarah (Shadel) Troutman, and they have one son, Allen S., who is a carpenter and lives with his parents at Hebe. Mr. Deppen and his family are members of the Lutheran Church at Hebe, and he has been one of its most useful workers, having held the offices of deacon and elder and at present serving as trustee. He is one of the most influential and respected residents of his Township. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 552 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JOSEPH DEPPEN, son of Abraham and Mary (Snyder) Deppen, was born Dec. 2, 1837, in Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County. He received a limited education, the school he attended being taught in a gristmill in Dauphin County. When he became of age he engaged in the droving business, which he followed for three years, and afterward followed merchandising at Herndon for nearly two years. In 1869 he moved to Mount Carmel, where he carried on the hotel business for fifteen years, being proprietor of what is now the “Commercial House.” He prospered and accumulated some means, and he has long been considered one of the substantial men of the place, being one of the organizers of the Mount Carmel Savings Bank, which he is still serving as director. In 1867 he married Eva Elizabeth (Lizzie) Hoffman, of Jordan Township, born Jan. 17, 1841, who died Jan. 18, 1896, and to them were born four children, namely. Lizzie, Ada, Joseph and Gertrude. The family are all members of the Lutheran Church, and Mr. Deppen is an active Democrat in politics.( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 903 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)
JOSEPH DEPPEN, dealer in real estate, was born in Upper Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1837, son of Abraham and Mary (Snyder) Deppen. His father is a farmer, and resides in Jackson township, this county. He is the father of six children, four of whom are living: Louisa, wife of Dr. Reuben Mirth; George; Joseph, and Alexander. The subject of this sketch received a limited education in a school taught in a grist mill, situated in Dauphin county, close to the line of Northumberland; after attaining his majority he was engaged in the droving business three years, and afterwards in mercantile pursuits at Herndon nearly two years. In April, 1869, he removed to Mt. Carmel, where he was engaged in the hotel business fifteen years, being proprietor of the house now known as the Commercial. Mr. Deppen was one of the organizers of the Mt. Carmel Savings Bank, in which he is still a director. He was married, September 7, 1867, to Lizzie, daughter of Jacob and Eve Elizabeth (Weiser) Hoffman, of Jordan township, Northumberland county. They are the parents of four children: Lizzie; Mary Ada, wife of Dr. F. D. Raker, of Shamokin; Joseph, and Gertrude. Mrs. Deppen has been a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church all her life, and November 2, 1890, her husband and four children united with that church. In politics Mr. Deppen is a Democrat, but has never taken a very active interest in political affairs. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1032 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)
JOSEPH DEPPEN, though one of the oldest citizens of Mount Carmel, is still one of the most prominent business men in the borough, and is probably one of the best known men in Northumberland County. As proprietor for a number of years of the “Deppen House” of Mount Carmel, he came in contact with many citizens of the locality in his earlier days, and at the time he owned most of the ground now included in the borough limits. He was the organizer of the Mount Carmel Savings Bank and has been engaged in the real estate business for many years.
Mr. Deppen was born Dec. 2, 1837, in Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, near Greenbrier. His parents, Abraham and Mary (Snyder) Deppen, had a family of six children, four of whom are living: Louise, who married Dr. Reuben Muth; George, born in 1836, at Locust Gap, this County, who married Mary Mertz (he lives in Herndon, Jackson Township); Joseph; and Alexander. In 1844 the parents took their family out to Wayne County, Ohio, making the journey by wagon. The trip was a remarkable one, always remembered with interest by all the family. They took up farm land, but not finding conditions favorable returned to Pennsylvania in 1846 and located at County Line, Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County. In the spring of 1848 Abraham Deppen bought land at Greenbrier where he followed farming and tanning, selling this place in 1851 and locating at Mahanoy, now Red Cross, near Herndon. In the fall of 1852 he purchased the well known island opposite Herndon where the family lived for a period of fourteen years. It was during this time that the bridge was built connecting the island with the shore at Herndon, and Joseph Deppen was the first to drive a horse over the bridge. It was torn down about 1875. During the time the Deppen family lived on the island occurred the disastrous flood of 1865. From March 17th to March 21st the island was all under water and the Deppen family had to live in the barn for a week, during which the floating sawlogs entered the second-story windows of the dwelling house. The flood was one of the worst which have visited this district and the Deppens lost nearly all their possessions. In 1866 they moved to Herndon and rented the rented the island. Abraham Deppen died Aug. 13, 1899, his wife Nov. 5, 1868.
Joseph Deppen attended an old pay school typical of the times. It was located in Dauphin County near the Northumberland County line, and was held in the building of a gristmill. The grinding of grain and the grinding of an education occurred at one and the same time. The seats or benches were arranged in a circle around the teacher, each pupil with his or her back towards the instructor. When the family moved from near Greenbrier and located near Herndon the old Trevorton railroad was in process of construction, and he found employment on the job. After attaining his majority he was in the droving business for three years, and in the mercantile business at Herndon for two years. From 1867 to 1869 he was in business with his brother George at Herndon, Pa., in April, 1869, locating in Mount Carmel, with which place he has since been identified. For fifteen years after settling here he was engaged in conducting the “Deppen House,” now known as the “Commercial” and after abandoning that line of business was devoted principally to real estate. He at one time owned most of the ground on which Mount Carmel is situated, and he sold his property off in lots, making a success of his transactions, which have covered many years. In 1872 he organized the Mount Carmel Savings Bank, which began business at his hotel April 9, 1872; Amos Vastine was president of this institution. Upon the expiration of the bank’s charter the stockholders discontinued business and a new institution, now known as the Union National Bank, was formed.
Mr. Deppen was not only prominent in business but also in the public life of the borough, which he served as treasurer, as treasurer of the council, and as school director. In all his relations with his fellow men he gave evidence of public spirit and an intelligent insight into local needs which made him a valuable public servant.
On Sept. 7, 1867, Mr. Deppen married Eva Elizabeth Hoffman, daughter of Jacob and Eva Elizabeth (Weiser) Hoffman, of Jordan Township, Northumberland County. Mrs. Deppen died June 17, 1896, and is buried at St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jackson Township. She was a lifelong member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, which Mr. Deppen and their children joined Nov. 2, 1890. He is a Democrat in political faith. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Deppen: (1) Lizzie F. is at home. (2) Mary Ada married Dr. F. D. Raker, of Shamokin, who was at one time treasurer of Northumberland County, and they had four children, Conrad Joseph, Moses, Ralph Edward, Susan Eva and Alma Elizabeth. Mrs. Raker died May 8, 1898. (3) Joseph Henry is mentioned below. (4) Gertrude Jane is at home. Mr. Deppen resides with his daughters at Nos. 109-111 South Chestnut Street. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg.27 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JOSEPH HENRY DEPPEN, son of Joseph Deppen, was born Dec. 10, 1874, at Mount Carmel, and there received his preparatory education. He graduated from the high school in 1893, and subsequently attended the business college at Shamokin, graduating in 1894. For two years he was secretary for Judge Voris Auten, in 1896 entering Bucknell University, at Lewisburg, Pa., graduating in 1900, with the degree of Sc. B. Thereafter he studied law in the office of Judge Auten, and was admitted to the bar of Northumberland County Dec. 29, 1902. He has since been engaged in practice in Mount Carmel his office being at No. 32 North Oak Street. Mr. Deppen has won high standing at the bar as a lawyer of thorough training and reliable intelligence. He has established an excellent practice, which is being steadily augmented by reason of his conscientious attention to all the work intrusted to him. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. At the present time he is treasurer of the Mount Carmel school district and is now completing the last year of his third term as school director. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg.27 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

SAMUEL DEPPEN, son of John, was born Sept. 5, 1853, in Jackson Township, attended the common schools in the home district, and was reared to farm life. He worked for his parents until he was twenty-four years old, in the spring of 1878 commencing to farm for himself on the homestead, where he continued for thirty years, in the spring of 1908 renting the farm and moving to Herndon, where he now makes his home. Since settling in the town he has driven a dray, doing all kinds of hauling. He is of the third generation of his family to own the old homestead, which is located on the road from Herndon to Dornsife. The house on the place is of logs, and was built about 1800, by a Schaffer. The present barn, 85 by 38 feet in dimensions, was built by Samuel Deppen in 1900 to take the place of the one destroyed by lightning Aug. 23d of that year, together with the year’s crop, farm implements, and a horse and three head of young cattle.
Mr. Deppen has always been active and progressive, and has taken part in the local government to some extent. He was school director in Jackson Township for the long period of twenty-one years, seven terms of three years each, and was president and treasurer of the school board many years, serving with honor and credit; his has been the longest record of service held by any one man up to this time in Jackson Township. He and his family worship at St. Peter’s Union Church at Mahanoy, of which his father and grand-father before him were active members and supporters.
In 1878 Mr. Deppen married Lucy Ann Zartman, daughter of Adam and Susan (Forney) Zartman, of Jackson Township. They have had three children: Carrie married W. P. Zartman, a lumber merchant of Shamokin, Pa.; Mamie married Calvin Ziegler and lives in Philadelphia; Susan married John Witmer and resides at Herndon. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 905 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM DEPPEN, deceased, was a son of George and Margaret (Greise) Deppen. His father was a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, and settled in Jackson township, Northumberland county, near Herndon, about 1830, where he died. He had three sons and one daughter. William was the eldest son, and when a young man be engaged in the mercantile business at Augustaville, subsequently living in Jackson township, at Mahanoy, for eighteen years. In the spring of 1860 he located at Trevorton and engaged in merchandising about two years, when he retired from active business. He was a Republican in politics, and a member of the German Reformed church. He married Susan Lantz, of Lower Augusta township, and they were the parents of three sons and one daughter: B. F.; George W.; R. L., and Sarah A. He died in January, 1876; his widow survives him, and resides in Trevorton. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1223 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM S. DEPPEN, son of Alexander, was born July 18, 1861, was reared to farming, and has followed that calling all his life. On March 26, 1884, he began farming the place in Jackson Township then owned by his grandfather, Abraham Deppen, which he cultivated for the next fourteen years. The following two years he farmed for Joseph Tressler, and then for two years for his father on a 165-acre farm in Little Mahanoy Township. In the spring of 1901 he moved to his present farm in the same Township, near Dornsife, a tract of fifty-nine acres located on the north side of Mahanoy creek, formerly the homestead of Michael Peifer. Mr. Deppen remodeled and enlarged the house and has since resided on this place. He is an energetic and prosperous farmer, a substantial member of the community and a citizen willing to do his duty in every relation of life. He served three years as school director in Jackson Township, and in 1910 was reelected for his second term in that office in Little Mahanoy. He is a Democrat in political faith.
On Sept. 16, 1883, Mr. Deppen married Emma Last, daughter of David Last, and they have one daughter, Ada V., now the wife of Irwin Peifer (son of George C. Peifer) and mother of three children, Elmer L., Eva and Vera. The family are Lutheran members of St. John’s Church at Pump Station, which Mr. Deppen has served officially as deacon and elder.
David Last, father of Mrs. Deppen, was a cooper by trade, and lived in the Kratzerville district in Snyder County. He died about 1867, when about forty-nine years old, and is buried at Haddley’s Church in Snyder County. His wife, Harriet (Leitzel), daughter of John Leitzel, died about 1878, at the age of sixty-two, and is buried at the same place. They had three children: Mary, wife of Lewis Pontius; Ella, wife of Charles Wetzel; and Emma, wife of William S. Deppen.
George Deppen, grandson of Christian Deppy, the ancestor, was born June 21, 1787, in Berks County, Pa., and came to Northumberland County with his brother William, as previously stated, in 1810. He was a lifelong farmer, and upon his removal from his native county settled on the farm now owned by Isaac Tressler, a tract one and a half miles north of Herndon. This place he sold and purchased an adjoining farm, on which stood a gristmill. From the latter property he removed to the farm now owned by his grandson, Samuel Deppen, a fine place of fully 200 acres in Jackson Township. He died Feb. 7, 1850, and his wife, Maria Magd. Greise, a native of Berks County, born April 3, 1785, long survived him, dying Aug. 11, 1869. They are buried at St. Peter’s Church, in Mahanoy Township. He and his family were Reformed members of St. Peter’s, which was a union church, and he served as an official; he was an old-time Whig in political opinion. To Mr. and Mrs. Deppen were born four children, namely Rebecca, who married John Haas, of Sunbury; William; John, who died in Herndon; and Isaac, who spent much of his life at Herndon and died in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.
William Deppen, eldest son of George, born in 1814, was a merchant in Jackson Township and other places in this county for forty years, at one time owned much real estate, and was a prominent man in his section. He engaged in the mercantile business at Augustaville when a young man, and was subsequently at Mahanoy, in Jackson Township, for eighteen years. In the spring of 1860 he located at Trevorton, where be was a merchant for about two years, until his retirement from business. He died Jan. 8, 1876, and is buried at Mahanoy, in Jackson Township. He was a member of the German Reformed Church, and a Republican in politics. His wife, Susan Lantz, who survived him, was of Lower Augusta Township, this County, and to them, were born children as follows Mary, Samuel, William (all three died young), Benjamin F., George W., Richard L. (of Shamokin) and Sarah A. (married and living in Trevorton). George W. Deppen, who was cashier of the First National Bank of Sunbury, died in January, 1909.
Benjamin F. Deppen, son of William, was born in 1847 in Jackson Township, Northumberland County, and received his education in the public schools. He was appointed station agent of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company at Trevorton, and held that position for twenty years, in 1889 engaging in the mercantile business at that place. He married Susan Herb, who died in 1888, leaving four children, viz.: Laura M., Susan M., Samuel H. and William R. Mr. Deppen is a Republican in politics.
John Deppen, son of George, was born July 4, 1815, in Jackson Township, and died Dec. 11, 1893, at Herndon, where he had lived retired for ten years. He followed farming during his active years, owning the place which is now the property of his son Samuel. He was a devout Christian, he and his family worshipping with the Reformed congregation of St. Peter’s Church, which he served as deacon and elder. He and his brother William married sisters, his wife being Catharine Lantz; she was born Nov. 16, 1819, and died Jan. 7, 1889, the mother of four children: Mary married Albert Holshue; Samuel is mentioned below; William H., born March 15, 1856, died Dec. 10, 1877 (he married Kate Tressler, and they had two sons, Irwin and William, both of whom live at Harrisburg, Pa.); Susan married William F. Bower. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 904 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)