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JAMES M. DERBY, clerk at Pennsylvania colliery and postmaster, was born at Dunmore, near Scranton, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1850, son of Chauncey and Esther (Carey) Derby. He received his education at Scranton and began life by learning the trade of tinsmith, which he followed until 1875, when he located at Shamokin. Here he clerked in a general store several years, when he embarked in business on his own account four years. Later he was in business at Mt. Carmel, and in 1887 he removed to Green Ridge, where he accepted the position he has since occupied. Mr. Derby is a member of the F. & A.M., K.T., and I.O.O.F. In politics he is a Republican, and is justice of the peace of Mt. Carmel township. Through his efforts a postoffice named Strong was established in July, 1886, of which he is postmaster. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1067 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)
JAMES M. DERBY, secretary and treasurer of the Mount Carmel Iron Works, is one of the most popular and prominent men in Mount Carmel, where he stands very high as a business man of unusual ability who has been very successful. Mr. Derby is a son of Chauncey H. and Esther P. (Cary) Derby, and was born at Dunmore, near Scranton, Pa., September 10, 1851. Our subject was educated in the common schools near Scranton and at an early age learned the trade of tinsmith with his father and also learned the details of the hardware business. He followed both the trade and business for a few years, when he engaged in business as a general merchant, conducting a very successful store until 1880, in which year he branched out and sought a larger field and more opportunities for his ability and his business talent. He removed to Mount Carmel in 1880 and established a business as a general merchant, having sold out a quite prosperous general store which he had established a short time previous in Shamokin. He conducted his general store in Mount Carmel until January 1, 1896, when he was active in the formation of the Mount Carmel Iron Company, which was chartered July 15, 1895. He resigned a clerkship with the Union Coal Company to form the Mount Carmel Iron Company. He was the first superintendent and general manager, which position he filled with great ability, and he was later made secretary and treasurer. The works do a very large business, manufacturing all sorts of iron used in connection with mining machinery. In politics Mr. Derby formerly was a Republican, but he now is classed as a Prohibitionist. He is prominent in fraternal circles, being a member of Mount Carmel Lodge No. 378, F. & A. M., and of the R. A. M. Chapter and Knights Templar; also a leading member of Mount Carmel Lodge No. 630, I. O. O. F. He is an active member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Derby was united in marriage on July 22, 1873, to Helen M. Clarkson of Ashland, Pa., and to them have been born these children : Archibald, who is employed in the Mount Carmel Iron Works, and married Minnie, a daughter of F. M. Everett; Ethel M.; Robert Wilson; Florence; and Louella. Through the efforts of Mr. Derby a post-office was established two miles west of Mount Carmel, which is called Strong, and of which he was the first postmaster appointed. Mr. Derby always has taken great interest in everything which has had a tendency to advance the commercial and industrial interests of Mount Carmel. He has been prominent in every movement for the general good of the public and is looked upon as one of the most progressive, energetic and public-spirited citizens of the town in which he is so popular, both in business and social circles. The father of our subject, Chauncey H. Derby, was a native of Lackawanna County; so also were several other members of the family on the paternal side. The family originally came from Ireland and were the founders of Derby, Conn. Many of its members have resided in the state of Pennsylvania for generations. The grandfather of our subject, John Derby, located in Lackawanna County, this state. He was a Presbyterian clergyman and followed-the work of the church during his life-time. Mr. Derby's father, Chauncey H. Derby, was born in 1805. He was the first hardware merchant in Scranton. He is also recalled as the second Mason in Scranton, Joseph Godfrey having been the first citizen of the town to enter the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Derby was a man of great energy and was fond of travel. He saw much of the world. He was one of the organizers of the Republican party and a colleague of that sturdy statesman, Galusha A. Grow. He never sought office, although he always was very active in party politics. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church and a pronounced temperance man. The family from which the mother of our subject descended, the Carys, may be traced back for several generations. The family originated in Somersetshire, England. The ancestor from whom the Carys date was Sir Lucius Cary, who was born in Somersetshire, England, in 1504. He married a sister of the celebrated Anne Boleyn, becoming by his marriage an uncle to Queen Elizabeth. In a direct line was the Earl of Hunsdon, a cousin of the queen. The next was Sir Robert Cary, who was at the death-bed of Queen Elizabeth and was the first to convey the news of her expressed desire that her cousin, James I., should succeed to the throne. The oldest son became Lord Faulkner, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Charles II. One of the younger sons, John Cary, the immediate ancestor, was sent to France to complete his education. While he was in France his father died and there followed some difficulty in settling the estate. He took a younger son's part, £10, and in 1634 came to Connecticut where he joined the Pilgrims. He was among the original settlers and property holders at Duxbury and Bridgewater, Conn. The first purchase of lands was made from the native Indians in 1639 and the deed was made to four distinguished men, Miles Standish, Capt. Mayflower, Samuel Nash, and Constant Southworth, as trustees for William Bradford, John Cary and fifty-two other settlers. The consideration named in the deed is interesting reading in this age. It was as follows: Seven coats, to contain one and a half yards of cloth to each coat; nine hatchets; eight hoes; twenty knives; four mooseskins; and ten and a half yards of cotton. John Cary married Elizabeth Godfrey in 1644. Their second child, Francis, was born in 1647 and he married Hannah Britt in 1676. They reared a family of five children, the oldest, Samuel, born in 1667, married Mary Poole in 1704. Samuel and Mary (Poole) Cary came to this country after their marriage and located in Dutchess County, N. Y. They had eight children of whom the eighth, Eleazer, was born in 1718 and was a direct ancestor of the subject. Eleazer migrated from Connecticut in 1769, whither he had gone from New York, and located in the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. He married a Miss Sturtevant and they had a family of six children. Their second child, John, was born May 7, 1756, and was the great-grand-father of our subject. He was noted as a man of herculean build and strength. He served under Capt. Durkee in the War of the Revolution and was at the memorable Wyoming Massacre. He died in 1844 at the age of eighty-eight years and was buried in Wilkes-barre. One of his brothers, Samuel, a small, active man, was also in the battle at Wyoming and was captured by the Indians and held by them for six years, and was supposed by the family to have been killed. In 1744 Samuel returned to the Valley where he passed the remainder of his days. The great-grandfather of our subject had eleven children, the sixth being the maternal grandfather of our subject, Miner Cary. He was one of the earliest settlers in the vicinity of what is now Scranton and owned a large part of the land which is now occupied by the site of the city of Scranton. He married Sarah Deans and to them were born eleven children, of whom Esther P. Cary, mother of our subject, was born in Scranton, Pa., March 17, 1817.(Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY, 1899 , pg. 502 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

FULLER S. DERR, physician and surgeon, was born in Lycoming county. Pennsylvania, November 4, 1860, son of John F. and Sarah (Houseknecht) Derr, natives of Lycoming county. Our subject's paternal great-grandfather immigrated from Germany at an early date and located in Montour county, Pennsylvania, where his grandfather, Christopher Derr, was born, and from whom the present Derr family have descended. Christopher Derr removed into Lycoming county and died there. John F. Derr is a farmer, and in 1871 he moved from Lycoming to Montour county, where he has resided ever since. He has reared nine children: Judson; Alice, wife of John Krumm; Hiram H., deceased; Fuller S.; Phebe J., wife of Albert Muffly Elmer B.; Miles J.; Homer M., and Annie F. Our subject was educated in the common schools and at Bucknell University. He began the study of medicine under Dr. E. H. Horner, of Turbutville, and was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, March 29, 1884. He immediately formed a partnership with his preceptor, which continued four years, when he removed to Watsontown, where he has since devoted his entire attention to the practice of his profession. Doctor Derr was married, December 27, 1888, to Annie Schmucker, of Watsontown, and has one child, Woods F. He is a member of the Masonic order, and one of the well known citizens of his adopted home. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1085 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

LEWIS DEWART, attorney at law, was born in Sunbury, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1849. After a thorough academic preparation he entered Princeton College and was graduated therefrom in the class of 1872. He read law with the late Judge Jordan and was admitted to the bar in 1874. In 1875 he was elected borough clerk, held the office one term, and in 1877 was elected district attorney. He is an active and energetic Democrat, and for his party does much hard and effectual work. He has served on the central committee, and was a delegate to the convention that nominated Pattison for Governor. The degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by his Alma Mater. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 837 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)
LEWIS DEWART, a leading member of the Northumberland County Bar, was born in Sunbury May 6, 1849. He received all the education that the common schools offered and then took a preparatory course at Columbia, Pa., and at Edge Hill. After this he entered Princeton College and was graduated in the class of 1872. Choosing the legal profession as his life work, he entered the law office of Judge Jordan, with whom he read law until he was admitted to the bar in 1874. The standing which the young attorney quickly acquired may be appreciated by the fact that in the following year he was made borough clerk and in 1877 was elected to the responsible position of district attorney of Northumberland County. He has since been engaged in active practice in Sunbury, and, having received a thorough preparation and having mental abilities and a natural bent of the kind most useful to a successful lawyer, our subject has attained both prosperity and influence. Shrewd, alert, and farseeing, he is an advocate in whom men trust and an antagonist whom they combat with caution. He is a gentleman of wide range of experience, and in the financial field, in which he is an important factor, he brings to bear the same thorough and methodical ways which stand him in such good stead in his profession. Politically Mr. Dewart is an influential Democrat. He has been a delegate to county, district, state and national conventions, having been a delegate to the convention that nominated Grover Cleveland for the presidency in 1892. Socially he is a member of Sunbury Lodge, No. 22, F. & A. M. Mr. Dewart is one of the representative men of Sunbury and takes an important part in the general councils of the best citizens in matters pertaining to the welfare of the community and the general prosperity of the town.(Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY, 1899 , pg. 469 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM DEWART, from whom the family of that name in this county is descended, was a native of Ireland; he immigrated to Chester county, Pennsylvania, and thence, in 1775, to Sunbury, where he was an early merchant. There he died, July 25, 1814. Lewis Dewart, his son, was born at Sunbury, November 14, 1780; in early life he assisted in his father's store, and although actively and successfully engaged in business for many years, his public career is particularly noticeable. In 1816-20, inclusive, he was elected to the House of Representatives, in 1823, to the State Senate, and in 1834-37, inclusive, to the House of Representatives, of which he served as Speaker in the session of 1827. He was also elected to the XXIId Congress from the district of which his native county formed part. In politics he was a Democrat. He married Elizabeth Liggett, of Chester county, Pennsylvania; William L. Dewart, their only son, was born at Sunbury, June 21, 1820, educated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and at the College of New Jersey at Princeton, read law with Charles G. Donnel, and was admitted to the bar of Northumberland county in 1843. He was an active supporter of the Democratic party, and was several times a member of the national conventions of that organization; he was also a member of the XXXVth Congress, and otherwise prominent in public affairs. He married Rosetta, daughter of Espy Van Horn, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and they were the parents of three sons and two daughters, three of whom grew to maturity and are now living: Lewis, attorney at law, Sunbury; William L., of the Northumberland County Democrat and Sunbury Daily, and Bessie, wife of F. L. Brice, of Sunbury. Major Dewart died at Sunbury, April 19, 1888; his widow resides in that borough at an advanced age. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 815 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)
WILLIAM DEWART, the second merchant of Sunbury, was a native of Ireland, from whence he emigrated to Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1765. Being in reduced circumstances, he was obliged to redeem his passage money, but prosperity at length rewarded his efforts; in 1775 he opened a store at Sunbury in a log building on Chestnut street between Second and Center alley, and was constable of Augusta township as early as 1777. Subsequently he purchased ground on the north side of Market street and built thereon a brick residence and store He was successful in business, and amassed considerable property. He died on the 25th of July, 1814, at the age of sixty-nine years; Eleanor, his wife, died, September 17, 1805, aged fifty-eight years, ten months, and twenty-four days. William Dewart, Jr., their son, died on the 12th of November, 1810, at the age of thirty-two years, one month and twenty-three days; Liberty, his wife, was born on the 9th of August, 1778, son of John and Mary Brady, and died on the 25th of July, 1851. Their son, William Dewart, 3d, was born on the 24th of November, 1806, and died, May 18, 1841; he was a well known merchant at Sunbury. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 472 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)
DEWART FAMILY. The American branch of this distinguished family, which has furnished Northumberland County with some of its most illustrious sons, is descended from William Dewart, a native of Ireland who came to America in early colonial times. He first located in Chester County, Pa., where he remained until 1775, when he removed to Sunbury and embarked in mercantile business. He was one of the first merchants of what is now one of the liveliest and most thrifty towns of its size in the state. He continued in business in Sunbury until his death, November 14, 1814. One of William Dewart's sons, Lewis Dewart, was born in Sunbury November 14, 1780, and during his youth assisted his father in conducting his mercantile business. Although he was very successful in business, it was in political circles that he attained his greatest prominence. He was one of the leading Democrats of this section of the state, and figured conspicuously in the doings of the Democratic party. At the age of thirty-six years he was elected to the State Assembly, and in 1823 he was elected to the State Senate; in 1834 he was again elected to the Assembly, serving as representative for three terms, during the latter of which he acted as Speaker of the House. He was also elected to the 23d Congress from what is now the Seventeenth Congressional District and acquitted himself with credit. He formed a matrimonial alliance with Elizabeth Liggett, a native of Chester County, Pa., by whom he had one son, William L. Dewart. William L. Dewart was born in Sunbury, June 21, 1820, and, after completing the required course in the common schools, attended Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pa., and later the New Jersey State College of Princeton, N. J. He then took up the study of law under the preceptorship of Charles G. Donald of Sunbury and was admitted to the bar in 1843. Like his father, he attained distinction in politics and several times served as a delegate to national conventions of the Democratic party. He represented the Seventeenth Congressional District in the 25th Congress and served his constituents in a highly satisfactory manner. He, as were his forefathers, was an adherent of the doctrines as promulgated by the Presbyterian Church. He was a director in the Northumberland National Bank, now known as the First National Bank of Sunbury. Socially he was well known in the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Dewart was united in the holy bonds of wedlock in 1848, with Rosetta Espy Van Horn of Williams-port, Pa., and they became the parents of three sons and two daughters, three of whom are living at the present time: Lewis, whose personal history is herein recorded; William L., the editor and proprietor of the Northumberland County Democrat and the Sunbury Daily; and Bessie S., the wife of Edward L. Brice, a resident of Washington, D. C. Mr. Dewart closed his eyes in final sleep in the town of Sunbury, April 19, 1888, at the age of sixty-eight years.(Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY, 1899 , pg. 468 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM L. DEWART was admitted to the bar of Northumberland county, January 3, 1843; his law preceptor was Charles G. Donnel. He was born at Sunbury, June 21, 1820, educated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the College of New Jersey at Princeton, graduating from the latter in 1839. He was a prominent figure in political affairs, and was several times a member of Democratic national conventions; in 1856 he was elected to Congress. His death occurred on the 19th of April, 1888. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 225 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)
WILLIAM L. DEWART, of Sunbury, editor and proprietor of the Sunbury Daily and the Northumberland County Democrat, wields in that connection an appreciable influence upon public sentiment and progress in that community. His father and grandfather were men of character and force, both representatives in the National Legislature, and the name has long been associated in Pennsylvania with leadership in the Democratic party.
William Dewart, the great-grandfather of William L. Dewart, was born in 1740 in Ireland, and came thence to America in 1765, first settling in Chester County, Pa. He was in such humble circumstances that he paid his passage money after his arrival, working for five dollars a month, but industry and thrift soon brought their reward. He came to Sunbury, where he opened a store in 1775, just three years after the organization of Northumberland County. He was the second merchant at that point, and his store was the first in the town, a log building on Chestnut Street, between Second and Center Streets. Subsequently he purchased ground on the north side of Market Street, where he built a brick residence and store, and he made a success of his business, accumulating considerable property. He was constable of Augusta Township as early as 1777. He died July 25, 1814, aged seventy-four years. His wife, Eleanor, died Sept. 17, 1805, aged fifty-eight years, ten months, twenty-four days. They had a large family of children, most of whom, however, died in youth. We have record of the two sons William, Jr., and Lewis, the latter of whom was the grandfather of the present William L. Dewart, of Sunbury. William Dewart, Jr., died Nov. 12, 1810, aged thirty-two years, one month, twenty-three days; he married Liberty Brady, who was born Aug. 9, 1778, daughter of John and Mary Brady, and died July 25, 1851. Their son, William, born Nov. 24, 1806, died May 18, 1841; he was a well known merchant at Sunbury.
Hon. Lewis Dewart, son of William and Eleanor Dewart, was born in Sunbury Nov. 14, 1780, when the place was little more than a military post in the wilderness. For a number of years he was his father’s assistant in the store, and was postmaster at Sunbury from 1806 until 1816, but his public career began when he was a comparatively young man and covered many years. From 1812 to 1820 he represented his district in the State Assembly and in 1823 was elected State senator to succeed Albright, deceased, serving three years in that capacity. In 1830 he was elected a member of the Twenty-second Congress from what is now the Seventeenth district and was reelected in 1832. In 1834 he was honored with reelection to the State Legislature, in which he resumed his seat and served three terms, until 1840, during the last year of that period being honored with the speakership of the House. In 1839 he was chief burgess of Sunbury, and for many years he was a member of the School Board. Mr. Dewart was not only a highly capable public servant, but a citizen who benefited the community equally in his activity in the development of industrial enterprises, noteworthy among which was the Danville & Pottsville railroad, which, in company with Stephen Girard, of Philadelphia, and Gen. Daniel Montgomery, of Danville, he organized and built; Mr. Dewart was one of the first directors of this road and served as such for many years. He and Stephen Girard were the pioneers in the Schuylkill County coal fields, and they had large holdings of valuable coal property in the vicinity of Shamokin, this County, as well as in Schuylkill County. Their idea was to uncover the coal instead of tunneling, but the process proved too expensive to be practicable. Mr. Dewart was identified with the promotion or realization of many of the most advanced improvements of his day and was, indeed, one of the most prominent citizens in central Pennsylvania, but his business undertakings were particularly helpful to the opening up of the territory north of Sunbury. In 1840, the year he retired from active business pursuits, he was a Democratic candidate for the nomination for governor. He was succeeded in the leadership of the party by his son, William Lewis Dewart, who carried the honor of the name into even greater usefulness than his father had attempted. Lewis Dewart was associated with the most noted men of his time, being a warm friend of Andrew Jackson, and his influential connections gave him the opportunity to do much for his home community that would have been impossible for one less powerful or valuable personally. He was a man of fine presence, commanding attention and respect wherever he went. His death occurred April 26, 1852, when he was seventy-one years old, and his remains rest in a vault at Sunbury. He married Elizabeth Liggett, a native of Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Hon. William Lewis Dewart, only son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Liggett) Dewart, was born June 21, 1821, at Sunbury, and received his education at various places. His early training was largely received at Harrisburg where the family were located during the many sessions his father served in the State Legislature, and he took his preparatory collegiate course at Dickinson Preparatory School, Carlisle, Pa., after graduating from which institution he entered Princeton as a sophomore, in 1886. He was graduated from that university in 1839, read law with Hon. Charles G. Donnel, of Sunbury, and was admitted to the bar Jan. 3, 1843. The law was his chosen vocation, and he practiced for many years in partnership with the famous Capt. Charles J. Bruner, of Sunbury, but his forceful nature and the circumstances of his father’s failing health and consequent retirement drew him into business and public affairs, for which he proved to be eminently fitted. In 1845-46 be served as chief burgess of Sunbury, and at that time he was already regarded as the local party leader, a supremacy which was accorded him until 1870, for a quarter of a century. During that period he was regarded as the foremost man in Northumberland County. In 1850 his father’s health failed, forcing him to assume business cares which were too important to be intrusted elsewhere. His private interests were very extensive, and he was long a director of the Northumberland National Bank (now known as the First National Bank of Sunbury). In 1852 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore, in 1856 to the Cincinnati Convention and in 1860 to the “Douglas” Convention, the same year being a Pennsylvania elector on the Douglas ticket. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Chicago Convention which nominated Cleveland for President. In 1856 he was elected a member of the Thirty-fifth Congress. A portly gentleman, of fine appearance and genial disposition, he was an attractive as well as prominent figure in society, and held a notable place in all the activities of his day. He was a Mason in fraternal connection and a Presbyterian in religion. His death occurred in Sunbury April 19, 1888.
On June 21, 1848, Mr. Dewart married Rosetta Van Horn, daughter of Espy Van Horn, of Williamsport and they reared two sons. Mrs. Dewart survived her husband. In 1853 Mr. Dewart took his family to Europe, spending about a year traveling over England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and other places of interest and attraction.
It is a coincidence worthy of note that Espy Van Horn, of Williamsport, father of Mrs. Dewart, was the direct predecessor in Congress of Mr. Dewart’s father; and that William Wilson, her stepfather, was her father’s predecessor in that legislative body.
Lewis Dewart son of Hon. William Lewis Dewart, was born May 6, 1849, in Sunbury. After attending the common schools he took a preparatory course at Columbia, Pa., and Edge Hill, and then entered Princeton, graduating therefrom in 1872. He read law with the late Judge Jordan, and was admitted to the bar in 1874. He received the degree of Master of Arts from his alma mater. In 1875 Mr. Dewart was elected borough clerk, which office he held one term, and in 1877 was elected district attorney. Like others of the name he was an energetic worker in the Democratic party, having been a member of the central committee, and delegate to County, district, State and national conventions, among them the convention at which Pattison was nominated for governor and the convention in 1892 when Cleveland received the nomination. He was a member of Sunbury Lodge, No. 22, F. & A.M. He died Aug. 27, 1901, unmarried.
William L. Dewart son of William Lewis and Rosetta (Van Horn) Dewart, was born March 24, 1858, in Washington, D.C., while his father was a member of Congress. After receiving his elementary training he was a student for two years at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, at Chester, thence going to the Shoemaker Academy, at Chambersburg, from which he was graduated in 1877. Returning to Sunbury he commenced to learn the printing and newspaper business, reporting for the Daily and the Northumberland County Democrat, and in time becoming city editor of the Daily, in which he purchased an interest Jan. 1, 1880. He has been associated with that paper as editor and proprietor ever since, and in the same capacity with the Northumberland County Democrat, both of which papers have been under the same ownership and management throughout that period.
Though he has never had any personal official aspirations, and has never been a candidate for any political office, Mr. Dewart has upheld the reputation of his family as a bulwark of the Democratic party, and has served as delegate to many conventions. In 1884 he was alternate at the national convention held at Chicago which gave Grover Cleveland his first nomination for the Presidency; in 1892, when Cleveland was nominated for the third time, he was a delegate to the national convention; and he was again a delegate in 1904, at St. Louis, when Alton B. Parker received the nomination.
Mr. Dewart is a member of Lodge No. 22, F.& A.M., Northumberland Chapter, No. 174, R.A.M., and Calvary Commandery, No. 74, K.T., all of Sunbury; has been a vestryman of the Episcopal Church at Sunbury for a number of years; and maintains considerable activity in the social life of the city, being noted for his hospitable and companionable nature.
In 1897 Mr. Dewart married Edith Grant, daughter of the late William T. Grant of Sunbury, and to them have been born three sons, William Lewis, Lewis and Gilbert F. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 198 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

DR. A. T. DEWITT was born in 1837, in Augusta Township, Northumberland County, and is a member of the DeWitt family here. In the early part of the seventeenth century, when the emigrant ancestors came to this country from Holland, they settled on Manhattan island, naming it New Amsterdam.
The records show that there were two brothers, one remaining in New York, while the other moved to New Jersey. About 1807 Paul DeWitt, a member of the New Jersey branch of the family, and grandfather of Dr. DeWitt came with a number of other New Jersey families to Pennsylvania, settling in Augusta Township, Northumberland County. He married Margaret Persing, and to them were born three children: Abraham,, who moved to Philadelphia, Pa.; William, and Elizabeth, Mrs. Reppard.< br>William DeWitt son of Paul, married Elizabeth Tressler, and to them were born seven children: Jacob, who married Mary Clark and had three children: Isaac, who married Elizabeth Cressinger and had seven children, two sons and five daughters; Paul, who married Abigail Shipman, and had five children, three sons and two daughters; William, who married Mary Latsha and had eight children, two sons and six daughters; Matthew, who married Elizabeth Shipman and had two children, one son and one daughter; Moses, who married Lavina Strausser and had four children, one son and three daughters; and Abraham T., who married Sarah Renn and had four children, three sons and one daughter.
Dr. Abraham T. DeWitt, the youngest son, was reared upon a farm until he reached the age of sixteen years. He next spent two years at work in the mill of his brother William, and then took the opportunity to improve his early education, attending the academy at Boalsburg, in Center County, Pa. After that he began his experience as teacher, being thus engaged for one term in Snyder County, Pa., at the close of which he became a student at what then was known as the Freeburg Academy, in Snyder County. The following winter he taught school in Schuylkill County, and then again resumed his studies, at the Missionary Institute, now Susquehanna University, located at Selinsgrove, Pa. He began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Caslow, of Halifax, Dauphin County, and in 1861 entered the University of Vermont, from which institution he was graduated June 9, 1862. Dr. DeWitt at once settled at Snydertown, Northumberland County, where he continued private practice until he took the examination for army service in June, 1863, and passing was soon appointed assistant surgeon, 54th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Emergency Men, for one hundred days service. The command was sent out of the State, and Dr. DeWitt assisted in the capture of Gen. John Morgan, who was making his famous raid into Ohio. After receiving his discharge with the regiment, at the end of his term, the Doctor reentered the Union service, being appointed surgeon of the 2d Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery Regiment, within the fortifications at Washington, D.C., at the northeast; in 1864 he was transferred from the northeast to the southwest, Washington defenses. In June, 1864, the regiment was ordered to join the army under General Grant, took part in the battle of Cold Harbor, and subsequently marched to White House Landing, where the troops took transports for City Point. The regiment was the first to advance upon Petersburg, where they remained until August, at which time they were stationed at Bermuda Hundred, continuing at that point until Lee evacuated Richmond. They were then ordered to Petersburg, remaining in charge of the city until Jan. 1, 1866, when they were discharged by general order. While in the defenses at Washington Dr. DeWitt was a member of the staff of General Fariero, with headquarters at Arlington. During the summer of 1865 he was chief medical officer of the district of Roanoke, with headquarters at Berksville Junction, Va. He was mustered out at Philadelphia in 1866.
On April 1, 1866, Dr. DeWitt resumed the practice of his profession, at Snydertown, Pa., in 1878 moving to the borough of Riverside, where he has since been located. He has won a place among the most esteemed citizens of that place by his busy and well spent life. His skill as a physician has bought him a long list of patrons, to whom he is friend as well as doctor, and he is widely known in Riverside and the surrounding territory.
While at Snydertown, in 1873, Dr. DeWitt was elected a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, was reelected to serve in the same capacity in 1874, and in 1875 was elected transcribing clerk of the House. Since becoming a resident of Riverside he has not been identified with public affairs as an office holder, but the establishment and maintenance of what is known as DeWitt’s park is due to his efforts and is a worthy monument to his interest in the general welfare. It is a naturally wooded tract of some twenty acres, which has been well equipped for amusement purposes, with a pavilion 50 by 110 feet in dimensions, a dining hall 65 by 36 feet, and large ball grounds with a 100- foot grand stand. The park is well supplied with flowing water, cool, and of excellent quality, conducted through the grounds from a spring. The spot is cool and beautiful on the hottest days, and the recreation ground has proved not only an improvement to the vicinity but a blessing to the many who take advantage of its benefits. The idea was typical of Dr. DeWitt. He is a man of kind and genial disposition, and in spite of his advanced years is remarkably well preserved.
Dr. DeWitt married Sarah Renn, who died July 2, 1906, at the age of sixty-six years. Of the four children born to this union one son died young, the others being: W. O., who married Luella Gruver of Nanticoke, Pa., and has children, Helen, Florence, John and William; Heber Loran, who married Anna Morrell and has two children, George and Sarah; and Cora Irene, who married William Mettler and has one daughter, Evelyn. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 289 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

C. W. DEWITT, miller, was born at Boyle's Bun, Lower August a township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, in 1850, son of Jacob and Mary (Clark) Dewitt. Be was educated in the public schools and learned the trade of miller, which he has followed as an occupation, and in 1882 purchased his present mill at Mahanoy, since which time he has been engaged operating for himself. He married in l870 Malinda, daughter of William W. Dewitt, of Lower Augusta township, and by this union they are the parents of six children: Flavie: Sallie; Reapard; Daniel: Henry. and Rosie. Politically Mr. Dewitt is an ardent Democrat, and is a member of the P.O.S. of A. (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)

DANIEL L. DEWITT, son of William W. DeWitt, was born July 18, 1856, in the old log cabin at DeWitt’s Mill in Hollowing Run, and he has; spent all his life at that place. His early education was obtained in the local common schools, and later he attended the Missionary Institute at Selinsgrove. When eighteen years old he entered the mill, and from that time until his father’s retirement assisted him, learning the business thoroughly, both manufacturing and management. In 1886 he became owner and proprietor of this famous establishment, which has been a milling property ever since the development of the section began. It was originally built about 1785, the first mill in the Lower Augusta region or anywhere in this section, pioneer settlers from a wide territory bringing their grain to be ground. The original building still stands, but new gearing has been put in several times. It is a landmark in the community. Henry Masser owned it for some time, and Jonathan Herman succeeded him, the DeWitts having owned it since Mr. Harman’s time. A forty-acre tract of land is connected with the mill property, and Mr. DeWitt has this farm under excellent and profitable cultivation. He has served as supervisor of his Township, and for many years as deacon of the New Lutheran Church, of which he and his family are members. In politics he is a Democrat. A man of pleasant and genial disposition, he is a good companion and an intelligent entertaining conversationalist. On April 10, 1881, Mr. DeWitt married Thamer E. Bloom, daughter of John and Matilda (Shipman) Bloom, of Rockefeller Township, and they have four children: Fannie, Grover C., George F. and Mary M. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 916 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

DAVID L. DEWITT, late of Lower Augusta Township, Northumberland County, lived and farmed for many years on the place now occupied by his widow and son Henry C. DeWitt and was a much esteemed citizen of the community. He was born in August, 1844, son of Jacob DeWitt and grandson of William DeWitt, whose father was Abraham DeWitt.
William DeWitt, born in 1798, died in 1870. He was a pioneer of Lower Augusta Township, where he followed farming, owning the property now belonging to Jackson M. Engle. He was twice married, his second union being with Elizabeth (Betzy) Tressler, who was born in 1806 and died in 1876. They are buried at the Mountain Presbyterian Church. The following children were born of the second marriage: Jacob is mentioned below; Isaac born June 11, 1823, died Jan. 20, 1906, married Elizabeth Krissinger (born March 11, 1824, died Dec. 11, 1905) and they lived in the Hollowing Run section in Lower Augusta Township; William W. married (first) Mary Ann Latsha, and (second) Elizabeth Bowersox, and lived in the Hollowing Run district and at Herndon before moving to his present home, in Riverside, this county; Moses, who was married and lived in Lower Augusta, died Feb. 27, 1881, aged forty-six years, six months, eight days; Paul married Abigail Shipman and they lived near Augustaville; Abraham married Sarah Renn, and they lived in Boyles Run, in Lower Augusta Township; Matthew lived in Rockefeller (originally Lower Augusta) Township.
Jacob DeWitt, son of William, was a blacksmith by trade and occupation. He lived at Patricksburg, in Lower Augusta Township, where he owned his home and a small tract of land, and died Oct. 14, 1889, aged sixty-nine years, six months, twenty-four days. A Presbyterian in religion, he belonged to the Mountain Church in Lower Augusta. He married Mary Clark, daughter of John Clark, and to them were born these children: David L., Elmira (wife of Albert Conrad and living at Reading, Pa.) and C. William. The last named, born July 22, 1850, lives in Lower Augusta Township; he married Malinda DeWitt, daughter of William W. and Mary Ann (Latsha) DeWitt, and they have had eleven children, of whom but three survive, Daniel, Flavy and Rosa.
David L. Dewitt learned his fathers trade, blacksmithing, but a few years after his marriage settled down to farming on the place in Lower Augusta where his widow continues to make her home. This was in 1878. The farm contains fifty-five acres, which at one time belonged to John Snyder, who also owned land now in the possession of Harry E. G. Ney, adjoining. Mr. DeWitt was a thrifty man and made a good living off this place, and that he was trusted by his fellow citizens is shown in his long service on the school board, of which he was also secretary. In politics he was originally a Democrat, after the Civil war period supporting the Republican party. He served several years in the Civil war. In religion he was a devout Methodist, active in church life, serving many years as class-leader and superintendent of the Sunday school, in fact he was one of the pillars of the church. He died in May, 1897, aged fifty-two years, nine months, nine days, and is buried at the Mountain Presbyterian Church.
On Dec. 27, 1868, Mr. DeWitt married Susan Snyder, daughter of John and Martha (Novinger) Snyder, of Lower Augusta Township, the latter of whom came to this region from Berrysburg, Dauphin Co., Pa. Five children were born to this union: John J., who lives in Lower Augusta Township, married Hannah Radel, and their children are Violet F. and Catharine M.; Henrietta married Charles L. Culp, of Rockefeller Township, and they have one son, Albert D.; Mary A. married Timothy F. DeWitt, of Sunbury, and they have had four children, Russell B., Lena A. (who died in infancy), Evylin A. and Grace A.; George G. died when two and a half years old; Henry C. is now farming the home place for his mother and lives there. The last named was married Feb. 10, 1902, to Mary Wetzel, daughter of Isaac Wetzel, of Lower Augusta Township, and they have three children, Ralph W., Sallie and Hazel I. Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. DeWitt are Methodists in religious connection.
William W. DeWitt, son of William DeWitt, was born May 11, 1828, in Lower Augusta Township, on the farm now owned by J. M. Engle. There he lived until he was about eighteen years old, after which he learned the trade of miller at Dornsife. For some time afterward he worked in the upper end of the Mahantango Valley, and also at Boalsburg in Centre County, in 1856 returning to Lower Augusta Township, Northumberland County, where he purchased what is still known as the DeWitt mill property, now owned and operated by his eldest son, Daniel L. DeWitt, it having remained in the family continuously since. William W. DeWitt operated this mill for thirty years, from 1856 to 1886, and established the business on a most substantial basis. He then moved to Augustaville, whence after a few years he moved to Herndon, and from there in 1897 to Riverside, his present home. He has lived retired since he gave up the operation or the mill. While living at Augustaville he served a five-years term as justice of the peace, and previously he had been school director of his district for a number of years. He has also been very active in church work, he and his family being members of St. Peter’s New Lutheran Church, in Hollowing Run, which he has served as deacon, elder, trustee and Sunday school superintendent. In politics he is a Democrat.
Mr. DeWitt’s first wife, Mary Ann (Latsha), daughter of Henry Latsha, died July 4, 1894, aged sixty-three years, one month, nineteen days, the mother of nine children: Malinda, Louisa, Daniel L., Miranda (born in 1860, died in 1881), Richard, Katurah, Thamer, Lizzie and William. In 1897 Mr. DeWitt married (second) Elizabeth Bowersox. No children have been born to this union. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 915 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

CHARLES HEBER DICKERMAN, manufacturer of railroad equipment, was born in Harford, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1843. His father, Clark Dickerman, was a native of Guilford, Chenango county, New York, born June 12, 1803, and a son of John and Thankful Dickerman. The family traces its paternal ancestry back to 1635, when Thomas Dickerman came from England and settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts. At his death he left two sons: Isaac and Abram. The latter married Mary Cooper, and died at New Haven, Connecticut, leaving a family of eight children; the fifth child and oldest son was also named Abram. He married Elizabeth Glover, who bore him four sons, the third being John Dickerman, who removed to Brattleboro, Vermont, and married Esther Sperry. Nine children were born of this union, the fifth, also named John, being the founder of the Guilford branch of the Dickerman family. He married, in 1789, Thankful Smith, a native of Granby, Massachusetts, and a daughter of Seth and Thankful Smith, the former having served with the rank of colonel in the Revolutionary war. John Dickerman was born in Vermont, March 17, 1764, and served in the Revolution nine months, being employed as a scout during the latter part of his service. He learned the blacksmith trade in New Haven, Connecticut, and about the year 1800 moved with his family from Vermont to Guilford, Chenango county, New York, where he followed blacksmithing and farming. Both he and wife died in Otsego county, New York, November 6, 1848, and October 7, 1856, respectively. They were the parents of eleven children, Clark, the father of our subject, being the seventh in the family. He was twice married, first in November, 1829, to Eliza Knapp, who died, November 9, 1830. He was again married, October 14, 1833, at Gibson, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, to Sarah Adelia Chandler, born June 30, 1815, who bore him the following children: James Bedell, and Eugene Durand, both deceased; Eliza Knapp, wife of Ralph H. Eaton; Charles Heber; Payson Kingsbury, and Mary Louisa, wife of Clement R. Woodin. Clark Dickerman was a physician, and died at Harford, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, August 5, 1853. His widow is still living at Hazelton, Luzerne county, aged seventy-six years. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools and at Harvard University, and for several years was a teacher in the public schools of Susquehanna and Luzerne counties. In 1862 he was registered as a law student in the office of Daniel S. Dickinson, Binghamton, New York, but in 1863 he abandoned the law and accepted a position with Carter & Son, coal operators, at Beaver Meadow, Carbon county, Pennsylvania. In 1868 he removed to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and engaged in the coal commission business. In 1869 he became interested in the Chapman Slate Company, Chapman Quarries, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, miners and manufacturers of roofing slate and other slate products, and was elected secretary of that company, and in 1870 was chosen general manager. In 1880 he became associated with S. W. Murray in the manufacture of freight cars, and removed to Milton, where he has since resided. Mr. Dickerman is secretary and treasurer of Murray, Dougal & Company, Limited, and is a director of the First National Bank of Milton. During the past eleven years he has taken a prominent part in the social and material development of his adopted home and is today one of the best and most favorably known citizens of Northumberland county. He has always been an unswerving, uncompromising Democrat, and a fearless, outspoken advocate of Democratic principles. Three years ago he was elected chairman of the county committee, and has been twice re-elected to the same position. Under his wise and vigorous management the party has been twice successful in carrying the county, and filling the offices with stanch Democrats. Mr. Dickerman was married, March 10, 1869 at Beaver Meadow, Carbon county, Pennsylvania, to Joy I., daughter of William and Margaret Carter, natives of Cornwall, England, where Mrs. Dickerman was born. Four children are the fruits of this union: Adelia Margaret; William Carter; Grace Beatrice, and Joy Chandler The family are attendants of the Presbyterian church, and Mr. Dickerman is a member of the Masonic fraternity. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 983 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)
HON. CHARLES HEBER DICKERMAN, of Milton, president of the First National Bank, and ex-Congressman from the Sixteenth Congressional district, is one of the citizens to whom this borough proudly refers as representative of its best interests. As member for many years of the firm of Murray, Dougal & Co. Limited, which had one of the large industrial plants at that point, he was instrumental in bringing to the borough an amount of business which materially increased its prosperity. As a public-spirited citizen he has been at the front in most movements calculated to increase Milton’s attractiveness. His business interests, though centered at Milton for many years, have not been confined to that place. His business and political connections have made him well known all over the state, and beyond its limits.
Though a native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Dickerman belongs to an old New England family, tracing his ancestry in America back to the early Colonial days, when in 1635 Thomas Dickerman came from England and settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
John Dickerman, of the sixth generation of the Dickerman family in this country, and the grand-father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Vermont March 17, 1764. At the age of sixteen he enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, in which he served about nine months. During the latter part of his service he was employed as a scout. In 1789 he married Thankful Smith, a native of Granby, Mass., daughter of Seth and Thankful Smith, of that place, the former of whom served as a colonel in the Revolution. Mr. Dickerman moved to New Haven, Conn., when a young man, and there learned blacksmithing. About 1800 he removed with his family to Guilford, Chenango Co., N.Y., where he followed his trade, also engaging in farming. Later he removed to Otsego County, N.Y., where he died Nov. 6, 1848. His wife died at the same place Oct. 7, 1856.
Clark Dickerman, father of Charles Heber Dickerman, seventh in the family of John and Thankful (Smith) Dickerman, was born June 12,1803, in Guilford, Chenango Co., N.Y. He received there an academic education, and afterwards took a medical course in Jefferson College, Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Dickerman was twice married, his first union being with Eliza Knapp, whom he married in November, 1829, and who died Nov. 9, 1830. He was married Oct. 14, 1833, at Gibson, Susquehanna Co., Pa., to Sarah Adelia Chandler, who was born July 30, 1815, daughter of James Chandler, a member of the Chandler family of Vermont and Michigan. He settled in Harford, Susquehanna Co., Pa., where he engaged in the active practice of his profession until his death, which occurred there Aug. 5, 1853. To his second marriage were born six children James Bedell and Eugene Durand, both deceased; Eliza Knapp, who married Ralph H. Eaton; Charles Heber; Payson Kingsbury; and Mary Louisa, who married Clement R. Woodin.
Charles Heber Dickerman was born Feb. 3, 1843, in Harford, Susquehanna Co., Pa., and there received his early education in the public schools. He supplemented this with a course at Harvard University, being graduated from that institution in 1860. For several years afterwards he was engaged in teaching in the public schools of Susquehanna and Luzerne counties. In 1862 he was registered as a law student in the office of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, at Binghamton, N.Y., but in 1863 he abandoned the law and accepted a position with Carter & Son, coal operators at Beaver Meadows, Carbon Co., Pa. In 1868 he removed to Bethlehem, Pa., and engaged in the coal commission business. In 1869 he became interested in the Chapman Slate Company, Chapman Quarries, Northampton Co., Pa., miners and manufacturers of roofing slate and other slate products, was elected secretary of that company, and in 1870 was chosen general manager. In 1880 he became associated with S. W. Murray in the manufacture of freight cars, and removed to Milton, where he has since resided. The firm of Murray, Dougal & Co. Limited, with which Mr. Dickerman was associated, engaged extensively in the building of railroad freight cars, and Mr. Dickerman continued his active connection with the establishment until the entire plant was sold, in 1899, to the American Car & Foundry Company, the present owners. The firm of Murray, Dougal & Co. Limited gave employment to several hundred men, and was an important factor in the industrial welfare of the community.
Mr. Dickerman has been interested in numerous financial institutions. He was for many years a director of the Second National Bank of Mauch Chunk, Pa., of the Lehigh Valley National Bank, of Bethlehem, Pa., of the Sunbury Trust & Safe Deposit Company, Sunbury, Pa.; and of the First National Bank of Milton, Pa., of which latter he became president in 1897, and is still serving in that capacity. He has always been an unswerving, uncompromising Democrat, and a fearless, outspoken advocate of Democratic principles. He served for three years as chairman of the county committee of Northumberland County. In 1891 he was elected a delegate to the Constitutional convention to form a new constitution for this State, and was a delegate to the National convention in 1892. In November, 1902, he was elected a member of Congress, representing the Sixteenth Congressional district, served as a member of the Fifty-eighth Congress, and declined a renomination and reelection, preferring private life. In 1905 he was appointed by President Roosevelt delegate to the Peace congress which met at Brussels, Belgium, on Aug. 14th of that year.
Mr. Dickerman was married March 10, 1869, at Beaver Meadows, Carbon Co., Pa., to Joy Ivy, daughter of William and Margaret Carter, natives of Cornwall, England, where Mrs. Dickerman was born. Four children were the fruits of this union: Adelia Margaret (Mrs. Howard H. Williams, Plainfield N.J.), William Carter (vice president of the American Car & Foundry Company, No. 165 Broadway, New York City), Grace Beatrice (Mrs. Guido C. Vogel, Milwaukee, Wis.) and Joy Chandler (Mrs. G. W. B. Fletcher, Philadelphia, Pa.). The family are attendants of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Dickerman is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Lawyers Club, of New York City. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 48 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

DUVAL DICKSON, station agent of the D., L. & W. R. R., also agent for the United States Express Company at Berwick, one of the popular and energetic business men of that town, was born in Northumberland County, Pa., and is a son of Rev. James and Jeanette (Duval) Dickson, grandson of Archibald and Elizabeth (Waite) Dickson, and great-grandson of Archibald Dickson. Archibald Dickson, Sr., was a native of Kelso, Roxburyshire, Scotland, and during his boyhood learned the trade of a shoemaker, and, attaining manhood, engaged in the shoe business, following that line of business the rest of his active days. He was the father of four children, namely: Robert; Jane; Elizabeth; and Archibald. Mr. and Mrs. Dickson each lived to the age of seventy years. Archibald Dickson, Jr., the grandfather of our subject, was born in Kelso, Roxburyshire, Scotland, and from his father he learned the trade of a shoemaker and conducted a shoe store all his life. He was joined in marriage to Elizabeth Waite, also a native of Kelso, and to their union the following children were born: James, the father of our subject; Margaret; Robert; Jessie; John; and three who died in infancy. Mr. Dickson died at the age of fifty years. James Dickson, the father of our subject, received his intellectual training in the Normal School at Glasgow, Scotland, and in 1843 went to the West Indies, where he was engaged in missionary work for ten years. In 1853 Mr. Dickson immigrated to the United States, and located in Philadelphia, and, having prepared himself for the ministry in the meantime, he was ordained to preach on September 13, 1854, in the Fourth Presbyterian Church of that city. While in that city he served as secretary for Albert Burns for several months. Since that time he has preached in the following churches: at Camden, N. J., in 1854; Rausch Gap and Gold Mine, Pa., in 1854-55; Birmingham, Pa., in 1854; Mt. Pleasant, Pa., in 1859; Northumberland, from 1860 to '67; Berwick, Pa., from 1868 to '79: McIntyre, Pa., 1880; Penndale, Slack's Run and Baden, from 1881 to '89; Dayas Mines, in 1890; and did missionary work to 1892. Thus he has spent thirty-eight years and six months in the pulpit, and his salary has been continued at the same rate for the remainder of his lifetime. He is now living in retirement in the town of Berwick, Columbia County. Mr. Dickson has been twice married. He was united to his first wife, Mary Carlisle, a daughter of Warren Carlisle of Brownville, Pa., June 9, 1844, and the following children were born to them: Elizabeth Agnes, born June 29, 1847; Mary Carlisle, born February 1, 1849, who is the wife of C. N. Farrer; Agnes D., born July 8, 1850; Warrand C., born January 7, 1852; and James Irving, born January 1, 1853, and died young. Rev. Mr. Dickson's wife died at the age of twenty-six years, and he subsequently married Jeanette Duval. a daughter of Michael and Eleanor(Hatfield) Duval, both natives of Normandy, France. Michael Duval served under Napoleon the First; he came to the United States and located in Dauphin County, Pa., where he spent the rest of his life, passing away at the age of sixty-six years. His wife died aged seventy years. They were the parents of three children, namely: William E.; Jeanette; and Enoch S. Mr. and Mrs. Dickson reared the following children: William Sterling, born August 18, 1858, is paymaster at the Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company and married Lillie Baucher, who bore him two children, Conway and David. William S. formed a second marriage with Martha Helenrich. Alexander Whilden, born December 12, 1859, is a commercial traveler, and married Sally Freece, now deceased, and five children blessed their union, namely: Edna J.; James H.; Freece; Pauline; and Alexander W. Conway, born December 20, 1862, is a preacher in the Methodist Church at Marysville, Pa. James, born October 7, 1865, wedded Annie B. Low, who bore him one child, Myron Low. Archibald, born March 19, 1867, is a stenographer and had charge of the Columbia Business College for five years. Duval Dickson, the subject of this personal history, began business life as a foreman in the lumber yards of The Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company and remained in the company's employ for three years. In 1885 he began learning telegraphy and was soon appointed operator on the D., L. & W. R. R., and was given charge of the station at Berwick, a position he still holds to thesatisfaction of the public, as well as to his superiors. He is also engaged in the wholesale and retail coal business, and is United States Express agent. He is popular and is held in high esteem by his fellow-citizens, who know him to be an honest, straightforward business man. Our subject also owns a farm of eighty-five acres located at the foot of Berwick Heights, which is known as the old S. E. Smith property. He has made many improvements and spends many of his leisure hours working upon the farm. Mr. Dickson was wedded to Amelia Long, a daughter of C. C. Long of Danville, Pa., and one child has blessed their home: Clark L., born July 20, 1892. Our subject is a member of the Methodist Church; and is also a member of the Knights of Malta. (Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY, 1899 , pg. Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JAMES DIEFFENBACHER was born in a part of Northumberland (now Montour) county, Pennsylvania, May 31, 1809, son of Conrad Dieffenbacher, a native of Montgomery county, this State, and a grandson of Conrad Dief fenbacher, who was born in Germany and settled and died on the farm where our subject now resides. Our subject learned the carpenter trade which he followed forty years. He settled in Northumberland in 1831 and was married in 1838 to Nancy Goston, who died in 1842, the mother of one child, James G. He was again married to Maria Hunsicker. He was a justice of the peace twenty-two years and a school director twenty years. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1101 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

J. WARD DIEHL, editor and proprietor of the Watsontown Blade, is a son of Alfred Diehl, a baker of Watsontown, and was born at Laurelton, Union county, Pennsylvania, August 31, 1867. He was apprenticed to the "art preservative" in a printing shop at his present home, and on the completion of his trade was tendered the foremanship of the Williamsport Sunday Breakfast Table, which position he accepted and held for eighteen months. He founded the Blade in 1889. During a vacation on the Breakfast Table given him on account of impaired health, he started for Colorado as a special contributor to the Philadelphia Sunday Press, but did not get farther than Kansas owing to sickness en route. Prior to going into the newspaper business, he was employed at the Cook & Pardee match-stick factory, where he earned his first money. His education was very limited, and he is a true specimen of a "print-shop educated man." His first contributions, under the nom-de-plume of Sam Sykes, were of a humorous nature and were "set from the case." They attracted considerable attention, and Sam Sykes soon gained a local reputation. Mr. Diehl was married, January 13, 1891, to Sadie C., daughter of Rev. S. P. Orwig, of Montgomery, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1086 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JACOB DIETZLER was born in Turbut township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, son of John and Hannah (Yeager) Dietzler, natives of Germany, who immigrated to America in 1818, settled in Turbut township, this county, and engaged in farming. They were members of the Lutheran church, in which he served as deacon and elder many years. They both died in McEwensville. Eight children were born to them, six of whom are living: Jacob; Frederick, of Turbut township; Christina Ann, widow of Frederick Goodman; Mary, widow of Daniel Smith, of Turbut township; Matthias, of Illinois, and Hannah, widow of William Smith, of Turbut township. The subject of this sketch was reared upon the homestead, and attended the public schools, after which he learned the carpenter's trade, which occupation he followed several years. In 1865 he removed to his present farm in the outskirts of Milton, and for the past four years has been engaged in the butchering business. He was married in 1845 to Sarah, daughter of George Overpeck, of Turbut township, by whom he has four children, three of whom are living: Isaiah, who married Susanna Deihl; George M., of Point township, who married Isadore Bitenbinder, and Jacob, who married Annie Sanders, of Northumberland. Mr. Dietzler is a Republican in politics, and sent a substitute to the war of the Rebellion. He and wife are members of Trinity Lutheran church of Milton. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1012 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

DAVID CONNOR DISSINGER was born in Schaefferstown, Lebanon Co., Pa., March 5, 1840, and was only about eleven years old when his mother died. Being one of a large family he had few early advantages, especially for acquiring an education, and after his mother’s death he was apprenticed to learn the trade of tailor, at which he spent five years. When sixteen years old he went to Lebanon, where he hired out for four years to the stone cutter’s trade. Just before the expiration of this period the Civil war broke out, and he enlisted for 8 three months term in the Union service, joining Company F, 14th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. At the end of this time he returned to Schaefferstown, and with Capt. John S. Long recruited what became Company F, of the 93d Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, at Camp Coleman, Lebanon. Of this company Mr. Long was the captain and Mr. Dissinger first lieutenant. Their first fighting experience was at the battle of Williamsburg, Va., where in the absence of the captain the command fell upon Lieutenant Dissinger. Their next engagement was the battle of Fair Oaks, in which Company F in connection with Company A of the 93d and several other companies served as advance picket guards. These companies were surrounded by the enemy on the first day’s fight and stood in great danger of being captured, being saved only by the remarkable daring of Lieutenant Dissinger, who in the wild panic that ensued drew his revolver and with wonderful coolness ordered the terror- stricken men into line; losing no time he himself led the flight, and at night arrived safely at the rifle pits with more than a regiment of men. For this gallant and meritorious exploit young Dissinger received the highest encomiums from General Peck. After the seven days’ fight that resulted in defeat for the Union forces at Harrison’s Landing Mr. Dissinger, contracting typhoid fever, was taken to the hospital at Washington, and three months passing without much progress toward recovery he resigned his position and returned to his home in Lebanon, where he assisted in recruiting a company for the emergency service.
After a year spent in Lebanon in the book and stationery business he went West and was engaged at his trade for about six months in Fort Wayne and Chicago. He was present at the Chicago convention which nominated General McClellan for the Presidency in 1864. Returning to Pennsylvania, he followed his trade for a number of years. On Sept. 24, 1865, he came to Sunbury, opening the first marble business in the town. In April, 1867 or 1868, he formed a partnership with Philip H. Moore in the mercantile business, in which he was later associated with Ira T. Clement, Mr. Clement buying Mr. Moore’s interest. In 1871 Mr. Dissinger, in company with Mr. Moore, erected the fine hotel on Third Street called the “Clement House,” named in honor of Ira T. Clement. In the same year they erected the building at the corner of Market and Third Streets known as the Moore & Dissinger block, the finest business block in Sunbury. Mr. Dissinger also put up the row of eight houses known as Dissinger row. A highly successful business man, he was thoroughly admired and trusted by his fellow citizens, and in 1875 he was elected treasurer of Northumberland County by a majority of 857 votes. After his term as county treasurer he was successfully identified with different business and manufacturing projects. In 1881 his name was presented to the State convention held at Williamsport for nomination as State treasurer. He received the united support of the interior counties of the State and was only defeated by the balance of power held by Philadelphia and Allegheny counties.
On April 10, 1866, Mr. Dissinger married Fannie Clement, daughter of Ira T. Clement, of Sunbury, and to them were born four sons and one daughter: Ira T. C., Edward W., Lou Irene, Henry Clement and John, Ira T. C. being the only survivor.
David C. Dissinger died April 18, 1882, and his wife Fannie died Aug. 12, 1893.
Ira T. C. Dissinger was born in Sunbury Feb. 7, 1867, and was educated in the public schools, completing his high school course and graduating as valedictorian of his class in 1883. This class was the first class to publicly graduate, thus inaugurating the commencement exercises of the Sunbury high school. Mr. Dissinger has been connected in various capacities with the business interests of the late Ira T. Clement, his maternal grandfather, has served as a member and president of the borough council, was city clerk, and secretary of the Board of Trade. He is at present prothonotary and clerk of the courts of Northumberland County, to which honorable and responsible position he was elected in 1907, and which he has efficiently filled.
As was his rather before him, he is a Democrat in political connection. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. Socially affiliated, he is a Mason or the thirty-second degree, an Elk, Moose, Son of Veteran, member of the Ruffed Grouse and Temple Clubs, and one of the famous No. 1 Fire Company.
Mr. Dissinger is devoted in every sense of loyalty to his alma mater, the Sunbury high school. By reason of this, and because of his membership in the first graduating class, he is and has been president of the Alumni Association, numbering well into a thousand members. This position Mr. Dissinger will probably occupy until the time of his death. On Oct. 8, 1889, Mr. Dissinger married Hattie Cooper, daughter of Thomas O. and Mary Elizabeth (Rohrbach) Cooper. Mrs. Dissinger died July 14, 1899, the mother of four children: David Connor, who died in 1897; Charles Edward; Ira T. Clement Jr., and Mary Elizabeth. On June 7, 1905, Mr. Dissinger married Mary F. Moore, daughter of P. H. and Catherine (Smith) Moore. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 400 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

IRA T. CLEMENT DISSINGER is the eldest child and only surviving member of the happy union of David Connor and Fannie (Clement) Dissinger. His mother was a daughter of the late Ira T. Clement, the man who accomplished probably more than any other one man for the up- building of his community. John Dissinger, his paternal grandfather, was born in Schaefferstown, Lebanon Co., Pa., and his wife Catherine (whose maiden name was Connor) was born in Ireland. They had a family of eleven children, eight sons and three daughters. Of this family David Connor was the youngest.( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 400 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

GEORGE M. DITZLER, farmer, was born in Turbut township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, January 5, 1849, son of Jacob and Sarah (Overpeck) Ditzler. He was educated in the public schools and learned the trade of tinsmith, which occupation he followed for ten years and has since been farming. In 1874 he was married to Isadore M., daughter of Stephen Bittenbender, one of the early settlers of Shamokin, by whom he has one child, William. He is a member of the Masonic lodge of Northumberland, the chapter of Danville, and also of the Danville commandery. He is a Republican, and a member of the Lutheran church. He settled upon his present farm in 1875 and is bringing it to a high state of cultivation. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1104 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

DOCKEY. Adam Dockey, one of the Hessian soldiers buried at Zion’s Stone Valley Church, also founded a family represented to this day in Northumberland County. He was a pioneer resident of Lower Mahanoy Township, and through his son John the name was continued. Elmer Dockey, of Uniontown (Pillow), Pa., is a conspicuous member of this family. Adam Dockey had one son and two daughters: John, Elizabeth (who died unmarried) and Catharine (married Simon Lenker). John Dockey, son of Adam, married Mary Schaffer, and they were farming people in Lower Mahanoy Township. They were members of the Mahanoy church, and both are buried at that church. Their family consisted of thirteen children, all of whom reached maturity: (1) Michael, born March 2, 1813, died Nov. 12, 1889. (Susanna, who died May 26, 1900, aged sixty years, ten months, three days, May have been his wife.) He had two sons and three daughters. (2) John, born March 24, 1815, died Sept. 24, 1887. His wife Elizabeth, born Nov. 27, 1815, died Feb. 2, 1891. They had one daughter. (3) Mary. (4) Jonas, born Dec. 31, 1819, died July 7, 1904. His wife Catharine (Hepner), born June 15, 1819, died Oct. 27, 1891. They had one son and one daughter. (5) Elizabeth. (6) Joseph had two sons and four daughters. (7) Sarah. (8) Catharine. (9) Magdalene married David Underkoffler and they had fifteen children. (10) Benjamin, born April 29, 1829, lives at Pillow. He had two sons and one daughter. (11) Annie never married. (12) Elias, born June 21, 1833, died Dec. 7, 1888. His wife Eliza, born in 1834, died in 1893. They had two sons and five daughters. (13) Nathan, born Dec. 11, 1830, died Oct. 7, 1833. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 381 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

ELMER W. DOCKEY, one of the leading citizens of Pillow (formerly known as Uniontown), former auditor of Dauphin County, and now extensively engaged in the insurance business, was born at Pillow March 22, 1866, son of Benjamin Dockey.
The Dockey family of Northumberland and the surrounding counties of Pennsylvania has its origin in John Adam Dockey, who came to America during the Revolutionary war as one of the Hessian soldiers hired by King George. After the close of that war for independence he remained in America. With a number of his fellow countrymen he first lived in Berks County, thence coming to Northumberland County prior to the beginning of the nineteenth century and locating in what is now Lower Mahanoy Township. Here he married, prospered, lived and died. He and his wife are buried in the old part of the graveyard at Zion’s Church of Stone Valley. He was tall, erect, of typical military appearance and good address, and possessed more than ordinary intelligence. He was a man of resolute will and strong convictions. He had three children, namely: John, mentioned later; Elizabeth, who died unmarried; and Catharine, who married Simon Lenker, of Lower Mahanoy.
John Dockey, son of John Adam, was born July 17, 1787, in the lower end of the Mahantango Valley. He died on his large farm in Lower Mahanoy Township July 28, 1858. He was a lifelong farmer, and owned considerable real estate. His wife, Anna Maria Schaffer, who was of an old established Lower Mahanoy Township family, was born Aug. 1,1795, and died Feb. 25, 1862. John Dockey and his wife prospered by their industry, and reared a large family of children to usefulness and thrift. They were members of the Lutheran congregation of Zion’s Church, in Stone Valley, and are buried at that church. They had thirteen children, twelve of whom grew to manhood and womanhood, viz.: Michael, born March 2, 1813, who died Nov. 12, 1889 (he had two sons and three daughters); John, born March 21, 1815, who died Sept. 24, 1887 (wife Elizabeth, born Nov. 27; 1815, died Feb. 2, 1891; they had one daughter); Mary; Jonas, born Dec. 31, 1819, who died July 7, 1904 (his wife Catharine Hepner, born June 15, 1869, died Oct. 29, 1891; they had one son and one daughter); Elizabeth; Joseph, who bad two sons and four daughters; Sarah; Catharine Magdalena, who married David Underkoffler and had fifteen children; Benjamin; Annie, who never married; Elias, born June 21, 1833, who died Dec. 7, 1888 (his wife Eliza, born in 1834, died in 1898; they had two sons and five daughters); and Nathan, born Dec. 11, 1830, who died Oct. 3, 1835. Nearly all this family are buried at the Stone Valley Church.
Benjamin Dockey, son of John, was a tailor, and followed the trade in his earlier life. About 1850 he engaged in the store business at County Line, and later huckstered produce and followed farming. In 1866 he came to Uniontown (Pillow), where he has since lived, following various occupations. He was a drover some years and for some years was connected with a hotel at Pottsville. Since 1896 he has made his home with his son Elmer W. Dockey. He has taken some part in public affairs, having held various local offices, among them that of constable, which he filled for some years. He is the oldest resident of his section, but though advanced in years is well preserved. His wife, Mary Witmer, daughter of John and Mary (Lenker) Witmer, born Feb. 8, 1833, died in 1899, aged sixty-six years lacking a few days. She is buried at Uniontown. Mr. and Mrs. Dockey had the following children: Jeremiah M., of Williamsport, Pa.; Malinda, who married John Kaudeman, of Williamsport; Miles, deceased; and Elmer W. Benjamin Dockey is a member of the Lutheran Church.
Elmer W. Dockey was reared in the borough of Uniontown and there received his early intellectual training. Later he attended the Keystone State Normal School, at Kutztown, Pa., leaving when in the Junior class to go to work. He began teaching when nineteen years old, in Upper Mahanoy Township, and was engaged for two terms. Meantime he had learned the cigarmaker’s trade, when he was sixteen years old, and he followed the business as a manufacturer for seventeen years, employing three hands. He discontinued to engage in the fire insurance business, to which he has devoted himself principally for seventeen years, being agent for the Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Hummelstown, Pa.; the Lebanon Mutual, of Lebanon, Pa.; the Palmyra Mutual, of Palmyra, Pa.; the Boyertown Mutual, of Boyertown, Pa.; the Lykens Valley Mutual, of Elizabethville, Pa.; the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn. (a stock company); and the Mutual of Annville, Pa. Mr. Dockey writes nearly all the insurance placed south of Sunbury, and up to Pitman and Hegins, doing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of business annually for the various companies he represents. He is a man of large business capacity, and he adjusts most of the claims for his companies.
Mr. Dockey has been prominent in his locality in the councils of the Republican party, wielding considerable influence, and has served frequently as delegate to county conventions. In the fall of 1902 he was elected auditor of Dauphin County and served two terms, until 1908. He has been a school director of Pillow for many years and for seventeen years has served as secretary of the school board—June 4, 1894, to date. He is secretary of the borough council, an office he has held since March, 1893. In 1892 he was elected justice of the peace and has held that office continuously since, all the local legal work connected with the drawing up of documents, etc., being brought to him. He has been secretary of the Mahanoy & Mahantango Telephone Company since its organization, in 1904, was one of the organizers, and is a director. He is leader of the Pillow Band of twenty-eight men, which was organized in l908, and he was formerly connected with the old Excelsior Band of Pillow for twenty years. He was one of the leading spirits in the organization of the Pillow Band
On March 10, 1889, Mr. Dockey was married to Lucetta Wolf, daughter of George and Helina (Derk) Wolf, of Jordan Township, Northumberland County, and they have had three children: Alice L., Stella (who died in infancy) and Lottie H. Mr. Dockey and his family worship with the Reformed congregation at the Salem Church, and he has been leader of the choir for many years. He has also given lay service as superintendent of the Sunday school. Socially Mr. Dockey is a charter member of Washington Camp, No. 614, P.O.S. of A., of Pillow, of which he was one of the organizers, and for many years was District President of the Northern Dauphin District, P.O.S. of A., and is a charter member of Camp No. 11563, Modern Woodmen of America, of Berrysburg, Pennsylvania. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 184 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

DODGE. At Northumberland, this County, reside the brothers Charles H. Dodge and William Henry Dodge, both of whom are engaged in business in that borough and included among its substantial citizens. They are sons of Joseph R. Dodge and grandsons of David Stone Dodge.
David Stone Dodge was born in 1783 in the State of New Hampshire, and went from his native State to Kentucky, where he lived until 1824. From there he went to New Jersey and eventually to Northumberland County, Pa., keeping a store at Elysburg some years and thence moving to Northumberland. At the latter place he had a rope manufactory, which he carried on until his death, employing some thirty men in his establishment, which was the leading industrial concern in the borough in its day. He served a number of years as justice of the peace after coming to Northumberland and was a substantial citizen here as elsewhere; be had valuable property holdings at one time, and left an estate in Kentucky valued at over $45,000, which his heirs were unable to secure possession of because of the lack of legal proof of their claims. He was a Whig in politics and a Presbyterian in religion. “Squire” Dodge was first married to a Kentucky woman and the second time (in New Jersey or Pennsylvania) to Mary Anderson. To the first union were born eleven children, who are now scattered all over the eastern part of Northumberland County. By his second marriage there were two sons and one daughter, Emeline, Stephen B. and Joseph R. Stephen B. Dodge was a resident, of Northumberland, and died in 1906 at the age of seventy-four years; his children were David S., John, Alice, Heinline Stone, Sallie, Harry, Edward, William E. and Fannie. “Squire,” Dodge died in 1850, at the age of sixty-seven years, and is buried in Riverview cemetery, at Northumberland. The Dodge family is of English descent
Joseph R. Dodge was born July 31, 1836 at Northumberland, where he still makes his home. He received his education in the local schools, and at an early age began working in his father’s rope factory, spinning twine before he was twelve years old. In 1868 he became a puddler, working for the Van Alen Company as an iron worker for thirteen years, until he met with an accident which crippled his left hand. He then built himself a store at the corner of Queen and Second Streets, in the borough of Northumberland, and engaged in business, dealing in tobacco, confectionery, flour and wheat for many years, finally selling out. For two years thereafter, 1893-94, he was jury commissioner of the County, was then engaged for some time as agent of the Prudential Insurance Company, and in 1905 began driving a bakery wagon for his son, William H. Dodge, who is engaged in the baking business in Northumberland. Mr. Dodge has always been a Republican, and at one time was quite active in the party and in local public affairs, serving nine years as constable of the County, eight years as overseer of the poor, one year as supervisor, and three years as councilman in his borough. He has given efficient and public-spirited service in every capacity, and is a well and favorably known citizen, commanding the esteem of all who know him.
On Dec. 17, 1857, Mr. Dodge married Mary A. Hine, daughter of Jacob and Catharine (Hulligan) Hine, of Northumberland, Pa., and they have had six children: Emma, who died when small; Mary J., who died when small; Charles H.; William Henry; Florence M., who died small; and Harvey O., of Baltimore. Mr. Dodge and his family are members of the Methodist Church ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 603 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

CHARLES H. DODGE, dealer in real estate and insurance at Northumberland, where he has built up a creditable business, to which he now gives all his time, was born in the borough of Northumberland Sept. 17, 1867. He attended public school until he reached the age of twelve years, and began work in the Van Alen nail mill at Northumberland, where he was employed until sixteen. At that time he became a pupil at the Williamsport Commercial College, graduating from that school in 1885. Returning home he took a position with the Pennsylvania Railway Company in 1887, in the clerical department at Sunbury, making his residence at Northumberland. He remained with that company until June, 1909, when he gave up his position to devote all his time to his real estate and insurance interests. His office is at No. 228 Queen Street. Mr. Dodge had commenced this business some time previously, gradually building up a patronage which has come to require all his time. He began selling insurance first, later dealing in real estate, and he now has a lucrative business in both lines. He is at present handling the Priestly Terrace property, which is very well located near the borough, and which he has been quite successful in selling. Mr. Dodge has filled the office of town clerk of Northumberland for the past fifteen years. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the I.O.O.F., and, with his family, identified with the Lutheran Church. In June, 1887, Mr. Dodge married Bella Jacoby, daughter of E. R. Jacoby, of Northumberland borough, and they have three children: Florence, Ezra and Mary. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 604 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

WILLIAM HENRY DODGE, who has been engaged in the bakery business in Northumberland borough since 1905, was born Feb. 1, 1871, at the place where he now lives, and received his education in the local public schools. When fifteen years old he began working in the nail mill, where he was employed six years, until an accident caused the loss of his right eye. From that time until 1898 he teamed and hauled freight and for the next five years was in the employ of Persing & Cooke, at Arters, this county. He operated a coal digger for Simcox & Dodge for two years, and for about two years was engaged as a janitor, in 1905 purchasing the stock, good will and fixtures of Ralph Mertz, baker, at Northumberland, where he has since been engaged in business. The establishment is known as the Central Bakery, located at Church and Orange Streets, and Mr. Dodge now owns the building in which he is located. Though he started with almost nothing, he has managed so thriftily and operated the business so successfully that he is now considered one of the prosperous business men of the borough, where he has the leading trade in his line. He has the most modern appliances and equipment, and his trade has become so extensive that he employs five men constantly and keeps three teams busy. Mr. Dodge has also become interested in the artificial ice business, running a team the year round. He is a well known man in this section, a member of P.O.S. of A. Camp No. 622, at Northumberland, and of Lodge No. 141, of the Beavers. Politically he is a Republican, and in 1896 he served as supervisor of Streets in Northumberland. On Nov. 11, 1891, Mr. Dodge married Mary J. Housel, daughter of Jacob B. and Harriet L. (Gibbons) Housel, of Northumberland. Six children have been born to them: Joseph R., who is head baker for his father; Margaret E., who died in infancy; Martha H.; George D.; William G., and Mary B. Mr. Dodge and his family are members of the Methodist Church.( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 604 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

DONEY. There are living in Northumberland County many of the posterity of those Hessian soldiers who, having been sold to England to assist in the suppression of the Revolution, had no desire to return to a country and a ruler which had sent them to fight the Colonists against their will, and consequently remained in this country at the close of the war. Among those who settled in this country and here passed the remainder of their lives were the following, who are buried in the old graveyard at Zion’s Church, in Stone Valley: Nicholas Bohner, Heinrich Hepner, Adam Dockey, John Bingaman, Johan Lessman, Jacob Allman, one Ossman and one Gessner. The following are buried at Klinger’s Church, which is in Schuylkill County near the Northumberland County line: Johan Schwalm (1752-1836), Conrad Dietz, Andraes Schmeltz, Johannes Stang, Peter Stein, and one Yund. Among other Hessian pioneers in this section were Michael Roedel (Radel), a Long, a Dornsife, and others whose descendants are numbered among the best citizens of the Commonwealth. Johan Nickalas Doney, one of the Hessian soldiers who refused to return to his native land after the Revolutionary war ended, was one of the large number captured by Washington at Trenton. Before 1800 he had settled in Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, where he married and reared a creditable family. He was one of the most respected citizens of his section. His children were: Abraham, John Adam and Anna Maria (Mrs. Peifer).
Abraham Doney, son of Johan Nickalas, came with his father from Berks or Lebanon county to Northumberland prior to 1800. He married Maria Zerbe, and they lived in Lower Mahanoy Township, where they were farming people. They are buried at Zion’s Stone Valley Church. They were the parents of a large family, namely: George, Adam, Peter, John, Jacob, Benjamin, Abraham, Israel, Polly, Catharine, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Sallie and Rachel.
Israel Doney, son of Abraham, lived in Lower Mahanoy Township, where he followed farming. He and his wife Sarah (Campbell) are buried at Zion’s Church, in Stone Valley. They were the parents of nine children, five of whom died young, the survivors being: John Adam, George E., Benjamin H. and Sarah C. (wife of Jacob Lahr, of Lower Mahanoy Township). ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 381 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

HENRY J. DONMAYER, a farmer of Washington Township, Northumberland County, was born May 22, 1856, in Jordan Township, son of Davis and Catharine (Geise) Donmayer.
According to family tradition four Donmayer brothers came from the Fatherland and located in Berks County, Pa., one of them, Nicholas, locating across the Blue Mountains in the territory which in 1771 became part of Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill (then Berks) county. His name on the first assessment list, made in 1772, appears as Nicholas Dornmeier. From him descended Henry Donmayer, the grandfather of Henry J. Donmayer, of Washington Township, Northumberland County.
Another of the four brothers, Peter “Dornmeyer” settled in Greenwich Township, Berks County. In 1790 he had one son under sixteen years old, a wife, and three daughters. His occupation was farming. Milton T. Donmayer, a prominent and influential citizen of Kutztown, Berks Co., Pa., is a descendant of Peter through Benjamin Donmayer (1799-1864), who was born in Longswamp Township, Berks County, and died in Union Township, Lebanon county. He was a farmer in Maxatawny Township, Berks County until 1845, when he sold out and moved to Lebanon county. His wife Hannah (Gernant) bore him the following children: Catharine, William, Lewis, Maria, Franklin, Susan, Rudolph, Milton T (born in 1848) and Isaac (who died young). William, Lewis and Franklin were soldiers in Civil war, Lewis losing his life at the battle of Cold Harbor.
Henry Donmayer, grandfather of Henry J. Donmayer, lived in Wayne Township, not far from Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, and was a millwright and farmer. His descendants are still found in that section. He and his wife Susan (Snyder) had children as follows: Davis; Henry (Harry), who lived in Schuylkill County; Susanna who died unmarried; Catharine, who died young; and Mary, who married Edward Nies and lived for a time in Schuylkill County, later coming to Jordan Township, Northumberland County.
Davis Donmayer was born in Schuylkill County, Pa., and died Sept. 9, 1906, in Jordan Township, Northumberland County (aged eighty years, seven months, four days), where he is buried, at St. Paul’s Church, Urban. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, which he served as elder and deacon. In his earlier life Mr. Donmayer was a farm laborer, later becoming a boatman on the old abandoned Union canal from Pine Grove to Middletown, and in time he went into the lime-burning business in Jordan Township. In 1878 he commenced farming in that Township, which he continued until his death. He owned a tract of thirty-eight acres. Mr. Donmayer was a Democrat, and he was a citizen who enjoyed the confidence of his fellow men, serving as treasurer and supervisor of his Township. His wife, Catharine (Geise), daughter of George and Catherine (Schwartz) Geise, died May 9, 1907, aged eighty-two years, nine months, twenty-three days, the mother of the following children: Mary J., Mrs. William Heim; Daniel, who died in his twentieth year; Henry J.; George, Elizabeth and Charles, who died young.
Henry J. Donmayer obtained a common school education in Jordan Township, and was a boy of only ten years when he began teaming regularly with his father, hauling coal, lime and doing all kinds of draying. In the spring of 1878 he began farming in Jordan Township, on a thirty-six-acre tract upon which he lived for eight years, and in 1887 he engaged in the butcher business, at which he continued for ten years. During this time he lived at Urban. In the spring of 1898 he moved to Gowen City, in the eastern part of Cameron Township, where he, farmed for two years, Thence moving to Eldred Township, Schuylkill County, where he also farmed for two years. Moving hack to Jordan Township, he was engaged in farming there for several years, until he sold out and moved to Lebanon, Pa., at which place he worked in the rolling mills. In the spring of 1907 he came to his present home, the old Daniel homestead in Washington Township, which farm consists of 110 acres. It was in the Daniel name from 1774 to 1907. Two log houses stand on this land, one of which was built in 1800 and is still used as a dwelling; the other is not quite so old. Mr. Donmayer has modern agricultural implements and is up-to-date in all the branches of his work, using scientific methods wherever practicable and working his land intelligently. He is a Democrat and has been active in promoting the success of his party. While a resident of Jordan Township he filled the office of school director three Years. He and his family are Lutheran members of St. John’s Church, which he has served as deacon.
In 1882 Mr. Donmayer married Susan J. Snyder, daughter of George B. and Susan (Ramer) Snyder, of Eldred Township, Schuylkill County, and they have five children: Adam F., Katie G., Charles O., Jerre B. and Harry R. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 830 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

PATRICK DONOHOE was born in County Galway, Ireland, January 1, 1828. He landed in New York, July 19, 1846, and at once boarded the train for the Schuylkill mining region, and secured employment as a miner at Branchdale. He remained in that vicinity until 1853, when he made Mt. Carmel his home. In July, 1853, he was married to Julia Fahey, of Philadelphia, from which union a large family were born. At the time of Mr. Donohoe's arrival at Mt. Carmel a forest grew on the site of that prosperous town, and the coal trade, to which it owes its development, received but little attention. The Locust Mountain Coal and Iron Company, following the discoveries of Professor Rogers, geologist, had done some shafting; soon after Mr. Donohoe's arrival he was given the contract to drive two hundred yards of gangway at what is known as the Rough and Ready, and thus became the first miner of any consequence in the Mt. Carmel region. In 1854 he was given the contract to open the mine now operated by S. S. Beckel & Company. Later he opened the Skidmore at the Coal Ridge colliery and subsequently upon the failure of Eckle & Son, the operators, and the abandonment of the Rough and Ready by Beaver, Geddis, Marsh & Company, secured the lease of the entire tract and with George Schall and Richard Curnow operated very extensively until 1866, when their lease expired. Mr. Donohoe was very successful in his coal ventures and shortly after the war erected a fine stone mansion on the outskirts of the town, where at an advanced age he now lives in retirement. He is a consistent member of the Catholic church, has filled various positions of public trust in the town, and enjoys the esteem of the entire public. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 1013 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

FREDERICK R. DORNSIFE, merchant and proprietor of the “Hotel Dornsife,” at Dornsife, this County, was born in Little Mahanoy Township Jan. 15, 1871, son of Samuel H. and Harriet (Raker) Dornsife. The family has long been established in that section, Daniel Dornsife, grandfather of Frederick R. Dornsife, having lived there on the farm later owned by his son Samuel and now in the possession of Henry Reed, son-in-law of Samuel H. Dornsife.
Daniel Dornsife was born Oct. 27. 1792, and died Aug. 2, 1859, aged sixty-six years, nine months, six days. He and his wife Anna (Herb) are buried at the Little Mahanoy Church, of which they were Lutheran members. By occupation he was a farmer. He served as a soldier in the war of 1812. The children of Daniel and Anna (Herb) Dornsife were: Susan married Conrad Raker; Anna married Daniel Lenker; Lydia H., born Oct. 29, 1837, died unmarried Aug. 25, 1863; Rebecca married John Raker; Isaac lived in Mahanoy City; Harry (Henry) lived in Kansas City; Samuel H. is mentioned below; Dr. Daniel lived at Nanticoke, Pennsylvania.
Henry Dornsife, brother or Daniel (above), was born June 9, 1794, and died Sept. 3, 1867; his wife, Mary Elizabeth (Fasold), born Dec. 18, 1799, died Aug. 13, 1873. They were farming people and lived in Little Mahanoy Township. Their children were; John, William, Elias, Levi, Jonathan (died young), Mary (Polly), Elizabeth, Catharine and Susanna.
These brothers, Daniel and Henry Dornsife, were sons of one of the Hessian soldiers brought over to fight in the King’s army during the Revolution. Like many of his countrymen he remained in America, settling on the west side of the Susquehanna river, where he died at a comparatively early age; He is buried there. He married Elizabeth Kahwel, who was born March 20, 1761, and died Sept. 3, 1827, in Little Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, whither she and her two sons Daniel and Henry moved after her husband’s death. Here she married (second) John Dunkelberger (1745-1818), and they are buried in a private burial ground on the old John Dunkelberger homestead. Her sons Daniel and Henry (locally known as “Henner”) Dornsife are buried at Little Mahanoy Church; they were nicknamed “die Grumbera Hesse.”
Samuel H. Dornsife, son of Daniel Dornsife, was born May 20 1825, in Little Mahanoy Township, where he lived and died, passing away April 4, 1889. His birth and death took place on the farm now owned by his son-in-law, Henry Reed, in the western part of Little Mahanoy, though the tract was larger in his day, and he not only followed farming but blacksmithing and tanning, having a small tannery in which he made leather for his own use. He also hewed millstones, and was an all around mechanic, quite famous in the locality for his skill. His wife Harriet, daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth (Hoffman) Raker, of Little Mahanoy Township, died March 19, 1902, aged sixty-five years, eight months, eighteen days, the mother of a large family, namely: Anna, wife of Henry Reed; Daniel, of Shamokin; Katie, wife of Jacob Lenker; Samuel R., who died Jan. 22, 1901, aged thirty one years, eight months, fifteen days; Frederick R.; Susan, who died Sept. 23, 1890, aged seventeen years, eight months, twenty-eight days; Henry; Reilly; a son that died in infancy; Mary, wife of Anthony Dice; David, and Felix.
Frederick R. Dornsife received his education in the public schools of the home locality, was reared to farm life, and when eighteen began to learn the trade of painter and paper hanger. He continued to follow that occupation until 1900, in which year he became the proprietor of the “Neversink Hotel” at Trevorton Pa., conducting that establishment for three years. On June 5, 1904, Mr. Dornsife came to Dornsife, where he has since been successfully engaged in business, conducting the store and hotel, of which he is owner and proprietor. Since 1907 he has also been postmaster. Besides a full line of general merchandise, for which he has an extensive local trade Mr. Dornsife deals in coal, salt, railroad ties, bark. and lumber, giving employment to two men and doing considerable of the work himself. He has become prosperous through his industry and good management, and is a creditable representative of a family always honored in this district. The village of Dornsife, a settlement of about one hundred people, was named for Henry Dornsife (uncle of Frederick R. Dornsife), who was a miller and had a gristmill near by, on the Mahanoy creek, in successful operation. Dornsife is a station on the Herndon branch of the Philadelphia & Reading road.
In September, 190-, Mr. Dornsife married Cassie, daughter of the late Daniel M. Zartman and his wife Lena (Peifer), of Dornsife. Three children have been born to this union: Goldie May, Robert Raynold and Lena Catharine.
Mr. Dornsife is a member of the I.O.O.F. lodge at Trevorton and of Lodge No. 355, B.P.O. Elks, of Shamokin. He is independent in politics and has taken considerable interest in local affairs, having held various public offices. At present he is serving as tax collector of Little Mahanoy Township. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 544 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

CHARLES H. DOUGAL, physician, was born in Milton, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1838, son of Dr. James S. and Sarah Dougal. He received a good common school education, and subsequently entered Princeton College, New Jersey, where he graduated in the spring of 1859. He then commenced the study of medicine in his father's office, but in 1861 entered the United States service under General Stoneman, as a medical cadet. He was taken prisoner, July 1, 1863, and was confined in Libby prison five weeks, when he was exchanged and assigned to duty at Eckington hospital, near Washington, D. C., where he remained until the following September. He then returned to Milton and resumed his medical studies, and in March, 1864, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He has since been one of the active practitioners of Milton, and has built up a large practice. Doctor Dougal was married, January 4, 1866, to Annie M., daughter of Samuel Oakes, of Montour county, Pennsylvania. Two children were born to them, one of whom is living, J. Starrett. Mrs. Dougal died, March 26, 1873, and he was again married, March 19, 189l, to Miss Emma Clinger, of Williamsport. Politically the Doctor is a Republican; he has been chief burgess of Milton and has served in the borough council three terms. He has also served in the school board. He is an adherent of the Presbyterian church, and a member of the G.A.R. and the Masonic fraternity. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 969 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

DR. JAMES AND JANE (STARRETT) DOUGAL, natives of Ireland, and early settlers of Milton, were married, October 14, 1793. The former was a graduate of the College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, Scotland, and was practicing medicine in Ireland when he became involved in the Irish rebellion of 1798, and was compelled to escape in disguise to the United States, whither his wife and two children, James and Margaret, followed him. He located in Milton, Pennsylvania, where he erected the stone house in 1803 now occu pied by his grandson, and practiced his profession until his sudden death, July 18, 1818, caused by a fall from his horse. He was the pioneer physician of Milton, and a gentleman of marked ability and patriotism, whose loyalty to the emblem of freedom in his adopted home was as fervent as his hatred of tyranny in his native land. During the war of 1812 he did all in his power against English oppression, and sent his son, James S., into the ranks of his country's defenders to fight for the flag of liberty. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 967 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

DR. JAMES S. DOUGAL. was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, October 7, 1794, and came to Milton with his parents, Dr. James Dougal and wife, where he received a good education. He read medicine with his father, and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1817. Upon his father's death the following year he succeeded to his practice, and for fifty-eight years he was actively engaged in the duties of his profession. He served in the war of 1812, against the oppressor of his native land. In politics he was originally a Democrat, but in later years united with the Republican party. Doctor Dougal was married, July 2, 1818, to Sarah, daughter of William Pollock, and sister of the late ex- Governor James Pollock, who was born, July 16, 1799. She died April 1, 1873, and he survived her until May 23, 1878. They had a family of eight children: James, a physician, and William P., both deceased; Sarah Jane, widow of James Gilmour; Mary Louisa, wife of R. H. Duncan, of Washington, D. C.; Caroline, deceased wife of Horace A. Beale, of Chester county, Pennsylvania; Margaret P.; Charles H., of Milton, and Elizabeth E., wife of Robert Bailey, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Doctor Dougal was a gentleman of enterprise and public spirit, and was for many years one of the leading citizens of his adopted home. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg. 968 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

JAMES STARRETT DOUGAL, M.D., of Milton, Northumberland County, is a member of the Dougal family which has had a representative of the medical profession there ever since the time of his great-grandfather, Dr. James Dougal, who was the first physician to locate permanently at that point. As a family of physicians the Dougals are known all over the State of Pennsylvania, their personal and professional worth having won them unquestioned standing, maintained without interruption or diminution during the century and more of their residence here.
The Dougal family is of Scotch-Irish origin and has a history well worth recording. The first of whom we have definite record is one James Dougal, who came to this country from Cookstown, Ireland, and took up a large tract of land in the Cumberland Valley. Returning to his native land, he sent his son James out to look after the estate.
James Dougal, son of James and Mary Dougal, was born June 4, 1769, at Londonderry, Ireland, and was a young man when sent by his father to look after his property in America. The vessel on which he made the voyage was wrecked off the coast of Delaware, James Dougal and a man who later lived at Muncy, Pa., being the only two passengers who were saved. Young Dougal was robbed of all his money and other valuables and left stranded among strangers. But he was a young man of fine personality, and being able to speak French was given a position as tutor to the son of a man whom he met being thus engaged until he earned enough money to take him back to his native land. After finishing his literary and professional training, graduating from the College of Surgeons at Edinburgh, Scotland, he settled in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland, and began the practice of medicine. He married, and his two children were born there. But he became involved in the political uprising led by Emmet his friend, and when Emmet was captured he escaped in disguise to the United States, leaving his native land with a price on his head. Being a friend of the well known Dr. Priestley, who was then located at Northumberland, Pa., he went to him for advice, on the strength of which he settled at Milton. As previously mentioned, he was the first physician to settle there, and his success was immediate and lasting. He soon (1803) erected the stone mansion at Front and Mahoning Streets which remained in the family for one hundred years (being now occupied by Dr. E. L. Keiser), and continued in active practice until his death, July 18, 1818, caused by a fall from his horse. His practice extended over a large part of the territory now embraced in the counties of Northumberland, Montour, Columbia, Lycoming, Union and Clinton, and he was naturally one of the most widely known men in his section of the State in that day, his broad mind and energetic personality winning him the friendship and esteem of the forceful characters of the day. He retained his patriotic spirit and impulses to the end of his days, and during the war of 1812 sent his son James into the ranks of the American army to fight for the liberty so dear to all of this name.
On Oct. 14, 1793, Dr. Dougal had married Jane Starrett, like himself a native of Ireland, and they had two children, James and Margaret, both born at Cookstown, Ireland. His wife and children followed him to America a few years after his escape.
Dr. James S. Dougal, son of Dr. James and Jane (Starrett) Dougal, was born Oct. 7, 1794, at Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland, and was reared at Milton, Pa., where he attended school and also received private tuition under Rev. Thomas Hood. He read medicine with his father, and graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 1817. When his father died, the following year, he succeeded to the extensive practice and continued actively engaged in the duties of his profession for fifty-eight years, dying May 23, 1878, in his eighty-fourth year. His reputation and patronage were widespread. In politics he was originally a Democrat later joining the Republicans, and as previously mentioned he served when but a youth in the war of 1812.
On July 2, 1818, Dr. Dougal married Sarah Pollock, who was born July 16, 1799, daughter of William Pollock and a sister of the late ex-Governor Pollock, and she died April 1, 1873. They had a family of eight children: James, a physician who died at Milton Feb. 20, 1847; William P.; Sarah Jane, widow of James Gilmour and living in Milton; Mary Louisa, wife of R. H. Duncan, of Washington, D.C.; Caroline, deceased, who was the wife of Horace A. Beale, of Chester County, Pa.; Margaret P.; Charles Hammond; and Elizabeth E., wife of Robert Bailey, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Capt. William P. Dougal, second son of Dr. James S. Dougal, was born Dec. 28, 1823, in the stone mansion built by his grandfather. He attended the old Milton Academy, and became a prosperous farmer, settling in Union County, Pa., when a young man, and there engaging in agricultural pursuits until 1860. At the breaking out of the Civil war he gave his active support to the Union cause, and on Sept. 4, 1862, was commissioned first lieutenant of Company D, 150th Pennsylvania Volunteers, better known as the Bucktail Regiment and celebrated as one of the fighting regiment’s of the Army of the Potomac. He had recruited his company in Union County, Pa., where he had his home at the time. The command was sent to the front at once, and did notable service, in which he bore his full share. He was promoted to captain July 1, 1863, on the field at Gettysburg, where he received injuries so severe as to necessitate his retirement, and he received his discharge Feb. 1, 1864. He became a member of the firm of Murray, Dougal & Co., which was organized that year and established the Milton Car Works, with which he was actively identified until the year 1878, when he withdrew from the firm. He lived retired thereafter until his death, July 8, 1890. He always took a deer interest in the advancement and betterment of the borough and was instrumental in promoting the success of other enterprises besides his main responsibility; he was a director of the Milton National Bank. His many friends in Milton felt that the place had lost one of its best citizens in his decease. He and his family were members of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics he was a Republican.
By his first marriage, to Sarah Clingan, of Union County, Pa., Captain Dougal had one daughter, Sarah, who is the wife of William C. Lawson, Jr., of Milton. His second wife, Agnes (McCormick), daughter of Robert and Eliza (Montgomery) McCormick, of Milton, was a descendant of two well known families of the West Branch Valley. Seven children were born to the second union: James, Robert, William, Eliza, Charles, Agnes and Margaret.
Charles Hammond Dougal, M.D., son of Dr. James S. Dougal and brother of Capt. William P. Dougal, was born Sept. 20, 1838, in Milton, where he received a good preliminary education in the common schools. He then took a course at Princeton, graduating from that college in the spring of 1859, after which he began to read medicine in his father’s office. His professional studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil war, as he entered the Union service in 1861 under General Stoneman, as a medical cadet. He was captured July 1, 1863, and taken to Libby prison, being held there five weeks. At the end of that time he was exchanged and assigned to duty at Eckington Hospital, near Washington, D.C., where he remained until the following September.
Returning to Milton at the close of his army service, Dr. Dougal resumed his medical studies, entered the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated in March, 1864. He at once entered upon practice at Milton, building up a large patronage, and finding himself with the ability and inclination to do as his father and grandfather before him had done, to win and hold the confidence and esteem of the entire community. Such a record of usefulness and service, of well sustained personal and intellectual standards, is held by few families. Though a busy man he found time to serve the borough in various public capacities, as member of the school board, member of, the town council (for three terms) and chief burgess. In politics he was a Republican, on national questions. He was a Presbyterian in church connection and socially held membership in the G.A.R. and in the Masonic fraternity.
Dr. Dougal married, Jan. 4, 1866, Annie M. Oakes, daughter of Samuel Oakes, of Montour County, Pa., and they had two children, Charles (who died young) and James Starrett. Mrs. Dougal died March 26, 1873, and on March 19, 1891, the Doctor married (second) Emma Clinger, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
James Starrett Dougal, son of Charles Hammond Dougal, was born in Milton Feb. 1, 1871. He received his early education there in the public schools, graduating from the high school in 1889, after which he entered his father’s office and read medicine for three years. His formal preparation was made in the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1898, since which time he has been engaged in successful practice at Milton, keeping up the traditions of the family in every relation of life. His location is at No. 146 South Front Street. It is sufficient to say that he enjoys the patronage and rank which the Dougals have been accorded for generations. He is a member of the Lycoming County Medical Society and of the State Medical Association. Fraternally he is well known, being a charter member of Milton Lodge, No. 913, B.P.O. Elks, and a member of Milton Lodge, No. 256, F. & A.M. He is a Republican in political sentiment.
In 1900 Dr. Dougal was united in marriage with Mary Emma Johnson, daughter of M. P. and Ann Johnson, of Milton, Northumberland County. ( Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by J. L. Floyd Published Chicago, Ill., 1911. pg. 701 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)

CAPTAIN WILLIAM P. DOUGAL was the second son of Dr. James S. and Sarah (Pollock) Dougal, and grandson of Dr. James Dougal, the second resident physician of Milton. He was born, December 28, 1823, in the substantial stone house erected by his grandfather on the corner of Front and Mahoning streets, Milton, Pennsylvania, early in the present century, and was educated at the old Milton Academy. In early manhood he engaged in farming in Union county, and followed agricultural pursuits until 1860. Upon the breaking out of the civil war he at once gave his active support to the Union cause. and September 4, 1862, he was commissioned first lieutenant of Company D, One Hundred and Fiftieth (Bucktail) regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, which company he recruited in Union county, where he then resided. His regiment was at once sent to the front, and afterwards became celebrated as one of the fighting regiments of the Army of the Potomac. Lieutenant Dougal was promoted to the captaincy on the field of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, where he was so severely wounded as to necessitate his retirement from active service, and he was finally discharged, February 1, 1864. The firm of Murray, Dougal & Company was organized the same year, and the Milton Car Works established, with which Captain Dougal was actively identified until 1878, when he withdrew from the firm and lived a retired life up to his death, July 8, 1890. Captain Dougal was twice married, first to Sarah Clingan, of Union county, who bore him one daughter, Sarah, wife of William C. Lawson, Jr., of Milton. His second wife was Agnes, daughter of Robert and Eliza (Montgomery) McCormick, of Milton, a descendant of two well known pioneer families of the West Branch valley. Seven children were the fruits of this union: James; Robert; William; Eliza; Charles; Agnes, and Margaret, all of whom are living except the eldest. Captain Dougal was a member of the Presbyterian church, to which faith his widow and family also adhere, and in politics he was an ardent Republican. He was a director of the Milton National Bank, and always manifested a deep interest in the social and material growth of his native town. He was affable, kind, and generous in all the relations of home and family, and in business life he was recognized as the soul of honor and integrity. (History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, edited by Herbert C. Bell, Published by Brown, Runk & Co. of Chicago, Ill, 1891 pg.968 Transcribed by Tammy L. Clark)