Biographies from Historical and Biographical Annals by Morton Montgomery

MADEIRA, AMBROSE B.

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Surnames: MADEIRA, BECKER, BETZ, BROWNMILLER, GASS, HECKMAN,
KREDELL, LESHER, MICHAEL, RICK, SHEPP, SHUMAN, TOBIAS, YOUNG

Ambrose B. Madeira, justice of the peace at Wyomissing, Pa., and
one of Wyomissing borough’s energetic and successful young men, was
born Sept. 11, 1884 in Bern township. He enjoys the distinction of
being one of the youngest justices in Berks county.

Samuel Madeira, great-grandfather of Ambrose B.,
was of French extraction and of a Huguenot refugee family, and
tradition gives him three brothers: John S., who died in 1868, left
seven children, among whom were Michael and John; Jacob, who died
in 1864 in Muhlenberg township, Berks county, had children,
Rebecca, Franklin, Jacob, Eliza, Angelina and Susan; and David,
born July 22, 1788. Samuel Madeira married Elizabeth Shepp,
daughter of Daniel and granddaughter of Conrad Shepp. He was a
farmer in Windsor, now Perry township, and died there in 1832, aged
forty-five years. His widow lived to be sixty-nine. Their children
were: Catherine was unmarried; William, who died in 1892, had an
only daughter, Emma, wife of Cyrus Rick; Mrs. Sarah Lesher; Daniel
m. Catherine Becker, and had children, Prof. F. V. B. (deceased),
Almira (deceased) and Rev. Charles; John S.; Mrs. Elizabeth
Heckman; Mrs. Matilda Betz; Michael; Mrs. Susanna Brownmiller; Mrs.
Peggy Michael; and Samuel. The latter died in 1881, in Perry
township. He married Caroline Shuman, and they had issue:
Louisiana, Richard, Missouri, Kansas, Robert, Minnie, Howard S.,
Annie, Sallie and Clara.

John S. Madeira, grandfather of Ambrose B., was
born Jan. 20, 1822, near Leesport, Berks county, and was reared and
educated in Reading. After his marriage he engaged in farming,
which he continued until he was sixty-seven years old when he
retired and moved to Reading, where he died aged seventy-three
years. He was a Democrat, and was active in politics, but never
desired public office for himself. He and family belonged to
Reformed Church; in which he served both as deacon and elder. He
married Catherine Young, born in Ruscombmanor township, Oct. 7,
1826, and died April 7, 1904, daughter of Daniel Young, of Exeter
township. They had the following children: Ellen, deceased, m.
Jonathan Tobias; John Y.; and Dr. James D., born Aug. 20, 1856, is
a prominent physician of Reading.

John Y. Madeira, father of Ambrose B., was born
Feb. 13 1848, in Bern township, Berks county, and there during all
his active life he engaged in agricultural pursuits. Since retiring
he has lived at Glenside, Reading, Pa. Mr. Madeira enjoyed
educational advantages in his youth, attending Brunner’s business
college at Reading and the State Normal School at Kutztown. In
politics he is a Democrat. He married Emma E. Kredell and they have
the following children: Ambrose B.; Allene died young: J. Webster
is a knitter at Wyomissing; and Florence E. resides at home.

Ambrose B. Madeira attended the local schools in
his native locality, and also went to school for a time in Lower
Heidelberg, attending the Blue Marsh school. Later he entered
Deck’s School of Shorthand, at Reading and he also went through
Kerst’s Business College, taking courses in bookkeeping, commercial
law, etc. All his time, however, in boyhood and youth, was not
given to his books, for he assisted his father on the home firm
until he was seventeen years old, at which time his parents moved
to Reading. Shortly afterward he became assistant shipping clerk
with the American Iron & Steel Manufacturing Company and
remained with that concern for a year, going then to the National
Brass & Iron Works, also of Reading, where he was employed as
office clerk. He continued there two years, after which he took
charge for a year of the books of the American Casualty Company, of
Reading, and he continued in a clerical capacity with large firms
until he entered the employ of the Kaaterskill Paving Brick
Company. The factory of this concern is situated at Catskill, N.Y.,
and their main office is in the Colonial Trust Building at Reading.
This is a branch of the United States Brick Company.

Mr. Madeira continued with the above company
until the spring of 1907, when he took charge of the office of the
American Die & Tool Company, located at Second and Buttonwood
streets, Reading. This office he has since filled with credit. In
the spring of 1905 he came to make his home at Wyomissing, and his
residence is on Penn avenue, in the second house above the
Wyomissing Hotel. He was elected one of the first two judges or
justices of the peace in this borough, receiving a very full vote.
He takes an active and intelligent interest in all that concerns
the community. He enjoys the distinction of being the first
secretary of the school board of the new borough, and having signed
the first Bond issue of the borough of $25,000 for a modern school
house. He is serving on the committee on statistics in the Civic
League. In politics he is a Democrat.

On Nov. 30, 1905, he was married to Miss Laura
M. Becker, daughter of Monroe and Hannah (Gass) Becker, of
Wernersville, Pa., and they have one son, J. Earl. Mr. Madeira and
wife belong to Hain’s Reformed Church of Lower Heidelberg.

MADEIRA, CHARLES S.

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Surnames: MADEIRA, HOCH, SCHAEFFER, WANNER, PETERS

Charles S. Madeira, postmaster at Fleetwood and one of the most
progressive and enterprising young business men of Berks county,
was born Jan. 10, 1876, son of William H. and Clara (Hoch) Madeira.

Mr. Madeira was educated in the borough schools,
at Keystone Normal School at Kutztown, and at West Chester State
Normal School, and at the age of nineteen years, having finished
his education, he was occupied as a clerk for about six years in
the York Silk Mills and with N. S. Schaeffer & Co., merchants
of Fleetwood. He then started a hosiery mill at Lyons, a town
several miles distant, with Charles A. Wanner, another enterprising
young man of Fleetwood, as a partner, and operated this mill with
upwards of thirty hands successfully for a year, when the firm were
obliged to remove to larger quarters. Selecting Fleetwood they
secured a convenient site along the railroad near the station and
erected a large two-story frame building, equipping it with the
latest machinery. The firm have operated with increasing success
and employ eighty hands, producing daily 450 dozens of seamless
hosiery, which are shipped to all parts of the country.

After establishing himself at Fleetwood, Mr.
Madeira interested himself in the Pennsylvania Dye & Bleach
Works at New Cumberland in 1905, by becoming a half-partner with
Samuel Peters of Allentown; and also in the Metal Body Company,
which he assisted in brining to Fleetwood from Reading for the
manufacture of automobile bodies, the latter company employing 100
hands. Both of these enterprises are operated successfully. He is
also interested in building operations at Fleetwood. In April,
1908, he was appointed postmaster by President Roosevelt, and is
still serving most efficiently.

In 1905 Mr. Madeira was elected a school
director and in 1906 officiated as president of the board. Having
from boyhood taken an active part in athletic sports, he naturally
co-operated with others in organizing the Fleetwood Athletic
Association, serving as president thereof in 1905.

MADEIRA
FAMILY

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Surnames: MADEIRA, MADERY, FISHER, BRINER, STAHL, JENNINGS,
NACHTREIB, WILSON, SHEPP, RAHN, YEICH, REESER, KELLER, SPAYDT, FOX,
BIERMAN, LEINBACH, DUNKEL, GRING, BENNETHUM, WAGONHORST, JOHNSON,
MOYER, DEYSHER, ROTHERMEL, MABERY, DIENER

The Madeira or Madery family is one of the old and honored ones to
which the city of Reading is indebted for much of its early and
subsequent prosperity, made up as it has been of men of sterling
worth and sound commercial perceptions. The ancestor of the family
in Berks county was Sebastian Madery, who died at Reading in 1775.
The exact number of children is not known, but the following are on
record” (1) Michael, a soldier in the war of the Revolution, died
in 1823. (2) Casper, a soldier in Capt. Wills Company in the
Revolution in 1777, with his brother Michael, was a hatter by
trade, living on South Ninth street, Reading. He died in 1839, a
member of Trinity Lutheran Church. His wife, whose maiden name was
Fisher, bore him children as follows: William, 1796-1882 (who
married (first) Elizabeth Briner, had two children-Peter, born May
16, 1825, and Franklin; and (second) Catharine Stahl, and had five
children-Eliza; Phoebe; Robert; James Rankin and Henry, the last
named killed in the battle of Fair Oaks); Henry, who lived and died
in Brooklyn, N. Y., the father of three sons and one daughter;
Betzey, who married Frederick Jennings; Mrs. Nachtreib; and Mrs.
William Wilson. (3) Samuel settled in Windsor, Berks county, and
died in 1832. He married Elizabeth Shepp, daughter of Daniel Shepp,
and had children: Catharine, William, Sarah, Daniel, John Hafer
(April 17, 1801-July 26, 1881, married Margaret Rahn, 1803-1877),
Matilda, Susanna, Peggy, Michael, Samuel and Eliza. (4) Nicholas is
mentioned below.

Nicholas Madeira, son of Sebastian, was born in
the borough of Reading, and subsequently acquired about 300 acres
of land in the northern part of the town, adjoining and partly
embraced in the Charles Evans cemetery. He served as a soldier in
1782. He was twice married. By his first wife, Margaretha Yeich, of
Centre township, he had one son, Nicholas. He married (second)
Rebecca Reeser, and they had children, Angelia, William, James and
Ellen.

Nicholas Madeira, son of Nicholas and
Margaretha, became a successful farmer in Maiden-creek township,
and for fifteen years prior to his death in June, 1884, he lived
retired. He married Anna Keller, daughter of George and Polly
(Spaydt) Keller, the former of Ruscombmanor and the latter of
Rockland township. To this union were born: James; Levi; Mary, wife
of Samuel Fox, a farmer of Muhlenberg township; Angelina, wife of
August Bierman, of Allentown, Pa.; Eliza, widow of Aaron Leinbach,
of Reading; Nicholas, a farmer and drover of Muhlenberg township;
Edwin, a painter, of Mahanoy City; Samuel, a tinsmith at Blandon;
Franklin, of Blandon; Susanna; Lewis; and Clara, wife of Daniel
Dunkel, of Hamburg.

Levi Madeira, the well known stove and tinware
merchant of Fleetwood, Pa., was born Sept. 4, 1838, in Maiden-creek
township, son of Nicholas Madeira. He received but a scant
education. At the age of five year he went to live with the Gring
family of Muhlenberg township, and in 1853 after continuing there
for ten years, returned home to assist his father. After remaining
two years under the parental roof he learned the trade of tinsmith
with Henry Bennethum, at the corner of Fifth and Canal streets. He
served an apprenticeship of two and one-half years and then began
traveling through Berks, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Carbon counties,
repairing tinware. During the fall of 1858 he worked for John
Wagonhorst, and then returned to Henry Bennethum for six months. At
the end of that time he went to work at Macungie, Lehigh country,
remaining for two years, and in 1862 went to Allentown. In 1863 Mr.
Madeira went to Washington, N. J., where he worked for Jacob and
Joseph Johnson until 1865, when he began work for the government in
the military road and quartermasters departments, and after the
close of the war settled in Fleetwood. On July 28, 1865, he
purchased the fixtures of William Moyer, the stove and tinware
dealer, and at once he began to prosper. He has continued
successfully in this business to the present time, carrying the
full line of stoves, tinware and pumps. In politics Mr. Madeira is
an uncompromising Republican. He is a large property owner, and
besides his store building on Main street, owns a large brick
residence, in which he lives; a fine farm of 101 acres in
Maiden-creek township; an excellent farm of eighty-six acres near
the Pumping Station in Ontelaunee township; a tract of five acres
upon which is situated a tenant house, at Walnuttown, Richmond; a
tenant house near Blandon, four valuable dwellings near Blandon;
and one tenant house in Fleetwood.

On May 20, 1871, Mr. Madeira married Miss Ella
R. Deysher, daughter of Gideon and Sybilla (Rothermel) Deysher, of
Walnuttown, Richmond township, and to this union were born these
children: Annie S., wife of Jacob R. Dunkel, of Blandon; Lee D., a
silk manufacturer at Hamburg; and Sallie E., who is employed in her
brothers silk mill as forelady. Mr. Madeiras family are members
of the Reformed Church.

Lee Deysher Madeira, son of Levi, and one of the
leading business men of Hamburg, where he is engaged as a silk
manufacturer, was born at Fleetwood, Sept. 15, 1877. He was
educated in the public schools of Hamburg and later attended the
Keystone State Normal School, and the Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) Business
College, graduating at the latter institution in 1896. He then
accepted a position with the Pennsylvania Silk Company, as
bookkeeper, and remained with that firm for six years, in the
meantime becoming well acquainted with the methods of conducting
the business. His ability was recognized by the company and he was
made superintendent of the mills at Carlisle belonging to this
firm, where he continued for six months or until 1902, when he came
to Hamburg and promoted the Hamburg Silk Company, of which he is
manager. This company has a paid up capital of $25,000. The
interests are divided into four equal shares among the following
well known business men: Thomas F. Mabery, President; Henry J.
Diener, vice president; Lee D. Madeira, secretary; and Irwin A.
Diener, treasurer. The firm manufactures a superior quality of silk
which is shipped to New York, and is disposed of through a
commission house. Mr. Madeira is also operating a silk mill for
Thomas Mabery which is situated at Binghamton, New York.

MADEIRA, ROBERT W.

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Surnames: MADEIRA, SCHUMN, WAGNER, REBER, WEAVER, LAMEY, SEIPEL,
GROFF, RITTER

Robert W. Madeira, whose popular pharmacy is located at No. 322
North Sixth street, Reading, is a native of Berks county, born in
Shoemakersville, Nov. 22, 1865, son of Samuel S. and Caroline
(Schumn) Madeira.

Samuel S. Madeira was a lifelong resident of
Berks county, born in 1831. When the Reading Railroad was opened he
became one of its employes and continued to work for the company
thirty years. He retired from this position not long before his
death, which occurred in 1884, when he was but fifty-three years of
age. He and his wife had nine children of whom seven lived to grow
up, viz.: Sue, Mrs. W. S. Wagner, of Reading; K. S., an employe of
the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad (m. Miss Ida Reber); Robert
W., Minnie L. (m. Samuel Weaver, of Ephrata); Howard S., postmaster
at Shoemakersville (m. Miss Sue Lamey); Annie, now deceased; and
Clara, a trained nurse at Walters Park Sanitarium. Mr. Madeira was
a Republican and a member of the United Evangelical Church.

Robert W. Madeira received a good education in
the Berks county schools and later taught in them a while. He then
entered the Kutztown Normal School, completed his course there and
received a permanent certificate as school superintendent. He then
resumed teaching and held positions in both Berks and Chester
counties. After several years in educational work Mr. Madeira made
up his mind to enter the drug business, and in the furtherance of
his purpose entered the employ of Leedy Seipel, who was located at
the corner of Fourth and Poplar streets, Philadelphia. In due time
he became a student in the Philadelphia School of Pharmacy, and in
1888 graduated receiving his degree. He returned to Leedy Seipel,
and was assigned to his pharmacy in Cape May, where he remained
till 1890. In that year Mr. Madeira came to Reading, worked as a
clerk till 1896 and then started in business for himself.

The drug store purchased by Mr. Madeira was the
property of John A. Groff, and was located on North Sixth street,
where the new proprietor has remained up to the present time. He
conducts a first class establishment, with complete stock not only
of drugs, but of toilet articles and the various other lines
carried now in up-to-date pharmacies. Mr. Madeira carried on both a
wholesale and retail business, and also manufacturers a number of
proprietary medicines. Among them any be mentioned Dr. Allens
(Dime) Catarrh Cure, Madeiras Ingrowing Nail Cure, Celerine
Headache Powders, Madeira Liquid Corn Cure, Madeiras Liver Pills,
Camphorene Cold Tablets, De-Ma-Lyn, White Pine Couch Cure, and a
preparation for chapped hands known as “I like it.”

On Sept. 14, 1892, Mr. Madeira married Miss Cora
A. Ritter, of Allentown, Pa. Two sons have been born to them,
Reginald Ritter and Robert Spencer. The parents are members of the
First United Evangelical Church on Eighth street, of which Rev.
Edward H. Kistler is the pastor. In politics Mr. Madeira is a
strong Republican, and fraternally he belongs to the P. O. S. of
A., No. 189, of Reading. Mr. Madeira stands high both in business
and social circles, and has many warm friends in Reading.

MALLERY,
GARRICK

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Surnames: MALLERY, WOLF, STRONG

Garrick Mallery, fourth President Judge of Berks county, was a
native of Massachusetts. After obtaining a preliminary education,
he entered Yale College and was graduated in 1809. He soon
afterward became principal of an academy at Wilkes Barre. While
occupying that position he engaged in the study of law, and was
admitted to the Bar about 1812. Being well-adapted by nature to the
legal profession, he added to his efficiency by diligent study, and
soon acquired a practice which extended over a large portion of
northern Pennsylvania. In 1825 he was elected a member of the House
of representatives, and during his legislative career was
instrumental in securing the enactment of certain bills which led
to the great improvement of the North Branch region. In 1832,
Governor Wolf appointed him president judge of the Third Judicial
District, then composed of Berks Northampton and Lehigh counties,
and he served the appointment for three years. The Hon. William
Strong, of the Supreme court of the United States, was married to a
daughter.

MALTZBERGER, CHARLES
C.

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Surnames: MALTZBERGER, COLEMAN, HAAS, GREINER, JOB

Charles C. Maltzberger, who was for many years prominently engaged
in business in Reading, Pa., owning and conducting a tobacco store,
was born in that city, May 9, 1835, son of John and Elizabeth
(Coleman) Maltzberger.

Mr. Maltzberger was educated in the common and
grammar schools of his native city and also attended a private
school taught by Prof. Kelly, in the old log Quaker Meeting-house
then located on Washington street. He assisted his father in his
tobacco business, and while yet a young man clerked in William
Colemans dry goods establishment. He later accepted the position
of accountant with Hammond, Snyder & Co., remaining with the
company for several years, then entering the employ of Shortridge
& Co., continuing in Philadelphia until 1861. In this year Mr.
Maltzberger returned to Reading and opened a store at No. 639 Penn
street, and he was here engaged in the tobacco business until his
death in 1874. Mr. Maltzberger was known for his upright and honest
business methods, and it has often been said of him that his word
was as good as a bond.

In 1857 Mr. Maltzberger was married to Margaret
C. Haas, daughter of Christian Frederick and Catherine (Greiner)
Haas. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Maltzberger, Christian
Greiner, was the master stone cutter in the erection of the present
Berks County Court House, this fact appearing on a tablet placed on
that structure. The children born to Mr. And Mrs. Maltzberger were
as follows: (1) Henry, a graduate of Yale College in the class of
1879, is a prominent attorney at law of Reading. (2) Marguerite E.
m. Robert Job, a native of Boston, Mass., who is a chemist and for
several years was chief chemist of the Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad Co., resigning this position to become a member of Booth,
Garrett & Blair, leading chemists of Philadelphia. They have
three children,- Gertrude, Robert and Margaret. (3) Charles J., for
a number of years superintendent of the J. H. Sternbergh branch of
the American Iron & Steel Manufacturing Co., Reading is now in
the sales department of the Reading Iron Company. He m. Martha
Elizabeth Job, a native of Boston, Mass. (4) John died in infancy.
Fraternally Mr. Maltzberger was a member of Lodge No. 62, F. &
A. M., Royal Arch Chapter and De Molay Commandery of Reading, K. T.
While he never united with any church organization he was a
Christian, God-fearing man, and attended and supported liberally
the First Presbyterian Church, of which his wife was a faithful
member.

Mrs. Maltzberger was born in Zanesville, Ohio,
where her father had removed in 1833. He was a native of Germany
and emigrated to America early in the nineteenth century, being a
brewmaster by trade, brewing what was known in the early days as
“cream beer. While in Zanesville he purchased much valuable real
estate, and owned a brewery, and hotel. He was a very prominent
man, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him.

MALTZBERGER, GEORGE R.

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Surnames: MALTZBERGER, COLEMAN, BROWN, GEISE, KERSHNER

George R. Maltzberger, a prominent tobacco manufacturer of Reading,
bears a name well known in that city as a synonym for honesty and
reliability.

John Maltzberger, father of George R., was for
many years one of Readings most honored citizens, although others
occupied positions more in the public eye. He was born in Reading
March 17, 1815, and his whole life was identified with the city. He
was given a common school education and then learned the
manufacture of tobacco products. Later he learned brick laying and
was engaged at that work until 1846, when he returned to the
tobacco business and laid the foundations of the large concern now
conducted by his son. At first he had only a small establishment in
the house where George R. Maltzberger now lives, at No. 38 South
Fifth street, and he continued to do business there until the close
of the war. Then he acquired the property now occupied by the
store, adjoining the residence at No. 36 South Fifth street, where
he was until his death.

John Maltzberger was married to Miss Elizabeth
Coleman, and children were born to them as follows: Henry, deceased
; Mary, Mrs. James C. Brown, deceased ; Harrison, a prominent
attorney in Reading, now deceased ; Charles, deceased ; Emma, Mrs.
John O. Geise, of Germantown, Pa. ; and George R. The father of
this family passed away in January, 1878, aged sixty-three, and his
wife survived him until February, 1882, when she, too, died, aged
sixty-seven. He was a member of the Reformed Church and she of the
Lutheran. They were very popular in Reading, where they had a host
of friends. Mr. Maltzberger was widely known as a man of absolute
adherence to his word, and was held up as a constant example to
others. He was a prominent member of Lodge No. 62, F. & A. M.
and also took an active part in the Odd Fellows, belonging to
Montgomery Lodge. From 1865 to 1867 he served on the water
commission of Reading, and also for a long time on the board of
directors of the Reading Hospital. He was one of the founders of
that institution, and subscribed a large amount of money for its
support, after his son Harrison succeeded to his place on the
board. John Maltzberger made many other donations to charitable
institutions, besides giving much help to individuals, but kind
hearted and generous as he was known to be, the full extent of his
philanthropic work was never made public.

George R. Maltzberger was born in Reading Aug.
27, 1846. He went first to the public schools, in an old building
on the site of the present Chestnut street school, and then to the
Reading high school. He also went for a while to a school at Second
and Chestnut, now a part of the old foundry property. When he had
finished his studies he went into his fathers tobacco store, and
was still there when the latter died. From that time until 1882,
the business was conducted by the estate, but in that year George
R. Maltzberger purchased the establishment and has since managed
affairs for himself. He manufactured a good grade of five and ten
cent goods, and is engaged for the most part in a wholesale trade
filling orders in the different States. He has been eminently
successful and has also built up a very large trade.

Mrs. Maltzberger was a Miss Ella C. Kershner,
daughter of the well-known carriage manufacturer of Reading, John
H. Kershner. They have had five children, but two of them are
deceased. The others are: Elizabeth, George R. Jr., and John S. Mr.
Maltzberger is a Presbyterian in religious faith, but has never
united with any church.

In political views he is a Republican, as was
also his father in later years, though just before the war he was
one of the staunchest Abolitionists.

MALTZBERGER, HENRY

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Surnames: MALTZBERGER, HAAS, JOB

HENRY MALTZBERGER, lawyer of Reading and United States
commissioner, was born in Reading, Oct. 10, 1858, son of Charles C.
and Margaret C. (Haas) Maltzberger. His grandfather, John
Maltzberger, was a tobacconist of Reading.

Charles C. Maltzberger was also a tobacconist of
Reading. He died in 1874, at the comparatively early age of forty.
His wife was the daughter of Charles F. Haas, a brewer, of
Zanesville, Ohio. They became the parents of four children: John
died at the age of three years: Marguerite E. m. Robert Job,
chemist, formerly chief chemist of the Philadelphia & Reading
Railway Company, later member of the leading firm of chemists,
Booth, Garrett & Blair, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Henry; and
Charles J. was formerly superintendent of the American Iron &
Steel Manufacturing Company, but later in the service of the
Reading Iron Company.

Henry Maltzberger was reared in Reading and
passed through the graded schools, graduating from the high school
in 1874. He was prepared for Yale at the Hopkins Grammar School in
New Haven, Conn., and entering College in 1875, graduated with
honors in 1879. Mr. Maltzberger then returned to Reading, and
entered the law office of his uncle, Harrison Maltzberger, at that
time a prominent lawyer of the City, but now deceased. After two
years of study, he was admitted to the Bar of Berks county in
November, 1881, and has since been actively engaged in practice. He
has a large and select clientele. On July 3, 1905, he became United
States Commissioner for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, at
Reading.

A Republican in politics, Mr. Maltzberger has
taken an active interest in the councils of his party, and was for
some years secretary of the County committee. He was a special
agent for the Census Department in 1890. Mr. Maltzberger is a
member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and also belongs to
the Washington Library Company, of which he is vice president.

MALTZBERGER, LEVI

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Surnames: MALTZBERGER, STONE, AUMAN, BOAS, HARBOLD, SAYLOR, KEELER,
WAGNER, WINGERT, LUTHER

Levia Maltzberger, for many years one of the most prominent
citizens of Reading, Pa., both in business and public life, whose
death occurred in 1884, was born in 1819 in the city of Reading,
son of John and Phoebe (Stone) Maltzberger. John Maltzberger was
the proprietor of a tobacco store, and he and his wife had three
children: John; Levi; and Esther m. Albert Auman of Pottsville,
they having these children-Levi of Reading, Oliver of Reading, and
Luther, who died in March, 1906. Both John Maltzberger and his wife
were members of the Reformed Church.

Early in life Levi Maltzberger learned the stone
mason trade, and worked also for his father in his tobacco
establishment. When a young man he worked for the Griscom Brother,
general contractors of Reading, keeping this firms books, and this
experience, no doubt helped him greatly in after life, when he
became extensively engaged in contracting and building. Mr.
Maltzberger built the first Homeopathic hospital in the city of
Reading, the E. P. Boas residence and many of the fine residential
properties of Reading, also being an expert at valuing real estate,
doing much work in this line for the Bushongs. He was self-made in
every sense of the word and was known as a man of integrity and
honesty.

Mr. Maltzberger was married to Lydia Harbold,
daughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Saylor) Harbold, early settlers of
the vicinity of Hampden Reservoir, known then as Helltown. The
children born to Levi Maltzberger and his wife were as follows:
John H., cashier of the Keystone National Bank, m. Catherine
Keeler, and they have two children: B. Elizabeth and Catherine;
Esther, deceased, m. (first) Martin Wagner and had one son, Martin
S., deceased, and m. (second) Jacob S. Wingert; Clayton, deceased;
Emma E., of Reading, and Victoria, deceased.

Levi Maltzberger was a member of Lodge No. 62,
F. & A. M., the Chapter, R. A. M., and DeMolay Commandery, of
Reading. In political matters he was a Republican and under Diller
Luther served in the U. S. Revenue service in Reading. Mr.
Maltzberger was also a member of the council from the Seventh ward
and was a member of the school board.

MALUSECKI, ADALBERT (REV.
FATHER)

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Surnames: MALUSECKI

Rev. Father Adalbert Malusecki, the beloved pastor of St. Mary’s
Polish Roman Catholic Church, of Reading, is a native of Austrian
Poland, born Nov. 10, 1860. After attending the parochial schools,
he entered the Gymnasium in Galicia and later the Innsbruck
University and then Vienna University, from which latter
institution he was graduated in 1886.

Coming to America in 1886, Father Malusecki
entered St. Charles Seminary, and after one year of study there,
was ordained, in 1887, by Archbishop Ryan of the Diocese of
Philadelphia, his first charge being a congregation at Berks and
Memphis streets, Philadelphia, where he remained eight years,
during which time a church was built at a cost of $90,000, this
being considered, in point of architecture, one of the finest
edifices in the city of Philadelphia. In 1894 Father Malusecki was
called to St. Mary’s Church of Reading. On coming to this parish
the Father found it in a very depleted condition, but through his
faithful and untiring efforts he has succeeded in bringing about
wonderful changes and improvements. It was largely due to his
constant and self-sacrificing labors that the present handsome
church edifice was completed, at the corner of Twelfth and Spruce
streets, which had been undertaken some years previously, he
expending some $46,000 in its completion. Since taking this parish
Father Malusecki has also erected a parochial school at a cost of
$24,000. On his coming to this parish there were but 300 families
in the congregation, while now 800 families, aggregating about
4,000 souls, attend Divine services. Father Malusecki is a faithful
worker in God’s vineyard, and is greatly beloved by his
congregation.