A RETIRED IRONMASTER; Brief Sketch of the Life of David G. Hertzog

David G. Hertzog, 232 South 3d, is a well-known citizen, having been
a school teacher, clerk at the county almshouse, iron master, farmer
and dealer in lumber.

Mr. Hertzog was born near the Oley churches, October 16, 1834, and
his father, the late Jacob Hertzog, was a wheelwright and
farmer. When a small boy he was sent to school to Miss Sallie Boone,
a Quaker lady, who taught at Pikeville. He subsequently went to
school to Wellington Griesemer at the same place. Mr. Hertzog’s
father having bought and moved to a farm in Amity, the son was sent
to school to Harrison Ludwig and later to Samuel L. Rhoads, at the
Amityville Academy. His last teacher was Squire D. B. Mauger, from
whom he learned to write a fine style of penmanship.

Having acquired a sufficient education, young Hertzog turned his
attention to school teaching when the first County Superintendent,
Rev. William A. Good, examined the applications and visited the
schools. He taught two terms, the first near the old Oley furnace
and the second near Oley Line. Among his pupils were Capt. Jacob
Glase, Constable Alfred Glase, Jerome L. Boyer, Jerome Kline, Charles
A. Griesemer, Ammon L. Boyer and other, who moved to Reading , some
of whom died here.

During two years, 1856 and 1857, when Jacob Conrad was the steward,
Mr. Hertzog was the clerk at the county home.

In 1857 he married Margaret, daughter of Jacob Yocom, proprietor of
Yocom’s forge, on the Angelica Creek, Cumru, and in 1858 he engaged
in partnership with his father-in-law in the operation of the
forge. He continued there until 1764, when he withdrew and engaged
in partnership with Henry Thompson in the operation of Thompson’s
forge, below Gibraltar, having bought the interest of John Thompson
in the industry.

After working there a year Mr. Hertzog moved back to Yocom’s forge
and conducted it as sole proprietor until that industry was abandoned in 1870.

He then followed farming and manufacturing and dealing in lumber, a
saw mill being located on the farm. He removed to Reading in 1883,
but continued in the lumber business until eight years ago, and since
then he has lived retired.

He occupies with his family the handsome brick house at 232 South
Third, which he built in 1887. Four children were born to Mr. and
Mrs. Hertzog, two of whom died. Henry F. Hertzog, proprietor of the
hardware store at 6th and Bingaman, and Mrs. Ellis E. Worley, hat
manufacturer, Mohnsville is a daughter.