Biographies from Historical and Biographical Annals by Morton Montgomery

GRAUL,
CHARLES F.

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Surnames: GRAUL, STARK, BYERLE, RUSH, BEHM, FRICKER, MALTZBERGER,
MELON, SAILOR, HILL, LEEDS, HENSEL, DAUTH, NEVIN, ISELE, BEIL

Charles F. Graul, who carries on a copper, tin and sheet metal
working business, making a specialty of tin roofing, metal work,
roof painting and roof repairing, with place of business at No. 905
North Ninth street, is one of Reading’s enterprising young men. He
was born April 20, 1879, at Reading, Pa., son of George Frank and
Catherine (Stark) Graul.

Capt. Jacob Graul, the great-great-grandfather
of Charles F. Graul, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, was a
prisoner in 1776 and was exchanged in December of that year.

John Graul, the great-grandfather of Charles F.,
was born about 1783 and died at Reading, in 1858. He was buried in
the Reformed cemetery but his remains were later transferred to the
Charles Evans cemetery. His wife, Mary Byerle, was born in Europe
and came with her parents to America, when twelve years of age.
John and Mary Graul had the following children: John died
unmarried; Henry m. Abigail Rush, and had one son, John, and one
daughter, Joanna (m. William Behm, for many years was proprietor of
the “Mineral Spring Hotel”); Samuel B.; and Elizabeth M. m. William
Fricker, residing at Reading.

Samuel B. Graul, grandfather of Charles F., was
born at Reading, Pa., June 27, 1801, and died in the same city, in
1880. He was a cabinet-maker by trade and for many years kept a
hotel at Eighth and Washington streets, owning considerable
property in that vicinity. He lived in what was called in those
days the “Hounds Ward” and he kept many dogs himself and with them
attended fox chases, a general sport of the time. He was very
strict as to the morality of his public house and when the hour of
nine came in the evening, it was his custom to say “Boys it is time
to go home. I must close my place.” He was a man of fine personal
appearance and when but a boy served with General Keim, during the
War of 1812, and later received a pension in acknowledgment of his
services. He was a member of the Reformed Church. In political
sentiment, he was a strong Democrat and his last vote was cast for
Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, for President of the United States.

Samuel B. Graul married Sarah Maltzberger, born
May 23, 1801, and died June 27, 1872. She was a daughter of John
Maltzberger. They had nine children, as follows: William M.,
residing at Reading; Margaret, wife of Francis Melon; Peter,
residing at Reading; Mary Ann, wife of William Sailor; Elizabeth,
wife of Abraham V. R. Hill; Sarah, wife of Daniel S. Leeds; Emma,
wife of John Hensel; Amanda, wife of John P. Dauth; and George F.,
who resided at Reading, until his death. Feb. 21,1894.

George F. Graul, was born at Reading, Nov. 21,
1845, and at the time of his death was aged forty-nine years, three
months. After he left school he worked in the rolling mill until he
was twenty-one years of age and then learned the tin and sheet
metal trade and engaged in the same, employing eight or nine men in
his shops. He married Catherine Stark, whose father and mother were
born in Germany, and to them were born the following children:
Samuel; Annie, who married John Nevin, of Reading; Catherine,
residing in New York; Charles F. and Howard, both residents of
Reading.

Charles F. Graul obtained his education in the
public schools of Reading and was only eight years old when he
became a newspaper boy and worked as such until he was ten years
old, when he commenced to learn the tin and sheet metal trade with
his father, whom he succeeded in business. Mr. Graul has
successfully conducted a mechanical and mercantile business and
assumed the care of his widowed mother and family from his
fifteenth year to the present day. Mr. Graul now carries on a large
business and keeps from five to seven men constantly employed. He
carries a good line of stock including hot air furnaces. He has
attained his success by hard work and attending strictly to
business. He owns his own home and his place of business is one
entirely adequate to his needs. He is a member of the Board of
Trade.

For two and a half years Mr. Graul promoted
physical culture work in the city of Reading. In the winter of
1905-06 he had a class of eighty men and boys to whom he gave army
drill and gymnastic exercises. He has always been interested in the
advancement of social and athletic teachings and a past master at
waltzing, having captured first prize in all contests he entered
from the year 1896.

Mr. Graul is married to Carrie, daughter of
Joseph and Helen (Isele) Beil, of Germany. One daughter has been
born to this union, Helen Marie, born Jan. 31, 1909. Mr. Graul is
temperate in his habits and is of an aggressive disposition and has
been so ever since he has attained his manhood. He has always been
an active worker in the interests of the Democratic party. He is
connected with the Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 66. Northeastern
Democratic Association, the Reading Physical Culture Club of which
he is president, Philharmonic Band Association and Excelsior Club.

GRAUL,
GEORGE

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Surnames: GRAUL, EGE, BINGAMAN, SANDS, KERN, GRAEFF

George Graul, deceased, a contractor and builder in Reading, was
born in Berks county, Pa., in 1799. His father was Jacob Graul, who
lived many years in Reading and finally passed away there.

George Graul learned the trade of a brick-layer
in his youth, but later worked into the contracting and building
line, following that successfully for a number of years. During his
last years in business he gave up the building line and instead was
engaged in trucking.

Mr. Graul married Miss Elizabeth Ege, and their
wedded life continued till the death of Mrs. Graul in 1863, at the
age of sixty-one. Her husband survived her till June 2, 1877, when
he, too, passed away at the advanced age of seventy-eight. They
left a number of children, as follows: Rebecca, widow of William
Bingaman, residing in Reading; Sevilla, deceased wife of Michael
Sands; Katie, deceased; Rev. Amos, deceased, a minister of the
United Brethren Church, located at the time of his death at Pine
Grove, Schuylkill county (he m. Sevilla Kern); Mary, born July 29,
1825, residing at No. 315 Moss street, Reading, in which
neighborhood she has lived for sixty years; Elizabeth, Mrs. Daniel
Graeff, of Reading (she has four children: Emily, Bessie, Mary and
George); and Abeline, who died in infancy. The family has always
been one held in much respect in the community.

GRAUL,
WILLIAM L.

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Surnames: GRAUL, KEIM, MALTZBERGER, SAILOR, HILL, HENZEL, DAUTH,
MELLON, LEEDS, LEESE, EYLER, BAUS, FOX, WILHELM, SEIDEL, BIBBUS,
PAFF, BICKLEY, SANDS, PRINTZ, KLINE, DREXEL, RAPP, LAWRENCE,
MAYERS, REBER, GOODMAN, GERNAND, MARTIN, MYERS, SMITH, FINK,
KIRMSE, YODER

William Graul, justice of the peace of Muhlenberg township, and
residing at Temple, Pa., was born in Reading, July 27, 1846, son of
William M. Graul, and a member of a family that for several
generations has been distinguished in the military service of the
country. Samuel B. Graul, grandfather of William L., was a well
known and popular hotel man, his hostelry being located at the
present site of the high school building on the northeast corner of
Eighth and Washington streets, Reading. This he operated for
twenty-four years. In the war of 1812 he served with the Reading
Washington Guards, under Capt. Daniel De B. Keim, going to the
defense of Philadelphia in 1814. He died in 1882, at the age of
eighty-one. His wife, Sarah Maltzberger, bore him the following
children: William M., father of William L.; Peter; Mary Ann (m.
William Sailor); Elizabeth (m. Abram Hill); Emma (m. John Henzel);
Amanda (m. John P. Dauth); Margaret (m. Frank Mellon); and Sarah
(m. Daniel Leeds). The family all were reared in the faith of the
Reformed Church, and in politics Mr. Graul was a Democrat.

William M. Graul, son of Samuel B., was a
bricklayer by trade, and he followed that calling to within ten
years of his death, when he retired. During the Civil war he
responded to his country’s call, becoming a private in Durell’s
Independent Artillery, Battery D, and serving three years, being
mustered in Sept. 10, 1862, and mustered out at the close of
hostilities, June 13, 1865. In politics he was a stanch Democrat,
but was never active in party work. He married Barbara Leese,
daughter of Peter Leese, and their children were: Henry L., who
served four years as a member of Durell’s Independent Artillery, m.
Rebecca Eyler, and lives in Reading; William L.; Sarah m. John
Baus, and both are deceased; Clara m. the late John Fox; Frank, who
is foreman for the A. Wilhelm Paint Company, m. Matilda Seidel, now
deceased; Annie m. John Bibbus. The family all united with the
Lutheran Church, and became active in its work.

William L. Graul was born in an old log house on
Eighth street, between Washington and Penn streets, Reading. His
earlier education was acquired in a school held in an old stone
house, situated where is now the Hampton Reservoir, a locality
known in the old days as Helltown. The master Dewald Paff, paid a
great deal of attention to discipline, and his favorite mode of
punishment was to make his pupils sit astride a wooden horse, made
painfully sharp. Mr. Graul later attended school at Tenth and
Washington streets, but at the age of eleven left to begin work as
a tobacco stripper for F. S. Bickley, then doing business on Penn
street. There he remained two years, and at thirteen found work in
the brick yard of Michael Sands and J. H. Printz. He was also
similarly engaged for Daniel Kline, Reuben Drexel and for Daniel
Graul and J. H. Printz. In 1862 he was working as a bartender for
William Rapp. When the war broke out in 1861, he tried to enlist,
but was rejected on account of his small stature. In July, 1862, he
succeeded in getting as far as Harrisburg with the 128th Pa. V.I.,
but was again rejected. In November 1862, when the draft took
place, he was offered $300 to go as a substitute, but Mr. Graul
declared if he went to war, it would be as a volunteer, then if he
were shot no one could say he had gone for money. In January, 1863,
he procured a lot of leather, and made himself heels sufficiently
high to bring his height to that required by regulations, and at
the recruiting office added a couple of years to his age. All went
well until asked if he had the consent of his parents. His father
and brother were already at the front, and he was the only one at
home. Naturally the mother was unwilling, but after a ruse the
sergeant who had accompanied young William home to see her,
obtained her consent, and on Jan. 24, 1863, he was duly enrolled in
Battery K, 3d Pennsylvania Artillery, and sent to Fortress Monroe,
Va. From there he was sent with different exploring parties on
light gun boats to watch smugglers, and was detailed for service on
the Smith Point Light Ship at the mouth of the Potomac river and
Chesapeake Bay, and also to guard the telegraph cable running from
Newport News to Sewells Point, Va. In April, 1864, orders were
issued from the war Department directing a call to be made from the
3d Artillery for volunteers to form a new regiment, afterward known
as the 88th. Mr. Graul was one of the first to volunteer, and he
was assigned to Company I as a corporal, being detailed one of the
color guards. He participated in the following engagements: Bermuda
Hundred, May 4-6, 1864; siege of Petersburg, 82 days; Port
Walthall, May 6-7, 1864; Swift Creek, May 9, 1864; destruction of
Richmond & Petersburg railroad, May 10, 11, 12 and 13, 1864;
Proctor’s Creek, May 13, 1864; Fort Darling, May 14-15, 1864;
Drury’s Bluff, May 16, 1864; Front of Bermuda Hundred, May 17-31,
1864; Forstre’s Plantation, May 18, 1864; Weir Bottom Church, May
21, 1864; Cold Harbor, June 1-12, 1864; flank movement from
Petersburg to Richmond, June 16-18, 1864; mine explosion and
“battle of the crater,” July 30, 1864; capture of Fort Harrison and
Chapin’s Farm, Sept. 29-30, 1864. At the fight at Fort Harrison,
which was firmly entrenched on a high bluff and bristling with
cannon, the Federal troops charged at double-quick through a long
stretch of open country, in spite of the rain of shot and shell
from the enemy. Within fifty yards of the fort was a small ravine,
stretching all along the front, and here the line was reformed. The
fire was desperate and to go forward meant heavy slaughter, but the
pause was only momentary, and the brave boys in blue pushed on and
carried the works. While charging up the hill the color-bearer was
killed, but before the flag was down Color-guard William L. Graul
had seized it, thrown away his gun, and pushed on up to the fort.
He jumped into the ditch at the fort, and with the aid of the flag
staff crawled out, planted the stars and stripes beside the stars
and bars. The Secretary of War presented him with a medal of honor,
and he was promoted to color sergeant of the regiment. As such he
took part in the battle of Fair Oaks, Oct. 27-28, 1864; and in the
tobacco raid at Fredericksburg. He was sergeant for the Freedmen’s
Bureau in Nelson county, Va., Dec. 14, 1865.

Returning home Mr. Graul worked for Mr. John
Lawrence in the stone quarry on the Long farm, and later was
engaged at the Pipe Mill. In 1869 he began brick making, but in the
fall of that year, Mr. Lawrence, his former employer, who was a
police officer, came into the yard and asked him if he would not
like to go on the police force. Through Mr. Lawrence’s influence,
the mayor, Mr. W. H. Gernand, overlooked Mr. Graul’s lack of
inches, and made the appointment. Under Mayor Samuel Mayers he
became first sergeant of police. In 1874 Mr. Graul became a
candidate for constable on the Democratic ticket, and was elected
with a majority of 946. He was the first county detective under
District Attorney H. C. G. Reber. In February, 1878, he was elected
alderman of the Eighth ward, an office he ably filled for five
years. At the present time he is supervisor of Muhlenberg township,
and secretary of the board.

In March, 1883, Mr. Graul purchased the “Templer
Hotel.” which he conducted until April 1, 1905, a period of
twenty-two years. He became well known to the traveling public, and
the regular patrons of the hotel regretfully saw him retire. In
1907 he was elected justice of the peace in Muhlenberg township.

Mr. Graul has been twice married. His first wife
was Mary Goodman, daughter of Lewis and Rebecca Goodman. She died
Dec. 24, 1874. Five children were born of this union: (1) Emma
married Joseph D. Martin. (2) R. William married May Myers. He
served five years in the United States Marine Corps, and was in
Cuba, when the Spaniards surrendered. He served in the Philippines
and when sent to China was one of the first to scale the walls of
Tientsin. He is now engaged in keeping a hotel at Reading. (3)
Edward L., chief train dispatcher for the P. & R. railroad, at
Reading, married Jennie Yoder. (4) John served five years in the
United States Marine Corps. He married Maude Smith. (5) Susan
married Morris Fink, a dairyman at Temple. Mr. Graul married
(second) Oct. 31, 1876, Fredericka Kirmse. No children were born to
this union. Fraternally Mr. Graul belongs to St. John’s Lodge, No.
435, F. & A. M.; Reading Lodge, No. 115, B. P. O. E.; and
Washington Camp, No. 107, P. O. S. of A., of Temple, of which he
was an organizer and charter member and treasurer since its
organization.

GREEN, HENRY
D. (HON.)

p. 1243

Surnames: GREEN

Hon. Henry D. Green, President of the corporation publishing the
Reading Telegram, and long prominent in public life as a member of
the State Legislature and as a representative of the Berks-Lehigh
district in Congress, was born in Reading in 1857, and is descended
from some of the earliest settlers of Berks county.

Mr. Green was educated in the public schools and graduated from the
high school in 1872, and in 1877 he was graduated from the academic
department of Yale College. He was admitted to the Bar in 1879, and
has since been in active practice. He was admitted to practice in
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1880, and in the United States
Supreme Court in 1900. Throughout his long practice he has been
identified with many important legal battles, and he has taken a
prominent part in public affairs. In 1882 he was elected to
represent the city of Reading in the House of Representatives of
Pennsylvania, and served two terms, or until 1887. In 1888 he was
elected to the State Senate, where he continued until 1897. The
year 1898, marked by the Spanish-American war, found him as captain
of Company G, 9th Pa. Vols. The war over he returned to Reading,
and in 1899 was elected to the LVIth Congress, to represent the
Berks-Lehigh district, and he capably served his constituents there
until 1903. Upon the close of his Congressional service, he, with
other prominent citizens, purchased the Reading Telegram, a daily
newspaper which is in successful operation with Mr. Green as
president of the corporation.

Mr. Green was one of the organizers of the
Reading Real Estate Exchange, a most successful business
enterprise, which has erected a large number of houses, and pressed
forward many real estate operations that have been for the
development of the best interests of the city. He is a member of
the University Club; Pen and Pencil Club, of Philadelphia;
Wyomissing Club; Berkshire Country Club; Press Club, and many
others.

William Green, great-great-grandfather of the
Hon. Henry D. Green, was of Quaker faith, and emigrated from County
Cork, Ireland, in 1760, setting in Maxatawny township, Berks
county, Pa., where he carried on a large mercantile business. He
was burgess of Reading in 1788, and assessor in 1792.

William Green (2), son of William, was born in
Maiden-creek township in 1777. In 1811 he was selected as the first
sheriff of Schuylkill county, then cut off from Berks, and lived in
Orwigsburg. Shortly afterward, however, he removed to Reading.

John Green, son of William (2), came to Reading
about 1810, and served as register of wills and as recorder.

Albert G. Green, son of John and father of Henry
D., was born in Reading in 1828. He graduated from Yale in 1849,
and for over fifty years was a leading lawyer, and in the early
days of the public school system was closely identified with the
progress of education, serving for many years as a member of the
school board and for a time as president of that body. The creating
of an Orphans’ Court for the county in 1883, the location of the
Chronic Insane Asylum at Wernersville, the building of the Reading
Hospital, the building up of the Keystone State Normal School by
procuring State appropriation, the building of the United States
post-office at Allentown, all remain as monuments to Mr. Green’s
useful citizenship.

GREENAWALD, BENJAMIN
F.

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Surnames: GREENAWALD, GREENAWALT, BOWER, BAVER, DIETRICH, NAGEL,
ZETTELMAYER, FREY, NUNNAMACHER, ZIMMERMAN, GRAVER, HERMAN, THOMAS,
RUFF, SELLERS, REBER, YEAGER

Benjamin F. Greenawald, owner of Windsor Castle, the only hotel and
store stand in Windsor township, Berks Co., Pa., was born Sept. 13,
1858, on his father’s farm in the township where he now lives, and
where he has spent his entire life.

The ancestor of the Greenawald family in
America, Jacob Greenawald, was a German Palatinate and came to
America in the ship “Lydia,” Sept. 29, 1741, being then eighteen
years of age and unmarried. He had a son, Peter, the
great-grandfather of Benjamin F. This Peter had at least two sons:
Henry, the grandfather of Benjamin, and John, who settled in Albany
township, near the Pinnacle and had issue: Joseph, Abraham, Jacob,
Amos, Samuel, Dinah, Leah and Lessena.

Henry Greenawalt, grandfather of Benjamin F.,
was an extensive farmer and tanner in Greenwich township, owning
the large farm now in the possession of Samuel Baver. He was a well
known man of his day and was in comfortable circumstances when he
died. He was married to a Miss Bower, who bore him six children:
Charles m. Polly Dietrich; Polly m. Jacob Nagel; Henry; Samuel for
many years was proprietor of the Lenhartsville Hotel; Jacob lived
at Ashland, Pa.; and George settled at Schuylkill Haven, where many
Greenawalts live to this day.

Henry Greenawald was born March 21, 1825, and
died aged sixty-two years. He was a laborer and owned a small tract
of land in Windsor township, where he spent his life, being buried
at St. Paul’s Church. He was married to Elizabeth Zettelmayer,
daughter of George Michael and Elizabeth Zettelmayer. These
children were born to them: Isabella m. Charles Frey; Emma m. James
Nunnamacher; Benjamin F.; Katie m. John Zimmerman; Mary and Lizzie,
who died young; Ida m. John Graver; Lena m. William Herman; Annie
m. William Thomas; Wilson m. Cora Ruff; and Jacob, Charles and
Alberta, who died young.

Benjamin F. Greenawald obtained a limited
education in the common schools, and worked upon the farm until he
was of age. He then worked in the stone and slate quarries and ore
mines for seven years, and in 1886 engaged in the butchering
business, which he has profitably followed ever since. In 1887 he
bought a small farm of twenty-two acres, on which he conducted his
business, and in 1899 purchased the farm, hotel and store of
Windsor Castle, which was for many years the property of Mahlon
Sellers. Mr. Greenawald paid $7,600 for the property when the old
buildings were still standing, the old frame and log hotel having
stood for considerably over a century. In 1900 the old stand was
replaced by a modern, three-story brick building 70×40 feet, with
suitable rear buildings. The hotel, one of the most imposing
structures in the county, contains a good number of rooms, has all
of the modern improvements and is well adapted for the
accommodation of summer boarders. For the past several years
boarders from near and far have spent their vacations here, not far
from the well known Crystal Cave and the historical “Hecksa Dans”
(The Witches Dancing Hall). This place is in a field and is about
twenty feet in diameter. No vegetation grows upon it and old
settlers say that witches used to gather there at night and ride
around on broom-sticks. Lights were often seen there at all hours
of the night. On the site of the old historical Windsor Castle
Hotel, Mr. Greenawald has erected a two and one-half story double
frame dwelling house, one half being occupied by his family and the
other tenanted. He has otherwise much improved the place. Windsor
Castle is famous in history. It is an old German settlement and
many interesting incidents are related about it. During the
operation of the old Windsor furnace, considerable trading was done
here, and stories relating to pow-wowing, witchcraft and ghosts
center around this place. It is situated near the Blue Mountains,
surrounded by God’s purest atmosphere. The store stand is one of
the oldest and best in northern Berks county. Mr. Greenawald is a
Democrat in politics, and he and his family worship at St. Paul’s
Church, belonging to the Lutheran denomination.

On May 20, 1887, Mr. Greenawald was united in
marriage with Rufena Yaeger, daughter of Daniel and Lovina (Reber)
Yeager, and to this union there were born children as follows:
Harvey, Charles, George, Minnie, Mamie, Benjamin, Annie, Lizzie and
Irwin.

GREENAWALT FAMILY

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Surnames: GREENAWALT, GREENAWALD, ALTENDERFER, AUSTRIAN, BACHMAN,
BAER, BERK, BITNER, BITTNER, BORRELL, BOTE, BRUNNER, BURKEY,
CHRISTOPHER, CROLL, DEMMINGER, DE TURK, DIETRICH, DREIBELBIS,
FAUST, FILHOWER, FISTER, FOLLWEILER, GEHRINGER, GLASE, GRIM,
HAGENBUCH, HARDINGER, HEINLY, HUMMEL, KISTLER, KLUMP, KNAUSS,
KOCHER, KOLB, KUTZ, LEIBY, LUTZ, MEITZLER, NEFF, NAGEL, OSWALD,
PFEIFLY, RAPP, REINHART, SCHOLLENBERGER, SECHLER, SHARADIN,
SHELLHEIMER, STAMBAUCH, STEIN, STIMMEL STUMP, SUTTER, TROWBRIDGE,
TRUMBOWER, WANNER, WEIDLICH, WEILER, WEISE, WEISNER, WERLEY,
ZECHMAN, ZIMMERMAN

In Albany township are found many descendants of the emigrant
Jacob Greenawalt, and in that locality at least one place,
Greenawald Station, perpetuates the name. It is variously spelled
Greenawalt and Greenawald.

(1) Jacob Greenawalt, born in Switzerland, came to America in 1738,
and upon his arrival at Philadelphia was sold as a redemptioner to
a man named Schuler. In 1741 he married Elizabeth Filhower, a
native of Germany, then of Montgomery county, Pa. In 1742 he and
his wife located in Weisenburg township, Northampton (now Lehigh)
county, Pa., where he claimed several hundred acres of land, upon
which he erected a gristmill, oil mill and tanyard. He prospered at
this place, where were born his six children, four sons and two
daughters, namely: Jacob, Johannes, Abraham, George, Mrs. Grim and
Mrs. Barbara Weise. All of these reared families of their own. The
pioneer and his wife are buried at Ziegel’s Church, while others of
the family are interred at Seiberlingville, and some at Jacob’s
Church, Jacksonville, Lehigh county. The Greenawalts are a strong,
robust and healthy race, and many have attained ripe old age.

(II) Jacob Greenawalt, son of the pioneer, was born in 1751, and
married Maria Stambauch. In 1784 he bought 142 acres of land from
J. Sutter, in Greenwich township, and there he spent the remainder
of his life, dying at this place in 1839, in his eighty-ninth year.
He had built a tannery on this property, which he operated. In 1836
he sold this tract to his son Peter, who in 1884 sold it to his son
Henry, the present owner. Jacob Greenawalt and his son Henry and
daughter Barbara are buried at Becker’s St. Peter’s Church, in
Richmond township, Berks county. To Jacob and Maria (Stambauch)
Greenawalt were born four sons and five daughters, namely: Jacob,
Henry, Christian, Peter, Elizabeth, Susanna, Sabina, Barbara and
Maria. Of these, Jacob Greenawalt married Elizabeth Schollenberger,
and they had one son and three daughters, the son dying in infancy.
The daughters were: Sarah, Elizabeth and Catharine.

Henry Greenawalt married Silben Bote, and they
had eight children: Adam, Jacob, Charles (m. Polly Dietrich)
Nathan, Samuel, John (died in infancy), Henry and Polly (Nagel).

Christian Greenawalt located near Frederick, in
Maryland. He reared a family of four sons and three daughters, the
eldest son being Rev. Emanuel Greenawalt, a Lutheran minister of
note. The others were: Isaac, Israel, David; and two of the
daughters married a man named Zimmerman.

Peter Greenawalt was born on the old home in
Greenwich township and there spent his entire life. He married
Elizabeth Hummel, and all but one of the eight children born to
them became heads of families, namely: John m. Nancy Christopher;
Judith m. Charles Baer; Benjamin m. Abbie Dietrich; William,
unmarried, lives in Iowa; Joshua m. Sarah Leiby; Henry m. Susanna
Meitzler; Manasses m. Emily Stimmel; Maria m. Jonas Altenderfer.

(II) Johannes Greenawalt, son of the pioneer, in 1784-85 settled
near what is now Greenawald Station, in Albany township, on the
Schuylkill & Lehigh railroad. He was an enterprising man, built
an oil-mill on the farm now owned by Isaac Hardinger, on the Pine
Creek, and later built a grist-mill on that stream, which is now
owned by Albert Kutz. The grist-mill was operated for many years by
his son John, but he himself operated the oil-mill. Johannes
Greenawalt died at the age of eighty-three, and he and his family
are buried at the New Bethel (Corner) Church in Albany township.
His children were: John; Abraham, who m. a Miss Hagenbuch and had
Benjamin and Isaac; Jacob who lived on the Pine creek; and Peter,
who died unmarried.

(III) John Greenawalt, son of Johannes, was born in Berks county
April 15, 1784, and died Nov. 10, 1865. He spent all his life in
Albany township, living at the foot of the “Pinnacle,” where he
owned considerable land, much of which was situated between the
Pinnacle (the highest elevation in Berks county) and the “Schnide
Berg.” Tradition tells us that this locality was an Indian
camping-ground. At any rate many Indian axes, tomahawks,
arrow-heads, etc., have been found between these two high points.
He farmed and operated a distillery. In their later years he and
his wife lived alone in a small house on the slope of the Pinnacle,
which belongs to the Blue Mountains. He was reputed to be rich, and
it was said he kept his gold and silver coin in a large bag under
his bed, and that he had made a small exit back of the bed which
ordinarily would attract no notice, and which was to be used in
case robbers broke in.

John Greenawalt married Kate Zimmerman, born Sept. 24, 1793, died
Feb. 1, 1866, and they became the parents of children as follows:
Joseph (who at an early date settled out West), Jacob, Amos,
Abraham, Samuel, Dinah (m. Enoch Hagenbuch, who settled at La Salle
Ill.), Lesena (m. Daniel Stein) and Leah (m. Jacob P. Dietrich, who
with his wife and family located in Kansas, where in time they
prospered). John Greenawalt married twice, his second wife being
Hannah G. Kolb, and they had a son Daniel, who descendants live at
Lewiston, Pennsylvania.

(IV) Amos Greenawalt, son of John, was born March 18, 1814, and
died Nov. 19, 1879. He was reared in Albany township. He carried on
general farming until his death, and also, for some years,
conducted “Greenawalt’s Tavern,” at Greenawald Station. Mr.
Greenawalt was a very fearless man, and he had some very exciting
experiences with bears. One day, while going to Hamburg with a
four-house team, he passed the home of Mrs. Borrell, and saw her
running toward the road followed by a bear. Just as she got over
the fence, the bear ran against in on the other side. Mr.
Greenawalt cracked his whip as hard as he could and scared the
animal away. Mrs. Borrell, who was slightly demented, owned a large
orchard in which the apples were ripe. Seeing something on a tree
which she took to be a thief, she attempted to scare him away, but
she found the thief to be a bear, which began to chase her. On his
arrival in Hamburg Mr. Greenawalt related the occurrence, and a
large number of men armed with guns at once-encircled the woods
into which the bear had gone. The animal was chased out, but the
man who saw it became so badly frightened that instead of shooting,
he hid behind a tree until the bear had escaped. A short time
afterward Mr. Greenawalt, in company with a relative, went to hunt
raccoon one night and their dog chased a bear upon a tree. Mr.
Greenawalt killed it with a shot gun on the second shot. It was so
heavy that it required the strength of the two to carry it home.
Many though that this was the same bear that had chased Mrs.
Borrell. One winter night, later, Mr. Greenawalt was going home
from a farm house where he had been butchering, and had with him a
“butchers sausage” and several knives. Suddenly a bear that had
evidently smelled the sausage jumped upon the fence near by, and
would doubtless have attached him had he not raised the knives and
screamed lustily, thus frightening the bear away. He had not gone
very far when the animal appeared again, and was scared away a
second time. From this experience of Mr. Greenawalt a little bridge
near the grist mill of Albert Kutz is still known as “Bear Bridge.”

On March 31, 1834, Amos Greenawalt married
Judith Stein, born Nov. 25, 1816, died Nov. 1, 1891; and fourteen
children were born to them as follows: John, deceased; Catharine,
deceased, m. to Samuel G. DeTurk; George, deceased, a soldier in
the Civil war; William, a retired farmer, living at Kutztown, Pa.;
Leah deceased; Mary Magdalena, deceased, m. to George Dreibelbis;
Solomon, deceased, a twin brother of Mary Magdalena; Amos S.,
mentioned below; Emma Judith, deceased, m. to Samuel Oswald;
Susanna, m. to David Fister, of Grimville, Pa.; Moses, a farmer at
Orwigsburg, Pa.; Eliza, m. to James Bitner, of Leinbach, Pa.;
Matilda, twin sister of Eliza, m. to Seth Heinly, of Virginville,
Pa.; and Alfred, formerly a school teacher and organist of the
Union Church at Bernville, but now residing at Myerstown,
Pennsylvania.

(V) Amos S. Greenawalt, born Oct. 31, 1845, at Greenawald Station,
received his education in the public schools. At the age of
twenty-two he began teaching, and secured two professional
certificates, one from Supt. Samuel Baer and the other from Supt.
David Brunner, passing his examinations in nearly all branches with
A 1. He taught fourteen terms, in Albany township and
Lenhartsville. After his marriage he engaged in farming, in which
he has ever since been interested, owning a finely improved farm of
260 acres. He has also been interested in the general merchandise
business since 1882, having started in that line in a store at
Albany P.O., in Albany township, which he carried on for seven
years before purchasing his present place of business at Kempton.
His stock is large and he commands an extensive patronage. Mr.
Greenawalt is very progressive, and he has made many improvements
on his farm property since it came into his possessions,
particularly in the buildings, all of which are modern and well
kept. His place is considered by many the finest and best located
in Albany township, and it has suffered no deterioration since it
came under his care. He raises many potatoes, seldom planting less
than twenty or twenty-five acres to this one crop. He is up to date
in his agricultural methods as well as in the conduct of his store.

Mr. Greenawalt is very active in the councils of
the Reformed Church, of which he has been a member for many years,
is at present an elder in the New Bethel Church, has been secretary
of the consistory, and has also served as deacon. His principal
work in this line, however, has been in the Sabbath-school. In 1868
he became superintendent of the Greenawalt Sunday-school, in Albany
township, serving as such for fifteen years, and later he held the
same office in the Trexler Sunday-school and in the New Bethel
Church Sunday-school, being superintendent of the latter for seven
years. He was elected treasurer of the Berks County Sabbath School
Association June 12, 1901, and has served in that office ever
since. This association is auxiliary to the Pennsylvania
Association, and he has also been prominently identified with
International Sunday-school work since 1878; from about that time
to the present he has been president of the Third District, having
eight schools under his charge. He attends all the various county
and State conventions of the associations. Mr. Greenawalt and his
whole family all hold diplomas of the teachers’ training department
of the Pennsylvania Sunday-school Association. Mr. Greenawalt is a
Republican in politics, and though he has not been remarkably
active in that field he served seven years as assistant postmaster
at Albany.

On Oct. 9, 1869, Mr. Greenawalt married Eliza
Dietrich, born in Greenwich township May 18, 1849, daughter of
Samuel P. and Sarah (Heinly) Dietrich, the former a farmer of
Greenwich township. Mrs. Greenawalt died March 8, 1876, the mother
of three children, namely: Nora, born Jan. 2, 1871, m. Amandus A.
Weisner, operator for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and
residing at Glassboro, N. J., where he also conducts a small store
(they have three children, Nevin, Silas and Paul); Edgar D. is
mentioned below; Annie, born Nov. 28, 1874, lives at the home of
her father. In 1881, Mr. Greenawalt m. (second) Mary Burkey, born
in Greenwich township, Sept. 10, 1860, daughter of Benjamin and
Mary Ann (Croll) Burkey, both deceased. They have two children: (1)
Abner B. was born May 25, 1882, attended the public schools of
Albany township, and at the age of thirteen he passed the township
graduation examination under Supt. William M. Zechman. He taught
school for two terms and then graduated from the Keystone State
Normal School in 1902, after which he taught two more terms. He
then became a clerk in his father’s store. For a number of years he
was superintendent of New Bethel Sunday-school and is at present
secretary of the third Sunday-school district of Berks County. (2)
Anson R., born March 11, 1884, also passed the township graduation
examination, taught school one term and graduated from the Keystone
State Normal School in 1905. Since that he has taught every year
and in the summer he works for his father in the store and on the
farm. He is at present superintendent of New Bethel Sunday-school.
On April 17, 1909, he married Bertha E. Berk, born Jan. 12, 1886,
daughter of Daniel P. and Alice (Lutz) Berk. Mrs. Amos S.
Greenawalt is a member of the Lutheran Church.

(VI) Edgar D. Greenawalt, son of Amos S., was born at Greenawald
Station March 18, 1872, and received his early education in the
public schools of Albany township, under the instruction of his
father and of Miss Kate Heinly (later the wife of Prof. Jarius
Neff), and under the late Rev. Franklin S. Dietrich (who became a
missionary to India, where he died while in the service). Mr.
Greenawalt made the most of his advantages, acquired a good
business education, later attended a select school at Steinsville,
where he was under the tuition of Rev. John Weidlich, Howard
Greenawalt, Esq., Rev. James Oswald and George Lutz (now
attorney-at-law in Lehigh county, Pa.), and the Millersville
Normal, at Millersville, Pa. In 1890 he was licensed to teach
public school by Prof. William M. Zechman, then county
superintendent, and he followed that profession for eight terms in
Berks and Lehigh counties, meeting with gratifying success in his
work. During this time he taught the grammar grades at Steinsville,
and was also engaged in Albany (at Wessnersville), Maiden-creek and
Robeson townships, Berks county. He taught under three county
superintendents, William M. Zechman, Eli M. Rapp and J. O. Knauss
(the latter of Lehigh county). After he abandoned teaching he
clerked for five years in his father’s general store at Kempton.
Mr. Greenawalt has given considerable time to the study of art and
music. He took lessons in the former from Ben Austrian, who is
particularly known as a poultry painter, and also from Prof. Harry
Sharadin, instructor of art of at the Keystone State Normal School.
Mr. Greenawalt is holding quite a number of fine works in oil. His
musical instruction was received from Miss Trowbridge, a graduate
of the Boston Conservatory of Music, now a teacher at the
Millersville Normal; Mr. William Grim, of Hamburg, Pa., and Miss
Annie Heinly (now the wife of the Rev. Mr. Shellheimer, of York,
Pa.). He is quite proficient on the piano. He is a member of the
Fewpera Orchestra, which takes its name from the initials of the
Christian names of its seven original members; Frank Heinly is the
leader of this organization.

For a number of years past Mr. Greenawalt has
been engaged in business as a wholesale shipper of potatoes at
Albany Station, and he also deals in flour, feed and grain, seeds,
salt, slate, lime, cement, adament, hair, land, plaster and
commercial fertilizers. In addition to this line, he takes orders
for planing-mill work. His place of business is located along the
Schuylkill & Lehigh railroad, and he ships annually about
seventy-five car-loads of potatoes. He also handles coal and
lumber.

On June 7, 1902, Mr. Greenawalt married Maggie
M. Fister, born May 5, 1882, died Sept. 23, 1903, aged twenty-one
years, four months, eighteen days. They had a son, Edgar E., born
Sept. 12, 1903, who was but eleven days old when the mother died.
Mrs. Maggie M. (Fister) was born in Kistler’s Valley, the youngest
child of Daniel P. and Catharine (Grim) Fister, the latter a
daughter of Reuben and Sarah (Wanner) Grim (both buried at New
Bethel Church). She was educated in the public schools, from which
she graduated, and in select schools at Lynnport and Schnecksville,
and in the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown. She took an
active part in entertainments and in society work, and was a
talented elocutionist. She met Mr. Greenawalt while he was engaged
in teaching, and their marriage followed a year later. For a year
the young couple lived with her parents, and then in the spring of
1903 moved to their own home, the death of the young wife occurring
a few months later. She was laid to rest in the cemetery at New
Bethel Church, the late Rev. J. N. Bachman officiating, taking as
his text the Twenty-third Psalm. Miss Elmira R. Fister, sister of
Mrs. Greenawalt, came to take charge of the home and the motherless
infant, and on Feb. 7, 1907, she became the second wife of Mr.
Greenawalt, the ceremony being performed by her cousin, Rev.
Charles Kistler, of Reading. Mrs. Greenawalt was born in Albany
township, and was educated in the public schools. She is domestic
in her tastes and followed that line of work in Easton and in
Philadelphia, and now in her own home is a model housekeeper and
noted cook. To Mr. and Mrs. Greenawalt has been born a daughter,
Miriam Ethel. At the present time they are planning to erect in
1910 a cozy brick home opposite the depot at Albany Station. The
family are members of the Reformed Church, in the faith of which
Mr. Greenawalt was confirmed by the late Ref. J. N. Bachman. He
holds membership in the New Bethel (Corner) Church of Albany
township, of which he was a deacon for two years, and he is at
present a member of the choir, as are also his father and two of
his brothers. Mr. Greenawalt was mainly instrumental in having the
pipe-organ of the church repaired, at great expense. He played the
organ in Sunday-schools for more that twenty years, and during the
summer months played for two or three different Sunday-schools.

Mr. Greenawalt is a Republican in politics, but
he was nevertheless elected, in the spring of 1909, in an
overwhelmingly Democratic district, to the position of school
director.

(V) Solomon S. Greenawalt, son of Amos, was born June 28, 1844, in
Albany township, above Lenhartsville, and died on his farm June 3,
1888. He is buried at Jacksonville, Lehigh county. He was a farmer,
owning the place which is now the property of his son James, and to
which he had moved in the year 1870 and where he afterward lived
until his death. He was a good citizen, interested especially in
the question of public education, and served several terms as
school director. He was a Reformed member of the Jacksonville
Church. On May 20, 1866, Mr. Greenawalt married Sarah Faust, who
died May 30, 1882, aged thirty five years, ten months, twenty-three
days, and was buried at the new Bethel Church. Seven children were
born to this union: James V. is mentioned below; Rosa, born May 21,
1871, m. Jacob Sechler and lives at Steinsville; Mary J., born July
30, 1874, m. Isaac Trumbower, and died in June, 1905, in Denver,
Colo., where she is buried; John O., born Dec. 7, 1875, lives at
Daykin, Nebr.; Edward, born June 30, 1877, also lives at Daykin,
Nebr.; Charles, born July 30,. 1879, died Sept. 27, 1879; Lena,
born Aug. 23, 1880, m. Herman Demminger, and they live at
Phoenixville, Pa. On April 30, 1883, Mr. Greenawalt m. (second)
Dianah Glase, of Lynn township, Lehigh county, and to them were
born three children: Sarah (m. Harry Reinhart), Alfred (of Lynn
township) and Kate (m. Amandus Kocher).

(VI) James V. Greenawalt, was born Jan. 20, 1868, in Albany
township, and there received his education in the public schools.
He was reared to farming, and has lived on his present place since
1870. He bought the homestead after his father’s death, and devotes
his time to its improvement and cultivation. This place lies along
the mountains, in the potato belt of the State, being in the
extreme end of Albany township, between Mountain post-office and
Steinsville, and adjoins Lehigh and Schuylkill counties. It is
valuable as a mineral property as well as for agricultural
purposes, coming within what is known as the slate region. Slate
has been quarried on his place, and there are three slate quarries
within two square (miles) of his residence. Mr. Greenawalt raises
many potatoes, planting on an average from twelve to fifteen acres,
and his yield is usually about 125 bushels to the acre. The farm
comprises 117 acres, of which thirty-five acres are woodland. This
was formerly the Gabriel Faust homestead, and has been in the
possession of the Greenawalts only since about 1870. The barn was
built in 1785, and the house is a relic of Revolutionary days; the
foundation and first story are of stone, and the second story is of
logs.

On Oct. 3, 1891, Mr. Greenawalt married Miss
Cora A. Pfeifly, daughter of Michael and Maria (Follweiler)
Pfeifly, of Jacksonville, and granddaughter of Michael and Regina
(Klump) Pfeifly, from near Lynn port, where Michael Pfeifly was a
farmer Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Greenawalt:
Raymond M., Howard S. and Helen C. This family are Reformed members
of Jacksonville Union Church, of which he has been a trustee since
January, 1909. He was formerly deacon for some years. He is a
Republican in political matters. He is a well-known member of
Washington Camp No. 288, P. O. S. of A. (in which he has passed all
the chairs), and Steinsville Lodge, No. 249, I. O. O. F., both of
Steinsville.

(IV) Samuel Greenawald, son of John, was born in Albany township
Oct. 10. 1819, and died Dec. 9, 1901. He was an extensive
land-owner and farmer in his native township, owning nearly six
hundred acres of land in the vicinity of the Pinnacle of the Blue
Mountains. A number of stories are told of the Indian depredations
committed in the vicinity of Mr. Greenawald’s home and thousands of
relics have been found on his farm. For many years he conducted a
distillery and burned hundreds of barrels of apple-jack. He was a
prominent man in his district, and he and his family were members
of the Bethel Church, in the burying-ground of which their remains
are interred. Mr. Greenawald married Lydia Stump, daughter of
Daniel and Lydia (Dietrich) Stump, and to them were born:
Catharine, Lydia, Alfred, Sarah Ann, Samuel, Priscilla, Fayetta,
John S., Hettie Ann, Elmira, D. Alvin and Thomas L.

(V) John S. Greenawald, who is successfully engaged in agricultural
pursuits in Windsor township, Berks county, was born April 16,
1858, in Albany township, son of Samuel and Lydia (Stump)
Greenawald. He attended the public schools until he was twenty-one
years of age, and worked with his father until he was nearly
thirty-four. In 1890 he purchased a good farm of seventy-nine
acres, lying about one mile east of Windsor Castle, Pa. The
property is in excellent condition and the appearance of the farm
indicates that its owner is an up-to-date and hustling
agriculturist. In politics he is a Republican of the Lincoln type,
and has represented his party at various county conventions.

On Dec. 15, 1888, Mr. Greenawald married C.
Janetta Werley, daughter of Daniel and Harriet (Greenawalt) Werley,
the former of whom was born in Weisenburg, Lehigh county, June 27,
1823, and met an accidental death April 29, 1898. Her grandparents
were Theobald and Magdalena (Bittner) Werley, the former a tanner
by trade, who came to Albany township when a young man. No children
have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Greenawald. They are members of New
Bethel Church, he being a Reformed member thereof, and deacon, and
Mrs. Greenawald a Lutheran member. Since living near Windsor Castle
they have attended Zion’s Union Church, in Perry township. Mr.
Greenawald is one of the township’s substantial citizens. In 1905
he built an addition to his house and now has spring water at both
the house and barn; there are also other conveniences which greatly
add to the value of the property.

(II) Abraham Greenawalt, son of the pioneer, had sons: Jacob,
Daniel and Abraham, Jr. of these,

(III) Jacob Greenawalt had six children, viz.: Christian, Jacob,
Abraham, Daniel, john, and Sally (m. John Gehringer).

(III) Daniel Greenawalt located in the Stony Run, in Berks county.
He had four children, one son and three daughters. The son, Aaron,
was a soldier in the Civil war, serving from Anoka, Minn. He was
killed in the battle of Gettysburg.

(III) Abraham Greenawalt, Jr., and his family moved to Mercer
county, Pa. His son Jonas lived at Easton, pa. Charles S.
Greenawalt, of Steinsville, is one of his descendants.