Biographies

Sherman Henry Hoverter Sherman Henry Hoverter, Reading, Penn. Born at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1866. Prepared for college in Philadelphia. Attended Lebanon Valley College, Class of ’82. Before entering Michigan engaged as professional accountant. At Michigan: Member of Jeffersonian Society; Keystone Club Court. Member of Patriotic Order Sons of America. Expects to practice in Reading, … Read more

Simon P. Light Born in the city of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and educated in the schools of that city, Lebanon Valley College, and in city law offices, Simon P. Light, a true native son, and a practitioner at the Lebanon county bar since admission, reviews a career compiled among the friends and acquaintances of a lifetime. … Read more

Spencer Fullerton Baird Baird, Spencer Fullerton. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1823; graduated at Dickinson College; in 1846 he was made Professor of Natural Sciences in that institution; was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1850: was the editor and translator of the ” Iconographic Encyclopedia,” 4 vols., 8vo, in 1851; author … Read more

Sydenham E. Ancona Ex-congressman; born in Lititz, Lancaster County, Pa., November 20, 1824; removed with his parents to Berks County at an early age, and was educated in the common schools of the county. Mr. Ancona married. May 20, 1848, Francisca E. Feger. He held a clerical position with the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company … Read more

Sydenham E. Ancona Ancona, Sydenham E. He was born in Warwick, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1824, and, removing to Berks County, was for several years connected with the Reading Railroad Company. He was elected in 1860 a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-seventh Congress serving on the Committees on the Militia and on Manufactures. … Read more

Thomas Geier Source: Henry W. Ruoff, ed., Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Schuylkill County. Philadelphia: Rush, West and Co., Publishers, 1893, p. 694. Thomas Geier is a son of Henry and Catharine (Moyer) Geier. He was born in Orwigsburg, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, November 12, 1837. Grandfather Henry Geier was of German descent, a farmer by … Read more

Thomas Morris Hon. Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, January 3d, 1776. He was the fifth of a family of twelve children, born to Isaac and Ruth (Henton) Morris. His mother was the daughter of a Virginia planter. The first representative of the family name came from England … Read more

William Addams Addams, William. He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; and was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania, from 1825 to 1829, and served on a Committee for the Deaf and Dumb Institutions of New York and Ohio. He was also Auditor of Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1813 and 1814; Commissioner of the County … Read more

William Bittler Source: History of Fort Wayne and Allen County, Volume II, By B. J. Griswold, Page 66, 1917. William Bittler has given nearly half a century of effective service in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and is one of the veteran men of this corporation in the city of Fort Wayne. Technical … Read more

William C. Ludwig William C. Ludwig, Merchant, was born in Reading, Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1809. He was educated at the Reading Academy, and at the age of eighteen years came to Philadelphia and entered the dry goods house of Eckel & Warne as clerk. He remained here a year and a half, when by … Read more