Berks County – Books

RAPP, Eli M. Superintendent of the Public Schools of Berks County, Pa.; born in Oley Township, March 20, 1865; was educated in the public schools, Oley Academy, Keystone State Normal School, and University of Pennsylvania; taught in the public schools for fourteen years; teacher of the Fleetwood High School in 1890; in 1891 supervising principal … Read more

SCHAEFFER, Charles E. Clergyman; born Dec. 26, 1867, in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pa; educated Kutztown Normal School, Franklin and Marshall College, 1889: Theological Seminary, Lancaster, Pa., 1892 ordained to ministry, June 19, 1892; pastor Macungie charge, Lehigh County. 1892-1896; at Norristown, Pa., 1896-1898: pastor St. Mark’s Reformed Church. Reading, since 1898. Married Carrie S. … Read more

TAYLOR, Mahlon G. President of the Neversink Bank of Reading. Address, Reading, Berks County, Pa. (p. 733) THOMPSON, John S. Postmaster of Reading; born in Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pa., Feb. 15, 1857; attended the public schools until his fourteenth year, when he removed with his parents to Reading; attended the Reading Business College and Reading … Read more

PACHALI, Theodore, M.D. Born in Lissa, Province of Posen, Prussia, April 10, 1846; educated in the schools of his native place; was graduated in medicine from the University of Kiel, Prussia in 1865; served as Surgeon in the North German Navy of Prussia for three years; then as Surgeon for one year on the North … Read more

VALENTINE, Milton Clergyman, teacher, author; born at Uniontown, Md., Jan. 1, 1825; son of Jacob and Rebecca Valentine; was graduated from Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, 1850; D.D., 1866; LL.D., Wittenberg College, Ohio, 1886. Married, December 18, 1855, Margaret G. Galt. Ordained Lutheran minister, October, 1852; preached at Winchester, Va., 1852-1853; Greensburg, Pa., 1853-1854; principal of Emaus … Read more

WALLACH, Jacob President of the National Bank of Boyerstown. Address, Boyerstown, Berks County, Pa. (p. 764) WALTER, Robert, M.D. Born in Halton County, Ontario, Feb. 14, 1841; son of George Walter, who emigrated from England in 1837; educated in Canadian schools until twenty years old, when, owing to ill health, he entered a hygienic institution … Read more

YUNDT, Horace A. Lawyer; born in East Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pa., June 15, 1839. After preparing in the public schools, and West Chester Academy, he entered Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, from which he was graduated in 1859. He taught in the Mount Joy Academy and the Paradise Academy (both institutions being in Lancaster … Read more

ZIMMERMAN, Thomas C. Editor and translator; born in Lebanon, Pa., Jan. 23, 1838; received his education in the public schools of his native place; was apprenticed to the printing business and at the expiration of his apprenticeship worked for a short time in Philadelphia, and then moved to the city of Reading on the 8th … Read more

Berks County Biographies listed in Who’s Who in Pennsylvania by Lewis R. Hamersly The following biographies were published in Who’s Who in Pennsylvania, First edition, edited by Lewis R. Hamersly, New York: L.R. Hamersly Company, 1904. The page numbers on which the biographies appear are listed at the end of each biography. Only the biographies … Read more

AMMON, Jacob S., M.D. Born in 1836 in Berks County, Pa.; educated in the public schools, at the Womelsdorf Academy and Philomathean Academy, the latter near Birdsboro, Pa.; studied medicine with Drs. Newcomet, of Stouchsburg; Schweinhard, of Palmyra, and Richardson, of Philadelphia; graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in the class of 1868; commenced the … Read more