Pabios

ROBERT WILLIS LENKER, M.D. Source: Pennsylvania, A History, George P. Donehoo, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1926), p. unk. Surnames: Lenker, Stoddart, Sherman, Baker, Drum, Yeager Robert Willis Lenker, MD, assistant surgeon at the Pottsville Hospital, local surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and local examiner for the United States Veterans’ Bureau for the Schuylkill … Read more

HENRY I. KLOPP, M.D. Source: Pennsylvania, A History, George P. Donehoo, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1926), p. 4 Surnames: Klopp, Keyser, Conrad, Sheetz, Loose, Fisher Groh, Smith, Rink, Fuller, Stump, Groff As a specialist in mental diseases, Dr. Klopp has become a recognized and valued leader. In Allentown, Pennsylvania, he is a familiar … Read more

COL. JOHN E. ARTHUR Source: Pennsylvania, A History, George P. Donehoo, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1926), p. 177. Surnames: Arthur, Parker, Leoser, Scott, Moyer, Keppelman, Mester A name of permanent significance to Berks County and to the city of Reading, and one which is an ornament to the records of civic and patriotic … Read more

J. TREICHLER BUTZ, M.D., D.D.S Source: Pennsylvania, A History, George P. Donehoo, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1926), p. 59 Surnames: Butz, Pennypacker, Hartman As health officer of the city of Allentown, Dr. Butz is well known throughout the city, and as former coroner of Lehigh County his energy and ability were notable in … Read more

REV. JOHN BAER, STOUDT, D. D. Source: Pennsylvania, A History, George P. Donehoo, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1926), p. 171 Surnames: Stpidt. Oswald, Reppert, Baer, Carl, Lease, Kline, Herring, DeLong, Yoder As a preacher and pastor, Rev. John Baer Stoudt, D. D., has won an enviable and popular regard in the field of … Read more

CLARENCE JAMES SMITH (COL.) Source: Pennsylvania, A History, George P. Donehoo, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1926), p. 20 Surnames: Smith, Bonstein, Weiler, Leisenring, Clappison, Curtis Journalism has been the sphere of service in which Colonel Smith’s active career has centered, while his military record in war and peace is impressive. Allentown, Pennsylvania, is … Read more

EARL SAMUEL STOYER Source: Pennsylvania, A History, George P. Donehoo, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1926), p. 382 Surnames: Stoyer, Reber As Napoleon once said of the English that they were a nation of shopkeepers, so it might now be said – doubtless with equal truth – that the Americans are a nation of … Read more

JAY GILFILLAN WEISER Source: Pennsylvania, A History, George P. Donehoo, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1926), p. 154 Surnames: Weiser, Gilfillan, Jones Jay Gilfillan Weiser – Six generations from his illustrious forbear, Conrad Weiser, Jay Gilfillan Weiser is an honored and useful citizen of that commonwealth whose earliest history bears the record of his … Read more

JAMES K. SILLIMAN Source: Pennsylvania, A History, George P. Donehoo, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1926), p. 37 Surnames: Silliman, Kellar Among the most prominent citizens of Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, was James K. Silliman, local financier, whose death there on June 26, 1914, in the prime of life, in his forty-sixth year, was very … Read more

WILLIAM. H. SCHOLL Source: Pennsylvania, A History, George P. Donehoo, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1926), p. 355 Surnames: Scholl, Herbert, Angstadt, Nauman The qualifications of Hellertown’s postmastership, those chiefly of a growing industrial and mercantile community of a very progressive people, are met in a capable manner by Mr. Scholl, whose former educational … Read more