Berks County

IRVIN M. SHLATER Source: Pennsylvania, A History, George P. Donehoo, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1926), p. 20 Surnames: Shalter, Sailer, Guest Irvin M. Shlater, principal of the Allentown Preparatory School, was born in Tuckerton, Berks County, Pennsylvania on February 3, 1880. He was the son of Michael J. and Emma R. (Sailer) Shalter. … 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

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

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

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

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