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THE STORY 
 OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 The Life, Antecedents and 
 
 Descendants of Bernhard Arndt 
 
 who Emigrated to Pennsylvania in 
 
 the Year 173 i 
 
 By 
 
 JOHN STOVER ARNDT 
 
 PHILADELPHIA 
 
 CHRISTOPHER SOWER COMPANY 
 1922 
 

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 Copyright, 1922, by 
 Christopher Sower Company 
 
 •WU - F. FELL CO. PRim;£R5 
 PHILADELPHIA 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 CHAP. PAGE 
 
 Introduction 7 
 
 I. Captain John Arndt's Narrative lo 
 
 II. The Family in Germany 23 
 
 III. The Emigeation 43 
 
 IV. The New Worxd 51 
 
 V. Taking Root 70 
 
 VI. Abraham Arndt, the Eldest Son 77 
 
 VII. Major Jacob Arndt, Indian Fighter and Legislator 88 
 
 VIII. Captain John Arndt, Soudier and Patriot 124 
 
 GENEALOGY 
 
 First Generation 147 
 
 Second Generation 148 
 
 Third Generation 155 
 
 Fourth Generation 177 
 
 FrFTH Generation 228 
 
 Sixth Generation 294 
 
 Seventh Generation 370 
 
 Eighth Generation 400 
 
 General Index 405 
 
 Index to Persons 409 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Birth Certificate of Martin Conrad Amdt Frontispiece 
 
 Map of Eastern Anhalt 23 
 
 Friedrich Amdt and Wife, Woerpen 24 
 
 Amdt Home at Woerpen 24 
 
 Church at Woerpen 30 
 
 Woerpen School-House 30 
 
 Views in Zerbst 34 
 
 Lichtenberg Castle 39 
 
 General View of Baumholder 39 
 
 City Hall, Baumholder 39 
 
 Old Goshenhoppen Church Stone 74 
 
 Old Goshenhoppen Church 78 
 
 Amdt Homestead, Built 1770 83 
 
 Commission of Captain Jacob Amdt 97 
 
 Commission of Major Jacob Amdt 104 
 
 Jacob Amdt's Certificate of Membership in German Society 108 
 
 Elizabeth Ihrie Arndt 146 
 
 John Penn Amdt 183 
 
 John Wallace Amdt 183 
 
 Commission of Major John Amdt 189 
 
 Colonel John Amdt 193 
 
 Abraham Arndt 200 
 
 Abraham Morrison Arndt 200 
 
 C. C. Pinckney Amdt 238 
 
 Ralph S. Amdt's Ordination Certificate 245 
 
 Ralph Stover Arndt 248 
 
 John Stover Amdt 248 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 THE preparation of the present work was well advanced 
 when interrupted by the outbreak of the World War. 
 Additional information was expected from Germany, 
 and this, of course, was not forthcoming; in addition the course 
 of events at home operated to prevent much consideration 
 being given the work. It is presented now because it is con- 
 sidered desirable to preserve the materials that have been 
 collected. 
 
 The extensive collection of genealogies now housed in the 
 Historical Society of Pennsylvania contains the records of 
 many Pennsylvania German families, but very few of them 
 carry the reader beyond the date of the arrival in the Province 
 of the immigrants. Probably not lo per cent, of these records 
 give anything but the vaguest information prior to the immi- 
 gration ; most of them merely state, with more or less accuracy, 
 the places of residence at the time immigration was determined 
 upon. The thanks of every member of the Arndt family are 
 due to the thoughtfulness of Captain John Arndt, the wounded 
 revolutionary soldier, who wrote the narrative that must be 
 the basis of all family investigations that ever are made. 
 There seems to have been some family instinct as to the value 
 of ancient documents, as witness the careful preservation of 
 the certificate given to Martin Arndt in Zerbst in 1678 despite 
 its many vicissitudes of fortune, and also of the other papers 
 which Captain Arndt evidently had before him when he wrote 
 his narrative. It is rather singular, too, that authentic records 
 are wanting previous to the time treated of by Captain Arndt. 
 One can confirm his statements but cannot go beyond them. 
 
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INTRODUCTION 
 
 Reference notes have been omitted except in rare instances; 
 where it seems important the reference is given in the body of 
 the text. It may be said, however, that all the sources of 
 information as to the public careers of the early members of 
 the family may be found in the collections of the Historical 
 Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where, and in other 
 pubhc libraries, the minutes of the Assembly, the Colonial 
 Archives and the Records published by the State Librarian 
 are to be found. A few notes are appended, the result of 
 inquiry from other sources. 
 
 It is pleasant to record that nothing but kindness and en- 
 couragement are experienced by one who undertakes a work 
 of this kind. It was due to a suggestion of the late Dr. John 
 W. Jordan, Librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 
 himself an authority upon Northampton County history, 
 that the work was undertaken, and the staflf of the Society 
 was always more than willing to furnish every assistance in 
 their power. Some very practical assistance was given by the 
 late Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, and help of an impor- 
 tant character was rendered by his brothers, Isaac R. Penny- 
 packer and James L. Pennypacker. Through Mr. B. F. 
 Fackenthal, Jr., the loan was secured of the ancient documents 
 brought from Germany, and the commission and other papers 
 given to Major Jacob Arndt, which are now in the possession 
 of Mrs. J. M. Harris, of Pottsville. Information of an inter- 
 esting character was furnished by Rev. Dr. W. J. Hinke, the 
 historian of the German Reformed Church, Ethan Allen 
 Weaver, recently of Northampton County, and others, in- 
 cluding many members of the family. The contributions of 
 the two German Reformed pastors in Germany have an im- 
 portance that will be immediately recognized. 
 
 The real genealogical work, with the exception of a few 
 sketches, was prepared by Mr. Warren S. Ely, Librarian of 
 
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INTRODUCTION 
 
 the Bucks County Historical Society at Doylestown. The 
 several preliminary chapters, down to and including that de- 
 voted to Captain John Arndt, were prepared by the author, 
 although Mr. Ely supplied a good many material facts in the 
 biographies. 
 
 John Stover Arndt. 
 
CHAPTER I 
 CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT'S NARRATIVE 
 
 Captain John Arndt's Family Bible— His Narrative of the Family Doings in 
 Germany and the Movements of his Ancestors— Why they Emigrated— Sketch 
 of His Own Life, PubUc Services, and Political Opinions— Additions to His 
 Narrative Made by His Sons. 
 
 CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT, of Easton, a Revolutionary 
 soldier and man of public affairs, became the owner of a 
 subscription Bible published in Philadelphia in 1805. It was 
 printed in large type, in two quarto volumes, bound in sheep, 
 and contained on the last pages the names of the subscribers. 
 Two years later, having much leisure time and, moreover, 
 having considerable facility in the art of composition, he 
 determined to write a sketch of his family history on some 
 blank pages provided in the Bible. He was well equipped for 
 this purpose. He was fifty-nine years old, his life had been 
 spent in scenes of activity, he had seen much, and was accus- 
 tomed to judge of the relative importance of affairs. More- 
 over, his father, who was born in Germany, had only recently 
 died and all his Ufe he had been closely associated with him and 
 had doubtless received from him all the family traditions. 
 He was also the custodian of certain family papers that were 
 even then old — one of them having been handed down from 
 father to son for one hundred and fifty years. Captain Arndt 
 wrote his story, slowly and patiently, on the broad pages of the 
 Bible, in a fair round hand, all the letters being carefully 
 formed so that there was no occasion for corrections or erasures. 
 His narrative is given below with spelling and capitalization 
 as he wrote it. 
 
CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT'S NARRATIVE 
 
 His descendants have respected his wish as to the ownership 
 of the Bible. It has traveled across the continent to the 
 Pacific Coast with its then owner and was returned to Easton. 
 It is now in the custody of Mrs. Emma Slough, of Easton, a 
 granddaughter of the original owner. 
 
 THE NARRATIVE 
 
 I John Arndt at present residing in the Borough of Easton 
 in the County of Northampton in the Commonwealth of 
 Pennsylvania who was one of the subscribers to this American 
 Edition of the Holy Bible Do hereby declare my wish and 
 solemn desire that this valuable Book consisting of Two 
 Volumes shall after my decease go to, and be considered as the 
 property of the eldest male Branch of my Posterity with a 
 most solemn request that the same shall forever or as long as 
 it will last go to and be considered as the property of my eldest 
 male descendant, or on failure of such to the eldest male 
 descendant of any of my Daughters ; Hoping that my posterity 
 will pay so much respect to my memory and wishes, that they 
 will not by sale barter or neglect ever part with the Book, 
 and thereby violate my most sincere expectations. For the 
 ratification of this intention I have hereunto put my signature, 
 which is well known to my present existing acquaintances 
 this fourth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand 
 eight hundred and seven ^ , . , 
 
 And as the above is my intention, it occurs to me that it 
 will be very natural for at least some of my posterity, to ex- 
 press a wish to know something of mine and their ancestors — 
 To comply with such a desire should it ever exist in any one, I 
 will endeavor to inform them from the Traditions I recollect 
 and some written documents I now have by me where my 
 Ancestors emigrated from: Most of them were poor humble 
 
THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 mechanics, consequently lived in obscurity unnoticed by the 
 bulk of Mankind. And if every one who is the Temporary 
 owner of this Book, will be at the trouble to make additions 
 hereto our posterity may be furnished with some sketch of 
 their Genealogical Information. 
 
 The first ancestor I could hear from was Hans Amdt a 
 respectable Farmer in the Village of Woerpen in the Baliwick 
 (Amt) of Coswig in the Principality of Anhalt Zerbst in 
 Germany — He was the Father of 
 
 Martin Arndt who intermarried with Maria a Daughter of 
 Hanss Sager a respectable Citizen of Zerbst, they had an only 
 son named Martin Conrad Arndt, who in early life expressed 
 an inclination to travel — for which leave was obtained from 
 his parents, and before he departed from home a writing on 
 Parchment was given to him dated at Zerbst the 13th day of 
 March, 1678 which among other things certifies that he was 
 born of good German Blood and not of the Wendischen, what 
 this distinction means I never was informed of 
 
 This Martin Conrad it seems eventually settled himself 
 in the then Dukedom of Zweibriicken and in lawful wedlock 
 begot two Children, one a son named Bemhard, and a 
 Daughter who was married to a Mr Conrad the grand Father 
 of Frederick Conrad one of our late Representatives to 
 Congress.^ 
 
 Bernhard Arndt became married to Anna Maria a Daughter 
 of Andreas Decker residing in Coerborn in said Dukedom, 
 and settled himself in the Borough of Baumholder in the 
 Bailiwick (Amt) of Lichtenberg. In this marriage and settle- 
 ment there is a circumstance that may appear very singular 
 to a free born American Citizen and under a belief that a short 
 detail thereof, may stimulate my Posterity ever to give a 
 
 ' Member of Congress from Northampton County District 1803-1809. 
 
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CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT'S NARRATIVE 
 
 rational support to Legal Liberty, without travelling into the 
 wide field of Speculation and Licentious proceedings which by 
 the Demagogues of the day is construed to be the Rights of 
 Man. 
 
 The Village it seems, where this Andreas Decker resided was 
 subject to a kind of Villianage or Vassalage something similar 
 to the fate of a Virginia Slave or Negro, who is transferred 
 with the soil which his Master owns when he chooses to sell 
 the same. Therefore before my Grand Father the said 
 Bernhard Arndt could remove his wife from Coerborn to 
 Baumholder he was under the necessity of purchasing her 
 Manumission for a sum not known to me. The instrument of 
 her Manumission bears date at Zweibriicken the 12th day of 
 February in the year of our Lord 1717 ^ 
 
 At Baumholder Bernhard followed the Occupation of a 
 shoemaker, and as his earnings furnished but a scanty supply 
 for the support of his family he frequently expressed a wish or 
 inclination to entiigrate to America, but his wife constantly 
 put a negative in his proposition, until to us, a trifling circum- 
 stance occurred — which was this. 
 
 My Grandmother who was so averse to give her consent to 
 
 ' As is indicated by his previous reference to the word Wendischen, Captain 
 Arndt's knowledge of conditions in Germany was not extensive. The thought 
 of negro slavery, with which he was acquainted, and the only form of human 
 restriction with which he was familiar, was naturally suggested to his mind by 
 the document, now unfortunately lost, which Bernhard Arndt was obliged to 
 secure on the occasion of his marriage to Catherine Decker. As a matter of fact, 
 vassalage was a thing of the past in Germany in 1731; the last practical vestige 
 of it had gone down in the wreck of the Thirty Years War, two generations be- 
 fore. Still, some legal traces of it remained, as is the case even in this day when 
 the estates of persons dying intestate and without legal heirs are escheated to the 
 State. Some technical form of control over persons was no doubt still vested in 
 the Duke of Zweibriicken, but it did not extend to a prohibition of freedom of 
 movement. What happened in Bernhard Arndt's case was that he had to pay a 
 heavy license fee for marrying a girl outside of his own village. — (J. S. A.) 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 go to America, had put a Pig into her stable to raise and fatten 
 for the express purpose to regale herself and children with a 
 plentiful repast of Meat diet^ — but before this took place one 
 of the Princesses of their Duke got married, in consequence of 
 which an extraordinary Tax was prescribed to be levied on 
 his subjects for the purpose of furnishing off the Princess; 
 As this was an extraordinary requisition no provision had been 
 made for the payment thereof — ^And no other means were at 
 hand to discharge the Tax but the sale of the Pig fattening in 
 the stable, after this occurrence no further objections were 
 made to the proposed emigration to a Land of Liberty in 
 America. 
 
 Their preparations were made for the removal and at the 
 end of April or beginning of May in the year 1731 the Family 
 of my Grandfather departed from their Native Country 
 consisting then besides the Parents of two Sons and one 
 Daughter — the eldest sons name was Abraham, the second 
 (my Father) Jacob and Catherine. They came down the 
 River Rhein and embarked at Rotterdam for America. On 
 the voyage another son was born whom they namedHenry. 
 
 They landed at Philadelphia, paid their passage, and for 
 some time settled in Germantown, and from thence removed, 
 into (as I believe) the poorest soil in the upper part of the then 
 county of Philadelphia where my grand Father continued the 
 Occupation of a shoemaker and taught all his sons the same 
 Trade. 
 
 And now as the Children of my Grand Father branched out 
 into four different Families I will confine myself to that of 
 my Father, only mentioning, that Abraham married the 
 Amiable daughter of Philip Reed by her he had Issue, Sons & 
 Daughters— Henry became married to a woman whose maiden 
 name was Bender— and the daughter Catherine was married 
 to George Leidig— which in the event proved rather unhappy 
 
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CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT'S NARRATIVE 
 
 Leidig is dead and she is a pauper on the township, at the same 
 time having a daughter married to one Kolb who is able but 
 not willing to support her.^ 
 
 My father Jacob (one of the sons of said Bernhard) as I 
 mentioned before was born at Bamnholder on the 24th day of 
 March in the year of our Lord 1725 and here he married 
 Elizabeth the Daughter of Jacob Geiger who had emigrated 
 from Germany. She was born at Ittlingen in the Bailiwick 
 of Butten in the Upper Palatine on the 20th day of September 
 in the year 1726 — After marriage he purchased a farm in 
 Rockhill Township in the County of Bucks Whilst he resided 
 there the French War in the Year 1755 broke out, when he 
 quit his Occupation of a shoemaker and accepted of a Cap- 
 tains Commission in the Provincial Service and with his Com- 
 pany was stationed at what was then called the Frontiers of 
 the settlements, to check the incursions of the Savage Indians 
 in the stockaded Forts then called Norris and Allen. In the 
 end he was promoted to the rank and command of Major and 
 stationed at Fort Augusta (near the present Sunbury) And at 
 the conclusion of that war when the Pennsylvania Troops 
 were disbanded he of course was discharged from that Military 
 service. He then sold his Farm in Bucks County and made a 
 purchase of John Jones of a Mill and Farm on Bushkill Creek 
 near Easton. To and on which in the year 1760 removed his 
 Family, consisting of 5 children besides the Parents, I, as the 
 eldest was one — His daughter Elizabeth born the 29th Sep- 
 tember 1750 who was married to Jacob Shoemaker and 
 departed this life on the 4th day of July in the year 1797 
 leaving Issue sons & Daughters. 
 
 ' Captain Amdt's words have a difEerent meaning now from what they had 
 when they were written, which was before the days of almshouses and organ- 
 ized charity. His aunt was a poor woman, no doubt, but her relations were not 
 without means, and she probably received assistance from friends. 
 
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 Margaret born the 29th day of July 1752 who departed this 
 life in an unmarried state on the nth day of in the 
 
 year 1768. 
 
 Jacob his second son was born the 14th day of May 1756 
 who became intermarried with Elizabeth one of the Daughters 
 of Zacharias Nyce in the County of Montgomery, and 
 
 Abraham the youngest son was born the 31st day of January 
 1759 and was married to Ann one of the Daughters of William 
 Henn of Morris County in the State of New Jersey 
 
 After my father became settled in his new purchase he used 
 much Industry and Oconomy in improving the same as to 
 buildings &c. and kept a strict Family disciphne (in my opinion 
 rather too severe) and had all his children instructed in the 
 German Reformed Protestant Christian Religion. 
 
 God seems to have blessed his endeavors, so that eventually 
 he could help his children to begin a living in the World. 
 
 When the dispute between Great Britain and their then 
 Colonies now United States of America commenced he took 
 an early and active part on the side of the Americans at the 
 expense of a great part of his property occasioned by the de- 
 preciation of the then emissions of paper Bills of Credit. 
 Having thus established himself to be, what in those days was 
 called a good Whig, he was elected by his Fellow Citizens of 
 the County to represent them, first in the Convention that 
 framed the Constitution of Pennsylvania and afterwards as a 
 member of the House of Representatives and also of the 
 Executive Council as by the pubUc Records will appear. 
 Thus he continued to serve his Country and its cause until 
 age and change of Opinion in Politics with the People made it 
 desirable for him to retire from pubhc to private life and 
 enjoy the residue of his days as comfortably as could be ex- 
 pected. 
 
 Thus he continued to reside at his Mill : when, after all his 
 
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CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT'S NARRATIVE 
 
 Children had removed from him and kept their own Families. 
 My Mother departed this life on the 17th day of March in the 
 year 1797 aged 70 years 5 months & 27 days 
 
 He shortly after came to reside with his Daughter and her 
 husband Jacob Shoemaker and he remained with them until 
 some time after the death of his Daughter when he removed to 
 my Family in Easton where he resided until his death which 
 took place the 3rd day of August 1805, aged 80 years 4 months 
 and ten days 
 
 As to myself, I was born on my Fathers Farm in Rockhill 
 Township in the County of Bucks on the 5th day of Jime in 
 the year 1748 and was from thence with the Family removed 
 to my Father's new Purchase near Easton. There I was 
 kept to a hard and laborious life — In the Year 1774 I paid my 
 addresses to the Amiable Miss Elizabeth Feit, one of the 
 Daughters of John Feit of Greenwich Township in the County 
 of Sussex in New Jersey and became married to her on the 
 13th day of December in the same year. With her I lived as 
 happy as could be expected to fall to the lot of man, but, alas, 
 this Felicity was but of short duration: On the 15th day of 
 January 1776 she was delivered of a Female Child, which 
 died the third day after its birth and this was the first Corps 
 that was interred in the Family Burying ground near the Mill 
 — And then my good and much beloved wife soon after also 
 departed this life on the 31st day of the same month aged 17 
 years 8 months and 27 days and was buried by the side of our 
 Child. 
 
 Being thus left without a Family of my Own I continued 
 the occupation of a Miller in my Fathers Mill until the month 
 of June 1776 when the affairs between this Country and Great 
 Britain began to come to a serious Crisis — I then at the re- 
 quest of the Committee of this County, consented to take the 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 Command of a Company of Riffle-men as their Captain, in 
 what was then called the Flying Camp, this acceptance of 
 such a Hazardous undertaking was owing to several induce- 
 ments Patriotism was the leading one, the next that I would 
 serve a grateful Country in the last I was eventually convinced 
 of my error for experience has taught me that there is no notion 
 of such a thing as Gratitude with the Citizens in a Republican 
 Government. 
 
 I marched that Company according to orders to different 
 places, and among others to Long Island, where on the 27th 
 day of August 1776 we partook in the disgrace of a defeat by 
 the superior Forces and discipline of the British Army : There 
 by a shott of a small cannon Ball I got wounded in the left 
 arm which ever after deprived me of the use of the elbow 
 joint. 
 
 In the beginning of the year 1777 when the new Govern- 
 ment of Pennsylvania became Organized, I was by the Legis- 
 lature thereof appointed Register for the Probate of Wills 
 & Recorder of Deeds — This appointment I accepted and was 
 thereafter too delicate to solicit the Pension I was entitled to 
 on account of my being crippled. 
 
 Thus I held said Offices together with that of a Justice of the 
 Peace, the emoluments thereof at that time and during the 
 war did not much more than compensate for the stationaries 
 that were wanted for the use thereof. 
 
 On the 1 2th day of August 1777 I became married a second 
 time to Miss EKzabeth Ihrie one of the Daughters of Conrad 
 Ihrie She was born in Forks Township the 6th day of April 
 1756 This for a second marriage proved as happy as could be 
 expected— In this state we had the following named Children 
 born — 
 
 1 Maria bom the 6th day of March 1779 
 
 2 Susanna do 2nd do February 1781 
 
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CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT'S NARRATIVE 
 
 3 Elizabeth bom the 14th do February 1783 
 
 4 Jacob do 27th do April 1785 
 
 died 6 Augt 1806 aged 21 yr 3 m 10 days 
 
 5 Sarah do 27th do February 1787 
 
 6 John do 21st do May 1789 
 
 died 29th October 1806 aged 17 yr s m 8 days 
 
 7 George Washington do 25 do June 1791 
 
 8 Ann 15 do March 1794 
 
 9 Benjamin Franklin 23 do June 1796 
 10 Samuel 17 do August 1798 
 
 I continued to reside at the Mill until the fourth day of 
 March 1796 on which day I removed my family to Easton 
 into a house I had previously purchased of my Father-in-Law, 
 Conrad Ihrie, in which I continue to reside now. 
 
 Here I continued to adnainister the Offices of Register for 
 the Probate of Wills and Recorder of Deeds — and Clerk of 
 the Orphans Court, In the discharge of the duties of these 
 offices I have the consolation to declare that my Official 
 conduct was approved by the Generality of the Citizens 
 the Widows and the Orphans and particularly my own Con- 
 science. 
 
 In the General Election of the year 1799 when the Govern- 
 mental term of the late worthy Thomas Mifflin Constitu- 
 tionally expired, there were two Candidates put in nomination 
 by the Citizens of Peimsylvania for the high and important 
 Office for Governor of this State. The one was James Ross of 
 Pittsburgh: The other Thomas McKean of Philadelphia the 
 then Chief Justice of Peimsylvania: Having had a personal 
 acquaintance with both the gentlemen in nomination my 
 opinion was that James Ross was of the two the better person 
 and if elected would be Governor of all the Citizens in the 
 State : The other would be that of a giddy headed party only. 
 Under these circiunstances I was led to a belief that as a 
 Citizen of a Free Republic I was undoubtedly entitled to the 
 freedom of Choice. I did so and voted for James Ross by 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 doing so the event proved that I was in the minority and had 
 thereby in the opinion of the successful Candidate committed 
 an unpardonable crime, which all past services in toil danger 
 and wounds for the estabUshment of our Independence and 
 the blessings of a Republican Government and also an upright 
 discharge of Official duties could not wipe away — This sup- 
 posed Republican Governor McKean would sooner pardon a 
 man guilty of Murder or Treason than him who did not vote 
 for him — I consequently was marked out as one of his first 
 victims of Democratic Phrenzy and mad zeal for the giddy 
 party he had espoused, and as soon as he was settled in the 
 chair of Government he gave me my dismissal from all public 
 employments, and thereby convinced me that all my Revolu- 
 tionary and other Services were rendered to an ungrateful 
 Country. 
 
 I can in truth inform the reader of this that I have derived 
 as much consolation, as I had chagrine & disgrace for my 
 aderance in all changes of public opinion to the good old Wash- 
 ingtonian Creed to which I mean to adhere to during life. 
 
 It now becomes my (Geo. W. Arndt's) duty in compliance 
 with my fathers request (after having concluded his life) to 
 continue the present History, confining myself mostly to 
 such events immediately interesting to myself. My father 
 adhered to his political principles unchangeably during life 
 agreeable to his declared determination. After having been 
 dismissed from office by Thomas McKeen the Governor, he 
 
CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT'S NARRATIVE 
 
 devoted himself to Shopkeeping for a Support, a business in 
 my opinion, ranking no higher than the meanest profession 
 but which he pursued until the Spring of 1813. He had long 
 laboured under bodily as well as mental affictions — a de- 
 pression of Spirits, or Hypocondria, all this gradually working 
 on his frame, at length terminated his existence on the sixth 
 day of May 1814 having attained the respectable age of 65 
 years, 1 1 months and i day.^ 
 
 George W. Arndt, the writer of the foregoing paragraph, 
 early in the year 18 13 proceeded to settle on the estate lately 
 occupied by his father and which afterwards became the joint 
 patrimony of himself and his brother Benjamin; and there in 
 conjimction with his brother-in-law Charles Lombaert, under- 
 took the manufacturing of Woolen cloth in connection with 
 farming and Milling. On the 27th of May in the same year 
 he became married to Henrietta Byllesby by whom he had the 
 following children: 
 
 Wellington — Bom February 28 1814 Died March 2 aged 3 days 
 
 Jackson — Bom February 12 1815 
 
 Susan \ Twins Born Oct i5 1816 
 
 Eveline / Died February ist 1818 aged i year 3 months 17 days 
 
 After an ill regulated pursuit of business for four years he 
 was compelled to abandon it and in April of the year 181 7 he 
 removed his family to Easton where he continued without any 
 definite employment, until the middle of July in the following 
 year. He then determined on emigrating to one of the West- 
 ern States in the hope of there retrieving his fortunes (his 
 patrimony having become wholly dissipated or insolved) and 
 accordingly set out on a tour with the intention of selecting a 
 spot for the purpose. Having passed through the Countries 
 
 ' Above paragraph written by George W. Amdt. 
 
THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 bordering on the Ohio and Mississippi, he finally arrived in 
 the City of New Orleans, where in a few days he was attacked 
 by the unhealthiness of the climate, and after lingering nearly 
 six months, died there on the 29th of Jtme 1819 aged 28 years 
 and 4 days, thus terminating an unimportant life marked with 
 much indiscretion and misfortune.^ 
 
 1 Last paragraphs written by Benjamin F. Amdt. 
 
CHAPTER II 
 THE FAMILY IN GERMANY 
 
 The Village of Woerpen in Anhalt and Its Surroundings — ^The Present Owner of 
 the Family Farm — Many Amdts Still in the Neighborhood — ^Extracts from the 
 Woerpen Church Books and the District Court Records — Identity of the First 
 Hans Amdt — Origin of the Family — ^Meaning of the Name — John Arndt of 
 Ballenstedt — ^Early History of the Country — ^The Ducal Family of Anhalt — 
 Martin Conrad Leaves the Home of his Ancestors for the Rhine Country — His 
 Certificate, the Oldest Heirloom of the Amdts — ^A Town in the Palatinate — 
 Genealogical Extracts from the Baumholder Church Records. 
 
 SIXTY miles southwest of Berlin, on the railroad that 
 connects Wittenberg and Magdeberg, is the old market 
 town of Coswig, or Koswig, in Anhalt. It is not a large 
 place, its population numbering only a few thousand, and its 
 growth has probably been retarded by its proximity to Witten- 
 berg, which is only eight miles distant. It possesses a terra- 
 cotta works and a few local industries, but its principal dis- 
 tinction is that it serves, and has served for centuries, as the 
 base of supplies for a considerable farming district. It is 
 the nearest town to the oldest known home of the Arndts. 
 The village of Woerpen lies three miles to the northeast. The 
 road from Coswig runs through a sparsely settled country 
 whose light and sandy soil would be considered poor in Eastern 
 Pennsylvania. Frequent groves of scrub oaks and pines are 
 passed, the water courses are neither numerous nor impor- 
 tant, and pasturage is not plentiful. In the vicinity of Woer- 
 pen the character of the soil improves, the land is well cleared 
 and cultivated, the principal crops being rye, oats, hay, and 
 sugar beets. The village of Woerpen straggles along the single 
 road; a small wooden church, in which services are held every 
 
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 alternate Sunday, an inn, a schoolhouse and a score or more of 
 wooden houses — a typical German village. 
 
 There are no Arndts now hving at Woerpen. But at 
 Wahlsdorf, the next village, three-quarters of a mile further 
 on, a settlement twice as large as Woerpen, lives Freidrich 
 Arndt, the Landamamt of the surrounding country, an office 
 held by his father before him. His duties correspond to those 
 of Mayor of a large town, and in addition he is Justice of the 
 Peace and Supervisor of Roads. The house is the best type of 
 a German farm house. With its out-buildings it forms a 
 rectangle with a court in the center. The dwelling house 
 occupies one corner and most of one long side of the parallelo- 
 gram; the barn occupies the next side, which is the short side 
 of the parallelogram directly facing the entrance gate; the 
 third, or other long side, is given over to the stable, sheds, etc., 
 and the fourth side contains the wide gate which is the only 
 entrance to this rather formidable habitation. From this 
 stronghold Freidrich manages his very considerable farm 
 which, he says, has been in the continuous occupation of his 
 family for more than two hundred years. There is no other 
 Arndt family living in Wahlsdorf, but there are many of the 
 name living in Buko, Senst, Coswig, and other places in the 
 neighborhood. 
 
 In an effort to trace the family history as related in Captain 
 John Arndt's Narrative, a letter was sent to Freidrich Arndt 
 in Wahlsdorf, requesting that he ask the village Pastor for 
 certain information. To this request the Pastor, the Reverend 
 Hans Richter, a native of Zerbst, replied with great courtesy 
 and patience. In brief. Pastor Richter reports that the par- 
 sonage at Woerpen was burned in the year 1645, and all the 
 church records prior to that year were destroyed in the fire. 
 This disaster was probably due to the vandalism of the Im- 
 perialist troops who, in the Thirty Years' War, invaded 
 
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Friedeich Aendt and Wife 
 Woerpen 
 
 Arndt Home at Woerpen 
 
THE FAMILY IN GERMANY 
 
 Anhalt more than once, and who were operating near Woerpen 
 in 1645. Pastor Richter did, however, search the later church 
 records and also the records of the District Court at Coswig 
 from the year 1583 on. For this toilsome and tedious work, 
 undertaken for an entire stranger, he refused to receive any 
 personal compensation. He offered the suggestion, however, 
 that the church was poor and would be improved by some new 
 furnishings — a wooden psaltery or hymnal tablet that would 
 cost eighteen marks, and a new pulpit Bible that would cost 
 ten or twelve marks. He was willing to accept, on behalf of 
 the church, a sum that would provide these articles. With 
 the money that was sent he was able to buy in addition "new 
 altar and pulpit hangings of black cloth with silk fringes," 
 the purchase being made after due consultation with the 
 elders of the congregation. Pastor Richter's letter is dated 
 November 6, 1910. The entries found are given as follows: 
 
 Abbreviations: H. C. A. = Coswig District Court; K. W. =Woerpen Church 
 Books. 
 
 1583. Peter Amd and his son Andreas in Duben near Coswig. (H. C. A.) 
 1585- John the Baptist's day, June 24. Galle Knape in Woerpen had succeeded 
 to his late father's Kossaten estate, but died soon afterward. (Kossats 
 were originally Wends who at the time of the German occupation or con- 
 quest remained on some of the smaller farms. The name Kossat or 
 Kosatten estate attaches even to-day to these small properties or to their 
 owners, but evidently without its former significance.) Hans Arend mar- 
 ried the widow and purchased the estate. A little further on it says, "The 
 purchaser Gors Arend." From the similarity of the letters I consider 
 Gors an orthographical error, yet Gors appears occasionally as an abbre- 
 viation for George. As a witness of the legal transaction of the sale there 
 was present Magistrate Martin Dornburg of Zico. Perhaps it may be 
 inferred from this that Hans Arend came from Zico, a village near Coswig. 
 This is rather uncertain, however, and I am inclined to surmise Dornburg 
 was a relative. (H. C. A.) 
 
 1588. Hans Arend from Woerpen appears in a court proceeding which is other- 
 wise unimportant. (H. C. A.) 
 
 1589. Pancraz Wildenow is the owner of the pepper mill near MoUensdorf, not 
 
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 far from Woerpen. His stepchildren are Burz, Jurg, Hans, and Peter 
 Arend; these four receive from Wildenow their paternal share of the 
 pepper mill. Therefore an Arend owned the mill before him. (H. C. A.) 
 
 1592. Andreas Arend in Duben is mentioned. (H. C. A.) 
 
 1593. Andreas Arent in Woerpen is mentioned. (H. C. A.) 
 
 1594. Hans Amd in Griebo, near Coswig, is mentioned. (H. C. A.) 
 1597. Hans Amd in Woerpen is mentioned. (H. C. A.) 
 
 1597. Hans and Gors Arend, in Griebo, brothers, are mentioned. (H. C. A.) 
 
 1605. Hans Amd in Woerpen is mentioned. (H. C. A.) 
 
 1613. Gors Amd and his wife died in Griebo; they had a daughter Anna; the 
 son Andreas succeeded to the farm. (H. C. A.) 
 
 1623. Hans Amd in Duben is mentioned. (H. C. A.) 
 
 1628. Hans Amdt's wife in Woerpen was the daughter of Martin Niemann. 
 (H. C. A.) 
 
 1637. (Copied literally from the District Court Records.) Martin Amdt bom 
 in Woerpen and now in Zerbst seeks legal identification. He presents as a 
 witness Brose Horle a Kossat of Woerpen who states that Martin's father 
 Hans Amdt had been a Kossat, that his mother Catharina was the 
 legitimate daughter of Martin Henning of Zico, that he was born of these 
 parents in the year 1604. His god parents were Gorge Niemann, Andreas 
 Kremer, Martin Burg, Kossats, and the wife of Reverend John Meies, 
 pastor in Woerpen. The witness declared that all his life he had heard 
 nothing but good and favorable reports about Martin Amdt and his 
 parents. Martin Amdt desires a simple certificate. 
 
 1646. 28. 6. Hans Amdt has baptized a son Martin. (K. W.) 
 
 1649. It is said of Hans Amdt "the elder" that he lived some years on the 
 Kossat farm in Woerpen belonging to Andreas Weide. (H. C. A.) 
 
 1651. 25.9. A son Michael is bom to Hans Amdt Kossat in Woerpen. (K. W.) 
 
 1633. 23. II. Peter Heve in Woerpen buys Hans Amdt's house. (H. C. A.) 
 Since 1655 the family appears in Wahlsdorf. According to the Church 
 book children are bom to Erdmann Arndt in Wahlsdorf in 1656, 1639, 
 1662, 1664. Whether the present Amdts in Wahlsdorf came from this 
 Erdmann Amdt and through him or through another ancestor from Hans 
 Amdt in Woerpen I have not been able to decide. 
 
 1658. 31.3. Hans Arndt of Woerpen appears as a witness in a legal transaction; 
 he is eighty-two years old and has been eighteen years in Woerpen, and 
 was bom in Griebo. I consider these dates incorrect or perhaps incorrectly 
 written by me. I shall look it up again. (H. C. A.) 
 
 1664. 8. 8. Hans Arndt, Kossat in Woerpen is buried. He was ninety-six years 
 old. He had three wives and twenty-three children. (K. W.) 
 
 1675. Heese's Hufner farm in Woerpen (Hufner was the original German owner) 
 is situated between the parsonage and the Kossat farm of Andreas Amdt. 
 (H. C. A.). According to this the position of the old Amdt Kossat farm— at 
 
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 least that of Andreas for possibly the Amdts had two Kossat farms — 
 
 might be located in the village to-day. 
 1676. 19. 10. Martin Arndt son of Hans Arndt in Woerpen Married Dorothea 
 
 Reichert of Goltewitz. (K. W.) 
 1678. 8. I. Michael Arndt son of Hans Arndt in Woerpen Married Marie Iser- 
 
 beck of Woerpen. (K. W.) 
 1678. 30. 10. Michael Arndt in Woerpen has a. son Gregorious baptized. 
 
 (K. W.) 
 1681. 83. 5. Young children of Michael Arndt died, one 1687 still born. 
 
 1686. 21. 1. Andreas Arndt son of Hans Arndt of Woerpen was found dead in a 
 field. He was forty-six years old. (K. W.) 
 
 1687. 15. 4. The widow Maria Arndt turns over the Kossatten estate to her son 
 Martin. (H. C. A.) 
 
 1687. 14. 7. Michael Arndt son of Hans Arndt of Woerpen died thirty-six years 
 old. (K. W.) 
 
 1688. 8. II. Gregor Hase or Heese in Woerpen marries Michael Arndt's widow 
 Maria. Her son Gregor Arndt is still a minor. "The old widow Arndt 
 cannot come to the office on account of old age." (H. C. A.) 
 
 1691. II. 3. The widow of Hans Arndt in Woerpen born Niemann of Griebo 
 
 died. She was eighty-two years old. (K. W.) 
 Since 1732 members of the family of Daniel Arndt of Pulzig near Coswig appear 
 
 in the baptismal records. (K. W.) 
 1756. 9. n. Martin Arndt of Woerpen (Kossat and juryman) marries Catharine 
 
 Platte. Probably the grandson of Andreas. (K. W.) 
 
 "For the clearing up of your family history," says Mr. 
 Richter, "the most important thing is, I suppose, the state- 
 ment of the witnesses before the court of 1637. If I make a 
 r6sum6 of the important statements, we reach the following 
 conclusion or at least possibilities — I make a distinction be- 
 tween Hans Arndt I and Hans Arndt II both in Woerpen: 
 
 "Hans Arndt I married 1585; in 1637 he is no longer alive. 
 Hans Arndt II dies 1664. In 1649 be is called Hans the 
 elder; of course to designate the difference. 
 
 "Hans Arndt I has as his second wife Catharina, born 
 Henning, of Zico; the son is Martin, born 1604; who in 1637 
 is already in Zerbst as a permanent residence. 
 
 "Hans Arndt II had as wife, Marie Niemann, of Griebo; 
 he dies 1664, she 1691. The Church Book speaks of three 
 wives, the first two are unknown, as well as most of his twenty- 
 three children. Andreas, Martin and Michael are the only 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 three of his sons whose existence is proved by the Church 
 Book. 
 
 "Hans Arndt II is perhaps the son of Hans I, therefore a 
 brother of Martin in Zerbst; to be sure, they are very far 
 apart from each other in age, for Martin is born 1604; Hans II 
 is ninety-six years old when he dies in 1664; according to the 
 notice of 1658, eighty-two years, therefore born between 
 1568 and 1576. If one considers this difference in age, one 
 would rather think that Hans II is not Martin's brother. It 
 would be possible, however, if Hans I is also like Hans II, 
 of whom it is said that he became very old. 
 
 "Finally, it would also be possible that about 1600 and 
 earlier there were already two families Arndt in Woerpen. 
 In 1593 an Andreas Arndt is mentioned in Woerpen, but this 
 one could be either a brother or a son of Hans I. 
 
 " To me it seems more probable that Martin the son of Hans 
 I leaves Woerpen and the paternal farm and goes to Zerbst. 
 The reason for this is self evident, that Hans I had another 
 son who kept the farm and who had a right to the farm before 
 Martin. Now Hans II is settled for a long time in Woerpen 
 and a Kossat farm is in his hands; Hans I is also called a 
 "Kossat." I therefore incline to this view: Martin was the 
 younger (very much younger) brother of Hans II, and Hans II 
 therefore a son of Hans I. 
 
 "Later on two sons of Hans II, each one, Andreas and 
 Michael, has a Kossat farm which was formerly owned by 
 Hans I. Probably it was in the possession of the oldest son, 
 it may, however, be the other, because the old mother seems 
 to have lived with Michael (compare with the notice of 1688). 
 
 "Hans I had, therefore, perhaps three sons: Hans II, 
 Andreas, Martin, of whom Andreas disappears — maybe he 
 founded a new family somewhere else. According to this 
 Hans I would be born, if we take his age at the birth of Hans II 
 to be twenty-five years, about 1547 (between 1543 and 1551). 
 
 "But where was he born? In Woerpen? Perhaps he comes 
 from Griebo where the family seems to be longer established 
 than anywhere else. 
 
 "From all this we can make the following deduction: Hans 
 Arndt I born between 1543-1551, perhaps in Griebo; marries 
 
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THE FAMILY IN GERMANY 
 
 in 1585 Knape's widow in Woerpen, later Catherine Henning. 
 In 1637 he is no longer alive. Children: Hans 11, bom be- 
 tween 1568 and 1576, marries Marie Niemann, of Griebo. 
 Andreas, unmarried in 1593. Martin, bom 1604, goes to 
 Zerbst." 
 
 Such is the conclusion of Pastor Richter. 
 
 The point is, of course, to determine with exactness the 
 identity of the Hans Amdt, the father of Martin, who was 
 bom in 1604. If we possessed the church records complete 
 and accurate it would be possible by the process of elimina- 
 tion to settle the matter. But from the material that exists 
 the most likely conclusion is the one arrived at by Mr. Richter, 
 who considers the father of Martin was the Hans Arndt men- 
 tioned as marrying the widow Knape in 1585, and who seems 
 later to have married Catherine Henning. While the data 
 extant is not fully satisfying, it is, nevertheless, valuable as 
 showing the existence in and around Woerpen of a numerous 
 family of the name. They were to be foxmd scattered all 
 through the neighborhood, in the numerous small villages 
 that then and now dot the country-side, and they are to be 
 found there to this day. That they were so strong in nimi- 
 bers, even before 1600, indicates that they must have been 
 settled in that district for many years before that time. The 
 towns of Griebo, Zico, Duben, Woerpen, Wahlsdorf, and 
 MoUensdorf are aU within four miles of Coswig — ^north, east, 
 or west of that place. This circumstance seems to point to a 
 cormnon origin at a date much previous to any records extant. 
 However, one thing is certainly satisfactory, and that is that 
 none of the entries furnished by Pastor Richter contain any- 
 thing but what is creditable. 
 
 In a second letter dated Woerpen, April 18, 1911, Pastor 
 Richter states that the Coswig Coiirt Records are preserved 
 only from 1572, and that they include not only the Parish 
 
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 Court but the Tribunal of First Instance or District Court of 
 Coswig; also that the Woerpen Church books date from 1645, 
 those previous having been destroyed by fire. In respect to 
 the remote origin of the family he says: 
 
 "In 1 134 the Wenden land was transferred to Albrecht 
 the Bear; he is the father of our ducal houses of Anhalt. He 
 and his successors have drawn colonists from every part of 
 Western Germany, and special colonists came to our country 
 from the Netherlands (Holland) and people from the Flemish 
 stem, to settle here in the sandy and woody heights of Witten- 
 berg and Coswig, as far north as Belzig. For this reason our 
 entire country is called 'Der Fleming.' It could natxirally 
 then be supposed that the Arndts are of Flemish extraction. 
 Anhalt, too, — ^not only Brandenburg, — belonged even then to 
 Albrecht the Bear; in the present Anhalt part of The Fleming, 
 the old Wendish inhabitants, as well as in the other, has kept 
 itself very long. I say it is natural to suppose — I cannot state 
 it absolutely. It is most certain, however, that the Arndts 
 here in the neighborhood are a very old family." 
 
 The researches of Pastor Richter confirm Captain John 
 Arndt's narrative. Martin Arndt, born in 1604, who removed 
 to Zerbst in 1637, was the son of Hans Arndt of Woerpen. 
 The son, Martin Arndt, left Zerbst in 1678, and, as will be 
 seen from the certificate of the Pastor of the Reformed Church 
 in Baumholder, was a member of that church in 1682. It was 
 the grandson of Martin Arndt who emigrated to America in 
 1 73 1. It is a chain of perfect legal evidence. 
 
 But, after all, what was the origin of the family? Disre- 
 garding the differences in spelling Arnd, Arend, Arndt, there 
 seem to have been many of the same name in the neighbor- 
 hood. They are found in Duben, in Griebo, in Zico, in Mol- 
 lendorf, in Woerpen, and in Wahlsdorf . If all these different 
 branches sprung from the same stock, the original Arndt must 
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 from what part of Germany? No clue can be obtained from 
 the name, which is a very common one. The Berlin city 
 directory for 1910 contains several closely printed pages of 
 Amdts, and the name is found very often in South Germany, 
 along the Rhine, and, in fact, in all parts of the Einpire. As 
 to the etymology of the name. Professor Oscar Kuhns, in a 
 paper entitled "Studies in Pennsylvania German Family 
 Names," published in the proceedings of the Pennsylvania 
 German Society, believes it to be derived from Arin, an eagle, 
 and Wald, a forest, the name meaning forest eagle. The 
 names Arnold, Arnwald, and Amdt all have the same origin. 
 "In general," he says, "we can give as the period of the for- 
 mation of German names the years 1050 to 1250, but for 
 centuries to follow names were easily changed, and it was not 
 until comparatively recent times that they became fixed. It 
 is not possible to give the exact meaning of all of these old 
 German names, which all contained a vow for the happiness 
 of the child." While Professor Kuhn's opinion must be con- 
 sidered interesting it is a fact, nevertheless, that there is an 
 obsolete German verb, aren, meaning to plough. The name, 
 therefore, may mean forest eagle, or it may mean ploughman. 
 No clue to the origin of the family may, therefore, be found 
 either in the frequent occurrence of the family name or in 
 its significance. 
 
 History may give a clue. A few centuries after the fall of 
 the Western Roman Empire, a reflex movement of civilization 
 set in. The tide of emigration, which from the dawn of history 
 had been from the East toward the West, was reversed. From 
 the ninth to the thirteenth centuries men moved from the 
 West toward the East. It was the Emperor Charlemagne 
 who planned and started this tremendous drive, designed at 
 first to afford protection to his eastern frontiers. By offering 
 grants of land, low taxes, and important feudal rights to his 
 
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 rich and powerful vassals, he succeeded in inducing many to 
 proceed against the Wends and Slavs, who then lived along the 
 Oder and the Elbe, and even further west. The ostensible 
 purpose of this crusade was the conversion of the superstitious 
 and idolatrous Wends to the Christian faith. They invaded 
 the Wendish country, killed many, and sent back so many 
 prisoners to be sold that the word slave here had its origin. 
 Yet these people had been living there a long time. Pliny, 
 who died A.D. 79, mentions the Venedi or Wends as living 
 on the other side of the Vistula beside the Sarmatians; and 
 Tacitus (Germanicus, 46) makes a similar statement. Some 
 of them had moved forward a little, but the attack was directed 
 against the race. From 836 onward, these attempts con- 
 tinued. 
 
 "Finally, in 1157 Albert the Bear, Margrave of Branden- 
 ' burg, who had twice before waged war with the Wends, organ- 
 ized a third expedition against them which ended in their 
 almost complete extinction. The depopulated country he 
 repeopled with agriculturists whom he brought from the 
 Rhine and from Holland. With the influx of these Christian 
 colonists, missionary work in the country of the Wends 
 ceased." — ("The Conversion of Europe," by C. H. Robinson, 
 Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 
 Foreign Parts. London, 1917, pages 391-397.) 
 
 Among the agriculturists were probably the original Amdt 
 family. They were doubtless not among the first comers or 
 they would have picked out better land, for the land to the 
 south near Dessau is far superior to that around Woerpen. 
 They came apparently from the Rhine or from Belgium or 
 Holland. There is one reason in favor of a Belgian origin, 
 and that is that the region about Woerpen and north of it was 
 settled by Belgians. The district is called "Der Fleming" 
 to this day, and is so marked on the maps. The presumption 
 
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 is that old neighbors settled near each other, as is the case in 
 America, and the fact of Flemish occupation of this district 
 is beyond question. And here the matter must be left.^ 
 
 These early ancestors of ours were subjects of a powerful 
 monarchy. At this time there were three great famihes in Cen- 
 tral Europe — the Hohenstaufens in Austria, the Wittelsbachs 
 in Bavaria, and the house of Ascanien in Anhalt. Albrecht and 
 his immediate successors ruled over not only Anhalt, but over 
 a large part of Poland, over much of what is now Prussia, and 
 they governed in Saxony for centuries. The Grand Duke of 
 Anhalt is, or was, the representative of almost the oldest ruKng 
 house in Europe. But the vast possessions did not remain in 
 the family long; Brandenburg, Poland, and Saxony slipped 
 away, one after the other, until only Anhalt remained to the 
 descendant of Albrecht the Bear. And Anhalt is one of the 
 small states, having an area of 900 square miles, or only two- 
 thirds that of Rhode Island, and having a population in 1919 
 of 334, 1 59. At one time the principality was smaller than this, 
 for in 1603 the Duke divided it into four districts, one for each 
 of four sons, the fifth son having the reversion of the first lot 
 
 * I have been unable to identify with certainty as a member of our family John 
 Amdt of Ballenstedt, the famous author of "True Christianity" and other 
 religious works, whose writings have been widely published and read for three 
 centuries. The latest biographers of John Amdt have shown that he was not 
 bom at Ballenstedt at all but at Edderitz, a town a few miles south of Coethen. 
 His father removed to Ballenstedt in 1558 when John Amdt was an infant, and 
 became Pastor of a flourishing church there, and Chaplain to Duke Wolfgang of 
 Anhalt, the staunch supporter of Luther and the Reformation. But Jacob 
 Amdt, the father, came from Coethen, where the family seems to have been es- 
 tablished for a long time. Now Coethen is only eighteen miles southwest of 
 Coswig, and it is quite conceivable that one of our family may have settled there 
 and become the progenitor of the great theologian. Furthermore, my father 
 told me he had it from his father that John Amdt was of our family, and Fried- 
 rich Amdt of Woerpen told me it was a tradition among them that he was of our 
 blood. Considering all the circimistances, this seems to be a belief of more 
 weight than a mere possibihty. — (J. S. A.) 
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 that fell vacant. The divisions were reunited more than a cen- 
 tury later. But under the partition of 1603 the district around 
 Woerpen formed part of the division of which the town of 
 Zerbst is the capital, and the Duchy was known as Anhalt- 
 Zerbst. The ducal family cannot be said to have distinguished 
 itself particularly; still, they furnished one Empress to Russia 
 — Catharine II, called the Great, who was born May 2, 1729, 
 at Dornburg, six miles from Zerbst, or, as some authorities 
 claim, at Stettin in Pomerania. The Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst 
 furnished two regiments of mercenaries to England in our 
 Revolutionary War, but they never got further than Canada. 
 The standards they carried may still be seen in the ducal palace 
 at Zerbst. 
 
 The first step of our Arndt family away from Anhalt was 
 taken by Martin Arndt, who, as the records show, transferred 
 his legal residence to Zerbst in the year 1637. Of his life there 
 we have little information. He was married to Maria Sager, 
 daughter of Hans Sager, a native of Brabant, and had a son 
 named Martin Conrad Arndt. In 1678, when Martin was 
 seventy-four years old, he appeared before the municipal au- 
 thorities of Zerbst to secure for his son a certificate of birth. 
 
 Clearly the most important incident in the life of the family 
 in Germany is the determination of Martin Conrad Arndt to 
 leave Anhalt. He proceeded to the Rhine country, and thus 
 came within the sphere of influence of Penn's agents at Rotter- 
 dam, who industriously canvassed this territory in their search 
 for emigrants. It is 200 miles from the Rhine to Anhalt — 
 Penn's literature never got that far. There were no early im- 
 migrants to America from Anhalt. But what prompted Martin 
 Conrad to leave his native district? For one thing, eastern 
 Germany was still suffering from the ruin of the Thirty Years' 
 War. Tilly, the ImperiaHst General, had taken Zerbst in 1644 ; 
 the whole district had been thoroughly ravaged so that even 
 
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 a century later traces remained of the ruin that had been 
 worked. Misery and wretchedness prevailed all over Germany, 
 of whose population two-thirds had perished, the flocks and 
 herds had been killed; the houses burned, and the land made 
 desolate. The Rhine country had suffered too, but much less 
 than Eastern and Central Germany, and, moreover, it pos- 
 sessed powers of recuperation which helped her powerfully 
 toward better conditions. Undoubtedly, in 1678, thirty years 
 after the war had closed, the Rhine territory was in a much 
 more prosperous condition than any other part of Germany. 
 But there may have been some other reason than a desire to 
 better his condition that prompted the yoimg man to make 
 the journey. How is it that Martin Arndt, whose middle name 
 was Conrad, turns up very promptly in the obscure village of 
 Baiunholder, 250 miles from home, where a good many people 
 named Conrad lived, and where, four years after he left home, 
 he had so well established himself that he was able to marry? 
 Moreover, his father Martin, then seventy-four years of age, 
 made no objection to his journey, but himself appeared before 
 the municipal authorities at Zerbst and asked for a birth cer- 
 tificate for his son. These circumstances indicate that the 
 young man was going among friends, probably relatives of his 
 mother. 
 
 The certificate that was given him is still in existence. It is 
 in the possession of Mrs. J. M. Harris, of Pottsville, Pa., and is 
 the oldest heirloom of the family. It is of sheepskin, now brown 
 and stiff with age. The skin measures 23^^ by 14 inches. The 
 writing extends almost the entire width, and is 8f^ inches from 
 top to bottom. Originally a seal was attached to the certificate 
 by a ribbon of some kind, but in the vicissitudes of fortune 
 this seal has been detached and is lost. A photographic copy 
 is given as a frontispiece in exactly the original size. The 
 creases caused by folding are clearly indicated. A remarkable 
 
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 thing about the certificate is that the color of the ink has been 
 wonderfully preserved, and apparently is just as brilliant as 
 when it was put on, almost two centuries and a half ago. The 
 writing is in the old Gothic character, and it was necessary 
 first to reduce this to the modern Roman German type. This 
 transcription is also given. Finally, a translation into English 
 is appended. In making this translation all idea of form and 
 style was disregarded, and the translation was made as literal 
 as could be. It may consequently be objected to as not Eng- 
 lish of the best style, and therefore those who prefer to do so 
 are, of course, at perfect liberty to make their own translation. 
 
 WiR BURGERMEISTEE UND RaHTMANNE DER StADT ZeRBST 
 
 Fugen hiermit nebst Anerbietung Unserer freundl: und 
 gebuhrlichen Dienste mannglich, so dieser Unser offener Brief 
 vorkombt, zuwissen, dass, heute Endes benannten dato, und in 
 gantzem Versambleten Rahts Stuhle, Martin Arendt zu erken- 
 nen gegeben, dass massen. Er von seinem Sohne Martin Con- 
 rad Arendten ein beglaubig Gezeugniss seiner ehrhchen 
 gebuhrt benotiget, zu den Ende auch Martin Picklem, Burgern 
 und Kierschern und Moritz Kretzschmann, auch Burgern und 
 Sattlern allhier, zu zeugen dekomineret, mit Bitte, Dieselben 
 hieruber zu vernehmen, imd Ihnen deren Aussage in forma 
 probante auss zumachen, wann dann in so thaner erbahren 
 Sache manniglich unser obrigkeitl: Ambt zu reichen, wir unss 
 schuldig erachten: Deshalben wir besagte unss vorgestelte 
 Zeugen mit fleis was Ihnen von erwehnten Martin Conrad 
 Arendt ehrlichen Gebuhrt und Herkommen wissend, ver- 
 nommen, die dann beiderseits und ein jeder wieder in sonder- 
 heit bey deren Eiden und Pflichten womit sie der gnadigsten, 
 Furstl: Herschaft, und auch dem Raht vervant auszusagen, 
 dass wahr und Ihnen wohl bewusst, dass erwehnter Martin 
 Conrad Arendt, Vorzeiger Dieses von seinem Vater Martin 
 Arendten Burger allhier, Hans Arends ackermann und Ein- 
 wohner zu Werpen in den Furstl: Anhalt, Amt Cosswick, 
 gelegen, EheleibUchen Sohne und seiner Mutter Maria Sagerin, 
 Hans Sagers, Furstl: Brabanten imd Burger alhier, Eheleib- 
 
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THE FAMILY IN GERMANY 
 
 lichen Tochter als seinen lieben Eltern in einem reinem und 
 unbefleckten Ehebette echt und recht erzeuget, Dass er also 
 aus guten Deutschen und nicht Wendischen gebluhte gebohren, 
 auch sonsten ehrlichen und intadelhaften Geschlechtes, 
 niemands eigen noch lato sey. Wie deirn auch die Eltern 
 Tochter von untadelhafter Gebuhrt und Geschlechtes luid 
 niemands eigen gewesen sich auch ehrUches Gewerbes 
 gebraucht und diesen ihren Sohn Martin Conrad Arendt von 
 Jugend auf in der Furcht Gottes und Christhchen Tugenden 
 auferzogen, gestalt Er sich auch bisher selbst ehrlich, fromb 
 imd wohl Verhalten, dass er so wohl seiner ehrHchen Gebuhrt 
 und Herkommens als seines eigenen wohl Verhaltens halber, in 
 burgerHchen imd ehrbaren Innungen, Gulden Embtem, 
 Zunften und Bruderschaften wohl auf und anzunehmen und 
 ihm dieselben nach ihrer Ahrt und Gewohnheit zuhaben, 
 besitzen xind gebrauchen zu verstatten. 
 
 So gelanget derowegen an alle und wie denen Dieser Unser 
 offener Brief vorgezeiget wird unser freundlich und gebuhr- 
 liches Bitten; Sie wollen den was obstehet, alien thalben 
 voUkommenen Glauben Beymessen, mehr vermeldeten Martin 
 Conrad Arenden in Ihre BurgerUche Gemeine, Innungen 
 Zunften, Gulden, Embtem, und Bruderschaften oder andere 
 erbahre Gesellschaften gunstig auf und annehmen und ihm 
 dieselben besitzen, haben und gebrauchen lassen, und sonsten 
 alien guten befordersamen Willen erweisen. 
 
 Solches wird Er, wie imser vertrauen zu ihm ist, vor seine 
 Person gehorig erkennen; und Wir seyend unss unbenommen 
 imd wird freundlich nach Standes Gelegenheit gebuhrlich zu 
 verdienen und zu erwiedern befleissen. 
 
 Zu Uhrkunde haben wir unter diesen Brief aufgetruct der 
 Stadt secret wissentlich anhangen lassen. 
 
 So Geschehen Zerbst den 13 Marty Anno 1678. 
 
 We the Mayor and Council of the City of Zerbst 
 
 Herewith declare and make known, and as one man, offer in a 
 friendly way, the services devolving upon us, whenever this 
 our open letter is shown, and we herewith make known that 
 to-day Martin Arendt, before the entire assembled Council, 
 
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 made known to us that he needed a certified testimonial of the 
 legitimate (honest) birth of his son Martin Conrad Arendten. 
 For this purpose Martin Picklem citizen and furrier, and 
 Moritz Kretzschmann also a citizen and saddler here, were 
 named as witnesses with the request that they be heard con- 
 cerning this fact, and that their testimony be taken in forma 
 Probante at the time when this honorable affair comes before 
 our Municipal Office, and we hold ourselves boimd to consider 
 the matter: therefore we have heard with dihgence the above- 
 mentioned witnesses who were introduced to us and who know 
 of the legitimate birth and origin of the aforesaid Martin 
 Conrad Arendt ; these same witnesses stated jointly and sever- 
 ally, each one under oath and obhgation to their gracious 
 princely sovereign and to the Council, that it is true and well 
 known to them, that the aforesaid Martin Conrad Arendt, 
 presenter of this, was born of his father Martin Arendt, citizen 
 here, whose father was Hans Arends, husbandman, an inhabi- 
 tant of Woerpen, situated in the Duchy of Anhalt, bailiwick 
 Cosswick, a lawful son and of his mother Maria Sagerin, law- 
 ful daughter of Hans Sagers: of the Principality of Brabant 
 and citizen here, that therefore he is bom of his dear parents in 
 pure immaculate wedlock, true and genuine, is of good German 
 and not Wendish blood, and is otherwise of honest and vm- 
 blemished stock, and has never been serf or slave to any one. 
 They always followed an honest trade and raised their son 
 Martin Conrad Arendt from childhood up, in the fear of (Jod 
 and in Christian virtues; and he has kept himself till now, 
 honorably, pious, and upright, so that he is worthy of being 
 taken in and received, as well on account of his honorable 
 birth and origin, as for his own good behavior, into all civic and 
 respectable companies, guilds, offices, corporations and broth- 
 erhoods, and of being permitted by them to use, possess and 
 hold privileges according to their customs and habits. 
 
 On this accoimt we make our friendly and respectful request 
 to all to whom this open letter is shown: that they will give 
 full credence in all details to all that is said above; that they 
 will take in and favorably receive the aforesaid Martin Con- 
 rad Arend into their civil community, companies, corporations, 
 guilds, offices and brotherhoods or other respectable societies, 
 
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 J i 
 
LiCHTENBKRG CaSTLE 
 
 CiENEEAL \'lEW OF BaUMHOLDER 
 
 City Hall, Baumikilder 
 
THE FAMILY IN GERMANY 
 
 and that they will allow him to have, use and possess their 
 respective privileges, and that they will show him their good 
 will in other helpful ways. 
 
 We have confidence in him that he on his part will properly 
 recognize and appreciate such action: and we are sure that he 
 will try to deserve and repay it according to his opportunities. 
 
 We have had the special seal of the city duly attached to 
 this letter. 
 
 So done in Zerbst the 13th of March 1678. 
 
 Baumholder is a curious, ancient town of about a thousand 
 inhabitants, situated 60 miles Southwest of Bingen — Bingen 
 on the Rhine. Oberstein, six miles away, on the Nahe River, is 
 the nearest railroad station. The remains of a wall that once 
 defended the place are still to be seen, and within it the houses 
 are crowded together along winding cobble-paved streets. Out- 
 side are the fields which are tilled by the people of the town 
 after the ancient fashion, the laborers going out in the morning 
 and returning at night. There are no suburbs, the town termi- 
 nating abruptly at the walls, and there are no farm-houses 
 near by. A few miles distant, on the excellent military road 
 that leads to Kusel, perched high on the end of a ridge of hills, 
 are the ruins of the ancient castle of the Dukes of Lichtenberg. 
 It is cunningly located with the road winding beneath it, so 
 that travellers passing in either direction could be intercepted 
 on the other side by the watchful toll- takers who had perceived 
 their approach. Just beyond this hill, four miles from Baiun- 
 holder and three miles from Kusel, is the village of Coerbom, 
 where Bernhard Amdt courted his wife. It is a beautiful coim- 
 try, fertile and well tilled, and abounding in evidences of 
 prosperity and contentment. 
 
 Of Martin Conrad Amdt's life in Baumholder there are few 
 traces. It seems he married twice and died in 1712. Of his 
 two children who appear to have survived, one, Bernhard, 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 emigrated to America, and the other married the grandfather 
 of Congressman Conrad, who represented the Northampton 
 County district in Congress in the years 1803 to 1809. It is due 
 to the courtesy and patience of the Reverend William Hess, 
 Pastor of the Reformed Church at Baumholder, and Super- 
 intendent of the Synod of St. Wendel, that the exact facts are 
 available. For his laborious researches Mr. Hess firmly de- 
 clined any personal compensation; he indicated, however, that 
 he would receive a contribution, "perhaps forty marks," for 
 the poor of his parish. His letter, dated Baimiholder, January 
 16, 1913, and the Supplements he refers to, follow: 
 
 "Some time ago I procured our oldest church register, still on 
 hand, and set to work to search through it for your ancestors 
 and their descendants from 1685-1744. It took a few days to 
 make all that I send you as supplement. I call your attention 
 to the fact that the same family name is entered in different 
 forms as; Arnd, Arndt, and Arend. It might be important to 
 you, and you will see it from No. i of the supplement, that the 
 forefather, Martin Conrad Arndt, came from the city of Zerbst, 
 in the present Duchy of Anhalt. About his oldest daughter, 
 Anna Margarethe, born 7, X, 1684, 1 have been unable to find 
 anything either in the marriage or burial records up till 1744, 
 despite the most careful investigation. The children, Hans 
 Bernhard, born 1691, and Marie Elisabeth, born 1700, were 
 married on the same day, February 16, 1717, as you will see 
 from No. 2 and 3 of supplement. Johann (Hans) Bernhard 
 Arndt's children, Johann Abraham, Johann Jacob, and Anna 
 Catharina, are not mentioned in the burial register. They seem 
 therefore, to have emigrated with the others to America, (at 
 the age of nine, six, and three years). Coerbom, the place 
 from which the wife of Bernhard Arndt came, is not near Zwei- 
 bruecken, but lies on the old road between Baumholder and 
 Kusel, seven kilometres from Baumholder and four from Kusel. 
 The descendants of the family Arndt, in the female line, are 
 probably still here; that is, from Marie EHsabeth, born Arndt, 
 who was married to Johann Daniel Conrad, smith (see No. 3 
 
 40 
 
THE FAMILY IN GERMANY 
 
 of supplement) . The family Conrad was widely scattered over 
 this place and was highly esteemed, and the trade of smith and 
 locksmith passed on from one generation to another. The 
 father of my opposite neighbor, for instance, was also called 
 Daniel Conrad and was a locksmith." 
 
 Extract from the oldest Church register extant of the Con- 
 gregation of Baimaholder, District St. Wendel. 
 
 la 
 
 1682 October loth were united in marriage Martin Conrad Amdt of 
 Zerbst Principality Anhalt, and Anna Eli2a,beth the daughter left 
 by Johannis Jacob Stehly. Mrs. Anna Elizabeth died 1706, and was 
 buried Feb. 12. 
 Children from this marriage were baptized 
 
 i. 1684 October 7 — ^Anna Margaretha 
 
 i. 1686 May 5 Maria Engel died and buried April 24, 1689 
 
 3. 1689 March 13, Johann Daniel died " April 10, 1694 
 
 4. 1 69 1 December 29 Hans Bemhard 
 
 5. 1697 June 30, Johann Jacob died and buried Feb. 13, 1699. 
 
 6. 1700 January 14, Maria Elisabeth 
 
 I b. Second Maekiage 
 1708 June 6, was married: Martin Conrad Amdt, widower, here, to Agnes 
 the widow of Michel Winckebacher of Ruschberg. (from this 
 second marriage no children were recorded) 
 Martin Conrad Amdt died and was buried September 20, 1 7 1 2 . 
 His second wife Agnes died and was buried December 17, 1721. 
 
 II 
 
 1717 February i6th was married Johann (Hans) Bemhard Amdt lawful 
 son of Martin Conrad Amdt, citizen here, to Anna Maria, lawful 
 daughter of Andreas Decker of the Community of Coerbom. 
 Children from this marriage were baptized 
 
 1. 1718 March 24, Johann Henrich 
 
 2. 1720 October 2, Anna Elisabeth died and was buried May 25, 1721. 
 
 3. 1722 Aug. 5, Johann Abraham 
 
 4. 1725 March 27, Johann Jacob 
 
 5. 1728 March 17, Anna Catharina. 
 
 Ill 
 1717 February 16 were married Johann Daniel Conrad, lawful son of 
 George Conrad citizen here to Maria Elisabeth lawful daughter of 
 Martin Conrad Amdt also citizen here 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 Children from this marriage were baptized 
 
 1. 1619 February 16, Maria Catliarina 
 
 2. 1723 May 12 (bom the 7th) Anna Elisabeth 
 
 3. 1727 April 24, Johann Henrich 
 
 4. 1732 December 25, Juliana Elisabeth Died 1737 
 
 5. 1736 May 16 Maria Magdalena. 
 
 The correctness of the foregoing is attested to by 
 WiLHELU Hess 
 Pastor here and Superintendent of the 
 Synod St. Wendel, 
 Baumholder, January 16, 1913. 
 Seal. 
 
 4i 
 
CHAPTER in 
 THE EMIGRATION 
 
 Penn Sends Agents to the Rhine Valley, Where Independent Religious Thought 
 Flourishes — ^The First Wave of Emigration to America — Bemhard Finally 
 Determines to go — ^The Journey Down the Rhine — ^Visited at Rotterdam by 
 ReUgious Sympathizers — His Family Embarks on the American Fleet and on a 
 Fortunate Vessel — ^Perils from Pirates and Unfavorable Weather — An Uncom- 
 fortable Voyage — ^They Arrive in Philadelphia and Take the Oath of Allegiance. 
 
 GEORGE FOX, Robert Barclay, and the other founders 
 of the Quaker faith were well aware of the existence, in 
 the valley of the Rhine, of a large body of Christian 
 beUevers who held to the same tenets of faith they themselves 
 professed. Indeed, it has been claimed that Barclay, who 
 knew them more intimately than any of the other Quaker 
 founders, received from them the idea of the inner spiritual 
 experience and that he communicated this conception to his 
 English associates,who promptly adopted it, coinciding as it did 
 with their as yet unformulated beliefs. The Quaker authorities 
 do not admit this; but one thing is very certain — there is a 
 marvelous similarity between the doctrines of some of the Ger- 
 man Pietist sects and those of the English Quakers, which were 
 not expressed in Britain imtil after they were qxiite common 
 along the Rhine. A century after Fox and Barclay came the 
 Wesleys, and there is even more reason to believe that they 
 derived from these same German Pietists their idea of the tre- 
 mendous appeal to the individual conscience which produced 
 such astonishing political and social results in England in the 
 last half of the eighteenth century. But even before the time 
 of Luther and Calvin, the Rhine Valley had been the home of 
 independent religious thinkers who were largely of a mystical 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 turn of mind. The English Quakers knew of this fact, talked 
 about it among themselves, and when William Penn, full of 
 zeal for his Holy Experiment, looked around for settlers for 
 his new land, he thought not only of his English and Welsh 
 brethren, but he remembered the men of an alien tongue whose 
 creed was so similar to his own and who also needed a place 
 of refuge where they could worship God in their own way. 
 
 He therefore established headquarters at Rotterdam, and 
 sent agents up the Rhine properly provided with descriptive 
 matter about the resources and possibilities of Pennsylvania. 
 It was the agriculturists to whom Penn particularly addressed 
 himself. He was aware of the existence of iron ore in his 
 Province, although he did not know how extensive the deposits 
 were, nor did he at all reaKze the fact that Pennsylvania, with 
 its fertile land, its forests, streams, and minerals, was the rich- 
 est in natural wealth of all the provinces on the North Ameri- 
 can Continent. The early literature, therefore, dealt with the 
 agricultural conditions only, but the response of the German 
 farmers was not encouraging. His agents travelled the Rhine 
 country year after year with the same result. A few adven- 
 turous emigrants left their homes and sought a new future in 
 America, but their numbers were disappointingly small, con- 
 sidering the efforts put forth. It was not until the year 1709 
 that the persistent labors of Penn's agents began to bear fruit, 
 and when the great rush did begin, it was the result of local 
 conditions and not of any new persuasive efforts. In the first 
 place, the Palatinate was ravaged for several successive years 
 in the first part of the eighteenth century by the troops of 
 Louis XIV, who committed all sorts of outrages and barbar- 
 ities. Then came two or three years of bad harvests. Finally, 
 the winter of 1708-9 was exceedingly severe; the Rhine was 
 frozen over, and so intense was the cold that birds perished in 
 their nests. All this accumulation of miseries finally started 
 
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THE EMIGRATION 
 
 the movement to the new world. In the spring of 1709 many 
 thousands presented themselves as desirous of emigrating; 
 they were sert to England; thence some went to New York, 
 and others were distributed to other places. The real move- 
 ment was begun. 
 
 Bernhard did not Join in this first wave. His father was still 
 living; he had a young sister, and he was only eighteen years 
 old himself. But the idea must have lodged in his mind, and 
 it was kept alive by the constant departure of others, for 
 many went from the district around Baimiholder. Beyond 
 doubt many of those who did emigrate wrote letters to their old 
 friends, narrating how they were prospering in their new home, 
 and these letters were circulated and discussed. It is en- 
 tirely reasonable to believe, as Captain Arndt states in the 
 Narrative, that the idea of emigrating to America was a fre- 
 quent subject of discussion in Bernhard's household, and 
 finally came the incident of the pig. That was the last straw. 
 It settled the matter. 
 
 The route pursued by the emigrants was doubtless the one 
 that could be followed to-day in the age of steam. From 
 Baumholder they would naturally proceed to the River Nahe, 
 so as to take advantage of the favorable grade of the road along 
 its bank, or to embark on the river itself. They probably drove 
 to Oberstein, eight miles from Baumholder, and then travelled 
 on or along the Nahe to Bingen on the Rhine, 42 miles distant. 
 Here they reached the great highway of traffic, where there 
 were some facilities for travel, and down the river they floated 
 to Rotterdam, 260 miles away. The journey was long — not in 
 distance, but in time. Two weeks, and even as much as four 
 weeks, were required for this trip, not because the boats were 
 slow, but because of the numerous custom houses along the 
 river, at each of which the boat was tied up, and the passengers 
 and cargo examined. Mittelberger, writing in 1756 records 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 that there were no less than 36 custom houses in the 400 miles 
 between Heilbronn on the Neckar and Rotterdam. But the 
 journey was accomplished at last, and at Rotterdam the 
 Arndts found a large number of fellow Palatines awaiting an 
 opportunity to embark for America. They also found sym- 
 pathy and help. Rupp, in his Thirty Thousand Immigrants, 
 quotes the following from the German Reformed Almanac for 
 1865: "While the Synod of South Holland was in session in 
 Dort in 1 73 1, eight hundred exiled Palatines passed through the 
 place to take ship at Rotterdam for America. They were 
 visited by the whole Synod in a body, and were furnished by 
 them with provisions and medicines. After Christian exhorta- 
 tion, prayer, and singing, they were dismissed with the assur- 
 ance that they might rely upon the Church of HoUand for 
 support in their new abode." At this time, the Reformed 
 Church in America was under the care of the Church in Hol- 
 land, a connection that lasted for sixty years. 
 
 The travelers were finally embarked on five ships, all bound 
 for Philadelphia. The Arndt family took passage on the 
 Pennsylvania Merchant, commanded by Captain John Sted- 
 man. Later on Captain Stedman secured some sort of monop- 
 oly of the emigrant trade from Rotterdam to Philadelphia, and 
 controlled several vessels pl3^ng between the two ports, and 
 there were complaints at one time that his passengers were 
 treated with a harshness amounting almost to inhumanity. 
 But at this time he was merely master of a vessel, and there 
 were no reports of such character. Of the ship itself no par- 
 ticulars have come down to us, except that she was brigantine 
 rigged, and ran in the Rotterdam-Philadelphia trade many 
 years. There were no vessels engaged in this business, at this 
 time, exceeding 300 tons burden, and the Pennsylvania Mer- 
 chant was not one of the largest. On this voyage she landed at 
 Philadelphia 57 men and boys over sixteen years of age, 57 
 
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THE EMIGRATION 
 
 women, and 58 children, a total of 172 passengers; while of 
 the other ships, one brought 267, another 109, and one, 83. The 
 fifth ship never reached Philadelphia at all. The story of her 
 voyage is one of the horrors of the sea. She was named Love in 
 Unity, Captain Jacob Lobb in command, and sailed from 
 Rotterdam in May with 150 Palatines on board. Twenty- 
 four weeks later less than 50 emaciated human beings were 
 landed at Martha's Vineyard — all that were left of the original 
 150. The ship had been held back by head winds; provisions 
 became so scarce that toward the end of the voyage one pint 
 of meal a day was dealt out for five persons; everything edible 
 was consumed — even the rats being hunted down. Only the 
 strongest survived; the weak perished, and their bodies were 
 thrown overboard by the callous captain, there being no 
 prayer, and not even a weight to carry down the bodies. As 
 soon as the survivors landed they had the captain arrested on a 
 charge of murder, but they were unable to prove their case, 
 and under the legal system then in effect they were put in jail 
 themselves until the costs of the trial had been paid. Some 34 
 of the company finally reached Philadelphia in May, 1732. 
 
 But bad seamanship and starvation were not the only perils 
 of the sea in those days. Algerian pirates roved the seas and 
 plundered every ship that was not strong enough to fight them 
 off. Bradford's Weekly Mercury of July 30, 1730, has the fol- 
 lowing paragraph, under date of July 30, 1730: 
 
 " On the 25 th Instant arrived the ship London Hope, Thomas 
 Annis Commander, from London, who, meeting with contrary 
 winds in the Channel, put into Plymouth Harbor, and sailed 
 from thence the 31st of May, in company with the Lark, Man 
 of War, — bound for the coast of Guinea. On the 2nd of June 
 they met with three Algiereen Ships of War in the Lat of 48 
 degrees, 30 Minutes, who would probably have at least plun- 
 dered the Ship, but the generous Capt. of the Lark, then about 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 two leagues a Head of the London Hope, seeing the Algiereens 
 make toward the ship, immediately lay by with his Colours 
 out, till they separated. This publick Account Capt Annis 
 thiiiks himself obliged in Gratitude to the worthy Capt. of the 
 Lark, to give, having had no other way to do it himself, the 
 ships soon after taking their different Courses without speaking 
 to each other." 
 
 This was almost exactly one year to the day before the 
 Arndt family was in the very same waters. Perhaps the 
 Algerians were out looking for the emigrant fleet of the spring 
 of 1730. The next year, when the Arndts did make the passage, 
 the pirates were not so far North. They were active, however, 
 as the following extract from the Weekly Mercury of September 
 23-30> i73i> shows: 
 
 "Foreign Affairs — Oporto, June 5. — This morning a Ham- 
 burgher was taken by two Sallymen a few Hours after she got 
 over the Bar. They have taken two or three Gallego vessels, 
 and several Portuguese fishing Boats." 
 
 Fortunately escaping the perils of bad seamanship and of the 
 pirates, the Arndts sailed from Rotterdam on the Pennsylvania 
 Merchant about the beginning of May, and proceeded to Dover, 
 from which port she cleared for Philadelphia. The date of her 
 departure from Dover is not known, but if she sailed in the 
 first part of June, the voyage consumed nearly three months. 
 We know nothing of the particulars of this passage; it was 
 doubtless like all sea journeys of this period, uncomfortable 
 enough, with poor quarters, poor food, and insufficient water. 
 The small size of the vessel, too, made her susceptible to the 
 motion of the waves, and it is safe to conclude that everybody 
 was seasick. It was under such circumstances that Bemhard's 
 wife gave birth to the son Henry. Whatever Captain Sted- 
 man's later reputation for humanity may have been, he was a 
 
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THE EMIGRATION 
 
 skilful navigator, and brought his ship into port in fairly good 
 time. The first arrival of the Rotterdam fleet was the ship 
 Samuel, which was entered at the Philadelphia Custom House 
 on August 27; the second was the Pennsylvania Merchant, 
 which was entered on September 11. The exact date of her 
 arrival cannot be determined. Bradford's Weekly Mercury, 
 published on Thursday, September 9, contains no mention in 
 its shipping news of the arrival of the Pennsylvania Merchant. 
 The next issue, published September 16, does contain the entry, 
 among the arrivals of the preceding week, but without stating 
 the day. As the immigrants took the oath of allegiance on the 
 eleventh, the ship must have arrived on the ninth, after Brad- 
 ford's paper had gone to press, or on the tenth. The arrival of 
 a vessel in port was not of sufficient importance to be worth 
 noting precisely. The Mercury of the sixteenth announces the 
 arrival, during the preceding week, of one vessel from Dover 
 (the Pennsylvania Merchant), one from London, three from 
 Jamaica, two from Barbados, one from Antigua, one from 
 Boston, one from New York, and one from North Carolina — 
 a total of II, a schedide that sufficiently attests the wide- 
 spread character of Philadelphia's commerce at that time. 
 
 On Saturday, the eleventh, the men were taken before the 
 Recorder of the city, who administered to them the oath of 
 allegiance. Those who were able to write signed their names, 
 and the name of Johann Bernhard Arndt appears among the sig- 
 natures. Then they settled with the ship for their passage. The 
 usual fare from Rotterdam was ten pounds each for adults and 
 children over ten years of age, and five pounds for children be- 
 tween five and ten years. At times the fare was as low as six 
 pounds, but not for long. The passage money included pro- 
 visions, but most of the passengers carried something with 
 them to eke out the ship's supplies, and sometimes purchased 
 food from the Steward. Bernhard was able to pay all his 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 charges, but he probably had little left. They had been nearly 
 five months on the journey from Bavunholder, the trip down 
 the Rhine had been expensive, and the stay at Rotterdam must 
 have cost something, so that when Bernhard Arndt, forty years 
 old, stepped ashore from the ship, his principal possessions 
 were a courageous heart and a wife and four children. The 
 Pennsylvania Merchant remained in port for two months, but 
 about the middle of November Captain Stedman set sail for 
 Lisbon, and the last link that connected the brave travelers 
 with their old life was sundered. 
 
 so 
 
CHAPTER IV 
 THE NEW WORLD 
 
 Population and Characteristics of Philadelphia in 1731 — Its Streets, Insti- 
 tutions, and Customs — ^Wages, Prices, and Mode of Living — Other Settlements 
 in the Province — Roads — Farming and Manufacturing — ^The City's Trade 
 with Great Britain — Exports to the West Indies the Basis of the City's Pros- 
 perity — ^The Colony Grows in Wealth Through its Favorable Trade Balance — 
 The Importance of the Shipping Industry — Scarcity of Coined Money — ^The 
 System of Colonial Currency — Its Beneficial Effect in Pennsylvania — ^Franklin's 
 Testimony — ^The Province Shares in the Growing Prosperity of the World. 
 
 Philadelphia in the year 1731 was a lively and flourishing 
 city. Its population is not accurately known, as no census had 
 ever been made, nor was one attempted until 1749. In that 
 year a coimt of all the dwelling houses was made, and the num- 
 ber was found to be 2,976; the enumerators made a guess of 
 6.3 persons to the house, and thus arrived at an estimated 
 population of about 13,000, which was probably not far out of 
 the way. The city, of course, had made a considerable growth 
 in the eighteen years since Bemhard Amdt and his family 
 landed. The Century of Population Growth, a publication of 
 the United States Government, estimates the population of 
 Philadelphia in the year 1 731 as about 8,500, that of New York 
 at the same time as about 8,500, and that of Boston as 13,000. 
 The same authority gives the population of Pennsylvania in 
 1 73 1 as 69,000. The city straggled along the bank of the Dela- 
 ware and had little breadth. Graydon, writing in 1756, says 
 that even then Fifth Street might be considered the western 
 limit of the town; beyond that were fields and woods with an 
 occasional farm-house. In the northern part of the city were 
 the ship-yards, the one industry the place boasted, but it was a 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 flourishing one, and had been so from the days of the founder; 
 and now as many as 15 vessels were occasionally on the stocks 
 at one time. But the important business was trade. There 
 were many ships in the harbor, farmers with their large four- 
 horse wagons filled the unpaved and often muddy streets, 
 where red men, black men, and white men jostled each other 
 as they passed. The business of the day was interesting, and 
 the people were interested in doing it. But to none could the 
 scene have been of more interest than to the family of German 
 immigrants, fresh from their walled town in the Palatine Hills. 
 The elements of civilization, however, were present. There 
 were half a dozen churches and two weekly newspapers. A 
 passenger and mail coach left for New York once a week in 
 summer, and once a fortnight in winter; the service to Annapo- 
 lis was fortnightly in simimer, and monthly in winter. There 
 was no hospital, but the need for one was keenly felt, for in 1 73 1 
 there had been a visitation of small-pox from which 490 persons 
 died, nearly 6 per cent, of the population. In 1732 there were 
 254 deaths from this cause. A good many people had been inoc- 
 ulated following the advice of physicians, although grave doubts 
 were entertained as to its efficacy. There was an organized 
 fire department, the result of a disastrous fire in 1730. The 
 streets were ungraded and unpaved, and in rainy weather mud 
 puddles and quagmires abounded. In a few places attempts at 
 sidewalks had been made, but the only good one was near the 
 Court House at Second and High Street, and by the market 
 house, extending from Second Street westward. Water was 
 obtained from wells located in the streets and accessible to 
 everybody. It was not until 1752 that provision was made for 
 a Night Watch and for lighting the streets. Troops of Indians 
 came into the town to trade and drink rum at the numerous 
 inns and taverns, and they frequently remained for weeks at a 
 time, being quartered in the State House yard. There were im- 
 
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 ported into the city in the year 1728 no less than 244,500 
 gallons of rum, a quantity equal to four gallons for every white 
 person in the Province, which means, of course, that much of it 
 was intended for the Indian trade. But if liquor was abun- 
 dant, so were provisions. Wheat was cheap all through 1731, 
 selling for two shillings six pence a bushel, and game and fish 
 were plentiful and low in price, and beef and pork sold for 
 two pence per pound, but Bohea tea, an imported luxury, 
 brought 14 shillings a poimd. The dress of the people was 
 simple, many men wearing a buckskin coat and trousers, with 
 a coarse Unen shirt, but most people wore osnaburg, a cloth 
 made of hemp. In the stone prison at Third and High Streets 
 were confined one Captain Macpherson and four members of 
 his crew charged with piracy. They were tried in October, 
 convicted, and hanged. But piracy was a declining trade, and 
 had been so since 1725, although there was still a good deal of 
 talk about a giant Spanish mulatto, who cruised off the coast 
 of Hayti with a desperate crew, and had extraordinary luck in 
 escaping capture. Citizens grumbled at the long delay in 
 building the State House, later to be called Independence Hall, 
 upon which no work had yet been done, although the site had 
 been purchased in 1 7 29. And pretty nearly everybody growled 
 at the Governor, who had the difficult task of squaring himself 
 with the proprietors who gave him his place, with the Assembly 
 which paid him his salary, and with the officials of the Crown, 
 who were worried all the time lest something should develop 
 in the colony to the detriment of British trade. 
 
 Outside the city the settlements were of little importance. 
 The EngKsh and Welsh Quakers predominated in the city and 
 the immediate vicinity; there were a few Swedes, mostly near 
 Norristown, and a handful of Hollanders and Huguenots. Back 
 of all, in Lancaster, Berks, Montgomery, Bucks, Lehigh, and 
 Northampton Counties were the Germans. A few of the 
 
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 troublesome Scotch Irish had pushed on into York County, 
 and in 1732 were entering the Cumberland Valley. The pres- 
 ent large towns were not in existence. Lancaster had been laid 
 out in 1730, but Reading and Bethlehem were not begun imtil 
 ten years later. There was little west of Harrisburg, where 
 John Harris bought 100 acres of land in 1727 for five pounds, 
 and established a ferry across the Susquehanna. But the 
 Indian trader had pressed on far beyond. By 1727 he had 
 reached the Allegheny River, and in 173 1 he was entering the 
 country of the Twightees, along the Maimiee and the Wabash. 
 The Canadian and New York traders got the best of the fur- 
 bearing pelts, and the Pennsylvanian had to be content with 
 the deer-skins which he brought back over the moimtains on 
 pack horses. Near the city, Germantown was the most con- 
 siderable place, with about 260 houses, Bristol and Frankford 
 had about 70 houses each, and Burlington in New Jersey, then 
 an old town, had no more. Still, scattered as were the settle- 
 ments, and scanty as was the population, it was claimed that 
 there were more white people in Pennsylvania at this time than 
 in Maryland, Virginia, and the two Carohnas combined, the 
 rapid growth here being attributed to the fair treatment of the 
 Indians, to the good laws for the security of property, to re- 
 ligious toleration, and to low taxation. For a period of twenty 
 years after 1726 the Provincial Government was supported by 
 the interest paid upon the colonial bills issued as currency, and 
 by a small excise tax. Farming land was cheap, selling for 20 
 or 25 bushels of wheat per acre, that is, for land near the city. 
 As wheat was worth three shillings a bushel, this made the land 
 worth three pounds an acre. But this was in colonial currency, 
 which was selling at a discount, three shillings colonial being 
 worth only two shillings English money. This made the land 
 worth only two pounds an acre EngUsh money. Further out 
 it was much cheaper. In 1725 Parke bought 500 acres of "ex- 
 
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 cellent good land, but not cleared," for 350 pounds. Other 
 farm products sold at relatively low prices as compared with 
 wheat. Indian com, which, however, was not extensively 
 cultivated before 1750, sold at this period for two shillings a 
 bushel, oats and rye at about the same price, while beef, pork, 
 and mutton sold at two or two and a half pence a pound, 
 and bacon at four pence. In harvest time a reaper got 
 two shillings three pence a day, but in \nnter the laboring- 
 man's wage was a shilling a day. Living was cheap because, in 
 addition to these staples, game was abimdant almost beyond 
 conception. Wild pigeons, now said to be extinct in this 
 State, were then so niunerous that they darkened the sky in 
 their flight, and could be knocked over with poles; and deer, 
 bears, and elk abounded, while as for fish, the river was crowded 
 with stiurgeon and shad. The roads to the outlying districts 
 were mostly the old Indian trails. There was a ferry across the 
 Schuylkill at Market Street, and a road led out by West Ches- 
 ter and through "The Gap" to the Susquehanna, the main 
 road to the West. There was also an improved Indian trail to 
 New York, another through Gwynnedd to the Lehigh River, 
 and one through Chester toward the South. Bridges did not 
 come into existence until near the end of the century, and most 
 rivers had to be forded, for ferries were few. The roads were 
 bad and long remained so. The first turnpike in this country 
 was that from Philadelphia to Lancaster, which was not begun 
 until 1792, when the Market Street bridge across the Schuyl- 
 kill was built. So the problem of the farmer of how to get his 
 wheat to the city was a hard one; in most cases it meant a 
 rough haul in a heavy wagon, with a Hght load. Where 
 streams were convenient, it was possible to use skiffs, and 
 the Indian traders employed canoes that frequently had a 
 capacity of two or three tons. 
 Of manufacturing, there was practically none. In i 732 the 
 
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 Deputy Governor informed the authorities in London that he 
 knew of no trade in the Province that could be injurious to the 
 kingdom, "that they do not export any woolen or linen, as all 
 they make, which was of a coarse sort, was for their own use," 
 and later on, "that there were no manufactures established, 
 their clothing and the utensils for their houses being all im- 
 ported from Great Britain." Nevertheless, the beginnings of 
 manufacturing were apparent. The Crefeld weavers, who came 
 over in 1683 and settled in German town, produced woolen and 
 linen fabrics and hosiery of fair quality, there was a glass fac- 
 tory at Frankford as early as 1684, and Rittenhouse, whose 
 family had been paper-makers for generations, had estabhshed 
 a paper mill in 1690. Mr. James M. Swank states that the 
 first iron works in the Province were established in 17 16 on the 
 Manatawny Creek, three miles above Pottstown, and that in 
 1728 Pennsylvania possessed four furnaces, of which Durham 
 and Colebrookdale were the most noted. In 1731 pig iron 
 sold at Colebrookdale at five pounds ten shillings per ton, 
 Pennsylvania currency(£i=$2.66). In the year 1728 Penn- 
 sylvania sent 274 tons of pig iron to England, which seems to 
 have caused some little alarm there. But the manufactures all 
 told did not count for much, being almost entirely cottage in- 
 dustries, the entire output being consumed where it was pro- 
 duced. 
 
 The foundation upon which the entire Province rested, city 
 and country alike, was the West Indian trade. The people of 
 the sugar-growing islands raised no wheat and produced no 
 meat. They needed food and they needed wood to make sugar 
 barrels, and they naturally turned to the cheapest and nearest 
 market for what they required. A trade of this sort was abso- 
 lutely necessary for the Pennsylvania farmer if he was to live in 
 prosperity at all. He could not sell wheat to the mother coun- 
 try, for England at that time produced more wheat than it 
 
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 consumed, and every year sent considerable quantities to 
 France, Spain, and Italy. Pennsylvania also shipped food- 
 stuffs to these southern European countries, but the sales were 
 small compared with the amount that could be easily and 
 cheaply produced. In the West Indian island however, was 
 found exactly the market that was needed, and one which 
 provided the means of settling the adverse balance of trade 
 with the mother coimtry. Naturally, the Colony looked to 
 England for its manufactured goods. We needed much from 
 her, and she wanted little that we were able to produce. The 
 foreign trade statements with Pennsylvania, compiled by the 
 Enghsh authorities, tell the story very plainly. The imports 
 from England (excluding Scotland and Ireland) and our exports 
 to England for a number of years were as follows : 
 
 Imports from Exports to 
 
 England England 
 
 1720 £11,981 £7,928 
 
 172s 42.209 11,981 
 
 1730 48,592 10,582 
 
 173s 48,804 21,919 
 
 1740 56,751 15,048 
 
 1750 217,713 28,191 
 
 1755 144,456 32,336 
 
 The balance was always against us, and, considering the vol- 
 mne of business, heavily against us. With no other customer, 
 this exhibit simply spelled ruin. We sent to England some 
 little tobacco; in 1728, some 274 tons of pig iron were sent there; 
 some lumber and furs were also sent, but the value of all the 
 commodities that England would buy would not begin to 
 settle the tremendous debt. But the West Indian trade not 
 only did settle it, but brought about such a large surplus 
 that the balance of all trade was largely on the side of the colony. 
 Wheat commanded a good price — from two shillings six pence 
 to four shillings per bushel, and even though this price was in 
 depreciated colonial currency, it was nevertheless sufficient to 
 
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 make agriculture a very profitable industry, and hence stimu- 
 lated the clearing of new acreage, and caused a continual im- 
 migration from Europe. It was astonishing how rapidly this 
 West Indian trade developed, particularly after the issue of 
 colonial currency was determined upon. In 1723, only two 
 ships came in from England, and only 85 cleared for all ports, 
 foreign and coastwise. But in 1730, only seven years after the 
 colonial currency appeared, 18 ships came to Philadelphia from 
 England, nine from other European ports, 83 from the West 
 Indies, and 51 from coastwise ports, a total of arrivals of 161. 
 In that year there were cleared 35 vessels for foreign ports, 87 
 for the West Indies, and 49 for coastwise points, a total of de- 
 partures of 1 7 1 . The shipping of the port had doubled in seven 
 years, and in value the commerce had probably more than 
 doubled. It will be noticed that the West Indian trade ac- 
 counted for one-half the number of ships arriving and clearing. 
 In the first week of June, 1731, about the time Bemhard Arndt 
 sailed for Philadelphia, five ships cleared for Barbadoes and 
 three for Jamaica. The state of trade was very thoroughly dis- 
 cussed by a contemporary writer, the unknown author of a 
 pamphlet entitled "The Importance of the British Plantations 
 in America to the Kingdom Considered," published in London 
 in 1 73 1, and quoted in Anderson's "History of Commerce" as 
 follows: 
 
 "The product of Pennsylvania for exportation is wheat, 
 flour, biscuit, barrelled beef and pork, bacon, hams, butter, 
 cheese, cyder, apples, soap, myrtle wax, candles, starch, hair 
 powder, tanned leather, bees wax, tallow candles, strong beer, 
 linseed oil, strong waters, deer skins, and other peltry, hemp, 
 which they have encouraged by an additional bounty of three 
 half-pence per pound weight, over and above what is allowed 
 by act of Parliament, some little tobacco, lumber, etc., 
 i.e., sawed boards and timber for building of houses, cypress 
 wood, shingles, cask staves and headings, masts and other ship 
 
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 timber, also drugs of various sorts, as sassafras, calamus 
 aromaticus, snake root, etc." 
 
 "Lastly," adds our author, "the Pennsylvanians build 
 about two thousand tons of shipping yearly for sale, over and 
 above what they employ in their own trade which may be 
 about six thousand tons more. They send great quantities of 
 com to Portugal and Spain, frequently selling the ship as well 
 as cargo; and the produce of both is thence sent to England, 
 where it is always laid out in goods and sent home to Pennsyl- 
 vania. They receive no less than four thousand to six thousand 
 pistoles from the Dutch isle of Curacoa alone, for provisions and 
 liquors. And they trade to Surinam in the like manner, and to 
 the French port of Hispaniola, as also to the other French 
 sugar islands; from whence they bring back molasses, and also 
 some money. From Jamaica they sometimes return with all 
 money and no goods, because rum and molasses are so dear 
 there; and all the money they can get from all ports, as 
 also sugar, rice, tar, pitch, etc., is brought to England to pay 
 for the manufactures etc. they carry home from us; which, (he 
 affirms) has not for many years past been less than one hun- 
 dred and fifty thousand pounds per annum. They trade to the 
 provinces of England, Virginia, Maryland and Carolina, and 
 to the islands in the West Indies, except the Spanish ones, as 
 also to the Canaries, Madeira, and the Azore isles; likewise to 
 Newfoimdland for fish, which they carry to Spain, Portugal, 
 and up the Mediterranean; and remit the money to England, 
 which, one way or other, may amount to sixty thousand 
 pounds yearly; but without their trade to the French and 
 Dutch colonies in the West Indies, they could not remit so 
 much to England; neither could they carry on their trade with 
 the Indians if they did not take off the rum and molasses, as 
 well as the sugars of those colonies, in part of payment of the 
 cargoes they carry thither." 
 
 The statement of this imknown writer that £150,000 worth 
 of English goods were imported annually into Pennsylvania is 
 obviously an estimate in view of the official reports that the 
 true total did not reach £50,000 annually. But there is no 
 
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 reason at all to question the descriptive part of his statement. 
 As to exports, wheat and flour constituted the important part. 
 Pennsylvania flour enjoyed an especially high reputation in the 
 West Indies, and an effort was made to keep up the standard by 
 establishing a system of inspection at Philadelphia. The ship- 
 ments of flour, wheat, etc., from Philadelphia, in the year 1731, 
 were as follows: 
 
 Flour barrels 56,639 
 
 Bread hogsheads 54 
 
 Bread tierces 3,8S3 
 
 Bread barrels 8,059 
 
 Bread quarter casks 470 
 
 Wheat bushels 52,326 
 
 Flaxseed hogsheads 2S5 
 
 The total value of this produce was £62,582, wheat being 
 valued at two shillings six pence per bushel. The valuation 
 was in colonial currency, which was at a discount; still the 
 sterling value could not have been much short of £40,000. It 
 is possible, from this statement, to determine the fact that the 
 colony was enjoying a great degree of prosperity, as, fortim- 
 ately, the trade figures for the year 1731 have been preserved. 
 England exported to Pennsylvania in that year £44,260 worth 
 of merchandise, and imported £12,786 worth, leaving a balance 
 of trade against the colony of say £31,500 sterhng. But the 
 colony exported £40,000 worth of flour and wheat in that year, 
 very little, if any, of which went to the mother country. More- 
 over, it exported ships, meat, lumber, and a great variety of 
 miscellaneous commodities to other coimtries. All of this was 
 so much clear gain, and turned the balance of the account very 
 decidedly in favor of the colony. This profit constituted a 
 large addition to the productive capital of the Province, which, 
 increasing every year, established values for land, and gave 
 confidence in and stability to the commercial system. The 
 trade steadily expanded. In 1751 the exports of flour, wheat, 
 and flaxseed were £187,457, or just treble what they had been 
 
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 twenty years before. And the price of wheat, which had ruled 
 low in 1 73 1, being but two shillings six pence a bushel, had 
 reached five shillings three pence in 1749, had sold at four shill- 
 ings in 1750 and at three shiUings ten pence in 1751. Even if 
 these prices be reduced to sterling, it is very clear that wheat 
 groAving was a very profitable business. Franklin, writing in 
 1754, complains that although 30,000 laborers had been im- 
 ported into Pennsylvania in the last twenty years, labor con- 
 tinued as dear as ever. A clear evidence of the prosperity of the 
 Province is the increased consuming power of the people, for 
 the imports from England, which were only £48,592 in 1730, 
 had grown to £190,917 in 1751, a fourfold increase. All the 
 factors that make for good times in a country were present; 
 the population was increasing, the exports were swelling, com- 
 merce was expanding, and the monetary situation was sound. 
 The West India islands were well able to buy largely and pay 
 well. They had recovered from the world-wide commercial 
 depression caused by the war between France and England in 
 Queen Anne's reign; sugar was in demand at good prices, and 
 the planters, cultivating their lands with slaves brought direct 
 from Africa, were rich, prosperous, and extravagant. In a re- 
 port made to the House of Lords in 1734 by the Commissioners 
 of Trade and the Plantations, it is stated there were then 
 18,295 whites in Barbados, 7,544 in Jamaica, and 10,252 in the 
 Leeward Islands, including St. Christopher's, Antigua, Nevis, 
 Montserrat, and their dependencies. The number of negroes 
 was not given. The commissioners state in the same report 
 that in the four years from Christmas, 1728, to Christmas, 
 1732, the annual exports to Great Britain from Jamaica alone 
 averaged £539,499, while the exports from Great Britain to 
 Jamaica in the same period averaged but £145,575. Here was 
 an average balance of nearly £400,000 a year in the case of a 
 
 single island, and that island contained only one-fifth of the 
 
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 whites in the West Indies. The Province could hardly help 
 being prosperous when it sold to a community like this. 
 
 The shipping interest which handled this large volimie of 
 business was probably as important, as compared with the 
 wealth of the country, as at any time in the history of the 
 Province. In Bradford's Mercury of March i6, 1732, is a state- 
 ment of the vessel movements of the three great ports of the 
 country for approximately the same period, and it is curious 
 to note how considerable and how far reaching were the mari- 
 time interests of Philadelphia. From December 30, 1730, to 
 March 7, 1732, a period of one year and two months, the 
 arrivals at and departures from the port of Philadelphia were 
 given as follows: 
 
 Entered Cleared Entered Cleared 
 
 from for from for 
 
 Antigua 9 9 Lisbon 9 15 
 
 Barbados 21 29 London 8 s 
 
 Belfast 2 . . Madeira 6 s 
 
 Bermudas 11 3 Maryland 11 10 
 
 Boston 17 8 Montserrat 2 
 
 Bristol 9 9 New Castle 2 3 
 
 Burlington . . . . i 2 New London i 
 
 Cales (Cadiz) .... i New York 2 i 
 
 Canaries i Newfoundland . . 3 s 
 
 Cowes 2 .. North Carolina. . 10 6 
 
 Cork 2 Plymouth t i 
 
 Cape Fear 2 2 Salem i 2 
 
 Cape May i South Carolina. . 10 12 
 
 Curacoa 2 St. Kitts 10 10 
 
 Dover 2 . . St. Marys i 
 
 Dublin 2 3 St. Lucia i 
 
 Gibraltar 2 Surinam i 4 
 
 Glasgow 2 Tortuga 2 
 
 Havana i .. Turks Island .. . 4 
 
 Jamaica 18 31 Virginia 5 4 
 
 Liverpool 1 
 
 In all, 188 vessels entered at this port, of which 42 were from 
 transatlantic ports, 81 from Caribbean Sea ports, and 65 were 
 coastwise. The departures included 46 for transatlantic ports, 
 88 for the Caribbean Sea, and 56 for coastwise ports, a total of 
 190. In the number of arrivals and departures this exhibit 
 
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 compares favorably with that of some years in the present 
 century. It is true the vessels would now be considered small, 
 but they were what the world's trade called for at that time, 
 and the table shows in a striking way the widely extended 
 character of the commerce of the port. For almost exactly the 
 same period New York had 206 arrivals and 216 departures, 
 the business being mostly of the same character as that at 
 Philadelphia, with the addition of a very considerable trade 
 with the Dutch ports of Amsterdam and Curacoa. The great 
 shipping center, however, was Boston, with 744 arrivals and 
 839 departures. Most of this business was coastwise, and the 
 most profitable part of it was the despatch of small craft to 
 Nova Scotia and Newfoimdland for salt fish and lumber, which 
 were distributed in the West Indies and the Mediterranean. 
 
 While Pennsylvania thus possessed a splendid opportunity 
 for doing a profitable business, it labored imder one great 
 disadvantage, and that was the lack of an adequate currency. 
 This condition was present also in all the other colonies, and 
 was, in fact, a world-wide need. In the early part of the 
 eighteenth century the supply of money throughout the world 
 was small. It was not until a generation later that Chve looted 
 the Indian treasuries, and dislodged the hoards of the precious 
 metals that had been acciunulating there since the days of the 
 Crusades, and sent them to Europe to revive the stagnating 
 trade of the Old World. There were in existence no gold 
 mines, and only a few silver mines at all comparable with those 
 discovered at the middle and at the end of the nineteenth cen- 
 tury; in fact, almost the only source of supply of the money 
 metals was the Spanish possessions in America. From Mexico 
 and Peru a small but fairly continuous stream of silver and 
 gold trickled through Spain, and, beiug converted into money, 
 suppKed the means for carrying on such scanty commerce be- 
 tween nations as existed at that time. But the amount was 
 
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 not sufficient to form a secure base for banking operations, 
 even if the machinery of organized banking were present, 
 which was not the case. The Bank of England, the progenitor 
 of the great national banks of Europe of the present day, had 
 been founded but half a century before; its functions were re- 
 stricted, and it was considered rather an adjunct of the State 
 than an adjunct of commerce. The safe limitations of credit 
 were hardly comprehended, even by the most advanced eco- 
 nomic thinkers, and the wonderful financial and commercial 
 structure of the present day was not dreamed of. The present 
 system of banks, clearing-houses, checks, and credits, by which 
 one dollar of cash is security for four dollars of money of 
 account, is the result of generations of trade, inventive genius, 
 and social progress. Actual hard money was the only medium 
 of international exchange in the eighteenth century; the sup- 
 ply of this was small, and its need was felt everywhere. And 
 the supply was particularly small, and the need was particu- 
 larly felt in the sparsely settled colonies of the New World. 
 
 Some little coined money had been brought to the Colonies 
 by the early settlers, but this was quickly picked up and 
 shipped back to England as fast as it appeared in circulation, to 
 pay for the manufactured goods imported from the mother 
 country. Domestic trade was conducted mostly by barter. In 
 some instances the notes or due biUs of merchants of imques- 
 tioned standing and credit would be accepted as cash, but 
 transactions based upon these instruments formed only a small 
 proportion of the total volume of business. The farmer bring- 
 ing in wheat accepted goods in payment, or perhaps received 
 a credit on the merchant's books, which he might dispose of if 
 he could. If he insisted upon specie, he had to buy it at a 
 premium. Credit was likewise dear. In 1723 the rate of inter- 
 est was reduced from 8 per cent, to six, but a very large margin 
 of security was required. Under such conditions the progress 
 
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 of the Colony was necessarily slow. For a time the constant 
 influx of immigrants, each of whom brought in a little specie, 
 and the efforts of the proprietors to establish the credit of the 
 Province, provided a moderate supply of coin, which, however, 
 disappeared out of circulation with discouraging rapidity. The 
 cause of the prevailing stagnation was clearly apprehended, 
 for as early as 1718 the Provincial Assembly debated a pro- 
 position to make produce a legal tender, a favorite device of 
 the early days, and one which had been partially carried into 
 effect in some of the neighboring colonies. But finally, after a 
 long agitation of the question, and the consideration of numer- 
 ous suggestions, the conviction that the commercial pressure 
 was steadily increasing became overwhelming, and it was de- 
 cided that the Province should adopt the system of bills of 
 credit which had been put into effect by some of the other 
 colonies. 
 
 This system of colonial currency, which seems to have origi- 
 nated in New Jersey in 1709, and to have been adopted by 
 Rhode Island and Massachusetts soon afterward, was re- 
 sorted to reluctantly by all, and only in consequence of urgent 
 necessity. In Virginia no such currency was put out until 
 1755. The issue was guarded by restrictions of greater or less 
 eflSciency; but in Pennsylvania the provisions seem to have 
 been safe and prudent. A loan oflSce was established, presided 
 over by commissioners appointed by the Assembly. These 
 commissioners had authority to issue to approved borrowers 
 currency which should be legal tender. The owner of silver 
 plate could deposit it as security, and take out currency at the 
 rate of five shilhngs per oimce, which was about the bulUon 
 value of the metal. The land owner could take out currency 
 to the value of one-third of the estimated value of his land. 
 But every borrower was required to pay 5 per cent, interest 
 per annum upon the amount issued to him, and to repay annu- 
 
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 ually one-eighth of the principal. Under these very careful 
 restrictions the Assembly, in April, 1723, cautiously author- 
 ized the issue of £15,000 of such bills of credit, and in Decem- 
 ber of the same year authorized the issue of £30,000 addi- 
 tional. The whole amount was promptly applied for. 
 
 There can be no question of the wisdom of the issue and of 
 its value to the Province, but the device was not at all liked in 
 England. In October, 1726, a letter was received from the 
 Lords of Trade stating that if any more bills were issued they 
 would be disallowed, and requiring that "the fxmds appropri- 
 ated for the payment of the bills should be duly applied." 
 But this prohibition was removed later on, and in May, 1729, 
 an additional issue was authorized to the amount of £30,000, 
 with the proviso that one-sixteenth should be paid off each 
 year. In 1739 a Committee of the Assembly made this report 
 about the loan issue: 
 
 Issued in 1723 £45,000.0 
 
 Redeemed and burnt in 1726 6,110.5 
 
 Balance £38,889.15 
 
 Issued in 1729 30,000.00 
 
 In circulation in 1739 £68,889.15 
 
 In this year the Assembly increased the total to £80,000, and 
 from time to time further additions were made, the amount 
 growing rapidly as the trade of the Province expanded, reach- 
 ing the large total of £600,000 in the year 1767. It is possible 
 that in the later period the amount outstanding was greater 
 than the requirements of trade demanded, but this seems to 
 have been an invariable concomitant of paper currency in all 
 ages. The new money showed a tendency toward depreciation 
 almost from the start. As early as 1729 London exchange was 
 150 per cent. ; in 1740 it was 170 per cent., and between these 
 dates it had touched even a higher figure. Nevertheless, 
 
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 Pennsylvania's notes were in much better credit than those of 
 most of the other colonies, for whereas in 1740 New York, New 
 Jersey, and Pennsylvania notes were quoted at £170 for £100 
 of sterling, the New England colonial notes were quoted at 
 £525 for the £100 sterling, while the North Carolina notes were 
 so greatly discredited that £1400 of them were required to buy 
 £ 100 of sterling. But even though the currency was fluctuating 
 in value and was at a discoimt compared with hard money, 
 there can be no question of its great value to the community. 
 The primitive method of barter passed out of date. It was 
 now possible to estabhsh market quotations for land, labor, 
 produce, and commodities of all kinds. The farmer, instead of 
 getting a book account credit for his wheat, now received legal 
 tender currency. He could accept the market price or not as 
 he pleased; but when he sold, he received a currency whose 
 value he knew because it was based upon land, the real tan- 
 gible wealth of the Province. Reljang upon this knowledge, he 
 bought and sold freely, and with a sense of perfect security. 
 
 There is good contemporary evidence of the importance of 
 this currency to the Province and its value in developing its 
 resources. Benjamin Franklin, who, as a printer, struck off 
 the notes of the issue of 1729, and congratulated himself on 
 "a good job," has this to say about the proposal to issue the 
 additional notes in 1729: 
 
 "I was on the side of an addition being persuaded that the 
 small sum struck in 1723 had done much good by increasing 
 the trade employment and nxmiber of inhabitants in the pro- 
 vince, since I now saw all the old houses inhabited and new 
 ones building whereas I remembered well that when I first 
 walked about the streets of Philadelphia eating my roll I saw 
 most of the houses on Walnut Street between Second and 
 Front streets with bills on their doors ' To be let ' and many 
 likewise on Chestnut Street and other streets which made me 
 
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 then think that the inhabitants of the city were deserting it 
 one after another." 
 
 And again, writing from London, on March ii, 1767, he says: 
 
 "When in 1723 paper currency was first made there which 
 gave new life to business, promoted greatly the settlement of 
 new lands by lending small sums to beginners on easy terms to 
 be repaid by installments, whereby the province has so greatly 
 increased in inhabitants that the export from hence thither is 
 now more than tenfold what it was then; and by this trade 
 with foreign colonies they have been able to obtain great 
 quantities of gold and silver to remit hither in return for the 
 manufactures of this country." 
 
 There is plenty of other evidence to establish the fact that 
 the year 1723 marked a turning-point in the history of the 
 Province. Before that date the population was small, trade 
 was dull, and established markets were lacking. A few years 
 after that date evidences of increasing prosperity and expand- 
 ing trade were abundant. The change was not brought about 
 by the fact that the Province issued paper currency, nor, in 
 fact, by any single cause; it was the result of a world-wide 
 revival in trade. Europe was recovering from the desolating 
 wars of Louis XIV; France, after a saddening experience with 
 John Law and his disastrous Mississippi scheme, was settling 
 down to hard work, and was reaching out for the trade of 
 India, where England had already planted some trading posts; 
 the Dutch were exploiting the Far East, and the mines of 
 Spanish America were pouring out a wealth of precious 
 metals. Peace ruling everywhere and the high seas being safe, 
 adventurous merchants were active in every quarter of the 
 globe. The whole world was prosperous, and, as is always the 
 case in such times, was a large consumer of every kind of pro- 
 ducts. It called for more West Indian sugar than ever before. 
 
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 And just at this juncture the Pennsylvania Assembly, by a 
 wise act, created a provincial currency that stimulated pro- 
 duction, improved credit, and increased trade. The change 
 came gradually but surely. The situation in 1723 was much 
 better than it was in 17 18; and it was much better in 1730 
 than it was in 1723. Reports of better condition were sent 
 back to the Palatinate. The immigration agents employed by 
 the proprietors might be depended upon to do their share, but 
 it was the private letters from colonists to their relatives and 
 friends in the old country that were most efficacious. There 
 can be no doubt that Bemhard Amdt heard these reports; pos- 
 sibly he had correspondents of his own, but at aU events there 
 were mmibers of people in the valley of the Nahe River who 
 had relatives or friends iu Pennsylvania, and who passed their 
 letters along. Captain Amdt's Narrative relates that Bem- 
 hard frequently expressed to his family a wish to emigrate; evi- 
 dently he thought about it a great deal. Just at the time when 
 he was in the prime of his life, when the spirit of initiative was 
 still strong within him, it happened that reports of most 
 prosperous conditions came from Pennsylvania, and it hap- 
 pened, too, that the petty potentate, under whose sway he 
 lived, conmiitted an act of oppression. It was the fortimate 
 conjuncture of the man and the opportmiity. Bernhard, with 
 health, comrage, and energy, seized fortime as she knocked at 
 his door. 
 
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CHAPTER V 
 TAKING ROOT 
 
 Bernhard Settles in the Perkiomen Region — His Land Purchase — Neighbors — 
 Trustee of Old Goshenhoppen Reformed Church — Curious Church Dedication 
 Stone — Accounts with the Potts Store — His Land Transferred to his Son-in- 
 Law — ^Last Days of the Pioneer 
 
 BERNHARD ARNDT was eminently a practical person. 
 It is nowhere recorded that he ever said he came to 
 America in order that he might worship God according to 
 the dictates of his own conscience, that complacent formula 
 that is often an excuse to cover shiftlessness, incompetency, 
 and failure at home. He came over to better his condition, 
 which has been the real cause of emigration in all ages. 
 His family consisted of his wife, a son Abraham, nine 
 years of age, a son Jacob, six and a half years, a daughter 
 Catherine, three and a half years, and a son Henry, a few 
 weeks old. He probably brought with him his shoemaker's kit, 
 and he likely had some other possessions. His greatest asset 
 was undoubtedly his courage and strength of character. He 
 set about securing a home at once, and Captain John Arndt's 
 Narrative states that he for some time settled in Germantown, 
 and thence removed into the upper part of Philadelphia County. 
 We find no trace of him in Germantown. He no doubt worked 
 at his trade of shoemaker while looking about for a place to 
 settle permanently. Naturally, he looked in neighborhoods 
 where his fellow-cotmtrymen lived, and he finally picked out the 
 district near the Perkiomen Creek, where a large number of 
 Germans were settled. In all probability the determining fac- 
 tor in the matter was that several of his fellow-passengers on the 
 
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 Pennsylvania Merchant had taken up homes in the neighbor- 
 hood. The records of New Goshenhoppen Church, which in- 
 cluded Old Goshenhoppen charge, showed that five men, pre- 
 sumably heads of famiHes, who came over on this ship were 
 connected with this church: namely, Abraham Sahler (1732), 
 Johann Bartel Gucker (1732), Johann Michael Moll (1736), 
 Christophel Moll (i 733) , and Hans Adam Echelen (i 73 2) . The 
 dates refer to the years in which the names appear in the church 
 book. The Amdt family had travelled with these people for three 
 months; possibly their acquaintance ran much further back 
 than their meeting on the ship. Moreover, they were of the 
 same reUgious faith, an important factor in those days. But 
 the whole district was well populated by people of the German 
 Reformed belief, there being four or five churches near the 
 Perkiomen, while there was only one such church in German- 
 town and that not very strong. At all events here he made his 
 choice, and on August 14, 1734, three years after his arrival, a 
 warrant of survey was granted to Bemhard Amdt for 150 acres 
 of land in Philadelphia County, and on November 7, 1734, 
 another warrant for 50 acres, the record of which may be found 
 in Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume xxiv, page 
 37. Under these warrants there was surveyed for him on 
 February 5, 1734-35, a tract of 197 acres, with the customary 
 allowance of 6 per cent, for roads, in Frederick township, Phila- 
 delphia, now Montgomery Coimty, " on a branch of the Perkio- 
 men Creek." A subsequent investigation of other siirveys, as well 
 as a certified copy of the survey from the Surveyor-General's 
 oflSce, shows that this tract was located 2}4 miles northwest 
 of the present village of Zieglersville. A small stream called 
 Scioto Creek ran through the southwestern portion of the tract, 
 which fronted, at the extreme southwestern end, on the great 
 road called in the early deeds the Skippack Road. George 
 Trumbauer and Philip Dodderer located adjacent tracts about 
 
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 the same time. At the present time the boundaries of this sur- 
 vey have changed very much, and the land is now owned by 
 three or perhaps four owners; the site of the Arndt homestead 
 being on the farm now owned by Henry H. Johnson. 
 
 There is no doubt that Bemhard was imfortunate in his 
 selection. His grandson, Captain John Arndt, who knew the 
 country round about very well, says in his narrative that the 
 neighborhood was, as he believed, " the poorest soil in the upper 
 part of the then coimty of Philadelphia." Good judges of land 
 at the present time agree with the opinion expressed a hundred 
 years ago by Captain John Arndt. The soil is not strong, the 
 land abounds with stones, and now bears a good many small 
 trees. Bernhard cultivated the place for many years, but 
 he was not able to win prosperity from the reluctant soil. All 
 the facts of his Uf e showed he was a man of resolute will ; his sons 
 were all brought up to work, and all were successful in their own 
 farming operations, showing that thrift and industry were 
 characteristic of the household. It is very clear now that Bern- 
 hard made a mistake. It was a German settlement. Falkner's 
 Swamp Church, one of the earliest German Congregations in 
 Pennsylvania, and still in existence, was only a few miles away, 
 and Old Goshenhoppen Reformed Church, with which Bern- 
 hard affiliated, was only three miles distant. Few except Ger- 
 mans Uved near by, and, in fact, the neighborhood has preserved 
 its early characteristics to a remarkable degree, being inhabited 
 even at this time, principally by descendants of the early settlers. 
 In this place Bernhard and his wife passed the remainder of 
 their days. He had some excellent neighbors, and he had the 
 opportunity of meeting some notable men. On a plantation al- 
 most adjoining lived Henry Antes, a leader of the Germans in 
 that neighborhood, and a man who, taking a long-range view of 
 the future, exerted himself to introduce English methods of 
 thought and action among his neighbors. On April 24, 1740, 
 
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 the noted preacher, George Whitefield, preached at the house 
 of Henry Antes to a congregation that Whitefield said num- 
 bered about 3000. A few miles away, at Tulpehbcken, in Berks 
 County, lived Conrad Weiser, the celebrated Indian Agent, 
 who, on his frequent trips to Philadelphia, had occasion to pass 
 near the Amdt homestead. 
 
 The condition of the German Reformed Chiu^ch at this time 
 was chaotic. There were about 20 congregations in east- 
 em Pennsylvania, but they averaged barely 50 communicants. 
 Furthermore, they were not imited. Probably about half 
 of the congregations were under the influence of Rev. John 
 Philip Boehm, originally a schoolmaster, who was regu- 
 larly ordained in 1729 by Dutch Reformed ministers in 
 New York. The other congregations were under the influence 
 of other spiritual teachers, some brilliant and devout men, 
 some merely lay readers or school-teachers. According to 
 Rev. Dr. W. J. Hinke, the biographer of Boehm, the congre- 
 gation at Old Goshenhoppen was not one of the Boehm 
 charges, and the ministrations were irregular and not always by 
 authorized persons. In 1735 a young man of eighteen years, 
 named Goetchy, fiUed the pulpit, preaching on the second Sun- 
 day of the month in the afternoon. These irregular services 
 were maintained as well as could be, the congregation worship- 
 ping, when they could, in the schoolhouse. Bemhard seems to 
 have been looked upon as one of the substantial men of the 
 church, for he was elected one of the trustees, and later on a 
 member of the Building Committee that biult the first chiurch. 
 It was a union church, the Lutherans contributing actively to 
 the cause. The agreement between the two organizations is 
 dated May 19, 1744, and stipulates that neither congregation is 
 to have any preference over the other in the use of the building, 
 and that no doctrine shall be taught that was not in accord with 
 
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 the articles of faith of one or the other. The agreement was 
 signed by — 
 
 Reformed Seite Lutheran Seite 
 
 Christian Schneider ht • i, i t. -i, ^ 
 
 -^, . , . T I, Michael Reiher X 
 
 Christian Lehman n^jl^ 
 
 Bemhard Amdt Balsar Gerlach 
 
 Johann Ziener Philip Gabel 
 
 Conrad Schneider 
 
 Although the comer-stone was laid on May 14, 1744, the 
 building was not completed until four years later. The names 
 of the Building Committee were carved on separate stones, 
 which were set in the wall of the building on either side of the 
 entrance. A third stone, which is still in existence, was placed 
 over the entrance. It bears a curious Latin inscription which 
 has been deciphered and translated by Rev. Dr. W. J. Hinke. 
 A photographic copy of this stone is shown on the opposite 
 page together with Dr. Hinke's translation. 
 
 Bernhard was a witness of the will of Jeremiah Hess, of Sal- 
 ford township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, one of 
 his neighbors. The will is dated April 11, 1743, at which time 
 Bernhard appeared and qualified. The ancient document is 
 still preserved in the Philadelphia City Hall, in Will Book G, 
 page 73. Here is a photographic copy of the signature of 
 Johann Bernhard Arndt as witness. 
 
 ^' 
 
 / r97J^ 
 
 ',^Jy M^ yy^f ^ ^* r*0^4^ 
 
 In the books of the Potts furnaces, in the possession of the 
 family of the late Governor Pennypacker, are the following 
 curious entries: 
 
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^liTASPLrBI? 
 
 '4 
 
 Z/i''-*l 
 
 LIberaLItas pLebIs 
 
 LVtheean^ atoVe 
 
 REFORMATS HAS ^eDeS 
 
 Vna eXstrVXIt. 
 
 I. C. ANDREW PAST. LVTH. 
 Translated literally it reads: 
 
 The liberality of the people 
 
 Lutheran and also 
 
 Reformed erected 
 
 Unitedly this temple. 
 
 I. C. Andreae, Lutheran Pastor. 
 The unique feature of this inscription is its use of capitals or 
 larger letters, found throughout the first four Unes. By these larger 
 letters the date of the cornerstone laying is given, as can be seen from 
 
 the following: 
 
 Line I. LI + LI + LI 153 
 
 " 2. L + V + V 60 
 
 " 3. M+ D 1500 
 
 " 4. V + X + V+ XI ■ . . 31 
 
 Total 1744 
 
 It was most likely the Lutheran pastor who used this ingeni- 
 ous method to indicate the date of the cornerstone laying. 
 
TAKING ROOT 
 
 Colebrokdale, Nov. i, 1746. 
 Bemhard Omdt Dr. 
 
 s d 
 To I Iron pott 22 J^ lbs. \ 
 
 To I Iron pott 2olbs. . . / * 
 
 To 2 yards Callicoe at 6/6 pr yd 13 
 
 To I Handkerchief 2 6 
 
 To I do 4 6 
 
 To Thread 6 
 
 Colebiokdale April 25, 1747 
 
 Bemhard Omdt Dr. 
 To I Pott 28 lbs. 
 
 To 2 yard Shalloon at 3/6 
 
 Colebrokdale, July 12, 1748 
 
 Benihard Omdt Cr. 
 by hauling i Tonn Pigg to Isaac Williams pr Receipt June 18, 1748. 
 
 These are all day-book entries; they do not appear in the 
 ledger, so the probability is Bemhard settled his account on the 
 spot. Governor Pennypacker remarked, in a letter to the 
 writer of this sketch, that these entries were interesting, as 
 " they showed some of the dress and that he used handkerchiefs. 
 The most interesting part, however, is that he was haiiling 
 iron from the furnace to the merchants in Philadelphia. This 
 iron was taken, one ton at a time, in wagons over the rough 
 roads to the city." 
 
 Fortime was not kind to Bemhard in the later years of his life. 
 He was fifty-seven years old when he carted pig iron to Phila- 
 delphia in 1748, his eldest boys had married and left him, and 
 he does not seem to have paid for his farm. An entry in the 
 Land Office records shows that, on March 3, 1 740-1, there was 
 received from Bemhard Amdt "for — acres of land in Frederick 
 township, in part, £21." And in the book of the original war- 
 rants of survey, which are still to be foimd in the office of the 
 Secretary of Internal Affairs at Harrisburg, is this endorsement : 
 "vacated the loth day of December 1748, for the use of George 
 Lydie and returned to the Secretary's office the 21st day of 
 December, 1748." On the surrender of the warrants another 
 
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 warrant of survey, dated December 21, 1748, was issued to 
 George Leidy (son-in-law of Bemhard Arndt), and the tract re- 
 surveyed as 200 acres and patented to the said Leidy on the 
 same date. The preamble to this patent recites the warrants and 
 survey to Bemhard Arndt and his failure to complete the pur- 
 chase. No conveyance appears of record by George Leidy, and 
 it is not known how he was divested of the title. Miscellaneous 
 manuscript records of Northampton County, in the possession 
 of the Historical Society of Peimsylvania, show that George 
 Lydie was living in that county in 1 760. And with this transac- 
 tion aU recorded minutes of that courageous, patient. God- 
 fearing man, Bernhard Arndt, come to an end as far as search 
 has been able to disclose. The original records of Old Go- 
 shenhoppen church have disappeared. Where Bemhard Arndt 
 and his wife died and were buried is now unknown. But in 
 the oldest part of the churchyard is a plot of groimd, un- 
 marked by gravestones, which is known as the burial place 
 of the ancient settlers, and here probably rest the remains 
 of the courageous emigrants. 
 
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CHAPTER VI 
 ABRAHAM ARNDT, THE ELDEST SON 
 
 Education and Early Life — Marriage to Catherine Reid — Removes to Fran- 
 conia Township — ^Member of Building Committee, Indian Creek Church — 
 Sells Farm at a Good Profit and Buys Another in Bucks County — Final Re- 
 moval to Williams Township in Northampton County — Financially Prosperous 
 — Services of Himself and His Family in the Revolution — Purchases Land in 
 Western New York for His Sons — ^His Will 
 
 Abraham Amdt, the eldest son of the pioneer, was bom m 
 Baumholder on the second or third day of August, 1722. The 
 records of the Reformed Church of that place show he was 
 baptized on the fifth, a ceremony that was usually performed 
 when the child was two or three days old. He was, therefore, 
 just a month over nine years of age when his parents landed in 
 Philadelphia. He had acquired the elements of his education 
 in his native town, and traces of this may be foimd all through 
 his life. In writing his name, even until the end of his life, he 
 always formed some of the letters in the German script, quite 
 at variance with his younger brother Jacob, who invariably 
 signed in English. Of his later education in this country no 
 records have come down to us. There was a school in German- 
 town attended by Germans, and as the family lived in that 
 place for three years, he had the opportimity for further in- 
 struction. Of all the peoples who came to America in the 
 early days there were none who surpassed the Germans in their 
 recognition of the value of education. Bernhard himself was 
 tolerably well equipped in this way, and as he was a man of 
 resolute character, there can be little doubt that if an educa- 
 tion were possible his children got it. Whether Abraham saw 
 many school days after the family left Germantown is prob- 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 lematic. He was twelve years old when they settled in Fred- 
 erick township; and he was old enough to be of some help to 
 his father in working the farm, and also in his trade. More- 
 over, the nearest school was three miles away, at the Old 
 Goshenhoppen Church. This old congregation, which still 
 maintains a flourishing existence, was organized a few years 
 before Bernhard moved into the neighborhood, and had ac- 
 quired land and erected a schoolhouse, which also served as a 
 place of worship. The church stood half a mile or more north- 
 east of what is now Salford station, on the Perkiomen Rail- 
 road, in Upper Salford Township. It is of record that John 
 Conrad Wuertz taught a school there late in 1735, or early in 
 1736, and it is probable, too, that later on the school was pre- 
 sided over by Rev. Jacob Reiss, with whom both Abraham and 
 his brother Jacob were later associated in the erection of the 
 Indian Creek Church. However much Abraham was able to 
 take advantage of the school facilities available, it is certain 
 that he spoke and wrote both German and English with ease, 
 and that he acquired sufiicient knowledge of mathematics and 
 accounting to be able later on to discharge satisfactorily the 
 duties of a public official. 
 
 His early life was like that of all the farmers' boys in the 
 neighborhood. Besides assisting his father, he probably had 
 an occasional opportunity of earning some money for himself. 
 In 1747, when he was twenty-five years old, he was married 
 to Catharine Reid. The ceremony was performed by Rev. 
 George Michael Weiss, who recorded the fact in a book which 
 is still preserved, although it is not the official church book. 
 The entries start in this fashion: "Those persons who from 
 the year 1747 to the year 1758 have been married by me, 
 George Michael Weiss, V. D. M. 
 
 3. Jacob Arend and Ann Elizabeth Geiger 
 
 4. Abraham Arend and Catherine Reidt 
 
 5. John George Leidich and Catherina Arend." 
 
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ABRAHAM ARNDT, THE ELDEST SON 
 
 It is not until 1758 that exact dates of months and days appear 
 in the record. The presumption is, therefore, that Mr. Weiss 
 made these entries long after 1747 from memoranda in his 
 possession, and as he placed the three Amdt children near 
 the top of the list, they were probably among the first married 
 by him during this period. 
 
 Catherine Reid, whom Abraham married, was the daughter 
 of John Phihp Reid and Veronica Bergey, who lived in Salford 
 township, now Montgomery County, near the present village 
 of Hoppenville. The family were members of Old Goshen- 
 hoppen Church, where Philip Reid's name appears on the 
 earliest list of communicants in 1731. He was bom in 1698, 
 and Uved in Mannheim, Germany. The records of the Evan- 
 geHcal Church at Mannheim contain the name of Catherine 
 Reid in the list of baptisms of the year 1726, but the day and 
 month of the entry are now faded and imdecipherable. The 
 Reids came to America on the ship Friendship, which arrived 
 at Philadelphia October 16, 1727, having sailed from Cowes 
 on June 20. The oldest son, Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Reid, 
 of the First Battalion, Pennsylvania Mihtia, rendered notable 
 service to the patriot cause during the Revolution. Philip 
 Reid, the father, died in 1783, in his eighty-sixth year, and 
 was buried in the churchyard of New Goshenhoppen Church 
 at East Greenville. 
 
 As soon as they were married Abraham and his brother 
 Jacob left the old farm and started homes of their own. They 
 settled near each other, on the border line of Montgomery and 
 Bucks Coxmties, about 12 miles from the old homestead. 
 Jacob's farm is now a part of the present borough of Telford; 
 it was partly in Montgomery Coimty and partly in Bucks, the 
 house being in Bucks County, about one half-mile distant from 
 the present railroad station at Telford. Abraham was located 
 in Franconia township, Montgomery County, about three- 
 
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 quarters of a mile west of his brother's place, and very near 
 to the Indian Creek Church. He bought 175 acres from 
 George Kriesman, but did not take title until December 29, 
 1755, when the deed was recorded, and the consideration was 
 given as 87 pounds 10 shillings 6 pence. Probably this repre- 
 sented Abraham's savings at the time of his marriage, and per- 
 haps more. But whether he had paid for his farm in full or 
 not, he was recognized as a man of substance in the com- 
 munity, for when a new church was to be erected by the 
 Indian Creek Reformed Congregation in 1753, he was ap- 
 pointed a member of the Building Committee, a responsibility 
 that would hardly have been entrusted to a man not thoroughly 
 well known and respected. He lived a short distance from the 
 church, and seems to have been quite active in its affairs. 
 For a time prior to 1754 the Indian Creek Church had been 
 under the pastoral charge of John William Straub, a German 
 schoolmaster, most of whose records have not come down to 
 us. The exact dates of the baptism of the two eldest Arndt 
 children, Abraham and Catherine, are therefore not known. 
 But Abraham's name and that of his wife appear in the Hsts 
 of communicants that have been preserved, while his services 
 as a member of the Building Committee are commemorated 
 in a stone tablet set in the wall of the church, on which the 
 names of all the members of the committee were cut. This 
 tablet still exists and is set in the wall of the present church 
 building. 
 
 Abraham did not participate in the Indian Wars of 1755, in 
 which his younger brother Jacob so distinguished himself. He 
 gave counsel and assistance to his brother's family, for there 
 was a good deal of brotherly affection between the two men. 
 Their lives ran along together in a singular fashion. They 
 were married about the same time; settled near each other in 
 the Indian Creek neighborhood ; both moved away about the 
 
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ABRAHAM ARNDT, THE ELDEST SON 
 
 same time; both finally settled in Northampton Coimty; both 
 engaged in a land speculation in western New York, and both 
 were active in the patriot cause in the Revolution. When the 
 Indian War came to an end the two brothers sold their farms, 
 Jacob going to Northampton Coxmty, while Abraham moved 
 over into Bucks County. By deed dated November 27, 1760, 
 he sold the Franconia Township farm for £480, and by deed of 
 identical date he acquired the farm of Isaac WiUiams, of New 
 Britain Township, Bucks Coimty, containing 200 acres. This 
 farm, whose boundaries are pretty well preserved even at the 
 present day, is one mile due west of the village of ChaKont, and 
 half a mile east of the Bucks County Une. It is about five 
 miles from the Indian Creek Church, and the same distance 
 from Abraham's former home. It was a fine farm — certainly 
 the best he ever owned. He paid £680 for it. The farm-house 
 he occupied is still standing, and is still in use as a dwell- 
 ing. 
 
 The man was prospering financially. He paid £87 for the 
 Franconia Township farm, and after occupying it for a little 
 over ten years, sold it for £480. It is to be supposed that he 
 had a sufficient equipment of cattle, horses, and implements. 
 He was thirty-six years old. Such a situation only comes to 
 men who are honest, industrious, and endowed with good com- 
 mon sense, and then good opportunities must be presented. 
 All of these conditions were present in the case of Abraham. 
 On this Bucks County farm he hved about ten years, steadily 
 becoming more prosperous. One more child was born to him 
 there, in 1761, making his family consist of six children — four 
 boys and two girls. He maintained his connection with the 
 Indian Creek Church, for the church book kept by Rev. John 
 Christopher Gobrecht contains this entry as a heading to a 
 Ust of confirmations: 
 
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 "1767 den 6 ten June habe Christopher Gobrecht, prediger 
 von Gemeinde von Indian Creek, zum ersten mahl zu con- 
 firmat." 
 
 In this list appear the names of Abraham Arndt and Cate- 
 rina Arndt, the two oldest children. Abraham junior must 
 have been seventeen or eighteen years old at this time. In 
 another book, inscribed "Account Book of the Indian Creek 
 Reformed Church, Anno Christi 1768," appears a Ust of con- 
 tributing members of the church, among whom figured Abra- 
 ham Arndt for 15 shillings. There is some reason to suppose 
 that at about this time his first wife died, and he married 
 again. His first wife's name was Catherine Reid, and Catherine 
 Arndt is the name signed to the conveyance of the Franconia 
 township farm in 1760. But when he sold the New Britain 
 farm in 1770 the conveyance was signed by Mary Arndt. In 
 1777 Abraham Arndt and Mary his wife joined in a con- 
 veyance of land in Canajoharie, New York, to Abraham 
 Arndt, Jr. The books of the First Reformed Church of 
 Easton record the baptism of a child of Michael Freas on 
 January 17, 1780, and the sponsors were "Abraham Arndt 
 et Anna Maria uxor ejus." On the other hand, there are 
 no family traditions at all of a second marriage, nothing 
 is known of the birth or death of Mary Arndt, and yet she 
 evidently died before her husband, as no mention is made of 
 her in his will. 
 
 Meanwhile Jacob Arndt, who had sold his Telford farm a 
 few months before Abraham removed to New Britain, had es- 
 tablished himself as a miller on Bushkill Creek, a few miles 
 above Easton, in Forks Township, Northampton Cotmty. The 
 whole family drifted up that way — not only Abraham, but 
 Henry, the youngest brother, and Catherine Leidich, the 
 sister. Abraham bought a farm in Williams Township, near 
 
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Arndt Homestead, Built 1770 
 Williams Township, Northampton Co., Pa. 
 
ABRAHAM ARNDT, THE ELDEST SON 
 
 the village of Raubsville. The deed of this purchase, which is 
 dated June 9, 1770, was given by Christopher Bittenbender, 
 and conveys 150 acres "in the said Abraham Amdt's pos- 
 session now being." He paid Bittenbender £575 for the farm. 
 Evidently he had removed from New Britain before this time, 
 yet he still owned his old place. By deed dated December 
 27, 1770, the New Britain farm was conveyed to Peter Kep- 
 hart for the sum of £900, a handsome profit upon his invest- 
 ment of £680 ten years before. Abraham fortified his new 
 piurchase in Williams township by taking out a warrant of 
 survey on June 13, 1770, for 100 acres, covering land adjoining 
 the Bittenbender purchase, but it was not returned to the 
 Surveyor General's oflBce until March 21, 1782, when the tract 
 was found to contain 81 acres 80 perches. He set about im- 
 proving his new property at once, and the tradition is that the 
 family lived in a primitive log hut while a house was being 
 built. He built a good stone house of dignified appearance, 
 which still stands and is occupied. In this place Abraham, 
 now forty-eight years old, with six children and in prosperous 
 financial circimistances, settled down for the remainder of his 
 days. He was to Uve twenty-five years longer. 
 
 He seems to have been considered a substantial citizen. He 
 was elected a member of the Coimty Board of Assessors in 
 1772, and served imtil the assessment system was changed 
 five years later. He was Tax Collector of Williams Township 
 in 1782, but seems to have held no other pubhc office. Soon 
 after his arrival in Northampton Coimty he engaged in specu- 
 lation in western New York lands with his brother Jacob, both 
 buying considerable tracts in the Livingston patent at Cana- 
 joharie, Tryon (now Montgomery) County, New York. By 
 deed dated May 31, 1774, Philip Livingston, of New York, 
 sold to Abraham Arndt, of Millers(?) Township, Coimty of 
 Northampton, Pennsylvania, Lot No. 13, containing 400 
 
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 acres and allowances, which a later survey determined to be 
 391 acres. The consideration was £240, or $3 an acre, but as 
 the sum was paid in colonial currency, which was at a dis- 
 count, the actual cost was $1.75 an acre. His brother Jacob 
 had bought 393 acres from Livingston for £240, by deed 
 dated September 21, 1773, and in November, 1773, Jacob 
 bought 378 acres more for £226, 16 shillings. Abraham never 
 lived on his new purchase — ^perhaps he never even saw it, for 
 it was 300 miles from Easton. He probably designed it from 
 the first as a provision for his sons. In May, 1777, he sold to 
 his son Abraham 200 acres of the tract for £120, and the re- 
 maining 200 acres seem to have been given or sold to his son 
 Philip, who in June, 1788, sold to George Ransies, of Cana- 
 joharie, 97^ acres of Lot No. 13 for £110. The deed from 
 Abraham the Elder to his son Philip does not appear to have 
 been recorded. 
 
 The Revolution brought the whole family to the front. 
 There were eight Amdts between the ages of sixteen and fifty, 
 and every one of them served in the patriot army; there were 
 two Arndts over fifty years of age, and both served their coun- 
 try in public office. The sons-in-law and brothers-in-law were 
 all ranged on the same side and saw service. Abraham the 
 elder was elected a member of the Committee of Safety of 
 Northampton County on September 27, 1775, and upon the 
 organization of the Committee on October 2 was made a mem- 
 ber of the Sub-Committee on Observation. The minutes of 
 the Committee show he was diligent at his attendance at its 
 meetings. The Provincial Assembly, on September 14, 1776, 
 appointed him one of the assessors for Northampton County, 
 to assess the property of non-associators in pursuance of a plan 
 to make those not favorable to the patriot cause pay their 
 share of the costs. The State Council of Safety, on November 
 8, 1777, appointed him an appraiser of property taken from 
 Tories. He was fifty-three years old at this time, and was, of 
 
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ABRAHAM ARNDT, THE ELDEST SON 
 
 course, exempt from active service, but such things as he could 
 do to help the cause he seems to have done. His four sons all 
 went to the front. Abraham junior, who was living at Cana- 
 joharie, participated in the battle of Oriskany, as a member of 
 Captain John Blinn's company, and later on he was a lieu- 
 tenant of the Tryon County militia. Philip, the second son, 
 was a sergeant in his cousin John Amdt's company from 
 Easton, and his fourth son, John, barely sixteen years old, was 
 a drummer in the same company, and marched away to the 
 war from which he never returned. The third son, Jacob, 
 joined Washington's army at Whitemarsh after the battle of 
 Germantown, and also served at other times, receiving a com- 
 mission as ensign, in Captain Hays' company. 
 
 After the Revolution Abraham seems to have transferred 
 his farm to his son Jacob. His brother Jacob did the same 
 thing with his son Captain John Amdt. At all events, the 
 assessor's list for the year 1785 shows that Abraham Amdt, of 
 WilUams township, was assessed for two cattle, while his son 
 Jacob was assessed for 231 acres, 4 horses, and 3 cattle. Abra- 
 ham was in his seventy-fourth year when he died in Decem- 
 ber, 1795. Four years before his death he made his will, a 
 docimient marked by justice as well as afifection. He was 
 buried in the family cemetery at Raubsville, where several 
 members of his family were interred. His wiU follows: 
 
 In the Name of God Amen! 
 I Abkaham Arndt of WiUiams Township in the County of 
 Northampton in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being 
 now advanced in age, but of good bodily health, and soimd 
 mind, memory and understanding, thanks be to God for the 
 same and all his other mercies and favors conferred upon me 
 in this my Pilgrimage, and knowing that the day of my dis- 
 solution is approaching, have therefore thought fit to make 
 and publish this my Last Will and Testament in manner and 
 form following, that is to say. 
 
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 In the first place I do order and direct that all my just 
 debts (if any there should be) and my Funeral expenses be 
 duly paid and satisfied out of my estate. 
 
 And I do give and bequeath imto my eldest son Abraham 
 the sum of Twenty six pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania 
 to be paid to him one year after the day of my decease, as I 
 have in my lifetime made provision for my said son Abraham 
 by helping him as much as my circvunstances would admit, it 
 is therefore my will that the said Twenty six pounds shall be 
 in full of his expectancy out of my real and personal estate. 
 
 Item I give unto my daughter Catharine my Bed-Bed- 
 stead and all furniture thereto and I also direct that the sum 
 of One Hundred and Thirty pounds (to be paid out of my Real 
 Estate) remain in the hands of my son Jacob, or be placed out 
 on Interest as my Executors shall think fit, and the Interest 
 arising thereon shall be annually paid to my said daughter 
 Catharine during her natural life, the first payment thereof to 
 be made one year after the day of my decease, but in case my 
 said daughter Catharine should fall in distress occasioned by 
 sickness or other accidents, then in such case my Executors 
 may at their discretion advance her such parts of the said 
 principal sum of One Hundred and Thirty pounds as they shall 
 think needful and necessary And after the decease of my said 
 Daughter Catharine I do give the said One Himdred and 
 thirty pounds or so much as shall then remain thereof, imto 
 the children of my said daughter Catharine lawfully begotten 
 or to be begotten, in equal shares and portions to each of the 
 said children. 
 
 Item I give and Bequeath unto my son Philip the sum of 
 ninety-eight pounds lawful money aforesaid, the one half 
 thereof to be paid to him two years after my decease and the 
 other half four years after my decease. 
 
 Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth the 
 wife of Jacob Hager the like sum of ninety-eight poimds the 
 one half to be paid to her three years after my decease and the 
 other half five years after my decease. 
 
 Item I give devise and bequeath unto my son Jacob and to 
 his heirs and assigns forever AH that my plantation and Two 
 Tracts of Land situate in Williams Township aforesaid the one 
 of them bounded by Lands of Stephen Krumrein and others 
 
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ABRAHAM ARNDT, THE ELDEST SON 
 
 and containing one hundred and fifty acres, it is the farm tract 
 which Christopher Bittenbender granted to me by his Deed. 
 
 And the other of the said tracts of land is bounded by the 
 land of Jacob Wilhelm & others containing eighty one acres or 
 thereabouts, being the same land which the Commonwealth of 
 Pennsylvania granted and confirmed to me by Patent. To Have 
 and to Hold the said tracts of land with the appurtenances unto 
 my said son Jacob his heirs and assigns forever. Under and sub- 
 ject to the payment of the Legacies hereinbefore mentioned. 
 
 And aU the rest and residue of my estate not hereinbefore 
 given I order and direct my Executors to make an Inventory 
 thereof, and then to dispose of the goods and effects by pubHc^ 
 or private sale as they shaU think best and the amount thereof 
 together with such cash & other Credits I may die possessed of 
 (my debts fimeral and other expenses being first paid thereout) 
 I give and bequeath the one third part thereof to my son 
 Philip; one other third part thereof to my son Jacob and the 
 other one third part thereof to my said daughter Elizabeth or 
 to their Heirs respectively — 
 
 Anb I DO NOMINATE, ordain and appoint my said sons Philip 
 and Jacob to be the only and sole Executors of this my Last Will 
 and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me hereto- 
 fore made and ratifying and confirming this & no other as such. 
 
 In Witness Whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal 
 the Twenty-fourth day of November in the year of our Lord 
 one thousand seven Hundred and ninety-one 
 
 Signed sealed pubHshed and declared by 
 the said Abraham Amdt the Testator as and 
 for his Last Will and Testament in the pres- 
 ence of us. Robt. TraiU. 
 
 Jacob Arndt, Jr. 
 Geo. Ihrie. 
 Will probated December 14, 1795, Recorded Will Book, 
 vol. 3, page II. 
 
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CHAPTER VII 
 
 MAJOR JACOB ARNDT— INDIAN FIGHTER AND 
 LEGISLATOR 
 
 Education and Marriage — Trustee, Indian Creek Church — ^The Walking 
 Purchase and the Indian Outbreak — Braddock's Defeat and the Gnadenhutten 
 Massacre — Franklin's Account of the Demoralization on the Frontier — Jacob 
 Amdt Elected Captain of Militia and Ordered to Fort Norris — ^Transferred to 
 Fort Allen — Escorts King Teedyuscung to Easton — Promoted to Rank of Major, 
 and Given Command of All Forts East of the Susquehanna — End of the War 
 and Retirement of Major Amdt From the Provincial Service — Purchases Farm 
 and Mill on Bushkill Creek near Easton — Delegate to the Provincial Conferences 
 of 1774 and 1775 — Member of the Last General Assembly of the Proprietary 
 Government — Active Service in Organizing the Constitutional Government — 
 Appointed to Council of Safety with Dictatorial Powers — Elected to Supreme 
 Executive Council and Serves During the Stirring Days of the Revolution — 
 Again Elected to General Assembly — His Retirement to Private Life — His 
 Epitaph 
 
 LANDING at Philadelphia at the age of six years, without 
 i friends or resources, and unable to speak the language 
 of his adopted country, and at fifty-four sitting as a 
 member of the emergency Council of Safety of Pennsylvania, 
 vested with the powers of a Roman dictatorship — such were the 
 extremes in the life of Jacob Arndt. Such an experience could 
 only happen to an extraordinary man in extraordinary times. 
 Major Arndt was an extraordinary man, and it was his fortune 
 to live in the most stirring period in the history of Pennsylvania. 
 He possessed strong natural qualities which he readily adapted 
 to his environment. And he was distinctively a Pennsylvanian. 
 His whole pubhc life was spent in the service of the State; he 
 never held a Federal office nor served on a Federal body. 
 He was born at Baumholder on the fourteenth day of March, 
 
MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 1725, and was, therefore, six and one-half years old when his 
 parents arrived in this country. He no doubt attended the 
 same schools as did his elder brother Abraham. The teachers at 
 both Germantown and Goshenhoppen were Germans, but 
 somewhere Jacob picked up a very good knowledge of EngUsh. 
 This is evident from an inspection of his autograph letters 
 written dxiring the term of his Indian service which are pre- 
 served in the archives of the American Philosophical Society of 
 Philadelphia, and of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 
 These letters show that he had acquired the English idiom per- 
 fectly, the construction of his sentences being entirely in accord 
 with the method used in that language, while there is not the 
 slightest trace of the German form of expression. His letters 
 were formed in the Enghsh style, no German characters being 
 employed. His penmanship would be called good, not only for 
 the time in which he Kved, but for the present. His spelUng 
 was distinctly bad, and it is rather puzzling to account for his 
 deficiency in this particular, for he must have read a good deal 
 of Enghsh to have acquired the command of the language he 
 manifested, and he must have practised penmanship to have 
 formed the letters so well. It is rather surprising, therefore, 
 that one who wrote so well should spell so badly. His con- 
 struction of sentences was admirable; he chose the right words, 
 his meaning was always clear, and he used no superfluous lan- 
 guage. Old English words were almost invariably employed; 
 there are few of Latin derivation. It is evident, therefore, that 
 at some period in his youth he enjoyed the instruction of a 
 good Enghsh teacher, but it may be doubted if he was taken 
 much beyond the rudimentary essentials. The district in 
 which he was brought up was right on the fringe of the German 
 settlements — further West there were few EngUsh and further 
 East there were few Germans. In this advantageous position 
 the progress of the family toward assimilation with the EngUsh- 
 
THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 speaking settlers in habits of thought and of living was un- 
 doubtedly more rapid than with most of the German famihes of 
 the Province. A curious result of the situation was that the 
 family name was sometimes spelled Orndt and sometimes 
 Arndt, a peculiarity that probably arose from the inability of 
 their English neighbors to pronounce the name readily. It 
 will be remembered that the Potts Furnace people, who were 
 English, spelled his father's name Orndt, but the Germans 
 spelled it Arndt, and Jacob himself spelled it one way or the 
 other according as his letters were addressed to English or 
 Germans. 
 
 Of his early life there are no records and no traditions. Like 
 other boys of that day, when he was not at school he was at 
 work. He could farm and he could make shoes, and it is not to 
 be doubted, judging from his subsequent career, that he did 
 both well. It is certain, too, that he was considered a sober, 
 steady young man, for at the age of twenty-two he was mar- 
 ried. His wedding occurred late in 1746 or early in 1747, for, 
 as stated previously, the church records were not systematic- 
 ally kept. His bride was Elizabeth Geiger, daughter of Jacob 
 Geiger, of New Hanover Township, and the ceremony was per- 
 formed by Rev. George Michael Weiss. At the time of his mar- 
 riage or soon afterward he removed to the farm he had pur- 
 chased in Rockhill Township, Bucks County. While the deed 
 of this farm to Jacob Arndt bears date August 10, 1752, we 
 know he had been in possession of it for at least four years 
 previously, the minority of some of the parties in interest de- 
 laying the legal transfer. Captain John Arndt in his Narrative 
 says : " I was born on my father's farm in Rockhill Township in 
 Bucks County on the fifth day of June in the year 1748." 
 This farm, the residence of Major Jacob Arndt from 1747 to 
 1760, contained 82 acres, and was located on the county Hne, at 
 the site of the present village of Telford, 50 acres lying in Bucks 
 
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MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 County, and 3 2 acres in what is now Montgomery. The home- 
 stead was on the Bucks County side, in Rockhill Township. 
 Jacob Amdt having been a child when he arrived in this coun- 
 try, and consequently never having taken the oath of alle- 
 giance to the British Crown, deemed it necessary to become 
 naturalized upon becoming a land owner. He was accordingly 
 regularly naturalized at a session of the Supreme Court, Sep- 
 tember 24, 1 753 .^ Under the act of Parliament the date of the 
 applicant's taking sacrament the last time prior to taking the 
 oath is noted, and this date, in the case of Jacob Arndt, was 
 September 9, 1753.^ 
 
 Jacob Arndt was a man of deep religious convictions, an 
 earnest and active member of the German Reformed Church. 
 His son, John Amdt, intimates in his narrative that his father 
 was almost too severe in the training of his children in the 
 tenets of this church. On his settlement in Rockhill Jacob 
 Amdt became associated with the Indian Creek Reformed 
 Church in Franconia Township. This church was located on 
 the banks of the creek for which it is named, about one-half 
 mile southwest of the village of Telford. It had been orgam'zed 
 about 1744. From contemporary record we learn that there 
 had been a congregation at Indian Creek before that time, un- 
 der the charge of John William Straub, a German schoolmaster, 
 who came to Pennsylvania in 1732, and some years later under- 
 took the fimctions of a minister, although he was never or- 
 dained. 
 
 The Rev. Jacob Riess seems to have become the first settled 
 pastor of Indian Creek Reformed Church about 1748, although 
 his records do not begin until some years later. The old record 
 book of the Indian Creek Church had the following inscribed 
 on its title page: "The church-book of Indian Creek, wherein 
 is written the names of the children which I, Jacob Riess, 
 
 ' Penna. Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. II, P. 3$. 
 
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 have baptized from June 30, 1753." Some pages of this bap- 
 tismal record are now missing. The book is the same one used 
 by Rev. Mr. Straub, as several pages further on appear a 
 number of baptisms performed by him beginning with the year 
 1744. 
 
 The records of the Tohickon Reformed Church in Rockhill 
 Township show that Rev. Jacob Riess was for a time in charge 
 there, about 1748, and it is probable that he did not become the 
 regular pastor of Indian Creek Church until 1753, though occa- 
 sionally officiating there while at Tohickon, eight miles to the 
 eastward. In 1754 the new stone church was erected, and both 
 Jacob Arndt and his brother Abraham were actively associated 
 with its erection, and though the church has since been thrice 
 renewed, the original stones inscribed with their names still 
 occupy a prominent place in the superstructure of the hand- 
 some new church. Jacob Arndt was one of the trustees to 
 whom the land on which the church was erected was conveyed 
 by Michael Birge April 21, 1755. The tract containing three- 
 quarters of an acre had evidently been dedicated to church pur- 
 poses several years before, as two church buildings had been 
 successively erected thereon before the execution of the deed. 
 The trustees named as grantors were Jacob Arndt, John De 
 Nyce, Jacob Leidy, and Peter Gerhardt, and the deed states: 
 "The said Jacob Arndt lives in the Township of Rockhill, 
 County of Bucks, and the three last named in the said Township 
 of Frankony, County of Philadelphia," and the conveyance is 
 made "For the use and benefit of the society of people called 
 Reformed or Dutch Presbyteriances congregation meeting to 
 worship as said place, for meeting houses, school-houses, bury- 
 ing places, or any other public uses as the said society of peo- 
 ple at any time hereafter think proper and to and for no other 
 intent and purposes whatsoever." 
 
 The building committee, having charge of the erection of the 
 
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MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 church in 1754, were Jacob Riess, the minister, Michael Birge, 
 Peter Gerhart, Johannes Schellenberger, Philip Heinrich Seller, 
 Jacob Leidy, William Althaus, and Abraham Amdt. In the 
 front of this stone church were inserted two ornamental stone 
 tablets, one inscribed with the names of Jacob Amdt and John 
 Neis, as trustees and elders, and the other with the names of 
 the building committee above named: 
 
 JACOB JOHN 
 
 17 54 17 S4 
 
 ARNDT NEIS 
 
 JACOB RIES PHILIP HEINRICH SELLER 
 MICHAEL BIRGE JACOB LEITE 
 
 17 PETER GERHART WILEM ALTHAUS 54 
 
 JOHANES SCHELLEBERGER ABRAHAM ARNT 
 
 Rev. Jacob Riess remained in charge of Indian Creek con- 
 gregation until the year 1766. He died April 23, 1774, and is 
 buried at Tohickon. By his wiU he devised a legacy to the con- 
 gregation of Indian Creek "the interest to be used to instruct 
 the poor children of this congregation in the Reformed doc- 
 trine." Mr. Riess was succeeded as pastor at Indian Creek by 
 Rev. John Christopher Gobrecht, who was ordained at To- 
 hickon September 28, 1766, and took charge of both churches. 
 
 On the baptismal record of Indian Creek Church appears the 
 baptism of Jacob, son of Johann Jacob Amdt and wife, on 
 May 21, 1756; and of another son, Abraham, February 18, 1759. 
 Jacob Amdt also appears as sponsor for children of his brothers 
 Abraham and Heinrich, and also in 1 750 as sponsor for a child of 
 Peter Gerhart. Jacob Geiger, the father-in-law of Jacob Arndt, 
 appears as sponsor in 1744. 
 
 And now the long repressed Indian troubles came to the front. 
 About the date of the removal of the Amdt family to the Perki- 
 omen region the Delaware and Shawnee Indians had begun to 
 resent the encroachment of the white settlers upon the lands, 
 which they claimed had not been purchased from them by the 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 proprietary government between the Delaware and Schuylkill. 
 The Walking Purchase, under which the Penns acquired a 
 large portion of this land, was made in 1737 under a supposed 
 treaty of Governor Markham with the Indians in the year 1686. 
 The Delaware Indians always disputed the existence and terms 
 of such a treaty. Added to this, the manner in which the walk 
 was made and the drawing of the line from its termination to 
 the Delaware River by which the Indians were deprived of the 
 Minnisink country, their favorite fishing and himting grounds, 
 were bitterly resented by the Indians, and this resentment 
 marks the beginning of the Indian troubles in Pennsylvania. 
 The mild course pursued by William Penn in his dealings with 
 the Indians had been superseded by the close and exacting 
 deahngs of his mercenary son, Thomas Penn. There was also 
 another incident in our Colonial history of this period which 
 had a lasting effect upon the future relations between the white 
 and red man [in the whole Province. This was the activity 
 of the newly arrived Scotch Irish in Pennsylvania. Natur- 
 ally restive and adventurous, these hardy Ulster-Scots were 
 never content to remain permanently in one section, but were 
 constantly pushing back into the wilderness, very often be- 
 yond the limits prescribed by the several treaties with the In- 
 dians. In addition to this, their attitude toward the Indians 
 seems to have been different from that of any of the other 
 nationalities in the Province. They invariably treated the 
 rights of the aborigines, as well as the race itself, with 
 contempt; and, while they have probably been done an injus- 
 tice by many historians, they were without doubt guilty of 
 many acts of cruelty toward the Indians with whom they 
 came in contact. 
 
 The Delaware Indians so far resented the terms of the Walk- 
 ing Purchase as absolutely to refuse to remove from some por- 
 tions of the land covered by the purchase until 1742. In that 
 
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MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 year the proprietary government called upon the Six Nations to 
 assist them in removing the Delawares from the land pur- 
 chased. At a treaty with the Six Nations at Philadelphia, at 
 which a mmiber of representatives of the Delaware and Shaw- 
 nee tribes were present, the colonial records assert that the title 
 deeds from the early sachems of the Delaware tribe to William 
 Perm in 1686 were exhibited to the several chiefs of the Indians 
 assembled and the Proprietaries having made out their case, 
 appealed to the Six Nations to assist them in removing the 
 Delawares. The Indians, having been convinced of the valid- 
 ity of the claim of the English, Canasotego, the great chief of 
 the Six Nations, made a scathing address to the Delawares 
 assembled, in which he called them women and asserted that 
 their ancestors had sold the land to Onas, their great Father, as 
 the Indians called Penn, more than fifty years before, and de- 
 manded that they at once remove from the lands for which they 
 had long since been paid. The Delawares at this time were 
 ia great measure imder the domination of the Six Nations, and 
 were compelled to jaeld. They at once removed from the home 
 of their ancestors on the Delaware and its tributaries, and 
 settled, some at Shamokin, others at Wyoming, while quite a 
 number removed as far as the borders of Ohio. They, how- 
 ever, resented their enforced removal and were no doubt the 
 fomentors of the depredations committed on the Pennsyl- 
 vania frontier in 1747 and again in 1754-5. Those who settled 
 on the Ohio and its tributaries in western Pennsylvania came 
 in contact with the emissaries of the French who were contend- 
 ing for sovereignty in that section and the troubles experienced 
 in the Province of Pennsylvania by the inroads of the French 
 and Indians from 1747 to the close of the Revolutionary War 
 are probably owing more to the results of the misuse and 
 abuse of these Delaware Indians, the early friends of the Eng- 
 lish on the Delaware, than to any other cause. Scattering 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 remnants of the tribe found their way into other tribes more 
 closely allied to the French, and doubtless remembering the 
 wrongs committed against their ancestors, sought revenge in 
 instigating depredations on the frontiers. But the crowning 
 wrong committed against the Delawares was the treaty made 
 at Albany in 1754, when Thomas Penn, Richard Peters, Ben- 
 jamin Franklin, and Isaac Norris bought from the Iroquois 
 tribe all Southwestern Pennsylvania for the sum of £400, 
 although the Delawares who were then living peacefully in 
 this country were not consulted at all about the sale of their 
 land. This action, so different from the mild and just treat- 
 ment accorded by the founder, settled the policy of the Dela- 
 wares for all time. They had nothing to hope for from the 
 English: they never trusted them after that. 
 
 The defeat of Braddock in the autumn of 1755 uncovered the 
 frontiers. As the beaten English fell back, the savages followed 
 in their track, hardly realizing at first the extent of their vic- 
 tory. The pursuit halted at the Susquehanna River, the main 
 body of the Indians encamping about 30 miles north of Har- 
 risburg, and spreading out on both banks of the river. Small 
 parties of warriors traveled in every direction, plundering and 
 burning and meeting with hardly any resistance from the ter- 
 rified settlers, who, living on isolated farms, were not able to 
 present organized opposition. The farm buildings were burned, 
 and the settlers killed or carried into captivity. A strong body 
 of Indians totally destroyed the Moravian settlement at 
 Gnadenhutten, now called Weissport, 25 miles northwest of 
 Bethlehem, and massacred nearly all the inhabitants, only a 
 few escaping by flight. The Governor reported to the Council 
 about the middle of December that 50 houses in Northampton 
 County had been burned and 100 people murdered. In other 
 neighborhoods the devastation was nearly as great. These 
 outlying settlers were for the most part Germans, and their 
 
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MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 sufferings appealed strongly to their countrymen nearer Phila- 
 delphia. 
 
 To meet the situation the Provincial Government decided to 
 take advantage of the great natural barrier afforded by the 
 Blue Moimtains. These moimtains, extending in a chiin from 
 the Water Gap on the Delaware to the Susquehanna above 
 Harrisburg, were penetrated by nimierous roads and trails, but 
 if these passages were fortified, incursions into the thickly 
 settled districts would be greatly hindered. Likewise another 
 line of defense existed from Fort Augusta, now Sunbury, to 
 Carlisle and Shippensburg. The construction of these forts and 
 block houses was begim promptly and pushed forward with 
 feverish haste. Meanwhile each township was required to 
 raise a company of militia. Jacob Amdt took an active part in 
 these measiu-es and was elected Captain of the company raised 
 in Rockhill Township, Bucks County. Although his com- 
 mission was not issued until April 19, 1756, he was in command 
 long before and was drilling and organizing his force. Benja- 
 min Franklin, who had been appointed one of the commission to 
 superintend the preparations for the defense of the frontier, 
 wrote a letter to the Governor from Bethlehem on January 14, 
 1756, so descriptive of the terror and demoralization that 
 existed that it is here reproduced: 
 
 Bethlehem, Jan'y. 14, 1756. 
 Sir: 
 
 As we drew near this Place we met a Number of Waggons, 
 and many People moving off with their Effects and Families 
 from the Irish Settlement and Lehi Township, being terrified 
 by the Defeat of Hay's Company, and the Burnings & Mvurders 
 committed in the Township on NewYear'sDay. Wefoundthis 
 Place fill'd with Refugees, the Workmen's Shops and even Cel- 
 lars being crowded with Women & Children; and we learnt that 
 Lehi Township is almost entirely abandonedby the Inhabitants. 
 Soon after my arrival here, the principal People of the Irish 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 Settlement, as Wilson, elder Craig, &c., came to me and de- 
 manded an Addition of 30 Men to Craig's Company, or threat- 
 'ned they would immediately one and all leave that Country 
 to the Enemy. Hay's Company was reduc'd to 18 Men, (and 
 those without Shoes, Stockings, Blankets or Arms) partly by 
 the loss at Gnadenhutten, and partly by Desertion. Trump and 
 Aston had made but slow progress in building the First Fort, 
 complaining for want of Tools, which it was thought the People 
 in those Parts might have Supply'd them with. Wayne's 
 Company was found posted at Nazareth agreeable to your 
 Honour's Orders. I immediately directed Hays to compleat 
 his Company, and he went down to Bucks County with Mr. 
 B eatty , who promissed to assist him in Recruiting. His Lieuten- 
 ant lies here lame with frozen Feet, and unfit for Action, but 
 the Ensign with the 18 Men is posted among the present Fron- 
 tier Inhabitants to give some Satisfaction to the Settlement 
 People, as I refus'd to increase Craig's Company. In my turn, 
 I have threaten'd to disband or remove the Companies already 
 posted for the Security of particular Townships, if the People 
 would not stay on their Places, behave like Men, do something 
 for themselves, and assist the Province Soldiers. The Day 
 after my Arrival here, I sent off 2 Waggons loaded with Bread, 
 and some Axes, for Trump & Aston, to Nazareth, escorted by 
 Lieut. Davis, and the 20 Men of McLaughUn's that came with 
 me; I ordered him to remain at Nazareth to guard that Place 
 while, Capt. Wayne whose Men were fresh proceeded with the 
 Convoy. To secure Lyn and Heidleberg Township, whose In- 
 habitants were just on the Wing, I took Trexler's Company 
 into Pay, (he had been before commissioned by Mr. Hamilton) 
 and I commission'd Wetterholt, who commanded a Watch of 
 44 Men before in the Pay of the Province, ordering him to com- 
 pleat his Company. I have also allow'd 30 Men to secure the 
 Township of Upper Smithfield, and commission'd Van Etten 
 and Hinshaw as Captain and Lieutenant. And in order to exe- 
 cute more speedily the first Design of erecting a Fort near 
 Gnadenhutten to compleat the Line and get the Rangers in 
 Motion I have raised another Company under Capt. Charles 
 Foulk, to join with Wayne in that Service; and as Hays I hear 
 is not likely soon to recruit his Company, / have ordered Orndt 
 
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 to come upfront Rockland in Bucks County to strengthen this Part 
 oj the Province, convoy Provisions, &'c. to the Company, who are 
 and will be at work over the Mountains, and quiet the Inhabitants 
 who seem terrified out of their Senses. 
 
 The Arms & Blankets wrote for to New York are not arriv'd; 
 but I hear that lOo Guns & 150 Blankets are on the Road, sent 
 me by Mr. Golden; those of Mr. Walton's being sold before. I 
 have consulted Mr. Parsons'^', and if the Waggons come to- 
 Day, it is proposed that I proceed to-morrow with Wajme's"" 
 Company, which is retum'd, Foulk's, and the 20 Men of 
 McLaughlin's, to Gnadenhutten, to lay out the intended Fort, 
 and endeavor to get it dispatch'd. Capt. Wayne tells me that 
 Trump expects the first Fort will be finished next Week; I hope 
 to get this done as soon, having more Tools, tho' at this Season 
 it seems to be fighting against Nature. But I imagine tis 
 absolutely necessary to get the Ranging Line of Forts com- 
 pleated that the People may be secur'd as soon as possible in 
 their Habitations, and the Internal Guards and Companies 
 dismissed, otherwise the Expence & Loss to the Province will be 
 intolerable. 
 
 I want much to hear the Event of the proposed Treaty, and 
 the Determination your Honour and the Commissioners may 
 have come to, for the Encouragement of Volunteer Scalping 
 Parties. 
 
 I am, with dutiful Respect, Sir, 
 Gov"^- Morris. 
 
 In obedience to orders Captain Amdt marched to Gnaden- 
 hutten with his company of 50 men. He was designated for the 
 command of Fort Norris in Monroe County, the third im- 
 portant fort in the chain of defense, the first being near the 
 Delaware Water Gap, the second several miles west of the 
 first, and Fort Norris being the third, while the fourth was at 
 Gnadenhutten, now Weissport, and was given the name of 
 Fort Allen. Fort Norris was 15 miles Northwest of Fort Allen, 
 
 (a) Major William Parsons of Easton. 
 
 (b) Capt. Isaac Wayne, father of Mad Anthony. 
 
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 and about the same distance from the Water Gap. It was 
 about one mile from the present village of Kresgeville. The 
 Fort was completed some time in February, and on February 
 22, 1756, was duly supplied and provisioned as follows: 
 
 47 guns: viz. 20 with bayonets, 27 without 
 
 23 poimds powder 
 
 37 K " lead 
 
 46 cartouche boxes 
 
 20 straps to ye bayonets 
 
 27 tomahawks 
 
 On the same day Captain Omdt acknowledged the receipt 
 from Timothy Horsfield, Esq., by the hand of George Hartzel 
 and George Fraynue and Andrew Bringer, of — 
 
 18 barrels of bread 
 6 " of beef 
 
 2 " offish 
 
 I " of pork 
 
 3 casks of rum 
 
 Apparently the Indians were keeping a watchful eye upon the 
 fort. In the collection of Northampton County manuscripts 
 in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania is 
 the following letter written by Captain Arndt two weeks after 
 he took command : 
 
 Fort Norris, March 7, 1756. 
 Sir: I am obliged to give you notice how the Indians last 
 night purposed to attack us, or to spy out this Fort. There 
 came two Indians at ten o'clock in the evening on the North- 
 west side, creeping to the Fort, the sentry hollowed three times 
 and gave fire upon them, then they jumped up and the whole 
 guard was immediately upon the platform and another man 
 saw them running, and fired upon them, one Indian fell 
 down, the man thought he hit him. In the morning we went 
 early out, but we found nothing but their tracks. I kept all my 
 men that night ready under arms, and this morning at 8 o'clock 
 
MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 I dispatched fifteen men with that waggon that brought up 
 the salt from Dietz to go about half a mile from the Fort and 
 fetch some shingle wood and I commanded the Sergeant who 
 went along with them to be very careful to send out front and 
 flank guards, and so he did. When he came to the place where 
 the shingle wood was, he placed immediately three sentries 
 and they began to load the waggon. There came two Indians 
 through the thick bushes and took their course straight upon the 
 waggon, and one of the sentry saw them and fired upon the In- 
 dians and the Indians ran immediately back, and my men pur- 
 sued after them up that creek to Heads place, but they could 
 not overtake them any more, and they found by their tracks 
 that there were about five or six Indians. As soon as I heard 
 the gim go off I sent immediately my Ensign with twelve men 
 to assist them and to get the waggon back to the Fort. I shall 
 always endeavor to do the best for the good of our Coimtry. 
 I rest as heretofore Sir 
 
 your most dutiful Friend 
 
 Jacob Omdt 
 N.B. Sir you will be pleased to send us some paper for cart- 
 ridges To Timothy Horsfield Esq 
 
 at Bethlehem 
 
 The letter is of no particular importance as a mihtary 
 document, but it records a good deal of Captain Amdt's 
 character. He was then about thirty years old; he had 
 had no mihtary experience whatever, nor had he seen much 
 of the world, yet he did precisely the right thing. The 
 letter shows that he was vigilant and prepared, that he 
 was enterprising and yet prudent, and that he had a clearly 
 thought-out plan in his head. These are the natural quali- 
 ties that have won success for men since the world began. 
 No doubt this letter made a good impression at headquar- 
 ters, and this was strengthened by the favorable reports of the 
 inspecting officers who passed along the chain of forts, and who 
 invariably made a favorable report about the discipline and 
 
THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 good order maintained at Fort Norris. Captain Arndt became 
 known as a reliable, energetic man, and this reputation was 
 soon to serve to his advantage. In the autumn of 1756 there 
 was some little trouble in the garrison at Fort Allen, the next 
 fort in the chain- — something in the nature of a mutiny accord- 
 ing to the records of day, and the military authorities decided 
 a change in the garrison would be advantageous. A good 
 disciplinarian was needed, and Captain Arndt was selected 
 as the man. Accordingly, early in October the two garrisons 
 exchanged posts and Captain Arndt left Fort Norris after an 
 occupancy of eight months. Fort Allen was the most impor- 
 tant post on the frontier. It is just at the point where the Le- 
 high River, after traversing the high mountains for 30 nules, 
 finally breaks through them, leaves its narrow canon, and be- 
 gins its course through plains and low hills to the Delaware. 
 Geographically, the fort was four miles east of the present city 
 of Mauch Chunk, and 25 miles from Bethlehem. The Indian 
 trail from eastern Pennsylvania to the Wyoming valley and 
 New York State led through Fort Allen, just as the route of the 
 white man of the present day does. All the expeditions from 
 the east into the enemy's coimtry would start from here, and it 
 commanded the only route by which an Indian incursion in 
 force must pass in order to reach the settled districts. Only an 
 officer in whose vigilance and capacity entire confidence existed 
 would be chosen for such a position. Captain Arndt remained 
 in command here from October 8, 1756, until June, 1758, when 
 he was promoted to be Major and placed in command of all the 
 forts in this section of the country, a sufl&cient evidence that 
 his services were entirely satisfactory. The winter of 1756-7 
 seems to have been quite uneventful to the garrison at Fort 
 Allen. But early in April intelligence was received that 
 Teedyuscung, King of the Delaware Indians, proposed making 
 a visit to the English at Easton. Captain Arndt promptly 
 
MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 notified Major Parsons at Easton, his superior officer, and 
 Major Parsons at once transmitted his letter to Governor 
 Denny at Philadelphia. The Governor answered under date of 
 April 12, directing Major Parsons to proceed to Fort Allen as 
 soon as Teedyuscung should have arrived there, to receive him 
 with courtesy and to accompany him to Easton. He added: 
 "You are to order such an Escort as will be a sufficient Guard 
 to the Chief and all his Company, which I wou'd have com- 
 manded by Captain Omdt, as this will be the most respectful to 
 the Chief, and the most likely to keep both the Country 
 People and the Indians from committing any Irruptions on 
 one another." 
 
 Teedjoiscimg did not arrive as early as he was expected. But 
 he appeared on July 4 with 150 of his followers, and informed 
 Captain Amdt that 100 more were on the way, and that he 
 intended to wait for them six or seven days at Fort Allen. It 
 was explained to the King that the supply of provisions at the 
 fort would not suffice such a large number of people more than 
 a few days, and on the seventh he was persuaded to set out, 
 under the escort of Captain Amdt, for Easton, where the whole 
 party arrived the next day. The Governor was notified and 
 came at once to Easton. A great council was held ; the Indians 
 stated their grievances, and the Governor met them as well as 
 he was able. The upshot of the whole matter was that Teedy- 
 uscung and his chiefs professed themselves true friends of the 
 English, a result, scandal averred, that had been largely 
 brought about by the generous distribution of nmi by the 
 proprietary government. At all events, the Indians were 
 finally persuaded to go home, and Captain Amdt escorted the 
 whole party back to Fort AUen and saw them fairly started up 
 the Lehigh River. The conference certainly was not without 
 good results, as there were no Indian troubles that winter. 
 Captain Arndt, however, had a good deal to do in reassuring 
 
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 the settlers and making up a return of the niimber of people 
 killed by the Indians and the outrages committed by them, and 
 arranging for the systematic patrolling of the district.^ Late in 
 the year the Provincial force was reorganized, Captain Arndt 
 was given a new commission dated December lo, 1757, and he 
 was ranked fifth in the list of captains, about a dozen being 
 junior to him. On February 28, 1758, the command at Fort 
 Allen was inspected. There were present the captain, two lieu- 
 tenants, one ensign, and 75 men, who were suppUed with pro- 
 visions for two months, and a sufficient quantity of arms, 
 powder, lead, and tools. 
 
 The Provincial Government had now prepared its counter- 
 stroke — the expedition of General John Forbes against the 
 French at Fort Du Quesne. It was determined that Captain 
 Arndt should accompany this expedition, and on Jime 2, 1758, 
 he was commissioned Major by Governor Denny, jiunping over 
 the heads of the senior captains. He was attached to the First 
 Battalion under command of Colonel Armstrong. This expedi- 
 tion was the most considerable effort the colonies had ever 
 made, the force consisting of 7,500 men, mostly Pennsylvania 
 and Virginia militia, supplemented by a detachment of British 
 regulars. The force proceeded to Raystown, now Bedford, 
 moving slowly because of transport difficulties. At Raystown 
 the original plans were changed; it was determined to make 
 
 '■ This report, which is dated Fort Allen, December 16, 1757, is among the 
 manuscripts in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and 
 was published in the Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. 32, page 313. Captain 
 Arndt reported 27 attacks by the Indians in the territory east of the Lehigh 
 River between November 24, 1755, and September, 1757, and gave the names 
 of the victims in each case, the total being 114 killed and 52 taken prison- 
 ers. He also reported 29 killed and 7 taken prisoners along the Blue Moun- 
 tains near the Schuylkill. The commanders in adjacent districts sent in similar 
 lists, the grand total being 228 killed and 119 led away into captivity. With 
 few exceptions, the names of the sufferers are German. The English settlers 
 were well protected behind this belt of German pioneers. 
 
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MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 every provision in case of defeat as strong opposition was anti- 
 cipated and was, in fact, encountered; and, much to his dis- 
 appointment, Major Amdt was detached from the force and 
 ordered to put the frontier forts in the rear in a condition of 
 defense. He left the camp at Raystown on July 14, 1758, 
 under orders of General Forbes "to visit the Garrisons along 
 the frontiers to the River Delaware." General Forbes pushed 
 on with his expedition, and after some setbacks arrived at 
 Fort Du Quesne, driving out the French and their Indian 
 allies. Meanwhile Major Amdt attended to his duty. He 
 arrived at Reading on July 21, and two days later reached 
 Fort Allen, where he foimd his old friend Teedjoiscung. The 
 King was waiting for his son, who had gone on a visit to the 
 Delawares living on the Allegheny River, and who came back 
 with pacific messages. Information of this situation Major 
 Amdt sent at once to the Governor. 
 
 Upon completing his tour of inspection. Major Arndt was 
 placed in command of Fort Augusta, now Simbury. Here he 
 was obliged to wait while General Forbes pushed his campaign 
 to a successful conclusion. This was done in November, 1758, 
 and the stirring days upon the frontier were over. The Indians 
 went upon the warpath no more. An occasional raid by a 
 band of horse stealers was the extent of their depredations. A 
 more important matter was the project to build a road from 
 the thickly settled part of the Province to Fort Augusta, so 
 that trading with the Indians and white hunters would be 
 facilitated, for Fort Augusta was at that time an important 
 fur-trading post. Major Amdt was directed to assist in the 
 survey of this road, and was summoned before the Provincial 
 Coxmcil at Philadelphia when its construction was under con- 
 sideration. Conrad Weiser's journal shows that Major Amdt 
 was depended upon very considerably to assist Weiser in keep- 
 ing Teedyuscung, Pumpshire, Tetemy, and other chiefs in good 
 
THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 humor at this time. After the defeat of Montcalm by Wolfe at 
 Quebec in September, 1759, there was little to be done at Fort 
 Augusta, and in November of that year General Armstrong 
 directed Major Amdt to proceed to Fort Bedford, a rather 
 more exposed post. This was in the territory administered by 
 the Second Battalion of the Provincial forces, and apparently 
 Major Amdt served under the orders of the commander of that 
 detachment, although he was an officer of the First Battalion. 
 He seems to have remained at Fort Bedford until June, 1760, 
 when he retired from the Provincial service. All danger was 
 past, and the Province reduced its forces to 150 men, mostly 
 stationed on guard duty at Fort Augusta and Fort Allen. Such 
 a life offered no attractions to a man of the temperament and 
 active habits of life of Major Arndt. 
 
 He w^as now thirty-five years old. He had given four and 
 one-half years of the best part of his life to the service of the 
 State. He had been brought into close relations with the 
 active men in provincial affairs; he was well acquainted with 
 the leading Indian chiefs; he had become familiar with the 
 methods of transacting public business. It is rather interesting 
 to speculate upon what his career would have been had the 
 American Revolution come ten years earlier than it did. With 
 his knowledge of military life, his high rank in the Pennsylvania 
 service, his undoubted reputation for activity, efl&ciency, and 
 ability, there is every probability that he would have had an 
 important command in that great struggle. But no one 
 dreamed that such a contest was coming. Before his military 
 career came to an end he had determined upon his future. In 
 the course of his frequent visits to Easton on military duty he 
 had become familiar with the country roundabout, and found a 
 property he determined to purchase. It consisted of a house, 
 grist mill, and 148 acres of land on the "Lehaton or Bushkiln" 
 creek in Forks Township, Northampton County, about five 
 
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MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 miles from the center of the present city of Easton. He ac- 
 qtured this property from John Jones on January 25, 1760, and 
 probably removed there at once, for on February 9, 1760, he 
 sold the Telford farm of 82 acres to Melchoir Heebner. No 
 doubt he discussed the matter with his brother Abraham, who 
 was also in a mood to sell out and locate elsewhere, and who, in 
 fact, did sell his Souderton farm in November and moved to 
 New Britain. 
 
 In his new home Major Arndt settled down to the prosaic 
 life of miUer and farmer. He joined the First Reformed Church 
 at Easton. He was commissioned a justice of the peace in the 
 year 1761, and was regularly commissioned thereafter down 
 to the beginning of the Revolution. Whether the earlier com- 
 mission also carried with it that of justice of the coimty courts 
 is not entirely clear. On March 15, 1766, he was commissioned 
 one of the justices of the General Quarter Sessions and the 
 Coimty Court of Common Pleas. His last commission as jus- 
 tice of the court of Northampton County, of which we have 
 any record, was on March 9, 1774, and he probably continued 
 to act under this commission until succeeded by his son, John 
 Arndt, on June 3, 1777. He enjoyed a high reputation among 
 his neighbors, and upon the recurrence of the Indian troubles 
 in 1763 he was selected by a company of Forks Township citi- 
 zens as their captain for defense of their own section against 
 Indian attacks. The articles of association signed by Jacob 
 Arndt and 38 others, all but four or five of whom bore German 
 names, boimd them to serve when called out by the captain, 
 for a term of three months from October 13, 1763, each person 
 to find his own equipment and ammunition. It does not appear 
 that the company ever saw active service. In fact, the serious 
 fighting occiirred in the western part of the State, and the 
 affair was very ably handled by Colonel Bouquet, so that only 
 sporadic cases of Indian aggression occurred east of the Sus- 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 quehanna River. So it was ordered that his life was to run on 
 smoothly for fifteen years, during which time he attended to his 
 business of miller and farmer. His name appears frequently 
 attached to papers which he signed as justice, and which are 
 to be found in the collection of the Historical Society of Penn- 
 sylvania. He attended to his church duties and was selected 
 to purchase at sheriff's sale, as Trustee, a lot at Fourth and 
 Northampton Streets, on behalf of the four Reformed congre- 
 gations of Easton, Drylands, Plainfield Township, and Green- 
 wich, which was probably intended for a parsonage, and he 
 was chosen, together with the pastor, to represent the four 
 congregations at the Coetus of Pennsylvania, held in Philadel- 
 phia. He must have visited Philadelphia occasionally, for in 
 March, 1766, he was elected a member of the German Society 
 of Philadelphia, a circumstance that indicates his wide-spread 
 interest in the activities of the Province as well as in his home 
 community. The society which was founded to assist needy 
 German immigrants is still in existence and in a flourishing 
 condition, occupjdng a commodious building on Spring Garden 
 Street near Sixth in Philadelphia, and in 1914 celebrated the 
 one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its organization. 
 
 The sands of the Proprietary Government were fast running 
 out. The professed Quakers had mostly retired from the 
 Assembly at the time of the Indian War in 1755, but that body 
 was still controlled by Friends "on the fringe of the meeting," 
 and by the conservative business element that was associated 
 with the Quakers by many ties. The Proprietors themselves, 
 by their rapacity and heartless acts, had lost the respect of the 
 Germans and the best element in the Province. Nevertheless, 
 the machine kept running through the momentimi acquired by 
 three-quarters of a century of successful administration. But 
 when the strain came, just before the outbreak of the Revolu- 
 tionary War, the Assembly showed itself to be strongly Tory. 
 
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MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 To all suggestions that the Provincial Government act in con- 
 cert with the other colonies in devising plans for the benefit of 
 all, the Assembly turned a deaf ear. 
 
 Then came a peaceful Revolution that put an end to the 
 prestige of the Proprietors and the Assembly. The Committee 
 of Observation of Philadelphia sent invitations to the commit- 
 tees in all the other coxmties to send delegates to a Provincial 
 Conference to be held at Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia, on 
 July 15, 1774. The Tory writers of the day, utterly failing to 
 realize the importance of this gathering, derided it as an assem- 
 bly of uncouth farmers; but they were entirely mistaken — the 
 Conference represented the driving force of the Colony. Sev- 
 enty-five delegates were in attendance — 34 from Philadelphia 
 and 41 from the other counties. Among them were John Dick- 
 inson, author of the Farmers' Letters, then the foremost man 
 in pubKc life in the Province; Willing, the eminent merchant, 
 the Whartons, Provost Smith, of the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania, Joseph Reed, later President of Congress, and Charles 
 Thomson, its Secretary, George Ross, James Wilson, and 
 James Smith, three of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence, Generals MiflMn, Wayne, and Irvine, of Revolu- 
 tionary history. Colonels Magaw, Atlee, Miles, and Kechlein, 
 who acqmred fame in the war, and many other distinguished 
 merchants, lawyers, and public men. In this historic assembly 
 sat Major Amdt with the Northampton County delegation of 
 four. 
 
 The conference was an imposing array of the progressive men 
 of the Province. They were the men who made the Revolution. 
 They got down to business very promptly and finished in six 
 days. The temper of the delegates and of the people of the 
 Colony is sufficiently indicated by the character of the resolu- 
 tions adopted. The Conference decided "no longer to confine 
 ourselves to occasional complaints and to partial remedies," 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 and in formulating the instructions to the Proprietary Assem- 
 bly, "it was not thought necessary that the argimientative 
 part should continue any longer in them." It voted unani- 
 mously that it was an absolute necessity that a Congress of 
 delegates from the federal Colonies be immediately assembled; 
 it voted by a great majority that if non-importation and non- 
 exportation were necessary, the people of the province would 
 support such measures, and it voted by a majority that if further 
 steps are deemed necessary by Congress to carry out the 
 principles of this declaration, the people will take such steps. 
 There was no mistaking the meaning of such language from 
 such men. It was a very clear intimation that if the Assembly 
 refused to act, the Conference would act itself. But the ruling 
 element bent before the storm. The Assembly appointed dele- 
 gates to the Continental Congress. Everywhere it was rec- 
 ognized that a new power had arisen in the State. 
 
 In January, 1775, a second Provincial Conference was held 
 at Carpenters' Hall. It is significant of the part played by the 
 German element in the movement that the meeting of qualified 
 electors held at the Court House at Easton on December 21, 
 1774, to elect delegates to this conference, a majority were 
 Germans, while of the Standing Committee, two-thirds were 
 Germans. Major Arndt was again chosen a delegate, and at- 
 tended the sessions, which lasted from January 23, 1775, to 
 January 28. The conference adopted measures to carry into 
 effect the wishes of the popular party, and delivered another 
 blow at the staggering Proprietary Government. 
 
 Major Arndt was also active in organizing measures for de- 
 fense at home. At the meeting on December 21, 1774, at 
 Easton, he was elected a member of the Committee of Observa- 
 tion and Inspection of the County, and at the first meeting of 
 the Committee was chosen on the subcommittee on Corre- 
 spondence. He was present at practically all the meetings of 
 
MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 both bodies, and was one of the active spirits in both. Nor was 
 his military training allowed to go unnoticed. On the forma- 
 tion of the Associated Companies in each of the several town- 
 ships of the county agreeably to the request of the Committee 
 of Public Safety, he was chosen Captain of the Associated Com- 
 pany of Forks Township on May 22,1775. He was not a mem- 
 ber of the General Committee elected in October, 1775, prob- 
 ably because a larger field of activity was opening before him, 
 and, besides, he was busy training his own and other companies 
 of militia in the coimty. 
 
 The last General Assembly of the old Proprietary Govern- 
 ment assembled in Philadelphia on October 14, 1775. Early 
 in the session petitions began to pour in upon the Assembly 
 from most of the counties, asserting that they were not ade- 
 quately represented, and praying for additional representation. 
 The Assembly hesitated and delayed, but its old fighting spirit 
 had been very much hiunbled, and it finally capitulated. On 
 March 14, 1776, it adopted a resolution awarding four addi- 
 tional delegates to Philadelphia, two each to Lancaster, York, 
 Cumberland, Berks, and Northampton Coimties, and one 
 each to Bedford, Northumberland, and Westmoreland. Wil- 
 liam Allen and Jacob Arndt were the new delegates from 
 Northampton County, and they took their seats on May 20, 
 1776. The Proprietary Government was fast nearing its end. 
 On May 15, 1776, the Continental Congress passed a resolution 
 that, "it being necessary that the exercise of every kind of 
 authority under the British Crown should be totally sup- 
 pressed, etc." Again on June 4, 1776, the Congress passed 
 another resolution concerning the appointment of Brigadier 
 Generals providing that those from Pennsylvania and Mary- 
 land " should be appointed by the respective colonies," whereas 
 the usual form was they should be appointed by the respective 
 assemblies. These gentle reminders that the old system was 
 
THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 out of date were not lost upon the members of the discredited 
 Assembly. In his four months' service in the Assembly Major 
 Arndt was appointed on two important conmiittees. On May 
 23 he was made a member of a committee to examine the 
 muster rolls and report the number of effectives in the pay of 
 the Province. Five days later he was appointed on a commit- 
 tee to examine into the conduct of the Committee of Safety 
 respecting a charge preferred against the Committee by the 
 captains of armed boats, growing out of an engagement with 
 British ships of war in the Delaware River. The captains 
 claimed that they were not sufficiently supphed with powder; 
 had they been, they would have captured the Roebuck. The 
 Committee made an examination and reported that the failure 
 to capture the Roebuck was not due to scarcity of powder. On 
 September 23, the last day of its existence, the Assembly voted 
 upon a resolution to allow £1,000 to Governor Thomas Penn 
 for his support during the current year. It was a case where 
 courtesy to an expiring system might enter as a factor in de- 
 termining a vote. Sixteen members voted "Aye"; twelve 
 members voted "No." Major Arndt, faithful to his principles, 
 and having a keen recollection, through personal experience in 
 the Indian wars, of the horrors that William Penn's sons had 
 let loose upon the colony, voted in the negative 
 
 Meanwhile Major Arndt had received a fresh token of the 
 confidence of his neighbors. A Provincial Conference, held in 
 Philadelphia on June 8, 1776, arranged for a convention which 
 should draw up a Constitution for the Colony. The conven- 
 tion was to consist of eight delegates from each of the eleven 
 counties, and eight from the city of Philadelphia, and when 
 the elections were held on July 8, Jacob Arndt was chosen one 
 of the delegates from Northampton County. It was a distin- 
 guished assembly, and Major Arndt found, among his fellow 
 members, John Dickinson and many others of his associates in 
 
MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 the famous Provincial Conference of 1774. The convention 
 organized by electing Benjamin FrankUn President. It then 
 elected new delegates to the Continental Congress, estabUshed 
 a Council of Safety, attended to some other matters that re- 
 quired prompt attention, and then proceeded to frame the first 
 popular Constitution of the Colony. This frame of govern- 
 ment served all through the Revolution, and until broader 
 political experience enabled the public men of the State to pre- 
 pare the excellent constitution of 1790, which was to be the 
 pattern for all the other States for documents of this kind. The 
 work of the Convention of 1776 was characterized by the Tory 
 element as crude and radical; nevertheless, it was a great ad- 
 vance over everything of the kind that had been drafted before 
 that time, and most of its provisions would be considered 
 moderate in the Ught of public opinion of the present day. In 
 this constitution the executive power was vested in a Supreme 
 Executive Coimcil, composed of 12 members, one-third of 
 whom were to retire each year, and the retiring members were 
 not immediately eHgible for reelection. This Council was to 
 issue commissions to aU judges, mihtary and naval officers, to 
 fill civil offices temporarily, to transact business with the 
 Federal Government, to prepare business to be laid before the 
 Provincial Assembly, to grant pardons, and in brief to execute 
 the laws. The President of the Council was the Commander- 
 in-Chief of the military forces of the State. Provision was 
 made for the creation of a Council of Censors, to be elected in 
 1783, and not before, who should determine at that time 
 whether and in what respects the constitution should be modi- 
 fied. Provision was also made for a General Assembly. Major 
 Arndt was one of the radical members of this Convention, as 
 most of the country delegates were. But he seems to have 
 enjoyed the confidence of his associates. His name appears 
 twice in a notable manner in the minutes of the convention. A 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 memorial was presented from the citizens of Westmoreland 
 County, representing that they were in danger of incursions 
 from the Indians and praying for protection. The recollection 
 of Major Arndt's services in the Indian Wars twenty years be- 
 fore came over the convention and he was appointed one of the 
 committee of five directed to guard against this danger. Again 
 on September 5, 1776, Major Arndt arose in his place and asked 
 leave of absence that he might visit his son, who had been 
 wounded at the Battle of Long Island and who was lying ill at 
 Bergen. The convention instantly granted his request, but 
 "upon the condition that he promise he would return as soon as 
 he conveniently could." 
 
 The convention adopted the constitution on September 28, 
 and adjourned the same day. It had been in session two 
 months and a half. But it had done much. It had definitely 
 seized the executive power of the State, which had been in the 
 hands of the Quakers or their sympathizers since the days of the 
 foimder. It had adopted a frame of government distinctively 
 democratic in character, traces of which remain to this day. Its 
 work was vigorously attacked by the British party, the Quak- 
 ers, the members of the old regime, all the reactionary forces in 
 the Colony; but they made Httle impression. The sentiment 
 of the Colony was with the convention. The first election 
 under the new constitution was held on November 5. There 
 were to be elected 72 members of the General Assembly — six 
 from each of the 1 1 counties and six from the city of Philadel- 
 phia. Only 25 members of the recent convention were elected 
 to the new Assembly, and among them was Major Arndt, who 
 appeared with the Northampton County delegation. The re- 
 actionaries had carried a good many seats in Philadelphia and 
 in some other districts, but they were in a hopeless minority, 
 and after making a final effort to reestablish their authority, in 
 part at least, many of them withdrew from the body. The 
 
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MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 first General Assembly of Pennsylvania under a Democratic 
 Constitution met November 28, 1776, and proceeded to put 
 the new plan of government into efifect. In the organization of 
 the Assembly Major Arndt was appointed a member of the 
 important Committee on Grievances. He seems to have been 
 very faithful in his attendance in the Assembly during the 
 early days of the Revolution. In the summer of 1777 General 
 Howe's approach to Philadelphia became talked about and 
 Major Arndt was appointed a member of the committee to 
 arrange for the removal of citizens to a safe place. Soon, how- 
 ever, the Assembly had to look after its own safety. The result 
 of the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, made the 
 fate of the city doubtful, and on the eighteenth the Assembly 
 adjourned to meet at Lancaster on the twenty-ninth, while at 
 the same time Congress adjourned to York. It was not until 
 October 6 that a quorimi of the Assembly arrived at Lancaster, 
 and it adjourned after sitting a week. One of the last things 
 done on October 13 was to create a Council of Safety, com- 
 posed of the Supreme Executive Council and nine additional 
 members, four of whom were members of the Assembly, Major 
 Arndt being one of them. This Council of 21 persons was in- 
 vested with practically absolute power. They were to "pro- 
 mote and provide for the preservation of the Commonwealth 
 by such regulations and ordinances as to them shall seem nec- 
 essary," and they were given authority to imprison and punish 
 capitally or otherwise aU persons who should disobey their 
 orders or the laws of the State in respect to conduct inimical to 
 the cause of liberty. No such absolute power was ever granted 
 to any body of men by the State of Pennsylvania either before 
 or since that time. It was the Roman dictatorship. These 
 powers were so excessive that their exercise was limited to the 
 end of the next sitting of the General Assembly, and, in fact, 
 the Council was dissolved by proclamation of the Supreme 
 
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 Executive Council at Lancaster on December 6, 1777, after an 
 existence of less than two months. As a matter of fact this 
 emergency Council of Safety did not adopt extreme measures. 
 It appointed commissioners in each county to seize the arms of 
 suspected persons, to seize the estate and effects of traitors, and 
 enacted other rigid police regulations. 
 
 Meanwhile the first year of the Supreme Executive Council 
 expired, and the member from Northampton County retired 
 according to the constitution. The citizens of his home county 
 elected Major Arndt to the Council for a term of three years. 
 He took his seat in that body on November 7, 1777. He was 
 very regular in attendance at its sittings. Of the 1 2 members 
 of the Council, there were seldom if ever more than nine present 
 at any one sitting during the first year of Major Arndt's ser- 
 vice, and frequently there were, no more than five. The 
 Council sat practically every legal day. Of the 296 sessions 
 held in his first year of service, Major Arndt is recorded as 
 being present at 208, and for the remainder of his term his 
 record is about as good. Even when not in attendance, he was 
 frequently employed on pubHc business, as on the occasion of a 
 visit to his home in September, 1778, where he received a depu- 
 tation of Moravians from Berks and Northampton Counties 
 who desired his advice in their efforts to avoid taking the oath 
 of allegiance although they rendered no aid of any kind to the 
 enemy. The work of the Council covered a wide range of 
 activities, and as it usually sat in the same city as the Con- 
 tinental Congress, the members were brought into close rela- 
 tions with the Federal Government on many questions. Major 
 Arndt was present in the Council at the time of the arrest and 
 examination of John Brown, the emissary of General Howe, 
 who bore conciliatory overtures to members of Congress, and 
 also at the meeting when the reply was drafted and ordered 
 pubhshed. 
 
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MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 The proposals of Howe for submission and amnesty were the 
 same unwarranted proposals issued by him at Long Island in 
 1 776, and as then were unanimously rejected as insincere. The 
 recent publication of the secret correspondence of the British 
 Ministry during the Revolution discloses the fact conclusively 
 that Howe was never authorized to make the promises of re- 
 dress of wrongs as promised in said proposals. Brown's at- 
 tempt was a complete failure, and after a few months in jail 
 he was released. But the Council was less lenient in the cases 
 of Abraham Carlisle and John Roberts, who, in September, 
 1778, were tried and convicted of giving aid and comfort to the 
 enemy. An extensively signed petition for their pardon was 
 presented to the Council, and Major Arndt had the unpleasant 
 duty of voting upon this petition. The minutes of the Council 
 do not record the deliberations nor how the individual mem- 
 bers voted, but merely state that the petition was refused, and 
 the men were executed on November 4. 
 
 In October, 1780, Major Arndt's term of service in the 
 Supreme Executive Council came to an end. For three years, 
 during the most critical period of the Revolution, he had given 
 practically all his time to the service of the State, and it was 
 intelligent and faithful service. He had been brought into close 
 contact with the leaders in that great struggle, and had been 
 behind the scenes in the most important moments. Under the 
 constitution he was not eHgible for reelection. He sat with the 
 Council for the last time on October 9, 1780. The minutes of 
 the next day contain the following curious entry, the statement 
 of account between Major Arndt and the State: 
 
 In Council Philad'a, Tuesday, Octo' loth, 1780. 
 
 Present: 
 Hon'ble the Vice President. 
 
 Mr. Gardner, Mr. Thompson. 
 
 An order was drawn on the Treasurer in favor of Hon'ble 
 
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 Jacob Amdt, Esquire, for the sum of £1,219 — ^ballance of his 
 account for his attendance in Council, as follows, vizt : 
 
 Dr. The State of Pennsylvania in account with the Hon'ble 
 Jacob Amdt, Esq'r. 
 
 For his attendance in Council as follows, vizt : 
 
 From the ist of Feb'iy to the 24th of March, 1780, inclusive, 1 
 
 53 days, at £12, J 636 
 
 From the 2Sth of March to the 6th of April, 1780, inclusive, \ 
 
 13 days, at £16, « 1 208 
 
 Mileage, going home & returning, 120 miles, at 12S.6, \ 75 
 
 From the 4th of June last to the tenth instant, inclusive, 129 J 
 
 days, at £50, 6,450 
 
 Mileage, coming to the city & returning home, 120 miles, at \ 
 
 £2-1-8, f 250 
 
 1780, April 3d. By an order on the Treasurer, £1,200 
 July 5th. By do. do. 1,200 
 
 Sept'r Qth. By do. do. 4,000 
 
 £7,619 
 
 6,400 
 
 Ballance, — — — — — £1,219 
 
 It appears from this statement that he was present at the 
 Council meetings from February i , 1 780, until October 10, 1 780, 
 with the exception of about two months in April and May. It 
 is hardly necessary to say that the pay of £50 a day for attend- 
 ance was not in sterling money, but in colonial currency, which 
 was worth very little. Nor did it cost two pounds sterUng a 
 mile for traveling in those days. 
 
 For two years after his retirement from the Supreme Execu- 
 tive Council he seems to have occupied himself at home assist- 
 ing in supplying the troops and in forwarding the patriot cause 
 in variousways that opened to him. But in 1782 hewaselected 
 a member of the General Assembly, and on October 4, 1783, 
 he was elected for another year, coming in at the head of the 
 poll. These two sessions of the Assembly were not marked by 
 any important measures. Major Arndt's name appears on 
 every roll call taken in these two years with one or two excep- 
 tions, and his votes show him to be a man of moderate views. 
 
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MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 When the war was over and peace had been declared, it was 
 proposed to relax the severity of the test oaths that had 
 been in favor while the contest was raging. The house divided 
 evenly, and the Speaker cast the deciding vote in favor of con- 
 tinuing the severe oaths. Major Amdt voted for relaxing the 
 law. Again, when a phase of the discussion over the Con- 
 necticut squatters on the upper Susquehanna came to a vote, 
 he cast his lot with the minority and joined in a dissenting 
 statement in which he urged that efforts be made to amalga- 
 mate these people with the other citizens of the State. He was 
 not afraid of being with the minority, and the record of his 
 votes shows he always was guided by principle and not by ex- 
 pediency. And it is an interesting sidehght upon his influence 
 with his associates that the Northampton County delegation 
 usually voted with him. But toward the end of his second 
 term party lines began to be drawn. Amdt was a Federalist, 
 and the majority of his constituents did not agree with him. 
 In several votes toward the end of his second term the North- 
 ampton County delegation was sharply divided and he was in 
 the minority. When his term expired, he was put in nomina- 
 tion again, and received the Federalist vote, but the ma- 
 jority of the voters in the German counties leaned toward the 
 Democratic side and he was badly defeated. It was the end of 
 his public service, and perhaps he did not regret it. He was 
 sixty years of age; he had seen much and done much, and the 
 questions that had interested him in his early days had been 
 settled or had faded into insignificance. The new problems 
 could not have seemed to him of much importance. 
 
 For the remaining twenty-one years of his Ufe he lived an 
 honored citizen in his community. It was generally considered, 
 according to tradition that has come down to us, that had the 
 British conquered in the war. Major Amdt would have paid 
 
 the extreme penalty, and this belief made his fellow-citizens 
 
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 very considerate of him. His business affairs were prosperous. 
 He conveyed the mill and tract of 148 acres of land purchased 
 in 1 760 to his son John on July 28, 1 785, subject to a rental. He 
 had purchased in November, 1779, another tract on the Bush- 
 kill containing 280 acres, which on March 5, 1782, he conveyed 
 to his second son, Jacob Arndt, Jr. On December 22, 1766, 
 he applied for the grant of a tract of 100 acres in Plainfield 
 Township, Northampton County, to which he gave the name 
 of Baumholder, after the place of his birth in Germany. The 
 warrant for his acceptance of the survey was not issued until 
 1783, and the patent signed by his old associate, John Dick- 
 inson, was issued on January 21, 1683. This tract was devised 
 by will to his son. Captain John Arndt. 
 
 He died August 3, 1805, and is buried with his wife and a 
 large number of his descendants in the Arndt burying ground 
 on his farm in Forks Township. It is on a hill in the yard 
 adjoining the Arndt and Messinger church, and on every 
 Memorial Day flowers and a flag are placed on his last rest- 
 ing place. 
 
 The will of Jacob Arndt, made in 1 796, while his wife was still 
 living, is as follows: 
 
 WILL OF JACOB ARNDT 
 In the Name of God, Amen. I Jacob Arndt the elder of 
 Forks Township, in the County of Northampton and Common- 
 wealth of Pennsylvania, Esqr. being advanced in age, but of 
 sound mind memory and understanding (thanks be to God) 
 do this first day of July in the Year of our Lord One thousand 
 seven hundred and ninety six, make, publish and declare this 
 my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following, to 
 wit. 
 
 First I do order and direct that as soon as convenient after 
 my decease an Inventory and appraisement be taken of my 
 estate — 
 
 Secondly, I do give and bequeath unto my beloved wife 
 
MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 Elizabeth all my cattle and all other creatures, my Beds, Bed- 
 ding and all my Household and Kitchen Furniture whatsoever 
 to hold to her during the Term of her natural life. 
 
 And I do also give and bequeath unto my said wife the sum 
 of Twenty pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania to be paid 
 imto her by my Executors within the space of Thirty days 
 after my decease. 
 
 And further I do give unto my wife the Annual Interest of 
 two hundred and fifty pounds money aforesaid, to be paid unto 
 her yearly and every year during the Term of her natural hf e, 
 the first payment to be made within one year after my decease 
 — ^And after the decease of my said wife I do order and direct 
 that the said Cattle, Beds, Bedding, Household & Kitchen fur- 
 niture be sold at pubUc Vendue and the neat proceeds thereof 
 be put out on Interest for the use of my Estate. 
 
 Item, I do give and devise unto my son John Amdt and to 
 his Heirs and Assigns forever. All that Tract of Land situate in 
 Plainfield Township in the County aforesaid adjoining his other 
 Lands and containing about seventy acres more or less (being 
 part of the Tract conveyed to me by Jacob Schwartz) And I do 
 also give unto my said son John an obligation from him to me for 
 one himdred pounds and all my EngHsh Books whatsoever. 
 
 Item I do give imto my son Jacob Amdt the sum of Five 
 shillings lawftil money aforesaid in full of all his Share Portion 
 and expectancy out of my estate — 
 
 Item, I do give unto my son Abraham Arndt All the Bonds 
 Notes and Book accounts he stands indebted to me — 
 
 Item, I do give unto my son in law Jacob Shoemaker and 
 Elizabeth his wife (my daughter) two obligations from the said 
 Shoemaker to me, each for the siun of seventy-five pounds 
 together with what Accounts may stand charged against him 
 in my Books at my decease — 
 
 Item, I give unto Jacob the son of the said John Arndt my 
 Silver Watch. 
 
 Item, I do give & bequeath unto my granddaughter Mary 
 Shoemaker one chest of drawers, one Bed, Bedstead and Bed- 
 ding compleat with Calico Curtains, One Milch cow, one Side 
 Saddle and Bridle and one Spinning wheel, if she has not re- 
 ceived the same of me in my lifetime — together with the sum 
 
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 of Fifty Pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania to be paid unto 
 her when she arrives at the age of twenty-one years, or within 
 one year after her day of marriage — 
 
 And all the rest and residue of my estate whatsoever and 
 wheresoever (not herein bequeathed) After the decease of my 
 said wife Elizabeth, I do give & bequeath unto my two 
 grandsons, to wit, Jacob Arndt the son of the said John Amdt 
 and Jacob Arndt the son of the said Abraham Amdt when they 
 respectively arrive at the age of twenty-one years, to be equally 
 divided between them Share and Share alike — 
 
 And I do order and direct that immediately after my de- 
 cease my muUatto Slave Gifford have his Manumisson and be 
 set at liberty — 
 
 And Lastly I do nominate and appoint my said son Abraham 
 Arndt and my son in law Jacob Shoemaker to be the Execu- 
 tors of this my Last Will and Testament hereby revoking all 
 other wills Legacies and Bequeaths by me heretofore made, 
 ratifying and declaring and confirming this only to be my 
 Last Will and Testament. 
 
 In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and seal 
 the day & year within written. 
 
 Signed sealed published and 
 declared by the said Jacob 
 Arndt the Testator as and for 
 his Last Will and Testament, 
 in the presence of us, who in 
 his presence and at his request 
 have subscribed the names as 
 witnesses. 
 
 Robt. Traill. 
 
 Ch. MixseU. 
 
 Jacob Mixsell. 
 
MAJOR JACOB ARNDT 
 
 Will was probated January lo, 1806. 
 Recorded in Will Book, Vol. 4, p. 223. 
 
 The inscription on his tombstone, as well as that on the 
 tombstone of his wife, are given below: 
 
 HERE 
 
 Are Deposited the Remains 
 
 o£ 
 
 JACOB ARNDT 
 
 Who in his lifetime faithfully served 
 
 his God, his King and in and after 
 
 the Revolution The Republic — 
 
 He was bom in Germany 
 the 12ft day of March 1725 
 and departed this life the 3d of 
 August 1 80s 
 Aged 80 years 4 mos. 10 days. 
 
 Here Ruht in Gott 
 Ann Elisabeth Amdtin 
 Eine Gebohren Geigerin 
 Geweisene Ehr Frau dei 
 Jacob Arndt — est Gebohren 
 den 2otI» September 1726 und 
 Gestorben den ij*^ Maertz 1797 
 Altes Gebract — 76 Jahr 6 Monat 3 Tage. 
 
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CHAPTER VIII 
 CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT, SOLDIER AND PATRIOT 
 
 Eulogy by Henry the Historian — Early Life and Education — Appointed Cap- 
 tain of the Flying Camp — Gallant Conduct of his Company at the Battle of 
 Long Island — Wounded and Obliged to Retire from Active Service — Vindicates 
 his Conduct Before the Standing Committee — ^Appointed Recorder for North- 
 ampton County — ^Active Services for the Patriot Cause — ^Active in Local 
 Affairs — Elected to the Council of Censors to Revise the Constitution— Elected 
 to the Second Council Seven Years Later Which Finally Perfects that Docu- 
 ment — Member of the First Presidential Electoral College and Votes for Wash- 
 ington—Removed From his Offices because of his PoUtical Opinions — Main- 
 tains an Extensive Correspondence — ^Trustee of Dickinson College— Establishes 
 the Amdt Burying Ground — ^His Death at the Age of sixty-six — His Will 
 
 M. S. Henry, the historian of Northampton County, in 
 writing of "Revolutionary Heroes of Northampton County," 
 pays the following glowing tribute to Captain John Amdt: 
 
 "He of all others, during the time that 'tried men's souls,' 
 acted then the most conspicuous part in the country. He was 
 the organ through which all and every measure, taken by the 
 principal pohtical chiefs of the State, which in a greater or 
 lesser degree tended to achieve our glorious independence, 
 passed. All for the furtherance of the cause of liberty that 
 could be done by man was done by him. His indefatigable 
 exertions, his soHd judgment, his devotedness to the cause, were 
 known and appreciated. All these virtues placed him in the 
 confidence of his fellow citizens, and through his stern in- 
 tegrity and truthfulness retained it as long as he lived. Every 
 one will be ready with me to exclaim that he was deserving of a 
 nation's gratitude, and that his memory should be handed 
 down to the latest posterity. . . Should not my own breast 
 heave with admiration of a man whose character I have had an 
 opportunity of studying, by examinations of records, papers, 
 
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CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT 
 
 letters, etc., furnishing and elucidating the clearest proofs of all 
 that has been but faintly described above? 
 
 "It is well known that John Arndt turned out in 1776, a 
 time which 'tried men's souls,' and assisted in toil and danger 
 against the invading British foe, got wounded and crippled, 
 and declined soKciting a pension to which he was by law en- 
 titled, accepted of an office in this county, in the conduct of 
 which he is known to have been the true friend of the widow 
 and orphan." 
 
 John Arndt was born June 5, 1748, according to his own 
 statement, on his father's farm, in Rockhill Township, Bucks 
 County, and removed with the family to Forks Township, 
 Northampton County, in 1760. Of his early years there is no 
 certain record except his own statement that he was "kept to a 
 hard and laborious hfe," with which expression he accounts for 
 the first twenty-six years of his Ufe. But he managed to ac- 
 quire an imusuaUy good education for that period, he was an 
 excellent penman, a thoughtful writer, and, as correspondence 
 of his stiU extant shows, he possessed a knowledge of and an 
 interest in the higher sciences and he also had some familiarity 
 with the dead languages. The foundation of his education was 
 no doubt laid in the schools of the German Reformed Church, 
 but he was by disposition of a thoughtful turn of mind, and he 
 continued a student all his hf e. He was a miller by occupation, 
 and during his early manhood operated his father's miU, the 
 title to which he later acquired. 
 
 From this quiet existence he was aroused by the outbreak of 
 the Revolution. He was now twenty-eight years old, he had 
 just lost his wife by death, and his father's career had caused 
 him to become interested in pubHc events. His opportunity 
 was at hand. On June 3, 1776, Congress adopted a resolution 
 creating a Flying Camp of 10,000 emergency men, pledged to 
 go anywhere on short notice. The force was to be raised by all 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 the Colonies. The quota of Northampton County was a regi- 
 ment of three battalions. A Company was at once formed 
 from the vicinity of Easton, so promptly, indeed, that on July 
 9, a little more than a month after Congress issued the call, the 
 officers were chosen and commissioned. Captain Arndt says 
 in his Narrative that he was appointed by the Committee of the 
 County, a statement that attests his possession of sound qual- 
 ities of leadership. The company mmibered three lieutenants, 
 four sergeants, four corporals, one drummer, one fifer, and 88 
 privates— in all, 102 men. Philip Arndt, a cousin of the 
 captain, was one of the sergeants; and another cousin was John 
 Arndt, brother of Philip, who was the drummer, although not 
 quite sixteen years old, and probably the youngest member of 
 the company. After a few weeks' drill the company was com- 
 bined with three other companies, forming the First Battalion, 
 under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Kechlein, but the 
 regiment was commanded by Colonel Hart. Toward the end 
 of July the battalion marched to Amboy, where it joined 
 Washington's army. 
 
 It was a battahon of sharpshooters. Every man in it was a 
 crack shot— a squirrel shooter. From childhood they had been 
 accustomed to handling the famous Pennsylvania rifle, the best 
 arm of precision then known in the world. The model of this 
 celebrated gun had been brought to this country by German 
 gimmakers, and by reason of the stimulus of frontier conditions 
 had been improved by the skilled mechanics of Lancaster and 
 Northampton Counties into the most rehable weapon then 
 known. A marksman could hit a man's head at 200 yards, and 
 his body at 300, and instances were known of fatal results at 
 400. There was no European rifle that could be depended upon 
 to do execution at anything like these ranges. Untrained 
 though they were in military exercises, Kechlein's men, 
 equipped with this excellent arm and possessed of courageous 
 
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CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT 
 
 hearts, were a really formidable body. The battalion spent 
 several days in Washington's camp, and on August 22, or a day 
 or two before (the date is uncertain, as the exact chronicles 
 have perished) it was ferried over to Long Island for the battle 
 that was preparing, and was assigned to Lord Stirling's com- 
 mand, which was stationed on the extreme American right. 
 Stirling's line began at Gowanus Bay, about where Twentieth 
 Street, Brooklyn, is now located, and extended in a north- 
 westerly direction very nearly corresponding to the present 
 front of Greenwood Cemetery for the distance of about a mile; 
 then, after a gap, came Sullivan's force. The plan of Sir 
 William Howe fronting the American army was very simple. 
 Leaving General Grant with 7,000 men to watch Lord StirUng's 
 1,600 mihtia, he made a long detom: by night along the Ameri- 
 can front, and arriving well beyond its end, wheeled to the left 
 and marched toward the patriot rear. He had little to do but 
 chase a crowd of terror-stricken men off the field of battle. 
 
 But the situation was different at the other end of the battle 
 line. General Grant, who had orders not to advance until 
 Howe's flanking attack should have developed, patiently 
 awaited the signal to move forward. Stirling had arranged his 
 line very skilfully. On his right, near the shore, about what is 
 now Twentieth Street, he placed Smallwood's Delaware bat- 
 taKon. The Gowanus road, which led back to Brooklyn, ran 
 through their position. On their left was the Delaware regi- 
 ment of Hazlet, beyond them, still reaching out to the left, were 
 Colonel Atlee's Pennsylvania riflemen, and still beyond, pro- 
 longing the line, were the Maryland troops. Kechlein's bat- 
 talion arrived after these dispositions had been made, and his 
 men were therefore deployed as skirmishers — ^half of them in 
 front of the Marylanders, and the other half in front of Atlee's 
 force. About 7 o'clock on the morning of August 27 Grant ad- 
 vanced some light troops to within 150 yards of the American 
 
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 force, and the whole patriot Kne rose up to receive them. Mr. 
 John Fiske, the historian, has noted with a keen appreciation 
 of conditions that — 
 
 " On the coast road the fight between Stirling and Grant was 
 the first in which Americans had ever met British troops in 
 open field and in regular line of battle." 
 
 Instead of flinching, Kechlein's skirmishers began their 
 deadly work of picking off the exposed British troops, and two 
 guns having been brought forward, and the rest of Stirling's 
 men joining in the effort. General Grant was constrained to 
 call back his troops to his main line. It was almost the only 
 favoring smile that Dame Fortune gave the American arms 
 that day. Between ii and 12 o'clock Stirling became aware of 
 the success of Howe's flanking movement, and going back, 
 found that Comwallis with two regiments had reached the 
 Gowanus road and cut off his line of retreat. Instantly order- 
 ing his advanced troops to fall back, he led the Marylanders in 
 several desperate charges against Cornwallis, so as to give his 
 men time to get away. The only way of escape, now that the 
 road was held by the British, was to wade the swamp near 
 Gowanus Creek, swim the creek, and wade through the swamp 
 on the other side. Many were lost in the swamp — ^many who 
 were unable to swim were captured by Grant, who pressed 
 them hard, but most of the force got away. Stirling and many 
 of the Marylanders were taken; so was Colonel Kechlein, with 
 two of his four captains, and many of his men. Captain Arndt 
 was wounded by a cannon-ball in his left arm so seriously that 
 he was never able to use his elbow-joint afterward, and 21 of 
 his men were killed, wounded, or reported missing. But Lord 
 Stirling had inflicted considerable losses upon his adversary. 
 Howe's official report stated his total losses as 63 killed, 271 
 wounded, and 31 missing, about 60 per cent, of his casualties 
 
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CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT 
 
 being in Grant's and Comwallis' commands. General Grant 
 himself was among the wounded, and Lord Stirling, in a letter to 
 Washington, stated that the soldier who shot him was one of 
 Kechlein's men. The American losses were, of course, far 
 greater than this: they were never ascertained exactly. 
 
 Such was Captain Amdt's first experience in war. What re- 
 mained of his company rallied on the road to Brooklyn, and 
 with the rest of Washington's army was ferried over to New 
 York. The captain was sent to the hospital in Bergen, New 
 Jersey, but the company, led by one of the lieutenants, re- 
 mained with the army. But a second disaster soon befell the 
 Northampton men. A part of the company was at Fort 
 Washington on that disastrous November day when it was 
 stormed by the British, and 2,700 Americans were taken prison- 
 ers. Of Captain Amdt's company, the first lieutenant, the 
 third lieutenant, the dnunmer, the fifer, and 33 privates, 37 
 men in all, were in the Fort at the time of the assault. All of 
 them were either killed or captiired. Little John Amdt, the 
 drxmimer boy, was never seen after the battle. The company 
 was posted directly at the point assaulted by the Hessians. 
 On November 17 Captain Arndt rallied what remained of his 
 company at Elizabethtown. There were present the captain, 
 the second lieutenant, two sergeants, one of whom was PhiHp 
 Amdt, three corporals, and 26 privates — 33 in all. This was 
 aU that was left of 102 gallant men who had marched out of 
 Easton with brave hearts less than fom: months before. 
 
 Upon the discharge of his company Captain Amdt returned 
 to Easton, where he appeared at a meeting of the Standing 
 Committee held December 19, 1776, and complained that 
 Frederick Reiger, Henry Allshouse, and John Simon, of 
 Easton, had circulated malicious and false stories about his 
 conduct while in command of his company. Reiger had stated 
 that Captain Amdt had hid himself behind a barn at the Battle 
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 of Long Island, that he had run away from his company at 
 Fort Washington, and that he had sold his company. The 
 whole proceedings are given in the Pennsylvania Archives, 
 Second Series, volume XIV, page 633. While it was very clear 
 from the start that the stories were merely the idle talk of an 
 idle fellow, nevertheless Reiger and his associates were directed 
 to appear before the Committee on the twenty-seventh. At 
 that time Elijah Crawford testified that he was one of Captain 
 Arndt's Company, was with him all the time of the Battle of 
 Long Island, and denied that the Captain had hid himself or in 
 any manner deserted his company, but that, on the contrary, 
 by his good conduct, he had saved above 20 of his company 
 who would either have been killed or taken prisoner. 
 
 John Lyle testified that he was in company with Captain 
 Arndt in Fort Washington the day before the battle there; 
 that he crossed the North River with him; that while in the 
 Fort, he did not hear it mentioned that they expected an 
 engagement; that the said Lyle was sure that if it had been 
 talked of he would have heard it, he having had several ac- 
 quaintances there. 
 
 The Committee promptly decided that the charges against 
 Captain Arndt were false and groundless, and ordered Reiger 
 to make acknowledgment to Captain Arndt of his misconduct. 
 
 Being incapacitated for further military service. Captain 
 Arndt returned to his business at the grist mill on the Bushkill. 
 He determined, however, to apply for the offices of the Probate 
 of Wills and Recorder of Deeds for Northampton County; his 
 petition seeking these appointments was presented to the As- 
 sembly, then in session in February 22, 1777, and his request 
 was granted. He received his appointment and his commis- 
 sions on March 3, 1777. He was also commissioned as justice 
 of the peace on June 3, 1777, which office he continued to hold 
 in connection with those of Register of Wills and Recorder 
 
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CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT 
 
 of Deeds. "The emoluments thereof at that time and during 
 the war," he said in his Narrative "did not much more than 
 compensate me for the stationeries that were wanted for the 
 use thereof." 
 
 Captain Amdt's fighting days were clearly over. But the 
 patriot cause had great need of a man of just such qualities as 
 he possessed — a strong character, business ability, a wide ac- 
 quaintance and a practical experience with camp Hfe, and 
 appointments and commissions flowed in upon him. On De- 
 cember lo, 1777, he was named one of the agents to receive 
 subscriptions to the Continental loan. On February 9, 1778, 
 he was appointed Commissary of Purchases in Pennsylvania, 
 and it is recorded that while acting in this capacity he more 
 than once pledged his private fortune to pay for supplies for the 
 army when there were no funds either in the treasury of Con- 
 gress or in that of the State of Peimsylvania. On December 4, 
 1778, he was appointed a commissioner to settle the accounts of 
 the coimty lieutenants, and on April 5, 1779, he was made one 
 of the Commissioners of Exchange, in which post he had the 
 duty of looking after the prisoners of war confined at Easton. 
 He served for several years as Coimty Treasurer. These varied 
 activities caUed for a great deal of his time, and necessitated 
 much correspondence with the Federal and State authorities. 
 At the same time he continued to direct operations at his 
 father's mill. Major Jacob Amdt was almost continuously in 
 the service of the Commonwealth from 1775 until February, 
 1780, when he retired from the Supreme Executive Council. 
 That he was able to give so much of his time to public affairs 
 was because of the fact that his son John was at home taking 
 care of the business. This he seems to have done very success- 
 fully. A year and a half after his first wife died he married a 
 second time, his bride being Miss Ehzabeth Ihrie, with whom 
 he lived happily until his death thirty-four years later. He 
 
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 had acquired a reputation for scholarship, and upon the incor- 
 poration of Dickinson College on September 9, 1783, he was 
 appointed one of the trustees. He served during the term for 
 which he was elected, but he resided at such a distance from 
 the institution that he was unable to take as active an interest 
 in its affairs as he would have liked, and he retired when his 
 time was up. When the present Constitution of the United 
 States was drawn up in 1787, it was provided that the docu- 
 ment was to be submitted to the several States for adoption. 
 In Pennsylvania a convention was created to consider the mat- 
 ter, and Captain Arndt was elected a delegate to that conven- 
 tion from Northampton County. Pennsylvania was one of the 
 first States to act upon the constitution, and as party feeling 
 ran high, the debates in the Assembly were stormy and 
 acrimonious. Captain Arndt voted squarely for the document 
 without modification, the large majority of the convention 
 voted as he did, and the decided action of the important State 
 of Pennsylvania did much to carry the measure through in 
 smaller States that were more or less hesitating. 
 
 A new and important mission now presented itself. When 
 the first constitution of the State was drafted in 1776, a docu- 
 ment his father had no small part in framing, it was provided 
 that a Council of Censors should be elected in 1783 and not 
 before, to consider what changes, if any, were desirable. In 
 October, 1783, when his father was elected to the General 
 Assembly at the head of the poll. Captain John Arndt was 
 elected one of the Council of Censors, as provided above, whose 
 duty it was "to inquire whether the Constitution has been 
 preserved inviolate in every part; whether the legislative and 
 executive branches of government have performed their duty 
 as guardians of the people, or assumed it themselves, or exer- 
 cised other or greater powers than they are entitled to by the 
 Constitution ... to enquire whether the public taxes 
 
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 have been justly laid and collected ... to continue these 
 powers for one year from the day of their election and no 
 longer ... to have power to call a convention to meet 
 within two years after their sitting, if there appear to them an 
 a:bsolute necessity of amending any article of the Constitution, 
 &c." 
 
 This Council of Censors met in Philadelphia November 13, 
 1783, and Captain Arndt was one of a committee thereof ap- 
 pointed to report on defective articles of the Constitution. 
 This committee reported a nmnber of defects, among them 
 that the Legislature consisted of only one house, the depen- 
 dence of the judiciary upon the Legislature, etc. They sug- 
 gested the establishment of a House of Representatives 
 and a Legislative Coimcil; that the executive be vested in a 
 Governor instead of an Executive Council, and other minor 
 charges. 
 
 Each amendment proposed by the Committee was adopted 
 by a vote of 1 2- favoring against 9 opposed, but the minority 
 maintained that a convention could not be called to adopt these 
 amendments without a two-thirds vote of the Council of 
 Censors. The report of the committee composed of Colonel 
 Samuel Miles, General Arthur St. Clair, Colonel Thomas 
 Hartley, and Captain John Arndt was evidently drawn with 
 great care, and where changes were recommended, reasons for 
 them were clearly and succinctly stated. The frame of a con- 
 stitution they submitted was practically that adopted later by 
 Pennsylvania and nearly every State in the Union — a legis- 
 lature of two houses; judiciary independent of the Legislature; 
 a single executive with veto power overriden by two-thirds vote 
 of the houses, etc. Unfortunately, the members of the Council 
 at once divided on strict partisan lines, the "Constitutional- 
 ists" or Federalists voting to adopt the report and recommend 
 the calling of a constitutional convention, while the Democrats, 
 
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 or Republicans, as they were better known, unanimously op- 
 posed the report. The vote on the adoption of the report was 
 as follows: 
 
 Yeas Nays 
 
 Samuel Miles, City of Phila. Joseph Hart, Bucks Co. 
 
 Thomas Fitzsimons, City of Phila. Samuel Smith, " " 
 
 Frederick A. Muhlenberg, Phila. Co. John Whitehill, Lancaster Co. 
 
 Arthur St. Clair, Phila. Co. Simon Driesbach, Northampton Co. 
 
 Anthony Wayne, Chester Co. John Smiley, Westmoreland Co. 
 
 James Moore, " " William Findley, " " 
 
 Stephen Chambers, Lancaster Co. James Edgar, Washington Co. 
 
 Thomas Hartley, York Co. John McDowell, " " 
 
 Richard M'Allister, " " Balser Gehr, Berks Co. 
 William Irvine, Cumberland Co. 
 John Amdt, Northampton Co. 
 David Espy, Bedford Co. 
 
 The minority insisted that though the report was adopted, 
 it required a two-thirds vote to become effective. They also 
 issued an "Appeal to the People of Pennsylvania," and an ad- 
 journment was taken to June 5, 1784. Captain Amdt and 
 Balser Gehr were appointed a committee to translate the 
 minutes into the German language for printing and circulating 
 among the German population. 
 
 Party spirit ran high, and numerous and lengthy communi- 
 cations appeared in the Gazette and other newspapers. The 
 Democratic minority in the first session is said to have been 
 largely influenced by leaders of the party outside of the Coun- 
 cil. George Bryan, who was not originally a member of the 
 Council, but was elected to that body during the vacation in 
 place of Colonel Samuel Miles who had resigned, is credited 
 with exercising so much influence over the Democratic mem- 
 bers that, in the articles published in the Gazette, he is styled 
 " Censor-General of Pennsylvania," though many of these arti- 
 cles are dated prior to his election, June 21, 1784. 
 
 During the vacation, which continued to August 16, 1784, 
 the political complexion of the Councfl changed. There were 
 five members elected in October, 1783, who did not attend the 
 
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 first session, viz., John Evans, who died soon after election 
 and in whose place James Moore was elected December 13, 
 1783; James M'Lean, of Cumberland; Samuel Davidson, of 
 Bedford, and William Montgomery and Samuel Hunter, of 
 Northumberland. Samuel Hunter died and James Potter was 
 elected in his place on July 7, 1 784. Another original member, 
 James Read, of Berks, voted occasionally with the conserva- 
 tives, but on the crucial test seems not to have voted on either 
 side. Bryan, M'Lean, Potter, and Montgomery voted with the 
 Democrats, thus giving them a majority, the conservatives 
 having lost Irvine, Miles, and Hartley. 
 
 On August 27, 1784, the Council, by a vote of 14 to 8, de- 
 cided that the Constitution of 1776 was "clean in its principles, 
 accurate in its forms, consistent in its several parts, and worthy 
 of the veneration of the people of Pennsylvania." An address 
 to the people, somewhat in the nature of an apology for doing 
 nothing, was adopted, and on September 25th the Council of 
 Censors adjourned. 
 
 But the matter was not ended. As the time drew near for 
 another election of the Council of Censors (which was to be 
 elected every seven years), a great change of sentiment was 
 manifested in reference to a change in the State Constitution 
 and the Legislature on March 24, 1 789, passed a resolution by a 
 vote of 43 to 17 in favor of calling a Constitutional Convention, 
 and though the Supreme Executive Council in control of 
 Democrats opposed it, on September isth, the General As- 
 sembly adopted measures for calling the convention and for 
 the election of members thereof by the people. 
 
 Captain John Arndt was elected a delegate to this conven- 
 tion from Northampton County. The convention met in 
 Philadelphia November 24th, 1789, and not having a quorum, 
 adjourned to the 25th, and then organized, with Thomas 
 MifHin, President. After a long session they adjourned to meet 
 
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 in August, 1 790. The second session of the Constitutional Con- 
 vention assembled August 9, 1790, and proceeded with the 
 business of framing a constitution. Colonel Thomas McKean, 
 who became governor of Pennsylvania in 1799, was a very 
 active spirit in this convention, generally voting in opposition 
 to the sections adopted. John Arndt appears to have been 
 present at the several sessions and taken a more or less active 
 part in the deliberations of the convention. He was one of the 
 five delegates who had been members of the Council of Censors 
 in 1783, and was therefore generally found voting with the 
 majority for the adoption of a constitution similar in many of 
 its provisions to the one he assisted in recommending seven 
 years earlier. On September 2, 1790, after the convention had 
 adopted the new constitution by articles and sections, although 
 not as a whole, Captain Arndt asked to be excused from further 
 attendance because of iUness in his family. His request was 
 granted by unanimous consent, and Samuel Sitgreaves, one of 
 his Northampton County colleagues, was directed to sign Cap- 
 tain Arndt's name to the constitution. The convention, having 
 completed its work, adjourned September 2, 1790. The docu- 
 ment proved to be very well adapted to the needs of the State, 
 for it continued in force for forty years, and its provisions had 
 such general application that many other states adopted them 
 into their own frame of government. 
 
 Meanwhile Captain Arndt had continued the business of 
 miller, and at the same time attended to his duties as Recorder 
 and Register of Wills at Easton. He purchased from his 
 parents their farm of 148 acres, and the mill, on February 28, 
 1785. The consideration mentioned in the deed is "the love 
 and affection" for their said son, also 280 pounds, and finally 
 an agreement that the captain was to pay one-third of the 
 income of the mill to his father during his Hfe, or half of that 
 amount to his mother, should she survive her husband, and 
 
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CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT 
 
 finally he was not to sell the property during their lifetime. On 
 this condition the property was to become his own upon his 
 parents' decease. He was, however, becoming more deeply 
 interested in county affairs. He was commissioned Judge of the 
 Common Pleas of Northampton County on March 20, 
 1786, and two years later he was made Clerk of the Orphans 
 Court, but he continued to reside at the mill property in Forks 
 Township imtil March 4, 1796, when he removed to Easton, 
 having purchased a house there from his father-in-law, Conrad 
 Ihrie. He seems to have been pretty widely known throughout 
 the State, for in 1788 he was elected a member of the first 
 Electoral College imder the Federal Constitution. He records 
 with pride that he had the honor of casting his vote for the 
 illustrious Washington for President of the United States. He 
 was quite active in pohtics about this time. In the year 1796 
 he was a candidate for Congress in the district of which 
 Northampton Coimty formed a part, but was defeated by 
 Jonas Hartzel, the Democratic candidate, by a small majority 
 of 90 votes, though the normal Democratic majority was much 
 larger. 
 
 It is very evident from his Narrative that Captain Amdt 
 was of a resolute and rather uncompromising nature. In 
 poHtics he was a strong Federalist; so was his father, and so, 
 in fact, were most of the officers of the Revolutionary army. 
 He worked for and supported that party, and in the election 
 for Governor in 1799 was active on behalf of James Ross, the 
 Federahst candidate, who was opposed by Colonel Thomas 
 McKean, the Democratic nominee. Colonel McKean being 
 elected made a clean sweep of all the Federalist office-holders 
 in the State, inaugurating the system " to the victor belongs the 
 spoils," and Captain Amdt, despite the fact of his being a 
 crippled soldier of the Revolution, lost his official positions. 
 His loyal friends in all walks of life made strenuous efforts to 
 
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 have him retained. Among these was Dr. Benjamin Rush, the 
 famous Philadelphia physician, scientist, and statesman, whose 
 letter on the subject to Captain Amdt, dated December 7, 
 1799, is given below in full. 
 
 My Dear Friend:— 
 
 I have begun my labors to serve you, with a zeal which the 
 justice connected with your claim, and my friendship for you 
 dictated, but I am sorry to add, that the discouragement I met 
 with from the first person I spoke to, in your favor, prevented 
 my proceeding any further. I need not mention what passed 
 between us. He was not, however, in the least unfriendly to 
 you. But I do not yet despair of your success, provided you ad- 
 dress a fair, short, and pathetic statement of your case to Mr. 
 Jos. McKean, praying him to lay it before his father. Do not 
 forget to take notice of your wound, nor of your intention, if 
 dismissed, to apply to the Legislature for relief. Yoxir ten 
 children, your inability to work, and your father's blindness, 
 must not be omitted in your letter. Let the postage of it be 
 paid. Mr. Jos. McKean has kind and just feelings. He will 
 not neglect your application. Keep a copy of your letter. 
 From Dr. Sir your sincere old friend, 
 
 Benj. RtlSH. 
 Philadelphia, December 7, 1799. 
 
 But no appeal was of avail. Possibly if Captain Arndt had 
 been a poor man, his application might have met with more 
 success, but as a matter of fact he was in comfortable circmn- 
 stances. He had acquired considerable real estate in the town 
 of Easton, he owned the mill property on the Bushkill, which, 
 though encumbered by a heavy charge in favor of his father, 
 was still productive of income, and he owned some tracts of 
 land in Plainfield Township. Possibly he had other resources. 
 But his public employments had grown very dear to him during 
 his occupancy of nearly twenty-five years, and he could not 
 reconcile himself to idleness. Accordingly, he opened a store 
 
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CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT 
 
 which he conducted successfully for many years. But now the 
 heaviest blow of all fell upon him. In the summer and auttmin 
 of 1806 his two oldest sons, one twenty-one years of age and the 
 other seventeen, died within three months of each other. Al- 
 though eight children remained, the father must have felt the 
 blow keenly. His father had died the year before. These be- 
 reavements seemed to have turned his thoughts upon family 
 matters, for it was in the year following the death of his sons 
 that he wrote the Narrative printed at the beginning of this 
 volume. 
 
 He was now fifty-nine years old, and evidently thinking a 
 good deal about the end of his earthly career. On July 4, 1807, 
 the day he signed the Narrative in the family Bible, he exe- 
 cuted a deed of trust to his son, George Washington Amdt, and 
 his nephew, John Shoemaker, conveying what has since been 
 known as the Amdt Burying Ground. It was a part of the 
 BushkiU farm purchased from his father, and contains about a 
 quarter of an acre. His parents and several members of their 
 and his own family had been buried there, and he desired to 
 rest there himself. The plot was conveyed — 
 
 To the said George Washington Amdt and John Shoemaker and their or 
 either of their male heirs that may reside nearest to the ground hereby given 
 and granted, and in case they should both die without leaving lawful issue, then 
 to the nearest lineal male descendant from my father that may reside in the 
 vicinage, upon this special trust and confidence that they shall and will forever 
 hereafter suJEer and permit all the descendants of my said father to bury their 
 dead in said ground as also all the friendly neighbors that may soUcit of them 
 permission Provided they are professors of the Christian religion and providing 
 that they and every of them will never suffer the ashes or bones of those who 
 are buried in said ground to be disturbed in any mode whatever and on this 
 further trust and confidence that neither of them, the said George Washington 
 Amdt and John Shoemaker, nor any other person in the family in whom this 
 trust may be eventually vested will never suffer or permit that the said land or 
 ground to be used or appropriated for any other use or purpose whatever than 
 that of burying the dead of the description aforesaid, and at all times hereafter 
 maintain, uphold and keep in good order and repair a decent enclosure round the 
 
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 said land at least as far as the dead are interred so that the graves of the dead 
 may not be disturbed. 
 
 Witness, 
 Thomas J. Rogers. (Signed) John Amdt. (Seal) 
 
 Jacob Amdt. 
 Acknowledged before George Ihrie, Justice of the Peace of Easton. 
 
 This graveyard, now known as the Arndt-Messinger Burying 
 Ground, has been used for many years and down to the present 
 time as a public cemetery, and contains beside the many graves 
 of the deceased members of the Arndt family, several hundred 
 graves of persons in no wise connected with the family; nota- 
 bly, members of the Messinger or Massinger family. Across 
 the road stands a substantial chapel known as the Amdt 
 Reformed Church. 
 
 A number of autograph letters of Captain John Arndt are 
 bound in the Miscellaneous Manuscript Collections from 
 Northampton County at the Library of the Historical Society 
 of Pennsylvania. These and the letters still in possession of 
 the family show that he was in constant correspondence with 
 leading men of the State on subjects pertaining to his section. 
 Richard Peters, Anthony Morris, Lord Butler, and others 
 write in reference to lands in the Lehigh and Wyoming Valleys 
 and elsewhere; Samuel Ogden writes from the Delaware Works 
 at Morrisville, Bucks County, in 1790, asking Captain Arndt 
 to look after the forwarding of yellow pine logs to the works ;^ 
 and letters from a number of other people on poUtics, business 
 interests, etc., clearly indicate that Captain Arndt was relied 
 on as having a knowledge of all matters relating to the mate- 
 rial interests of his section. His correspondence with his dear 
 friend Philip Shrawder, of Lower Smithfield, and with men of 
 
 ' Captain John Arndt probably had an interest in the "Delaware Works," 
 at one time a very extensive business plant. His son-in-law, Charles Lombaert, 
 was actively interested in the plant and resided there for a number of years, 
 and Benjamin F. Arndt, son of Captain Amdt, also lived there for a time. 
 
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 science and learning, demonstrate that he was interested in 
 learned subjects. As a local mineralogist and botanist he held 
 high rank. 
 
 Captain John Amdt owned considerable real estate in Easton 
 at the time of his death, including the house and lot at Pomfret 
 and Ferry Streets where he lived, purchased from his father- 
 in-law, Conrad Ihrie. The original deed for this property, 
 dated April i, 1795, as well as a deed from John Penn the 
 yoimger, and John Penn the elder, for Easton town lot No. 1 14, 
 dated November 12, 1789: the patent to his executors, George 
 W. Amdt and Charles Lombaert, for 61 acres and 86 perches 
 in BushkiU Township, surveyed to him xmder warrant dated 
 August 16, 1790, and a number of other original papers are in 
 the possession of Mrs. J. M. Harris, of Pottsville, a great grand- 
 daughter of John Amdt. 
 
 Captain John Amdt died at his residence in Easton the 
 sixth day of May, 1814, and is buried in the family biurying 
 groimd on the old homestead in Forks Township. The in- 
 scription on his tombstone is as follows: 
 
 JOHN ARNDT 
 
 In whose memory this Stone is 
 Erected was Bom the 5"* of 
 June 1748 and on the 6"" of 
 May 1814 at the age of 65 years 
 II months and i day closed an 
 active life of public useful- 
 ness and private worth. 
 
 The Will of John Aendt 
 The will of John Arndt, "a resident citizen of the Borough 
 of Easton, by some called Esquire, being advanced in years," 
 proved June 17, 1814, is very long, in substance it is as follows: 
 It directs that a careful inventory of his books and other per- 
 sonal belongings be made, and adds — 
 
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 "All or any of my children may divide the same, particularly 
 my small Library of Books which it would be painful to some 
 to see them go into the hands of strangers but no sett of the 
 books ought to be broken. Each child will be charged with the 
 appraised amount for the articles so taken." To "Much es- 
 teemed and invariable Friend Captain Philip Shrawder, not on 
 account of the value but as a sincere token of my Friendship 
 and esteem for him, I give my silver headed cane as well as one 
 of cork wood which the Honorable Timothy Pickering pre- 
 sented to me Provided said canes remain in my possession at the 
 time of my decease." 
 
 "To my son George Washington Arndt, I give a large three 
 squared silver seal which was made a present to me by the late 
 Rev. Bishop Ettwain with an injunction that it should remain 
 as a family seal the same injunction I lay on my said son. I also 
 give to him my small collection of silver coins, deemed by me 
 as a curiosity." 
 
 " Item. To my son Benjamin Franklin I give all my collec- 
 tion of copper coins, my old watch or time piece which has 
 now been nearly a half century in my possession and my small 
 silver seal, my gun, and all such mechanical tools I may leave, 
 and my silver Knee Buckles which I have worn previous to the 
 Revolution." 
 
 "Item. To my daughter Susanna Miles I give the old 
 Walnut Chest which came to me from my departed sister 
 Margaret who it is said resembled my said daughter; the gift 
 is not on account of its value but its antiquity and in memory 
 of her aunt who she hath never seen." 
 
 "If Miss Eve Faber shall reside in the family unmarried at 
 my last sickness and shall render me any Friendly service in 
 that awful Crisis then I give to her twenty dollars for a mourn- 
 ing suit, " etc. 
 
 Then follows devise of an annuity and the privilege to remain 
 in the house where he then resided, etc. 
 
 His real estate was to be appraised. To his eldest daughter 
 Maria, wife of Rev. John Faber, he gave town lots in Easton 
 Nos. 123 and 124, at the appraised value. 
 
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CAPTAIN JOHN ARNDT 
 
 To his daughter Siisamia, wife of John B. Miles, "Messuage 
 and Tenement wherein I now reside"— subject to privileges to 
 Eve Faber above mentioned, at said appraised price. 
 
 To his daughter Anna, wife of Charles Lombaert, portions of 
 two lots on Ferry Street, at said appraised price. 
 
 To his daughter Sarah, wife of John Sletor, lot and part of 
 lot on east side of Pomfret Street and north side of Lehi Street, 
 at said valuation. 
 
 To his son George Washington and son-in-law John B. Miles 
 lot on west side of Pomfret Street "in trust for my daughter 
 Elizabeth wife of William Innes to permit her to enjoy the 
 issues and profits thereon during her life after her death to go 
 to her children." 
 
 To his sons George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and 
 Samuel at said valuation all that grist mill and farm on Bush- 
 kill in Forks Township containing nearly 148 acres, "reserving 
 therefrom the quarter of an acre for which I have executed a 
 deed in Trust to my son George Washington and nephew John 
 Shoemaker for a Burying Ground and the right of going to and 
 from the same." "Excepting also such Buildings and Ma- 
 chiniries that my son George Washington and son-in-law 
 Charles Lombaert may erect thereon during the term of a 
 lease granted to them." Also that stone house and portion of 
 ground on the southeast comer of Lot No. 1 14 in the Borough 
 of Easton, reserved out of devise to daughter Sarah to hold to 
 the said George, Benjamin Franklin, and Samuel until they 
 respectively attain the age of twenty-eight years. No one of 
 them permitted to sell his share therein without consent thereof 
 until that date — if any of them die under that age his share to 
 revert to the survivor or survivors thereof. 
 
 "Having some lands in Plainfield Township near the Moun- 
 tain its exact quantity I do not at present know, for part of 
 which I have a patent and part is held by Warrant of Survey 
 
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 and other Old Rights My Weak State of Health having pre- 
 vented me from getting the said lands surveyed. My Execu- 
 tors are to complete title and sell the same." 
 
 I Share stock in Easton Delaware Bridge Company — 3 shares 
 in Easton and Wilkes-barre Turnpike — i share Washington 
 Turnpike to be at disposition of executors. 
 
 The remainder of the estate was to be divided into two equal 
 shares — one to go to his sons George Washington, Benjamin 
 Franklin, and Samuel (if any die without issue his share to go 
 to surviving brother or brothers), and the other half part to 
 the daughters — one-fifth share to each. 
 
 "My mill and farm in Forks Township, being a paternal in- 
 heritance, I would be gratified if it remain the property of my 
 sons." 
 
 He appointed "my good friend John Shoemaker" to be 
 guardian for Samuel. He named as executors his sons George 
 Washington and Benjamin FrankUn, and his son-in-law John 
 B. Miles. The will is dated March 20, 1813. His son-in-law 
 Miles, dying soon after this date, he executed a codicil on 
 April 14, 1814, giving to his daughter Susanna, widow of John 
 B. Miles deceased, "for faithful service to me in my sick- 
 ness" — all kitchen furniture and other household goods. He 
 also named his son-in-law Charles Lombaert Executor and 
 Trustee in place of Miles. 
 
 Letters testamentary were granted June 17, 1814, to George 
 W. Arndt, Benjamin F. Arndt, and Charles Lombaert, but 
 nothing seems to have been done by them toward settling the 
 estate or even setting apart to the various legatees the real 
 estate devised to them. Benjamin F. Arndt was discharged at 
 his request November 2, 1816, and on October 12, 1818, after 
 numerous citations had been granted to them to file an account 
 or give security, etc., they were discharged from the trust and 
 letters d.b.n.c.t.a. granted to Wilham Kennedy and Jacob 
 
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 Weygandt. Still no progress was made for four years more, 
 and on August 31, 1822, letters were granted to Philip H. 
 Mattis, who at once proceeded to settle the estate. He peti- 
 tioned for and obtained a special Act of Assembly authorizing 
 him to sell the real estate, and sold the mill property in two lots 
 in 1823; the Plainfield property in several lots in 1830; and 
 the residence in Easton in 1837, being joined in this deed by 
 the heirs of Mary Faber. In the same year the property de- 
 vised to Sarah Sletor was conveyed to the son-in-law, William 
 Innis, in trust for Mrs. Sletor, by Mr. Mattis as administrator, 
 and Benjamin F. Arndt, who had purchased the property after 
 the death of his father. In 1839 the property devised to 
 Susanna Miles was conveyed by Mr. Mattis as administrator 
 and Peter Ihrie as guardian of Matilda (Miles) Miller to Ben- 
 jamin F. Arndt as Trustee for said Matilda. 
 
 John Arndt married first (as stated in his Narrative herein- 
 before set forth in full) on December 13, 1774, Elizabeth Feit, 
 daughter of John Feit. She died January 31, 1776, and with 
 her infant child, who had died two weeks earlier, January 15, 
 was buried in the fanuly burying ground, the child being the 
 first interred there. The inscription on the tombstone of Mrs. 
 Arndt is as follows: 
 
 IN MEMORY OF 
 
 ELIZABETH ARNDT 
 
 The Beloved Wife of 
 
 John Arndt 
 
 and daughter of John Feit 
 
 who departed this life 
 
 January 31^ 1776 
 
 at the age of 
 
 17 years 8 months 12 days. 
 
 Captain Arndt married, second, Elizabeth Ihrie, daughter of 
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 Conrad Ihrie of Easton. She died December 23, 1811. The 
 inscription on her tombstone is as follows: 
 
 THIS 
 
 Monument was Erected by 
 
 John Amdt 
 
 In Memory of his beloved 
 
 Wife Elizabeth 
 
 who departed this life 
 
 December 23, 181 1 
 
 At the age of 55 years 8 months and 17 days. 
 
 She was an affectionate wife and mother 
 Much esteemed by all her acquaintances 
 When death approached she submitted with 
 Christian resignation and fortitude. 
 
 The names of their children and dates of their birth are given 
 in the Narrative above referred to, and a further account of 
 them will appear in the genealogical account of the family 
 which follows. 
 
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Elizabeth Ihrie Aendt 
 (see page i8) 
 
GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF 
 JOHANN BERNHARD ARNDT 
 
 IN THE preceding pages we have given the German ances- 
 try of Johann Bemhard Amdt; an account of his emigra- 
 tion to Pennsylvania in the year 1731, with his wife Aima 
 Maria Decker, and their fovir children, Abraham, Jacob, 
 Catharine, and Henry; a history of his life and activities in 
 Pennsylvania, and some accoimt of the lives and distinguished 
 services of his sons, Abraham Amdt, Major Jacob Amdt, and 
 grandson. Captain John Amdt. In the following pages is 
 given a genealogical record of his descendants down to the 
 present time in chronological order, so far as we have been 
 able to secure data in reference to them. 
 
 FIRST GENERATION 
 
 Children op Johann Bernhaed and Anna Maria (Decker) Arndt 
 
 2. Abraham Arndt, bom at Baumholder, duchy of Zweibriicken, Germany, 
 
 August s, 1722; died in Williams Township, Northampton County, 
 Pa., about December i, 1795; married first, 1747, Catharine Reed; 
 
 second, about 1768, Mary , maiden name unknown. (For sketch 
 
 of his life see Chapter VI.) 
 
 3. Major Jacob Arndt, bom in Baumholder, Zweibriicken, Germany, 
 
 March 24, 1725; died in Forks Township, Northampton Connty, Pa., 
 August 3, 1805; married about 1747, Elizabeth Geiger, bom September 
 20, 1726; died March 17, 1797. (For sketch of his life and pubUc ser- 
 vices see Chapter VII.) 
 
 4. Catharine Arndt, bom at Baumholder, Germany, March 17, 1728; 
 
 died ; married, about 1747, George Leidy, bom ; died — 
 
 5. Henry Arndt, bom 1 731; died 1802; married, 1753, Catharine Bender. 
 
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 SECOND GENERATION 
 
 Children os Abraham (2) and Catharine (Reed) Arndt 
 
 6. Abraham Arndt, born 1750; died 1825; married 1791, Anna Van 
 
 der Werken. 
 
 7. Catharine Arndt, bom 1752; died circa 1832; married Heist. 
 
 8. Phiup Arndt, baptized Jan. 29, 1754; died 1804; married Mary Little. 
 
 9. Elizabeth Arndt, baptized June 13, 1756 ; died 1 795 ; married Jacob Hager. 
 
 10. Jacob Arndt, bom Feb. 11, 1758; died Sept. 18, 1831; married Mch. 1, 
 
 1785, Mary Morrison. 
 
 11. John Arndt, bom 1761; missing after battle of Fort Washington, N. Y., 
 
 Nov. 16, 1776, while serving as a drummer boy in the company of Cap- 
 tain John Arndt, Northampton County battalion of the " Fljdng Camp." 
 
 Children or Major Jacob (3) and Elizabeth (Geiger) Arndt 
 
 12. Captain John Arndt, bom in Rockhill Township, Bucks County, Pa., 
 
 July s, 1748; died in Easton, Northampton County, Pa., May 6, 1814. 
 
 13. ElizabethArndt, born Sept. 29, 1750; died July 4, 1797; married Jacob 
 
 Shoemaker. 
 
 14. Margaret Arndt, born July 24, 1752; died Dec. 11, 1768, unmarried. 
 
 15. Jacob Arndt, Jr., bom May 14, 1756; died Oct. 2, 1812; married 
 
 Elizabeth Nyce. 
 
 16. Abraham Arndt, born Jan. 31, 1759; died Dec. 2, 1845; married Anna 
 
 Henn. 
 
 Catharine Arndt (4), only daughter of Johann Bemliard 
 and Anna Maria (Decker) Arndt, was bom in Banmholder, 
 Germany, March 17, 1728, and came with her parents to 
 Pennsylvania in 1731. The information obtainable in refer- 
 ence to her and her descendants is very meager. Her mar- 
 riage to George Leidy appears of record in the Ust of marriages 
 solemnized by Reverend George Michael Weiss, as pastor of 
 New Goschenhoppen Reformed Church between the years 
 1746 and 1758. This list does not give specific dates, nor do 
 the marriages appear to be arranged in chronological order, 
 so that the date of the marriage of Catharine Arndt and 
 George Leidy cannot be determined therefrom even approxi- 
 mately. From the fact that their daughter Maria Magdalena 
 was baptized at Tohickon Reformed Church in Bedminster 
 
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 Township, Bucks County, on December 25, 1758, at the age 
 of two months, it is to be inferred that the parents had been 
 married near the last date mentioned by Rev. Weiss, at the 
 head of his list, and that they were living ia or near that 
 locahty at the time of the baptism. They appear to have re- 
 moved to the neighborhood of Easton soon after the above 
 date, as we find George "Leide" signing a sheriff's inquisition 
 on land of Charles Swaine's called "the Point," "at the con- 
 fluence of the Lehi and Delaware Rivers." Also a "Close 
 called the Lowland in Williamton, bounded Eastwardly by 
 the Delaware River and Northwardly by the Lehigh River" 
 on December 4, 1760. On the records of the First Reformed 
 Church of Easton, as pubUshed by Rev. Dr. Kieffer (page 92), 
 appears the following: 
 
 " 1769, November ig. A girl baptised named Maria Elizabeth. Bom Octo- 
 ber 27. Parents, George Leidi and his wife . Sponsors, Jacob Schumaker 
 
 and Mrs. Maria Elizabeth Amdt." 
 
 Jacob Shoemaker, one of the sponsors, was doubtless the 
 one who married a few years later Elizabeth, the daughter 
 of Major Jacob Amdt, and the other sponsor was doubtless 
 the wife of the Major. 
 
 George Leidy is supposed to have been one of the sons of 
 Jacob Leidy, who with his family arrived in Philadelphia in 
 the ship Adventurer October 2, 1727, and settled in Franconia 
 Township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery County. Jacob 
 Leidy was one of the early trustees of Indian Creek Reformed 
 Chiu-ch, with which Abraham and Jacob Amdt, brothers of 
 Catharine Amdt Leidy, were so intimately associated and one 
 of his yoimger daughters, Magdalena, bom in 1739, became 
 the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Jacob Reed, brother to Cath- 
 arine, wife of Abraham Amdt. George Leidy does not seem 
 to have prospered in the temporal affairs of life. The land 
 records of Pennsylvania show that he received a patent for the 
 
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 tract of land surveyed to Johann Bernhard Amdt in Frederick 
 Township, Montgomery County, in 1748, but the records of 
 the county fail to show how he was divested of the title thereto. 
 It was possibly sold by the sheriff on an execution at a date of 
 which the early records are lost. Captain John Amdt in his 
 family Narrative written in 1807, given in full in the preceding 
 pages, refers to his aimt Catharine and her husband George 
 Leidy in a rather caustic maimer, viz. : 
 
 "Catharine was married to George Leidig, which in the event proved rather 
 unhappy. Leidig is dead and she is a pauper on the township at the same time 
 having a daughter married to one Kolb, who is able but not willing to support 
 her." 
 
 The date of her death has not been ascertained. 
 
 Childeen of George and Catharine (Arndt) Leidy 
 
 17. Maria Magdalena Leidy, born Oct. 19, 1758; baptized at Tohickon 
 
 Reformed Church Dec. 25, 1758; married Feb. 17, 1790, at Reformed 
 Church of Falckner Swamp, Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery 
 County, Pa., to Michael Kolb. 
 
 18. Maria EuzABETHLEiDY,"bom Oct. 27, 1769; baptized at First Reformed 
 
 Church, Easton, Pa., Nov. 19, 1769. 
 
 Henry Arndt (5), youngest child of Johann Bernhard and 
 Anna Maria (Decker) Amdt, was bom on board the ship 
 Pennsylvania Merchant, on which his parents were crossing the 
 Atlantic in the summer of 173 1. His name appears as "Hein- 
 rich Arndt" on the Ust of persons confirmed by parson Weiss 
 at Goshenhoppen Church between the years 1746 and 1758. 
 He appears to have removed with his brothers to Franconia 
 Township, Montgomery County, about 1750, and became 
 with them aflSliated with Indian Creek Reformed Church, 
 where his daughter Maria Elizabeth was baptized in 1758, 
 his brother Jacob and the latter's wife standing sponsor. He 
 was commissioned ensign of the company of Captain Nicholas 
 Wetterhold, in the Colonial service, on May i, 1759,' and on 
 
 1 Penna. Archives, Fifth Series, vol. i, page 179. Name erroneously printed. 
 
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GENEALOGY— SECOND GENERATION 
 
 July 12 of that year was in command of Fort Allen, where the 
 town of Weissport now stands, on the bank of the Lehigh 
 River, lo miles above Lehigh Gap, in Carbon County, as 
 shown by the following letter from Penna. Archives, vol. Ill, 
 page 670. 
 
 Fort Allen, July 12th 1759 
 To the Honorable William Denny, Esq', Commander in 
 Chief of Province of Pennsylvania, Kent, Sussex and Delaware. 
 Sir, 
 
 I have to inform you that the neighborhood of Heidelberg 
 has been very alarmed by a boy who was sent to hunt horses 
 in the above neighborhood and was taken Captive by the 
 Indians, who after taking him 10 days Joimiey, being very 
 much fatigued, laid down to sleep, he watching his opportunity 
 made his escape and Came down to a place belonging to George 
 Custard, under the moxmtain and asserted the above for 
 truth, and I thought it my duty to inform you of the above 
 accoimt. I have nothing more at Present to Inform you, but 
 Remain yours to Serve, 
 
 Henry Okndt, Ensign. 
 
 He doubtless entered the service as a member of the com- 
 pany commanded by his brother. Captain Jacob Amdt, mus- 
 tered in Rockhill Township, Bucks County, and called into 
 service by Dr. Franklin in 1755 in the defense of the northern 
 frontier. He was at least a member of the company Oct. 
 8) i757j when John Matthew Otto charges the Province "To 
 medicines for Henry Amdt, Capt. Amdt's brother, being in 
 his company 4s. 6d."^ Like his distinguished brother, he 
 appears to have left the service in 1760, and accompanied his 
 brother Major Amdt to Forks Township, Northampton 
 County, where we find him assessed in the year 1761. He, 
 however, soon returned to reside permanently on the northern 
 slope of the Blue Ridge. In 1763 he was one of the signers of a 
 
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 petition to the court of "Sundry persons residing over the 
 mountain," and he is taxed in Lehigh Township for the years 
 1763-4-5. This township doubtless included the settled por- 
 tion of territory lying on the opposite side of the Blue Ridge, 
 later laid out as Chestnut Hill Township (now Carbon County) , 
 in which Henry Arndt is taxed as a resident landowner from 
 1773 imtil his death in 1802. 
 
 Henry Arndt saw active service in the Revolutionary War. 
 Living in a remote part of the county, the record of his service 
 in the first two or three years of the struggle is probably lost. 
 He took the oath of allegiance before his nephew, Captain 
 John Arndt, September i, 1778. In a return of the company 
 of militia in service on the frontiers imder the command of 
 Captain John Ritter in the regiment of Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Christian Shouse, made October 3, 178 1, he is shown to have 
 served a tour of duty beginning September 13, 1781. His 
 name also appears as a member of the company of Captain 
 John Gregory, May 14, 1778. He was again called into ser- 
 vice as a member of Captain Jacob Clauder's company, Third 
 Battalion, Northampton County Militia, imder the command 
 of Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas Kern, but when notified to 
 meet at the house of Peter Anthony on April 14, 1782, his son 
 Bernhard Arndt appeared as a substitute for him and served 
 until discharged May 23. The record shows: "Days served 
 by certificate 27 " ; "Days served on the Frontier 35 " ; "Time 
 of entry, April 18"; "Total days of service 62." Henry 
 Arndt is of record as entitled to depreciation pay as a private 
 in Northampton County Militia. 
 
 On June 7, 1779, there was returned into the Surveyor 
 General's Office the survey of a tract of 109 acres and 70 
 perches in Chestnut Hill Township for Henry Arndt, for which 
 he did not receive the patent until November 15, 1790, though 
 he had probably been living thereon several years before the 
 
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 survey. He executed a mortgage on this tract to his brother, 
 Major Jacob Amdt, February 24, 1791, and died seized 
 thereof in the autiimn of 1802. Letters of administration 
 were granted to his eldest son, Bemhard Amdt, November g, 
 1802. A petition presented to the Orphans Court of North- 
 ampton Coimty by Bemhard the administrator, on November 
 10, 1802, sets forth that Henry Amdt died intestate, leaving 
 to survive him seven children, three of whom, Jacob, Simon, 
 and Daniel, are minors xmder the age of fourteen years, and 
 seized of a tract of 90 acres and 70 perches of land in Chestnut 
 Hill Township. Later proceedings show that he had sold at 
 public sale. Just prior to his death, a tract of land adjoining 
 the above, but died before the conveyance was completed. 
 
 Henry Amdt married about the year 1753 Catharine Bender, 
 daughter of John Bender, of Rockhill Township, Bucks 
 County, by whom he is said to have had nine children, four 
 of whom survived him. The date of her death has not been 
 ascertained. He married second a Miss Strohl, who was the 
 mother of the three minor children above mentioned. He 
 seems to have also survived his second wife, as no renuncia- 
 tion of letters of administration by a widow appears of record. 
 His estate proved insolvent, and we have been imable to ob- 
 tain the names of the four advdt children who survived him, 
 and have a record of but five of the children by his first wife, 
 Catharine Bender. 
 
 Children of Henky (5) and Catharine (Bender) Arndt 
 
 22. Behnhard Arndt, bom Aug. 7, 1754; died Feb. 12, 1827; married Mary 
 
 Frederick. 
 
 23. Christian Arndt, bom drca 1756; died 1785; letters of administration 
 
 granted to Bemhard Amdt June 13, 1785, Jacob Shoemaker, surety. 
 Is supposed to have died unmarried. No further record. 
 
 24. Mary Elizabeth Arndt, baptized at Indian Creek Church 1758. 
 
 25. Jacob Arndt, bom May 15, 1760; killed in a skirmish, September 11, 
 
 1780. 
 
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 26. child; died young. 
 
 27. Henry Aendt, born circa 1765; died ; married Catharine Hauser. 
 
 Children of Henry and (Strohl) Arndt 
 
 30. Jacob Arndt, born 1791; died ; married Catharine Weaver. 
 
 31. Simon Arndt, born 1793; died ; married Catharine Gradwohl. 
 
 32. Daniel Arndt, born i8oi; died 1884; married Elizabeth Mertz. 
 
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 TfflRD GENERATION 
 Abraham Arndt (6), eldest son of Abraham and Catharine 
 (Reed) Amdt, was bom in Philadelphia (now Montgomery) 
 County, Pennsylvania, about the year 1750. No record of 
 his baptism has been foimd. He and his sister Catharine were 
 confirmed by Rev. Christopher Gobrecht, pastor of Indian 
 Creek Reformed Church, Jime 6, 1767. In early manhood 
 he left his parents' home in WiUiams Township, Northampton 
 Coimty, Pa., to explore the wilderness of the Mohawk Valley, 
 New York. He was probably located in that section prior 
 to the purchase, by his father, of a tract of 400 acres on the 
 banks of the Mohawk in the spring of 1774. Certain it is 
 that he was a resident of the "District of Canajoharie, Coimty 
 of Tryon," on May 27, 1777, when his father conveyed to him 
 200 acres of this early purchase. He was a member of the 
 Tryon County Militia when that body was hastily summoned 
 by General Herkimer to march to the relief of Fort Schuyler 
 in July, 1777, and as lieutenant of a company in the First 
 Regiment, Tryon County Mihtia, took part in the bloody 
 battle of Oriskany that followed. Nothing is known to the 
 writer of his subsequent service in the war, but it doubtless 
 continued imtil independence was achieved. Tryon Coimty 
 became Montgomery County in 1784, and Abraham Amdt 
 was commissioned a justice of the county courts in the same 
 year. He was a delegate to the ninth session of the New 
 York Assembly, which met in New York City in 1786, from 
 Montgomery County, and was again a member of the eleventh 
 Assembly that met at Poughkeepsie in 1788, the session which 
 ratified the Federal Constitution. He continued to represent 
 his coimty in the Assembly and later in the State senate, and 
 is of record as attending the Assembly 1789, 1790, and 1791, 
 and the senate 1796-7 and 1798-9. 
 
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 The plantation which became the home of Abraham Amdt 
 and his descendants for several generations is located in Min- 
 den Township, in what was known as the District of Cana- 
 joharie, Montgomery County, near the present village of Fort 
 Plain. He was trustee of the Reformed Church of Cana- 
 joharie district, in the graveyard of which, adjoining his plan- 
 tation, he probably lies in an immarked grave. He filled a 
 number of local positions of trust, among them that of Super- 
 visor of Highways in 1792 and later. He died about the year 
 1825, at the age of seventy-five years. 
 
 Abraham Arndt married, about the year 1790, Anna Maria 
 Van Der Werken, a native of Cherry Valley, Schoharie Coimty, 
 New York. The record of the birth of his 11 children was 
 made by himself in a little book entitled, " General Instruc- 
 tions in English — ^How to Read, Write and Talk English," 
 the date of birth and baptism being given and the name of the 
 officiating clergyman. These entries are preceded by the fol- 
 lowing, written in a firm English hand: 
 
 "Abraham Amdt his Book, Bought the 7th September 
 1783" 
 
 "Abraham Amdt His hand and pen" in the Year of our 
 Lord, 1783" 
 
 The entries are as follows: — 
 
 John Arndt, Bom the nth of August, 1792, Baptised the 
 19th August 1792, by Rev. Mr. Disling. Godfather Adam 
 Zimmerman. 
 
 Anna Arndt, bom the i6th January, 1794. Baptised the 
 19th. By Rev. Wittinger. Godmother Lena Weeber. 
 
 Elizabeth Arndt, Born Feby. 5th 1796. Baptised 14th 
 February, 1796, by Rev. Wittinger. Godfather and God- 
 mother, Albert V. Derwerken and wife. 
 
 Catharine Arndt, Bom the 28th of February 1798, God- 
 father Cunrad Mathis and his wife. 
 
 Maria Amdt, Born the 25th of September 1799. God- 
 father Caspar Lipe and Elizabeth Van Derwerken. 
 
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GENEALOGY— THIRD GENERATION 
 
 Magdalina Amdt: Bom the gth of September 1801, God- 
 father John Mathis and his wife. 
 
 Son Abraham: Bom i8th of November, 1803. Abraham 
 Amdt and wife Godfather and Godmother. Baptised by Rev. 
 Wittinger, the nth December the year above. 
 
 Son Jacob: Bom Dec. 12, 1805, Godfather the Rev. John 
 J. Wack, Septr. 14. 
 
 Eve: Bom October 4, 1807, Godfather Andrew Moyer 
 and Ann Mathius. Baptd. by Rev. J. Wack, 29th. Novr. 
 the year above. 
 
 Son Peter: Bom 23d January 1810. Baptised 15th April 
 year above. Godfather and mother the parents. 
 
 Son Henry: Bom the 21st. July 1812. Baptised by Rev. 
 Wack, Godfather and mother the parents. 
 
 Children of Abeaham and Anna Maria (Van Derwerken) Aendt 
 
 35. John Arndt, bom Aug. 11, 1792; died ; married Elizabeth Smith. 
 
 36. Anna Aendt, born Jan. 16, 1794; died ; married Andrew Moyer. 
 
 37. Euzabexh Arndt, bom Feb. s, 1796; died Feb. 23, 1852; married 
 
 Abraham Moyer. 
 
 38. Catharine Arndt, bom Feb. 28, 1798; died Aug. 15, 1877; married 
 
 Henry Nellis. 
 
 39. Maria Arndt, born Sept. 25, 1799; died ; married Peter W. Nellis. 
 
 40. Magdalena Aendt, bom Sept. 9, 1801, died young. 
 
 41. Abraham Arndt, bom Nov. 18, 1803; died Oct. i, 1864; married Mary 
 
 Wabath. 
 
 42. JacobW.Aendt, bomDec. 18, 1805; died Jan. 11, i8go; married JaneE. 
 
 Southwick. 
 
 43. Eve Arndt, bom October 4, 1807; died ; married H. F. C. Moyer. 
 
 44. Peter Aendt, bom Jan. 23, 1810; died July 27, 1879; married Sarah 
 
 Adams. 
 
 45. Henry Arndt, bom July 21, 1812. 
 
 Catharine Abndt (7), eldest daughter and second child of 
 Abraham and Catharine (Reed) Amdt, was bom in Franconia 
 Township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery Coimty, Pa., 
 about the year 1752. She was confirmed as a member of 
 Indian Creek Reformed Church in that township, with her 
 brother Abraham, Jime 6, 1767. Little is known of her sub- 
 sequent history except that she was Kving in Williams Town- 
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 ship, Northampton County, Pa., when the census of 1790 was 
 made. She was married to a man named Heist whose history 
 has not been learned with certainty. She died about 1832. 
 By her father's will, executed in 1791, her brother Jacob Amdt, 
 who was named as executor, was directed to retain in his hands 
 the sum of £130 during the lifetime of his sister Catharine, and 
 pay her annually the interest arising therefrom, and in case" she 
 should fall in distress occasioned by sickness or other acci- 
 dents," the executors were authorized to pay her such parts 
 of the principal as they should think necessary and needful. 
 After her decease the principal, or so much thereof as should 
 remain, was to be paid to " the children of my said daughter 
 Catharine, lawfully begotten or to be begotten in equal 
 shares." 
 
 Catharine was also bequeathed by her father his own bed- 
 stead and furniture thereto belonging. By the will of her 
 brother and trustee, Jacob Amdt, of Williams Township, 
 executed in 182 1, his executors were directed to retain out of 
 his personal estate whatever balance of the legacy given by 
 his father's will to his sister Catharine should remain due and 
 to pay her annually the interest and part of the principal as 
 the will of Abraham Arndt directs. 
 
 Philip Aendt (8), second son of Abraham and Catharine 
 (Reed) Amdt, was bom in Franconia Township, Philadelphia 
 (now Montgomery) County, Pa., and was baptized in Indian 
 Creek Reformed Church in that township, January 27, 1754. 
 He was, therefore, sixteen years of age when his parents re- 
 moved from their Bucks County farm to Williams Township, 
 Northampton County. At the first call from the Committee 
 of Safety for the men of the several townships to organize 
 themselves into companies "to learn the art of war," Philip 
 Arndt became a volunteer member of the Associated Company 
 of Williams Township, of which Peter Hay was captain. 
 
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 On July 9, 1776, he was appointed a sergeant in the company 
 of his cousin, Captain John Amdt, of the Flying Camp, and 
 soon after that date marched with the battalion under Lieu- 
 tenant-Colonel Peter Kechlein to join General Washington 
 and his army at Long Island. This company took part in the 
 disastrous battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776, and stiU 
 more disastrous one of Fort Washington on November 16, 
 1776. Philip Amdt was one of the 33 officers and men of 
 Captain Amdt's company that survived the latter battle and 
 rallied at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and were mustered out 
 December i, 1776. Returning home he was again enrolled 
 as a member of the company of Captain Peter Hay, Foiu-th 
 Battalion, Northampton County Militia. Among the frag- 
 mentary returns preserved we find him listed as an ensign in 
 1780 and as lieutenant in 1782. 
 
 The family records refer to his residence after his marriage 
 in 1779 as Durham Cove, Bucks County, but we do not find 
 him of record as a resident of that coimty. On Jvme 9, 1789, 
 ia partnership with Isaac Shimer, he purchased 1383^ acres 
 in the Durham tract, which they conveyed on April 9, 1791, 
 when his residence was given as Williams Township. He 
 married Mary Little, of the neighborhood of CarpentersviUe, 
 New Jersey, but she died at the birth of their only child, John 
 Penn Amdt, November 25, 1780. From that date imtil his 
 removal to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., about 1800, his only permanent 
 home was probably at the old Amdt homestead in Williams 
 Township. A granddaughter of Jacob Amdt, yoimger brother 
 of Philip, who inherited and resided on the old homestead, is 
 authority for the statement that her grandparents "raised 
 John Peim Amdt." He evidently paid a visit to his elder 
 brother Abraham in the Mohawk Valley in 1785, and seems 
 to have owned a tract of land there for some years, but how 
 long he resided there has not been ascertained. There is 
 
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 evidence that he was engaged in the manufacture of Durham 
 boats at Durham Cove at one time, and he seems to have been 
 the proprietor of one of these crafts, as the records of the Dur- 
 ham Iron Works under Richard Backhouse & Co. show that 
 he was paid for "freighting" pig-metal to Philadelphia for the 
 company in 1789 in too large a quantity to have been carried 
 by wagons. He was a taxpayer in Williams Township in 
 1788, and was acting executor of his father's will in 1795. He 
 probably removed to Wilkes-Barre when the settlement of his 
 father's estate was concluded, and was followed by his son 
 John Penn in 1803 or 1804. They engaged in the mercantile 
 and manufacturing business there, which was continued by 
 the son for several years. He was also concerned in building 
 Durham boats there for the navigation of the Susquehanna 
 River. He died near the end of October, 1804. Letters of 
 administration were granted to his son on November i, 1804, 
 and a death notice in the Pennsylvania Correspondent, pub- 
 lished at Doylestown, November 6, is as follows: 
 
 "At Wilkesbarre of the prevailing fever, MR Philip Arndt, late of Northamp- 
 ton county" 
 
 Asher Miner had come from Wilkesbarre and started the 
 publication of the Correspondent at Doylestown but a few 
 months before that date. 
 
 Child of Philip and Mary (Little) Arndt 
 
 48. John Penn Arndt, bom Nov. 25, 1780, died June 11, 1861; married 
 Elizabeth Carpenter. 
 
 Elizabeth Arndt (9), second daughter and fourth child of 
 Abraham and Catharine (Reed) Arndt, born in Franconia 
 Township, Montgomery County, Pa., and baptized at Indian 
 Creek Church, in that township, June 13, 1756, married in 
 the year 1788, Jacob Hager of German Valley, Sussex County, 
 N. J. He was a son of Johannes Hager and was born April 
 
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 30, 1750, and died in the year 1796. EKs widow Elizabeth is 
 said to have "gone west" with her daughter Mrs. Anthony, 
 and we have no further record of the family than is given in 
 the following list of children: 
 
 Childeen of Jacob and Elizabeth (Akndt) Hagee 
 
 49. Elizabeth Hager, bom June 12,1789; died ; married Francis An- 
 
 thony and removed with him "to the West." 
 
 50. Mary Hagee, bom Dec. 31, 1790; married Jan. 21, 1813, John Tim- 
 
 bury, bom Nov. 17, 1791 ; died 1874. 
 
 51. William Hagee, bom 1792; enlisted in the army in the war of 
 
 181 2, and was never heard of afterward by his family. 
 
 52. Annie Hager, bom i79S- 
 
 Jacob Asndt (10), third son of Abraham and Catharine 
 (Reed) Amdt, was born in Franconia Township, Montgomery 
 County, Pa., February ii, 1758, and was therefore twelve 
 years of age when his parents took up their residence on the 
 230-acre farm in Williams Township, Northampton County, 
 and inheriting the whole tract under his father's will, he spent 
 the remainder of his life thereon. Like his brothers Abraham, 
 Philip, and John, he saw active service in the war of the Revo- 
 lution, and attained the rank of ensign and lieutenant of 
 militia. His first actual service, if we except the "training 
 in the art of war" as a member of the Associated Company of 
 WiUiams Township in 1775-6, was probably as teamster in 
 transporting the equipment of the Flying Camp across New 
 Jersey in the fall of 1776. He and John Pap appeared before 
 the Committee of Safety of Northampton County January 18, 
 1777, and produced certificates from the Continental Camps, 
 "certifying that they had been employed in the service 
 with their wagons and that two horses, with complete gears 
 for four horses had been left behind in camp, the said Jacob 
 and John not being able to withstand it any longer on ac- 
 coimt of the weather and not having leave to return without 
 leaving the articles behind them"; and praying the committee 
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 to appoint some proper person to appraise the said articles 
 so they might be rewarded for their said loss. Whereupon 
 the appraisers were appointed. He had probably been im- 
 pressed to transport Gen. Miffin and his command from 
 Easton to the camp in Makefield late in December and re- 
 mained for part of the winter campaign in New Jersey that 
 followed the battle of Trenton. 
 
 He did not remain at home long. After the battle of 
 Germantown he joined Washington's army at Whitemarsh, 
 being a private in one of the three militia battalions from 
 Northampton County that formed part of Irvine's brigade. 
 The company rolls have been lost. He doubtless participated 
 in the retirement of Washington to Valley Forge and in the 
 estabhshment of the Camp there. That he served the term 
 for which he had enlisted is indicated by the fact that his name 
 appears among the soldiers who received pay for their services 
 being mentioned as a private in the Pennsylvania Militia Con- 
 tinental Line, in the Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Vol- 
 ume IV, page 644,. and again as among those who received 
 depreciation pay, same volume page 311. He later served in 
 the Militia in Captain Peter Hay's Company as First Sergeant 
 and on October 28, 1782, was chosen ensign, his brother Philip 
 being elected Lieutenant of the same company at the same 
 time. The record of the election is found in Pennsylvania 
 Archives, Fifth Series, Volume VIII, page 190. His son Abra- 
 ham, in a letter to his nephew. Rev. Ralph S. Arndt, dated 
 July 8, 1865, says that "at the age of eighteen years he served 
 in the Revolutionary war at White Marsh; also at Stroudsburg 
 in its defense against the Indians near the sequel of the war." 
 It seems, however, that the burden of keeping up the home fell 
 upon him. Of his three brothers, the eldest had removed to 
 New York State, his second brother, Philip, saw a great deal 
 of service while the fourth brother, John, was killed at Fort 
 
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 Washington. After the war Jacob continued to live on the 
 farm until his death. He was married on March i, 1785, to 
 Mary Morrison, daughter of John and Rebecca Morrison, of 
 Bedminster, Bucks County, of a Scotch Irish family. Her 
 mother's maiden name was Bryan, and her grandmother's 
 maiden name was Matthews, of the Welsh family of that name. 
 She was born August i, 1761, and died December 3, 1845. He 
 died September 18, 1831. He continued to live on the family 
 farm all his life, and seems to have been a good farmer and an 
 unusually intelligent man. The family tradition is that he was 
 rather above the average height and inclined to stoutness, and 
 that he possessed a well-assorted library, with the contents of 
 which he was well acquainted. He was a member of the Re- 
 formed Church and brought up his children in that belief. His 
 will, written ten years before his death, devised his lands to his 
 three sons: John, Abraham, and Samuel, subject to the pay- 
 ment to their mother annually for life of the interest upon 
 $1,500, and to the pa3mient of legacies of $550 to each of his 
 six daughters. He and his wife are buried in the family ceme- 
 tery near Raubsville. Perhaps the best commentary upon his 
 life and character is contained in the following paragraph, 
 printed in the Easton Democrat, September 22, 183 1: 
 
 "Died — Very suddenly at his residence in Williams Township, in the 73d 
 year of his age, Mr. Jacob Amdt. He retired to his bed in good health on Sun- 
 day evening last, and about two o'clock the next morning, he was a corpse. 
 Through a long and useful life, he was beloved and respected by all who knew 
 him, and of him it may be truly said, he did unto others as he would have them do 
 unto him." 
 
 
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 Children of Jacob (io) and Mary (Morrison) Arndt 
 
 53. John Arndt, bom Nov. 24, 1785; died June 20, 1865; married Ann 
 
 Stover. 
 
 54. Ann Arndt, bom Aug. 25, 1787; died May 4, 1865; married Joseph 
 
 Bryan. 
 SS- Elizabeth Arndt, bom Oct. 20, 1789; died Sept. 2, 1868; married John 
 Reiley. 
 
 56. Jacob Arndt, bom Oct. 21, 1791; died young. 
 
 57. Rebecca Arndt, bom Jan. 5, 1794; died Oct. 10, 1861; married Thomas 
 
 B. Williams. 
 
 58. Mary Arndt, born April i, 1796; died July 2, 1833; married Maj. 
 
 Jacob Keller. 
 
 59. Catharine Arndt, bom Feb. 25, 1798; died March 4, 1834; married 
 
 Peter Stem. 
 
 60. Abraham Arndt, born Feb. 25, 1800; died Oct. 8, 1865; married Eve- 
 
 lina Pursell and Sarah Deemer. 
 
 61. Samuel Arndt, born Aug. 31, 1802; died Apr. 18, 1862; married Eliza- 
 
 beth Frutchey. 
 
 62. Susanna Arndt, born Sept. 26, 1804; died Nov. 13, 1866; married David 
 
 Eilenberg. 
 
 Captain John Arndt (12), eldest son of Major Jacob Arndt 
 and his wife, Elizabeth Geiger, was born on his father's farm 
 in RockhiU Township, Bucks County, Pa., June 5, 1748, and 
 was therefore twelve years of age when he removed with his 
 parents to Forks Township, near Easton, in Northampton 
 County, where he resided tmtil the spring of 1796, when he 
 removed with his family to Easton, where he died May 6, 
 1814. An account of his life in detail and of his distinguished 
 military and civil services are given in a previous chapter. 
 He married first December 13, 1774, Elizabeth Feit, daughter 
 of John Feit, of Greenwich Township, Sussex Coxmty, New 
 Jersey. She died January 31, 1776, aged seventeen years 
 eight months and twenty-seven days. They had one child, 
 born January 15, 1776, a girl, who died three days later. 
 
 Captain Arndt married second, August 12, 1777, Elizabeth 
 Ihrie, born in Forks Township, Northampton County, Pa., 
 
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GENEALOGY— THIRD GENERATION 
 
 April 6, 1756, died in Easton December 23, 181 1, daughter of 
 Conrad Ihrie, of a family prominent in the affairs of Northamp- 
 ton Coimty for several generations. 
 
 Childken of Captain John and Elizabeth (Ihrie) Aendt 
 
 64. Makia Arndt, bom March 6, 1779; died ; married Rev. John 
 
 Theobald Faber. 
 
 65. Susanna Arndt, bom Feb. 2, 1781; died ; married John B. Miles. 
 
 66. Euzabeth Arndt, bom Feb. 14, 1783; died Oct. 13, 1853; married Wil- 
 
 liam Innes. 
 
 67. Jacob Arndt, bom Apr. 27, 1785; died Aug. 6, 1806, mmiarried. 
 
 68. Sarah Arndt, bom Feb. 27, 1787; died Oct. 18, 1859; married John 
 
 Sletor. 
 
 69. John Arndt, Jr., bom May 21, 1789; died Oct. 29, 1806, unmarried. 
 
 70. George Washington Arndt, bom June 26, 1791; died June 29, 1819; 
 
 married Henrietta Byllesby. 
 
 71. Anna Arndt, bom Mar. 15, 1794; died Mar. 6. 1879; married Charles 
 
 Lombaert. 
 
 72. Benjamin Frankun Arndt, bom June 23, 1796; died June i8, 1872; 
 
 married first Elizabeth Vaughn; second, Sarah Roeder. 
 
 73. Samuel Arndt, bom Aug. 17, 1798; died June 30, 1817, unmarried. 
 
 Elizabeth Aendt (13), eldest daughter of Major Jacob 
 and Elizabeth (Geiger) Arndt, bom in RockhiU Township, 
 Bucks Coimty, Pa., September 29, 1750, died in Forks Town- 
 ship, Northampton Coxmty, Pa., July 4, 1797. She married, 
 about 1770, Jacob Shoemaker, of Forks Township, bom 1744, 
 died October 7, 1810. He was a farmer, and by deed dated 
 May 2, 1771, purchased a farm of 176 acres adjoining the 
 land of his father-in-law, Major Arndt. He was an officer of 
 mihtia dimng the Revolution, and filled the position of sub- 
 lieutenant of Northampton County for the years 1777-1782. 
 This position was an important one, and the fact that Jacob 
 Shoemaker, whose highest rank in the active service in the 
 army was Ueutenant, fiUed the position for the whole period 
 
 i6s 
 
THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 period of|the war from the creation of the office, indicates that 
 he was a man of executive ability. 
 
 ^^pt,£.4^ /y^^sf-^^^-^ccJ^ 
 
 OnfFebruary 8, 1785, Major Arndt and Elizabeth his wife 
 conveyed to their son-in-law, Jacob Shoemaker, 378 acres of 
 the tract of land taken up in the Mohawk Valley of New York, 
 and it was later settled on by the latter's sons and sons-in-law. 
 
 Jacob Shoemaker married, second, EKzabeth , who sur- 
 vived him and died August 30, 1823, aged seventy-eight years. 
 Herjwill devised part of her estate to some of the children and 
 grand-children of her husband. She had no children of her 
 own. 
 
 The inscription on the tombstone of EKzabeth (Arndt) Shoe- 
 maker in the Arndt Burying Ground on the old Plantation in 
 Forks Township is as follows: 
 
 Here Ruht in Gott 
 Elisabeth Schumacherin 
 Eine Tochter des 
 Jacob Arndt & Frau Elisabeth 
 Gebohren 29 September, 1750 
 Gestorben 4 ten Juli 1797 
 Altworden 47 Jahr 9 monat 
 28 tage 
 
 Children of Jacob and Elizabeth (Arndt) Shoemaker 
 
 74. Jacob Shoemaker, born ; died ; married Elizabeth Eberhard. 
 
 75. Elizabeth Shoemaker, bom ; died ; married Richard Jacobs. 
 
 76. Margaret Shoemaker, bom ; died ; married Peter Seiler. 
 
 77. Susanna Shoemaker, bom August 2, 1777; died ; married David 
 
 Reed. 
 
 78. Abraham Shoemaker, bom Dec. 10, 1779; died ; married Maria 
 
 Westerman, 
 
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GENEALOGY— THIRD GENERATION 
 
 79. Mama Shoemaker, born July 20, 1782; died ; married Adam Seiler. 
 
 80. Catharine Shoemaker, bom June II, 1785; died ; married Chris- 
 
 tian Kocher. 
 
 81. Sarah Shoemaker, bom Mch. 31, 1787; died Oct. 25, 1817; married 
 
 George Walter. 
 
 82. John Shoemaker, bom 1791; died ; married Catharine Lam- 
 
 bert. 
 
 Jacob Akndt, Jr. (IS), second son and fourth child of Major 
 Jacob and Elizabeth (Geiger) Amdt, was bom in Rockhill 
 Township, Bucks County, May 14, 1756, and died at Easton, 
 Pa., October 2, 181 2. He was baptized at Indian Creek Re- 
 formed Church May 21, 1756. 
 
 Removing with his parents to the neighborhood of Easton, 
 his whole life was spent there, the greater part of it in the town 
 proper, where he was a considerable landowner. He resided 
 for a short period on his father's plantation in Plainfield Town- 
 ship. His residence at the time of his death was a brick house 
 on the northeast comer of the public square. He also owned at 
 the time of his decease Lot No. 88, at the southeastern comer 
 of the square, and considerable other real estate in that lo- 
 caUty, including a store which he had conducted for a number 
 of years. Jacob Amdt, Jr., as he was generally known, like 
 the rest of the family, was active in the revolutionary cause 
 from its inception to its close. He was a member of Captain 
 Buss's Forks Township company, and was one of the delega- 
 tion selected from that company and ordered to march July 
 30, 1778, with drafts from other Northampton County com- 
 panies on special service. He was elected lieutenant of the 
 company May 25, 1780, and saw considerable active service. 
 He was Coxmty Treasurer of Northampton County, 1783-1790. 
 
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 Jacob Arndt, Jr., married at the Trappe Church, April i6, 
 1782, Elizabeth, daughter of Zachariah Nyce, and his wife 
 Christina Margaretha, of Montgomery County. She was 
 bom February 15, 1764, and died in Northumberland County 
 in 1831 or 1832, having married, second, September 15, 1814, 
 General Francis Swaine, who died at Reading June 17, 1829, 
 and third, William Ambrose Lloyd. 
 
 Jacob Arndt, Jr., died in Easton October 27, 181 2. His 
 only child died in childhood and is buried in the graveyard of 
 Plainfield Reformed Church. His will devised his brick house 
 and the storehouse adjoining to his wife for life, together with 
 the interest on his personal estate. At her decease the estate 
 was to pass to his brother Abraham and his children, Jacob, 
 Abraham, Mary, and Diana; and to his nieces, Margaretha, 
 widow of Peter Saylor, and daughter of his sister Elizabeth 
 Shoemaker; to Mary Saylor, daughter of his deceased sister, 
 and to Mary Faber and Anna Lombaert, daughters of his 
 brother, Captain John Arndt. The inventory of his estate 
 included bonds of his brothers John and Abraham Arndt, his 
 brother-in-law Jacob Shoemaker, and his imcle Henry Arndt. 
 
 Jacob Arndt, Jr., was buried in the graveyard, of the Re- 
 formed Church at Easton, and the inscription on his tomb is as 
 
 follows: 
 
 In Memory of 
 
 Jacob Arndt, Esq' 
 
 Late President of the German 
 
 Reformed Congregation of this place 
 
 He was born the 14th of May 1756 
 
 and departed this Life after 
 
 a short illness 
 
 The 8th of October 1812 
 
 Aged 56 years 5 months & 14 days 
 
 Abraham Arndt (16), youngest son of Major Jacob and 
 Elizabeth (Geiger) Arndt, born January 31, 1759, in Rockhill 
 
 168 
 
GENEALOGY— THIRD GENERATION 
 
 Township, Bucks County, Pa., was an infant when his parents 
 removed to Forks Township, Northampton Coimty, where he 
 resided until early manhood. He married Anna, daughter of 
 William Henn, of Morris Coimty, New Jersey, and located in 
 Greenwich Township, Warren Cotmty, where he resided vmtil 
 his death on December 2, 1845. He and his wife, their son 
 Abraham and his wife, and a grandson, Hart J. Amdt, are 
 bviried in the graveyard of St. James Lutheran Church, known 
 locally as "The Straw Church." His wife, Anna Henn, was 
 bom August 2, 1764, and died April 15, 1843. 
 
 CmiDREN OF Abraham and Anna (Henn) Arndt 
 
 83. Mary Arndt, bom May 6, 1786; died June 10, i860; married Joseph 
 
 King. 
 
 84. Jacob Arndt, bom Sept. 2, 1788; died May 28, 1852; married Sarah 
 
 Stewart. 
 
 85. Diana Arndt, bom about 1792; died ; married, first, John Mixsell; 
 
 second, Jacob B. Coates. 
 
 86. Abraham Arndt, bom April 30, 1797; died May 31, 1850; married 
 
 Margaret Johnson. 
 
 The inscriptions on the tombstones of Abraham and Anna 
 (Henn) Amdt are as follows: 
 
 ABRAHAM ARNDT 
 
 Who was born 
 
 January 31st, A.D. 1759, 
 
 and departed this life 
 
 December 2nd., A.D., 1845, 
 
 Aged 86 years 
 
 I month, I day. 
 
 Thou aged man, life's wintry storm. 
 
 Hath seared thy vernal bloom. 
 And can vain hope lead thee astray, 
 Thou'rt bending o'er the tomb. 
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 ANNA ARNDT 
 
 Wife of Abraham Amdt 
 Bom Aug. 2nd., 1764, 
 Died April 15th, 1843, 
 
 Aged 78 years 
 8 months and 12 days. 
 
 Husband and children why should you weep, 
 I am not dead, but sleeping here, 
 Awaiting my Redeemer's time 
 
 To take my body home. 
 Wash, wash, in Jesus blood 
 
 Until He comes. 
 
 Maria Magdalena Leidy (17), daughter of George and 
 Catherine (Arndt) Leidy, bom October 19, 1758,^ was bap- 
 tized in ToMckon Reformed Church December 25, 1758. 
 She was married as "Magdalena Leidy," at the Reformed 
 Church of Falckner Swamp, in Upper Hanover Township, 
 Montgomery Coimty, February 17, 1780, to Michael Kolb. 
 He was born in Upper Hanover Township, November 6, 1748, 
 and resided in that township imtil the date of his marriage. 
 Soon after their marriage they settled in Bedminster Town- 
 ship, Bucks County. He was a tailor by trade, but on lo- 
 cating in Bedminster Township, became a merchant and car- 
 ried on a large business at his store on the Swamp Road be- 
 tween Dublin and Hagersville until his death. He also owned 
 and operated a tannery near the same site, and eventually ac- 
 quired three or four farms in Bedminster Township, where he 
 died November 27, 183 1. He owned at different times con- 
 
 ' The date of birth of both Michael Kolb and his wife are incorrectly given on 
 the tombstones in Tohickon graveyard, that of his wife being given as 1759 and 
 his as 1746. The correctness of the dates given herein is proved by the church 
 record and entries made by Michael Kolb himself, who doubtless knew the year 
 of his birth (W. S. E.). 
 
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GENEALOGY— THIRD GENERATION 
 
 siderable real estate in Upper Hanover Township, Mont- 
 gomery Coimty, Hereford Township, Berks County, and in 
 Moore Township, Northampton County. His wife is men- 
 tioned in the several deeds during their early married hfe 
 "Mallie" but later seems to have made use of her first bap- 
 tismal name, Mary. She survived her husband and died on 
 their homestead farm in Bedminster, May, 1835. Michael 
 Kolb always signed his name in German— Kolb — but his 
 children without exception speUed the name "Kulp." 
 
 CmLDEEN or Michael and Maby Magdalena (Leidy) Kolb 
 
 87. Anteew Kolb, bom Apr. 30, 1781; died Mar. 30, 1835; unmarried. 
 
 88. Elizabeth Kolb, bom Dec. 28, 1785; died Apr. 20, 1782; married John 
 
 Shellenberger. 
 88a. Mabia Magdalena Kolb, bom Oct. 27, 1787; died young. 
 88b. Michael Kolb, bom Oct. 16, 1791; died young. 
 
 89. Susanna Kolb, bom about 1793; died prior to 1829; married Joseph Ott. 
 
 90. MichaelKolb, Jr., bomMayg, 1797; died Oct. i8, 1865; married Mary 
 
 Magdalena Cassell. 
 
 91. Samuel Kolb, bom June 17, 1802; died June i, 1878; married Hannah 
 
 Koch. 
 
 Beenhaed Arndt (22), eldest son of Henry and Catherine 
 (Bender) Arndt, was bom in Montgomery County, Pa., 
 August 7, 1754. His parents removed to Northampton 
 County, Pa., when he was a smaU child, and the remainder of 
 his life was spent in that locahty. He was a member of the 
 Militia of Northampton County during the Revolutionary 
 War. On his marriage he located in Lower Nazareth Town- 
 ship, where he was the owner of a farm of 115 acres of land. 
 He and his family were members of Drylands Reformed 
 Church at Hecktown, in which he filled the position of Elder 
 from December 29, 1793, until his death on February 12, 1827. 
 He married Anna Mary Frederick, daughter of John and 
 Eva Barbara (Hauch) Frederick, of the neighborhood of Dry- 
 lands. She was bom May 26, 1756, and died Nobember 13, 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 1840. He, his wife and daughter Susanna, and his mother-in- 
 law are buried in the old churchyard at Hecktown. The 
 inscription on the tombstone of the latter is as follows: 
 
 In memory of 
 
 EVA BARBARA FREDERICH, 
 
 Gebohren Hauch, sie war Gebohren 
 iiten July 1736 in Colebrookesdale Township 
 Berks County Pennsylvania, 
 wen weider et Johannes Friedrich 
 net weicher sie 6 Sohne and 7 Tochter 
 tiiegete sie et lebte 89 Enkel 
 und 90 Urenkel, und starb den 
 9 Nov. 1826 Ihres Alter 90 Jahr 
 4 Monat 2 Tage. 
 
 He died intestate and letters of administration were granted 
 unto his eldest son John, March 15, 1827. Subsequently the 
 real estate was adjudged to John in proceedings in the Orphans 
 Court. 
 
 Children of Beenhard and Mary (Frederick) Arndt 
 
 92. Susanna Arndt, born Jan. 31, 1784; died June 18, 1797; buried at Dry- 
 
 lands. 
 
 93. John Arndt, born circa 1785 (confirmed at Towamencin Church 1802 
 
 aged 17); died ; married Susanna Roeder. 
 
 94. Elizabeth Arndt, born Nov. 22, 1791; died Oct. 22, 1876; married 
 
 Joseph Dewalt. 
 
 95. Marv Arndt, bom June 2, 1794; died Mar. 10, 1817; buried at Dry- 
 
 lands; married Sept. 6, 1813, David Hartz. They had three sons and 
 one daughter. 
 
 96. Catharine Arndt, born June 28, 1795; died Dec. 27, 1863; married 
 
 Peter Steckel. 
 
 97. Susanna Arndt, born Dec. 22, 1797; died Jan., 1894; married Philip 
 
 Houpt. 
 
 98. Bernhard Arndt, born ; died Dec, 1877; married Anna Rowland. 
 
 Jacob Arndt (25), third son of Ensign Henry Arndt was 
 born May 15, 1760, and was baptized by Rev. Daniel 
 
 172 
 
GENEALOGY— THIRD GENERATION 
 
 Shmnacher, "at Lechau," August 17, 1760, "13 weeks 
 old," took the oath of allegiance at Friedenthal, July 4, 1777, 
 private in Captain John Van Etten's company of volunteers 
 from Northampton Coimty, in the service of the United States, 
 and was killed September 11, 1780. He was the second mem- 
 ber of the family to lose his life in the Revolution. Captain 
 Van Etten's company, in which he served, was stationed at 
 Weissport in the late summer of 1780. In the Wyoming Val- 
 ley were many Tory sympathizers, who with their Indian aUies 
 made frequent forays upon the frontier settlements. In 
 order to check their activities Colonel Himter, who was in 
 command at Fort Augusta, ordered a detachment of Captain 
 Van Etten's company, to join a force that was operating from 
 the Susquehanna. Hearing of this movement, a party of 
 Indians and Tories lay in ambush in the Sugar Loaf VaUey, 
 along the path leading from the Susquehanna to Northampton 
 County, about seven miles from Nescopec. Captain Klader, 
 in command of the patriot force, led his men to the siunmit 
 of Buck Mountain, thence by a path down the side of the 
 mountain through a ravine, over the farm of N. Wagner, and 
 across the creek below, until they came to what had been a 
 Scotch settlement, but now, because of the border troubles, 
 was whoUy deserted. 
 
 "To their great delight they saw before them open and 
 broad fields covered with a luxuriant growth of grass and 
 beautiful with wild flowers. Weary as they were with the 
 fatigue and hardship of their long march, when for three days 
 they had been tearing their way through thickets and bushes, 
 and clambering over logs and stones, they seemed to have 
 entered upon a veritable Paradise. 
 
 "It was noon of September 11, 1780, knapsacks were im- 
 mediately imslimg, and they entered upon the enjoyment of 
 the hour. No one seemed to realize the necessity of watchful 
 care. The guns were scattered here and there, some stacked, 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 some lying on the ground. The men separated, following 
 their ovm fancies. Some were lying on the ground smoking, 
 one man was leaning against a tree with his shoes off cleaning 
 them out, others had gone for grapes which grew there in 
 abundance, of which party one had climbed a tree and was 
 picking and eating the grapes from the vine which entwined 
 it. Suddenly, while in this condition, a volley of musketry 
 was poured in upon them from an imseen foe, and with it 
 rang out the terrible war whoop of the savages who in a 
 moment more were in their midst hewing down their victims 
 with the murderous tomahawk. A number of the men fell 
 at the first fire, among them the man in the tree after grapes; 
 the rest fled with the savages in pursuit. Some were killed in 
 one place, some in another. Captain Klader is said to have 
 killed four Indians before he was himself killed. One man 
 escaped by concealing himself in Little Nesopec Creek where 
 he climg to a tree that had fallen across the stream and keeping 
 only his face above water; another ran part way up the moun- 
 tain and concealed himself, but unfortxmately was betrayed 
 by the barking of his too faithful dog that had followed him 
 and was slain." 
 
 Among the 15 men kiUed on the occasion was Jacob Amdt. 
 On September 17 a relief party arrived at the scene of action 
 and found the bodies of 10 soldiers who had been killed and 
 mutilated. They were given a decent burial. Of the 41 men 
 in Captain Klader 's party, 22 subsequently came in, some of 
 them wounded, and it is believed one or two others also es- 
 caped who did not report themselves. It is known that a few 
 were taken away prisoners into New York State. (Anniver- 
 sary History of Lehigh County, vol. I, page 151.) 
 
 Henry Arndt (27), son of Henry and Catherine (Bender) 
 Amdt, born circa 1778, probably resided with his father until 
 the latter 's death in 1802. 
 
 On December 28, 1802, Ulrich Houser conveyed to him a 
 farm of 145 acres in Lower Smithfield Township, Northamp- 
 
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GENEALOGY— TfflRD GENERATION 
 
 ton, now Monroe County, on which he and his family resided 
 until the spring of 1820. His subsequent residence and the 
 date of his death are unknown. He married Mary Catherine 
 Houser. 
 
 Chiudeen of Henry and Mary Catherine Arndi 
 99. Conrad Akndt. 
 100. John Arndt. 
 loi. Jacob Arndt, bom i8ig. 
 
 Jacob Arndt (30), eldest son of Ensign Henry Arndt by 
 his second wife, was bom in Chestnut Hill Township, now Car- 
 bon County, about 1793, and died near Shoenersville, Lehigh 
 County, prior to 1868. He was a soldier in the War of 1812- 
 14, and rendered active service as a private in the Company 
 of Captain John Domblazer, in a "Detachment of Northamp- 
 ton, Lehigh, and Pike County Militia," commanded by Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel Christian J. Hutter. In July, 1868, his widow 
 applied for and was granted a pension, her application reciting 
 the above service. He married Catherine Weaver. 
 
 Children of Jacob and Catherine (Weaver) Arndt 
 
 102. Simon Arndt, bom Dec. 6, 1820; died Dec. 11, 1901; married Rebecca 
 
 Dech. 
 
 103. Henry Arndt. 
 
 104. Catharine Arndt. 
 
 105. Pauline Arndt. 
 
 106. Elizabeth Arndt. 
 
 107. Susan Arndt. 
 
 Simon Arndt (31), second son of Ensign Henry Arndt by 
 his second wife, Strohl, was bom in Chestnut HiU Town- 
 ship, now Carbon County, about 1795, and died near Bath in 
 Lower Nazareth Township, Northampton County, about 1870. 
 He was a land owner in Moore Township in 1841, and in 1856 
 was a resident of the village of Bath and was a school director 
 of the Bath District. He married Catherine Gradwohl. 
 
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 Children of Simon and Catherine (Gradwohl) Arndt 
 io8. Enoch Arndt, born Feb. 15, 1822; died Dec. 9, 1905; married Sarah 
 Kriedler. 
 
 109. Mary Arndt, born ; died ; married David Danner. 
 
 no. Thomas Arndt, bom Nov. 11, 1826; died Dec. 18, 1898; married 
 Christiana Fehnel. 
 
 111. Leah Arndt, born Aug. 22, 1828; living 1913; married Samuel Brown. 
 
 112. Levina Arndt, bom Jan. IS, 1834; diedAug. 18, 1891; married Solomon 
 
 M. Schaeffer. 
 
 113. Favetta Arndt, born Mar. 26, 1836; living 1913; married William H. 
 
 Nauman. 
 
 Daniel Arndt (32), youngest child of Ensign Henry Arndt, 
 was born in Chestnut Hill Township, now Carbon County, 
 in 1801, and died in Moore Township, Northampton County, 
 in 1884. He married Elizabeth Mertz, and was a farmer near 
 the present Arndt Station on the Lehigh and New England 
 Railroad, all his adult life. 
 
 Children of Daniel and Elizabeth (Mertz) Arndt 
 
 114. Susan Arndt, born Mar. 1827; living in 1913; married first, Jos. 
 
 Schlegel; second, Michael Smith. 
 
 115. John Arndt, born June 6, 183s; died Apr. 29, 1907; married Rebecca 
 
 Biechy. 
 
 116. Henry Arndt, bom Dec. 31, 1837; living 1913; married Sarah Halde- 
 
 man. 
 
 117. Sarah Arndt, born Aug. 6, 1840; hving 1913; married Tilghman Bickert. 
 
 118. Joseph Arndt, born Feb. 1842; living in 1913; married Elizabeth Halde- 
 
 man. 
 
 119. Abraham Arndt, born Apr. 4, 1844; living 1913; married Adeline 
 
 Kocher. 
 
 120. Matilda Arndt, bom May 15, 1848; died Dec. 4, 1908; married Peter 
 
 Haldeman. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 John Akndt (35), eldest son of Abraham and Anna (Van- 
 derwerken) Amdt, of Montgomery Cotmty, New York, was 
 bom in Minden Township, Montgomery County, New York, 
 Aug. II, 1792. He was located about 1820, on a farm about 
 eight miles west of his father's homestead, just over the border 
 of Montgomery County, in the County of Herkimer, where he 
 lived vmtil his death. He married Elizabeth Smith and had 
 four children. 
 
 Children of John and Elizabeth (Smith) Arndt 
 
 121. Abraham J. Arndt, M.D., bom —^; died June 1842; married Cath- 
 
 arine VanHorn. 
 
 122. John Arndt, bom ; died ; married Anna Quinby. 
 
 123. Peter Arndt, M.D., bom ; died ; married Fannie Ehle. 
 
 124. Maria Arndt, bom — — ■; died ; married Christopher Snell. 
 
 Anna Arndt (36), eldest daughter of Abraham and Anna 
 (Vanderwerken) Amdt, was bom in Minden Township, Mont- 
 gomery County, New York, Jan. i6, 1794, and was baptized 
 on Jan. 19, by Rev. Disling. She married Andrew Moyer, 
 who was bom in Minden, Mar. 12, 1777, and died there July 
 29, 1867. Anna (Amdt) Moyer died Apr. 10, 1843. ^r. 
 Moyer was a farmer. They lived and died in the neighbor- 
 hood of FortPlain. 
 
 Children of Andrew and Anna (Arndt) Mover * 
 
 125. Jacob Arndt Moyer, bom Junes, 1818; died Feb. 28, 1907; married 
 
 Amelia Moyer 
 
 126. Solomon Moyer, bom ; died Nov. s, 1863; married Cynthia Sart. 
 
 127. Abraham Moyer, bom 1824; died 1904; married Katharine 
 
 Nestle. 
 
 Elizabeth Arndt (37), third child of Abraham and Anna 
 
 ' Record in the handwriting of Abraham Amdt, in possession of his great- 
 grandson, Alfred Arndt, of Fort Plain, N. Y. 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 (Vanderwerken) Amdt, was bom in Minden Township, Mont- 
 gomery County, New York, Feb. s, 1796, and was baptized 
 Feb. 14, by Rev. Wittinger, "Godfather and Godmother 
 Albert V. Dewerken and his wife." She married Abraham 
 Moyer, who was bom in Minden May 28, 1796, and died 
 there July 21, 1878. He owned and resided on a farm on the 
 River Road, about two miles west of Fort Plain. Elizabeth 
 (Amdt) Moyer died Feb. 25, 1852. 
 
 Children of Abraham and Euzabeth (Aeotjt) Moyee 
 
 128. Mary Ann Moyer, born Dec. 3, 1815; died Jan. i, 1892; married John 
 
 Hesler. 
 
 129. Eliza Ann Moyee, born Feb. 6, 1818; died Oct. 15, 1844. 
 
 130. LuciNDA Moyer, bom Sept. 12, 1820; died ; married John Jarvis. 
 
 131. BiANCA Moyer, born Sept. 12, 1823; died Dec. 23, 1856; married John 
 
 SchoU. 
 
 132. SylvesterMoyer, born Aug. 3, 1826; died Mch. 7, 1902; married Irene 
 
 Grampes, 
 
 133. Simeon Moyee, bom July 22, 1828; died ; married, first, Lania 
 
 Eygaboard; second, Isadore Ball. 
 
 134. Almina Moyer, born Aug. 15, 1831; livingat Yonkers, N. Y.; married 
 
 James Miller. 
 
 135. Marcy Moyer, born Nov. 4, 1834; died Apr. 15, 1908; married, first, 
 
 Catharine Cornelius; second, Josephine Cornelius. 
 
 Catharine Aendt (38), fourth child of Abraham and Anna 
 (Vanderwerken) Amdt, was born in Minden Township, Mont- 
 gomery County, New York, Feb. 28, 1798, " Godfather Cunrat 
 Mathias and his wife." She married Henry NelMs, of Nellis- 
 ton, a village lying opposite Fort Plain, across the Mohawk 
 River. He was born in Stone Arabia Township, New York, 
 June 25, 179s, and died at NeUiston, Oct. 17, 1880. He was 
 a contractor and actively engaged in business imtil old age. 
 Catharine (Arndt) Nellis died August 15, 1877. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 Children of Hekry and Catharine (Arntjt) Neixis 
 
 136. Menzo Nelus, killed by jumping off train at Fort Plain; munarried. 
 
 137. Abraham Nelus \ left Mohawk Valley several years ago. Nothing 
 
 138. Nelson Nelus / further known of them. 
 
 1^0- James Nelus \ ^ ,., . -.t ■ . r , , 
 
 :,, „ ? went to California. Nothing further known of them. 
 
 140. William Nelus J ° 
 
 Maeia Aendt (39), fifth child of Abraham and Anna (Van- 
 derwerken) Amdt, was born in Minden Township, Mont- 
 gomery Coimty, New York, Sept. 25, 1799, "Godfather 
 Casper Lipe, Godmother EKzabeth Van Derwerken." She 
 married Peter W. Nellis, who was bom Dec. 11, 1790, and died 
 April II, 1852. He purchased in 183 1 a farm of ninety acres 
 about one mile north of Nelliston and added to it by a pur- 
 chase of fifty acres additional in 1834. Here he lived with his 
 family until his death, and he and his wife and their only 
 daughter are buried near the house; the inscriptions on the 
 tombstones of Mr. Nellis and their daughter are stiU very 
 legible, but the tombstone of Mrs. Nellis has no inscription. 
 He was a man of high standing in the community and held 
 many public offices. He and his fanaily were members of the 
 Reformed Chxirch. 
 
 Children of Peter W. and Maria (Arndt) Nelus 
 
 141. Ellen Nelus, bom Jan. 7, 1825; died Apr. 8, 1840. 
 
 142. Martin L. Nelus, bom'Oct. 28, 1829; died Apr. s, 1901; married, first, 
 
 Phoebe Cooke; second, Mrs. Clara (Fox) Nealy. 
 
 143. Jerome Nellis, bom ; died ; married Louise Carolina 
 
 Amanda. 
 
 Abraham Arndt (41), second son and seventh child of 
 Abraham and Anna. (Vanderwerken) Amdt, was bom in 
 Minden Township, Montgomery County, New York, Nov. 18, 
 1803, and was baptized Dec. nth by Rev. Wittinger. He 
 inherited the homestead farm in Minden purchased by his 
 father in 1796, and spent his whole life there, dying Oct. i, 
 1864. He was the organizer of the old Fort Plain Band, and 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 was its leader for many years. He and his family were mem- 
 bers of the Lutheran Church, and he and his wife are buried 
 in the Minden Cemetery. 
 
 He married, Jan. 23, 1826, Mary Walrath. She was bom 
 in Minden Township in 1805, and died there Feb. 13, 1876, 
 "aged 71 years." 
 
 Childken of Abraham and Mary (Walrath) Akndt 
 
 144. Anna Maria Arndt, bornFeb. 27, 1827; married Henry Sanders. 
 
 145. MinervaArndt, born June6, 1829; living 1919; married David Elwood. 
 
 146. AliredArndx, bom June 1,1831; living, 19 19; married Adeline Diefen- 
 
 dorf. 
 
 147. Henry Arndt, bom June 17, 1834; living, 1912; married. 
 
 Jacob W. Arndt (42), son of Abraham and Anna (Van- 
 derwerken) Arndt, was born in Minden Township, Mont- 
 gomery Coimty, New York, Dec. 12, 1805. He seems to have 
 left his native town early in Hf e, and followed the Erie Canal, 
 westward, and was engaged in different enterprises. He 
 married in Pulaski, Oswego County, N. Y., Jan. 30, 1833, J^''^^ 
 E. Southwick, bom March 9, 1813. After living for a short 
 time at other towns in western New York, they eventually 
 settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan, some years prior to 1870. 
 Here Jacob W. Arndt kept a shoe store for a time and engaged 
 in other enterprises. He took an active interest in public 
 afifairs, holding minor local offices and serving frequently on 
 the grand jury. He died Jan. 11, 1890, and his wife, Jane E. 
 Arndt, died July 24, 1903. They had no children, but adopted 
 a Httle girl who was known as Edith Arndt. She married 
 George Mills, who was for several years an alderman of Grand 
 Rapids and has four children. 
 
 Eva Arndt (43), youngest daughter of Abraham and Arma 
 (Vanderwerken) Arndt, was born in Minden Township, Mont- 
 gomery County, New York, Oct. 4, 1807, and was baptized by 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 Rev. John Wack, pastor of Fort Plain Reformed Church, 
 Nov. 29, 1807, "Godfather Andrew Moyer, Godmother Ann 
 Mathius." She married H. F. C. Moyer. Nothing further 
 is known of them or their descendants. 
 
 Peter Aendt (44), son of Abraham and Anna (Vander- 
 werken) Amdt, was bom in Minden Township, Montgomery 
 Coimty, New York, Jan. 23, 1810, and was baptized by Rev. 
 John Wack, Apr. 15, 1819. In partnership with David Lints 
 he purchased, in 1836, a tract of land in the west end of Fort 
 Plain, which they divided into lots and sold the same year. 
 He also owned and operated a number of boats on the Erie 
 Canal, carrying freight between New York and points far 
 west on the canal, living at dififerent periods at Ithaca, Newark, 
 and Rochester — chiefly in the latter city — until 1862. In or 
 about the latter year he purchased a farm in Almond, Alle- 
 gany County, New York, on which he lived for a few years. 
 He then removed to the village of Almond, where he built 
 and operated a tannery. The tannery burned down and he 
 removed to Warsaw, where he worked in a tannery vintil 
 1870, when he followed his brother to Grand Rapids, Michi- 
 gan. He resided in Grand Rapids until his death, on July 
 27, 1879. Peter Amdt married, April 18, 1836, Sarah Adams, 
 who was bom in Rochester, New York, April 28, 1817, and 
 died in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Sept. 17, 1871. 
 
 CmujEEN OF Petek and Sarah (Adams) Arndt 
 
 148. George Henry Aendt, bom June 4, 1837; died 1863. 
 
 149. Emma Louisa Arndt, bom Jan. 24, 1842; living; married Wm. C. 
 
 Parker. 
 
 150. Willaed p. Arndt, bom Newark, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1843; drowned from 
 
 his father's boat at Brooklyn, N. Y., Jime 7, 1854. 
 
 151. Sahah Maria Arndt, bom Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 24, 1846; died Roches- 
 
 ter June 21, 1847. 
 
 152. Elizabeth Arndt, bom at Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1848; died at 
 
 Lyons, Wayne County, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1848. 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 153. Chakles W. Arndt, bom at Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 8, 1850; married and 
 
 removed to California about 1888. 
 
 154. Wesley J. Aendt, bom Sept. 15, 1853; married Katharine M. Cooke. 
 
 155. Otto Milton Arndt, born May 18, 1855; died . 
 
 Henry Arndt (45), youngest child of Anna (Vander- 
 werken) Arndt, was bom in Minden Township, Montgomery- 
 County, N. Y., July 21, 181 2, and was baptized by Rev. John 
 Wack, of the Reformed Church of Fort Plain (date of baptism 
 not given). He was a boatman on the Erie Canal in his early 
 manhood, and later became a skilled veterinarian, and removed 
 to Buffalo, where he had charge of 1,000 horses. He was seri- 
 ously injured in an accident at Brookport, N. Y., and was 
 brought to the home of his brother-in-law, Henry Moyer, at 
 Newark, N. Y., where he died from the result of his injuries, 
 in middle life. He was never married. 
 
 John Penn Arndt (48), only child of Philip and Mary 
 (Little) Arndt, was bom at or near Durham, Bucks County, 
 Pa., November 25, 1780. His mother died at his birth, and he 
 was reared in the family of his grandfather, Abraham, and 
 uncle, Jacob Arndt, in Williams Township, Northampton 
 County. From the age of eighteen years he was associated 
 with his father in business in Wilkes-Barre, milling, lumbering, 
 merchandising, and other industries, including the building of 
 the Durham boats for the navigation of the Susqueharma. 
 After the death of his father, John Penn Arndt, being the 
 only son and heir, took full control of the business in its 
 several branches, and was successful for many years, and until 
 the industrial and financial crisis of 181 5-16, when he lost 
 heavily. 
 
 His journey of exploration to western Peimsylvania and 
 New York in 1818, and subsequent removal with his family, 
 first to Buffalo in 1820, to Mackinac Island in northern Michi- 
 gan in 1822, and his final location at Green Bay, Wisconsin, 
 
JoHX Pexn Arxdt 
 
 Jdhn Wallace Arndt 
 
GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 in 1824, are recited in a letter written by John Wallace Amdt, 
 youngest son of John Penn Amdt, to his classmate, Rev. S. W. 
 Bamum, Class Secretary of 1841, at Yale College. The date 
 of marriage is incorrectly given, he being probably misled by 
 the date of his father's location in Wilkes-Barre. An extract 
 of the letter is as follows : 
 
 My father John Penn Amdt was bom in the town of Dur- 
 ham, Bucks County, Pa., November 25, 1780, on the Penn 
 tract near Easton, Pa. My mother Elizabeth Carpenter was 
 bom in Warren County, N. J., about three miles east of Easton, 
 Pa., on August 7, 1780. She died at Green Bay, Wisconsin, 
 June 10, i860, and father died at the same place June 11, 1861. 
 They were married in 1799 and soon after removed to Wilkes- 
 Barre, Pa., where he went into business and was very success- 
 ful, accumulating a large property in a few years. 
 
 During the years following the close of the War of 1812, due 
 to the general prostration of business and the consequent 
 financial panic, he met with heavy losses and a large portion of 
 his property was sacrificed. 
 
 In 1818, he in company with a friend, who with him, was 
 considering a change of location, undertook a journey of ex- 
 ploration on horseback through Western Pennsylvania and 
 New York to Buffalo, then through Ohio, and part of Michi- 
 gan, into Indiana, and part of Illinois. On his return home he 
 decided to settle at Buffalo, which was then but a small village 
 of a few hundred inhabitants, but conveniently situated for 
 business. Accordingly he went there in 1819, leaving his 
 family at Wilkes-Barre, but returned in 1820 and made the 
 necessary preparations for their removal to Buffalo. This 
 was done by wagons drawn by horses, the only available 
 means of transportation then. There were three wagon loads, 
 containing such household goods as coiild be moved, and the 
 members of his family, consisting of Father, Mother, one 
 daughter and three sons of which I was the yoxmgest. In 
 1822 we moved to Mackinac Island in Northern Michigan, 
 where father engaged in buying and shipping fish and furs. 
 He purchased two vessels and did his own forwarding and 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 transportation, but meeting with much opposition from the 
 American Fur Company, whose headquarters in the west 
 were at the time at Mackinac, he decided to remove to Green 
 Bay, where with his fainily he landed on September 25th, 
 1824. Here he Hved for 37 years, honored and respected by 
 all, was active and prominent in business and public matters, 
 having to do with the local development of Green Bay and the 
 organization of the Territory of Wisconsin. He was elected 
 a representative of the first Territorial Council in 1836 and held 
 many other prominent and important offices. 
 
 John Penn Arndt brought with him to his new home in the 
 wilderness of the Fox River Valley an experience of more than 
 twenty years of success and failure in a business similar to 
 that he was called upon to engage in there. 
 
 The vast resources of this region were scarcely touched, the 
 wedge that was to open and develop it had not been driven. 
 It lay there in almost its pristine beauty, neglected and for- 
 gotten except for the daily wants of the few who had settled 
 along the banks of the river. These people saw no future. 
 They never dreamed of the wealth that lay broadcast for hun- 
 dreds of miles around them. The rich and fertile soil, the 
 immense forests of pine and hardwood timber ready for the 
 ax and saw, the rivers and streams that flowed into the Fox 
 and Green Bay affording sites for mills and manufactures or 
 for navigation. The location of Green Bay was the great 
 factor in this case, situated at the head of navigation, with a 
 direct communication by water with New York through the 
 Erie Canal.^ 
 
 All these facts and scenes made a strong impression on the 
 vigorous brain of John Penn Arndt. The spirit of the age 
 turned to the lakes, rivers, and canals for navigation and for 
 power. Steam was in its infancy, and railroads were imknown. 
 He became at once interested in the navigation and improve- 
 
 ' John Wallace Amdt's "History of Green Bay." 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 ment of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers and the development 
 of the vast resources of the region drained by them. Asso- 
 ciated with a few leading men he organized the Fox River 
 Company, and for the next quarter of a century was one of 
 the active moving spirits in the development of the whole 
 territory of Wisconsin. 
 
 In the summer of 1825 he built a Durham boat for the 
 navigation of Fox River, similar to those he and his father had 
 built at Wilkes-Barre, and those previously built by the latter 
 at Durham, Bucks County, Pa., and operated on the Dela- 
 ware River. A Uttle pamphlet, written and published by his 
 son John Wallace Amdt in 1894, entitled "The Early History 
 of Green Bay and the Fox River Valley," describes the con- 
 struction of these boats and gives a graphic description of one 
 of the early trips of one of these boats. 
 
 In the same year he was licensed to operate a ferry-boat 
 across the Fox River at Green Bay to the Fort Howard side 
 of the river, and was granted the first tavern license xmder the 
 territory of Wisconsin. His experience as a vender of spiritu- 
 ous liquors in the frontier town may account for his becoming 
 one of the organizers of the first "Temperance Society" west 
 of Lake Michigan some years later. 
 
 In 1827 he built a saw mill on the Indian Reservation with 
 the consent of the War Department. In the same year he 
 built the first decked scow-boat and made the first bricks 
 burned in Wisconsin. In 1834 he bmlt the first schooner or 
 sailing vessel in the Northwest, and christened it the Wis- 
 consin. A few years later he built another vessel and called it 
 the Mary Elizabeth, after his two daughters. 
 
 One of the first measures for the proper development of the 
 region was to secure the title of the several tribes of Indians 
 inhabiting the great Northwest to the land comprising the 
 present state of Wisconsin, then the territory of Michigan. 
 
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 In 1827 a commission was appointed with Hon. Lewis Cass, 
 Governor of Michigan, at its head, to negotiate a treaty with 
 these Indians, which was subsequently held on the shores of 
 Lake Butte des Morts, opposite Menasha. John Penn Arndt 
 had entire charge of the preparations for the reception and 
 entertainment of the conmiission. His boats furnished the 
 transportation and his saw-mill the lumber for the treaty 
 buildings and other purposes. The goods and supplies for 
 use at the treaty were stored in his warehouses at Green Bay, 
 and transported by his boats to the treaty ground. 
 
 By this treaty the United States acquired all the lands in 
 Wisconsin east of Wisconsin River and extending to Lake 
 Michigan. The results of the treaty did not culminate until 
 eight years later, in 1835, which was the great boom year for 
 Wisconsin, when there was an immense migration of settlers 
 from the East and South, eager to invest in the rich lands of 
 Wisconsin. Like all booms, it was followed by a depression 
 two years later, caused largely by the national financial 
 cyclone growing out of the refusal of President Jackson to 
 recharter the United States Bank. Mr. Arndt's enterprises 
 suffered with others in the crash, but survived. 
 
 At the first election in the Territory of Wisconsin he was 
 elected a member of the legislature, and was reelected for 
 several terms. He was also Probate Judge of his county, 
 and filled other important offices. In 1836-37 he was one of 
 the incorporators of a company that built a dam across the 
 Fox River at De Pere, four miles south of Green Bay, and 
 carried on a large manufacturing business, having the privilege 
 to issue bills of credit that passed as money. He was promi- 
 nently identified with all the pubHc affairs of his section and 
 held in high esteem. 
 
 He died at Green Bay, June 11, 1861, at the ripe old age of 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 fourscore. The issue of the Green Bay Advocate of that date 
 has the following obituary notice of him: 
 
 An Old Resident Gone. — It is with feelings of sadness 
 that we to-day record the death of Hon. John P. Amdt, one 
 of the oldest pioneers of Wisconsin. He was bom in Williams 
 Township, Pennsylvania, Nov. 20, 1780; came to Mackinac 
 about the year 1821, and to Green Bay in November 1824, 
 and has resided in the same house where he died since the 
 spring of 1825. In civil life he has honorably filled many 
 offices in the county, and was a member of the first legislature 
 of the Territory of Wisconsin. He was always kind and 
 obliging in his intercourse with those around him, he was al- 
 ways respected and honored. In the various vocations of his 
 long and active life, he was always energetic and persevering. 
 He built the first saw mill and the first sail vessel ever built 
 west of Lake Michigan, and lived to see thousands succeed 
 them. From a half dozen families in the httle village of Green 
 Bay, in the Territory of Michigan, in 1824, he has lived to 
 see grow up around him the great state of Wisconsin, number- 
 ing over seven hundred thousand. Strong in body and in 
 mind, he has been among the foremost in the affairs of our 
 city and coimty, and was capable of the transaction of business 
 up to the last hours of his sickness. He has gone to his rest 
 at a good old age, and we shall miss the venerable form of the 
 "old man" in our accustomed walks. 
 
 Flags throughout the city yesterday were displayed at 
 half mast in token of respect to the deceased. 
 
 He married at Greenwich Presbyterian Church, Warren 
 County, New Jersey, March 7, 1803, Elizabeth Carpenter, 
 daughter of Baltzer Carpenter, of Greenwich Township, op- 
 posite Easton, where she was bom August 7, 1780. It seems, 
 however, that he did not take her to Wilkes-Barre imtil after 
 the death of his father, as his first child, PhiUp Amdt, was born 
 in Greenwich Township, March 16, 1804, and was baptized 
 some months later at Greenwich Presbyterian Church. There 
 is also a traditional story, told by her grandchildren that she 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 had related to them experiences of her removal from Green- 
 wich to Wilkes-Barre on horseback carrying her infant child. 
 She died at Green Bay June lo, i860. 
 
 Members of the Carpenter family removed with John Penn 
 Arndt and his wife to Wilkes-Barre, and some of them later 
 followed or accompanied them to Wisconsin. 
 
 Children of John Penn and Euzabeth (Carpenter) Arndt 
 
 156. Philip Arndt, born Mar. 16, 1804; drowned in Susquehanna River at 
 
 Wilkes-Barre in 1817, while catching driftwood. 
 
 157. Alexander Hamilton Arndt, born 1805; died Oct. 10, 1847; married 
 
 Caroline Albright. 
 
 158. Baltus Arndt, died in infancy. 
 
 159. Mary Btjdlemen Arndt, born Oct. 31, 1809; died Sept. 6, 1896; married 
 
 John Winslow Cotton. 
 
 160. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Arndt, born Oct. 31, 1811; died Feb. 
 
 II, 1842; married Catharine Ann Marsh. 
 
 161. John Wallace Arndt, born Sept. 15, 1815; died Jan. 12, 1897; married 
 
 Mary Catharine Wilcox. 
 
 162. Elizabeth Margaret Arndt, born Dec. 27, 1822; died Feb. 19, 1908; 
 
 married Harry Eugene Eastman. 
 
 John Arndt (S3), oldest son of Jacob and Mary (Morrison) 
 Arndt, was bom on his father's farm near Raubsville, in Wil- 
 liams Township, Nov. 24, 1785. From his mother he in- 
 herited a strain of wit and good humor, while the resolution 
 and thoroughness that characterized his father were also 
 noticeable in the son. From his father's library, which was 
 considerably more extensive than the ordinary household of 
 those days boasted, he acquired a love of reading, particularly 
 of history, that lasted throughout his Hfe. He received the 
 ordinary farmer's son's education, and was brought up in the 
 Reformed faith. He was a farmer all his days, and he was a 
 good farmer. It is related of him that when plowing for wheat 
 he always fed his horses wheat, lest by chance grains of corn or 
 oats might fall in his field. In his early days he was active 
 and strong, a good horseman, and a good shot with the rifle 
 
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 PENNSYLVANIA, 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 and shot-gun. It is recorded of him that at neighborhood 
 shooting contests he was often the victor. His good humor, 
 coupled with sound sense, made him well liked by his asso- 
 ciates. Under the General Militia Act of 1804, which required 
 all male citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five 
 to enroll in companies and regiments for the defense of the 
 State, he enlisted in the 97th Regiment, in whose affairs he 
 was deeply interested for many years. When the British 
 advanced toward Washington in July, 1814, the entire body 
 of Pennsylvania Militia was called out by proclamation of 
 President Madison. A commission as Captain was issued to 
 John Amdt, dated August i, 1814, but he was not assigned to 
 any regiment or company. However, another commission 
 was issued to him, also bearing date August i, 1814, and identi- 
 cal with the first one — in fact, the two commissions were 
 struck from the same form — appointing him major of the 
 Second Battalion, 97th Regiment, composed of Northampton 
 Coimty men. With his regiment he marched to Marcus Hook, 
 below Philadelphia, and joined the force assembled there under 
 command of General Gaines for the defense of Philadelphia, 
 remaining for several months. Upon the return of peace 
 Major Amdt continued his activities with the regiment, and 
 when the commissions of the field officers expired in 182 1, be- 
 came a candidate for Colonel. He was opposed by the 
 Colonel, Jacob Seiple, who desired reelection, and by J. Madi- 
 son Porter, an active lawyer and politician of Easton, who 
 afterward became Secretary of War in President Tyler's 
 Cabinet. The election was held June 4, 182 1, and Major 
 Amdt received 203 votes, Mr. Porter 149, and Colonel Seiple 
 138, only 22 men of Major Amdt's battalion casting their 
 votes for his competitors. It is a rather interesting incident 
 that Colonel Amdt's brother Samuel was elected colonel of 
 the same regiment twenty-one years later. 
 
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 On December 26, 1816, Major Arndt married Ann Stover, 
 daughter of Ralph Stover, of Bucks County, who owned a 
 large farm at the point where the Easton-Doylestown road 
 crosses the Tohickon Creek. Mr. Stover was a justice of the 
 peace for many years, a member of the Pennsylvania Legis- 
 lature from 1783 to 1799, and one of the most prominent busi- 
 ness men of his time in his neighborhood. He was married 
 to Catherine Funk, a grand-daughter of the celebrated Menno- 
 nite Bishop, Henry Funk, whose religious works are even now 
 republished by the publishing house of that denomination. 
 Although the Mennonites, then as now, refused to go to war, 
 and while Ralph Stover was a Mennonite (he is buried in 
 the graveyard of Deep Run Mennonite Church), it is certain 
 he served in the Bedminster Township Company in the 
 Revolutionary War. He died November 7, 181 1, five years 
 before his daughter married Major Arndt. Ann Stover was 
 bom March 27, 1796. She was a woman of sweet disposition, 
 and possessed an exceptionally fine mind. She removed with 
 her husband to the Williams Township farm, about 15 miles 
 from her former home. For many years Colonel Arndt 
 managed the family farm. "It is a remarkable fact," wrote 
 his brother Abraham, in 1865, "that though I was under his 
 employ for fifteen years, there did not, during this time, arise 
 a word of dispute between us." In 1831 Colonel John Arndt 
 determined to move to New Jersey. He bought a fine farm in 
 Mansfield Township, Warren County, about half-way between 
 Washington and Asbury. It was only 10 or 12 miles from his 
 old homestead. It contained 160 acres, and before the 
 Revolution was part of a large tract owned by Richard Bowlby. 
 It was confiscated, however, and was sold by George Warne 
 and Colonel Bond, commissioners appointed by Congress, 
 and was purchased by Benjamin McCullough, through whom 
 
 title was derived. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 Colonel Arndt was now forty-six years old, but a new phase 
 of life was to open before him. He had been brought up in a 
 rehgious family. His father was in the habit of secret prayer, 
 his mother taught her children to pray. Colonel Arndt had 
 been catechized in the German Reformed faith, he had been 
 admitted to membership, and had been asked to become an 
 elder of that church, but he declined as he refused to subscribe 
 to one of the articles of church discipline, which prohibited 
 ministers of other denominations preaching in their chapel. 
 About the year 1818 he had a remarkable dream that affected 
 him profoundly. He dreamed that God came down with a 
 terrible noise that shook the earth. He fell upon his face in 
 fear and dread, so that he dared not look up, but presently, 
 ventming to raise his eyes, he behold a man standing at a 
 smaU table with a book in his hand, looking intently at him 
 and s milin g. Thirteen years afterward, soon after he removed 
 to New Jersey, while attending the funeral of Rev. Benjamin 
 Collins, he recognized in the preacher of the occasion the man 
 of his dream. He was the Rev. George Banghart, a Methodist 
 minister. Under his guidance he became converted, joined 
 the Methodist church, and for the remainder of his life was 
 active in the religious work of that church. He obtained a 
 license as an exhorter, religious meetings were held at his house 
 twice a week, and the itinerant Methodist preachers who 
 traveled the Asbury Circuit always stopped at his home. 
 He prayed in secret three times a day and at times for a long 
 period, and on all occasions expressed a profoimd faith in Gk)d's 
 mercy and providence. Soon after his conversion he deter- 
 mined to visit his wife's old home in Bucks County, and teU 
 his experience to the people he knew there. He started with 
 his wife in a buggy, to which was harnessed a young and rather 
 fractious horse. It was necessary to cross the Delaware River 
 in a flat boat, and his wife, foreseeing difficulty with the horse, 
 
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 was troubled. He told her it was the Lord's work, that if the 
 horse refused to go aboard the ferry-boat he would kneel down 
 on the river bank and tell God they were only on His work, 
 that the horse was His, and ask Him to make him go. "If 
 the Lord does not answer the prayer," said he, "at least, the 
 ferryman will be awakened." When they reached the ferry, 
 the horse, which had never seen such a boat before, walked on 
 board without the slightest hesitation and stood gentle as a 
 lamb. Mr. Arndt's visit was crowned with success. He 
 afterward made several trips to Pennsylvania, speaking at 
 school-houses, and on one occasion, when the school-house 
 was locked against him, he spoke standing on the stump of a 
 tree in a meadow, reading the Scripture by the hght of a 
 lantern. On one of his visits he was announced to speak in a 
 neighbor's barn, and his brother Abraham, who did not quiet 
 approve his brother's coxirse, went early and secreted himself 
 in the hay-mow. But while there, he was so affected by his 
 brother's discourse that he too became converted, joined the 
 Methodist church, and later became a successful local preacher. 
 The result of Mr. Arndt's visits was that the whole neighbor- 
 hood was greatly stirred, and a Methodist church was estab- 
 lished under the care of the Philadelphia Conference. 
 
 But while practising a deeply rehgious life, Mr. Arndt was 
 none the less a man of determined character. His next 
 neighbor was a man named Shields, a Scotch-Irishman, a 
 Presbyterian, and a strong Democrat. Mr. Arndt was of 
 German blood, a Methodist, and a pronoxmced Whig. The 
 differences went further, for while Mr. Arndt was the father 
 of four upstanding sons, Mr. Shields' family was mostly com- 
 posed of girls. A controversy arose between the two men 
 about a stream of water which was near the boundary line, and 
 the question turned upon the point whether it was an ancient 
 water-course, as Mr. Shields' contended, or was merely a 
 
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 (see page i88) 
 
GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 slight depression that had obtained water from a leak in the 
 recently constructed Morris Canal, as Mr. Arndt asserted. 
 Mr. Shields brought siiit in chancery against his neighbor. 
 As both men were highly respected and had many friends, the 
 whole community took sides, many being influenced by the 
 ties of race or rehgion or politics. To determine the fact as 
 to the stream of water, no less than 130 witnesses were called, 
 and the litigation lasted four years, and was so expensive that 
 Mr. Arndt, with the approval of Counsel, mortgaged his farm 
 to pay his charges. The lawyers fought the case with acrim- 
 ony, and some of the imhappy witnesses whose credibility was 
 attacked by the opposing coimsel, found sundry imfortunate 
 incidents in their careers exploited to the malicious delectation 
 of the neighborhood gossips. When the money was running 
 low on both sides, the lawyers summed up, and the chancellor 
 gave his decision. He found that the stream was not an 
 ancient water-course at aU, but was a depression in the ground, 
 thus completely sustaining Mr. Amdt's position. The very 
 same day Mr. Shields' attorney took an appeal to the court 
 of last resort. At that time the court of Appeals was the 
 State Senate. When the matter came before that august 
 body for decision, every Democrat voted for Shields, and every 
 Whig voted for Arndt. As the Democrats had a majority 
 of one in the Senate, the question was finally settled in favor 
 of Mr. Shields, and the majesty of the law was once more 
 vindicated. In the course of the proceedings Mr. Arndt stated 
 that neither he, his father, nor his brothers had ever had a 
 lawsuit. It took fifteen years to pay off the mortgage on the 
 farm, and neither Mr. Arndt nor any of his sons ever went to 
 law again. Meanwhile Mr. Amdt's oldest son was carrying 
 on a suit of an entirely different character with one of Mr. 
 Shields' daughters. The young man disdained counsel, wit- 
 flesses, and courts, and pleaded his cause himself, and with so 
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 much address that he secured a favorable verdict, became en- 
 gaged to Miss Shields, and later on they were married. The 
 youngest Amdt boy carried off another daughter of the 
 Shields family. After this incident the animosity between 
 the two fathers died out. 
 
 Mr. Arndt became a licensed local preacher of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church, and connected himself with the church 
 at Asbury. He was regular in his attendance there, and 
 brought up all his children in the same faith. He never sought 
 political office. In 1859 he suffered a grievous loss in the death 
 of his wife, who died June 24, in her sixty-fourth year. She 
 had bom him six children — two girls who died in infancy and 
 were buried in the family cemetery in Williams Township, 
 and four sons who grew to manhood. She was buried in the 
 Methodist churchyard at Asbury. Mr. Amdt survived his 
 wife six years, dying June 20, 1865, in his eightieth year, and 
 he was laid to rest beside his wife. His tombstone bears the 
 inscription that through him many souls were brought to 
 Christ, a tribute that would have been dearer to him than 
 anything that could have been written. He left what for 
 those days was a comfortable estate, which he devised in equal 
 shares to his three surviving sons. 
 
 Children op John and Ann (Stover) Arndt 
 
 163. Catharine Arndt, born Feb. 3, 1818; died Sept. 11, 1820. 
 
 164. Jacob Arndt, born Sept. 19, 1819; died May 19, 1893; married Sarah 
 
 Ann Shields. 
 
 165. Cyrus Arndt, M.D., born Oct. 6, 1821; died Oct. 20, 1845; unmarried. 
 
 166. Mary Arndt, born Mar. i, 1824; died May 8, 1825. 
 
 167. Rev. Ralph Stover Arndt, bom June 4, 1826; died Aug. 17, 1892; mar- 
 
 ried Sarah W. King. 
 
 168. John Arndt, born Feb. 21, 1830; died Mar. 30, 1895; married Angelina 
 
 Shields. 
 
 Ann Arndt (54), eldest daughter of Jacob and Mary 
 (Morrison) Arndt, born in Williams Township, Northampton 
 
 194 
 
GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 County, Pa., Aug. 25, 1787, died in Easton, Pa., May 4, 1865. 
 She married Nov. 16, 1822, Joseph Bryan, of Springfield 
 Township, son of William Bryan [brother to Rebecca (Bryan) 
 Morrison, mother of Mary (Morrison) Amdt] and Olivia his 
 wife. Joseph Bryan was bom in Springfield Township May 
 4, 1787, and died December 15, 1856. He was a farmer, in- 
 heriting from his father a farm of 130 acres, part of a large 
 tract of land acquired by his grandfather, James Bryan, in 
 1750. He, however, sold his farm in 1829 and removed to 
 New Jersey, living near CarpentersviUe, in Greenwich Town- 
 ship, until his death in 1856. The last years of the life of 
 Anna (Amdt) Bryan were spent at the home of her daughter, 
 Mrs. Carpenter, in Easton. Both she and her husband are 
 buried in RiegelsviUe Cemetery. 
 
 Child op Joseph and Ann (Arndt) Bryan 
 
 169. Mary Aeudt Bryan, bom Mar. 18, 1825; died Feb. 2, 1901; married 
 
 Philip Carpenter. 
 
 Elizabeth Arndt (S5), second daughter of Jacob and 
 Mary (Morrison) Amdt, bom in Williams Township, North- 
 ampton County, Pa., October 20, 1789, died at Lower Mt. 
 Bethel, Northampton County, Pa., September 2, 1868. She 
 married in 1809 John Reiley, Esq., a farmer in Bucks County, 
 Pa., until about 1830, when they removed to Greenwich Town- 
 ship, Warren County, New Jersey. He was a son of Dennis 
 and Elizabeth (Price) Reiley of Durham, Bucks County, Pa., 
 where he was bom February 13, 1784. He died in Greenwich, 
 N. J., September 12, 1863. His father was for many years 
 the proprietor of an Inn at Durham Furnace, where he died in 
 1824 at the age of eighty-one years, and his wife in 1816 at 
 the age of sixty-six years. 
 
 Children of John and Elizabeth (Arndt) Reiley 
 
 170. William Reiley, D.D., bom Feb. 12, 1810; died July 14, 1894; married 
 
 Mary Eleanor TenBroeck. 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 171. Burroughs Reiley, bom Dec. 21, 1811; died Oct. 3,1886; married 
 
 Mary Hughes. 
 
 172. Mary Reiley, bom Nov. 12, 1813; died Nov. 8, 1901; married Maj. 
 
 John Lander. 
 
 173. Rev. John A. Reiley, bom May 3, 1816; died Sept. 3, 1878; married 
 
 Anne Carroll. 
 
 174. Dennis Reiley, born Sept. 27, 1818; died ; married Elizabeth 
 
 Synder. 
 
 175. AsHER Reiley, M.D., bom Jan. 3,1821; died 1890; married Jane 
 
 Boileau. 
 
 176. Elizabeth Reiley, bom Dec. 12, 1825; died Aug. — , 1899; married 
 
 Rev. Robert Foresman. 
 
 177. James Reiley, M.D., born May 29, 1829; died ; married Mary 
 
 Anderson. 
 
 Rebecca Aendt (57), third daughter of Jacob and Mary 
 (Morrison) Amdt, was born in Williams Township, North- 
 ampton County, Pa., January 5, 1794, and died in Williams- 
 port, Lycoming County, Pa., October 10, 1861. She married 
 January 16, 1814, Thomas Blackledge Williams, of Tinicum 
 Township, Bucks County, Pa., son of Jeremiah and Mary 
 (Stevenson) Williams, and great-grandson of Jeremiah and 
 Mary (Newbury) Williams, who came from Long Island to 
 Kingwood, New Jersey, and finally settled in Bucks County. 
 Thomas Blackledge Williams was bom in Tinicimi Township 
 April I, 1781, and died there February 2, 1838. He and his 
 wife are buried in the Pursell Graveyard at Bridgeton, Bucks 
 County. 
 
 Children of Thomas Blackledge and Rebecca (Arndt) Williams 
 
 178. Hiram A. Williams, born Nov. 20, 1814; died Dec. 16, 1876; married 
 
 Jane Long. 
 
 179. Sarah Williams, bom May 19, 1816; died Apr. i, 1896; married John 
 
 Moore Pursell. 
 
 180. AnnaMariaWilliams, bornMay 16, i8i8; died Apr. 17, 1872; married 
 
 John G. Zane. 
 
 181. Samuel R. Williams, born April 14, 1820; died June i, 1850; married 
 
 Sarah Lester. 
 
 182. Margaret Williams, born Apr. 23, 1822; died December 24, 1868; 
 
 married Abraham A. Weingardner. 
 196 
 
GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 183. Thomas Elwood Wiluams, bom August 18, 1825; died Oct. 17, 1903; 
 
 married Rachel M. Goddard. 
 
 Maky Aendt (58), fourth daughter of Jacob and Mary 
 (Morrison) Amdt, bom April 11, 1796, in Williams Township, 
 Northampton Coimty, Pa., died there July 2, 1833. She 
 married, April 4, 1825, Major Jacob Keller, of Williams Town- 
 ship, bom 1789, died December 18, 1865. He was a farmer 
 and was active in political and military affairs. At the date 
 of his marriage he held commission as Major of the First 
 Brigade, Seventh Division, Pennsylvania Militia, and held 
 that rank for many years. Both he and his wife are buried 
 in Hay's Cemetery, South Easton. 
 
 Child of Jacob and Mary (Arndt) Keller 
 
 184. Mary Elizabeth Keller, bom -, 1826; died Feb. i, 1858; mar- 
 
 ried Dennis Reiley; no further record. 
 
 Catherine Arndt (59), fifth daughter of Jacob and Mary 
 (Morrison) Amdt, was bom in Williams Township, Northamp- 
 ton Coimty, Pa., February 25, 1798, and died at Easton March 
 4, 1834. She married Peter Stem, of Easton, bom March 2, 
 1791; died April i, 1856. Both are buried in the graveyard 
 of Easton Reformed Church. 
 
 Children of Peter and Catherine (Arndt) Stem 
 
 185. Celinda Stem, bom Aug. 31, 1819; died Feb. 7, 1909; married Dr. 
 
 George W. Lott. 
 
 186. Rebecca Stem, bom Oct. 12, 1821; died Nov. 21, 1903; married Rev. 
 
 Joseph W. Porter. 
 
 187. Rev. Franklin D. Stem, bom Dec. 28, 1828; died Aug. 24, 1857; 
 
 unmarried. 
 
 188. Amanda Stem, bom Aug. 12, 183 1; died Aug. 7, 1907; married John 
 
 Marshall Sherwood, Esq. 
 
 Abraham Arndt (60), second surviving son of Jacob and 
 Mary (Morrison) Amdt, was bom in WilKams Township, 
 Northampton County, February 25, 1800. In the division 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 of his father's real estate he acquired a part of the old plan- 
 tation in Williams Township, and erected thereon in 1858 a 
 substantial stone house, now occupied by his son Abraham M. 
 Amdt. He therefore spent his whole life at the place of his 
 birth, dying there October 8, 1865. 
 
 He was a man of more than ordinary mental endowment, 
 combined with a retentive memory and a gift of expressing 
 himself with unusual clearness and logic. A great student of 
 history, with a classic turn of mind, he was fond of discussion, 
 but always in search of the truth, whatever the subject. His 
 allusions and quotations from authors were appropriate and 
 convincing, and his style measured, distinct, and earnest. 
 His conversation was likewise sprightly, intelligent, and in- 
 structive. He was a man of fine instincts, affable and pleasant, 
 and his social qualities and hospitality made him hosts of 
 friends. It always afforded him pecuUar pleasure to enter- 
 tain persons of culture and especially those interested in the 
 teaching of Christianity and the moral and intellectual de- 
 velopment and uplift of mankind in general. No one could 
 visit him without having been pleased and uplifted. 
 
 He early in life manifested a deep interest in religious 
 matters, and through his elder brother John's influence, he be- 
 came a convert to the faith and doctrines of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, a number of his neighbors hkewise uniting 
 with that church. Abraham generously opened his house as 
 a meeting-place of the new congregation until a church could 
 be erected, and he was honored by the church with authority 
 to preach. Combining with his weU-known consistency of 
 thought and sterling integrity the ardor of religious convic- 
 tion, he was an able expounder of the word of God, and ac- 
 ceptably occupied different pulpits as opportunity offered or 
 required. He had the rare gift of exhortation, and many 
 who heard him were moved to thoughtfulness and holy devo- 
 
GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 tion rather than to religious frenzy. He was a man of apos- 
 tolic type, and firmly believed and taught that experience was 
 the true test of a Christian. No one who came in contact 
 with Abraham Amdt was in doubt as to the genuineness of 
 his piety; he practised righteousness in all his transactions, 
 and his neighbors and friends loved, honored, and trusted 
 him. He also had the rare faculty of ascertaining the re- 
 ligious experience of any one with whom he conversed, and no 
 one could be long in his company without in some way having 
 the test applied. 
 
 When a young man, Abraham Amdt exhibited a military 
 taste, probably an inheritance from patriotic forefathers, and 
 imited himself with the local militia, and for a number of years 
 he was captain of a company in the Ninety-seventh Regiment, 
 Pennsylvania Militia. 
 
 He was well informed on the issues which led up to the Civil 
 War between the States, of 1861-1865. He mourned over the 
 loss of human life in the prosecution of the war, and prayed 
 unceasingly at his family altar, and while toiling in the field, 
 and often at the midnight hovu:, that the imion of this great 
 nation might be preserved and the unhappy struggle come to a 
 speedy close. His patriotism was always of a religious order, 
 as he firmly believed that "Righteousness Exalteth a Nation." 
 
 Abraham Amdt, with all his interest and labors in the re- 
 ligious and temporal affairs of his neighborhood, was, above 
 all, a good farmer, and was counted the best and most success- 
 ful tiller of the soil in a valley then noted for its good farmers. 
 He attended strictly to farming as his one business enterprise. 
 His unusually faithful labor was always directed by wisdom. 
 Great attention was given to details and system in everything. 
 Long before the farmer was given the benefit of experimental 
 stations this astute husbandman had demonstrated that the 
 maintaining of the f ertihty of the soil involved intelligent and 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 practical fertilizing, judicious crop rotation, and proper and 
 thorough cultivation, and was known among his neighbors as 
 a wise and safe counselor in the growing of crops and the 
 management of the soil so as to constantly repay the labor 
 spent upon it. 
 
 Thus lived and died a good and useful man; born of parents 
 of most estimable character, it was with him an ambition to 
 keep untarnished the name of his worthy ancestry, and none 
 can say that his ambition was not realized to its fullest extent 
 in aU the relations of Hfe. 
 
 Abraham Arndt married October i, 1836, Evehna Pursell, 
 descendant of a family that was identified with the first settle- 
 ment of Upper Bucks County. She was born near Bridgeton, 
 Bucks County, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1809, and died at the 
 old homestead in Williams Township September 26, 1849. 
 
 Mr. Arndt married secondly, on October 29, 185 1, Sarah 
 Deemer, of an old Williams Township family, born in that 
 township July 8 , 1 8 1 7 . She survived her husband many years, 
 and continued to reside on the old homestead with her step- 
 son, Abraham M. Arndt. She died there September 15, 1898. 
 
 Abraham Arndt and both his wives are interred in the 
 Raubsville Cemetery, near the homestead. 
 
 CffltDEEN OF Abraham and Evelina (Pursell) Arndt 
 
 189. Zaccheus Pursell Arndt, M.D., bora Aug. 23, 1842; died Feb. 28, 1870. 
 
 190. Abraham Morrison Arndt, bom July 20, 1844. 
 
 191. Mary Catharine Arndt, born Aug. 8, 1846; married Rev. Wm. R. 
 
 Kiefer. 
 
 Samuel Arndt (61), youngest son of Jacob and Mary 
 (Morrison) Arndt, was born in Williams Township, Northamp- 
 ton County, Pa., August 31, 1802. In the division of his 
 father's real estate between the three brothers he acquired 56 
 acres of the old plantation, including the old family home- 
 stead, the original residence of Abraham Arndt from his arrival 
 
Abraham Arxdt 
 (see page ig;) 
 
 ABRAHA^r MORRISOX ArNDT 
 
GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 in Northampton County in 1770. On April 9, 1853, Samuel 
 Amdt conveyed the farm to his son-in-law, Plato Stout, but 
 continued to reside on the old homestead until the year 1855. 
 In that year he and his family, with the exception of his 
 daughter, Mrs. Stout, and his son. Dr. Peter F. Amdt, removed 
 to OrangeviUe, Stephenson Coimty, Illinois, where he con- 
 tinued to reside until his death on April 16, 1862. 
 
 Like his elder brother, he was possessed of fine intellectual 
 ability. He received a liberal English education for the period 
 in which he lived, and for several years taught school in his 
 native town. He had a genuine sense of hvmior, was of a 
 genial and happy disposition, and delighted in the society of 
 well-informed men, among whom he was exceedingly popular. 
 Early in life he imited himself with the militia company of 
 his native district, organized under the Act of April 2, 1821, 
 and was for several years colonel of the Ninety-seventh Regi- 
 ment, Pennsylvania Militia. A speech made by him to his 
 command on May 9, 1842, was printed in full in local papers 
 of that date. After his removal to Illinois he showed the same 
 public spirit that had animated his youth, and was weU and 
 favorably known in pubKc life. 
 
 On the occasion of his death a glowing tribute was paid to 
 his character by his pastor in which he refers to Mr. Amdt as 
 "a friend, showing no guile or hj^ocrisy, ever frank and open 
 in his expressions, being of an original turn, having a mind 
 well stored with knowledge, retaining a strong memory, pos- 
 sessed of a fine feeling and a warm friend of humanity." Mr. 
 Amdt was buried in the cemetery at OrangeviUe, Illinois. 
 
 He married in June, 1827, Elizabeth Frutchey. She was 
 bom in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County, 
 Pa., November 23, 1805, and died at the residence of her son- 
 in-law, Mahlon McEntee, in Freeport, Illinois, December 28, 
 1893, and was buried in the Freeport Cemetery. 
 
THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 Children of Samttel and Elizabeth (Feutchey) Aendt 
 
 192. Mary Elizabeth Aendt, born Feb. — , 1829; died Nov. 22, 1869; mar- 
 
 ried Peter Lattig. 
 
 193. Matilda Jane Aendt, born Feb. 4, 1833; died Dec. 14, 1914; married 
 
 Plato Stout. 
 
 194. Peiee Feutchey Aendt, M.D., born Feb. 4, 1833; died Jan. 15, 1890; 
 
 married Diana Bachman. 
 
 195. Rebecca Aendt, bom Sept. 13, 1835; living in 1914; married Mahlon 
 
 McEntee. 
 
 196. Jacob Aendt, born June 22, 1839; died Sept. 26, 1849. 
 
 197. Guy Moeeison Aendt, born Feb. 6, 1843; died Feb. 16, 1867, while 
 
 a medical student; unmarried. 
 
 198. Oliver Hazaed Peeey Aendt, born June — , 1852; died Nov., 1887; 
 
 unmarried. 
 
 Susanna Arndt (62), youngest child of Jacob and Mary 
 (Morrison) Arndt, was born in Williams Township, North- 
 ampton County, Pa., September 26, 1804; died in Muncy, 
 Lycoming County, Pa., Nov. 13, 1866. She married, October 
 9, 1831, David Eilenberg, who was born in Monroe County, 
 Pa., October 26, 1806, and died in Muncy, Pa., November 7, 
 1878. He married secondly, September 25, 1867, Mary 
 Housel, of MiHord, N. J. He was a fanner in Muncy Town- 
 ship during the active years of his life. 
 
 Children of David and Susanna (Arndt) Eilenbeeg 
 
 199. Mary Elizabeth Eilenberg, born ; died . 
 
 200. Rebecca Williams Eilenberg, bom — — ; died ; married Daniel 
 
 Purcell, of Bridgeton, Bucl^s County, Pa.; no further record. 
 
 201. Matilda Miller Eilenberg, bom ; died . 
 
 202. Evelina PuECELL Eilenberg, bom ; died ; married Augustus 
 
 Purcell. 
 
 203. Cyeus Arndt Eilenberg, bom ; died of consumption contracted 
 
 from exposure while serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. 
 
 204. Guy Morrison Eilenbeeg, bom ; died . 
 
 205. David Andrew Eilenberg, bom ; died . 
 
 206. Theodore Eilenberg, bom ; died . 
 
 Maria Arndx (64), eldest daughter of Captain John and 
 Elizabeth (Ihrie) Arndt, was born near Easton, March 6, 
 
GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 1779; died April 11, 1827. She married, April i, 1796, Rev. 
 John Theobald Faber, many years a prominent minister of 
 the German Reformed Church. He was bom Sept. 24, 1771, 
 and was the eldest of seven children of Rev. John Theobald 
 Faber, Sr. He was bom in the town of Zotzenheim, in the 
 Palatinate Feb. 13, 1779, and after special training imder his 
 father, who was also a clergyman, and an examination at 
 Heidelberg University April 28, 1766, sailed for Pennsylvania 
 and arrived in Philadelphia September 2, 1766. He was 
 installed as pastor of Old Goshenhoppen and New Goshen- 
 hoppen Reformed Churches in Montgomery County, and the 
 Swamp Church in MiKord Township, Bucks County, on 
 October 24, 1766. He resigned these charges in 1775, and 
 accepted a call to Lancaster Coimty, but returned to Bucks 
 Coimty three years later and became pastor of the Lidian Creek 
 Reformed Chm-ch, with which the Amdt family was so promi- 
 nently identified, and in 1786 again became pastor of the Old 
 Goshenhoppen Church, in the pulpit of which he died No- 
 vember 2, 1788, and was buried xmder the pulpit. His wife, 
 the mother of John Theobald Faber, Jr., was Barbara, daugh- 
 ter of Ehrhard Rose, of Reading, to whom he was married 
 August 7, 1770. 
 
 Rev. John Theobald Faber, Jr., a lad of fifteen, at the death 
 of his father was assisted by the congregation of the latter's 
 chiurch to prepare for the ministry under the tutelage of 
 Reverend Nicholas Pomp, who was called to minister to the 
 church imtil yoimg Faber was ready to take his father's place. 
 The yoxmg man was licensed in 1791 and took charge of the 
 church, to which he ministered until 1807, when he removed 
 to New HoUand, Lancaster County. He returned in 1819 and 
 became pastor of the Swamp Chiurch in Milford Township, 
 Bucks County, filling that position until his death. Like 
 his father, he was stricken in the pulpit, while preaching a 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 funeral sermon, Feb. i, 1833, and died on Feb. 16, having 
 served these two churches a total of twenty-nine years. 
 
 Childken op Rev. John Theobald and Maria (Abndt) Faber 
 
 207. Charles Q. Faber, born — — ; died at Reading; many years an inn 
 
 keeper at Kutztown; married Mary S . 
 
 208. Henrietta Faber, bom Sept. 10, 1799; died Feb. 4, 1880; married 
 
 John Miller. 
 
 2og. Sarah Faber, born ; died in Reading, Pa.; married Dr. 
 
 Reuben Haines. 
 
 Susanna Arndt (65), second daughter of Captain John 
 and Elizabeth (Ihrie) Arndt, was bom in Forks Township, 
 Northampton County, Pa., February 2, 1781; married, De- 
 cember 26, 1802, John B. Miles, of Easton. He was born in 
 BeKast, Ireland, August 6, 1768, and died in Easton, Novem- 
 ber 16, 1813. She died prior to 1820. 
 
 Child or John B. and Susanna (Arndt) Miles 
 
 210. Matilda Miles, born Nov. 2, 1803; died ; married Abraham 
 
 Miller. 
 
 Elizabeth Arndt (66), third daughter of Captain John 
 and Elizabeth (Ihrie) Arndt, born in Forks Township, North- 
 ampton County, Pa., February 14, 1783; died in Easton, 
 October 13, 1853. She married, February 12, 1801, in the 
 First Reformed Church of Easton, William Innes, of Easton 
 born October 22, 1778; died May 6, 1856. He was a hat 
 manufacturer in Easton, and active in the public affairs of the 
 town. He was elected a member of Town Council in 1837 
 and filled other positions later. 
 
 Children of William and Elizabeth (Arndt) Innes 
 
 211. Samuel Innes, bom Sept. 8, 1802; died ; married Elizabeth 
 
 Nungesser. 
 
 212. Susan Innes, bom May ig, 1805; died Oct. 20, i8o6. 
 
 213. John Arndt Innes, bom Jan. 23, 1808; died ; married Susanna 
 
 Heller. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 214. AnnElizabethInnes, bornMay 17, 1811; died Jan. 2$, 1854; unmar- 
 
 ried. 
 
 215. James Robert Innes, bom May 25, 1814; died Sept. 24, 1893; married 
 
 Susan Margaret Butz. 
 
 216. Mary Arndt Innes, bom May 3, 1818; married Dr. Evan Slough. 
 
 217. Evelina Matilda Innes. 
 
 2x8. Sarah Henrietta Innes, bom Aug. 16, 1821. 
 
 Sarah Aendt (68), foxirth daughter of Captain John and 
 Elizabeth (Ihrie) Arndt, bom in Forks Township, Northamp- 
 ton Covinty, Pa., February 27, 1787; died in Easton, October 
 18, 1859. She married in Easton Reformed Church, De- 
 cember 25, 1807, John Sletor (name originally spelled Slayter), 
 of Easton. He was bom in Parsontown, Kings County, Ire- 
 land; was concerned with Robert Emmett in organizing the 
 Irish Rebellion in 1803, and fled to America, probably ac- 
 companying Thomas Emmett, the brother of the Irish mart jt:, 
 who came to New York in the latter part of 1803. Soon after 
 his arrival in America John Sletor located in Easton, where 
 he estabhshed a stove foundry. He was successful in the 
 venture, and did a large and profitable business. At the 
 breaking out of the war of 1812-1814 he abandoned the stove 
 business and began the manufacture of cloth designed for the 
 making of uniforms for the United States soldiers. By the 
 time this venture was fairly laimched the war was over and he 
 was financially ruined. John Sletor was a Roman Cathohc, 
 and helped to found the first Cathohc Church at Easton, and 
 is buried in the graveyard connected with the church. 
 
 Children of John and Sarah (Arndt) Sletor 
 
 219. Thomas Sletor, bom Jan. 29, 1810; died March 5, 1883; married 
 
 Martha Sullivan. 
 
 220. John Arndt Sletor, bom Jan. 25,1812; died ; married Carohne — 
 
 221. Mary Ann Sletor, bom Jan. 26, 1814; died ; married Daniel 
 
 Davis. 
 
 222. Ann Eliza Sletor, bom Feb. 27, 1818; died May 29, 1819. 
 
 George Washington Arndt (70), eldest surviving son of 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 Captain John and Elizabeth (Ihrie) Amdt, was born in 
 Forks Township, Northampton County, Pa., June 26, 1791. 
 Early in the year 1813 he formed a partnership with his brother 
 Benjamin F. Arndt, and his brother-in-law, Charles Lom- 
 baert, and they began the manufacture of woolen cloth in con- 
 nection with the grain milling at Amdt's Mills. The new 
 venture of cloth manufacturing proved unprofitable during 
 the period of depression following the close of the war of 181 2- 
 1814, and the firm met with heavy financial losses. George 
 W. Arndt retired from business and removed with his family 
 to Easton in April, 181 7. In July of that year he set out on a 
 tour of the western States to select a place to retrieve his for- 
 tunes, his whole patrimony having been dissipated. He 
 passed down the Ohio and Mississippi and arrived in New 
 Orleans, where he was stricken with fever, and after a Hngering 
 illness of six months died there June 29, 1819. 
 He married. May 27, 1813, Henrietta Byllesby. 
 
 Children or George Washington and Henrietta (Byllesby) Arndt 
 
 223. Wellington Arndt, born Feb. 28, 1814; died young. 
 
 224. Jackson Arndt, born Feb. 12, 1815. 
 
 225. Susanna Rose Arndt, bom Oct. 16, 1816. 
 
 226. Eveline Arndt, born Oct. 16, 1816; died Feb. i, 1818. 
 
 Ann Arndt (71), fifth daughter and eighth child of Cap- 
 tain John and Elizabeth (Ihrie) Amdt, born in Forks Town- 
 ship, Northampton County, Pa., March 15, 1794; died in 
 Lambertville, N. J., March 6, 1879. She was famous for her 
 beauty in her youth, and her hand was sought in marriage by 
 many eligible suitors, among them a governor of Pennsylvania, 
 but she chose Charles Lombaert, of Philadelphia, a man of 
 good address and fine intellectual ability, to whom she was 
 married March 14, 181 2. He was born in Philadelphia May 
 18, 1790, and was a son of Herman Joseph Lombaert, a native 
 of Flanders and a prominent merchant of Philadelphia, where 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 he died of the yellow fever during the prevalence of that 
 disease, August 29, 1793, and his wife, Margaretta Wynkoop, 
 daughter of Judge William Wynkoop, the first presiding Judge 
 of Bucks County, one of the most prominent men of that 
 county during the Revolutionary War, and its first representa- 
 tive in the United States Congress. 
 
 Soon after his marriage to Ann Amdt, Charles Lombaert 
 entered the army for service during the second war for inde- 
 pendence, and at its close returned to Easton and invested his 
 patrimony in a manufacturing estabhshment at Amdt's MiUs 
 in Forks Township. In the business depression that followed 
 the close of the war, caused largely by the flood of English 
 goods imported into the United States, his infant industry 
 was swamped financially. He removed to Morrisville, Bucks 
 Coimty, where for a nxmiber of years he had charge of the 
 extensive manufacturing establishment known as the "Dela- 
 ware Works," founded by Robert Morris, the financier of the 
 Revolution. He became prominently identified with the 
 public affairs of Bucks Covmty, was elected to the State Legis- 
 lature in 1820 and 1828, and held the oflice of Justice of the 
 Peace for a number of years. He was the first superintendent 
 of the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad, and later secured a 
 position in the United States Custom House at Philadelphia. 
 In 1841 he purchased a home in Newtown, Bucks County, 
 where he resided for several years. Mr. Lombaert received 
 an appointment to a position in the employ of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad Company, and he moved with his family to 
 Altoona, Pa., and later by promotion was transferred to Phila- 
 delphia, where the family again took up their residence. With 
 the coming of old age they removed to Lambertville, New 
 Jersey, and resided with their daughter, Rebecca (Lombaert) 
 Williams, where he died April 13, 1875, and Mrs. Lombaert died 
 
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 on March 6, 1879. Both are buried at Woodlands Cemetery, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 Children of Charles and Anna (Arndt) Lombaert 
 
 227. Eliza Arndt Lombaert, born at Easton, Pa., Nov. 15, 1812; died at 
 
 Lambertville, N. J., MarchiS, 1869; unmarried; buried at Woodlands. 
 
 228. Margaretta Wynkoop Lombaert, twin sister of Eliza; married 
 
 William Henry Holmes. 
 
 229. Anna Arndt Lombaert, born Sept. 25, 1814; died Jan. 14, 1869; mar- 
 
 ried Samuel H. Kneass. 
 
 230. Herman Joseph Lombaert, bom Oct. 30, 1816; died March 10, 1885; 
 
 married Sarah Cochran. 
 
 231. Rebecca Vantjxem Lombaert, born Feb. 23, 1819; died March — , 
 
 1880; married Griffith Williams. 
 
 232. John Arndt Lombaert, bom May 30, 1821; died Aug. 14, 1823. 
 
 233. Henry Wynkoop Lombaert, bom Nov. 7, 1823; died May 27, 1901; 
 
 married Helen L. (Merryfield) Drake. 
 
 234. Frances Jane Lombaert, born Jan. 24, 1825; died July 22, 1904; 
 
 married Elias S. Gilbert. 
 
 235. Mary Bethel Lombaert, bom July s, 1828; died Feb. 16, 1869. 
 
 236. George Arndt Lombaert, born Oct. 23, 1831; died Oct., 1831. 
 
 237. Ellen Theresa Christiana Lombaert, born Jan. 26, 1834; died Aug. 
 
 19, 1836. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin Arndt (72), son of Captain John and 
 EKzabeth (Ihrie) Arndt, born in Forks Township, Northamp- 
 ton County, Pa., June 23, 1796; died in Easton, June 18, 1872. 
 He was a soldier in the war of 181 2, and saw active service as 
 Corporal of 4th Company, 2d Regiment Volunteer Light In- 
 fantry, 2d Brigade, 7th Division, Militia of Pennsylvania. 
 He joined with his brother, George W., and his brother-in-law, 
 Charles Lombaert, in remodeling and enlarging Amdt's Mills 
 and installing a plant for the manufacture of woolen cloth in 
 connection with grain milling in 1813, and Uke them was 
 financially ruined by the failure of the enterprise four years 
 later. He was under age at the time the enterprise was 
 launched, and though a minor, was one of the executors of his 
 father's will, with his brother, George W. Arndt. The estate 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 becoming involved in the venture, he petitioned for discharge 
 as executor September 17, 1816, on the groxmd of being a 
 minor, and his petition was granted. 
 
 On the collapse of the business at Amdt's Mills in 1817 he 
 went with his brother-in-law to Morrisville, Bucks County, 
 and was for a time connected with the Delaware Works there. 
 He married while a resident of MorrisviUe, before Isaac Hicks, 
 Esq., at Newtown, Elizabeth Vaughn, daughter of Samuel 
 and Sarah Vaughn, of Falls Township, Bucks County, bom 
 August 21, 1799; died December 23, 1820. She is buried at 
 Amdt's Cemetery, Forks Township, Northampton Coimty. 
 Therefore Benjamin F. Amdt had probably returned to North- 
 ampton County by that date. 
 
 He married as his second wife, about 1823, Sarah, daughter 
 of John Roeder, and on December 23 of that year purchased, 
 in partnership with his father-in-law, 215 acres of land in Bush- 
 kill Township, Northampton Coimty, of which he acqiiired 
 the whole interest in 1836 of the other heirs of John Roeder. 
 
 From the fact that he was the owner, at different periods, 
 of considerable real estate in and around Easton, it is to be 
 inferred that his patrimony was not entirely dissipated by the 
 financial crash of 1816-17. He seems to have been the 
 mainstay of the family, acting as trustee for his sisters, Sarah 
 Sletor, Ann Lombaert, and Elizabeth Innes, in the holding 
 of real estate in trust for their use. He acquired a portion of 
 his father's real estate in Plainfield Township, patented in 
 1793, but does not seem to have lived thereon. He is of 
 record as a farmer in Forks Township, 1826 to 1836. Condit's 
 "History of Easton" says of him that when Joseph Ritner was 
 nominated for governor by the Whig party in 1835, "Squire 
 Benjamin Amdt" was the only live Whig in Forks Township, 
 but that "he walked to the polls and cast his solitary vote with 
 as much firmness as if he had been in the majority." On the 
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 Election of Ritner Squire Amdt went to Harrisburg and de- 
 manded the appointment as Clerk of Orphans Court, and his 
 request was granted. He removed to Easton on securing this 
 appointment, and continued to reside there, with the exception 
 of a brief period that he operated a tannery in Lower Mount 
 Bethel from 1841-42, imtilhis deathin 1872. He was a candidate 
 for the Assembly from the Easton District at about the close 
 of his term as Clerk of Orphans Court, but was defeated, the 
 Democrats having a majority of two to one in the district. 
 Nevertheless, he filled the office of Justice of the Peace for a 
 long period — upward of a quarter of a century; was a school 
 director in 1853-55, ^^^ ^^^^ ^ number of other local offices. 
 He was appointed postmaster of Easton by President Taylor 
 May 9, 1849, 2.nd held that office until President Pierce came 
 into office. He was a man who held the respect and confidence 
 of the people of his district at all times and under all circum- 
 stances. Condit says of him : "He exhibited much of the same 
 spirit that was so conspicuous in the Hves of his father, grand- 
 father, and great-grandfather. They were all sturdy German 
 people — loyal to liberty; faithful to the pubHc; and honorable 
 in their dealings with their fellowmen." 
 
 Child op Benjamin F. and Elizabeth (Vaughn) Arndt 
 
 238. Ann Eliza Arndt, born Aug. 21, 1819; died Dec. 15, 1864; married, 
 
 first, William Shouse; second, James McFall; third, Washington 
 McFall. 
 Children of Benjamin F. and Sarah (Rader) Arndt 
 
 239. Matilda Arndt, born April 18, 1825; died Oct. 25, 1850; married John 
 
 Randolph; had one son, Harry Randolph, who died umnarried. 
 
 240. John Rader Arndt, bom March 10, 1827; died Oct. 15, 1856; married 
 
 Amelia Hankey. 
 24r. Jacob Arndt, born March 7, 1829; went to California in 1849, and 
 later settled in Oregon, where he died unmarried on Oct. 22, 1899. 
 
 242. Samuel Arndt, bom Dec. 3, 1832; was a machinist at Easton; died 
 
 about 1896; married Elizabeth Knight Moyer; no issue. 
 
 243. George W. Arndt, born April i, 1835; died March 23, 1891; was 
 
 First Lieutenant, Co. B, 51st Regiment Pa. Vols., in Civil War; 
 
GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 married Mary Jane Murtha and had three children, viz.: John Amdt, 
 Bessie Amdt, Frank Amdt. 
 
 244. Benj. F. Arndt, bom July 16, 1837; died about 1883; married Eliza- 
 
 beth (Fritts) Weller. 
 
 245. Emma Sophia Aendt, bom Feb. 2, 1840, living; married Dr. Granville 
 
 B. Slough. 
 
 246. Henry Lombaert Arndt, bom July 15, 1842; died July 26, 1882; 
 
 married Catharine Starck. 
 
 247. Wiluam B. Arndt, bom Aug. 27, 1848; died June 24, 1913; married, 
 
 first, Mary Hertzog; second, Caroline Wilmer. 
 
 Jacob Shoemaker (74), eldest son of Jacob and EKzabeth 
 (Arndt) Shoemaker, bom in Forks ToTvnship, Northampton 
 County, Pa., about 17 71, inherited under his father's will 
 jointly with his brother Abraham the 378 acres of land in 
 Minden Township, Montgomery County, New York. He 
 married at Easton Reformed Church September 29, 1797, 
 Elizabeth Eberhard, and probably located on the plantation 
 in the Mohawk Valley before his father's death. He and 
 Abraham were at least hving at Minden on August 9, 1811, 
 when their brother and sisters released the 378 acres to them. 
 He and his wife Elizabeth conveyed 280 acres of the Minden 
 tract to Abraham Shoemaker May 15, 1812, and Abraham 
 conveyed to him on the same date 196 acres. The last record 
 we have of Jacob is a deed executed by him and his wife No- 
 vember 30, 1828, recorded at Fonda, N. Y., conveying to his 
 brother, John Shoemaker, 176 acres of land "in the Town of 
 Minden." We have no record of any descendants. 
 
 Elizabeth Shoemaker (75), eldest daughter of Jacob and 
 Elizabeth (Amdt) Shoemaker, bom in Forks Township, North- 
 ampton County, Pa., married Richard Jacobs. In 181 1 they 
 were living in Geneva, County of Cajoiga, New York. The 
 only two children of whom we have any record are named 
 below, and were baptized at the Easton Reformed Church 
 before the removal of the parents to New York. There were 
 doubtless other children of whom we have no record. 
 
THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 Children of Richard and Elizabeth (Shoemaker) Jacobs 
 
 246a. John Jacobs, born March 20, 1794; baptized July 16, 1794. 
 247a. Maria Jacobs, born Sept. 16, 1800; baptized Oct. 20, 1800. 
 
 Margaret Shoemaker (76), daughter of Jacob and Eliza- 
 beth (Arndt) Shoemaker, bom in Forks Township, Northamp- 
 ton County, Pa., about 1774, married at Easton Reformed 
 Church March 6, 1794, Peter Seiler or Saylor, of Williams 
 Township, Northampton County, Pa., where they resided 
 until after March 22, 1801, the date of the baptism of their 
 son Jacob at Easton Reformed Church. Some time after this 
 date they removed to the Wyoming Valley, and Margaret 
 joined in releases to her brothers Jacob and Abraham for the 
 Mohawk Valley land and to her brother John for the home- 
 stead in Forks Township, both executed as Margaret Sailer, 
 widow and relict of Peter Sailer, late of Pike Township, County 
 of Luzerne. The names of their children given below are 
 from the baptismal records of Easton Reformed Church. 
 Jacob, the second son, either remained in or returned to 
 Northampton County and died there. He is mentioned as a 
 legatee in the will of Elizabeth, the widow of Jacob Shoe- 
 maker, and he and his wife are buried in the Amdt-Messinger 
 Graveyard. 
 
 Children of Peter and Margaret (Shoemaker) Seiler 
 
 248. Anna Maria Seiler, bom Sept. j., 1797; baptized at Easton Reformed 
 
 Church Dec. i, 1797. 
 
 249. Samuel Seiler, born July 17, 1799; baptized at Easton Reformed 
 
 Church Aug. 25, 1799. 
 
 250. Jacob Saylor, born Feb. 20, 1801; baptized at Easton Reformed 
 
 Church March 22, 1801; died June 19, 1877; buried in Arndt Grave- 
 yard; married Dec. 31, 1826, Mary A. Walter, bom Feb. i, 1804; 
 died March 29, 1899, and had issue. 
 Samxtel Saylor, born Jan. 9, 1831; died March 26, 1831. 
 
 Susanna Shoemaker (77), third daughter of Jacob and 
 Elizabeth (Arndt) Shoemaker, was born in Forks Township, 
 
GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 Northampton Coiinty, Pa., August 2, 1777, and was baptized 
 at Easton Reformed Church September 14, 1777. She mar- 
 ried David Reed, and in 1811 they were living in Barnard 
 Township, Somerset County, New Jersey. Nothing is known 
 of their subsequent history. 
 
 Abraham Shoemaker (78), second son of Jacob and EKza- 
 beth (Amdt) Shoemaker, was bom in Forks Township, North- 
 ampton County, Pa., December 10, 1779, and was baptized 
 at Easton Reformed Church January i, 1780. He either 
 accompanied or followed his elder brother Jacob to the Mo- 
 hawk Valley, New York, and they jointly inherited the 400- 
 acre plantation in Minden Township, Montgomery County, 
 vmder their father's will, and it was released to them by the 
 other heirs in 181 1, and divided between them by deeds of 
 record in Fonda, Montgomery County, N. Y., in 181 2. He 
 and his wife Maria were residents of the town of Canajoharie 
 from that date imtil his death in 1825, though the land con- 
 veyed by them was located in Minden. His will is dated 
 August 24, 1818, and was probated February 14, 1825. It 
 gives bequests to his wife Maria and eight children. 
 
 CmiDREN OF ABKAHAM AND MarIA (WeSTERMAN) SHOEMAKER 
 
 251. Jacob Arndt Shoemaker, bom ; died ; married Catherine 
 
 , living in the town of Minden, Montgomery Co., N. Y., 1857; 
 
 no further record. 
 
 252. Anna Shoemaker, bom ; died — • — ; legatee in her father's will; 
 
 no further record. 
 
 253. EuzABETH Shoemaker, bom ; died ; married George 
 
 Wohlgemuth, living in Minden, Montgomery Co., N. Y., 1836; no 
 further record. 
 
 254. Peter Shoemaker, bom — — ; died ; married Mary , living 
 
 in Minden, Montgomery Co., N. Y., 1833; no further record. 
 
 255. Catherine Shoemaker, bom ; died ; married Peter Diefen- 
 
 dorf ; no further record. 
 
 256. Sarah Shoemaker, bom ; died- ; legatee in her father's will; 
 
 no further record. 
 
 257. Margaretta Shoemaker, bom ; died ; legatee in her 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 father's will; no further record (living in Canajoharie, N. Y., 1840 — 
 unmarried). 
 258. Mama Shoemaker, born ; died ; legatee in her father's will. 
 
 Maria Shoemaker (79), fourth daughter of Jacob and 
 Elizabeth (Arndt) Shoemaker, was bom in Forks Township, 
 Northampton County, Pa., July 20, 1782, was baptized at 
 Easton Reformed Church August 16, 1782. She married 
 Adam Seiler and one child (259), Margaretta, born August 
 12, 1799, was baptized at Easton Reformed Church Septem- 
 ber 8, 1799. They were Hving in Minden, Montgomery 
 County, N. Y., in 1811, and were land owners on the south 
 side Asquaga Creek in that township in 1827. 
 
 Catharine Shoemaker (80), fifth daughter of Jacob and 
 EKzabeth (Arndt) Shoemaker, was born in Forks Township, 
 Northampton Coimty, Pa., June 11, 1785; was baptized at 
 Easton Reformed Church August 14th of the same year. She 
 married at the same church January 2, 1803, Christian Kocher, 
 and they were living in Canajoharie, Montgomery County, 
 N. Y., in 1811. Their only child of whom we have any record 
 was: 
 
 260. Samuel Kochee, born Oct. 25, 1803; baptized at Easton Reformed 
 
 Church Nov. 23, 1803. 
 
 Sarah Shoemaker (81), youngest daughter of Jacob and 
 Elizabeth (Arndt) Shoemaker, was born in Forks Township, 
 Northampton County, Pa., March 3, 1787; was baptized at 
 Easton Reformed Church May 15, 1787. She married at 
 the same church, December 15, 1805, George Walter, of Forks 
 Township, who died June 3, 1833. She died October 26, 1818. 
 
 The only child of whom we have any record was: 
 
 261. Carl Walter, born Nov. 4, 1808; died Aug. 27, 1817. 
 
 John Shoemaker (82), yoimgest son of Jacob and Eliza- 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 beth (Amdt) Shoemaker, was bom in Forks Township, North- 
 ampton County, Pa., about 1791; married at Easton Re- 
 formed Church April 9, 1814, Catherine Lambert. He was a 
 fuller, and at the time of the decease of his father was operat- 
 ing a fulling mill on the Bushkill Creek, apparently on the 
 homestead farm of 176 acres which was devised to him by his 
 father's will in 1804, and released to him by his brothers and 
 sisters in 1811. He sold the mill in 1825, and followed his 
 brothers to the Mohawk Valley, his brother Jacob conveying 
 to him, on November 30, 1828, 176 acres of land in Minden 
 Township, Montgomery County, N. Y., 50 acres of which he 
 sold and conveyed in 1831 and the remainder in 1836. 
 
 CmLDKEN OF John and Catht.rtke (Lambert) Shoemaker 
 
 262. Jacob Shoemaker, bom Jan. 24, 1815; baptized at Easton Reformed 
 
 Church April 13, 1815; married. 
 
 263. John Arndt Shoemaker, bom Aug. 7, 1816; baptized at Easton Re- 
 
 formed Church Oct. 20, 1816. He was a land owner in the town of 
 Root, Montgomery County, N. Y., in 1837. 
 
 264. Rosina Shoemaker, bom Jan. 11, 1818; baptized at Easton Reformed 
 
 Church May 3, 1818; removed with parents to Mohawk Valley, N. Y. 
 
 265. Elizabeth Shoemaker, bom July 8, 1820; baptized at Easton Re- 
 
 formed Church Aug. 20, 1820. 
 
 266. Samttei. Shoemaker, bom Sept. 3, 1821; baptized at Easton Reformed 
 
 Church Dec. 9, 1821. 
 
 Mary Arndt (83), eldest daughter of Abraham and Arma 
 (Herm) Amdt, of Greenwich Township, Warren County, 
 N. J., was bom May 26, 1786. She married, Febmary 23, 
 1807, Joseph King, bom November 23, 1784, son of Jeremiah 
 and Sarah King, of Greenwich Township, Warren Coimty, 
 N. J. They lived for a number of years at Springtown, N. J., 
 later at Reading, and about 1830 located in Philadelphia, 
 where Mary (Amdt) King died June 10, i860. Joseph King 
 was an innkeeper for many years, but after the decease of his 
 wife resided with his son Jeremiah King at Fairmount Locks, 
 where he died November 5, 1874. 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 CmiDREN OF Joseph and Mary (Arndt) King 
 
 267. William H. King, born Aug. 14, 1808; died March 30, 1853; married 
 
 Malvina Lewis. 
 
 268. Abraham Arndt King, born Aug. 12, 1812; died Jan. 6, 1854; unmar- 
 
 ried. 
 
 269. Elizabeth King, born Aug. 29, 1815; living in 1913; married Dr. 
 
 Benjamin Housekeeper. 
 
 270. Jeremiah King, born March 12, 1820; died July 23, 1871; married 
 
 Amy Johnson. 
 
 Jacob Arndt (84), eldest son of Abraham and Anna (Henn) 
 Arndt, was born in Greenwich Township, Warren County, 
 N. J., September 2, 1788, and died there May 28, 1852, and 
 is buried in the graveyard of the Greenwich Presbyterian 
 Church, with which he and his family were prominently identi- 
 fied. He married June 25, 1817, Sarah Stewart, daughter of 
 Robert and Mary Stewart, of Greenwich, formerly of Tinicum 
 Township, Bucks County, Pa., a prominent Scotch Irish 
 family, from whom the town of Stewartsville, New Jersey, 
 took its name. She was born October 26, 1801, and died June 
 21, 1842. 
 
 Children of Jacob and Sarah (Stewart) Arndt 
 
 271. Mary Ann Arndt, bom April 23, 1819; died Oct. 6, 1837; married 
 
 William Shipman. 
 
 272. Abraham S. Arndt, born Nov. 5, 1821; died April 21, 1853; married 
 
 Alvinah Winter. 
 
 273. WilliamHann Arndt, bom Nov. 25, 1823; died Sept. 4, 1850; unmar- 
 
 ried. 
 
 274. DianaArndt, born July 8, 1825; died May 9, 1883; married Edward H. 
 
 Bird. 
 
 275. Isabella Arndt, bom Nov. 13, 1827; died April 8, 1830. 
 
 276. Elizabeth K. Arndt, bom July 25, 1830; died Oct. 30, 1908. 
 
 277. Captain Jacob H. Arndt, bom Jan. 30, 1833; died Nov. 8, 1863; mar- 
 
 ried Caroline Hagenbuch. 
 
 278. Charles Thomas Arndt, born May i, 1835; died Feb. 3, 1850. 
 
 279. Sarah Arndt, born June 30, 1837; died June 14, 1884; married Samuel 
 
 Drake. 
 
 Diana Arndt (85), second daughter of Abraham and Anna 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 (Henn) Amdt, was born in Greenwich Township, Warren 
 County, New Jersey, about 1792, married first John Mixsell, 
 of a prominent family of Northampton County, Pa., and 
 secondly Jacob B. Coates, of Philadelphia, where she was 
 living in 1832, when she signed releases of her legacy under the 
 will of Jacob Arndt, Jr., of Easton. Little is known of her 
 history and nothing of her descendants beyond the baptism 
 of her two children at Easton Reformed Church. 
 
 Chudsen of John and Diana (Aendt) Mixsell 
 
 280. Eliza Ann Arndt Mixsell, bom Oct. 15, 1814; baptized at Easton 
 
 Refonned Church Jan. 19, 1815. 
 
 281. Jacob Arndt Mixsell, bom Feb. 17, 1817; baptized at Easton Re- 
 
 formed Church April 3, 1817. 
 
 Abraham Arndt (86), second son of Abraham and Anna 
 (Henn) Amdt, was born in Greenwich Township, Warren 
 Coimty, N. J., April 30, 1797; died there May 31, 1850, and 
 is buried at St. James Cemetery, otherwise the graveyard of 
 the Straw Church, near Phillipsburg. He married June 15, 
 1820, Margaret Johnson, daughter of Hart Johnson, of Green- 
 wich. She was bom October 24, 1801; died February 27, 
 1850, and was bvuied beside her husband at the Straw Church. 
 
 Children of Abraham and Margaret Qohnson) Arndt 
 
 282. Joseph King Arndt, bom Nov. 19, 1821; died Nov. 7, 1881; married 
 
 Anna (Roseberry) Coolbaugh. 
 
 283. Abraham Arndt, bom ; died young. 
 
 284. Hart Johnson Arndt, bom Dec. 3, 1831; died May 20, i860; buried 
 
 at Straw Church. 
 
 Michael Kxjlp, Jr. (90), son of Michael and Mary Mag- 
 dalena (Leidy) Kolb, was bom in Bedminster Township, 
 Bucks County, May 9, 1797, and died there October 18, 1865. 
 He inherited under his father's wiU the farm of 144 acres on 
 which the latter lived at the time of the execution of said will. 
 Michael Kulp, Jr., continued to own the larger part of the 
 paternal estate, and lived thereon until his decease. 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 He married, at Tohickon Reformed Church, January 4, 
 1824, Maria Magdalena Cassell, who was bom September 22, 
 1802, and died May 9, 1889. Michael Kulp, Jr., was the 
 executor of his father's will, and trustee thereunder for his 
 brother, Samuel Kulp. He was evidently the same type of 
 painstaking business man as his father. His accounts, letters, 
 and receipts, together with those of his father and letters from 
 his two sons in Missouri and California respectively, are among 
 the manuscript collections of the Bucks County Historical 
 Society. 
 
 Michael Kulp, Jr., and his wife are buried side by side at 
 Tohickon churchyard in Bedminster Township. 
 
 Children of Michael and Mary Magdalena (Cassell) Kulp 
 
 288. Isaac C. Kulp, bom about 1826, in Bedminster, Bucks County, Pa. 
 
 Went to California in i860 and died there some time after i868, date 
 unknown; he was unmarried. 
 
 289. Enos C. Kulp, born 1829, died Sept. 28, 1914; married Susanna Fretz. 
 
 290. William C. Kulp, bom 1832; went to St. Joseph, Mo., in i860; later 
 
 located in Meagher Co., Montana, where he was living in 1874: died 
 prior to i8go, date and place unknown. 
 
 291. Samuel C. Kulp, born May 17, 1837; died Sept. 3, 1910; married 
 
 Elizabeth Landis. 
 
 292. Michael Kulp, bom ; died ; married Amanda Tester; no 
 
 further record. 
 
 293. Reuben C. Kulp, bom ; living; married Elizabeth Seiple; no 
 
 further record. 
 
 294. Mary Kulp, bom ; died ; married Peter Ott; no further 
 
 record. 
 
 295. Henry C. Kulp, bom ; died ; married Amanda Kulp; no 
 
 further record. 
 
 296. Harvey C. Kulp, born ; living; married Matilda ; no further 
 
 record. 
 
 John Arndt (93), eldest son of Bernhard and Mary (Freder- 
 ick) Arndt, born in Chestnut Hill Township, Northampton 
 (now Carbon) County, Pa., in 1785; married at Easton Re- 
 formed Church November i, 181 2, Susanna Roeder (Rader). 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 He was administrator of his father's estate in 1827, and ac- 
 quired the homestead in Lower Nazareth Township. He evi- 
 dently lived on this tract, which he divided and sold at 
 different dates prior to 1838, at which date he was living in 
 CircleviUe, Pickaway County, Ohio. Official communications 
 received from the coimty officers at CircleviUe report that 
 there were no probate proceedings on his estate in that 
 county. A number of families residing in and near Circle- 
 viUe bear the name of Amdt. 
 
 Elizabeth Arndt (94), second daughter of Bemhard and 
 Mary (Frederick) Amdt, bom November 22, 1791, died 
 October 22, 1876, at ShoenersviUe, Lehigh Coimty, Pa. She 
 married March 17, 181 2, Joseph Dewalt, bom in Bethlehem 
 Township, Northampton Coimty, Pa., September 23, 1787; 
 died March 11, 1848, in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, 
 and both he and his wife are buried in the graveyard of Christ 
 Church at ShoenersviUe. He was a farmer and owned a farm 
 of 106 acres in Bethlehem Township at the time of his death. 
 He was a son of Christian and Elizabeth (Townsend) Dewalt, 
 and a grandson of Johannes Dewalt, a pioneer farmer of 
 Bethlehem Township, near Butztown, where the latter died 
 in 1814, the plantation being stiU in the tenure of his lineal 
 descendants. 
 
 Children of Joseph and Elizabeth (Aendt) Dewalt 
 
 300. Hannah Dewalt, bom Dec. i, 1812; died Jan. 20, 1898; married John 
 
 B. Sweitzer, bom March s, 1809; died March 30, 1890; they had 
 issue: Josiah Sweitzer — 
 
 301. James T. Dewalt, went west when a young man, and settled in Han- 
 
 cock County, Ohio. 
 
 302. Susan Dewalt, married Jacob Woodring, and had issue: James Wood- 
 
 ring, Israel Woodring, Isabel Woodring. 
 
 303. Eliza Dewalt, married Daniel Ritter, and had issue: Elizabeth Ritter, 
 
 Reuben Ritter, Peter Ritter, Cyrus Ritter. 
 
 304. JosephDewalt, Jr., bomFeb. 22, 1821; died March 22, 1884; married 
 
 Julia Ann Brader. 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 305. Rettben Dewalt, bom, 1829; died, 1900; married Annie Bieber. 
 
 306. Robert Dewalt, married Elizabeth Brader; removed to Crawford 
 
 County, Ohio. They had issue: Samuel Dewalt, Richard Dewalt, 
 Oliver Dewalt. 
 
 Mary Arndt (95), daughter of Bemhard and Mary (Fred- 
 erick) Amdt, born June 2, 1794; died March 10, 1817. She 
 married, September 6, 1813, David Hartz, of Lower Nazareth 
 Township. Her tombstone in Drylands Churchyard at 
 Hecktown shows that she left surviving her three sons and 
 one daughter, but we have record of but two children, Cath- 
 erine and Charles Hartz, and nothing further of them than 
 their names. 
 
 Catharine Arndt (96), daughter of Bemhard and Mary 
 (Frederick) Arndt, born in Upper Nazareth Township, North- 
 ampton County, June 28, 1795; died near Bath, in the same 
 county, December 27, 1863. 
 
 She married, January 9, 1816, Peter Steckel, born July 29, 
 1794, near Bath; died March 2, 1882. He was a son of Daniel 
 and Rebecca (Jones) Steckel, and grandson of Christian 
 Stoeckel, a native of Germany, who was one of the first settlers 
 at Egypt, Lehigh County, Pa., where he erected, in 1756, a 
 substantial stone house, still standing, which was used as a 
 fort for defense against the hostile Indians during the Indian 
 outbreaks from 1756 to 1763. 
 
 Peter Steckel was a sergeant in the company of Captain 
 John Sheffer, Northampton County Militia, during the war 
 of 181 2 and saw active service. His imiform and military 
 accoutrements are still treasured by his descendants. He 
 owned and operated a mill and tannery near Bath, in Moore 
 Township. He served as sheriff of Northampton County 
 for the term of 1841-43, and was one of the prominent and 
 highly respected citizens of the county. He was a Whig in 
 politics, and was a candidate of that party for representative 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 in Pennsylvania Assembly in 1832, but was unable to overcome 
 the democratic majority of his district and was defeated. 
 
 Life-sized portraits of Peter and Catherine Amdt Steckel, 
 painted while Peter was sheriff of Northampton Coimty, are 
 in possession of his granddaughter, Louise M. Stoeckel, M.D., 
 of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Their old family Bible is in the pos- 
 session of Oliver J. Steckel, a grandson Kving at Newton, 
 N.J. 
 
 Childeen of Peter and Catharine (Arndt) Steckel 
 
 307. Reuben Steckel, bom May 13, 1816; died June 20, 1849; married 
 
 Matilda Kleppinger. 
 
 308. William Bernhard Steckel, born Jan. 19, 1818; died March 2, 
 
 1904; married Catherine Kleppinger. 
 
 309. Israel Frank Steckel, bom Dec. 28, i8ig; died May 22, 1894; mar- 
 
 ried Christiana Hoch. 
 
 310. Charles Napoleon Steckel, bom June 16, 1821; died Nov. 5, 1902; 
 
 married Eliza Snyder. 
 
 311. Solomon A. Steckel, bom July 4, 1823; died June 27, 1893; married 
 
 Lydia Hough. 
 
 312. Susan Steckel, bom Jan. 15, 1827; died June i, 1828. 
 
 313. Eliza Steckel, bom 1829; died 1830. 
 
 314. Edward Manton Steckel, bom Sept. 12, 1830; died Oct. 9, 1905; 
 
 married Susan M. Kutz. 
 
 315. Isaiah Samuel Steckel, bom Sept. 13, 1832; went to far west. 
 
 316. David Theodore Steckel, bom Oct. 29, 1835; went to far west. 
 
 Susanna Arndt (97), youngest daughter of Bernhard and 
 Mary (Frederick) Arndt, was bom in Lower Nazareth Town- 
 ship, Northampton Coimty, Pa., Dec. 22, 1797, and died at 
 Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in January, 1894. She married, June 17, 
 181 7, at the Easton Reformed Church, Philip Houpt. He 
 was a son of Henry and Margaret (Schick) Houpt, and was 
 bom in Low Hill Township, Northampton County, March 26, 
 1796. Philip Houpt within a few years after marriage removed 
 to Newport, Luzerne County, about 12 miles from Wilkes- 
 Barre, where he followed his trade of a carpenter and also 
 farming for about thirty years. He was active in the or- 
 
THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 ganization of the militia and a candidate for colonel of 140th 
 Regiment in 1832. 
 
 Children op Philip and Susanna (Aendt) Hoitpt 
 
 317. Charles Houpt, bom — , 1818; died in infancy, — 1818. 
 
 318. Lavinia HotrpT, born Nov. 27, 1819; died March 11, 1893; married 
 
 Jacob Fry. 
 
 319. Barnett Houpt, bom Jan. — , 1821; died Sept. 8, 1907; married Ros- 
 
 anne Gruver. 
 
 320. Ellen Houpt, bom Dec. 20, 1822; died April 12, 1852; married 
 
 Robert Robbins. 
 
 321. Theresa Houpt, bom Feb. 4, 1825; died Sept. 23, 1874; married Daniel 
 
 Owens. 
 
 322. ZiBA Houpt, bom 1827; died Sept. 28, 1902; married Elizabeth 
 
 Gregory. 
 
 323. Susan Houpt, bom Dec. 12, 1829; died August i6, 1909; married 
 
 John Welch. 
 
 324. Eliza Houpt, bom Dec. 12, 1831; died July 4, 1914; married Anning 
 
 Dilley. 
 
 325. Charles Houpt, born Sept. 27, 1833; died ; married Melissa 
 
 Kasson. 
 
 326. Sallie Houpt, bom Jan. 13, 1837; died Jan. 19, 1893; married Bentley 
 
 F. Crane. 
 
 327. Missouria B. Houpt, born Nov. — , 1839; died Feb. 4, 1903; married 
 
 Sallie Garringer. 
 
 Bernhaed Arndt (98), youngest child of BernhardandMary 
 (Frederick) Arndt, bom about the year 1800; died in Upper 
 Nazareth in December, 1877. His will, dated November 5, 
 and probated December 19, 1877, gives legacies to his grand- 
 daughter, Anne Louise Arndt, and her mother, Levina Arndt, 
 "widow of my son William, deceased." 
 
 Bernhard Arndt married December 16, 1827, Ann Rowland, 
 who did not survive him. 
 
 Child of Bernhard and Ann (Rowland) Arndt 
 
 328. William Arndt, bom 1829; died prior to 1877; married Levina ; 
 
 and had issue, Anne Louise Amdt, married Robert Leh. 
 
 SmoN Arndt (102), eldest son of Jacob and Catherine 
 (Weaver) Arndt, born in Chestnut Hill Township, Carbon 
 
GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 Coiinty, Pa., December 6, 1820. He was a farmer and black- 
 smith, Kving for a time in Lower Macmigie Township, Lehigh 
 County, but the greater part of his hfe near Bath, in Moore 
 Township, Northampton Coimty, where he died December 11, 
 1901. He married October 4, 1846, Rebecca Dech, daughter 
 of Andrew Dech, who was bom July 20, 182 1, and died January 
 26, 1898. 
 
 CHItDREN OP SmON AND REBECCA (DeCh) AeNDT 
 
 329. Susan Arndt, bom 1851; died ; married Samuel Eck; no further 
 
 record. 
 
 330. OSBON W. Abndt, bom Nov. 17, 1853; living at Emaus, Lehigh County; 
 
 married Maria Breck. 
 
 331. Benjamin F. Akndt, bom Oct. 31, 1859; married Mary E. Royer. 
 
 332. Elmer Arndt, bom — , i860; married Weaver; no further record. 
 
 Enoch Abndt (108), eldest son of Simon and Catharine 
 (Gradwohl) Arndt, bom in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., February 15, 1822; died at 35 North Rose Street, 
 Easton, Pa., December 9, 1905. He married September 12, 
 1847, at Easton Reformed Church, Sarah Kreidler, who was 
 bom April 3, 1833, and died February 25, 1908. 
 
 Children of Enoch and Sarah (Kreidler) Arndt 
 
 333. Anna Matilda Arndt, bom June 22, 1848; married Abraham Rees 
 
 Miller; no further record. 
 
 334. Benjamin Arndt, bom Nov. 8, 1853; living in Easton, Pa.; married 
 
 Anna Stiles. 
 
 335. Emma L. Arndt, bom Sept. 26, 1857; living in Easton, Pa.; married 
 
 Samuel B. Heiney; no children. 
 
 Thomas Akndt (110), second son of Simon and Catharine 
 (Gradwohl) Arndt, born November 11, 1826, in Moore Town- 
 ship, Northampton County, Pa.; died there December 16, 
 1898. He was a stone mason by trade, but also followed 
 farming, and owned at the time of his decease his homestead 
 farm of 20 acres, which was devised to his daughter, Matilda 
 Laub, and a farm of 40 acres which he devised to his son 
 WiUiam H. Arndt. 
 
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 He married, in 1856, Christiana Fehnel, daughter of Freder- 
 ick and Catherine Fehnel, of Moore Township, where she was 
 bom September 29, 1832. Both are buried in Fairview Ceme- 
 tery at Salem Church in Moore Townsliip. 
 
 Children of Thomas and Christiana (Fehnel) Aendt 
 
 336. Matilda Arndt, bom 1857; married Milton H. Laub; no further rec- 
 
 ord. 
 
 337. William H. Arndt, born 1863; married Sarah Fenstermacher; no 
 
 further record. 
 
 Leah Arndt (ill), second daughter of Simon and Catharine 
 (Gradwohl) Arndt, born in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., August 22, 1828, married June 6, 1852, Samuel 
 Brown, born in Lower Saucon Township, December 8, 1826, a 
 son of Adam and Mary (Newhan) Brown. He was a farmer 
 for many years, but was for five years mail carrier between 
 Hanoverville and Bethlehem. He is buried at Hecktown. 
 
 Children or Samuel and Leah (Arndt) Brown 
 
 338. Thomas S. Brown, bom Feb. 27, 1858; died Dec. 4, 1886. 
 
 339. Milton E. Brown, born Aug. 20, 1867; married Amanda C. Woodring. 
 
 Levina Arndt (112), second daughter of Simon and Cath- 
 arine (Gradwohl) Arndt, born in Moore Township, Northamp- 
 ton County, Pa., January 15, 1834; died near Bath, in Upper 
 Nazareth Township, August 18, 1891. She married Solomon 
 M. Schaeffer, a widower, who was a veteran of the Civil War. 
 He was born July 26, 1832. During the last years of his Kfe 
 he was an inmate of the Soldiers Home in Virginia, where he 
 died. 
 
 Children of Solomon and Levina (Arndt) Schaeffer 
 
 340. Theodore D. Schaeffer, born Aug. 21, 1868; died Sept. 23, 1868. 
 
 341. Levina Arndt Schaeffer, bom Dec. 18, 1870; died March 10, 1882. 
 
 342. Thomas Arndt Schaeffer, born Sept. 8, 1873; died Sept. 7, 1888. 
 
 Fayetta Arndt (113), youngest daughter of Simon and 
 Catharine (Gradwohl) Arndt, born in Moore Township, 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 Northampton County, Pa., March 26, 1836, was living near 
 Bath in 1913. She married, in 1853, William H. Naimian, 
 son of Simon and Christina Nauman, who was bom in Forks 
 Township, February i, 1830, and died near Bath June, 1909. 
 He was a stone mason by trade. 
 
 Children op William H. and Fayetta (Arndt) Nadman 
 
 343. Levina Rebecca Nauman, bom May 18, 1856; married William H. 
 
 Roth. 
 
 344. Ala VESTAL. Nauman, bom Jan. 16, 1863; died Aug. 23, 1866. 
 
 Susan Arndt (114), eldest child of Daniel and Elizabeth 
 (Mertz) Arndt, bom in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., March, 1827; was living in that neighborhood in 
 1913. She married first Joseph Schlegel and second Michael 
 Smith. 
 
 Childeen of Joseph and Susan (Arndt) Schlegel 
 
 345. Aleeed Schlegel, bom •; died . 
 
 346. Abraham Schlegel, bom ; killed in slate quarry when a young 
 
 man. 
 
 347. Benjamin Schlegel, bom ; died . 
 
 348. Ellen Schlegel, bom ; died . 
 
 Children of Michael and Susan (Arndt) Smith 
 
 349. Sylvester Smith, bom ; living. 
 
 350. Griffith Smith, bom ; living. 
 
 351. Amanda Smith, bom ; died unmarried. 
 
 John Arndt (115), eldest son of Daniel and Elizabeth 
 (Mertz) Amdt, bom in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., June 6, 1835. He married July 26, 1856, Rebecca 
 Biechy, bom September 13, 1836, daughter of Charles and 
 Sarah Biechy. 
 
 Children of John and Rebecca (Biechy) Arndt 
 
 352. Amanda Arndt, bom Oct. 16, 1857; died April 10, 1858. 
 
 353. James Monroe Arndt, bom April 17, i860; married Clara M. Riegel. 
 
 354. Irwin Arndt, bom Aug. 24, 1861; married Amanda Beers. 
 
 355. Sarah Alice Arndt, bom Sept. 24, 1864; married Geo. W. Delp. 
 
 356. Tilghman B. Arndt, bom Oct. 27, 1868; married Minda Stahley. 
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 357. Thomas M. Arndt, bom Sept. 13, 1870; married Emma C. Minnich. 
 
 358. Rosa Jane Arndt, bom Aug. 16, 1872; married George D. Steward. 
 
 359. Martha Elizabeth Arndt, bom Nov. 24, 1874; married Henry W. 
 
 Harper, of Easton. 
 
 Henry Aendt (116), second son of Daniel and Elizabeth 
 (Mertz) Arndt, born in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., December 31, 1831, was still living there in 1913, 
 owning and operating a farm near Danielsville. He was a 
 veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted March 27, 1865, in 
 Company H, 214 Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Captain 
 Edward Kelly, and was mustered out with the company March 
 21, 1866. 
 
 He married in December, 1862, Sarah Haldeman, daughter 
 of Daniel and Susanna (Pearson) Haldeman. She was bom 
 in Moore Township March 22, 1844. 
 
 Children of Henry and Sarah (Haldeman) Arndt 
 
 360. Henrietta Arndt, bom March lo, 1863; died Oct., 1863. 
 
 361. Ida Arndt, bom Feb. 15, 1865; married John Koch. 
 
 362: Susan Arndt, bom Sept. 23, 1867; married Hiram H. Kocher. 
 
 363. Sylvester Arndt, bom March 12, 1874; married Hannah Remaly. 
 
 364. Griffith Arndt, bom Feb. 17, 1882; living irt Northampton Co., Pa.; 
 
 married Dec. 24, 1901, Gertrude Schall. 
 
 Sarah Arndt (117), daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth 
 (Mertz) Arndt, born in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., August 6, 1840, married in 1859 Tilghman 
 Bickert, of Bath. He was born August 2, 1832. Mrs. Bickert 
 was living with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. 
 William H. Baer, at 930 Iron St., North Bethlehem, in 1913. 
 
 Children of Tilghman and Sarah (Arndt) Bickert 
 364a. Anna LouIsa Bickert, bom — i860; died Sept. 10, 1863. 
 364b. Joseph Daniel Bickert, bom Aug. 3, 1862. 
 364c. John Edward Bickert, bom Sept. 16, 1864. 
 
 364d. Hetty Estelle Bickert, bom April 6, 1876; married William H. Baer. 
 364e. M. Sylvester Bickert, bom Nov. j8, 1877. 
 364f. Preston Bickert, bom April 27, 1879; died July 9, 1889. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FOURTH GENERATION 
 
 Joseph Arndt (118), son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Mertz) 
 Amdt, bom in Northampton Township, February, 1843, was 
 living there in 1913. He married Elizabeth Haldeman, bom 
 January, 1851, daughter of Daniel and Susana (Person) Halde- 
 man. 
 
 CnrtDREN or Joseph and Elizabeth (Haldeman) Arndt 
 
 365. Sasah Arndt, born ; married Joseph Bickert, living in Hicktown, 
 
 Pa. 
 
 366. FiETTA Arndt, bom ; married Lewis Reimer. 
 
 367. Eleanor Arndt, born ; married Charles Seip. 
 
 368. Elizabeth Arndt, bom ; married Henry Barthol; no further 
 
 record. 
 
 369. Tilghman Arndt, bom ; married . 
 
 370. Joseph Arndt, bom ; married Gertrude Seip. 
 
 371. Hetty Arndt, bom ; married Levi Silfus. 
 
 Abraham Akndt (119), youngest son of Daniel and EKza- 
 "beth (Mertz) Amdt, bom in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., April 4, 1834, was living there in 1913. He was a 
 veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted as a private in Com- 
 pany H. Captain Edward Kelly, 214th Regiment, March 13, 
 1865, and was mustered out December 14, 1865. 
 
 He married, in 1865, Adaline Kocher, daughter of Samuel 
 and Susana (Barlieb) Kocher, of Moore Township, where she 
 was bom May 16, 1839, and died January 10, 1906. 
 
 Children of Abraham and Adeline (Kocher) Arndt 
 
 372. Eleanor Arndt, bom July 31, 1866; married Samuel Haldeman. 
 
 373. Agnes Sedoea Arndt, bom March 2, 1871; married Adolph C. Spadt. 
 
 374. Anna F. Arndt, bom Oct. 28, 1874; married Otto Spadt. 
 
 375. Elsie Myea Arndt, bom April 28, 1877; married Ellsworth J. Shirer. 
 
 376. Albert Abraham Arndt, bom March 16, 1885; married Mirmie Hill. 
 
 377. Ursula Myra Arndt, bom Nov. 9, 1889; married Harry Stonebumer. 
 
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 FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 Abraham J. Arndt, M.D. (121), eldest son of John and 
 Elizabeth (Smith) Arndt, was a physician and lived and died 
 in Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York. He mar- 
 ried Catherine Van Home and had one son: 
 
 378. Abraham Arndt, born ; died ; no further record. 
 
 John Arndt (122), second son of John and EKzabeth 
 (Smith) Arndt, married Anna Quinby, and lived and died in 
 Herkimer County, New York. Both are buried at Starkville 
 Cemetery. They had one son: 
 
 379. Peter Arndt, born 1841; died April, 1872; married Nancy Billinger. 
 
 They have no issue. 
 
 Peter Arndt, M.D. (123), third son of John and Elizabeth 
 (Smith) Arndt, was a physician and practised his profession for 
 a time in Starkville, Herkimer County, New York, later remov- 
 ing with his family to Chicago, Illinois, where he died. He 
 married Fannie Ehle, and had three children, viz. : 
 
 380. Elizabeth Arndt. 
 
 381. Carrie Arndt. 
 
 382. Charles Arndt. 
 
 Maria Arndt (124), only daughter and youngest child of 
 John and Elizabeth (Smith) Arndt, married Christopher Snell, 
 of Montgomery County, New York, and had three children. 
 The only one of whom we have any record was : 
 
 383. Dr. John Snell, a druggist at Canajoharie, N. Y., where he died in 1904. 
 
 Jacob Arndt Mover (125), eldest son of Andrew and Anna 
 (Arndt) Moyer, born in Minden Township, Montgomery 
 County, New York, June 5, 1818, died there February 28, 
 1907. He was a farmer and a man much respected in the com- 
 munity. He married, in 1853, Amelia Moyer, of Newark, 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 New York, who survived him and was still living in Minden 
 in 1913. 
 
 CffliDKEN OF Jacob and Amelia (Moyer) Moyer 
 
 386. Andrew Henry Moyer, bona Oct. 20, 1854; married Alice Lipe. 
 
 387. Ida Louise Moyer, bom 1856; died young. 
 
 388. Rauh Moyer, bom May 18, i860; married Florence Hisgen. 
 
 389. Frank Moyer, bom Oct. 20, 1862; married Julia Flanders. 
 
 Solomon Moyer (126), second son of Andrew and Anna 
 (Arndt) Moyer, bom in Minden Township, Montgomery 
 County, N. Y.; died there November 5, 1863. He married 
 Cynthia Sart, who survived him and died in 1887. 
 
 Children or Solomon and Cynthia (Sart) Moyer 
 
 390. Irving Moyer, bom 1858; died i860. 
 
 391. Emerson Moyer, bom i860; died in Newark, N. Y.; married Hannah 
 
 Rogers; no further record. 
 
 392. Jason C. Moyer, bom Dec. 31, 1863; married, first, Emma Paul; sec- 
 
 ond, Jessie Davis. 
 
 Abraham Mover (127), third son of Andrew and Anna 
 (Arndt) Moyer, bom in Minden Township, Montgomery 
 County, N. Y., in 1824; died there in the village of Fort Plain 
 in 1904. He married, in 1853, Katharine, daughter of WiUiam 
 Nestle. She died in 1909. 
 
 Children or Abraham and Katharine (Nestle) Moyer 
 
 393. Anna Moyer, bom Oct. 16, 1854; died March 18, 1910; married 
 
 Robert Bauder. 
 
 394. Alfred Moyer, bom Feb. 21, 1856; married Alida Bauder. 
 
 395. Perry A. Moyer, bom Feb. 17, 1859; married Mary Remes. 
 
 396. Addie Moyer, bom Nov. 25, 1861; married Dec. 22, 1886, Henry 
 
 Finehaur; no further record. 
 
 397. William Moyer, bom Aug. 26, 1863; married Mrs. Mary Miller. 
 
 398. Carrie Moyer, bom May 26, 1866; married Oct. 2, 1889, Fred Homin- 
 
 ger, of Utica, N. Y. 
 
 399. Cora Bell Moyer, bom July 25, 1868; married Dec. 31, 1891, Clark 
 
 Lintler. She is deceased, and her two children, Lillian and Hazel, re- 
 side with their aimt, Mrs. Hominger, at Utica, N. Y. 
 
 Sylvester Moyer (132), eldest son of Abraham and Eliza- 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 beth (Arndt) Moyer, born a,t Fort Plain, N. Y., August 13, 
 1827; died there March 7, 1902. He was a farmer in Minden 
 Township all his life, and a man much respected in the com- 
 munity. He married, August 11, 1851, Irene Grampes, daugh- 
 ter of John H. and Mary (Snell) Grampes, of Fort Plain. She 
 was born at Stone Arabia, across the Mohawk from Fort Plain, 
 February i, 1834, and is still living. 
 
 Children or Sylvester and Irene (Grampes) Moyer 
 
 400. Reuben Sylvester Moyer, born 1853; died Feb. 1859. 
 
 401. Helon Effner Moyer, bom Sept. 27, 1857; married Viola Flanders. 
 
 402. Mary Elizabeth Moyer, born May i, 1862; married Edgar C. Kessler. 
 
 Marcy Moyer (135), youngest son of Abraham and Eliza- 
 beth (Arndt) Moyer, born in Minden Township, Montgomery 
 County, N. Y., November 4, 1834; died there April 15, 1908. 
 He was a farmer, owning and operating a farm near Fort 
 Plain. He married, first, July 18, 1856, Catherine Cornelius, 
 daughter of Poppy and Elizabeth (Van Wormer) Cornelius. 
 She was born March 18, 1836, and died December 18, 1877. 
 He married, second, Josephine Cornelius, sister of his first wife. 
 
 Children of Marcy and Catherine (Cornelius) Moyer 
 
 403. Samarie Elizabeth Moyer, bom March 28, 1857; died Dec. 20, 1880; 
 
 married Chas. Sanders. 
 
 404. Minnie K. Moyer, born Jan. 13, i860; married Edwin Moyer; no fur- 
 
 ther record. 
 
 405. Abram E. Moyer, born April 21, 1862; died Jan. 13, 1873. 
 
 406. Gertrude M. Moyer, bom Aug. 20, 1864; died Feb. 28, 1902; married 
 
 Elmer Klock. 
 
 407. Edward C. Moyer, bom March 21, 1873; married Marian Babcock. 
 
 Child of Marcy and Josephine (Cornelius) Moyer 
 
 408. Nettie Moyer, bom May 6, 1880; married John H. Knickerbocker. 
 
 Martin L. Nellis (142), eldest son of Peter W. and Maria 
 (Arndt) Nellis, born at Stone Arabia, Montgomery County, 
 New York, October 28, 1829; died there April 5, 1907. He was 
 a farmer, owning and operating a farm on the north bank of 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 the Mohawk River; inherited from his father. He married, 
 first, September 3, 1866, Phebe Cook, daughter of Caspar Q. 
 Cook, of Stone Arabia. She was bom June 25, 1835, and died 
 March 29, 1882. He married, secondly, June 4, 1885, Mrs. 
 Clara (Fox) Nealy. She was bom September 24, 1839, and 
 died May 22, 1899. He had no children by either wife. 
 
 Jerome Nellis (143), second son of Peter W. and Maria 
 (Amdt) Nellis, bom on the old homestead, in township of 
 Palatine, New York, in the year 1831; removed to Wyoming, 
 where he died. He married Caroline Amanda. 
 
 Childeen of Jerome and Caroline (Amanda) Nellis 
 
 409. Helen L. Nellis, bom ■; married — Phillips, of Phillips Ranch 
 
 near Mandel, Albany County, Wyoming. 
 
 410. Martin Edgar Nellis, bom ; unmarried, living at Mandel, 
 
 Wyoming. 
 
 Minerva Arndt (145), second daughter of Abraham and 
 Mary (Walrath) Amdt, bom at Fort Plain, Montgomery 
 Coimty, N. Y., June 6, 1829, was stiU living in Jackson, 
 Michigan, in 1914. She married, about 1851, David Elwood, of 
 Fort Plain, son of Peter and Mary (Moyer) Elwood. He was 
 bom May 9, 1829, at Fort Plain. They continued to reside in 
 their native township until about 1870, when they removed to 
 Jackson, Michigan. David Elwood died at Parma, about ten 
 miles from Jackson, February 16, 1894. 
 
 Children of David and Minerva (Arndt) Elwood 
 
 411. Mary I. Elwood, bom at Fort Plain, N. Y., July 8, 1852; died at Jack- 
 
 son, Michigan, Oct. 17, 1909. She was an invalid all her life and 
 never married. 
 
 412. Alfred N. Elwood, bom July 3, 1854; died Jan. 3, 1837. 
 
 413. Rev. John W. Elwood, bom at Fort Plain, N. Y., August 10, 1856; 
 
 was a free Methodist preacher and was living in Chicago in 1913. No 
 further record. 
 
 414. William E. Elwood, bom August 6, 1858; living in Jackson, Michigan; 
 
 married Florence A. Rowan. 
 413. Franklin H. Elwood, bom at Fort Plain, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1865; died 
 
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 at Talladega, Ala., June 2, 1891; unmarried. He was a locomotive 
 fireman and was located for a time at San Marcical, New Mexico, 
 while in the employ of the A. T. and S. F. R. R., later being associated 
 with the L. and W. Ry. 
 
 Alfred Arndt (146), eldest son of Abraham and Mary 
 (Walrath) Arndt, was born June i, 1831, on the old Arndt 
 homestead in Minden Township, purchased by his great grand- 
 father, Abraham Arndt, in 1774; the title and ownership of 
 which has passed to him through four generations of ancestors, 
 and he has spent his whole life thereon. He married, June 22, 
 1870, Adehne Diefendorf, who was born in Minden Township 
 October 9, 1840; died there July 11, 1914. The family are 
 members of the Lutheran Church of Fort Plain. 
 
 Children of Aufked and Adeline (Dlefendorf) Arndt 
 416. Beatrice J. Arndt, bom August 12, 1872; unmarried. 
 
 419. Infant unnamed, born March 9, 1875; died March 22, 1875. 
 
 420. Charles Arndt, bom March 2, 1877; married Margaretta Fox Fonda. 
 
 Henry Arndt (147), youngest son of Abraham and Mary 
 (Walrath) Arndt, was born at Minden, Montgomery Coimty, 
 New York, June 17, 1834. He became interested in boating on 
 the Erie Canal, which passes through his native town, and 
 owned and operated boats thereon. Business interests induced 
 him to make his home at Bay Ridge, Long Island, for a num- 
 ber of years, and his two sons, Arthur and Harry, were born 
 there. About 1890 he paid a visit to his brother Alfred on the 
 old homestead at Minden, and left there with his sons for Oak- 
 land, California. 
 
 George Henry Arndt (148), eldest son of Peter and Sarah 
 (Adams) Arndt, was born at Rochester, New York, January 
 4, 1837. Some years of his early manhood were spent in Peoria, 
 Illinois. On the breaking out of the Civil War he decided to 
 enlist in the United States Army, and returning to the home of 
 his family, enlisted at Elmira, New York, November 16, 1861, 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 in Company F, 89th Regiment, New York Volunteers. He was 
 slightly woimded at the battle of Antietam, September 19, 
 1862, and taken prisoner by the Confederates. He was 
 marched to Richmond, Virginia, where he was paroled and sent 
 to Annapolis, Maryland, for exchange. His exchange being 
 accomplished on December 20, 1862, he was returned to his 
 company, but was so broken in health by the hardships he had 
 endured that he was sent to the hospital of the 3d Division of 
 the 9th Army Corps at Mill Point, Virgiiua, where he died. 
 
 Emma Louisa Arndt (149), eldest daughter of Peter and 
 Sarah (Adams) Arndt, born at Newark, Wayne County, N. Y., 
 January 24, 1842, was educated in New York schools, and on 
 the removal of her parents to Almond, Allegheny County, 
 N. Y., taught school for a time in that town. She married, 
 September 18, 1873, William C. Parker, born in Rockport, 
 Cuyahoga Coimty, Ohio, June 14, 1833; died in Grand Rapids, 
 Michigan, May 25, 1901. He enlisted May 24, 1861, at North 
 Dixon, Illinois, in Company I, 13th lUinois Volunteers, and 
 was mustered in as corporal of the company. After three 
 years' service he reenlisted January i, 1864, at Woodville, 
 Alabama, in the same company which was transferred to the 
 S6th Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, January 29, 1864. He was 
 promoted to sergeant major December 17, 1864, and served 
 until the close of the war, being mustered out with the regiment 
 August 12, 1865. Mrs. Parker is stiU Kving at Grand Rapids, 
 Michigan. She had no children. Her adopted son, Henry H. 
 Parker, bom in Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 18, 1875, 'was 
 for many years connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad and 
 located in Chicago. 
 
 Wesley J. Akndt (154), son of Peter and Sarah (Adams) 
 Arndt, was bom at Rochester, New York, September 15, 1852. 
 He is a prosperous business man in Chicago, Illinois. He mar- 
 
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 ried at Hammond, Indiana, December 3, 1896, Kate M. Cooke, 
 who was born in Rochester, N. Y., February 12, 1859. 
 
 Otto Milton Arndt (155), son of Peter and Sarah (Adams) 
 Arndt, born at Rochester, New York, May 18, 1855; learned 
 the printing trade, which he followed in Philadelphia for a 
 number of years, later removing to New York city, where he 
 died several years ago. 
 
 Alexander Hamilton Aendt (157), eldest surviving son of 
 John Penn and EHzabeth (Carpenter) Arndt, bom in Wilkes- 
 Barre,Pa., October 1,1805; removed with his parents to Green 
 Bay, Wisconsin, and was associated with his father in develop- 
 ing the various industries of that newly settled country. At 
 the breaking out of the Mexican war he went to the front as a 
 sutler's clerk. He died of yellow fever at Point Isabel, Texas, 
 October 10, 1847, ^^^ "^^^ buried there. He married at Green 
 Bay, August 30, 1836, Caroline Albright, who was also a 
 native of the Wyoming Valley, having been born at New Troy, 
 now Wyoming, Luzerne County, Pa. She died at Green Bay, 
 Wisconsin, and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery there, where a 
 slab was erected to the memory of her husband. 
 
 They had no children. 
 
 Mary Budleman Arndt (159), daughter of John Penn and 
 Ehzabeth (Carpenter) Arndt, born at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 
 October 31, 1809; died at Green Bay, Wisconsin, September 
 16, 1896. She married, May 6, 1825, Captain John Winslow 
 Cotton, U.S.A. He was born at Plymouth, Mass., March 29, 
 1800, and died at Green Bay, Wisconsin, September 10, 1878. 
 He graduated at West Point in the class of 1823, and was in- 
 ducted into the United States Army as second lieutenant. At 
 the time of his marriage he was captain in command at Fort 
 Howard, Wisconsin. He served with distinction during the 
 Civil War! 
 
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 Mrs. Cotton likewise entered the United States service dur- 
 ing the war. She was mustered in July 6, 1861, as a nurse in 
 the field hospital corps of the Fourth Wisconsin Regiment, 
 with which she served one year. 
 
 CnitDREN OF Captain John W. and Mary B. (Asndt) Cotton 
 
 421. John RossiTER Cotton, bom July 6, 1826; died Dec. 24, 1899; married 
 
 Carrie Augxista Redfem. 
 
 422. Elizabeth Arndt Cotton, bom — , 1880; married Charles Royal 
 
 Tyler. 
 
 423. Priscili-a Jackson Cotton, bom July 4, 1833; died June 30, 1855; 
 
 married Colonel James Henry Howe. 
 
 424. Mary Gordon Cotton, bom Aug. 31, 1836; died Jan. 4, 1893; married 
 
 Colonel James Henry Howe. 
 
 425. Charles Arndt Cotton, bom August 6, 1845; living in Green Bay; 
 
 married Allene Jane Kennedy. 
 
 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Arndt (160), fifth child of 
 John Penn and Elizabeth (Carpenter) Arndt, was bom at 
 Wilkes-Barre, Pa., October 31, 1811. He removed with his 
 parents to Mackinaw, Michigan, in 1822, and to Green Bay, 
 Wis., in 1824. He entered Rutgers College, New Jersey, and 
 graduated in the class of 1832, after which he studied law with 
 Hon. Joel Jones, of Easton, Pa., and was admitted to the bar 
 in April, 1835. Retxuning to Wisconsin, he was in the same 
 year admitted to practice in the courts of the territory. He 
 was elected a member from Brown Cotmty, of the Territorial 
 Council of Wisconsin, organized December 9, 1842. He was a 
 Democrat in poKtics, and a strong partisan and devoted friend 
 of Governor Doty. At a session of the Council, held February 
 II, 1842, he was shot and killed on the Assembly floor by a 
 colleague named James R. Vineyard, a member from Grant 
 County. The two members had become involved in an argu- 
 ment over the confirmation of the nomination of Enos S. Baker 
 for sheriff of Grant County by Governor Doty. The shooting 
 was the result of sudden passion, as Arndt and Vineyard had 
 
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 been close and cordial friends. Vineyard tendered his resigna- 
 tion to Council three days later, but it was returned to him, 
 and a resolution passed expelling him from the Council. Vine- 
 yard surrendered himself to the authorities, and was placed in 
 jail, from which he was later released on bail on a writ of 
 habeas corpus. He was indicted for manslaughter May 13, 
 1842, by United States District Court for Dane County, and 
 was arraigned on the following day, and pleaded "not guilty." 
 On motion of his attorney the case was continued from time to 
 time until May term, 1843, when they succeeded in having the 
 venue changed to Green County. The case finally came up for 
 hearing October 10, 1843, ^.nd the jury finally returned a ver- 
 dict of "not guilty." Vineyard was a native of Kentucky, and 
 is described as one of the kind who shoot first and quarrel 
 afterward. Years after the killing of Arndt he told a friend 
 from Wisconsin that there was no event in his life he regretted 
 more and he would be glad if he was in the place of his victim. 
 Soon after the verdict Vineyard, with the brand of Cain on his 
 brow, left the territory of Wisconsin for the distant West. 
 Afterward he had a fitful life. He became almost a wanderer 
 upon the face of the earth. The weight of his guilt was upon 
 him and brought him to an early grave. Many years later 
 John Wallace Arndt, a brother of the murdered man, while 
 spending a winter with his wife in California, noticed a monu- 
 ment in a cemetery near one of the cities in that State which 
 bore the inscription: "James R. Vineyard. Died 1863." 
 Pointing to the grave, Mr. Arndt said, "There lies the mur- 
 derer of my brother." 
 
 John Penn Arndt, the father of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney 
 Arndt, was in the Assembly Hall at the time of the shooting. 
 
 The shooting of Councillor Arndt was received in Madison 
 and Green Bay with consternation and sorrow almost inex- 
 
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 pressible; the following brief extract from the Madison En- 
 quirer of February 12, 1842, gives some idea of the feeling: 
 
 "A heartrending duty devolves upon us this week, which is 
 to announce the death of the Hon. Charles C. P. Arndt, a mem- 
 ber of the Council from the county of Brown, who was shot in 
 the Council Room by J. R. Vineyard, a member from Grant, 
 immediately after the adjournment yesterday. It is proper to 
 mention in a general way the circumstances attending this 
 horrid tragedy, which has thrown a gloom over the pubhc mind 
 here — has deprived the Council of one of its most talented and 
 efficient members — society of an ornament — an aged father 
 and mother of a son on whom they doted — and a wife and 
 children of a husband, a father, and a protector." 
 
 The Territorial Council held a special session on the twelfth 
 to express their sorrow and give testimony to his worth. Mr. 
 Martin, his fellow councillor from Brown County, was accorded 
 the privilege of voicing the sorrow of the body and offered the 
 resolutions which were unanimously adopted. His address in 
 part was as follows: 
 
 Being intimately acquainted with the deceased, from youth 
 up, it gives me great pleasure to testify to the integrity and 
 moral worth which ever distinguished him among his fellows. 
 In the profession of the law to which he was attached, though 
 young, he was fast acquiring a reputation, and in the" various 
 pubhc offices which he was called upon by his fellow-citizens 
 to fill, he displayed a fidehty and promptitude worthy of 
 emulation. 
 
 But at home by his own fireside, and in the domestic circle, 
 his virtues shown preeminent: an obedient son, a kind hus- 
 band, and a fond father — how shall his place there be suppUed ! 
 In all the relations of Ufe it was his pecuUar fortune to bear his 
 part with honor to himself, and to gain the esteem and con- 
 fidence of his associates. 
 
 Though we may not restore the dead to Ufe, let us bear 
 witness to his virtues and his worth, and offer the consolations 
 
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 of our griefs and S3mipathies for his untimely departure to his 
 bereaved relatives and friends. I ask leave, Mr. President, to 
 offer the following Resolutions for the action of the Council: 
 
 Resolved, That the death of the Hon. C. C. P. Arndt, late a 
 member of the Council, which occurred by violence in this hall 
 on the nth inst., has given a most painful shock to the sensi- 
 bilities of the members of this body, and is deeply deplored as a 
 public calamity. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of four members of the Council 
 be appointed; to make appropriate arrangements for the fun- 
 eral obsequies of the deceased, and in testimony of their 
 esteem the members of this body will go into mourning for 
 thirty days by wearing crape on the left arm. 
 
 Resolved, That the Sergeant-at-arms be directed to convey 
 the body of the deceased to his friends, at the expense of the 
 Legislative Assembly. 
 
 The committee provided for thereunder was appointed and 
 the Secretary was directed to inform the House of Representa- 
 tives of the death of the Hon. C. C. P. Arndt, late a member of 
 this Council, and to invite their attendance at his funeral at 
 12 o'clock. The Council then adjourned. 
 
 In the House of Representatives a like scene was enacted 
 with Representative DarKng, of Brown County, on the floor. 
 He delivered an impassioned eulogy of Mr. Arndt, and offered 
 the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: 
 
 Resolved, By this House, that entertaining the highest sense 
 of the worth of the deceased, and regretting his loss, not only 
 to his family and the constituency that he represented, but 
 particularly to this Legislative Assembly, the members of this 
 body do mourn the untimely death of the Hon. Charles C. P. 
 Arndt, late a member of the Council from the county of Brown, 
 and that we wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. 
 
 Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with his bereaved 
 family and friends in their affliction, and that the messenger of 
 this House convey our regrets to the family and surviving part- 
 ner of the deceased. 
 
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C. C. PiXCKXEY ArXDT 
 
GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 The niles prescribing the order of business were suspended, 
 and after receiving the messenger of the sad news from the 
 Coimcil and the adoption of a resolution to accept their invita- 
 tion to meet the Council in the Council Chamber to attend the 
 fimeral the Assembly adjourned. 
 
 At Green Bay, the home of Mr. Arndt, there was the same 
 sorrow expressed at the tragic death of their distinguished 
 neighbor, friend, and representative. At a meeting of the 
 Brown County bar resolutions were adopted calling upon the 
 members of the bar, officers of the court and citizens generally, 
 to leave Green Bay early on the morning of the day of the 
 funeral, February isth, for the purpose of meeting the body 
 on its way to that place and follow it in procession to the 
 town, and express their sympathy with the family in abhor- 
 ence and detestation of the dreadful act of his slayer. 
 
 The Green Bay Republican of February 19, 1842, gives three 
 pages of space to an account of the obsequies over the remains 
 of their lamented townsman and the resolutions adopted. The 
 fimeral was attended by the Governor, president, secretary, 
 and members of the Territorial Coimcil: the speaker, clerk, 
 officers, and members of the House of Representatives: the 
 Secretary of the territory: marshall and district attorney of the 
 territory: Judges of the Supreme Court: officers of the terri- 
 tory; members of the Bar of Brown County, who, with rela- 
 tives of the deceased, the committee of arrangement, and the 
 citizens of the county and State, made an impressive pro- 
 cession as it followed the body to its last resting place. 
 
 The tragic event in the halls of State of the Territory of Wis- 
 consin was widely commented on in different parts of the 
 United States. Charles Dickens, then traveling in America, in 
 his "American Notes" refers to the main incidents of the 
 tragedy. 
 
 Hon. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Arndt married. May 5, 
 
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 1835, at New Brunswick, N. J., Catharine Ann Marsh. She 
 was born at Perth Amboy, N. J., July 5, 1804, and died at New 
 Brunswick, N. J., September 18, 1885. 
 
 Children of Charles C. P. and Catharine Ann (Marsh) Arndt 
 
 426. Margaret Elizabeth Arndt, born March s, 1836; married Jeremiah 
 
 D. Field. 
 
 427. Joseph Manning Marsh Arndt, bom Jan. 10, 1838; died March 3, 
 
 1904; married Elizabeth Slater. 
 
 428. Imogene Cotton Arndt, bom Nov. 25, 1840; living in New Brunswick, 
 
 N. J., unmarried. 
 
 John Wallace Arndt (161), youngest son of John Penn 
 and Elizabeth (Carpenter) Arndt, was born in the town of 
 Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pa., September 15, 1815. 
 When he was only four years old he accompanied his parents 
 and his brothers and sisters to their new home in the new 
 Northwest. The family started west in 1820, settled for two 
 years at Buffalo, New York, and then removed to Mackinac 
 Island, northern Michigan, where they resided two years, and 
 in 1824 went on to Green Bay, then only a small trading settle- 
 ment at the mouth of the Fox River, opposite Fort Howard. 
 
 His little book, "The Early History of Green Bay and the 
 Fox River Valley," published at De Pere in 1894, gives a 
 graphic description of the trip of the family on board the Uttle 
 steamboat from Mackinac to Green Bay in 1824, when he was 
 nine years old. He was early called upon to do a man's part in 
 the different enterprises established and operated by his 
 father. He materially assisted in the operation of the Durham 
 boats, built by his father for conveying suppUes up the Fox 
 River, at the age of fourteen years, and became captain of one 
 of them pljdng between Green Bay and Fort Winnebago, a 
 distance of 160 miles, having full charge and management. of 
 the details of the arduous and perilous trip. These trips were 
 made in twelve days — nine on the upward trip and three on the 
 return, with the current. There were many rapids to be passed, 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 at some of which the cargo had to be unloaded and transported 
 around the rapids on wagons and reloaded after the boats had 
 been poled and dragged upward with great difl&culty against 
 the rapid current. 
 
 His ' ' History of GreenBay," above mentioned, to which he gives 
 the subtitle of "Personal Reminiscences" describes the 
 construction and operation of these boats, and gives a detailed 
 account of his first trip as captain. This book, from which we 
 have quoted freely in our sketch of John Penn Arndt, is a 
 mine of information in reference to the early history of Green 
 Bay and vicinity and the settlement and development of the 
 Fox River Valley. 
 
 Up to his nineteenth year John W. Arndt had few oppor- 
 tunities for education, there being no public schools at Green 
 Bay. He had almost reached his majority and had experi- 
 enced a good deal of the rough life of the frontier post of those 
 days when he made up his mind that he wanted a college edu- 
 cation. In January, 1835, he went to Easton, Peimsylvania, 
 where he entered the academy conducted by the Rev. John 
 Vanderveer, well known for many years in preparing boys for 
 college. He completed his preparatory education in the acad- 
 emy of Rutgers College at New Brunswick, New Jersey, and 
 entered Yale College with the famous class of '41. He was 
 active in college afifairs and a member of the Linonian Society. 
 As a result of financial reverses suffered by his father in the 
 panic of 1837, and the consequent temporary lack of ready 
 money, he left college before he had completed his course, and 
 returned to Green Bay, where for a year he taught school. He 
 also began to study law, but finally abandoned it to engage 
 with his father in the Imnber and shipping business. 
 
 On September 25, 1842, he married at De Pere, Wisconsin, 
 Mary Catherine Wilcox, daughter of Randall and Lydia Field 
 Wilcox. Randall Wilcox was born at Lee, Mass., in 1792, and 
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 died at De Pere in 1872. He was a contractor and builder of 
 bridges and canals in Pennsylvania and Maryland before set- 
 tling at De Pere, three miles south of Green Bay, in 1836. 
 There he constructed a dam across the Fox River at the head 
 of lake navigation, and became president of the Fox River 
 Hydraulic Company. He was the first president of the village 
 of De Pere, and served for years in both the territorial and 
 State legislatures. His wife Lydia was a member of the Field 
 family of Providence and Field's Point, Rhode Island, and a 
 direct descendant of Roger Williams. She was born at Pom- 
 fret, Conn., in 1799. 
 
 John Wallace Arndt's early life was devoted chiefly to the 
 lumber business, and was without unusual event other than 
 a trip to Colorado at the time of the Pike's Peak "gold rush." 
 In 1865 he removed with his family to De Pere, occupying 
 the old Wilcox homestead, and cultivating the 80-acre farm 
 on the outskirts of the village. Later he planted vineyards 
 and a nursery and devoted himself largely to market gardening. 
 In early life a Whig, he joined the Republican party on its 
 foundation, and was always a loyal and active member. He 
 never held public office, except that of notary public. He 
 enlisted as a boy in a military company raised at Green Bay 
 during the Black Hawk War, and in 1842 was commissioned by 
 Governor Doty captain in the Second Wisconsin Territorial 
 Infantry. 
 
 His wife died at De Pere of pneumom'a in her sixty-ninth 
 year on April 13,1891. He died in the Wilcox Home at De Pere 
 January 12, 1897. 
 
 Children of John Wallace and Mary Catherine (Wilcox) Arndt 
 
 429. Philip Arndt, bom Aug. 27, 1843; died May 3, 1845. 
 
 430. Edward Wilcox Arndt, bom Feb. 8, 1845; married Mary Ellen 
 
 Delaney. 
 
 431. Elsie Morgan Arndt, born Nov. 27, 1846; married Charles Augustus 
 
 Lawton. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 432. Emily Hayes Arndt, bom March 27, 1848; died Aug. 2, igog; married 
 
 Peter Schell Loy. 
 
 433. Mary Catharine Arndi, bom Nov. 28, 1849; rnarried James Reed 
 
 Shepherd. 
 
 434. LizzieLeeArndt, bomat GreenBay, Jan. 17, 1851; died Oct. 12, 1870, 
 
 in De Pere, Wis. 
 
 435. John Arndt, bom at Green Bay, Oct. 17, 1852; died there Jan. 10, 
 
 I8S4- 
 
 436. Alice Arndt, born May 8, 1854; married Thomas Donbell Bowring. 
 
 437. RamdallWilcox Arndt, bom March 9, 1856; married Annie Courtney 
 
 Ash. 
 
 438. Lydia Field Arndt, bom at Green Bay, Sept. 13, 1857; died at De Pere, 
 
 Nov. 7, 1879; unmarried. 
 
 439. Martha Ann Arndt, bom May 29, 1859; married John Franklin Byers. 
 
 Elizabeth Margaret Arndt (162), youngest child of John 
 Penn and Elizabeth (Carpenter) Arndt, was bom at Mackinaw 
 Island, Michigan, December 27, 1822, and died at Benton 
 Harbor, Michigan, February 19, 1908. 
 
 She married, at Green Bay, Wisconsin, March 2, 1843, Colo- 
 nel Harry Eugene Eastman, who was born at Strong, Maine, 
 May 13, 1819, and died at Eastman's Springs, Michigan, 
 March 22, 1898. 
 
 Children of Col. Harry EtrcENE and Elizabeth Margaret (Arndt) East- 
 man 
 
 440. Mary Eastman, bom Sept. 26, 1844; married George A. Lamb. 
 
 441. Grace Eastman, bom Jan. 9, 1847; died Oct. 14, 1911; married J. 
 
 Mahan Norris. 
 
 442. Belle Eastman, bom Jan 17, 1850; married Walter Howard WoodrufE. 
 
 443. Eugene Eastman, bom July 11, 1853; died Nov. 30, 1872; unmarried. 
 
 444. Benjamin Ralph Eastman, bom Dec. 13, 1855; married Lettie Bell 
 
 Sherwood. 
 
 445. Ella Maude Eastman, bom April 6, i860; married Seeley McCord. 
 
 Jacob Arndt (164), eldest son of John and Ann (Stover) 
 Arndt, bom in Williams Township, Northampton County, 
 September 19, 1819. He received a good education at schools 
 in New Jersey, near the farm of his father, bought in 1830, and 
 also at a school in Easton. He early became connected with the 
 
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 Camden and Amboy Railroad, remaining many years in the 
 service of that corporation. Soon after the close of the Civil 
 War he removed to the West, and was one of the contractors 
 engaged in the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. He 
 finally settled at Missouri Valley, Iowa, in the employ of the 
 Sioux City and Pacific Railroad. He was later in the service of 
 the city in the street department. He died at Missouri Valley, 
 May 19, 1893. He married February 25, 1844, Sarah Ann 
 Shields, daughter of Samuel Shields, of Warren County, New 
 Jersey, owner of the farm adjoining that of his father, who was 
 born August 11, 1822. Their only child was (446) Cyrus 
 Arndt, born August 15, 1846. 
 
 Cyrus Aendt (165), second son of John and Ann (Stover) 
 Arndt was born October 6, 1821, on his father's farm in 
 Williams Township. He was educated at a private school 
 in Easton, and, determining to become a physician, entered 
 the Medical Department of New York University, from 
 which he was graduated in the class of 1845. While a stu- 
 dent, his preceptor was the famous surgeon, Valentine Mott, 
 who, upon his graduation, gave him a letter expressing the 
 highest confidence in his qualifications and character. Dr. 
 Arndt began practice at Peapack, New Jersey, in the spring 
 of 1845, and was very successful. He contracted a fever, 
 probably typhoid, from which he died, October 20, 1845. 
 He was unmarried. He was buried in the churchyard of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church at Asbury. 
 
 Ralph Stover Arndt (167), third son of John and Ann 
 
 (Stover) Arndt. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 I made a profession of religion January 13, 1846, and on the 
 14th of the same month was received on probation in the 
 Church. At the end of six months I was received in full com- 
 munion by Rev. E. Page. After the session of the New Jersey 
 annual conference, held in April 1848, I was called to the 
 ministry on Asbury Circuit, imder the Presiding Elder, Rev. 
 George F. Brown. 
 
 Such was the entry made by Ralph Stover Arndt in a memo- 
 randum book which he kept for the forty-three years of his 
 work as a Christian minister, noting therein the texts he 
 preached from. The first sermon was delivered April 30, 1848, 
 at Broadway on Asbury Circuit, the text being Job VII, 16, 
 when he was not quite twenty-two years old: his last pubhc 
 utterance was at a communion service one week before he 
 died. 
 
 He was bom June 4, 1826, at the family homestead in Wil- 
 liams Township. He was only five years old when his father 
 moved to New Jersey. He was educated at the neighborhood 
 schools and had a good record as a student. He early evinced 
 a disposition for a religious life, for the atmosphere of his 
 home was distinctly of that character. His father had family 
 prayers, accompanied by Scripture reading, every day : he 
 never left his house on business without engaging in prayer, 
 and the son had seen his father kneel down in a field he had 
 just sown, and ask God's blessing on the work of his hands. 
 It was with his father's fiiU approbation that he determined to 
 become a minister. In order to secure the best preparation at 
 that time available he was sent to Pennington Seminary to 
 pursue a course in Greek that he might more certainly con- 
 strue the New Testament. He was licensed an exhorter by 
 Rev. Edward Page on January 10, 1847, when he stiU lacked 
 several months of being twenty-one years of age. A year later 
 he was given a license as exhorter on Asbury Circuit, in the 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, and on September 30, 1848, 
 was licensed a local preacher by Rev. George F. Brown, 
 and was attached to Asbury Circuit as a supply. He was 
 admitted to the New Jersey Conference in April, 1849, and 
 after serving the usual two years' probationary period, was 
 ordained a Deacon by Bishop Edmund S. Janes on April 20, 
 185 1. His ordination as Elder was by Bishop T. A. Morris 
 two years later. 
 
 His ministerial life was mostly spent in the cities in northern 
 New Jersey, adjacent to New York city. He was pastor at 
 Woodbridge, Rahway, Elizabeth, on Staten Island at two 
 churches, at Newark at three churches, at Jersey City, Pater- 
 son, and at other towns near Newark. For four years he held 
 the office of Presiding Elder of the Elizabeth District. He was 
 considered a good preacher, for he possessed a keen analytical 
 mind, and was a clear thinker, and his sermons were always 
 marked by the simple piety that he had absorbed in his father's 
 household. It was his custom every winter to hold revival ser- 
 vices, never of a sensational character, and never without some 
 evidences of renewed spirituality in his congregation and in 
 the neighborhood. At one charge, Haverstraw on the Hudson 
 River, about the close of the civil war, the whole community 
 was shaken to the center by the influence emanating from the 
 Methodist church; over 200 persons, nearly half of whom were 
 heads of families, professed conversion, and the work con- 
 tinued for two years after the discipline of the Church required 
 Mr. Amdt's removal to another charge. 
 
 Dr. Henry A. Buttz, President of Drew Theological Semi- 
 nary, who prepared the memorial of Mr. Arndt that was read 
 at the session of the Newark Conference in April, 1893, stated 
 that he had followed him at two pastorates, and " that the love 
 felt for him by his congregations and the respect for his ability 
 and services, were universal and profound. His sermons were 
 
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 well prepared, his style chaste, his delivery quiet yet earnest 
 and impressive. A careful study of his sermons will reveal 
 rhetorical powers of a high order. In temperament he was 
 mild, and in manner very agreeable. He had the gift of looking 
 at the bright side of things and of making others comfortable. 
 He was always in harmony and peace with his brethren, both 
 of the ministry and laity. It might be said that he was con- 
 ciliatory almost to excess. He never lurged, or even asked, any 
 increase of his salary, always accepting what was apportioned 
 with cheerfulness, more than once voluntarily releasing a por- 
 tion of his claim rather than have the people pressed for pay- 
 ment." 
 
 His last charge was Verona, to which he moved in the spring 
 of 1888. While there a physical disability that had long 
 threatened him developed and sapped his strength. He kept at 
 his work regvdarly imtU the fall of 1890, but then his ministra- 
 tions slackened, and he preached his last sermon in the active 
 work on December 7. At the annual conference in April, 1891, 
 he applied for and was granted a supemmnerary relation, and 
 removed to Newark. Thereafter he only preached occasion- 
 ally. His last appearance as a minister was on August 7, 1892, 
 when, at the request of the pastor of the Roseville Church with 
 which he was connected, he presided at the Sacrament of the 
 Lord's Supper. On August 12 he sustained a paralytic stroke, 
 from the effect of which he died on August 17. He was buried 
 in Evergreen Cemetery, near Elizabeth. 
 
 Mr. Arndt was married in February, 1856, to Sarah W. 
 King, daughter of Captain Henry King, of Camden. Three 
 children were born to them, two daughters and one son, all of 
 whom, with his widow, still survive. His fanuly discipline was 
 mild but spiritual. He left a moderate estate to his wife in 
 trust for herself and their children. His widow and two 
 daughters reside at 269 Sixth Ave., Newark, N. J. 
 
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 Children of Rev. Rauh S. and Sarah W. (King) Arndt 
 
 447. Elizabeth King Arndt. 
 
 448. John Stover Arndt. 
 
 449. Emily Warren Arndt. 
 
 John Arndt (168), youngest son of John and Ann (Stover) 
 Arndt, born in Williams Township, Northampton County, Pa., 
 February 21, 1830, removed with his parents to Warren 
 County, New Jersey, when a child, and spent the whole re- 
 mainder of his hfe in that locality. He was a student at 
 Lafayette College Preparatory School, class of 1843. He for a 
 number of years was a merchant at Dover, New Jersey, and 
 died there March 30, 1895. He married, October 20, 1857, 
 Angeline Shields, who was born near Washington, Warren 
 County, New Jersey, May 23, 1832, and died at Dover March 
 3, 1894. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church and are both buried at Hackettstown, N. J. They had 
 no children. 
 
 Mary Arndt Bryan (169), only child of Joseph and Anna 
 (Arndt) Bryan, born in Springfield Township, Bucks County, 
 Pa., May 18, 1825, died in Easton February 2, 1901. She 
 married, in 1847, Philip F. Carpenter, for some years a miller 
 and merchant at Easton, Pa. He was a son of Isaac and Mary 
 Carpenter, and was born in Greenwich Township, Warren 
 County, New Jersey, July 16, 1824; died at Easton April 2, 
 1885. Both he and his wife are buried in the Easton Cemetery. 
 
 Their only child was: 
 
 450. Anna M. Carpenter, born Se pt. 23, 1848; died Jan. 13, 1852. 
 
 Rev. William Reiley, D.D. (170), eldest son of John and 
 Elizabeth (Arndt) Reiley, was born at Durham, Bucks 
 County, Pa., February 12, 1810. He prepared for college at 
 the school of Dr. John Vanderveer, in Easton, and graduated 
 at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., class of 1833. He 
 graduated at the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick in 
 
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Ralph Sto\'er Arxdt 
 
 John" Stover Arxdt 
 
GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 1836, and received the degree of A.M. in 1836, at Rutgers, and 
 the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1857 at the same 
 institution. He was an eminent clergyman of the Dutch Re- 
 formed Church of America, and was pastor of the Hohndel 
 Dutch Reformed Church from 1839 to 1887. He died at Free- 
 hold, July 14, 1894. 
 
 He married, May 17, 1837, Mary Eleanor Ten Broeck. 
 She was bom December 3, 1810, and died in 1895, and was 
 a daughter of John De Witt and Catharine (Vanderveer) Ten 
 Broeck. 
 
 Cbildken of Rev. William and Maky Eleanor (Ten Broeck) Reiley 
 
 451. Rev. De Witt Ten Broeck Reiley, bom July 23, 1838; died Aug. 6, 
 
 1900; married Katharine Campbell. 
 4Sia. Elizabeth Reiley, bom Mar. 7, 1840; died Sept. 30, 1844. 
 
 452. William Reiley, bom Dec. 21, 1845; married Augusta M. Stover. 
 
 BuEROUGHS Reiley (171), second son of John and Elizabeth 
 (Arndt) Reiley, born in Durham, Bucks Coimty, Pa., Septem- 
 ber 21, 1811; died there October 3, 1886. He married Mary 
 Hughes, daughter of Isaac and Martha (Breckenridge) Hughes, 
 who was bom January 31, 1811; died September 27, 1854. 
 
 Children of Bdrroughs and Mary (Hughes) Reiley 
 
 453. John Reiley, bom Nov. 24, 1841; died Sept. 18, 1918, at Bloomsbury, 
 
 N. J.; uimiarried. 
 
 454. Isaac Hughes Reiley, bom Dec. 26, 1843; living in New York; un- 
 
 married. 
 
 455. Emma Reiley, bom Jan. 12, 1849; married Theodore Mellick. 
 
 456. William Reiley, bom Feb. 11, 1851, at Harmony, N. J.; died in New 
 
 York, Feb. i, 1915. 
 
 Mary Reiley (172), eldest daughter of John and Elizabeth 
 (Arndt) Reiley, born at Durham, Bucks County, Pa., Novem- 
 beri2, 1813; diedatPhUlipsburg, N. J., October 8, 1901. She 
 married Major John Lander, son of Colonel Peter and Sophia 
 Dills Lander. He was born at Craig's Meadow, Northampton 
 County, Pa., September 13, 1798, and died in Phillipsburg, 
 
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 N. J., October 17, 1889. He was postmaster of Phillipsburg by 
 appointment of President John Adams in 1826. He resided for 
 a number of years near Mt. Bethel, Northampton County, Pa. 
 He was a prominent officer of the Pennsylvania Militia and 
 served on the staff of Governor Shulze, and was adjutant of the 
 Second Battalion, Pennsylvania MiKtia, composed of com- 
 panies from Northampton, Pike, and Lehigh Counties. He 
 was a charter member and director of the Warren County 
 Foundry, but retired from active business in 1854. He was 
 one of the founders of the Presbyterian Church of Phillipsburg, 
 of which he was a ruhng elder for thirty-seven years. 
 
 Children of Major John and Mary (Reiley) Lander 
 
 458. Elizabeth Lander, born ; married J. A. Petrie, M.D. 
 
 459. Mary Lander, born ; married Jacob S. Stewart. 
 
 Rev. John Aendt Reiley (173), third son of John and Eliza- 
 beth (Arndt) Reiley, born at Durham, Bucks County, Pa., 
 May 3, 1816, entered Lafayette College in 1836, class of 1840, 
 but left at the close of the freshman year and taught school in 
 Monmouth County, New Jersey, for one year. He then entered 
 Miami University, Ohio, from which he graduated in the class 
 of 1843. On February 7, 1842, while a student at Miami Uni- 
 versity, he was elected captain of the tenth company of the 
 Second Regiment, First Brigade, Nineteenth Division, Ohio 
 Militia. His commission, signed by Governor Thomas Corwin, 
 and dated February 12, 1842, is in the possession of his 
 descendants. He was a student at Princeton Theological 
 Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, during the years 1843 ^^^ 
 1844, and, being licensed to preach, was stated supply of the 
 Presbyterian Church at Port Carbon, Pa., in 1845. He was 
 ordained by Newton (N. J.) Presbytery November 15, 1845, 
 and became pastor of the Presbyterian churches at Blairstown 
 and Knowlton. From 1854 to 1866 he was pastor of the 
 Blairstown Church alone. He was instrumental in the found- 
 
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 ing of Blairstown Academy, now known as Blair Hall, Blairs- 
 town, N. J. 
 
 In the fall of 1866 he became voluntary missionary for East 
 Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and remained there imtil his 
 death, on September 30, 1878, residing at Oak Plantation, 
 about ten miles from Clinton, in East Feliciana Parish. He was 
 a man of strong convictions and had a stern sense of duty in 
 matters pertaining to the church and temporal affairs. During 
 the troublous times in the presidential election of 1876 he voted 
 the only RepubUcan ballot cast in East Fehciana Parish, when 
 the White Leaguers over-ran that section and it required a man 
 of tremendous courage to stand by and assert his convictions. 
 
 He married at Port Carbon, Pa., in the early part of the 
 year 1845, Ann Carroll, eldest daughter of Joseph Foster and 
 Amy (Harkhurst) Carroll. She was born in New York city 
 May 28, 1823, and died at Phillipsburg, N. J. 
 
 The seven surviving children of Mr. and Mrs. Reiley accom- 
 panied their parents to Loviisiana, and another was born there 
 in 1869. Of these, five died of the terrible scourge of yellow 
 fever that swept through that section in October, 1878. The 
 father also died of the same disease at Oak Grove Plantation, 
 September 30, 1878. 
 
 Children of Rev. John Akndt and Ann (Carroll) Reiley 
 4S9a. Edward Carroll Reiley, bom at Port Carbon, Pa., Sept. 17, 1846; 
 
 died Sept. 24, 1846. 
 4S9b. Amy Carroll Reiley, bom Dec. 10, 1847; died Oct. 15, 1878. 
 459c. Joseph Carxoll Reiley, bom Feb. 18, 1850; died Sept. 4, 1851. 
 
 460. Elizabeth Reiley, bom Jan. 25, 1852; died Oct. 23, 1878; married 
 
 James T. Nesom, Jr. 
 
 461. George Junkin Reiley, bom Mar. 16, 1854; married Mary Dunn. 
 
 462. John I. Blair Reiley, bom Feb. s, 1856; married Jessie Benton Teel. 
 
 463. Mary Trimble Reiley, bom May 17, 1858; died Oct. 16, 1878. 
 
 464. William Marshall Reiley, bom June 17, 1861; died Oct. 22, 1878. 
 
 465. Abraham Lincoln Reiley, bom Oct. 4, 1864; married Lucy Roden- 
 
 bough. 
 
 466. James Carroll Reiley, bom Oct. 15, 1868; died Nov. 29, 1870. 
 
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 Dennis Reiley (174), fourth son of John and Elizabeth 
 (Arndt) Reiley, born in Greenwich Township, Warren County, 
 New Jersey, September 27, 1818, died at Washington, D. C. 
 He married Elizabeth Snyder. 
 
 They had three children: 
 
 467. Anna M. Reiley. 
 
 468. Robert Foeesman Reiley. 
 
 469. George Reiley. 
 469a. Luther M. Reiley. 
 
 AsHER Reiley, M.D. (175), fifth son of John and Elizabeth 
 (Arndt) Reiley, born near Durham, Bucks County, Pa., 
 January 3, 182 1; died at Frenchtown, N. J., 1890. He 
 studied medicine for a time in Philadelphia, and graduated 
 at the University of New York in 1849. He began the 
 practice of medicine in Tinicum Township, Bucks County, in 
 1854. He was elected to the Pennsylvania Legislature in i860. 
 During the Civil War he was a surgeon in the Union Army. On 
 his return from the war he located in Phillipsburg, and later 
 removed to Frenchtown, where he practised his profession until 
 his death in 1890. He married Jane Boileau, daughter of 
 Daniel and Jane Boileau, of Tiniciun, Bucks Coimty. They 
 had no children. 
 
 Elizabeth Reiley (176), youngest daughter of John and 
 Elizabeth (Arndt) Reiley, born in Bucks County, Pa., Decem- 
 ber 12, 1825; died at Englewood, near Chicago, Illinois, 
 August 18, 1899. She married Rev. Robert Foresman, who 
 was bom November 9, 1822, at White Deer Valley, Pa. He 
 graduated at Lafayette College in class of 1849, l^'ter receiving 
 the degree of A.M. at same institution. He graduated at 
 Princeton Theological Seminary in 1852, and at once entered 
 the Presbyterian ministry. He was stated supply at Middle- 
 port, Pa., 1853-4, and was ordained by the Presbytery of New 
 Jersey, May 30, 1854. He was pastor of Lower Mt. Bethel 
 
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 Presbyterian Church from 1854 to 1873. In the latter year he 
 accepted the charge at YeUow Frame, New Jersey, with resi- 
 dence at Johnsonburg fiUing that charge until 1899. During 
 the following year he did evangelistic work at Phillipsburg. In 
 1890 he removed to Chicago, where he resided until 1892 . The 
 last years of his life were spent at Englewood, Illinois. He was 
 author of a history of Lower Mt. Bethel Presbyterian Church. 
 
 CHitDKEN OF Rev. Robert and Elizabeth (Reiley) Foresman 
 
 470. Sarah McCormick Foresman, bom April 8, 1855; married Rev. James 
 
 Menaul. 
 
 471. Robert Foresman, bom Nov. 9, 1856; married Edith Holmes. 
 471a. Mary Foresman, bom March 11, 1859; married J. E. Bard. 
 
 472. Rebecca Bryan Foresman, bom April 3, 1851. 
 
 473. Elizabeth Lander Foresman, bom Dec. 24, 1863 ; died 1892; married 
 
 Charles Griffith. 
 
 474. William Coates Foresman, bom Oct. 14, 1865; married Elizabeth 
 
 Parsons. 
 
 475. Hugh Austin Foresman, bom July 8, 1887; married Lila Patterson. 
 
 James Reiley, M.D. (177), youngest child of John and 
 Elizabeth (Amdt) Reiley, born May 29, 1829, was reared in 
 Greenwich Township, Warren County, N. J. He was a stu- 
 dent at Lafayette College, class of 1849, during the sophomore 
 and junior years. He then took up the study of mediciae, and 
 graduated at the Medical Department of the University of 
 Pennsylvania, Class of 1852. He practised medicine at Suc- 
 casunna, Morris County, N. J., until his death on March 23, 
 1872. He enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, 
 and was commissioned surgeon in the Twenty-fifth Regiment 
 Infantry, New Jersey Volunteers, October 14, 1862, and when 
 mustered out with his regiment Jidy 20, 1863, immediately 
 reenUsted and was commissioned surgeon of the Thirty-third 
 Infantry, with which he served imtil the close of the war in 
 1865. During a portion of this service, however, he served as 
 Brigade Surgeon of the Army of Tennessee, on the staff of 
 General W. T. Sherman. 
 
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 He married Mary Anderson, of Lambertville, N. J. She was 
 a daughter of John H. and Mary Martha (Alexander) Ander- 
 son, of an old and eminent family of New Jersey. She was 
 born in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pa., November 13, 1832, 
 and died at Atlantic City, N. J., March 12, 1897. 
 
 Chiujeen op Dr. James and Mary (Anderson) Reiley 
 
 476. Dr. Edward Anderson Reiley, born Oct. 27, 1855; died June 9, 1914; 
 
 married Martha Williamson. 
 
 477. James M. Reiley, born ; married Elizabeth Gove; living at 
 
 Atlantic City, N. J. 
 
 478. Mary Reiley. 
 
 Hiram A. Williams (178), eldest son of Thomas Blackledge 
 and Rebecca (Arndt) Williams, born in Tinicum Township, 
 Bucks County, Pa., November 20, 1814. He owned and op- 
 erated a farm in Tinicum Township, near Erwinna, and was a 
 well-known and widely esteemed citizen of that section. He 
 took an active part in local poHtics during his whole adult life. 
 He was elected to the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1849 ^^ ^ 
 Whig, and again elected in 1858 as a Republican. He was sev- 
 eral times nominee of the republican party for local offices, 
 twice a candidate for the Assembly, but was defeated each 
 time, there being at that time a large adverse majority in the 
 county. He served for many years as a member of the local 
 school board, and was a very earnest friend of popular educa- 
 tion. He died suddenly at his residence on the evening of 
 Saturday, December 16, 1876. He married, November 21, 
 1844, Jane Long, who was born in Durham Township, Bucks 
 County, Pa., July 31, 1817. She died September 11, 1880. 
 
 He and his family were members of the Presbyterian Church 
 of Milford, N. J., of which he was a ruling elder and commis- 
 sioner to general assembly for a number of years. 
 
 Children of Hiram A. and Jane (Long) Williams 
 
 479. Alice G. Williams, bom Feb. 2, 1846; married Jacob B. Winter. 
 
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 480. Thomas Blackledge Wiluams, M.D., bom Aug. 21, 1848; married 
 
 Mary A. Palm. 
 
 481. WiLUAM L. Williams, bom Jan. 5, 1852; died Sept. 5, 1863. 
 
 Sarah Williams (179), eldest daughter of Thomas Black- 
 ledge and Rebecca (Amdt) Williams, born in Tinicum Town- 
 ship, Bucks County, Pa., May 19, 1816, died at Upper Black 
 Eddy, Bucks Co., Pa., April i, 1896. She married, September 
 30, 1833, John Moore Pursell. He was a son of Brice and 
 Catherine (Moore) PurseU, and was born at Upper Black 
 Eddy December 27, 1806. Mr. and Mrs. Pursell spent their 
 whole married Hfe at Upper Black Eddy, Bridgeton Township, 
 Bucks Cotmty, Pa. Mr. PurseU was for many years a justice 
 of the peace, later ticket agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 at Riegelsville, N. J. He died at his home in Upper Black 
 Eddy March 21, 1875. 
 
 Children or John Mooke and Sarah (Williams) Puksell 
 
 482. Benjamin W. Puesell, bom June 28, 1834; married Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 j(Treichler) Laubach, bom Nov. 28, 1827; died July 27, 1912; no 
 issue. 
 
 483. Sextus C. PmiSELL, bom March 31, 1841; died Dec. 26, igoo; married 
 
 Camilla Ihrie Gwinner. 
 
 484. Sylvania Pursell, bom April 4, 1845; living in Bridgeton, Pa. 
 
 Anna Maria Williams (180), second daughter of Thomas 
 Blackledge and Rebecca (Arndt) WiUiams, born in Tinicum 
 Township, Bucks County, Pa., May 16, 1818; died at School- 
 craft, Michigan, April 17, 1872. She married, February 22, 
 1844, John Jonathan Zane. On their marriage they removed to 
 Williamsport, Pa., where Mr. Zane died August 12, 1846. She 
 continued to reside in WiUiamsport until her second marriage, 
 September 30, 1847, to Thomas Wright, with whom she re- 
 moved to Stonytown, Columbia County, Pa. They resided 
 at this place until 1854, when they removed to Vicksburg, 
 Kalamazoo Coimty, Michigan. Thomas Wright was a black- 
 smith during his residence in Pennsylvania, but purchased a 
 
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 farm on his removal to Michigan which he cultivated during 
 the active years of his life. He was a son of Jonas and Lydia 
 Wright, and was born in Northampton County, Pa., January 
 27, 1826. He died at Schoolcraft, Michigan, February 28, 1906. 
 
 Child oe John Jonathan and Anna Maria (Williams) Zane 
 
 485. Thomas William Zane, bom Jan. i, 1845; died July 31, 1901; married 
 
 Jennie V. Cummings. 
 Children of Thomas and Anna Maria (Williams) Wright 
 
 486. Mary V. Wright, born Sept. 27, 1848; died April — , 1912; married 
 
 Jonathan Haines. 
 
 487. Charles Wesley Weight, born Aug. 25, 1850; died Sept. 8, 1850. 
 
 488. Silas A. Wright, born Dec. 5, 1851; married Clara S. Mason. 
 
 489. Nettie Margaret Wright, bom June i, 1865; married Frank Bryson 
 
 Murray. 
 
 Samuel Reed Williams (181), second son of Thomas Black- 
 ledge and Rebecca (Arndt) Williams, was born in Tinicimi 
 Township, Bucks County, Pa., April 14, 1820. In the spring 
 of 1844 he left Tinicum Township in company with his uncle, 
 John Williams, and family for Ohio. The party drove all the 
 way to Warsaw, Coshocton County, Ohio, where Samuel R. 
 Williams remained. He married there, March 20, 1845, Sarah 
 Lester, daughter of Abel and Margaret (Williams) Lester, 
 formerly of Quakertown, Bucks County, Pa., where she was 
 born June 24, 1826. Samuel R. Williams died in Warsaw, 
 Ohio, June i, 1850, and his wife died March 24, 1850. 
 
 Children of Samuel Reed and Sarah (Lester) Williams 
 
 490. Ev ALINE Williams, born Dec. 6, 1845; died Aug. — , 1848. 
 
 491. Margaret Williams, bom May 17, 1847; died Feb. — , 1850. 
 
 492. Samuel Francis Williams, born June s, 1849; married, first, Sarah 
 
 Ellen Russell; second, Margaret M. Leigh. 
 
 Margaret Williams (182), youngest daughter of Thomas 
 Blackledge and Rebecca (Arndt) WiUiams, born in Tinicum 
 Township, Bucks Cotmty, Pa., April 23, 1822; died at Wil- 
 liamsport, Lycoming County, Pa., December 24, 1868. She 
 married at Williamsport, November 8, 1845, Abraham A. 
 
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 Weingardner. He was bom at Block House, near Williams- 
 port, Pa., October ii, 1822, and was a son of Michael and 
 Christine (Mannel) Weingardner. He was a successful dry- 
 goods merchant at WiUiamsport, and died there October 3, 
 1875- 
 
 Childken or Abraham A. and Margaret (Williams) Weingardner 
 
 493. Thomas Zane Weingardner, bom Nov. 10, 1846; married Effie Aprill. 
 
 494. Rebecca C. Weingardner, bom April 7, 1849; married Hugh Louis 
 
 Trimble. 
 
 495. Albert Fields Weingardner, bom Dec. 15, 1851; married Mary 
 
 Woodhave. 
 
 496. Sarah Harris Weingardner, bom Jan. 17, 1854; married Ezra Can- 
 
 field. 
 
 497. Abraham U. Weingardner, bom Jan. 12, 1858; died Jan. 17, 1858. 
 
 498. Elizabeth U. Weingardner, bom Jan. 12, 1858; died Jan. 17, 1858. 
 
 Thomas Elwood Williams (183), yoimgest son of Thomas 
 Blackledge and Rebecca (Amdt) Williams, was bom in Tini- 
 cum Township, Bucks County, Pa., August 18, 1825, and died 
 at Bridgeton, Bucks County, Pa., October 17, 1903. His 
 whole adult life was spent in Bridgeton. He was an expert 
 shad fisherman, and was employed at that vocation during the 
 season, and filled various vocations during the remainder of the 
 year. He was for many years the assessor of his township, 
 first of Nockamixon, and after the division of the townships of 
 Bridgeton Township. He took an active part in local pohtical 
 affairs, and was much respected in the conamunity in which he 
 lived. He married, January 15, 1856, Rachel Goddard, daugh- 
 ter of WiUiam and Lavina (Moore) Goddard, of Bridgeton. 
 She was born at Lumberville, Bucks County, Pa., February 
 7, 1829, and died at Bridgeton November 13, 1872. 
 
 Children of Thomas Elwood and Rachel (Goddard) Williams 
 
 499. Lavina Rebecca Williams, bom Nov. 7, 1856; died June 25, 1862. 
 
 500. Samdel a. Williams, bom March 22, 1861; married Elizabeth Kelly. 
 
 Celinda Stem (185), eldest daughter of Peter and Catherine 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 (Arndt) Stem, was born August 31, 1819; died at Easton Feb- 
 ruary 7, 1904. She married, May 13, 1858, Dr. George W. 
 Lott, then a practising physician at Orangeville, Pa. After a 
 residence of a few years at Orangeville they removed to Easton, 
 Pa., where Dr. Lott continued the practice of his profession 
 until his death, on August 16, 1888. Dr. Lott was a widower 
 at the time of his marriage to Celinda Stem, and had a number 
 of children by his first wife He had no children by his second 
 wife. 
 
 Rebecca Stem (186), second daughter of Peter and Catherine 
 (Arndt) Stem, born October 12, 1821; died in Newark, New 
 Jersey, November 21, 1903. She married, at Easton, Pa., July 
 26, 1854, Rev. Joseph Wray Porter. He was a son of James and 
 Mary Wray Porter, and was born in Coleraine, Ireland, Sep- 
 tember 5, 1826. Rev. Joseph Porter graduated at Lafayette 
 College, Easton, Pa., in class of 1852, and then completed his 
 theological studies at Princeton Theological Seminary, from 
 which he graduated in 1854. He was stated supply at White 
 Haven and other charges in that section during the years 1855- 
 1857. He was ordained by the Philadelphia Presbytery 
 March 19, i860, and was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at 
 Charlestown, Pa., from i860 to 1870; of the Phoenixville 
 Church, 1870 to 1876. During the year 1877 he resided in 
 Philadelphia. He was Pastor of the Fifth Presbyterian Church 
 of Trenton, N. J., 1878-1880; of the church at Stanhope, N. J., 
 1881-1883; Woodside Church, N. J., 1883-1889, filling the 
 position of stated supply at Ramapo, N. Y., during the year 
 1889. He died at Newark, N. J., July 16, 1890. 
 
 Children of Rev. Joseph Wray and Rebecca (Stem) Porter 
 
 501. Catherine Arndt Porter, bom Sept. 18, 1855; died Sept. 17, 1859. 
 
 502. Martha Jane Porter, born Dec. 28, 1858. 
 
 503. Joseph Franklin Stem Porter, born Feb. 16, i860; died Oct. 24, 1877. 
 
 504. George William Wray Porter, born Dec. 20, 1862; married Mary 
 
 Guild, daughter of Judge W. Guild. 
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 Rev. Franklin D. Stem (187), only son of Peter and 
 Catherine (Amdt) Stem, was born at Parrjrville, Carbon 
 County, Pa., December 28, 1828. He graduated at Lafayette 
 College, class of 1846, later taking the degree of a.m. at the 
 same institution. He completed his theological studies at 
 Mercersburg College, Franklin Coimty, Pa., and was licensed 
 to preach in 1849. He was ordained to the ministry of the 
 German Reformed Church in 185 1, and was chaplain at the 
 asylum for insane at Trenton, N. J., at the time of his death, 
 August 24, 1 85 1. 
 
 Amanda Stem (188), second daughter of Peter and Catherine 
 (Amdt) Stem, was born August 12, 183 1, at ParryviUe, Carbon 
 County, Pa., and died in Philadelphia August 7, 1907. She 
 married at Easton, Pa., January 10, 1855, J- Marshall 
 Sherwood. He was a son of Rev. Ebenezer and Elizabeth 
 (Honnell) Sherwood, and was bom in German VaUey, New 
 Jersey, April 29, 1829. He graduated at Lafayette College, 
 Easton, Pa., class of 1854, and read law with Judge MacCart- 
 ney, of Easton, and was admitted to the bar April 29, 1855, 
 practising his profession in Easton until 1857, when he re- 
 moved with his family to Iowa, where he practised law until 
 1870. In the latter year he returned to Philadelphia, where 
 the remainder of his life was spent. He died March 4, 19 10. 
 
 Children of J. Marshall and Amajtda (Stem) Sherwood 
 
 505. Jessie Sherwood, bom at Easton, July lo, 1856. 
 
 506. Miriam; Arndt Sherwood, bom in Iowa May 2, 1859; '^^'^ July 26, 
 
 1902. She married in San Francisco A. Rodney Flood. They had one 
 child, Rosemary Flood, who died in infancy. 
 So6a. Caroline Sherwood, born in Iowa April 2, 1863; living in Philadelphia. 
 
 507. Joseph Franklin Sherwood, bom in Philadelphia January 23, 1871; 
 
 married Danna Sares. 
 
 Zaccheus Pursell Aendt, M.D. (189), eldest son of Abra- 
 ham and Evelina (Pursell) Arndt, was born on the old Amdt 
 homestead in WilKams Township, Northampton County, Pa., 
 
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 August 23, 1842. He studied medicine, and receiving his 
 degree at JeflFerson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1866, located 
 at Ottsville in Tinicum Township, Bucks County, where he 
 practised his profession until his death, February 28, 1870. He 
 was unmarried. He was a promising young physician, and had 
 endeared himself to the people of the local community during 
 his brief professional career. 
 
 Abraham Morrison Arndt (190), second son of Abraham 
 and Evelina (Pursell) Arndt, born at the old Arndt homestead, 
 in WilKams Township, Northampton County, Pa., July 20, 
 1844, has spent his whole life there. He and his brother. Dr. 
 Arndt, acquired the homestead at the death of their father, 
 and in 1868 Dr. Zaccheus Arndt conveyed his half interest to 
 his stepmother, Sarah (Deemer) Arndt, who continued to re- 
 side on the homestead with her stepson, Abraham Arndt, 
 until her death in 1898, when Abraham became sole owner 
 thereof. 
 
 Abraham M. Arndt was a regular attendant at the public 
 school of his native -district. It was the desire of his father 
 that both of his sons should be fitted for professional careers, 
 and Abraham became a student at the Seminary at Penning- 
 ton, New Jersey, for one term. He later entered Quaker City 
 Business College at Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 
 1866. He chose the profession of teaching and pursued that 
 vocation for thirty-two years, fifteen years of which he taught 
 the school of his native district. He was elected to the office 
 pf Justice of the Peace in 1883, and reelected for another term 
 of five years in 1888. He also held the office of Auditor for a 
 number of years. In 1891 he was one of the incorporators of 
 Raubsville Cemetery Company, of which he has been the 
 faithful and painstaking secretary to this date. 
 
 He is the only survivor bearing the Arndt name in his sec- 
 tion, and is a worthy representative of the family. To him the 
 
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 compilers of this record are largely indebted for the data of his 
 branch of the family contained in these pages. 
 
 Mary Catherine Arndt (191), only daughter of Abraham 
 and Evelina (Pursell) Arndt, bom at the old homestead in 
 Williams Township, Northampton Coimty, Pa., August 8, 
 1846; married, September 8, 1864, Rev. William Richard 
 Kiefer, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the 
 Newark, N. J., Conference. He was born in Williams Town- 
 ship, Northampton County, Pa., June 27, 1839, and was a son 
 of John and Sarah Ann (Shively) Kiefer. The loving esteem in 
 which she is held by every church her husband served will be 
 her abiding memorial. After 48 years of active service in the 
 ministry he was granted a superannuated relation in igo6 and 
 retired to live at Ramsey, N. J. where he died March 12, 192 1, 
 in his 82d year. He was buried in the Arndt burying ground in 
 WilUams Township. Mr. Kiefer was a veteran of the Civil 
 War, having served a nine-months' term in the 153d Regiment, 
 Pennsylvania Volunteers. He compiled the official history of 
 the Regiment. 
 
 Childken of Rev. William Richard and Mary Catharine (Arndt) Kjefer 
 
 508. Eva Maud Kiefer, bom Jan. 6, 1871; married Jan. 20, 1892, Edward 
 
 Daniel Keesler. 
 
 509. Raymond Arndt Kiefer, M.D., bom Feb. 13, 1877; married Elizabeth 
 
 Beach Wanamaker. 
 
 Mary Elizabeth Arndt (192), eldest daughter of Samuel 
 and Elizabeth (Frutchey) Arndt, born in Williams Township, 
 Northampton Coimty, Pa., February, 1829, married, Decem- 
 ber, 1849, Peter Lattig, of Williams Township, Northampton 
 Coimty, Pa. They removed with her parents to OrangeviUe, 
 Stephenson County, Illinois, in 1853, and Mrs. Lattig died 
 there November 22, 1869. Her husband, Peter Lattig, died at 
 
 Anita, Iowa, Jime 20, 1898. 
 
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 Children of Petee and Mary Elizabeth (Arndt) Lattig 
 
 Sio. Howard S. A. Lattig, bom July 24, 1852; died Feb., 1894; married, 
 Jvily 24, 1852, Miss Hartwell. 
 
 511. Cyrus J. Lattig, bom July, 1854; living at Anita, Iowa; married, 1883, 
 
 Mary Feller. 
 
 512. George W. Lattig, born May 8, 1859; living at Payette, Idaho, 1919; 
 
 no further record. 
 
 513. Elmer F. Lattig, born Oct. 20, 1861; living at Payette, Idaho; mar- 
 
 ried Martha Kirkham; she died 1895. 
 
 514. Mary Ada Lattig, born Oct. 30, 1863; married, Oct. 14, 1886, Rev. 
 
 Marion Dallas Reed. He is pastor of the First Congregational Churct 
 
 at Weathersford, Oklahoma. 
 5x5. Charles P. Lattig, born July 7, 1866, is a civil engineer living at 
 
 Payette, Idaho; married Ethel Blakesley, of Anita, Iowa; no further 
 
 record. 
 316. Guy Morrison Lattig, born Oct. 11, 1869, at Decatur, 111.; died at the 
 
 home of his uncle, Mahlon McEntee, Freeport, 111., August 15, 1875. 
 
 Matilda Jane Arndt (193), second daughter of Samuel and 
 Elizabeth (Frutchey) Arndt, bom in Williams Township, 
 Northampton County, Pa., February 4, 1833; married, May 
 19, 1852, Plato Stout. He was born December 12, 1824. In 
 the spring of 1853 Plato Stout purchased of his father-in-law, 
 Samuel Arndt, the old Arndt Homestead in Williams Town- 
 ship, upon which he and his family resided for many years, 
 finally removing to Easton, Pa., where Mr. Stout died May 14, 
 1883. Mrs. Stout survived her husband over twenty years. 
 During the greater part of her widowhood she resided with her 
 children. She is gratefully remembered for her many noble 
 virtues and exemplary Christian life. She died at Easton 
 December 14, 19 14. 
 
 Children of Plato and Matilda Jane (Arndt) Stout 
 
 517. Martha Stout, born April 2, 1853; di^d April 20, 1915; married John 
 
 H. Jacoby. 
 
 518. Elizabeth Stout, born May 17, 1855; died Aug. ir, 1838. 
 
 519. Anna Maria Stout, born Feb. 13, 1858; married Charles E. Clifton. 
 
 520. Jacob Stover Stout, bom March 22, 1861; married Elizabeth Walter. 
 
 521. Abraham Arndt Stout, born April 13, 1864; died Oct. 14, 1884. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 522. Maky Isabel Stout, bom Dec. 27, 1866; married Elmer G. Krantz. 
 
 Infant bom 1869; died 1869. 
 
 523. Sarah Catharine Stout, bom Sept. 11, 1870; married William Lucas. 
 S23a. Isaac Stover Stout, bom Sept. 14, 1877; died Sept. 6, 1914; married 
 
 Elizabeth Gordon. 
 
 Peter Frutchey Arndt, M.D. (194), eldest son of Samuel 
 and Elizabeth (Frutchey) Arndt, one of twins, was bom on 
 the old Arndt homestead in Williams Township, Northamp- 
 ton County, Pa., February 4, 1833. On completing his ele- 
 mentary education he taught for a few terms in the common 
 schools of his native county. He, however, early decided to 
 prepare himself for the practice of medicine, and after pre- 
 liminary reading attended lectures at the University of Penn- 
 sylvania, from which institution he received his medical degree 
 in 1855, at the age of twenty-two years. He immediately began 
 the practice of his prof ession in his native township, and was a 
 successful physician from the start, eventually becoming a 
 practitioner of wide reputation. 
 
 In the spring of 1864, while visiting his mother at Freeport, 
 Illinois, Dr. Arndt felt the call of his country and enhsted in the 
 Federal Army as a surgeon. His surgical skill was recognized 
 and he continued in the service until the close of the war. 
 
 On his return from the army he resimied the practice of 
 medicine in his old office in Williams Township, which he con- 
 tinued imtil 1873, when he removed to Easton, where he ranked 
 as a leading physician of the city xmtil his death on January 
 IS, 1890. 
 
 Dr. Arndt married June 13, 1856, Diana Bachman, born 
 October 29, 1833, a daughter of David Bachman, of Williams 
 Township, who still survives. 
 
 CmiDREN OP Peter Frutchey and Diana (Bachman) Arndt 
 
 524. Mary Elizabeth Isadora Arndt, bom July 3, 1857; died Jan. 31, 1866. 
 
 525. Oliver Elmer Ellsworth Arndt, bom Jan. 30, 1864; died May 29, 
 
 1904; married Clara Evans. 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 526. Samuei, Shekman Sheridan Aendt, bom Dec. 4, 1866; died May 21, 
 
 1871. 
 
 527. LiLUE Flora Belle Arntt, born Dec. s, 1873; died June i, 1879. 
 
 Rebecca Arndt (195), third daughter of Samuel and 
 Evelina (Frutchey) Arndt, was bom in WiUiams Township, 
 Northampton County, Pa., September 13, 1835. She removed 
 with her parents to Stephenson County, Illinois, in 1853, and 
 married there, January 29, 1858, Mahlon McEntee, a native of 
 Bucks County. They resided at Freeport, Illinois, until Mr. 
 McEntee's death, which occurred March 8, 1901 . Mrs. McEn- 
 tee afterward hved with her niece, Mrs. Marion D. Reed, at 
 Weathersford, Oklahoma. They had no children. 
 
 Henrietta Faber (208), daughter of Rev. John Theobald 
 Faber, Jr., and Maria Arndt, was born in Upper Hanover 
 Township, Montgomery County, September 10, 1799, and 
 died in Pennsburg in the same township February 4, 1880. 
 She married, January 27, 1827, John Miller, of Pennsburg, who 
 was born August 20, 1801, and died May 17, 1888. John 
 Miller was born and reared in Pennsburg and resided there all 
 his life. He was a contractor and builder. He held a nmnber 
 of local of&ces and was a prominent citizen of the community 
 in which he lived. He founded the first English school in Penns- 
 burg, conducting it in his carpenter shop entirely at his own 
 expense. 
 
 CmLDREN OF John and Henrietta (Faber) Miller 
 
 528. William George Miller, born Feb. 28, 1832; died Feb. 21, 1892; 
 
 married Caroline Roberts. 
 
 529. Belinda Miller, born 1834; married Henry Groman Ahlum. 
 
 530. Charles Miller, a wholesale merchant in Philadelphia; no further 
 
 record. 
 530a. Sarah Ann Miller, bom, ; married — ; no further record. 
 
 Matilda Miles (210), only child of John B. and Susanna 
 (Arndt) Miles, was born in Wilmington, Delaware, where her 
 parents were temporarily residing, on November 2, 1803, but 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 was reared in Easton, Pa., where her father died when she was 
 but ten years of age. The mother did not long survive, and 
 Matilda was reared in the family of her maternal aimt, Maria 
 (Arndt) Faber. She was married at Easton, by her uncle, Rev. 
 John Theobald Faber, April i, 1824, to Abraham Miller, of 
 Easton, a native of New York. They resided in Easton, where 
 their children were bom, but the date of their demise has not 
 been ascertained. 
 
 Chiudren of Abraham and Matiuja (Miles) Miller 
 531 a. Charles Innes Miller, bom at Easton, Pa., 1825; died March 25, 
 
 1837- 
 S3ib. Mary Ann Ralston Miller, bom March 25, 1827; married John H. 
 
 Kase. 
 531 c. Abraham Samuel Miller, bom at Easton, Pa., Nov. 10, 1829; died 
 
 there Nov. — , 185 1; unmarried. 
 53id. Susanna Arndt Miller, bom at Easton, Sept. 1, 1831; married George 
 
 L. Fried. 
 531 e. Matilda Miles Miller, bom at Easton, April 13, 1834; died there 
 
 Nov. 14, 1838. 
 S31 f . John Miles Miller, bom at Easton, Feb. 9, 1836; died in Lima, Pem, 
 
 Jime 27, 1876; immarried. 
 531 g. Henry Clay Miller, bom at Easton, July 25, 1838; married Miss — 
 
 Frey, of Easton; no further record. 
 
 Samuel Innes (211), eldest son of William and Elizabeth 
 (Arndt) limes, bom at Easton September 8, 1802, was for sev- 
 eral years editor and proprietor of the Easton Argus, and 
 prominent in the political affairs of Northampton Coimty. He 
 was an officer of the 97th Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, in 
 1832, and for many years thereafter. He married, October 28, 
 1827, Elizabeth Nungesser, of Easton. 
 
 Children op Samuel and Elizabeth (Nungesser) Innes 
 S32a. Sarah Innes, married Nelson Cornell. 
 S33b. John Innes, died young. 
 S34C. Mary Innes, married Joseph Rhinehart. 
 
 535d. William Innes, a prominent lawyer of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; no further 
 record. 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 John Arndt Innes (213), second son of William and Eliza- 
 beth (Arndt) Innes, born at Easton January 23, 1808, was in 
 partnership with his brother, James Robert Innes, in conduct- 
 ing a general wholesale and retail store there for several years. 
 He was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, was 
 County Auditor in 1835, and was a member of the town 
 Council, 1837-40. 
 
 James Robert Innes (215), third son of William and Eliza- 
 beth (Arndt) Innes, born in Easton May 25, 18 14, died there 
 September 24, 1893. He was associated with his brother, 
 John Arndt limes, as a merchant at Easton for several years. 
 He was employed at the Custom House in Philadelphia from 
 1856 to 1861, and during that period resided in that city. On 
 returning to Easton he engaged in business as contractor and 
 builder. He was for several years city assessor and held other 
 local offices. He retired from active business several years 
 prior to his death. He and his family were members of the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church. He married Susan Margaret 
 Butz, who was born November 16, 1816. 
 
 Children op James Robert and Susan Margaret (Butz) Innes 
 536a. Mary B. Innes, bom Feb. 22, 1844; died May 3, 1875. 
 S37a. Anna E. Innes, bom Mar. i, 1846; living in Easton, 1913; unmarried. 
 
 538. Samuel Innes, born Nov. 11, 1848; married Anna Barron. 
 
 539. William D. Innes, bom Aug. 15, 1851; married Florence Stewart at 
 
 Fitzgerald, Georgia, and at last accounts was living in that town. 
 They had one son, Robert Stewart Innes. 
 
 Mary Arndt Innes (216), daughter of William and Eliza- 
 beth (Arndt) Innes, born in Easton, Pa., May 3, 1818; mar- 
 ried, September 9, 1838, Dr. Evan Slough. Dr. Slough was 
 born in Claussville, Lehigh County, May 1 1, 1813. His parents 
 died when he was four years of age, and his early years were 
 spent under the care of his uncle. Judge Fogel, of Fogelsville. 
 He later attended private school in New Jersey, and entered 
 the preparatory department of Lafayette College in 1836. On 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 his graduation from Lafayette he entered Jefferson Medical 
 College, Philadelphia, from which he received his degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine in 1835. He first practised his profession 
 near Kutztown, but two years later removed to South Easton, 
 where he practised until compelled to retire by the infirmities 
 of age. He resided for sixty-two years at 509 Canal Street, 
 where he died November 20, 1902. He married secondly Mary 
 Shoemaker, of Reading. 
 
 Child of Dr. Evan and Maky Arndt (Innes) Slotjgh 
 S40. Granville B. Slough, M.D., bom Sept. $, 1839; died Nov. 27, 1899; 
 married Emma Sophia Arndt. (See No. 245.) 
 
 Thomas Sletor (219), eldest son of John and Sarah (Arndt) 
 Sletor, born in Easton January 29, 1810, died there March 5, 
 1883. He was one of the active and patriotic citizens of 
 Easton during his long life. He fiUed the office of prothonotary 
 of the County of Northampton for a term of three years and 
 filled many city offices. He was for many years prior to his 
 death assistant cashier of the Easton National Bank. He was 
 at one time offered the presidency of an Allentown bank, but 
 his attachment to Easton, his native city, induced him to 
 decline the offer, as it necessitated a removal from Easton. He 
 was for many years treasurer of the Easton Gas Company. 
 He was one of the leading members of a committee appointed, 
 on January 17, 1847, to soKcit subscriptions and organize the 
 Easton Guards for service in the Mexican War. 
 
 Thomas Sletor married, August 13, 1843, Martha SuUivan, 
 bom in Canada, daughter of Eugene and Harriet Sullivan. 
 
 Childeen op Thomas and Martha (Sullivan) Sletor 
 
 544. Sarah Arndt Sletor, bom April 13, 1845; married Thomas Burnside 
 
 Morris. 
 
 545. John Arndt Sletor, bom April 9, 1847; died June 17, 1848. 
 
 546. James Sletor, bom May 11, 1849; died May 13, 1849. 
 
 547. MaryAliceSletor, bom March II, 1851; died Sept. s, 1893; married 
 
 William Beidelman, of Easton. They had no issue. 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 548. Claka Sletor, bom Dec. 30, 1853; died Jan. i, 1854. 
 
 549. Susan Wilhelmina Innes Sletor, bom June 19, 1856; married Wil- 
 
 liam J. Granlees. 
 
 550. Anna Lombaert Sletor, born Nov. 27, 1857; died Aug. i, 1870. 
 
 551. Matilda Davis Sletor, bom Nov. 8, 1861; married William Moore 
 
 Everitt. 
 
 552. Thomas Roland Sletor, bom Sept. 24, 1864; died Aug. 3, 1870. 
 
 John Aendt Sletor (220), son of John and Sarah (Amdt) 
 Sletor, born in Easton, Pa., January 25, 181 2, was for many 
 years an innkeeper in his native city, and was the owner of 
 considerable land there at different periods. He married 
 Caroline , and had two sons, still Uving in the city, viz.: 
 
 553. Frank Arndi Sletor. 
 
 554. John L. Sletor. 
 
 Mary Ann Sletor (221), only surviving daughter of John 
 and Sarah (Arndt) Sletor, bom in Easton, Pa., January 26, 
 1814, married Daniel Davis, of Easton. After a few years' 
 residence in Easton Daniel Davis and his wife removed to 
 Washington, D. C, where the remainder of their lives were 
 spent. The only children of whom we have any record are the 
 following : 
 
 555. Sarah Arndt Davis, married Colonel Owen, of Oxford, Mississippi, 
 
 an officer of the Confederate Army. 
 
 556. Daniel Davis, graduated at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and rose 
 
 to the rank of Lieutenant Commander of the United States Navy 
 prior to his retirement from the Navy; no record of family. 
 
 557. Mary Davis, died young. 
 
 Margaretta Wynkoop Lombaert (228), daughter of 
 Charles and Anna (Arndt) Lombaert, born at Easton Novem- 
 ber 15, 1819; died at Davenport, Iowa, January 18, 1907. She 
 married at Newtown, Bucks County, Pa., July 26, 1847, Wil- 
 liam H. Holmes, born March 31, 1813, son of Johnson and 
 Emilia (Elmer) Holmes. Mr. Holmes was a pioneer in scientific 
 horticulture and devoted considerable time to this science, 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 while acting as the western agent for the Pennsylvania Rail- 
 road. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes lived for a number of years at 
 Lake Mills, Darke County, Ohio, later removing to Davenport, 
 Iowa. They, however, twice removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, 
 owing to changes in his official work for the railroad, but each 
 time returned after a short period to Davenport. In 1856 Mr. 
 Holmes bought a plantation at Gilbert, on the Mississippi 
 River, a few miles from Davenport, which became famous as a 
 fruit and vegetable farm. In 1880, owing to advancing age, 
 they sold the farm and returned to Davenport, where he died 
 October 26, 1896. 
 
 Children of William H. and Maegaretta Wynkoop (Lombaeet) Holmes 
 558. Herman Lombaert Holmes, bom May 29, 1848; died June g, 1848. 
 SSg. Clara Mulfoed Holmes, bom Feb. g, 1850. 
 
 560. Henry Lombaert Holmes, bom April 25, 1854; died Sept. 22, 1885. 
 
 561. Lucy Holmes, bom 1857; died in infancy. 
 
 Note. — All three of the above-named children are buried at Pine Hill Ceme- 
 tery, New Paris, Preble County, Ohio. 
 
 Anna Akndt Lombaert (229), daughter of Charles and 
 Aima (Arndt) Lombaert, born at Easton, Pa., September 25, 
 1814, died in Philadelphia January 14, 1869. She married at 
 Morrisville March 14, 1837, Samuel Honeyman Kneass, Esq., 
 son of William and Mary Turner (Honeyman) Kneass. He was 
 born in Philadelphia November 5, i8xd6 and died there Feb- 
 ruary 15, 1858. He was a civil engineer by profession and was 
 for several years city engineer of Philadelphia. 
 
 Children of Samuel Honeyman and Anna Aendt (Lombaert) Kneass 
 
 562. Charles Lombaert Kneass, bom Dec. 14, 1837; enlisted in i8th Regi- 
 
 ment Infantry, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and rose to the rank of 
 Brevet Major. He was killed at the Battle of Murfreesboro, N. C, 
 Dec. 31, 1862. His remains were later removed to Philadelphia and 
 buried at Woodlands Cemetery. He was unmarried. 
 
 563. William Harris Kneass, bom June 18, i83g; died June i, 1882; 
 
 married Amelia Prail Stryker. 
 
 564. Mary Honeyman Kneass, bom Jan. 18, 1841; died Jan. 18, igoo; 
 
 married Edward Randolph Wood. 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 565. Samuel Honeyman Kneass, bom March 14, 1844; died Nov. s, 1902; 
 
 married Charlotte Rapp Shade. 
 
 566. Franklin Kneass, born in Philadelphia; was a soldier in the Union 
 
 Army. 
 
 Herman Joseph Lombaert (230), eldest son of Charles and 
 Anna (Arndt) Lombaert, born at Easton October 30, 1816; 
 died in Philadelphia March 10, 1885. He was a civil engineer, 
 and entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad when a 
 young man, and was identified with the early location and con- 
 struction of many of the lines of that railroad. He finally rose 
 to the rank of vice-president of the company. He married at 
 Chester, Pa., May 2, 1844, Sarah Cochran, who was born Jan- 
 uary, 1820, and died January, 1890. 
 
 Children of Herman J. and Sarah (Cochran) Lombaert 
 
 567. Sallie Engle Lombaert, married William K. Haupt. 
 
 568. Elizabeth Engle Lombaert, married, first, James Allyn Pentz; sec- 
 
 ond, Harry B. French. 
 
 569. Charles Cochran Lombaert, bom Dec, 1866; died April, 1900, 
 
 buried at Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia; no record of family. 
 
 570. Emma Arndt Lombaert, married, first, Francis Marion Holden; second 
 
 George H. Stephenson. 
 
 Rebecca Vanuxem Lombaert (231), daughter of Charles 
 and Anna (Arndt) Lombaert, born at Morrisville, Bucks 
 County, Pa., February 23, 1819; died at Lambertville, N. J., 
 March 11, 1880. She was educated at a boarding school in 
 Abington, Montgomery County, Pa. She married at New- 
 town, Bucks County, Pa., April 30, 1850, Griffith Williams, 
 who was born in Bucks County on March 9, 1821, and was a 
 son of Griffith and Ann Thomas WilKams. They settled in 
 Lambertville, N. J., where Mr. Williams was a member of the 
 firm of Carver and Williams, one of the leading mercantile 
 establishments of the city of Lambertville for many years. 
 The family were members of the Presbyterian Church and 
 Mrs. Williams was actively interested in religious and philan- 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 thropic affairs of the city. Mr. Williams died in Lambertville 
 December 19, 1895. 
 
 CmLDREN OF Griffith and Rebecca Vakuxem (Lombaert) Williams 
 
 571. Anna Lombaert Williams, bom April 4, 1851; died April 30, 1908. 
 
 572. LnjjE Arndt Williams, bom Sept. 22, 1853; living in Lambertville; 
 
 unmarried. 
 
 573. Isabella Wynkoop Williams, bom March 17, 1855; married Rev. 
 
 Heniy Drennan Lindsay. 
 
 574. Isadora Williams, bom Jan. 9, 1857; married Frank Henry Scobey. 
 
 575. Griffith Llewellyn Williams, bom May 30, 1859; married Grace 
 
 Switzer. 
 
 Henry Wynkoop Lombaert (233), son of Charles and Anna 
 (Amdt) Lombaert, bom at MorrisviUe, Bucks County, Pa., 
 November 7, 1823; died at Salem, lUinois, May 27, 1901. He 
 followed the sea for many years, later settling at Salem, Marion 
 County, lUinois, where he married September 5, 1879, Mrs. 
 Helen Lucile (Merryfield) Drake. 
 
 Frances Jane Lombaert (234), daughter of Charles and 
 Anna (Amdt) Lombaert, bom at MorrisviUe, Bucks County, 
 Pa., January 24, 1826; died at Lincoln, Nebraska, July 22, 
 1904. She married at Philadelphia, December 20, 1864, Elias 
 Steel Gilbert, who was born at Richmond, Ontario County, 
 New York, December 17, 1816. They had one child: 
 
 576. Anna Lombaert Gilbert, married Edward Everett Howell. 
 
 Ann Eliza Arndt (238), only child of Benjamin F. and 
 Elizabeth (Vaughn) Amdt, bom at MorrisviUe, Bucks County, 
 Pa., August 21, 1819; died at Easton December 15, 1864. She 
 married, first, February 4, 1840, WiUiam Shouse, by whom she 
 had one son: 
 
 577. Edwin Shouse, bom Nov. 13, 1843. He enlisted in the Union Army 
 
 during the Civil War, and served until the close of the war, but died 
 shortly after returning home. 
 
 Ann Eliza Shouse married, second, James McFaU, by whom 
 
 she had three children: 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 578. Titos McFall. 
 
 579. Benjamin McFall. 
 
 580. Clara McFall. 
 
 She married, third, Washington McFall, by whom she had 
 one son: 
 
 581. Milton McFall. 
 
 John Rader Arndt (240), eldest son of Benjamin F. and 
 Sarah (Rader) Arndt, born in Forks Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., March 10, 1827, died near Easton October 15, 
 1856. He married AmeUa Hankey,* who was born September 
 19, 1831; died June i, 1863. Both are buried in the Arndt- 
 Messinger burial ground in Forks Township. 
 
 Children or John R. and Amelia (Hankey) Arndt 
 
 582. Sarah Arndt. 
 
 583. Charles Arndt. 
 
 584. Matilda Arndt; married William Gould. 
 
 585. Anna Arndt; married Mallory, and removed to Wisconsin; no 
 
 further record. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin Arndt (244), son of Benjamin F. and 
 Sarah (Rader) Arndt, born at Easton, July 16, 1837, died at 
 Washington, Warren County, N. J., about 1883. The greater 
 part of his adult life was spent at Washington, N. J., where he 
 followed the trade of carpenter and builder. He married 
 Elizabeth (Fritts) Weller, a widow, and had three children: 
 
 586. Anna Arndt. 
 
 587. Elizabeth Arndt. 
 
 588. Robert Arndt. 
 
 Emma Sophia Arndt (245), youngest daughter of Benjamin 
 F. and Sarah (Rader) Arndt, was born at Easton, Pa., Feb- 
 ruary 2, 1840, and still resides there. She married, April 3, 
 1866, Dr. Granville B. Slough, of Easton, Pa. He was a son 
 of Dr. Evan Slough and his first wife, Mary Arndt Innes, and 
 
 * Originally spelled Hanke, though evidently bearing same pronunciation. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 was born in South Easton September 5, 1839. He graduated 
 at Lafayette College, Easton, in class of 1858. He studied 
 medicine under his father and graduated at Jefferson Medical 
 College in Philadelphia. At the outbreak of the Civil War 
 he enhsted as a surgeon in the United States Navy and served 
 until the close of the war. His commission as surgeon, signed 
 by Abraham Lincoln, is still a prized possession of his widow. 
 At the close of the war he took up the study of homeopathy at 
 Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, and on his gradua- 
 tion at that institution settled in Easton, where he practised his 
 profession until his death on November 27, 1899. 
 
 Childeen of Dr. Granville B. and Emma S. (Arndt) Slough 
 
 589. Mary Gastinel Slough, bom March 20, 1867; died Dec. 29, 1909; 
 
 unmarried. 
 
 590. Sarah Frances Slough, bom April 9, 1869; married, first, Hiram 
 
 Sexton; second, Julian C. Jokn. 
 
 591. Samuel Arndt Slough, bom Jan. 9, 1872; married Florence Glick. 
 
 592. Max Rudolph Slough, bom Nov. 23, 1873; served in U. S. Army in 
 
 Philippines with his brothers, Samuel A. and Frederick H., during the 
 Spanish-American War. He is a dentist by profession and resides in 
 Easton. 
 
 593. Margaret Fuller Slough, bom July 2, 1876; resides with her mother 
 
 and sister Helen at Easton, Pa. 
 
 594. Frederick Harrison Slough, bom Dec. 27, 1877; mar. Rachel Smith. 
 
 595. Helen Miller Slough, bom Oct. 20, 1880; living with her mother in 
 
 Easton. 
 
 596. Robert Pattison Slough, bom Nov. 19, 1882; resides with his mother 
 
 and sisters at Easton, Pa. 
 
 Henry Lombaert Arndt (246), son of Benjamin F. and 
 Sarah (Rader) Arndt, bom at Easton, July 15, 1842; died 
 there July 26, 1882. He enUsted in the Union Army August 1 1 , 
 1862, and was appointed Sergeant, Co. K, 129th Regiment 
 Pennsylvania Volimteers. He was discharged by special 
 order November 25, 1862. On March 31, 1865, he was com- 
 missioned First Lieutenant of Co. H, 214th Regiment, Penn- 
 sylvania Volunteers, and served with that regiment until it 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 was mustered out on March 21, 1866. He married Catherine 
 Starck, who was born October 30, 1845, died May i, 1911. 
 
 Children of Henry Lombaert and Catherine (Starck) Arndt 
 
 597. Sallie S. Arndt, born Jan. 21, 1867; married Wm. J. Crossley, Esq. 
 
 598. Caroline Arndt, born May 14, 1870; married Hon. Charles Francis 
 
 Chidsey. 
 
 599. MargaretHilda Arndt, born January 29, 1873; living in Easton; un- 
 
 married. 
 
 William B. Arndt (247), youngest son of Benjamin F. and 
 Sarah (Rader) Arndt, born at Easton, August 27, 1848; died 
 there June 24, 1913. He was a tinsmith by trade, and followed 
 that business in Easton during the active years of his life on 
 South Bank Street, Easton. He married, first, in 1869, Mary 
 Hertzog: second, Caroline Wilmer. 
 
 Chiuiren of William B. and Mary (Hertzog) Arndt 
 
 600. William Arndt, drowned in childhood. 
 
 601. Emma Arndt, married Henry Carney, by whom she had issue — two 
 
 children: Stanley Carney, Earl Carney. 
 Children or William B. and Caroline (Wilmer) Arndt 
 
 602. Edward Arndt. 
 
 603. Frederick Arndt; died young. 
 
 604. Lloyd Arndt; living in Easton. 
 
 William H. King (267), eldest son of Joseph and Mary 
 (Arndt) King, born in Warren County, New Jersey, August 14, 
 1808; died March 30, 1853, in Philadelphia. He married, 
 June 14, 1840, Malvina Lewis (nee Way), daughter of Caleb 
 and Susanna Holby Way. 
 
 Children or William H. and Malvina Lewis (Way) King 
 
 605. Mary Anna King, born ; married Frank B. Rose, U.S.N.; no 
 
 further record. 
 
 606. Virginia Adelaide King, bom 1841; died Jan. 28, 1919; married Wm. 
 
 James Swain. 
 
 607. Joseph Arndt King, died at the age of three years. 
 
 608. William Henry King, born ; married Eleanor Riezky; no further 
 
 record. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 Elizabeth King (260), only daughter of Joseph and Mary 
 (Arndt) King, bom at Mt. Pleasant, N. J., August 29, 1815; 
 died at Narberth, Pa., May 14, 1913. She married, October 21, 
 1849, Dr. Benjamin Housekeeper, of Philadelphia. He was a 
 son of Philip and Mary (Hickman) Housekeeper, and was born 
 in Chester County, Pa., April 2, 1807. Dr. Housekeeper spent 
 practically all his adult life in Philadelphia. In early manhood 
 he was a teacher in the public schools of Southwark, in the 
 mean time taking up the study of medicine in the medical 
 department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he 
 graduated in 1843. He practised medicine in Kensington, 
 Philadelphia, imtil the time of his death in March, 1870.. Dur- 
 ing the Civil War he was a surgeon in the Union Army. 
 
 Childeen of Dr. Benjamin and Elizabeth (King) Housekeeper 
 
 609. Rachel Ella Housekeeper, bom Sept. 4, 1850; living in Philadelphia; 
 
 unmarried. 
 
 610. Arndt King Housekeeper, bom August 29, 1853; living; unmarried. 
 
 611. Elizabeth Housekeeper, bom 1857; died 1858. 
 
 612. Jeremiah King Housekeeper, bom Sept. 7, 1855; died May 4, 1865. 
 
 Jeremiah King (270), youngest son of Joseph and Mary 
 (Arndt) King, born in Warren County, N. J., March 12, 1820, 
 died in Philadelphia July 23, 1871. He married, March 12, 
 1846, Amy Johnson, daughter of Hart W. and Elizabeth 
 (Greene) Johnson. She was born in Warren Coxmty, N. J., 
 December 30, 1822. The family were residents of Philadelphia. 
 
 Children of Jeremiah and Amy (Johnson) King 
 
 613. Mary Bell King, bom March 17, 1847; married Charles Fitzpatrick, of 
 
 Philadelphia; residence, 139 N. Farson Street. 
 
 614. Clara King, bom Dec. i, 1848; married Lafayette F. Horter, Philadel- 
 
 phia, Pa.; no record of family. 
 
 615. Joseph A. King, bom Aug. 19, 1851; married Mary O. Diehl, residence, 
 
 3631 Wallace Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; no record of family. 
 
 616. Elizabeth H. King, bom July 4, 1854; died Feb. 4, 1856. 
 
 617. Maivina a. King, bom May 25, i860; married Dr. H. W. Johnson, of 
 
 Riegelsville, Bucks County, Pa. 
 
 618. Emma King, bom Jan. 2, 1866; died Dec. 7, 1876. 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 Mary Ann Arndt (271), eldest daughter of Jacob and 
 Sarah (Stewart) Arndt, born in Greenwich Township, Warren 
 County, N. J., April 25, 1819; died there October 6, 1837. She 
 married, November 25, 1836, William Shipman. They had 
 one child: 
 
 619. Ann Shipman, born Oct. 6, 1837; married John Feit, of Phillipsburg, 
 
 N. J., and had one son and two daughters, of whom we have no record. 
 
 Abraham S. Arndt (272), eldest son of Jacob and Sarah 
 (Stewart) Arndt, bom in Greenwich Township, Warren 
 County, N. J., November 15, 1821; died there April 21, 1853. 
 He married, December 19, 1843, Alvinah Winter, born Decem- 
 ber 9, 1823; died August 10, 1909. 
 Children of Abraham S. and Alvinah (Winter) Arndt 
 
 620. William H. Arndt, bom Sept. 30, 1844; died Jan. $> 1910; married 
 
 Mary C. Wesby. 
 
 621. Sarah Jane Arndt, bom Oct. .i, 1846; married John Tyler McFall. 
 
 622. Jacob Castner Arndt, bom Feb. 13, 1849; married Salinda L. Allen. 
 
 623. Charles Arndt, bom ; died at Washington, N. J.; had wife and 
 
 child of whom we have no record. 
 
 Diana Arndt (274), daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Stewart) 
 Arndt, born in Greenwich Township, Warren County, N. J., 
 July 8, 1825 ; died May 9, 1883, in the city of Easton, Pa. She 
 married, November 11, 1845, Edward Hunt Bird, who was 
 born near Clinton, N. J., December 19, 1818. 
 
 They resided many years in the city of Easton, and both are 
 buried in the Easton Cemetery. 
 Children of Edward H. and Diana (AenOt) Bird 
 
 624. George Washington Bird, bom at Springtown, N. J., Jan. 14, 1847; 
 
 married July 21, 1862, Jane Alsover, bom in Easton, Pa., Nov. 21, 
 1862, daughter of Herman and Mary Alsover. 
 
 625. Edith Bird, bom May 29, 1849; died May 15, 1872. 
 
 626. Ellanora Bird, bom July 5, 1855, at Springtown, N. J.; married Oct. 
 
 30, i888, Wm. C. Cawley, of Easton, son of Wm. and Louisa C. 
 Cawley, born at Easton, March 4, 1850. They had issue: Louise 
 EUzabeth Cawley, bom Oct. 7, 1885; Edith Sophia Cawley, bom 
 May 7, 1890. 
 626a. Sarah Elizabeth Bird, bom Jan. 19, 1858. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 Captain Jacob H. Arndt (277), son of Jacob and Sarah 
 (Stewart) Arndt, born in Greenwich Township, Warren 
 County, N. J., January 30, 1833; enlisted August 28, 1861, in 
 the 67th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was com- 
 missioned Captain of Company A. He saw nearly three years 
 of strenuous service with his regiment, but finally, seriously 
 wounded, he was sent north and died in Philadelphia Novem- 
 ber 8, 1863. He was buried at Easton Cemetery, where a 
 monument has been erected over his grave. He married 
 Caroline Hagenbuch, who was born in 1834 and died in Easton 
 June 3, 1897. She and her three children, who died in infancy, 
 are buried beside the father in Easton Cemetery. 
 
 CmiDSEN OP Captain Jacob H. and Caroline (Hagenbuch) Arndt 
 
 627. Carrie H. Arndt, bom July ii, 1855; died May 23, 1859. 
 
 628. Annie K. Arndt, bom March i, 1857; died Dec. i, 1858. 
 
 629. Katherine E. Arndt, bom ; married Chas. F. Graff, now de- 
 
 ceased. She is living in Melrose Park, Pa. 
 
 630. Edward Bird Arndt, bom Jan. 3, 1861; married, first, Catharine 
 
 Shouse; second, Loretta M. McGuire. 
 
 631. Frederick Arndt, bom Oct. 7, 1862; died March 2, 1865. 
 
 Sarah Arndt (279), youngest daughter of Jacob and Sarah 
 (Stewart) Arndt, born in Greenwich Township, Warren 
 County, N. J., died in Easton Jtme 14, 1884. She married, 
 January 16, 1862, Samuel Drake, the eldest son of John 
 and Margaret Stewart Drake, of a family long identified 
 with the early settlement of the section now comprising 
 Warren County, N. J. He was born at Broadway, N. J., July 
 16, 1830. His parents removed to Easton in 1836, his father 
 establishing himself in the grocery business there in 1837, his 
 wholesale and retail store becoming later one of the largest in 
 the city. Samuel Drake entered his father's wholesale grocery 
 house at the age of seventeen, and ten years later became a 
 member of the firm then known as Drake, Hulick & Co., which 
 was changed to J. Drake's Sons & Co. in 1877. Samuel Drake 
 
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 was a member of this firm until his death at Spring Lake, N. J., 
 June 29, 1893. He had been more or less of an invalid for the 
 last two years of his Kfe, which were spent in retirement at 
 Spring Lake. He was closely identified with many of the enter- 
 prises of Easton and the Lehigh Valley. He was director of the 
 First National Bank of Easton, a vice-president and director 
 of the Thomas Iron Co., vice-president and director of Edison 
 Illuminating Co., a director of the Easton Trust Co., and of the 
 Easton Water Co., and a manager of the Fire Insurance Co- 
 of Northampton County. 
 
 Children of Samuel and Sarah (Arndt) Drake 
 
 632. Mary Virginia Drake, born July 15, 1863; married James Madison 
 
 Porter. 
 
 633. Major Fred Raymond Drake, born June 12, 1865. 
 
 634. EsTELLE Drake, born May 30, 1867; died Dec. 9, 1868. 
 
 635. Carrie Arndt Drake, born April 30, 1869; married John Rice. 
 63sa. Laura Edna Drake, bom Sept. 12, 1S74. 
 
 Joseph King Arndt (282), eldest child of Abraham and 
 Margaret (Johnson) Arndt, born in Greenwich Township, 
 Warren County, N. J., November 19, 1821, died in Phillips- 
 burg, N. J., May 29, 1881. He married, in i860, Anna (Rose- 
 berry) Coolbaugh, a widow who was born April 20, 1835, and 
 died November 7, 1890. 
 
 Children or Joseph King and Anna (Roseberry) Arndt 
 
 631a. J. Frankfort Arndt, born Dec. 14, 1861; married June i, 1892, 
 
 Vestella Runyon. They are living in Phillipsburg. They have no 
 
 children. 
 631b. Mary D. Arndt, born May 9, 1867; married June 6, 1889, Charles 
 
 Hawk. They are living in Newark, N. J. They have no children. 
 631C. Harry King Arndt, born Aug. 15, 1876; married Clara Dunn. They 
 
 are living in Newark, N. J. They have one child, Arndt, born 
 
 about 1904. 
 
 Enos C. Kulp (289), second son of Michael and Mary M. 
 (Cassell) Kulp, born on the old Kulp Homestead in Bedminster 
 Township, Bucks County, Pa., in 1832; died on a farm in 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 Rockhill Township September 28, 1914. He was the acting 
 administrator of his father's estate, and preserved the old ac- 
 count books and family papers of his grandfather, Michael Kulp, 
 which were deposited with the Bucks County Historical Society 
 after his death. He married. May 20, 1853, Susanna Fretz, 
 daughter of Abraham and Hannah (Groff) Fretz. She was 
 born April 7, 1830, and died November 20, 1873. 
 
 Chtldken of Enos C. and Susanna (Fretz) Kxilp 
 
 636. Martha Kulp, died May 6, 1855, in infancy. 
 
 637. Andkew KtTLP, bom July 19, 1857; died July 26, 1873. 
 
 638. George Kulp, bom March 26, 1 860; living at Sabetha, Nemaha Co. 
 
 Kansas. 
 
 639. Mary Etta Kulp, bom Sept. 23, 1861; married, 1880, Charles Swope, 
 
 of Philadelphia. They have issue: Sophia Swope, bom April 15, 1881. 
 Mary Bertha Swope, bom June 6, 1886. George Swope, bom Jan. 6, 
 1889. 
 
 640. Frank Kulp, bom Jan. 4, 1864, a fanner in Nemaha Co., Kansas. 
 
 641. Sarah Elizabeth Kulp, bom June 18, 1866; married, 1886, Frank 
 
 Diehl, of Rockhill. They have issue: William Diehl, bom Jan. 9, 
 1887. Bertha Florence Diehl, bom — 28, 1889. 
 
 642. Hannah Kulp, bom Dec. 23, 1868; died Feb. 17, 1873. 
 
 643. Barbara Kulp, bom Aug. 10, 1870. 
 
 Samuel C. Kulp (291), son of Michael and Mary M. 
 (Cassell) Kulp, was bom in Bedminster Township, Bucks 
 Coimty, Pa., May 17, 1837, and died at Landisville, Bucking- 
 ham Township, in the same county, September 3, 1910. He 
 was a millwright, and followed that vocation principally in his 
 native county until prevented by the infirmities of age. He 
 married, February 13, 1863, Elizabeth Landis, daughter of 
 Abraham and Barbara (GeU) Landis, of Landisville. She was 
 born October 19, 1838, and is still (1919) living at Landisville. 
 
 Children of Samuel C. and Elizabeth (Landis) Kcxp 
 
 644. Rosella Kulp, bom Sept. 7, 1863; married, Oct. 1885, Ephraim 
 
 Johnson, and they reside in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, 
 Pa. They had issue: Abraham H. Johnson, bom March 27, 1886; 
 died Nov. 19, 1910. Samuel K. Johnson, bom March 10, i888, a 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 soldier in France during the German-American War, 1917-1919, 
 Cora Johnson, born Aug. 30, i8gi, single. Frederick Johnson, bom 
 Oct. 18, 1894. Mary Elsie Johnson, bom Sept. 29, 1897; died April 
 13, 1899. Paul Albert Johnson, bom March 15, 1902, died May 2, 
 1902. 
 
 645. Mary Kulp, bom Feb. 8, 1867; married, Sept. 19, 1886, Morris P. 
 
 Tomlinson. 
 
 646. Joseph Kulp, born Jan. 20, 1869; living in Philadelphia. 
 
 647. Barbara Landis Kulp, bom Oct. 20, 1870; died Nov. 7, 1874. 
 
 648. Titus Kulp, bom Oct. 8, 1876. 
 
 Joseph Dewalt, Jr. (304), son of Joseph and Elizabeth 
 (Arndt) Dewalt, was born near Shoenersville, Lehigh County, 
 Pa., February 22, 1821, and died there March 22, 1884. He 
 married Jidia Ann Brader, daughter of Samuel and Barbara 
 (Moyer) Brader. 
 
 Children of Joseph and Julia Ann (Brader) Dewalt 
 
 649. Clarissa Dewalt, bom ; married Nov. 19, 1864, Tilghman M. 
 
 Lichtenwalner and had issue: Julia Lichtenwalner, married, Oct. 12, 
 1898, Harvey J. Bastian, a member of the firm of Bastian & Rau, 
 Merchant Tailors, of Allentown, Pa. Estelle Lichtenwalner, married 
 Charles B. Ruch, of Washington, D. C. Elizabeth Lichtenwabier, 
 single. Clara B. Lichtenwalner, married William E. Newhard, an 
 undertaker at Northampton, Pa. 
 
 650. Elizabeth Dewalt, married Monroe Kutz, of Catasauqua, Pa.; no 
 
 further record. 
 
 651. Cyrus T. Dewalt, bom April 6, 1854, married Anna M. Laubach. 
 
 652. Anna Dewalt, married John Fisher. 
 
 653. Arthur C. Dewalt, living at Catasauqua; married Minnie Young. 
 
 See forward. 
 
 654. Joseph Samuel Dewalt, born June 21, 1864; married Anna Fatsinger; 
 
 no further record. 
 
 Reuben Dewalt (305), son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Arndt) 
 Dewalt, born in Bethlehem Township, Northampton County, 
 Pa., in 1829, acquired the homestead farm which his father 
 owned, and resided thereon for a nimiber of years, later 
 removing to Allentown, Pa., where he died in 1900. He mar- 
 ried Annie Bieber who was born in Kutztown, Berks County, 
 Pa., in 1832. She died in Allentown December 25, 1910. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 Children or Reuben and Annie (Bieber) Dew alt 
 
 655. Hon. Arthur G. Dew alt, bom Oct. 11, 1854; unmarried. A daughter 
 
 died in infancy. 
 
 Reuben Steckel (307), eldest son of Peter and Catherine 
 (Amdt) Steckel, was bom near Bath, Northampton County, 
 Pa., May 13, 1816, and died in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa., 
 June 20, 1849. He married Matilda Kleppinger, who was born 
 September 8, 1820, near the little town of Pennsville, on the old 
 Stage Road from Bath to Mauch Chunk, about nine miles 
 north of the latter place. Mrs. Steckel inherited a property 
 near the place of her birth, and lived thereon for many years 
 after her husband's death. She Uved to the advanced age of 
 ninety-six years, residing during the last twenty years of her 
 life with her daughter, Mrs. Jacob Swartz, at Emporia, Kansas, 
 and died there some time in 1916 or 1917. 
 
 Children op Reuben and Matilda (Kleppinger) Steckel 
 
 656. Herman K.. Steckel, born April 20, 1844; married Mary S. Patrick. 
 
 657. SarahSteckel, bom 1846; died 1915; married Jacob Swartz. 
 
 658. Henrietta Steckel, born 1848; died 1897; married Peter Harmon. 
 
 William Bernhaed Steckel (308), second son of Peter 
 and Catherine (Amdt) Steckel, born near Bath, Northampton 
 County, Pa., January 19, 1818; died at WUkes-Barre, Pa., 
 March 2, 1904. He was educated at a private school near 
 Bath, and apprenticed himself to a carriage-maker in Bath in 
 1835. In 1839 he began carriage making as a business in Mil- 
 ton, Northumberland County, Pa., where he remained until 
 1845, when he returned to Bath and continued the same busi- 
 ness there. In 1852 he built a sawmill on a large tract of tim- 
 berland which he had recently purchased on Stony Run, near 
 Stoddartsville, Pa., and removing to StoddartsviUe, operated 
 the mill until i860, when it was destroyed by fire. He then 
 removed to Wilkes-Barre, but spent much of his time on his 
 farm at Dallas, eight miles from Wilkes-Barre. In 1866 he 
 
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 removed to Dallas and resided in that town until the death of 
 his wife in 1902. He then returned to Wilkes-Barre, and made 
 his home with his daughter, Dr. Louise M. Stoeckel,^ until his 
 death. He married, March i, 1847, ^-t Stone Church, Pa., 
 Catharine Kleppinger, daughter of Jacob and Catharine 
 (Kleck) Kleppinger. She was born at Pennsville, Pa., Jime 13, 
 1819, and died at Dallas, Pa., April 4, 1902. 
 
 Children of William B. and Catherine (Kleppinger) Steckel 
 
 659. Dr. Louise M. Stoeckel, bom Dec. 4, 1847. 
 
 660. Theodore W. Stoeckel, bom Jan. 13, 1852; married Catharine 
 
 Reiswicli. 
 
 661. Helene C. Stoeckel, born Oct. 8, 1858; married Dr. E. J. Butler. 
 
 Israel Frank Steckel (309), third son of Peter and Cath- 
 erine (Arndt) Steckel, born at Bath, Northampton County, 
 Pa., December 28, 1819, spent his whole life in that locality, 
 d3dng there May 22, 1894. Associated with his father in the 
 administration of the Sheriff's office he was ambitious to 
 become a lawyer, but failed to realize it. He was interested 
 in various enterprises during his active years, operating at 
 different periods a distillery, a mill, a farm, and a general 
 store. He seems to have been a successful business man 
 and popular among his friends. He married, June 3, 1851, at 
 Bath, Christiana Hoch, daughter of John^ and Anna (Moyer) 
 Hoch. She was born in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, May 18, 1829; died at Bath in the same county, 
 October 13, 1897. 
 
 Children or Israel Frank and Christiana (Hoch) Steckel 
 
 662. George Steckel, born June 26, 1852; married Sarah E. SchoU. 
 
 663. Oliver J. Steckel, born Nov. 25, 1853; married Margaret Ann Reimer. 
 
 664. Anna Catharine Steckel, born April 25, 1858; married Joseph Coar. 
 
 ' Dr. Stoeckel insists on spelling the family name as it was spelled by her 
 pioneer ancestor. 
 
 ^ George Steckel, her eldest son, says that his mother, Christiana Hoch, was 
 born at Bushkill Township, and that her father's name was Jacob. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 66$. Thomas Steckel, bom July 4, i860; married Ellen Getter. 
 
 666. Wilson Steckel, bom March 7, 1866; married Mary Shook. 
 
 Charles Napoleon Steckel (310), fourth son of Peter and 
 Catherine (Amdt) Steckel, born at Bath, Pa., June 16, 1821, 
 died there November 5, 1902. He married EUza Snyder who 
 was born in Bath February 16, 1824, and died there December 
 29, 1901. She was a daughter of Jacob Snyder (1787-1864) 
 and his wife, Susanna (1798-1870). 
 
 Children of Charles N. and Eliza (Snyder) Steckel 
 
 664a. Jacob Henry Steckel, bom May 15, 1844; died July 31, igo8; mar- 
 ried Martha Bartholomew. 
 
 66sa. Augustus Alonzo Steckel, a lawyer residing in Trenton, N. J.; no 
 further record. 
 
 666a. Alfred Steckel, died at the age of twenty-five; unmarried; no fur- 
 ther record. 
 
 667. Mary Steckel, bom Oct. 26, 1851; married Samuel DuflEy. 
 
 Solomon A. Steckel (311), son of Peter and Catherine 
 (Arndt) Steckel, born at Bath, Pa., July 4, 1825; died in 
 Bethlehem, Pa., June 27, 1893. He was for several years en- 
 gaged in the limiber business at Stoddartsville with his brother, 
 William Bemhard Steckel. He later removed to Bethlehein, 
 where he was a merchant for many years. He married, in 
 1848, Lydia Hough, who was bom at Taylorsville, now 
 Washington's Crossing, Bucks Coimty, Pa., December 4, 
 1825, and died in Bethlehem April 8, i9bs. 
 
 Children of Solomon A. and Lydia (Hough) Steckel 
 
 668. Marie Elizabeth Steckel, bom June 4, 1849; married William H- 
 
 Solt. 
 
 669. Emma Augusta Steckel, bom June 6, 1851; married, first, John 
 
 O'Hara; second, Harry Burnett; third, William McFall. She was 
 Uving at 1820 N. Broad St., Phila., Pa., in 1913. 
 
 670. Annie Rebecca Steckel, bom Sept. 8, 1852, at Stoddartsville, Pa., 
 
 was living with her sister on North Broad St., Phila., Pa., in 1913. 
 
 671. Scudder Steckel, bom Feb. 27, 1857; married Emma L. Landenburg. 
 
 Edward Manton Steckel (314), son of Peter and Cath- 
 
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 arine (Arndt) Steckel, was born in Bath, Pa., September 12, 
 1830, and died at Kutztown, Pa., October 9, 1905. He was for 
 some years a miller at Bath, later removing to Kutztown, 
 where he was proprietor of a hotel. He married Susan M. 
 Kutz, of Kutztown, and had the following children: 
 
 672. Edward Steckel, Jr. 
 
 673. Dr. Elwood Steckel, a practising physician at Kutztown; no further 
 
 record. 
 
 Isaiah Samuel Steckel (315), born at Bath, Pa., Septem- 
 ber 13, 1832, and David Theodore Steckel (316), bom at 
 Bath, Pa., October 29, 1835, two youngest sons of Peter and 
 Catharine (Arndt) Steckel, left the old homestead at Bath 
 about 1854 for the great western country. At Atchison, Kan- 
 sas, they joined a party traveling overland with ox teams 
 across the plains and moimtains to the Pacific Slope, which 
 they finally reached after many thrilling adventures in crossing 
 the rivers and mountains and avoiding hostile tribes of In- 
 dians. David settled in Idaho and was at one time a mem- 
 ber of the Legislature of that State. Isaiah Samuel lived for 
 many years at Jacksonville, Oregon. Nothing further is known 
 of them or their descendants by the writer. 
 
 Lavinia Houpt (318), eldest daughter of Philip and Su- 
 sanna (Arndt) Houpt, born at Newport, Luzerne Coimty, Pa., 
 November 27, 1819; died at WiUiamsport, Lycoming County, 
 Pa., March 11, 1893. She married Jacob Fry, a farmer, son of 
 Frederick and Betsy Fry. He was born at Pittston, Luzerne 
 County, Pa., January 9, 1815, and died on his farm at New- 
 port, July 24, 1886. 
 
 Children of Jacob and Lavinia (Houpt) Fry 
 
 674. William Fry, bom Jan. 27, 1843; died June — , 1843. 
 
 675. Ziba Fry, born Oct. — , 1844; died Dec. — , 1844. 
 
 676. Charles Fry, bom Jan. 30, 1847; died Nov. 21, 1909; married, first 
 
 Mary E. Konkle; second, Clara Metzgar. 
 
 677. Wesley Fry, bom Jan. 18, 1849; married Clara Striker. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 678. Susan Fky, bom Dec. 14, 1850; married Paul Woerule. 
 
 679. Masy Jane Fry, bom Aug. 20, 1852; married John H. Springman. 
 
 Baknett Hoxjpt (319), son of Philip and Susanna (Arndt) 
 Houpt, bom in Newport Township, Luzerne County, Pa., in 
 January, 1829, died at White Pigeon, Michigan, September 
 8, 1907. He married at Newport in May, 1844, Rosanne 
 Gruver, daughter of Michael Gruver. She was bom at New- 
 port, Luzeme County, Pa., in April, 1822, and died July 8, 
 1907. 
 
 Children of Baenett and Rosanne (Gruver) Houpt 
 
 680. Benjamin Houpt, bom Nov. 1, 1845; married Julia Line. 
 
 681. Frankun a. Houpt, bom 1847; married, first, Mina Dawson; second, 
 
 Mary B. Eaton. 
 
 682. Susan Houpt, bom Oct. 14, 1849; married Charles D. Watt. 
 
 683. Adrian Houpt, bom 1852; died in infancy. 
 
 684. Charles Houpt, bom Feb. 14, 1854; married Ida O. (Trenchard) 
 
 HoweUs. 
 
 Ellen Houpt (320), daughter of Philip and Susanna (Arndt) 
 Houpt, born in Newport , Township, Luzeme County, Pa., 
 December 20, 1822, died there April 12, 1852. She married, 
 in 1842, Robert Robbins, son of Robert and Margaret (Sharpe) 
 Robbins. He was bom at Nanticoke, Luzerne County, Pa., 
 in 1814, and died at Newport in November, 1896. 
 
 Children of Robert and Ellen (Houpt) Robbins 
 
 685. Cornelius Robbins, bom May 16, 1843; ^^^ Oct. 16, 1904; married 
 
 Clarissa Hopler. 
 
 686. Linda Robbins, bom Sept. 20, 1850; died Feb. 26, 1913; married 
 
 Edgar E. Raub. 
 
 687. Ella Robbins, bom Dec. 12, 1851; married Lyman H. Bennett. 
 Five other children died in infancy. 
 
 Theresa Houpt (321), daughter of PhiKp and Susanna 
 (Arndt) Houpt, bom in Newport Township, Luzeme County, 
 Pa., Febmary 4, 1825; died at Wilkes-Barre, September 23, 
 1874. She married at Newport, Febmary 25, 1847, Daniel 
 Owens. He was a son of William and Jane (McConnell) 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 Owens, and was born at Minisink, Orange County, N. Y., 
 December 27, 1817; died in Luzerne County in January, 1865. 
 
 Children of Daniel and Theresa (Houpt) Owens 
 
 688. Jane Susan Owens, bom Nov. 29, 1847; died May 5, 1881; married 
 
 Albert N. Emmons. 
 
 689. Boyd M. Owens, bom April 24, 1850; married, first, Sarah Lathrim; 
 
 second, Margaret Jackson; third, Evalina McCarty; no further 
 record. 
 
 690. Charles P. Owens, born April i, 1852; married EUen Anderson; no 
 
 further record. 
 
 ZiBA HoxjPT (322), son of PhiKp and Susanna (Amdt) 
 Houpt, born in Newport Township, Luzerne County, Pa., in 
 1827; died at Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, September 28, 
 1902. He was a cabinet-maker and undertaker in Wilkes- 
 Barre. He married in 1854 at Mantua, Ohio, Elizabeth 
 Gregory, born at Mantua in 183 1, and died at Massillon, Ohio, 
 1904. 
 
 Susan Houpt (323), daughter of Philip and Susanna (Arndt) 
 Houpt, born in Newport Township, Luzerne County, Pa., 
 December 12, 1829, and died at Dallas, same county, August 
 16, 1909. She married, on March 18, 1851, at Wilkes-Barre, 
 John Welch, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Hepler) Welch. He 
 was born at Quakake Valley, Pa. ,August 23, 1828, and died 
 September 20, 1910. 
 
 Children of John and Susan (Houpt) Welch 
 
 691. Ellen Welch, bom Jan. 4, 1852; married Miner B. Austin. 
 
 692. Malvina Welch, bom June 19, 1853; died Sept. 2, 1854. 
 
 693. Frances M. Welch, bom Oct. 31, 1854; married, first, Josiah Gregory; 
 
 second, William Gregory. 
 
 694. Elizabeth Welch, bom Aug. 6, 1856; died March 7, 1876. 
 
 695. William W. Welch, bom April 9, 1858; married, first, Minnie Hinman; 
 
 second, Mrs. Edith Gibson. 
 
 696. Philip Welch, bom July 6, 1859; died Feb. 25, 1876. 
 
 697. Alfaretta Welch, bom July 17, 1863; married Clinton G. Honeywell, 
 
 of Luzerne County, Pa., where they reside. They had no children. 
 
 698. Harry Welch, bom June 27, 1868; married Mamie Harris. 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 Eliza Houpt (324), daughter of Philip and Susanna (Arndt) 
 Houpt, born in Newport Township, Luzerne County, Pa., 
 December 12, 1831, died in Wilkes-Barre July 4, 1914. She 
 married, October 7, 1856, Anning Dilley, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 
 son of Jesse and Hannah K. (Lueder) Dilley. He was born in 
 Hanover Township, Luzerne County, Pa., December 15, 1824, 
 and died in Wilkes-Barre November 2, 1906. 
 
 Chudeen of Anning and Eliza (Hotrpi) Dilley 
 
 699. Minnie E. Dilley, bom Aug. 14, 1857; living at Willses-Barre, Pa., 
 
 unmarried. 
 
 700. Jesse Byron Dilley, bom Sept. 25, 1858; died April 4, 1894; married 
 
 Bertha Stiles. 
 
 701. Carrie Electa Dilley, bom Dec. 9, i860; died Dec. 28, 1888. 
 
 702. Sherman A. Dilley, bom July 15, 1864; married Sadie Kelchner. 
 
 Charles Houpt (325), son of Philip and Susanna (Amdt) 
 Houpt, was born in Newport Township, Luzerne County, Pa., 
 September 27, 1833. At the outbreak of the Civil War he en- 
 listed at Shalersville, Ohio, April, 1861, in a Regiment of Ohio 
 Volimteers. At the end of his term of enlistment he was dis- 
 charged in August, 1861, at Akron, Ohio. On September 6, 
 1861, he reenlisted for three years' service and was discharged 
 at Columbus, Ohio, October 4, 1864. In January, 1865, he 
 entered the service for the third time and returned to North 
 Carolina, where he remained in the government service until 
 June, 1865. He married at Ravenna, Ohio, February 7, 1866, 
 Melissa Kasson, daughter of Isaac and Polly (Merriman) 
 Kasson. She was born at Shalersville, Ohio, October 10, 1843, 
 and died at Canton, Ohio, November 9, 1896. They had no 
 children. 
 
 Sallie Houpt (326), youngest daughter of Philip and Su- 
 saima (Arndt) Houpt, bom in Newport Township, Luzerne 
 Coxmty, Pa., January 13, 1837; died at Shalersville, Ohio, 
 January 19, 1893. She married at Shalersville, October 25, 
 
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 1859, Bentley F. Crane, who was born at Shalersville, April 
 30, 1836, and was a son of Frederick and Sarah Crane. 
 
 Children of Bentley F. and Sallie (Houpt) Crane 
 
 703. Harry Z. Crane, bom April 28, 1861; died June 18, 1908; married 
 
 Corda Coit. 
 
 704. Nellie Crane, born July 30, 1868; married Charles Hurd. 
 
 MissoTJEiA B. HouPT (327), youngest son of Philip and 
 Susanna (Arndt) Houpt, was bom in Newport Township, 
 Luzerne County, Pa., in 1839, and died in New York City, 
 February 4, 1903. He married at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in Feb- 
 ruary, 1865, Sallie Garringer, daughter of Jesse and Katherine 
 (Croop) Garringer, of Hanover Township, Luzerne County, 
 Pa. Shedied June 1, 1897. Missouria Houpt was a carpenter 
 and builder, and erected a number of the finest residences, 
 office buildings, and stores in Wilkes-Barre. 
 
 Children op Missouria and Sallie (Garringer) Houpt 
 
 706. Harry S. Houpt, bom Dec. , 1866; married Gertrude Young in 
 
 New York City, where they reside; no record of children. 
 
 707. Edgar M. Houpt, bom June — , 1876; married Edith Payne. 
 
 OSBON W. Arndt (330), eldest son of Simon and Rebecca 
 (Dech) Arndt, born near Bath, Northampton County, Pa., 
 November 17, 1853, living near Emaus, Pa.; married Maria S. 
 Breck, born August 27, 1852. 
 
 Children of Osbon W. and Maria (Beeck) Arndt 
 
 708. Elmer Arndt, bom — , 1876; married Mary Sturm. 
 
 709. Wayne Arndt, born — , 1878; married Mary Mohr. 
 
 710. Walter Arndt, bom — , 1880; married Rohrbach. 
 
 711. LuELLA Arndt, bom — , 1883; married Edward Sterner. 
 
 712. Annie Arndt, bom — , 1885; married Edward Kratzer. 
 
 713. Meta Arndt, bom — , 1887; married Noble Miller. 
 
 714. Carrie Arndt, born — , 1893; married Raymond George. 
 
 715. Edward Arndt, bom — , 1895. 
 
 Benjamin F. Arndt (331), second son of Simon and Rebecca 
 (Dech) Arndt, born near Bath, Northampton County, Pa., 
 October 31, 1859; married at AUentown, Pa., August 7, 1884, 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 Mary E. Royer, who was born at East Greenville, Montgomery 
 County, Pa., Jxme 6, 1863. They reside near Emaus, Lehigh 
 County, Pa. 
 
 Childben of Benjamin F. and Mary E. (Royes) Arndt 
 
 716. Lavina Abndt, bom April 25, 1886; married C. E. Banfield. 
 
 717. Mabel M. Arndt, bom Sept. 12, 1S87; died Aug. 19, 1893. 
 
 Thomas S. Brown (338), eldest son of Samuel and Leah 
 (Arndt) Brown, was born in Lower Nazareth Township, 
 Northampton County, Pa., February 27, 1858, and died there 
 December 4, 1886, and is buried in Drylands Churchyard, at 
 Hecktown. He succeeded his father as maU carrier between 
 Hanoverville and Bethlehem, and continued to fill that posi- 
 tion for four years. 
 
 Milton E. Brown (339), second son of Samuel and Leah 
 (Arndt) Brown, was born in Lower Nazareth Township, 
 Northampton County, Pa., August 20, 1867. He was a school- 
 teacher in his native county, and filled a number of elective 
 offices in Lower Nazareth Township, including that of Assessor 
 and Auditor. He is active in church and Sabbath-school work, 
 and much respected in the community. He married, Decem- 
 ber 23, 1893, Amanda C. Woodring, of Bethlehem. 
 
 Child op Milton E. and Amanda C. (Woodring) Brown 
 
 718. Leah E. Brown, bom April 13, 1898. 
 
 James Monroe Arndt (353), eldest son of John and Re- 
 becca (Biechy) Arndt, was born in Moore Township, April 17, 
 i860; died at AUentown, Pa., April 10, 1915. He was a school- 
 teacher in Northampton and Lehigh Counties for six years. 
 He then became a clerk in the office of the Central Railroad at 
 Mauch Chunk. He later was chief clerk of the Lehigh Valley 
 Railroad at the same place. After several years of railroad 
 service he took up the insurance business at Mauch Chunk and 
 became one of the most successful and widely known insur- 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 ance men of that section. Too close application to business 
 caused a nervous breakdown, and he was forced to retire from 
 active business and was an invalid for two or three years prior 
 to his death. He married Clara M. Riegel, who with an infant 
 child preceded him in death. 
 
 Irwin Arndt (354), second son of John and Rebecca 
 (Biechy) Arndt, born in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., August 24, 1861, is living in Maple Grove, Vir- 
 ginia. He married, in 1883, Amanda Beers. They had three 
 children who died in early childhood, and one son who sur- 
 vives, viz.: 
 
 719. Herbert J. Arsidt, bom May 24, 1886; living in the State of Washing- 
 
 ton. 
 
 Sarah Alice Aendt (355), daughter of John and Rebecca 
 (Biechy) Arndt, born in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., September 24, 1864; married George Delp and 
 had one son, viz.: 
 
 720. Herbert Deu, married Ida Schoch, living at Saylorsburg, Monroe 
 
 County, Pa., 1913. 
 
 TiLGHMAN B. Arndt (356), son of John and Rebecca 
 (Biechy) Arndt, born in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., October 27, 1868, and died in 1895. He married 
 Minda Stahley and had three children, viz.: 
 
 721. Arthur Arndt, living at Summerville, Pa., 1913. 
 
 722. Harvey Arndt, living at Palmerton, Pa., 1913. 
 
 723. Beulah Arndt, married Edgar Smith, of Siegfried, Pa. 
 
 Thomas M. Arndt (357), son of Thomas and Rebecca 
 (Biechy) Arndt, born in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., September 13, 1870; living at Walnutport in 
 that county. He was educated at local schools and at the 
 First State Normal School, Millersville, Pa., and has taught 
 school in his native county for twenty-five years. He married 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 Emma C. Minnich, bom in Lehigh County, January i, 1871. 
 They have one child: 
 
 724. Russell Claude Aendt, bom Dec. 28, 1894. 
 
 Rosa Jane Aendt (358), daughter of John and Rebecca 
 (Biechy) Amdt, bom in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., August 16, 1872; married George D. Steward, of 
 Allentown. 
 
 Children of George D. and Rosa Jane (Arndt) Steward 
 
 725. William Henry Steward, bom Oct. 12, 1903. 
 
 726. Hilda Rebecca Steward, bom Oct. 30, 1910. 
 
 Ida Arndt (361), daughter of Henry and Sarah (Haldeman) 
 Arndt, born in Moore Township, Northampton County, Pa., 
 February 15, 1865; married John Koch and they reside in 
 Catasauqua, Pa. 
 
 Children of John and Ida (Arndt) Koch 
 
 727. Ralph Koch, bom Nov. — , 1885; died Feb. 15, 1909. 
 
 728. Mabel Koch, bom — . 
 
 729. John Koch, bom — . 
 
 Susan Arndt (362), daughter of Henry and Sarah (Halde- 
 man) Arndt, born in Moore Township, Northampton County, 
 Pa., September 23, 1867, was married August 6, 1887, to 
 Hiram Kocher at Bath, Pa., by the Rev. J. E. Smith. Mr. 
 Kocher was born in Moore Township, January 24, 1867, a 
 son of Samuel W. and Susan (Barlieb) Kocher. They reside 
 in Bethlehem, Pa. 
 
 Children of Hiram H. and Susan (Arndt) Kocher 
 
 731. Alma E. Kocher, bom April 18, 1888; married Elmer E. Hahn. 
 
 732. Warren Waldo Kocher, bom Sept. 22, 1897; died April 20, 1900. 
 
 733. S. Gladstone Kocher, bom Nov. 18, 1903. 
 
 Sylvester Arndt (363), son of Henry and Sarah (Halde- 
 man) Arndt, born in Moore Township, Northampton County, 
 Pa., March 12, 1874; is still living near Bath. He was mar- 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 ried at Bath by the Rev. J. E. Smith on March 17, 1894, to 
 Hannah Remaly. 
 
 Children of Sylvester and Hannah (Remaly) Arndt 
 
 734. Edna Arndt, bom Aug. 15, 1894. 
 
 735. Dewen Arndt, bom Dec. 16, 1898. 
 
 736. Eva Arndt, bom March 21, 1905. 
 
 Hetty Estelle Bickert (364d), daughter of Tilghman and 
 Sarah (Arndt) Bickert, born near Bath, in Northampton 
 County, Pa., April 6, 1876, married at Bethlehem, Pa., Wil- 
 liam H. Baer, son of Lewis and Juliann (Gradwohl) Baer, of 
 Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, where William H. Baer 
 was born March 26, 1872. They reside at 930 Iron St., 
 North Bethlehem, and have one child: 
 
 737. Clarence L. Baer, born Dec. 9, 1897. 
 
 Eleanor Arndt (372), daughter of Abraham and Adeline 
 (Kocher) Arndt, born in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., July 31, 1866; married Samuel Haldeman, of 
 Moore Township. They had issue: 
 
 738. William Daniel Haldeman, bom Dec. 24, 1901. 
 
 Agnes Sedora Arndt (373), eldest daughter of Abraham 
 and AdaUne (Kocher) Arndt, born in Moore Township, 
 Northampton County, Pa., March 2, 1871; married June 5, 
 1892, Adolph G. Spadt, who was born in Northampton 
 County, March 31, 1869, and is a son of Charles Spadt. They 
 resided for a short time at East Mauch Chunk, Pa., and then 
 located at Walnutport, where Mr. Spadt has been proprietor of 
 a barber-shop for upward of twenty years. 
 
 Children of Adolph G. and Agnes S. (Arndt) Spadt 
 
 739. Harold Adolph Spadt, bom at East Mauch Chunk, June 9, 1893. 
 
 740. Vernon jENNraos Spadt, born at Walnutport, Feb. 4, 1901. 
 
 741. Emma Agnes Spadt, bom at Walnutport, Feb. 6, 1904. 
 
 Anna F. Arndt (374), daughter of Abraham and Adeline 
 
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GENEALOGY— FIFTH GENERATION 
 
 (Kocher) Arndt, born in Moore Township, Northampton 
 Coiinty, Pa., October 28, 1874; married January 21, 1891, 
 Otto Spadt, a brother of Adolph Spadt, who married her 
 elder sister, Agnes. They reside in Berlinville, Northampton 
 Coimty, Pa. 
 
 Children of Otto and Anna F. (Arndt) Spadt 
 
 742. Earl Otto Spadt, bom July 31, 1892. 
 
 743. Stanley Abraham Spadt, bom Sept. — , 1894. 
 
 744. Abnee Wallace Spadt, bom , 1901. 
 
 745. Maljord Allen Spadt, bom 1905; died March i, 1913. 
 
 746. Gilbert Emery Spadt, bom June 2, 1909; died Jan. — , 1913. 
 
 Elsie Myra Arndt (375), daughter of Abraham and Ada- 
 line (Kocher) Arndt, born in Moore Township^ Northampton 
 Coimty, Pa., April 28, 1877; married Ellsworth J. Shirer, and 
 they reside in Walnutport, Northampton County, Pa. 
 
 Children op Ellsworth and Elsie Myra (Arndt) Shirer 
 
 747. Lerta Ursula Shirer, bom 1899; died at age of six months. 
 
 748. Verna Adaline Shirer, bom Jan. 10, 1902. 
 
 Albert Abraham Ajlndt (376), son of Abraham and Ada- 
 line (Kocher) Arndt, bom in Moore Township, Northampton 
 County, Pa., March 16, 1885; married in 1905 Minnie Hill, 
 and lived in Chain, Schuylkill County, Pa. 
 
 Children of Albert Abraham and Minnie (Hill) Arndt 
 
 749. Leita Ursula Arndt. 
 
 750. Herlan Arndt. 
 
 751. Clifford Arndt. 
 
 752. Marvin Randolph Arndt. 
 
 Ursula Myra Arndt (377), youngest daughter of Abra- 
 ham and Adaline (Kocher) Arndt, born in Moore Township, 
 Northampton County, Pa., November 9, 1889, married Decem- 
 ber 25, 1904, Harry Stoneburner, and they reside at Daniels- 
 viUe, Northampton County, Pa. 
 
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 SIXTH GENERATION 
 Andrew Henry Mover (386), eldest son of Jacob Arndt 
 and AmeKa (Meyer) Moyer, born at Fort Plain, Montgomery 
 County, N. Y., October 20, 1854, is still living at Fort Plairik 
 He is a carpenter by trade and takes an active interest in the 
 affairs of the community in which he lives. A Democrat in 
 politics, he has held a number of local offices. He married, 
 March 5, 1879, Alice Lipe, daughter of William Lipe, of Fort 
 Plain, and they have one child: 
 
 753. Mary Louisa Moyer, bom Oct. ii, 1884; married, Feb. 3, 1910, 
 
 George Thurwood, of Albany, N. Y., son of George L. and Mary 
 (Farkell) Thurwood, of Nelliston, N. Y., where he was born March 16, 
 1881. They had issue: Evelyn A. Thurwood, born Aug. 18, 1891. 
 
 Ralph Moyer (388), second son of Jacob Arndt and Amelia 
 (Moyer) Moyer, was born in Fort Plain, Montgomery County, 
 N. Y., May 18, i860; now resides at Ilion, N. Y. He has 
 been employed for a nimiber of years in the Remington Type- 
 writer Works He married Florence Hisgen, daughter of 
 George and Catherine Hisgen. She was born at Jonesville, 
 Saratoga County, N. Y., August 27, 1862. 
 
 Children oe Ralph and Florence (Hisgen) Moyer 
 
 754. Ethel Amelia Moyer, born May g, 1894; graduate of Ilion High School 
 
 in 1911, and of Oneonta Normal School in 1914. 
 
 755. Ralph David Moyer, born Nov. 10, 1895. 
 
 Frank Moyer (389), youngest son of Jacob Arndt and his 
 wife, Amelia Moyer, was born in Minden Township, Mont- 
 gomery County, N. Y., October 20, 1862. He married, Decem- 
 ber 26, 1883, Julia Flanders, daughter of Martin and Esther 
 Flanders, of St. Johnsville, N. Y. She was born at Yonkers, 
 N. Y., on April 30, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Moyer resided for 
 several years after their marriage at Fort Plain, but later 
 removed to Ilion, N. Y. 
 
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GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 Childeen of Frank and JtruA (Flanders) Mover 
 
 756. Ray Moyer, bom at Fort Plain, Aug. 29, 1889. 
 
 757. Florence Evelyn Moyek, bom at Ilion, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1899. 
 
 Jason C. Moyer (392), only surviving son of Solomon and 
 Cynthia (Sart) Moyer, was bom in Minden Township, Mont- 
 gomery County, N. Y., December 31, 1863. He is proprietor 
 of a Kvery and sale stables in Fort Plain, and served several 
 terms as president of the council board. He married, June 8, 
 1888, Emma Paul, and secondly, on August 7, 1901, Jessie 
 Davis. 
 
 Cheld of Jason C. and Emma (Patjl) Moyer 
 
 758. Madeline Moyer, bom April 4, 1889; married Archibald Bernard. 
 Child of Jason C. and Jessie (Davis) Mover 
 
 759. Deforest Mover, bom March 20, 1903. 
 
 Anna Moyer (393), eldest daughter of Abraham and 
 Katharine (Nestle) Moyer, born in Minden Township, Mont- 
 gomery County, N. Y., October 16, 1854, married at Minden 
 in 1876, Robert Bauder, born at Minden November 20, 1854, 
 son of Jeremiah and Adelaide (HaU) Bauder. They resided at 
 Johnston, New York, where Mrs. Bauder died March 18, 1910. 
 
 Childsen of Robert and Anna (Mover) Batjder 
 
 760. Clarence Bauder, bom July 11, 1877. 
 
 761. Howard Battder, bom Feb. 13, 1881; died March 12, 1881. 
 
 762. Jennie Bauder, bom April 12, 1882; died Aug. 12, 1886. 
 
 763. Ada Bauder, bom Nov. 4, 1884. 
 
 Alfred Moyer (394), eldest son of Abraham and Katharine 
 (Nestle) Moyer, bom in Minden Township, Montgomery 
 County, N. Y., February 21, 1856, still resides there. He is a 
 painter and paperhanger. He married, February 12, 1879, 
 Alida Bauder, daughter of George Bauder, of the same town- 
 ship. 
 
 CfflLDREN OF Alfred and Alida (Bauder) Moyer 
 
 764. Glen Bauder Mover, born April 14, 1880; died March 14, 1907. 
 
 765. Floyd Arndt Moyer, bom Jan. 12, 1886; died Feb. 19, igo6. 
 
 766. Vera Mover, bom Sept. 11, 1888. 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 Perry A. Mover (39S), second son of Abraham and Kath- 
 arine (Nestle) Moyer, born on his father's farm in Minden 
 Township, Montgomery County, N. Y., February 17, 1859, 
 Hved thereon until 1904, when he removed to the village of 
 Fort Plain. He is sexton of the Fort Plain Dutch Reformed 
 Church. He married, March 21, 1885, Mary Remes, and they 
 have the following children: 
 
 767. Ruth Moyek, born Nov. 11, 1896. 
 
 768. Pearl R. Mover, born Aug. i, 1901; died in infancy. 
 
 769. Lola Mover, born May 13, 1904. 
 
 William Moyer (397), third son of Abraham and Katharine 
 (Nestle) Moyer, born in Minden Township, Montgomery 
 County, N. Y., August 26, 1863, married, in 189^', Mrs. Mary 
 Miller and they had three children, viz.: 
 
 770. Isabel Mover, born 1891. 
 
 771. Madeline Mover, born 1897. 
 
 772. Keith Mover, born 1901. 
 
 Helon Effner Moyer (401), son of Sylvester and Irene 
 (Grampes) Moyer, born at Fort Plain, New York, September 
 27, 1857, is a farmer in Minden Township, Montgomery 
 County, N. Y. He married, June i, 1878, Viola Flanders, and 
 they had the following children: 
 
 773. Grace Mover, born July 23, 1880; died July 3, 1906. 
 
 774. Elena Mover, bom May 28, 1884, several years a teacher in the High 
 
 School at Glen Falls, N. Y. 
 
 775. Gladvs Mover, bom Sept. i, 1890; died Jan. 10, 1903. 
 
 776. Guy Mover, bom April 23, 1892. 
 
 Mary Elizabeth Moyer (402), daughter of Sylvester and 
 Irene (Grampes) Moyer, born in Minden Township, Mont- 
 gomery County, N. Y., May i, 1862; married, October 29, 
 1879, Edgar C. Kessler, son of John and Elizabeth (Walrath) 
 Kessler, of Fort Plain. 
 
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GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 Children of Edgar C. and Mary E. (Moyee) Kessler 
 
 777. LtTLU Belle Kessler, bom June 14, 1881; married Oct. 15, 1902 
 
 Arthur Manning; died July 6, 1912. 
 
 778. Mabel Edna Kessler, bom March 4, 1885. 
 
 779. Edgar Stanley Kessler, bom June 17, 1891. 
 
 780. Claude Moyer Kessler, bom Sept. 14, i8g6. 
 
 Gertrude M. Moyer (406), daughter of Marcy and Cath- 
 erine (CorneKus) Moyer, born at Fort Plain, N. Y., August 20, 
 1864; died February 28, 1902. She married in 1882 Ehner 
 Klock, by whom she had two children, viz. : 
 
 781. Marcy Moyer Klock, bom Aug. 8, 1893. 
 
 782. M. Beatrice Klock, bom Aug. 16, 1900. 
 
 Edward C. Mover (407), son of Marcy and Catherine 
 (Comehus) Moyer, born in Minden Township, Montgomery 
 County, N. Y., March 21, 1873; married. May i, 1901, Marian 
 Babcock, daughter of Edward and Lavinia (Simms) Babcock, 
 of Jordan, N. Y., where she was born April 30, 1876. They had 
 one child: 
 
 783. Rachel Lavinia Moyer, bom March s, 1906. 
 
 Nettie Moyer (408), daughter of Marcy Moyer by his sec- 
 ond wife, Josephine Cornelius, was bom in Minden Township, 
 near Fort Plain, Montgomery County, N. Y., May 6, 1880. 
 She married June 5, 1901, John H. Knickerbocker, son of 
 Samuel and Mary M. (Hayes) Knickerbocker, of St. Johns- 
 ville, N. Y., where he was born April 11,1873. They had issue : 
 
 784. Nellie Margaret Knickerbocker, bom Oct. 22, 1904. 
 
 William E. Elwood (414), son of David and Minerva 
 (Arndt) Elwood, born at Fort Plain, Montgomery County, New 
 York, August 6, 1858, was twelve years of age when he removed 
 with his parents to Jackson, Michigan, where he still resides. He 
 was educated in the city schools of Jackson, and was for a 
 short period engaged in the grocery business, but early in life 
 became interested in railroad work and has followed that voca- 
 
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 tion ever since. He married, December 5, 1893, Florence A. 
 Rowan, daughter of Michael H. and Eliza A. Rowan, of Jack- 
 son. She was born August 29, 1865, at Ypsilanti, Michigan. 
 
 Children of William E. and Florence A. (Rowan) Elwood 
 
 785. Ray E. Elwood, born Oct. 9, 1894. 
 
 786. Inpanx, horn May 9, 1899; died May 15, 1899. 
 
 787. Edgar E. Elwood, bom April 9, 1900. 
 
 Charles Arndt (420), only son of Alfred and Adeline 
 (Diefendorf) Arndt, bom March 2, 1877, on the old homestead 
 in Minden Township, Montgomery County, New York, and 
 continuously occupied by his ancestors for nearly a century and 
 a half, still resides thereon. He, his father, sister, and son are 
 the sole representatives of the family bearing the name of 
 Arndt in the Mohawk Valley. His elementary education was 
 received at the local schools and Fort Plain High School. He 
 entered a Boston School of Engineering and graduated as an 
 electrical engineer in 1901. Fihal duty, rather than inclination, 
 induced him to remain on the farm with his parents and he has 
 continued to operate the farm and never practised his pro- 
 fession. Mr. Arndt has been of great assistance to the com- 
 pilers of this work in gathering data in reference to the New 
 York branch of the family. He married, June 5, 1907, Mar- 
 garetta Fox Fonda, born at Gloversville, New York, April 6, 
 1885. She is a representative of the prominent family of 
 Fonda, which gave the name to the county seat of Mont- 
 gomery County. 
 
 Child of Charles and Margaretta (Fonda) Arndt 
 
 788. Robert Arndt, bom May 17, 1908. 
 
 John Rossiter Cotton (421), eldest son of Captain John 
 Winslow and Mary Budleman (Arndt) Cotton, born at Ply- 
 mouth, Massachusetts, July 6, 1826, died in Chicago, Illinois, 
 December 24, 1899. He was a deaf-mute but was for many 
 years in the employ of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway 
 
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 Company and resided in Chicago. He married, February 23, 
 1858, Carrie Augusta Redfern, born in Moline, Illinois, May 
 9, 1836; died in Chicago, December 31, 1900. 
 
 Children or John R. and Cariue A. (Redfeen) Cotton 
 
 789. Robert Anderson Cotton, bom July 21, 1861. 
 
 790. Frank Hathaway Cotton, bom Sept. 6, 1864, in Chicago, 111.; died 
 
 there Nov. 20, 1875. 
 
 791. John Cotton, Jr., bom Feb. 16, 1874.; died Nov. 26, 1875. 
 
 Elizabeth Aejstdt Cotton (422), eldest daughter of Captain 
 John W. and Mary B. (Amdt) Cotton, married Charles Royal 
 Tyler, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he died August 7, 1872, 
 and she on July 29, 1880. Charles Royal Tyler was a Quarter- 
 master in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was post- 
 master at Green Bay at the time of his death. 
 
 Children of Charles R. and Elizabeth Arndt (Cotton) Tyler 
 
 792. Augusta Ellis Tyler, bom ; married Pardee. 
 
 793. Louis Tyler. 
 
 794. WmSLOw Cotton Tyler, bom Dec. 23, 1851; married Mary Parker. 
 
 795. Jane Howe Tyler, bom 1854; died Dec. 29, 1879. 
 
 796. Pbiscilla Cotton Tyler, bom , 1862; died Sept. 12, 1872. 
 
 797. Julia Beaumont Tyler, died at age of three years. 
 
 798. Deane Tyler, bom ; married Walter B. Gueingin. 
 
 Peiscilla Jackson Cotton (423), daughter of Captain 
 John Winslow and Mary B. (Arndt) Cotton, born at Green 
 Bay, Wisconsin, July 4, 1833; died there June 30, 1855. She 
 married Colonel James Henry Howe, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, 
 attorney for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Com- 
 pany. He was bom at Turner, Maine, December 5, 1827, and 
 died at Kenosha September 10, 1887. He was Colonel of the 
 32d Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers. He was a nephew of 
 Hon. Timothy C. Howe, United States Senator from Wiscon- 
 sin, who also filled the position of Postmaster General. He 
 married as his second wife Mary Gordon Cotton, sister to his 
 deceased wife. 
 
 Mary Gordon Cotton (424), daughter of Captain John 
 
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 Winslow and Mary B. (Arndt) Cotton, born at Green Bay, 
 Wisconsin, August3i, 1836; died at Boston, Mass., January 4, 
 1893. She married, January 17, 1857, Colonel James Henry 
 Howe, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, widower of her sister Priscilla. 
 
 CmiDREN OF Colonel James Henry and Mary Gordon (Cotton) Howe 
 
 799. James Torrey Howe, bom Jan. 21, 1856; married Mary Talbot. 
 
 800. Elizabeth Tyler Howe, bom Oct. 15, 1861; married Arthur L. E. 
 
 Volkmen. 
 
 801. Richard Hunt Howe, bom Jan. 25, 1883; married Abigail Deering. 
 
 802. William Torrey Howe, bom July 9, 1865; died August 7, 1897; mar- 
 
 ried Mary Thompson. 
 
 Charles Aiustdt Cotton (425), yovmgest son of Captain 
 John Winslow and Mary (Arndt) Cotton, was born at Green 
 Bay, Wisconsin, August 6, 1845. He enlisted July 6, 1861, in 
 Company H, Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry, and was mustered in 
 at Racine, Wisconsin. His regiment was assigned to the Army 
 of the Potomac, and later saw active service at New Orleans, 
 Baton Rouge, and Port Hudson, Louisiana; Vicksburg, 
 Mississippi; and in the Red River Campaign. Mr. Arndt re- 
 ceived his honorable discharge at Baton Rouge, La., February 
 9, 1865. On his return home he entered the employ of the 
 Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company as engineer and 
 continued in their employ up to December i, 1911, when he 
 was retired on a pension, having run an engine over their 
 lines for forty-six years. He married, October 27, 1877, at 
 Chicago, Illinois, Allene Jane Kennedy, who was born at 
 Killarney, Ireland, December 19, 1859. Both are living at 
 Green Bay, Wisconsin. 
 
 Children of Charles Arndt and Allene Jane (Kennedy) Cotton 
 
 803. Elizabeth Schuyler Cotton, bom Feb. 4, 1879; married Prescott 
 Hunt Commings. 
 
 both drowned in Fox 
 
 804. John Rossiter Cotton, bom Nov. 7, 1880 
 
 805. James Kennedy Cotton, bom Nov. 29, 1882 
 
 806. Priscilla Arndt Cotton, bom Sept. 27, 1888. 
 
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 River at Green Bay 
 while skating, Nov. 
 2$, 1892. 
 
GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 Margaret Elizabeth Arndt (426), eldest daughter of 
 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Arndt, and his wife, Catharine 
 Ann Marsh, was bom in Green Bay, Wisconsin, March 5, 
 1836. She was six years of age at the date of the tragic 
 death of her father, and her mother soon afterward returning 
 to their native town of New Brunswick, New Jersey, taking her 
 children with her, they were reared in that town. 
 
 Margaret Elizabeth Arndt married, May 15, 1859, Jeremiah 
 Depew Field, a representative of a prominent family of New 
 Jersey and New York. 
 
 Cbiu) of Jeremiah Depew and Margaret Elizabeth (Arndt) Field 
 
 807. Martha Longstreet Field, bom Feb. 17, i860; married Samuel H. 
 
 McQuoid. 
 
 Joseph Manning Marsh Arndt (427), only son of Charles 
 Cotesworth Pinckney Arndt, and his wife, Catharine Ann 
 Marsh, was bom at Green Bay, Wisconsin, January 10, 1838. 
 He was a pioneer settler at Ellendale, a suburb of St. Louis, and 
 was active in the affairs of that section. He was struck by a 
 train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad at St. Louis, and died 
 from the injuries received on March 3, 1904. He married, 
 first, at St. Louis, Mo., October 3, 1859, Elizabeth Slater, who 
 was bom at St. Loxiis, January i, 1841, and died there Novem- 
 ber 28, 1883. He married, second, November 21, 1889, 
 Martha M. (Jones) Fife, a widow, bom at Dubuque, Iowa, 
 July 4, 1855. 
 
 Children of Joseph Manning Marsh and Elizabeth (Slater) Arndt 
 
 808. Maude Cotesworth Arndt, bom April 2, 1862; married Sherman 
 
 Henry Kleinschmidt. 
 
 809. Catharine Magdalena Arndt, bom Aug. g, 1864; married William 
 
 S. Thompson. 
 Child of Joseph Manning Marsh and Martha M. (Fife) Arndt 
 
 810. Joseph Manning Aendt, bom Sept. 15, 1890. 
 
 Edward Wilcox Arndt (430), eldest surviving son of John 
 Wallace and Mary Catharine (Wilcox) Amdt, was born at 
 
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 Green Bay in what was then Wisconsin Territory, February 8, 
 1845. He was educated in the public schools of Green Bay. 
 At the outbreak of the Civil War he attempted to enlist, but 
 was refused on account of underweight. Later, declining an 
 offer of a cadetship at Annapolis and a course at Yale, he en- 
 listed on October 18, 1861, when still in his sixteenth year, in 
 Company H, Twelfth Wisconsin Volunteers Infantry. This 
 regiment, one of the most famous of Wisconsin's fighting regi- 
 ments, won the title of the "Marching Twelfth " because, in the 
 course of its campaign, it covered almost every State in the 
 Confederacy. Edward Wilcox Arndt accompanied it in its 
 campaign in Missouri, Kansas, and the Southwest, and in the 
 operations east of the Mississippi which took in Kentucky, 
 Tennessee, and northern Mississippi. While engaged in build- 
 ing military roads through the Tennessee swamplands he con- 
 tracted a severe case of malarial fever and was invalided north, 
 being discharged from the service in March, 1863. After a 
 long convalescence and a short period in business his desire to 
 again enter the service of his country was renewed, and in Jan- 
 uary, 1865, he reenlisted in the Forty-seventh Wisconsin In- 
 fantry, serving until the regiment was mustered out at Ex- 
 change Barracks, Tennessee, September 4, 1865. 
 
 After his discharge he took a course at the Bryant and 
 Stratton Business College in Chicago, and returned to De Pere, 
 to which place his family had removed during the war. Here 
 he entered the flour mill of his grandfather, Randall Wilcox, 
 widely known as the "Stone Mill," and one of the first flour 
 mills built in Wisconsin. He remained in the milling business 
 at De Pere until 1888, and becoming after the death of Mr. 
 Wilcox, the managing head of the firm, which ran the mill 
 under different partnership names. 
 
 During the early years of his business life Edward Wilcox 
 Arndt entered actively into Republican poKtics, and became 
 
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 one of the leaders of his party in the state. For many years a 
 member of the Republican State Committee and of its execu- 
 tive committee, he was regularly a delegate to state conven- 
 tions, and was an alternate delegate to the Republican National 
 Convention at Chicago in 1880, and was elected a Presidential 
 Elector on the Blaine ticket in 1884. He was also several times 
 chairman of the Brown County Republican Committee and of 
 the Congressional Committee of his district. He refused nomi- 
 nations for state senator and for member of Congress. He 
 was, however, the first Republican candiate for mayor of 
 De Pere after it became a city, and served for many years on 
 its board of aldermen. 
 
 Long active in state and national organizations of flour mil- 
 lers, he was one of the foimders of the Millers Mutual Insurance 
 Company of Wisconsin and became its president. In 1888 he 
 retired from the milling business and undertook the manage- 
 ment of the insurance company whose offices were removed to 
 Milwaukee. This company was one of the most successful 
 mutual insurance companies in the country. In 1892 he re- 
 turned to the milling business, becoming general manager of 
 the Daisy Roller Mill Co. at Superior, Wisconsin. In 1894 he 
 made an extensive tour of England and northern Europe for 
 the purpose of making a survey of the American flour trade. 
 Shortly after his return he became New England Manager of 
 the United States Flour Milling Co., with offices in Boston. 
 After the dissolution of that company he remained in Boston, 
 establishing the firm of Arndt, Thompson and Co., flour com- 
 mission merchants, with offices in the Chamber of Commerce. 
 He was an active member of the Boston Chamber of Com- 
 merce and a member of its directorate. During this period he 
 resided at Arlington, Cambridge, and Medford. He was a 
 member of the Boston Whist Club and of the Medford Club, 
 and was one of the charter members of the Boston City Club. 
 
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 He was a Mason and both a Knight Templer and a Mystic 
 Shriner. 
 
 In 1916 he retired from active business, and after several 
 winters spent in the Bahamas and Florida, settled at Haines 
 City, Florida, where he built a beautiful home. The climate of 
 Florida not agreeing with his wife, he removed from Florida 
 to his old home in De Pere in 1919. In June of that year he 
 and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with 
 their son and daughter-in-law in New York. Edward Arndt 
 has always been a leader, and his counsel and advice have 
 been sought by political leaders and men of affairs. 
 
 He married, at De Pere, June 9, 1869, Mary Ellen Delany, 
 daughter of Dr. Edmund and Roobe Ann Tallmadge Delany, 
 of Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin. She had taught school in the 
 south under the direction of the Freedman's Bureau, and at 
 the time of her marriage was a teacher in a private school at 
 De Pere. She was a talented artist who later studied painting 
 at the Chicago Art Institute, and taught painting and drawing 
 at De Pere and other places. On her mother's side she was a 
 niece of Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, United States Senator from 
 New York, and last Territorial Governor of Wisconsin. 
 
 Child or Edward Wilcox and Mary Ellen (Delaney) Arndt 
 
 811. Walter Tallmadge Arndt, born Oct. 11, 1872; married, first, Ethel 
 Howard; second, Wilhelmina Helene Friedlander. 
 
 Elsie Morgan Arndt (431), eldest daughter of John Wal- 
 lace and Mary Catharine (Wilcox) Arndt, was born at Green 
 Bay, Wisconsin, November 27, 1846. She married at De Pere, 
 Wisconsin, September 5, 1866, Charles Augustus Lawton, 
 many years proprietor of an extensive foundry and machine 
 shop at De Pere. He was born at Pottsville, Penna., Decem- 
 ber 16, 1844, and was a son of Joseph C. and Ellen Vercine 
 (Baird) Lawton. The Lawton family was prominent in the 
 early history of New York. Charles A. Lawton was educated 
 
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 in the pubKc schools of Green Bay. He enKsted during the 
 Civil War in the Forty-seventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 
 serving with it in Kentucky and Tennessee. After the war he 
 settled in De Pere, where he was in business with his father. 
 Later he estabhshed a foimdry and machine shop, continuing 
 in that business with great success until his death. At the time 
 of his death it was one of the largest and most successful indus- 
 trial establishments of its kind in the Fox River Valley. 
 Charles Lawton was a Thirty-second Degree Mason. He was 
 several times master of the De Pere Lodge, and was an officer 
 of the Grand Lodge, of Warren Chapter No. 8, and Palestine 
 Commandery No. 20, of Green Bay. He was also a mem- 
 ber of the Wisconsin Consistory and the Tripoli Temple, 
 A.A.O.M.M.S. He died at Nassau, Bahama Islands, March 8, 
 1917, where he was spending the winter with his wife. 
 
 Children or Charles Augustus and Elsie Morgan (Arndt) Lawton 
 
 815. Edward Wilcox Lawton, bom August 20, 1867; married Helen Davis. 
 
 816. Ellen Bated Lawton, bom April 19, 1869; married Francisco H. Wil- 
 
 son. 
 
 Emily Hayes Arndt (432), second daughter of John Wal- 
 lace and Mary (Wilcox) Arndt, was born at De Pere, Wiscon- 
 sin, March 26, 1848, and died at Alhambra, CaUfomia, August 
 2, 1909. She married at De Pere, Wisconsin, September 7, 
 1869, Peter Schell Loy, who was born at Schellsbiirg, Bedford 
 Co., Penna., June 10, 1846, and was a son of David M. and Ann 
 Rebecca Schell Loy. Mr. Loy removed with his parents from 
 Bedford County, Peima., to De Pere, Brown County, Wiscon- 
 sin, in September, 1847, when he was but fifteen months old. 
 He continued to reside at De Pere until 1897, with the excep- 
 tion of a brief period when he was employed as a clerk in 
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1863, and later for a like brief 
 period when he was employed at Fort Howard, Wisconsin. At 
 an early age he was a clerk in a general store at De Pere for 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 three or four years. He then learned the tin and coppersmith 
 trade, and after a three years' apprenticeship, started a shop 
 of his own. He was for a time engaged in the lumber business 
 with his brother, under the firm name of EUwood Loy & Co. 
 In 1869 he started a hardware store in De Pere, which he 
 operated until 1887, when he again engaged in the lumber 
 business, together with contract construction work in north 
 Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. He was also for a time 
 engaged in the real estate business in Milwaukee, selling what 
 was known as "cut-over land" in Michigan and Wisconsin. 
 He removed later to Alhambra, California, where he still re- 
 sides. During his residence in De Pere he filled a number of 
 local offices in that city, including that of a member of City 
 Council and City Treasurer. 
 
 Children op Peter Schell and Emily Hayes (Arndt) Loy 
 
 817. Charlotte Watson Loy, bom Sept. 14, 1871; married Jacob Edward 
 
 Drescher. 
 8x8. Mary Wilcox Loy, bom March 10, 1873; married Dr. Vet S. Baird. 
 819. Anna Rebecca Schell Loy, born Dec. 31, 1878; married Chas. David 
 Harmon. 
 
 Mary Catharine Arndt (433), third daughter of John 
 Wallace and Mary Catharine (Wilcox) Arndt, was born No- 
 vember 28, 1849, at Green Bay, Wisconsin. She married at 
 De Pere, Wisconsin, October 7, 1874, James Reed Shepard. 
 He was born at Westfield, Mass., September 28, 1843, and 
 died at De Pere, Wis., September 22, 1905. He was the grand- 
 son of General William Shepard, an officer of the French and 
 Indian War, and the Revolution, who had a part in putting 
 down Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts after the Revolu- 
 tion. James Reed Shepard moved to Wisconsin with his 
 parents when he was fourteen years old and settled at Menasha. 
 He was prevented from entering the army at the outbreak of 
 the Civil War by a severe gunshot wound received in hunting, 
 but finally, after several attempts, he was accepted and en- 
 
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GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 listed in Company D, Forty-first Wisconsin Volunteer In- 
 fantry. He was appointed a corporal and served with his 
 regiment in several campaigns in the South, participating in 
 the defeat of Morgan's attack on Memphis. After his return 
 from the Civil War he engaged in the manufacturing of excel- 
 sior and broom-handles at De Pere, and later at Minneapolis. 
 In later Ufe he was a contractor and bmlder at De Pere. He 
 was an ardent Republican and always took a lively interest 
 in the affairs of his party and of the coromunity. 
 
 Childeen of James Reed and Maky Catharine (Aekdt) Shepard 
 
 820. Elizabeth Howe Shepard, bom August 23, 1878; married Wm. H. 
 
 Lough. 
 
 821. Colin Reed Shepard, bom May 10, 1883; died Sept. 20, 1906. 
 
 Alice Aendt (436), daughter of John Wallace and Mary 
 Catharine (Wilcox) Arndt, was bom at Green Bay, Wis., May 
 8, 1854, and married at De Pere, Wis., June 10, 1874, Thomas 
 Donbel Bowring. He was bom at Reigate, Sussex Co., Eng- 
 land, January 13, 1841, and came to this country when a young 
 man. He was a photographer at De Pere, and at one time 
 filled the office of City Treasurer of that city. He died there 
 September 7, 1897. 
 
 CmiDEEN OF Thomas Donbel and Alice (Arndt) Bowring 
 
 822. Alice Irene Bowring, bom Jan. .1, 1876; married Oliver Evans. 
 
 823. Thomas Reuben Bowring, bom Jan. 3, 1878; married Irene Rivers 
 
 Chase. 
 823a. Randall Bowring, bom Jan. 19, 1880; died Jan. 14, 1883. 
 
 824. William Wallace Bowring, bom April 3, 1884; married Mary Louise 
 
 Hunter. 
 
 825. Elsie Arndt Bowring, bom Nov. 24, 1890. 
 
 Randall Wilcox Aekdt (437), youngest son of John Wal- 
 lace and Mary Catharine (Wilcox) Amdt, was bom at Green 
 Bay, Wis., March 9, 1856. He was for a number of years asso- 
 ciated with his brother, Edward Wilcox Amdt, in the milling 
 business in Brown County, Wis., and later removed to Kansas 
 
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 City, Mo., where he is manager of large flouring mills in that 
 city, and at Great Bend, Kansas. He married, at De Pere, 
 Wis., December 23, 1878, Annie Courtney Ash, who was 
 born at Delaware City, Del., December 16, 1858. 
 
 Children op Randall Wilcox and Annie CotTRiNEy (Ash) Arndt 
 
 826. Reuben Field Aendt, born July 31, 1881; married Louisa Augusta 
 
 MacKimmon. 
 
 827. John Philip Arndt, born Feb. 15, 1883; married Mary Elizabeth Fish. 
 
 828. Jessie Ash Arndt, bom Nov. 2, 1899, at Neenah, Wis. 
 
 Martha Ann Arndt (439), youngest daughter of John 
 Wallace and Mary Catharine (Wilcox) Arndt, was born at 
 Green Bay, Wis., May 29, 1859, and married at De Pere, Wis., 
 August 2, 1882, John Franklin Byers, who was born at West 
 Middlesex, Penna., May 15, 1853. 
 
 Child of John Franklin and Martha Ann (Arndt) Byers 
 
 828a. Lawrence Byers, bom at Minneapolis, Minn., October s, 1895; died 
 there May i8, 1904. 
 
 Mary Eastman (440), eldest daughter of Colonel Harry 
 Eugene and Ehzabeth Margaret (Arndt) Eastman, was born 
 at Green Bay, Wis., September 26, 1844; was living at 
 Veterans Home, Waupaca Co., Wis., in 1914. She married at 
 Green Bay, Wis., September 26, 1866, Dr. George A. Lamb, a 
 practising physician at Green Bay, later at Benton Harbor, 
 Michigan, where he died March i, 1883. He was born at 
 Wayne, Ashtabula County, Ohio, July i, 1837, and was a son 
 of Allan Davis and Joanna (Beebe) Lamb. He was Assistant 
 Surgeon of the Fortieth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, 
 during the Civil War. 
 
 Children of Dr. George A. and May (Eastman) Lamb 
 
 829. Grace Eastman Lamb, born April 23, 1869; married Wm. Ransom Hol- 
 
 brook. 
 
 830. Eugenia Eastman Lamb, bom March 27, 1873; married Edward 
 
 Robert Nelson. 
 
 Grace Eastman (441), second daughter of Colonel Harry 
 
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GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 Eugene and Elizabeth Margaret (Amdt) Eastman, was bom 
 at Green Bay, Wis., January 9, 1847, and died at Minneapolis, 
 Miss., October 14, 191 1. She married at Kenosha, Wis., 
 April 15, 1868, John Mahan Norris, who was bom at Buenos 
 Ayres, South America, May 7, 1844, now a retired business 
 man residing in Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Children of John Mahan and Grace (Eastman) Norms 
 
 831. May Elizabeth Norris, bom September 28, 1869; married Samuel L. 
 
 Sewall. 
 
 832. John Mahan Norris, Jr., bom May 6, 1873, at Green Bay, Wis., a 
 
 fmit famier at Driville, Wash. He is unmarried. 
 
 Belle Eastman (442), third daughter of Colonel Harry 
 Eugene and Elizabeth Margaret (Amdt) Eastman, born at 
 Green Bay, Wis., January 17, 1850, and was still Kving recently 
 at Benton Harbor, Mich. She married, at Benton Harbor, 
 Mich., September 8, 1880, Walter Harold Woodruff, who was 
 bom at Pensaukee, Wis., July 31, 1855. He was for some 
 years a resident of Green Bay, owning and residing on the old 
 Captain Cotton farm. He later became president and man- 
 ager of the Eastman's Springs resort at Benton Harbor, 
 Michigan. 
 
 Children of Walter Harold and Belle (Eastman) Woodruff 
 
 833. Sarah Mahan Woodruff, bom September 13, 1881; married Mathias 
 
 Mayer. 
 
 834. Robert Eastman Woodruff, bom Sept. 11, 1884; married Beatrice 
 
 Louise Bruck. 
 
 835. Margaret Eastman Woodruff, bom April 27, 1891; married Dr. 
 
 Frank Carey Boardman. 
 
 Benjamin Ralph Eastman (444), fifth child and second 
 son of Colonel Harry Eugene and Elizabeth Margaret (Amdt) 
 Eastman, was born at Green Bay, Wis., December 13, 1855. 
 He married, at Benton Harbor, Mich., September 26, 1883, 
 Lettie Belle Sherwood, who was born at Fond du Lac, Wis., 
 January 27, 1864, and they still reside at Benton Harbor. 
 
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 Children of Benjamin Ralph and Lettis Belle (Sherwood) Eastman 
 
 836. Ruth Eastman, bom July 12, 1884; died unmarried April i, igoi. 
 
 837. Jane Elizabeth Eastman, bom August 25, 1885; married Clarence 
 
 William Chaddock. 
 
 838. Harry Eugene Eastman, born at Benton Harbor, Mich., May 23, 1902. 
 
 Ella Maude Eastman (445), sixth and youngest child of 
 Colonel Harry Eugene and Elizabeth Margaret (Arndt) East- 
 man, born at Green Bay, Wis., April 6, i860, married at 
 Benton Harbor, Mich., June 21, 1893, Seeley McCord, who 
 was born at Poho, 111., June 15, 1853. He is a farmer and 
 real estate dealer in Benton Harbor, Mich. 
 
 Children op Seeley and Ella Maude (Eastman) McCoed 
 
 839. Harriet Elizabeth McCord, bom at Benton Harbor, Mich., Dec. 21, 
 
 1895. 
 
 840. Mary Gertrude McCord, born at Benton Harbor, Mich., Jan. 4, 1898. 
 
 841. Eugene Eastman McCord, born at Benton Harbor, Mich., May 10, 
 
 1900; died there Dec. 31, 1902. 
 
 Cyrus Aendt (446), son of Jacob and Sarah Ann (Shields) 
 Arndt, born August 15, 1846, in Mansfield Township, Warren 
 County, New Jersey. He was educated for the law and fol- 
 lowed that profession for many years in Missouri Valley, 
 Iowa. He became Superintendent of the Keely Institute at 
 Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and was so engaged in 1913. About 
 that date his health became impaired, and he removed further 
 West, but died shortly thereafter. 
 
 John Stover Arndt (448), son of Rev. Ralph Stover and 
 Sarah (King) Arndt, born at Paterson, N. J., August 21, 
 i860. He was educated at public and private schools, in 
 Northern New Jersey; entered New York University, Depart- 
 ment of Arts, in September, 1878; graduated June, 1882, with 
 degree of A. B.; orator at Commencement; awarded degree 
 of A. M. in 1885; member of Zeta Psi fraternity; reporter 
 Pittsburgh Telegraph, 1882; Railroad reporter Philadelphia 
 Inquirer, 1883-1889; Financial Editor, Inquirer, 1889-1899. 
 
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GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 In 1899 made journey by sea to Rotterdam, by boat on Rhine 
 to Bingen, by raikoad and wagon to Baiunholder, thence by 
 rail and carriage to Woerpen. Director Merion Title and Trust 
 Co., of Ardmore, Pa., 1901-. Vice-President same 1915- 
 20; Director at various times of several other corporations. 
 Member Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania 
 German Society, etc.. Member of University and Art Clubs, 
 Philadelphia. Married, December 15, 1887, Jessie W. 
 Stephens, daughter of Jacob W. Stephens, of New York. 
 Residence, 924 CHnton Street, Philadelphia. He is the author 
 of this book. 
 
 De Witt Ten Broeck Reiley (451), eldest son of Rev. 
 William Reiley, D.D., and his wife, Mary Eleanor Ten Broeck, 
 was born at Hurley, New York, July 23, 1838. He graduated 
 at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., in the class of 1857, 
 and was acting professor of Latin at Rutgers, 1860-61, and 
 professor of language and literature, 1861-85. He also 
 served as librarian for the college, 1863 to 1871. He was 
 licensed to preach in 1866, and was rector of Rutgers Gram- 
 mar School, 1868-1874 and 1876-1883. He was superinten- 
 dent of pubKc schools for Middlesex County, N. J., 1867- 
 1868, and was Mayor of New Brunswick, 1879-1880. He 
 was United States Consul at Athens, Greece, 1884-1885, and 
 after his return to the United States Uved retired in New York 
 City, where he died August 6, 1900. 
 
 He married, at New Brunswick, N. J., July 6, 1864, Kath- 
 arine Van Beuren Campbell, born at Flatbush, Kings County, 
 N. Y., August 16, 1836, daughter of WiUiam Henry and 
 Katharine Elsie (Schoonmaker) Campbell. 
 
 Children of De Witt Ten Broeck and Katharine Van Beuren (Camp- 
 bell) Reiley 
 
 843. William Campbell Reiley, bom April 13, 1865; died March 31, 1871. 
 
 844. De Witt Van Dyke Reiley, bom May 10, 1866; married Sarah Barre 
 
 Strong. 
 
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 845. Alan Campbell Reiley, bom Dec. 7, 1869; married Carolyn Loretta 
 
 Goodale. 
 
 846. Willaed Scheemerhokn Reiley, bom Sept. 27, 1871; died Feb. 8, 
 
 1915; married Eloise Ingalls Middleton. 
 
 847. Katharine Campbell Reiley, bom August 13, 1873. 
 
 848. Eleanor Ten Broeck Reiley, born August 2, 1875. 
 
 849. Austin Ditckfield Reiley, bom March 18, 1878; living at 32 Nassau 
 
 St., N. Y.; unmarried. 
 
 850. Anna Campbell Reiley, bom April 30, 1882; living at 32 Nassau St., 
 
 N. Y.; unmarried. 
 
 William R:eiley (452), second son of Rev. William Reiley, 
 D.D., and his wife, Mary Eleanor Ten Broeck, was born at 
 Holmdel, New Jersey, December 21, 1845. He graduated 
 from Rutgers College in the class of 1866, and received the 
 degree of A.M. at the same institution in 1869. He studied 
 law in the ofi&ce of Ex-Governor Peter D. Vroom, in Trenton, 
 N. J., and was admitted to practice in the courts of New Jersey 
 in June, 1869. He was surrogate of Middlesex County, N. J., 
 1872 to 1882. He retired from the active practice of law 
 several years ago, and is living retired in New Brunswick, N. J. 
 
 He married, at Hartford, Connecticut, December 3, 1873, 
 Mrs. Augusta M. WiUiamson, nee Stover, daughter of William 
 and Delia A. (Moulthrop) Stover. They had no children. 
 
 Emma Reiley (455), daughter of Burroughs and Mary 
 (Hughes) Reiley, born at Harmony, New Jersey, January 12, 
 1849; married, at Phillipsburg, N. J., October 13, 1870, 
 Theodore Mellick, of an eminent New Jersey family. He 
 was born at Carpentersville, N. J., August 9, 1845. They 
 reside at Bloomsbury, Warren County, New Jersey. 
 
 Children of Theodore and Emma (Reiley) Mellick 
 
 851. Mary Reiley Mellick, born Oct. 28, 1871; died April 26, 1873. 
 
 852. Katharine Mellick, bom March 19, 1873; married William A. Fulmer, 
 
 and has issue: John F. Fulmer, bom" July, 1895; Emily M. Fulmer, 
 bom June, 1899; married Oct. 18, 1919, James Joseph Nelson, Jr. 
 
 853. Blanche Mellick, born August 9, 1875; married Louis Anderson, Jr., 
 
 and had issue: Marie Louise Anderson, bom Nov. 26, 1911. 
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GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 854. Gertrude Mattd Mellick, bom May 8, 1878; married, first, Harry W. 
 
 Hurlburt; second, Thomas Dore. 
 
 855. William Mellick, bom July 7, 187 1; married Adella Heiney. 
 
 856. Leah May Mellick, bom Feb. 18, 1891; died August 14, 1891. 
 
 Elizabeth Lander (458), daughter of Major John and 
 Mary (Reiley) Lander, born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, 
 married James A. Petrie, M.D. They resided in Phillipsburg, 
 where Mrs. Petrie has continued to reside since her husband's 
 death. They traveled extensively abroad, visiting practically 
 every civiKzed part of the globe. Mrs. Petrie has a large, 
 varied and valuable collection of curios gathered in her travels, 
 including rare and beautiful specimens of plate, china and 
 glassware and bric-a-brac covering a wide range. They had 
 no children. 
 
 Mary Lander (459), daughter of Major John and Mary 
 (Reiley) Lander, bom in PhilUpsburg, New Jersey, married 
 Jacob S. Stewart of that place, where they still reside. 
 
 Children of Jacob S. and Mary (Lander) Stewart 
 
 857. Mary Stewart, married George W. Griffith and had issue: George 
 
 Stewart Griffith, married Katharine Patton. Marjorie Stewart, mar- 
 ried Lee Summerville Rushing. 
 
 858. Grace Lander Stewart, married Charles Middleby; no issue. 
 
 859. Beulah Sophia Stewart, married Frank Lee Saddler, and had issue: 
 
 Jocelyn Elizabeth Saddler. 
 
 860. John Lander Stewart, unmarried. 
 
 Elizabeth Reiley (460), fourth child of Rev. John Arndt 
 and Ann (Carroll) Reiley, born at Blairstown, Warren County, 
 N. J., January 25, 1852, was educated at Blair Hall, Blairs- 
 town, N. J., and Oxford Female Institute, Oxford, Ohio. 
 She accompanied her parents to Louisiana in 1866, and died 
 there at Oak Grove Plantation, now Blairstown, East FeUciana 
 Parish, La., October 23, 1878, having sacrificed her Ufe in going 
 from her own home at Nesom Plantation to help nurse her 
 father and sisters in an epidemic of yellow fever. She married 
 
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 at Oak Grove Plantation, December 9, 1874, James T. Nesom, 
 Jr., of Nesom Plantation, of the same parish, where he was 
 born April 20, 1847, and was a son of James and Emily (Hol- 
 den) Nesom. He died at El Paso, Texas. 
 
 ■ Children of James T. and Elizabeth (Reiley) Nesom 
 
 861. Anne Reiley Nesom, bom May 30, 1876, on Nesom Plantation, East 
 
 Feliciana Parish, La.; educated at Blair Hall, Blairstown, N. J., and 
 National Training School, Y. W. C. A., New York City; General 
 Secretary of Y. W. C. A., served in Jaclisonville, Fla., New Orleans, 
 La., and St. Joseph, Mo., since 191 2. (Residence, 1919, St. Joseph, 
 Mo.) 
 
 862. Ida Baldwin Nesom, bom Feb. 16, 1878; died Oct. 25, 1878. 
 
 George Junkin Reiley (461), fifth child of Rev. John 
 Arndt and Ann (Carroll) Reiley, born at Blairstown, N. J., 
 March 16, 1854, went with his parents to Chnton, East Feli- 
 ciana Parish, Louisiana, when twelve years of age, and still 
 resides there. He has served as postmaster of the city of 
 Clinton for several terms, also as a member of the dty council 
 and as mayor of the city for one term. He has held con- 
 sistently to the poUtical faith of his father, and was the 
 RepubHcan candidate for Congress from the Sixth Congres- 
 sional District of Louisiana in 1896, and also has been delegate 
 to a number of National Republican Conventions. He was 
 Supervisor of the Census of 19 10. He is a Past Master of the 
 Masonic Lodge at Chnton. 
 
 He married November 7, 1877, Mary Sophia Dunn, daugh- 
 ter of U. H. and M. A. (Bortick) Dunn, of Clinton, La., where 
 she was born March 12, 1856. 
 
 Children of George J. and Mary Sophia (Dunn) Reiley 
 
 both are living on Oak 
 Grove Plantation, E. 
 Feliciania Parish, La., 
 and are successful 
 farmers. 
 
 865. Amy Carroll Reiley, born August 7, 1881; married Dr. Joe S. Jones. 
 
 314 
 
 863. John Arndt Reiley, born Oct. 20, 1878 
 
 864. Henry Dunn Reiley, bom March 12, 1880 
 
GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 866. Edwaed Carroll Reiley, bom Dec. i8, 1882; married Hilda May 
 
 Richardson. 
 
 867. MaryTrimbleReiley, bom June4, 1884; married Dr. Tliomas S. Jones. 
 
 868. Elizabeth Reiley, bom April 29, 1886; married Dr. Jesse H. Mc- 
 
 Clendon. 
 
 869. Lillian RErLEY, bom March 24, 1888, a school teacher in Baton Rouge, 
 
 La.; uimiarried. 
 
 870. George Junkin Reiley, Jr., bom Dec. 27, 1890. 
 
 Hon. John I. Blair Reiley (462), eighth child of Rev. 
 John Arndt and Ann (Carroll) Reiley, born at Blairstown, 
 Warren County, New Jersey, February 5, 1856; received his 
 early education at Blair Presbyterian Academy, now called 
 Blair Hall, of which his father was one of the founders. In 
 the fall of 1866 he went with his parents to CKnton, Feliciana 
 Parish, Louisiana, and that was the place of his abode until 
 the death of his father in 1878, except when away at school 
 and college. In January, 1879, he located in PhiUipsburg, 
 New Jersey, where he has since resided. 
 
 He graduated at Princeton College with the degree of A. B. 
 in 1878, and received the degree of A. M. at the same college 
 in 1 88 1. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey at the 
 November term of the Supreme Court in 1881, and has been 
 in active practice of his profession at PhiUipsburg until his 
 elevation to the bench in 1 918. He was Prosecutor of the 
 Pleas for Warren County, from 1906 to 1911; attorney for 
 the board of Education of PhiUipsburg, 1884-1918, and attor- 
 ney for the town of PhiUipsburg from 1900 to 1918, resigning 
 both the latter positions when appointed President Judge of 
 the Court of Common Pleas of Warren County, April i, 1918. 
 
 Judge Blair has always taken an active interest in pubUc 
 affairs. He was postmaster of PhilUpsburg from 1882 to 1886, 
 and from 1890 to 1894. He was alternate delegate at large 
 to the Repubhcan National Convention at Philadelphia in 
 1896; candidate for congress in the Fourth Congressional 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 District of New Jersey in 1898 ; member of the Warren County 
 Republican Committee, and its president for many years; 
 a member of the State Republican Committee of New Jersey 
 for Warren County for nine years, and its secretary for three 
 years, and delegate to the Republican National Convention 
 at Chicago for the Sixth Congressional District of New Jersey 
 in 1916. 
 
 Judge Blair married at Phillipsburg, November 28, 1883, 
 Jessie Benton Teel, daughter of Lewis Marshall and Eliza 
 (Kline) Teel, of Phillipsburg, where she was bom November 5, 
 1856. 
 
 Children of J. I. Blair and Jessie B. (Teel) Reiley 
 
 871. Claire Lovell Reiley, born Sept. 28, 1884; married John Milton 
 Guthrie, Jr. 
 
 872. J. I. Blair Reiley, Jr., bom June 7, 1890. 
 
 873. Margaret Kline Reiley, born March 2, 1892; died July 5, 1894. 
 
 Mary Trimble Reiley (463), seventh child of Rev. John 
 Arndt and Ann (Carroll) Reiley, born at Blairstown, Warren 
 County, New Jersey, May 17, 1858, removed with her parents 
 to Louisiana in 1866. She received her primary education at 
 home and at the Silliman Collegiate Institute at Clinton, 
 Louisiana. In September, 1875, she entered the State Normal 
 School at Trenton, New Jersey, from which she was graduated 
 on June 27, 1878, with the highest honors, "having," says 
 one of her teachers, Miss Harriet Mathews, in a short account 
 of her hfe in a book of Miss Reiley 's poems, "given in her 
 scholarship and original work evidence of being the most 
 gifted student of whom the Normal School has record." She 
 returned to her home in Louisiana and died there of yellow 
 fever October 16, 1878. 
 
 The book above referred to, entitled "Mary T. Reiley's 
 Poems," was edited by Miss Harriet Mathews, and published 
 by Naer, Day and Barr, Trenton, N. J., in 1880, about a year 
 
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 after Miss Reiley's death. In the short history of the author's 
 hfe prepared by Miss Mathews, from which the above Knes 
 are quoted, Miss Mathews further says of Miss Reiley: 
 
 She began to write when very young. Most of her early 
 poems are without date and many of them have been lost. 
 There is a Kttle poem addressed to her mother, written at the 
 age of eleven. "Weaving" was written at fifteen; "Voices" 
 was begtm at sixteen and finished three years after. Nearly 
 all of the poems were written during the last three years of 
 her life. Her humor was fine and delicate and though not one 
 of the strongest elements of her poetical power hardly finds a 
 sufficient representation in her printed work. Her last work, 
 "Unnamed," was written during the latter part of Jxily and 
 August, 1878. Besides the book, entitled "Mary T. Reiley's 
 Poems," while in school at Trenton she wrote a nxunber of 
 poems which were published in the Newark Independent, and 
 there are many others which have never been pubhshed. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln Reiley (465), ninth child of Rev. John 
 Amdt and Ann (Carroll) Reiley, bom at Blairstown, Warren 
 County, N. J., October 4, 1864, was but two years old when 
 his parents removed to a plantation in East Feliciana Parish, 
 Louisiana. In the simimer of 1875 he was sent north to be- 
 come a student at Blair HaU, in Blairstown, New Jersey. 
 His father died in 1878, and in the spring of 1879 his mother 
 located in PhiLipsburg, N. J., which town has since been his 
 home. At the age of fifteen years he secured employment as 
 errand boy in a large furniture factory in Easton. Employing 
 his spare time and evenings in study, he was soon transferred 
 to the office of his employer, and within two years became chief 
 bookkeeper of the concern. In 1882 he obtained a position in 
 the post office at PhiUipsbturg, N. J., and later in the office of the 
 Morris Canal Company. After a short period of emplojonent 
 in each of these places he secured a position in the joint office of 
 John L. Riegel & Son and the Warren Manufacturing Com- 
 
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 pany, both manufacturers of paper, where he was employed 
 until 1887. In the latter year he obtained a position in the 
 Phillipsburg National Bank, and served that institution for 
 twenty-three years, resigning the position of assistant cashier 
 in 191 1 to accept employment with the Warren Foundry and 
 Machine Company of Phillipsburg, with which he is still con- 
 nected, filling the of&ce of secretary since 1914. 
 
 Mr. Reiley was one of the organizers of the Phillipsburg 
 Trust Company, and has been the chairman of its executive 
 committee since its organization. He is the author of the 
 Banker's Maturity Calendar for the use of bankers and busi- 
 ness men in determining the date of maturity of notes and the 
 number of days for which interest or discount is charged. 
 He is a charter member of Phillipsburg Chapter of the Ameri- 
 can Red Cross, and has been a member of its executive com- 
 mittee since its organization, serving it as secretary and 
 treasurer. He was an active supporter of the government 
 during the world war in all measures devised to win the war, 
 serving on committees to float the five war loans and to raise 
 funds for the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., and Salvation Army, 
 Knights of Columbus, and the United War-work Relief Fund. 
 
 He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, Past Master of Dela- 
 ware Lodge, No. 52, of Phillipsburg. He is also Past Deputy 
 Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of New Jersey. 
 
 Mr. Reiley is, and always has been, an ardent Republican 
 in politics, and is now treasurer of the Warren County Repub- 
 lican Committee. 
 
 He married at Easton, Pa., October 7, 1896, Lucy Fisher 
 Rodenbough, daugher of Samuel Leigh and Ann (Shotwell) 
 Rodenbough. She was born in Easton, November 14, 1864. 
 
 Children op A. Lincoln and Lucy F. (Rodenbough) Reiley 
 
 874. Josephine Carroll Reiley, born Aug. 25, 1879; educated at public 
 schools of Phillipsburg, N. J.; Easton Academy, Easton, Pa.; Chip- 
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 pewa Mountain Institute, L. I.; entered Mount Holyoke College, 
 Sept., igis, but left college in her third year, to take part in patriotic 
 work during the World War. After passing the civil service examina- 
 tion for departmental work at Washington, D. C, too impatient to 
 wait for an assignment, she entered the University Hospital at Phila- 
 delphia to prepare herself to nurse sick and wounded soldiers. After 
 the armistice was signed, Nov. 21, 1918, and the need for army nurses 
 was at an end, she abandoned the training and is living at her home in 
 Phillipsburg. 
 
 875. Edward Leigh Reiley, bom Dec. 29, 1899; graduated from Phillips- 
 
 burg High School, 191 7; enlisted in the U. S. Army at Fort Slocum, 
 N. Y., May 8, 191 7, and was assigned to Battery L, Seventh Regi- 
 ment, C. A. C, and sent to Fort Hamilton, N. Y., for training; sailed 
 for France with his division August 18, 191 7, Battery C, 42d Artillery, 
 C. A. C, and saw active service in the Champagne Sector, Battle of 
 Mesnil, offensive Feb. 13, 1918; and in the San Mihiel offensive, 
 Sept. 12, to Sept. 16, 1918, and in subsequent activities up to the sign- 
 ing of the armistice. He returned to the United States Feb. 18, 1919, 
 and was discharged at Camp Eustice, Virginia, March i, 1919. 
 
 He matriculated at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., September, 
 1919, and is pursuing a com-se in mechanical engineering. He is a 
 member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity. 
 
 Sakah McCoemick Foresman (470), eldest child of Rev. 
 Robert and EKzabeth (Reiley) Foresman, born at Lower 
 Mount Bethel, Northampton Coxmty, Pa., April 28, 1855, 
 was educated at Mt. Holyoke College. She married Rev. 
 James Allen Menaid, son of Matthew and Ann (Allen) Menaul, 
 born in Tyrone, Ireland, December 28, 1889; graduated from 
 Lafayette CoUege in the class of '72, and studied theology 
 at the Western Theological Seminary, 187 2-1875. He was 
 licensed to preach by the Allegheny Presbytery, October, 
 1874, and ordained by the Presbytery of Butler, November 
 16, 1875. He was stated supply and synodical missionary at 
 Albuquerque, New Me3dco, 1881-1897, and died there March 
 14, 1897. Mrs. Menaid is now (1919) living in Chicago. 
 
 Chiijdeen of Rev. James and Sakah McCobmick (Foresman) Menaul 
 
 876. Mary Menaux, bom July 4, 1877; married David A. Lawson, and had 
 
 issue: David Lawson, Jr., bom 1914. 
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 877. Anna Elizabeth Menaul, born April 21, 1879; unmarried, living at 
 
 home in 1919. 
 
 878. Robert Foresman Menattl, bom July 4, 1880; married Irene Rice, 
 
 and is living in Columbus, Ohio. They have issue: SaUie Menaul, 
 bom igi6. 
 
 879. Allen Bryan Menaul, born Aug. 26, 1886; died May 16, 1887. 
 
 880. James Austin Menaul, bom March 26, 1888; unmarried, living at 
 
 home. 
 
 Robert Foresman (471), second child of Rev. Robert and 
 Elizabeth (Reiley) Foresman, born at Lower Mt. Bethel, 
 Northampton County, Pa., November 9, 1856; was a student 
 at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., in the class of 1879, but 
 left college at the close of his freshman year and engaged in 
 teaching. He was for a brief period connected with a pub- 
 lishing house in Chicago, but later removed to Montclair, 
 New Jersey, where he now (1919) resides and is engaged in 
 the making of phonograph records. He married Edith 
 Holmes. 
 
 Children of Robert and Edith (Holmes) Foresman 
 
 881. Robert Foresman, 3d 
 
 882. Donald Foresman 
 
 883. Allan Foresman 
 
 Mary Foresman (471a), third child of Rev. Robert and 
 Elizabeth (Reiley) Foresman, born at Lower Mt. Bethel, 
 Northampton Cotmty, Pa., March ii, 1859; married J. E. 
 Bard, and they reside at Slippery Rock, Butler County, Pa. 
 
 Children oe J. E. and Mary (Foresman) Bard 
 
 884. John Bard, died young. 
 
 885. Alice Bard. 
 
 886. Sarah Bard. 
 
 887. Hugh Bard. 
 
 Elizabeth Lander Foresman (473), fifth child of Rev. 
 Robert and Elizabeth (Reiley) Foresman, born at Lower Mt. 
 Bethel, Northampton County, Pa., December 24, 1863; died 
 in Chicago, Illinois, April 5, 1893. She married at Johnsburg, 
 
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 New Jersey, November, 1886, Charles E. Griffith, son of G. 
 W. E. and Priscilla (Horbach) Griffith. He was bom in 
 Minneola, Kansas, October 30, 1861. They had issue, one 
 child only: 
 
 888. Helen Fokesman Griffith, bom Dec. 4, 1888; married Charles M. 
 
 Alderson, and has issue: Elizabeth Burton Alderson, bom Jan. 15, 
 1918. 
 
 William Coates Foresman (474), sixth child of Rev. 
 Robert and Elizabeth (Reiley) Foresman, born at Lower Mt. 
 Bethel, Northampton County, Pa., October 14, 1865, was a 
 student at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., in the class of 1888, 
 during the freshman and sophomore years. He went to Chi- 
 cago and became associated with the firm of Silver, Burdett 
 & Co., publishers, and in 1896 became a member of the firm 
 of Scott, Foresman & Co., publishers, at 623-633 South 
 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, of which he is secretary and treas- 
 urer. 
 
 He married, November 16, 1892, Elizabeth Parsons, daugh- 
 ter of Charles A. and Mary (Buckman) Parsons, of Penn 
 Valley, Bucks County, Pa., and they reside at 378 Wabash 
 Avenue, Chicago. They have one child: 
 
 889. Elizabeth Foresman, bom June 7, 1895. 
 
 Hugh Austin Foresman (475), seventh and youngest child 
 of Rev. Robert and Elizabeth (Reiley) Foresman, born at 
 Middaugh, Northampton County, Pa., July 8, 1867; gradu- 
 ated at Lafayette College in the class of '87, with the degree 
 of A. B., later receiving the degree of A. M. at the same insti- 
 tution. He was a member of the Washington Literary So- 
 ciety at the college. He was a teacher for four years after 
 his graduation, and from 1891 to 1895 was associated with 
 Silver, Burdett & Co., pubUshers at Chicago, Illinois. In 
 189s he helped to organize the present firm of Scott, Fores- 
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 man & Co., and engaged in the publishing business at 623 
 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, of which firm he is vice-president. 
 He married Lila Patterson, and they reside on Wabash 
 Avenue, Chicago. 
 
 Children of Hugh AtrsTiN and Lila (Patterson) Foeesman 
 
 gi! EorotLTo^Tman}*--. bom 1898; students at Smith CoUege. 
 892. Patty Foeesman, bom 1905. 
 
 Edward Anderson Reiley, M.D. (476), eldest child of Dr. 
 James and Mary L. (Anderson) Reiley, born at Succasunna, 
 Morris County, N. J., October 27, 1855; graduated at Rutgers 
 College, New Brunswick, N. J., in the class of 1877, with the 
 degree of Bachelor of Science, and received the degree of 
 Master of Science there in 1880. He studied medicine under 
 his father and graduated at the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons of New York in 1881. After two years' practice in 
 his native county he located at Atlantic City, N. J., where he 
 became an eminent and popular physician. He was county 
 physician for Atlantic City for six years, and for six years 
 president of the Board of Education of Atlantic City. 
 
 The following from the Atlantic City Daily Express of July 
 I, 1908, shows in what esteem he was held in that city: 
 
 Dr. Edward Reiley, the well-known local physician, was 
 tendered one of the prettiest banquets that it has ever been 
 the lot of a resident man to receive, as a testimonial of the 
 regard of his brother practitioners, last evening, in the hand- 
 some dining room of the Hotel Chelsea. The spirit of perfect 
 good fellowship was apparent as soon as one entered the 
 beautifully decorated room. 
 
 The host of the evening has just completed twenty-five 
 years of untarnished practice in this city, and during this 
 time has won the warm regard of his fellow doctors by his 
 strong personaUty and altruistic sense of duty. His long 
 experience with medicine has made him a man whose opinions 
 are much sought after and respected by the clientele of his 
 
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 school in this city and county. One of the pretty features of 
 the evening was the presentation of a loving cup of gold and 
 silver, engraved with the purpose of its presentation. 
 
 Dr. Reiley died in Atlantic City Jime 9, 1914. His remains 
 were brought to Lambertville, N. J., and buried in Hope 
 Cemetery, where his mother and maternal ancestors are buried. 
 
 He married Martha Williamson, but had no children. 
 
 James M. Reiley (477), second son of Dr. James and Mary 
 L. (Anderson) Reiley, bom at Succasunna, Morris Coimty, 
 N. J., is living at Atlantic City, N. J. He married Elizabeth 
 Gove. 
 
 Childken of James M. and Elizabeth (Gove) Reiley 
 
 893. Feederick Reiley, bom ; married 
 
 894. Edwakd Reiley, bom 
 
 Alice G. Willlvms (47Q), eldest child of Hon. Hiram A. 
 and Jane (Long) Williams, was born at Lodi, Tinicum Town- 
 ship, Bucks Coimty, February 2, 1846. She was married at 
 the Presbyterian Church of Milford, N. J., on January 5, 1869, 
 to Jacob Brackley Winter, son of George B. and Elizabeth 
 (Case) Winter. He was born in Warren County, N. J., No- 
 vember 4, 1838, and died in Philadelphia May 31, 1906. 
 After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Winter lived for a few years 
 in Tinicum Township, Bucks County, and after an interval of 
 a few years' residence in Warren County, N. J., again took 
 up their residence on the Williams homestead in Tinicum 
 Township, where Mr. Winter operated the Hiram A. Wil- 
 liams farm until 1877, when they removed to Philadelphia. 
 Mrs. Winter jtill resides during the winter season at 137 E. 
 Durham Street, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, spending her sum- 
 mers at Lodi in Bucks Coimty. 
 
 Children of Jacob B. and Alice G. (Williams) Winter 
 900. Lizzie Thomas Winter, bom Jan. 30, 1871; died April 23, 1905; mar- 
 ried Henry N. Kerst, Jr. 
 
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 901. SueElnaWintee, bom April 2, 1873; married, first, Henry D. Clifton; 
 
 second, Frank G. Haney. 
 
 902. Maetha Jane Winter, born June 2, 1875; married Mordecai JefEerson. 
 
 903. Maude Winter, bom Sept. 25, 1881; married Henry H. Bryson, Jr. 
 
 Thomas Blackledge Williams, M.D. (480), eldest son 
 of Hon. Hiram A. and Jane (Long) Williams, was born in 
 Tinicum Township, Bucks County, Pa., August 21, 1848. 
 He taught school for a number of years in Schuylkill County, 
 Pa., and was also for a time in the employ of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad Company. He finally took up the study of medicine, 
 and graduated at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia 
 in 1887. He immediately began the practice of his profession 
 in Philadelphia, where he is still Hving. He married at 
 Schuylkill Haven, Penna., January 28, 1875, Mary Alice 
 Palm, daughter of Dr. James and Lydia (Dundore) Palm. 
 She was born at Schuylkill Haven, April 28, 1849, and died 
 in Philadelphia November 11, 1909. 
 
 Children of Dr. Thomas Blackledge and Mary Alice (Palm) Williams 
 
 904. Elsie Lydia Williams, bom Nov. lo, 1879; married Ira Keller. 
 
 905. Bessie Jane Williams, bom Nov. 10, 1879. 
 
 906. James Roy Williams, bom Feb. 20, 1884; died Feb. 22, 1887. 
 
 Benjamin W. Pursell (482), eldest son of John M. and 
 Sarah (WilKams) Pursell, was born in Tinicmn Township, 
 Bucks County, June 28, 1834. In early life he learned the 
 watch-making trade, which he followed for many years in 
 connection with the management of his farm. He was 
 elected Register of Wills of Bucks County in 1878, and filled 
 that ofl&ce for a term of three years. He married, May 18, 
 1869, Elizabeth Ann (Treichler) Laubach. She was a daugh- 
 ter of David and Ann (Mumbauer) Treichler, and was born 
 in Nockamixon Township, Bucks County, November 28, 
 1827, and died there July 27, 1912. They had no children. 
 
 Sextus C. Pursell (483), second son of John M. and Sarah 
 (WilKams) Pursell, was born in Nockamixon Township, Bucks 
 
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 County, Pa., March 31, 1841. He was educated at the 
 public schools, the Milford (New Jersey) Academy, and at a 
 seminary at Charlottesville, New York. On October i, 1863, 
 he entered the service of the Belvidere Division of the Penn- 
 sylvania Railroad Company as a clerk in the office of the 
 Superintendent of the Division at Lambertville, New Jersey, 
 wh6re he was employed tmtil his resignation on December i, 
 1867, to accept the agency of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation 
 Company at Bethlehem, Pa. He was soon after promoted to a 
 position in the general office of the company at Mauch Chunk, 
 Pa. On May i, 1870, he returned to the Superintendent's 
 office at Lambertville, where he was employed until Jxme i, 
 1874, when he was appointed ticket agent of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad at the Kensington Station, Philadelphia. In the 
 meantime, however, he served a term of two years as repre- 
 sentative in the Pennsylvania Assembly from Bucks County, 
 being elected in the fall of 1870. He remained in the employ 
 of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for many years, mak- 
 ing his residence in Philadelphia. He also served for many 
 years as state bank examiner, filling that position at the time 
 of his death, which occiurred on December 26, 1900. 
 
 He married, January 14, 1875, Camilla Ihrie Gwinner, 
 daughter of Thomas and Mary Katharine (Peusch) Gwiimer. 
 She was born at Upper Black Eddy, Bucks County, May 11, 
 1843, and died in Philadelphia July 26, 1909. 
 
 Children of Sexttjs C. and Camilla I. (Gwinner) Pursell 
 
 907. Walter Gwinner Pursell, bom April 6, 1876; died June 15, 1885. 
 
 908. Camilla Ihrie Pursell, bom March 29, 1885; died April 22, 1914; 
 
 unmarried. 
 
 909. John Gwinner Pursell, bom Jan. 9, 1887; died April 20, 1913. 
 
 Thomas William Zane (485), only child of John Jonathan 
 and Anna Maria (Williams) Zane, was bom at Williamsport, 
 Pa., January i, 1845, and died at Sundance, Wyoming, July 
 
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 31, 1 901. He was but four years old when he removed with 
 his mother and stepfather to Columbia County, Pa., and 
 still a child when the family removed to Michigan. He 
 learned the blacksmith trade with his stepfather, Thomas 
 Wright, and followed that vocation at Schoolcraft, Michigan, 
 until 1893, when he removed with the family to Sundance, 
 Crook County, Wyoming, where he purchased a cattle ranch, 
 which he conducted in connection with blacksmithing until 
 his death. 
 
 He married January 27, 1867, Jennie V. Cummings, daugh- 
 ter of John Elza and Elizabeth A. (Brown) Cummings. She 
 was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, January 17, 1850. 
 
 Childken or Thomas W. and Jennie V. (Ctjmmings) Zane 
 
 910. Jesse T. Zane, bom Oct. 12, 1868; married Zoe Olive Reed. 
 
 911. Anna Elizabeth Zane, bom May 20, 1870; married William R. Fox. 
 
 Mary V. Wright (486), eldest child of Thomas and Anna 
 Maria (Williams) Wright, was born at Williamsport, Pa., 
 September 27, 1848, and died at Detroit, Michigan, April, 
 1912. She married at Vicksburg, Michigan, October 29, 
 1868, Jonathan Haines, a native of England. He was a son 
 of Thomas and Lydia Haines, and was born at Littleport, 
 Cambridgeshire, England, October 5, 1836. 
 
 Children op Jonathan and Mary V. (Wright) Haines 
 
 912. Arteman T. Haines, bom Sept. 18, 1869; died Oct. 14, 1870. 
 9x3. O. Adell Haines, bom Nov. 12, 1872; died Nov. 12, 1891. 
 913a. Arthur Haines, 
 
 Silas A. Wright (488), third child of Thomas and Anna 
 Maria (Williams) Wright, was born at Stonytown, Columbia 
 County, Pa., December 5, 1851, resided in Schoolcraft, 
 Michigan, for several years after attaining manhood, but later 
 removed to Comstock, Michigan, where he still resides. He 
 has been for a long time secretary of the board of education. 
 He married at Vicksburg, Michigan, February 7, 1878, Clara 
 
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 S. Mason, daughter of Samuel G. and Mary A. (Ward) 
 Mason. She was born at Battle Creek, Michigan, November 
 21, 1857. 
 
 CmLDEEN or Silas A. and Clara S. (Mason) Wright 
 914. Frank Mason Wright, born August 30, 1878; died June 6, 1906. 
 9x5. Anna M. Wright, bom Nov. 3, 1881; married Elbert Philetus Mon- 
 tague. 
 
 916. Elizabeth Wright, born August 14, 1883; married William Rork. 
 
 917. Lila Wright, bom August 22, 1886; married Emest Milton Botsford. 
 giS. MiNA Margaret Wright, bom at Comstock, Mich., July 22, i8gi; 
 
 married Lieut. Howard A. Cramer August 20, 1917. 
 
 Nettie Margaret Wright (489), fourth and youngest 
 child of Thomas and Anna Maria (WilHams) Wright, was 
 born at Schoolcraft, Michigan, June i, 1865. She married 
 there October 15, 1884, Frank Bryson Murray, son of David 
 and HaimaE (Perfect) Murray. He was bom at Elkhart, 
 Indiana, December 31, 1854. They resided for a nimiber of 
 years in Chicago, lUinois, later removing to River Park, 
 Baldwin Coimty, Alabama, where they purchased property 
 and stiU reside. Their post ofl&ce address is Fairhope, Bald- 
 win Coimty, Ala., R. D. No. i. 
 
 Samuel Francis Willlams (492), only son of Samuel R. 
 and Sarah (Lester) WilHams, born at Warsaw, Ohio, June 5, 
 1849, was but a few years old when his parents died. He 
 was reared in the family of his maternal grandparents, Abel 
 and Margaret (WiUiams) Lester, who resided in Warsaw, 
 Ohio, imtil 1854, when they removed to Jay County, Indiana. 
 Samuel did not at once remove with them, but came to the 
 native home of his father in Bucks County, Pa., where he 
 resided for a few years and then joined his grandfather's 
 family near West Chester, Indiana, where he resided until 
 about 1880, when he removed with his family to Milledgeville, 
 Carroll County, Illinois. He married at West Chester, 
 Indiana, March 31, 1872, Sarah Ellen Russell, daughter of 
 
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 William and Nancy (Phillips) Russell, who was born at Bel- 
 mont, Ohio, March 31, 1841, and died at Milledgeville, Illinois, 
 May 10, 1907. 
 
 He married, second, on July 18, 1910, Margaret M. Leigh, 
 of Portland, Jay County, Indiana, who was born in Clark 
 County, Ohio, May i, 1868. They still reside near Milledge- 
 ville, Illinois, where they own and operate a farm. He had 
 no issue by the second marriage. 
 
 ■ Childiuen op Samuel Feancis and Sarah Ellen (Russell) Williams 
 
 919. Gkace O. Williams, bom Oct. 14, 1876; married Ferdinand Spaulding. 
 
 920. Mary Evaline Williams, born May 8, 1880; died Sept. 17, 1880. 
 
 921. Edith Williams, bom March 17, 1882; married Clyde Spencer. 
 
 922. Ellwood Williams, born May 26, 1884; married Susan Spaulding. 
 
 Thomas Zane Weingardner (493), eldest son of Abraham 
 A. and Margaret (Williams) Weingardner, was born at Wil- 
 liamsport, Pa., November 10, 1846. He removed to Indiana 
 in 1876. In 1881 he located in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, where 
 he resided until 1905. He was mayor of that city from Sep- 
 tember, 1894, until September, 1898, and from the latter date 
 until his removal was engaged in the United States Revenue 
 service. In July, 1905, he removed to Indianapolis, where he 
 filled the position of Deputy Collector of United States Inter- 
 nal Revenues until his death in February, 1915. He married 
 March 5, 1898, Efl5e Aprill, daughter of Lorenze and Minnie 
 (Sterie) Aprill, born at Aurora, Indiana, November 7, 1877. 
 They had no children. 
 
 Rebecca C. Weingardner (494), eldest daughter of Abra- 
 ham A. and Margaret (Williams) Weingardner, born at Wil- 
 Uamsport, Pa., April 7, 1849; married there March 10, 1868, 
 Hugh Louis Trimble, of that city. He was born at Baltimore, 
 Maryland, August 13, 1845, and was a son of Samuel and 
 Mary (Flanagan) Trimble. Hugh Louis Trimble and his 
 wife lived in Williamsport, Pa., imtil March 19, 1884, when 
 
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 they removed to Philadelphia, where he is solicitor for the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Company, residing at 304 N. 35th St. 
 
 Children of Hugh Lotus and Rebecca C. (Weingardner) Trimble 
 
 923. Abraham Weingakdner Trimble, born Dec. 10, 1868; married Marie 
 
 Cantrell. 
 
 924. Charles Trimble, bom May 13, 187 1; died in Philadelphia, March 24, 
 
 1893. 
 
 Albert Fields Weingardner (495), second son of Abra- 
 ham A. and Margaret (Williams) Weingardner, born at Wil- 
 liamsport. Pa., December 15, 1851, removed to Denver, 
 Colorado, when a yoimg man, and is employed in the editorial 
 department of The Globe Express of that city, living at 4160 
 Knox Court. He married at Denver July 16, 1890, Mary 
 Woodhave, daughter of J. C. and Mary Woodhave, of that 
 city. She was born at Nebraska City, Nebraska, in 1861. 
 They have no children. 
 
 Sarah Harris Weingardner (496), second daughter of 
 Abraham A. and Margaret (Williams) Weingardner, bom at 
 Williamsport, Pa., January 17, 1854, married at Philadelphia, 
 Pa., Jime 3, 1885, Ezra Canfield of that city. He was a son 
 of Ezra and Alma (Allen) Canfield, and was born at Canfield 
 Corners, New York, March 12, 1832. He died in Philadel- 
 phia September 15, 1910. They had no children. 
 
 Samxiel a. Williams (500), only son of Thomas EUwood 
 and Rachel (Goddard) Williams, born at Upper Black Eddy, 
 Bucks County, Pa., March 22, 1861, is Kving at 138 Maple 
 Street, Jersey City, N. J., and is manager of the National 
 Storage Company. He married at Bethlehem, Pa., Septem- 
 ber 24, 1891, Elizabeth Kelly, daughter of Cornelius and Ellen 
 (Cavanaugh) Kelly, of that city. She was bom October 20, 1861. 
 
 Children op Samuel A. and Elizabeth (Kelly) Williams 
 
 925. Ellen Elizabeth Williams, bom April 30, 1893. 
 
 926. Mary Gladys Williams, bom May 21, 1894. 
 
 927. Madeline Williams, bom Jan. 31, 1897. 
 
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 George William Weay Porter (504), son of Rev. Joseph 
 Wray and Rebecca (Stem) Porter, born at Charlestown, Pa., 
 December 20, 1862; graduated from Lafayette College, 
 Easton, Pa., in the class of 1885. He was admitted to the bar 
 of New Jersey at Newark in 1883, and became a counselor- 
 at-law in 1 89 1. In 1890 he was appointed Assistant City 
 Counsel of Newark, and in 1896 was elected to the New Jersey 
 Legislature. In 1891 he was made superintendent of the 
 "Martin Act Department of the city of Newark," under an 
 act of New Jersey legislature, and still holds that position and 
 is custodian of the documents collected by that department. 
 He married Mary Guild, daughter of Judge Guild, of Newark. 
 
 Joseph Franklin Sherwood (507), youngest child and 
 only son of Hon. J. Marshall and Amanda (Stem) Sher- 
 wood, was born in Philadelphia, January 23, 1871. He 
 graduated at the Central High School of Philadelphia in 1889. 
 He was pohtical reporter for the North American, 1890-1900. 
 He was twice elected to Council of Philadelphia in 1902 and 
 1905, and was elected to the Pennsylvania Legislature from 
 the fifth district of Philadelphia in 191 1 and reelected in 191 2 
 and 1914. He married Diana Sares. 
 
 Eva Maude Kiefer (508), eldest child of Rev. WiUiam 
 Richard and Mary Catharine (Arndt) Kiefer, was born at 
 Newfoundland, Morris County, N. J., January 6, 1871. She 
 married January 20, 1892, Edward Daniel Kessler, of Stony 
 Point, N. Y., where they reside. He was bom May 17, 1867. 
 
 Raymond Arndt Kiefer (509), only son and second child 
 of Rev. WilUam Richard and Mary Catharine (Arndt) Kiefer, 
 was born at Chatham, N. J., February 13, 1877. He gradu- 
 ated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1903, 
 and has since been a practising physician at Ramsey, N. J. 
 During the World War of 1914-1918 he volunteered his ser- 
 vices to the United States Government, and on August i, 
 
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GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 1918, was appointed assistant surgeon and ordered to report to 
 Macon, Georgia, where he was placed in charge of the United 
 States Government Clinic, which had the care of 800 patients. 
 On August 14, 1918, he was sent to Texas, where he had charge 
 of the largest cKnic operated by the government for the con- 
 trol and treatment of venereal diseases. After the close of the 
 war he returned to Ramsey, N. J., and resumed the practice 
 of his profession. Dr. Kiefer married, November 10, 1903, 
 Ehzabeth Beach Wanamaker, who was bom at Suffem, Rich- 
 land County, N. Y., March 12, 1878. 
 
 Chiubeen of Dr. Raymond Aekdt and Elizabeth B. (Wanamaker) Kiefer 
 
 928. Mary Katharine Kiefer, bom Dec. 28, 1905. 
 
 929. Elizabeth Allen Kiefer, bom Feb. 19, 1909. 
 
 Martha Stout (517), eldest child of Plato and Matilda 
 Jane (Amdt) Stout, was born on the old Arndt homestead in 
 Williams Township, Northampton County, Pa., April 2, 1853. 
 She married, August 13, 1868, John Hockman Jacoby, of 
 Easton, Pa. He was born in Northampton County, Pa., 
 December 9, 1840, and died there February, 1914. Mrs. 
 Jacoby died April 22, 1915. 
 
 Children of John H. and Martha (Stout) Jacoby 
 
 930. Daniel Eben Jacoby, born July ii, 1870; died Aug. 16, 1872. 
 
 931. John Peter Jacoby, bom June 20, 1872; married Feb. 12, 1898, Clara 
 
 Walter, who was bom Dec. 3, 1876. 
 
 932. Plato Stout Jacoby, bom August 29, 1874; married Sarah Dauer, and 
 
 they have one child: George Jacob Jacoby, bom Dec. 25, 1907. 
 
 933. Jacob Thomas Jacoby, bom August 30, 1876; married, June 20, 1899, 
 
 Bertha Horn, bom Oct., 1876. Mr. Jacoby is Chief of Police of city 
 of Easton. They have issue: Ethel Jacoby; Frank Jacoby. 
 
 934. Philip Henry Jacoby, bom Dec. 2, 1879; married, first, July 27, 1904, 
 
 Luella Grate, bom June 12, 1886; died without issue May 19, 1906; 
 married, second, March 22, 1908, Clara DeRoach, bom April 27, 1886. 
 They have issue: Stella Jacoby, bom Jan. 21, 1909. 
 
 935. William Milton Jacoby, bom Sept. 17, 1882; died May 28, 1908; 
 
 married, Dec. 25, 1902, Elizabeth Grubb. They have issue: Martha 
 Jacoby; John Jacoby; Chester Jacoby. 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 936. Fred Leon Jacoby, born Dec. 27, 1884; married, May 20, igoj, Lillie 
 
 Walter. They have issue: Ruth Jacoby, bom Dec. 31, 1905. 
 
 937. Martha May Jacoby, bom Nov. 20, 1887; died August 7, 1889. 
 
 938. Ievin Charles Jacoby, bom Dec. g, 1891; married, Dec. 3, 1910, 
 
 Flora Gallas, bom April, 1893. They have issue: Carl Jacoby, born 
 April 5, 1911. 
 
 Anna Maria Stout (S19), third child of Plato and Matilda 
 Jane (Arndt) Stout, was bom on the old Arndt homestead in 
 Williams Township, Northampton County, Pa., February 13, 
 1858. She married August 9, 1873, Charles Edward Clifton 
 of Easton, Pa. He was born in Easton, October 23, 1849, and 
 died there October 21, 1909, and is buried in Easton Cemetery. 
 He was for many years a teacher of the public schools of Easton 
 filling the position of principal of the grammar school. 
 
 Children of Charles Edward and Anna Maria (Stout) Clifton 
 
 939. Rev. Samuel Tilden Clifton, bom April 30, 1874; married, first 
 
 Harriet Fulton; second, Elizabeth Powell. 
 
 940. Edward Cuthbert Clifton, bom April i, 1876; died July 24, 1916; 
 
 married Ella Rebecca Ritter. 
 
 941. Albert McIlhaney Clifton, bom April 16, 1878; died April 11, 1881. 
 
 942. Martha Alice Clifton, born April 6, 1880. 
 
 943. Bertha Virginia Clifton, bom July 19, 1886; died July 4, igo2. 
 
 Jacob Stover Stout (520), fourth child of Plato and Ma- 
 tilda Jane (Arndt) Stout, was born March 22, 1861. He 
 learned the trade of a millwright, which he followed for many 
 years with marked success. He also follows farming, and re- 
 sides on a model farm in the suburbs of Easton. He married, 
 in 1879, Elizabeth Walter, who was born near Easton, March 
 17, 1863. 
 
 Children of Jacob S. and Elizabeth (Walter) Stout 
 
 944. Ellen Matilda Stout, bom Oct. 20, 1879; married Floyd Kessler, and 
 
 has issue: Floyd Jacob Kessler; Louisa Kessler; Emma Kessler; 
 Martha Kessler; Richard Kessler; George Kessler; Plato Kessler. 
 
 945. Jacob Walter Stout, born March i6, 1881; married Ida Metz, and 
 
 had issue: Walter Stout; Henry Stout; Charles Stout. 
 
 946. Sallie Rebecca Stout, born July 13, 1882; married, Nov. 2, 1904, 
 
 Harry L. Foster, born April is, 1879. 
 
GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 948. Robert Stanley Stout, bom April 20, 1884; died Sept. 12, 1884. 
 
 949. Solon Lycuegus Stout, bom Sept. 29, 1885; married Amanda Beck. 
 
 950. Edith May Stout, bom Jan. 18, 1888. 
 
 951. Ruth Elizabeth Stout, bom April 24, 1890. 
 
 952. Mabel Emma Stout, bom June 4, 1894; married, Nov. 29, 1917, 
 
 Russell Ike. 
 
 953. Plato Stover Stout, bom June 7, 1896. 
 
 954. Minnie Alice Stout, bom May 15, 1899. 
 955- Clara Belle Stout, bom Dec. 5, 1900. 
 
 956. Morrison Arndt Stout, bom May 31, 1902; died August 12, 1903. 
 
 Mary Isabel Stout (522), sixth child of Plato and Matilda 
 Jane (Arndt) Stout, born December 27, 1866, married No- 
 vember I, 1887, Elmer Grant Krantz, born August 17, 1864, 
 and had issue: — 
 
 957. Lieut. Ellsworth Stout Krantz, M.D., bom in Easton, Pa., Sept. 10, 
 
 1888. He is a practicing physician and enlisted in the U. S. Army 
 during the European War and was Physical Director at Camp Dix, 
 New Jersey. 
 
 Sarah Catharine Stout (523), eighth child of Plato and 
 Matilda Jane (Arndt) Stout, born in Easton, Pa., September 
 II, 1870, married June 3, 1893, WilKam Lucas of Easton, who 
 was born September 7, i860, and died September 6, 1908. 
 
 Children of William and Sarah Catharine (Stout) Lucas 
 
 958. Walter Lucas, bom Feb. 21, 1894. 
 
 959. Arthur William Lucas, bom Nov. 28, 1899. 
 
 Isaac Stover Stout (523 a), ninth and youngest child of 
 Plato and Matilda Jane (Arndt) Stout, born at Easton, Pa., 
 September 14, 1877, was engaged in the life insurance business 
 in his native city for several years, and for some time prior to 
 his death, which occurred September 6, 1914, was district 
 manager for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Com- 
 pany for Northampton County, having been in the employ 
 of that company since 1901. He married, October 4, 1900, 
 Elizabeth Gordon, who was born February 2, 1877; died 
 March 19, 1906. 
 
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 Oliver Elmer Ellsworth Arndt, M.D. (52S), the only 
 child of Dr. Peter Frutchey and Diana (Bachman) Arndt, 
 was bom at Easton, Pa., January 30, 1864. He inherited 
 many of the excellent qualities of his father. He chose his 
 father's profession, and was trained under him for a medical 
 career, graduating from the medical department of the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1887, and after a 
 post-graduate course at the Medico-Chirurgical College in 
 Philadelphia, entered the office of his father and began the 
 practice of medicine. He soon attained a prominence in the 
 profession equal to that of his distinguished father. He was 
 of an exceedingly kindly, generous, and charitable disposi- 
 tion, and was much esteemed by all classes of people, being 
 especially esteemed by the poor for his kindness to them. 
 He died in the midst of a successful career on May 29, 1904, 
 and a large concourse assembled at his funeral services. 
 He was buried in the family vault in Easton Cemetery. Dr. 
 Arndt married, July 9, 1897, Clara Evans, of South Easton, 
 who was born February 22, 1874. 
 
 Children or Dr. Oliver E. E. and Clara (Evans) Arndt 
 
 960. Margaret Diana Arndt, bom July 28, 1898. 
 
 961. Olive Emma Evans Arndt, born Sept. 9, 1904. 
 
 W1LLLA.M George Miller (528), eldest child of John and 
 Henrietta (Faber) Miller, was born at Pennsburg, Mont- 
 gomery County, Pa., February 28, 1832, and died in Phila- 
 delphia, February 21, 1892. In early hfe he studied theology 
 with a view of following the profession of his distinguished 
 maternal ancestors, who had been prominent ministers of the 
 gospel for four generations, but later abandoned the idea. 
 He was for many years a successful teacher and later engaged 
 in the wholesale mercantile business with his son Charles in 
 Philadelphia, under a firm name of Miller Brothers. He 
 married, June 9, 1859, Caroline Roberts, daughter of Charles 
 
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 and Keziah (Comly) Roberts, of Whitpain Township, Mont- 
 gomery County, later of Philadelphia, of an old Welsh Quaker 
 family, early settled near Gwynedd. She was born near 
 Blue Bell, Montgomery County, Pa., October 3, 1838, and 
 died in Philadelphia May 10, 1913. The family were all 
 members of the Society of Friends except the father, who re- 
 mained a member of the Lutheran Church. 
 
 Childeen of William G. and Caroline (Roberts) Miller 
 
 962. Charles Roberts Miller, bom June 28, 1862; married Mary Eliza- 
 
 beth Jones. 
 
 963. Hon. John Faber Miller, bom Feb. 18, 1865; married Emma Yeakle 
 
 964. Edwin Lewis Miller, bom Jan. 19, 1867; married Bertie Rickert. 
 
 965. L. Eugene Miller, bom Nov. 8, 1869; unmarried, living at Penllyn. 
 
 Pa. 
 
 966. Elwood F. Miller, bom Feb. 20, 187 1; married Mary Rich Jeanes. 
 
 967. Dr. William G. Miller, Jr., bom Aug. 24, 1874; married Anna Childs 
 
 Livezey. 
 
 968. SarahHenriettaMiller, bom May s, 1876; married William Taylor. 
 
 969. Joanna Hatten Miller, bom Jan. i, 1878; married Thomas H. 
 
 Livezey. 
 
 Belinda Miller (529), second child of John and Henrietta 
 (Faber) Miller, born at Pennsburg, Montgomery County, 
 Pa., in 1834, married, October 22, 1857, Henry Groman 
 Ahlum, of Milford Township, Bucks County, Pa. He was 
 born October 8, 1836, in Milford Township, and was a son of 
 Ephraim and Levy (Groman) Ahlimi. Mr. Ahlum was a 
 farmer in Milford Township until 1867, and then became a 
 hotel-keeper, first at MiKord Square, 1867-1875, and from 
 the latter date for many years at the Eagle Hotel in Quaker- 
 town borough. 
 
 Chiudren op Henry G. and Belinda (Miller) Ahlum 
 
 970. Emma C. Ahlum, married Milton D. Tice, for some years a proprietor of 
 
 a shoe store at Quakertown, and later a hotel-keeper there. 
 
 971. Charles Ahlum, for a number of years bookkeeper for Strawbridge and 
 
 Clothier, of Philadelphia. 
 
 972. Rosa Ahlum, married William Haney, a farmer of Upper Bucks County. 
 
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 973. Ellen Ahlum, married J. Fred Fisher, a well-known cattle dealer of 
 
 Quakertown. 
 
 974. Calvin E. Ahlum. 
 
 975. Carrie L. Ahlum. 
 
 Mary Ann Ralston Miller (531 b), second child of Abra- 
 ham and Matilda (Miles) Miller, born in Easton, Pa., March 
 25, 1827; married at Easton, September i, 1846, John H. 
 Kase, of Newark, N. J., where they resided. 
 
 Children of John H. and Mary Ann Ralston (Miller) Kase 
 
 976. Charles Miller Kase, bom in Easton, Pa., Aug. 21, 1847; married 
 
 Emma Meyer, of Newark, N. J. They had issue: Harry Winfield 
 Kase, born Dec. 7, 1886. 
 
 977. Franx Kase, born at Newark, N. J., Sept. 3, 1849; died there April 
 
 2$. 1851. 
 
 978. Harry Winpield Kase, born Oct., 1857; died Feb. 18, 1870. 
 
 Susanna Arndt Miller (S31d), fourth child of Abraham 
 and Matilda (Miles) Miller, born in Easton, Pa., September i, 
 1831; married at Easton, July 8, 1852, George L. Fried, of 
 Easton, where they resided. George L. Fried enlisted in one 
 of the four companies raised in Northampton County in the 
 spring of 1862, and was mustered into service August 24, 
 
 1862, as First Lieutenant of Company D, 129th Regiment, 
 Pennsylvania Volunteers. His regiment and company bore 
 the heavy brunt of the Confederate fire at Fredericksburg, 
 where Captain Herbert, of Company D, was wounded, and 
 Lieutenant Fried succeeded to the command of the company, 
 being promoted to captain March 6, 1863. The regiment 
 was again under heavy fire at Chancellorsville, receiving 
 special mention and commendation in the report of General 
 Tyler, the Brigade Commander. Their term of service 
 expiring, they were mustered out at Harrisburg in May, 
 
 1863. Captain Fried again went into the service as Major 
 of the Twenty-ninth Emergency Regiment, under his old 
 commander, Colonel Frick, on June 19, 1863, and saw six 
 
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 weeks' active service. His health was greatly impaired by 
 the hardships and privations of his service in the war, and 
 he did not long survive its close, dying in Easton. Susanna 
 Arndt (Miller) Fried survived her husband nearly half a cen- 
 tury, and died at Easton. 
 
 Children of Major George L. and Stjsanna Arndt (Miller) Fried 
 
 979. Frank Kase Fried, bom Aug. 3, 1853; died at Easton, Pa., Aug, 30. 
 
 1854. 
 
 980. Matilda Miller Fried, bom at Easton, Aug. 17, 1856; married James 
 
 W. Wilson. 
 
 981. Kate Ralston Fried, bom Aug. 18, 1859, i° Easton, Pa.; married 
 
 June 25, 1885, to Jonathan M. Harris, of Phillipsburg, N. J. They 
 had issue: Fried Harris, bom in Phillipsburg, N. J., March 29, 1886. 
 
 982. Mary Kase Fried, bom at Easton, Pa., Jan. 30, 1863; no further rec- 
 
 ord. 
 
 983. Harriet Dodge Fried, born at Easton, Pa., Mar. 16, 1866; died April 
 
 22, 1866. 
 
 Samuel Innes (538), third child and eldest son of James 
 Robert and Susan Margaret (Butz) Innes, was born in Easton, 
 Pa., November 11, 1848. At the age of fourteen years he 
 joined the Pennsylvania Mihtia and went out with his local 
 company on an emergency call. At about the same date he 
 became clerk in a grocery store in his native town. A few 
 years later he secured a position with the Lehigh Valley 
 Railroad Company, and was in their employ for thirty-five 
 years. He resigned his position at the end of that period, 
 and engaged in the tobacco business at No. 44 Centre Square, 
 Easton, where he was located for twelve years and then re- 
 tired. He married, October 6, 1874, Aima Barron, and they re- 
 side with their daughters on Fourth Street, Easton. 
 
 Children of Samuel and Anna (Barron) Innes 
 976a. Frank Innes. 
 977a. Mary B. Innes. 
 978a. Stanley Innes. 
 979a. Charles B. Innes. 
 980a. Sue M. Innes. 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 981a. Carolyn A. Innes. 
 g82a. James R. Innes. 
 g83a. Elizabeth R. Innes. 
 
 Sarah Aendt Sletor (S44), eldest child of Thomas and 
 Martha (Sullivan) Sletor, born in Easton, Pa., April 13, 1845, 
 married there October 3, 187 1, Thomas Burnside Morris, of 
 the family prominently associated with the business affairs 
 of Philadelphia from the founding of that city to the present 
 time. He was the eldest son of WilKam Ellis and Mary' 
 Nancy (Burnside) Morris, and was born at Wellsborough, 
 Tioga County, Pa., May 13, 1842. He was trained for the 
 position of civil engineer under his father, a noted railroad 
 engineer, and was chief engineer in charge of 250 miles of the 
 Union Pacific Railroad over the Rocky Mountains. He also 
 had charge of the erection of several of the more important 
 sections of the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1874 he gave up 
 engineering and engaged in the coal-mining business in Wash- 
 ington Territory. Two years later he removed to San Fran- 
 cisco, California, and became president of the Renton Coal 
 Co., which position he filled at the time of his death, No- 
 vember 8, 1885, having been a resident of California for nine 
 years, making his home at San Rafael, Oakland. He was a 
 ruHng elder of the Presbyterian Church there, and superin- 
 tendent of the Sabbath-school. 
 
 Children of Thomas Burnside and Sarah Arndt (Sletor) Morris 
 
 984. Mary Burnside Morris, born Nov. 8, 1872; married June 14, 1899, 
 
 Russell Duane. 
 
 985. Roland Sletor Morris, born March 11, 1874; married Augusta 
 
 Shippen West. 
 
 986. Anna Lloyd Morris, born Aug. 16, 1876; married April 14, 1904, 
 
 Benjamin Coates. 
 
 Susan Wilhelmina Innes Sletor (549), sixth child of 
 Thomas and Martha (Sullivan) Sletor, born in Easton, Pa., 
 June 19, 1856, married in 1884 William J. Granlees, of Phila- 
 
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GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 delphia. He was a son of Robert and Anna (Briggs) Gran- 
 lees, and was born in Philadelphia, April, 1846. His father 
 was the proprietor of a large cotton and woolen manufacturing 
 establishment at Sixteenth and Fitzwater Streets, Philadel- 
 phia, and William J. Granlees was early trained in the same 
 business which he finally inherited from his father and con- 
 ducted until his death when it passed into other hands. 
 
 Child of William J. and Susan W. I. (Sletor) Granlees 
 
 987. William Sletor Granlees, bom in Philadelphia, Feb. i, 1885; mar- 
 
 ried Elinor Kennedy Jackson. 
 
 Matilda Davis Sletor (551), eighth child of Thomas and 
 Martha (Sullivan) Sletor, born at Easton, Pa., November 8, 
 1 86 1, married William Moore Everitt, of Hackettstown, N. J. 
 He was a son of William and Sarah (Moore) Everitt, and was 
 bom at Hackettstown, N. J., March, 1838. He was an 
 official of the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad Company 
 for nearly fifty years, and on his retirement became actively 
 associated with the affairs of the Hackettstown National 
 Bank, of which he was one of the oldest directors. He was 
 Mayor of Hackettstown at one time; was president of the 
 Hackettstown Electric Light Company, and connected with 
 other institutions, being one of the most prominent residents 
 of his native town. 
 
 Children of William M. and Matilda D. (Sletor) Everitt 
 
 988. Martha Sletor Everitt, bom April 22, 1885; died Oct., 1888. 
 
 989. Mary VrEGiNiA Everitt, bom July 23, 1888; no further record. 
 
 William Haejris Kneass (563), second son of Samuel 
 Honeyman Kneass and his wife, Anna Lombaert, born in 
 Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1839; died at Boerne, Texas, June 
 1, 1882. He was a student at Brown University, class of 1859, 
 but did not graduate. Became a civil engineer. He married 
 July 15, 1863, Amelia Prail Stryker, daughter of Samuel Davis 
 and Eliza (Barr) Stryker. She was born August 23, 1839, 
 
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 and died at Vevey, Switzerland, April lo, 1878, and was 
 buried there. 
 
 Children of William H. and Amelia P. (Stryker) Kneass 
 9go. Samuel Stryker Kneass, M.D., bom Jan. 16, 1865. 
 
 991. Charles Lombaert Kneass, died in infancy. 
 
 992. Davis Kneass, died in infancy. 
 
 Mary Honeyman Kneass (S64), third child of Samuel 
 Honeyman and Anna Arndt (Lombaert) Kneass, born in 
 Philadelphia, Pa., January 18, 1900. She was married at 
 Lambertsville, N. J., July 24, 1868, to Edward Randolph 
 Wood, son of Richard D. and JuUanna (Randolph) Wood, of 
 Philadelphia. He was bom in Philadelphia, June 21, 1840, 
 and graduated at Haverford College in 1856, and received the 
 honorary degree of LL.B. at the University of Pennsylvania 
 in 1861. He was a member of the firm of R. D. Wood & Co., 
 proprietors of the iron works at Florence, N. J., and the cotton 
 mills, bleachery, grist and saw mills, glass works, and gas 
 manufacturing plant at Millville, N. J., with offices at Fourth 
 and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia. Mr. Wood was also a 
 director in many industrial and financial institutions and a 
 member of several clubs of Philadelphia. 
 
 Children of Edward Randolph and Mary H. (Kneass) Wood 
 
 993. Richard Davis Wood, born May 23, 1867; died Oct. 29, 1869. 
 
 994. Anna Kneass Wood, bom April 7, 1869; died July 31, 1869. 
 
 995. Charles Randolph Wood, born March i, 1871; married April 28, 
 
 1902, Margaret Sinclair Voorhees, and had issue: Theodore Voorhees 
 Wood, bom Jan. 29, 1903 ; Richard Davis Wood, bom April 26, 1906. 
 
 996. Jtjlianna Wood, bom Oct. 25, 1872. 
 
 997. Mariane Honeyman Wood, bom Feb. 17, 1875. 
 
 998. Edward Randolph Wood, Jr., bom March 25, 1876. 
 
 999. Roger Davis Wood, born Feb. 27, 1878; died Sept. 8, 1878. 
 
 Samuel Honeyman Kneass (565), fourth child of Samuel 
 Honeyman and Anna Arndt (Lombaert) Kneass, born in Phila- 
 delphia, Pa., March 14, 1844, died at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 
 November 5, 1902. He married at Philadelphia, November, 
 
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GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 1878, Charlotte Rapp Shade, daughter of John Van Rensselaer 
 Shade, of Philadelphia, and had one son: 
 
 1000. Herman Lombaert Kneass, bom at Philadelphia, Sept. 25, 1879. 
 
 Elizabeth Engle Lombaert (568), second child of Herman 
 
 Joseph and Sarah (Cochran) Lombaert, married, first, James 
 
 AUyn Pentz, of Philadelphia, who died in 1895, and second, 
 
 Harry B. French, President of the Smith, KJine, and French 
 
 Co. She resides at 1502 Spruce Street, Philadelphia. 
 
 Children of James A. and Elizabeth E. (Lombaert) Pentz 
 
 looi. Elizabeth Pentz, married, Oct. 30, 1912, Walter M. Franklin, Jr. 
 
 1002. James Allyn Pentz, Jr. 
 
 Emma Arndt Lombaert (570), fourth and youngest child 
 of Herman Joseph and Sarah (Cochran) Lombaert, married, 
 first, Francis Marion Holden, M.D., of Philadelphia. He 
 died in Paris, France, in 1908, and his widow married, second, 
 George H. Stephenson, of Philadelphia, and they reside at 
 1836 Pine St. By Dr. Holden she had one child: 
 
 1003. Katharine Holden. 
 
 Isabella Wynkoop Wlllluvis (573), third child of GriflSth 
 and Rebecca Vanxixem (Lombaert) Williams, bom at Lam- 
 bertville, N. J., March 17, 1855, married Rev. Henry Drennan 
 Lindsay, an eminent Presbyterian divine. He was born in 
 South Carolina and graduated from Due West College in his 
 native state, and from the Princeton Theological Seminary. 
 He was successively pastor of the Thompson Memorial Church, 
 Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pa.; of a Presbyterian 
 Church in Wilmington, Delaware; Brainard Presbyterian 
 Church, Easton, Pa. ; the Presbyterian Church of Jamestown, 
 N. Y.; and of the North Church of Allegheny, Pa. 
 
 Children of Rev. Henry D. and Isabella W. (Williams) Lindsay 
 
 1004. Griffith Williams Lindsay, born at Wilmington, Del., April 13, 
 
 1886; married Katharine Sweitzer and had issue: Griffith Williams 
 Lindsay, Jr.; Isabella Williams Lindsay. 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 1005. Mary Drennan Lindsay, bom at Wilmington, Del., Sept. 29, 1887. 
 
 1006. Lillian Aendt Lindsay, bom at Easton, Pa., Jan. 23, 1889. 
 
 1007. Robert MacBueney Lindsay, bom at Easton, Dec, 1890. 
 
 Isadora Williams (574), fourth child of Griffith and Re- 
 becca Vaniixem (Lombaert) Williams, bom at Lambertville, 
 N. J., January 9, 1857; married in that city December 26, 
 1888, Frank Henry Scobey, son of John and Maria Ellen 
 (Lee) Scobey, of Freehold, N. J. 
 
 Children of Frank Henry and Isadora (Williams) Scobey 
 
 1008. Helen Lombaert Scobey, bom at Lambertville, N. J., Oct. 3, 1890. 
 
 1009. Kenneth Williams Scobey, bom Aug. 23, 1892; died Jan. 24, 1893. 
 
 Griffith Llewellyn Williams (575), fifth child and only 
 son of Griffith and Rebecca Vanuxem (Lombaert) Williams, 
 was born at Lambertville, N. J., May 30, 1859. He was edu- 
 cated at Trenton Model School, Trenton, N. J., graduating 
 in the class of 1877. After his graduation he was associated 
 with his father in the mercantile business in Lambertville 
 until 1899, when he engaged in the manufacture of glass at 
 Malaga, N. J., with his relative, Edward Randolph Wood, 
 referred to above. Later Mr. Williams went to Philadelphia 
 as Mr. Wood's Secretary, and remained in that capacity until 
 1890, when he became assistant manager of A. G. Spaulding & 
 Brother, of Philadelphia. 
 
 In 1897 Mr. Williams left A. G. Spaulding & Brother to enter 
 into partnership with W. C. Peirce in a planing mill and coal- 
 yard at Bristol, Bucks County, Pa., and removed to that 
 town, where he has since resided and been actively engaged in 
 business. He has been a member of the Borough Council of 
 Bristol for fifteen years, and is chairman of its financial com- 
 mittee. He is a director of the Bristol Trust Company and 
 of the Merchants Building and Loan Association, and a mem- 
 ber of the Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Association. During 
 the European war Mr. Williams took an active part in meas- 
 
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 ures to assist in carrying on the war. He was chairman of 
 the Second Ward Liberty Loan Committee of the War Chest 
 Committee. He married, May 29, 1891, Grace Estelle Switzer, 
 at Bristol, Pa. Mrs. Williams was also active in war meas- 
 ures during the World War, was chairman of the Bristol 
 Branch of the American Red Cross Association, and ren- 
 dered loyal service in that department. 
 
 Childben of Geiitith L. and Grace Estelle (Switzer) Williams 
 
 loio. Eunice Marie Williams, bom Oct. 15, 1893; received degree of B.S. 
 
 at State College of Pennsylvania in 19 14, and is a teacher at the 
 
 Abington (Pa.) High School, 
 ion. Jean Marie Williams, bom July 30, 1897; received the degree of 
 
 B.S. at University of Pennsylvania in igi8. 
 
 1012. Grace Elizabeth Williams, bom March 8, 1900; died April 19, 1914. 
 
 Sarah Frances Slough (590), second child of Dr. Gran- 
 ville B. and Emma Sophia (Arndt) Slough, bom at Easton, 
 Pa., April 9, 1869; married, first, at New Haven, Conn., Oc- 
 tober 12, 1892, Hiram D. A. Sexton, proprietor of the Hotel 
 Wallingford, at Plainville, Conn. He was born in Springfield, 
 Mass., November 14, 1872, and died there August 5, 1899, 
 having returned to his native place a few years prior to his 
 death, and was employed in the United States Armory at 
 Springfield. Mrs. Sexton married, second, at Denver, Colorado, 
 May 16, 1908, Juhan C. John, of Augusta, Kansas. He was born 
 at Moulton, Iowa, December 25, 1874, but was reared at Au- 
 gusta, Kansas. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. John lived for 
 five years in Kansas City, Mo. They removed to Springfield, 
 Mass., in 1913, where Mr. John was employed by the Westing- 
 house Company in the manufacture of munitions during the 
 European war. In 1919 they removed to Norfolk, Conn., 
 where he holds a responsible position with the Norwalk Rubber 
 and Tire Company. 
 
 Children op Hiram D. A. and Sarah F. (Slough) Sexton 
 
 1013. Olivette Gastinell Sexton, bom Oct. 22, 1893; married at West- 
 
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 field, Mass., Aug. 30, 191 1, Christopher J. Reardon, of West Spring- 
 field, Mass., where he was bom Oct. 18, 1888. They have issue: 
 Christopher W. Reardon, bom Jan. 3, 1913; Richard G. Reardon, 
 bom April 17, 1914; Helen O. Reardon, bom Jan. 22, igi6; Charles 
 S. Reardon, bom Sept. 24, 1917; Margaret F. Reardon, bom May 4, 
 1919. 
 
 1014. Evan Slough Sexton, born May 15, 1895, at Agawan, Mass. En- 
 
 Usted at Springfield, Mass., Dec. 18, 1917, in the Ordinance Depart- 
 ment of the United States Army, and after service in the training 
 camps at Fort Slocum, N. Y., Camp Upton, Staten Island, Camp 
 Jackson, S. C, Camp Hancock, Georgia, and Camp Mills, Long 
 Island, sailed for France on the U.S.S. Manchuria, July 10, 1918, and 
 landed at Brest July 21. He saw active service with the Heavy 
 Mobile Ordinance Repair Shop Co., repairing tractors, howitzers, 
 auto trucks, etc., at Angers and Toul until Dec, 1918. He sailed for 
 home on Jan. 5, 1919, and was discharged at Camp Devens, Mass., 
 Feb. 6, 1919. He married at Bridgeport, Conn., May 9, 1919, Elsie 
 Margaret Reh, who was born at Toledo, O., Jan. 7, 1892. Their 
 present residence is Bridgeport, Conn., where he is in the employ of 
 the New England Telephone Co. 
 
 1015. Aaron Nason Sexton, bom May 15, 1895; died Aug. 15, 1895- 
 
 Samuel Arndt Slough (591), third child and eldest son 
 of Dr. Granville B. and Emma Sophia (Arndt) Slough, was 
 born at Easton, Pa., January 9, 1872. In 1896 he enlisted in 
 the Hospital Corps of the United States Army. During the 
 Spanish American War he was located with the army at Key 
 West, Florida, for about a year, and was transferred from 
 there to Eagle Pass, Texas, where he remained until the 
 termination of his three years' term of enlistment in 1899. 
 He immediately reenlisted in the same branch of service, 
 and was attached to the 39th Regiment, United States Volun- 
 teers, and sailed with his division from Portland, Oregon, 
 for the Philippine Islands. After three years' service as Hos- 
 pital Steward in the Philippines he returned to the United 
 States, and reenlisting, served three more years at Angel 
 Island, taking his final discharge at Presidio, California, 
 August 2, 1905. He then entered the employ of the Balti- 
 
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 more and Ohio Railroad, Panhandle Division, and after two 
 years' service with that company and a year with another 
 railroad line and an interval of three years' farming in Ohio, 
 he entered the employ of the City Machine and Tool Works 
 at Dayton, Ohio, where he is still located. During the Euro- 
 pean war he was with the Dayton Wright Airplane Company, 
 working on the battle airplanes for about a year, and spent 
 some months assembling auto air-craft sights for the Record- 
 ing and Computating Scales Company. He married at Cov- 
 ington, Ky., May 2, 1908, Florence Glick, and they reside 
 at 146 Reisinger Avenue, Dayton, Ohio. They have no chil- 
 dren. 
 
 Max Rudolph Slough (592), fourth child and second son 
 of Dr. Granville B. and Emma Sophia (Arndt) Slough, born 
 in Easton, Pa., November 23, 1873, was educated in his native 
 city. Choosing the profession of a dentist, he graduated at 
 the Peimsylvania Dental College, and after practising his 
 profession in Easton for a short period, located in Tacoma, 
 Washington, where he stiU resides. During the Spanish- 
 American War he saw active service in the Philippine Islands 
 as Quartermaster Sergeant of Troop G, Fourth U. S. Cavalry, 
 first under General Lawton, and after the latter's death under 
 General Funston. He is unmarried. 
 
 Feederick Harrison Slough (594), sixth child and third 
 son of Dr. Granville B. and Enoma Sophia (Arndt) Slough, 
 born in Easton, Pa., December 27, 1877. He served with his 
 elder brother Max in the Hospital Corps of the United States 
 Army in the Phihppine Islands during the Spanish-American 
 War, until his discharge for physical disabihty. He was mar- 
 ried at AU Saints Episcopal Church, Oakville, Conn., May 7, 
 1903, to Rachel Rebecca Smith, born at Oakville, Conn., 
 December 18, 1882, and they reside at 1769 Watertown 
 Avenue, Oakville. Frederick H. Slough is in poor health 
 
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 from the effects of his service in the Philippines, and was 
 awarded a pension by the Department. 
 
 Children of Frederick H. and Rachel Rebecca (Smith) Slough 
 
 1016. Frederick Harbison Slough, Jr., bom Feb. 10, 1904. 
 
 1017. Rachel Rebecca Slough, born March 10, 1906. 
 
 Sallie Staeck Arndt (597), eldest child of Henry Lombaert 
 and Catharine (Starck) Arndt, born in Easton, Pa., January 
 21, 1867; married January 21, 1886, William J. Crossley, 
 Esq., of Trenton, N. J., bom January 7, 1866; died October 
 14, 1916. Mr. Crossley was one of the foremost criminal 
 lawyers of New Jersey. He was County Prosecutor of the 
 Peace for Mercer County for fifteen years, and was a brilliant 
 speaker and forceful advocate. He died suddenly of apoplexy 
 while speaking at a political meeting at Flemington. 
 
 Children of William J. and Sallie S. (Arndt) Crossley 
 
 1018. Alva Josephine Crossley, born Oct. 27, 1886; married Alexander 
 
 Trapp. 
 
 1019. Edna May Crossley, bom Sept. is, 1888; married Ethan Pryor West- 
 
 cott. 
 
 1020. WiLMA June Crossley, born Aug. 26, 1907. 
 
 Caroline Arndt (598), second child of Henry Lombaert 
 and Catharine (Starck) Arndt, born at Easton, Pa., May 14, 
 1870; married there August 2, 1893, Hon. Charles Francis 
 Chidsey , born December 25,1 843 . He graduated at Lafayette 
 College in the class of 1864, of which he was president. Studied 
 law, and was admitted to the Northampton County bar, 
 at which he has since practised, with ofl&ces at Easton. 
 He has held numerous political and financial offices; was the 
 first mayor of Easton, 1887-1889. Mr. Chidsey is a veteran 
 of the Civil War, having enlisted at Easton August 11, 1862, 
 in Company D, 139th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 
 with which he served until mustered out with the company 
 May 18, 1863, taking part in the battles of Fredericksburg and 
 
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 Chancellorsville, besides numerous minor engagements. He 
 has since written and published a "History of the 129th 
 Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers." He is also the author 
 of "The Browns Abroad," "A Tour Through Europe," 
 and "Prison Reports." 
 
 Mr. Chidsey has been connected with the Warren Foundry 
 and Machine Co. of Phillipsburg, N. J., for many years, filling 
 the position of auditor of the company for the last thirty years 
 down to the present time. He was elected to the Pennsyl- 
 vania Legislature in 1896, and has filled numerous minor 
 offices. He is an eloquent and forceful speaker, and is fre- 
 quently called upon to deliver important public addresses. 
 He made one of the speeches placing in nomination General 
 Daniel H. Hastings for Governor of Pennsylvania. His 
 patriotic services in this line were frequently called upon 
 during the European war, in the various "drives" for raising 
 funds and collecting materials for carrying on the war. He 
 was one of the first five members of Council of the city of 
 Easton imder the commission form of government elected 
 vmder the Act of June 27, 1913, and was superintendent of 
 parks, public buildings, markets, etc. 
 
 Childeen of Charles F. and Catharine (Arnbt) Chidsey 
 
 1020a. Franos Arndt Chidsey, bom May 30, 1895; graduated at Fort 
 Niagara Training Camp as Second Lieutenant, May, 1917, and was 
 assigned to the 3isth United States Infantry, 79th Division, with 
 which he went to France and participated in the great battles of the 
 Argonne Forest and elsewhere. He was honorably discharged after 
 the signing of the armistice, and came home and resumed his work as 
 an employee of the Bethlehem Steel Works. He married, June 26, 
 1919, Mary Marguerite Campbell, of Woodbridge, N. J. 
 io2ob. Margaret Chidsey, bom JiJy 30, 1896, living at home, was active 
 in all the war drives and Red Cross work at Easton during the 
 European war. 
 1020C. Richard Stasck Chidsey, bom Oct. 2, 1897, was injured in a foot- 
 ball game prior to the war, and prevented thereby from accompany- 
 ing his brothers to France. 
 
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 io2od. William Crossley Chidsey, bom Dec. s, 1898, spent nearly two 
 years in France with the Coast Artillery Corps during the European 
 war, and on being discharged resumed his studies at the Allentown 
 Preparatory School. 
 
 1021. George Woodin Chidsey, bom April 17, 1901, was also with the Coast 
 
 Artillery Corps in France with his brother William; both partici- 
 pated in the battles of the Argonne and other important engage- 
 ments, and both, on being discharged, reentered Allentown Prepara- 
 tory School at Allentown, Pa. 
 
 1022. Carolyn Chidsey, bom Feb. 16, 1905, a student at Easton High 
 
 School. 
 
 Virginia Adelaide King (606), second child of William H. 
 and Malvina (Lewis) King, born in Philadelphia in 1841, died 
 there January 28, 1919. She married at Philadelphia WiUiam 
 James Swain, born in New York city April 2, 1839, son of 
 William M. and Sarah (James) Swain. They had one child: 
 
 1023. William Moseley Swain, born Jan. 9, 1873; rnarried Jean Coltart 
 
 Scott. 
 
 Malvina a. King (617), born May 25, i860, married at 
 Philadelphia October 14, 1884, Harry W. Johnson, M.D., 
 of Riegelsville, Bucks County, Pa. He is a son of Dr. J. S. 
 and Matilda (Trauger) Johnson, of Reigelsville, and was born 
 at Kintnersville, Bucks County, Pa., February 13, 1859. Dr. 
 Johnson is a practising physician at Riegelsville. 
 
 Children or Dr. Harry W. and Malvina A. (Kitjo) Johnson 
 
 1024. Alma K. Johnson, born July 22, 1889. 
 
 1025. Howard R. Johnson, born Jan. i, 1894. 
 
 1026. Wayne Johnson, born Aug. 16, 1896; died Jan. 10, 1898. 
 
 1027. LiNFORD K. Johnson, bom May 4, 1899. 
 
 William H. Aendt (620), eldest child of Abraham S. and 
 Alvinah (Winter) Arndt, was born at Springtown, N. J., Sep- 
 tember 30, 1844. He was reared in Warren County, N. J., 
 and on September 4, 1863, enlisted at Trenton, N. J., as a 
 private in Company F, Captain Philip L. Van Rensselaer, 
 92d Regiment, New Jersey Cavalry, Colonel Joseph Karge 
 
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 commanding, and served throughout the Civil War, taking 
 part in all the engagements of his command. During Price's 
 campaign in Missouri he served as color sergeant and was 
 promoted to corporal and first sergeant for gallant and meri- 
 torious service. He was honorably discharged at Vicksburg, 
 Miss., at the close of the war November i, 1865. After 
 returning home he resided for some years in New Jersey, 
 but later he engaged in the coal business, locating in East 
 Mauch Chunk, Pa., where he was senior member of the firm 
 of Arndt and Blakeslie. He was elected to the office of mayor 
 of East Mauch Chvmk in 1880, and at the expiration of his 
 term in 1882 was appointed to the same position by the Court. 
 He was elected to the town council of East Mauch Chunk in 
 1900, for a term of three years. He was a member of Chap- 
 man Post, No. 61, Grand Army of the Republic, and became a 
 Past Master. He was also a member of the Masonic Fra- 
 ternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of 
 Pythias, and other fraternal organizations. He died at East 
 Mauch Chunk, Pa., January 5, 1910. He married at Phillips- 
 burg, N. J., September 27, 1866, Mary C. Wesby, born 
 January 6, 1848, a daughter of David and Catharine (Robin- 
 son) Wesby, who survived him. 
 
 Children of William H. and Mary C. (Wesby) Arndt 
 
 1028. Charles R. Arndt, born Aug. 15, 1867, in the photographic supply 
 
 business at York, Pa.; married Margaret A. Swartz, and they have 
 two children: Harold W. Arndt; Margaret A. Arndt. 
 
 1029. Catharine W. Arndt, bom Nov. 18, 1868; married Wm. B. Tombler, 
 
 a surveyor of Carbon Coimty, Pa., and they have one child: Edith 
 B. Tombler. 
 
 1030. George B. Arndt, bom June 24, 1870; died at Easton, July 30, 1895. 
 
 1031. WtLLiAM H. Arndt, Jr., bom Sept. 26, 1871; married Elizabeth J. 
 
 Stuart. 
 
 1032. Edith B. Arndt, bom Aug. 8, 1873; living with her mother at East 
 
 Mauch Chunk. 
 
 1033. David W. Arndt, bom July 3, 187s; married Florence Ada Lewis. 
 
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 1034. Alvina Winter Arndt, bom Oct. 25, 1877; died at East Mauch 
 
 Chunk Nov. 24, 1904; married John Thomas, and had one child: 
 Katheryn Arndt Thomas. 
 
 1035. Raymond C. Arndt, born May 5, 1885; died at East Mauch Chunk 
 
 June 4, 1886. 
 
 Sarah Jane Arndt (621), second child of Abraham S. and 
 Alvinah (Winter) Arndt, born in Springtown, Warren County, 
 N. J., October 2, 1846; married at Phillipsburg, N. J., Febru- 
 ary IS, 1865, John Tyler McFall, born at Mt. Bethel, North- 
 ampton County, Pa., son of Hugh and Mary (Aiken) McFall. 
 Mr. and Mrs. John T. McFall removed several years ago with 
 their family to Detroit, Michigan, where they still reside. 
 
 Children or John T. and Sarah Jane (Arndt) McFall 
 
 1036. Edith Bird McFall, born Nov. 14, 1865; died Oct. 7, 1908; married 
 
 Albert E. Ford, of Akron, Ohio, and had issue. 
 
 1037. Sarah Drake McFall, bom Feb. 22, 1872. 
 
 1038. Frank Raymond McFall, bom Nov. s, 1874. 
 
 1039. Mary Edna McFall, bom July 6, 1879; married Robert K. Davis. 
 
 Jacob Castner Arndt (622), third child and second son of 
 Abraham S. and Alvinah (Winter) Arndt, born in Springtown, 
 Warren County, N. J., February 13, 1849; l^ft home at the 
 age of fourteen years, and entered the service of the govern- 
 ment at Washington, D. C, in the Quartermasters' Depart- 
 ment. He remained in that department until the close of the 
 Civil War. In January, 1866, he began railroading, and has 
 followed that occupation ever since in various parts of the 
 country. He has been located at Boston, Mass., since 1887, 
 and is connected with the New York, New Haven and Hart- 
 ford Railroad Company. He married, January 29, 1876, at 
 Newark, N. J., Salinda L. Allen, daughter of De Witt Clinton 
 and Phoebe (Knight) Allen. She was born at South Orange, 
 N. J., March 10, 1852. They had one child: 
 
 1040. Gertrude Helen Arndt, bom Dec. 6, 1876; married Charles B. Hall. 
 
 Edward Bird Arndt (630), fourth child of Captain Jacob 
 
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GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 H. and Caroline (Hagenbuch) Arndt, and the only son who 
 survived infancy, was born in Easton, Pa., January 3, 1861, 
 and still resides in that city, holding a responsible position in 
 the Northampton Trust Company, with which and the First 
 National Bank of Easton he has been connected for many 
 years. He married, first, in 1892, Catharine Shouse, who 
 died February 22, 1895, and had one child: 
 
 1041. Gladys Akndt Drake, bom May 23, 1893, who was adopted by Mr. 
 
 and Mrs. Howard Drake, after her mother's death, and was given 
 their name. 
 
 Edward B. Arndt, married, second, at Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov- 
 ember 2, 1912, Loretta Magdalene McGuire, daughter of Mr. 
 and Mrs. James S. McGuire, of that city. 
 
 Child of Edwaud B. and Loretta M. (McGuire) Arndt 
 
 1042. Edward Bird Arndt, Jr., bom Oct. 9, 1913. 
 
 Mary Virginia Drake (632), eldest child of Samuel and 
 Sarah (Arndt) Drake, born in Easton, Pa., July 15, 1863; 
 married there November 15, 1888, Professor James Madison 
 Porter, 3d, of Easton. Professor Porter was born in Easton, 
 May 10, 1864. He is a son of James Madison Porter, Jr., 
 and his wife, Ruth Pearson Cook, and grandson of Hon. James 
 Madison Porter, ist, and his wife Eliza, who was a daughter 
 of Peter Michler, who belonged to one of the oldest and 
 most respected families of Easton. Judge Porter was a 
 prominent jurist of eastern Pennsylvania, and was President 
 Judge of his judicial district for many years. He was 
 United States Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President 
 John Tyler; was one of the founders and first president 
 of Lafayette College; a leading ofi&cial of the Lehigh Valley 
 Railroad Company, and fiUed many other positions of honor 
 and trust. James Madison Porter, ist, was a son of Colonel 
 Robert Porter, a distingvushed officer in the Revolutionary 
 War and a distinguished scientist. James Madison Porter, 3d, 
 
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 graduated at Lafayette College in the class of 1888, and 
 
 took a post-graduate course in civil engineering, and after 
 
 a few years of professional work in the employ of Nippett 
 
 and Wood, large structural manufacturers of New Jersey, 
 
 accepted the chair of Professor of Civil Engineering at 
 
 Lafayette College, which he has filled with eminent ability 
 
 for many years. He is a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity; 
 
 of the American Society of Civil Engineers; the American 
 
 Institute of Mining Engineers; the International Association 
 
 for Testing Materials ; the Engineers Clubs of Philadelphia and 
 
 of New York; the American Association for the Advancement 
 
 of Science, of which he was sometime secretary; and the 
 
 Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, of which 
 
 he was for some years a director. He belongs to the Pomfret 
 
 and Markham Clubs and the University Club of Philadelphia, 
 
 and is connected with the Automobile Club of America, and 
 
 many other social institutions. 
 
 Child of James Madison and Mary Virginia (Drake) Porter 
 1043. James Madison Porter, 4th, born March 7, 1897. 
 
 Major Feed Raymond Drake (633), second child and only 
 son of Samuel and Sarah (Arndt) Drake, was born in Easton, 
 Pa., June 12, 1865. He graduated with high honors at 
 Lafayette College in the class of 1886, and at once became 
 actively associated with the wholesale grocery house estab- 
 lished by his grandfather in 1838, becoming a member of the 
 firm of J. Drake's Sons & Company, 1889. The firm name was 
 changed to Drake and Company in 1899, of which latter firm 
 Major Drake is the senior member and the business has since 
 been under his personal supervision. He is actively connected 
 with several of the most important corporations of his native 
 town, filling the positions of director and auditor of the Thomas 
 Iron Company, Vice-president of the Northampton Trust 
 Company, Vice-president of the Easton Gas and Electric 
 
GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 Company, and President of the Commonwealth Water and 
 Light Company of New Jersey. 
 
 He early became associated with the National Guard of 
 Pennsylvania, and at the outbreak of the Spanish-American 
 War in 1898 organized a company known as Company E, 
 Eleventh Regiment, National Guard. It was not, however, 
 called into national service, and in 1899 ^^^ transferred as 
 Company I to the Thirteenth Regiment. Major Drake was 
 elected First Lieutenant June 12, 1898. He was an aid-de- 
 camp on the staff of Brigadier General Gobin, commanding 
 the Third Brigade, National Guard of Pennsylvania, and 
 served with the brigade during the industrial disturbances in 
 the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania in 1902, serving 
 as quartermaster. He later was promoted to the office of 
 major. 
 
 Major Drake was one of the founders of Easton Public 
 Library, and is vice-president of the board of trustees. He is 
 widely and favorably known in literary and social circles, is 
 vice-president of the Pomfret Club of Easton and governor of 
 Northampton Country Club, and holds membership in the 
 Markham, University, and other clubs of Philadelphia. He 
 is a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity. He is also a member 
 of the Pennsylvania German Society and the Historical 
 Society of Northampton. He was never married. 
 
 Carrie Arndt Drake (634), fourth child of Samuel and 
 Sarah (Arndt) Drake, born in Easton, Pa., April 30, 1869; 
 married January 5, 1898, John Rice. He is a son of Captain 
 George and Isabella (Potts) Rice, of Potts town. Pa., and was 
 bom in that town in 1866. He graduated from Sheffield 
 Scientific School, at Yale College, in 1885, and has since been 
 actively engaged in business. He is now (19 19) president 
 and general manager of the General Crushed Stone Company, 
 with offices at Easton, Pa. 
 
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 Children of John and Carrie Arndt (Drake) Rice 
 
 1044. Virginia Rice, bom Aug. 8, 1899. 
 
 1045. John Rice, Jr., bom June 18, 1903. 
 
 Cyrus T. Dewalt (651), third child of Joseph and Julia 
 Ann (Brader) Dewalt, born at Shoenersville, Lehigh County, 
 Pa., April 6, 1854, is living at 628 Oak Street, AUentown, Pa. 
 He married, November 14, 1875, Anna M. Laubach, born 
 December 28, 1856. 
 
 Children of Cyrus and Anna M. (Laubach) Dewalt 
 
 1046. William J. Dewalt, bomi Jan. 13, 1877; living at Summit Lawn, 
 
 Salisbury Township, Lehigh County, Pa.; married Emma L. HefEner. 
 and had issue: Earle W. Dewalt; Paul H. Dewalt; Beatrice F. 
 Dewalt; Dorothy M. Dewalt; Theodore F. Dewalt. 
 
 1047. Victor M. Dewalt, bom Jan. 5, 1883; living at 319 South FrankUn 
 
 St., AUentown, Pa.; married Carrie J. Held, and had issue: Forrest 
 K. Dewalt. 
 
 1048. An infant son, bom Dec. s, 1884; died Dec. 8, 1884. 
 
 1049. Ada F. Dewalt, bom June 16, 1886; died June 21, 1892. 
 
 Hon. Arthur G. Dewalt (655), only son of Reuben and 
 Annie (Bieber) Dewalt, was born near Bath, Northampton 
 County, Pa., October 11, 1854. He graduated from the 
 Keystone Normal School at Kutztown, Pa., in 1870, and 
 entering the Sophomore Class of Lafayette College, Easton, 
 Pa., in 1871, graduated with honors in 1874. He taught 
 for one year in Olney Academy, a preparatory school in Berks 
 County, as an instructor in classics. He then entered the 
 employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in Philadel- 
 phia, where he was employed for one year. In April, 1876, 
 he entered the law offices of John D. Stiles, Esq., of AUentown, 
 as a student at law, and was admitted to the Lehigh County 
 bar October 22, 1877. He achieved marked success in the 
 practice of his profession, and became one of the leading 
 attorneys of his native county. On November 2, 1880, he 
 was elected District Attorney of Lehigh County, and served 
 a term of three years. He was admitted to practice in the 
 
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 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1883, and to the several 
 courts of Philadelphia County in 1889. He was adjutant of 
 the National Guard of Pennsylvania for ten years. 
 
 In 1902 Mr. Dewalt was elected to the State Senate from 
 Lehigh County, and was the recognized leader of the Demo- 
 cratic forces in that body. He was reelected in 1906, and 
 served with marked abiUty for eight years in the upper house 
 of the legislature. He was State Chairman of the Democratic 
 party for several years, and the standard bearer of that party 
 in a number of campaigns. He was the nominee of the party 
 for Auditor General of Pennsylvania, and in 1914 was elected 
 Representative in the United States House of Representatives 
 from the Berks-Lehigh District, and reelected in 1916 and 1918. 
 He is a member of Huguenot Lodge No 377, Free and Ac- 
 cepted Masons, at Kutztown, of Allen Royal Arch Chapter 
 No. 203, and of AUen Commander Knights Templar of Allen- 
 town. He resides at 321 North Sixth Street, Allentown, 
 and is unmarried. 
 
 Herman K. Steckel (656), eldest child of Reuben and 
 Matilda (Kleppinger) Steckel, was born in the township of 
 Bethlehem, Lehigh County, Pa., April 20, 1844. He remem- 
 bers playing in the garret of Peter Steckel, his grandfather, 
 with the latter's uniform, sword, and saddle-bags, used in the 
 War of 181 2-14, and tells many interesting stories in reference 
 to his Arndt and Steckel ancestors. He remembers seeing 
 his grandmother's brother, Bernhard Arndt, — "they always 
 called him Barney," he says, — when he was ten or eleven 
 years of age. Mr. Steckel enlisted in the Union Army for the 
 Civil War October 7, 1862, in one of the 13 companies raised 
 at that time in Northampton County, and was assigned to 
 Company B, Captain Joseph A. Frey, iS3d Regiment, Penn- 
 sylvania Volunteers, Colonel Charles Glanz. He participated 
 with his regiment in many fierce engagements, including those 
 
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 at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, his captain being cap- 
 tured at the first named battle. 
 
 Herman K. Steckel removed to Denver, Colorado, April 24, 
 1871, and has resided there ever since. He married at Denver, 
 December 27, 1875, Mary S. Patrick, born in Plainfield, Ohio, 
 December 13, 1856. 
 
 Children of Herman K. and Mary S. (Patrick) Steckel 
 
 1050. Arthur H. Steckel, bom Sept. 26, 1876; married Alice J. Donnell. 
 
 1051. Elsie M. Steckel, bom Oct. 22, 1879; married Edward L. Layne. 
 
 1052. Elmer A. Steckel, born March 28, 1881 ; married Iva M. Stevens. 
 
 1053. Irene M. Steckel, bom Dec. 31, 1883; married Frederick L. White. 
 
 1054. Charles Steckel, bom Aug. 29, 1890. 
 
 1055. Helen M. Steckel, bom June 27, 1893; married Captain Lee Foster. 
 
 1056. Winifred D. Steckel, bom Aug. 14, 1896; single, living with her 
 
 parents in 1919, studying to be an efficiency expert. 
 
 Sarah Steckel (657), second child of Reuben and Matilda 
 (Kleppinger) Steckel, born in Bethlehem Township, Lehigh 
 County, Pa., about 1846, married Jacob Swartz, and they 
 removed to Emporia, Kansas, where Mrs. Swartz died in 1915. 
 They had issue one daughter: 
 
 ios6a. Meta Swartz, bom 1870; died 1893; unmarried. 
 
 Henioetta Steckel (658), third and youngest child of 
 Reuben and Matilda (Kleppinger) Steckel, born in 1848 j 
 married in 1869 Peter Harmon, of White Haven, Pa., where 
 they resided for a number of years, later removing to Wilkes- 
 Barre, where Mrs. Harmon died about 1897. They had one 
 son: 
 
 1056b. Robert Harmon, living in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
 
 Louise M. Stoeckel, M.D. (659), eldest child of William 
 Bernhard and Catherine (Kleppinger) Steckel, born at Bath, 
 Northampton County, Pa., December 4, 1847, ^^.s educated 
 in Wilkes-Barre Institute. She removed with her parents to 
 Dallas, Pa., and taught in a private school there. In 1886 
 
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 she entered the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 
 and received her medical degree from that institution March 
 13, 1890. She opened an ofl&ce in Wilkes-Barre in the same 
 year, and has been in active practice there since that date. 
 She is unmarried. 
 
 Theodore W. Steckel (660), second child of WiUiam Bern- 
 hard and Catherine (Kleppinger) Steckel, born in Bath, 
 Northampton County, Pa., January 13, 1852, was educated 
 in Wilkes-Barre pubhc schools and Wilkes-Barre Academy. 
 In early manhood he worked on his father's farm in Dallas, 
 Pa., but later learned the trade of a carpenter and became 
 superintendent for a large construction company in New York 
 city. In 1908 he returned to Dallas and engaged in farming. 
 He married at Nanticoke, Pa., June, 1884, Catharine Reis- 
 wick, bom at Catawissa, Pa., July 10, 1862; daughter of 
 Wellington and Katharine Reiswick. 
 
 Cheujren or Theodore and Caxhakine (Reiswick) Steckel 
 
 1057. Helen S. Steckel, bom June, 1885; died Dec, 1886. 
 
 1058. Bessie Steckel, bom April 1887; married David Carpenter, of Ken- 
 
 tucky. 
 
 1059. Haksy Steckel, bom — , 1889. 
 
 Helene C. Steckel (661), third child of William Bern- 
 hard and Catherine (Kleppinger) Steckel, born at Stoddarts- 
 ville, Pa., October 8, 1858; was educated at Wilkes-Barre and 
 taught school for four years in the schools of Luzerne County. 
 She then took a course in music in the New England Conserva- 
 tory of Music, holding at the same time a position as soloist 
 in a church. She continued her musical studies in Philadel- 
 phia, and sang in Philadelphia churches and concerts. In 
 1890 she returned to Wilkes-Barre and was superintendent of 
 music in the public schools of that city, and soprano soloist 
 in St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. She married at Dallas, 
 Pa., October 18, 1894, Dr. E. J. Butler, who was born at Potts- 
 
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 ville, Pa., and is a son of Michael and Mary (O'Connell) But- 
 ler. They have issue : 
 
 1060. Kathryn Mary Butler, born Nov. 25, 1894. 
 
 George Steckel (662), eldest child of Israel Frank and 
 Christiana (Hoch) Steckel, born at Bath, Northampton 
 County, Pa., June 26, 1852; still resides there. He married 
 at Nazareth, Pa., in 1873, Sarah E. SchoU, daughter of Absalom 
 and Leah (Marsh) SchoU, born in Nazareth Township, 
 Northampton County, Pa., in 1852. 
 
 'Children of George and Sarah E. (Scholl) Steckel 
 
 1061. LiLLiE C. Steckel, born 1874; married Jordan Keel, of Philadelphia; 
 
 no issue. 
 
 1062. Samxtel S. Steckel, born 1876; married Jan., 1901, Mamie Flick, 
 
 daughter of William and Louisa (Bender) Flick; born at Bath in 
 1880, and had issue: Elsie Steckel, born — , igoi. 
 
 1063. Charles I. Steckel, born 1879; married Feb. 2, 1901, at Freemans- 
 
 burg, Pa., T. Feist, daughter of Michael and Anna (Yong) Feist, and 
 they had issue: Anna T. M. Steckel, born Dec, igoi. 
 
 1064. Ralph H. Steckel, bom 1880. 
 
 1065. Grace I. Steckel, born 1893. 
 
 Oliver J. Steckel (663), second child of Israel Frank and 
 Christiana (Hoch) Steckel, born in Allen Township, Northamp- 
 ton County, Pa., November 25, 1853; learned the trade of a 
 cigar-maker at eighteen years of age, and after working at 
 Bath for two years, removed to Belvidere, N. J., where he was 
 employed for several years. Soon after his marriage he re- 
 moved to Newton, N. J., where he operated a store and cigar 
 factory until 1908, when he sold out. He is now hving retired 
 in Newton. He married at Towanda, Pa., in 1876, Margaret 
 Ann Reimer, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Klinefelder) 
 Reimer. She was born at Mount Bethel, Pa., Feb. 28, 1859. 
 Oliver J. Steckel is the possessor of the old Steckel bible, 
 containing the records of his father's and grandfather's fami- 
 lies. 
 
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GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 Children op Oliver J. and Margaret Ann (Reimer) Steckel 
 
 1066. Lena S. Steckel, bom Nov. 3, 1876; married John Rasner, residence, 
 
 303 Lafayette Street, Easton, Pa. 
 
 1067. Harry P. Steckel, bom Nov. 10, 1878; died unmarried. 
 
 1068. Thomas G. Steckel, bom July 21, 1884; married Minnie Perry. 
 
 1069. May Steckel, born July 10, 1888; married Russell H. Baggot. 
 
 Anna Cathartne Steckel (664), third child of Israel 
 Frank and Christiana (Hoch) Steckel, born at Bath, North- 
 ampton County, Pa., April 25, 1858; married there, in 1878, 
 Joseph Coar, who was born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 6, 1853, 
 and is a son of Charles and Anna (Keil) Coar. They reside 
 in Pittsburgh, Pa., and are members of Memorial Lutheran 
 Church. 
 
 Children of Joseph and Anna C. (Steckel) Coar 
 
 1070. Sada Christiana Coar, bom June 9, 1879; unmarried; a teacher in 
 
 Pittsburgh, is a graduate of Allegheny High School. 
 
 1071. Charles Coar, bom Aug. 26, 1882; died July 2, 1883. 
 
 1072. Clara Coar, bom Oct. 31, 1885; died Jan. 5, 1886. 
 
 1073. Franklin Coar, bom July 12, 1887, receiving teller in Farmers 
 
 National Bank, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
 1074. Harry Joseph Coar, bom Dec. 24, 1889; married Elizabeth Cochran. 
 
 1075. Norman Thomas Coar, bom Feb. 14, 1894, a machinist of Pittsburgh, 
 
 Pa. 
 
 1076. George Wilson Coar, born May 10, 1900. 
 
 Thomas Steckel (665), fourth child of Israel Frank and 
 Christiana (Hoch) Steckel, born at KreidersviUe, Pa., July 4, 
 i860; is living near Bath, Pa. He married Ellen Getter, born 
 December 29, 1859, daughter of Levi and Esther (Clewell) 
 Getter. They had no children. 
 
 Wilson Steckel (666), fifth and youngest child of Israel 
 Frank and Christiana (Hoch) Steckel, born at Bath, North- 
 ampton County, Pa., March 7, 1866, is a watchmaker and 
 jeweler at Bangor, Pa., having followed that business for over 
 thirty years. He married in Philadelphia April 7, 1898, Mary 
 Shook, born in Philadelphia, July 12, 1872, daughter of Reu- 
 ben and Emma (Miller) Shook. 
 
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 Child of Wilson and Mary (Shook) Steckel 
 
 1077. Helen E. Steckel, bom Dec. 20, 1899. 
 
 Jacob Henry Steckel (664a), eldest son of Charles N. 
 and Eliza (Snyder) Steckel, was born at Bath, Northampton 
 County, Pa., May 15, 1844, and died at Trenton, N. J., July 
 31, 1908. He married, December 31, 1875, Martha Bartholo- 
 mew, at Bath, Pa. She was born at AUentown, Pa., July 19, 
 1 901. She was a daughter of Lafayette and Anna Marie 
 (Issmoyer) Bartholomew. 
 
 Children oe Jacob Henry and Martha (Bartholomew) Steckel 
 
 1078. Charlotte Steckel, born at Bath, Pa., Aug. 22, 1879; graduated at 
 
 Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, May, 1901, and is in active 
 practice of her profession in Philadelphia; has served as physician at 
 Blockley Hospital, Philadelphia, State Hospital for Insane, Trenton, 
 N. J., Reform School, and other institutions. Married, April 30, 
 1907, Charles Edward Farrington, a chemist of Philadelphia, who 
 was bom in Dover, Mass., Aug. 2r, 1869, and comes of old Puritan 
 stock. They reside at 2r30 Passyunk Avenue, Phila. They have 
 no children. 
 
 1079. Harry Arthur Steckel, M.D., born at Bath, Pa., Dec. 13, r886; 
 
 graduated from medical department of University of Pennsylvania, 
 June 15, 1910; was physician in Kings Park State Hospital, Long 
 Island, and later in active practice of medicine. 
 
 Mary Steckel (667), fourth and youngest child of Charles 
 N. and Eliza (Snyder) Steckel, born at Bath, Northampton 
 County, Pa., October 26, 185 1; married there Samuel Duffy, 
 born at Mauch Chunk, Pa., September 26, 1848; son of James 
 and Matilda (Turpin) Duffy. They lived for a time in 
 Catasauqua, Pa., later locating in Philadelphia, where they 
 still reside. Their only child — 
 
 1080. Charles Steckel Dtoffy, bom at Catasauqua, Pa., Nov. 23, 1885, 
 
 also resides in Philadelphia. 
 
 Marie Elizabeth Steckel (668), eldest child of Solomon 
 A. and Lydia (Hough) Steckel, born at Bethlehem, Pa., June 
 4, 1849; married September 8, 1869, William H. Solt, of 
 Bethlehem, born April 9, 1847; died September 2, 1890. 
 
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GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 Chiidken of William H. and Maeie Elizabeth (Steckel) Solt 
 1081. Annie E. Solt, bom Sept. 12, 1870; died April 23, 1877. 
 10S2. Charles Adam Solt, bom March 17, 1872; clerk in office of Bethlehem 
 Steel Company; married June 24, 1895, Elizabeth Hagenbuch, and 
 had issue: Jacob C. Solt, bom Feb. 28, 1897; Thomas L. Solt, bom 
 Jan. 26, 1899; Daniel S. Solt, bom April 24, 1901; Joseph S. Solt, 
 bom April I, 1903; Lydia S. Solt, bom Jan. 22, 1905; John H. Solt, 
 bom Oct. 24, 1906; Samuel W. Solt, bom Jan. 24, 1909: all died in 
 infancy. 
 
 1083. ARTHtTR H. Solt, bom Jan. 28, 1878; died Feb. 5, 1879. 
 1083a. Paul S. Solt, bom April i, 1890; married April, 191 1. 
 
 ScuDDER Steckel (671), fourth child and eldest son of 
 Solomon and Lydia (Hough) Steckel, born at Bethlehem, Pa., 
 February 27, 1857; died at Seattle, Washington, in 1908. 
 He married at Allentown, in 1877, Emma L. Landenburg, 
 born at Allentown, Pa., August 7, 1862; daughter of WiUiam 
 A. and Sophia (Loefl&ng) Landenburg. 
 
 Chtldeen oe Scddder and Emma L. (Landenburg) Steckel 
 
 1084. Lydia Taylor Steckel, bom July 25, 1878; married Arkelby J. 
 
 Grayson, assistant treasurer of the S. H. Robinson Company, Phila- 
 delphia, Pa. He served in the Spanish-American War in 1898, in 
 Co. D, Second Regiment, U. S. Vols. They had issue: John Arkelby 
 Grayson, bom March 3, 1908. 
 
 1085. Clarence William Steckel, bom March 18, 1880; died Dec. 5, 1906. 
 
 He was also a member of Co. D, Second Regiment, U. S. Vols., during 
 the Spanish-American War; married Mary Joseph and left issue: 
 Clarence Steckel, Jr., bom May, 1904; Uving with his mother at 
 1926 N. Mervine Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 1086. Dora Sophia Steckel, bom Aug. 17, 1881; living at 1637 N. Bouvier 
 
 Street, Philadelphia, in I9r4. 
 
 Charles Fry (676), third child and eldest surviving son of 
 Jacob and Lavinia (Houpt) Fry, born at Pittston, Pa., Janu- 
 ary 30, 1847; died at Montgomery, Lycoming County, Pa., 
 November 21, 1909. He married, first, December 24, 1868, 
 in Fairfield Township,Lycoming County, Pa., Mary E.Konkle, 
 born in Fairfield Township, Lycoming County, Pa., Septem- 
 ber 20, 1849; died March 30, 1891; daughter of Pearson and 
 Catharine (Bastian) Konkle. He married, secondly, March, 
 
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 1892, at Montoursville, Pa., Clara Metzgar, born at Ranch- 
 town, Pa., March 28, 1862; daughter of John and Phoebe 
 
 Metzgar. 
 
 Children of Charles and Mary E. (Konkle) Fry 
 
 1087. Harry Fry, bom at Montoursville, Pa., Feb. 5, 1874; died at Port 
 
 Allegheny, Pa., July 21, 1906; married Anna MacAbee, and had 
 three children, two of whom are residing with their mother at Raton, 
 N. M.: Mary Leah Fry, born Sept. 8, 1901; Catharine Berenice 
 Fry, bom Dec. 4, 1903; died March 21, 1908; Gertrude Esther Fry, 
 bom May 26, 1905. 
 
 1088. Catharine Mary Fry; married Wm. E. Errington, and had issue 
 
 Charles E. Errington, bom May 20, 1908; Naomi R. Errington, 
 born Nov. 14, 1910. 
 
 1089. Pearson LeRoy Fry; married Prudence Fleming, and had issue: 
 
 LeRoy F. Fry; Hubert Fry; Paul H. Fry. 
 Children of Charles and Clara (Metzgar) Fry 
 
 1090. Naomi C. Fry, born April 8, 1894. 
 
 1091. Ruth Metzgar Fry, born Sept. 10, 1895. 
 
 Wesley Fry (677), fourth child and second surviving son 
 of Jacob and Lavinia (Houpt) Fry, born in Fairfield Town- 
 ship, Lycoming County, Pa., January i8, 1849; married at 
 Williamsport, Pa., January 30, 1873, Clara Striker, born at 
 Montoursville, Pa., January 17, 1851; daughter of Isaac and 
 Mary (Harris) Striker. 
 
 Children of Wesley and Clara (Striker) Fry 
 
 1092. Dora Fry, born Dec. 14, 1873; married, 1904, William Stevenson, of 
 
 Milton, Northumberland County, Pa., and had issue: Theodore 
 Stevenson, born Jan. 19, 1905. 
 
 1093. WilsonFry, bom May s, 1879; living in Lycoming County, Pa.; mar- 
 
 ried Maria Shick, and had issue: Helen Fry, bom May 29, 1898, in 
 Clinton Township, Lycoming County, Pa.; Lloyd Fry, bom Feb. 5, 
 igoi, in Brady Township, Lycoming County, Pa. 
 
 1094. Frank Fry, born March 26, 1885, Uving in Washington Township, 
 
 Lycoming County, Pa.; married Bertha Jones and had issue: , 
 
 a son, born Sept. 25, 1912. 
 
 1095. Ida Fry, twin to Frank, bom March 26, 1885; married Fred Murphy. 
 
 Susan Fry (678), fifth child and eldest daughter of Jacob 
 and Lavinia (Houpt) Fry, born in Fairfield Township, Ly- 
 
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 coining County, Pa., December 14, 1850; married there, 
 
 March 9, 1871, Paul Woerule, born at Stuttgart, Germany, 
 
 July 3, 1841; died in Lycoming County, Pa., May 10, 1906. 
 
 He was a son of Louis and Catharine Woerule. 
 
 Children of Patjl and Susan (Fry) Woerule 
 
 iog6. Laura Virginia Woerule, bom Jan. 14, 1872; married May 5, 1891, 
 Frank Springman, of Williamsport, Pa., bom Nov. 26, 1865. They 
 now reside at Emporium, Pa. They had issue: Clarence H. Spring- 
 man, born Feb. 23, 1892, at Williamsport, Pa.; Edna M. Springman, 
 born Aug. 15, 1896; Edgar Paul Springman, born June 19, 1907, at 
 Emporium, Pa. 
 
 1097. Frank Woerule, born April 4, 1874; married July 5, 1904, Gertrude 
 
 E. Peeling, born Sept. 25, 1876. They had issue: Robert Woerule, 
 born Nov. 4, 1906; died Sept. 22, 1907; Martha Woemle, bom April 
 14, 1910; died Nov. 3, 1911. 
 
 1098. Walter Woerule, bom Oct. 23, 1877; died Nov., 1882. 
 
 1099. Edward Woerule, bom June — , 1882; died April 4, 1885. 
 
 HOC. Carrie Bertha Woerule, born Jidy 27, 1886; died May 14, 1887. 
 iioi. George Edward Woerule, bom Feb. 9, 1891. 
 
 Mary Jane Fry (679), sixth child and youngest daughter of 
 Jacob and Lavinia (Houpt) Fry, born in Fairfield Township, 
 Lycoming County, Pa., August 20, 1852; married there, 
 October 5, 187 1, John H. Springman, born in Fairfield July i, 
 1845, a son of Jacob and Annie (Dewalt) Springman. 
 
 Children of John H. and Mary Jane (Fry) Springman 
 
 1102. Mary Springman, bom Aug. 25, 1872, died in infancy. 
 
 1103. William Elmer Springman, bom Sept. i, 1873; married — , 1897, 
 
 Annie Moyer, and had issue: Grace Springman, bom March 30, 
 1898; LaRue Springman, bom Sept. 6, 1899; Marian Springman, 
 bom Sept. 11, 1902. 
 
 1104. Hattie May Springman, bom Dec. 6, 1875. 
 
 1105. Carrie Etta Springman, born April 14, 1880; died Dec. 23, 1893. 
 
 1106. Jacob James Springman, bom Oct. 22, 1881; married Oct. 8, 1902, 
 
 EUa Taylor, bom Jan. — , 1883, and had issue: Bemhard Elmer 
 Springman, bom April 6, 1903; LeRoy John Springman, bom May 
 6, 1905; Naomi Springman, bom Dec. 13, 1907; Melvin Springman, 
 bom Feb. 11, 1909. 
 
 1107. Gertrude Emma Springman, bom June i, 1884; married May 17, 
 
 1913, Albert Fortney, bom Oct. 30, 1888. 
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 Benjamin Houpt (680), eldest son of Barnett and Rosanna 
 (Gruver) Houpt, born in Newport Township, Luzerne County, 
 Pa., November i, 1845; removed with his parents to White 
 Pigeon, Mich., where he still resides. He married, at her resi- 
 dence in Hanover Township, Luzerne County, Pa., Decem- 
 ber 29, 1870, Julia Line, daughter of Henry and Eliza (Rob- 
 bins) Line. 
 
 Children of Benjamin and Jtoia (Line) Hottpt 
 
 1108. Harry Houpt, born 1871; married Sadie , and had issue: Elsa 
 
 Houpt; Winifred Houpt. 
 
 1109. Nellie Houpt, born 1873; married Arthur Marshall, and had issue: 
 
 Arthur Marshall, Jr.; Harold Marshall, 
 mo. Camilla Houpt, born 1878; married Frank Howard and had issue: 
 Julia Howard; Emma Howard. 
 
 Franklin A. Houpt (681), second child of Barnett and 
 Rosanna (Gruver) Houpt, born in Newport Township, Lu- 
 zerne County, Pa., in 1847; is living in Detroit, Mich. He 
 married at White Pigeon, Mich., December 15, 1875, Mina 
 Dawson, born at Dexter, Mich., in 1852. She died in 1887, 
 and he married, secondly, December 23, 1890, Mary B. 
 Eaton. He had several children by the first wife, all of whom 
 died in infancy, but had none by the second wife. 
 
 Susan Houpt (682), third child of Barnett and Rosanna 
 (Gruver) Houpt, born at Newport, Luzerne County, Pa., 
 October 14, 1849; married at White Pigeon, Mich., October 4, 
 1877, Charles D. Watt, who was born at Liberty, Trmnbull 
 County, Ohio, February 16, 1845. He was a son of Thomas 
 and Nancy (Pauley) Watt. Charles and Susan (Houpt) 
 Watt reside at Constantine, Mich. 
 
 Children of Charles D. and Susan (Houpt) Watt 
 
 mi. Fred B. Watt, born at Constantine, Mich., July ii, 1882. 
 1112. Minnie M. Watt, bom at Constantine, Mich., Jan. 2, 1887. 
 
 Charles Houpt (684), youngest child of Barnett and 
 Rosanna (Gruver) Houpt, born at Newport, Luzerne County, 
 
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GENEALOGY— SIXTH GENERATION 
 
 Pa., February 14, 1854; is living at St. Paul, Minn. He was a 
 student at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa.; 
 later at an academy at Tiffin, Ohio, and finally at the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he graduated as a 
 doctor of laws. He took up the practice of law at St. Paul, 
 Minnesota, and is United States District Attorney for the 
 state. He married, October 4, 1883, at St. Paul, Minn., Ida 
 0. (Trenchard) HoweUs. She was a daughter of WilHam 
 Trenchard, and was born at Wheeler, Steuben County, New 
 York. They had no children. 
 
 Cornelius Robbins (685), eldest child of Robert and Ellen 
 (Houpt) Robbins, born at Newport, Luzerne Coimty, Pa., 
 May 16, 1843; died at Redfield, Kan., October 16, 1904. 
 He married at Phillipsburg, N. J., February 26, 1874, Clarissa 
 Hopler. She was a daughter of William and Margaret 
 (Cramer) Hopler, and was born at Hope, N. J., April 13, 1847. 
 They resided for several years at Belvidere, N. J. 
 
 Chlldken of Cornelius and Clakissa (Hopler) Robbins 
 
 1113. Minnie E. Robbins, bom at Belvidere, N. J., Dec. 8, 1874. 
 
 1114. Cora M. Robbins, bom at Belvidere, N. J., Sept. s, 1877; married at 
 
 Redfield, Kansas, Sept. 30, 1908, Ralph E. Huston, son of Nathan 
 and Lucretia Huston, of Sperry, Iowa, where he was born Sept. 18, 
 1877. They had issue: Burton R. Huston, bom Aug. 16, igog, at 
 Plainview, Tex.; AUen R. Huston, bom July 15, igi2, at Plainview, 
 Tex. 
 
 Linda Robbins (686), second child of Robert and Ellen 
 (Houpt) Robbins, was born at Nanticoke, Luzerne County, 
 Pa., Sept. 20, 1850, and died at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., February 
 13, 1913. She married at Wilkes-Barre February 2, 1880, 
 Edgar E. Raub. He was born at Pringle, Luzerne County, 
 Pa., May 14, 1851, and was a son of Andrew and Katharine 
 (Pierce) Raub. They removed to Leadville, Col., but returned 
 to Luzerne County, Pa., in 1885. 
 
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 Children of Edgar E. and Linda (Robbins) Raub 
 
 1x15. Elsie Raub, born 1881; died 1882 at Leadville, Col. 
 
 1116. Earl Raub, bom at Leadville, Col., June 26, 1883; married at Los 
 
 Angeles, Cal., May, 191 2, Martha Harris, and now resides at 
 Encanto, Cal. 
 
 1117. Lena Raub, bom at Dallas, Pa., Oct. 14, 1886. 
 
 1 1 18. Andrew Raub, bom at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., May 26, 1890. 
 
 Ella Robbins (687), youngest child of Robert and Ellen 
 (Houpt) Robbins, born at Nanticoke, Pa., December 12, 
 185 1 ; married at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June 4, 1874, Lyman H. 
 Bennett. He was born at Harpersfield, N. Y., February 20, 
 1845, and was a son of Phineas and Minerva (Hakes) Bennett. 
 He died at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., October 2, 1898. 
 
 Children of Lyman H. and Ella (Robbins) Bennett 
 
 1119. Anna Minerva Bennett, bom May 19, 187s; died March 7, 1888. 
 
 1120. Lilian Bennett, bom Feb. 20, 1879; married Oct. 23, 1901, John 
 
 Sturdevant, born at Wilkes-Barre, Oct. ji, 1870, son of Edward and 
 Elizabeth (Prosser) Sturdevant. They had issue: Virginia Sturde- 
 vant, bom June 7, 1905. 
 
 Ellen Welch (691), eldest child of John and Susan (Houpt) 
 Welch, born at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., January 4, 1852; married 
 at Dallas, Pa., September 18, 1873, Miner B. Austin. He was 
 born at Muhlenberg, Pa., June 11, 1851, and was a son of 
 Isaac and Barbara (Benscater) Austin. 
 
 Children of Miner B. and Ellen (Welch) Austin 
 
 1121. Charles M.Austin, bomat Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 23, 1876, teller 
 
 of Wyoming National Bank, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; married Oct. 15, 
 igio, Lucretia Krause, daughter of Gideon and Esther (McDonald) 
 Krause. She was bom at Lampazo, Neuvo Leon, Mexico. They 
 had issue: Charles M. Austin, Jr., bom Nov. 24, 191 2. 
 
 1 1 22. Edna Austin, born April 4, 1886. 
 
 Frances M. Welch (693), third child of John and Susan 
 (Houpt) Welch, born at Beaumont, Pa., October 31, 1854; 
 married at Dallas, Pa., December 19, 1878, Josiah Gregory, 
 of Wilkes-Barre. He was a son of Nelson and Sibyl (Monroe) 
 Gregory, and was born at Uniontown, Luzerne County, Pa., 
 
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 December 25, 1847, and died at Wilkes-Barre April 5, 1882. 
 She married, second, November 28, 1906, at Dallas, Pa., 
 William Gregory, of Nanticoke, a brother of her first husband. 
 He was bom April 27, 1856. She had by her first husband one 
 son: 
 
 1123. Edgar Gregory, bom at Wilkes-Barre, Oct. ii, 1879; married June 
 
 II, 1902, Elizabeth Pettibone, bom at Forty-Fort, Pa., Dec. 22, 
 1879; daughter of George and Helen (Space) Pettibone. He was 
 manager of the Hitchner Biscuit Company of West Pittston, Pa., and 
 they reside in that town. They have issue: Herbert Gregory, born 
 Aug. 28, 1905; Donald Gregory, bom July 16, igo8. 
 
 William W. Welch (695), fifth child of John and Susan 
 (Houpt) Welch, born at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 9, 1858; 
 removed to Clarinda, Page County, Iowa, where he has carried 
 on contracting and building, erecting many large buildings 
 throughout western Iowa, where he still resides. He married 
 there Jxme 14, 1883, Minnie Hinman, born at Hawleyville, 
 Iowa, May 16, 1864, daughter of Charles and Corneha (Wei- 
 kel) Himnan. She died in 1904, and he married, secondly, 
 February 21, 1906, Mrs. Edith Gibson, of the same place. 
 
 Childeen of William W. and Minnie (Hinman) Welch 
 
 1124. Harry Welch, bom 1884; died 1893. 
 
 1125. Helen Welch, bom July 9, 1886; married Aug. 27, 1908, P. S. St. 
 
 Clair, and they reside in Oklahoma City, Okla. 
 
 1126. Philip Welch, bom Oct. 15, 1888; married Nov. 22, 1910, at Omaha, 
 
 Neb., NeU PoUock. 
 
 1127. Margaret Welch, bom Nov. 11, 1890. 
 
 1128. Earl Welch, born June 28, 1893. 
 
 1129. Ruth Welch, bom Feb. 10, 1896. 
 
 1 130. Edith Welch, bom Nov. 28, 1897. 
 
 1131. Edgar Welch, bom Feb. 3, 1900. 
 
 Harry Welch (698), eighth and youngest child of John 
 and Susan (Houpt) Welch, born at Dallas, Luzerne County, 
 Pa., June 27, 1868; followed his brother to Clarinda, Iowa, 
 where he still resides. He married at Dallas, Pa., May 12, 
 
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 1888, Mamie Harris, born at Dallas, September 6, 1869, 
 daughter of Daniel and Mary (Smith) Harris. 
 
 Cecildken op Harry and Mamie (Harris) Welch 
 
 1132. LeRoy Welch, bom Feb. 2, 1890. 
 
 1133. Inez Welch, born Sept. 11, 1891. 
 
 1 134. Elizabeth Welch, born Nov. 21, 1898. 
 
 Minnie E. Dilley (699), eldest child of Anning and Eliza 
 (Houpt) Dilley, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., August 14, 1857, is 
 unmarried. To her the compiler of these records is indebted 
 for practically all the genealogical data of the descendants of 
 Philip and Susanna (Arndt) Houpt. Her present residence 
 (19 19) is Yeager Avenue, Forty-Fort, Kingston, Pa. 
 
 Jesse Byron Dilley (700), second child and eldest son of 
 Anning and Eliza (Houpt) Dilley, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 
 September 25, 1858; died there April 4, 1894. He was one 
 of the prominent citizens of his native city. He was a civil 
 engineer, and for several years prior to his death he was super- 
 intendent of the sewer system of the city. He married at 
 Packerton, Pa., September 20, 1888, Bertha Stiles, who was 
 born at Weatherly, Chnton County, Pa., April 15, 1868, a 
 daughter of W. Lee and Maria (Smith) Stiles. 
 
 Children of Jesse Byron and Bertha (Stiles) Dilley 
 
 1135. Lee S. Dilley, bom March 3, i8go; married at Phillipsburg, N. J., 
 
 April 8, 1914, Edna Gordon, and had issue: Lee S. Dilley, Jr., bom 
 Dec. 17, 1916. 
 
 1136. Jesse R. Dilley, born Oct. 14, 1S92; married at Wilkes-Barre, Helen 
 
 Downs, and had issue: Helen D. Dilley, bom July 27, 1917. 
 
 Sherman A. Dilley (702), fourth and youngest child of 
 Anning and Eliza (Houpt) Dilley, born at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 
 July 15, 1864, is a civil engineer by profession, and for a num- 
 ber of years has been senior member and manager of the works 
 of The Sturdevant Engineering Company. He married, 
 April II, 189s, Sadie Kelchner, born at Willow Grove, Co- 
 
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 lumbia County, Pa., November 15, 1865, a daughter of John 
 
 and Amanda (Boone) Kelchner. 
 
 Childeen of Sherman A. and Sadie (Kelchner) Dilley 
 
 1137. Anning M. Dilley, bom May 27, 1896. 
 
 1138. Daughter, born Sept. 3, 1898; died Feb. — , 1899. 
 
 1139. William K. Dilley, born Feb. 9, 1902. 
 
 Harry Z. Crane (703), eldest child and only son of Bentley 
 F. and SaUie (Houpt) Crane, born at Shalersville, Ohio, April 
 28, 1861; died there June 18, 1908. He married at Trenton, 
 Ohio, December 21, 1882, Corda Coit, born July 9, 1863, at 
 ShalersviUe, Ohio, a daughter of Royal Coit. 
 
 Children op Harry Z. and Corda (Coit) Crane 
 
 1140. Roy Crane, bom Oct. 14, 1887. 
 
 1141. Austin Crane, bom Jan. 11, 1889. 
 
 1142. Verdie Crane, bom Jan. i, 1892. 
 
 1143. Paui, Crane, bom May 21, 1894. 
 
 Nelue Crane (704), second child and only daughter of 
 Bentley F. and Sallie (Houpt) Crane, born at Shalersville, 
 Ohio, July 30, 1868; married there April 10, 1889, Charles 
 Hurd, born at Shalersville, Ohio, April 5, 1862, son of Welling- 
 ton and Elizabeth Hurd. 
 
 Childeen of Charles and Nellie (Houpt) Hurd 
 
 1144. Nellie Hurd, bom at Shalersville, Ohio, March 22, 1890; married at 
 
 Mantua, Ohio, Oct. 6, 1909, Harry W. Crafts, who was bom at 
 Mantua, Jan. 21, 1887, and was a son of William H. and Augusta 
 Crafts. They reside at Mantua, Ohio, and have One child: Norma 
 Crafts, bom Nov. 8, 19 10. 
 
 Edgar M. Houpt (707), second ctuld of Missouri and Sallie 
 (Garringer) Houpt, bom in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June, 1876, 
 still resides there. He married there, February 6, 1901, Edith 
 Payne, born at Kingston, Luzerne Cotmty, Pa., June 14, 
 1877, 3- daughter of Edward F. and Elsie (Reith) Payne. 
 
 Children of Edgar M. and Edith (Payne) Houpt 
 1x45. Elsie R. Houpt, bom July 15, 1902. 
 1146. Edgar Payne Houpt, bom March 8, 1905. 
 
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 SEVENTH GENERATION 
 Elizabeth Schuyler Cotton (803), eldest child of Charles 
 Arndt and Allene Jane (Kennedy) Cotton, born at Green 
 Bay, Wis., February 4, 1879; married Prescott Hunt Comings, 
 of Green Bay, an ojB&cial of the Fabary Construction Com- 
 pany. He was born at New Bedford, Mass., August 18, 1879. 
 
 Child or Prescott H. and Elizabeth S. (Cotton) Comings 
 
 1150. Prescott Hunt Comings, Jr., bom May 20, 1910. 
 
 Martha Longstreet Field (807), only child of Jeremiah 
 Depew and Margaret EUzabeth (Arndt) Field, born at Green 
 Bay, Wis., February 17, i860; married at Bayonne, N. J., 
 December 11, 1883, Samuel H. McQuoid, born in New York 
 city June 15, 1855. 
 
 Children oe Samuel H. and Martha L. (Field) McQuoid 
 
 1 151. Bertha McQuoid, born Dec. 6, 1884, at Bayonne, N. J.; died there 
 
 Aug. 5, 1890. 
 
 1152. Kenneth Arndt McQuom, bom at Roselle, N. J., Sept. 5, 1891. 
 
 1153. Chester Strickland McQuoid, born at Roselle, N. J., Aug. 30, 1895. 
 
 Matxde Cotesworth Arndt (808), eldest child of Joseph 
 Manning Marsh and Elizabeth (Slater) Arndt, born at St. 
 Louis, Mo., April 2, 1862; married there October 17, 1907, 
 Sherman H. Kleinschmidt, who was born at St. Louis May 
 2, 1864. 
 
 Catharine Magdalena Arndt (809), second child of Joseph 
 Manning Marsh and Elizabeth (Slater) Arndt, born at Keo- 
 kuk, Iowa, August 9, 1864; married at St. Louis, Mo., July 7, 
 1886, Wilham S. Thompson, of St. Louis, where he was born 
 July I, 1864 
 
 Child of William S. and Catharine Magdalena (Arndt) Thompson 
 
 1154. Madge Elizabeth Thompson, born at St. Louis, Mo., April 25, 1893, 
 
 Walter Tallmadge Arndt (811), only son of Edward Wil- 
 cox and Mary Ellen (Delany) Arndt, was born at De Pere, 
 
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 Wisconsin, October ii, 1872. He received his elementary edu- 
 cation in the public schools of De Pere and prepared for college 
 at the Milwaukee High School and Beloit College Academy. 
 He entered the University of Wisconsin in the fall of 1892 with 
 the class of '96. In college he was active in college affairs, 
 rowed on the class crew, was literary editor of the Badger, the 
 Junior annual, an editor of the Aegis, the hterary monthly, and 
 editor-in-chief of the Daily Cardinal, the coUege daily. He was 
 a frequent contributor of both prose and verse to college pub- 
 lications, and a university song written by him which won a 
 prize in a song competition in 1895 is still one of the best known 
 of Wisconsin songs. He was president of the Western Inter- 
 collegiate Press Association, and a delegate from Wisconsin in 
 189s to the National Convention of the Intercollegiate Repub- 
 lican League. He was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta and 
 Sigma Delta Chi (joumaKstic) fraternities. Before completing 
 his course at the University of Wisconsin he entered Harvard, 
 graduating therefrom with the degree of A.B. in 1897, and 
 remaining two years for a course of study in history and eco- 
 nomics in the Graduate School, where he took his degree of 
 A.M. in 1899. Ill October of that year he settled in New York 
 city, joining the staff of the New York Sun. In 1902 he tem- 
 porarily left newspaper work, becoming a member of the staff 
 of the New International Encyclopaedia and an assistant editor 
 of the New International Year Book, both pubHshed by Dodd, 
 Mead & Co. He contributed more than 1,500 articles on his- 
 tory and biography to the encyclopasdia. In 1904 he became 
 an assistant editor of the Historian's History of the World, and 
 a year later a member of the American editorial staff of the 
 Encyclopaedia Britannica (Eleventh Edition), to which he con- 
 tributed more than 1,000 articles on history and biography. 
 During 1905-06 he was dramatic editor of Current Literature. 
 In 1906 he returned to newspaper work becoming exchange 
 
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 editor of the New York Evening Post. He subsequently be- 
 came political editor and legislative correspondent at Albany. 
 In 1913 he was elected executive secretary of the Municipal 
 Government Association, a state organization devoted to 
 furthering municipal home rule. 
 
 Politically like his father, a republican, he has always taken 
 deep interest in the affairs of his party, and had been a delegate 
 to party conventions and for many years a member of his 
 district and county committees. He was one of the founders of 
 the New York Young Republican Club, which he served for 
 several years as director, and was chairman of its Committee 
 on State Affairs. During 1916 and 1917 he was legislative 
 secretary of the City Club of New York. In the spring of 
 1916 he became Press Secretary of the Roosevelt Republican 
 League, which conducted a pre-convention campaign for the 
 nomination of Colonel Roosevelt as the Republican party can- 
 didate. After the nomination of Justice Hughes, whom he had 
 known as Governor of New York, Mr. Arndt became actively 
 associated with his candidacy. Together with two or three 
 former friends of Mr. Hughes he planned and organized the 
 Hughes Alliance, which played a considerable part in the cam- 
 paign, acting at first as temporary secretary, and then, until 
 election time, as director of publicity of the National Hughes 
 Alliance. 
 
 Shortly after the United States entered the World War 
 Walter Arndt, in collaboration with William H. Lough, laid 
 before Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, whom he had 
 known for many years, a plan for the preparation of a "home 
 reading course" for the citizen soldiers to be called into service 
 under the Selective Service law. Secretary Baker endorsed the 
 plan, and referred it to the General Staff and the War College, 
 and it was approved by both. The course, which was both 
 inspirational and instructive, was published in 30 daily lessons 
 
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 under the direction of the War Department, being sent out in 
 "plate" form to several thousand newspapers and later re- 
 printed in an edition of over a million copies as No. 8 of the 
 War Information Series issued by the Committee on Public 
 Information. 
 
 For many years Mr. Amdt had been active in the affairs of 
 the Citizens Union of New York City, the most influential 
 civic organization in the metropolis. He had served on both 
 its legislative and executive committees, and when, in the sum- 
 mer of 1918, a vacancy occurred in the secretaryship, he was 
 elected to that position which he still (January, 1920) occupies. 
 
 In addition to his newspaper and editorial work, Mr. Amdt 
 has contributed many book reviews, short stories, and articles 
 to magazines. He has written one book, "The Emancipation 
 of the American City," published by Duffield and Company, 
 in 1917. This is an account of developments and improve- 
 ments in our city governments, which was highly praised by 
 the reviewers and is used as collateral reading in courses in 
 government in several imiversities. His social clubs include 
 the Harvard, City, Wisconsin, and Phi Gamma Delta Clubs of 
 New York, and the University Club of Albany. He is also a 
 member of the American Historical Association, the National 
 Municipal League, and the Civic Secretaries Association. 
 
 He has been twice married. His first wife, whom he married 
 at Washington, D. C, on June 9, 1904, was Ethel Howard. 
 They had one son, Howard Wilcox Amdt, now a student at 
 Nazareth Hall Academy, Nazareth, Pa. His second wife, 
 whom he married in New York on April 17, 1915, was Wilhel- 
 mina Helene Friedlander. She is active in civic and poHtical 
 work, was a member of the Woman's Committee of One Hun- 
 dred in 1917, is a member of the RepubKcan County Commit- 
 tee and of the Women's City Club. During the war she was 
 executive secretary of the Bronx Red Cross, and later assistant 
 
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 field director of the Eastern Department of the Y.M.C.A. 
 (Women's Department). 
 
 Child of Walter T. and Ethel (Howard) Arndt 
 
 1155. Howard Wilcox Arndt, bom Feb. 22, 1906. 
 
 Edwaed Wilcox Lawton (815), eldest child of Charles 
 Augustus and Elsie Morgan (Arndt) Lawton, born at De Pere, 
 Wis., August 20, 1867, graduated at De Pere High School and 
 entered the University of Wisconsin, class of 1889. He grad- 
 uated with the degree of Mechanical Engineering and entered 
 the employ of his father in the machine shops at De Pere, and 
 subsequently became a member of the firm of C. A. Lawton & 
 Co. Since the decease of his father he has carried on the busi- 
 ness with great success. During the European war the re- 
 sources of the plant were largely devoted to war work. 
 
 He is a 3 2d Degree Mason and has been several times master 
 of the lodge at De Pere, being also a member of Persistive 
 Commandery, Knights Templar, and of Wisconsin Consistory. 
 He married at De Pere, December 19, 1900, Helen Davis, born 
 at Menasha, Wis., March 25, 1878, daughter of Ira Wadleigh 
 and Laura Barlow (Shepard) Davis, and a niece of James Reed 
 Shepard who married Catharine Arndt, No. 433. They had 
 issue, one child: 
 
 1156. Charles Augustus Lawton, Jr., bom at De Pere, Wis., July 25, 1904. 
 
 Ellen Baied Lawton (816), second child of Charles 
 Augustus and Elsie Morgan (Arndt) Lawton, born at De Pere, 
 Wis., April 19, 1869; married at De Pere, Francisco H. Wilson, 
 of Chicago, 111. He was born at Chadds Ford, Pa., May 20, 
 1863. 
 
 Charlotte Watson Loy (817), eldest child of Peter Schell 
 and Emily Hayes (Arndt) Loy, born at De Pere, Wis., Septem- 
 ber 14, 1871; married August 13, 1899, Jacob Edward 
 Drescher, who was born at Ann Arbor, Mich., January 17, 
 
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 1 86 1. He has been for many years in the employ of the Con- 
 way Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of mantels, 
 doors, etc., at Milwaukee, as superintendent of the finishing 
 department. Their residence in 1919 was 3710 Park Hill 
 Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. They had no children. 
 
 Mary Wilcox Loy (818), second child of Peter Schell and 
 Emily Hayes (Arndt) Loy, born at De Pere, Wis., March 10, 
 1873; married at Milwaukee, Wis., May 9, 1902, Dr. Vet S. 
 Baird, a physician in active practice for many years at Monroe 
 and Belvit, Wis.; later in Milwaukee. He was a member of 
 Co. H, First Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, during the Span- 
 ish-American War. They reside (1919) at 1021 Muskego 
 Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 Childben of Dr. Vet S. and Mary Wilcox (Arndt) Baird 
 
 1157. Loy Schell Baird, bom at Waterford, Wis., Jan. 6, 1903. 
 
 1158. Charlotte Anna Baird, bom at Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 20, 1916. 
 
 Anna Rebecca Schell Loy (819), third and youngest child 
 of Peter Schell and Emily Hayes (Arndt) Loy, bom at De Pere, 
 Wis., December 31, 1878, married at San Gabriel Mission 
 Church, San Gabriel, Los Angeles County, Cal., April 22, 1908, 
 Charles David Harmon, of San Gabriel. He was born at 
 Savannah, Los Angeles Coimty, Cal., July 27, 1873. They 
 reside (1919) on a ranch of 200 acres near Beaumont, River- 
 side County, Cal. 
 
 1159. Cheerill Loy Hannon, bom in Alhambra, Cal., Nov. 24, 1911. 
 
 Elizabeth Howe Shepard (820), eldest child of James 
 Reed and Mary Catharine (Arndt) Shepard, born at De Pere, 
 Wisconsin, August 23, 1878, married there, August 24, 1907, 
 William Henry Lough, of New York City. He was bom at 
 Dayton, Ohio, May 11, 1881, and is a son of William H. and 
 Esther (Stubbs) Lough. He graduated at the Oshkosh Normal 
 School in 1899, and entered Harvard University, from which he 
 received the degree of A.B. in 1901 and that of A.M. in 1902. 
 
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 After serving two years in the traffic department of the Balti- 
 more and Ohio Railroad at Pittsburgh, Pa., he became a mem- 
 ber of the editorial staff of the Wall Street Journal, New York, 
 filKng that position during 1904-5. From 1905 to 1910 he was 
 instructor, assistant professor, and professor of finance and 
 transportation in the School of Commerce and Finance of New 
 York University. In 1910 he was one of the founders and in 
 1915 vice-president of the Alexander Hamilton Institute. 
 During 1916 he made an extensive tour of South America, in- 
 vestigating banking and financial conditions there for the 
 United States Department of Commerce, and published on his 
 return two reports of his work of great value. In 1916 he 
 founded and became president of the Business Training Cor- 
 poration, for the organizing of educational work among em- 
 ployees of industrial and commercial companies of the country. 
 
 During the early months of the war with Germany he ini- 
 tiated and prepared "The Home Reading Course for Citizen 
 Soldiers," and associating himself with Walter T. Arndt (No. 
 811), laid his plan for the education of the American youth 
 called into the service by the selective draft, before Secretary 
 of War Baker, and on his approval it was widely circulated 
 under the auspices of the War Department. He served as 
 Executive Secretary of the War Department Committee on 
 Special Training during 1918, and late in that year sailed for 
 France, where he became Director of Business Education in the 
 Educational Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces in 
 France, remaining in charge until the work was completed. 
 He is a Republican in politics and a member of the American 
 Economic Association, and of the Harvard and the Advertising 
 clubs of New York city. 
 
 He is the author of several books on financial subjects, in- 
 cluding "Lectures on Panics and Depressions" (1907); "Cor- 
 poration Finance" (1909); "Financial Development in South 
 
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GENEALOGY— SEVENTH GENERATION 
 
 American Countries" (1915); "Banking Opportunities in 
 South America" (1915) ; and "Business Finance" (1917). He 
 has offices at 185 Madison Avenue, and he and his wife live at 
 No. 18 East Eighth Street, New York City. They have no 
 children. 
 
 Colin Reed Shepaed (821), second child of James Reed and 
 Mary Catharine (Arndt) Shepard, was born at De Pere, Wis., 
 May 10, 1883. He graduated from De Pere High School, and 
 entered the College of Engineering of the University of Wis- 
 consin, where he spent two years. He was active in college 
 athletics and rowed on the university crew. He was a charter 
 member of the Alpha Delta Phi Chapter at the University of 
 Wisconsin. While engaged in an engineering survey for the ex- 
 tension of the St. Paul system to the Pacific coast he contracted 
 typhoid fever, and returning to his home in De Pere, died there 
 September 20, 1906. 
 
 Alice Irene Boweing (822), eldest daughter of Thomas 
 Doubell and AHce (Arndt) Bowring, was bom at De Pere, 
 Wis., January 2, 1876. She was educated in the schools of De 
 Pere, and took a course in the Oshkosh Normal School, after 
 which she engaged in teaching until her marriage on June 5, 
 1907, to Ohver Evans, cashier of the Commercial National 
 Bank of Iron Mountain, Michigan. He is a son of Oliver and 
 Nancy (Bunnell) Evans, and was born at Berlin, Wisconsin, 
 January 30, 1857. He retired from business several years ago, 
 and they settled in Alhambra, Cal., where they still live (1920) 
 They have issue, one child: 
 
 1 1 60. Alice Evans, bom at Iron Mountain, Mich., Oct. 8, igo8. 
 
 Thomas Reuben Boweing (822), second child of Thomas D. 
 and Alice (Arndt) Bowring, was born at De Pere, Wis., January 
 3, 1878. He graduated from De Pere High School and suc- 
 ceeded his father in the photographic business at De Pere, 
 
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 becoming the support of the family at the age of nineteen. He 
 is a well-known photographer and conducts, in addition, a 
 large business in photographic supplies and phonographs. He 
 has served on the De Pere Board of Aldermen and is a member 
 of De Pere Lodge of Masons. 
 
 He married at De Pere, August 30, 1905, Irene Rivers Chase, 
 born at Chase, Brown County, Wis., January 23, 1880, a 
 daughter of J. S. Chase, of De Pere. They have issue, one 
 child: 
 
 1161. Randall Chase Bowring, born at De Pere, Wis., May 17, 1908. 
 
 William Wallace Boweing (824), fourth child of Thomas 
 D. and Alice (Arndt) Bowring, was born at De Pere, Wis., 
 April 3, 1884. He graduated from De Pere High School, and 
 was for many years in the employ of his uncle, Charles A. 
 Lawton, in the foundry and machine business at De Pere, 
 later becoming a machinery salesman in Detroit, Mich., where 
 he and his wife now reside. He married at ClarenceviUe, 
 Quebec, November 25, 1913, Mary Louise Hunter, who was 
 born at Circleville, Quebec, March 16, 1888. 
 
 Elsie Aendt Bowring (825), youngest child of Thomas D. 
 and AKce (Arndt) Bowring, born at De Pere, Wis., November 
 24, 1890; graduated at the De Pere High School and Oshkosh 
 Normal School, and taught school for several years at She- 
 boygan and Green Bay, Wisconsin. Since 1918 she has been 
 teaching in Pasadena, Cal. 
 
 Reuben Field Arndt (826), eldest son of Randall Wilcox 
 and Annie (Courtney) Arndt, was born in De Pere, Wis., July 
 31, 1881. He graduated from the Neenah, Wis., High School, 
 and entered the College of Engineering of the University of 
 Wisconsin in 1900, graduating with the degree of Mechanical 
 Engineer in the class of 1904. He was president of his class 
 and a member of the University Glee Club; the Harefoot 
 Dramatic Club, and a charter member of the Alpha Delta Phi 
 
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GENEALOGY— SEVENTH GENERATION 
 
 Fraternity. Immediately on his graduation he went to Port- 
 land, Oregon, where he has since been engaged in the structural 
 iron business with the Northwestern Bridge and Iron Com- 
 pany, and the Northwestern Ship Building Company, of 
 which he has been for several years general superintendent. 
 During the European war this company was extensively en- 
 gaged in building ships for the transport service and the mer- 
 chant marine. The plant employed 5,500 men, and launched 
 8,800 tons steel ships at an average rate of 40 days per ship, 
 or one ship every ten days, from four building slips. 
 
 Reuben Arndt was a charter member of the Oregon Society 
 of Engineers; is a member of the Portland Chamber of Com- 
 merce; of the Portland University Club, and a Director of the 
 Portland Builders' Exchange. 
 
 He married at Menasha, Wis., March 16, 1909, Louise Au- 
 gusta MacKiimon, who was bom in Menasha, March 11, 1882. 
 They have issue, one child: 
 
 1 161. Helen Elizabeth Arndt, born at Portland, Ore., Dec. 13, 1919. 
 
 John Philip Arndt (827), second son of Randall Wilcox 
 and Annie (Courtney) Arndt, was born in De Pere, Wis., 
 February 15, 1883. He was educated at the schools of De Pere 
 and Neenah, and after graduating at Neenah High School ob- 
 tained a practical education in electrical engineering, which has 
 been his profession. He was superintendent of the electrical 
 plant at Green Bay, Wis., and for several years had charge of a 
 large electrical plant at Newark, Ohio. He is at present (1920) 
 engaged in manufacturing an invention of his own at Mil- 
 waukee, Wis. This invention is known as a "Throttle Fuse," 
 and is used to protect high- voltage circuits, and is coming into 
 wide use in electrical plants. It is capable of interrupting cir- 
 cuits of larger capacity than any fuse heretofore devised. Mr. 
 Arndt is also the inventor of an "Air-Blast Cut-out." He has 
 
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 a laboratory which he personally conducts and experiments 
 ■with numerous other electrical inventions under way. 
 
 He married at Neenah, Wis., June ii, 1908, Mary Elizabeth 
 Fish, who was born there September 11, 1883. She is a grad- 
 uate of Oshkosh Normal School. 
 
 Children of John Philip and Mary Elizabeth (Fish) Arndt 
 
 1162. John Philip Arndt, Jr., bom at Canton, O., Dec. 13, 1910. 
 
 1163. Elizabeth Jane Arndt, bom at Neenah, Wis., Aug. 21, 1914. 
 
 1 164. Randall Herbert Arndt, bom at Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. i, 1919. 
 
 Jessie Ash Arndt (828), third child and only daughter of 
 Randall Wilcox and Annie (Courtney) Arndt, was born at 
 Neenah, Wis., November 2, 1899. She graduated from the 
 high school at Abilene, Kan., and after a special course in music 
 became a member of the staff of the Abilene Reflector, of which 
 she subsequently became city editor. She is still engaged in 
 newspaper work. She is unmarried. 
 
 Lawrence Byers (828a), son of John Franklin and Martha 
 Ann (Arndt) Byers, was born in Minneapolis, Minn., October 
 8, 1885. He was a youth of unusual promise and ability and of 
 engaging personaKty. He was within a week of graduating 
 from Minneapolis High School with high honors, and had ex- 
 pected to enter the State University of Minnesota the following 
 fall, when, on May 18, 1904, he was drowned by the upsetting 
 of a canoe in Lake Calhoun in the suburbs of Minneapolis. 
 
 Grace Eastman Lamb (829), eldest child of Dr. George 
 Allen and May (Eastman) Lamb, born at Green Bay, Wis., 
 April 23, 1869, married at MinneapoKs, Minn., June 26, 1907, 
 William Hanson Holbrook, who was bom in Chicago, 111., 
 July 24, 1866. 
 
 Eugenia Eastman Lamb (830), second child of Dr. George 
 Allen and May (Eastman) Lamb, born at Green Bay, Wis., 
 March 27, 1873; married at Benton Harbor, Mich., November 
 28, 1901, Edward Robert Nelson, a dealer in automobiles at 
 
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 Ishpeming, Mich., where he was born April 14, 1874. They 
 had issue: 
 
 1165. Roger Eastman Nelson, bom at Ishpeming, Mich., Aug. 31, 1902. 
 
 1166. George Lamb Nelson, bom at Ishpeming, Mich., Aug. 13, 1906. 
 
 1167. Edward Robert Nelson, Jr., bom at Ishpeming, Mich., Aug. 8, 1910. 
 
 May Elizabeth Norms (831), eldest child of John Mahan 
 and Grace (Eastman) Norris, born at Green Bay, Wis., Sep- 
 tember 28, 1869; married at MinneapoHs, Mirm., June 2, 
 1909, Samuel Lovett Sewall, Secretary and Treasurer of the 
 Minneapolis Iron and Stove Company. He was born at Wil- 
 mington, Del., Jime 27, 1862. They have no children. 
 
 Sarah Mahan Woodruff (833), eldest child of Walter 
 Harold and BeUe (Eastman) Woodruff, born at Green Bay 
 Wis., September 13, 1881; married at Benton Harbor, Mich., 
 September 13, 1906, Mathias Mayer. He was bom at Apple- 
 ton, Wis., November 14, 1874, and is an engineer on the 
 Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. They reside at 823 
 North Chestnut Avenue, Green Bay, Wis. They had issue: 
 
 1 168. Lawrence Harold Mayer, bom at Kaukauna, Wis., Aug. 15, 1907. 
 
 1169. John Robert Mayer, bom at Green Bay, Wis., Feb. 22, 1910. 
 
 1170. Lucy Belle Mayer, bom at Green Bay, Wis., Sept. 13, 1913. 
 
 Robert Eastman Woodruff (834), second child of Walter 
 Harold and BeUe (Eastman) Woodruff, born at Green Bay, 
 Wis., September 11, 1884, early engaged in the railroad busi- 
 ness, and is superintendent of the Cincinnati Division of the 
 Erie Railroad and resides at Marion, Ohio. 
 
 He married at Columbus, Ohio, Jime 8, 1907, Beatrice Louise 
 Bruck, bom at Columbus, Ohio, January 29, 1885. They have 
 no issue. 
 
 Margaret Eastman Woodruff (835), third and yoimgest 
 child of Walter Harold and BeUe (Eastman) Woodruff, born 
 at Green Bay, Wis., April 27, 1891, married at Benton 
 Harbor, Mich., October 18, 1911, Dr. Frank Carey Boardman, 
 
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 a dentist at Orlando, Fla., where they reside. He was born at 
 Kissimonee, Fla., July i6, 1889. 
 They had issue: 
 
 1171. Frances Woodruff Boardman, bom at Orlando, Fla., Aug. 30, 1912. 
 
 Jane Elizabeth Eastman (837), second child of Benjamin 
 Ralph and Lettie Bell (Sherwood) Eastman, bom at Benton 
 Harbor, Mich., August 25, 1885; married there June 29, 1910, 
 Clarence William Chaddock, born in IlKnois September 6, 
 1882. 
 
 They had issue: 
 
 1172. Dorothea Hope Chaddock, bom at Camden, N. J., Oct. 19, 1911. 
 
 De Witt Van Dyke Reiley (844), second child of De Witt 
 Ten Broeck and Catharine Van Beuren (Campbell) Reiley, 
 born at New Brunswick, N. J., May 10, 1866; graduated at 
 Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., in the class of 1886, 
 and from Columbia Law School, New York city, in 1888. He 
 is a practising attorney in New York city, senior member of 
 the law firm of Reiley and Harrison, with offices at No. 2 Rector 
 Street. 
 
 He married at Flatbush, Long Island, May 21, 1891, Sarah 
 Barre Strong, born December 12, 1864, at New Baltimore, N. 
 Y., a daughter of Rev. Robert G. and Harriet Lydia (Zab- 
 ritskie) Strong. No record of children. 
 
 Alan Campbell Reiley (845), third child of De Witt Ten 
 Broeck and Katharine Van Beuren (Campbell) Reiley, born at 
 New Brunswick, N. J., December 7, 1869; was educated at 
 Rutgers College Preparatory School. He accompanied his 
 father to Athens, Greece, in 1884, and spent one year there. 
 He is the author of the historical maps for Larned's "History 
 for Ready Reference" and Bishop Hurst's "History of the 
 Christian Church." He was secretary of Cormecticut Society 
 for Universal Extension, 1895-1896, and after two years' em- 
 
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 ployment with the Pope Manufacturing Company entered the 
 employ of the Remington Typewriter Company, of which he 
 has been advertising manager since 1900. He was president of 
 the National Association of Advertisers, 1916-1917. 
 
 He married at Washington, D. C, May 14, 1902, Carolyn 
 Loretta Goodale, daughter of Wilbert Beecher and Eleanor 
 Frances (Halsey) Goodale, of Hartford, Conn., where she was 
 born April 5, 1878. They have issue: 
 
 1173. Alan Campbell Reiley, Jr., bom April 23, 1903. 
 
 WiLLAED ScHEEMEEHOEN Reiley (846), fourth child of 
 De Witt Ten Broeck and Katharine Van Beuren (Campbell) 
 Reiley, born at New Brunswick, N. J., September 27, 187 1; 
 died at his home in Palisade, N. J., February 8, 1915. He 
 married at Camden, N. J., July 2, 1904, Eloise Ingalls Middle- 
 ton, born at South Westerle, Albany County, N. Y., February 
 16, 1883, daughter of Frank and Emma (Ingalls) Middleton, 
 who survives him. They had issue: 
 
 1174. WiLLARD Middleton Reiley, bom June 29, 1907. 
 
 Katharine Campbell Relley (847), fifth child of De Witt 
 Ten Broeck and Katharine Van Beuren (Campbell) Reiley, 
 bom at New Brunswick, N. J., August 13, 1873; graduated at 
 Vassar College in the class of 1895 with the degree of A.B. 
 She received the degree of A.M. at Columbia University in 
 1902, and that of Ph.D. at the same miiversity in 1909, and 
 has been a member of the faculty of the university, filling the 
 positions of Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin, and Assist- 
 ant to the Director of Extension Teaching and School of Busi- 
 ness and the Summer Sessions since 191 5. She was also 
 Assistant Director of summer sessions from 1915 to 1919. She 
 is the author of "Philosophical Terminology of Lucretius and 
 Cicero," Columbia University Press, and of "The Latin Verb," 
 American Book Co. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa 
 
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 fraternity, of the Philological Association, the Women's City 
 Club of New York, and other scientific and social organiza- 
 tions. 
 
 Eleanor Ten Broeck Reiley (848), sixth child of De Witt 
 Ten Broeck and Katharine Van Beuren (Campbell) Reiley, 
 born at New Brunswick, N. J., August 2, 1875, married at 
 Tarrytown, New York, June 10, 1903, George Endicott, of 
 New York city, where they reside. He is a son of Francis 
 Endicott, and was born in New York city September, i860. 
 
 Child of George and Eleanor (Reiley) Endicott 
 1x75. De Witt Endicott, born Oct. lo, 1905. 
 
 Amy Carroll Reiley (865), third child and eldest daughter 
 of George Junkin and Mary Sophia (Dunn) Reiley, born at 
 Blairstown, East Fehciana Parish, La., August 7, 1881; mar- 
 ried there February 22, 1911, Dr. Joe S. Jones, Jr., of Baton 
 Rouge, La., son of Dr. Joe S. and SalHe (Irwin) Jones of that 
 city. He is a physician in active practice in Baton Rouge, 
 where he resides with his family. 
 Child of Dr. Joe S. and Amy Carroll (Reiley) Jones 
 
 1179. Frank Junkin Jones, bom April 2, 1913. 
 
 Edward Carroll Reiley (866), fourth child of George 
 Junkin and Mary Sophia (Dunn) Reiley, was born at Blairs- 
 town, La., December 18, 1882, and still resides there. He mar- 
 ried at Saint Francisville, West FeUciana Parish, La., June 19, 
 191 2, Hilda May Richardson, daughter of Wade Hillard and 
 Leonora (Connell) Richardson, of that parish, where she was 
 born December 21, 1890. 
 Children of Edward Carroll and Hilda May (Richardson) Reiley 
 
 1180. Elizabeth Carroll Reiley, bom Sept. 18, 1917. 
 
 1181. Nell Richardson Reiley, bom June 13, 1919. 
 
 Mary Trimble Reiley (867), fifth child of George Junkin 
 and Mary Sophia (Dunn) Reiley, bom at Blairstown, East 
 Feliciana Parish, La., June 4, 1884; married at Clinton, in that 
 
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 parish, January 12, 1909, Dr. Thomas Spec Jones, of Baton 
 
 Rouge, La. He is a son of Dr. Joe S. and Sarah (Irwin) Jones, 
 
 and was born at Jackson, East Feliciana Parish, La., June 5, 
 
 1881. 
 
 Children of Dr. Thomas S. and Mary Trimble (Reiley) Jones 
 
 1182. Robert Reiley Jones, bom Dec. 31, 1909. 
 
 1183. George Reiley Jones, bom Sept. 13, 1911; died Sept. 20, 1911. 
 
 1184. John Reiley Jones, bom March 18, 1913. 
 
 Elizabeth Reiley (868), sixth child of George Junkiii and 
 Mary Sophia (Dunn) Reiley, bom at Blairstown, La., April 29, 
 1886; was a teacher in the schools of her native parish for six 
 years and was postmistress at Chnton for two years during 
 President Taft's administration, resigning on the eve of her 
 marriage to Dr. Jesse Horrell McClendon, of Amite, La., which 
 occurred December 18, 1912. He is a son of William H. and 
 Allenette Irene (Castle) McClendon, and was bom at Greens- 
 burg, St. Helena, La., November 15, 1886. He graduated from 
 the medical department of Tulane University. During the 
 European war he was a member of the medical staff of the 
 Induction Board for the parish of Tangipahoa, La., and in 1919 
 was coroner of that parish. 
 
 Children of Dr. Jesse Horrell and Elizabeth (Reiley) McClendon 
 
 1185. Elizabeth Reiley McClendon, bom Oct. 11, 1913; died Sept. 26, 
 
 1915- 
 
 1186. Robert Spec McClendon, born July 12, 1919. 
 
 George Junkin Reiley (870), eighth and youngest child of 
 George Junkin and Mary Sophia (Dunn) Reiley, bom at 
 Blairstown, East FeKciana Parish, La., December 27, 1890, is 
 a dentist by profession, and during the World War volimteered 
 his professional services to the goverimient, and was com- 
 missioned a First Lieutenant in the Dental Corps of the 
 United States Army. 
 
 Claire Lovell Reiley (871), eldest child of Hon. J. I. 
 Blair and Jessie B. (Teel) Reiley, born at Phillipsburg, N. J., 
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 September 28, 1884; graduated at PhilKpsburg High School in 
 the class of 1900; from Blair Hall, Blairstown, N. J., in 1901, 
 and from Vassar College in 1905. She is a member of the 
 Junior Board of Easton Hospital; of the Navy League, and of 
 the American Red Cross. During the World War, 1917-1918, 
 she had a position in the Food Administration Office of Phillips- 
 burg; was also chairman for Warren County of the Girls' 
 Patriotic League and of the Woman's Committee of the Coun- 
 cil of National Defense, and gave active assistance in the 
 Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives in her native town and 
 county. She married at Easton, Pa., June 9, 1911, John 
 Milton Guthrie, Jr., born at Homer City, Indiana County, 
 Pa., June 11, 1887; son of Speer Wallace and Abbie (Wilson) 
 Guthrie. They resided for three years in Greensburg, Pa., and 
 since have resided in PhilKpsburg, N. J. 
 
 J. Milton Guthrie, Jr., received his primary education at the 
 Model School, Indiana, Pa., and Kiskiminetas School, Salts- 
 burg, Pa., and was a student at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., 
 for two years in the class of 1910. He engaged in the life in- 
 surance business with the Equitable Life Insurance Co., at 
 Indiana, Pa., in 1908, and for the years 1911-1914 was super- 
 visor for five counties of Pennsylvania for that company, with 
 headquarters at Greensburg, Pa. Since 1914 he has been en- 
 gaged in the real estate and insurance business at Phillipsburg, 
 N. J. He enlisted in the United States Army during the 
 European war, and was Captain and BattaUon Adjutant 
 Second New Jersey Regiment, Heavy Field Artillery, and was 
 transferred on October 29, 1918, to the Chemical Warfare Ser- 
 vice as First Lieutenant, and assigned to command of Gas 
 Defense Inspection Detachment, which command he held 
 until discharged on December 24, 1918. 
 
 John I. Blair Reiley, Jr. (872), only son of Hon. J. I. 
 Blair and Jessie Benton (Teel) Reiley, was educated in the 
 
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 public schools of Phillipsburg, the Easton Academy, Easton, 
 Pa., and Mercersberg Academy, Mercersberg, Pa., graduating 
 from the latter institution in 1908. He entered Princeton Uni- 
 versity, Princeton, N. J., in 1908, and graduated in 191 2. He 
 entered Harvard Law School in 1912 and graduated in 1915, 
 and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey by the Supreme 
 Court at its November term, 1915. He began the practice of 
 law in Newark, N. J., in 1916. In August, 1917, he enlisted 
 it Newark in the United States National Army for the period 
 of the war, and went to the Of&cers' Training Camp at Fort 
 Myer August 25, 1917, graduating November 27, 1917. He 
 was commissioned a First Lieutenant, ordered to report at 
 Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va., on December 15, 191 7, and on his 
 arrival was attached to 317th Infantry, 80th Division, from 
 which he was transferred and attached to issth Depot Brigade, 
 Camp Lee, Va., whence he was transferred on May 1 2, 1918, to 
 duty with the United States Army Training Detachment, 
 Richmond, Va., as Adjutant. On August 27, 1918, he was 
 ordered to Washington, D. C, on duty with Committee on 
 Education and Special Training, of General Staff, as assistant 
 to General Robert J. Rees. He was promoted to Captain 
 October 17, 1918, and released from duty with Committee on 
 Education and Special Training in December, 1918, and as- 
 signed to duty with Mr. F. P. Keppel. Third Assistant Secre- 
 tary of War. Was honorably discharged from service on June 
 30, 1919, and resvuned the practice of law at Newark, New 
 Jersey. 
 
 Lizzie Thomas Winter (900), eldest child of Jacob B. and 
 Alice G. (Williams) Winter, born at Lodi, Bucks County, Pa., 
 January 30, 1871; died in Philadelphia April 23, 1905. She 
 married in the latter city, January 9, 1895, Henry N. Kerst, 
 Jr., a son of Henry N. and Angeline (Eppler) Kerst. He was 
 bom in Philadelphia, Pa., September i, 1870. They had issue: 
 
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 1187. Ralph Bushon Keest, born Nov. 8, 1895; died Aug. 8, 1909. 
 
 Sue Elna Winter (901), second child of Jacob B. and Alice 
 G. (Williams) Winter, born at Springtown, Warren County, 
 N. J., April 2, 1873; married at Philadelphia, Pa., January 8, 
 
 1898, Henry D. Clifton, son of John Knox and Elizabeth 
 (Smith) Clifton. He was bom in Philadelphia November 27, 
 1869, and died there December 15, 1904. She married, sec- 
 ondly, October 7, 1908, Frank G. Haney, son of Aaron and 
 Mary (Grey) Haney, of Bridgeton, Bucks County, Pa., where 
 he was born September 12, 12, 1877. She is living with her 
 second husband at Milford, N. J. By her first husband she 
 had issue: 
 
 1 188. Dorothy C. Clifton, born March 23, 1902. 
 By her second husband she had issue: 
 
 1189. Edward Jefferson Haney, born July 7, 1912, died March 17, 1913. 
 
 Martha Jane Winter (902), third child of Jacob B. and 
 Alice G. (Williams) Winter, born at Pettenburg, Warren 
 County, N. J., June 2, 1875; married in Philadelphia, Pa., 
 October 10, 1900, Mordecai Jefferson, bom at Bradford, Eng- 
 land, November 12, 1875; died in Philadelphia, September 15, 
 
 1899. He was a son of Cornelius and Mary Ann (Zopham) 
 Jefferson. They had issue: 
 
 1190. Alice G. Jefferson, born June 14, 1905. 
 
 1191. William H. Jefferson, bom Dec. 9, 1909. 
 
 Maude Winter (903), fourth child of Jacob B. and Alice G. 
 (Williams) Winter, born at Lodi, Bucks Cotmty, Pa., Septem- 
 ber 25, 1881; married in Philadelphia, Pa., April 15, 1909, 
 Henry H. Bryson, Jr., born in Philadelphia, July 9, 1879, a son 
 of Henry H. and EKzabeth (Smith) Bryson. They had issue: 
 
 1192. Martha Bryson, born Feb. 27, 1911. 
 
 1193. Helen Bryson, born Aug. 17, 1912. 
 
 Elsie Lydia Williams (904), eldest child of Dr. Thomas 
 
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 Blackledge and Mary Alice (Palm) Williams, bom at Schuyl- 
 kill Haven, Pa., November lo, 1879; married in Philadelphia, 
 October 24, 1906, Ira Keller, born in Pottsville, Pa., April 4, 
 1868, a son of Benjamin and Hannah (Edwards) Keller. They 
 had issue: 
 
 1194. Makjokie Keller, bom October 12, 1910. 
 
 Jesse T. Zane (910), eldest child of Thomas William and 
 Jennie V. (Cummings) Zane, born at Schoolcraft, Mich., Octo- 
 ber 12, 1868; removed with his father to Sundance, Wyo., in 
 1893, and after the death of his father in 1901 came into pos- 
 session of the ranch owned by the latter, which he continues to 
 conduct. He married at Sundance, June 17, 1897, Zoe Olive 
 Reed, daughter of Cyrus and Louisa (Harris) Reed, bom at 
 Seymoiir, Wis., May 25, 1871. They have no children. 
 
 Anna Elizabeth Zane (911), second child of Thomas 
 William and Jennie V. (Cummings) Zane, bom at Schoolcraft, 
 Mich., May 20, 1870; married there December 30, 1888, 
 William R. Fox. He was a son of Ashbel A. and Miranda 
 (Bathrick) Fox, and was born at Battle Creek, Mich., October 
 21, 1867. They removed to Sundance, Crook Coimty, Wyo., in 
 1889 or 1890, whence they were later followed by Mrs. Fox's 
 parents. After several years' residence at Sundance, they re- 
 moved to GiUette, Campbell Coimty, Wyo., where Mr. Fox 
 is a surveyor and dealer in real estate. They had issue: 
 
 1195. Harold Germaine Fox, bom at Sundance, Wyo., Aug. 12, 1891, is a 
 
 cowboy at GiUette, Wyo.; married at Sheridan, Wyo., Aug. 10, 1910, 
 Ella May Davis, bom at Moorhead, Mont., Dec. 19, 1892, daughter 
 of Jeremiah C. and Carrie May (Cleavinger) Davis, and had issue: 
 Francis Raymond Fox, bom Nov. 18, igii. 
 1197. Ruby Valentine Fox, bom at Sundance, Wyo., Feb. 14, 1893. 
 
 Anna M. Wright (915), second child of Silas A. and Clara S. 
 (Mason) Wright, born at Schoolcraft, Mich., November 3, 
 1881; married at Comstock, Mich., June 5, 1904, Elbert 
 
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 Philetus Montague. He was bom at Comstock, Mich., August 
 II, 1877, and was a son of James S. and Electa (Wetherill) 
 Montague. They had issue: 
 
 1 198. Frank Wright Montagtte, bom March i, 1910. 
 
 Elizabeth Wright (916), third child of Silas A. and Clara 
 S. (Mason) Wright, born at Schoolcraft, Mich., April 14, 1883; 
 married at Comstock, Mich., November 23, 1905, William 
 Rork, a foreman of the machinist department in Rosenbaum's 
 factory of that city. He was born at Palo, Iowa County, Mich., 
 May 23, 1882, and is a son of Edward and Alma (Dodgson) 
 Rork. They had issue: 
 
 1 199. Cecil Maurice Rork, born Jan. 11, 1909. 
 
 1200. Donald Milton Rork, bom Jiily 19, 1912. 
 
 LiLA Wright (917), fourth child of Silas A. and Clara S. 
 (Mason) Wright, born at Schoolcraft, Mich., August 22, 1886; 
 was a teacher in her native town prior to her marriage at Com- 
 stock, Mich., July 7, 1906, to Ernest Milton Botsford, a ma- 
 chinist in Comstock, where they reside. He was born at 
 Bedford, Calhoun County, Mich., May 17, 1877, and is a son 
 of Orville and Martha (Estell) Botsford. They had issue: 
 
 1201. Marjorie Mae Botsford, born Aug. 6, 1908. 
 
 Grace 0. Williams (919), eldest child of Samuel Francis 
 and Sarah Ellen (Russell) Williams, born in Jay County, Ind., 
 October 14, 1876; married at Milledgeville, Carroll County, 
 Ind., March 9, 1909, Ferdinand Spaulding. He was born at 
 Chadwick, Illinois, and was a son of Charles and Minna (Dyer) 
 Spaulding. They had no issue. 
 
 Edith Williams (921), third child of Samuel Francis and 
 Sarah Ellen (Russell) Williams, born in Jay County, Ind., May 
 8, 1880; married at Milledgeville, Ind., December 7, 1904, 
 Clyde Spencer, born at Chadwick, 111., May 26, 1869, a son of 
 EUwood and Elwina (Woods) Spencer. They had issue: 
 
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 1202. Ellen Lovina Spencer, bom Sept. 23, 1905. 
 
 1203. ErriE Spencer, bom Oct. 9, 1907. 
 
 1204. Alice Spencer, born Oct. 20, igog. 
 
 Ellwood Williams (922) , fourth child of Samuel Francis and 
 Sarah Ellen (Russell) WilKams, born at Milledgeville, 111., May 
 26, 1884; married at Chadwick, 111., September 19, 1907, 
 Susan Spaulding, bom at Chadwick, 111., August 2, 1882, a 
 daughter of Charles and Minna (Dyer) Spaulding. They had 
 issue: 
 
 1203. Charles F. Williams, bom May 6, igo8. 
 
 Abraham Weingaedner Trimble (Q23), eldest child of 
 Hugh Loxiis and Rebecca C. (Weingardner) Trimble, bom at 
 Wilhamsport, Pa., December 10, 1868; has been a resident of 
 Philadelphia since 1884. He is a salesman for the William 
 Whitmer & Sons wholesale lumber dealers of that city, and 
 resides at 36 1 5 Spring Garden Street. He married, January 19, 
 1898, at the Old Swedes Church, Philadelphia, Marie Cantrell, 
 born in Philadelphia August 8, 1874; daughter of Francis and 
 Elizabeth B. (Tomlinson) Cantrell. They had issue: 
 
 1206. Francis Cantrell Trimble, bom May 12, 1899. 
 
 1207. Elizabeth Trimble, bom Nov. 6, 1900. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Tilden Clifton (939), eldest child of Charles 
 Edward and Anna Maria (Stout) CHfton, born in Easton, Pa., 
 April 30, 1874; graduated at Lafayette College in 1894, and 
 from the Union Theological Seminary in New York city in 
 1898. In the latter year he was ordained as a minister of the 
 Dutch Reformed Church, and installed as pastor of the Re- 
 formed Church at Wurtsboro, N. Y. In 1901 he was called to 
 the Second Reformed Church at Coxsackie, N. Y., and later 
 became pastor of a church at Winsted, Conn., where he is still 
 stationed. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Clifton married, first, November 23, 1898, Harriet 
 Fulton, of Wurtsboro, N. Y., born April i, 1877; died Septem- 
 
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 ber 4, 1907. He married, second, March 5, 1910, Elizabeth 
 Powell, of Coxsackie, N. Y. By his first wife, Harriet Fulton, 
 he had a daughter: 
 
 1 2 10. Makion Clipton, born Aug. 20, 1899. 
 
 Edward Cuthbert Clifton (940), second child of Charles 
 Edward and Anna Maria (Stout) Clifton, born at Easton, Pa., 
 April I, 1876; graduated from Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., 
 in 1898. He studied law in his native town, and was admitted 
 to the bar of Northampton County, Pa., in 1911, and prac- 
 tised his profession in Easton. He was for a number of years 
 prior to his death on July 24, 1916, general attorney for the 
 Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. He married, at PhiUips- 
 burg, N. J., October 28, 1909, Ella Rebecca Ritter, who was 
 born October 17, 1884, and still survives him. 
 
 Martha Alice Clifton (942), fourth child of Charles 
 Edward and Anna Maria (Stout) Clifton, born in Easton, Pa., 
 April 6, 1880; graduated from Easton High School in 1898. 
 She graduated as a nurse in the Presbyterian Hospital, Phila- 
 delphia, 1902; took a post-graduate course at Bellevue Hos- 
 pital Training School, New York city, in 1908. During 1908 
 and 1909 she was district nurse in connection with nurses' 
 settlements of New York city. Returning to Philadelphia, she 
 became assistant district secretary of the charity organization 
 of that city. With the breaking out of the European war she 
 became actively engaged in Red Cross work in Philadelphia, 
 with which she is still associated. She is unmarried. 
 
 Charles Roberts Miller (962), eldest child of William 
 George and Carohne (Roberts) MiUer, born on the old Roberts 
 homestead in Whitpain Township, near Blue Bell, Mont- 
 gomery County, Pa., June 28, 1862, was reared on the farm and 
 educated at local schools. At an early age he became a clerk 
 in the general store at Blue Bell. He later went to Philadelphia 
 as a salesman in a wholesale tobacco house, of which he event- 
 
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 ually became sole proprietor, and conducted under the firm 
 name of "Miller Brothers," doing a very large and profitable 
 business. He died April 7, 1916, falling dead at his place of 
 business, 55 North Second Street. He married, April 13, 1886, 
 Mary Elizabeth Jones, who survives him and Kves in Phila- 
 delphia. They had one son: 
 
 1211. Arthtjk Hagen Miller, bom Aug. 3, 1888; graduated from Friends 
 Central School in 1905; from the college department of the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania in 1909, with degree of A.B., and from the law 
 department of the same imiversity in 1912 with the degree of LL.B. 
 In October, 1912, he was admitted to the practice in the State 
 Supreme Court, and at the Philadelphia bar, where he is now in 
 active practice, with offices in the Land Title Building. He married, 
 November 4, 191 2, Ethel Borden, and they have issue: Josiah Borden 
 Miller, bom June 21, 1914; Mary Elizabeth Miller, bom Feb. 5, 
 1917. 
 
 John Faber Miller (963) , judge of the Montgomery County 
 courts, second child of William George and Caroline (Roberts) 
 MiUer, born at Weldon, Abington Township, Montgomery 
 County, Pa., February i8, 1865, received his early education 
 in the public schools of Abington Township and the Friends' 
 schools at Gw)aiedd and Philadelphia, graduating from the 
 Friends' Central School, Philadelphia, in 1883, as valedictorian 
 of his class. He studied law in the offices of James H. Little, 
 Esq., of the Philadelphia bar, and graduated from the Univers- 
 ity of Pennsylvania Law School in 1 886, and was admitted to the 
 bars of Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties. He soon after 
 associated himself with Charles Hunsicker, one of the leading 
 attorneys of the Montgomery County bar, at Norristown. He 
 later opened an office for himself, and in 1905 formed a co- 
 partnership with Samuel H. High, of Jenkintown, xmder the 
 firm name of Miller and High, Norristown, Pa. On his mar- 
 riage in 1889 he established his residence in Springfield Town- 
 ship, Montgomery County, near Chestnut Hill. He was solici- 
 
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 tor of Springfield Township for several years; also solicitor for 
 the county commissioners. He was for many years chairman 
 of the Republican Executive Committee of Montgomery 
 County, a bank director, and held a number of other positions 
 of trust. On November 30, 1914, Mr. Miller was appointed by 
 the governor judge of the Montgomery County courts, to suc- 
 ceed Judge Weand, deceased, and at the ensuing election in 
 November, 1915, was elected to the same position for the full 
 term of ten years. 
 
 Judge Miller is a member of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of 
 the Society of Friends; a Past Master of Chestnut Hill Lodge, 
 No. 81, Free and Accepted Masons; a member of Plymouth 
 Country Club and White Marsh Country Club; of the Law- 
 yers' Club and Manufacturers' Club; of the Montgomery 
 County Bar Association, the Historical Society of Montgomery 
 County, and the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution. 
 
 Judge Miller has possession of the old maternal homestead, 
 the Roberts farm in Whitpain Township, where his parents 
 formerly resided, and which had been in the Roberts family for 
 one hundred and fifty years. He also owns "Belvoir," on 
 Sandy Hill, Plymouth Township, Northampton County. 
 
 Judge Miller married, November 20, 1889, Emma Bush 
 Yeakel, daughter of Daniel and Amanda (Bush) Yeakel, of 
 Chestnut Hill, Springfield Township, Montgomery County. 
 She was born December 8, 1869. 
 
 Children or Hon. John Faber and Emma Bush (Yeakel) Miller 
 
 1212. Daniel Yeakel Miller, born Nov. 7, 1890, also a member of the 
 
 Montgomery County bar; married June 12, 191 7, Avis Buckman, 
 daughter of Louis and Mary R. (Cox) Buckman, of Doylestown, Pa., 
 and had issue: John Faber Miller, born Nov. — , 1919. 
 
 1213. Caroline Roberts Miller, born June 18, 1894; married March 26, 
 
 1917, John Y. Huber, and had issue: Anne Willing Huber, born Feb. 
 26, i9r8; John Y. Huber, 3d, bom . 
 
 Edwin Lewis Miller (964), third child of William George 
 
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 and Caroline (Roberts) Miller, born in Whitpain Township, 
 Montgomery County, Pa., January 19, 1867, is a business man 
 of Philadelphia. He married Bertie Rickert, daughter of 
 Thomas Rickert, of Philadelphia, and had issue, one son: 
 
 1 2 14. Thomas Rickert Miller, who was in active service overseas in the 
 European war, 1917-1918. 
 
 Elwood F. Miller (966), fifth child of William George and 
 Carohne (Roberts) Miller, born February 20, 187 1; married 
 Mary Rich Jeanes, and they reside near PenlljTi, Montgomery 
 County, Pa. They have no children. 
 
 William G. Miller, M.D. (967), sixth child of William 
 George and Caroline (Roberts) MiUer, born in Germantown, 
 Philadelphia, Pa., August 24, 1874, received his early education 
 in Friends' schools in Philadelphia. He graduated from the 
 Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 
 1897, and after one year's service as resident physician of the 
 Charity Hospital, Norristown, located at Norristown, where 
 he has since been in active practice of his profession. He is a 
 member of the surgical staff of Charity Hospital, Norristown; 
 was from 1898 to 1902 coroner's physician for Montgomery 
 County; a member and Treasurer of Montgomery County 
 Medical Society, having served a term as its president; a mem- 
 ber of Medical Society of Pennsylvania and the American 
 Medical Association; President of Schuylkill Valley Medical 
 Club, and a member of United States Volunteer Medical Corps, 
 acting during the World War as medical examiner for Draft 
 Board No. 3, of Montgomery County. He is also a member of 
 the American Congress of Surgeons; of the Historical Society 
 of Montgomery County, and of the Pennsylvania Society, 
 Sons of the Revolution. He is a member of the Town Council 
 of Norristown, and has filled other offices and positions of 
 trust. 
 
 Dr. Miller married, December 15, 1898, Anna Childs 
 
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 Livezey, daughter of Thomas Elwood and Mary (Childs) 
 Livezey, of Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County, where 
 she was born October 23, 1874. The family are members of the 
 Society of Friends. 
 
 Children op Dr. William G. and Anna C. (Livezey) Miller 
 
 1215. Mary Livezey Miller, a student at Wilson College. 
 
 1 2 16. Sarah Roberts Miller. 
 
 Sarah Henrietta Miller (968), seventh child of William 
 George and Carohne (Roberts) Miller, born May 5, 1876; 
 married William G. Taylor, Jr., of Philadelphia, where they 
 still reside. They have no children. 
 
 Joanna Hatten Miller (969), eighth and youngest child of 
 William George and Caroline (Roberts) Miller, born January i, 
 1878; married October i, 1902, Thomas Hugh Livezey, son of 
 Samuel and Mary (Roberts) Livezey, of Plymouth Meeting, 
 Montgomery County, Pa., where he was born October 18, 
 1879. Thomas H. Livezey secured a position with the Pen- 
 coyd Iron Works on his graduation from Norristown High 
 School in 1897, and gradually worked his way to a responsible 
 position in that corporation. He and his family are members 
 of the Society of Friends. They reside in East Norristown 
 Township, Montgomery County, Pa. They have one child: 
 
 1217. Mary Miller Livezey. 
 
 Matilda Miller Fried (980), second child of Major 
 George L. and Susanna Arndt (Miller) Fried, born at Easton, 
 Pa., August 17, 1856; married March 22, 1876, James W. Wil- 
 son, of Easton, a member of the Northampton County bar, to 
 which he was admitted to practice in 1877. 
 Children of James W. and Matilda M. (Fried) Wilson 
 
 1218. Alexander Craig Wilson, bom Sept. 19, 1877. 
 
 1219. George Fried Wilson, bom Dec. 31, 1880; Assistant Treasurer, 
 
 Northampton Fire Insurance Co. 
 
 Mary Burnside Morris (984), eldest child of Thomas 
 Burnside and Sarah Arndt (Sletor) Morris, born November 8, 
 
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 1872; married June 14, 1899, Russell Duane, son of Rev. 
 Charles Williams and Helen Frances (Lincoln) Duane, and a 
 descendant of Benjamin Franklin. He was born in the 
 rectory of Trinity Church, Swedesborough, N. J., June 15, 
 1866. He graduated at Harvard University with the degree 
 of A.B. in 1888, studied law at the University of Pennsylvania, 
 graduating from the latter institution with the degree of LL.B. 
 in 1891, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar. He became 
 senior member of the firm of Duane, Morris, and Heckscher, 
 and devoted himself to the general practice of law. He was 
 counsel for the United States Government in the Behring Sea 
 arbitration proceedings in 1892, and helped to prepare the case 
 on questions of maritime jurisdiction. 
 
 He has pubHshed several magazine articles on legal questions 
 and delivered many noted addresses. He is a member of the 
 American Philosophical Society, manager of the Society of War 
 of 181 2, member of the Philadelphia Club, Perm Club, Har- 
 vard, and other clubs of Philadelphia. He is also a member of 
 the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution. They had 
 three children: 
 
 1220. Morris Dtjane, bom March 20, 1901. 
 
 1221. Saeah Franklin Duane, bom July 4, 1904. 
 
 1222. Franklin Duane, bom Oct. 24, 1905; died March 5, 1910. 
 
 Roland Sletor Morris (985), second child and only son of 
 Thomas Burnside and Sarah Arndt (Sletor) Morris, was born 
 at Olympia, Washington, March 1 1 , 1874. He graduated from 
 the LawrenceviUe, N. J., Preparatory School in 1892, and 
 entered Princeton University, from which he graduated with 
 the degree of A.B. in 1896. He then entered the Law Depart- 
 ment of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he grad- 
 uated with the degree of LL.B. in 1899, and began the prac- 
 tice of law in Philadelphia as a member of the firm of Duane, 
 Morris, and Heckscher, of which his brother-in-law, Russell 
 
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 Duane, is the senior member. Mr. Sletor specialized in cor- 
 poration law and has been a successful corporation lawyer. He 
 holds directorates in a number of large corporations. He is a 
 member of the Zeta Psi fraternity. 
 
 He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 
 1904, 1908, and 191 2, and was chairman of the Democratic 
 Finance Conamittee of Pennsylvania, 1908-1916; State Chair- 
 man of Pennsylvania, 1913. On July 20, 1917, he was ap- 
 pointed by President Wilson Ambassador to Japan, and duly 
 confirmed by the Senate August, 1917. He retired upon the 
 inauguration of President Harding. 
 
 He married, April 29, 1903, Augusta Shippen West, born in 
 Philadelphia, May 12, 1879, a daughter of William W. and 
 Sarah (Shippen) West. 
 Children of Roland S. and Augusta Shippen (West) Morris 
 
 1223. Sarah Arndt Morris, bom May 25, 1904. 
 
 1224. Edward Shippen Morris, born Feb. 14, igo6. 
 
 William Sletor Granlees (987), only child of William J. 
 and Susan Wilhelmina (Sletor) Granlees, born in Philadelphia, 
 February i, 1885, graduated from the Blair Presbyterian Aca- 
 demy at Blairstown, N. J., in 1902, and entered the University 
 of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1907, and has 
 since been engaged in the insurance business in New York 
 city. He is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, and 
 of Ivanhoe Lodge No. 610, Masonic fraternity. He married, 
 September i, 191 7, Elinor Kennedy Jackson. Mr. Granlees 
 made application for admission to the Ofiftcers' Training Camp 
 at Plattsburg, N. Y., in 1916, preparatory to entering the army 
 for service in the World War, but was refused. 
 
 Samuel Stryker Kneass (990), son of William H. and 
 Amelia (Stryker) Kneass, was born at Germantown, Philadel- 
 phia, January 16, 1865. At the age of eleven he went to 
 Switzerland with his mother, and attended the Bellevue School 
 
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 at Vevey, from 1876 to 1878. Upon the death of his mother he 
 returned to Philadelphia and attended the Rugby Academy 
 for four years. He entered the University of Peimsylvania in 
 1882, graduating with the degree of A.B. in 1886. He grad- 
 uated from the Medical School of the University in 1889 with 
 the degree of M.D., and after pursuing a post-graduate course, 
 proceeded to Europe, studying at Gottingen, Germany, at 
 Vieima, Austria, and at the Pasteur Institute, Paris. Since 
 1894 he has been associate in Bacteriology in the William 
 Pepper laboratory of Clinical Medicine, University of Penn- 
 sylvania. He is unmarried. 
 
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THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 EIGHTH GENERATION 
 
 Alva Josephine Crossley (1018), eldest child of William J. 
 and Sallie Starck (Arndt) Crossley, born at Trenton, N. J., 
 October 27, 1886; married there, May i, 19 n, Alexander 
 Trapp, a lawyer of that city, practising at the Mercer County 
 bar, and a member of a firm conducting a large wholesale busi- 
 ness in the manufacture of ice cream and other confections at 
 Trenton. They have issue: 
 
 1225. Alva Josephine Trapp, Jr., born Feb. 17, 1912. 
 
 1226. Virginia Trapp. 
 
 Edna May Crossley (1019), second child of William J. and 
 Sallie Starck (Arndt) Crossley, born at Trenton, N. J., Septem- 
 ber 15, 1888; married there April 26, 1916, Ethan Pryor Wes- 
 cott, son of Judge John W. Wescott, Attorney General of New 
 Jersey, with whom he is associated in the practice of law at 
 Camden, N. J. They reside at Collingswood, N. J., and have 
 issue: 
 
 1227. Catharine Arndt Wescott, born Nov. 26, 1918. 
 
 William H. Arndt, Jr. (1031), fourth child of William H. 
 and Mary Catharine (Wesby) Arndt, born at Stanhope, N. J., 
 September 26, 1871, is now chief clerk and cashier of the 
 Thomas Iron Company at their branch establishment at 
 Hellertown, Pa. At the age of eighteen years he entered the 
 employ of the Adams Express Company at Mauch Chunk, Pa., 
 and served that company and its successor, the United States 
 Express Company, for seven years as driver and messenger. 
 He then entered the employ of the Lehigh VaUey Railroad 
 Company, and served that company in the capacity of assist- 
 ant station agent and yardmaster for six years. For the last 
 sixteen years he has been in the employ of the Thomas Iron 
 Company, as yardmaster, office clerk, and superintendent. He 
 
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GENEALOGY— EIGHTH GENERATION 
 
 served as auditor of Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, for 
 the years 1907, 1908, and 1909. He married at Catasaqua, Pa., 
 May IS, 1901, Elizabeth J. Stuart, daughter of John B. and 
 Elizabeth J. (Kast) Stuart. She was bom at Catasaqua, Pa., 
 December 30, 1895. They have issue, one son: 
 
 1228. William H. Aendt, 3D, bom Nov. 6, 1908. 
 
 David W. Arndt (1033), sixth child of William H. and Mary 
 Catharine (Wesby) Arndt, of Mauch Chunk, Pa., was bom at 
 Easton, Pa., July 3, 1875, was reared in Mauch Chunk, Pa., 
 where his parents removed when he was an infant. He re- 
 mained a resident of that town until 1902, when he removed to 
 Phoenixville, Pa., to accept the position of foreman in a large 
 silk mill. He was later transferred to a responsible position in 
 the offices of the company, which he still holds. 
 
 He married at East Mauch Chunk, June 15, 1904, Florence 
 Ada Lewis, daughter of George C. and Valeria (Kemp) Lewis. 
 She was bom at Kempton, Pa., January 23, 1880. They had 
 issue: 
 
 1229. David Wesby Akndt, Jr., bom April 8, 1905. 
 
 Gertrude Helen Arndt (1040), only child of Jacob 
 Castner and SaUnda L. (Alien) Arndt, bom at Pittsburgh, Pa., 
 December 6, 1876; married at Boston, Mass., April 14, 1898, 
 Charles B. HaU, of that city. He was born in Boston March 
 16, 1869, and is a son of Charles H. and Mary L. Hall. 
 
 Children op Charles B. and Gertrtjde Helen (Arndt) Hall 
 
 1230. Roland Blake Hall, bom July 15, 1899. 
 
 1231. Arleene Estelle Hall, bom Nov. 2, 1906. 
 
 Arthur H. Steckel (1050), eldest child of Herman K. and 
 Mary S. (Patrick) Steckel, bom at Denver, Col., September 
 26, 1876; was reared in that city and still resides there. He is 
 a foreman of The Vulcan Iron Works, the largest machine 
 works in Denver. During the European war he was engaged 
 26 401 
 
THE STORY OF THE ARNDTS 
 
 in building marine engines for United States ships at Seattle 
 for his company. He married in Denver, May 19, 1904, Alice 
 J. Donnell, born at Lake City, Col., April 16, 1884. They had 
 issue: 
 
 1232. Ralph C. Steckel, bom at Denver, Col., Sept. 4, 1909. 
 
 Elsie M. Steckel (1051), second child and eldest daughter 
 of Herman K. and Mary S. (Patrick) Steckel, born at Denver, 
 Col., October 22, 1879; married there June 14, 1899, Edward 
 L. Lajoie, City Electrical Engineer for Denver. He was born 
 in Cloverdale, Putnam County, Indiana. They have no chil- 
 dren. 
 
 Elmer A. Steckel (1052), third child of Herman K. and 
 Mary S. (Patrick) Steckel, born in Denver, Col., March 28^ 
 1 881; is general manager of the foundry of the Vulcan Iron 
 Works at Denver. During the European war he was engaged 
 in manufacturing artificial limbs for maimed soldiers, returning 
 to the management of the foundry at the close of the war. He 
 married in Denver, September 28, 1904, Iva M. Stevens, born 
 in Vermontville, Eaton County, Mich., October 16, 1885. 
 They had issue: 
 
 1233. Benjamin Steckel, born at Denver, Col., Sept. 25, 1905. 
 
 1234. Elmer Steckel, Jr., born at Denver, Col., April 23, 1910. 
 
 Irene M. Steckel (1053), fourth child and second daughter 
 of Herman K. and Mary S. (Patrick) Steckel, born at Denver, 
 Col., December 31, 1883; married at Denver, July 30, 1909, 
 Frederick L. White, of Centralia, 111., where he holds a responsi- 
 ble position with the Central Union Telephone Company. He 
 was born at Steubenville, Ohio, July 19, 1885. They had issue: 
 
 1235. Albert L. White, born April 25, 1910. 
 
 Helen M. Steckel (1055), sixth child of Herman and Mary 
 S. (Patrick) Steckel, born at Denver, Col., June 27, 1893; 
 married, in 1917, Captain Lee Foster, of Concordia, Kan., 
 
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GENEALOGY— EIGHTH GENERATION 
 
 where he is cashier of the Cloud County National Bank. Dur- 
 ing the European war Captain Foster was instructor of infan- 
 try at Fort Riley, Kan., later at Fort Sheridan, 111., and at 
 Camp Hancock, Georgia. He afterward was sent to France, 
 and spent nearly eighteen months in the service of the Ameri- 
 can Expeditionary Forces, participating in the battles of San 
 Mihiel, the Argonne Forest, and other engagements. They 
 have issue: 
 
 1236. Hugh S. Foster, bom Oct. 15, 1918. 
 
 Thomas G. Steckel (1068), third child of Oliver J. and 
 Margaret Ann (Reimer) Steckel, was bom at Newton, N. J., 
 July 21, 1884. He now resides at 337 North Third Street, 
 Easton, Pa., and is receiving and shipping clerk for a silk dye 
 estabhshment in Phillipsburg, N. J. He married at Newton, 
 N. J., August 27, 1903, Minnie Perry, a daughter of John H. 
 and Rachel J. (Van Horn) Perry. She was born in Warwick, 
 N. Y., August 9, 1879. The family are members of the Presby- 
 terian Church. 
 
 Chtldeen of Thomas G. and Minnie (Perry) Steckel 
 
 1237. Rachel Margaret Steckel, bom May 4, 1906. 
 
 1238. Oliver Joseph Steckel, bom Sept. i, 1910. 
 
 May Steckel (1069), fourth and youngest child of Oliver 
 J. and Margaret Ann (Reimer) Steckel, born at Newton, N. J., 
 July 10, 1888, graduated at the Newton High School and the 
 Newton Business College. She married at Newton, August 24, 
 1910, Russell H. Baggot, a son of Richard R. and Sarah K. 
 (Leguine) Baggot. He was born at Hackettstown, N. J., 
 December i, 1888. They reside at Hackettstown, and are 
 members of the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Harry Joseph Coar (1074), fifth child of Joseph and Anna 
 Catharine (Steckel) Coar, born in Pittsburgh, Pa., December 
 24, 1889; graduated at Duff's Business College, and is em- 
 
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 ployed in the real estate department of the Commonwealth 
 National Bank and Trust Company at Pittsburgh. 
 
 He married at Pittsburgh in 1908 Elizabeth Cochran, of 
 Pittsburgh, where she was born April 20, 1890. 
 
 Children of Harry J. and Elizabeth (Cochran) Coar 
 
 1239. Martha Anna Coar, born March 2, 1909. 
 
 1240. Harry J. Coar, Jr., bom Jan. 25, 1911. 
 
 404 
 
GENERAL INDEX 
 
 Aahalt, 12 
 
 Area and Population, 33 
 Ducal Family, 33 
 Mercenaries, 34 
 Amdt name, 31 
 
 Meaning of, 31 
 John, of Ballenstedt, 33 
 Hans, Identity of, 28 
 Assembly, General, 113, 114, 115, 118 
 Proprietory, 108, 109, no, 
 III, 112 
 
 Ballenstedt, John Amdt of, 33 
 Barter, 64, 67 
 Baumholder, 12 
 
 Church Records, 40, 41, 
 
 42 
 Double Wedding at, 40 
 Town of, 12, 39 
 Departure from, 45 
 Bible, Family, 10 
 Birth Certificate, Frontispiece, 12, 26, 
 
 35, 67, 68, 69 
 Boston, Population, 51 
 
 Shipping, 63 
 Braddock's Defeat, 96 
 Burying Ground, 17, 120, 139, 145 
 
 Censors, Council of, 113, 132, 134, 13S 
 
 Coerbum, 12, 40 
 
 Congress, 137 
 
 Constitution, Colonial, 113, 114 
 
 State, 136 
 Convention, Constitutional, Province, 
 112, 113, 114 
 Constitutional, Federal, 
 
 132 
 Constitutional, State, 135 
 Coswig, 12, 23, 25, 3° 
 
 Court Records, 25 
 Currency, 65, 66, 67, 68 
 Need of, 63 
 
 Delaware Indians, 93, 94, 95, 96 
 Dickinson College, 132 
 
 Dictatorial Powers, 115 
 Dress, 53 
 
 Educational Advantages, 77, 78, 89 
 
 Emigrant Ships, 46, 47 
 
 Love in Unity, 47 
 Pennsylvania Mer- 
 chant, 46, 48, 49, 
 
 50,51 
 Emigrants, Route of, 45 
 
 Custom Houses, 46 
 Visited by Synod, 46 
 Leave Rotterdam, 13, 46 
 Sea Voyage, 47, 48 
 Fare, 49 
 Take Oath, 49 
 England, Exports to, S7 
 
 Imports from, S7 
 Exchange on London, 66 
 Exports to England, S7 
 
 to West Indies, S7, 60, 61 
 
 Federalists, 119, 133 
 Fljong Camp, 125 
 Forbes Expedition, 104 
 
 at Raystown, 105 
 Foreign Trade Statistics, 57, 60 
 Forks Township Homestead, 15, 82, 
 
 106 
 Fort Allen, 15, 99, 102, 103, 105 
 Fort Augusta, 15, 105 
 Fort Bedford, 106 
 Fort Norris, 15, 99 
 
 Attack on, 100 
 Fort Washington, Battle of, 129 
 Losses at, 129 
 Franklin, on Currency, 67, 68 
 
 on Indian Outbreak, 97 
 on Trade Depression, 67 
 Frontier Forts, 97, 99, 105, 106 
 
 Game, SS 
 
 German Reformed Churches, 73 
 
 Reformed Churches, Goshen- 
 hoppen, 72, 74, 78, 203 
 
 40s 
 
GENERAL INDEX 
 
 German Reformed Churches, Indian 
 
 Creek, 80, 81, 82, 92 
 German Society, 108 
 Germans Massacred, 104. 
 Germantown, 14, 75 
 
 Hess, Pastor Researches, 40, 41, 42 
 
 Indian Atrocities, 96, 97, 104 
 
 Conferences, 95, 103 
 
 Outbreaks, 93, 107 
 
 Raids, 96 
 Indian Creek Church, 80, 81, 82, 92 
 
 Building Committee, 80, 93 
 Indian Traders, 54, 55 
 Indians, Wrongs of, 94, 95, 96 
 Interest, Rate of, 64 
 Iron Works, 56 
 
 ICechlein's Battalion, 121, 127 
 Kossatten Estate, 25, 27 
 
 Land Purchases, 71, 75, 79, 81, 82, 83, 
 
 91, 106, 120, 152 
 Lichtenberg, 12 
 
 Castle of, 39 
 
 Duke of, 14 
 Loan Issue, 65, 66 
 Long Island, Battle of, 18, 127 
 
 Fiske's Comment on, 1 28 
 
 Losses at, 1 29 
 
 Manufacturing, 56 
 Marriage License, 13 
 
 New York, Population, 51 
 Shipping, 63 
 
 Old Goshenhoppen Church, 72, 78, 203 
 Goshenhoppen Church, Building 
 
 Committee, 74 
 Goshenhoppen Church, Church 
 
 Stone, 74 
 Goshenhoppen Church, Inscrip- 
 tion, 74 
 Omdt or Arndt, 90 
 
 Palatinate Devastated, 44 
 Pastors, 73, 78, 80, 81, 90, 91, 92, 93 
 Pennsylvania Commercial Depression, 
 S8 
 Currency Depreciation, 
 66 
 
 Pennsylvania Dress, $3 
 Game, SS 
 
 German Settlements, 53 
 Iron Works, 56 
 Labor Scarcity, 61 
 Land Values, 54 
 Manufactures, 56 
 Prosperity of, 60, 68, 69 
 Riae, 126 
 Taxes, S4 
 
 Varied Exports, 58, 59 
 Wheat Exported, 60 
 
 Penn's Agents, 34, 44 
 
 Perkiomen Region, 70, 71 
 
 Philadelphia, Arrival at, 49 
 Capture of, 1x5 
 Commerce, 58 
 Extent of, 51 
 First Census, 51 
 Health, 52 
 
 Life and Customs, 53 
 Population, 51 
 Shipping, 58, 62 
 Trade, 60, 61 
 
 Pig Iron Exported, 56 
 
 Pirates, Algerian, 47, 48 
 West Indian, 53 
 
 Political Opinions, 19, 119, 132, 133, 
 
 136. 137 
 Population, 51, 61 
 Potts' Furnace Accounts, 75 
 Precious Metals, 63, 64 
 Presidential Elector, 137 
 Prices, Commodities, 53, 56 
 
 Farm Products, 53, 54, 55, 56, 
 
 57 
 Land, S4 
 Provincial Conference, log, no 
 Loan Oflfice, 65 
 
 Quaker Doctrines, 43 
 
 Revolutionary Committees, log, no, 
 
 ni 
 Richter, Pastor, Researches, 24, 25, 26, 
 
 27, 28, 29 
 Riflemen, 126 
 Roads, S5 
 
 Rum, for Indian Trade, 53 
 Rush, Dr., Letter, 138 
 
 Scarcity, Labor, 61 
 
 Money, 63, 64 
 
 406 
 
GENERAL INDEX 
 
 Scotch Irish, 54, 94 
 Sharp-shooters, 126 
 Ship Building, 56 
 Shipping, Boston, 63 
 
 Philadelphia, 49, 58, 59, 62, 
 
 63 
 New York, 63 
 Signatures, 20, 74, 87, 122, 163, 166, 
 
 167, 244 
 Sugar Islands, 61, 68 
 Supreme Council of Safety, 115 
 Supreme Executive Council, 113, 116, 
 117 
 Executive Council, Payment 
 by, 118 
 
 Teedyuscung, King, 102, 103, 105 
 Thirty Years' War, 13, 24, 34 
 Tombstones, 94, 141, 166, 168, 169, 
 172 
 
 Wages, 5S 
 
 Wahlsdorf, Amdts near, 24, 26 
 Home at, 24 
 
 Walking Purchase, 94 
 Wends, Conquest of, 32 
 Wesleys, 49 
 
 West Indian Trade, 56, 57, 58 
 West Indies, Exports to, 57, 60, 61 
 Population, 6i 
 Prosperity of, 61 
 Trade with England, 
 62 
 Wheat Exports, 57, 58, 60 
 Whitefield, George, 73 
 Williams Township, Homestead, 83 
 Wills, 85, 120, 141 
 Woerpen, 12 
 
 Amdts near, 24 
 Church Records, 24, 25 
 Village of, 11, 23 
 World Trade Depression, 68 
 
 Zerbst, 12 
 
 Removed to, 26, 34 
 Certificate, 12, 26, 35, 36, 37, 
 38 
 
 407 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Amdt, Agnes Sedora, 227, 292 
 Albert A., 227, 293 
 Alexander H., 188, 234 
 Alfred, 180, 232 
 Alice, 243, 307 
 Alvina W., 350 
 Amanda, 225 
 Ann, 19, 143, 165, 206 
 Ann, 164, 194 
 Ann E., 210, 271, 272 
 Anna, 157, i77 
 Anna, 272 
 Anna F., 227, 292 
 Anna M., 180 
 Anna M., 223 
 Anne Louise, 222 
 Annie, 288 
 Annie K., 277 
 Arthur, 232 
 Arthur, 290 
 Baltus, i8g 
 Beatrice J., 232 
 Benjamin, 223 
 Benjamin F., 19, 22, 142, 143, 
 
 144, i6s, 208 
 Benjamin F., 211, 272 
 Benjamin F., 223, 288 
 BERNHARD, 12, 40, 41, 45, 
 
 49, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 
 
 76 
 Bemhard, 22, 171 
 Bemhard, 172, 222 
 Bessie, 211 
 Beulah, 290 
 Carrie, 228 
 Carrie, 288 
 Carrie H., 277 
 Caroline, 274, 346 
 Catharine, 14, 41, 78, 147, 148 
 Catharine, 86, 148, 157, 158 
 Catharine, 157, 178 
 Catharine, 164, 197 
 Catharine, 172, 220 
 Catharine, 175 
 
 Arndt, Catharine, 194 
 
 Catharine M., 301, 370 
 
 Catharine W., 349 
 
 Charles, 228 
 
 Charles, 232, 298 
 
 Charles, 272 
 
 Charles, 276 
 
 Charles, C. P., 188, 235, 239 
 
 Charles R., 349 
 
 Charles T., 216 
 
 Charles W., 182 
 
 Christian, 153 
 
 Clifford, 293 
 
 Conrad, 175 
 
 Cyrus, 194, 244 
 
 Daniel, 154, 176 
 
 Dewen, 292 
 
 David W., 349, 401 
 
 David W., 401 
 
 Diana, 169, 216 
 
 Diana, 216, 276 
 
 Edith B., 349 
 
 Edna, 292 
 
 Edward, 274 
 
 Edward B., 277, 350 
 
 Edward B., Jr., 351 
 
 Edward W., 242, 301 
 
 Eleanor, 227 
 
 Eleanor, 227, 292 
 
 Eliza A., 217 
 
 Elizabeth, 15, 17, 121, 148, 150, 
 
 165, 166 
 Elizabeth, 19, 143, 165, 204 
 Elizabeth, 86, 148, 160 
 Elizabeth, 157, 178 
 Elizabeth, 164, 195 
 Elizabeth, 175 
 Elizabeth, 172, 219 
 Elizabeth, 181 
 Elizabeth, 227 
 Elizabeth, 228 
 Elizabeth, 272 
 Elizabeth J., 380 
 EUzabeth K., 216 
 
 409 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Amdt, Elizabeth K., 248 
 
 Elizabeth M., 188, 243 
 Elmer, 223 
 Elmer, 288 
 Elsie M., 242, 304 
 Elsie M., 227, 293 
 Emma, 274 
 Emma L., 223 
 Emma L., 181, 233 
 Emma S., 211, 272 
 Emma S., 267, 272 
 Emily H., 243, 305 
 Emily W., 248 
 Enoch, 176, 223 
 Eva, 292 
 Eve, 156, 180 
 Eveline, 21, 206 
 Fayetta, 113, 176 
 Fietta, 227 
 Frank, 211 
 Frederick, 274 
 Frederick, 277 
 George B., 349 
 George H., 181, 232 
 George W., 19, 20, 21, 139, 
 
 143. 144, i6s, 20s 
 George W., 210 
 Gertrude H., 350, 401 
 Griffith, 226 
 Guy M., 202 
 Harry, 232 
 Harry K., 278 
 Harold W., 349 
 Harvey, 290 
 Hart J., 169, 217 
 Henry, 14, 48, 147, 150, 
 
 152, 153 
 Henry, 157, 182 
 Henry, 175 
 Henry, 176, 226 
 Henry, 180, 232 
 Henry, Jr., 154, i74 
 Henry L., 211, 273 
 Henrietta, 226 
 Helen E., 379 
 Herbert J., 290 
 Herlan, 293 
 Hetty, 227 
 Howard W., 374 
 Ida, 226, 291 
 Imogene C, 240 
 Irwin, 225, 290 
 Isabella, 216 
 Jackson, 21, 206 
 
 142, 
 
 iSi, 
 
 Amdt, Major Jacob, 14, 41, 88, 120, 
 
 122, 147 
 Jacob, Jr., 16, 121, 148, 167, 168 
 Jacob, 19, 121, 122, 165 
 Jacob, 86, 148, 161 
 Jacob, 153, 172, 174 
 Jacob, IS4, 17s 
 Jacob, 164 
 Jacob, 169, 216 
 Jacob, 17s 
 Jacob, 194, 243 
 Jacob, 202 
 Jacob, 210 
 Jacob C, 276, 3SO 
 Jacob H., 216, 277 
 Jacob W., 157, 180 
 James M., 225, 289 
 J. Frankfort, 278 
 Jessie A., 308, 380 
 Capt. John, 10, 17, 20, 90, 121, 
 
 124, 141, 148, 164 
 John, Jr., 19, i6s 
 John, 126, 129, 148, 162 
 John, 157, 177 
 John, 164, 188, 198 
 John, 172, 218 
 John, 17s 
 John, 176, 225 
 John, 177, 228 
 John, 194, 248 
 John, 211 
 John, 243 
 John, 160, 182 
 John P., 308, 379 
 John P., Jr., 380 
 John R., 210, 272 
 John S., 248, 310 
 John W., 188, 240 
 Joseph, 176, 227 
 Joseph, 227 
 Joseph K., 217, 278 
 Joseph M. M., 240, 301 
 Joseph M., 301 
 Katherine E., 277 
 Lavina, 289 
 Leah, 176, 224 
 Lerta U., 293 
 Levina, 176, 224 
 Lillie F. B., 264 
 Lizzie L., 243 
 Lloyd, 274 
 Luella, 288 
 Lydia F., 243 
 Mabel M., 289 
 
 410 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Amdt, Magdalena, 157 
 Margaret, 16, 148 
 Margaret A., 349 
 Margaret D., 334 
 Margaret E., 240, 301 
 Margaret H., 274 
 Maria, 18, 142, 165, 202 
 Maria, 157, i79 
 Maria, 177, 228 
 Martha A., 243, 308 
 Martha E., 226 
 Mary, 169, 215 
 Mary, 164, 197 
 Mary, 172, 220 
 Mary, 176 
 Mary, 194 
 Mary A., 216, 276 
 Mary B., 188, 234 
 Mary C, 200, 261 
 Mary C, 243, 306 
 Mary D., 278 
 Mary E., 153 
 Mary E., 202, 261 
 Mary E. I., 263 
 Marvin R., 293 
 Matilda, 176 
 Matilda, 210 
 Matilda, 224 
 Matilda, 272 
 Matilda J., 202, 262 
 Maude C, 301, 370 
 Meta, 288 
 Minerva, 180, 231 
 Olive E. E., 334 
 Oliver E. E., 263, 334 
 Oliver H. P., 202 
 Osbon W., 223, 288 
 Otto M., 182, 234 
 Pavdine, 175 
 Peter, 157, 181 
 Peter, 177, 228 
 Peter, 228 
 Peter F., 202, 263 
 Philip, 86, 126, 148, 
 
 162 
 Philip, 188 
 Philip, 242 
 Ralph S., 194, 244 
 Randall H., 380 
 Randall W., 243, 307 
 Raymond C, 350 
 Rebecca, 164, 196 
 Rebecca, 202, 264 
 Reuben F., 308, 378 
 
 158, 
 
 Amdt, Robert, 272 
 
 Robert, 298 
 
 Rosa J., 226, 291 
 
 Russell C, 291 
 
 Samuel, 19, 143, 144, 165 
 
 Samuel, 164, 200 
 
 Samuel, 210 
 
 Samuel S. S., 264 
 
 Sarah, 19, 143, 165, 205 
 
 Sarah, 176, 226 
 
 Sarah, 216, 277 
 
 Sarah, 227 
 
 Sarah, 272 
 
 Sarah A., 225, 290 
 
 Sarah J., 276, 350 
 
 Sarah M., 181 
 
 SaUie S., 274, 346 
 
 Simon, 154, I7S 
 
 Simon, 175, 222 
 
 Susan, 17s 
 
 Susan, 176, 225 
 
 Susan, 223 
 
 Susan, 226, 291 
 
 Susanna, 18, 142, 143, 144, 165, 
 204 
 
 Susanna, 97, 221 
 
 Susanna, 164, 202 
 
 Susanna, 172 
 
 Susanna R., 21, 206 
 
 Sylvester, 226, 291 
 
 Thomas, 176, 223 
 
 Thomas M., 226, 290 
 
 Tilghman, 227 
 
 Tilghman B., 225, 290 
 
 Ursula M., 227, 293 
 
 Wayne, 288 
 
 Walter, 288 
 
 Walter T., 304, 370 
 
 Wellington, 21, 206 
 
 Wesley J., 182, 233 
 
 Willard P., 181 
 
 WilUam, 222 
 
 William, 274 
 
 William B., 211, 274 
 
 WiUiam H., 216 
 
 William H., 224 
 
 William H., 276, 348 
 
 William H., Jr., 349, 400 
 
 William H., 3d, 401 
 
 Zaccheus P., 200, 259 
 Ash, Annie C, 243, 308 
 Austin, Charles M., 366 
 
 Charles M., Jr., 366 
 
 Miner B., 286, 366 
 
 411 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Babcock, Marion, 230, 297 
 Bachman, Diana, 202, 263 
 Baer, Clarence L., 292 
 Baggot, Russell H., 359, 403 
 Baird, Charlotte A., 375 
 Loy S., 37S 
 Vet S., 306, 37S 
 Ball, Isadore, 178 
 Banfield, C. E., 289 
 Bard, Alice, 320 
 Hugh, 320 
 John, 320 
 J. E., 253, 320 
 Sarah, 320 
 Bare, William H., 226, 292 
 Barron, Anna, 266, 337 
 Barthol, Harry, 227 
 Bartholomew, Mary, 283, 360 
 Bastian, Harvey J., 280 
 Batz, Susan M., 205, 266 
 Bauder, Ada, 29s 
 
 Alida, 229, 29s 
 Clarence, 295 
 Howard, 295 
 Jennie, 295 
 Robert, 229, 29s 
 Beck, Amanda, 333 
 Beers, Amanda, 225, 290 
 Beidelman, William, 267 
 Bender, Catherine, 14, 147, 153 
 Bennett, Anna M., 366 
 Lillian, 366 
 Lyman H., 285, 366 
 Bernard, Archibald, 295 
 Bickert, Anna L., 226 
 
 Hetty E., 226, 292 
 John E., 226 
 Joseph, 227 
 Joseph D., 226 
 Preston, 226 
 M. Sylvester, 226 
 TilgWan, 176, 226 
 Bieber, Annie, 220, 289 
 Biechy, Rebecca, 176, 225 
 Billinger, Nancy, 228 
 Bird, Edith, 276 
 
 Edward H., 216, 276 
 EUanora, 276 
 Sarah E., 276 
 George W., 276 
 Blakesley, Ethel, 262 
 Boardman, Frank C, 309, 381 
 
 Frances W., 382 
 Boileau, Jane, 196, 252 
 
 Borden, Ethel, 393 
 Botsford, Ernest M., 327, 390 
 
 Marjorie M., 390 
 Bowring, Alice I., 307, 377 
 
 Elsie Amdt, 307, 378 
 Randall, 307 
 Randall C, 378 
 Thomas D., 243, 307 
 Thomas R., 307, 377 
 William W., 307, 378 
 Brader, Elizabeth, 220 
 
 Julia A., 219, 289 
 Breck, Maria, 223, 288 
 Brown, Leah E., 289 
 
 Milton E., 224, 289 
 Samuel, 176, 224 
 Thomas S., 224, 289 
 Bruck, Beatrice L., 309, 381 
 Bryan, Joseph, 164, 195 
 
 Mary Arndt, 19s, 248 
 Bryson, Helen, 388 
 
 Henry H., Jr., 324, 388 
 Martha, 388 
 Buckman, Avis, 394 
 Burnett, Harry, 283 
 Butler, E. J., 282, 357 
 
 KathrsTi M., 358 
 Byers, John F., 243, 308 
 
 Lawrence, 308, 380 
 Byllesby, Henrietta, 21, 165, 206 
 
 Campbell, Catharine, 249, 311 
 
 Mary M., 347 
 Canfield, Ezra, 257, 329 
 Cantrell, Marie, 329, 391 
 Carney, Earl, 274 
 Henry, 274 
 Stanley, 274 
 Carpenter, Anna M., 248 
 David, 3S7 
 Elizabeth, 160, 187 
 Philip, 195, 248 
 Cassell, Mary M., 171, 218 
 Carroll, Anne, 196, 251 
 Cawley, Edith S., 276 
 Louise E., 276 
 William C., 276 
 Chaddock, Clarence W., 310, 382 
 
 Dorothea H., 382 
 Chase, Irene R., 307, 378 
 Chidsey, Caroljoi, 348 
 
 Charles F., 274, 346 
 Francis, 347 
 George W., 348 
 
 412 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Chidsey, Margaret, 347 
 Richard S., 347 
 WiUiam C, 348 
 Clifton, Albert McI., 332 
 Bertha V., 332 
 Charles E., 262, 332 
 Dorothy C, 388 
 Edward C, 332, 392 
 Henry D., 324, 388 
 Marion, 392 
 Martha A., 332, 392 
 Samuel T., 332, 391 
 Coar, Charles, 339 
 Clara, 359 
 FrankUn, 359 
 George W., 359 
 Harry J., 359, 403 
 Harry J., Jr., 404 
 Joseph, 282, 3S9 
 Martha A., 404 
 Norman T., 359 
 Sada C., 359 
 Coates, Benjamin, 338 
 
 Jacob B., 169, 217 
 Cochran, Elizabeth, 359, 404 
 
 Sarah, 208, 270 
 Coit, Corda, 288, 369 
 Comings, Prescott H., 300, 370 
 Prescott H., Jr., 370 
 Cook, Phoebe, 179, 231 
 Cooke, Katharine M., 182, 234 
 Cornelius, Catharine, 178, 230 
 Josephine, 178, 230 
 Cornell, Nelson, 265 
 Cotton, Charles Amdt, 235, 300 
 Elizabeth Amdt, 235, 299 
 Elizabeth S., 300, 370 
 Frank H., 299 
 James K., 300 
 John, Jr., 299 
 John R., 23s, 298 
 John R., 300 
 John W., 188, 234 
 Mary G., 235, 299 
 Priscilla Amdt, 300 
 Priscilla J., 23s, 299 
 Robert A., 299 
 Crafts, Harry W., 369 
 
 Norma, 369 
 Cramer, Howard A., 327 
 Crane, Austin, 369 
 
 Bentley F., 222, 288 
 Harry Z., 288, 369 
 Nellie, 288, 369 
 
 Crane, Paul, 369 
 Roy, 369 
 Verdie, 369 
 Crossley, Alva J., 346, 400 
 Edna M., 346, 400 
 Wilma J., 346 
 William J., 274, 346 
 Cummings, Jeimie V., 256, 326 
 
 Danner, David, 176 
 Dauer, Sarah, 331 
 Davis, Daniel, 205, 268 
 Daniel, 268 
 Ella M., 389 
 Helen, 305, 374 
 Margaret S., 340 
 Mary, 268 
 Robert K., 350 
 Sarah Amdt, 268 
 Dawson Mina, 285, 364 
 Dech, Rebecca, 175, 223 
 DECKER, ANNA MARIA, 12, 40, 41 
 Deemer, Sarah, 164, 200 
 Deering, Abigail, 300 
 Delaney, Mary E., 242, 304 
 Delp, George W., 225, 290 
 
 Herbert, 290 
 DeRoach, Clara, 331 
 Dewalt, Ada F., 354 
 
 Anna, 280 
 
 Arthur C, 280 
 
 Arthur G., 281, 354 
 
 Beatrice F., 354 
 
 Clarissa, 280 
 
 CjTus T., 280, 354 
 
 Dorothy M., 354 
 
 Earle W., 354 
 
 Eliza, 219 
 
 Elizabeth, 280 
 
 Forrest K., 354 
 
 Hannah, 219 
 
 James T., 219 
 
 Joseph, 172, 2ig 
 
 Joseph, Jr., 219, 289 
 
 Joseph S., 280 
 
 Oliver, 220 
 
 Paul H., 3S4 
 
 Reuben, 220, 289 
 
 Richard, 220 
 
 Robert, 220 
 
 Samuel, 220 
 
 Susan, 219 
 
 Theodore F., 354 
 
 Victor M., 3S4 
 
 413 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Dewalt, William J., 354 
 Diefendorf, Adeline, 180, 232 
 
 Peter, 213 
 Diehl, Bertha F., 279 
 
 Frank, 279 
 
 Mary O., 275 
 
 William, 279 
 Dilley, Anning, 222, 287 
 
 Anning M., 369 
 
 Carrie E., 2S7 
 
 Helen D., 368 
 
 Jesse B., 286, 368 
 
 Jesse R., 368 
 
 Lee S., 368 
 
 Lee S., Jr., 368 
 
 Minnie E., 287, 368 
 
 Sherman A., 287, 368 
 
 William K., 369 
 Donnell, Alice J., 356, 402 
 Dore, Thomas, 313 
 Downs, Helen, 368 
 Drake, Carrie Amdt, 278, 353 
 
 Estelle, 278 
 
 Fred R., 278, 352 
 
 Gladys Amdt, 351 
 
 Laura E., 278 
 
 Mary Virginia, 278, 351 
 
 Samuel, 216, 277 
 Drescher, Jacob E., 306, 374 
 Duane, Franklin, 397 
 
 Morris, 397 
 
 Russell, 338, 397 
 
 Sarah F., 397 
 Duffy, Charles S., 360 
 
 Samuel, 283, 360 
 Dunn, Clara, 278 
 
 Mary S., 251, 314 
 
 Eastman, Belle, 243, 309 
 
 Benjamin R., 243, 309 
 Ella M., 243, 310 
 Eugene, 243 
 Grace, 243, 308 
 Harry E., 310 
 Jane E., 310, 382 
 Mary, 243, 308 
 Ruth, 310 
 Eaton,' Mary B., 285, 364 
 Eberhard, Elizabeth, 166, 211 
 Eck, Samuel, 223 
 Ehle, Fannie, 177, 228 
 Eilenberg, Cyrus Arndt, 202 
 David, 164, 202 
 David A., 202 
 
 Eilenberg, Evelina P., 202 
 GuyM., 202 
 Mary E., 202 
 Matilda M., 202 
 Rebecca W., 202 
 Theodore, 202 
 El wood, Alfred N., 231 
 David, 180, 231 
 Edgar E., 298 
 Franklin H., 231 
 John W., 231 
 Mary I., 231 
 Ray E., 298 
 William E., 231, 297 
 Emmons, Albert N., 286 
 Endicott, DeWitt, 384 
 Errington, Naomi R., 362 
 William E., 362 
 Evans, Alice, 377 
 
 Clara, 263, 334 
 Oliver, 307, 377 
 Everitt, Martha S., 339 
 Mary V., 339 
 William M., 268, 339 
 Eygaboard, Lania, 178 
 
 Faber, Charles Q., 204 
 
 Henrietta, 204, 264 
 
 Rev. JohnT., Jr., 142, 165, 203 
 
 Sarah, 204 
 Farrington, Charles E., 360 
 Fatsinger, Anna, 280 
 Fehnel, Christian, 176, 224 
 Feist, T., 3S8 
 Feit, Elizabeth, 17, 145, 164 
 
 John, 276 
 Feller, Mary, 262 
 Fenstermacher, Sarah, 224 
 Field, Jeremiah D., 240, 301 
 
 Martha L., 301, 370 
 Finehaur, Henry, 229 
 Fish, Mary E., 308, 380 
 Fisher, John, 280 
 
 J. Fred, 336 
 Fitzpatrick, Charles, 275 
 Flanders, Julia, 229, 294 
 Viola, 230, 296 
 Fleming, Prudence, 362 
 Flick, Mamie, 358 
 Flood, A. Rodney, 259 
 
 Rosemary, 259 
 Fonda, Margaretta F., 232, 278 
 Ford, Albert C, 350 
 Foresman, Allan, 320 
 
 414 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Foresman, Donald, 320 
 Dorothy, 322 
 Elizabeth, 321 
 Elizabeth L., 253, 320 
 Emily, 322 
 Hugh A., 253, 321 
 Mary, 253, 320 
 Patty, 322 
 Rebecca B., 253 
 Robert, 196, 252 
 Robprt, 253, 320 
 Robert, 3d, 320 
 Sarah McC, 253, 319 
 William C, 253, 321 
 Fortney, Albert, 363 
 Foster, Harry L., 332 
 Hugh S., 403 
 Lee, 3s6, 402 
 Fox, Francis R., 389 
 Howard G., 389 
 Ruby v., 389 
 WiUiam R., 326, 389 
 Franklin, Walter M., Jr., 341 
 French, Harry B., 267, 341 
 Frederick, Mary, 153, 171 
 Fretz, Susanna, 218, 279 
 Frey, Miss, 265 
 Fried, Frank K., 337 
 
 Kate R., 8, 35, 141, 337 
 George L., 265, 336 
 Harriet Dodge, 337 
 Mary K., 337 
 Matilda M., 337, 396 
 Friedlander, Wilhelmina H., 304, 373 
 Fritts, Ehzabeth, 2ir, 272 
 Frutchey, Elizabeth, 164, 200 
 Fry, Catharine B., 362 
 Catharine M., 362 
 Charles, 284, 361 
 Dora, 362 
 Frank, 362 
 Gertrude E., 362 
 Helen, 362 
 Henry, 362 
 Ida, 362 
 Jacob, 222, 284 
 Lloyd, 362 
 Mary J., 285, 363 
 Mary L., 362 
 Naomi C, 362 
 Pearson, Le R., 362 
 Ruth M., 362 
 Susan, 285, 362 
 Wesley, 284, 362 
 
 Fry, William, 284 
 Wilson, 362 
 Ziba, 284 
 Fulmer, Emily M., 312 
 John F., 312 
 WiUiam A., 312 
 Fulton, Harriet, 332, 391 
 
 Gallas, Flora, 332 
 
 Garringer, Sallie, 222, 288 
 
 Geiger, Elizabeth, 15, 17, 90, 121, 147 
 
 George, Raymond, 288 
 
 Getter, Ellen, 283, 359 
 
 Gibson, Edith, 286, 367 
 
 Gilbert, Anna L., 271 
 
 Elias S., 208, 271 
 GUck, Florence, 273, 345 
 Goddard, Rachel M., 197, 257 
 Goodall, Carolyn L., 312, 383 
 Gordon, Edna, 368 
 
 Elizabeth, 263, 333 
 Gove, Elizabeth, 254, 323 
 Gould, William, 272 
 Gradwohl, Catharine, 154, 175 
 Granlees, William J., 268, 338 
 
 William S., 339, 398 
 Grampes, Irene, r78, 230 
 Graff, Chas. F., 277 
 Grate, Luella, 331 
 Grayson, Arkelby J., 361 
 
 John A., 361 
 Gregory, Donald, 367 
 
 Edgar, 367 
 
 Elizabeth, 222, 286 
 
 Herbert, 367 
 
 Josiah, 286, 366 
 
 William, 286, 367 
 Griffith, Charles E., 253, 321 
 
 George S., 313 
 
 George W., 313 
 
 Helen F., 321 
 Grubb, Elizabeth, 331 
 Gruver, Rosanne, 222, 285 
 Gueingin, Walter B., 299 
 Guild, Mary, 258, 330 
 Guthrie, John M., Jr., 316, 386 
 Gwinner, Camilla I., 255, 325 
 
 Hagenbuch, Caroline, 216, 277 
 
 Elizabeth, 361 
 Hager, Annie, 161 
 
 Elizabeth, 161 
 
 Jacob, 86, 160 
 
 Mary, 161 
 
 41S 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Hager, William, i6i 
 Hahn, Elmer E., 291 
 Haines, Arteman T., 326 
 
 Arthur, 326 
 
 Jonathan, 256, 326 
 
 O. Adell, 326 
 
 Reuben, 204 
 Haldeman, Elizabeth, 176, 227 
 Peter, 176 
 Samuel, 227, 292 
 Sarah, 176, 226 
 William D., 292 
 Hall, Arleene E., 401 
 
 Charles B., 350, 401 
 Roland B., 401 
 Haney, Edward J., 388 
 
 Frank G., 324, 388 
 
 William, 335 
 Hankey, Amelia, 210, 272 
 Hannon, Charles D., 306, 375 
 
 Cherrill L., 37s 
 Harmon, Peter, 281, 356 
 
 Robert, 356 
 Harper, Henry W., 226 
 Harris, Jonathan M., 337 
 
 Mrs. J. M., 8, 35, 141, 337 
 
 Fned, 337 
 
 Mamie, 286, 368 
 
 Martha, 366 
 Hartwell, Miss, 262 
 Hartz, Catherine, 220 
 Charles, 220 
 David, 172, 220 
 Haupt, William K., 270 
 Hauser, Catherine, 154, 175 
 Hawk, Charles, 278 
 Heffner, Emma L., 354 
 Heiney, AdaUa, 313 
 
 Samuel B., 223 
 Heist, Mr., 148, 158 
 Held, Carrie J., 354 
 Heller, Susanna, 204 
 Henn, Ann, 16, 169, 170 
 Hertzog, Mary, 211, 274 
 Hesler, John, 178 
 Heven, Anna, 16, 148, 169, 170 
 Hill, Minnie, 227, 293 
 Hinman, Minnie, 286, 367 
 Hisgen, Florence, 229, 294 
 Hoch, Christiana, 221, 282 
 Holbrook, William R., 308, 380 
 Holden, Francis M., 270, 341 
 
 Katharine, 341 
 Holmes, Clara M., 269 
 
 Holmes, Edith, 253, 320 
 Henry L., 269 
 Herman L., 269 
 Lucy, 269 
 
 William H., 208, 268 
 Hominger, Fred, 229 
 Honeywell, Clinton G., 286 
 Hopler, Clarissa, 285, 365 
 Horn, Bertha, 331 
 Horter, Lafayette F., 275 
 Hough, Lydia, 221, 283 
 Houpt, Adrian, 285 
 
 Bamett, 222, 285 
 Benjamin, 285, 364 
 Camilla, 364 
 Charles, 222, 287 
 Charles, 222 
 Charles, 285, 364 
 Edgar M., 288, 369 
 Edgar P., 369 
 Eliza, 222, 287 
 Ellen, 222, 285 
 Elsa, 364 
 Elsie, R, 369 
 Franldin A., 285, 364 
 Harry, 364 
 Harry S., 288 
 Lavinia, 222, 284 
 Missouria B., 222, 288 
 NelUe, 364 
 Philip, 172, 221 
 Sallie, 222, 287 
 Susan, 222, 286 
 Susan, 28s, 364 
 Theresa, 222, 285 
 Winifred, 364 
 Ziba, 222, 286 
 Housekeeper, Amdt K., 275 
 
 Benjamin, 216, 275 
 Elizabeth, 275 
 Jeremiah K., 275 
 Rachel E., 275 
 Howe, Elizabeth T., 300 
 James H., 235, 299 
 James T., 300 
 Richard H., 300 
 WilUam T., 300 
 Howard, Emma, 364 
 
 Ethel, 304, 373 
 Frank, 364 
 Julia, 364 
 Howell, Edward E., 271 
 Howells, Ida O., 285, 365 
 Huber, Anne W., 394 
 
 416 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Huber, John Y., 394 
 
 John Y., 3d, 394 
 Hughes, Mary, ig6, 249 
 Hunter, Mary L., 307, 378 
 Hurd, Charles, 288, 369 
 
 Nellie, 369 
 Hurlburt, Harry W., 313 
 Huston, Allen R., 365 
 
 Burton R., 365 
 
 Ralph E., 36s 
 
 Ihrie, Elizabeth, 18, 146, 164 
 Innes, Ann E., 205 
 
 Anna E., 266 
 
 Carolyn A., 338 
 
 Charles B., 337 
 
 Elizabeth R., 338 
 
 Evelina M., 205 
 
 Frank, 337 
 
 James R., 205, 260 
 
 James R., 338 
 
 John, 26s 
 
 John Amdt, 204, 266 
 
 Mary, 265 
 
 Mary Amdt, 205, 266 
 
 Mary B., 266 
 
 Mary B., 337 
 
 Robert S., 266 
 
 Sarah, 265 
 
 Sarah H., 205 
 
 Samuel, 204, 265 
 
 Samuel, 266, 337 
 
 Sue M., 337 
 
 Susan, 204 
 
 Stanley, 337 
 
 William, 143, 165, 204 
 
 William, 265 
 
 William D., 266 
 Ike, Russell, 333 
 
 Jacobs, John, 212 
 
 Maria, 212 
 
 Richard, 161, 211 
 
 Jackson Elinor K., 339, 398 
 
 Margaret, 286 
 Jacoby, Carl, 332 
 
 Chester, 331 
 
 Daniel E., 331 
 
 Ethel, 331 
 
 Frank, 331 
 
 Fred L., 332 
 
 George J., 331 
 
 Irvin C, 332 
 
 Jacob T., 331 
 
 Jacoby, John, 331 
 
 John H., 262, 331 
 John P., 331 
 Philip H., 331 
 Plato Stout, 331 
 Martha, 331 
 Martha M., 332 
 Stella, 331 
 William M., 33r 
 Jarvis, John, 178 
 Jeanes, Mary R., 33s, 39s 
 Jefferson, Alice G., 388 
 
 Mordecai, 324, 388 
 William H., 388 
 John, Julian C, 273, 343 
 Johnson, Abraham H., 279 
 Alma K., 348 
 Amy, 216, 27s 
 Cora, 280 
 Ephraim, 279 
 Howard R., 348 
 H. W., 275, 348 
 Linford K., 348 
 Margaret, 169, 217 
 Mary E., 280 
 Paul A., 280 
 Samuel K., 279 
 Wayne, 348 
 Jones, Bertha, 362 
 Frank J., 384 
 George R., 385 
 Joe S., Jr., 314, 384 
 John R., 38s 
 Martha M., 301 
 Mary E., 33s, 393 
 Robert R., 385 
 Thomas S., 315, 3^5 
 
 Kase, Charles M., 336 
 Frank, 336 
 Harry W., 336 
 John H., 26s, 336 
 Kasson, Melissa, 222, 287 
 Keel, Jordan, 358 
 Keller, Ira, 324, 389 
 
 Jacob, 164, 197 
 Marjorie, 389 
 Mary E., 197 
 Kelchner, Sadie, 287, 368 
 KeUy, Elizabeth, 257, 329 
 Kennedy, Allene J., 235, 300 
 Kerst, Henry N., Jr., 323, 387 
 Kessler, Claude M., 297 
 
 Edgar C, 230, 296 
 
 417 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Kessler, Edgar S., 297 
 
 Edward D., 261, 330 
 Emma, 332 
 Floyd, 332 
 Floyd J., 332 
 George, 332 
 Louisa, 332 
 Lulu B., 2g7 
 Mabel E., 297 
 Martha, 332 
 Plato, 332 
 Richard, 332 
 Kiefer, Elizabeth A., 331 
 Eve M., 261, 330 
 Mary K., 331 
 Raymond Amdt, 261, 330 
 William R., 200, 261 
 King, Abraham Arndt, 216 
 Clara, 275 
 Elizabeth, 216, 275 
 Elizabeth H., 275 
 Emma, 275 
 Jeremiah, 216, 275 
 Joseph, 169, 215 
 Joseph A., 27s 
 Joseph Aiiidt, 274 
 Malvina A., 275, 348 
 Mary A., 274 
 Mary B., 27s 
 Sarah W., 194, 247 
 Virginia A., 264, 348 
 William H., 216, 274 
 William H., 274 
 Kirkham, Martha, 262 
 Kleinschmidt, Sherman H., 301, 370 
 Kleppinger, Catherine, 221, 282 
 
 Matilda, 221, 281 
 Klock, Elmer, 230, 297 
 Mary M., 297 
 M. Beatrice, 297 
 Kneass, Charles L., 269 
 Charles L., 340 
 Davis, 340 
 FranHin, 270 
 Herman L., 341 
 Mary H., 269, 340 
 Samuel H., 208, 269 
 Samuel H., 270, 340 
 Samuel S., 340, 398 
 William H., 269, 339 
 Knickerbocker, John H., 230, 297 
 
 Nellie M., 297 
 Koch, John, 226, 291 
 John, 291 
 
 Koch, Hanna, 171 
 
 Mabel, 291 
 
 Ralph, 291 
 Kocher, Adeline, 176, 227 
 Alma E., 291 
 Hiram H., 226, 291 
 Samuel, 214 
 S. Gladstone, 291 
 Warren W., 291 
 Kolb, Andrew, 171 
 
 Ehzabeth, 171 
 
 Maria M., 171 
 
 Michael, 15, 150, 170 
 
 Michael, Jr., 171, 217 
 
 Michael, 171 
 
 Samuel, 171 
 
 Susanna, 171 
 Konkle, Mary E., 284, 361 
 Krantz, Ellsworth S., 33s 
 Elmer G., 263, 333 
 Kratzer, Edward, 288 
 Krause, Lucretia, 366 
 Kreidler, Sarah, 176, 22 
 Krest, Ralph B., 388 
 Kulp, Amanda, 218 
 
 Andrew, 279 
 
 Barbara, 279 
 
 Barbara L., 280 
 
 Enos C, 218, 278 
 
 Frank, 279 
 
 George, 279 
 
 Hannah, 279 
 
 Harvey C, 218 
 
 Henry C, 218 
 
 Isaac C, 218 
 
 Joseph, 280 
 
 Martha, 279 
 
 Mary, 218 
 
 Mary, 280 
 
 Mary E., 278 
 
 Michael, 218 
 
 Reuben C, 218 
 
 Rosella, 279 
 
 Samuel C, 218, 279 
 
 Sarah E., 279 
 
 Titus, 280 
 
 WiUiam C, 218 
 Kutz, Monroe, 280 
 
 Susan M., 221, 284 
 
 Lamb, Eugenia E., 308, 380 
 George A., 243, 308 
 Grace E., 308, 380 
 Milton H., 224 
 
 418 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Landenburg, Emma L., 283, 361 
 Lander, Elizabeth, 250, 313 
 John, 196, 249 
 Mary, 250, 313 
 Landis, Elizabeth, 218, 279 
 Lathrim, Sarah, 286 
 Lattig, Charles P., 262 
 Cyrus, 262 
 Elmer F., 262 
 George W., 262 
 Guy M., 262 
 Howard S. A., 262 
 Mary A., 262 
 Peter, 202, 261 
 Laubach, Anna M., 280, 354 
 
 Elizabeth A., 255, 324 
 Lawson, David A., 319 
 David, Jr., 319 
 Charles A., 242, 304 
 Charles A., Jr., 374 
 Edward W., 305, 374 
 Ellen B., 305, 374 
 Layne, Edward L., 356, 402 
 Leh, Robert, 222 
 
 Leidy, George, 14, 76, 78, 147, 148, 
 149 
 Mary E., 150 
 Mary M., 150, 170 
 Leigh, Margaret M., 256, 328 
 Lester, Sarah, 196, 256 
 Lewis, Florence A., 349, 401 
 Lichtenwalner, Clara B., 280 
 Elizabeth, 280 
 Estelle, 280 
 Julia, 280 
 Tilghman M., 280 
 Lindsay, Grif&th W., 341 
 
 Griffith W., Jr., 341 
 Henry D., 271, 341 
 Isabella W., 341 
 Lillian Amdt, 342 
 Mary D., 342 
 Robert Mac B., 342 
 Line, Julia, 285, 364 
 Lintler, Clark, 229 
 Hazel, 229 
 LUIian, 229 
 Life, Alice, 229, 294 
 Little, Mary, 148, 159 
 Livezey, Anna C, 33s, 396 
 Mary M., 396 
 Thomas H., 33s, 396 
 Lambert, Catherine, 167, 215 
 Lombaert, Anna Arndt, 208, 269 
 
 Lombaert, Charles, 143, 144, 206 
 Charles C, 270 
 Eliza Amdt, 208 
 Elizabeth E., 267, 341 
 Ellen T. C, 208 
 Emma Amdt, 270, 341 
 Frances J., 208, 271 
 George Arndt, 208 
 Henry W., 208, 271 
 Herman J., 208, 270 
 John Amdt, 208 
 Margaretta W., 208, 268 
 Mary B., 208 
 Rebecca V., 208, 270 
 Sallie E., 270 
 
 Lott, George W., 197, 258 
 
 Lough, William H., 307, 375 
 
 Long, Jane, 196, 254 
 
 Loy, Anna R. S., 306, 37s 
 Charlotte W., 306, 374 
 Mary W., 306, 373 
 Peter S., 243, 305 
 
 Lucas, Arthur W., 333 
 Walter, 333 
 William, 263, 333 
 
 MacAbee, Anna, 362 
 MacKimmon, Louisa A., 308, 379 
 McCarty, Evalina, 286 
 McClendon, Elizabeth R., 385 
 Jesse H., 315, 385 
 Robert S., .385 
 McCord, Eugene E., 310 
 Harriet E., 310 
 Mary G., 310 
 Seeley, 243, 310 
 McEntee, Mahlon, 202, 264 
 McFaU, Benjamin, 272 
 Clara, 272 
 Edith E., 3SO 
 Frank R., 350 
 James, 210, 271 
 John Tyler, 276, 350 
 Mary E., 350 
 Milton, 272 
 Sarah D., 330 
 Titus, 272 
 
 Washington, 210, 272 
 Wilham, 283 
 McGuire, Loretta, 277, 351 
 McQuoid, Bertha, 370 
 
 Chester S., 370 
 Kenneth Arndt, 370 
 Samuel H., 301, 370 
 
 419 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Mallory, Mr., 272 
 Manning, Arthur, 297 
 Marsh, Catharine A., 188, 240 
 Marshall, Arthur, 364 
 
 Arthur, Jr., 364 
 Harold, 364 
 Mason, Clara S., 256, 327 
 Mayer, John R., 381 
 
 Lawrence H., 381 
 Lucy B., 381 
 Mathias, 309, 381 
 Menaul, Allen B., 320 
 Anna £., 320 
 James, 253, 319 
 James A., 320 
 Mary, 319 
 Robert F., 320 
 Sallie, 320 
 Mellick, Blanche, 312 
 
 Gertrude M., 313 
 Katharine, 312 
 Leah M., 313 
 Mary R., 312 
 Theodore, 249, 312 
 William, 313 
 Merryfield, Helen L., 208, 271 
 Mertz, Elizabeth, 154, 176 
 Metz, Ida, 332 
 Metzgar, Clara, 284, 362 
 Meyer, Emma, 336 
 Middleby, Charles, 313 
 Middleton, Eloise I., 312, 383 
 Miles, John B., 143, 144, 165, 204 
 
 Matilda, 204, 264 
 Miller, Abraham, 204, 265 
 Abraham R., 223 
 Abraham S., 265 
 Arthur H., 393 
 Belinda, 264, 335 
 Caroline R., 394 
 Charles, 264 
 Charles I., 265 
 Charles R., 335, 392 
 Daniel Y., 394 
 Edwin L., 335, 394 
 Elwood F., 335, 39s 
 Henry C, 265 
 James, 178 
 Joanna H., 335, 396 
 John, 204, 264 
 John F., 33S, 393 
 John F., 394 
 John M., 265 
 Josiah B., 393 
 
 Miller, L. Eugene, 335 
 Mary, 229, 296 
 Mary A. R., 265, 336 
 Mary E., 393 
 Mary L., 396 
 Matilda M., 265 
 Noble, 288 
 Sarah A., 264 
 Sarah H., 33s, 396 
 Sarah R., 396 
 Susanna Arndt, 265, 336 
 Thomas R., 393 
 William G., 264, 334 
 _ William G., Jr., 335, 395 
 
 Minnich, Emma C, 226, 291 
 
 Mixsell, Jacob Arndt, 217 
 John, 169, 217 
 
 Mohr, Mary, 288 
 
 Montague, Elbert P., 327, 390 
 Frank W., 390 
 
 Morris, Anna L., 338 
 Edward S., 398 
 Mary B., 338, 396 
 Roland S., 338, 397 
 Sarah Arndt, 398 
 Thomas B., 267, 338 
 
 Morrison, Mary, 148, 163 
 
 Moyer, Abraham, 157, 178 
 Abraham, 177, 229 
 Abram E.j 230 
 Addie, 229 
 Alfred, 229, 295 
 Almina, 178 
 Amelia, 177, 228 
 Andrew, 157, 177 
 Andrew H.^ 229, 294 
 Anna, 229, 295 
 Annie, 363 
 Bianca, 178 
 Carrie, 229 
 Cora B., 229 
 DeForest, 295 
 Edward C., 230, 297 
 Edwin, 230 
 Elena, 296 
 Eliza A., 178 
 Elizabeth K., 210 
 Ethel A., 294 
 Florence E., 295 
 Floyd Arndt, 295 
 Frank, 229, 294 
 Gertrude M., 230, 297 
 Gladys, 296 
 Glen B., 295 
 
 420 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Moyer, Grace, 296 
 Guy, 296 
 
 Helon E., 230, 296 
 H. F. C, IS7, 181 
 Ida L., 229 
 Idabel, 296 
 Jacob Amdt, 177, 228 
 Keith, 296 
 Lola, 296 
 Lucinda, 178 
 Madeline, 295 
 Madeline, 296 
 Marcy, 178, 230 
 Mary A., 178 
 Mary E., 230, 296 
 Mary L., 294 
 Minnie K., 230 
 Nettie, 230, 297 
 Pearl R., 296 
 Perry A., 229, 296 
 Rachel L., 297 
 Ralph, 229, 294 
 Ralph D., 294 
 Ray, 29s 
 Reuben S., 230 
 Ruth, 296 
 Samarie E., 230 
 Simeon, 178 
 Solomon, 177, 229 
 Sylvester, 178, 229 
 Vera, 295 
 William, 229, 296 
 
 Murphy, Frederick, 362 
 
 Murray, Frank B., 256, 327 
 
 Murtha, Mary J., 211 
 
 Nauman, Alavesta L., 225 
 Levina R., 225 
 William H., 176, 225 
 Nealy, Clara F., 179, 231 
 Nellis, Abraham, 179 
 
 Caroline A., 179, 231 
 
 Ellen, 179 
 
 Helen L., 231 
 
 Henry, 157, 178 
 
 James, 179 
 
 Jerome, 179, 231 
 
 Martin E., 231 
 
 Martin L., 179, 230 
 
 Menzo, 179 
 
 Nelson, 179 
 
 Peter W., 157, 179 
 
 William, 179 
 Nelson, Edward R., 308, 380 
 
 Nelson, Edward R., Jr., 381 
 
 George L., 381 
 
 JamesJ., Jr., 312 
 
 Roger E., 381 
 Nesom, Anne R., 314 
 
 Ira B., 314 
 
 James T., Jr., 251, 314 
 Xestle, Katharine, 177, 229 
 Newhatrd, WiUiam E., 280 
 Norris, John M., 243, 309 
 
 John M., Jr., 309 
 
 May E., 309, 381 
 Nungesser, Elizabeth, 204, 265 
 Nyce, Elizabeth, 16, 148, 168 
 
 O'Hara, John, 283 
 
 Ott, Joseph, 171 
 Peter, 218 
 
 Owen, Colonel, 268 
 
 Owens, Boyd M., 286 
 Charles P., 286 
 Daniel, 222, 285 
 Jane S., 286 
 
 Pardee, Mr., 299 
 
 Parker, Mary, 299 
 
 William C, 181, 233 
 
 Parsons, Elizabeth, 253, 321 
 
 Patrick, Mary S., 281, 356 
 
 Patton, Katharine, 313 
 
 Patterson, Lila, 253, 322 
 
 Payne, Edith, 288, 369 
 
 Peeling, Gertrude E., 363 
 
 Pentz, Elizabeth, 341 
 
 James A., 267, 341 
 James A., Jr., 341 
 
 Perry, Minnie, 359, 403 
 
 Petrie, James A., 250, 313 
 
 Pettibone, Elizabeth, 367 
 
 Phillips, Mr., 231 
 
 PoUock, Nell, 367 
 
 Porter, Catharine Amdt, 258 
 
 George W. W., 258, 330 
 James M., 278, 351 
 James M., 4th, 352 
 Joseph F. S., 258 
 Joseph W., 197, 258 
 Martha J., 258 
 
 Powell, Elizabeth, 332, 392 
 
 PurceU, Augustus, 202 
 Daniel, 202 
 
 Pursell, Benjamin W., 255, 324 
 Camilla I., 325 
 Evelina, 164, 200 
 
 421 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Pursell, John G., 325 
 
 John M., 196, 2SS 
 Sextus C, 255, 324 
 Sylvania, 25s 
 Walter G., 325 
 
 Quimby, Anna, 177, 228 
 
 Raub, Andrew, 366 
 Earl, 366 
 
 Edgar E., 285, 365 
 Elsie, 366 
 Lena, 366 
 Randolph, John, 210 
 
 Harry, 210 
 Rasner, John, 359 
 Reardon, Charles S., 344 
 
 Christopher J., 344 
 Christopher W., 344 
 Helen O., 344 
 Margaret F., 344 
 Richard G., 344 
 Redfern, Carrie A., 235, 299 
 Reed, Catharine, 14, 78, 79, 147, 148 
 David, 166, 213 
 Marion, D., 262 
 Zoe O., 326, 389 
 Reh, Elsie M., 344 
 Reiley, Abraham L., 251, 317 
 Alan C, 312, 382 
 Alan C, Jr., 383 
 Amy C, 251 
 Amy C, 314, 384 
 Amy C, 312 
 Anna M., 252 
 Asher, 196, 252 
 Austin D., 312 
 Burroughs, 196, 249 
 Claire L., 316, 385 
 Dennis, 196, 252 
 Dennis, 197 
 
 DeWittTenB., 249,311 
 DeWitt VanD., 311, 382 
 Edward, 323 
 Edward A., 254, 322 
 Edward C, 251 
 Edward C, 315, 384 
 Edward L., 319 
 Eleanor TenB., 312, 384 
 Elizabeth, 196, 252 
 Elizabeth, 249 
 Elizabeth, 251; 313 
 Elizabeth, 315, 38s 
 Elizabeth C, 384 
 
 Reiley, Emma, 249, 312 
 Frederick, 323 
 George, 252 
 George J., 251, 314 
 George J., 315, 385 
 Henry D., 314 
 Isaac H., 249 
 James, 196, 253 
 James C, 251 
 James M., 254, 323 
 John, 164, 19s 
 John, 249 
 John A., 196, 250 
 John Amdt, 314 
 John I. B., 251, 31S 
 John I. B., 316, 386 
 Joseph C, 251 
 Josephine C, 318 
 Katharine C, 312, 383 
 Lilhan, 315 
 Luther M., 252 
 Margaret K., 316 
 Mary, 196, 249 
 Mary, 254 
 Mary T., 251, 316 
 Mary T., 315, 384 
 Nell R., 384 
 Robert F., 252 
 WiUard M., 383 
 WillardS., 312, 383 
 WiUiam, 195, 248 
 William, 249, 312 
 William, 249 
 WilUam C, 311 
 William M., 251 
 
 Reimer, Louis, 227 
 
 Margaret, 282, 358 
 
 Reiswick, Catharine, 282, 357 
 
 Remaly, Hannah, 226, 292 
 
 Remes, Mary, 229, 296 
 
 Rhinehart, Joseph, 265 
 
 Rice, Irene, 320 
 
 John, 278, 353 
 John, Jr., 3S4 
 Virginia, 354 
 
 Richardson, Hilda M., 315, 384 
 
 Rickert, Bertie, 335, 395 
 
 Riegel, Clara M., 225, 290 
 
 Riezky, Eleanor, 274 
 
 Ritter, Cyrus, 219 
 Daniel, 219 
 Elizabeth, 219 
 EUa R., 332, 392 
 Peter, 219 
 
 422 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Ritter, Reuben, 219 
 
 Robbins, Cora M., 365 
 
 Cornelius, 285, 365 
 EUa, 28s, 366 
 Linda, 285, 365 
 Minnie E., 365 
 Robert, 222, 285 
 
 Roberts, Caroline, 264, 334 
 
 Rodenbough, Lucy, 251, 318 
 
 Roeder, Sarah, 165, 209 
 
 Susanna, 172, 218 
 
 Rohrbach, Miss, 288 
 
 Rork, Ceal M., 390 
 Donald M., 390 
 Wilbur, 327, 390 
 
 Rose, Frank B., 274 
 
 Roseberry, Anna, 217, 278 
 
 Roth, William H., 225 
 
 Rowan, Florence A., 231, 298 
 
 Royer, Mary E., 223, 289 
 
 Ruch, Charles B., 280 
 
 Runyon, Vestella, 278 
 
 RusUng, Lee S., 313 
 
 Russell, Sarah E., 256, 327 
 
 Saddler, Frank L., 313 
 St. Clair, P. S., 367 
 Sanders, Charles, 230 
 Henry, 180 
 Sart, Cynthia, 177, 229 
 Saylor, Jacob, 212 
 
 Samuel, 212 
 Schaefifer, Levina Amdt, 224 
 
 Solomon M., 176, 224 
 Theodore D., 224 
 Thomas Amdt, 224 
 Schlegel, Abraham, 225 
 Alfred, 225 
 Benjamin, 225 
 Ellen, 225 
 Joseph, 176, 225 
 Scholl, Gertrude, 226 
 John, 168 
 Sarah E., 282, 358 
 Schoch, Ida, 290 
 Scobey, Frank H., 271, 342 
 Helen L., 342 
 Keimeth W., 342 
 Scott, Jean C, 348 
 Seller, Adam, 167, 214 
 AnnaM., 212 
 Peter, 166, 212 
 Samuel, 212 
 Seip, Charles, 227 
 
 Seip, Gertrude, 227 
 Elizabeth, 218 
 Sewall, Samuel L., 309, 381 
 Sexton, Aaron N., 344 
 Evan S., 344 
 Hiram, 273, 343 
 OUvette G., 343 
 Shade, Charlotte R., 270, 341 
 SheUenberger, John, 171 
 Shepard, Colin R., 307, 377 
 
 Elizabeth H., 307, 375 
 James R., 243, 306 
 Sherwood, Caroline, 259 
 Jessie, 259 
 Joseph F., 259, 330 
 Lettie B., 243, 309 
 Miriam Amdt, 259 
 Shick, Maria, 362 
 Shields, AngeUne, 194, 248 
 Sarah A., 194, 244 
 Shipman, Ann, 276 
 
 William, 216, 276 
 Shirer, Ellsworth J., 227, 293 
 Lerta U., 293 
 Vema A., 293 
 Shoemaker, Abraham, 166, 213 
 Anna, 213 
 Catherine, 167, 214 
 Catharine, 213 
 Elizabeth, 166, 211 
 Elizabeth, 213 
 Elizabeth, 215 
 Jacob, 15, 17, 121, 144, 
 
 i6s, 166 
 Jacob, Jr., 122, 166, 211 
 Jacob, 215 
 Jacob Amdt, 213 
 John, 167, 214 
 John Amdt, 215 
 Margaret, 166, 212 
 Margaretta, 213 
 Margaretta, 214 
 Maria, 121, 214 
 Mary, 79, 121, 214 
 Peter, 213 
 Rosina, 215 
 Samuel, 215 
 Sarah, 167, 214 
 Sarah, 213 
 Susanna, 166, 212 
 Shook, Mary, 283, 359 
 Shouse, Caroline, 277, 351 
 Edwin, 271 
 William, 210, 271 
 
 423 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Slater, Elizabeth, 240, 301 
 
 Ann E., 205 
 Sletor, Anna L., 268 
 Clara, 268 
 Frank Arndt, 268 
 James, 267 
 John, 143, 165, 20s 
 John Arndt, 205, 268 
 John Arndt, 267 
 John L., 268 
 Mary A., 267 
 Mary A., 205, 268 
 Matilda D., 268, 339 
 Sarah Arndt, 267, 338 
 Susan W. I., 268, 338 
 Thomas, 205, 267 
 Thomas R., 268 
 Slough, Evan, 205, 266 
 
 Frederick H., 273, 34s 
 Frederick H., Jr., 346 
 Granville B., 211, 272 
 Granville B., 267, 272 
 Helen M., 273 
 Margaret F., 273 
 Mary G., 273 
 Max R., 273, 345 
 Rachel R., 346 
 Robert P., 273 
 Samuel Arndt, 273, 344 
 Sarah F., 273, 343 
 Snell, Christopher, 177, 228 
 
 John, 228 
 Snyder, Eliza, 221, 283 
 
 Elizabeth, ig6, 252 
 Smith, Amanda, 225 
 Edgar, 290 
 Elizabeth, 157, 177 
 Griffith, 225 
 Michael, 176, 225 
 Rachel R., 273, 345 
 Sylvester, 225 
 Spadt, Abner W., 293 
 
 Adolph C, 227, 292 
 Earl O., 293 
 Emma A., 292 
 Gilbert E., 293 
 Harold A., 292 
 Malford A., 293 
 Otto, 227, 293 
 Stanley A., 293 
 Vernon J., 292 
 SpaiJding, Ferdinand, 328, 390 
 Spencer, Alice, 391 
 
 Clyde, 328, 390 
 
 Spencer, Effie, 391 
 
 Ellen L., 391 
 Springman, Bemhard E., 363 
 Carrie E., 363 
 Clarence H., 363 
 Edgar P., 363 
 Edna M., 363 
 Frank, 363 
 Gertrude E., 363 
 Grace, 363 
 Hattie M., 363 
 Jacob J., 363 
 John H., 28s, 363 
 La Rue, 363 
 Le Roy J., 363 
 Marian, 363 
 Mary, 363 
 Melvin, 363 
 Naomi, 363 
 William E., 363 
 Solt, Annie E., 361 
 Arthur H., 361 
 Charles A., 361 
 Paul S., 361 
 William H., 283, 360 
 Southwick, Jane E., 157, 180 
 Stahley, Minda, 225, 290 
 Starck, Catharine, 211, 274 
 Steckel, Alfred, 283 
 
 Anna C, 282, 339 
 Anna R., 283 
 Anna T. M., 358 
 Arthur H., 356, 401 
 Augustus A., 283 
 Benjamin, 402 
 Bessie, 357 
 Charles, 356 
 Charles I., 358 
 Charles N., 221, 283 
 Clarence W., 361 
 Clarence, Jr., 361 
 David T., 221, 284 
 Dora S., 36r 
 Edward M., 221, 283 
 Edward, Jr., 284 
 Eliza, 221 
 Elmer A., 356, 402 
 Elmer, Jr., 402 
 Elsie M., 356, 402 
 Elsie, 358 
 Elwood, 284 
 Emma A., 283 
 George, 282, 338 
 Grace I., 358 
 
 424 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Steckel, Harry, 357 
 
 Harry A., 360 
 Harry P., 359 
 Helen E., 360 
 Helen M., 356, 402 
 Helen S., 357 
 Helene C., 282, 357 
 Henrietta, 281, 356 
 Herman K., 281, 355 
 Irene M., 356, 402 
 Isaiah S., 221, 284 
 Israel F., 221, 282 
 Jacob H., 283, 360 
 Lena S., 359 
 Lillie C, 358 
 Lydia T., 361 
 Marie E., 283, 360 
 Mary, 283, 360 
 May, 359, 403 
 Oliver J., 221, 282, 358 
 Oliver J., 403 
 Peter, 172, 220 
 Rachel M., 403 
 Ralph, 3s8 
 Ralph C, 402 
 Reuben, 221, 281 
 Samuel S., 358 
 Sarah, 281, 356 
 Scudder, 283, 361 
 Solomon A., 221, 283 
 Susan, 221 
 Thomas, 283, 359 
 Thomas G., 359, 403 
 William B., 221, 281 
 Wilson, 283, 3S9 
 Winifred D., 356 
 
 Stoeckel, Louise M., 282, 356 
 
 Theodore W., 282, 357 
 
 Stem, Amanda, 197, 259 
 Celinda, 197, 257 
 Franklin D., 197, 259 
 Peter, 164, 197 
 Rebecca, 197, 258 
 
 Stephens, Jessie W., 311 
 
 Stephenson, George H., 270, 341 
 
 Sterner, Edward, 288 
 
 Stevens, Iva M., 356, 402 
 
 Stevenson, Theodore, 362 
 William, 362 
 
 Steward, Hilda R., 291 
 
 William H., 291 
 Beulah S., 313 
 
 Stewart, Florence, 266 
 Grace L., 313 
 
 Stewart, Jacob S., 250, 313 
 Jocelyn E., 313 
 John L., 313 
 Marjorie, 313 
 Mary, 313 
 Sarah, 169, 216 
 Stiles, Anna, 223 
 
 Bertha, 287, 368 
 Stonebumer, Harry, 227, 293 
 Stout, Abraham Arndt, 262 
 Anna M., 262, 332 
 Charles, 332 
 Clara B., 333 
 Edith M., 333 
 Elizabeth, 262 
 EUen M., 332 
 Henry, 332 
 Isaac S., 263, 333 
 Jacob S., 262, 332 
 Jacob W., 332 
 Mabel E., 333 
 Martha, 262, 331 
 Mary I., 263, 333 
 Minnie A., 333 
 Morrison Arndt, 333 
 Plato, 202, 262 
 Plato S., 333 
 Sallie R., 332 
 Sarah C, 263, 333 
 Solon L., 333 
 Robert S., 333 
 Ruth E., 333 
 Walter, 332 
 Stover, Ann, 164, 190, 194 
 
 Augusta M., 249, 312 
 Striker, Clara, 284, 362 
 Strohl, Miss, 153, 154 
 Strong, Sarah B., 311, 382 
 Stryker, Amelia P., 269, 339 
 Stuart, Elizabeth J., 349 
 Sturdevant, John, 366 
 
 Virginia, 366 
 Sturm, Mary, 288 
 Swain, William J., 274, 348 
 
 William M., 348 
 Swartz, Jacob, 281, 356 
 Margaret A., 349 
 Meta, 356 
 Switzer, Grace E., 271, 343 
 Sweitzer, Katharine, 341 
 
 John B., 219 
 Sweitzer, Josiah, 219 
 Swope, Charles, 279 
 George, 279 
 
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INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Swope, Mary B., 279 
 Sullivan, Martha, 205, 267 
 
 Talbot, Mary, 300 
 
 Taylor, William G., Jr., 335, 396 
 
 Ella, 363 
 Teel, Jessie B., 251, 316 
 TenBroeck, Mary E., 195, 249 
 Texter, Amanda, 218 
 Tice, Milton D., 335 
 Thomas, Katheryn Arndt, 350 
 
 John, 350 
 Thompson, Madge E., 370 
 Mary, 300 
 William S., 301, 370 
 Thurwood, Evel3ai A., 294 
 
 George, 294 
 Timbury, John, 161 
 Tombler, William B., 349 
 
 Edith B., 349 
 Tomlinson, Morris P., 280 
 Trapp, Alexander, 346, 400 
 Alva J., Jr., 400 
 Virginia, 400 
 Trimble, Abraham W., 329, 391 
 Charles, 329 
 Elizabeth, 391 
 Francis C, 391 
 HughL., 2S7, 328 
 Tyler, Augusta E., 299 
 
 Charles R., 235, 299 
 Deane, 299 
 Jane H., 299 
 Julia B., 299 
 Louis, 299 
 Priscilla C., 299 
 Winslow C, 299 
 
 Van der Werken, Anna, 148, 156 
 Van Horn, Catharine, 177, 228 
 Vaughn, Elizabeth, 165, 209 
 Volkmen, Arthur L. E., 300 
 
 Walrath, Mary, 157, 180 
 Walter, Carl, 214 
 
 Clara, 331 
 
 Elizabeth, 262, 332 
 
 George, 167, 214 
 
 Lillie, 332 
 
 Mary A., 212 
 Wanamaker, Elizabeth B., 261, 331 
 Watt, Charles D., 285, 364 
 Fred B., 364 
 Minnie M., 364 
 
 Way, Malvina, 216, 274 
 Weaver, Catharine, 154, 175 
 
 Miss, 223 
 Weingardner, Abraham A., 196, 257 
 Abraham U., 257 
 Albert F., 257, 329 
 Elizabeth U., 257 
 Rebecca C, 257, 328 
 Sarah H., 257, 329 
 Thomas Z., 257, 328 
 Welch, Alfaretta, 286 
 Edgar, 367 
 Edith, 367 
 Earl, 367 
 Elizabeth, 286 
 Elizabeth, 368 
 Ellen, 286, 366 
 Frances M., 286, 366 
 Harry, 286, 367 
 Harry, 367 
 Helen, 367 
 Inez, 368 
 John, 222, 286 
 LeRoy, 368 
 Malvina, 286 
 Margaret, 367 
 Philip, 286 
 Philip, 367 
 Ruth, 367 
 
 William W., 286, 367 
 Wesby, Mary C, 276, 349 
 West, Augusta S., 338, 397 
 Westcott, Catharine Arndt, 400 
 
 Ethan P., 346, 400 
 Westerman, Maria, 166, 213 
 White, Albert L., 402 
 
 Frederick L., 356, 402 
 Williams, Alice G., 254, 323 
 Anna L., 271 
 Anna M., 196, 253 
 Bessie J., 324 
 Charles F., 391 
 Edith, 328, 390 
 Ellen E., 329 
 Elsie L., 324, 388 
 Elwood, 328, 391 
 Eunice M., 343 
 Evaline, 256 
 Grace E., 343 
 Grace O., 328, 390 
 Griffith, 208, 270 
 Griffith L., 271, 342 
 Hiram A., 196, 254 
 Isadora, 271, 342 
 
 426 
 
INDEX TO PERSONS 
 
 Williams, Isabella W., 271, 341 
 James R., 324 
 Jean M., 343 
 Lavina R., 257 
 Lillie Amdt, 271 
 Madeline, 329 
 Margaret, 196, 256 
 Margaret, 256 
 Mary Gladys, 329 
 Mary E.,328 
 Sarah, 196, 255 
 Samuel A., 257, 329 
 Samuel F., 256, 327 
 Samuel R., 196, 256 
 Thomas B., 164, 196 
 Thomas B., 255, 324 
 Thomas E., 197, 257 
 William L., 255 
 Williamson, Martha, 254, 323 
 Wilson, Alexander C, 396 
 George F., 396 
 Frandsco H., 305, 374 
 James W., 337, 396 
 Winter, Alvinah, 216, 276 
 Jacob B., 254, 323 
 Lizzie T., 323, 387 
 Martha J., 324, 388 
 Maude, 324, 388 
 Sue E., 324, 388 
 Wilcox, Mary C, 188, 241 
 Wihner, Caroline, 211, 274 
 Woerule, Carrie B., 363 
 Edward, 363 
 Frank, 363 
 George E., 363 
 Laura V., 363 
 Martha, 363 
 Paul, 28s, 363 
 
 Woerule, Robert, 363 
 Walter, 363 
 Wohlgemuth, George, 213 
 Wood, Anna K., 340 
 Charles R., 340 
 Edward R., 269, 340 
 Edward R., Jr., 340 
 Juliana, 340 
 Mariane H., 340 
 Richard D., 340 
 Roger D., 340 
 Theodore V., 340 
 Woodhave, Mary, 257, 329 
 Woodruff, Margaret E., 309, 381 
 Robert E., 309, 381 
 Sarah M., 309, 381 
 Walter H., 243, 309 
 Woodring, Amanda C., 224, 289 
 Isabel, 219 
 Israel, 219 
 Jacob, 219 
 James, 219 
 Wright, Anna M., 327, 389 
 Charles W., 256 
 Elizabeth, 327, 390 
 Frank M., 327 
 Lila, 327, 390 
 Mary V., 256, 326 
 Mina M., 327 
 Nettie M., 256, 327 
 Silas A., 256, 326 
 Yeakle, Enuna, 335, 394 
 Young, Gertrude, 288 
 
 Miimie, 280 
 Zane, Anna E., 326, 389 
 Jesse T., 326, 389 
 John G., 196, 25s 
 Thomas W., 256, 325 
 
 427