24 THE JOU RNALMiss Audrev E. NeuhardM rs. Frances R. NicholsonMiss Verna G. No11Eva M. NormanCharles E. Noyes, Sr.

Miss VirginiaMi's. Russell IAndo'ew Spulet'Charles XXr. Spuler, JiMrs. Jack R. Stabley

John StahlneckerHarry Staib

Stanle\.M. Staves

Mae SpringmanSprout

J. Michael Ocl)sArthur D. OhlGeorge E. Orwig, llHarry M. Ott

MrcRlrsATt'. LeslieMrs. JuliaA/Ir. Tllomas L.M ]'. Carl FI. SteeleBlr. \william SternNlrs

Stearns

Dr. C. C. PagansMiss Helen C. PageDr. George ParksMrs. Eleanor .A.. ParknaanA'lrs. Marie S. ParkmanMrs. Ralpll G. ParsonsMr. Wiiliain PaynterMiss Zella PeppennanMiss Ethel PetersMrs. Chester PetersonAnna E. Pfa ffWilliam F. PlankenhornMr. Losing B. Priest

Joseph StewartStopperJames L

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the JO U R N A L of the 3

LYCOMING COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOC I ETY PROGRAM

PUBLISHED BIANNUALLY IN WlllIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA 1967-1968Our Program Chairman, ]Vlrs. Edith Wright, has brcpugllt us the following varied and inter-

est.ing programs for oui' regular monthly meetings through April of 1968

SEPTEMBER 21, 1967

Dinner Meeting for Progress Report on theNew Museum

DONALD) M.('ARSON, PI\ESII)ENTDR. ]\. MAX GINGj\ICn, IST. VICE PI\ESIOEN'r

JARIES P. BI\ESSLER, 2ND VICE Pl\EVIDENT

\Vl£. A. 'l'UI\NBAUGII, JI\., 3l\I) VICE PItESn)ENT

X'tAI\Y B. 13lODELL, SECRETARY

Ai3itAX;l M. SN' YI)ER, TitUASUitxit

JANUARY 18,1968Mr. Paul Gilmore. Editor of the Sun-Gazettewho spoke on, "Our Vanishing Landmarks

OCTOBER 19, 1967Miss Karen Raasch. Cul'atom of Textiles. Wil.liam Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, on

Design for Weaving and Embroidery '

FEBRUARY 15,1968Mr. Leo Bobb of Sunbury presented his widely acclaim.ed talk on "Lincoln Came ThisWay

MARCH 21. 1968Mr. Clark B. Kahler, "The Brady Family 'YMCA Social Hall

in])IRECTORS 1966-1968Nh3S. JOAN M. LINDEbIU'nIEDWAIID J. DUI\RWACHTEI\\4RS. IIDITn L. 'WRIGHT

THON.{AS T. TABEI\

DIRECTORS 1967-1969\.DISS MA13GARET B. COR\'ELL

SANIUEL J. DOI\NSIFEIVti\s. J. W. BiTNEtt

Di\. L. F. DEBI\

NOVEMBER 16,1967

Prof. John \V. Cllandler of Lyconting Collegegave us an illustrated lecture on ''GeorgeLuks", a noted artist, native of Williamsport APRIL 18, 1968

A ''Live Folk Entertainment '' by Mr. .flenryGlassie. State Folklorist. William Penn Memarial Museum, Harrisburg. Mr. Glassie willbring a group of performers with him, inYMCA Social Hall

DECEMBER 21, 1967

C1lristnlas progran) at the Park ltioi)le by tileSusquehannock Cllapter of Junior Historians.

EDrTOR\.IR. L. ROUX,IAN WURSTER

YOUR BOARD OF GOVERNORS

LETTER FROM THE PRES I DENTASSISTANT EDITOR

hilt. \Vn.HAM JAC013 13EYNOH)S

Now that the new museum has becomemore than a msy day dre,tm, it seems to beappropriate to outline the progress beingmade toward making this dream a reality.

I)firing the next two years, other leadersof the Society; such as, Mr. James Bressler,Dr. Max Gingrich, and Dr. Lloyd Wurster,continued to spearhead the movement forraising a building fund by popular subscrip-tion. About mis time, a group of leadingbusiness men, headed by Mr. Carl Simonand assisted by Nlessrs. Ralph Cranmer,Walter Heim, Michael Laguna, A. F. Beagh-ley, and William Nichols, Jr., were per-suaded [o serve as trustees of the existingproperty and anticipated building f rinds.Early in 1964 the services of a pmfessioi)alfund raising organization were hired andL drive for $250,000 started. The tomencum to get the drive started was somewhatdampened by the problem of pimling downL suitable location for che new museun].Ways Garden was no longer available underthe then current City Administration. 'Some

civic development groups felt char we shouldlocate in one of the don n-town redevelop-ment areas. Since the cost of such propertieswere prohibitive and no positive availabilitydates could be set, the else of the originalWay residence property was finally decidedupon. Rehabilitation costs made tbe use ofthe shell of the old Way residence imprac-tical.

Extra Copies of The Journal Fif ty Cents Each It all started on the cold day in December of 1960 when a disasterous fire burned:l great hole up through the center of thegracious old Roman Way residence, whichhad served as our museum since 1939. Itcame within an ace of destroying the col-lections that lind taken 53 years to assemble.Except for extensive stroke and water dam-age, most of the objects were saved. Whilemany of the tHosE valuable things weretaken to private homes, host of the arti-f aces were stored in the carriage house atrl)e rear of the property-

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Society Program 3

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Letter from the President

A Forecast on the New Museum John '< Strawbridge, ]llLooking back, we can now see that this

catastrophe and rhe gradual deteriorationof objects packed into the carriage houselead its brighter side. It spurred the Boardof Governors of the Society into givingserious thought to starting a campaign [obuild an up-to-date museum which wouldbe better able to serve the people of ourcommunity. Under the leadership of Pres-ident Frank Brunner, plans were scarred fora modest museum and public meeting rodinstfucture in \Ways Garden. The Park Com-missioners then in iuithoricy were favor2tbl},disposed toward this location

Local History as a Hobby -- Charles F. Berkheiiner, D. D.

Reminiscences of W. H. Sanderson 12

Part ll of 'Blooming Grove IS

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Meanwhile rhe Society"s collectiorl werenaoved to the Rid)ardson Building a:t 405West Third Street. An office secr&rary wasMembership List

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hired and sorting, renovation, and tem-porary display of the artifacts were scarredby mid 1964. $160,000 of the original goalof $250,000 was raised or pledged by Juneof that year.

ping the Lycoming County HistoricalSociety Museum in Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.

A FORECAST ON THE NEW MUSEUM

John W. Strawbridge lll

Section 2. The moneys hereby appro-priated shall be available auld expendedonly at such tilde as a sum equal torhe amount hereby appropriated byrhe Colnilnonwealch is contributed to

the Trustees of Lycoming County His-torical Society Museum by local histor-ical societies, associations or similar or

ganizarions, or by individuals, to beused for rebuilding and equipping the

Affidavits evidencing suchcontnburions shall be submitted by saidtrustees to the Auditor General.

Exhibits Consultant

Late in 1965 the I'ruscees, in their quiet,behind-the-scenes way, began exploring thepossibility of cbtaining state funds to marci)those already pledged and to help offset theincreasing cost of building a suitable muscum faci[ity. By 1966, t e estimate, baset]on using the Way property, has increased[o $300,000. Thanks to the help of StateSenator Confair, Representatives Wise andBush, and particularly to Dr. Stevens, Dir-ector of the Pennsylvania Historical andMuseum Commission. out Trustees' effortspaid off. Ti:e following is a copy of thislegislation), which finally became law inCcto.ber of 1966.

We are not isolated in tilde. What hasgone before us may well determine whamlies ahead. Such is the usefulness of tl)estudy of history. History can supply thebackground for our present problems, canshow us where n-e've been, how we gotwhere we are. The world is too small andour personal responsibilities in it too great,to view ourselves as isolated in time andplace.

is guided, in its development, by theseideas. It will present to rhe people of thisarea the story of che civilization of the Wes:Branch Valley from Indian prehistory lothe present. The exhibits will focus orl threemajor themes; the Indian way of life, thecoining and developtnent of white civil-ization, and the growth of area industry,especially the lumbering industry

As an aid to the study of history, to theunderstanding of modern manrs place in ilchanging world, the Lycoining County Histopical Society is building a new museum.That is common knowledge.

This story of local history will be illus-trated with the myriad objects of the museum collections. Because of exhibit spacelimitations. all of Ehe collections will not beorl display at any one tilde. H(wevcr, manyof .the exhibits will be changed at frequent

intervals, bringing to view many objectspreviously in storage.

The actual check for $200,000 was de-

livered early in April, of 1967. The "match-ing funds'' were made up to $200,000 by 'adding the value of our artifacts to the$150,U00 collected by public subscription.When we were assured of this additionalmoney, things began to happen rapidly.Cor)struction contracts were let on April 13tnd demolition, to make way for the newbuilding, was completed on the 23rd ofthis month. In ellis saDIe period the servicesof Exhibit Design Consultant John Straw-bridge 111 were secured.

I'be Gclleral Asian bl] ot PePzlls)lvauiaHOUSE BILL Session of

No. 41S ]966

It is not commonly known, howeverwhat the nature of this facility will be andhou it will benefit this community. Aside from the development of public

exhibits, the museum will encourage his-torical research by storing in collections inan organized and easily accessible fashiorlAlso, an attempt will be made to utilize themuseum as a supplement to education inthe city and county schools. This would beaccomplished through school tours of thefacility and the development of travellingexhibits and programs

Introduced by Messes. Wise and Bush,July 12, 1966.Referred [o Comlllicre on Appropria-tions, JLjly 18, 1966.

To understand this particular museumthe gerlera] concepts of history museumsmust be understood. History museums col-lect and exhibit examples of our past a.san aid to understanding man's present. Theyexist noc only for the purpose of support-ing the specialized historical interests of flrelative feu people, but also for the pur-poses of generating interest and aiding understanding on the part of the many. Thepoint is that museums, being social instirucions. must direct themselves toward themajority of prospective visitors. They musttry to make the people who couldn't careless about history, care more. The justifi-cation for the historical museum is the valueof the study of history, the belief tllat onecan learn from the past.

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braking an appropriation to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Corntllission for rebuilding and equippingElle Lycoming County Historical Soc-iety Museum subject to certain condi-tions.

Naw char rhe building is half finishedand plans for exhibits are well under way,ue must face up to the unpleasant face thatwe are sadly lacking in funds for a budget onwhich to operate our flew museum. Forexample, the dues froiln our present mem-bership of 750 people is not even enough topay the electric bill for one year of oper-ation. Practical ideas f or generating the

necessary income to support a $20,000 annull operating budget are being earnescl},sought. What ideas do you as a member haveto close this gap? Let us hear about mena.Do you want to raise the dues - Chaigcldlnission to the ocu- museum - apply forpubilc funds, or what?

The possibilities of making this nc'.vmuseum an asset to the community are asmany as one's imagination will allow. Theonly factors that would limit its futuregrowth are the limits of the HistoricalSociety's willingness to support it. Thisproject is a group eff ort. It is hoped that al!members of the Lycoming County HistoricalSociety will contribute something towardthis endeavor, something orl the order ofan hour of volunteer time. a dollar of coldcash, an historic object, or an idea.

THE GENERAL A'SSEMBLY OFTHE CO.MMONWEALTH OF

PENNSYLVANIA

HEREBY ENA(:TS AS FOLLOWSA museum is more than a teacher. how

ever, it can also be a place for unqualifiedenjoyment. Much of the paso offers littleintellectual enlightment, but can still enrichour lives. For example, a fine old paintingmay offer lirrle "meaning," but can begreatly satisfying to its beholders. A mu-seum can appeal to emotion as well as toI'eason.

Section 1. The sum of two hundredtl)ousand dollars ($200,000), or asmuch thereof as hay be necessary, isllereby specifically appropriated [o thePennsylvania Historical and MuseumCommission to be expended by saidCommission for rebuilding and equip-

Summing up, the new Lyconaing CountyHistorical Museum will present a view oflocal history for the purposes of betterunderstanding the present and of betterdirecting the future. It will attempt [o aidthe understanding and enjoyment of irsvisitors, visitors ranging from the child ro

D. M. Carson

President

The Lycoming County Historical Museum

6 THE JOURNAL 7rhe scholar. The museum can go as far andgrow as rapidly as its support will allan 'Note: Communication from any Sociecl 'member as [o what they would like thenew museum to be will be greatly appre-

ciated. The Society office at the corner ofWilliam and Willow Streets, Williamsport,is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., weck-days. Phone (717) 326-3326

dent" of the past or of the approved starld-ards of moral conduct. I w;it my grand-children [o know that the past is an integalpart of them and that thee:e are some im-portant values of life today and tomorroxxr.iat llaust be brought out of yesterdayl [hope that they will be able to relate them-selves intelligently to the best eleinencs theydiscover in American history.

Of course, there are some hazards in thisfor the grandfather. When my grandson, inhistory class, wants to tell the teacher aboutmis, (being a tnodest }'aung man, he can'timagine a grandfather being so great as[o be seven times great) he raises his handand proudly says. "One of my grandfathersknew George Washingtonl" Later, when iam introduced to the teacher, she quizzicallyasks, "Are you one of Evan's grandfathers?I hasten to answer defensively, ''Yes, I ambut I'in not the one who knew GeorgeWashington.

Some day I'll tell them about some rhctheir Revolutionary War ancestors whomight have known George Washington un-der different circumstances if he had golleall the way to western Pennsylvania to quellrhe Whiskey Rebellion, f or they lived thenamong those who were the determined dissident of the day. By the way, a secondincident of lesser national importance burnot entirely unrelated to the first, took placein that very community in the early part ofthe Nineteenth Century. There in the oldMingo Presbyterian Church about twentyGod fearing farmers idec one Sunday af ter-noon and drew up and signed the first re-corded joint temperar)ce pledge in this stateYou probably know Chat within twenty-fivemiles of WilliamsporE, at Kelly Cross Roadsin Union County, William Clirlgan wasthought to have been the first farmer [odiscover that it was not impossible for theharvesters in the hor days of July and August to work all day long without the usualwhiskey in copious supply which previouslyhad been honestly thought to be required "tokeep up their strength". Sometime follow-ing this, probzLbly about 1814, these farmersin Western Pennsylvania met to discusswhat they could do about this and what theirown practice should be. After carefully collsid-ering char there was na absolute necessir}[o "be refreshed" while harvesting, they hadabout agreed on the following pledge

:In consideration of che fact that theuse of ardent spirits is not absolutelynecessary to our welfare, and of ourbelief as Christians that its excessiveuse is, in truth, datnaging to both healthand morals: and in consideration of theunanimous agreement of all individualshere met, Therefore, we severally andjointly pledge ourselves to abstain entimely from the use af ardent spirits,except far medicinal purposes

Just as they were about [o sign it,. however,one man questioned their ability to gecthrough sheep shearing in the spring incold water all day long without "somethingto warm your blood". So, by common consent they signed the pledge which ended,except for medicinal purposes or on sheep

shearing day". Tradition has it that one re-hired farmer signed it who had no sheep andthat the next day he went ouc and boughtone.

LOCAL HISTORY ASA HOBBYby Rev. Charles F. Berkheimer, D.D.

For13 ev pastel' o{ }wo cbzf. cues i? Wi!-I.iamsPor}, fornzer Market Street M.etbodistalta Pulte Street Z\8.etbo is , Retired Distfic}S7rperintenacnt ot tbe Methodist Cb cl].PreselztlT libraaia..t and. Cm.Tatar of tbe CeT}r£! Pell.}?a. i\\etho&ist Cbwrcb { stor$cclL

Socie}). Doing research o+} tbe distort olbbe Peralta. M.etbodis Cbarcb. Cba ?zauot be Ai.eiloodisf Edto {a! Board togo arcpreset tT preparil g tbe Histor) ot tl3e Me£:i-)disk Cb cla i?} PenmsT valzia.

A)I Address delivered. before tbe Llconting Historical SacietT Olz N\arch 'L6, \9GI.

Madame Chairman. Mr. President andfellow members of the Lycoming HistoricalSociety, and guests, - I fill this engagemelltmis evening with a strange combination ofemotions, which you will readily under-stand. Last October I agreed to give this talkbefore this Society, as a pinch-hitter, in caseof a program emergency if it would serve tofill a gap. The request came from one of tilemost eminent members of this Society.whose recent passing from us has "left alonesome place against the sky." Although Iwas prepared for a d-ifferent hype audience,I repeat the address here tonight in ful-fillment of his inquest, and hereby dedicatewhatever may be worthwhile in it to thememory of a distinguished historian, historymaker and humanitarian, Dr. Lloyd E. Wur-ster

we all need an escape or a retreat of onekind or another once in a while. don't u,e/I am not not recommending this means ofescape as a full time activity for any of you.We must keep on being citizens who ' arealec:t to today's problems, too. What we doabout them creates the history our heirs inI)Crit.

To look at this from another angle, thereis adurldanr Scripture precedent for keepingalive the memories of past glories and pat-riarchs long dead. If you want such Scrip-ture, I refer you [o the Books of Genesisand Exodus, with the particular story ofJoseph in Egypt and rhe subsequent cap-tivity of his people, the Israelites, there.Joseph had been given the seamus of a Phar-oah, you remember, bef ore he died. TheJewish people, kept captive in Egypt for430 years, finally escaped with Moses leading them toward an independent future in &Promised Land. In Exodus it is recorded that

Moses took the bones of Joseph with himinto the wilderness. This may bring to yourmind an imaginary picture like that broughtto the mind of a friend of mine who saidthat it probably meant that a young Jew-ish boy would be trudging along in thesandy desert with some old bleached bonesunder his arm wrapped in an old copy of thePhiladelphia Inquirer or part of a Williams-port Grit. (You've seen worse things thanthat in bach of these papers.) But it wasn'tso simple a jab as that. Read the last verseof the Book of Genesis which says, "AndJoseph died and they embalmed his bodyand puc it in a coffin in Egypt.'' That's adifferent picture, especially in che light ofthe modern day discovery of the body ofKing Tur", il Pharoah of Egypt, which

was encased in a rich coffin within a mass-

Bur I am sure that here is one way inwhich we can help our grandchildren growup ingo good, responsible American citBens.For example, when I take my grandchildrciito visit two graves within a few miles ofValley Forge and point out that here w'asburied rhe body of their great, great, great,great, great, great, great grandfather whodied on December 27, 1777 at Valley Forgeduring !hat bitter winter of deprivationthey read about in their history books; andthat General Washington is said to havevisited him twice in the little log buildingthat served as a hospital; and that their great,great, great, great, great, great, great grand-mother, at the personal request of GeorgeWashington, came back af ter she had burge;dhis body here in the little old cemetery neartheir farm, and nursed other dying menfor the rest of the u,inter; then'l believeI am helping them to see that Americanhistory is not only a subject to be studiedfrom a book, but a real part of their lives.Furthermore. I shall be somewhat surprisedif they thoughtlessly become pan of 'someyouthful and irresponsible gang of impat-ien-t demonstrators who have no other pur-pose than to declare themselves "indepen-

Digging into the past of one's falllily andone''s local community is a g(x)d hobby f orone to have, especially if that one is a pro-fessiona[ Grand-father. At present this is t])conly real profession in which I am not mere-ly an "Ex-". I ' am currently a properlyproud and definitely dedicated Grandfacl)erfind want to take m}, new profession ser-iously. Of course, I admit, it is possible torationalize here, as anywhere else. Whenone is tired and frustrated with today's un-solved problems, he can go back 100, 200or 500 years and live for a while in historywhere some of today's problems may havebeen created. but wh;ere one needs not beinvolved in offering solutions. I admit thatthis hobby may become only an escape. Bur

8 THE JOURNAL 9ive sarcophogus. By inference, Joseph's bodywas treated like a Pharoah's. It could riothave been transported by Moses withouttremendous effort. My point is that Mosesknew that no matter how you might winyour freedom from past dominance by ty-rants and no matter how fair the futurelooked in a land of promise, with a greatsociety, there n'as always something pre-cious from the past to be carried into thepresent and passed on to the fuEurel Youcan't declare your independence from allehe past without danger of jeopardizingyour future

Then, too, I must confess to having novivid imagination) but a very avid curiosityall of my life. As a lad I had questions toask which were not always answered for meby my elders. Even my two beloved auldrevered grande arhers let me down at mispoint. My paternal grandfather I asked,Grandpa, where did we get such a dumb

Dutch name and what does it mean?" Hedidn't know. (Incidentally I've alwaysthought that such names as Carson, Wrightor Antes sounded intelligent, but not mindThat is, until late in life I found its originand meaning.) I asked, "Was your grandfamer born in this country or the oldcountry?" He wasn't even sure of that. (Hisgreat grandfather had come to Americafrom Germany but he hadn't been toldthat.) I remember asking him, ''How manyRebels did you kill in the Civil War?" Heastonished lne by saying he hoped he hadn'tkilled any and my boyish mind concludedthat he hadn't been much of a soldier. (Ilong since changed my mind about this,too.) I think it must have been then andmere that I decided that if I ever had anygraf)dchildren I'd be able to answer theirquestionsl

Now , you see, I can't tell my grandchild-ren that I ever killed any Rebels either, bucI can tell them that T fought a few dragonsin my day. And I can show them someancestors and others of the same surnameu,ho were in the forefront in some religiouscon.flicts for conscience and faith's sake andmus helped make history. For example, ex-communicated in 1519 in the same PapalBull with Martin Luther was the CounselorWilibald Birckheimer, of Nuremberg, whobecame one of the first nineteen member:sof the first Lutheran Church in the first

Luchemn City. Its worth telling them inthis day of ecumenical emphasis that thegreatest individuals of ou; family namewere Roman Catholics and that even thelatest edition of the Catholic Encyclopediacontains biographies of two of them wholived in the 15th and 16th centuries. It'sentirely possible that we might all be bet-ter citizens, churchmen and historians ifwe knew our spiritual and religious gen-ealogies as well as our natural ai;2i nationalones. Most of us are.indebted to a greatdegree to our forefarh6rs for their devotionto their i:eligious beliefs.

Vital curiosity is also responsible for thehobby. of digging up Local History. AsL minister, I have always sought to knowwho the. founding fathers in a given localcolnmunitv were. The written church histor

£j.,'T!;,''E=, t..:::n;'-::yT=!jlese are not the real h-istory of a church.PEOPLE make history - not institutions anddates. PEG'PLE ARE ' HISTORY - ordinary,active, riff people are the real history makerst PEOPLE like you and me. Of themembership of this society only a few willbe either .notable or notorious enough toget into the history texts a centui:y'fromnow. We are history makers, neverthelessl

Will Durant, the author of the monu-mental ten volume H.istory of Civilization,once epitomized it all like this: - "Civil-ization is a stream with banks. The streamis sometimes. .filled with blood from pleople

g,. .stealing, shou-ting and doing thetllings historians usually record, while on thebanks, unnoticed, people build ' homes. makelove, raise chi.Idren, sing songs, write poetryand even whittle statues. The story of civ-ilization ij rhe story of what happens on thebanks. Historians are pessimists becausethey -ignore the banks for che river

Most of us may remain on the banks ofthe stream all our.lives and we may or maynot be historians but we are makers of his-tory, nevertheless.

Hijcory is PEOPLE. H.isrory is YES-TERDAY and Hi'story is also 'TODAYI

Recently a cartoon appeared, showing afather with his High School son's new his-tory text in h-is hand calling to his wife inthe next mom, "Hey, Marge, twenty yearsago w.It!. Hlistoryl '' He was only partiallyright. TODAY IS H.ISTORy. ' '

So my hobby impels me to look forPEOPLE, whose names the text bookshaven't room [o menrion] Let mc give youa thumb nail sketch of a few of earlyWilliamsport's history makers who influ-enced their generations and left names whicFilater generations do not recognize. You'llforgive me for mentioning early Merho-disrs since these are the persons who camenaturally into my purview

Few persons of the present generationhave heard of the three ministers I shallmention or of the several laymen who madehistoi:y during the early and middle pairsof the nineteenth century

The first minister I shall mention waswithout a peer as an eloquent preacher andmaster of .large audiences in Williamsporchistory. The pastor of Williamsport Sta-tion before it was Pine Street, he also servcd later at Mulberry Street and as the firstpastor at the Third Street Methodist hisdion in 1867. His sermons were masterpiecesof classic elegance and eloquence. When hewas announced to preach at the Camp Meet-ings. of !he day the congregations' alwaysnumbered in the thousands. A skilled ad-ministrator and parlimentarian, he was recognized as a leader in his denomination andis listed among the greats of his conference'shistory. In the day when the MethodistChurch elected its mighty orarors to theepiscopacy mis man was one of Ehe mighty.But he was never elected a Bishop becauselike multitude of his fellow midst;rs of theday he was addicted to rhe tobacco habit.wllich was all too common in the ministryas well as the laity. This giant among thepreachers of his day must be judged by thestandards of his day but such stanElards havechanged, ar)d for the better. It is a matter ofrecord that the Methodist Church now l:e-quires all ministers to pledge themselves toabstain from the use of tobacco. The objea-ion of che church was not to the smoking ofcigarettes, of course, buc to the uninhibitedchewing of tobacco in public or in privateThis church law was first passed in 1896and attempts to repeal it have been defeatedin many General Conferences. The chewinghabit became intolerable to members af thecongregations, particularly before the days ofindividual communion cups. The bewhisk-cred tobacco addicts created a serious andoften insurmountable dilemma f or the fe-

male members in receiving the Sacramentof Holy Communion. There may be a fexx 'older persons sein living who may rememberseeing cuspidors at some pews and even insome pulpits. l:t is less than a century agoChat two leading business men, trustees ofPine Street Church, were delegated to po-lice the congregation each service to en-force rhe rule against any arterldant chen '-tobacco during rhe church service. I men-tion this indelicate subject, not [o derogatcrhe character of tne minister I mentioned.or of any others of his generation, but be-cause it is a matter of history and becauseit illustrates the fact that the f ormer timeswere not better than the latter. "Thesevo-ere the good old days", cannot be defendedas unqualified truth. If you go digging intothe past to find 'che good old days", youu.ill likely be disappointed

The Methodist minister who did becon)e

a national personality is remembered bya good many Williamsporters but not as thepastor of Newberry ( 1868-70), Third St(1871-72) or of Grace Church. In 1904Dr. Silas C. Swallow ' was the Prohibitioncandidate f or President af che United States.He was the controversial ministerial figureof his day f ot his tremendous influence wasthrown into the Prohibition movement. Heargued that every Christian ought to be forConstirurional Prohibition af the liquortraffic and that anyone who wasn't, be heBishop of the Church or common mem-ber, should be despised as a Saloon Sub-sidizer. He really was a great orator, anable editor, a most native reformer at)d anisrute politician. His significance for us inWilliamsport lies in the fact that the twoProhbition Mayors we have had were great-ly incfluenced by him. *

The name of the third minister whoilnI shall mention as a history maker in thiscommunity appears only briefly ( and somc-whar inaccurately) in the story of thefounding of Williamsport Dickinson Sem-inary. He was Charles Maclay one of fivebrothers who became Meth(Mist ministersall grandnephews of The Honorable Wil-liam and Samuel Mackay, first United StaresSenator from Pennsylvania. Charles Maclayand his brothers, however. became notablein their own right. In 1848 Charles wasJunior Preacher on the Circuit with headquarters in Williainsporc and had an active

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part in the transaction through which theWilliamsport Town Council s;old the oldAcademy property to the Methodists. Con-sequently, the next year Charles Maclay wasappointed by the Bisl)op as Financial Agentof Dickinson Seminary, representing thenew institution as a public relations manitnd fund raiser. Here. associated with thetown's leading business and professionalmen, he gained invaluable experience which)was to stand hlm in good stead in a farfield of activities. By 1851 he was in Cali-fornia as a missionary and minister, servingalso as President af the new college at NapaCity for a short time. When his voice failedhe leff the active ministry and became lllawyer and successful business man. Cali-fornia Church historians say he was one ofthe outstanding citizens of the territory, aleader in civil and religious affairs and amember of the Scare Legislature. In 1886 heproposed che establishment of a Theolo-gical School at the University of SouthernCalifornia and offered the trustees either$100,000 in cash or a large tract of landin the rich San Bernardo Valley. They wise-ly chose the latter, named the School theli(aclay School of Theology, elected his fa-mous brother Dr. Robert Maclay, a mission-ary to China, Japan and Korea, as dean ofrhe school and then realized $175,000 fromthe sale of the land. This native Pennsyl-vanian lef t Williamsport Dickinson Semmary to minister [o the gold miners inCalif ornia and induced his four brothers tofollow him there eventually. They served aspastors, college presidents, members of tileLegislatures and benefactors with a recordof distinguished service. Williamsport Dick-inson Seminary owed much to Charles Mac-lay and others but Maclay would say thathe owed some of his later business success tohis early experiences in working withWilliamsport's leading business men.

Ler me list a few of "the people on thebanks of the stream" in Williamsport whomade history in their several ways withoutgetting their biographies in the history 'books. They are nuggets from the mineu,hich a little digging uncovered

First, there was Jeremiah Tillman, Jr.,born in 1776, coming [o Loyalsock town-ship and .from their to the vi,llage of Wil-liamsport in 1799, and establishing the veryfirst 'shoemakers shop and later a saddlery

shop at Third and Pine Streets, where theCarroll H.oust now is. An earnest church-man, he was a member of the building colll-mittee and a trustee of all of the first threechurch buildings the Methodists built here.The first was Lycoming Chapel, built in18C5, where Fourth and Cemetery Streetsmeet. while the second and third were chebuildings erected on Pine Street in 1826and 1844 respectively. It is more than pro-bable that th; leading layman in the effortto build on Pine Street was Jeremiah Tall-man. in whose residence Methodists hadbeen meeting for class meetings and preach-ing on alternate Sundays f or a number ofyears previous to 1826. He was not only achurch leader but a leader of aff airs in theearliest history of the town and the countyHe was one of the earliest trustees of theWi-lliamsport Academy, a member of t.leMasonic J.odge 106, elected County Treasurer, County Commissioner and CountyAuditor, in turn. As his business prosperedhe trained a number of local apprenticeswho later took meir places of leadership inthe business and political community.

Secondly, here is one of the most pro-minent of Tillman's early apprentices whocame to the forefront as a business leader inrhe early history of the town and later thecity. He was John Smith, of common namebut uncommon personality, who was bornon a farm where Vallamont now is. came tolearn the shoemaker's trade at the age ofsixteen, joined Tillman's church and livedto a ripe old age, known and beloved as fewLycoming countians ever were. He laterestablished h:is own mercantile busing.ss onPine Street and for half a century or morewas a popular and pious leader of men. By1828 he was a Williamsport Councilman; hewas twice elected an Associate Judge of rhcCounty; and an active leader in local, statear)d nacional politics. He was probably thef oremost Lincoln Republican of LycomingCounty. He, too was an active Mason.

When Rev. B. H.. Clever came from Milton in 1847 to look at ohe WilliamsportAcademy properly which was for sale, hefound that John 'Smith and several otherMethodists had been on the last Board ofTrustees before the town council bought theproperly. Not only that but John Smith andRev. Charles Maclay, with one or twoothers, raised rhe money on their own en-

dorsement to buy the property for the denominational leaders. John Smirk becameone of the members of the Board of Direct-ors of Williamsport I)ickinson Seminaryand served for the first twelve years as itsI'reasurer. He was a generous supporter ofrhe Seminary and of his church, of whichhe was a trustee f or f arty-two years. JudgeSmith was an extraordinary man and, al-though his name no longer looms largein our background, was one of the respon-sible "makers of history on the bank of thestream" of our civilization.

make headlines or even notice af ter theirown generations, bur they were noble per-sons to whom the present is indebted

The final Williamsporter of whom I shallspeak tonight has probably never receivedtne recognition which a grateful community(and nation) tnighc well have honored it-self in giving to his memory, for he was oneof our national heroes and has been so re-cognized by the United States Navy. Hewas che first Union Chaplain to give his lifein the Civil War and che story of his sacri-fice is an epic which deserves a place withanother epic story of rhe Second World Warwhich involved like sacrifice on rhe pare offour Chaplains.

First I must tell you about his father, aMethodist local preacher who gambled hisfuture on the future of the village calledWilliamsport in 1811 when he brought hislittle family up the river from York, Penne.,(embarking from Columbia) to set up bus-iness as the town's first hat maker. HenryLenhalt came from York where his f amplywas poor but highly respected. Two canoesbrought family and possessions to chas poreon the bank of the 'Susquehanna. HenryLenhart was a local preacher when he camehere and soon associated himself with Jere-miah Tallman and others in the societywhich worshipped in homes or in LycomingChapel [lear Ainariah Sutton's up in thecountry near the creek. He immediately secup his hat making business in a house hebought across Pine Street from Tillman's atrhe southeast corner of Third and Pine.Shortly af terwards he added to his stock zllille of drugs and kept the first drug storein Williamsport. This store as modern as ZLtwentieth century drug store as Lenharr'sadvertisements sl)ow, ''Henry Lenhart,Drugs, Hats and Other Merchandise"', ap-peared weekly in the Williamsporr Gazette

Win)in a year af ter arriving in the littledown, Lenhar t was elected a director of thenewly formed Williamsport Academy. Theface that he was a Methodist seemed not tohave been held against him f or he was soonholding positions of trust and leadership inhis adopted home town. A member of Mas-onic Lodge 106, Lerlhapt was Master of theLodge when the Anti-Masonic hysteria for-ced rhe suspension of meetings. He was thenappointed District Deputy Gui)cl Masterand served as such f or a decade or two UQ-

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The historians af the past have notseen everything than was back of theeventful move by the Methodists co buy theo.Id Academy property. Rev. B. H. Crevcrhad for some years proposed rhe found:ingof a seminary by the church and had adver-tised Chat proposal in the church papers-Among the trustees or directors of the fail-ing Academy which the Town) Council hadpurchased had been at one tilde JeremiahTalllnan, Henry Lenllart, and now JudgeSmith, Jacob S. Mussina and Major CharlesLow. all Methodists who must have heardof Clever's interest. At ally rate these Wil-liainsport business men were here to wel-come Rev. Crever when he arrived on thatSpring day in 1847 and to give him theirappraisal of the situation and their approvalc-t his proposal

Major Charles Low, mentioned above,was another business associate of TeremiallTallman and Rev. Henry Lenhart, as wellas being the son-in-lan ' of Michael Ross,rhe founder of Williamspore, and one of hislleirs. These heirs of Ross had given a quit-claim deed for the property which MichaelRoss had set aside f or such a school. As arepresentative merchant of the town and asa representative of rhe heirs of MichaelRoss, Major Charles Low had served as theTreasurer o-f the old Academy and becameone of the first members of the Board ofrhe new seminary. He was distinguished asthe head of the militia in Lycoming CountyHe was the owner of a Williamsport hatstore. His wife was Ann Ross, youngestchild of Michael Ross. Major Lou and hiswife were the ancestors of Mr. Joseph Haig.of Williamsport who is present here tonight

You Hill recall that my purpose in thistalk is [o point out a few persons who wereneither notable nor notorious enough to

12 THE JOURNAL 13[il rhe Lodge could be re-opened and thenI)e was again the Worshipful Master uponi'ts resumption of activities. He, too, madehistory in the early days.

Bur it is mainly about his two sons whagave their lives .f or the Union in the CivilWar char I speak. Godfrey was probably theonly Williamsporter who served in both tileMexican War and the Civil War. He died ofdisease while serving in rhe latter.

kohn L. Lenhart is the son whose nameis listed among rhe immortal heroes of theUnited States Navy, as having voluntarilyoffered his life rather than forsake the dyingmen f or whose spiritual welfare he felt res-ponsible. The first full time ministerial re-cruit in the recorded history of Pine StreetMethodist Church, Rev. John L. Lenhal'tbecame a distinguished minister, serving inseveral larger churches in New Jersey vert 'successfully. More than ten years before rhcCivil War he became one of the Chaplainsof the Uraited Skates Navy, sailing into mostof the major ports of rhe world with rhemen under his spiritual care. When theCivil War was declared he was assigned toduty on the obsolete Frigate Cumberland.While in Hlampton Roads they were attack-ed by the Confederate Monitor and TheVirginia. From the outset the result of suchan engagement seemed inevitable for theCumberland was not equal [o such a con-test. Having a number of wounded andsick men aboard the Captain offered theheroic Chaplain the opportunity to accom-pany the hospitalized to shore under prosection. Lenhart refused, saying that his dutywas with his men. When the casualties ofthe fight were screws over the bloody deck,

the chaplain assisted the surgeons while heministered to the dying. Again the captainordered wounded men Goth 1; chance f o; sur-vival to be evacuated requesting the chaplain to accompany Chem. He respectfully de-clined. Finally, with the ship obviouslysinking, the official order was :'Every Manfor Himselfl"

eg.need. at tbe thule. Tbe sketch ot tbe In-dian isitors to bis fathers bogle. and tbepn.]sterlows silver mine comtbms man) legzllds oll this subject that were told bT tJJe.ate Jacob Qzliggte al?d other old peoplelbrougbont oar valle:y. Last, bw} loot Least,

:be Gelteral Grand sborl is a pertec! gent'If is kizM, at will aTzk a7nong tbe bestavant allecd,ales i% ex&ste12ce. 'Wbelt tbeuoriter ot bis int od ctorT visited tbe veuer-xble Mr. Samdersot} in contPalT wib tbcpzlbLicist C. H. Rich, A.i\\., ot WooLricb, altalgect poet, ]ol)n H. CI)alban, a notary wa\provided al bis reqflesb, so that no d07 b i;07i,Ld el-er be cast on tbe exacbtels ot bisstatenie+?ts. Tbe fen ares of Covenbouen,

one of tbe Siglzers, that tbe Pine Creek De-ed anon tons execwled 7{.alder tile great CINE

tree recen&LT n a ked bT tbe Clintol} Coz4+1t)=oz+ncil ot National Defense, proves toraLL time tbe exact Location ot this historic)atpening. It is to be hoped that }be StaleHistorical Colnmzissior} will take cogtlizlnce){ tb s dried epMecLce and erect a perllLan.:lz awd sl abe memorial a be sce e ofthis area Gobi.eteliLeub ot tbe Fah Plan Men)t }be \brest 13l'al?cb \raLteT.

The official record of the United StagesNavy indicated that che officers and menn'ho were seeking to save themselves leftthe ship said that the last they saw of theirchaplain was while he was deliberately turning away from safety for himself to go to-wards the mortally wounded men who ' werecompelled to lose their lives for meir councry. John L. Lenhart gave his life so thanhe might minister to the last to those whon,ere losing theirs.

This heroic man was not a native ofWilliamsport and did not come to Williams-porc in 1811 with his parents. He f allowedthem Infer and as a young man felt cali ofGod to enter the ministry while a memberof Williamsport Station, later Pine StreetMethodist Church. But he was a memberof this community. The notice of his deatilin the local paper gave r)o real indicationof the nature of his heroism. If the tornever recognized this heroism in any way Ihave found ilo evidence of it. I now 're-cord the fact that the United States Navyplaces mis name high on the list of its im-mortal heroes. Some day it tray be that thisstory will be given a place among thoseo-f other heroes of the community

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./ Henri W. Shoemaker

Rest[eis Oaks;' A\cELbattea, Pa., ]anzlar

6, 1920.

AN INDIAN STORY

AS RELAX'ED TO ME BY MY FATnn{

The Indian ti'ail in this section came upmls valley and went up the left side ofFishing Creek arid crossed over into SugarValley. Another trail went up the BaldEagle to where the dam is located andcrossed rhe Murdock Raffles and led uppast where the Lock Haven Normal Schoolnow stands, up through [o Sugar Run.

One evening, when I was a little baby sixmonths old, arid lying in my cradle (whichcradle I still have in my possession, beingof cherry material and hand-made, a veil 'fine piece of workmanship), just as mymother was preparing the evening meal,three large, fine-looking Indians, dressed inleather, with frayed edges on their trousers,tnd faces painted a brick red, came into thekitchen and pointed down to me lying inthe cradle and grinned all over their faces.

Mlorher, being very much frightened, leftme lying in the cradle and ran out to tellmy father, and I)e caine in, and found thadthey were friendly and harmless. Theypointed to their mouths, indicating theywanted something to eat. They seatedthemselves around the table auld ace a heartysupper, and as one of chem could talk alittle English, father asked if they wantedto stay all night, and they stated they did,so tl)ey were Cold they could stay in tilekitchen, but they pointed out [a a shed lust

outside, and indicated choy wanted to sleepmere. They then went to mis shed andstayed all night, and in the morning theyv/ere gone, bur at night -they came back againrepeated this foi three nights in succession.Ihe next year two of the Indians came back,tnd one of them presented my mother withI string o-f pink beads strung on dear sinewfor me; these beads I had in my possessionfor a nutnber of years. I would give quite asum of money to have them aganl in mypossession. The Indians asked for somethingto eat the same as they did the year bef ore,nd slept in the shed. One of them had a

pack on his back, made of deer skin, andfather asked what it contained. and he tookfrom it a piece of pure silver about halfrhe size of a man's thuin'b, and when fatherasked him where he got it he made a mo-tion towards his throat, indicating if he toldhe would be killed. Finally he told fatherthat the silver was gotten between ourhome and the maple grove (there used tobe a maple grove where the Condensarynow is located, and another grove sevellmiles further up rhe valley, part of whichis standing today). The third year lush oneIndian came back, he stating the other m'owere dead. They were fine-looking, wellbuilt Indians, one being considerable olderChan the others

Mini.' g in locctl history Titus ltagget.\tuo.rtb digging tor. I taco?rzmteud i}.

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JREM I N I SCENCES OF W H SANDERSON

INTR ODUCTiON iertwl slof] is Like a link wi 1] tbe gloriouspast ot tbe West BraTtcb VaLLey, now sink-ng into oblivion as halt I (didion. MtSatMerson bas performed a vataable sel'-tice in saving tlgese b ts ot history for be2elletit . ot twtwre gelzera jolts. H& discr@-Eiow ot Ole Ball, wbo be saw retzirningtrain bis ill .s rated ventzfre in tbe BlackForrest; gives ws adeqztate concePtioll o{Mint t})e Brea iolinist really looked like,k)is ma trier ot travel, ebc., an l30w be was

]'be Historical Reminisceltccs ot W. H.Sanderson cite lzo} Oltl] interesting, bat aa-;boritabiue, and shed ml.rcb light ov tbernwcb-debated Pine Creek Declaration oTLndepelMelzce. 'ro read 4 pen picture ofRobert Couenboven bl- pel'bags tbe OPllny,icing perso+} today wbo saw a Sigller at lbePine Creek Declaration s amps this it rrFive of aniqlfe bisto ical Daiwa. Tbe wan-

14 THE JOURNAL 15OLE BULL and as I was going down stream to examine

I good piece of water, I noticed a strangersitting on a log fishing. He had on a tnili-tary suit that showed a good deal of wear,tnd a hat with a cord around it. He had acigar in his mouth, about one child sin.ekedand which was out, His face seemed tamil.iar to me, but I did not recognize him. Is=tys: "What luck?" and he opened his bas-ket, in which there Mere about six or sevenfair-sized trout. He then asked me ''what

luck," and I opened my basket, and he says,upon) looking inside, "Wham be'autiful trout.I offered him a cigar and some matches, andhe lit same, and I stirred to go, but heasked me to stay and fish with nim, as heliked company. But I told him T wan-ced togo down below and test some water fortomorrow. After going a short distance anintelligent, well dressed man, with PrinceAlbert coat and silk hat. came out of thebrush and asked me if I had seen his friendabout 100 feet above, setting on a log andfishing in a hole, and if I recognized himI told him I saw a man about 100 feet aboveHe told me it was General Grant arid hewas with a party fishing against a certainU. S. Senator. I told him probably I couldI)elp, and upon going up to where the Gen-eral was I a:eked him co let me see his lineand hook. He threw i-t upstream towards me,and T saw that the hook he had was coo largef or trout, and he was not using a leader. Itook a hook dnt] leader from my book andput it on his line, and in the meantimeI opened my basket and -filled the General'sbasked so full I had to tie the lid shut. Prettysoon he pulled out a trout about nine incheslor)g, and when he went to put it in thebasket he found iet was so full he could notget it in, and looking up into my face andsmiling, says to me; "What shall I say?" ICold him, " You have nothing to say; no

one will dispute your word when you handup your fish basket." The omer party wanted[o put in what few fish he had with himbesides. but I told him he had better catchall he could from now on. to throw offsuspicion. General Grant invited our party[o take .lunch with him that evening, as theyhad a private car which was on the rail-road track. We did not like to accept theinvitation, but thought we had better doso, and when we came up to rhe car at tileappointed time, a crowds had gatheredaround in a circle and the fish were count-ed. and whet) the count was over. the Gen-eral had lust had two and a half dozciimore tlaan his opponent, and, of course, wonohe wager. At rhe table I sat obliquely toGeneral Grant, arid he would look up andsort of a smile would come over his faceand he would grin at me. Judge Mayeralways suspicioned me, but I told him I hadnot seen the men fishing on the streana,which he doubted, but one day at Dr. Prie-son's drug score in Lock Haven, lust beforehis death, I told him the truth

WORLD-FAMOUS MUSICIAN

The grearNerwegiail violinist was a wonder to me. I was a young fellow, about the}-ear ]852, and was coming from the JerseyShore High School in the afternoon, whichwas about four o'clock, coming towardsour home on the river bank. which is no'wmain street, and as I and my companionscame dang we heard a horse coming backof us, and, turning around, we looked, andthere within twenty-five ker of lily UncleJohn's side door, and we were going in,and we saw a man riding a horse, and helooked as if he had been on a day's journeyIt was Ole Bull, coming from G'leona, go-ing to Philadelphia to see what he could dotow.trds getting the titles straightened upfor his colonists and raise money, as it seemsthe party who gave the deeds did not havethe proper right in the land and the set-tlers were ordered out. Just then UntieJohn Sanderson said: "Now, boys, look atchar man.'' He knew he was coming andwas going to give an entertainment at theHigh School that night, as he was a fineviolinist. Ole Bull was riding the finest jetblack horse [ had ever seen in that day orthis. It was an entire of about sixteen handshigh and weighed thirteen or fourteen hun-dred pounds, but was quick and active, hada long mane and tail; was told it was im

ported from Norway. Ole Bull wol'e aslouch hat and odd-looking coat, to ine. Hen,ore leather boots, with his trousers tucked inside of them. He was a large man andkiad a beard over his face, and t:ombed hishair back over his ears and had a floridcomolexion. On the back of his saddle hehad a place to keep his violin in, and bclongings. He took his horse down to Richard's Taverra and gave some instructionsand the man at the'barn rubbed the horsedou r] and washed him off. and I remembera crowd had ga-thered in a very few min-uses. The horse was as gentle as a cowThat evening Uncle John Sanderson told us\ve were going to hear that man play atthe Jersey Shore High School. He playedmos'tly his own music, as well as some ' ofours. It was the finest music I ever heard.lnd he played lust as sweet music on onestring as on f our. The building was crowde(!and there was hardly standing room. Whenmy Uncle .John came from the entertain:ment I remember of his Ceiling Aunt Merckthat he had never heard such wonderfulmusic as that man played.

This was OJe Bull's last trip from tll ':Black Forrest to Philadelphia, and he nevcreturned to Oleona again

When General Grant ran for the Presi-dency and spoke from the back of his spec-ial train, lust where John Mcmahon's sco'reis now located, I jumped up on the plat-form, shook hands with the General and toldhim I was the fellow who supplied the fish.He ro'ok a good laugh and invited me tocall on him if I ever came to Was:lingtonPeople who knew me wondered what busi-ness I had [o jump up on his car and shakehands with the General, as they did notknow I was acquainted with himSlate of Petlnsvlvania, ...

County of Clinton "

Bef ore. me,. the subscriber,, a. Notary Public, residing at Woolrich, Pa., personallyappeared W. H. Sanderson, of Lock Haven, Pa., and states the f oregoing'facts aretrue and correct

ByW. H. SandersonLock HavenAugust 29, 19i9W. H. Sanderson

Affirmed and subscribed before ine this 29th day of August, 1919My commission expires February 21, 1924. ROBERT COVENHOVEN

A FISHING STORYThe Famous 'Scout

My First Introduction to General Ul-ysses S. Grant. General Grant had been in-vited by L A. Mackey, A. C. Noyes, R. RBridgens and Judge C. A. Mayer, with fourCongressmen and Senators, to fish in YoungWoJnan's Creek. It had been my custom

82 years of age.

Robert Covenhoven, the subject of mynarrative, was my great grande ether, antilived at a place called Lockglen (Lochabar),in Nippenose Borrom. His daugh-ter. Cre-scie, married Colorlel George Crane, whosenaorher was Elizabeth Quiggle. My father

each year to fish this stream with threeother companions (and at that time in threehours we could catch all the fish we wanted )for a day, and always caught what fish wcwanted on the last day tJ rake home withus." I had fished about one and a half hours,

I was born where the Clinton CountryClub now stands. My father and mothercame here in the fall of 1835 and movedinto a house that stood lust where thelower pier of the club house now stands. Iwas born in the year 1837, at this place, andslave resided here all my life, and anl now

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married Catherine Crane. I am the only oneliving today of the Cranes or Sandersonsthat ever sau ' him. I first met my greatgrandfather, Robert Covenhoven, at mz)gran d-fathers (George Crane) . I probable 'was seven or nine years old when I first wentto visit my grandfather and met Mr. Coven-hoven. He was a tall man. and at that time90 or 91 years of age. His hair when hewas a young man, was red, but when I sawI)im it was gray, streaked with red. He worehis hair straigh-t down and combed it backover his ears, and it was quite long. He hada heavy head of hair at this advanced age.His eyes were brown and he had a floridcomplexion and a prominent nose. Hisshoulders were very broad, and arms werequite long. He was a little stooped, bucwhen straightened up he was a man, [should judge, over six feet Call. At this agclle was qui-te spry. He had unusually largehands, but the .smallest feet, for a largem:an. lever saw. He wore a coat made frommaterial that today would resemble graymelton, or wool, with side pockets, and verymuch like tile light overcoats worn todd:.He wore ordinary trousers and hand madeshoes that were pegged. He wore a slouchhat and carried an ordinary cane cut fromEhe woods.

When I first came in contact with mygreat grandfather, I was a little shy of him,as my mother had told me he was a greerIndian Kil-ler, but after being around himfor four or five days I sool] became veryfond of him. as he was like an old soldier,who always wanted to balk. He seemed tobecome very much interested in me, auldwould talk by the hour. I remember we weresifting on the porch which was in the monthof September, and he asked me if I wouldlike some peaches, and r Cold him I would,but could get Chem myself; but he insistedon goinna with me, and he gave me all Iwanted and filled his [wo side pocketsW'hen we came back and sat down he smasll-ed some of the peaches in one of his pockets,and grandmother came out and noticed it,and he just laughed and handed .them to her

He had told me he fought under GeneralW-as'hington at the battle of Trenton, andhad crossed the Delaware, and it was verycold. He slept in a barn, had good shoes,but no stockings, and suffered much withthe cold. After fighting at the barBIe of

Trenton, he seated, he and an uncle by thename of Wykoff came to Sun.bury andjoined Captain Brady's company of scoutsand they patrolled the Susque'hanna Riverup as far as Sinnemahoning, as the Indianswere coming through from Canada to takethe land away from the whites, and thegovernment was rushing aid, these scoursnotified all of the settlers to get togetllerand retreat down [o Sunbury or North-umberland. The scouts came up to GreatIsland, and from there they sent out threerunners - Covenhoven, Captain Brady andPeter Grove, wh'o were considered the ehrecfastest runners they had.

Captain Body could run like a deer, andCovenhoven was about second best runner.These scouts always covered the retreat.They got the people all together; rhe wo-men and children and old men were placedon raf ts and in boats. and the scouts andyoung men drove the stock ahead of chemThe settlers were finally all gotten togetherat a place called Muncytown, REID frontchore they made their retreat down theriver. The scouts were a-Cracked by the indiana at Williamsport, at Lycoming Creekand Wycoff got behind a tree for shelterand as the cree was not large enough toprotect him, as he was a large man andhump-back man, he was ki]]ed by the in-dians. This retreat they called the GreatRunaway.

Robert Covenhoven had two knives whiclahe prized very highly. One was his huntingknife. This knife had a blade about sixinches long and a black handle about fiveinches long, made of wood. On the backof .this knife were fi.led twelve or thirteennotches, and each notch represented an indian killed by him.

The gun used by Covenhoven was an oldflint lock, with a barrel six feet long.IP Iasked if rhe gun ever miss fired, and he toldme "never when it was needed." I handledthis gun nanny a time, and remember thatit sat in my grandfathers pantry, and whenit came into possession of Jim Crane it wastaken to Jersey Shore, and Billy DeShera, agunsnaith, cut down the barrel and changedit into a gun to use caps, or what u'e calla breech loader. I have always surmised maEJim Crane, who was a great hunter and veryfond of hounds, traded this gun off -forfavorite dog, with one of the Englishes of

Englishrown, now English Centre, as healways had three or four with him whenhe would come up to the Great Island tosell corn, and he invariably got into a fightwith tLe Myers boys over dogs. It was saido.f him that he would rather fight than eat

Robert Covenhoven stated they had beenharassed by the Indians, and the EnglisllGoverrlment had blot protected them, so theydrew up a Declaration of Independencecalled the Pine Creek Declaration. "and de-clared themselves free and independent, andhe was one of the Signers of the instrumentThese Signers called themselves the "FairPlay Party." From rhe description thereis no doubt in my mind but what mis docu-luent was signed under an old elm tree stillstanding on the banks of the Tiadaghconor Pine Creek, on che Clinton County side

the sire of which is marked by the ClintoitCounty Council of Na-clonal Defense, July4, 1918.

Robert Covenhovell was a very kind andin-teresting old ]nan, and he and I sat bythe hour over the high banks of the rivertalking about his many adventures

It was sold to John Knepley's father,Christian, who sold it to old John English,of English Centre, who sold it to MillerDay, borrl Dec. 24, 1836, of English Centre,who, in September, 1919, presented it tohis granddaughter Mrs. F. Hlurlock, 2831Diamond Street, Philadelphia, where it is atpresent.

W. H. SandersonLock Haven

August 29, 1919

1876 CASCADE TOWNSHIP

Material colztribwled bT H CaTlto F %k

Cascade township was crrganized from[!epburn and P]unkett's Creek, August 9,i843. Tile name is singularly appropriate,as the scenery formed by the mountahxstreams pouring over rocks, presents a viewof innumerable cascades Chat are unequaledelsewhere in the county. Michael Kelly,who penetrated the f oresrs at the head ofWallace Run in 1843. was the first settler.He fourld it necessary to cut a road throughthe forests from Lycoming Creek, which wasthe first wagon road in that part of thetownship. Dubois & I.ow build a mill manyy'ears ago, which was burned down. Mr.Kelley occupied the site in 1856 with asteam mill. where he manuf actures about

two million feet of lumber per year. Mr.Kelly's settlement opened the way for others,and he was f ollowed by Mr. Lang, Mr. RileyPatrick Logan, Barney Morton and someothers. The improvemen:r of the land occu-pied the attention of the settlers generally; ithas proven to be quite fertile, and yieldslucrative returns for all labor expendedCorcoran & Bubb & Company erected asteam mill in 1870, which is capable ofcurling [wo million feel of Itunber per year.

The township is sparcely settled as the sul:

face, except along the creeks is mountainousand rocky and not capable of sustaining apopulation of any extent. The same rangeof mountains that have been f ound to con-tain inexhaustible supplies of coal in Mc-intyre traverse Cascade, and here undoubt-edly coal and other minemls could be foundby application of proper effort. Copper hasbeen f bund to exist in considerable quan-tities in land owned by Mr. Kelly but as yctno attempt to develop the mine to anyextent.

The only church in the town'ship is thaterected by the Catholics in 1854. The UnionChurch built at the confluence of Murray'sand Wallace's Run, formerly in CascadeTORN,nship is now in Gamble Township. Thetownship is but poorly supplied with schools,EI)ere being two or three. Kellysburg is rheonly town situated on Wallace's Run oi}lands located by Michael Kelley, and namedin hi.s.honor. It contains a school house. ablacksmith shop, and pose office and sev-eral dwellings, mostly occupied by em-ployees of Mr. Kelley. The town is weilsupplied with water for manuf acturing andall oclaer purposes, and would be ail ad-mirable field f or Slack raising.

18 THE JOURNAL 19MONTOURS THEFIRST TITLE

Wendel Harmon was a man or stern, lived f or several years. About the sameillethodical bushes.s instincts. He had some time was built of round logs, a rude hut, on

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1;;1':,es''i=;:.:\:"'i:=.:' ,1:n. "=:with ' the Quaker 'land speculators who ?choolmasEer. For many years ahildi:en walk-warmed about Philadelphia for 150 years ed..to and from school, over a distance of

liter William Penn. One"of these specula. f out miles or more. Doctor: Holler in se-[ors was Jesse Willits, of Beaks county who j:cling a tract af land for.himself went oveJ:

}.=t'l:! Ew,' i'lUi::l;i 11the mountain -to the confluence of MurrayRun and Wallis Run, where he remainedranted to him on the 23rd day of May, 1792, ?bout [wo years, af ter which he..locatedin Loyalsock township, (now Hepbiirn in permanen-tly on the tract about a m.ile frompart) in Lycoming county, state or Penn- Harmon? where he. labored in cleaning thesylvania, for twelve shillings and ten pence, land, cultivating his crops,.as well as con-(less tl;an four dollars) 'and was called ttnutng. his professional duties as long as he/loPezpe//. It contained 422 acres and 116 liv.ed..As they had been.accustomed io wor-perches, with an allowance of six per cent, ?hopping in secret in Germany so in thetor roads. He had received his patent for it early history of. the . colony they naturally '

la , u.x3:? .=.;:':E.llkPI)l:liugathered at each other's houses or haulsfoi: worship on the Sabbath. In harvestJesse 'DG'illits f or tile above mentioned tract time they.would go to Dr. Holler's on Sun-os land for 1,316, 17s, 6d, (fLbout $1,500 day,.take in.his crops for him, and afterwardof our currency, or ' $3.65 per acre.) See deed participate in.religious .services at his housebook E, page 276, Lycomtng county records. or barn; an incident that detracted no ad-

='ll:'H::=:'iml,''=i't m'E ;l===m.=,.==P.:,#.=good quality, case them from one dollar to less their .chronic habit of. discussing theirone dollar and a half per acre, which was a different interpretations .of Scripture hap-fair price at that time. ' ' "' pened to mar the solemnity of the occasion.

n- , - ,, .. . Itonceoccurredthattwoof thebrethrenThis ;f or the purpos.e.rgf founding a col- bell''ingo such a dispute as they joumeye(t

W:l$y:&E.IS,= RHh4#£$E$execute a deed to each one of them,.and :;l;;l.fence he was stricken with cancer ofchat .the contract might be,clearly .under- ;i;:i .hi:oat and wend to his reward. Aboutstood::as well as [o protect. Harmon, in case this time ( 1828) a new and commodious

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Af ter the purchase was effected the co]o- counter-hewn, and the ]umber a]] worked outDiscs .having taken possession of rhe land, by hand. The building is yer in a good scatcCher first erected a long house of logs, where of preservation, bu-t its historic interest isHarmon) and three or four other families mari:ed by a covering of modern "weather

Conrad Weiner. in his mission to theWest Branch, speaks of his visit to Olus-tago,i where resided the somewhat notedFrenchwoman. named Madame Moncour.She later married a Seneca chief. namedCarundawana. By her first husballd she hadthree sons, Andrew, Henry, and Robert.The services of these people to the earlyseeders at a time when friends were scarceand which, from their peculiar ruiningand Indian mode of life, tl)ey were so amin'.en-tly fitted to render, deserved more thana passing notice.

formed rhe party of the character of tllcirfoes. He was valuable as a spy, and, beingconstantly on the alert, saved the scalp olmany a settler by warning him in time ofapproac'hind danger but being tolerably-educated, he and his brothers 'were for along time in the employ of Government asinterpreters. They were never known toprove recreant to rhe trust reposed in themand for fidelity were rewar($d by govern-ment with large tracts of land. G'ne waslocated in this County, and was surveyed in1769, and set apart for the exclusive ' occu-pant and use of Andrew. The town ofMoncoursville, located near Loyalsock Creek,and near the site of the ancient town ofOlustago, perpetuate-s his name, which willever be remem-belted with revel:ence by rheresidents of West Branch Valley. His' bmtiers were likewise rewarded with reserva-tions located in different pairs af the state.

The three sons of Madame Montour werelife long friends to the whites, and Andrewparticularly interested himself in watchingover the interests of rhe settlers of this val-ley. In 1765 he is mentioned in connectionwith an expedition thad penetrated as far asMuncy Hills, and deere had an engage-ment with the Indians. Monrour gave direc-tions as to manner of proceeding, and in-1. Editor's Note probably Weiser's interpretation of Otstonw,akin or Otsuagi.

B LOOM I NG GROVEContiwz£ation ot series ot selections to be reprinted from "Blooming Grove:

}be historical wo k ot Joseph H. McMiwl} printed at Williatnsport in 'L90\

ORIGINAL COLONISTS

The colony of 1804 comprised the f al-lowing named persons: Jolla and GottliebHeim, Leonard Ulmer and family, LeonardSteiger and family, John George Waltz andfamily, John George Kiess and family, DavidYoung and family, Wendel Harmon andfamily, Michael Gross and family, Michael13iehl and family, gerd. Frederick Schelland family, Michael Burghardt and family.In 1806 came Christopher Kress, GeorgeKiess and Michael Waltz with their fam-ilies. From this time emigration was pro-hibited for ten years, after which John Heimreturned to Germany auld brought out thefamilies of Christian Heim, Jacob HeimFrederick Schafer, John Wagner, JacobGuinther, Jacob Streile, Abraham 'SchiedrJacob Kurtz, John Kurtz, Ulrich Stapler,Abrallam Wolf, and Michael Scroble. Other

families came also from came to time. SonICbecame converts with ehe Bunkers, but manyonly settled near by and inrermarried. '

Previous to this time the traffic in hu-man souls by the ''Newlanders" as depictedby Gottleib Mi-ttelberger (an organ builderfroth Wurtem'burg) known [o us as theRedemptioners,'' had been broken up

Thousands of children too young, or par-ents too old f or use as servants ha8 perishedfrom starvation and exposure af ter beingturned adrift at Philadelphia. But the emi-gration agents, or as they would now becalled, "promoters'' or "sreerers" workedup parties of colonists in the interest ofship owners, and Wurteinburg continuedto be one of the most fruitful fields until aslate as 1835.

20 THE JOURNAL 21boards" put on thirty or f arty years ago,when rhe building was re-roofed and im-proved. The interior, hovirever, has beenpreserved unchanged, even [o the table usedby Doctor Holler in his ininistrations. 'Suchsplendid pine trees as afforded chose logs ex-tending rhe entire length of the building,wi.ch their broad hewn surfaces, polished bylime, arc unknown to the present genera-tion.

robust, and who scorned any show of com-f ort. or ease, such as we find required inmodern churches. lc might be said in misconnection that mothers with nursing in-fants would occupy the seats next the wallwhich offered them a resp and when thesmall children fell asleep they were oftei]laid away under the seats. in a modemchurch in this valley a small room is pro-vided with a couch and a stove. where rest-less infants can be nourished and quietedwithout disturbing che congregaci8n, orturning the mother out of doors

There never is any doubt about rhe patrio-tism of a German. "Die V.aterland.''' is animperisha:b]e object of meir love and ven-cration. But when duty to their country andmeir peace convictions wel'e brought intoconflict, the latter prevailed and no volun-[c'ers were enlisted from the settlement.

Later on, as the gloomy days came uponour land, and the conscription fell heavilyupon them, they paid their fines and re-

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mained at home

It is related of one man who was drafted,and whose convictions prevented him fromresponding in person, and lush as stronglyprevented his furnishing money to hire asubstitute to go forth and raise his handagainst his fellow- man. The conflict in hismind refused to become reconciled untilfinally his reason became unbalanced.

The long plain benches without back suppores testify to a race, a.[ once vigorous and

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MEMBERSH IP LIST

THEMINIS'IRY LIFE MEMBERS($150 Membership) Mi'. and Mrs. \V. A. EckDr. anti Mrs. Heft)ert A. EckerRichard T. Eisenbeis I''ainilyLouis Eisenlan Family;Mi'. and Mi's. Robert A. ElderJohn C. Ertel FamilyI)r. S. \V. ivey Family

Af ter rhe death of Doctor Holler, ( 1828 ),Gottlieb Heim was chosen to the sacred

office. After him (1844) David Youngwas selected: there Christian Reisch= afterhim Frederick Weinman, followed by 'Christian Heim. until 1878. when he diedAf ter him Doctor Adams, John SchaeferChen Gottlieb Heim: then A.graham Beidel-spacher led in worship, and kept the con-gregation together as much as possible untilthe prcsenr day. These pious men taughttheir people to "live aloof from the worldand its wickedness. to abstain from themanufacture and use of spiricuous liquorsind tobacco. to settle their differencesamong themse]ves ar)d not go [o ]aw, nor towar, to use plainness of speech, and modestapparel." Surely a solid f oundation f archristian character and good citizenship.

The old Dunker fathers have graduallypassed away, and not having provided themeans for keeping the younger people togerber, they have not followed strictly inthe severe and serious practices of meir elders. Bur finding more congenial companyamong the Bapti'sts of the neighborhood,whose doctrines so closely resembled then 'own, they have almost entirely united michthem, and have contributed largely towardestablishing the several prosperous congre-gations housed in the beautiful and comforrable church buildings which now adornthis valley.

The preacher sat, ullcovered, on a bench,with a Cable before him, upon which laythe open Bible. The music, without instru-ment, was led by a ''foresinger", nnd the

many sweet melodious voices joined in agrand volume of praise, Chat was as inspiringa: it.was powerful. It is yet said by old peo-ple '.well do I remember how sweetly thoseDunker women sang." Their love af musicfinds an illustration in the home of thelate Joseph Gross whose brother, John,built.a piano for him, which was accompanied by omer musical insrrumenrs in ' rhehands of the many who resorted there toindulge their love for this refining accom-plishment

This community is now visa,ted at inter-vals by "preachers" from the "River Breth-ren," whose doctrines and practices di-ffervery little from the D:unkers. and whosevisits and nainistrations are welcomed byrbe German Baptists of all shades of belief.Their Quaker garb and Jong beards acrractarrention to their rlovel appearance as theyread ohe Scripture in classic German. closethe book, and preach in Pennsylvania Dutch

I'hose Dunked people had no official or-ganization, and kept no records; neverunited with any established body of believers, nor sent any delegates .to ' the con-ferences. In fact, tt;eir preachers were notordained at aU, but acted. on the unitedwish of the people, as meir spiritual leaders,succeeding each o(her as they became [ooold and enfeebled to discharge their dutiesTheir purity of life arid fidelity of spiritmarked them as the highest type of christianacharacter to be found anywh;re

One of the severest spiritual trials tothese people since their coining among us,occurred during the civil war, 1861-1865.

Di'. ]..estee' K. AdeIVlr. John G. DetwilerMrs. Morris ]]. HlouselNlrs. John LindelnuthMr. Arthur Petted

J. A. Feerrar FamilvMr. and Mrs. James FergusonRev. and Mrs. Howard S. FitzgeraldReuben B. Fox ]i'emilyMr. and Mrs. S. Dale Furst

SUSTAINING MEMBERS($25 Membership)

Blr. and Airs. John CandorMr. li '. J. Dei#cureMiss Ida May Dittmai 'Mr. \Valter J. H.eimMrs. J. Paul H. HivelyMr. and Mrs. John W. LundyDr. George A. LyonMr. Joseph N. LyneMr. Hugh MacMullanMr. and Mt's. John E. Person, Ji'

William H. Gai'son FamilyMr. and Mrs. C})as. A. GaulinMr. and M)s. Ernest H.. GeisewiteMr. and Mrs. Harry R. GibsonDi'. and Mrs. St:uai't B. GibsonDr. and Mrs. R. Max GingrichMr. anti Mrs. Ralph C. GingrichMr. and Mrs. .John A. GortonMrs. Townsend Van GlahnMr. and Mrs. Geo. D. GoldenBLIP. and Allrs. Ralph B. GrammerMr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Gray. Sr.Rev. and Mrs. I,ynlan B. GreavesHon. and Mrs. Charles F. GreevyMr. and Mrs. Thomas GreningetMr. Andrew ]{. GI'ugan FamilyMalvin F. Gstalder Family

FAMI LY MEMBERSHI PS ($5.00)

Airs. Ann B. Ackel'manMr. and Mt's. Gibson AntesMr. and Mrs. Jack K.. Ardrey, SrMt'. and Mis. John E. AtkinsonMr. and Mis. reba M. Bai'tlevJos. J. Bendel., Jr., and FamilyGarrett E. Blair' FamilyDI'. and Mrs. Alexander BlumbergMr. and Mrs. Francis Bi'esslerMr. and Mrs. James P. BresslerMr. and Mrs. Carl G. BrowneAlr. and Mrs. John L. Bt'uch. Jr.Mr and Mrs. Frank Bi'unnerMr. and Mrs. Hugh J. Bubb

Mi's. Albert C. IfiaasMr. and Mrs. llenry G. llager, lllMr. and Mrs. George liammelMr. and Mrs. Howard HarerDi'. and Mrs. James L. ]iarrisonFrederick A. lleim FamilyMrs. IHorace S. HeimMr. and Mrs. Luther D. HeimWilbur 1

22 THE JOURNAL 23Hon. and A']is. ]iaymond M. KnaurMr. and Mrs. Jolln \V'. l

24 THE JOURNALMiss Audrey E. NeuhardMrs. Frances R. NicholsonMiss Vel'na G. No11Eva M. NormanCharles E. Noyes, Sr

Miss Virginia Mae S!)kingmanMrs. Russell 1. Sprout '\ndi'ew SpulerCharles V\r. SpuleiMrs. Jack R. 'Stat)ieyMI's. John StahlneckerRlrs. Harry StaibMr. Leslie \4r. Stanley,M rs. Julia M. Stavel-Mr. Tllomas L. StearnsMr. Carl n. SteeleBI ]'. \william SternNli's. Joseph StewartMi'. Jam.es L. StopperMts. lCatl)i'yn StoverMr. John \V. Strawbt'edge, lllMrs. Lois E. St.loudMrs. Loretta M/. SwankMr. Colas. A. Szybist

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J. Michael OchsAnhui' D. OhlGeorge E. Orwig, llHarry M. Ott

Dr. C. C. PaganaMiss Helen C. PageDr. George Pal'ksMrs. Eleanor .A.l\{ rs. Marie S. ParkmanMrs. Ralph G. ParsonsMr. Wiljiain PaynteiMiss Zella PepperlnanMiss Ethel PetersMrs. Chester PetersonAnna E. PfaffWilliam F. PlankenhornMr. Losing IB. Priest

Parkman

Mr. Thomas T. TiberMrs. A. S. TaylorAirs. Margaret M. TaylorBliss Mary Louise TavloiHelen G. TenBroeckMrs. Arthur K. ThomasBliss Catherine E. ThompsonDr. Richard B. TobiasGrace J. TombMiss Gladys TozieiMiss Helen S. Traffo rdAlice TuleWilliam A. Turnbaugh

Charles RainowMrs. J. E. RakedMr. Edward RanckMrs. Hazel N. RathmellJohn N. ReedyHon. Karl B. ReichardMrs. IsabellaRay D. RhoadesKenneth 1). RhoneNorman R. RichardsMiss Mary E. RiddellMr. Max L. RobbinsMrs. MartinMiss Helen AMr. Max E. RouppMrs. Helen T. RupertMiss Estller M. RuskMrs. Glen W. RussellMrs. Perry G. Russell

Reithoffer

Mrs. Franklin T. UlnlanMary E. Ulmei'Edward UtzWarren M. Utz

DECEMBE R, 1960 NOVEMBE R. 1967

SEVEN YEARS OF PROGRESSRosenzweig

Rote Dr. Forrest S. VanVajinMrs. hazel VaultersAirs. Alice G. Voelkler

Mrs. James CMi's. W'alter I.IMrs. George D.Fi'ed B. WetzelGuy WheelandMrs. John W. Whiting, Jr.Mrs. Marian H. WilcoxMiss Carolyn WilliamsMiss Charlotte R. \williamsI)r. R. H. WilliamsMrs. Ken WilliamsonMrs. Leo C. WilliamsonMiss Mary Jane W'illiamsonW'. B. B. WilsonH.. Merrill WinnerRobert C. WiseMrs. Victor WiseJames D. WitherMrs. Russell N. WorobecMrs. Edith L. WrightMrs. Ernest O. 'WrightClyde H. Wurster

Mrs Clad'ence WagnerWatson

Weavel'Wendle

THEMrs. Sheila B. SchaefferMrs. Helen M. SchlellMiss Mary W. ScottMrs. Paul S. SeamanMiss Dorothy A. feelingMrs. Charles IB. SeelvMiss Lois R. ShadelMr. ]Jorace ShaferMrs. James P. ShannonMiss Mildred E. SheehanMrs. Amanda Alice SheetsDr. Wilbur S. SheriffMrs. Spencer D. ShipmanRobell W. ShoupMrs. Ruth 1{. ShronkMiss Catherine Shulenbei'gerMiss Dorothy E. ShultzM r. Terry V. ShultzRobert S. SimpersMr. Edward L. Smeadhlr. Clinton W. SmithMrs. Harry SmithMari ' K. SnyderMrs. Hal'old M. SoarsMrs. H. Edgar ' bonesMrs. Lyell S. SpangleMrs. Williant Spangle

JOURNALOFTHE

Lycoming Coup\ty Historical SocietyMrs. John \V. YoumansMrs. Amelia YoungmanJohn C. YoungmanJohn C. Youngman. Jr.Silsby H. Youngman

Mrs. Ernestine V. Zaner

VOLUMEVNUMBER ONE

SPRING1968