Jurist; born in Phoenixville, Pa., in 1820 engaged in early life at the Phoenix Iron Works; he broke his arm by a fall from a tree, amputation becoming necessary. This unfitting him for mechanical labor, he taught school for a period, at the same time studying law and soon gaining admission to the Berks County bar; here he built up a large practice, and in 1850 was elected District Attorney; in 1853 he was re-elected, but declined to run again in 1856 on account of the demands of his private practice. As an active Democrat he was delegate to various State and National conventions, being looked upon as the head of the county organization. When the office of additional Law Judge was created he was regarded as the most suitable for the position, was nominated in the convention by a large majority, and was duly elected. When Judge Woodward was elevated to the Supreme Court in 1874, Judge Hagenman succeeded him as Presiding Judge, and was elected to this position in 1879. Failing to obtain the nomination in 1889, he resumed his private practice in partnership with his son. He was also at this time made President of the Keystone National Bank. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 288)
Lieutenant United States Navy; born in Pennsylvania; entered Naval Academy July 21, 1863; was graduated in 1867; Susquehanna, North Atlantic Station, 1867-1868; promoted to Ensign 1868; Portsmouth, South Atlantic Fleet, 1869-1871: promoted to Master 1870; commissioned as Lieutenant 1871; Coast Survey 1872-1875; Marion, European Fleet, 1876-1878; Marion 1878; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, League Island, 1879-1880; nautical school ship St. Mary's 1880-1883; Marion 1885-1888; retired May 3, 1889. Address, 103 South Fifth St., Reading, Pa. (p. 288)
Electrical and mechanical engineer; associate patent expert; tutor; Assistant Chief Draftsman of the Electric Storage Battery Company, Philadelphia; born at Boyertown, Berks County, Pa., Oct. 30. 1876; son of James Keely and Clara Hagy; educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, and prepared for college at the Philadelphia Central Manual Training High School. Receiving a scholarship from the University of Pennsylvania, entered the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Department in 1895; was graduated in 1899, receiving the degree of B.S. Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, the Tutors' Association of the University of Pennsylvania. Address, Allegheny Ave. and Nineteenth St., Philadelphia, Pa. (p. 288)
Congregational minister; born March 14, 1832, at Nazareth, Pa.; educated at Nazareth Hall, Northampton County, Pa. Pastor of local congregations for sixteen years; Presiding Elder for thirty years, and Bishop of the United Evangelical Church for three years. Married Catharine A. Reinoehl March 18, 1858. Prohibitionist in politics. Address, 714 Washington St., Reading, Pa. (p. 293)
Manufacturer; born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, on the 18th of May, 1831; removed with his parents in early youth to Pottstown, Pa., where he attended the public schools; learned blacksmithing with his brother, William, in Hamburg. In 1852 he removed with his brother to Reading and with several others founded the Reading Hardware works, with which he is still connected, the establishment now giving employment to 1,800 hands, being one of the largest of its kind in the country. He has served on both benches of City Councils (Select and Common) and in the Reading School Board, and is at present a member of the Board of Water Commissioners. He was one of the organizers of the Montello Brick Company, is a Director of the Farmers' National Bank of Reading; President of the Reading Land Improvement Company, and interested in other enterprises. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 301)
Clergyman; born in South Perkasie, Pa., on Nov. 2, 1874; educated at Sellersville High School, Lehigh Preparatory, Franklin and Marshall College and Reformed Theological Seminary at Lancaster, Pa.; taught school for three years; was graduated from college in 1898; from Theological Seminary 1901; installed as pastor of Faith and St. James' Charge, Reading, Pa., Oct. 8, 1901. Address, 152 Walnut St., Reading, Berks County, Pa. (p. 304)
Born in Hemlock Township, Columbia County, Pa., Feb. 8, 1843; educated in the common schools and at Greenwood Seminary (Columbia County) and Dickinson Seminary (Williamsport, Pa.); was graduated from the Iron City Commercial College, Pittsburg, where he subsequently taught bookkeeping and penmanship for two years; taught in the common schools of Columbia County, and then engaged with his father in the mercantile business in Buckhorn, Pa.; read medicine with Dr. M. Reynolds, and opened a drug store in 1869 in Hamburg, Pa., where he continues to reside and is in the same business; was one of the first members of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Society. Became active in politics, and was Chairman of the Democratic Standing Committee of Berks County for seven years; was for four years Burgess of Hamburg, served in the School Board, and was Postmaster of the borough during the first Cleveland Administration; was elected the first President of the Berks County Merchants' Association. Married Feb. 20, 1868, Ella Hagenbush of Bloomsburg, Pa. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 306)
Lieutenant Colonel United States Army; born in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pa., Sept. 9, 1836; educated in the public schools and the Pottsville Academy, and completed his course at an early age. Followed the profession of a mining engineer for about two years, then as a civil engineer in the employ of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad Company for about five years, until the commencement of the Civil War. He is a son of Samuel and Harriet Hartz; John Hartz, from whom the family in this country descends, came from Wurtemberg, Germany, about 1750, and settled in Berks County, Pa., and married there. The mother is a descendant of John Moore--one of the three brothers of John, Joseph and Andrew Moore--who came to this country from Scotland in the ship Welcome in company with William Penn, arriving on Oct. 27, 1682; her grandfather, Stephen Moore, owned the grounds now occupied by the West Point Military Academy and transferred the same to the United States Government Sept. 10, 1790. Mr. Hartz was enrolled April 16, 1861; appointed Sergeant Major Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, April 22, 1861, and mustered out of service July 27, 1861; was appointed Lieutenant First Regiment, Excelsior Brigade (Seventieth New York Volunteers), Aug. 30, 1861, and was on duty from that date, and was mustered out Oct. 22, 1861; was Adjutant of the regiment from February 1, 1862, to Oct. 23, 1862, when he was appointed Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers. He participated in eighteen battles and skirmishes, including the siege of Yorktown, and received a bullet wound in the right breast at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862; assigned to duty as assistant to the Commissary General of Prisoners Feb. 17, 1863; commissioned Major of Volunteers by brevet to date from March 13, 1865, for faithful and meritorious service during the war; relieved from duty Aug. 22, 1867, and commended in orders by Major General E.A. Hitchcock, the retiring Commissary General of Prisoners, the office having been closed and the records transferred to the War Department, Adjutant General's office; mustered out of service as Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, Sept. 1, 1867. He was appointed Second Lieutenant in the regular army May 11, 1866, and assigned to the Fifteenth United States Infantry; was commissioned First Lieutenant and Captain by brevet to date from March 2, 1867, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Fair Oaks, Va.; Major by brevet to date from March 2, 1867, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Fredericksburg, Va. Was promoted First Lieutenant June 17, 1867; Captain Aug. 23, 1877; Major April 26, 1898; Lieutenant Colonel May 25, 1899, and assigned to the Twenty-second Infantry; retired from active service on his own application May 31, 1900, three months and nine days previous to period due to retire by operation of law, and after an honorable service of thirty-nine years, the greater part being in the South and West. In Alabama during the reconstruction as Acting Assistant Adjutant General of the district, Texas, New and Old Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Dakota, Montana, Louisiana, Illinois and Virginia. He was in command of troops and in charge of building cantonment at Pagosa Springs, Col., winter of 1878-1879; was in the Ute campaign with his company, winter of 1879-1880; Victoria campaign, summer and fall of 1880; escort duty with engineers of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, winter of 1880-1881 in New Mexico and Arizona. In command of Camp Poplar River, Mont., from July, 1884, to September, 1886; on duty at Jackson Barracks, New Orleans, La., from April, 1890, to May, 1891, and was in command of the troops and post at the time of the Mafia troubles. He took part in the suppression of the railroad riots in the vicinity of Chicago, summer of 1894, and received the personal thanks of the Department Commander for services rendered. He was married, Oct. 18, 1876, to Maud Rutherford, a daughter of Thomas Scott Rutherford of St. Louis, Mo., a descendant of the Rutherfords of Rutherford, Scotland. Address, 214 West Ninety-second St., New York. (pp. 311-312)
Merchant; born in Albany Township, Berks County, Pa., March 31, 1836, on the farm on which he now resides; educated in private schools and at an academy in, Camden, N.J. In 1861 started in the mercantile business at Albany village; also kept hotel for several years; elected Justice of the Peace in 1865; was one of the projectors of the Schuylkill & Lehigh Railroad; Secretary for a number of years of the Albany Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which he was instrumental in organizing; established the Steinsville creamery, and engaged in numerous other local enterprises. Married, May 28, 1860, Amanda Levan. In politics is a Democrat. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 319)
Minister Evangelical Association; born in Tamaqua, Pa., April 16, 1862; educated at Schuylkill Seminary, Reading, Pa. Minister of the Gospel of the Evangelical Association. Married Miss Emma L. Leippe, Jan. 13, 1885. Prohibitionist in politics. Address, Allentown, Pa. (p. 320)
Capitalist; born in Reading, Pa., July 28, 1834; educated in the public schools, and then learned the trade of watchmaker and jeweler under his father, George Heller, and in Philadelphia. In 1857 he commenced business in Reading, as a jeweler, in which he continued ten years; then established himself in the lumber business, which he followed for thirty years, retiring to look after his real estate and other interests. In 1858 he was elected a member of the Reading School Board and served two years. He served one term in Common Council, having been elected as a Republican in 1873. He then served three terms in Select Council, from 1875 to 1887, and was President of that body for one term--1876-1877. He was elected a member of the Board of Water Commissioners upon the expiration of his Councilmanic term, and still fills that office. Mr. Heller was one of the organizers of the Reading Board of Trade, and served as Treasurer of that body for a number of years. He was also one of the projectors of the Washington Library Company and was elected its first President. On the 8th of February, 1859, he was married to Miss Rose E. Snyder, of Reading. Their children are two daughters--Kate E., married to William A. Huff, of Greensburg, Pa., and Carrie S., married to William H. Kessler, of Reading. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 321)
Manufacturer; born December 7, 1833, in Adamstown, Lancaster County, Pa.; educated in the public schools and learned the business of hat making in his father's factory in Adamstown. In 1860 was taken into partnership by his father; three years later he and his brother George formed a partnership under the firm name of Hendel Bros; later another brother became partner. Is now interested in the firm of John Hendel's Sons, hat manufacturers, four of his sons being in the business; and is also a partner in a hat commission house in New York. Mr. Hendel is a Director of the First National Bank of Reading; a Director of the Reading Trust Company and Treasurer of the Keystone Land and Cattle Company. He is also interested in other business affairs. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 322)
Physician; born Sept. 10, 1857, in Pikeville, Berks County, Pa.; son of Capt. George Herbst and grandson of Dr. William Herbst, a pioneer physician of Berks County, who served one term as County Treasurer. Dr. E.M. Herbst was educal [sic] College; located in the village of Oley, Academy, Keystone State Normal School, Pennsylvania College, and Jefferson Medical College; located in the valley of Oley, Berks County, where he is still in active practice; elected a member of the school board of Oley Township; appointed by Governor Pattison Lazaretto Physician for the Port of Philadelphia; served as United States Pension Examiner; elected to the State Senate of Pennsylvania in 1900, as a Democrat, succeeding W. Oscar Miller. Married Charlotte Stettler, Oct. 28, 1880. Address, Oley, Berks Co., Pa. (p. 325)
Manufacturer; born Aug. 23, 1846 in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pa.; educated in public schools of Richmond Township and Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, Pa. Served three years as School Director, fifteen years as Justice of the Peace, and thirteen years as Notary Public in Amity Township, Berks County, Pa., and also three years as County Auditor for Berks County, Pa. Married Amanda Y. Dry, Nov. 23, 1867. Address, Earlville, Berks County, Pa. (p. 330)
Physician; born near Reading, Pa., Nov. 25, 1824. He worked on a farm in his boyhood, attending the country schools; later attended Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, and afterward entered Washington College at Trappe, Pa., taking a three years' course. Subsequently entering the University of Pennsylvania, he studied medicine from 1842 to 1846, graduating as M. D. in the latter year. He practiced medicine in Philadelphia until 1861, when he offered his services to the Government; was a surgeon in the Navy from August, 1861 to September, 1862, and was employed in army hospital work from that date till the summer of 1864, being engaged in several Washington hospitals and the Jarvis Hospital in Baltimore. While thus engaged he discovered the value of permanganate of potash in treating hospital gangrene, and also as an antiseptic when making postmortem examinations. He was also, in 1847, the first to use ether as an anesthetic in surgical operations, and to apply chloroform as a counter-irritant in the treatment of tetanus. He has contributed many valuable papers on these and other subjects to medical journals. Since the war Dr. Hinkle has practiced in Columbia, Pa., and is a member of the surgical and medical staffs of Columbia Hospital and of several medical societies. Address, Columbia, Pa. (p. 333)
Pension Attorney; born Dec. 25, 1852, Maxatawny Township, near Kutztown, Berks County, Pa; educated at the Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, Pa. and Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. Census Enumerator, clerk and special examiner, United States Pension Office, Washington, D.C., and clerk in State Department, Harrisburg, Pa. Married Anna Wanner, Aug. 20, 1885. Republican in politics. Address, Kutztown, Berks County, Pa. (p. 335)
Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading, Pa. since 1897; born at Easton, Pa., June 10, 1850. (Father, Melchior H.) Educated at the Allentown Academy, Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 1872-1876; pastor at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia; 1876-1897 pastor at Charleston, S.C. Author: "The Christian Year," 1876; "Outlines of Liturgics," 1890; "The Evangelical Pastor," 1887, "Commentary on Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians and Philemon," 1896. Translator of Loehe's Catechism; besides many articles in cyclopaedias and reviews. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 341)
Born in Maxatawny Township, Berks County, Pa., Oct. 1, 1831; descended from one of the oldest families in Pennsylvania, whose origin is traced back to A. D. 380, when Count Riedbold Von Hottenstein was a Frankish Knight in Germany. Dr. Hottenstein was educated in the township schools and then attended Freeland Seminary, Collegeville; commenced studying medicine in Harleysville, Montgomery County, Pa., and was graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1853; practiced medicine at the old homestead in Maxatawny Township until 1870, when he located in Kutztown, Pa., where he has since practiced his profession. Dr. Holtenstein [sic] has served in the Borough Council of Kutztown, and was President of the Board of School Directors for a number of years. He is a member of the Medical Society of Berks County and of the State Medical Society. He was married on Sept. 18, 1855, to Miss Sarah Ann Knabb, of Oley Township, Berks County, Pa., and the couple had nine children. Two of his sons became physicians. Dr. Holtenstein [sic] is a grandson of Dr. David Holtenstein [sic], a pioneer physician of Berks County. Address, Kutztown, Pa. (p. 343)
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Berks County; was born in Colebrookdale Township, Berks County, Pa., Nov. 21, 1870; educated in the common schools, and was graduated from the Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, in 1893; taught in the public schools for eight years, and for three years was principal of high school; was instructor at Perkiomen Seminary during the spring term of 1897; raised on a farm and has always been identified with everything pertaining to the best interests of the farmer and laboring man; is at present Secretary of the Colebrookdale Branch Milk Shippers' Union; since he left the profession of teaching has been associated in the implement and buggy business at New Berlinville, under the firm name of Houck & Henry; has always been an active Democrat; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1902. Address, New Berlinville, Pa. (p. 344)
Mechanical engineer; born in Lucerne, Switzerland, and after a good common school education he entered the Polytechnic school in Zurich, Switzerland. About twenty-four years ago Mr. Huber came to America, and for ten years thereafter was chief engineer of the Reading Iron Works, at Reading, Pa. He then moved to Pittsburg. He is an expert and has had charge of the erection of a large number of blast furnaces, Bessemer and open hearth mills and other mechanical devises in this and other States. A painstaking and well informed student of the mechanical craft. Address, 319 Third Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. (p. 348)
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