I am looking for more information on the Van-Bebber family , Other children for Isaac and Hester ,Also ancestors or Isaac .Also other children of Jacob and Christiana . Thanks for any help . Stanford L.Landis 1 Isaac Jacob Van-Bebber b: Abt. 1610 * +Hester Opdengraeff b: November 05, 1609 in Krefeld, Germany d: December 11, 1657 Father: Herman Opdegraeff Mother: Grietje Pletjes 2 Jacob Isaacs Van-Bebber b: 1630 in Krefeld, Germany d: September 1705 in Earlsville, Cecil County, Maryland Burial: the floor of St. Stephen's Church,Earlsville Maryland * +Christiana (Van-Bebber) ??? b: Abt. 1640 in Holland d: September 04, 1711 Burial: the floor of St. Stephen's Church,Earlsville Maryland 3 [1] Debora Van-Bebber b: 1660 in Krefeld, Germany d: 1739 * +[2] Herman Isaacs Opdegraeff b: 1642 in Krefeld, Germany d: May 02, 1704 in Kent County, Delaware Father: Isaacs Herman Opdegraeff Mother: Greitje Pieters *2nd Husband of [1] Debora Van-Bebber: * +Dirck Keyser, Jr 3 Elizabeth Van-Bebber b: Abt. 1663 d: 1684 * +[2] Herman Isaacs Opdegraeff b: 1642 in Krefeld, Germany d: May 02, 1704 in Kent County, Delaware Father: Isaacs Herman Opdegraeff Mother: Greitje Pieters ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - May 2, 1903 DIPHTHERIA IN EAST GREENVILLE The Board of Health of the borough of East Greenville, on Monday quarantined the house where Mrs. John HOFFMAN resides, on account of diphtheria. One of her children was taken sick in the early part of the week and by Thursday it developed into this dreaded disease. Jacob KNETZ and family who live in the same house vacated the place prior to it being quarantined. THIEVES ENTER BUTCHER SHOP Last Friday night thieves entered the butcher shop of Harvey KLINE, of Pennsburg and stole about twenty-five pounds of sausage and some meat, an overcoat and a horse blanket. The theives were evidently tramps. The value of the articles stolen is about $25. PURCHASED SMALL FARM Charles YOUNG, of near Pennsburg, recently purchased the farm of the the late Andrew GRABER, situate in Upper Hanover township, near Pennsburg, from Wilson GRABER for $600. The farm contains about 39 acres of good farm land. WILL BE WEDDED TONIGHT Cyrus HUBER, of East Greenville, will be married today to Miss Tillie ALTHOUSE, of Pennsburg. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth ALTHOUSE and the groom is a son of Henry H. HUBER, of Chapel, Berks county. SOLD CARLOAD OF FAT CATTLE Dr. Jesse Z. HILLEGASS, of Red Hill, this week sold a carload of 23 head of fat cattle to butcher F.G. OBERT, of Lehighton, Pa. This is the best lot of steers fattened in this section. They average about 1300 pounds. NEW MAIL ROUTE FROM PERKIOMENVILLE A new free rural delivery mail route was this week started from the Perkiomenville post office. Cornelius BERGEY is the carrier. A BIRTHDAY SURPRISE Mrs. Joseph SWOYER, of near Fruitville was agreeably surprised on Saturday evening, on the occasion of her fifty-second birthday anniversary. The evening was pleasantly spent. Various kinds of amusements such as games, comic songs, instrumental music, and so forth, were indulged in. John MULLIN, of Philadelphia, favored those present with some comic songs which were highly entertaining. Those participating in the pleasures of the evening were: John MULLEN, Joseph SMOYER and family, Mrs. Laura HOFFSTEDLER, all of Philadelphia; M. SNYDER and family, Nathan ADAM and family, Mahlon YERGER and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth YERGER, Leo MELCHIOR and family, David SHANER and family, John MACK and family, Mr. and Mrs. William MOLL, Daniel CARVER, Charles SPAAR, Melvin CASE, Oswald PFLIEGER, Harvey WEISS, John MACK, Frank MACK, Edward SWOYER, Harvey MILLER, Charles BAUER, Francis STAUFFER, Richard FOX, Joseph ADAM, Frank ADAM, Charles BENDER, Abner GARR, Alvis SCHANNINGER, Katie MOLL, Alice ESHBACH, Mary ADAM, Minnie KERSCHNER, Emma YERGER, Mary YERGER, Mamie HOFFSTEDTER and Mamie CROMI. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN GOLD STOLEN A bold robbery was committed by a thief entering through a window at the residence of Ammon DRUMHELLER, of Earlville, Berks county, Friday, while the family was absent for a short time. The family, after returning home, found that over $100 in gold, belonging to the son Samuel, had been stolen. Suspicion rested upon a young man, and he was traced about two miles. Mr. DRUMHELLER went to Boyertown and swore out a warrant before Squire W.H. FOX for the arrest of the supposed thief, and placed it in the hands of Officer KLINE, who went in search of him, but could not locate him. A stranger had also been there the past few weeks, and suddenly left on Friday. CAT MOTHERS BROOD OF CHICKENS A few days ago a hen belonging to P.J. DIETER, of near Lancaster, was accidentally killed, leaving a brood of small chickens. On the same day a litter of kittens was drowned. To console for her loss, the mother cat has taken the motherless chicks under her charge and the chicks have accepted her. She cares for them by day and at night they snuggle into her fur.

I just came on this, so I thought I'd better send before I forgot about it. Westmoreland County History John P. Potts, was born Nov 8, 1857, s/o Daniel and Rosanna Anna (Steinmetz) Potts. Daniel and Rosanna married 1842, she was the d/o John Philip Steinmetz of Berks county. John P. Potts married Catharine Whitehead. He was born in Delmont, Westmoreland Co. Rev. War Whitehead Aaron, NJ Line, wife Mary Sutter, former widow, soldier lived in Short Hills, NJ. Soldier married Mary Prall on 1 Oct 1788 and they had 3 children (not named) and they lived in Westfield in Essex county. Soldier died 7 Sept 1807. Widow married 2nd to John H. Sutter on 13 Nov 1823 and he died 14 Dec 1839. In 1848 widow moved to Brooklyn, NY Daniel, NJ Line David, CT Line David, NJ Line Isaac, NJ Line James, NJ Line John, NY Line John, NC Line John, VA John, NC Lazarus, NC Robert, VA Samuel, NJ Thomas, NY William, NY William, NY War of 1812 John, see case of sub John Allenback, Capt. Staim's, NJ John, see case of sub John A. Allenback, served Capt. Philip Stoy's PA Mil Willet, PA Mil Best Wishes, Geri

Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - May 2, 1903 THE HEART OF THE VILLAGE OF MERTZTOWN GUTTED BY FIRE THURSDAY NIGHT A disastrous fire almost wiped the old part of the village of Mertztown off the map soon after 5 o'clock Thursday evening. The little town has no water works and nothing could be done towards stopping the work of the flames, which originated on the roof of a lumber shed near the railroad, owned by Bie ry & Pilger, and the high winds prevailing drove the flames along from house to house, sweeping all before it. The fire was started by sparks from a passing locomotive. From the shed the fire spread to the barn of E.J. TREXLER, on the opposite side of the street, and, after a little while, not a house in the village seemed safe. The people were helpless, and almost before they thought of removing the goods the buildings in the fire district were in flames and the saving of the goods was out of the question. The main street runs northwest and southwest and the wind was blowing fiercely from the south, striking the southwesterly side of the street. The barn first ignited was, however, on the southwest side. On the opposite side of the street a fine old stone mansion where E.H. TREXLER resided, and the large swiss barn appurtenant thereto were then set on fire and totally destroyed together with contents. Shortly after this the alarm became general and for a time a district comprising several acres was in flames. The shed at the Hotel Biery was the next ignited, and from there the fire spread to the three-story Hotel Biery. Then to the houses of M.L. FRITCH. One of these was occupied by Mr. FRITCH, while the other was vacant. Then the house of H.J. TREXLER was destroyed, and after these structures were consumed, the flames stayed their course. At 9 o'clock the wall of the hotel fell. The excitement in the village can not be pictured. People ran about wildly, but nothing was to be done but to allow the flames to speed their mission of destruction. Nearly a dozen buildings, including the above residences, were destroyed, besides many others being very much damaged. The handsome Lutheran church was also damaged and only saved with difficulty. Uriah BIERY, of Shamrock, is the heaviest loser and it is thought his loss may sum up to $50,000, as he had a large lot of lumber stored. The loss is partially covered by insurance. The smoke from the fire caused considerable excitement and worry to the residents of the boroughs of Pennsburg and East Greenville. Along 11 o'clock at night the smoke was so dense in some residences that it awakened member of the household and a general feeling was that their own house was on fire. After searching the house and finding no cause they went outside and found the smoke there as dense as in the buildings. Especial excitement prevailed at Perkiomen Seminary, where several hundred students are quartered. Many of the girls started to pack their trunks and placed them near the window ready to throw them out. One girl hurriedly packed all her belongings into a bed blanket, tied it up into a bundle and started to take it out of the room, when she ascertained that the bundle was too large and it could not be moved through the door. By this time all were quieted, as a search had been made of the building and everything found all right. SEVERED ARTERIES WITH HATCHET Eugene REINHART, of near Geryville, an employee in A.R. MUMBAUER's cigar factory, near Kumry, met with a painful accident last Friday while he was nailing some staples over wire to fasten cases of cigars preparatory to shipment. In his right hand he held a very keen hatchet and while reaching over it with his left hand to get a staple, he came in contact with the cutting edge and cut a deep gash in his arm above the wrist. The wound bled profusely and upon close examination it was found that three small arteries were cut. AGED MAN ATTENDS TO SWARMING BEES Joseph R. MUMBAUER, Sr., of Kumry, Bucks county, is seventy-one years of age, but is still able to attend to his stock of bees as has been his custom all his life. He constantly has bees in hives in his yard and when winter set in he had twenty swarms. Through good attention and care he saved seventeen swarms. Mr. MUMBAUER at one time had seventy swarms of bees. About ten years ago he had a swarm that weighed one hundred and ninety pounds. THIEVES TRY TO ENTER GERYVILLE STORE Thieves tried to gain entrance to U.G. LOUX's store, at Geryville, Bucks county, on Sunday night. They rolled a water barrel under a window, stood on it and drilled three holes into the shutter. They could not drill through them as they were lined with sheet iron. They then tried to pry open the shutters but were unsuccessful. It is supposed they were disturbed, as Mr. LOUX returned to his home at about midnight. WILL PREACH IN SCHWENKFELDER CHURCH Rev. Elmer E.S. JOHNSON, pastor of the First Schwenkfelder church, of Philadelphia, will preach in the Hosensack Schwenkfelder church tomorrow morning, at 10 o'clock, in the German language. HILLEGASS STORE LEASED Wilson E. SCHULER, of Hillegass, yesterday leased his store property to Wm. KERSHNER, of Pleasant Run. Mr. KERSHNER conducts the store at that place at present. He will move to the Hillegass property in the latter part of next week. CAUGHT LARGE CARP IN THE PERKIOMEN CREEK John S. KLINE and Prof. I.F. KULP, of Gratersford, on Monday caught a monster carp in the Perkiomen creek. It measured thirty-two inches and weighed fifteen pounds. A BUSY POULTRY BREEDER F.G. WILE, the poultry dealer of Telford, has had an exceptional busy season thus far. He breeds fancy poultry and sells the stock as well as the eggs for hatching. He has thus far this season shipped between two and three thousand eggs to distant points weekly. He almost daily receives letters from parties that he shipped eggs to, stating that the chicks were hatched and that they were doing fine. Last week he shipped over five hundred eggs to Santa Rosa, California. KILLED SNAKE AFTER HE WAS BITTEN Wm. T. DELP, of Eureka, had a desperate fight with a snake upon his farm and was bitten badly. DELP discovered the snake sucking a cow in a field near by, and in attempting to beat the reptile off it bit him twice before he killed it. HAS BEEN GRANTED A PATENT John M. JACOBS, cashier in the Montgomery Trust Company, Norristown, formerly of East Greenville, has been granted letters patent for an ingenuous nickle-in-the-slot cigar machine, that bids far to become popular in club rooms and tobacco stores. His model is beautifully gotten up and does its work with accuracy. The inventor is now arranging for their manufacture on an extensive scale. CIGAR THIRTY-SIX YEARS OLD Edward KLOTZ, of Chapel, Berks county, is the owner of a cigar that was made thirty-six years ago. Charles MOLL, of Macungie, made the cigar at Limeport in the year 1867. The cigar is seven inches in length and is well preserved, considering its age. INSANE MAN TAKEN TO NORRISTOWN Theodore GULLY, of Plover, Lehigh county, was taken to the Norristown Insane Asylum on Thursday, by constable A.B. JONES, of Lower Milford. GULLY was declared mentally unsound by a commission.

James Kintz, subject, Civil war vet., was born July 27, 1825, in Hamilton twp., Monroe county, the son of Melchoir and Christiana Kintz. Children of Melchoir and Christiana; Elizabeth who married Abram Arnold, John of Hamilton twp., Henry who married Mary Edinger and lived in Scranton, Hannah who married Abram Shook of Hamilton twp.,Catharine who married David Shook and lived in Susquehanna county, Mary who married John Butz, of IL., Lucy who married Samuel Newhart, of Stroud twp., Monroe county, and Anthony, who married Matilda Bowman, of Pocono, they lived in Weatherly, Carbon county. James Kintz, married Anna, d/o David and Susan (Anglemeyer) Bowman of Pocono twp. Her grandfather was George Bowman of Paradise twp., Children of James and Anna M. (Bowman) Kintz, (1) Mary who married in 1876 to Daniel Callahan of Mt. Pocono, she died leaving her husband and children, Clinton, Mabel and James, (2) Alice, (3)?, (4) Daniel, who married Annie Erdman, of NY City, they had Helen R., and Margaret C. (5) Joseph, who died as a child, (6) Catharine E., (7) Abraham, (8) Gertrude. Benner I. Jacob Bemner, great-grandfather, native of Switzerland, settled in Bucks county. He had 5 children, 3 sons and 2 daughters. II. Louis Benner, grandfather, was born in 1768, he came to Monroe county from Bucks county, married Hannah Stump, of Northampton county, children, Daniel, Elizabeth,Elias, Louis, Henry, Thomas, Joseph, Hannah, Abraham, Isaac, Joshua, and Joel. III. Abraham Benner, was born in Northampton county in 1810. He married Susan Smith, who was born in Lehigh county in 1809, d/o George and Susannah (Lindener) Smith, of Lehigh county. George and Susannah Smith had, Elizabeth, who married Peter Lynn, Polly A., who married Daniel Balliet, and Susan who married Abraham Benner. Children of Abraham (died in Northampton county, in 1862, he is buried at Friedensville) and Susan (Smith) Benner, (she died Sept. 7, 1890 and is buried at Fountain Hill, Lehigh county),(1) Julia Ann who married John Snyder, (2) Louis G., (3) Edwin T., married Maria "Jacoba"(4) Diane, who married Benjamin Wile, (5) Abraham, married Amanda Delong, he was in the Civil war (153rd P.V.I.), (6) James of Lehigh county, married Amanda Toole,(7 Asher, who married Mary Slemmer, (8) Morris, marred Catherine Slusher, they lived in S. Bethlehem, (9) Emma who died at age 16. III. Louis G. Benner, of Chestnut Hill, Monroe County, he was born in Northampton county, Dec. 7, 1831. In Northampton county, he married Dec. 5, 1852 to Hannah Shupp, who was born in Chestnut Hill, March 27, 1830, and died Jan 16, 1892 and buried at Fountain Hill, Bethlehem, d/o Peter and Suannah (Aish) Shupp. Children; (1) Wilson, who married Ellen Eichelberger, (2) Melvina, who married Henry Christman, (3) Bainbridge, who married Viola Lovejoy, and they in Minn. (4) Louisa died young. Benner, Elias R., native of Bucks county and was born June 2, 1841, died Oct 15, 1906 to William and Nancy (Rothrock) Benner. In 1870 Elias R., married Belinda Lapp, native of Northampton county, she was born Dec 11, 1843 and died May 30, 1902 children, Harry A., Lizzie,who married W. D. Seyfried and Allen, a Lutheran minister of Brooklyn, NY Elias was Postmaster of Shoenersville. Harry A. Benner was born June 24, 1866 at Shoenersville, he married Oct 12, 1886 to Julianna C. Keim, d/o Cyrus and Dianna (Laubach) Keim, the had one daughter, Eva. Benner Family (History of Lehigh County) William Benner, native of Bucks county, he married Anna Rothrock. They were married at the Lutheran Church and are buried at Richlandtown. They had 12 children, Abraham, Polly, Jacob, John, William, Elias, Milton, Lewis, Nancy, Monroe, Hannah and Aaron Bierry Family Joseph Biery, the emigrant was born in 1703. He came in the ship "Samuel" . Among his fellow passengers were Sebastian, Christopher, Phillip, Casper, Catharine, Elizabeth, Barbara, and Margaretha Doll ( all brothers and sisters), Elizabeth Doll, married Joseph Biery, the emigrant. Best Wishes, Geri

Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA May 10, 1913 The milk delivery team of Howard BEALER, of near East Greenville, in charge of Mr. ALBITZ, was wrecked on Monday forenoon in East Greenville, when the horse tore the hitching strap while tied in front of the Kochel House and darted down the turnpike. The animal got scared at a passing automobile and started off at break-neck speed until the wagon collided with the hitching post in front of A.W. DIMMIG's dwelling. At this point, milkman SCHWENK, of Red Hill, caught the animal by the nose, for the bridle was left at the hitching post at the Kochel House, and stopped it. The turnpike was covered with milk, butter, eggs and empty cans and the hot sun soon broiled omelet of the combination. The wagon and harness were badly damaged. May 11, 1923 The disappearence of the five-year-old son of Mrs. Winfield SCHATZ, of Sumneytown, on Saturday, caused considerable worry and the police department was searching Allentown for the lost boy. Mrs. SCHATZ, her son and George SCHATZ and family, all of Sumneytown, had gone to Allentown to do some shopping. While in one of the stores, the boy disappeared. The police department was notified and some time later the missing child was located in Bethlehem. In the store, he had become separated from his mother and in some manner wandered to the street and was picked up by a stranger, who took him along to Bethlehem. May 7, 1943 Two Red Hill sisters, one 17, the other 15, filed applications Monday for marriage licenses. Bertha Mae SELL, 17, made application for a license to wed Stanley ALLEM, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leidy ALLEM, of Argus. Her sister, Jean LaRue SELL, 15, was granted a license to wed, Claude L. CROISSETTE, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter CROISSETTE, of Green Lane, R.D.1. They are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin D. SELL, of Red Hill. The sisters plan to wed at a double ceremony.

Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - May 2, 1903 THE DEATH LIST Minnie KNEULE, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.A. KNEULE, of Pennsburg, died quite unexpectedly on Wednesday morning at 4.15 o'clock, of pneumonia. The child had been sickly for some time. Aged 8 months and 14 days. The funeral will be held tomorrow forenoon at 9.30 o'clock at the house. Services and interment at the Pennsburg Reformed church. Rev. J.L. ROUSH will officiate. Mrs. Sophia SASSAMAN, widow of Samuel SASSAMAN, died on Tuesday evening at the residence of her son-in-law C.K. JOHNSON, near Obelisk, from general debility, aged 73 years, 2 months and 7 days. She leaves the following children: B.B. SCHOLL, of Philadelphia; Mrs. J.O. ZIMMERMAN, of Coopersburg; Mrs. M.S. SHANER, of Sanatoga; and Mrs. C.K. JOHNSON. Henry BARTMAN, of Pottstown, and Mrs. A.R. FRYER, of Spring Mount, are her brother and sister. The funeral will be held today at the house of C.K. JOHNSON. Interment at Keelor's church cemetery. Charles K. WEIRMAN, a life long resident of Schwenksville, died on Wednesday morning of paralysis. His age was 86 years, 5 months and 16 days. He is survived by two children: John, of Allentown, and Samuel, at home. Mrs. Daniel KRAUSS, of Woxall, who was buried last week was a sister. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 9.30 o'clock at the house. Services and interment at the Reformed Church Schwenksville. Rev. W.B. WERNER will officiate. Miss Annie MUTHARD, of near New Berlinville, died of infirmities due to old age. She is 78 years of age and is survived by one brother William, of near New Berlinville. The funeral was held yesterday from her late residence. Services were conducted at the Hill Church. Interment was made on the church cemetery. Rev. H.W. WARMKESSEL of Reading officiated. Miss Clara HIESTAND, nee BENFIELD, of Hill Church, died on Tuesday of consumption. She was ill for the past year but only bedfast for a few days. She was 23 years of age, and is survived by her husband, two children, her parents and several brothers and sisters. The funeral will be held today at the Trinity Union Church, of Bechtelsville. Interment was made in the church cemetery. The pall bearers are John SPOHN, John B. GRUBER, Daniel FRY and Emerson GROFF. Clarence SHEFFY, one of the twins of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson SHEFFEY, of Boyertown, died on Monday evening at six o'clock of convulsions. The child had only been taken sick in the morning. His age was two years and ten months. Daniel KAUFFMAN, a son of John R. KAUFFMAN, Sr., of Sunbury, died at his parent's home on Sunday morning of consumption. Mr. KAUFFMAN resided in Pennsburg about 6 years ago. He is about 40 years of age and a brother to our townsman John R. KAUFFMAN, Jr. The funeral was held on Thursday. KILLED BY TROLLEY A serious and most unfortunate accident occurred near T.S. COOPER's Stock Farm, Coopersburg, about 1.30 o'clock, Thursday afternoon, when E.J. SMITH, of Souderton, one of the oldest and best motormen and ex-Superintendent of the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley Traction Company, was killed almost instantly. The accident happened on account of a disregard of signals by SMITH. He was in charge of a car going from Philadelphia to Allentown in which were ten passengers. Motorman MILLER, of Allentown, was taking two snowplows from that city in the Brick Tavern car barn a short distance below Coopersburg, and into these cars Motorman SMITH ran, at a place where there is a slight curve in the road. Both were going at a high rate of speed when the clash came. SMITH was pinned between two cars and his life crushed out. None of the passengers of the car were injured. A daughter of our townsman Samuel KEPLER was on the car and she says they were badly shaken up. Mr. SMITH was about 38 years of age and is survived by a wife and two small children. He is the first employe on this line of the Company to lose his life in this manner. Mr. SMITH originally is from New York State. He came to Souderton from the Tonawanda and Lock-Railway in New York State, when the local, or former Inland, was in caurse of construction. DEMENTED WOMEN BURNED TO DEATH Suffering from temporary mental derangement, Mrs. Henry HEFFNER, of New Virginsville, Berks county, went into the cellar of her home Saturday and is supposed to have poured kerosene over her clothes, then set fire to them. When found she was horribly burned and died Monday morning. On Friday she received about $8000 from her deceased father's estate, which she carried in her dress pocket. This is supposed to have burned with her dress. LITTLE GIRL DROWNED Helen Mary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim FRONHEISER, on the WERSTLER farm, near new Berlinville, Berks county, was accidentally drowned in a small stream near its home. The child is only two years of age. The child's grandfather was out in the field ploughing and the little tot followed him. When it came up to him he noticed that it was minus a bonnet or hat, so he sent the girl home to put on a bonnet, and then it might return to the field. The child did as told, its mother attended to the hat and it went on its way to the field. This was the last time it was seen alive. After a short time the mother was anxious to know whether the child found its way to her grandfather and not seeing her she called her and ran in the direction of a small stream of water which runs through the field where the ploughing was done. She was horrified to find her little child lying in the stream cold in death. The mother picked the child up into her arms and carried it to the house, and she is nearly frantic with grief. WELL PERSERVED COFFINS Although buried half a century ago, eight coffins that were removed from Sprogell burial ground, Pottstown, the first interment in which was made in 1716, were still in almost perfect preservation. OLDEST RESIDENT OF THE BOROUGH OF RED HILL Zebulon GERHART (picture), of Red Hill, is the oldest resident in this section of the county. If he lives until the eighth day of August he will be eighty-eight years of age. He was born in Franconia township in 1815. His parents moved from Franconia to Salfordville when he was quite young and later to near Hoppenville. In the public schools of Franconia and Marlborough Mr. GERHART obtained a common school education. He assisted his father on the farm and as soon as he was of age he married and began farming for himself. This work he continued until about eight years ago when he retired from actual farm life. He, however, did not quit working, as he can be found doing odds and ends about the farm every day. Mr. GERHART has exceptional good eye-sight. He at his advanced age can read a newspaper without the aid of glasses. He was twice married and both wives are dead. He is the father of eight children, four by each wife. Louisa, wife of Nathan SCHWENK, of Red Hill, is the only surviving child of his first wife, and Benjamin, of near East Greenville, and Henry, of Red Hill, are the only surviving children of his second wife. Mr. GERHART is exceptionally hale and hardy considering his age, and the hard manual labor that he has done.

Ref: The Hearthstone Town and Country Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Thursday - April 17, 2003 WARNER'S SCHOOL HOUSE The Littlest Red School House Upper Hanover Township 1856-1948 PART 5b OF 5 Bicycle and Crutches - Meanwhile, on many days, Robert WALBERT gave fellow sixth-grader Carl SCHOENLY a bicycle ride from Shady Nook to school. Carl had a bad leg. Robert would pedal nearly a mile, Carl on the back, his crutches across the handlebars. The last Warner's students were: Ollea ALBITZ, Verna ALBITZ, Warren ALBITZ, Richard ASTON, Howard DUTTON, Clyde FOX, Gloria HOFFMAN, Robert NESTER, Carl ROTENBERGER, Elaine ROTENBERGER, Roger ROTENBERGER, Shirley ROTENBERGER, Carl SCHOENLY, Janice STOUDT, Lee TAYLOR, Robert WALBERT, Roger WRONOWSKI, Warren WRONOWSKI, Yvonne WRONOWSKI and Eugene ZIEGLER. Warner's Sold in 1948 - On May 15, 1948, the Warner's School House was sold for $2,475 at public auction. William S. and Alice WEISS of Niantic, the successful bidders, received the deed July 6, 1948. The WEISSes were pupil Richard ASTON's grandparents. The school bell was sold to Louis SCHULTZ of New Berlinville for $19; SCHULTZ apparently took the bell tower, too. The original school desk sold for $3 to the Rev. H. Morris SCHOFER, who was Warner's teacher from 1890 to 1894. In 1949, the Rev. SCHOFER published a book, "The Story of Warner's," which is available in the Schwenkfelder Libra ry at the Perkiomen School, Pennsburg. The book includes the minutes of various Upper Hanover School Board meetings and the by-laws of the Warner's Literary Society to shed light on the school's history. School Becomes a Home - The small brick building that was Warner's School House has been used as a home since 1948. Victor DUKA, a Pennsylvania Power & Light Company worker from Green Lane, and his wife, Dorothy (LOZOWICKI) DUKA, formerly of Philadelphia, moved into the old school house around 1950. After renting three or four years, the DUKAs bought the house from the WEISSes on September 1, 1953, for $5,500. The DUKAs had two children, Don, born in 1952, and Cynthia, born in 1954. Victor DUKA died in 1978; Dorothy died in 1997. At the old school, the DUKAs dug out a narrow underground passage through the length of the older part of the building. It reached from the front basement to the rear of the building, where they added a cellar door. The underground passage came out a foot or two left of the chimney. In 1952, the Upper Perkiomen Joint Schools were organized. The Joint Schools committee represented the school boards of the Upper Hanover Township, East Greenville, Pennsburg, Red Hill, Green Lane, Sumneytown (Marlborough Township) and Hereford Township districts. The Joint Schools built the Hereford Elementary School, called "the round school" for its circular shape, in 1958, the same year the Perkiomen Creek was dammed up to create the Green Lane Reservoir in Upper Hanover. In 1966, voters approved the formation of the Upper Perkiomen School District, under one school board. The new district built the Upper Perkiomen High School in 1968 and converted the old high school in East Greenville into the Upper Perkiomen Middle School. The Marlborough Elementary School would be added in 1990. Now pupils in kindergarten through fourth grade would go to the Hereford and Marlborough elementary schools, and fifth through eighth-graders would go to the middle school. Lydia MILLER, the Warner School's last teacher, died March 13, 1967, 50 years to the month after she arrived in Upper Hanover. She was 80. Her husband, Charles, died August 27, 1980. He was 93. The old Warner's School House was gutted by fire January 17, 1980, but repaired. .....other grandson, lived in Stowe, Montgomery County, with his wife, Georgiana. Both Larry and Thomas had children and grandchildren of their own in Pennsylvania and other parts of the eastern United States. In the Upper Perkiomen School District, 560 pupils in kindergarten through fourth grade were learning at Hereford Elementary School, with its 25 classrooms. The Marlborough Elementary School was teaching another 725 K-4 pupils, in 32 classrooms. In grades 5-8, the district had 1,100 students at the Upper Perkiomen Middle School, which has 44 classrooms. Warner's School House closed more than a half century ago. Its classes are over, its blackboards long gone. And yet the lessons learned by Warner's students live on in significant, if subtle, ways. Generation to generation, the old school echoes in our culture, in our love of learning and in our joy at seeing a child open a good book to read. In spirit, the Warner's School House remains in session. Its teachers still teach; its bell still rings. Whenever its best traditions find their way into a classroom, the littlest red school house of Upper Hanover Township again inspires "the hope and promise of a new spring and a new life." Warner's School House Teachers: 1856 Amos KRAUSS; 1857 John K. HOUCK; 1858 Daniel K. KEPNER; 1859 John K. HOUCK; 1860 Bejamin F. DOTTS; 1861 M.S. KEEL; 1862-1863 Oswin F. WAAGE; 1864 Henry BOBB Jr.; 1865 Not available; 1866 Not available; 1867 John W. STAUFFER, 1868 Not available; 1869-1870 John G. HERSCH; 1871 John J. TROXEL; 1872 Henry J. SMITH; 1873 Madison SCHWENK; 1874-1877 Not available; 1878-1879 W.K. HEINLY; 1880 F.M. MOLL; 1881 W.F. BUTTERWECK; 1882-1883 John P. KLINE; 1884-1887 Frank Y. HOFFMAN; 1888 Alice L. WELKER; 1889 Jerome BOWMAN; 1890-1893 H. Morris SCHOFER; 1894-1899 Dan K. DOTTERER; 1900-1901 Daisy GEHMAN; 1902-1903 Mamie C. HILLEGASS; 1904 William Z. GRUBB; 1905 William H. GARLACH; 1906 E. YOUNG; 1907-1908 Osborne F. YOUNG; 1909 Carrie LEHMAN; 1910-1912 Osborne F. YOUNG; 1913-1914 Mabel MILLER; 1915-1916 Edith ERB; 1917 Meriem OTT; 1918 Marie OTT; 1919 Mabel HUNSICKER; 1920-1921 Lydia (SCHMIDT) MILLER; 1922 Louis UPHOLTZER; 1923 Beta SAYLOR; 1924-1926 Dan K. DOTTERER; 1927 Helen BROWNING; 1928 Elmeda HOFFMAN; 1929-1930 Sarah (KURTZ) ACKER; 1931-1933 Paul BITTING; 1934-1936 Mabel SCHWENK; 1937-1939 Bertha (ERDMAN) HUNSBERGER; 1940-1943 Bertha (ERDMAN) SMITH; 1944-1947 Lydia (SCHMIDT) MILLER. Picture - Warner's Schoolhouse as it appears today in Upper Hanover Township. The building now serves as a residence. After a fire in 1980 the building received several alterations including the addiition of a second floor. That's All.

Ref: The Hearthstone Town and Country Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Thursday - April 17, 2003 WARNER'S SCHOOL HOUSE The Littlest Red School House Upper Hanover Township 1856-1948 PART 5a OF 5 Editors note: This is the final installment of a five-part story on the history of Warner's School House written by a great-great-grandson of the farmer whom the school house was named. Horse and Sleigh - In winter 1937, the snow was so deep even automobiles could not get through. On a Sunday, Miss SCHWENK's father took her to the school house in his horse and sleigh to start the stove fire for Monday. In 1937, sixth-grader John NOVOMESKY studied John Greenleaf WHITTER's poem "Snow Bound" in Miss SCHWENK's class. John would go on to study at Harvard University. In 1947, he would graduate with generals-to-be Alexander HAIG and Brent SCOWCROFT from the West Point Military Academy. John joined the Air Force and later worked for IBM. From 1937 to 1944, Bertha (ERDMAN) HUNSBERGER SMITH taught at the Warner's School House. In the summer of 1938, a stray Irish setter slipped through a tiny open window into the crawl space under the school. The dog was pregnant, and soon she had at least six puppies. Children from the MILLER farm fed bread to the dogs. They also adopted one of the puppies. But not long after, a farmer from the other side of the school shot and killed the puppies' mother. He said she was killing his chickens. That same summer, a woman in her 90s got out of a car at the MILLER farm. She said she was a WARNER. She told the MILLERs her father built the MILLER farmhouse. The woman probably was Maria (WARNER) MILLER, 96, of Allentown. Maria MILLER's appearance probably was related to a Warner's School and Literary Society reunion, Warner's School House graduates, teachers and their families were invited, first to the school house, then to a picnic at New Goshenhoppen Church Park. At the reunion, Oliver DERR, who owned a machine shop in East Greenville, was elected president of the Literary Society. Anna (WASSER) LONG, wife of Melvin LONG on Wasser Road and member of the East Greenville High Class of '29, was elected secretary, succeeding Clinton S. SCHOENLY of Old Quakertown Road, a mile east of Pennsburg. SCHOENLY was father of LeRoy, Paul, Herbert, Verna, Alma, Myrtle and Carl SCHOENLY. James TAGGERT, a farmer on Bank Street, was made treasurer. Speaking at the reunion were Jonas SEIBERT of Glenside; the Rev. H.H. KRAUSS, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Red Hill; and the Rev. H. Morris SCHOFER of Aristes, Columbia County, former Warner's School House teacher. "The meeting was largely attended," the Town and Country newspaper reported. Frank Snyder WARNER and his teenage sons Lawrence and Thomas were at the reunion, as was Arline HARTMAN, Larry's future wife. Frank S. WARNER, 53, a Lehigh Valley Railroad engineer, was a son of former Warner's student Theodore WARNER, who had died in 1921. Many of the guests spoke Pennsylvania German. When the gathering moved from the school to the picnic, someone said, "It'll be Dutch treat." Lawrence and Thomas WARNER remember an old great aunt at the reunion, Maria (WARNER) MILLER and she herself spoke mostly Pennsylvania German. Thomas recalls her boasting she would make it to 100 years old. She died the next year. In the winter of 1943, during a lunch break, students sledded down a humpy hill behind Warner's School House. Eva NESTER's sled flew from a bump and crashed into fellow sixth-grader Vivian ALBITZ, knocking the wind out of Vivian. Mrs. Miller Returns - On August 3, 1944, Warner's teacher Bertha (ERDMAN) SMITH asked for a leave of absence. Lydia (SCHMIDT) MILLER, who had taught at the school from 1920 to 1922, was hired as a substitute. At the time, her older son Charles Harry MILLER was a gunner in the Army Air Corps, fighting the Japanese in the Philippines. On September 20, 1945, after teachers throughout the Upper Hanover District demanded electric lights, the school board paid Longacre Electric Service of Bally $525 to wire all the schools for lights. In late 1946, second-grader Robert NESTER walked into the Warner's School entrance hall to hang up his coat and, not noticing the open trap door, plunged 6 feet into the cellar. He wasn't hurt. In 1947, the Pennsylvania Legislature declared it would no longer fund any school serving fewer than 30 students. In 1948, the Warner's School House had only 19 or 20 pupils in grades 1-8, so it was closed. Its last teacher was Lydia MILLER, 61 years old when her last pupils went home. Bell Upside Down - Students remember Mrs. MILLER ringing the school bell to call them back from recess and from "dinner," their lunch break. As a prank in 1947 and 1948, one or two older boys occasionally turned the bell upside down to give the schoolchildren a longer lunch. While Mrs. MILLER was home eating, they would pull the rope just enough to flip the bell. In the bell tower, the counterweight hung down, where the bell was meant to be. When Mrs. MILLER returned and pulled the rope, the bell made no sound. The clapper rested silently as the topsy-turvy bell rocked, mouth upward. Mrs. MILLER had to get her husband, Charles, to climb up and flip the bell back into place. In early 1948, mischievous students threw crayons into the hot stove, setting off fumes that drove everyone outdoors.

Ref: Hearthstone Town and Country Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Thursday - April 10, 2003 WARNER'S SCHOOL HOUSE The Littlest Red School House Upper Hanover Township 1856-1948 PART 4 OF 5 Editor's note: This is the fourth installment of a five-part story on the history of Warner's School House written by a great-great-grandson of the farmer whom the school house was named. Next week we will publish the final portion of the school's history in this section of the paper. Poetry Recitals - In early 1926, Warner's fourth-grader Grace MILLER entered the Upper Hanover School District declamation contest, a poetry recital. She won for her dramatic presentation. Her poem was Eugene FIELD's "The Duel," which begins, "The gingham dog and the calico cat side by side on the table sat." Weeks later, someone else won the regional contest at Ursinus College, where Grace discovered most of her competitors were reciting the same poem. At his June 9, 1927, graduation ceremony at Palm Schwenkfelder Church, eighth-grader LeRoy SCHOENLY recited from memory a four-page poetic essay. The wistful essay, written for LeRoy by Mr. DOTTERER was on "the hope and promise of a new spring and a new life." In late 1927, student Foster SCHULTZ corrected his teacher Helen BROWNING's pronunciation of Yosemite. She called it Yosemight. She didn't appreciate the challenge. Tongue Frozen To Pump - In winter of early 1929, second-grader William SCHULTZ licked the iron handle of the frigid water pump outside the school and his tongue froze to the handle. After a struggle, he pulled his tongue free. It hurt, but he healed. Angela Nutter - In fall 1929, Angela NUTTER became the first and only black pupil ever to enroll at Warner's School. Black children were so rare in Pennsylvania Dutch country that on the night before the school year began, fourth-grader Vera WASSER's father, Jonathan, sat down with her and had a talk about open-mindedness. "Now, Vera," he said, "there's going to be a little girl at school tomorrow, and her skin is going to be a little darker than yours. But remember, you are no better than she, and she is no better than you. Just treat her like everybody else." Perhaps the other students had similar guidance, or perhaps these children hadn't been exposed to the foolish ideas that might have spoiled their natural friendliness. For more than a year, until she moved away from ..... Horse Through Snow - In a fierce snowstorm in early 1934, Frank ROMAN took his younger sister Thomasella into Warner's School on a farm horse. "Tommy" was in sixth grade and Frank already was out of school. They rode more than a half mile from Kraussdale Road through deep drifts and blinding snow. At the school house door, they found Mr. BITTING. "No school today!" he shouted. On a typical school day, pupils would walk or bicycle to Warner's School House from as far as a mile away. The teacher would start the morning by ringing the school bell. Once the pupils were seated, the teacher would lead the class in the Pledge of Allegiance and the Lord's Prayer. The teacher also would read from the Bible's Book of Psalms. Then the teacher would call one grade at a time to the school room's front seats, starting with the first-graders. The teacher would go over the pupils' lessons, give them classwork to complete at their desks or at the blackboard, and then call the next highest grade to the front, moving up through the eighth grade. Most often, there were only three, four or five pupils in each grade. Class would be interrupted by morning and afternoon recess, and by the noon "dinner" break. The teacher would call the students back by ringing the school bell, or by giving that honor to one of the pupils. At recess, the children might play Ball-E-Over or Kick the Wicky. Ball-E-Over - In Ball-E-Over, one group of pupils would yell "Ball-E-Over" and someone in a group on the other side of the school would throw a ball over the roof. Whoever caught the ball would run to the other side, and if he hit someone with the ball, the hit player would join his former opponents, and so on, until one team disappeared. Kick the Wicky was like baseball, except that the players substituted a "wicky," a section of bicycle tire 12 to 18 inches long, for the ball. The wicky would be set up across two spaced bricks. Then a player would kick the wicky off the bricks, run the bases and try to score as the other team fielded the wicky. In spring 1934, John and Elizabeth NOVOMESKY moved from New York City to the Old WASSER farm near Warner's School House with their son, John Jr., who was finishing fourth grade. They had immigrated to New York from Slovakia in 1929, when John Jr. was 4 years old. (Sixty-nine years later, John Jr. still would remember coming into New York Harbor on the boat: "People all of a sudden were saying, 'Socha Slobody! Socha Slobody!' I didn't know it, but Socha Slobody in Slovak is Statue of Liberty. And there she was, one of the great sights of my life.") Miss Schwenk and the Flag - In September 1934, as 21-year-old Mabel SCHWENK started her first year as a teacher, she found a grimy American flag, coated with coal soot, tacked up on the front wall of the Warner's classroom. Appalled, she climbed up on the organ, took down the flag and drove it home to Red Hill in her Model T Ford. She washed the flag and hung it on her clothesline to dry in the late summer breeze. The next day, she brought back the Stars and Stripes and hung it back up, neat and clean. Miss SCHWENK placed a box of petunias at the back of the room, on a sunny window sill facing the road. She set up a little library of books, many of them financed by a bake sale, on a rear bookshelf. Under the classroom clock, she put up a sign: "Time Passes. Will You?" The Whistler - In her first days at the school, Miss SCHWENK also met her first young troublemaker. "I had the whole class sing a song together," Mabel (SCHWENK) SWARTLEY recalled 64 years later. "And while we were singing, one boy was whistling. "The other children seemed to freeze. You could see the fear on their faces because they didn't know what I was going to do. Suddenly, it came to me. I said, 'Let's all whistle!' You should have seen the smiles on their faces. I was surprised how many could whistle." The first whistler was Arthur KEYES. Arthur was full of mischief, but he would reform his ways. Years later, he would marry, become a Grehound bus driver and have two daughters, one a school librarian, the other a school teacher. Miss SCHWENK was paid $90 a month at the beginning of the 1934-35 school year, $100 monthly by the end of the term. She would teach at Warner's for three years. By this time, the classroom had the picture of George Washington on one side, a picture of Abraham Lincoln on the other. In 1935, student Esther MILLER was working at the blackboard when she accidentally leaned into the hot stove, burning her left elbow. In 1936, eighth-grader Arthur MACK formally debated the issues of the day as part of his classroom debate teams. Thirty-three years later, Arthur would be elected mayor of Coopersburg. Picture - Lydia (SCHMIDT) MILLER, was the last teacher at Warner's School House. She lived at the former WARNER farm, now the MILLER farm. Mrs. MILLER taught at the little red school house 1920-1922 and 1944-1948. Picture - On January 17, 1980 fire struck the old school house which was being used as a residence by Dorothy DUKA at the time of the fire. The building was repaired and continues to serve as a residence.

Ref: The Hearthstone Town and Country Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pa Thursday - April 3, 2003 WARNER'S SCHOOL HOUSE The Littlest Red School House Upper Hanover Township 1856-1948 PART 3 OF 5 Editor's note: This is the third installment of a five-part story on the history of Warner's School House written by a great-great-grandson of the farmer whom the school house was named. Each week for two more weeks we will publish a portion of the school's history in this section of the paper. Boys' and Girls' Outhouses - About 75 feet from the front door were two outhouses, the boys' close to the road, the girls' a distance from the road. When the finished addition opened in September 1901, Daisy GEHMAN was the first teacher to ring the bell in the new bell tower. The school house had no electricity, and would not have electric lights until its last three years. In 1901, Pennsburg offered one year of high school. In 1902, East Greenville did the same. In 1908, Red Hill started two years of high school. On April 4, 1910, Thomas and Emma TRUMBAUER sold the old WARNER farm to Charles M. BURGER, who then died November 16, 1910. BURGER's widow, Laura, would resell the farm to Ambrose F. SPOHN on March 20, 1912. In 1911, Upper Hanover farmer Harvey C. JONES was elected to a seat on the Upper Hanover School Board. As a board member, he would represent Warner's School House and the Church (Bullfrog) School House. Until 1944, JONES would store classroom supplies at his home and distribute them to the two schools. In 1913-14 and 1914-15, Mabel MILLER was the Warner's teacher, though H.M. BUCK had to fill in for her the last eight days of the 1913-14 school year because Mabel MILLER had the mumps. MIllers Move To Farm - In March 1917, Charles Louis MILLER and his wife, Lydia Antonia (SCHMIDT) MILLER, took a train from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, to East Greenville. With them, they brought about 10 cows, a Holstein dairy bull, and a black and white collie named Pete. In an open boxcar, Charles MILLER endured the cold trip with the cows. Lydia MILLER rode a passenger car with her younger sister, Verena. At the East Greenville railroad station, Charles MILLER hired a boy to help, and the two drove the cows to the old WARNER farm near the Warner's School House. On March 12, 1917, MILLER bought the farm from Ambrose SPOHN for $5,900. The MILLERs raised corn, wheat, oats, barley and hay on their dairy farm of about 75 acres. The crops fed the cows. The cows' milk paid the bills. Two horses pulled plows; they also hauled milk to the East Greenville Creamery. A treadmill machine, powered by a horse and sometimes by the bull, ran the Millers' thresher and seed-cleaning mill. Soon, a 1916 tractor was added to the farm equipment. Originally from Philadelphia, Charles MILLER was a machinist and farmer. Born in Hubbleton, Wisconsin, Lydia MILLER was a teacher in her home state. On November 24, 1917, the Upper Hanover School Board ordered the purchase of American flags for all district schools. On Monday morning, November 18, 1918, Warner's teacher Marie OTT stopped her class and asked her pupils to listen hard. In the distance, the area's church bells were ringing in celebration. "They must have signed the Armistice," she said. The Germans had signed the Armistice ending World War I. In 1919, East Greenville built a four-year high school, called "Old Main." Lydia Miller, Teacher - In 1920-21 and 1921-22, Lydia (SCHMIDT) MILLER was teacher at Warner's School House. Teacher's pay in the district now was $70 to $95 a month. Mrs. MILLER brought her two baby girls, Grace and Ruth, to school with her. Mrs. MILLER discovered that a few of her first-graders could hardly speak English. At home their first language was Pennsylvania German. She could speak High German almost as well as English, but she still had trouble understanding the Pennsylvania dialect. With daily lessons and practice with their classmates, the students gradually adopted English and English grammar. In 1922, Mrs. MILLER retired temporarily from teaching to care for an expanding family. Eventually, she would have four daughters and two sons. In 1924, Pennsburg opened a four-year high school. Warner's sixth-grader Verna SCHOFER missed the whole 1924-25 school year. One after another, she, her six sisters and two brothers came down with chicken pox, measles and mumps. The county health officer constantly had a "Quarantined" sign on their house on Mill Hill Road. No one in the house was permitted to go to school if anyone in the house had a contagious disease. Chimney Goes Up In 1925 - In 1925, a chimney was added at Warner's, at the rear of the building. The chimney was close to the center of the rear wall, but offset to the right of the roof peak. The coal stove was moved from the center of the room. The big pot-bellied stove, shielded in a large tin cylinder, was positioned in the left front corner, not far from the chimney outside. To the left of the stove, on the floor near the wall, a coal bucket was stored. The teacher's desk sat front and center on the teacher's platform, a step up the main classroom floor. The desk had two big drawers on the teacher's right, a shallow drawer over the teacher's legs. The stove also was on the teacher's platform, as was an organ, to the far right. Slate blackboards extended across the front wall and behind the stove. It is not clear whether the blackboard covered a window at the left front of the class; the window might have been added many years later. Each of the longer side walls had two windows. A clock kept time up front, above the blackboard at the center of the wall. The clock had a key box attached to its bottom. To the far right of the clock was an American flag, tacked to the front wall. A cupboard was in the room's left rear corner. Oranges For Christmas - Dan K. DOTTERER, who taught at Warner's in the 1890s, returned in 1925. A disciplinarian, he was the guy who restored order after other teachers had been intimidated by a few unruly pupils. So at Christmastime, when the old man opened the classroom cupboard doors, his students were surprised to see an avalanche of oranges pouring to the floor. They were his Christmas gifts to the pupils, and the children were delighted. Picture - Teacher Mabel SCHWENK's Model T Ford is parked at the Warner's School House along the Warner's School Road. This was in the mid-1930s. Picture - Faith MILLER and her brother, Chuck MILLER, children of the Warner's School House's last teacher, Lydia MILLER, already had graduated from the school when this picture was taken in 1941.

Ref: The Hearthstone Town and Country Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Thursday - March 27, 2003 WARNER'S SCHOOL HOUSE The Littlest Red School House Upper Hanover Township 1856-1948 PART 2 OF 5 Editor's note: This is the second installment of a five-part story on the history of Warner's School House written by a great-great-grandson of the farmer whom the school house was named. Each week for four more weeks we will publish a portion of the school's history in this section of the paper. German Still Taught - In 1863, the school district's authorized texts were: Spellers and Readers, Saunders Series; Arithmetics, Stoddards and Greenlief's; Geography, Warren's; Grammar, Smith Bullion's. Mensuration, etc. at the discretion of the teachers. German to be taught as heretofore. In autumn 1863, teacher Oswin F. WAAGE read to his Warner's pupils the speech that President Lincoln had delivered November 19 at the dedication of the Gettysburg battlefield cemetery. (The battle had been July 1-3, 1863). After eight years of renting, William WARNER bought the Upper Hanover farm from Jesse YEAKEL on March 31, 1865. He paid $5,000 for about 75 acres. By 1870, Theodore's brother Jesse, 24, had married and was living in the WARNER farmhouse with his wife, Susan (SHIFFERT) WARNER, 20. The SHIFFERT family must have been significantly involved in the area because, in 1871, the Warner's School House briefly was called Shiffert's School House. It's possible William WARNER moved back to the Lehigh Valley at that time, leaving his sons to take care of the farm. On June 18, 1871, in the village of Greenville, Upper Hanover Township, Theodore WARNER married C. Elizabeth ARROWSMITH of Easton. 11 Township Schools - By 1872, the name Warner's School House stuck for good. At this time, the other Upper Hanover schools were Schwenk's, Croll's (also called Perkiomen Heights, Haring's and Jacob's), Pewee (Bethesda and Schultz's), Palm (Gery's), Reed's, Kleinsville, Church (Bullfrog Academy), Red Hill ((Hillegassville), Greenville and Pennsburg. In 1872, part of the Upper Hanover School District broke away. The village of Pennsburg left the school district to form its own district. Soon after, the Greenville and Red Hill schools also split off. Warner's School and the others remained in the Upper Hanover District. Brick Building in 1875 - Warner's School House was rebuilt from June to October 1875. The small square building that went up in 1856 came down. In its place rose a one-room brick building that would serve schoolchildren for 73 years. The new structure had red brick walls three bricks thick. The school house was 26 feet wide and 31 feet long, closer to the district's standard size. The classroom ceiling was 10 feet high. The building still had no bell tower. Construction cost $984.76, and material from the old building was sold for $38.70. Teachers still were paid $30 a month. Now the school year would last six months, opening in October. In 1875, the village of Greenville was incorporated as a borough called East Greenville, separate from Upper Hanover Township. The "East" was added to Greenville because there already was a Greenville in Mercer County, western Pennsylvania. Still in Upper Hanover, Warner's School House was less than a mile from the new East Greenville line. According to an 1877 map, the WARNER farm was this year in the hands of a B. MILLER, who might have been renting. William WARNER had a daughter named Maria, who married a MILLER, so B. MILLER might have been a WARNER son-in-law. Warners Leave - William WARNER sold his farm to George KURTZ on November 7, 1881. By now, WARNER was living in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, just north of Allentown. His son Theodore had moved to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, where he became a railroad car inspector, a carman. KURTZ paid William WARNER $6,000 for the property, but by June 6, 1885, the land was resold at a sheriff's sale to Henry J. SMITH and N.B. KEELY. In 1885, Wentling's School House was added to the Upper Hanover schools. Now the district had nine schools for grades 1-8. The village of Pennsburg broke away from Upper Hanover Township to become a borough in 1887; Red Hill did the same in 1902. Literary Gazette - On December 2, 1887, Warner's School teacher Frank Y. HOFFMAN founded the Warner's Literary Society. The purpose was to publish anonymously the writings of Warner graduates in a Warner's Literary Gazette. With the motto, "You Can If You Will," the Literary Society was active six or seven years and would reappear briefly in the 1930s. Alice L. WELKER was appointed teacher at Warner's in 1888. She probably was the school's first woman teacher. Like other teachers in the region, she had two years training at Kutztown Normal School. She received her diploma only after the Upper Hanover School District approved of her teaching. In 1889, the school board recommended that Kutztown grant WELKER a diploma. In 1892, first-grader Katie DERR met third-grader Jonathan WASSER at Warner's School. Jonathan carved their initials, "KD & JW," in a brick next to the school's front door. Over the next decades, Jonathan and Katie would fall in love and marry, and their two daughters, Anna and Vera, also would attend Warner's. On January 23, 1894, Henry SMITH and N.B. NEELY sold the old WARNER farm to Thomas J. and Emma L. TRUMBAUER. The TRUMBAUERS would farm in Upper Hanover for 16 years. >From 1894 to 1899, Warner's teacher Dan K. DOTTERER was paid $35 a month. In 1896, a year after the school year expanded to seven months, the school board voted to renovate Warner's School House. They decided to replace part of the floor, move the coal stove closer to the center of the room, install a natural slate blackboard and plaster with cement the east wall outside, the wall farthest from the road. Bell Added in 1901 - In the summer of 1901, the school expanded to 26 by 38 feet. This extended the building's front 7 feet out, to include a small cellar, an entrance hall over the cellar and a 9-foot-8-inch-tall bell tower up top. The right side of the entrance hall had a wood trap door to the basement. Coal was stored in the cellar. In was delivered through a small ground-level window facing the road. The rest of the building still had no basement. According to school records, an Oscar SCHMOYER collected money for the bell. In the new entrance hall, students stowed their coats and lunches. Girls' belongings were kept on the left, boys' on the right. The shelves were far left and right. The hall's floor was wood, as was the old classroom floor. The exterior of the building addition was red brick, matching the brick in the basic structure. The hall had a window on each side of a front porch, and a third window, less than half the size of the others, centered between the porch top and the building's roof peak. Just above the porch top was a dedication stone, indicating the bell-tower addition was built in 1901. Outside the school house was a pump with a handle to draw drinking water from a well. Looking out the front door, pupils could see the pump a little to the left. The teacher typically would ask a boy to fetch a bucket of water from the pump. Inside, the pupils would drink from the bucket with cups or a "community dipper." Picture - Warner's School House pupils from the 1934-35 school year pose at the front door. Mabel SCHWENK was their teacher. 1934 was the first year SCHWENK served as teacher at the school.

Ref: The Hearthstone Town and Country Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Thursday - March 20, 2003 WARNER'S SCHOOL HOUSE The Littlest Red School House Upper Hanover Township 1856-1948 PART 1 of 5 Editor's note: This is the first installment of a five-part story on the history of Warner's School House written by a great-great-grandson of the farmer whom the school house was named. Each week for the next four weeks we will publish a portion of the school's history in this section of the paper. When it opened in November 1856, Warner's School House was the tenth and smallest of 10 schools in the Upper Hanover Township School District. The Upper Hanover District was responsible for educating all school-age children in the area between Hereford Township on the west and Marlborough Township on the east. From 1854 to 1966, the district covered a small part of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, about 35 miles northwest of Philadelphia. In 1854 and 1855, the school district built nine school houses in and around Greenville, Pennsburg and Red Hill, villages in Upper Hanover Township. Most of the schools were a standard 25 feet wide and 33 feet long. Several had bell towers. In 1856, when it came time to build School No. 10 on the road above Greenville to Kraussdale, the school board seemed less eager to proceed. For the children of the farms along the two branches of Macoby Creek, the board decided to build a smaller school, 24 feet square. The school had one room and no bell tower. This was Warner's School House. For $30, Henry Y. SCHULTZ and his wife, Elizabeth, sold the school district a quarter acre of their farm for Warner's School. (A year later, Henry SCHULTZ would died when he was thrown from a horse). The school house cost $492.78 to erect. From September to November 1856, the structure was built near the house of Jesse YEAKEL. YEAKEL, 36, was part of a family who had lived in Upper Hanover for generations. First Called Yeakel's - In its first year, the Warner's School House was called Yeakel's School House. Its first blackboard was a wooden board painted black. Amos KRAUSS was its first teacher. Like the teachers in the nine other Upper Hanover schools, KRAUSS taught students from first through eighth grade. As the school year began in November 1856, the Upper Hanover School Board resolved that the same books be continued in the schools that have heretofore been used, and that the Testament also be used in addition. On November 7, 1857, the school board minutes say, "One year after building, Warner's needs a new privy." That was the board's first official reference to the school as Warner's. Warner, The Distiller - Nearby, the house of Jesse YEAKEL apparently had become the home of William and Margaret (ARNER) WARNER, who moved their family from Phillipsburg, New Jersey. William WARNER, 44 head distiller at a Phillipsburg whiskey distillery, would build or expand his family farmhouse about 450 feet northwest of the school house. Theodore WARNER, William's son, might have attended the Warner's School House from 1857 to 1862, roughly fourth through eighth grades. His older brother Jesse and younger sister Martha might have gone to the school, too. They spoke, read and wrote English at school, but also spoke German. They spoke Pennsylvania German and English at home. Imagine Theodore's mother stirring him from his sleep on a school morning "Weck uff," Theodore, she might say. "Rischt dich fer in die Schul geh. Draame kumme net waahr wann du net uffweckscht." (Wake up, Theodore! Prepare yourself for school. Dreams can't come true if you never wake up). In 1857, the school year began on November 9 for a four-and-a-half-month school term. At the Warner's School House, Theodore would have had these teachers: John K. HOUCK, 1857-58; Daniel K. KEPNER, 1858-59; John K. HOUCK, 1859-60; Benjamin F. DOTTS, 1860-61; and M.S. KEEL, 1861-62. Each teacher's salary was about $30 for a 22-day month. At the end of 1857, Theodore's 3-year-old sister, Ellen, and infant brother, Edward, became seriously ill, possibly suffering from a common contagious disease for which 19th-century medicine was ineffective. Baby Edward died December 16. Ellen died eight days later. In 1859, the Upper Hanover School Board ordered that teachers use these books; Spelling Books, Comly's n Bonsalis Edition; Reading Books, Saunders Series; Arithmetic, Stoddard's Mental, Stoddart & Davis; Geography, Mitchel's and Atlas; Grammar, Smith and Brown's; Mensuration (weights and measures), Bonnycastles; German Books, A.B.C. and Spelling Book; Psalter (Book of Psalms) and New Testament. The five Saunders' Readers included popular poetry and short stories of the 1850s, and rules on the elementary sounds of the letters. The books' many stories taught moral lessons in honesty, generosity, democracy and hard work. The readings told stories of Columbus, Hiawatha, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and the marquis de Lafayette, Abraham Lincoln, not yet a president, was not mentioned. Saunders' Fourth Reader had a Bible legend about a Revolutionary War patriot named WARNER. In this story, a pro-British Tory's life is spared when WARNER's little daughter opens a Bible and points to the passage, Love your enemies. On November 5, 1859, the school board bought a new stove for Warner's School House. On December 1, 1860, Theodore WARNER's oldest sister, Catharine, got married to Vincent REUBERT in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. In 1861, the Upper Hanover District built another school house near the New Goshenhoppen Church. It was called the Church School, and because it was at the edge of a swamp, it also was called Bullfrog Academy. On August 9, 1861, Theodore WARNER's oldest brother, Reuben, was back in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, on August 26, 1862, to marry Anna BEERS. In the meantime, Theodore probably quit school to work full-time on the farm. Picture - Warner's school house as it appeared after it was sold in 1948. Shortly after it was sold, the bell tower was removed. The building still stands and is currently a residence. Picture - The above map shows the locations of the school houses located in Upper Hanover Township, as well as those located in the three towns.

My brick wall is Rebecca Zimmerman who married Michael Stein in 1787 at Schwartzwald Church, Berks Co. She and a Jacob Zimmerman were executors in 1800 for will of Michael Stein. ] Cathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "joe patterson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 11:15 AM Subject: [PAMONTGO-L] Re: early marriage records!! > hi Gene, > > Thanks for posting all these records. > > November 12, 1823 - Married on Thursday the 6th inst., by the Rev. J. C. Clay, John ZIMMERMAN to Maria TYSON, daughter of Cornelius TYSON, Esq., all of Worcester. > > I show a John Z to a Maria Tyson [did not have a parent] > > John Z the son of Arnold Zimmerman [1771-1847] who married Mary Catherine Johnston [1787-1847] Have earlier for the Z line if anyone interested > > > > > > ==== PAMONTGO Mailing List ==== > Composing your query (E-mail message) > KISS- Keep It Short & Simple > > >

History of Chester County Enrenzeller, Jacob (Dr.), was the son of Jacob Enrenzeller, a native of Switzerland, who migrated to this county and engaged in the business of tavern keeping at 4th street in Phila., where Dr. Jacob was born Sept. 1, 1757. He studied medicine in Phila. He moved to West Chester and he died July 18, 1838. He married his cousin, Elizabeth Hankee, and had two daughters, both of whom were imbecile and they died early in life. Evans, Daniel, was born in Caernarvonshire, Wales, in 1743, came to America in 1752 with his father, Lewis who settled in Vincent township. Daniel was a schoolmate of Gen. Anthony Wayne, and on the latter's retreat from Paoli to Warwicks Furnace he encamped one night on Daniel's farm. Daniel died in 1820, married Esther Benner and their third son and fourth child, Ezra, who married Eliza King of German extraction to whom were born two children, Jesse Benner and Newton. Jesse Benner Evans, was born Oct 8, 1824, married July 16, 1850 to Sarah S. Wagonseller, d/o Jacob of Union County. Children, Franklin, Elisa, married Clark Pierson, Lewis, Wilmer, Martha K., Abigail, and Gertrude. Fleming, William, the earliest member of this family in Chester County, was a native of Greenock, Scotland. It is related that he had an uncle who, in the latter part of the 17th century, sailed from Greenock to the Eastern Shore of Maryland for tobacco and wheat. Once while in the port of Greenock he persuded his nephew, William Fleming,to make a voyage with him to America. He consented, and arriving in the Chesapeake in the harvest-time, went ashore at the instance of his uncle to help the farmers, as it would be some time before the ship would be ready to make the return voyage. While engaged, the ship sailed without him. He resided with an Englishman, Richard Moore, in Concord (now Delaware County), and he married one of his daughters, Mary. In 1714 he moved to East Caln township, Chester Co. Children; John, William, Henry, George, James and Peter, and daughters, Mary married David Cowan, and Susannah who married William Cowan. James Fleming, son of William, died May 3, 1767, at age 64 and was buried at Upper Octorara, leaving a son John Fleming Sr., who was born in 1731. John Fleming was an officer in the provincial service, member of the Constiutional Convention of 1776 . He died Sept. 2, 1814, age 83. Haines, John, a settler of Lumberton, NJ., as early as 1683, married Esther Borton, both of Northampton River, were married 10-10-1684, in Burlington County, she may have been the d/o John and Ann Bortor, of Ayno, in the county of Northampton, born 5-25-1667. Their son, Isaac Haines came over as early as 1714 and in that year he marred Catharine David, d/o Ellis David, of Goshen. Their son Ellis married 8-10-1751 to Margaret Jones. Heckel (not Hinkle), Dr. Frederick William Heckel, Sr. was born in Saarbruck, on a branch of the Rhine, in Germany, between Bavaria and Lothringia, Jan 1800. Studied medicine in Germany. He married May 17, 1825, Margaret, the d/o of John Barnard Bowers of Fort Washington. He father was German born, settled in NY, and was a friend of John Jacob Astor. Children; Louisa Rosanna, married Charles Zeller, Dr. Frederick Willliam, Mary Matilda,, Dt.Charles Augustus, he died in 1877, Dr. Edward Bowers, and Emma Augusta. Dr. Frederick William Heckel, married July 4, 1852 to Henrietta H., d/o Isaac and Mary (Hoffman) Chrisman, of Shuylkill township. She died Nov. 26, 1876, he married 2nd on Feb.13, 1878 to Emmiline, d/o Michael and Rebecca (Brooke) Towers. They had one son, Frederick T. James, Aaron, lately arrived from Stafford Monthly Meeting, in Old England, produced to Chester MM, 9-24-1701, a certifate from for himself and his wife Elizabeth. They settled in Westown. Children, Thomas, 1700, Mary, 1702, Sarah, 1704, Aaron, 1706, Joseph, 1709, married about 1735 to Hannah Hickman, born Aprl 12, 1715, d/o Benjamin and Anna Hickman of Westown. Hickman History, date for Hannah's birth differ for Hannah, born 3, 21, 1715, married Joseph James. She died 5-23-1806 Best Wishes, Geri

Geri is correct that the license will indicate widow or widower if that is the case, and so it does in this listing for 1768 at St. Michael's & Zion, Philadelphia. However, not every list of abstracts carries that information forward. It appears three places, once under date, where it shows she was a widow, and once under brides names and once under grooms names, where it does not. You can see it under this URL at GenWeb Archives. http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/data/pa+index+8405229632904+F I wanted to correct the misunderstanding published many years ago that the Hainick marriage was to the daughter of Peter WENTZ, Jr., when it was not. 1768 - June 2, Francis Hainick and Barbara Wentz, wid., L. The Barbara Wentz who married Francis Hainick in 1768 was described as a widow, the marriage was at St. Michael's & Zion in Philadelphia, and the same church had a baptismal record of a child Carl Ludwig to Michael and Barbara WENTZ in 1755. The Barbara WENTZ who was a daughter of Peter WENTZ, Jr., was a different person entirely from the above, she married first Rev. John George ALSENTZ in 1764, he died in 1767, she married Jacob WENTZ, Jr., her cousin, in 1770, he died in 1783, she then married Joseph TYSON, son of Cornelius, in 1784. Best wishes, Gene Rooks in Gotha

Hi, when a marriage is listed at St. Michael's they list if the person is a widow or widower, if they are a differnt faitth, and if their surname is different in the license book. This marriage was listed as Wentz, Barbara, and Francis Hainick, June 2, 1768. Licenses Wentz 15 Sept 1774, Abraham to Sophia Wentz 2 June 1768 Barbara to Francis Hainick 25 June 1776 Catharine to George Fluck 28 April 1766 Elizabeth to John Coleston (B) 18 Oct 1774 Hannah to Bejamin Marclay 22 June 1770 Jacob to Barbara Alsents (B) 3 July 1771 Mary to Gerart Hoot 15 Sept 1774 Sophia to Abraham Wentz Best Wishes, Geri

Hi, when a marriage is listed at St. Michael's they list if the person is a widow or widower, if they are a differnt faitth, and if their surname is different in the license book. This marriage was listed as Wentz, Barbara, and Francis Hainick, June 2, 1768. Licenses Wentz 15 Sept 1774, Abraham to Sophia Wentz 2 June 1768 Barbara to Francis Hainick 25 June 1776 Catharine to George Fluck 28 April 1766 Elizabeth to John Coleston (B) 18 Oct 1774 Hannah to Bejamin Marclay 22 June 1770 Jacob to Barbara Alsents (B) 3 July 1771 Mary to Gerart Hoot 15 Sept 1774 Sophia to Abraham Wentz Best Wishes, Geri

Hi, when a marriage is listed at St. Michael's they list if the person is a widow or widower, if they are a differnt faitth, and if their surname is different in the license book. This marriage was listed as Wentz, Barbara, and Francis Hainick, June 2, 1768. Best Wishes, Geri

Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - April 25, 1903 REPORTED HIMSELF DEAD A month or two ago it was announced that Henry HOFFMAN, of Emaus, supposed to be serving as a Marine on one of the ships of the South Atlantic Squadron then in Porto Rican waters, had been drowned. HOFFMAN has a wife and five children, four of them under sixteen years of age, living at Emaus. After the announcement of the supposed death of HOFFMAN, his wife applied to E.F. SCHOCK, the pension attorney of Allentown, and the latter filed her claim for pension. Mr. SHOCK has since learned, through an investigation made by the government, that there is or was no man named HOFFMAN connected with the South Atlantic Squadron and that none of the crew of any boat was drowned on the date of HOFFMAN's alleged death. When Mrs. HOFFMAN last heard from her husband he was at Reading. He then wrote to her that he was about to enlist in the navy. It is alleged, however, that this story was a hoax and that HOFFMAN is still at Reading, never having left the place. He formerly served in Company L., Eighth United States Infantry. It is claimed that HOFFMAN had the report of his alleged drowning published to deceive his wife who intended to have him arrested for non-support. A BALKY AUTOMOBILE Dr. Elmer KRIEBEL, of Worcester, made a trip to East Greenville on Sunday with his automobile, and while there the bloomin' thing refused to work. Dr. KRIEBEL could not get the machine to work until he secured the services of machinist Harvey HAAS, of East Greenville. After working on it for several hours the machine was repaired. It was half past eleven o'clock on Sunday evening before the Doctor was able to continue his journey homeward. CONTRACTOR'S LEG INJURED Contractor and builder A.H. BEYER, of Red Hill, some weeks ago sprained his right leg. The injury caused him some pain but he could be about until last Friday, when Dr. J.E. BLANCK, of Green Lane, examined it and found that the bone was split. The leg was placed in plaster of paris and Mr. BEYER must remain in the house for some time. PLANTED SWEET CORN THIS WEEK John S. MACK, a farmer residing at Fruitville, on Wednesday planted sweet corn in one of his fields. Mr. MACK expects an early crop. WANT MOTHER EJECTED The Bucks County Court was on Monday asked to eject a mother from her son's home near Zions Hill, Milford township. The case was a proceeding brought by Elmer A. HARWICK, of Rosedale, near Zions Hill, to have his mother ejected from a portion of the residence on the farm owned by the plaintiff, which formerly belonged to his father's estate. The plaintiff was represented by John V. OMMEREN, Esq., of Quakertown, and Hugh B. EASTBURN, Esq. The plaintiff testified that he purchased the farm on which he resided from his father's estate for $3800, which was sold to him by his mother who was the administratrix. At the time of the sale he said he told his mother she could have four rooms in the house as long as he lived on the farm. He said there was no written agreement to this statement, but that he had told his mother "he would be as good as his word." He testified that he ordered his mother to vacate the premises on August 27, 1902, which she failed to do. After the three months notice had expired he instituted proceedings to have her ejected from the house. HARWICK also claimed damages in the sum of $100. Mrs. HARWICK, mother of the plaintiff and defendant in the case, testified that she had resided on the farm now owned by her son for the past eighteen years. She described the sale of the property and said that her son promised her she could have four rooms in the house as long as she remained unmarried in consideration of the low price paid for the property. There was no written agreement to this effect, but that her son said "he would be as good as his word." She testified that her son would not allow her to have wood hauled on the premises last winter for her own use and that he also denied her the use of the wash house. She said that as fast as she attempted to carry the wood from the road to her rooms the plaintiff would push her aside and throw the wood back into the road. Mrs. HARWICK stated she had two sons. Her husband died on April 4, 1901. The jury retired and returned a verdict for the defendant. SUNDAY-SCHOOL TO BE REORGANIZED The Sunday-school which is held at Green Lane, during the summer months was reorganized at a meeting held in that chapel on Tuesday evening. The following were nominated for the differ- offices. The election will be held on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock: Pres., Nathaniel SCHOLL and E.K. KLINE; Supt., F.N. GILBERT and J.H. MCDOWELL; Assts., Grover HOLDER and F.F. SOWERS; Sec., H.P. TRUMBAUER; Treas., I.R. SMITH; librarians, F.H. GENZLER, Warren POLSTER and John ZEPP; assistants, Warren BUCK; organist, Katie KULP, assistant, Nath. SCHOLL; auditors, Jno. W. POLSTER, Levi JONES and Dr. Jos. E. BLANCK; trustees, H.B. YOST, one year; S.S. HARTZELL, two years and Mark HILTEBEITEL for three years. Janitor, H.B. YOST. LAD INJURED BY WAGON BRAKE Henry LONG, of Salfordville, was injured one day last week while visiting his grandparents near Zieglerville. He, with other was playing on a wagon and the brake handle hit him on the head, making an ugly gash above the right eye. He was taken to the office of Dr. BENNER, at Salfordville, where his injuries were dressed. RECEIVED CARLOAD OF MACHINERY G.W. RICHARDS, the agricultural implement agent of Red Hill, this week received a carload of McCormick binders and mowers at the Red Hill depot. He unloaded them and distributed them among his customers in this section. SOLD SPEEDY YOUNG TROTTER Jonas W. PANNEPACKER, of Schwenksville, recently sold his speedy young trotting mare to Norristown horsemen. This colt was in training at the Red Hill track last summer and it showed some very fast stretches. LEGAL NOTICE Estate of John S. DIMMIG, late of Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County deceased. Letters of administration on the above estate having been granted the undersigned, all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having legal claims, to present the same without delay to Harrison DIMMIG, Pennsburg, Pa. Wm. F. DANNEHOWER, Attorney. PARTNERSHIP DISSOLUTION Notice is hereby given that the partnership between Hugh MCLEAN and Alexander MCLEAN, operating under the firm name of H. & A. McLean, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. All debts owing by said firm will be paid by Alexander MCLEAN and all bills due said firm to be paid to said Alexander MCLEAN, in whose possession the books of the firm remain. Hugh MCLEAN, Alexander MCLEAN. McLeans, PA., April 1, '03.