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651 History of Gift, Kern and Royer Families
Family of Christopher Royer - page 143

Barbara Royer, youngest daughter of Christopher Royer, Jr., died Aug.17, 1873, aged 68 years, 8 months and 27 days. She was married to William Bierly, who was born Sept. 18, 1818, and died Sept. 6, 1898.
They were blessed with one child, Martha, who was married to Jesse Long, and resides in Rebersburg, Pa. 
Royer, Barbara (I768)
 
652 History of Kreider Family has death year as 1893 Risser, Elizabeth (I3065)
 
653 home Houseworth, Mary Eleanor (I2521)
 
654 http://blog.case.edu/case-news/2010/09/10/pioneering_engineer_professor_anne_hiltner_dies
Anne Hiltner, Case Western Reserve?s first female professor of engineering and an internationally recognized scientist and engineer, died Monday after a courageous battle with illness. She was 69.

?Our campus has lost a remarkable academic leader,? President Barbara R. Snyder said. ?As a woman in the sciences and engineering, Professor Hiltner?s entire career served as an inspiration to others. As a researcher of extraordinary ingenuity and accomplishment, she transformed her field. Her impact on the university, and on students and colleagues worldwide, cannot be overstated. We will miss her.?

Professor Hiltner came to the university in 1967, after earning a doctorate in physical chemistry from Oregon State University. She served as a research associate for one year with chemistry professor Irvin M. Krieger, and then joined the laboratory of professor Eric Baer, who was chairman of the Department of Macromolecular Science at the time. The connection with professor Baer proved fortuitous, as the pair forged a powerful scientific collaboration that persisted to the present. They also discovered personal compatibility, marrying in 1999.

?The dream of every faculty member is to try harder, harder,? Baer said. ?She always climbed mountains.?

From the very beginning, Baer recalled, his colleague was committed to excellence. Whether working in the laboratory, writing papers or advising graduate students, Hiltner remained laser-focused. ?She was a projects person,? Baer said.

In 1974, Hiltner became the university?s first female member of the engineering faculty when she became an assistant professor of macromolecular engineering. Seven years later she founded the Center for Applied Polymer Research (CAPRI), an organization that encouraged collaboration across disciplines and ultimately laid the groundwork for the program that she considered her greatest achievement, the awarding of a 10-year, $40 million National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center (STC), the Center for Layered Polymeric Systems (CLiPS).

The NSF received more than 160 applications for STC funding, and gave awards to six. CLiPS is the university?s first and only STC, and involves several other university partnerships nationwide as well as collaboration with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

?The STC made her feel she had reached to the top of Everest,? Baer said. ?She really reached the pinnacle of her career.?

Over her career, Professor Hiltner published nearly 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and received multiple honors from professional scientific organizations. She was a Fellow of the American Chemical Society?s Division of Polymeric Materials, the American Institute for Medical Biological Engineering, and the High Polymer Physics Division of the American Physical Society.

In 2001, Professor Hiltner was the recipient of the American Chemical Society?s Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering. In 2004, Case Western Reserve named her the Herbert Henry Dow Professor of Science and Engineering. That same year, the Society of Plastics Engineers? Thermoplastic Materials and Foam Division presented Professor Hiltner its annual outstanding achievement award. In 2008, she received the American Chemical Society?s Award in Applied Polymer Science. In announcing the honor, the society cited Professor Hiltner?s ?pioneering contributions in understanding the connections between hierarchical structure and properties of polymers, their blends and composites.?

Even with all of the recognition, Baer said, ?her greatest joy was her involvement with the graduate students. She loved the creative, productive side of her work.?

Hiltner did not want formal remembrances or donations made in her name, Baer said. The greatest tribute others can make to Hiltner, he explained, is to continue her creative mission through their academic work.

Posted by: David Wilson, September 10, 2010 
Hiltner, Phyllis Anne (I1995)
 
655 http://grandviewjohnstownpa.com/
http://grandviewjohnstownpa.com/interment-details.php?inter_no=20078
Buried lot 41, section CA4, Place deceased: Johnstown, PA, place of birth: Loganton, PA. 
Achenbach, Grace V. (I2370)
 
656 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Notes, Notes (I3047)
 
657 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=haberman1&id=I00711
Name: Abraham Willet Kline, Sr.
Birth: 5 OCT 1808 in Orangeville, Columbia County, PA
Death: 25 MAY 1858 in Columbia County, PA
Event: Source #2 Death Certificate, Elizabeth Kline Warn, states that her father was born in Orangeville, PA
Event: Source #3 1850 census lists children Sarah, Isaac N., Hiram, Elizabeth, & Emily (later called Emma), and their ages
Event: Source #4 Marriage date is from "Genealogy of the Miller & Pursel Families," by Vida Miller Pursel, Bloomsburg, Pa., 1939, DAR Library, Washington, D.C.
Burial: 1858 Hidlay Church Cemetery, North Centre Township, Columbia County, PA
Event: Source #1 "The Kline Klan", 1960, by Helen Kline, Mr. M.P. Whitenight, Mrs. Henry Stoll, available at DAR Library, Washington, D.C.
Census: 1840 Fishing Creek Twp., Columbia Co., PA: "A. W. Kline"
Census: 1850 Fishing Creek Twp., Columbia Co., PA

1. Family of Abraham, (age 42) & Catherine Kline (age 37) listed on the 1850 census, Columbia County, Fishing Creek, PA
Sarah, age 16
Isaac N., age 12
Hiram F., age 8
Elizabeth, age 6 (she was actually aged 5)
Emily, age 1
There also two other members of the family listed after Emily: Ira D. Kline, age 23, a tailor, Joseph S. Kline, age 18, a tanner 
Kline, Abraham Willet (I1869)
 
658 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hunterdonnjbefor&id=I1055
before 1800, Hunterdon County
Frederick adameve2@comcast.net

Name: Anna Christina KLINE
Birth: 1737 in Amwell, Hunterdon, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
Death: Jun 1827 in Amwell, Hunterdon, NJ, USA

Note:
"John Smith 1718 Descendants" by Smith 1987 p.60
NJ Archives Vol 35 wills 1781-1785 p. 237 lib 29:290 dad's will
"Early Germans of New Jersey" by Chambers p.425m 432
"The Palatine Families of New York & New Jersey - Some Later Arrivals 1717-1776"p 128
Genealogy book on Hummers in Hunterdon County Library FOR 10 children "danickit@comcast.net"

Marriage 1 Anthonius 2 HUMMER b: Jun 1731 in ,Somerset, Eastern Division, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain

Children
1. Harbert HUMMER b: ABT 1760 in Amwell, Hunterdon, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
2. Herman HUMMER b: 6 Oct 1761 in Amwell, Hunterdon, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
3. Jacob HUMMER b: 5 Mar 1763 in Amwell, Hunterdon, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
4. Mary HUMMER b: ABT 1766 in Amwell, Hunterdon, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
5. Anna Christina HUMMER b: ABT 1769 in Amwell, Hunterdon, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
6. John HUMMER b: 12 Apr 1771 in Amwell, Hunterdon, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
7. Catharine HUMMER b: 22 Dec 1773 in Amwell, Hunterdon, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
8. George HUMMER b: 11 Feb 1776 in Amwell, Hunterdon, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
9. Elizabeth HUMMER b: 15 Oct 1779 in Amwell, Hunterdon, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
10. Sarah HUMMER. b: 16 Feb 1785 
Kline, Anna Christina (I1900)
 
659 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hunterdonnjbefor&id=I15017
before 1800, Hunterdon County
Frederick adameve2@comcast.net

Name: George KLINE
Birth: 1732 in , Hunterdon, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
Death: BEF 6 Jan 1785 in , Hunterdon, NJ, USA
Note: NJ Archives Vol 35 wills 1781-1785 p. 237 lib 29:290 dad's will

Marriage 1 Rebecca

Children
1. Mary KLINE b: in , Hunterdon, NJ, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
2. Peggy KLINE b: in , Hunterdon, NJ, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
3. Rebecca KLINE b: in , Hunterdon, NJ, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
4. George KLINE b: 29 Dec 1772 in , Hunterdon, NJ, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
5. Frances KLINE b: in , Hunterdon, NJ, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain
6. Elizabeth KLINE b: 6 Aug 1775 in , Hunterdon, NJ, Province of New Jersey, Great Britain 
Kline, George (I1896)
 
660 http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1995126&id=I97868207

Sarah Brittain Willet was born on November 7, 1764 in Amwell Township, New Jersey to William and Mary (Collins) Brittain. She married Abraham Willet in 1784.
Sarah died on December 4, 1843 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. 
Brittain, Sarah (I1883)
 
661 http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2704975&id=I12123
Eva Rosina GEIST
Birth: 10 Feb 1757 in PA
Death: 4 Oct 1853 in PA
Father: Hans Jacob GEIST b: in Germany
Mother: Eva Catherine STROUSE 
Strouse, Eva Catherine (I2578)
 
662 http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2704975&id=I12123
Eva Rosina GEIST
Birth: 10 Feb 1757 in PA
Death: 4 Oct 1853 in PA
Father: Hans Jacob GEIST b: in Germany
Mother: Eva Catherine STROUSE

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=carptree&id=I40680
Eva Rosina Geist
Birth: 10 FEB 1757 in Tinnicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Death: 04 OCT 1853 in Bushkill Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Marriage 1 Johannes Fehr b: 15 APR 1752 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Married: 15 MAY 1773 in Tinnicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

 
Geist, Eva (I1823)
 
663 http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jkhouser84&id=I17086 Family F706
 
664 http://www.brumbaughwise.com/families/royer-family
I. Sebastian Royer
I. Sebastian Royer, with four sons, emigrated from the Palatinate, Germany, to America in the year 1718. He was born near the city of Metz, but retired to the Palatinate about the Revocation Period (1685). He likely accompanied his father, for at this time Sebastian was likely only a youth, otherwise he was a very old man when he died in 1758. A number of Royers are said to fled to the Palatinate at this time. It is said that his sons persuaded him to come to America. The two oldest were young grown men. They had a long and tedious journey, and despaired of ever reaching the New World; but the ship finally landed in safety at Philadelphia.

It is claimed that he stopped for a time in Royersford, on the Schuylkill River, and that the place was named after him. On this point there are grounds for doubt. According to Rupp, a Bastian Royer settled in Lancaster County in 1719. This was certainly our Sebastian. So his coming to Lancaster County followed almost immediately on his arrival.

His wife had died in Germany, but after his arrival in America he remarried. The name of his second wife was Agnes; her maiden family name has not been learned. It seems that his three daughters were by the second wife. She was a member of the Reformed Church, while he was not only a Lutheran, but also a deacon in said church. On account of these conditions in his family it is said that he donated two tracts of land at Brickerville, one for The erection of a Lutheran and the other for a Reformed church(+). But it is established by the deed that the trustees of the Lutheran church bought the land direct from the Penns, yet Sebastian may have supplied the money. He is not mentioned in Lutheran church records at Brickerville. This church property ran along Sebastian's land, and may have been secured by the trustees before Sebastian had his deed from the Penns. But it is also established by deed that he did give land for the erection of a Reformed Church, designated as Zion Reformed, but long known as Royer's. This church stands on the hill up from the side-wooded ravine in which nestled the home of Sebastian Royer. A stone might have been thrown by a single cast from the church to the Royer home. Although this land was bought by Reformed trustees in 1747, yet it was still a part of the Royer estate in 1759, when the heirs deeded the estate to the Brubakers.

When Sebastian Royer first bought land in Lancaster County, we have not ascertained for a certainty. He owned land in Leacock Twp, Lanc. Co. in 1735. From here he likely moved to Brickerville, Warwick Twp., same county. He bought 64 acres from the Penns, Aug. 25, 1742; and 222 acres, Jan. 26, 1743,--the latter
tract had been bought by a Moyer, who failed to meet conditions, and the tract had reverted to the Penns. June 20, 1754. Sebastian deeded to his son Samuel 136 acres of the latter tract. The heirs deeded to the Brubakers the paternal estate on 192 acres in 1759. It will thus be seen that Sebastian owned as much as 328 acres near Brickerville, Lancaster County, or 42 acres more than the two tracts above, bought from the Penns. Tradition credits him with as much as 500 acres. George Royer, doubtless Sebastians's son, George, owned 200 acres of land in Warwick Township in 1759; and Henry Royer, doubtless also Sebastian's Henry, was a taxable in Elizabeth Township in 1758, the year after the township was organized out of a part of Warwick. From the location of these lands, in Elizabeth and Warwick Townships, they might have previously been a part of the paternal estate. This matter is as yet undetermined.
Sebastian Royer is said to have been naturalized at a meeting of the Supreme Court in Philadelphia, Apr. 11-13, 1743 (+) It is quite likely that his buying land of the Penns at this time led to his naturalization. Sebastian Royer died near Brickerville, in Elizabeth Township, Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1758 or 1759. This we have from the fact that letters of administration were taken out by his oldest son Emig, Feb. 24, 1759, and his last will was executed Aug. 3, 1758. Where his remains rest is not known. It is presumed, however that he was buried in the large Lutheran cemetery in East Brickerville.

Writes A. H. Huber: "Sebastian's will is dated Aug. 3, 1758, and was admitted to probate Feb. 14, 1759. The court granted letters of administration to John Emig Royer, whose sureties on the bond were George and Samuel Reier. No account of the estate is on file as it appears that in those days the practice was to divide and convey the whole estate in the life time of the parent. In this will it is stated that "John Emick is the oldest son and shall have the sum of five pounds for his two shares, and that the property shall be divided between his brothers and sisters, share and share alike, as one child is to us like the other. So shall you divide in peace and be satisfied. "The instrument viewed in the light of modern wills is somewhat quaint and peculiar, but throughout the whole paper there breathes the spirit of paternal love and Christian piety. It is signed by both husband and wife, or father and mother, each of whom make their mark."

I. Sebastian Royer had seven children. We give their names in the order in which they appear in the deed transferring the father's estate. If he had children who died before himself, of course they are not included in this list. Emig's name comes first, and as he was the oldest, the names are likely in the order of birth.
Name Birth Death
II. Emig (Amos) Royer Dec 18, 1707 Apr. 2, 1769
II. George Royer Likely about 1709
II. Samuel Royer About 1764
II. Henry Royer
II. Margaret Royer
II. Maria Catarina Royer
II. Catharine Royer Sept. , 1728 Apr. 28, 1809

The Will of Sebastian Royer. Warwick Township, Lancaster County, In the Name of God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Whereas me Bastian Ryer and his Wife Angnes, hath Laid us Town by Crossing Sickness, so they sought to Make and Leave Peace behind by their Childrens, by their Life, and is This their Married People. Their Eareestly Will and Desire That after their Decease, John Emick Reyer, the oldest Son, shall have the Sum of Five Pounds for his Two Shares Which he would have in forehand of his Brothers and Sisters, and if the said John Emick Ryer, have received The Five Pounds, Then all the Brothers and Sisters shall Divide in Equal Shares, and none shall have further as one of the others, and wee old aged Bodies Hopes That our beloved Children will be satisfied with These our Last will, For it is one Child to us Like the others, and you shall Divide in Peace, and be Satisfied with That, That we left behind us for you, and by This our Last Will you Stand, and neither put anything thereof Nor thereto, Then the Lord God will Bless you in this and everlasting Life, and by This Writing Which Wee Left before your eyes after our Decease, Keep that and be in Peace, and Let father and Mother rest in the Earth and shleep and being satisfied therewith, and we are in Conscion shure That it is Right, Which we Think That you beloved Childrens May acknowledge, and Take it in peace and Lastly we weesh you all the peace of God in your harts Through Jesus Christ, Amen--Dated August 3rd Anno 1758 Witness His Johannes Neigy (Seal) Bathe Reyer II
Mark
Johanne Michael Butz Her
Georg Martsen (Seal) Agnes X
Reyer Johannes Martin Mark A True Copy Translated from the Original
"Abea Myer"
Remark--The translation was likely made for the Register at Lancaster. The copy on the books there can scarcely be read: but the editor copied this from the original translation, preserved in Lancaster, which is much more legible.

Remarks on the Family of I. Sebastian Royer. It is practically certain that all of the sons of Sebastian Royer came with him to Lancaster Co., and there established homes. If either George or Henry moved away, they did so after their father's death. We herewith give a statement of the case.
First, all were present to sign the deed conveying away the old homestead. This of course does not have much weight, for if living at a distance, their signatures would have been necessary and would have secured. But the signatures prove, as does the body of the deed, and the attest (*) to it, that all four of his sons were living May 17, 1759. The same also prove that the names of the sons were Emig (corrupted by the English scribe into Amos, George, Samuel, and Henry. Emig Royer, according to a survey given A. H. Huber of Westminster, Md., by Mr. Cope, owned land in Leacock Twp., Lanc. Co., in 1735, which land joined land owned by his father. He bought his land on the Middle Creek, same county, in 1747, and died there in 1769. All of his sons owned farms in Lane, Co., in which county and in Leb. his descendants are numerous, also in Union and Franklin Counties, Pa., and in Carrol Co., Md. They also are scattered more or less liberally through the Middle West, especially in Stark Co., Ohio We find from an old list of land owners that a George Royer in 1759 owned 200 acres of land in Warwick Township, Lanc. County. This was the township in which Sebastian settled. The evidence is practically conclusive that this George was George the son of Sebastian. Whether he died in Lancaster Co. we do not know. The tide of immigration was strongly westward soon after Sebastian's death. George's full name may have been Hans George, (John George) as this was a very common combination among the early Germans, and he may have been the son John who tradition says inherited a part of the paternal estate, was unfortunate and moved west of the Susquehanna. (+) A George Royer, likely this one, bought a tract, not an expensive one, Antrim Twp., Cumb. Co., now Franklin Co., Pa., Apr. 22, 1772 (See Records at Chambersburg.) He seems to meet all the requirements of the traditional unfortunate John.
 
Royer, Sebastian (I2610)
 
665 http://www.ristenbatt.com/genealogy/shplst12.htm
German Pioneers to Pennsylvania
Passenger Ships' Lists
Includes People from the Palatine
THE JOHNSON GALLEY

[List 21 A] A List of Palentines arrived in the Port of Philadelphia on board of the Johnson Galley of London, David Crockatt, Commander, September 18th OS, 1732.

Boys Under 16 Lodawick Schwe
Girls Under 14 Margeretta Schwe
Men Above 16 Years Daniel Schwe
Women Above 14 Maria Schwe 
Schilling, Maria Margaretha (I1942)
 
666 http://www.spfldcol.edu/homepage/dept.nsf/d02dea1c0fc6f99d45256bd800296e8c/d6c7bfcf7e54083f852571b6004ddd91?OpenDocument
Paul Limbert is among the most notable YMCA professionals of the Twentieth Century, influencing the YMCA Movement at the local, national and international levels. He earned divinity degrees from both Eastern and Union Theological Seminaries and completed his doctorate in 1929 at Columbia University.

After serving as an Army first lieutenant during WWI, he became the physical director at Camp Upton, New York. Limbert held faculty positions at Franklin and Marshall College and Columbia University and was a faculty adviser to the Student YMCA. For six years, beginning in 1946, he was the President of Springfield College, and in 1953 was named the Secretary General of the World Alliance of YMCAs.

After retiring from the World Alliance, he accepted the appointment as the Executive Director of the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly in North Carolina. Limbert authored several books, including Christian Emphasis in YMCA Programs, College Teaching and Christian Values, Living a Century and New Perspective for the YMCA. He was recognized with the Legion of Honor award from France, the L.K. Hall Citation from the Association of Professional Directors and with honorary doctorates from both Springfield and American International Colleges. 
Limbert, Rev Paul Moyer (I1326)
 
667 https://archive.org/details/commemorativebio04jhbe/page/n5
Commemorative biographical record of central Pennsylvania
by J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date 1898

GEORGE GROSS, a highly respected resident of New Berlin, Union county, can look back over more than seventy years of life, during which his retentive memory has treasured many interesting reminiscences of the past. During the greater portion of his life he has been identified with the mercantile and agricultural interests of this section. At present he is living in retirement and enjoying the fruits of his past labors.
Mr. Gross is a member of an old Pennsylvania family, his ancestors having settled in Montgomery county in an early day. Henry Gross, his grandfather, was born there, being one of a large family of children, several of whom left the old home to locate elsewhere. One brother moved to the western part of Pennsylvania, another lived in Dauphin county, Penn., a sister died in Mifflin county, another brother died in New Orleans, a sister died in Franklin county, Penn., and still another brother at Beavertown, Snyder Co., Penn. Henry Gross was married in York county, Penn., to Miss Phoebe Havice, and came on horseback with his bride to what is now Beaver township, Snyder county, in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He established a mercantile business at Middleburg, but in 1801 his store was burned, and he then engaged in farming, purchasing land below MeKees Half Falls. In 1814 he bought the land upon which New Berlin now stands, and he followed farming there for a number of years. This land formerly belonged to George Long, and the village, when first laid out, was called Longstown. At one time Henry Gross owned six farms. His death occurred in 1842, when in his eighty-third year. His wife died in 1837, as the result of injuries received from an accident in falling down stairs. Henry, his eldest son, who served as justice of the peace and surveyor in Snyder county in an early day, in 1830, went west, locating in Seneca county, Ohio, where he died sixty-five years ago. The children of Henry and Phoebe (Havice) Gross were as follows: Henry (mentioned in the foregoing), Elizabeth (Mrs. George Herald), Sarah (Mrs. John Hilbish), Catherine (Mrs. Jacob Dubbs), Philip (father of our subject), John (who died near Chattanooga, Tenn.), Polly (Mrs. Col. Henry Royer) and Barbara (Mrs. George Kleckner). None of these children are now living. Mrs. Kleckner died one year after her marriage.
Gen. Philip Gross, the father of our subject, was born in 1797, in Middleburg, and his educational opportunities in youth were limited to the schools of that place. He always resided upon the old homestead, following agriculture as an occupation, and at times did considerable business as an administrator and executor in the settlement of estates. He was a robust man, well-proportioned, and was seldom ill. Throughout his life he took keen interest in military affairs, and, only his ineligibility on account of age, prevented him from serving in the Civil war. He filled every office in the home militia from private to general, and was the last to serve in that rank under the old regime in the brigade of Union and Northumberland counties. He was a stanch Democrat, as was his father before him, and lie held a number of offices, serving one term as county treasurer before the separation from Union county, when the county seat was at New Berlin. For more than forty consecutive years he served as justice of the peace. In religious faith he was a Lutheran, and for many years held the office of trustee in the Church. He died in 1879. His wife, who died in 1894, at the age of ninety-one years, was Elizabeth Schoch. She was born March 31, 1803, in Snyder county, the daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Hendricks) Schoch. Her remains now rest beside those of her husband in the cemetery at the old homestead. They had the following children: Henry died in Philadelphia, in February, 1890; George is our subject; Jacob died in infancy; Jacob (2) died in 1889, in Limestone township; Phoebe is the widow of Thomas Yearick, of Aaronsburg, Penn.; Mary J. married John Stauffer, and died in Boyertown, Penn.; Elizabeth C. is the widow of Rev. George B. Dechant, of Catawissa, Penn.; Benjamin F. died at the age of nineteen; John died in childhood; an infant son died unnamed; Elmira died in childhood; Susan married Dr. Jerry Hay, and died in Bloomville, Ohio; Laura is the widow of Marion Schnure, of Selins Grove, Union county, and John died in infancy.
George Gross was born August 23, 1823, at the old homestead, and his education was begun in the schools of New Berlin, his first teacher being Mr. Hague. After attending the common schools until he was nineteen years old, he spent two is at the Lewisburg Academy, and. although qualified to teach, he never cared to do so. On leaving school he returned home to engage in farm work. In the fall of 1844, he, with three other young men, went to Seneca county, Ohio, driving the entire distance. He had relatives in that locality, and for a year was employed as a clerk by an uncle in Bellevue. Later he worked in the same capacity for a time at Tiffin, Ohio, and then returned to Pennsylvania, and entered the employ of his brother Henry, then a merchant at Aaronsburg. On August 13, 1846, he was married at New Berlin, to Miss Elizabeth C. Nettle, a native of Carlisle, Penn., and a daughter of Isaac Nettle. He then located on his father's farm for a year, whence in 1847 he removed to Rebersburg, where he established a general mercantile business. In 1848 he started a branch store in Loganton, Sugar Valley, under the firm name of Gross, Bogar & Co., Mr. Gross owning a half interest. For some time, in addition to his other work, he held the office of postmaster at Rebersburg, but, in 1858, he sold his store there and returned to the old homestead. In 1858 he disposed of his interest in the Loganton store, and in 1861, he bought out John D. Bogar, of New Berlin, and continued business for six years under the firm name of Gross & Lutz, and afterward as Gross & Wilson, until 1878, when he sold out and retired from active business in that line. In May 1859, he became a director in the Lewisburg National Bank, and he has attended every meeting of the board since that time with possible exceptions of three or four regular weekly meetings in a year. He is the surviving executor of his father's estate, and for years he looked after his mother's interests. Since 1861 he has occupied his present home at New Berlin, a beautiful place, which was at one time owned by Hon. Joseph Casey, who afterward became Judge of the Court of Claims Washington, D.C. , and who died in that city February 10, 1879. His wife was a sister of Mrs. Gross. Mr. Gross, in religious faith, is a Lutheran, but as his wife is a Presbyterian, he attends that Church regularly. They have had three children: William G., now a resident of Philadelphia; and two, George A. and Rosa K., who died in infancy. In politics Mr. Gross has always been a Democrat, and has held numerous offices in the borough of New Berlin. He was a senatorial delegate to the State Convention held at Erie, Penn., in 1875; he was also a member of the State Democratic Committee during the year 1879.


George Gross – subject of article
Henry Gross (George’s grandfather) Henry Gross was married in York county, Penn., to Miss Phoebe Havice. His death occurred in 1842, when in his eighty-third year. His wife died in 1837, as the result of injuries received from an accident in falling down stairs.
Henry and Phoebe’s children
Henry (mentioned in the foregoing),
Elizabeth (Mrs. George Herald),
Sarah (Mrs. John Hilbish),
Catherine (Mrs. Jacob Dubbs),
Philip (father of our subject),
John (who died near Chattanooga, Tenn.),
Polly (Mrs. Col. Henry Royer) and
Barbara (Mrs. George Kleckner). Mrs. Kleckner died one year after her marriage.

Philip (father of our subject), was born in 1797. He died in 1879. His wife, who died in 1894, at the age of ninety-one years, was Elizabeth Schoch. She was born March 31, 1803, in Snyder county, the daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Hendricks) Schoch.
They had the following children:
Henry died in Philadelphia, in February, 1890;
George is our subject; was born August 23, 1823. On August 13, 1846, he was married at New Berlin, to Miss Elizabeth C. Nettle, a native of Carlisle, Penn., and a daughter of Isaac Nettle. They have had three children: William G., now a resident of Philadelphia; and two, George A. and Rosa K., who died in infancy.
Jacob died in infancy;
Jacob (2) died in 1889, in Limestone township;
Phoebe is the widow of Thomas Yearick, of Aaronsburg, Penn.;
Mary J. married John Stauffer, and died in Boyertown, Penn.;
Elizabeth C. is the widow of Rev. George B. Dechant, of Catawissa, Penn.;
Benjamin F. died at the age of nineteen;
John died in childhood;
an infant son died unnamed;
Elmira died in childhood;
Susan married Dr. Jerry Hay, and died in Bloomville, Ohio;
Laura is the widow of Marion Schnure, of Selins Grove, Union county, and John died in infancy.
 
Gross, George (I2628)
 
668 https://archive.org/details/earlymemoirsofst00stil
Early memoirs of the Stilwell family, comprising the life and times of Nicholas Stilwell, the common ancestor of the numerous families bearing that surname, with some account of his brothers John and Jasper and incidentally a sketch of the history of Manhattan island and its vicinity, under the Dutch, with some contributions to a genealogy of the family
by Stilwell, Benjamin Marshall, Publication date 1878.

ANNIE, (eldest daughter of Nicholas Stilwell, the first of the name), born in New Amsterdam, in 1643. In 1660, married Nathaniel Brittain, and settled on Anthony Jansen's bowery on Long Island, purchased by her father; and in 1664, removed to Staten Island, where her husband took up 144 acres of land, for which a patent was granted him, September 29, 1677. (Lib. 1 Patents, p. 133.) ,
Nathaniel Brittain died in 1683, at Old Town, on Staten Island, leaving five children:
1. Nathaniel Brittain, born 1662
2. Sarah, born 1664
3. Rebecca, born 1668; married March 9, 1693, to Abraham Cole. (See License, Lib. 5 of Wills, p. 101, New York)
4. Richard Brittain, born 1670
5. Abigail Brittain, born 1674;
His will is recorded (Lib. B. of Wills, page 1, Richmond County).

Ann Stillwell (1642-1709) born in New York, died in Staten Island - dates and locations from findagrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48528396/anne-britton

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stillwell-265 Biography
Born 1643 New Amsterdam, New York, NY or VA.
Note: New Amsterdam is now New York City, NY.

Died 1709 Staten Island, Richmond, New York

FTM-US/International Marriage Record 1560-1900: Lists her birth year 1643, marriage year 1653
BIR-MAR-DEA: Arc. Rec (My poss) submitted by Miss Amanda I. Roundy, 146 S. University Ave., Provo, Utah about 1957. Ref. are N.Y. K 2 C P. 50 B 9 F 4 P. 102,151; B 6 B6 P. 3,4,6,7;A 15 Z 120, p. 278 (BRI ARC REC 003)
BIR: Arc. Rec (my poss) submitted by Marguerite Sahler of San Francisco, CA abt. 1916, ref. NY K2 e. p. 275-578-282;A 7 E 6 - p. 6-7-14-15-87-88;B9 F4, p. 145-149; (BRI ARC REC 014)
MAR: "Line of Ann Stillwell Britton" from Stillwell Geneology, Vol. 1, p. 43; "Early Central Pennsylvania Lineages" by Fisher, p. 69 (BRI HIS 003)
HIS: Ann Stillwell was the eldest daughter of Nicholas Stillwell who came from Birmingham England to Kings County, New York. In 1644 he bought for his home 144 acres the site of Perrin House, Staten Island. The Brittain lands lay in what is known as Dongan Hills between Liberty and Jefferson Avenues, and the Stillwell lands lay to the east. (Miller and Pursel Families A1 #5, 1939, compiled by Vida Mill-Pursel)
Anne Stillwell may have ben born about 1635-40, probably in Virginia, where her father was sojourning at this date. Her childhood was largely spent in Gravesend, Long Island, where she became the wife of Nathaniel Britton, a dry goods merchant, who sold his stores in all the villages on the west end of the Island, and who joined farming and occassionally tapping, to his other industries. [Britton Genealogy p. 4]

Sources
Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet Completed. Edward Mayes. Circa 1935. Privately published. Clark T. Thornton, editor. Reprinted 2009. Pages 89, 91 - 92.
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Acknowledgement:


Biographical information about Harry Elmer Bierly (pronounced "Beer-lee") was compiled from various sources.

We wish to thank Mr. Alvie L. Davidson of Lakeland, Florida whose initial detective work on our behalf resulted in us becoming connected with relatives of H.E. Bierly in Pennsylvania, as well genealogists in the Centre County, PA, area where this branch of the Bierly family originated. We are especially indebted to: David and Suzanne (Walkowiak) Rice, Doug Bierly, and Justin Kirk Houser, Genealogist/Researcher of Central PA and Beyond.

Finally, Ludy T. Benjamin, Professor of Psychology at Texas A&M University, helped search for information about H.E. Bierly's academic career in psychology.



1. Biography of H. Elmer Bierly prior to joining the faculty of Florida State College in Tallahassee.

The following item was originally printed in COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF CENTRE, CLEARFIELD, JEFFERSON AND CLARION COUNTIES [Pennsylvania] published 1898 by J. H. Beers & Co. (p 237). (Items bolded and text reformatted for internet presentation)

"Prof. H. E. Bierly was born in the house now owned by Hon. Henry Meyer, Rebersburg, Penn., January 28, 1866. He attended the common schools of Miles township, until he was eighteen years of age, not having a chance to attend the summer schools on account of too much work on the farm. He then determined to get a better education, and in 1884 entered Union Seminary (now Central Pennsylvania College), New Berlin, Penn. This institution he attended most of the time between the years 1884-1888, during which time he nearly completed the classical course and prepared himself for Princeton University, which he entered in 1888 as a member of the class of '92.

He spent five years at Princeton University, four as an under-graduate, taking the "A.B. course" and one year as a post-graduate, studying physiological psychology under Prof. Ormond, also the philosophy of religion, under the same professor. The next year, 1893-94, he was unanimously elected "Professor of the Natural and Physical Sciences" in Belleview Collegiate Institute, at Caledonia, Mo., where he taught one year, at the expiration of which time the Institute was partially closed.

The next year he attended Harvard and Boston Universities, studying metaphysics under Prof. [Josiah] Royce and cosmology under Prof. [William] James, of Harvard University, and comparative theology and history of religious history of Christian doctrine, in the School of Theology, of Boston University. It was then that he became acquainted with Pres. G. Stanley Hall [of Clark University], John Fiske, Joseph Cooke, Professors Carpenter and Davids, of Oxford University. This year in Boston, and as a student of both of these Universities, was of the greatest value in his educational history.

The next year he was "Professor of Mathematics and Science" in Missouri Military School, Mexico, Mo., which was destroyed by fire at the expiration of that year.

During the following year he was engaged in writing a thesis on the "Origin and Development of the Conception of God", also in child-mind investigations in central Pennsylvania, in connection with Pres. G. Stanley Hall, of Clark University, Mass. and Prof. Earl Barnes, of Leland Stanford University, Cal.

At present (1898) he is professor of philosophy and science in Virginia College for Young Ladies at Roanoke, Va., one of the best of the Southern female colleges, in which he occupies a very responsible position, next to the presidents thereof.

As a student Prof. Bierly became intensely interested in philosophy, through Sir William Hamilton's lectures on metaphysics, the various works and writings of James McCosh, primarily, and through the edited works of Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, achieving a natural inclination to speculative studies. At the same time he is greatly interested in biology, through a Natural History Society, which was organized by Prof. H. N. Conser, Ph. D., at Central Pennsylvania College, and which led him to reading of nearly all the works of Darwin, Huxley, Romanes and Herbert Spencer. It was the works of James McCosh that took him to Princeton University, whose lectures on metaphysics he attended in his freshman year, this being the last course on that subject given by McCosh, with whom he as a student was very well acquainted, and upon whom he called quite often, having received special recognition, encouragement and kindness from McCosh while alive.

While a student of Princeton University he made a special study of philosophy and biology, having taken all the branches the university offers on both philosophy and biology. He took honors in the latter subject, and was offered a fellowship in osteology by the Chicago University, which he, however, did not accept, as he did not desire to give so much time in that particular line of investigation, having decided to make the study of philosophy a life vocation.

He attended and was a member of the World's Congress of Philosophy held at Chicago during the World's Fair [1893], at which time he became personally acquainted with Prof. Josiah Royce, professor of philosophy in Harvard University, who has been his private adviser and director in philosophy ever since.

Prof. Bierly is a member of the Pennsylvania German Society, and of several Psychological and Scientific Associations. He contributes a series of articles on the various conceptions of God for "The Preachers Helper". Just now (1898) he is more extensively engaged in child-mind investigations than ever, with Pres. Hall, Prof. Earl Barnes, Prof. Royce, also contributing a series of articles on child-mind study for several child-study magazines. He has also addressed and lectured before quite a number of teachers' associations and institutes in Missouri, Pennsylvania and Virginia on various, but mostly psychological subjects.

During the [William Jennings] Bryan campaign [for the Democrat presidential nomination] in 1896, on account of not being hard pressed for work, he became very much interested in politics, through his cousin, Hon. Willis R. Bierly, of North Dakota. On account of the Democratic party splitting, Mr. Bierly was requested by the foremost politicians of the county to take a hand in politics and rally the Silver forces, as he did, and has done valuable service for his Valley and the county, having been elected president of the Bryan and Sewall Club of Brush Valley, which was composed of about two hundred members.

He is a member of the M. E. Church, which he joined while a student of Princeton University. He was one of the three first members of the M.E. Church of Kreamerville, and rendered very effectual services in the building up of the Methodist Church at this place, having been appointed for this especial work, lasting several years, by the quarterly Conference (Methodist)."

2. After 1898.

A. The available Florida State College catalogues indicate that H.Elmer Bierly joined the faculty of Florida State College about 1899 and left the faculty about 1904.

B. During his first or second summer at FSC, H.E. Bierly appears to have spent time at Clark University from where he returned with instrumentation to establish what the College Catalogue claims to be the first psychological laboratory in the State of Florida, circa 1901.
C. Professor Ludy T. Benjamin, Texas A&M University, summarized the outcome of a search for details on Bierly's academic career in psychology as follows (e-mail to Mike Rashotte, 21 May, 2001; reformatted for internet presentation):

I have done a good bit of searching on Bierly through all of the standard and obscure history of psychology search tools (indexes, bibliographies, directories, etc). Here is what I know.
I can find only two publications by him, both in 1899 in the Florida School Journal.

1. "The comparative development of the child." 1899, 2(3), p. 29.

2. "The relation of the central nervous system to psychological theory." 1899, 2(2), p. 8.

He is not listed in Cattell's Leaders in Education (1932), nor in either volume of Murchison's Psychological Register (1929, 1932). He does not appear in Cattell's American Men of Science volumes which start publication in 1906. He does not appear in any of the APA Membership Yearbooks that I have (1914-1925). Perhaps he was a member earlier but had dropped by 1914. He is not in any of Boring's necrologies published in Psychological Bulletin.

I also looked in the literature on the founding of psychology laboratories with the following results.

FSU (or any earlier names) does not appear in the survey published by Christian Ruckmich (1912), "The history and status of psychology in the United State", American Journal of Psychology, 23, 517-531. He lists laboratories founded through 1911. It is possible that he did not send a questionnaire to FSU or that there was no one there in psychology to fill it out.

Garvey, C. R. (1929)"List of American psychology laboratories", Psychological Bulletin, 26, 652-660. Garvey sent questionnaires to all colleges with enrollments over 1,000 as listed in the College Blue Book of 1926, but also to smaller schools if he suspected a psychology laboratory existed. He lists 117 colleges in order of founding. FSU (nor its earlier names) does not appear in the listing. It is possible that a questionnaire was not sent to the school. Interestingly, University of Miami (no, it's not Miami University, which also appears in the list) does appear in the list with a founding date of 1900, which if true, would predate you. No other Florida schools appear in the list.

Benjamin, L. T., Jr. (2000), "The psychology laboratory at the turn of the 20th century', American Psychologist, 55, 318-321. I list the 40 labs for which there is good evidence of their founding by 1900. I did not list Miami because I could not verify Garvey's claim that it existed in 1900.

Note: We have been unable to locate the issues of Florida School Journal in which H.E. Bierly published in 1899.

D. A web site describing the history of the National Association of Teachers Agencies lists H. E. Bierly as attending an organizational meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1909, as a representative of the Education Review Agency of Chattanooga, Tennessee. This information indicates that Bierly became involved in education in Tennessee some time after he left Florida State College.

E. The Obituary Notices we have obtained about H.E. Bierly describe him as being in the realty business in Tallahassee at the time of his death in 1943. We have been unable to obtain further details on his academic and business careers.

3. OBITUARY NOTICES FOR H. ELMER BIERLY (1943).
The following obituary notices appeared in the Centre [County Pennsylvania] Democrat.

A. CENTRE DEMOCRAT of 7 Oct 1943:

"Word was received in Rebersburg Tuesday afternoon, announcing the death of H. Elmer Bierly, which occurred Tuesday morning in a hospital at Thomasville, Georgia. Mr. Bierly, who resided in Tallahassee, Florida, had gone to Thomasville hospital for observation following a sudden illness, and on Saturday night submitted to an operation from which he failed to rally. His remains will be brought to the home of his brother, E. S. Bierly in Rebersburg, the date of arrival being undetermined at the time of going to press. Burial will be made in the family plot at the Evangelical cemetery in Rebersburg. Mr. Bierly was the son of Joseph C. and Judith Bierly, and was born in Rebersburg about 77 years ago. In addition to his only surviving brother, E. S. Bierly, the deceased leaves his wife, the former Mamie Johnson, of Tallahassee. A man of scholarly attainments, Mr. Bierly had been a teacher of chemistry and psychology in various universities and schools throughout the South for the past 39 years. He was a member of the Methodist church."

B. CENTRE DEMOCRAT of 14 Oct 1943:

"Funeral services for H. Elmer Bierly, business man of Tallahassee, Fla., Rebersburg native, who died Tuesday, October 5, 1943, in Archibald Hospital, Thomasville, Ga., were held Saturday afternoon at Rebersburg, with Rev. R. A. Babcock officiating. Interment was made in the Evangelical Cemetery, Rebersburg. Mr. Bierly, 77, who had been operated on for a gall bladder condition a week ago, was born at Rebersburg, a son of Joseph C. and Judith Bierly. His wife, the former Mamie Johnson, and one brother, Rev. F. S. Bierly of Rebersburg, survive. Mr. Bierly was a professor of chemistry and psychology in various universities and colleges throughout the south for nearly 40 years. Of late years he conducted a realtor business at Tallahassee. He was a member of the Methodist church."
 
Bierly, Harold Elmer (I982)
 
670 https://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/trees/223512/I247/stephen-achenbach/individual Achenbach, Stephen (I2064)
 
671 https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/85488/mentone-cemetery

No findagrave entry for Jeremiah McGee.  
McGee, Jeremiah R. (I90)
 
672 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100097004/daniel-hockman

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Hockman, Daniel (I1483)
 
673 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100097024/nancy-anna-hockman

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Moyer, Nancy (I1445)
 
674 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100377217/johann-adam-bolender

Rev War vet. Wife is Magdalene; son, John Philip, bap. 1787. 
Bolender, Johann Adam (I3306)
 
675 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100550731/anna-e.-moyer

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Greenwalt, Annie (I1369)
 
676 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100550800/michael-fox-moyer

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Moyer, Michael Fox (I1368)
 
677 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100550909/harvey-r.-moyer

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Moyer, Harvey (I1376)
 
678 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100551001/michael-leonard-moyer

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Moyer, Michael Leonard (I1373)
 
679 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10060290/susanna-goss

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Meyer, Susan (I43)
 
680 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10060485/jacob-goss

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Goss, Jacob (I44)
 
681 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100732402/henry-jackson-limbert

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Limbert, Henry Jackson (I1763)
 
682 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100732962/caroline-limbert

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Long, Caroline (I3039)
 
683 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100734938/george-elias-limbert Limbert, Rev George Elias (I1315)
 
684 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100735214/anna-elizabeth-limbert Moyer, Anna Elizabeth Flora (I1304)
 
685 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100925480/james-arthur-weirich Weirich, James (I1178)
 
686 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100925520/margaret-ettinger-weirich Ettinger, Margaret (I1177)
 
687 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100996866/florence-a.-miller Moyer, Florence Anna (I1384)
 
688 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100996867/harry-g.-miller Miller, Harry G. (I2963)
 
689 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101141034/edward-perry-brown

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Brown, Edward Perry (I2884)
 
690 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10123466/mamie-bierly Johnson, Mamie (I1109)
 
691 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101689166/clarence-asher-kniss Kniss, Clarence Asher (I3250)
 
692 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101689189/anna-e-kniss Benner, Anna Elizabeth (I696)
 
693 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101692910/wilhelmine-s-fessler Funston, Wihelmina (I2714)
 
694 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101692992/henry-h-fessler Fessler, Dr. Henry Harper (I2711)
 
695 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101907334/henry-miller

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Miller, Henry (I941)
 
696 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101907597/mary-e-miller

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Royer, Mary E. (I940)
 
697 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10196460/john-cassel

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Cassel, John (I1345)
 
698 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10196464/mary-cassel

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Moyer, Mary (I1343)
 
699 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102436489/daniel-henry Henry, Daniel (I2501)
 
700 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102436493/sarah-henry Loy, Sarah (I2500)
 

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