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has been no radical changes in the successful methods of the past, modern methods and modern facilities are g'iven their full and proper place. Dr. Thaeler, the principal, is conducting the school along the best lines of educa- tional systems, and in his own personality and acquirement ranks with the many educators who have preceded him during the Hall's existence. He is a son of Samuel L. and Marie Louise (Gruhl) Thaeler, his parents residing at the time of their son's birth on the island of St. Christopher (or St. Kitts), one of the British West India islands, belonging to the Leeward group of the Lesser Antilles.

Arthur David Thaeler was born in St. Christopher, British West Indies, October 21, 1871. He is a graduate of Nazareth Hall Alilitar}- Academy, class of 1886; and of the Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, A.B., 1890; B.D., 1892. From his ahna mater he received the D.D. degree in 1917. In 1892 he was ordained a minister of the Moravian church, and in that year was appointed assistant pastor of the Salem. North Carolina, congregation, and pastor of Calvar\- Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From 1901 until 1918 he was head pastor of the Moravian church in Bethlehem, resigning to accept appointment on April 15. 191S, to the principalship of Nazareth Hall Military Academy. He is a trustee of the ^Moravian College and Theological Seminary, his alma mater. He is independent in political action, a man of broad vision and public spirit, devoted to the work to which he has dedicated his life.

Dr. Thaeler married. October 30. 1894, Ruth Caroline Schropp, of Beth- lehem, Pennsylvania, daughter of Abraham S. and Caroline (Guether) Schropp. Dr. and Mrs. Thaeler are the parents of five children, the two eldest born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the others in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Louise, born December 12, 1895; Abraham S., born Novem-* her 19, 1898; Arthur David, Jr.. born October 12, 1902; Charles S.. born May 29. 1906; Caroline G., born June 18, 1913.

ISAAC L. KRESSLER — Kresslers were living in Northampton county, Pennsx Ivania. at the time of the Revolution, and from the first settlement until the present members of the family have been men of prominence in their communities. Among the twentieth century representatives of the fam- ily who have won their vvay to important place in the business life of their communities, Isaac L. Kressler, cashier of the ^lerchants' National Bank of Bangor, must be named. He is a son of Jacob Kressler, of Upper^ Mount Bethel township, Northainpton county, and a grandson of Charles Kressler, of the same township. Charles Kressler was born, lived and died in Upper Mount Bethel, and there during his active business years plied the shoe- maker's trade. He married Susan Emery, and thev were the parents of eight children: Jacob, of further mention; Henry; Catherine, married Reuben LeBar. of Portland, Pennsylvania ; Elizabeth, married Daniel Richards, of Illinois: Christina, married Jacob Miller; Matilda, married Samuel Delp ; Susan, married Daniel Reichard ; Sarah, married Dr. Daniel Snyder, a prac- ticing physician, now of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Jacob Kressler was born in Upper Mount Bethel township, Northampton county, Pennsvlvania, and there passed his youth. When a young man he settled at Ackermanville, in the same county, and there for some years engaged in farming. Later he moved to Bangor, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in brick nianufacturing, being a pioneer in that business there. He prospered abundantly in his business enterprises, and in making his invest- ments he was partial to real estate, his holding at one time including all that section now known as North Bangor. This property he later sold to the John Brown Estate. He was one of the incorporators of the S. Flory Manu- facturing Company, of Bangor, and held his stock interest in that company until his death. In politics he was a Republican, taking an active part in

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local affairs, sitting as a iiu-nibcr of tlic Horough Council and scrvin;:^ as a school director. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Bangor Evangelical Lutheran Church. Jacob Kressler married Anna M. Reimel, and thej' were the parents of six sons: William If., of Mount Bethel; Charles F., of Bangor; Edwin J., deceased; John W., of Dun- more, Pennsylvania; Jacob C, deceased; and Isaac L., of further mention.

Isaac L. Kressler, youngest son of Jacob and .'\.nna M. (Reimel) Kressler, was born in Bangor, Pennsylvania, November 24, 18S6. He was educated in the public schools, and at tlie old Fredericksburg Academy, and during his years of minority was associated with his father in his business enter])rises. In 1887, having attained legal age he, in association with others, organized and incorporated the Merchants' National Bank of Bangor, Mr. Kressler enter- ing the service of the new institution as bookkeeper. He continued in that and in positions of increased responsibility until 191 5, when he was elected by the board of directors cashier of the bank, his j^rcsent position. He has proven the wisdom of this selection by administering the duties of his j>osition with rare skill and judgment, his ability, tact and ;icrsonality strengthening the influence of the bank with the people and winning with this confidence, friendship and good will.

Mr. Kressler is a. member and a trustee of the First United Evangelical Church of Bangor, and ever since the organization of the local commandery of the Knights of Malta, he has been treasurer of that body. In his i)olilical faith he is a Prohibitionist. He married (first) Mary E. Long, who died November 30, 1916, daughter of Augustus R. and Sdrah B. (Paul) Long. They were the parents of two children: Edgar R., born May 16, 1900; and Sarah R., born Alay 30, 1908. Mr. Kressler married (second) in June, 1917, Flora B. (Buzzard) Ott, widow of Hiram Ott. The family residence is in Bangor, Pennsylvania.

GEN. WILLIAM E. DOSTER— At eighty-two years of age and still practicing law, president of the Lehigh Valley National Bank of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and until recently a familiar figure on his high mettled horse, taking his daily horseback ride. General Doster could claim at least to be something out of the ordinary, if not an extraordinary man, as his friends will rightfully insist. He was a veteran lawyer and a veteran soldier, an author, financier, journalist and business man. His position as a lawyer was among the leaders learned in the law, and he was forceful, eloquent and very skillful in presentation. "Pennsylvania Reports" teem with cases which he has successfullv fought through the higher courts; although not all his legal battles were winning ones, his fame as an attorney often attracted retainers from the losing side of the controversy. He was of a family long and promi- nently identified with Bethlehem, tracing to Dr. Daniel Doster, the founder of the family, who landed in Philadelphia more than a century ago.

The family is traced to Martin Doster, who left his home in Saxonv about 1650, and settled in Wiirtemberg, Germanv. He was the father of John Valentine Doster, born in 1667, at Niederhofen, near Heilbronn in Wiir- temberg, and there died in 1759. He married Susanna StoU, and they were the parents of John Philip Doster, born 1729, died 1781. He was for many years mayor of Niederhofen, a man of usefulness and influence. FIc married Rosina Maisenhaelder, and their seventh child was Dr. Daniel Doster, the founder of the family in Pennsylvania, and grandfather of Gen. William E. Doster, late of Bethlehem.

Dr. Daniel Doster was born at Niederhofen in 1763. and died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1830. He came to Pennsylvania, landing at Philadelphia, January 11, 1817, and here founded a family, one branch known as the Lan- caster, another the Northampton branch, of which General Doster was repre- sentative. Dr. Daniel Doster married Marguerite Kepplcr, and located in

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Philadelphia, first opening an office at No. 33 Coates street, but later moving to Lancaster, where he practiced his profession until his death. Dr. Doster had a son, Lewis, and a daughter, Elizabeth. She was born in 1800, mar- ried Charles Ortel, of Philadelphia, and died in 1843 without issue.

Lewis Doster, son of the founder. Dr. Daniel Doster, was born at Nieder- hofen, Germany, July 26, 1796, and came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the family in 1817. He remained in Philadelphia until 1826, then, at the request of the Moravian Society, came to Bethlehem to manage the society's woolen mill on Water street, which plant he afterward bought. He greatly extended the plant, which he named the Monocacy Woolen Mills, and con- tinued as their managing owner and head until his death in i860. His sons continued the operation of the plant for two years after their father's death, when it was destroyed by fire. This does not express the activity of Lewis Doster in an unlimited degree, for he was engaged also in the lumber busi- ness, as well as in other commercial enterprises, and he was recognized as the leading business man of Bethlehem. When Bethlehem was created a borough, he was chosen a member of the Bethlehem Guards, he having served in the German army. Lewis Doster married Pauline Louise Eggert, daughter of Matthew and Maria (Rupert) Eggert, granddaughter of Chris- tian Eggert, who came to Bethlehem in 1746, and a maternal granddaughter of Adam Rupert, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Adam Rupert enlisted in 1776 and served during the Revolution with the Tenth Regiment, Pennsylvania line, commanded by Colonel Hampton and Lieutenant-Colonel Hubbey, of Lancaster. After her father's death, Mrs. Maria (Rupert) Eggert received a warrant for lands situated in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, which property was awarded him for Revolutionary service. Matthew Eggert, father of Mrs. Lewis Doster, was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1763, and died there in 1831. From 1792 until 1802 he was superintendent of the Single Brethren's House at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and taught at the Boys' School at Bethlehem, 1808-14. He was a member of the building committee which in 1803 erected the famous Moravian church at Bethlehem, and he was a man of usefulness as long as he lived. At the time of his death. May 27, i860, Lewis and Pauline Louise (Eggert) Doster were the parents of eight children, none of whom arc living: i. Charles Edmund, born in 1829, died in 1864; a business man ; during the Civil War was quartermaster of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, Colonel All-right commanding. 2. Lewis L., born in 1831, died in 1893; a lumber merchant of Philadelphia; married Emma, daugh- ter of Jacob Luckenbach, and left issue. 3. Herman Augustus, born in 1S33; married Emily, daughter of Dr. Charles Detwiller, and has two daughters living: Mrs. Pauline Facht, of Trenton, Pennsylvania ; and Elizabeth Lyman, widow of Frank Lyman, of Michigan. 4. Albert Theodore, born in 1835; married, in 1862, Harris Hill, of Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, and left issue. 5. Wil- liam E., whose long and useful life is the inspiration of this review. 6. Louise M., born in 1842, died in 1876; wife of George L. Baum, and left issuer 7. Henry Edward, born 1844, died in 1877; a veteran of the Civil War, serv- ing as corporal in the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment, Pcnnyl- vania Volunteer Infantry, and on detached service in the office of his brother, William E.. recently deceased, in Washington, District of Columbia; he mar- ried Mary L. Ripple, of Scranton, and left issue. 8. Ellen B., born in 1851, died in 1863. Other children died prior to their father's decease.

William E. Doster, seventh son of Lewis and Pauline Louise (Eggert) Doster, was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, January 8, 1837, and continued his residence in his native city, an active consulting lawyer and man of affairs until his death, which occurred July 2, 1919, aged eighty-two years and five months. Death followed a six weeks' illness, superinduced by an attack of influenza, from which he never recovered. He is survived by five cliildren: Mrs. John Knight, of New York City ; Wadsworth, of Torrington, Connecti-

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cut; Alexis, of Litchfield, Massachusetts; Mrs. B. E. Cole., of Bethlehem; and Mrs. J. R. Lowell Otis, of New York.

William E. Dostcr, after early attendance at the Moravian Parochial School, now Moravian Preparatory School, entered Van Kirk Academy, ])ass- insj thence to Yale College, whence he was graduated A.B., class of 1857. H^ began the study of law under the direction of Andrew Rceder, the eminent lawyer of F.aston, Pennsylvania, later territorial governor of Kansas. He after- wards entered Harvard Law School, whence he was graduated LL.Tj. He completed legal study at Heidelberg, Germany, and Paris. France, then returned to Pennsylvania, and in 1861 was reading law in Philadel])hia. When war was declared between the States of the North and .South, he enlisted, and on August 15, 1861, was mustered into the service of his country as captain of Company A, Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry. The follow- ing October he was promoted to the rank of major, and in February, 1862, he was a])[)ointed jirovost-marshal of the District of Columbia to succeed Gen. Andrew Porter. This post included the command of a brigade of troops, also a flotilla on Chesapeake bay, and was held until earlv in the spring of 1863, when he was ])romole(l to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and returned to his regiment, the Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry. He served with his regi- ment under Generals Averill. Stoneman. Pleasanton, Kilpatrick and Gregg, the famed cavalry leaders of the Army of the Potomac. He was engaged at disastrous Chancellorsville in command of the Second Brigade of the Third Division of the Cavalry Corps, and at Gettysburg was on the right under General Gregg. He resigned his command in 1864, and was honorably dis- charged and mustered out brevet brigadiei-general. He was admitted to the bar at Easton. Pennsylvania, but for one year practiced in Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia, engaged in trials before military commissions and courts- martial. He was engaged for the defence in the trial of the conspirators against the life of President Lincoln, and also defended Payne and Atzerott for their murderous attack on Secretary Seward. After these celebrated cases were disposed of. he returned to Pennsylvania, and until 1873 practiced law m Easton. He then went to his native and well loved Bethlehem, which afterwards was the seat of his practice and the scene of his professional and business triumphs.

Learned in the law. skillful in its applications, loyal to a client's interest and an untiring worker, he was a formidable antagonist from his first entrance to the Pennsylvania bar, and as the years progressed he won high reputation as one of the most able lawyers. He gave especial attention to the law of corporations, and in that branch of the law he had no superiors at the North- amjiton bar. From 1867 to 1S79 he was register in bankruptcy for the Eleventh Congressional District, and for thirty-five years was counsel for the Bethlehem Iron (now Steel) Company, and for the Lehigh Coal & Navi- gation Company. Many other corporations were served during his half cen- tury at the Northampton bar. and man}' are the cases he successfully tried, manv are the large estates that he honorablj' administered, and many are the dififerences he has succeeded in having settled without recourse to law. He delivered a series of lectures at Lehigh University in 1879 by the request of the faculty. His subject was. "Practice in the County Courts of Pennsyl- vania." His fame rests upon his long and uniformlv successful practice in the courts of Northampton and adjoining counties, although he was for long a practitioner in all State and Federal courts of Pennsylvania, and in the United States Supreme Court. He always practiced alone, and as a trial lawyer he was ranked with the best in Pennsylvania.

General Doster served his profession loyally and faithfully, but neverthe- less made several excursions into the business world with tangible result and lasting benefit. In 1867 he joined with David Godshalk and founded tiie Weekly Chronicle, which was later the Bethlehem Daily Times. In 1869 he

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joined with his brother, Herman A. Doster, in organizing the New Street Steel Bridge Company, of which he was president up to the time of his death, 1869- 1919. In 1907 he was elected president of the Lehigh Valley National Bank, which office he held at the time of his death, and was also a director of the Minsi Trail Bridge Company. Real estate has long been his favorite investment, and Bethlehem with its surrounding farm lands was his favored locality. Ten fine farms were owned by him, and these farms are all named after the members of William Penn's family.

Although a home-loving man. General Doster was a world-wide traveler, having crossed the Atlantic more than thirty times. Paris and the French people always held a strong appeal for him, and he suffered with them in their great trial from which they so triumphantly emerged, after more than four years of national martyrdom. Horseback riding was another of his favored recreations, and only his last severe illness caused him to forego his daily rides. He had a summer home in New Hampshire, which often claimed him, also a New York City dwelling and a farm on Long Island, and he has traveled extensively in his own America.

His career at the bar precluded personal mterest in political affairs, and he never sought nor held aught but professional offices. In 1891 he delivered the Sesqui-Centennial oration at Bethlehem, but with that exception has de- clined the numerous invitations to act as orator of the day on occasions of popular celebrations. He was a Republican in politics, a member of the J. K. Taylor Post No. 182, Grand Army of the R'.')3ublic, and a member of the Lincoln Republican Association. His clubs were the Bethlehem, the Lehigh Country, and the Alpha Delta Phi. While provost-marshal, General Doster saw much of President Lincoln, whom he came to admire and rever- ence deeply. In 191 5 he published his book, "Reminiscences of the Civil War and of President Lincoln," a work alive with interest and teeming with intimate references to the great president whose cruel death caused a nation to mourn. He was a member of the legal societies, local, State and national, and had a well chosen library from which he gained his wide and comprehen- sive knowledge of the world history, languages and people, supplemented by his extensive travels. His life was wonderful in its length and usefulness, for he claimed no immunity on any account, but met every obligation that his position demanded, and was one of the men of today, not yesterday.

WILLIAM DAVID LANDIS, PH.B.— Since embracing pedagogy as his jjrofcssion. Professor Landis has made rapid strides forward, and hardly yet in the prime of his splendid powers the future holds for him brilliant promise. He is a descendant of an ancient Bucks county family, his ancestor coming to America and the State of Pennsylvania shortly after William Penn. John Landis, the pioneer ancestor of this Landis branch, came to Pennsylvania from the borders of Switzerland about the year 1700, and located for a time in the neighborhood of Philadeljihia. He was accompanied to this country by Benjamin Landis, presumably his brother, who v/as a Mennonite minister, John Landis also being a member of that sect. Rev. Benjamin Landis later settled ill Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he has numerous descend- ants. John Landis followed the trend of Gennan emigration up the Schuylkill river and its tributaries, eventuall}' locating in Alilford township, Bucks county, Penns\lvania, where he purchased land in 1743. He died in 17.SO, leaving several sons and a widow, Anne, only two of his sons, however, Jacob and Samuel, being mentioned in his will. Jacob was made one of the two executors of the will, but the farm was left to Samuel, he to have possession when the youngest son should be nineteen years of age, "which will be in 1759.''

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Januarv I, 1756, died June I, 1847, and was Iniried in the uld Mennonite Cemetery between Coopersliurs and Center \'allcy, in Lehigh county, as was also his wife, ]5arl)ara (Mayer) Landis, liorn in Ociol)er, 1759, died April 7, 1844. They were living; in Lcnver Saucon township, Lehi<jh county, in 1790. David l.andis, grandfather of William D. Landis, of Northampton county and borough, was a substantial farmer of Bucks county, and born about 1810. He married Susan Jacoby, and they were the parents of eleven daur^^hters and two sons, all of whom reached adult years, a thirteenth child dying when j'oung. The older of the two sons was Da%id J. Landis, who is of funher mention.

David J. Landis was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in December, 1850, and there grew to manhood, later settling in Northampton county, locating at Hcllertown, where he engaged in the green grocery business for several years. He then entered the employ of the government, and for several years was engaged in public work at South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, finally purchasing a farm near Hcllertown, where h? is living a quiet, retired life. Honesty and devotion to his family have ever been strong characteristics of the man, and he has won his place in county life in a fair and honorable man- ner. He is a Rejuiblican in politics and a mcmi^er of the Evangelical church of LTellertown. He married Elemina E. Ilillegass, born at Hcllertown, daugh- ter of David Hillegass, a one-time commissioner of Northampton county, and one of the well known Democrats of the county. Mrs. Landis is a member of the Evangelical church, a woman of strong Christian character. Mr. and Mrs. Landis are the parents of seven children, three daughters and four sons, to whom the parents gave all the educational advantages within their ])ower. William David, of further mention; Edgar S., who died August 10. IQ18, a well known educator and school su]5erintc'i(lent ; Carrie, married John Kress- ler, and resides near Ironville, Pennsylvania; Florence, married Harvey Ban- der, and resides at Hcllertown, Pennsylvania; Annie, married Clayton J. Judd. and resides at Hcllertown; Robert C, also an educator; Stanley B., who stands high in the same profession.

William David Landis, eldest son of David ]. and Elemina E. (Hillegass) Landis, was born at Hcllertown, Pennsylvania, h'cbruary 24, 1876. He began his studies in the public schools and attended the Hcllertown and Lower Saucon township schools until their advantages were exhausted. He then entered the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown, and continued his attendance there until graduated with the class of 1898. The following years were spent in post-graduate study at Kutztown State Normal, where he pursued a scientific course until graduation with the degree of M.S., class of 1901. In 1917 he received from Muhlenberg College the degree Ph.B. These years were not devoted solidly to acquiring his own education, but from iSyi he taught in the county schools, his first position being at .Shimcrsvillc, where he taught for two school years, his compensation being thirty-two dollars monthly. His next school was at Wassergass, where his pay was increased to forty dollars; then came Lcithsville, two years; Emaus, in Lehigh county, where he was principal of the high school for four years. In 1905 he was appointed supervising principal of Northampton public schools. In 1907 the Board of Education created the office of superintendent of i)ublic schools for the borough of Northampton, and to that post called Mr. Landis. For ten years he has now filled that office, and how well he has filled it the splendid efficiencv of the schools must attest. Su])erintenfk'nt Landis has under his jurisdiction five schools employing forty-five teachers furnishing instruction dailjf to 1,651 pupils. WMiile he devotes himself unreservedly to his work, Mr. Landis is himself a student, not only of methods, theory' and practice, but is a personal student, belonging to classes, and is taking the non-resident graduate course at Albright College, Mycrstown, Pennsylvania, which, when comi)leted, will confer ui)on him the degree Master of Arts. Broad-minded,

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progressive, public-spirited and devoted to his profession, he is the ideal edu- cator, and will ijo far. He is in the forefront of every movement for the public '^ood. and his interest is deep in the borough and its institutions, with which he has been so long connected.

Professor Landis was one of the incorporators and is a director of the Allen Trust Companj' of Northampton; is affiliated with Chapman I.odge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Northampton ; Siegfried Chapter^ Rojal Arch Masons, of which he is a past high priest ; Allen Commandery, Knights Tem- plar, of Allentown ; and Lulu Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Philadelphia, Pcnns> Ivania. He is a member of the Patriotic Sons of America, of Northampton ; both lodge and encampment of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows; of Rebekah Lodge, Order of the Eastern Star; and of the Evangelical church of HeMcrtown.

CHARLES JENNINGS MONTAGUE— Now located in ample quarters at Nos. 237-239 Northampton street. Easton, Mr. Montague is head of a pros- perous business, the largest of its kind in the city of Easton. He has been connected with the book and stationery business since July 10, 1876, when, as a boy of thirteen, he entered the employ of William Alaxwcll, whom he succeeded in business at the latter's death, twenty-six : ears later. Forty-three years have elapsed since the boy entered the ^Maxwell store, and the changes iiave been man., but the love of books that distinguished the boy has not changed, and tlie veteran bookseller preserves that boyhood interest in spite of alf changes of time, method and environment.

Charles ]. Montague is a descendant of Peter Montague, born in Boveny, Burnham, B'uckinghamshire, England, wdio, when eighteen years of age, tame from England to the American colonies, settling in Virginia, where he established a home and founded a family. He was a man of character and ability, and he expanded into a citizen of influence and usefulness. He aided in establishing the first church and the first school in the colony of Virginia, and w-as called to various positions of honor and responsibility.

Peter Montague, the founder, was succeeded by his son Peter (2) Mon- tague, to whom he bequeathed large tracts of Virginia land located on the Rappahannock river. He was born in Nansemond county, Virginia, in 1631 or 1632. He married Elizabeth Morris, and w^as succeeded by his son Peter (3) Montague in 1666, died in 1702. Peter (3) Montague was the father of Thomas J. Montague, whose second wife, Penelope, bore him a son, William.

That William Alontague was born June 14, 1730, and lived in Middlesex county, Virginia, married Carhune Montague, daughter of Abraham Mon- tague, and had a son. William (2).

William (2) Montague was born about 1756, served in the Revolutionary War, and was wounded in an engagement on Chesapeake bay. He married, January 14, 1790, Elizabeth Valentine, daughter of Edward Valentine, of Augusta county, Virginia, and lived near the village of Montague, Virginia. They were the' parents of a son, William Valentine Montague.

W'illiam Valentine Montague, head of the seventh generation of the familv, was born September 3, 1797. married, in December, 1824, Mary Ann Barrack, and in 1828 moved to Norfolk county, Virginia, thence in 1829 to the town of Norfolk. His wife died September 24, 1840. and he married (second) Esther Hatton. a widow, and moved to Princess Anne county. He died in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1865, his wife surviving him but one year.

Robert Valentine Montague, son of W^illiam Valentine Montague, and his first wife, Mary Ann Barrack, was born at Montague, Virginia, Septem- ber 28. 1827. He was a graduate of W^illiam and Mary College, and until the failure of his health in 1855, and his enforced removal to the North, he was active and prominent, filling several public positions. In 1855 he moved with his familv to New York Citv, and later to Easton, Pennsvlvania, where

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he made his home until his death, April 4, 1866. He was assistant postmaster at I'^aston during most of his stay, and in that, as in other trusts, he worthily acquitted himself. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, a Republican in politics, and a man of high personal character.

Mr. Montague married, in Virginia, June 28, 1847, Margaret Elizabeth Robertson, daugh'ter of John and Ann Robertson, of Princess Anne county, Virginia. They were the parents of ten children, the first three born in Virginia, the fourth in New York City, the others in Easton, Pennsylvania: Elizabeth Virginia, born in February, 1848, married Dr. E. L. Evans; Mary Lewis, born in February, 1850, died'May 14, 1894, wife of Prof. J. J. Hardy, of Lafayette College; Helen' Walker, born July 4, 1851, died June 22, 1871, wife of J. Wesley Evans; William Barrack, born April 17, 1854; Robert John, born December 25, 1856; Alice Josephine, born September 4, 1858; Harry Howard, born August 6, i860, died August 26, i860; Frank Leslie, born October 6, 1861 ; Charles Jennings, of further mention; Lelia Virginia, born September 22, 1865, married Frank E. Crater, of h'.aston. Mrs. Mar- garet E. Montague was a woman of strong character and amiable disposition, who, when left with limited means and a large family of children, gave her- self without limit to their service, kept them together, gave them each an excellent education and lived to see them all well establisiied in life and in homes of their own. She died h'eliruary 14, 1894, her youngest child then twenty-nine years of age.

Charles Jennings Montague, youngest son and ninth child of Robert V. and Margaret E. (Robertson) Montague, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, October 26, 1863, and there >et resides, a substantial merchant. He was but three years of age when his father died, and at the age of twelve he left school to aid in the maintenance of the home. On July 10, 1876, he entered the employ of William Maxwell, and there he found not only congenial occu- pation and the means of increasing his educational equipment, but also a lifetime occupation. The Maxwell store was devoted to the sale of books and stationery, and while the work was close and confining, the lad had abundant opportunities for reading and study, his good sense leading him to improve them to the fullest extent. He formed a strong attachment for his elderly employer, and as Mr. Maxwell advanced him in rank and compensation the position was a very pleasant one. As Mr. Maxwell increased in _\ears, he leaned more heavily upon his assistant, and in time Mr. Montague was vir- tually managing the business. On January i, 1902, Mr. Maxwell having passed away, Mr. Montague purchased the business from the estate, and is still its able head. In 1907 he removed from the old location to more ade- quate and suitable quarters at Nos. 237-239 Northampton street, the larger store enabling him to carry larger and more varied stocks of books, stationery and kindred lines. The Montague store is the largest, best equipped and stocked bookstore in the city, and the building it occujiies is owned by its proprietor. He is one of Easton's substantial, enterprising citizens, and is held in high esteem for his manly, upright character, and his pleasing personality.

Mr. Montague is a member of Easton Lodge No. 152, Free and Accepted Masons; Easton Chapter. Royal Arch Masons; Pomp Council, Royal and Select Masters; ?Iugli de Payen Commandery No. 19. Knights Tem])lar; Rajah Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Read- ing, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Montague married, June 7, 1888, Mary A. Siegfried, and they are the parents of four children : Charles Leslie ; Lelia Virginia, married Donald A. Geiser, of Easton, now an instructor at Germantown Academy. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of a daughter. Jane Montague Geiser; William Maxwell, died October 6, 1906; Louise, residing with her parents.

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FRED ERASTUS WARD, M.D.— Immediately after his jjraduation in medicine in lytK), Dr. Ward went West and spent one year in hospital prac- tice in Wyoming. It was not until 1909, however, that he returned to his native Easton and began the general practice of his profession. During the years which have since intervened. Dr. Ward has won a high degree of public favor, and is numbered among the most skillful and successful 01 the younger generation of physicians. Dr. Ward is a grandson of Michael Ward, who for many years was proprietor of the historic "Bull's Head Tavern" on Third street, and one of the substantial men of his day. Michael Ward was the father of Benjamin Ward, born in Jacobsburg, Pennsylvania, who for many years was a merchant of Easton, Pennsylvania, where he took a prominent part in civic affairs, and aided in founding .St. Luke's Lutheran Church of that city. He married Permilla M. Plawk, and they are the parents of Fred E., whose career is herein traced.

Dr. Fred E. Ward was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, November 10. 1882. He finished public school study with graduation from high school, class of 1899. He spent two years at Lafayette College, but withdrew upon the completion of his sophomore > ear to begin professional study at Medico- Chirurgical Medical College of Philadelphia. He continued at Medico-Chi- rurgical College until graduated M.D. with the class of 1906, then for one year was resident physician at Wyoming General Hospital, Rock Springs, Wyoming. He returned to Pennsylvania in 1907, and located in Berwick, there remaining two }ears. In 1909 he took a post-graduate course at Har- vard Medical School, and the same year located permanently at Easton, the city of his birth, where he is well established in general practice. He is a member of the Northampton County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania Medical Societj', the American Medical Association, and the medical staff of Easton Hospital.

Dr. Ward is a Republican in politics, and prior to the inauguration of the commission form of government in Easton was a member of Common Coun- cil. He is the present public school medical inspector, and gives close atten- tion to the duties of that office. He is a member of Knapp Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Easton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Pomp Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Hugh De Payen Commandery, Knights Templar ; Rajah Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ; and in Scottish Rite Masonry has attained the thirty-second degree ; member of Tall Cedars of Lebanon, of which he was grand tall cedar for 1919, and a past senior and junior deputy. His religious affiliation is with St. Luke's Lutheran Church, his college fraternity, Phi Rho Sigma, his clubs the Pomfret and Northampton Republican.

On April 2. 1907, Dr. Ward married Ruth B. Williams, daughter of Dr. Cyrenius and Margaret (Barndt) Williams. Mrs. Ward was born in Easton, and is a graduate of the city high school, is a member of the Ladies' Auxiliary of Easton Hospital, and is active in Red Cross, church and charitable work. Dr. and Mrs. Ward are the parents of four children: Frederick Williams, Robert Benjamin, Ruth Katherine and Jane Louise.

RICHARD J. LIPPEY — With rented bench room and a capital of less than five dollars, Richard J. Lippey began business in Easton as an independ- ent patternmaker, a trade of which he is master. He offered his services to the trade as a maker of patterns, and to that oft'er there w^as instant response. So well has he pleased those who have availed themselves of his skill that the demand has necessitated frequent expansion, until he has today a plant invest- ment of about $20,000. and the distinction of operating the only exclusive l>attern-making shop in Northampton county. He is a grandson of James Lippev. an officer in the British army, who died in England about 1S57, and a son of Richard Lippey, born in 1848 on the Isle of Wight, an island and an administrative county of England in the English channel.

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Richard Lippey remained in Enp:land until attaining legal age, several years ot that period of his life having been spent in in the British navy. In 1869 he came to the United States, locating in Glendon, a suburb of Easton, Pennsylvania. He there became a foundryman, and until the closing down of the Glendon Iron Works was a general foreman of the works. lie then entered the employ of the Ingersoll-Sargeant Drill Company, and was suc- cessively with that company, the Steriingvvorth Railway Su])ply Company, and the Phillipsburg plant of the Ingersoll-Rand Company. Richard Lippey married, in Cilendon, Pennsylvania, Agnes Jones, born in England in 1853, daughter of Aloses and Hannah Jones. She came with her parents to the United States when a girl of seventeen, settling with them in Glendon, where Moses Jones entered the employ of the Glendon Iron Works. Later he moved to Charlestown, Maine, where he died. His widow, Hannah, then returned to Pennsylvania, and at the age of ninety-six died in the city of Philadelphia. Moses and Hannah Jones were the parents of six children: Agnes, married Richard Lii)pey ; Jennie, married John Wellington, and resides in Strouds- burg, Pennsylvania ; Hannah, married Emanuel Chew, of Philadelphia ; Henry, married Tamelia George, of Easton, Pennsylvania, and now resides in Jersey City, New Jersey; Mary, died in Maine; Moses, died unmarried in Phila- delphia.

Richard J. Lippey, son of Richard and Agnes (Jones) Lippey, was born in the village of Glendon, near Easton, July 12, 1875, and there grew to man- hood. He was educated in the public schools of Glendon, but he was only a boy when he began wage-earning at the Glendon Iron Works, where his first job was that of a boiler cleaner. He then served an apprenticeship of three years at cabinet-making under William E. Garis. the (iaris shops being on North Green street, Easton. After completing his apprenticeship he was in the employ of Lundy & Otto for three years, their shops at the corner of Bank and Church streets, their specialties clocks and high-grade furniture. In 1897, Mr. Lippey entered the employ of the Ingersoll-Rand Company, then known as the Ingersoll-Sargeant Drill Company. He was connected with the West Easton plant of the company, and there he took up pattern-making, serving a regular apprenticeship, although he was an expert woodworker and a journey- man cabinetmaker. He served three years with the Ingersoll Company as apprentice, then as a journeyman for two years, after which he was with the Easton Foundry & Machine Company as a journeyman patternmaker for three and one-half years. His next engagement was with Wilson Brothers, manufacturers of grinding mills, his connection with that firm continuing until May i, 1908, when Mr. Lippey began business under his own name. His I eginning was very modest, and his bench room was rented from Theodore Hester. He found patrons readily and soon he was in his own shop, a room 24 by 30 feet, on Ferry street. He continued at Nos. 327-329 Ferry street until June 14, 1910, removing to Nos. 39-41 North Sitgreaves street, there occupying a space 34 by 55 feet. On November 7, 1912, he moved to his present quarters at^Nos. 16-28 South Sitgreaves street, with space 55 by 70 feet, with a loft of the same dimensions for storage. He manufactures pat- tern's for foundries and mills, and his is the only job pattern shop in the countv. His business has grown to large proportions, the accuracy of his patterns having been thoroughly established, a fact which has won him the loyal support of those whose business success depends upon the excellence of the castings they turn out. His line covers a wide field, but his merit has •won him the confidence of manufacturers and pattern users. In addition to his private business, Mr. Lippey has a large interest in the Ouako Bottling Companv, of which he is president and general manager. The company manufactures soft drinks of great variety in their plant, which is located at the corner of Pine and West streets, Easton.

Since 1899, Mr. Lippey has resided in Easton. He was a member of the First Methodist Church at Glendon, serving as secretary of the board of

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trustees. His family hold membership with the South Presbyterian Church, taston. In politics he is a Republican, scrvinp^ his city at the present time (1918) as a member of the school board. He is a member of Dallas Lodge No. 396, Free and Accepted ^lasons; Easton Forest No. 35, Tall Cedars of Lebanon ; Lehicton Lodge No. 244, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; Easton Encampment No. 138, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Canton Lafaj'ette No. 22, Patriarchs Militant ; Charity Lodge No. 3, Daughters of Rebekah, for nine years its treasurer and degree master; Heraclius Sancto- rium. Oriental Order of Humility and Perfection ; Amana Lodge No. "JJ, Knights of Pythias; the Historical Society of Northampton county; the Rotary Club of Easton, Pennsylvania ; the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion of Easton, one of the most active members of the last-named organiza- tion. He has passed the chairs of the subordinate lodge of the Independent CJrder of Odd Fellows, the chairs of the Pennsylvania Grand Encampment of the order, and is senior ranking officer of the Department of Pennsylvania, and yet Brigade Commander, an office he will rehnquish to become depart- ment commander. He was appointed to the high honor of Supreme Slon- archas of the Oriental Order, and assumed office August 16, 1919.

During the period of the United States' participation in the World War. Mr. Lippey took a leading part in various activities of the government and authorized relief organizations, his services especially valuable in the five Liberty Loan drives, and acknowledged by a gratifying letter of appreciation from the officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. His citizen- ship is progressive and disinterested, and his enthusiastic support is a depend- able factor in all enterprises for civic betterment.

Mr. Lippey married, in Easton, December 27, 1900, Katie Ferguson, of that city. They are the parents of six children : Evelyn M., a high school student ; Kenneth E. ; Irene Ethel ; Florence, deceased ; Russell, deceased ; Grace Edith. The family home is a fine double dwelling, No. 1039 Lincoln avenue, which Mr. Lippey built in 1903.

GEORGE BELFORD SHERRY— As proprietor and manager of the Easton Brass & Machine Works, Xos. 143-151 Ferry street, Easton, Mr. Sherry is reaping the benefit of former years of experience and study. He is complete master of his business, and to the practical knowledge gained in shop, foun- dry and mill, he adds the learning of books