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MARSHALL COLLEGE
Class of 1846 Obituaries
Rev. Frederick B. BEIDLER entered the Junior class of
Marshall College in 1844, graduating two years later. He was a member of the Goethean Literary Society. Diligent
inquiry has been made concerning him in Reading, Pa., from which city he entered college, and elsewhere, but
nothing more could be learned.
Andrew BERRIER, son of Jacob and Catharine (Derr)
Berrier, was born in North Carolina, May 22, 1817. The College records state that he came from Davidson, N. C.
Little is known of his preparation for college, except that he studied for a short time under Rev. Jeremiah Ingold, D. D.
(1841), at Hoover's School House, Lincoln county, N. C. He entered the Freshman class of Marshall College in the
fall of 1841, and was a member of the Diagnothian Society. After graduation, from 1846 to 1849, he taught in the
academy at Newton, N. C. On leaving the academy he was married to Miss Amelia Gaston, in Georgia, and about four
months afterwards died. Mr. Berrier had great fondness for the study of botany and insects.
[Rev. J. C. Clapp, D. D.]
Charles BLACK was born at Easton, Pa., April 18, 1825.
His parents were James and Mary (Kichline) Black. He fitted himself for college in the school of the Rev. John
Vanderveer, and was thoroughly prepared when he entered the Sophomore class of Marshall College in 1843. He was
a member of the Diagnothian Literary Society.
After the completion of his collegiate studies he returned
to Easton and assisted his brother, Daniel Black, in business-- the manufacture of tin and copperware—though
never engaging in it actively for himself. He was a great lover of books, and bought many. He was gentle,
unobtrusive, earnest,--qualities he had inherited from an excellent mother, and which he retained throughout life. He
was a faithful attendant upon the services of the church. He once said to fellow-students that the lessons of the
catechism were more important than those of the classics. For a time he was a teacher in the Vanderveer Academy.
He died unmarried, at Easton, January 11, 1870.
[Rev. Theodore Appel, D. D.; H. P. Kinsey.]
Walter James BUDD, Esq., was a descendant of Judge
William Budd, the founder of New Mills, now Pemberton, N. J., in 1691. He was a son of James and Sarah (Van
Wyck) Budd, and was born May 21, 1828, at Pemberton. At the age of four years he was left an orphan, and his
uncle, Samuel Woolston Budd was appointed his guardian. He was prepared for college at Mercersburg, entered
Marshall College as a Freshman, and graduated in 1846. He was a member of the Goethean Literary Society.
In 1849 he went to Philadelphia to study law with Thomas
Allebone Budd, and was admitted to the bar, January 9, 1852. He possessed a most thorough knowledge of
common law, and had a large and extensive general practice. In politics he was an uncompromising Democrat.
He married Annie M. Anderson of Winchester, Va., August 20, 1857, and died May 11, 1891, leaving four sons
and two daughters to survive him.
[A. Van Wyck Budd, Esq.]
Rev. Thornton BUTLER, A. M., was born in Catawba
county, N. C., October 4, 1820. His father was Samuel Wallace, who married the widow Butler (nee
Wykoff). Thornton was her only child by the second marriage. Shortly after his birth his father left the country, and
Thornton took the name of his mother, who was called Widow Butler.
There being no public schools in North Carolina when
he was a boy, Thornton Butler grew up with little elementary schooling. He was an upright and promising youth,
and at the age of twenty had become an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Soon afterward he found his
way into the co-educational academy which the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Ingold (1841) was conducting at Hoover's School
House in Lincoln county, N. C. Dr. Ingold soon discovered extraordinary endowments in his large and unpolished
pupil. Under the direction and advice of his teacher, he fitted himself for college. He entered the Freshman class
in 1842, joined the Diagnothian Society, and at the end of four years' study, graduated with his class. Meanwhile Mr.
Butler had transferred his membership to the Reformed Church.
After studying theology at Mercersburg he was inducted
into the ministry, having been ordained by the Classis of North Carolina, March 12, 1848. The same year he
became pastor of five congregations in the vicinity of Lexington, Davidson county, N. C., and soon afterwards
a sixth congregation was added to his charge. In 1851, on account of impaired health, he resigned his charge, but
continued to preach more or less regularly till 1858, when he accepted a call to the East Rowan charge. Here he
served three congregations for ten years, when he was called to Anna, Ill., where he died November 2, 1870. Mr.
Butler had endured great privation and suffering during the late Civil War, and this hastened his death. His ability and
zeal in the pulpit, his warm social qualities, and his noble Christian character rendered him a most beloved and
successful pastor.
Mr. Butler was twice married. His first wife was the
widow of Rev. S. S. Middlekauff (1839), by whom he had two children, a son, Charles Butler, and a daughter, who
died in infancy. His second wife was Miss Catharine J. Rendleman of Rowan county, N. C. Of the seven children
born of this union, five were living at the time of the death of their father.
[The Fathers, 4: 396; Rev. J. C. Clapp, D. D.]
Rev. David Elliott CAMPBELL was born near
Mercersburg, Pa., June 7, 1825. His father was Caleb Boyles Campbell, and his mother Agnes McDowell (Davidson)
Campbell. They were members of the Mercersburg Presbyterian church under the pastorate of the Rev. David
Elliott, D. D., for whom their son was named. Shortly after his birth his parents moved to Delaware county, Ohio, where
his mother died before he was three years old. He was then taken into the family of an old couple who had no
children. In 1841 he entered the Preparatory Department of Hanover College in Indiana, remaining six months. His
father then sent him to reside with an uncle, Elias Davidson, at McConnellsburg, Pa., and the latter furnished him with
the means for a collegiate education. On entering college, in 1842, he became a member of the Goethean Society. At
his graduation in 1846, he spoke the valedictory oration.
He studied theology at the Western Theological
Seminary, Allegheny, Pa., from 1846 to 1849, and was ordained to the full work of the Gospel ministry at Concord, Pa.,
June 5, 1850. On the 29th of the same month he was married to Miss Maria Irvine Bingham, of Steubenville, Ohio.
Having devoted themselves to the work of foreign missions, they sailed from Boston for Calcutta, August 8, 1850,
and arrived at their destination December 30. He was settled at Futtehgurh; but, owing to a severe bronchial
trouble, most of his time was given to teaching. He became very proficient in several of the native languages.
In the early part of 1856 Mr. Campbell and his family
went to the hill country for their health, returning, with the exception of his son Davidson, in November. Soon after
his return his work was arrested by the mutterings of that reign of terror, the Sepoy Rebellion. On the night of
June 3, 1857, a consultation of the missionaries and their followers was held and it was considered absolutely
necessary to go to Cawnpore, if possible, in boats. Early the next morning they started, a party of 126 souls. They were
attacked at various places on the way, but were able to defend themselves against their enemies. June 8 their boat
stuck on an island about five miles above Cawnpore, and here they were detained until the evening of the 12th. Mr.
Campbell then called the party together for prayer, and words of consolation were spoken by him. They decided to
offer no more resistance; they threw all their weapons of defence into the river; and then a boat-load of Sepoys arrived
and all were made prisoners, bound together with ropes. Mr. Campbell was bound to his wife; he took his little boy
Willie in his arms, while a friend took his daughter Fannie; and the march to death was begun. Having been without
food for hours, many were soon exhausted and could go no further, and a halt was ordered for the night. A friend offered
300,000 rupees ($150,000) for their release, but he was told " It is blood we want and not money." The next morning,
June 13, they were marched to the parade ground and at 7 o'clock all were shot to death, thus escaping the still more
terrible tortures that Nana Sahib had in store for the garrison.
Mr. Campbell's son, Davidson Elliott, on account of
feeble health, was not with his parents at the time of their martyrdom. He had been confined to the care of the
Rev. W. J. Jay; and was sent back to his grandmother in America. He graduated from Westminster College, New
Wilmington, Pa., in 1871, and died August 15, 1885, at Monmouth, Ill.
[Centennial Memorial of the Presbytery of Carlisle, 1889; Rankin,
Wm. Memorials of Foreign Missionaries of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., 1895; Trevelyan, G. O. Cawnpore, 1866; Walsh,
Rev. J. J. A Memorial of the Futtehgurh Mission and her Martyred Missionaries, 1859 (Portrait).]
David Stanley GLONINGER, A. M., M. D., son of Dr.
John W. and Mary Ann (Hassinger) Gloninger, was born in Lebanon, Pa., in 1828. ' He attended the academy in his
native town, and early in 1845 entered the Junior class of Marshall College, graduating in 1846. In class work he
took special honors in the ancient classics. He was a prominent member of the Diagnothian Literary Society.
After graduation he entered the Medical Department of
the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1849. He practiced medicine in Philadelphia from the date of his
graduation. At the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the service as an assistant surgeon," contract surgeon," and was
stationed at Fortress Monroe, and later was assigned to duty in military hospitals in Philadelphia. Dr. Gloninger
was recognized by his fraternity as a good, all round physician, and was especially noted for his skill in obstetrical
work.
Dr. Gloninger was married to Mrs. Abigail Addis Smith,
nee Harman, in 1853. He died September 11, 1889, leaving to survive him a widow, two sons and a daughter: Ellwood
Stanley Gloninger, M. D. (University of Pa., 1872); John P. Gloninger, Esq.; Lizzie Mar, wife of George E.
Saulnier, Brooklyn, N. Y.
[John P. Gloninger, Esq.]
William GRAFIUS, M. D., son of Israel and Elizabeth
(Steinman) Grafius, was born in Alexandria, Huntingdon county, Pa., April 20, 1826. He prepared for college in his
native town, entered Marshall College as a Freshman, and was graduated with honors in the class of 1846. He was a
Diagnothian
For nearly a year he taught school at Alexandria, and
then, till 1852 was engaged in managing a foundry of which his father was the owner, but devoting part of his time
t lumber interests in Clearfield county, Pa. He studied medicine at the Pennsylvania Medical College, in
Philadelphia, graduating in 1854. Dr. Grafius spent an additional year of study at the Hahnemann Medical College,
Philadelphia, after which, for about a year, he practiced his profession with Dr. David Houtz in his native town. Then
he was appointed surgeon to a mining expedition to Central America. He sailed in June, 1856. The expedition started
to return home in September, but the ship, The Central America, was lost in a storm off the coast of North
Carolina, September 14, 1857. Dr. Grafius was among the many that perished.
[J. Frank Meyer.]
Rev. Aaron Seibert LEINBACH, D. D., was born in
Spring township, Berks county, Pa., July 20, 1825. He was one of the thirteen children of Rev. Thomas H. and
Elizabeth (Seibert) Leinbach. His father moved to the Tulpehocken charge, Lebanon county, when he was but a
year old, and there he spent his childhood and attended the common schools. He fitted for college in the academies
at Womelsdorf and Myerstown, Pa., entered the Freshman class at Mercersburg in 1842, and graduated in 1846.
He belonged to the Goethean Society. During two years following he pursued his theological studies at the
same place. He was licensed to preach the Gospel on May 16, 1848, and installed pastor of the Palmyra charge,
Lebanon county, Pa. After a five months' pastorate he was called to Reading, Pa., and was pastor there and
surrounding country churches as follows:
1. First Reformed church, Sept. 8, 1848, to March 8,
1863.
2. Schwartzwald church, July 1, 1855, to Aug. 18, 1895.
3. Immanuel's, Hamburg, April 24, 1864, to June 10,
1866.
4. Shalter's church, May 1, 1864, to Aug. 4, 1895.
5. St. John's, Robesonia, May 22, 1864, to June 29, 1873.
6. St. Michael's, Upper Bern, Aug. 7, 1864, to Sept. 29,
1867.
7. Mohrsville, Jan. 22, 1865, to Jan. 23, 1881.
8. Leesport church, June 26,
1870, to Jan. 23, 1881.
9. Hinnershitz's church, Oct. 8, 1871, to Aug. 4, 1895.
10. Alsace church, Oct. 8, 1871, to July 28, 1895.
11. Spies' church, March 23, 1873, to Aug. 11, 1895.
12. Bern church, July 25, 1875, to Aug. 12, 1883.
The following are the statistics of his long ministry:
Baptisms, 7,729; Confirmations, 3,437; Marriages, 2,829; Funerals, 4,289. He built churches at Mohrsville,
Leesport, Schwartzwald and Spies', and the St. Thomas Reformed church in Reading.
Franklin and Marshall conferred the degree of Doctor of
Divinity upon him in 1887.
He was president of Lebanon Classis in 1867, and
president of the Eastern Synod, at Myerstown, in 1880.
He was married to Miss Eliza Amanda Schantz, of
Allentown, Pa., January 8, 185o, who died August 13, 1867. He was married a second time to Miss Ann Elizabeth Wetzel,
of Carlisle, Pa., November 2, 1869. The following children were born by his first marriage: Rev. John Hiester
Leinbach (1875), deceased; J. J. S. Leinbach, Mrs. A. B. Rieser, Mrs. Morris H. Schaeffer, Thomas Leinbach,
deceased, and Mrs. John Armstrong.
He died June 22, 1896, and is buried in the Charles
Evans cemetery, of Reading. Among his last words were: "The Lord is my strength." No man was more widely
known in Berks county than Dr. Leinbach, where his relations with so many of the people were akin to those of a
parent.
(Reading Eagle; Reading Herald; Adam B. Rieser, Esq.]
Rev. John Wesley McCUNE was born in Mercersburg,
Pa., March 20, 1825. He was the son of Jacob Brewer and Elizabeth Divelbiss McCune. He entered the Freshman
class and was graduated from Marshall College in 1846. Afterwards he studied theology in the Western Seminary,
Allegheny, Pa, He was licensed to preach the Gospel by the Presbytery of Carlisle, June II, 1851, and ordained
June 23, 1852, by the Presbytery of Erie, at Coolspring, Pa., where he continued preaching till November 7, 1877. Part
of this time, from November, 1851, to February, 1855, he served the charge at Sandy Lake in connection with that
at Coolspring. During the late war he was a delegate of the Christian Commission. At the time of his death he was
pastor at Salem, Mercer county, Pa.
Mr. McCune was a member of the Goethean Literary
Society. He was married April 22, 1852, to Miss Rebecca Marion Johnston, of Allegheny City, Pa., and with her had
five children: Mrs. Dr. F. G. Byles, Fredonia, Pa.; J. B. McCune, Boston, Mass.; R. Johnston McCune, Erie, Pa.;
Mrs. W. H. Miles, Sioux Falls, S. D.; and Thomas Crugh McCune, Pittsburgh, Pa. He died suddenly of heart
disease, June 19, 1878.
[F. G. Byles, M. D.; Rev. N. Z. Snyder.]
John Henry Wilson McGINNES, A. M., son of George
and Catharine (Sholly) McGinnes, was born in Shippensburg, Pa., October 3, 1825. His parents were of
Scotch-Irish descent. The father spent his early life in the vicinity of
Duncannon, where he united with the Presbyterian church at the mouth of the Juniata river. Soon after uniting with
the church he was elected a ruling elder, and subsequently removing to Shippensburg, he was chosen to the same office.
In view of his intellectual culture and high moral endowments he exerted a wide influence. The son, Wilson,
inherited the nobler characteristics of both parents. He was intellectually and morally inclined from youth. His early
life was spent in the common schools of the place, after which he entered the academy under the care of Prof. Casey,
and prepared for the Sophomore class of Marshall College, in 1843.
He was a member of the Diagnothian Literary Society.
Both as a student and a member of the society he gave evidence of marked ability, clearly evincing this in his
oration on the " Perfectibility of Human Society," delivered July 4, 1846, and in his effort on commencement, of the
same year. He received his A. M. degree in course in 1849.
After graduation, Mr. McGinnes assisted his brother,
Rev. James Y., in establishing Millwood Academy, at Shade Gap, Huntingdon county, Pa., and during its early history
was one of its professors. After the death of his brother he took sole charge of the institution, and while thus engaged,
married Miss Catharine G. Laughlin, of Newville, Pa., October 25, 1851.
Delicate by nature, it soon became evident that life's
career would be brief, that its brightest hopes would not be realized, that he must soon exchange the work and the
warfare for higher scenes; and so on February 2, 1853, he passed from mortal sight to walk the golden streets and
wear the conqueror's crown.
[Rev. Wm. B. Craig.]
John B. MOYER, A. M., entered college as a Freshman in
1842, became a member of the Goethean Society, and graduated in 1846. He was from Perry county, Ohio. Because
he attended to ringing the College bell he was known by the students as " Bell " Moyer. After graduation he went
West, but nothing is known of him, except that he is dead. In the College list of alumni he is called Rev. John B.
Moyer, but this is supposed to be a mistake, as it is believed that he never studied for the ministry.
[Rev. Theodore Appel, D. D.]
Perry Abraham RICE, Esq., A. M., son of Thomas and
Elizabeth (Willard) Rice, was born, January 19, 1820, near Burkittsville, Frederick county, Md. His education began
in the country schools, but when he was yet a lad, his guardian put him to work in a store in Frederick. Here he
remained until he was of age, when he at once began to work for better school advantages. He entered the
Preparatory Department of Marshall College in the spring term of 1841, and was admitted to the Freshman class in 1842.
He was a very active member of the Goethean Society, and
in vacations spent much time in travelling about, soliciting funds toward the Society Hall.
Graduating with his class in 1846, he at once made
arrangements to study law. He studied under Judge Thompson, of the College law school at Chambersburg, but owing
to the Judge's death, he finished as a student of Robert M. Bard. He was admitted to the bar in Frederick, Md., in
1848, and began to practice in that city. He took the degree A. M. in course, in 1849. In the autumn of the same
year he removed to Mercersburg, and was admitted to the Franklin county bar at Chambersburg. He moved to
Mercersburg to take the management of the Mercersburg Review, which he published from 185o to 1852. Many letters
in possession of the family show that this step was taken at the strong insistence of Dr. J. W. Nevin. He also
published a German monthly, Der Deutsche Kirchenfreund, edited by Dr. Philip
Schaff.
In 1849 Mr. Rice delivered the annual address before the
Goethean Society.
In 1852 he was elected justice of the peace. The same
year, December 21, he was married to Miss Elizabeth S. Findlay. The children of this marriage were five : John
Findlay, Thomas Willard (d.), Sara Findlay, Robert Smith Findlay, and William Perry (d.).
In Stuart's famous raid Mr. Rice was captured, October
to, 1862. He was imprisoned in both Libby and Castle Lightning, and February 27, 1863, he died from exposure
and want of food. Buried in the outskirts of Richmond, his grave was marked by a friend, but all efforts to find it
after the war were unavailing, so that his last resting place is unknown to all save God.
[Miss Sara F. Rice.]
James S. ROSS, B. L., entered the Law Department of
Marshall College, in Chambersburg, Pa., in 1841, coming from Fayetteville, Franklin county, Pa. After graduation
in 1846, he was admitted to the bar in Chambersburg, where he practiced his profession until death, about 1860.
[E. J. Bonebrake, Esp.]
Elias SCHNEIDER, A. M., was born July 5, 1820, near
Pottstown, Montgomery county, Pa. His parents were Henry and Anna Maria (Nice) Schneider. He was a brother
of the Rev. B. Schneider, once a missionary of the Reformed Church in Aintab, Turkey. He was graduated from
Marshall College In 1846. He took much interest in the Goethean Literary Society, of which he was a member.
The degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by Alma Mater in 1849.
He made teaching his life work. From 1846 to 1856 he
conducted an academy at Pottsville, Pa.; from 1856 to 1867 a similar school at Orwigsburg, Pa. In 1867 he opened
an academy at Sunbury, Pa., and in 1870 became principal (for two years) of the public schools of that place. He
continued his academic work at Sunbury till 1876. From 1877 to 1883 he had charge of an academy at Milton, Pa.
Prof. Schneider was a most successful instructor. He
prepared for college many young men who have since become distinguished in public life. He wrote numerous
articles for the public prints, including the Popular Science Monthly, The Analyst, and the Pennsylvania School Journal.
In the first named magazine, July, 1877 (II:271), he published an article on " The Tides," in which he advances a
new theory of "the great motions of the waters of the mighty deep."
He was married, August 10, 1847, to Miss Eliza J. Wise,
of Mercersburg, with whom he had four children—Alice, Annie, Laura and Edwin. He died May 1, 1883, in Milton,
and his remains lie buried there.
[Rudolph F. Kelker; Miss Laura J. Schneider.]
John SCOTT, Jr., B. L., son of John Scott, was born at
Alexandria, Huntingdon county, Pa., July 24, 1824. The father was a major-general of volunteers in the war of 1812,
and was a member of Congress, 1829-31. The son's rudimentary education was obtained in the common schools of
his native village. One of his teachers had studied for the Catholic priesthood, another was preparing for the
ministry of the Presbyterian Church, and through them, and his
pastor, Rev. John McKenney, he received instruction in Latin and Greek. His father was then engaged in the
business of tanning leather and manufacturing it into boots and shoes. At the age of fourteen his son assisted him in
conducting that business by keeping the books, making sales, and distributing the products of both tannery and
shop through a large portion of the county. In his seventeenth year he manifested an inclination for public speaking
and took part in the public meetings of the Washingtonian temperance movement. In November, 1842, he went to
Chambersburg, Pa., and entered the Law Department of Marshall College, at the head of which was Judge
Alexander Thomson, father of Frank Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania R. R.
His studies were interrupted for a period of six months
by the death of his brother, Dr. O. G. Scott, of Birmingham, Pa., of whose will he was made executor, and whose
estate he settled at the age of nineteen. In 1846 he was admitted to the bar and immediately located his office in
Huntingdon, remaining there in the practice of law until the end of his service in the United States Senate in 1875.
During this period he was prosecuting attorney for the county. Blair county was created in 1846, having been
taken in large part from Huntingdon county. His usefulness was manifested by attending the courts of the new
county. During his residence in Huntingdon Mr. Scott was executor, administrator and trustee of many estates, and
guardian of over thirty minor children, and of these numerous trusts no exception was ever filed to any of his accounts.
John Scott was originally a Democrat, and the
implacable foe of Mr. Buchanan in the latter's Presidential aspirations. In 1852 he led the opposition to Mr. Buchanan, and
was the author of the memorable protest, signed by some thirty members, which was fatal to Mr. Buchanan at
Baltimore. In 1856 he gave a reluctant support to Mr. Buchanan, but earnestly and consistently resisted his Kansas
policy. In 1860 he was the Democratic candidate for State Senator in the hopeless Huntingdon district, but in 1861,
when Southern Democracy culminated in war against the Government, Mr. Scott at once arrayed himself on the side
of the Administration, and he was so highly appreciated by his people that the conventions of both parties voluntarily
presented him for the Legislature and lie was unanimously elected. In the Legislature he uniformly acted with the
Republicans and became one of the most ardent and effective Republican campaigners in the State. In 1862 he was
tendered the Republican nomination for State Senator, when a nomination was an election, but he peremptorily
declined it.
The year 1868 developed many candidates to succeed
Charles R. Buckalew in the United States Senate. Mr. Scott was urged by his friends to become a candidate, but
he did not personally enter into the contest. When the Legislature met in January, 1869, none of the candidates
commanded the necessary votes, and finally all gracefully declined in favor of Mr. Scott. He served one full term
as a Republican, retiring from the Senate in 1875, during which period he was a member of the committees on Naval
Affairs and Pacific Railroads, and chairman of the Committee on Claims. He was also chairman of the Special
Committee to investigate the Ku Klux outrages in the South. Upon his retirement from the Senate President
Grant tendered him a place in the Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior, which he declined, preferring to return to the
practice of law.
Mr. Scott's first connection with the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company was in 1857, when he was associated with the present Judge Pershing. of Pottsville, Pa., then the
company's resident counsel in Cambria county, in the trial of an important case. It excited a large degree of public interest,
and after two protracted trials in the court below, ended in a verdict in the company's favor, which was affirmed in the
Supreme Court. Mr. Scott then entered the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's service as special counsel for the
district comprising Cambria, Blair and Huntingdon counties, taking charge also of the questions arising out of the
transfer of the canals and railroads of the State to the company. In this capacity he continued to serve the company
until his connection with it was severed by his election to the United States Senate.
After his retirement from the Senate he entered the
service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, removing to Pittsburg, where he took charge of all the legal business of
the lines west of Pittsburg. Upon the resignation of William J. Howard, in November, 1877, Mr. Scott was brought
to Philadelphia to take charge of all the company's legal business as general solicitor.
As a resident of Huntingdon Mr. Scott was one of the
original incorporators and a director of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad Company, a director of the
Huntingdon Gas Company, a member of the banking firm of Bell, Garrettson & Co., a director of the First National
Bank of Huntingdon, trustee of the Academy, school director and elder in the Presbyterian church, assistant
superintendent and superintendent of the Sunday-school. During his residence in Pittsburg he was -a manager of the
Dixmont Hospital, and a director of the Western Theological Seminary. After his location in Philadelphia he became
an elder of the Walnut Street Presbyterian church, a member of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-school Work,
a member of the Board of Ministerial Relief, a director and trustee of the Princeton Theological Seminary, and a trustee
of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Scott died on Sunday evening, November 29, 1896,
at his residence in Philadelphia, after a short illness, although he had suffered from the infirmities of old age for
some time. After his retirement from the active duties of his office in February, 1895, he spent his time quietly at his
home.
Mr. Scott left a widow and six sons: William W. and
Walter, lawyers in Pittsburg; John, Jr., a lawyer in Philadelphia; George, coal merchant, Philadelphia; Irving, and
Dr. J. Allison, assistant medical director of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Philadelphia.
[Philadelphia papers, Dec. 1, 1896 (Portraits) ; Wilson, JamesGrant, and Fiske, John, editors. Appleton's Encyclopledia of
Amer-kan Biography, v. 5, 1888.]
Lewis Henry STEINER, A. M., M. D., Lit. D., son of
Christian and Rebecca (Weltzheimer) Steiner, was born at Frederick, Md., May 4, 1827. He prepared for college at
the Frederick Academy, and entered the Sophomore class in 1843. After graduation, in 1846, he began the study of
medicine in the office of Dr. William Tyler, in Frederick, completing his medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania
in 1849, when he received the degree of M. D. He received the degree of A. M. in 1849, in course, from Alma Mater;
in 1854 (honoris causa), from the College of St. James; and in 1869, from Yale College.
Dr. Steiner began the practice of medicine in Frederick,
but in 1852 he removed to Baltimore, where he was associated, until 1855, with Dr. John R. W. Dunbar in the
conduct of the Baltimore Medical Institute. From 1853 to 1856 he was professor of chemistry and natural history at
the Columbian University, Washington, and at the same time professor of chemistry and pharmacy and dean of the
National Medical College. He was lecturer on chemistry and physics at the College of St. James from 1854 to 1859,
and in 1855 and 1856, Swann lecturer on applied chemistry at the Maryland Institute, Baltimore. In the latter year he
assisted in reorganizing the Maryland College of Pharmacy, serving as professor of chemistry until 1861.
During this period he lectured on chemistry and botany in many private schools for girls in and near Baltimore. He
was one of the corporators and professors of the Mt. Washington Female College, an institution founded in the
interests of the Reformed Church for the higher education of women.
On coming to Baltimore, Dr. Steiner soon gave up the
active practice of medicine, devoting his time to the teaching of chemistry and botany. He was one of the earliest
physiological chemists in this country and contributed much to the literature of the science. His monograph on
strychnia is well known. In 1854, with Dr. D. Breed, he translated Wills' " Chemical Analysis," Cambridge, 1855.
At the outbreak of the Civil War he returned to
Frederick and then entered the U. S. Sanitary Commission as one of its inspectors. In 1863 he was promoted to the
position of Chief Inspector for the Army of the Potomac, and placed in full charge of the field relief work. In
recognition of his valuable services in the war, the New York Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States elected him, in 1868, a companion of the third class.
In 1865 he was chosen president of the school board of
Frederick county and, acting in that capacity until 1868, thoroughly organized the school system of the county.
In 1871 his native county elected him a member of the State Senate. He was re-elected in 1875 and 1879, but
defeated in 1883. In the State Senate he served on the most important committees and took a prominent part in
the deliberations of that body. He was the nominee of his party for the United States Senatorship on several
occasions, and in 1876 a member of the Republican National Convention at Cincinnati, which nominated Hayes for the
Presidency. From 1873 to 1884 he was the political editor of the Frederick Examiner, where he suggested the name
of James G. Blaine for the Presidency, which was, as Mr. Blaine wrote him some years ago, the first public suggestion of the sort.
When a student in college Dr. Steiner was for a time
librarian of the Goethean Literary Society. From 1856 to 1861 he was librarian of the Maryland Historical Society.
On the organization of the library of the Peabody Institute of Baltimore, in 1860, his name was considered for the
librarianship. In November, 1884, he was chosen librarian of The Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City. He
organized the library, which was opened, January 4, 1886, with 20,000 volumes on the shelves of the central library.
Within a few months thereafter four branch libraries were opened, and in November, 1888, a fifth branch. Under
his administration the Library circulated about 450,000 volumes annually and, at the time of his death, it owned
nearly 110,000 books.
Dr. Steiner was a member of many literary and scientific
organizations. In addition to those already mentioned, he was elected to the following: member of the American
Medical Association, 1852; fellow of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, 1853; member, 1853, and fellow, 1874,
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the Maryland Historical Society, 1853;
correspondent of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, 1855; honorary member of the Alpha of New York of the
O. B. K. fraternity, 1856; corresponding member of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, 1869; member, 1872, and
vice-president, 1876, of the American Public Health Association; honorary member of the New Haven Colony
Historical Society, 1876; member of the International Medical Congress in Philadelphia, 1876; one of the founders, 1876,
vice-president, 1876 and 1877, and president, 1878, of the American Academy of Medicine; corresponding member of
the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1881; one of the original members of the Society for the History
of the Germans in Maryland, 1886; member, 1889, and vice-president, 1891, of the American Library Association.
The mere enumeration of the titles of his published
writings would require several pages of this work. A fairly complete list of them may be found in Quinan's Medical
Annals of Baltimore, pages 16o-163. Many of them are to be found in the proceedings and reports of the
numerous organizations with which he was connected. His first publication was an address before the Goethean
Literary Society in 1851; and the last thing he wrote was a letter of condolence to the widow of the late Prof. W. M.
Nevin, published in the College Student, April, 1892. Between 1865 and 188o he translated nearly a dozen works of
German fiction for the Reformed Church Publication House. He also translated many German articles for the New York
Independent.
In 1876 he edited the History of Guilford, Conn., left in
manuscript by the Hon. R. D. Smyth, his father-in-law, and in 1889 he took a prominent part in arranging for the
Quarto-Millennial Celebration of the settlement of that town. From 1858 to 1861 he was assistant editor of the
American Medical Monthly. He also wrote for the Southern Quarterly.
Higher education always found in him an ardent
advocate. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Franklin and Marshall College from 1869 to 1883. From
1878 to his death he was a trustee of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. Delaware College conferred the
degree of LL. D. upon him in 1884, and Franklin and Marshall, that of Lit. D., in 1887.
He was always deeply interested in the welfare of
Alma Mater. In 1851 he delivered an address before the Goethean Literary Society on Physical Science: its past,
present and future, which comprises a pamphlet of 24 pages. At the dedication of the Goethean Hall, July, 1857, he
delivered the address on The Mission of Science, published at Chambersburg the same year, 55 pages. In 1875 he
delivered the address before the literary societies on Some Lessons Learned from the First Century of our National
Existence, published at Philadelphia the same year, 28 pages. The College and the Old College Curriculum was the
subject of his oration at the centennial celebration of the founding of the College in 1887, published in the number of the
Reformed Quarterly Review devoted to the centennial.
He was one of the prominent lay members of the Reformed Church. For many years he was an elder of the
Evangelical Reformed Congregation at Frederick, and several times he served ,as treasurer of the Potomac Synod.
The English Translation of the Heidelberg Catechism of 1601, with Historical Preface, he published at Chambersburg in 1860. Catechismus Heidelbergensis, edidit Ludovicus
H. Steiner, was published in Baltimore in 1862, and in 1863
he was one of the secretaries of the Tercentenary Celebration of the Heidelberg Catechism. In 1866 he was a
member of the committee to prepare an " Order of Worship " for the church; in 1874 a " Hymn Book "; and in 1883, a
" Directory of Worship." From 1878 to 1883 he was a member of the " Peace Commission." With Prof. Henry
Schwing he prepared two hymn books: " Cantate Domino," in 1859, and " Tunes for Worship," in 1884. He was a
frequent contributor to the Mercersburg Review and its successor, the Reformed Quarterly Review, and other church
publications.
The several times Dr. Steiner was a resident of Baltimore
he always took an active interest in the social and religious life of the city. He was one of the founders of the
Baltimore Y. M. C. A., and for many years he was a member both of the University Club and of the Athenaeum Club.
He was married, October 30, 1866, to Miss Sarah
Spencer Smyth, of Guilford, Conn. Of their six children five are living: Bernard C., his father's successor as librarian of
The Enoch Pratt Free Library (B. A., Yale, 1888, Ph. D., Johns Hopkins, 1891, LL. B., University of Maryland,
1894); Miss Gertrude R.; Walter R., (B. A., Yale, 1892); Miss Bertha R., and Miss Amy L.
His death came suddenly, after less than an hour's illness,
on the evening of February 18, 1842. He was buried at Frederick, in Mt. Olivet cemetery.
[Allibone, v. 2, 1882; American Ancestry. v. 7, 1892; Appleton's
Annual Cydopiedia for 1892, The Biographical Cyclopedia of Maryland and the District of Columbia, 1879; Library Journal, March,
1892, 17: 103; Quinan, John R. Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 188o, 1884; Raddatz, C. F. In Memoriam (In Sixth Annual
Report of the Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, 1891-92, with portrait); Steiner, Lewis H., and Bernard C. The
Genealogy of the Steiner Family, 1896; Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Western Maryland, 1882, 1: 488; Ward, William Hayes. Memorial
of L. H. Steiner (In Proceedings of the American Library Association, conference at Lakewood, N. J., 1892; also in Library
Journal, August, 1892, 17: C 10); Wilson, James Grant, and Fiske, John, editors. Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1888;
Bernard C. Steiner, Ph. D.]
Joel Biehl WANNER, Esq., son of John and Elizabeth
(Biehl) Wanner, was born in Maxatawny township, near Kutztown, Berks county, Pa., March 5, 1821. He died in
Reading, Pa., September 29, 1875.During his youth he worked on his father's farm,
attending the country school (luring the winter months. The last few years of his minority were spent in teaching school
in the country districts, in the winter, and in self-preparation for college.
He entered the Sophomore class of Marshall College in
1843, became a member of the Diagnothian Society, and after three years graduated with his class. He then
commenced the study of law under the direction of Hon. William Strong, late associate justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States. He was admitted to the Berks county bar, January 13, 1849, and practiced law in Reading. On
June 1o, 1851, he was married to Anna Louisa Zieber of that city. They had five children: William, Ida, Katie E.,
Sarah A., and John P.
He was an ardent Democrat, and in 1856 was elected
mayor of Reading, serving in that capacity during 1856-57, and also during 1861-63. When, in 1858, the Hon. J.
Glancy Jones resigned his seat in Congress to accept the Austrian mission, he was the Democratic candidate to fill
the unexpired term, but was defeated at the polls by William H. Keim.
In 1862, while holding the office of mayor of Reading,
he entered the army, August 25, 1862, as major of the 128th Reg. Pa. Vols., and participated in the battles of South
Mountain and Antietam. During the latter battle the colonel of his regiment was killed and the lieutenant colonel
wounded, whereupon Major Wanner assumed entire command of the regiment. He retained this command until
civil duties demanded his return to Reading. He resigned his command, November 29, 1862, and resumed his duties
as mayor of Reading, where he remained, practicing law until his death.
[Bates, 4 : 168 ; Howard P. Wanner, Esq.; John P. Wanner.]
Source: Franklin and Marshall College
Obituary Record, Edited for the Alumni Association, Vol. 1, No.1, Lancaster,
Pa. Published by the Alumni Association of Franklin and Marshall
College, June 1897.
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