years David Marquis retired from active work at his trade and purchased
about thirty-five acres of his father-in-law's estate, erecting thereon a
large brick house, and there spending the last days of an extraordinarily
long and useful life, his death occurring when he was aged ninety-one years.
Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church.
He married, in 1814, Mary Moore, born in Beaver county, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1797, died in the same county in 1883, preceding her husband to
the grave by the short space of twelve months, their married life having
covered a period of sixty-nine years, blessed with happiness and the joy
of children. Mary Moore was the daughter of Lieutenant James and Isa-
bella (Stewart) Moore. Lieutenant James Moore was born at Londonderry,
New Hampshire, in 1747. He gained his military title as a soldier in the Revo-
lution, fighting in that war with the troops of Charlotte county. New York,
in Captain Barnes' company, connected with the regiment commanded by
Colonel Jacobus Swartmont. He saw more of the different phases of mili-
tary life than those ordinarily revealed to a common soldier, and besides
engaging in the important battles at Bennington, Stillwater and Saratoga,
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as a private, was several times dispatched by his regiment commander
as a spy upon the British forces. In this capacity his services were of such
value to the Continental army and his own daring bravery so conspicuous
that he was rewarded with a first lieutenancy. At the close of the war he
settled on a grant of land on the Beaver river, Pennsylvania, received from
the national government in return for his services in the war for inde-
pendence, which extended back to the Rochester Hill road, covering two
hundred and nineteen acres, for which he received the deed and record
of survey in 1803. He was married in 1783 and it is probable that he made
his home on his newly received property at once. Certain it is that he lived
here until his death in 1833, aged eighty-six years. He married Isabella
Stewart, born in 1764, died in 1853, surviving her husband twenty years.
The family of which she was a member were of Scotch ancestry, but for
religious reasons settled in Londonderry, Ireland. About 1719, in the neigh-
borhood of twenty families of the little band that had come from their
homeland to the Irish country sailed for the American shore, and among
this party, which was headed by the pastor of their flock, was the Stewart
family. These emigrants founded the town of Londonderry, New Hamp-
shire, a place named after the town that had first offered them asylum
as they fled from their native country, and it is said that they there organ-
ized the first Presbyterian church in New England. The marriage of
Lieutenant James Moore and Isabella Stewart was solemnized at Salem,
New York. Children of Lieutenant James and Isabella Moore: James,
bom in 1784; Sarah, born in 1787; Samuel, born in 1792; Isabel, born in
1794; Mary, of previous mention, married David Marquis; David, born in
1799; Jesse, born in 1802; William, born in 1805; and John, born in 1807.
Children of David and Mary (Moore) Marquis: i. James, born Sep-
tember 22, 1815, died just subsequent to the Mexican War while in the
service of the United States army. 2. Lydia Catherine, bom September
22, 1818, married Doctor Chapman and moved to Wellsville, Ohio. They
later returned to Rochester township and here she died, while still a young
woman. 3. David S., born April 14, 1821, deceased, a physician of Ro-
chester. 4. Milton M., born January 10, 1824, postmaster at Montour
Junction, where he died. 5. Edwin S., born July 21, 1827, a soldier of Com-
pany C, Sixty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, was confined in
Andersonville prison and was never after reported. 6. Albert S., born July
15, 1830, a farmer, enlisted in the Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves,
and died in New Brighton, Pennsylvania. 7. Addison Stewart, of whom
further. 8. Mary Eliza, born February 9, 1838, died aged five years.
(Ill) Addison Stewart Marquis, sixth son and seventh child of David
and Mary (Moore) Marquis, was born at Beaver, Beaver county, Penn-
sylvania, October 13, 1834. His education was obtained in the public
schools of Rochester and New Brighton townships and at the Freedom
Academy. Soon after completing his studies he began the management of
the home farm, and afterward became the owner of about eight acres of
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the old homestead, upon which he lived until the spring of 1914; at the
present time he lives at 618 Seventh avenue, New Brighton, Pennsylvania.
In political action he binds himself to the dictates of no party, but gives his
support without discrimination as to political creed, judging a man or a
measure solely upon its merits and casting his ballot accordingly. He has
been elected by his neighbors to fill the offices of school director and super-
visor, and has discharged the duties of every public trust laid upon him
with thoroughness and fidelity. With his wife he is a member of the Pres-
byterian Church. Like three of his brothers, he has seen service in the army
of the United States, enlisting in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-
third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in 1862, and serving for
nine months. Among the battles in which his regiment participated and in
which his company was in motion were South Mountain, Second Bull Run,
and Fredericksburg. He belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
Mr. Marquis married. May 24, 1866, Mary Belle Graham, a native of
Freedom, Pennsylvania, daughter of Adam and Nancy (Bell) Graham.
Children of Addison Stewart and Mary Marquis: i. Annetta, born Feb-
ruary 23, 1868, lives at home. 2. Laura Bentel, born December 29, 1871.
3. David Louis, born February 26, 1876, married Hazel Aughinbaugh, and
is the father of three children, Laura, Robert A., and Howard. 4. Lillian
Maude, born September 27, 1878, married Wilbur C. Haun, and lives in
Rochester, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of two children, Helen
Marquis and Mary Louise. 5. George S., born May 21, 1882, lives at
home.
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean from his home in Germany,
SCHRAMM Jacob Schramm settled in Marion township, Beaver
county, Pennsylvania, on the land now occupied by his
grandson. He became the owner of a tract of seventy acres, and at the time
of his taking possession only four acres was cleared. He gradually freed
the remainder of his property from its encumbering growth of timber and
cultivated the land until his death. He married, in Germany, Sallie Hunny-
dale, born in that land, who also died in Marion township, and had children.
(II) Henry Schramm, son of Jacob and Sallie (Hunnydale) Schramm,
was born in Marion township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and there died.
He was reared on the home farm, attended the local schools, and in man-
hood became first manager and later owner of the home farm. He engaged
in general farming and stock raising, adding to the original homestead
until it consisted of two hundred and eight acres. Fortune attended all
of his operations and he was considered one of the most successful men of
the neighborhood. His political faith was Democratic, and for fifteen years
he was a justice of the peace. He was a member of Saint John's United
Evangelical Protestant Church. He married Salome, daughter of Jacob
and Salome (Householder) Pflug, both natives of Germany and early
settlers in Marion township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania. Children of
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Henry and Salome (Pflug) Schramm: William, deceased; Emilia, Caroline,
Anna, John F., of whom further; Amanda, Edward, Harry A., of whom
further; Linda, Mary, Ella.
(Ill) John F. Schramm, son of Henry and Salome (Pflug) Schramm,
was bom on the farm where he now lives, in Marion township, Beaver
county, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1868. He was reared to a farmer's life, at-
tending the township schools. His home has ever been upon the home farm,
of which at the present time he owns seventy-eight acres, where, besides the
activities of a general farmer, he engages in the dairy business. His cattle
are of excellent stock and are accorded careful attention, and they in turn
reward him with products upon which he realizes a substantial profit and
a generous income. They are housed in a bam of generous dimensions and
thorough workmanship that he caused to be erected in 1898, his dwelling
being that used by his father. Mr. Schramm is a Democrat in political
convictions and has been township supervisor for about nine years. He
is a man of simple life and habits, industrious, a hearty supporter of all
projects for the best interests of the community in which he lives and a
citizen of substantial qualities. He married, in 1894, Ann, daughter of
Samuel Wise, and has one adopted son, Rudolph.
(Ill) Harry A. Schramm, son of Henry and Salome (Pflug)
Schramm, was born on the Schramm homestead in Marion township, Beaver
county, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1880. He grew to manhood on the home
farm, as a boy attending the schools of Marion township, and arriving at
an age of responsibility, began independent farming operations, which he
continues to the present time. His farm is eighty-eight acres in extent and
this he cultivates with a skill born of long experience and constant youthful
training upon his father's acres, and has made of agriculture a profitable
business. The Democratic party claims his allegiance, and as a Democrat
he has for six years been a member of the local school board, striving faith-
fully for more efficient educational advantages in the township. He and
his wife are members of Saint John's Evangelical Protestant Church. Mr.
Schramm married, June 14, 1903, Elizabeth Matilda, daughter of Frederick
and Margaret (Link) Householder, of Marion township, Beaver county,
Pennsylvania. Children: Marie Elizabeth, Arthur Henry, Dorothy May.
The record following is of another of the numerous branches
YOUNG of the Young family, which was introduced into tliis country
by emigrants of the name from Ireland, whence came Peter
Young, who was born in that country, educated in its public schools and
there lived for a part of his life. After his arrival in this land he located
at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, there entering the employ of Colonel Craw-
ford, of Revolutionary fame, later moving to Saw Mill Run and subse-
quently, in 1800, to Beaver county. In that locality he purchased a farm
of one hundred acres of uncultivated land in Big Beaver township from
Mr. Wylie, the original patentee, erecting thereon a house and barn of logs.
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In that place he spent the remainder of his years, neighbors gradually be-
coming more numerous and conditions losing some of their pioneer sim-
plicity and discomfort, following the farmer's occupation all of his life,
and there reared a family of seven children, namely : John, William, Alger,
Nancy, married a Mr. Wright; Eliazbeth, James, a physician of Westmore-
land county, Pennsylvania; Robert, of whom further.
(II) Robert Young, son of Peter Young, was born on the homestead in
Big Beaver township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1803, died in the
same place in 1862, aged fifty-nine years. He was educated in the primi-
tive common schools, and until the death of his father assisted in the man-
agement of the home estate, later falling heir to the home property. This
he still further improved, enlarging its arable area, and set out an orchard
that later was a lucrative source of revenue. His strongest political opinions
were upon the slavery question, and at the formation of the Abolition party
he became one of its most ardent advocates, later affiliating with the Republi-
can party. He was a regular and consistent churchgoer and worker, belonging
to the Presbyterian Church, of which he was for twenty years an elder. He
married Jane McAnlis and had : James M., died aged fifteen years ; Mar-
garet; Susan, married a Mr. Patterson; William J., deceased, was a farmer
cultivating the old homestead, married Harriet Wallace, a sister of the wife
of his brother, Robert Gibson; Robert Gibson, of whom further; Hamilton
A., a farmer; Elizabeth.
(III) Robert Gibson Young, son of Robert and Jane (McAnlis) Young,
was born in Big Beaver township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, April 4,
1845. In his youth he attended the district schools near his home and later
was a student in the Iron City Business College. Finishing his studies in
this latter institution, he obtained a position as bookkeeper in Newcastle,
Pennsylvania, and afterwards apprenticed himself to the carpenter's trade,
following the same as a journeyman in Iowa and Missouri. In 1870 h^
returned to his native county and established as a building contractor, but
in 1882 abandoned this line to engage in the more profitable occupation
of lumber dealing in New Galilee, being the first in that locality to em-
bark in that line of trade. His yard was adjacent to the tracks of the
Pennsylvania railroad and his shipping accommodations were of the best.
He handled lumber of all grades and sizes and for all purposes, dealing
extensively in walnut logs with merchants of other localities not so boun-
tifully supplied with wood of that kind, his shipping list including the names
of dealers in foreign countries. His business was one of abundant profit
and he was the owner of a handsome house on the boundary line between
Beaver and Lawrence counties, his farm lying in both divisions. Since his
death in 1906 his son, J. Glen, has been the representative of the family
in managing the business, and has continued it upon the lines of strict
fairness and integrity that marked his father's administration of all deal-
ings, the present stock of the yard including building materials of all kinds,
sashes, doors, inside finishing, shingles and agricultural implements, wire
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fencing and slate roofing, departure having been taken from the ordinary
stock of such a concern. Mr. Young was a man held in high regard by
many who claimed him as friend, eagerly lent his aid to public improve-
ments, and was popular socially as well as among his business associates.
He was one of the few who could leave the arena of life without fear of
the biting tongue of envy or malice, the thought of anything unworthy in
his life or work entering the mind of none who knew him. He built the
Presbyterian church at New Galilee, and from the time of its commence-
ment the congrgation were in grateful receipt of many evidences of his
generosity and open-handed liberality. He was a member thereof, and
from 1894 until his death held a place in the session, ever being a liberal
contributor to its support and in the furthering of its many good works.
Mr. Young married, October 5, 1876, Lucinda Allendel Wallace, born
in Columbiana county, Ohio, January 16, 1853, daughter of John and Mar-
garet (McCloskey) Wallace. John Wallace was a son of David Wallace,
who was a son of Patrick, the emigrant ancestor of the Wallace family,
mentioned elsewhere in this work. John Wallace became the owner of a
farm of one hundred and forty-five acres in Little Beaver township, Law-
rence county, Pennsylvania, one and one-half miles west of Enon Valley,
and there lived until his death, which took place when he was eighty-seven
years of age, his wife's occurring aged sixty-nine years. He was a man of
strong and rugged physique, fashioned mentally as physically, holding
decided political views, in which he favored the Republican party, and being
a member of the session of the United Presbyterian Church. His wife,
Margaret, was born near East Palestine, Columbiana county, Ohio, daugh-
ter of William and (Wilson) McCloskey, both natives of Ireland,
early settlers of Columbiana county, Ohio. William McCloskey was twice
married, having children by his first marriage, one of whom is Benjamin,
whose son, David, lives in East Palestine, Ohio. Children of the second
marriage of William McCloskey: i. William Jr., a business partner of John
Hassen, a horse drover; was killed in a Pennsylvania railroad wreck at
Horse Shoe Bend. 2. Margaret, of previous mention, married John Wal-
lace. 3. Eliza, married John Dilworth. 4. Keziah, married James Hamil-
ton ; resided two miles west of East Palestine, Ohio. 5 and 6. Harriet and
Lucinda, died unmarried. Children of John and Margaret (McCloskey)
Wallace: i. William, married Louisa McKean; was an oil well driller of
Adolphus, Ohio. 2. Clark, died aged one year. 3. Harriet, deceased ; mar-
ried William J. Young, brother of Robert Gibson Young, and lived on
the Young homestead, in Big Beaver township, Beaver county, Pennsyl-
vania. 4. Lucinda Allendel, named by Dr. Sheets, the physician who at-
tended her mother at her birth, of previous mention, married Robert Gibson
Young. 5. Mary, died unmarried, aged thirty years.
Children of Robert Gibson and Lucinda Allendel (Wallace) Young:
I. J. Clarence, died October 4, 1905. 2. Margaret, an office assistant of
her brother, J. Glen. 3. Rutherford J., lives with his mother, engages in
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the slating and roofing business. 4. William Harry, an oil well driller;
married Maud Ainslee, and has one son, Melrose A. 5. Mary E., lives
at home. 6. J. Glen, succeeded his father in the lumber business at New
Galilee, Pennsylvania. 7. Maud, died aged two years. 8. Kenneth, lives
at home.
Through the immigration of two Jacobs, both natives of Ger-
YOUNG many, this line of the family of Young was founded in the
United States, the family having originated in Germany. Jacob
(i) Young came to the United States early in the nineteenth century, land-
ing in Pennsylvania, and immediately proceeding westward to Beaver
county, where he purchased uncultivated soil on Brush Creek. He was a
man of industrious nature and labored steadily, diligently, and to good
effect in clearing his land and in making a home for his wife and children.
His life was filled with the discomforts and many of the privations of
pioneer existence, but the happiness and joy that ever pervaded his home
penetrated deep into all surrounding conditions and did much to alleviate
their roughness and harshness. He married in Germany, Catherine Miller,
a native of that country, who accompanied him to the United States. Chil-
dren: Jacob, of whom further; Philip, Michael, Daniel, Elizabeth, Mar-
garet, Caroline and Bena.
(II) Jacob (2) Young, son of Jacob (i) and Catherine (Miller)
Young, was born in Deichweiler, province of Rhinefalz Baerer, February
20, 1838, died in New Sewickley township, Beaver county. When he was
nine years of age he came to the United States, and for a time lived in
Bush Creek Valley, making that place his residence for a short period after
his marriage. He married, September 13, 1863, Sophie, born in New Sewick-
ley township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, July 10, 1842, daughter of John
and Margaret Goehring, both natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Young
moved after their marriage to their present farm in New Sewickley town-
ship, where Mrs. Young resides at the present time. Children of John and
Margaret Goehring: William, Charles, Sophia of previous mention, mar-'
ried Jacob (2) Young; Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary. Children of Jacob
(2) and Sophie (Goehring) Young: Katie M., Lizzie M., Emma V., Anna
S., Bertha, Charles, Albert D., Mollie G., Amanda R., John W., and Walter,
deceased. The family are members of the United Presbyterian Church.
William K. Schlotter, a prominent citizen of New
SCHLOTTER Brighton, Pennsylvania, is of German ancestry on his
father's side of the house, and was born May 11, 1869,
in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. His paternal grandfather was
William Karl Schlotter, a native of Germany, where he lived and died.
His father, George Schlotter, was also bom in that country, and was edu-
cated there, coming to America in 1852 at the age of seventeen years. Upoq
his arrival he settled in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where he
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remained for upwards of twenty years engaged in the trade of blacksmith.
In 1872 he removed to New Springfield, Ohio, and there became a mer-
chant, continuing in this place and business for about three years. He then
returned to Pennsylvania and his old trade of blacksmith, locating for a
time at Stoops Ferry, and later, about the year 1879, removed to Coraopolis
in the same state, where he remained for a considerable time. About
the year 1903 he retired from active life and is now residing in Pittsburgh.
He served in the Union army during the Civil War. While he was a resi-
dent of Westmoreland county he met Mary Sheely, a native of the region,
and married her. To them were born seven children: Franklin G., Anna
B., William K., our subject; Minnie E., Ida M., Jonathan Jacob, and Harry
J. Schlotter.
William K. Schlotter received his education at the local schools of
Coraopolis and, after completing his education in these institutions, learned
the plastering trade, which he followed for twelve or thirteen years at that
place and New Brighton, whither he removed in 1889, and where he has
since made his home. In the year 1901 he abandoned his trade and went
into business for himself as a general contractor, and has since remained
therein. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Schlotter was married, May 19, 1892, to Tillie J. Heckathorn, a
daughter of Charles H. and Martha H. (Carnegie) Heckathorn, and a
granddaughter of Charles A. Heckathorn, who was a pioneer in the region
of Georgetown, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Schlotter's maternal grandparents were
Andrew and Jane (Foster) Carnegie, natives of Scotland and Virginia, re-
spectively. Andrew Carnegie came to America when about eighteen years
of age and settled in Georgetown, Pennsylvania, and engaged in farming.
He had four sons, two of whom served in the Union army during the
Civil War. Mrs. Schlotter was herself a native of Georgetown. To Mr.
and Mrs. Schlotter three children have been born: Mary Naomi, William
Karl and George Preston.
The Cordes family of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, is of
CORDES German origin, and the members of it who have made their
home in this country have brought with them the habits of
thrift and industry so characteristic of the Germans. They have been mainly
engaged in agriculture and kindred interests, with which the family has
been connected for many generations in the land from which they came.
(I) Herman Cordes was born and died in Germany, the latter event
occurring in 1891. He was a farmer during all the active years of his life,
and he and his wife were members of the Roman Catholic Church. He
married Angela Mitchell, who died about 1889, and they had children:
Lewis, is a farmer in East Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania ; Henry,
died on his farm in Rochester township, Beaver county; Herman, was
drowned in the Ohio river near Rochester; Barnard, a farmer, living in
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Germany; Mary, twin of Barnard, married John jMathlage, and died in
Rochester, Beaver county; Anton, see forward.
(II) Anton Cordes, son of Herman and Angela Cordes, was bom
in Hanover, Germany, October 18, 1859. He received his education in
the public schools of Hanover, and upon its completion served two years
in the German army. In March, 1883, he emigrated to America, settling
at Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he worked for one year
in a glass factory. He then rented a farm in New Sewickley township,
on which he remained for a period of fifteen years. He cultivated it dili-
gently and intelligently, and at the end of this period removed to Rochester
township, and there purchased a farm of approximately seventy acres.
On this he erected the necessary buildings, and made numerous other
improvements, which have added greatly to the value of the property. He
is engaged in general farming, but devotes considerable time and attention
to stock raising, and makes a specialty of dairy farming. There is a very
fine herd of fourteen cows on the farm. He is a Democrat in politics, and
he and his wife are members of St. Cecilia's Roman Catholic Church, in
Rochester.
Mr. Cordes married, in 1884, Mary Gardes, born in Hanover, Ger-
many, a daughter of Gerard and Marguerite (Drace) Gardes. Her parents
spent their entire lives in Germany, and had children: Mary, mentioned
above; Marguerita, lives in Germany; Gerard, died in Germany; Barnard,
a farmer, died in Germany; Anna, lives in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Cordes
have had children : Lewis, a farmer of New Sewickley township, Beaver