dren of Samson and Fannie (Baer) Hanauer : i. Sophia, married Lazarus
Bloomer, and lives in Adelsheim, near Heidelberg, Germany. 2. Asher, of
whom further. 3. Wolfe, died in Germany, aged forty years, a merchant.
4. Esther, married Victor VoUweiler, and lives in Baden, Germany. 5.
Isaac, at one time a baker owning a shop in New Brighton, Pennsylvania,
lives retired in Rochester, New York. 6. Hursch, a merchant of Adelsheim,
died in Germany, aged forty years.

(Ill) Asher, son of Samson and Fannie (Baer) Hanauer, was born
near Heidelberg, Wurttemberg, Germany, November 11, 1841. Until he
was twelve years of age he was a student in the public schools of his home
town, later entering the college at Margentein, discontinuing his studies at
that college after three years to come to the United States, which he did
in 1856, arriving in New York on April 15 of that year, half a year before
his fifteenth birthday. Since that time he has made three visits to his
native land — in 1865, 1881, and again in 1886. He made his home in New
York at first, from 1856 until 1865 traveling in the employ of a wholesale
millinery firm, Rosenblod & Rheinstein, being but an unbearded youth when
he began calling upon prospective customers as the representative of that
house. After his return to the United States in 1865 he opened a whole-
sale millinery house in Cleveland, Ohio, the first of its kind in the city and
for quite a while the only one, conducting business with his partner under
the name Sloss & Hanauer, which in 1867 became Hanauer & Lyon. He
then located in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, establishing the same manner
of business in that place, which he managed until 1886, and while proprietor
of that store opened another in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1873, his
third, of the same nature, being placed in East Palestine, Ohio, in 1877. ^^'
three of which he supervised with pleasurable success. He then branched
out into the clothing business, establishing stores in Petrolia and Martins-
burg, Pennsylvania, and until 1902 owned a similar store in Beaver Falls.
In 1902 he built the Lyceum Theatre at the corner of Seventh avenue and
Fifth street, Beaver Falls, which at the present time is under the able man-
agement of his son, Samson. Another of his enterprises in the city which
has been his residence since 1886 was the building of a business block,
modern and substantial in design, graceful in appearance, a welcome addi-
tion to the business facilities of the city. He is now the proprietor of a
millinery store in that place, handling all kinds of ladies' garments, his
store holding a generous and lucrative patronage. Mr. Hanauer has had a
business record of excellent good fortune, and yet to attribute one iota of
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ambition, and ability, is to take from him his just due. He has fought a
good fight and that the tide of victory has been turned in his favor has
been through no turn of chance, but has resulted directly from his wise ex-
ecutive ability, his sound judgment, and his calm, cool, business sense, which
have never permitted him to embark in an unsafe venture or one in which
there was not a fair chance for ordinary profit. Another attribute leading
to his success has been the accuracy with which he is able to determine the
moral quality and mental capability of men with whom he associates, and
never has his instinctive judgment as to the merit of one whom he has
taken for a trusted employee led him astray or caused him financial loss.
Mr. Hanauer is a member of no church, but despite his lack of religious
affiliation has lived a life of kindness, generosity, and charity that in useful-
ness and true fellowship with man far outshines those of many professing
strong religious convictions, and he has been a contributor to nearly every
church erected in Beaver county since his connection with that neighbor-
hood. He was secretary of the first Building and Loan Association or-
ganized in Beaver county, and is now interested in several organizations
of a like nature, all firmly established and well-paying associations. Al-
though it has been many years since Mr. Hanauer has been in constant inter-
course with those of his own birth he has lost none of his ease and grace
in the use of the German tongue, and it is said by those in a position to
judge that his is the most correct and grammatical, as well as the most
fluent, use of the German language heard in the county, a high compliment
in a locality where so many of the inhabitants are of German birth and
residence.

He married, September 17, 1867, Hannah, born in Germany, April 26,
1851, daughter of Dir. Raphael Steinfeldt. Dr. Steinfeldt was a native of
Germany and was educated for the medical profession in that land, also
taking up the study and practice of surgery, in which department of his pro-
fession he became especially famous. He came to the United States in 1855,
living in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, all of his life, and had to his credit
fourteen hundred successful operations, testifying an active, useful life in
the curing and alleviation of suffering. He was the inventor and patentee
of Steinfeldt's Magnetic Salve, as well as of several other remedies, the
manufacture of which Mr. Hanauer still continues. Children of Asher and
Hannah (Steinfeldt) Hanauer: i. Samson, born July i, 1880, manager of
the Lyceum and Savoy theatres, of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. 2. Ralph,
born January 29, 1890; was graduated from college at the age of fifteen
years, and has since been employed by the American Bridge Company in
the capacity of draughtsman and civil engineer.



Of the early history of the Purdy family but little is known.

PURDY In the year 1770, Purdy, with wife and three children.

left his native land, Ireland, and embarked on a sailing vessel
for America. It was destined that he should never reach these shores. He,



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his wife, and two of his children, succumbed to the hardships of the trying
voyage, and the only one to reach America was

(I) James Purdy, the third child, arrived at Philadelphia in 1770,
being at the time eleven years of age. For some time he lived there with
an aunt, then went to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where his marriage took
place. In 1808 he removed with his family to Allegheny county, Pennsyl-
vania, locating near Mansfield, where he remained eight years. He then re-
moved to a farm near Clinton, in the same county, following farming all
this time, and died in March, 1822. On this homestead his son Thomas,
Thomas' widow and three children, lived many years. James Purdy was a
soldier during the war of the revolution, and was one of the heroes of
Valley Forge. He gave all his children the best educational advantages that
the times afforded, this being obtained in the district schoolhouse, a crude
structure, with oiled paper in lieu of glass panes in the windows, and the
floor and seats made of "puncheons." James Purdy married Mary, a
daughter of Gregor Farmer. They had children: Jane, Andrew, James,
Archibald, Isabelle, John, Farmer, Elizabeth, Thomas, see forward; Mary.
All of these children grew to maturity and were members of the Associate
Presbyterian church. Andrew, John, Farmer and Thomas were each rul-
ing elders in the Associate Presbyterian church, or, as it is now known, the
United Presbyterian church.

(II) Thomas, son of James and Mary (Farmer) Purdy, was born on
the Purdy homestead near Clinton, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and
was a farmer there all his life. His death occurred in March, 1882. He
married, December 10, 1833, ]\Iargaret Cavitt, who lived on the farm with
her son, Andrew J., after the death of her husband. They had children :
Nancy, James, George C, John, William F., Mary Jane, Margaret Eliza,
Isabella, Thomas H., Andrew J., Samuel H., see forward.

(III) Samuel H., son of Thomas and Margaret (Cavitt) Purdy, was
born in Finley township, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1853.
He was educated in the public schools of his native township and the high
school at Clinton. Upon the completion of his education he devoted his
time and attention to farming, buying land on which he is now located in
Murdocksville, Independence township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in
1884. His farm consists of one hundred acres upon which he had made
many improvements. He and his wife are members of the Clinton United
Presbyterian Church. In political matters he is a strong Republican, and
has filled a number of public offices. He became assessor in 1903, and is
still in office, and is also registrar.

Mr. Purdy married, October 23, 1883, Agnes Reid, of Independence
township, Beaver county, and they have children : David Reid ; Thomas A.,
a carpenter; James Edwin, now a student in Geneva College, Beaver Falls,
Pennsylvania ; Mary M., a student at the State Normal School in California ;
Emma B.



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Robert Trotter, the American progenitor of this branch
TROTTER of the Trotter family, after the death of his first wife in

Ireland, emigrated from his native land with several of
his children, and founded the family in the United States. He was a con-
tractor on Little Beaver creek, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and was in all
probability thus engaged until his death about 1844. He married (second)
in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, but had no children by this marriage. The
children of the first marriage were: Alexander, John, George, Robert, see
forward: Margaret.

(H) Robert, son of Robert Trotter, the immigrant, was born in Ire-
land, in 1827, and died in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1902.
He came to America alone some time after his father had settled here, and
located in Ohio. He purchased a farm, but removed to various places until
1864, when he settled on land he had purchased in New Sewickley town-
ship, Beaver county, and in the spring of 1874 bought the sixty-three acres
of land on which his son, James R., is living at the present time. He cleared
the greater part of this land, utilizing it principally for potato raising, and
erected a number of substantial buildings upon it. There the remainder
of his life was spent. He was active in the Democratic ranks in local
politics, and served as supervisor of North Sewickley township, and as
school director in Moon township. He was a member of the Presbyterian
church. He married. May 25, 1847, Mildred Cotton, born February 26,
1828, a daughter of Simon and Mary (Musgrave) Cotton, both bom in
England, and married in their native land. They then emigrated to the
United States, and located at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. About 1818 they
settled on a large tract of land in Economy township, this consisting of
several hundred acres, which they purchased, and they were among the
pioneer settlers of the section. Their first home was in a log cabin which
they erected, and this was later replaced by a stone structure which is still
in use. They had children : Nancy, Simon, Sarah. Catherine, Mary, Re-
becca; Alice; Mildred, mentioned above; Winifred. Robert and Mildred
(Cotton) Trotter had children: Margaret, John, Lewis, Mary, Catherine,
Mildred, Sarah, James R., see forward ; William, Jennie.

(Ill) James R., son of Robert and Mildred (Cotton) Trotter, was born
in Columbiana county, Ohio, July 9, 1863. He was a very young child
when his parents removed to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and he received
his education in the public schools of Moon township. From an early age
he had assisted his father in the latter's farming operations, and he later
followed the same occupation. He has taken a prominent part in the Demo-
cratic councils of his township, and has served the community in the office
of school director. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian
church. Mr. Trotter married. June 17, 1896, Jennie Zimmerley, born in
Allegheny county. Pennsylvania, and they have had children : Mildred, Sarah
Isabella, Robert James, and Jeannette Rebecca. Jennie (Zimmerley) Trot-
ter is the daughter of Henry and Isabella (Bruce) Zimmerley, the former



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born in Moon township, the latter in Hopewell township, Beaver county,
Pennsylvania; and the granddaughter of Samuel and Rebecca (Mowry)
Zimmerley, the former a native of Germany who came to this country in
early youth, located first in Erie county, Pennsylvania, then removed to
Beaver county, where he spent the remainder of his life. Isabella (Bruce)
Zimmerley was a daughter of Jacob and Jane (Johnston) Bruce, he of
Scottish descent, who came to Beaver county in the pioneer days; and a
granddaughter of John and Margaret (David) Johnston; and great-grand-
daughter of James and Jane (Anderson) Johnston. James Johnston was
a private under Colonel Montgomery Gancy, in the Revolutionary War, hav-
ing enlisted in Chester county, Pennsylvania, was captured at Fort Wash-
ington, and kept in confinement in New York. Rebecca (Mowry) Zim-
merley was a daughter of James Mowry, born in county Derry, Ireland.



The name of Todd is one which is identified with numerous
TODD interests in the state of Pennsylvania, but with none more so
than with those pertaining to the agriculture of the state. They
were early residents here, and became large landed proprietors, in many
instances the land now in the possession of the present generation of the
various branches, having been held by the family in the very early colonial
days, when the owners defended it and the rights of the country.

Thomas H., son of William Todd, was born on the Todd homestead
in Hopewell township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, in 1844. He was ed-
ucated in the public schools, and followed the occupation of farming on
eighty-three acres of land, a part of the original homestead. He had ex-
cellent buildings erected on this, and improved it according to the most
modern and scientific ideas in agriculture. As an ardent Republican he
took a deep and beneficial interest in all the public affairs of the township,
and, almost all his life he was a member of the Mount Carmel Presbyterian
Church. Mr. Todd married Sarah E. Todd, born at Raccoon Creek, Rac-
coon township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, a descendant of an old family.
Her grandfather, James Todd, was born in Scotland in 1760, and died in
1845. He emigrated to America, settled in Moon township, Beaver county,
where he became the owner of four hundred acres of land ; he married
Catherine Forbes and had four children. Thomas, son of James and Cath-
erine (Forbes) Todd, was born in 1802 and died in 1874. He married
Elizabeth Spaulding, born in Scotland in 1804, died in Moon township,
Beaver county, in 1888; among their seven children was Sarah E., who
became the wife of Thomas H. Todd. Thomas H. and Sarah E. (Todd)
Todd had children : Gilbert, lives in Raccoon township ; Charles P., in
South Heights ; Frederick L., of Woodlawn ; Orlando, of Ravenna. Ohio ;
Sidney V., see forward ; Harry R., of Ambridge.

Sidney V., son of Thomas H. and Sarah E. (Todd) Todd, was educated
in the common schools of Hopewell township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania,
and for some years was engaged in farming. He abandoned this occupa-



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tion in favor of that of painting, with which he is identified at the present
time. He has served as township commissioner one term for Crescent town-
ship, Allegheny county, and is a member of the River Dale Presbyterian
Church, at Glen Willard. He married, November 24, 1904, Edna E. Dew-
rose, and has had children: Anna Bernice, born February 2, 1907; Sarah
Eliza, born February 16, 1910.



The Barto family was resident in the eastern part of Penn-
BARTO sylvania for a number of years before any member of the

family made any attempt at a new settlement farther to the
west. Since then they have spread to all parts of the state and bearers of
the name are to be found all over the United States.

(I) David Barto, in the early days of the western settlement of the
state of Pennsylvania, traveled across the mountains in a wagon built by
himself, and located at the headwaters of Brush Creek, Cranberry town-
ship, Butler county, Pennsylvania. There he took up one hundred and
eight acres of land in what was practically a wilderness at that time, and
had cleared a considerable portion of this at the time of his death. He

married Catherine , and had children : Christian, Polly, Catherine,

David, Abraham, Daniel, see forward.

(H) Daniel, son of David and Catherine Barto, was born in Cranbury
township, Butler county, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the district
schools. He was the youngest of the family, and from his early years com-
menced to assist his father in the cultivation of the homestead, and was a
farmer all his life. He gave his political support to the Republican party,
and he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church. He mar-
ried Catherine Limer, born near Portersville, Lawrence county, Pennsyl-
vania, a daughter of Isaac and (Darcus) Limer, who were of Scotch

descent, but probably born in America. Isaac Limer was a farmer in
Lawrence county, and he was in active service during the war of 1812. He
had children: Pamela, who married John Kelly; Catherine, who became
the wife of Daniel Barto, as above mentioned; Nancy, never married; Re-
becca, married Frederick Boder; Oliver; John; James; Isaac; Robert, who
died while in service during the Civil War; William. Daniel and Cath-
erine (Limer) Barto had children: Isaac Newton, see forward; Mary;
David ; John ; William ; Anna.

(Ill) Isaac Newton, son of Daniel and Catherine (Limer) Barton, was
born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, February 6, 185 1. He acquired
his education in the public schools of his native county, and at the age of
eighteen years was apprenticed to William Bayde & Sons in Allegheny, in
order to learn the carpenter's trade. He assisted in putting in the first
pews in the chapel of the old jail on Beaver avenue, Allegheny City. In
1870 he removed to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he was in the em-
ploy of Matthias Mecklem, and about the year 1880 established himself in
the contracting business, with which he has since been identified in Roch-



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ester. He has been very successful as a general contractor. In 1889 he
erected the fine residence in which he is living at the present time. Mr.
Barto married, in May, 1875, Lydia Mecklem. They have had children:
Nancy Jane, a teacher; William, a carpenter, died aged twenty- four years;
Rachel; Grace, married Gilbert Arkley; Edna; an infant, died unnamed;
Frank, a carpenter; Mary, a teacher; Olive, also a teacher.

Samuel Miecklem was born in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, came
across the mountains and located in Beaver county at Brush Creek, about
i8c», and there was the owner of a fine farm. He married Rachel Mc-
Daniel, who was of Scotch-Irish descent, and they had these children :
William; Gideon; Jethro; Smith; Archibald; Rachel;. Sarah; Eliza.
William, son of Samuel and Rachel (McDaniel) Mecklem, was born on
Brush Creek, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he later became a farmer.
He married Nancy, daughter of Matthias and Lydia Strock, farmers of
Brush Creek, whose other children were : George, David, John, Lillian and
Catherine. William and Nancy (Strock) Mecklem had children: Matthias;
Samuel ; Rachel ; Joseph ; Lydia and John.



This name is a shortened form of MacLaughlin, and under
LAUGHLIN that name formed a part of the Clan Owen in Scotland.

They settled in Ireland where they are of record in
county Down, and where the name became McLaughlin, and in this country
in some instances was still further shortened to the form of Laughlin.

(I) Thomas Laughlin resided in Maryland, from whence he came to
the western part of Pennsylvania, settling in Greene township, Beaver
county, prior to 1800. He took up a large tract of land, which he cleared,
and where he erected a house, and was engaged in farming until his death.
The first house he put up for his family was a log cabin, and this was suc-
ceeded by a frame house. He married Jane , and raised a large family.

(II) Robert, son of Thomas and Jane Laughlin, was born near or on
the Laughlin homestead near Georgetown, and was educated in the district
schools. He became a farmer and was the owner of one hundred and
ninety acres of land, twenty of them being in Virginia. He married Re-
becca Dawson, born near Georgetown, a daughter of George and Jane
(Mackall) Dawson, who located in Maryland in 1792, near Georgetown.
George Mackall and his brother laid out the city of Georgetown and put
up a storehouse which is still standing. He also laid out the cemetery, and
was engaged in farming until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin had six
sons and four daughters, among them being Charles and John, the latter
on a gunboat during the Civil War, the former in the same company and
regiment as Samuel Mackall. The family were Presbyterians.

(III) Thomas, son of Robert and Rebecca (Dawson) LaughHn, was
born in Greene township, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1832.
He was educated in the old stone schoolhouse at Georgetown, and at an
early age commenced to assist his father on the farm, continuing this until



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he had attained manhood. He then found employment on the river, on
keelboats, and was thus occupied for twenty-eight years, between Wheeling
and Pittsburgh. His father had also been thus employed during the last
five years of his life. About 1875 ^^- Laughlin commenced farming opera-
tions in Greene township, purchasing a farm of one hundred acres, and on
this he is residing at the present time. He married, in August, 1855,
Phoebe Carnegie, and they have had children : Hugh, deceased ; Sarah
Martha, deceased ; Matilda, deceased ; William, deceased ; Amanda, de-
ceased; T. G., deceased; John, a farmer and teamster; Robert L., also a
farmer and teamster, married, in 1899, Ettie, daughter of Joseph Kennedy,
and has had children : Mary ; Homer ; Lawrence, deceased.



The story of this branch of the Wagner family of Ger-
WAGNER many, whose members have brought so much fame and

honor to the mother country, is one of lives well spent in
peaceful pursuits, and of endeavor directed not only toward personal benefit,
but for the good of members. There is probably not one of the German
teachers so tenderly remembered by so large a number of men and women
who were once his pupils as Johannes Wagner, for forty-five years a
teacher of schools in Koengen, Germany, where he is buried. Others may
be better known to fame, may have risen to greater heights in their pro-
fession, but none has a throne more lofty in the hearts of those whom he
instructed, nor is there any whose teachings will have a more lasting effect.
He was born in Faurndau, Wurttemberg, Germany, his later years being
passed in Koengen. Through years of custom the office of schoolmaster
requires that the incumbent of that position shall play the church organ,
be the director of the church choir, and conduct the funeral services at the
grave of anyone who is buried during his term of office, the minister con-
ducting the services only at the church. Herr Johannes Wagner was a
familiar figure. He taught not only rules of grammar, reading and mathe-
matics, but laws of daily life, principles used in the formation of character,
etc., with much sound advice for the solving of life's riddles and problems.
In many cases he taught the sons of men who had learned at his feet a
generation since, and at times there would enter one of his younger classes
the grandchild of an old pupil. Thus he became a personage of much in-
fluence, all knowing the strength of his character and the soundness of his
teachings. And so he lived until his death, daily inculcating in those whom
he taught principles of honor, truth, industry and thrift, reminding those
of more advanced age in what they had departed from his instruction, to
his last days being a sturdy champion of right living and right acting, and
followed by many faithful disciples. He married and had children : Wil-
helmina, Frederick, William, Carl, of whom further; and Mathilda.

(II) Carl, son of Johannes Wagner, was born in Koengen, Germany,
Christmas Day, 1838. He lived there until i86g when he married Barbara
Heller, and took over the old homestead at Faurndau, where he lived until



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i888, when he paid a visit to the Economites, and in 1890 he moved with his
lamily to Economy, Pennsylvania. His education was received in the
school conducted by his father, and his early occupation was that of agri-