was graduated from this institution with the degree of Doctor of Medicine
in the class of 1846. He came to Rochester the following year, and later
engaged in the manufacture of his celebrated Fever and Ague Antidote,
with which he was actively identified until his death. Dr. Shallenberger
married, September i, 1846, Mary S. Bonbright, born in Youngstown, Penn-
sylvania, July 12, 1828, and the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding was
celebrated in 1896. He and his wife were members of the Baptist Church.
Prior to engaging in the manufacture of his medicine, Dr. Shallenberger
was engaged in medical practice for a number of years, and later acted as
consulting physician with his son, Dr. Horace M. Shallenberger.

Mrs. Shallenberger was a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Smith)
Bonbright, the former an early settler of Youngstown, Pennsylvania, where
he was a merchant. They had children: i. Eliza. 2. Catherine. 3. John,
came to Rochester in 1840, where he was a dry goods merchant, and erected
a number of houses ; he later removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where he died.
4. William, came to Rochester at the same time as John, and was a manu-
facturer of starch ; later he removed to Philadelphia, where he died. 5.
George. 6. James. 7. Mary S., mentioned above. 8. Daniel, who died in
1912 at the age of eighty-one years. Following are extracts from an article
by Prof. Amos W. Patten, this appearing in the New York Christian Ad-
vocate :

On December 15, 1912, there assembled in Evanston, III., the seat of the North-
western University, a great audience to do honor to the memory of the oldest and
most distinguished member of the faculty. Professor Daniel Bonbright, LL.D., dean
emeritus and professor of the Latin language and literature, had entered into the
larger life. A graduate of Yale in the class of 1850, he was in 1856 elected to the
chair of Latin in the Northwestern University. After tw'o years of preparatory
study in Germany he assumed his duties, bringing to his work a personality and a
professional equipment which marked him for a teacher of unusual ability. For many
years he served as dean of the college of liberal arts and was also president ad
interim. On three different occasions he was offered the presidency which he de-
clined, preferring his work as teacher. Attractive offers from outside failed to lure
him, and he choose to remain with the university, enriching it with the wealth of
his culture, his serene and beautiful life, and his pre-eminent powers as a teacher.
No one who was privileged to work under him will ever forget the tonic of his
presence, and the peculiar force and elegance with which he interpreted the classic
authors. Dr. Bonbright's departure marks the last of the elect company who had to
do with the founding of the university and the early days of Evanston.

Dr. and Mrs. Shallenberger had children: i. 2. 3. Charles, Alice and
Laura, deceased. 4. Dr. Horace M. Shallenberger, born October 4. 1853 :
he was graduated from Jefiferson Medical College, and was a member of
the stafif of the Beaver Valley General Hospital ; he was also a lecturer in
the Training School for Nurses; Dr. Shallenberger married, November 11,



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1897, Mrs. Carrie B. Wack. 5. Alethe, married, March 18, 1875, Albert
Aretus Atterholt, born at Guilford, Ohio, February 23, 1852, a son of
Reazin Bell and Julia Ann (Hill) Atterholt; he came to Rochester, Beaver
county, Pennsylvania, in 1874, and served as postmaster from 1900 to
1905, and is at present a traveling salesman for the McKee Glass Company ;
he is a Republican and has served as a member of the common council ; he
has also been president of the Business Men's Association ; children :
Oliver S., manager of the Luzerne Cut Glass Company, of Pittston ; Albert
Ward, a civil engineer, has charge of a government dam at New Cumber-
land, West Virginia; Frederick, died in infancy. 6. Oliver B., born May
7, i860; in 1877 he entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland,
and was graduated as cadet engineer, and took the two years' cruise ; re-
tired from the service in 1883, and devoted himself to electrical research;
chief electrician of the Westinghouse Electric Company ; elected an asso-
ciate member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers on Septem-
ber 7, 1888, and a member, December 4, of the same year; in 1891 retained
OS consulting engineer; he was one of the organizers, and at the time of
his death president of the Colorado Electric Power Company; he married,
November -2"/, 1889, Mary W. Woolstair, of Beaver, and died January 23,
1898; he was the inventor of numerous electrical improvements which will
perpetuate his name. '7. Herbert B., born January 19, 1869, died in Florida,
March 11, 1899; 'he excelled in designing and photography, and in the latter
field made many experiments and discoveries ; he was the patentee of a
number of valuable improvements for cameras, and the results he obtained
from the use of Roentgen rays were recognized as superior by specialists
in this line of experimentation; he married, September 2, 1893, Mary W., a
daughter of William Moulds, of Rochester. 8. William.



Wickliffe Campbell Lyne, Pittsburgh manager of the Union
LYNE Central and senior ex-president of the Pittsburgh Life Under-
writers' Association, is a Virginian by birth, a Pennsylvanian
by residence and business interests for more than forty years.

He belongs to one of the oldest and best families of Virginia, repre-
sented with distinction by Colonial and Revolutionary officers and by mem-
bers of the House of Virginia Burgesses, Congress and President's Cabinet.
The family came originally from Bristol. England — the resident town of
William Penn — and brought with them the family's coat-of-arms, honored
by the character and achievement of ancient Scotch and English ancestry.
William Lyne, his great-grandfather, was an ardent patriot of the
American Revolution, serving on the Committee of Safety, 1775, and
colonel of minute-men, 1776, and before and during the Revolution as a
prominent member of the House of Burgesses, George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Peyton Randolph and Edmund Pendleton being
actively associated with him as fellow members. Prominent also in family
connection, were Colonel George Baylor, of Washington's staff ; General
Thomas EXmbar (descendant of Earl of Dunbar), of the French and Indian



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War, the commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America after
Braddock's defeat ; Sir Richard Waller, "the Hero of Agincourt," whose
capture of the French Prince of Orleans added the ducal crest to his arms,
is in the direct line of descent on Mr. Lyne's mother's side — Mary Dunbar
Edwards. The congressional tariff leader, William Lyne Wilson, author of
the "Wilson Bill" and Postmaster General in Cleveland's Cabinet, was
nephew of Dr. Robert Baylor Lyne, father of Wickliffe C. Lyne.

W. C. Lyne, after graduating in 1870 with honor in classics and sciences
at Bethany College, West Virginia, engaged in educational work for fifteen
years, serving with marked efficiency and success as principal of the Classical
Academy at Burgettstown, Pennsylvania ; Normal School, Claysville, Penn-
sylvania; principal of the Washington, Pennsylvania, high school, and for
five years as principal of Park School in Pittsburgh ; and lecturer for several
years on literature and history in a normal college. His reputation for
scholarly work brought him the offer of the chair of Latin and Greek at
Bethany College, the chair of belles lettres from another honored institution
of learning, the presidency of a normal college in Ohio, and of a State
normal college in Pennsylvania. Declining these, he accepted the position
of manager for Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia of National Life
of Vermont, in which field his executive ability, unswerving integrity and
business initiative made him conspicuously successful. He was recognized
by the Governor of the State as one of the foremost underwriters of Penn-
sylvania. His services were sought by other larger corporations, and he
accepted the general management in Pittsburg'h and adjoining territory of
the Union Central — the largest financial institution in Ohio, and one of the
leading great life insurance companies. He was one of the organizers of
the Pittsburgh Life Underwriters, served twice as chairman of the execu-
tive committee and once as president. His writings and discussions of life
insurance attracted wide attention and were favorably noticed by the Euro-
pean press; and his addresses before alumni college associations and State
conventions were scholarly and forcible. He was one of the three Penn-
sylvania underwriters appointed to secure anti-rebate legislation at Harris-
burg, and the successful passage of this bill was followed by similar statutes
in over forty States.

Mr. Lyne has been identified with civic and public interests, serving on
the directorate of a national bank, trust company, and insurance company,
and as trustee of the Pittsburgh Art Society, the Mozart Musical Society,
board of directors of Bethany College, Sons of American Revolution, and
as a member of the Academy of Science and Art, Historical Society, the
American Academy of Political and Social Science of Philadelphia. He
is a member of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce and the Duquesne
Club.

Mr. Lyne's children are: Wicklifife Bull, of Princeton, 1901 ; Robert
Addison, Sarah Harman and Virginia Brown. His wife. Mary Winters,
deceased, was a Colonial Dame by direct descent of Governors Henry Bull,
William Hutchison and John Coggeshall, Colonial executives of Rhode
Island and founders of Portsmouth and Newport.



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In Beaver county the name Denton has become closely con-
DENTON nected with the glass manufacturing industry, in the person

of David William Denton, while the two previous genera-
tions of the family, of whom accurate information is obtainable, lived their
lives in England and Wales, one as an artisan and the other a railroad
employee.

(I) Grandfather Denton spent his entire life near London, England,
where he followed the trade of blacksmith, and died at an advanced age.

(II) James Thomas Denton, son of the preceding, was an employee
of the Great Western Railway, and died in Wales in 1879. He married
Eliza, daughter of John Thomas, an employee of the Great Western Rail-
way and a lifelong resident of Wales. Eliza (Thomas) Denton is still
living in Wales. Children of James Thomas and Eliza Denton, all born
in Wales: i. Susan Mary, married John E. Morgan; children: Florence
Lizzette, Irene, Elizabeth, Evelyn. 2. James Thomas, married Mary Louise
Phillips, only daug'hter of Thomas Phillips, a wealthy merchant of Wales;
children: Idris Garfield, Muriel, Reginald Haydn, Hewitt. 3. David Wil-
liam, of whom further.

(III) David William Denton, son of James Thomas and Eliza
(Thomas) Denton, was born in Cadoxten, South Wales, September 11,
1876. He obtained his education in the public schools of his native land,
and for one year after completing his studies he taught school. On his
wedding trip he came to Freedom, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, to visit
his sister, intending only to remain for a short time. So favorably im-
pressed was he with the region that he decided to make it his permanent
home and has since resided in Beaver county. In Wales, after abandoning
the teacher's profession, he had engaged in the tin-plate business, but there
being no industry of that nature in Freedom or vicinity he obtained em-
ployment with the Rochester Tumbler Company, of which H. C. Fry was
president. His first duty was sweeping the finishing room, after which
he became selector, then glazer, and finally was chosen from over five hun-
dred men to become superintendent of the finishing room. He entered
upon his new duties in 1898 and capably filled that position until the fac-
tory was destroyed by fire in 1900. In that year Mr. Fry resigned from the
officiary of the National Glass Company, of which he was president, and
organized the Rochester Glass Company, Mr. Denton being the first man
employed by the new company, in the capacity of finishing room superin-
tendent. His experience and thorough conception of all the processes of
the plant made him invaluable in this department and he held that position
until he was promoted to become assistant to J. Howard Fry, vice-presi-
dent and general sales manager of the H. C. Fry Glass Company. In this
capacity he still serves, rendering faithful service to his chief and conducting
capably the details of the business delegated to his care. He is a member
of the First Baptist Church of Rochester, Pennsylvania, and as a trustee
of the same assists in the direction of its affairs and in guarding its
material welfare. He belongs to the Masonic Order, holding membership



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in Lodge No. 229, Free and Accepted Masons ; Eureka Chapter, No. 167,
Royal Arch Masons ; the Lodge of Perfection of Newcastle ; Pittsburgh
Consistory, thirty-second degree, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A Progres-
sive Republican in political convictions, he has been for five years a member
of the Rochester council and is now chairman of that body. In 1912 he was
a nominee of his party for the state legislature. The split in the Republican
party and the formation of the Washington party placed six candidates in
the field and after a closely fought and hotly contested campaign he was de-
feated by the small majority of seventeen votes. A citizen noted for his pub-
lic spirit, Mr. Denton gives unsparingly of 'his leisure to the service of his
town and is a member of the innermost circle Who promote most of her
municipal improvements. Mr. Denton married, in Wales, Florence Court-
ney, born at Swansea, Wales, August 6, 1876, daughter of James and Ann
(Short) Courtney. Her parents are still living, residents of Wales.
Children of David William and Florence (Courtney) Denton: i. Ger-
trude Mary, born in Freedom, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, August 3,
1897; a student in Beaver College. 2. James Courtney, born December
2, 1901.



The Scotch ancestry of the Drynans of Western Pennsyl-
DRYNAN vania, a derivation traditionally purporting energy, industry

and thrift, has endowed its members with faculties that have
made them successful in business and prominent in affairs wherever their
paths have led them.

(I) This record opens with Andrew Drynan, a native of Scotland, who
followed the plumber's and tinner's trade in his native land. When he
was about seventy-five years of age he came to the United States, his
death occurring about six years later. He married and was the father
of four sons and three daughters, one of his sons immigrating to this coun-
try as recently as 1913.

(II) Archie Drynan, son of Andrew Drynan, was born in Glasgow,
Scotland, and by the time he had attained man's estate had acquired a fair
education and had learned both branches of his father's trade. At about
the time that he reached his majority he came to the United States, settling
in Allegheny City (Pittsburgh North Side), and whence he moved to
Sewickley in 1867. His family followed him two years later, and here ho
resided until his death, June 5, 1900. Archie Drynan devoted much of his
time not given to business to reading, historical works and Biblical studies
being his favorite occupations, and on both he was an almost infallible
authority. He held membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
PTe married, in Pennsylvania, Susan Gilchrist, born in Scotland, and had:
Mary Jane ; Andrew Carnegie, of whom further ; John Phipps, of whom
further; Archie S., deceased; Margaret C, married, 1884, D. E. Harrigan,
of Pittsburgh, children: Walter, Elmer, Mary J., Madeleine, Grace, Eliza-
beth; Thomas Hogan, of whom further; William M., of whom further.

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Drynan, was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, February i8, 1857, and
until he was twelve years of age attended the public schools, then beginning
to learn his father's trade. When he was twenty-one years of age he and
his father formed a partnership under the firm name of A. Drynan & Sons,
a business continued after the death of the elder Drynan by Mr. Drynan
and his brother, John P., who had become a member of the firm in 1892, and
a snn of Andrew C. Drynan, Frank A. The same name is retained by the
present partners and they conduct a business extensive and profitable, one
known in Sewickley since 1867 and backed by a reputation of forty-sever
years of honorable and upright dealings. Mr. Drynan is a Republican in
politics and until 1900 was active in local affairs, serving in the borough
council, and for the past nine years has been a member of the water com-
mission. His church is the Methodist Episcopal, and he holds the thirty-
second degree in the Masonic Order, also being identified with the Knights
of Pythias and the Improved Order of Heptasophs, formerly having affili-
ated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

He married, in 1880, Mary C. Hietner, and had children, Frank Aubrey,
Charles Doyle, John Andrew, died aged six years, and an infant.

(Ill) John Phipps Drynan, son of Archie and Susan (Gilchrist)
Drynan, was bom February 9, 1859. He studied in- the Sewickley public
schools, and at the completion of his course successfully passed the teachers'
examinations in Beaver and Allegheny counties, after which he learned
tinning and plumbing under his father's instruction. In 1883 he became
associated in business with the Olivers, a connection which continued for
nearly twelve years. At the present time he is a member of the firm of A.
Drynan & Sons, an important factor in the successful continuance of that
long established business. His church is the Methodist Episcopal, while his
wife affiliates with the Baptist Church. He belongs to Lodge No. 426,
Knights of Pythias, and Lodge No. 48, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He married, in 1902, Virginia Graham, of Sewickley, and is the father of
Margaret, Virginia, Emilia.

(HI) Thomas Hogan Drynan, son of Archie and Susan (Gilchrist)
Drynan. was born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, April 28,
1865, the site of his birth-place now occupied by the Union Depot. He was
educated in the public schools of Sewickley, and upon attaining mature years
learned the plumber's trade, and since 1886 has been busied in that calling
with profitable results. Politically he holds socialistic viewS, and is a
member of the Knights of Pythias, the Improved Order of Heptasophs,
and was formerly associated iwth the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Drynan married, in 1889, Annie Chambers, and has children: Nellie,
Florence, James, Dorothy.

(Ill) William M. Drynan, son of Archie and Susan (Gilchrist) Drynan,
was born in Allegheny City, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, December 14,
1867, and after completing his studies in the Sewickley public schools be-
came a plumber, an occupation he followed until late in life. Throughout
all of his mature years he was an active worker for the Republican party.




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and was at one time delinquent tax collector, being county assessor at the
time of his death, January 11, 1914. Fraternally he belonged to the Knights
of Pythias, and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was
popular among his political associates, who admired his many gentlemanly
virtues, and his reputation was far beyond reproach. His loss will be keenly
felt in many circles, for his sterling wortii was known to all whose walks of
life intersected his. Mr. Drynan married, June 11, 1908, Jennie Grady, of
Sewickley, and had one son. Hall C. Mrs. Drynan is the daughter of
George H. and Matilda (Adams) Grady, the father, deceased, the mother
living with her daughter, Mrs. Drynan.



In the year 1830 there sailed from Germany to the United
HAHN States Frederick Hahn, with his wife and two or three children.
Both he and his wife were natives of Schorndorf, Kingdom of
Wuerttemberg, Germany, and they had grown up and married in that town.
The voyage was a long and tedious one, and while still on board ship another
child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Hahn. At the end of a full three months
spent on the ocean they landed at New York City, but soon proceeded to
Western Pennsylvania. There Mr. Hahn worked in Pittsburgh for a time,
then removed to the country, where he boug'ht a farm about five miles from
Sewickley, Allegheny county. Later he added to his original purchase of
fifty acres until he had about one hundred. He lived on this farm until he
had reached old age, when he removed to Allegheny, and both he and his
wife died in that town on Sedgwick street. Both were devout members of
the Evangelical Church. They were the parents of thirteen children, of
whom eleven attained maturity. They were: Rachel, married Gottlieb
Starz, and died in Pittsburgh ; Louisa, married Henry Heney, and died in
Pittsburgh ; Frederick, of further mention ; Lewis, was a slater and roofer,
and died in Pittsburgh ; William, a slater, died in Coraopolis ; John, a rail-
road employee, died in Pittsburgh ; Philip, a slater, died in Pittsburgh ;
Adam, a merchant, living in Allegheny; Conrad, who was the proprietor of
a hardware store, died in Allegheny; Mary, died on the farm, unmarried.
at the age of twenty-four years ; Henry, employed in a coal company, died
on Neville Island.

(II) Frederick (2) Hahn, son of Frederick (i) Hahn. was born on
board ship, on the Atlantic Ocean, June 24, 1830, died in Pennsylvania,
September 27, 1891. He was educated in the public schools, and at an
early age commenced working on the home farm and neighboring ones. He
found employment as an engineer in a saw mill at Shousetown, Allegheny
county, Pennsylvania, and lived there thirty years. About 1870 he joined
his brother Lewis, who was conducting successfully a slating and roofing
business in Pitt.sburgh, but continued to reside in Shousetown. The busi-
ness at that time was located on the present site of the Allegheny county
jail on Fifth avenue, and later, when the city wanted to acquire this prop-
erty, they were obliged to move farther out on the same avenue, where the
business is continued to the present day. He was a member of the Metho-



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dist Episcopal Church, and gave his poHtical support to the Republican party.
After his death at Shousetown his widow continued living in that town
until 1895, when she removed with her children to Coraopolis, erected a
beautiful house at No. 1526 State avenue, and is living there at the present
time.

Mr. Hahn married, July 19, i860, Sophia Matilda Starz, born in Witten-
burg, Germany, March 27, 1840, a daughter of Frederick and Madeline
Starz, natives of the same town, who came to America in 1852 with their
four younger children, the three elder ones having preceded them. They
landed at New York but soon removed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where
he was in the mercantile business at the corner of Chestnut and Canal
streets until his death. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, of good
education and well read, and had traveled extensively. Children : Joanna,
married Johann Gottlieb Sharpf, and died at Shousetown ; Gottlieb, died on
his farm in Butler county, Pennsylvania ; Frederick, who conducted a bakery,
died in Allegheny ; Christian, a baker, died in Pittsburgh ; Caroline, who

married Ortlieb, died in Germany ; Fredericka, married John Reibert,

and died at Carnot, Pennsylvania ; Sophia Matilda, mentioned above, is the
only one of this family now living. Mr. and Mrs. Hahn had children : Lida
B., was educated at Sewickley Academy, and is now assistant principal of
the McKees Rocks schools ; Mary E., unmarried ; Edward, deceased ; Fred-
erick, deceased ; Charles H., a contractor, lives at home, business in Pitts-
burgh ; Herbert Raymond, of further mention ; Nettie, died in infancy.

(HI) Herbert Raymond Hahn, son of Frederick (2) and Sophia
Matilda (Starz) Hahn, was born at Shousetown, Allegheny county, Penn-
sylvania, September 23, 1884. He acquired his education in the public
schools of Coraopolis and the Allegheny High School, and then became a
student in the law department of the Western University, from which in-
stitution he was graduated in the class of 1906 with the degree of Bachelor
of Laws. He was admitted to the bar of Allegheny county, January i,