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 COLUMHIA ANT) MONTOUR COUNTIHS which he has the post office, having been post­ m aster since ijb, succeeding M r. Gearhart. M r. Kishcl has liccn continuously widening his interests and taking advanuigc o f good open­ ings for trade and he lu s erected an elevator with a capacity o f is.ooo bushels, one of the largest in the county, using timber from his ow n land in its construction; he has also a m odem coal dock, with a capacity o f about five hundred tons. H e is engaged in dealing in farm implements, and is the owner o f two large farms, aggregating 250 acres in Lim e­ stone township. H is numerous activities have naturally made him concerned about the bank­ ing facilities in this section and he is now a director of the Farm ers' Xational Hank o f Exchange (organized in 19 0 7 ), which he hcl|>cd to organize. 1 1 c w as also active in or­ ganizing the Turbotville Bank in 19 10, and is one o f its directors: the bank is in a pros­ perous condition. Mr. Rishel is still a young man, and the success he has achieved m the twenty years of his active business career is enough to s Ik i w that there are still many opK>rtunitics fo r men o f ambition and energy. Ic has also liccn prominent in the administra­ tion o f local public affairs, having served sev­ eral terms as school director and for three years as township treasurer. H e w as elected on the Republican ticket. On N ov. 2 2 ,18 9 7, M r. Rishel n u rried Jenny F v e rilt, who w as bom M ay 10, 1877, a native o f Northumtorland county, Fa., tlaughtcr of A sa and Anna (M uffley) Everitt, and they have one daughter, Ruth, torn N ov. 22, 1890. now attending Dickinson Sem inary, at W il­ liamsport. M r. Rishel is known a s one of the tost marksmen in Pennsylvania, and he has some fine trophies o f which he is very proud. T lircc tim es at State shooting tournaments he has tied with comjietitors. H e has a large collec­ tion o f birds and other game which he has secured in his home vicinity, among them a black licar which he himself killed.

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J A M E S L E E H A R M A N is one of the prominent business men o f Hloomsburg, being president and general nunagcr o f Harman & H asscrt (In c .), with which concern he has been associated fo r twenty-five years. H is father, Peter S. Harm an, wa.s one of the founders, and from the first it has hccn one of the leading industrial plants of the city. T he fam ily is o f German extraction. Jacoh 1larm aii, the great-grandfather o f Jam es llarm .in, having hccn bom in Alsace. Com ­ ing to .America in 1770 with his brother Con-

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raci. o f whom w c have no further record, he landed at Philadelphia und thence proceeded to Kutztown, Berks Co., Pa., later moving to Mifiliii township, Columbia Co., Fa., where he died M ay 12, 1823. U e served in the war of the Kvvolution at various times, between 1777 and 17H2, taking jiart in the battles o f Ii randy wine and (icrmantown. H is enlist­ ments were from Northampton. B y occupa­ tion he w as a fann er and tanner. He married IClizabcth, daughter o f Conrad Lysingring, o f White H all township, Northampton county, and ha<l two sons, Sanuiet and G ^ r g e . George Harman, grandfather o f Jam es Lee Ilarm an. w as an early settler o f Columbia county. He w as a native o f Wcstntorcland county, P a., bum Ju n e 1, 1793. and settled in •.Mifflin township, Columbia county, in 1833, aftcrw an l moving to Orangeville, where he died Ja n . 6, 1876. in his eighty-third year. In early life he learned the trade o f tanner, and followed it for many years, and he passed his Inter tLnys in retirement, having acquired a com fortable competence. H e n u rried M ary K norr, and they had children, Fctcr S., H arrj', Jam es, John, Jacob, to u isa, M aria, Sallie, Rebecca and Phœbe. Peter S. H annan w as bom Ju n e 5, 18 3 1, in Mifffin township, Columbia county. When hut thirteen years old he commenced his ap­ prenticeship to the trade o f molder, serving with Louis H. M aus, o f Bloomsburg, and a fte r completing his term traveled through the W est, working as journeyman. Then he worked three years in iliitadelphia. and in i8tri began business on his own account in Mahanoy City, Pa., o|>ening a foundry and nuchine shop which he operated fo r three years. Removing to Bloomsburg at the end o f that time he entered into |>artnership with Benjamin F. Sharpless. and they continued in business together for four years under the name o f Shaqdcss & Ilarm an. conducting a foundry ami machine shop. T w o years after the close o f this association M r. H annan joined George H assert. and they established, in 1875, the car building and machine business still carried on under the name o f H an iu n & H assert. now an incoqiorated concern, pur­ chasing a tract o f land form erly known a s (he Barton fam t, u|>on which they erected a building 50 by 60 feci and began the nunufacturc of the Ec 1i|>se cooking stove and heater, and the Montrose plow*. T h ey also did custom w ork, and by 1879 thcir patronage w as incre.'ising so rapidly (bat they were obliged to add to their facilities to enlarge the ca]>acity, buying more lantl and putting up a large addt-