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 COLUMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTIES in furthering the general w elfare o f his home locality and county, and he w as form erly one of the (nistees of the State Hospital fo r the Insane located at Danville. In 1 ^ 2 M r. Bill­ meyer was appointed to represent the S ix ­ teenth Congressional district, comprising Su l­ livan. Columbia. Montour and Northumber­ land counties, and served one term, with the ability and fine regard for his obligations to his constituents which had been expected o f him. M r. Billm cycr’s life has been one of activity and achievement, and he is justly looked up to by the fellow citizens among whom he has passed his life, and who know the means by which his position and prosper­ ity have been reached. In 1865 M r. Billm eycr married .Angclinc Blue, who was bom Oct. 12 . 1845. d a u ^ te r o f E^niel Blue, o f Muncy. Lycom ing Co.. P a., and they have had a fam ily of five children: E lla, bom Feb. 2. 1866. married Glen Crawfo n l. and died in 1904; .Alice, bom .Aug. 13. 1867. is the w ife o f T asw cl! Vincent, a lumber m anufacturer o f Danville. P a., and has three children. I-ydia, Florence ,and .Alexander; H arry, born A pril t6, 1870. is mentioned be­ lo w; M ary B.. bom Ju ly 17. 1874. is the w ife o f Dr. Henr)' Sw cigart. o f I.ewistown. Pa., and has three children, A lexander B., M ary and K thel; Florence, bom Ja n . 20. 1879. is the w ife o f George Gilbert K u lp, o f Shamo­ kin. P a., president of the street railw ay comlany o f that place and also interested in the umber business (they have no children). In 1876 M r. Billm eyer erected the residence on h is beautiful 400-acre estate in D erry township, having one of the most attractive countr)' homes in this part of Pennsylvania. F ir iy acres o f his place have heen set off fo r what is known as "B illm eyer P a rk ." where M r. Billm eycr has indulged his love for nature ami the creatures of the forest which he uniloubtedly learned to lo-c in his varied ex­ periences in the lumber districts. It is estimated that there are over a thousand squirrels on this tract, besides fifty wild tui'keys. a number o f dccr and thirty elk. all o f which thrive under the ideal conditions afforded. H a r r v B i i .l m e y e r. only son o f .Alexander Billm eycr. was bom A pril 16. 1870. on the old B illm eycr homestead in Liberty township, and received his early education in the common schools. I.ater he attcndc<l the Millvtlle F rien d s' Academy, in Columbia county, and when a young man of twenty entered his father’s employ as secretary and business manager. H e continued to be so engaged

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until 1008, in which vear he acquired posses­ sion of his present farm in D erry township. B efore that he had been engaged in breeding pedigreed horses, in which line he has bMii interested for ten years, and since going into agricultural work he has also dealt in stock, as well as hay and grain. H is land is devoted to general farm ing, and he is operating it with a degree o f success which stamps bim as a typical representative of the name he bears. Business has claimed all o f his attention so far, public honors making no appeal to his ambition, though he takes the interest o f a good citizen in the w elfare of the community and the proper administration o f local affairs. M r. Billm eyer married Nellie lone Jam e­ son, a native o f Danville, Pa., daughter o f Charles .A. and M artha (L y o n ) Jam eson, and granddaughter of the late M oyer Lyon, o f Danville, who was one of the oldest butchers in the borough. M rs. Jam eson died M ay 7, 1895, aged forty-three years. M r. Jam eson was one of the old established merchants of Danville. M r. and M rs. Billm eyer have one child, M artha Blue, born Ju ly 30, 1907, who i.< attending school. ) Mr. Billm eyer was reared in the Lutheran faith, his w ife in the Presbyterian Church. JO H N LYM AN R IC H A R D S O N, o f Bloonubur^, treasurer of the Richard Manu­ facturing Company, one of the noteworthy in­ dustrial concerns of the locality, is a native of Pennsylvania but of old N ew England stock. T he Richardsons and Lym ans, with which latter fam ily he is connected through his 'randmothcr. I.aura (L ym an ) Richardson, tnve hccn in (his country from Colonial times. .Amos Richardson, the first o f this line in .America, must have come to New England prior to i(«40. We find he w as in Boston as early as 1645. but he was doubtless there sev­ eral years before. H e is described as a mer­ chant tailor, and he was a man o f great re­ spectability. .After the departure o f Stephen W inlhrop, the governor’s son. fo r England, in 16 4 1. he w as agent for him in N ew F.ngUind, as he a ftw w a H s was for his brother, John Winthrop. the first governor o f Connecticut a fte r the charter. Vith Dean W inthrop and others he was one of the original grantees of Groton, Conn., though he never went there to live. H e was a man o f strong convictions and determined c n c ^ and will, and a good deal o f original talent, good-hearted, but never submitted to a wrong without an effort to secure the right. H e died at Stonington, Conn., Aug. 5. 1683.