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 COLUMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTIES who paid thcir passage. T w o of these chil­ dren were killed at the battle o f Brandywine and another, Ludwick, grandfather o f A le x ­ ander B., settled at Orangeville in 1800. It is said he died in 1838 and is buried in the Orangeville cemetery. l i e was a teamster, hauling produce from Orangeville and Pottsville to Reading before the development of the railroads. Jo h n Herring, son o f Ludwick. was born in Orangeville. Pa., in 1808. and there resided until 1889, when he removed to Bloomsburg. and spent his days in retirement until his death in 1893. For* many years he I'-as a carpenter foreman on the Pennsylvania canal between Nanticoke and Sunbury, and he was a justice of the peace at Orangeville for a number o f years. H e cast his first vote for .Andrew lackson and until his death was a member of the Democratic part)*. H e married Rebecca Snyder, a sister of the late Sheriff John Snyder, and she died in 18S2. She w as a member of the Lutheran dcnomin.ation and he of the Gerntan Reform ed C h u rch ., T h ey had eight children: Clinton D .; George .A.; A le x ­ ander B .; CaKHn and E lija h R ., tw in s; R e­ becca. wiiFe o f Jackson K n o rr; Priscilla, w ife o f John S . N cihart; and one that died un­ named. A lexander B . H erring obtained his educa­ tion in the public schools and Orangeville Academ y and chose the vocation o f carpenter. H e took contracts for the Bloomsburg & Sulli­ van Railroad Company, built most of the houses in the town o f Jam ison City, and some in Berwick and Bloomsburg. In the fall of 1 9 1 1 he retirc<I and is now living in his fine home at Orangeville, where he is one of the oldest rc.sidcnts. B y his first marriage, to A lice Sterner, daughter o f John and Kllzabcth (Jo h n ) Sterner and sister o f P ro f. L. P. Sterner, o f Bloomsburg, two children were b o ro : Cora, widow o f Charles Swcppcnhciscr, now living in O rangeville; and Jonn, a car­ penter, living in W iIkcs-Barre. The mother dic<l in March. 1868, and Mr. H erring mar­ ried (second) Lavina, daughter o f John and Sarah (Ev.ans) Neyhard. 'Iltey have the fo l­ lowing children: Anna, who died at the age o f thirty-two, w as Ihe w ife o f Frank F oster; •Alberta married O liver M cH enry and is Jiv­ ing in B erw ick; Clinton, an attorney o f Bloomsburg. is living at Orangeville. M r. H erring is a member o f Oriental Lodge, No. 460. F. & A. M .. o f which he is a jiast master, and has served many years as treasurer of the loilgc. H e is a Democrat in politics; has ser'cd a.s county commissioner one term; school director six years (secretary of the

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school board five years, and treasurer for one y e a r ); was elected burgess o f Orangeville in iQOSt for one tenn, and again in 19 10, and is still serving. H e is a member o f tlte Keforme<l Church, o f which he has been deacon and trustee fo r many year.s. C H A R L E S E M E R S O N R A N D A L L, edi­ tor and proprietor of the Catawissa Netvs Jlem, w as bom N ov. 4, 1856, at Providence, Luzerne Co.. P a., and is a son o f David Rich­ ardson and Elizabeth S . (Em erson) Randall, memliers o f old N cw Hampshire and Ncw Y o rk families. T he Emerson fam ily was an old one in England, branches of the line at present living in many parts o f that country' and America. The Randall fam ily were resi­ dents o f Scituate, on the N ew England coast, in 1645. David Richardson Randall, f.athcr of p ia r lc s E ,, was boro Aug. 2 1, 18 18, in Che­ shire county. N . H ,. and died Aug. 3 1 . 1875. H is father. Josejih Randall, a farm er, moved lo McDonough, Chenango Co., N. Y ., when David was about six years o f age. H e edu­ cated himself as a teacher, entering O xford .Academy, O xford, N. Y. F o r a time he was superintendent of the schools o f Chenango county, and then taking up the study o f law w as admitted to the bar o f Luzem e county N ov. 4, 1847. II« ojicnetl an ofikc at Proindcncc, that county, later removing lo WilkesBarre. where he practiced b w until his death in 1875, attaining a leading position .at the Luzcm c county bar. . M r. Randall was twice married; first in 1849 to M ary Childs, who bore him four children, none o f whom arc living. In 1855, he m ar­ ried Elizabeth S ., daughter o f Moses Sargent and Hlizabcth (I^awton) Emerson, who liorc him seven children, o f whom four surxdve: Charles E .. Jennie M. (w ife o f J . Richards Boyle, D. D., o f Sinking Springs. P a .). Nettie Elizatoth (M rs. Eugene A . Rhoails, o f A sh­ land, P a .), and David V, (superintendent of L ytle Colliery. M incrsvillc, P a.). Charles E. Randall was educated in the pub­ lic schools o f W ilkes-Barre and entered the office of the Luzcm c Union, where he learned the printer’s trade. In the fall o f 1881 he came to Catawissa to take chaigc of the office of the N m s Hem. which he purchased three years later, in parlncrshi]> with John C. Yocum. T h e rartnersbip continued fo r a few years and tncn M r. Randall purchased all of the interests o f his partner. Since taking sole con­ trol of the paper he has made it the most prominent weekly in the county and produces