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 COLUM BIA AND M O NTO UR COUNTIES Ixith tmrscs* and they reside in Philadelphia. Jennie married W alter Ivins, a mcmlicr of the Ivins Cracker Company o f Philadelphia, and they have two children, Margaretta and M a r y; Mr. Ivins also owns the Model Clticken Farm at Lansdale, P a. Jessie married Rev. William Gerhard, a Reform ed minister* of rangcville* and they have one child* Ruth. Pearl married Arthur Williams* a printer* of New Y o r k; M r. W illiams's father was the first American singer to appear in the C rys­ tal Palace, lyondon. Joscph Poe Fleckenstine w as a trained nurse in Bellevue hospital. New Y o rk, where he nursed [.oft* the candy manu­ facturer of that city* so successfully as to )>c taken into the factory and nude m anager; however, the work was too confining and he resigned to take charge of the poultry farm o f his brother-in-law, W alter Iv in s; he m ar­ ried Phœbe Dickson, o f Salem* N . J .* a trained nurse, in June, 19 14, and on Ju ly 15th follow­ ing returned to the employ o f M r. Iu>ft as man­ ager o f his confectionery store in Newark* X . J . Nathan C . Fleckenstine is in the confcctioncr)' business at Jamaica* Long Island; he married Nellie Kellogg, and they have one son, William. Jacob W. and 5 ra h (Stebbins) u Fleckenstine* the parents of this family* arc living at Lansdale* Pa.* on the ntodcl farm of W alter Ivins. M ary C. Fleckenstine married William Appleman, of Benton, Pa.* and died in Feb­ ruary, 1880, leaving a little daughter, Bcsstc* then but four years old. Bessie nurried Brucc Keller, ticket agent at Orangeville, and they have had three children, two living* F.iizabcth and John, J r. Bruce K eller’s father, John Keller. w*as the sexton at Orangeville for more than thirty years, w’orking at the shoemaker’s Ixmch except when so engaged. H e and his w ife were much bclovcil, and were always ready to nurse the sick and help the unfortu­ nate.^ G a r a Agnes Fleckenstine, born M ay 16, 18 6 1, married George W. Bertsch. a merchant tailor, o f Mauch Chunk. Pa. T hey ha%*e had no children. M r. Bertsch’s father was a pros­ perous tailor and left a fine estate to his four children. W illiam Fleckenstine married Harriet Relics, and to them were born two children: H arry died E>ec, 2 3 ,19 0 6. at the age o f twentyfour, and is buried in the I.^ure 1 H ill ccnietery, O rangeville; Carrie married Howard Hartung. o f Honesdale, Pa., and they have one child, H arriet. W illiam Fleckenstine ts at present employed in the S. S. Fleckenstine dry goods store, in Orangeville.

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George S. Fleckenstine married Elizabeth Fisher* daughter o f a prosperous farm er of Briarcreek township* the ceremony being per­ formed by K ev. tWirtd Hautz. who was pastor of the Reform ed Church o f Orangeville for forty-five years* and is still actively engaged in religious matters, being president of the W yoming Classis. T o M r. and M rs. FIcckenStine were bom three children, Conner Fisher* Carl and Jessie K .; O trl married Dora Leidy, and they Itad two children. Sarah (de­ ceased) and N athan; C arl is conducting his father's store, while the father is holding the office o f county commissioner. Jessie R. mar­ ried Clinton Herring* an attorney o f Orange­ ville. George S. Fleckenstine entered the mer­ cantile business in 1880 and has made a great success in Orangeville. In 19 0; he bought the old homestead, Meadow Brook farm, which he has brought to a high state of ctdtivation. In 1896 he was elected treasurer o f Columbia county, and held the office for one term. In 19 1 ( he was elec(esition. Catharine (H ah n ) W olf, daughter o f Dc­ wald Hahn* wa.s bom in Bethlehem, North­ ampton Co.* Pa., Ju n e 6* 1776* and died Sept. 28* 1836, in Ccntcn'ille, Mich., where she was buried. She was on a visit to her son Joseph at (he time. He bought a tombstone at Newark* Ohio* and hauled it the two hundred and fifty miles to Centerville lo ilacc over her grave. John W olf, her husband, was liom in 17O9* the son o f Christian W olf, who came when a widow'cr with one child from Witten­ berg, Germany, to .America. Dcwald Hahn, father o f Catharine (H ahn) Wolf* was born Feb. 8, 1752, and died March 3. 1833. Franic, his w ife, bom Oct. 5. 1752, died Jan . 14. 1834. They had four daughters: Catharme, w ife o f John W o lf; Susan (M rs. A chcn bach); Mary* w ife o f Abraham H ess; Sarah, w ife o f Charles Miller. Catharine (H ahn) W olf had four sons, Joseph* Jonas* Abraham and O ristia n . The Ilah n fam ily were the possessors o f all the land lying south o f Mifflinville, so the sons had a farm to begin with. Abraham moved above Miffiinville and Gtristian to the south end of the town* on the same farm from which Joscph Poe’s mother w as stolen hy the Indutns. The Hahns bought the fam is from Adam Booth. Jonas W olf was txirn in Mifflinville. Pa., N ov. 12, i 8 i 2* and died in Constantine. Mich., March 8, 1896. He was a prosperous mer­ chant in Watsontown. Fa., m former days, afterw ards moving to Constantine, where he