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the old Dreibtebiss mill, owned (hen by Frick, Faxton & M c K e lv y : this he ran until 1837, when he moved to M illville and took charge o f (he grist and saw mill owned by his father. T his mill he conducted until al>out 1841* when on account o f failing health he raited it, and for four years clerked for his brother George and his partner, Mather. Then, on account of the mill losing trade by his absence, in (845 he again took charge, and gave it his personal attention until the spring o f 1849. A t that time the mill burned down and he quit the milling business, moving to Sereno in D.e* cembcr. t 849 » and embarking in the mercantile business, which he carried on until 1857, when he discontinued the store and engaged in farm ­ ing. In 1850 he purchased the farm o f 107 acres in Greenwood township, and in 1858 purchased the farm o f 228 acres in Pine town­ ship where he resided and w as afterw ards en­ gaged in agricultural pursuits, increasing the original tract to about 240 acres. It e w as suc­ cessful in his business. I!c had six daughters and one son: Mary*, Elizabeth, Francis P., Catharine, Sarah E.,' M argaret A . and Susan. M ary married Dr. J . B . Patton; Elizabeth married R . L . R ich; Francis P . is mentioned below; Catharine and M aigarct never m ar­ ried; Susan married John Eves, the wagon manufacturer. Only two daughters o f this fam ily now sur*ivc. David Rote was born Sept. 13, 1832, in Madison township, eldest son o f Daniel and Sarah (M asters) Role. H e resided here un­ til March, 1886, when he purchased the place known as the John Bruner farm. l i e married M ary, daughter o f George W elliver, whose w ife Elsie w as a daughter o f Simon and Mar)* (Robbins) Kinney. T he Kinneys were from New Jersey, and among the early settlers in Pine township. M r. and M rs. R ole had two children, Sarah E . and Anna E . Francis P. M asters w as bom Jan. 28, 1839. and spent his early boyhood at Slillvillc, until ten years old. H e obtained a thorough educa­ tion. receiving his preparatory training in the home neighborhood, and Uter attending the WesltOftsm (P a .) Boarding School, an old in­ stitution established by the Friends in (799. During the greater part o f his active years M r. M asters w as engaged in farm ing in Pine township, where he died June 1 1, 19 10. H e supported the Republican party on political issues. On Ju n e 8, t88o, M r. M asters w as married to Orpha L. E ves, daughter o f Wilson M. and Amelia (Robbins) Eves, and three children were bom to this union: A lfred E ., the eldest,

met an accidental death when twelve years old, from a gunshot wound received while hunting; M arian W ., bom March 13, 1884, has been a teacher in the Wcsttown lk>arding School, and is at present a student in Colum­ bia U niversity; Francis P., J r ., died Feb. 28, 1893, in infancy. M rs. M asters is a member o f an old family o f Friends which has been prominent in lo c^ history from the time Columbia county began to be settled. Full mention of the E v es fam ily will be found elsewhere in this work. G E O R G E E. C R E A S Y, D. D. S .. who is engaged in the practice o f dentistry at B er­ wick, Columbia county, was bom there M ay i860, son of Stqihcn and Barbara (F ran tz) (Treasy. David Creasy, the grandfather o f Dr. George £ . Creasy, belonged 10 a fam ily of E n ^ ish origin, whose prc^enitor in the United States was S ir Edw ard Creasy, a nobleman, w*ho owned a large estate in England. Dadd CrcoM* was one of the early settlers o f Colum­ bia Co., Pa., where he was the owner o f a Urge farm in the Catawissa valley, and Uter moved to Mifflin township, where he s]ient his last years. H e died in 1872. at (lie age o f scvcnty-two years. Stephen Creasy, son o f David Creasy, and father o f Dr. George E. Creasy, learned the trade o f cabinct-makcr as a young man, and continued to follow that occupation throughout his life. F o r a short iin>c he was a resident o f Berwick, but the greater part o f his life was spent in Mifflinville, where he passed aw ay March 4. 1900. H is w*ife. B^irbara (F ran tz) Creasy, w as bom in Wittenberg, Germany, whence she came to America with her mother and the eleven other children of the family, her father having diciner, who is proprietor of the "Exchan ge H otel" at Mifflinville; II. Lew is, who lives at that place, and E li, who died in infancy. George E. Creasy secured his early educa­ tion in the public schools o f Mifflinville, and was subsequently granted the privileges o f at­ tendance at the ^tatc Normal school. Follow­ ing a two years* course there he entered ihc employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com­ pany, and for sixteen years was foreman of a division on construction work at Wapwallopen, to z e m e Co., P a. H e took up the study of dentistry in 1897, and subsequently entered