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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
Genealogy- Family History - Biography
Containing Historical Sketches of Old Families and
of
Representative Citizens and Prominent Citizens Past
and Present.
Volume I & II
Publ. Chicago by J. H. Beers & Company
1916
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E. E.
SHIFFERSTINE, M. D., was born in Tamaqua, Schuylkill
county, Pa., Oct. 1, 1874. His parents, Henry D.,
and Mary A. (Swoyer) Shifferstine, were natives of
Lehigh county, but have spent most of their lives in
Tamaqua. The father came to that place as a boy of
seventeen, and began working for the Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad Company, being employed in the motive department of
that corporation for about thirty-two yeas. He has
been retired from active business during the last eighteen
years and he and his wife are living at Tamaqua.
Dr. E. E. Shifferstine is the only living child of these
parents. But two children were born into the family
and the other one died in infancy. The subject of this
article has had excellent educational opportunities, which
he has made an effort to turn to his advantage. After
being graduated from the Tamaqua high school in the class of
1891 he accepted a position in a drug store for about
eighteen months, when he began his preliminary work in the
study of medicine. He had as preceptors two or three
well known men in Weissport, Mauch Chunk and Tamaqua and was
well prepared for entrance upon his collegiate studies.
He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in June,
1899, and following his graduation he was employed in the
State hospital for injured persons, at Fountain Springs,
this county, for over four years, the last eighteen months
being spent as assistant to the general superintendent.
He spent eight months abroad, visiting and studying in the
hospitals of Berlin and Munich, Germany. In June,
1905, the doctor established himself in general practice at
Tamaqua. His previous experience as a hospital surgeon
in the same locality, served as a favorable introduction to
the people and the doctor at once began a successful
professional career. He is an active worker in the
various medical societies within his reach, being a member
of the Schuylkill county medical society, Lehigh medical
association, Pennsylvania state medical society, American
medical association, and was secretary of the Anglo-American
medical association of Berlin, Germany. In the
fraternal associations the doctor is a member of the various
Masonic bodies, has attained to the thirty-second degree and
has passed all the collateral degrees in that time honored
organization. Besides this, he is a member of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Patriotic Order
Sons of America in Tamaqua. He is a Republican in his
political affiliations.
Source:
History of
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
in Two Volumes -
Illustrated -
Vol. II. - Publ. by
State Historical Association -
1907 - Page 442 |
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GEORGE HOFF STICHTER. With the band of
pioneers who blazed the trail through the wilds of
Schuylkill County, Pa., in the year 1827, there was one
young man who had just reached his majority, by the name of
George Hoff Stichter, son of Peter Stichter.
He was born in Reading, Berks Co., Pa., Feb. 13, 1805, and
was educated in a private night school which he attended
after the day's labor. He learned the trade of
tinsmith with his cousin, John Stichter, of
Pottsville, Pa. In 1829, upon the death of
John Stichter, he purchased the good-will and interest
in the stove and tin business from the estate and branched
out very extensively, employing twelve to fifteen journeymen
in his factory, all hand work, and using three teams on the
road to sell the finished product north, east, south and
west.
George H. Stichter was a natural born mechanic
and inventor. In 1831 he patented an improvement on
the first cook stove. In 1832 he designed and patented
the cylinder stove now in use. In 1833 he patented and
manufactured the first heating stove for house use to burn
coal in the United States. Up to then grates walled in
were used exclusively. In 1845 he added hardware to
his stove and tin business, and continued in active life
until 1876, when he retired, dying May 4, 1887. He
served as county commissioner from 1845 to 1848, as school
director, councilman and tax collector, was a member of the
old Schuylkill County Troop in the thirties and forties, and
a charter member of the first Lutheran Church at Pottsville.
On May 11, 1830, George H. Stichter was married
to Mary, daughter of John Hahn, of Reading,
Berks county. They were blessed with eleven children,
of whom four survive: Henry P. Stichter, retired
hardware merchant; Emma Fox, widow of Augustus Fox,
grocer; Anna Rich, widow of Isaac Rich; and
Joseph Stichter, clerk with the Coal & Iron Company -
all of Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
Source: Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania - Genealogy-
Family History - Biography - Vol. II - Publ. Chicago
by J. H. Beers & Company 1916 - Page 625 |
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