at the college, she graduating in the class of 1884 with all the honors. Professor W. is a member of Mr. Hendricks' Trinity Church and senior elder of the same.

His paper, read before the Inter-county Historical Society last summer, shows that philosophy and elevated criticism are natural to him.

We are indebted to Colonel Bean's "History of Montgomery County" for most of the above facts.

ISAAC L. SHOEMAKER.

The Shoemaker family, one of the most respectable in Montgomery county, is known to be of German descent, and by most authorities traced to Jacob Shoemaker, a Friend, who came with or near the time of the Penn emigration and settled at Germantown about 1682 or '83.

Our subject, Isaac L. Shoemaker, of Norristown, born June 14, 1814, is the only son of John and Martha L. Shoemaker, farmers of Upper Dublin township, the father being the lineal descendant of Isaac Shoemaker, one of the early emigration, and his mother, Martha, a daughter of Isaac Longstreth, whose ancestors were from the South of Wales; and also among the early settlers of the lower section of Bucks county.

At the age of eighteen years our subject had received a fair education by attendance at three boarding schools located in this and Bucks counties, when he entered as an assistant at the store of Jones and Lukens, at Three Tuns; but after a service of ten months his health failing, by advice of a physician, he returned to his father's farm again for a more active life, when his former vigor returned, and he soon resolved to adopt farming as his life occupation. At the age of twenty-two he married Jane, third daughter of Moses and Elizabeth McLean, of Horsham township. Since their union nine children have been born to them, of whom only four are living, Emma, married to Charles Cottman, of Jenkintown; John, intermarried with Margaret Dettra, William M., and Morris H., all of whom reside, or are in business in Philadelphia.

It is here proper to sketch the business career of our subject. After living two years on his father's farm following his marriage, he next rented another place in Horsham, to which he removed, where he remained four years. Having a favor

able opportunity he next purchased an adjoining farm of one hundred and seven acres, to which he removed, and which he considerably improved. Here he was quite successful for nearly twenty-seven years, and until his two sons, John and William, had received a collegiate education, when they exchanged the farm for city life, soon after which Mr. S. rented the farm and removed to Norristown.

In early life, though an industrious, vigilant working man, Isaac L. Shoemaker was an active partisan Whig, and filled many local offices in the township through the partiality of his neighbors and friends. He was also called to adjust difficulties between neighbors, almost invariably advising them to keep from under the arm of the law. In 1851 he was Whig candidate for County Commissioner and pitted against William W. Dunn (his brother-in-law), a Democrat, of the same township, but of course was defeated because of the large adverse Democratic majority at that time. In November, 1865, after a heated contest at Skippackville, which mainly grew out of political feeling, Mr. Shoemaker was elected a member of the Board of Managers of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which office he still holds, now for a period of over twenty years, being thought an almost indispensable assistant in assessing damages and adjusting disputed claims for damages in a corporation which has several millions of property insured. In 1870 he was nominated by the Republican party for Jury Commissioner, elected and served three years acceptably to the people and with credit to himself; and in 1874 was appointed Prison Inspector, serving a like term, when, with others, he was enabled to introduce numerous improvements in the building, as also salutary reforms in the management and care for the morals of prisoners.

Having a birthright membership in the Society of Friends, himself and family attended Upper Dublin Meeting for worship a period of about fifty years, and in a meeting house erected upon three acres of ground his grandfather donated

for that purpose, as also for a burial place for Friends or others; and when about to remove to Norristown he felt concerned to have a dwelling house erected on the grounds for the use of the janitor, to which object he contributed liberally.

After several years' residence in Norristown Isaac L. Shoemaker is known there and esteemed as one of its most liberal, yet conservative citizens, very frequently consulted on subjects of public concern by his friends and neighbors.

CAPTAIN FREDERICK HAWS.

The above is a familiar name about Norristown and through Montgomery county, though nearly as well known in its original orthography, Haas, for both are unquestionably German, and originally the same, dating back probably to the famous "Pastorious settlement at ye Garmantown," very soon after Penn founded Philadelphia. Our subject's father, Samuel, who was connected with the Haas families, of Chestnut Hill, and born in that locality, was originally a stocking weaver, as very many other residents of Germantown were from the early colonial era; for it is not fifty years since "Germantown made," was a universally accepted commendation of any hosiery goods.

Captain Haws' grandfather's name was Frederick, and his wife's Catharine. They followed the family occupation as did his son and grandson (our subject) when a boy. Samuel Haws married Sarah, daughter of Lewis Kulp, of Barren Hill, and had the following children: Frederick, born April 5, 1818; Mary, wife of George Garrett, of Jeffersonville; Margaret died in infancy, Lewis, Samuel, Sarah, Rachel, the last intermarried with John S. Harding, of Norriton; also Kate, who was the wife of John Cauffman, both deceased. The children of Rachel and John S. Harding are the following: Ada, Hamilton, Wilmer, Lillie (intermarried with Edwin Kneule, of Norristown), and Alice.

Samuel Haws, the elder, came to Norristown during the improvement era, 1835 or '38, and employed teams in plowing, excavating and widening the streets of the borough, as ordered to be done by the Legislative Commission about that time. Captain Haws, being then young, was generally acting as plowman. On the completion of that job Samuel Haws and his sons went into brickmaking along the river front, and followed it until he purchased of the "Land Company" the residue of the Pawling farm, the mansion of which stood near the present Chestnut and Green streets. About that time Captain Haws, our subject, was married to Miss Isabella, daughter of Andrew Mason, of Norristown, who was a native of Scotland. After marriage he left his father's employment, and they removed to a small farm in Lower Merion, following that occupation two years, when he returned to Norristown again to manage a brick yard for his father, at Barbadoes and Lafayette streets. This he continued for three or four years, when he purchased a small property near Spring Mill, and went again to farming, and so continued there and elsewhere until 1855, when he purchased of his brother-in-law, John Cauffman, the farm of thirty-two acres, including an established brick yard, on Marshall street, which he has improved and where he has still resided for the past thirty-one years, prosecuting, in company with his sons, both farming and brickmaking, doing a large business in the latter, the market for their output being Norristown, a mile eastward.

Frederick and Isabella Haws have been blessed with eleven children, namely, Samuel A., Sarah (died in infancy), Charles L., Frederick A., A. Mason, Mary, also deceased in childhood, Camilla, who died at the age of twenty-one, Ray, Kate M., Harry C. and Eugene.

Soon after the breaking out of the Southern rebellion, Samuel A. Haws, their eldest son, joined Company B, First Pennsylvania Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Owen Jones, and after serving gallantly to near the end of his enlistment, when in a skirmish at "Haws' Shops," Virginia, he was killed and buried on the field of battle, but afterward taken up and reinterred at Cold Harbor amongst other brave men who gave their lives for their country in the latter famous struggle.

His grave is there appropriately marked. In 1862, at Governor Curtin's first "emergency" call for volunteers to repel the rebel invasion of the state, Frederick Haws responded promptly by marching in a militia cavalry company, mounted on their own horses, and commanded by Captain Daniel H. Mulvany, of Norristown, to the state capital, when and where they found that the first rebel raid was ended, so were disbanded and returned home.

Again, the next year, in 1863, when the Confederates invaded Pennsylvania as before, Frederick Haws, on a new call of the Governor, raised a company of cavalry, the men, as before, mounted upon their own horses, and at the rendezvous, the men recognizing his native force of character, elected him captain, and without delay the troop organized into a battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Mosen, when they marched to the line of the Potomac, where, for several weeks, they did valuable service in scouting along both sides of the border, until Lee and his cohorts retired South again, when they were mustered out of service with the commendations of the state and national governments. Captain Haws had also his son Charles, though youthful at the time, enlisted in his company, and Colonel Wynkoop, recognizing Captain Haws' judgment and promptitude, made him during part of his service Provost Marshal, a post requiring determination, judgment and fidelity.

The intermarriages and personnel of Frederick and Isabella Haws' children may be noted at this writing as follows: Charles L. is married to Harriet Ashenfelter, and their children are Adele, Camilla and Bella; Frederick is intermarried with Mattie George, and they have two children, Harry and Mabel; A. Mason is married to Maggie Wanner, and have also two children, Wanner and Lillias.

In politics Captain Haws has been an active Republican, though never an office-seeker.