. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . gained from lumbering. He lost no timein making a beginning, and for a number of PIKE COUNTY. years he applied himself with that will and de-termination which has characterized his wholelife, and by careful management and economybecame the possessor at one time of over two thousand acres of land, and-ntw, at the close of-=te Laanua, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth ^ -the yca4^J-8& acres under a goodstate_of—cultivation, and has, besides, -madeextensive-ami valuable improvements thereon. ~7,■ During the War of the -lat
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . gained from lumbering. He lost no timein making a beginning, and for a number of PIKE COUNTY. years he applied himself with that will and de-termination which has characterized his wholelife, and by careful management and economybecame the possessor at one time of over two thousand acres of land, and-ntw, at the close of-=te Laanua, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth ^ -the yca4^J-8& acres under a goodstate_of—cultivation, and has, besides, -madeextensive-ami valuable improvements thereon. ~7,■ During the War of the -late- Rebellion ^ fur-nished the government immense quantities of works give employment to seventy-five men,including those engaged in the woods preparingtimber for the purposes above mentioned. Nathan Houek was married, April 14, 1841, (Berger) Deetz, of Backs County, Pa. Thevhave children,—John D., born September 28,1842; Charles, born January 1, 1845 ; Frank-lin, born May 29, 1847 (died in, infancy) ;Elizabeth, born March 17, 1849rwire of cAaM^n^^^rtccJi tent poles or sticks, and at about that time con-ceived the idea of umbrella and parasol sticks,also clothes-pins, toys, etc., and for that purposeerected a factory in 1872, and has si nee addedto it until it is now one of the largest in thecountry of its kind. It employs onehundred and ten horse-power. Capacityper day, for umbrella and parasol sticks, twohundred gross ; clothes-pins, two hundred boxesof five gross each; tops and balls, one hundredand fifty gross ; and when in full operation their Fletcher Gilpin; Amanda, born September 6,1851, wife of Emory Gilpin ; Emma, bornFebruary 10, 1854, wife of Frank Nicholson;Anna M., born June 9, 185(3, died October 5,1864; Carrie M., born (Nov. 26, 1860, wife ofDr. Arthur Simons. Mr. tmdftlrs. Houek are-both members of the church, and in politics, heis an active Democrat. John D^ «nd CharlesHouok have recently succeeded to the businesstheir father established, and, wi
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