Historical and biographical annals of Columbia and Montour counties, Pennsylvania, containing a concise history of the two counties and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families .. . stockholder in the D. L. &W. R. R. Company. He was a Democrat inpolitics and served many times as treasurerof the board of poor directors for the dis-trict of Bloomsburg. which office he held forover twenty years. He also filled many minorpositions. He was always regarded as a valu-able counselor, and much respected for hisexcellence of character, gentleness and kind-ness of disposition, an
Historical and biographical annals of Columbia and Montour counties, Pennsylvania, containing a concise history of the two counties and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families .. . stockholder in the D. L. &W. R. R. Company. He was a Democrat inpolitics and served many times as treasurerof the board of poor directors for the dis-trict of Bloomsburg. which office he held forover twenty years. He also filled many minorpositions. He was always regarded as a valu-able counselor, and much respected for hisexcellence of character, gentleness and kind-ness of disposition, and politeness of man-ner. Because of his excellent memory he wasoften referred to in regard to some eventwhich transpired during his earlier life. Hewas wonderfully preserved for one of hisyears. Mr. Grotz married Elizabeth Fister, daugh-ter of Thomas Fister, of Catawissa, Pa., andthey became the parents of six children : MaryM., widow of Norman J. Hendershott; Har-vey formerly cashier of the BloomsburgBanking Company; Henry C, who lives ina house in Hemlock township, where the tan-nery formerly stood; one that died in infancy;Susan C, and Thomas F. In religious belief Mr. Grotz was a faith-. j6^/i/^}^ i- Ta COLUMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTIES 665 ful member of the Lutheran Church. So-cially he was at one time a member of the OddFellows lodge. DANIEL F. KNITTLE, miller at KnittlesMills, Catawissa, Columbia county, was bornin Franklin township, that county, in 1850,son of Aaron S. Knittle and grandson ofDaniel Knittle, one of the first settlers in thecounty. The history of the Knittle familydates back to early Colonial times. It is re-corded in the Archives of Pennsylvania thatJoseph Knittle came to America on the shipPatience and landed at Philadelphia , 1753. Michael Knittle, son of Joseph, was a resi-dent of Richmond township, Berks Co., Pa.,where he died in 1789. His children were:Frederick, John Adam, Michael, Daniel,Rosina and Catherine. Daniel Knittle, grandfather of
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