Solomon Sterner was born Sept. 27,1815. He helped to fight the big fire in Allentown in 1848. He was a carpenter and a farmer at Mechanicsville in Whitehall Township and there he died on May 16, 1880. He was a Lutheran and is buried at the Mickley's church His wife was Catharine Heimbach. She died in 1904, aged 81 years.