NameNasthan H. Schneck
Birth7 Feb 1838
FatherJoseph Schneck (1808-1892)
MotherMaria Hunsicker
Misc. Notes
Nathan H Schneck was born Feb. 7, 1838, and he was educated in the country pay schools for four months in a winter and later in 1857 and 1858 he attended the Allentown Seminary and the Freeland Seminary. He taught school for three winters and also two summers terms of select school. His compensation for teaching school was two and one-half cents per day for each pupil. But for the last two terms he was paid three cents per pupil, but the last year, because of the increase of pay, he had to find his own wood. Later he clerked in the store in the Mahoning Valley, in Carbon county. He was married in 1861, to Sarah Ann Peter, and they farmed in Lowhill until their removal to North Whitehall where they continued until on Thanksgiving Day, of 1884, when they moved to Allentown, locating in the residence at the southeast corner of Eighth and Chew streets, and there he since resides. Mr. Schneck served as a school director in North Whitehall for several terms, also was a tax collector in the Fourth ward. Allentown. He is an able mathematician and an exceptional fine penman. He and his wife are Lutherans. They had an only daughter. Elmira iR who married Dr. Daniel Hiestand, of Allentown. They have one daughter, Elmira R. who is a trained nurse and she has her home with her grandfather Sdmeck
Spouses
1Sarah Ann Peter
ChildrenElmira R.
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