The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-09-15

elected to the Office to which he aspires
will be credit 10 the voters of Carbon
county. Mr.. Ferry has off and on filed vari-
GUS district offices, and is at present one of
the township school directors. He resides
at Audenried,
G. w. Esser, nominee for prothonotary,
was born in Allentown, Pa, on the fourth
day of April, 1874. His parents came to
Mauch Chunk in 1S47 and he has lived
there eyer since. He was educated in the
public schools of that borough, and in the
Mauch Chunk Academy along with num-
ber of other young men, who haYe since be-
come prominent in business and
places of trust At an early age he OBJ
tained position as clerk for the Lehigh
Coal aud Navigation Co., at the the weigh
lock collectors office at salary of S25 per
six years, with great credit; and also ac-
quired thorough knowledge of the coal
traffic. His knowledge, abilities and energy
well equipped him for his successful career
caused him to resign his position with the Le-
high Coal and Navigation Co. His services
were eagerly sought after, and he accepted
agencies for the Morris Canal & Banking
Co., Bounton Iron Co., Wilkesbarre Coal &
Iron Co., Franklin Coal Co., New Jersey
Coal Co., and number of Coal Companies; /;
and at the early age of 21 or % his salaries
aggregated over six thousand collars per
annum. His spirit was still restless, and
after holding these valuable positions for
about three years he resigned them to en-
gage in the wholesale coal business. In
the selling of coal he was an expert and
soon amassed considerable money. He
afterwards engaged in the mining of coal
in Mahanoy City and was at one time the
owner of the coal collleries now owned by
Lentz, Lilly 6 Company, at Park Place.
During the coal disaster and financial crises
of 1871 and 1872 he was forced to the wall,
and with many others compelled to succumb
to the inevitable, AS a matter of fact coal
was then sold in New York for 81 per ton
less than it cost to mine it and deliver it
there. He afterwards continued as coal
salesman until the Democratic party nomi-
mated him for the Office of Prothonotary
and clerk of the courts of the county of
Carbon, in 1879. In the new field of poll
tics, his experience, brains and energy soon
made themselves felt in Carbon county, and
he acquitted himself so satisfactorily in the
conduct and management of that respons-
ible office that the Democrats renominated
HIM in 1882 1855, and to his credit be it
said, again on last Monday, for another
term of three years, with greater unanimity
and less opposition than when he was nomi-
mated the first time. This proves that when
the people really want a good and faithful
that few politicians can not always defeat
their wishes. In 1882 he received the high
est majority over his opponent, that any
candidate ever received in the county.
When he leaves the Office ii will be with a
clean and enviable record, his friends can
point to it with pride. And while it is
proper to say that he has a number of bit
ter political enemies, he also has more sim
cere friends, ready to fight for him than
any other man in the county. AS poll
tician he has always been true to his friends.
Many promising politician has gone down
to ruin, because he attempted double-deal-
ing with his friends. He is an excellent
citizen and warm-hearted friend, liberal
and generous to fault. His first wife was
the daughter of John Davis, President of
Easton National Bank, and she died about
six years after her marriage. In 1873 he
married the eldest daughter of Jonathan
Simpson, deceased, with whom he is living
and has three children. His generosity,
warm-heartedness, energy and pluck are
commendable traits of character well
worthy of imitation.
Hiram p. Leyan, the nominee for sheriff,
was born in Berks county, on August 16,
1S43 He attended the common schools in
the township; his early life was spent upon
the farm. When about eighteen years Of
| age he was apprenticed TO learn the carpen
ter trade which he followed for about five
years. Sometime during the year of 1861
he moved to Franklin township and fol
several years thereafter he followed thu
farming and milling occupation. While
employed in sawmill in 1872 he met will
an accident by which he lost the fingers oI
his left hand, disabling him from activ,
employment. He was elected constable il
the spring of 1878, which Office he has hels
eyer since in connection with the tax col
lectorship of the township. Mr.. Levan
well-known and respected all over tn
county; he is good citizen and has mad
a township official of much excellence. IL
has always been a Democrat-born ant
raised in that firm old Jacksonian county o
Berks he had early instilled into his min
the great and glorious principles of equalit
and right as taught by the Democrat
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