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FAMILY CONNECTIONS AT THE AMERICAN SILVER TRUSS CO. and CITIZENS SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST CO. - COUDERSPORT, PA
OWEN GOODMAN METZGER (1853-1938) was a man who followed his father’s entrepreneurial spirit. His father, William Metzger, moved to Potter County abt 1830 and built the old Goodman Mills and then, the Metzger Mills in Pike Mills, later known as Galeton.
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OWEN G. METZGER, lumber dealer, Coudersport, son of William H. and Pomilla C. (Coolidge) Metzger, was born in Hebron township, Potter Co., Penn., in 1853.
His father was a native of Lewisburg, Penn., and located at Pike Mills, Potter county, about 1830.
He built the old Goodman mills, and later the Metzger mills, being also engaged in the lumber business.
About 1857 he was elected county commissioner, and was one of the prominent men of Potter county.
His death occurred in July, 1881, after a lingering illness of seventeen years, and his widow died the following year.
They had four children:
- Francis,
- Margaret (now Mrs. Theodore Cobb, of Spring Mills, Allegany Co., N. Y.),
- William and
- Owen G.
The last named made his home with his parents until 1874, when he married Phebe R., daughter of D. D. McGee, of Bradford, Penn. After his marriage he located at Coudersport, where he has since lived. He embarked in the lumber trade, which he continued alone until 1881, when he became associated with James White in the same business, under the firm name of White & Metzger, their yards being located at Galeton, Potter county.
Mr. and Mrs. Metzger have four children:
- Stanley,
- Elsie,
- Frank and
- Alice.
In politics Mr. Metzger affiliates with the Democratic party.
From:
History of the Counties of
McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter, Pennsylvania
J. H. Beers & Co. Publishers
Chicago, Ill. 1890
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South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a butcher, Middle High German metziger, metzjer, German Metzger (probably a loan word from Latin, but of uncertain lineage).
The Metzger family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Metzger families were found in the USA in 1880. In 1840 there were 43 Metzger families living in Pennsylvania. This was about 51% of all the recorded Metzger's in the USA.
We have two lines of these Pennsylvania Metzgers in our family. Are their ancestors connected? I don’t know.
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Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [2] |
| Residence |
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Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [2] |
| Age: 17; Census Post Office: Coudersport |
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1874 |
Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [5] |
| Home near Woodlawn Ave, 1860(?) Mill race which furnished water to operate the Shear Tannery. Square house at left built by Owen Metzger, 1874. Now occupied by Bill Fish, Sr. |
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Site of Woodlawn Ave, 1860(?)
showing mill race which furnished water to operate the Shear Tannery. Square house at left built by Owen Metzger, 1874. Now occupied by Bill Fish, Sr.
Opposite is house belonging to Coletta Patterson.
One story bldg was Sobieski Ross' Land Office; first brick office in county (Potter), built 1853.
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Cindy Speroni
The street I grew up on.
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Joan Nelson Gulden Kaminski
Awesome photos.
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Penny Goodenough
Thank you for sharing this!
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Paul Lynn Gardner
Marty Maiuro, your great grandfather's home.????
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John C Wetzel
Fascinating! But this photo is not 1860 if it includes a bldg built by Owen Metzger in 1874. (Born in 1853, he was 21 years old when he built it.) Or was the building ghosted in? (oops! That ghostly house must be Ross' Land Office (Bingham Land Office?). Metzger's a little further back, 2 story) Having a little trouble with the caption, but it's an awesome picture.
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Reference to the Shear Tannery, "Way Back When', Potter County Journal, 01 Jan 1933: "... One other old time place, the old tannery on Woodlawn avenue. William Shear ran it 60 years ago; Gay Cornelius, Chris Zimmerman and John Calkins were some of the employees."
photo: [Coudy- Lymansville- PC Journal 19330119 FB180326LN.jpg]
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Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [3] |
| Age: 27; Occupation: Saw Miller; EnumerationDistrict: 102; MaritalStatus: Married; RelationToHead: Self |
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L. R. Bliss in the 1880 United States Federal Census
date: __ June 1880
D? ? Butterworth
Name: L. R. Bliss
Age: 30
Birth: Abt 1850
New York
Home in 1880: Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Dwelling Number: 41
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital status: Married
Spouse's name: Elvira Bliss
Occupation: Photographer
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
James Turner 23 Head PA _ _ Carpenter
Martha Turner 19 wife PA NY NY
John Calkins 49 Head NY VT _ laborer
Mary Calkins 31 wife NY NY NY
Capitola Calkins 11 dau NY NY NY
John Calkins 8 son NY NY NY
George Calkins 6 son PA NY NY
Eddie Calkins 2 son PA NY NY
L. R. Bliss 30 Head NY _ _ photographer
Elvira Bliss 25 wife PA NY PA
Owen Metzgar 27 Head PA PA PA saw miller
Phebe Metzgar 27 wife PA _ _ keeping house
Stanley Metzgar 4 son PA PA PA
Else Metzgar 2 dau PA PA PA
John Metzgar 5mo Dec PA PA PA
Source Citation
Year: 1880; Census Place: Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1165; Page: 438A; Enumeration District: 102
Name Birth Residence
James Turner Abt 1857 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Martha Turner Abt 1861 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
John Calkins Abt 1831 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Mary Calkins Abt 1849 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Capitola Calkins Abt 1869 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
John Calkins Abt 1872 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
George Calkins Abt 1874 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Eddie Calkins Abt 1878 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
A. H. Owens Abt 1850 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Salma Owens Abt 1858 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
A. A. Swetland Abt 1832 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Susian Swetland Abt 1837 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
R. W. Swetland Abt 1862 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
L. K. Swetland Abt 1869 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
D. Monroe Abt 1836 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
S. J. Monroe Abt 1837 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
L. Monroe Abt 1866 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
L. R. Bliss Abt 1850 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Elvira Bliss Abt 1855 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Jno. R. Groves Abt 1834 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Scharollet Groves Abt 1844 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
John Groves Abt 1875 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Scharlott Groves Abt 1877 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
James Groves Abt 1879 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Owen Metzgar Abt 1853 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Phebe Metzgar Abt 1853 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Stanley Metzgar Abt 1876 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Else Metzgar Abt 1878 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
John Metzgar Dec Abt 1880 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
John Pearsall Abt 1843 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Kate Pearsall Abt 1850 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
John Pearsall Abt 1875 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Susie Pearsall Jun Abt 1879 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
A. Kiehle Abt 1814 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Elizebeth Kiehle Abt 1819 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Hernan B. Kiehle Abt 1854 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Clarence Kiehle Abt 1857 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
O. T. Ellison Abt 1831 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Susian Ellison Abt 1843 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Lizzie Ellison Abt 1875 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Orlando J. Rees Abt 1840 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Martha M. Rees Abt 1840 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Lenora Rees Abt 1873 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Eva Rees Abt 1874 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Burton Rees Abt 1879 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Wm. H. Metzgar Abt 1818 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Pamilla Metzgar Abt 1821 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Wm. M. Metzgar Abt 1850 Pennsylvania 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Enock Tracey Abt 1849 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Sussie Tracey Abt 1850 New York 1880 Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA
Source Information
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site.
Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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Galeton, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA |
| owner of White & Metzger, with James White. |
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1900 |
Eulalia Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [2] |
| Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head |
| Residence |
1910 |
Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [2] |
| Age: 59; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head |
| Occupation |
1917 |
Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA |
| a Director and officer of the Citizens Safe & Trust Company |
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I haven't connected him yet with the Dodge Clothespin Company, but he was a director of the Citizens Safe Deposit and Trust Company in 1917, along with O.G. Metzger and several other familiar names we've been following in Lanny Nunn's FB groups. I'm surprised I haven't found much on the clothespin company, in Coudersport anyway.
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WHY HE IS SO PROUD
Dont you know why E. G. Stocking looks so gay ?
It is not the dawn of prohibition, Oh, no!
But it is that telegram which announced the arrival of a fine boy at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stocking in West Virginia.
He is a grand dad that's why.
HERE FROM AUSTIN
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Whittaker and Miss Bertha Wold drove over from Austin yesterday. Miss Wold came to secure her naturalization papers before starting for Mexico, where she is to serve with the Union army of America as a nurse. She certainly has a wonderful record in the late war. Her parents were from Norway.
HERE FROM ROCHESTER
Hon. and Mrs. O. G. Metzger have been entertaining during the past week their son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs E. F. Effinger, and their charming daughter, Miss Phyllis. It seems but a little time ago when Phyllis left here a little girl and now she comes back to her old friends a real young lady of seventeen.
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| Age: 66; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head |
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Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA [2] |
| Age: 77; Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head |
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Coudersport, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| biography |
Beers, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter, PA |
| Land |
Potter County, Pennsylvania, USA |
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Old Potter County estate Map(partial)
Submitted by Frankie Stonemetz
S. Atkinson 1288
J.W. Beebe 1841
Dr. F. Buck 1295
M., J.jr Clair 1291
W.G. Clark 1207
W. Cobb 1829
C.S. deGroat 1841
Dr. George Fox 1840
Mrs D. Goodenough 1288
J.O. Goodenough 1849
J.A.R. Greenman 1296
P. Hemphil 1291
E. Hollenbeck 1840
O.G. Metzgar 1294
F.A. Nelson 1836
G.W. Nelson 1874
C. Palmateer 1841
J. Peet 1832
N. Sherwood 1289
A. Stevens 1294
P. Stonemetz 1849
L? C. Sturdevant 1291
Mrs Terwilliger 1291 1293
D.H. & M.A. Veley 1832 1836
P. Wilcox 1295
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S. Atkinson 1288
J.W. Beebe 1841
Dr. F. Buck 1295
M., J.jr Clair 1291
W.G. Clark 1207
W. Cobb 1829
C.S. deGroat 1841
Dr. George Fox 1840
Mrs D. Goodenough 1288
J.O. Goodenough 1849
J.A.R. Greenman 1296
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Owen G. Metzger Passes Away Home Following Period of Failing Health.
Hon. Owen G. Metzger, born Potter County, for many years active in lumbering, banking and other business, completed his sojourn life, Sunday at 11:00 o'clock. Mr. Metzger was one of Coudersport's best known residents.
He was born in Hebron, February 22, 1853, a son of William and Pamila Coolidge Metzger, and his entire life was spent in Potter County. Some sixty-five years ago he was united in marriage to Phoebe McGee of Laceyville, Pa., and four
HON. OWEN G. METZGER
children survive from this union. They are
- Stanley Metzger of Colesburg,
- Mrs. Elsie Essinger of Rochester,
- Frank Metzger of Eureka Springs, Ark., and
- Miss Alice Metzger at home. The wife and mother preceded her husband in death a few years ago.
Mr. Metzger was elected representative in the general assembly and served one term in his younger days. Later he became president of the Citizens Safe Deposit and Trust Company and president of the American Silver Truss Company. He retired from active busi ness about five years ago but friends and associates came to his home for counsel and advice until very recently, and his mind remained clear and keen almost to the day of his death.
Metzger Athletic Field was a gift from Mr. Metzger to the town and Coudersport Hospital benefitted from his generosity, to say nothmg of benefactions of which the public never has learned. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He will be missed by a large circle of friends but most of all by his daughter who cared for him and ministered to him to the very last, lovingly and faithfully.
Funeral services were held from the home on North Main street at 2:00 o'clock Tuesday afternoon with Rev. A. R. Guthrie of Port Allegany officiating. The bearers were
- O. J. Wettrick,
- A. J. Menschel,
- Robert Grabe,
- Walter P. Wells,
- Jack Miller,
- Leo Miller,
- M. H. Lilly and
- Bert McElroy.
Burial was made in Eulalia Cemetery.
Relatives were present at the funeral from Canisteo, Greenwood, Genesee, Clearfield, Buffalo, Sel kirk, Ont., and various other points.
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Owen G. Metzger Hon [1, 7] |
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Owen G Metzger in the Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963
Name: Owen G Metzger
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 85y 5m 9d
Birth: 22 Feb 1853
Hebron Twp, Potter Co
res: North Main ST,
Coudersport (50 yrs)
Death: 30 Jul 1938
Coudersport, Penna
cause: Chronic Myocarditis with decompensation
other: senility 93C 95b
Father: William Metzger
born in: Lewisburg, PA
Mother: Pamela Coolidge
born in: Vermont
Spouse: Phoebe Metzger
status: widower
occ: lumberman, retired
Cert nr: 74032
inform: Alice Metzger
of: Coudersport
burial: Aug 2 1938
in: Eulalia Cemetery
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates, 1906-1963. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Owen George Metzger Hon. [2] |
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Owen Metzgar [3] |
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Name: Owen G Metzger
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 85y 5m 9d
Birth: 22 Feb 1853
Hebron Twp, Potter Co
res: North Main ST,
Coudersport (50 yrs)
Death: 30 Jul 1938
Coudersport, Penna
cause: Chronic Myocarditis with decompensation
other: senility 93C 95b
Father: William Metzger
born in: Lewisburg, PA
Mother: Pamela Coolidge
born in: Vermont
Spouse: Phoebe Metzger
status: widower
occ: lumberman, retired
Cert nr: 74032
inform: Alice Metzger
of: Coudersport
burial: Aug 2 1938
in: Eulalia Cemetery
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates, 1906-1963. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
- Age: 85y 5m 9d, from chronic Myocarditis
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Name: Owen G Metzger
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 85y 5m 9d
Birth: 22 Feb 1853
Hebron Twp, Potter Co
res: North Main ST,
Coudersport (50 yrs)
Death: 30 Jul 1938
Coudersport, Penna
cause: Chronic Myocarditis with decompensation
other: senility 93C 95b
Father: William Metzger
born in: Lewisburg, PA
Mother: Pamela Coolidge
born in: Vermont
Spouse: Phoebe Metzger
status: widower
occ: lumberman, retired
Cert nr: 74032
inform: Alice Metzger
of: Coudersport
burial: Aug 2 1938
in: Eulalia Cemetery
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates, 1906-1963. Series 11.90 (1,905 cartons). Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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FAMILY CONNECTIONS AT THE AMERICAN SILVER TRUSS CO. and CITIZENS SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST CO. - COUDERSPORT, PA
OWEN GOODMAN METZGER (1853-1938) was a man who followed his father’s entrepreneurial spirit. His father, William Metzger, moved to Potter County abt 1830 and built the old Goodman Mills and then, the Metzger Mills in Pike Mills, later known as Galeton. In abt 1874, after leaving home and getting married, Owen moved to Coudersport and embarked in the lumber trade. In 1881 he partnered with James White and formed the lumberyards in Galeton, called White & Metzger. In 1894 Owen was elected as a Democrat to the PA House of Representatives, In 1905 he was appointed Commissioner of Potter County. In about 1911, he served as president of the American Silver Trust Company in North Coudersport and from 1916 to 1933 was the third president of the Citizens Safe Deposit and Trust Co. in Coudersport. The town of Coudersport benefitted from his generosity, such as the Potter County Hospital and the land on which the Coudersport Area Junior/Senior High School sits was donated by Owen G. Metzger.
Two generations later, Owen’s grandsons, eventually filled those two presidents positions. Owen Emil Metzger and his younger brother, Edwin Stanley Metzger, sons of Olive Caroline Mosch and George Stanley Metzger, became presidents of the American Silver Trust Co., and the Citizens Safe Deposit and Trust Co., respectively.
OWEN EMIL METZGER (1910-1981) was made president of the American Silver Trust Co. after his grandfather, retired in 1933. Owen G. had to encourage his grandson to take over for him, even though Owen E. was reluctant to give up his successful landscaping business. (As a side note relating to his landscape business: Owen E. was fond of his uncle Walter F Mosch, who also had a major landscaping business in the New York, NY area. This makes me wonder if Walter had a horticultural influence on Owen.)
EDWIN STANLEY “STUB” METZGER (1927-1989) was president of the Citizens Safe Deposit and Trust Co. from 1972-1984, 56 years after his grandfather was made president. A graduate of Bryant and Stratton Institute, Stub began in 1950 as a teller, became assistant treasurer and assistant trust officer in 1957, was named treasurer in 1963 and named to the board of directors in 1965. In 1972 he was elected president and chairman of the board. He served as director to the bank until his death.
Also, another employee at the American Silver Truss was ARTHUR HERBERT SALLADE (1907-1983) married to Mildred Hertha Mosch (1913-2001). Mildred is the daughter of Emil Christian Mosch and Myrtle Edith Landon.
First cousins, Mildred Sallade, Owen and Edwin Metzger, are the grandchildren of Emil Ernest Mosch and Wilhelmina Hedwig Kortz, great grandchildren of Karl Herman Mosch and Caroline Scheider, Jacob Kortz and Katherine Pflugfelder.
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Brenda Shank
Mildred and Herb were my landlords for a long time. Herb wasn’t well when I moved into the house behind them. Mildred was just like all the Mosch family; warm, compassionate, talented, with a servants heart.
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Larry Herbstritt
Would Bill Sallade be a cousin of Mildred?
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Paul Lynn Gardner
I'm not familiar with the Sallade family, other than Herb (Arthur Herbie) married into the Mosch family. Bill may very well be either a brother or cousin to Herb.
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Larry Herbstritt
There's a new Owen G in the family, Owen G Metzger's 3rd great grandson, Owen J Gurney!
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Larry Herbstritt
This is a very, very nice post Paul Lynn Gardner. I never saw some of these photos.
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Larry Herbstritt
This is my favorite photo of Owen Emil Metzger; it reminds me of the kid that played in the movie, "Young Indiana Jones"
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Paul Lynn Gardner
Larry Herbstritt messaged me with this information: Hey Paul, I thought I'd suggest a correction on the post about Owen G. His father William Hayes Metzger came to Potter County with his father Francis Larue Metzger. This is from the Victor Beebe book, "The History of Potter County" - “The following reminiscences were given to me by Mr. Owen G. Metzger, of the Citizens Safe Deposit and Trust Company. Mr. Metzger's grandfather, Frank L. Metzger, came from Lewisburg, Pa., and settled in what is now the west end of Galeton boro about 1830, where he built a mill on the main branch of Pine Creek. Many rafts of pine lumber were run down Pine, Creek at this time. About 1840, Mr. Metzger's father, William Metzger, then a young man of 24, went to work in a saw mill owned by Owen Goodman, at the site of the old village of Pike Mills, at the mouth of Johnson Brook, about two miles down the stream from what is now Galeton. Mr. Metzger is not sure who built this mill, but it seems quite likely that it was the same that was built by David Kilbourne in 1824, formerly mentioned. About 1844, William Metzger went into the lumbering business on his own account, and bought a steam sawmill that had recently been built in Hebron township, near to where William Hemphill now resides. The pine on the South Branch of the Oswayo was then mostly uncut, and the only road down the South Branch was the one leading past Mr. Metzger's mill, the roads leading from Greenman Hill directly towards Hebron Center not having been opened at that time. At first Mr. Metzger hauled his lumber to Pine Creek and rafted it down stream. Later, after the opening of the canal from Cuba to Olean and Weston's Mills, he shipped his lumber via this route. The post- office at Pike Mills was removed to the present site of Galeton several years before the building of Gale's tannery.
William Metzger afterwards moved to Coudersport, where he built a sawmill on the site of the old tannery on North East Street, where the A. F. Smith residence now stands. Here in 1880 Owen G. Metzger launched a successful business career by cutting 500,000 feet of hemlock lumber for Frank Hammond, who was just then building the tannery at the west end of Coudersport now owned by the Elk Tanning Company. Mr. Hammond was so much pleased with the promptness and efficiency with which Mr. Metzger delivered the first of the order that he furnished the logs for the balance of it from timber he then owned on the hill east of Mr. Metzger's mill, which he had bought chiefly for the bark. From this beginning, Mr. Metzger rose steadily to the position in business and finance that he now holds.”
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