Changes Over Time
The story
of Overholt Whiskey is soon completed,
yet the facts and circumstances that are yet necessary to
round out the history are so intriguing and astonishing
as to rival fiction. Naturally, it would be expected that
a business which has lived so long and has grown to such
great proportions would experience many changes
in ownership, which it has. By 1890, the
Overholt Distillery was passing out of the immediate
control of the Overholt Family, and by this is meant the
direct descendants of Abraham Overholt. Henry
Clay Frick had come into an interest by
inheritance ["by inheritance" is not
accurate; see attachments (Addenda). -ed.] and by
this time, being a capitalist, he had the means
to acquire full control. He knew the business
and its worth. He had clerked there and was familiar with
every detail. [By the year 1881, Henry Clay
Frick was the sole owner of A. Overholt & Sons
at the Broad Ford site -- the distillery, property, name,
brands, trademarks, tools and machinery -- literally,
lock, stock and barrel(s). In 1887,
he sold one-third interest to Andrew W.
Mellon, and later, there were others
who were partners and owners (see details below).]
Also, it might be imagined that having prospered so long
in one geographical area, the business would serve as a
hub for the growth of other businesses, which is not the
case, except in a relative sense.
If one
goes exploring around and about the vicinity of Broad
Ford, he will find the evidences of other
important industrial undertakings in this region. Both in
this locality, and throughout the whole of Fayette and Westmoreland
counties, he will see miles and miles of brick
beehive coke ovens. A few of these still
operate, but the great majority of them are falling to
ruin.
A
four-mile strip of these ovens were built in a lateral
valley, which opened on the flatland at Broad
Ford, and for many years, Broad Ford was
a mining and coaling center of great activity.
The fields of the entire region are crossed and
re-crossed by railroad tracks, with as many as eight and
ten tracks together. Time was when tens of
thousands of coal and coke cars daily moved through the
region. The whole territory was scarred and
torn, and if one stood on the mountains at night, it
would be easy to imagine that a million pixies in the
valleys below were tending so many campfires!
One man
had made all this activity possible, and curiously
enough, he had a family connection to the Overholts,
and who, as a youth, clerked in the Broad Ford
Overholt Distillery office. He was Henry
Clay Frick. Like Abraham Overholt years
before, Clay Frick was interested in the coal that first
was discovered on the Overholt farm. Moreover,
young Frick had been slipping across the
fields to an adjoining farm, where a German was
experimenting with a small oven. So much was his faith in
those experiments that Frick supported
them financially with his own savings.
One day,
the German scraped the residue from the cooling oven and
said, “That multiplies the ordinary heat of coal
many times!” “What may it be used for?”
asked Frick. “To make steel, for
one thing,” was the reply. “Steel!!”
echoed Frick, the word almost a whisper.
As young Abraham
Overholt had done, working daily at his loom,
pondering over the events of the Whiskey
Rebellion, and so correctly appraising the early
attitude of the government toward whiskey distillation
and excise taxation -- so, too, did young Clay
Frick, working daily at his ledger books in the Broad
Ford Distillery office, pondering over the
momentous possibilities of coke production. The decisions
he made were almost immediate, and in the evenings, after
finishing the accounts at the Distillery, Frick
began touring throughout the whole region --
sometimes on horseback, sometimes in a buckboard --
calling upon farmers. He optioned coal land right
and left, and when his savings were exhausted, he
optioned with the payment of hand money, borrowing from
everywhere he could.
In this
way, young Clay Frick rushed about the
whole night long, carrying sheaves of promissory notes in
his coat pocket, continually optioning, optioning! Soon
his needs took him beyond dealing with the country banks.
However, he knew Judge Thomas Mellon (1813-1908)
had a bank in Pittsburgh. He knew the
Mellon family once lived in Westmoreland County.
Incidentally, in the old days, the Mellon farm
had its own distillery -- a fact that turned out
to be important in later years, particularly as regards
this history.
ABRAHAM
OVERHOLT
Born
April 19, 1784, Bucks County, PA
Died January 15, 1870, West Overton, PA
Buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery,
Mount Pleasant, PA
In
1871, Frick went to Pittsburgh, showed Judge
Mellon his options, and arranged banking
connections. Young Andrew W. Mellon was
in his father’s bank at that time, and one day was
called in on the deal, and eventually, he and the new
customer became very good friends.
Frick’s
Eye for Coke: Until 1880,
Pittsburgh’s economy revolved
around iron produced in blast furnaces fed by
coke made from bituminous coal, whose rich seams
literally undergirded the city and the outlying
river valleys. That year, however, about fifteen
miles east of the city, Andrew
Carnegie’s huge Edgar Thomson Works
poured the first heat of steel from a Bessemer
converter. That started Pittsburgh’s
rise as the steel capital of the world.
The Judge had already had a minor role in the
preparation for that historic event. One of the
first loans made by T. Mellon & Sons
was to the twenty-one-year-old grandson of a
Pennsylvania Dutch distiller in Westmoreland
County. This was Henry Clay
Frick, who before the Judge was dead
would become Carnegie’s partner, then
Carnegie’s rival and enemy, and for
a while, Carnegie’s successor
as the most powerful personality in U.S.
industry.
In
the early 1870’s, Frick
sought a loan of $10,000 to build beehive coke
ovens and buy coal mines in the Connellsville
district. Judge Mellon had been
quietly accumulating on his own account thousands
of acres of coal lands in western Pennsylvania;
he was impressed by young Frick’s
forecast of the demand for coke that the steel
business would create. Over the next several
years, he advanced Frick enough
money to enable the H. C. Frick Coke Co. to
become the dominant supplier of coke to
the steel business. Andrew,
who was five years younger than Frick,
caught the fancy of the rising magnate. They
became friends and eventually partners; but the
Judge, while he was willing to do business with Frick
and Carnegie as a banker, never
put serious money into steel. Instead, he boldly
rode the boom in real estate -- for plant sites,
office buildings, and housing -- which was a
secondary consequence of the steel expansion. In 1882,
on the eve of his sixty-ninth birthday, the Judge
gave over the bank to Andrew. .
. . [“The Mellons of Pittsburgh,”
Fortune Magazine, October 1967, Time, Inc.,
Chicago, IL]
Foundations
for a Business Life: It is interesting to
speculate why a city banker, enjoying ample
opportunities to make loans to local iron and
special steel firms in a period of expansion,
should have responded to a request from a very
young man from the country districts who had
little experience in the trade for which he
wanted the money. Several reasons may be
suggested. Mellon’s father,
Andrew, had come from Ireland in 1818
and had settled in Westmoreland County,
where he became friendly with Abraham
Overholt. Thomas had known Clay’s mother,
Elizabeth, when she was a girl. Family
background may explain how Clay gained his
appointment with Thomas Mellon,
but his own qualities account for his success
once there. It is not clear what he could offer
as collateral, but the demand for coke was rising
impressively, and the ex-judge was shrewd enough
to realize that both the trade and the applicant
were sound. A man who once remarked of his own
courtship, “Had I been rejected, I would
have felt neither sad nor depressed, nor greatly
disappointed, only annoyed at the loss of
time,” must have warmed at once to the zeal,
directness, and unremitting commitment to
business that was shown by the young Clay
Frick. [Triumphant Capitalism: Henry
Clay Frick & the Industrial
Transformation of America, by Kenneth
Warren, University of Pittsburgh Press,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, 1996]
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Henry
Clay Frick began to make coke, and he found a
market for it in the steel mills in and around Pittsburgh,
and at Johnstown in Cambria County. The
business prospered and all the towns in Westmoreland
and Fayette counties -- in fact, all of Western
Pennsylvania -- began to thrive. Trainloads of
coal! Trainloads of coke! Day and night, through every
season of the year, the product Frick
took from hill and oven went to settlements in all parts
of the country. Frick built his own
railroads. He built his own bridges. One of those
bridges, a modern steel structure, spans the Youghiogheny
River at Broad Ford at the exact point
where young George Washington had waded
across -- the “Crossing Place” of the Indians.
[I cannot tell, by current maps of the area, whether
this bridge still stands. -ed.] And if, to save time
on a long haul, the other railroad companies serving the
coal and coke districts wished to shunt trains across
this Broad Ford bridge, they were
allowed to do so -- at one dollar per car! Frick was
a good businessman.
It is
germane to this story to understand how one business
enterprise may give birth to and support another, and how
the latter may become a thousand times greater than the
former, and yet --! Frick’s development of
the coal fields had the effect of greatly enlarging and
diversifying the population of the hundreds of towns in
Fayette and Westmoreland counties. The chief
occupation of labor was in the mines,
and at the coke ovens. This activity
created needs which employed others in a hundred and one
different capacities -- railroad building and railroad
maintenance, brick-making and masonry for ovens,
machinery and maintenance for the mines, and so on, until
in the last computations, the butchers, bakers and
candlestick makers who served all of them. All these
occupations were hung on the two-stranded string of coal
and coke.
H. C. Frick
& Company: By the end of
1879, the company was employing a
thousand people and shipping out a hundred cars
full of coke every day. On December 19 of
that year Clay Frick celebrated his thirtieth
birthday by going over the books and
discovering that he had already achieved his
life’s ambition: he was worth a
million dollars. On his way to his
frugal bachelor quarters in the Washabaugh Hotel,
he dropped into the Mt. Pleasant store where he
had started clerking sixteen years before and
indulged his only vice by buying a five-cent
Havana cigar. [Henry Clay
Frick: The Gospel of Greed,
Samuel A. Schreiner, Jr., St. Martin’s
Press, New York, NY, 1995]
Pittsburgh,
Marriage and Carnegie: . . . Frick
moved his home from the coke region to Pittsburgh,
renting rooms in March 1881 at
the Monongahela House, then reckoned one of the
city’s best residential hotels. In the
“season,” Frick and [Andrew]
Mellon -- both normally taciturn men --
became largely involved in the functions of
Pittsburgh’s social round, and in
the late spring of 1881, Clay
met Adelaide Howard, the daughter of Asa P.
Childs, a man whose wealth had come from
the import and the manufacture of footwear. The
Childs home, at Halket and Forbes Streets was
then regarded as one of the show pieces of the
city. Clay fell in love with Adelaide,
and three months later they announced their
engagement. They were married on Thursday, 15
December 1881, in what was
described by a local paper as “one of the
most notable weddings of the season.” Frick
was fortunate in the family life that he and
Adelaide now embarked upon . . . it was
during their honeymoon visit to the East Coast
that Frick first met Andrew Carnegie and their
business association began. [Triumphant
Capitalism: Henry Clay Frick
& the Industrial Transformation of America,
Kenneth Warren, University of Pittsburgh Press,
Pittsburgh, PA, 1996]
Honeymoons
and . . . : Carnegie feared
Frick’s coke monopoly, had never
met Frick, but had used Frick
coke for his Lucy Furnaces and his Edgar Thomson
rail mill. When the Fricks came
to their honeymoon luncheon with Carnegie
and his mother, unknown to anyone but
Carnegie and Frick,
one-half of Frick’s coke works were
already placed in the partnership.
When five foot two Carnegie rose
to his feet to toast the Fricks,
he surprised both Adelaide and his own mother by
telling them that he and Mr. Frick (who
was also five foot two) had entered into
partnership. Although the partnership did not
become final until April 1882, H.
C. Frick and Company -- renamed the H. C. Frick
Coke Company -- would be the exclusive supplier
of coke for Carnegie’s steel mills. Frick
would receive shares in Carnegie Brothers
and Company (a consolidation of Edgar
Thomson and the Lucy Furnaces), and in exchange, by
1883 Carnegie would become the majority
shareholder of the H. C. Frick Coke Company
-- something that appealed to Frick
because he would be able to settle the last of
his debts from both his earlier coking enterprise
and his investment in South Fork Fishing
and Hunting Club . . . in January 1989
. . . Frick was elected chairman
of Carnegie Brothers . . .
Although Frick now owned the
long-coveted shares in Carnegie’s steel
concern, headed a division on one of the largest
steel operations in the world, and was one of the
most powerful men in Pittsburgh,
a growing shadow in business and family life
stalked his every new gain. [Henry
Clay Frick: An Intimate
Portrait, Martha Frick Symington Sanger,
Abbeville Press, New York, NY, 1998]
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With coke
and limestone being such important ingredients in steel
making, the coke fields and limestone quarries developed
an importance in proportion to the amazing growth of the
steel industry. The age of steel had arrived!
The rich towns in Western Pennsylvania
were the coal and the mill towns. Businesses in the
cities, especially Pittsburgh, fattened
on the enormous payrolls. And then, following the war
cloud of 1914, came a smaller cloud
which proved ill for the coke towns, while it had a
silver lining for the steel industry, itself: the
by-product oven. The by-product oven eliminated the need
for beehive ovens to make coke. Andrew
W. Mellon had purchased the German patents at an
auction at Koppers, held by the alien property custodian.
While the beehive oven only made coke, the by-product
oven made coke, plus it trapped every other substance
hidden in coal -- perfumes, medicines, dyes, gases, and
so on.
Changes in
Coke Technology: . . . the question of
technological change in coke making became a
lively issue in the 1890s. Slot
ovens had replaced the old beehives in
continental Europe because their narrow
dimensions made it possible to coke the inferior
coking coals that predominated there. A major
additional benefit was gained in the form of
chemicals extracted in recovery plants that were
increasingly and soon invariably attached to the
new batteries of slot-type oven -- hence the
common name, by-product oven. An
abundance of excellent coking coals and a lesser
need to use coal derivatives for fertilizers,
dyes, or tar, or to burn oven gas in industrial
regions that could easily pipe in natural gas
were the considerations that largely explained
the much delayed switch to the new technology in
the United States. However, by the 1890s,
by-product coking was becoming increasingly
attractive. The weight and prestige of
the H. C. Frick Coke Company was
thrown into the balance against the new
technology. . . Frick’s sustained
hostility to the new process may have
owed something to his realization that it would
undermine Connellsville’s position, as well
as his doubts about its economic viability . . .
However, after the turn of the century, he
witnessed the uneven but inexorable
advance of this new technology, and in
the last years of his life, he had to recognize
that it could no longer be rationally fought. [Triumphant
Capitalism: Henry Clay Frick
and the Industrial Transformation of America,
Kenneth Warren, University of Pittsburgh Press,
Pittsburgh, PA, 1996]
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In one of
the many deals between Frick and his
friend, Andrew W. Mellon, one-third interest in
the Overholt Distillery was sold to Mellon. In
1919, at Frick’s death, Mellon got a second third
interest as trustee. Thus, Mellon had
control of the Overholt Distillery when,
under President Harding, he became Secretary of
the Treasury the first time. As Fate would have
it, Mellon sat in the chair first
occupied by Alexander Hamilton, who once
marched to Western Pennsylvania to put
down the Whiskey Rebellion -- the very
conflict which first started Abraham Overholt
to thinking about producing whiskey for the market. It
was a complete circle, but now Andrew W. Mellon
had Prohibition on his hands.
HENRY
CLAY FRICK
Born
December 19, 1849, West Overton, PA
Died December 2, 1919, New York, NY
Buried December 5, 1919
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA
“H.C. FRICK
LAID TO REST . . . ”: The morning of the
funeral, Friday, December 5 . . . At noon, the
service commenced . . . Coincidentally, there
were many other endings. The League of
Nations, opposed by Frick, was defeated.
Walker D. Hines announced the railroads would be
returned to their owners on December 28 with a
heavy rate increase, far exceeding Frick’s
recommendation. Andrew Carnegie,
whose mind had been failing for years, had died
in August. Carnegie had given
over $350 million in his lifetime to social and
educational concerns, and now, the fortune Frick
had made was also about to be redistributed in
charitable form.
By
1921, byproduct ovens had supplanted the beehive
ovens in the coke-making process. Frick’s
mines, though eventually depleted of coal, would
continue to earn a profit for U.S. Steel
with their gas and other minerals. His filing and
map system would prove so efficient, even today
it is used, rather than a computer.
The
Overholt Distillery would stay open at Broad Ford
for medicinal purposes, while the original
distillery at West Overton was closed because of
prohibition. . . .On December 3, the
same day Frick’s remains
returned to 1 East Seventieth Street for the
brief memorial service, Alexander Berkman
was arrested in Chicago by the U.S.
Department of Labor for deportation to Russia
because of his communist leanings, articles in
radical newspapers, and advocacy of violence. The
government considered him an “enem[y]
of the United States of America and of its peace
and comfort.” . . . In further irony, at
noon on December 5, as Frick’s
funeral service began, Berkman
surrendered himself to authorities on Ellis
Island, where he waited with hundreds of other
immigrant radicals for his December 21
deportation. [Henry Clay Frick:
An Intimate Portrait, Martha Frick Symington
Sanger, Abbeville Press, New York, NY, 1998]
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Of the
further business changes, they are so recent [circa
1935 -ed.] that they need not be recorded in detail.
Suffice it to say that Mr. Seton Porter obtained
control of the Overholt Company for his National
Distillers, Inc.
Trademark
Assignment
Currently,
Jim Beam Brands Co. holds the trademark
rights to label OLD OVERHOLT,
the name A. Overholt & Company,
and "a portrait of A. Overholt, now
deceased." The product is being
distilled somewhere in Kentucky. On April 27,
2005, I found online the Trademark
Assignment Abstract of Title that shows
"Registrant" A. Overholt &
Company (Filing Dt: 10/30/1929, Reg. Dt:
3/11/1930) has had three assignments:
(1)
CHANGE OF NAME: "Assignor" National
Distillers Products Corporation to
"Assignee" National Distillers and
Chemical Corporation (Exec Dt: 5/1/1957,
Recorded: 5/23/1957);
(2)
ASSIGNS THE ENTIRE INTEREST AND THE GOODWILL:
"Assignor" National Distillers and
Chemical Corporation, "Assignee" James
B. Beam Distilling Co. (Exec Dt: 5/26/1987,
Recorded: 6/15/1987);
(3)
CHANGE OF NAME: "Assignor" James B.
Beam Distilling Co., "Assignee" Jim
Beam Brands Co. (Exec Dt: 5/16/1988,
Recorded: 8/4/1988).
Other
records reveal it was August 1, 1888,
when a "portrait of A. Overholt, now
deceased" was first used in commerce. The
filing date of the "portrait" was
October 30, 1929; the registration date was March
11, 1930. Jim Beam Brands Co. Corporation
registered a 4th renewal on
September 16, 2000.
The
online Trademark Electronic Application System
(TEAS) noted "Change of Correspondence
Received" on March 16, 2004.
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Modern
Broad Ford and the Overholt Distillery
[circa
1935]
And now,
to return to Broad Ford, where stands
the Overholt Distillery at the
“crossing place” of the Indians. It is a
clean-looking outfit, the buildings being of a light
amber-colored brick. There are the large, round grain
towers . . . the great mysterious-looking government
warehouses . . . the modern bottling plant . . . and, in
front, a neat, but not large, three-story brick office
building. The town of Broad Ford,
itself, has greatly changed in the last twenty-five
years. During the coal and coke boom, it became a noisy,
crowded mining town, with company houses encroaching to
the very gates of the Overholt Distillery.
Leading away from Broad Ford, every
valley was then lined with row upon row of coke ovens.
The bricks that went into building these ovens must have
numbered hundreds or millions! But these things do not
exist anymore. The by-product oven swept
through that region like a plague! Hard times came
a-knocking at the doors of the miner’s cabins.
Merchants struggled, and then failed. Eventually, tall
weeds obscured the four, five and six-track railroad
shipping systems.
And as one
turns away from Broad Ford, and
traverses the long valley leading toward Scottdale
(on the route Abraham’s boys drove
their oxen to the mill) one can see a stretch of
abandoned coke ovens several miles long. The arched roofs
have tumbled in and nature is spreading her scar tissue
over to conceal them -- in a few years, they will be
obliterated without any assistance from man. Were it not
for the fact that better record is kept today of times,
manners and events, some future generation, coming upon
the buried ruins of Frick’s coke ovens,
might believe they had unearthed some ancient catacombs,
or something like that. To ponder today upon the speed
with which Nature is affecting the scars of industry is
to lose amazement over news that some museum curator has
unearthed a deeply buried tomb in Egypt. Only Time is
necessary for the same thing to happen on the banks of
the “Yough.”
And so, in
this physical manner, too, the circle is complete -- the
Overholt Distillery is the only industry at Broad Ford,
once more. The company houses have
disappeared and the miners are gone. Only this
modern representation of a promise for the future -- of a
business begun a hundred and twenty-five years ago --
remains today. Yes, the community of Broad
Ford is slipping back to the old days, but the Overholt
Distillery, enlarged and expanded, looks forward
to the future. Every day, nearly ten thousand
gallons of Overholt Whiskey go into charred white oak
barrels, which are then racked away to age for
four and eight years. But the whiskey is made in the same
manner as when it was running through a ‘still worm
in the original Overholt cabin. The same
materials, the same proportions, the same yeast cultures,
the same treatment to make the distillery beer which, by
the process of distillation, becomes whiskey -- all are
the order of today’s manufacture.
And we
deliver the same elements which make for the
individuality of Overholt, elements which at
once charms and mystifies the most expert whiskey people
-- these indefinable ingredients which are sluiced from
the mountains by the springs of the “Yough,”
the strength of the soil and limestone in the grain, the
stored-up sunshine and the soaked-up moisture of the
mountain fogs. With these things in mind, one can twirl a
small glass of this whiskey against the light, and
discover that a drink is more than a drink! “A
good whiskey in its own right; a whiskey of heavy body;
good for ‘cutting,’” is a curt,
modern appraisal. But to know and appreciate Overholt,
one must slip back through a century and a quarter (and
even more), and in fancy follow the ruminations of the
young Abraham Overholt, as he toiled at
his loom and spun dreams as well as cloth.
Of the
man, Abraham Overholt, it is recorded
that he was born in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, on April 19, 1784, and he
died in Fayette County [inaccurate -- Abraham
died at his farm in West Overton,
Westmoreland County],
Pennsylvania, on January 15, 1870. It is
simply put and sincerely written that, “He was a
firm character, but a gentle man. He maintained great
order in his business and method in his affairs, and had
a clear vision and abiding confidence in the future. He
had an abounding energy, always was punctual, and never
disappointed a creditor. His reputation for
straightforwardness in his dealings with employees spread
throughout the countryside. Public-spirited, he was among
the first in community buildings, and was an early
advocate and supporter of the public school system. His
estate paid to his heirs $350,000.
In 1809,
the year before he began distilling as a business, Abraham
married Maria Stauffer,
daughter of Rev. John and Elizabeth Stauffer [inaccurate
-- Maria was the
daughter of Abraham Stauffer
(farmer & Mennonite minister) and Anna
Nissley], who survived him four years. They
had these children: Henry, Anna, Jacob, Abraham,
Elizabeth, Martin, Christian, and John. All the Overholts
were Mennonites.”
Herald
Of Truth - Volume VII, Number
3
March, 1870, page 46-47
On Saturday morning
January 15th, at his residence in East Huntingdon
township, Westmoreland county, Pa., ABRAHAM
OVERHOLT, in the 86th year of his age. He
arose in the morning in usual health and took the
lantern and went out, and not returning, the
family went to look for him and found him in an
out-house and the lamp of life almost
extinguished. He was buried on the 18th in the
Mennonite burying ground in said township,
followed by a large concourse of relatives and
friends. The occasion was improved by ____
Woodbury of the Baptist church in the English
language, and by Bro. Blough in German. Bro.
Overholt was a faithful member of the Mennonite
church for many years, and the church has great
reason to mourn for him. His seat was seldom
vacant at public worship, and he was one of the
most benevolent men the church had. When any
benevolent purpose demanded it he was always
willing and ready to give of his abundance. C.S.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mennobit/1870/ht70mar.html
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THE OVERHOLT
FAMILY TREE
Karen’s Branches
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Karen Rose Overholt Critchfield
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. Marcus Oberholtzer (1664-1726)
m. (----) Elizabeth [-name?-] (c.1664 - )
7 Children
Jacob, Henry, Daughter [Nanny?], Marcus,
Samuel, Elizabeth, MARTIN.
2.
Martin Oberholtzer (1709-1744)
m. (1736) Agnes Kolb (1713-1786)
5 Children
Barbara, HENRY, Maria, John, Martin.
THE
NASH BRANCH GROWS HERE
Agnes Kolb Oberholtzer
(1713-1786)
m. 2nd (----) William Nash (1696-1760)
4 Children
Elizabeth, Joseph, Benjamin, Abraham.
3.
Henry Oberholtzer/“Overhold”
(1739-1813)
m. (1765) Anna Beitler (1745-1835)
12 Children
Agnes, Maria, Jacob, Anna, Martin,
Barbara, Elizabeth, Henry, Sarah,
ABRAHAM, Christian, Susanna.
4.
Abraham Overholt (1784-1870)
m. (1809) Maria Stauffer (1791-1874)
8 Children
Henry, Anna, Jacob, ABRAHAM,
Elizabeth, Martin, Christian, John.
THE
FRICK BRANCH GROWS HERE
Elizabeth Stauffer Overholt
(1819-1905)
m. (1847) John W. Frick (1822-1888)
6 Children
Maria, Henry Clay, Anna, Aaron,
J. Edgar, Sallie.
5.
Abraham Stauffer Overholt (1817-1863)
m. (1844) Mary Ann Newmyer (1824-1877)
4 Children
GEORGE, John, Norman, May.
6. George Washington Overholt (1845-1908)
m. (1891) Agnes G. Riffle (1859-1933)
2 Children
GEORGE, Mary Elizabeth (1897-1916).
7.
George Frederick Overholt (1892-1966)
m. 3rd (----) Esther Mae Willis (1896-c.1928)
2 Children
(ARTHUR) FREDERIC, Ralph (1927-1990).
8.
(Arthur) Frederic John Overholt (1924-1985)
m. 1st (1947) Rose Joann Plocido (b.1929)
5 Children
Michael, KAREN, Frederic, Duane, Stephanie.
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Michael (3
sons/2 daughters), Karen (1 son),
Frederic (1 son/1 daughter), Duane (1 son),
Stephanie (1 daughter).
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9.
Karen Rose Overholt (b.1949)
m. 2nd (1987) James Wilson Critchfield, Jr.
(b.1961)
1 Child
MATTHEW.
10.
Matthew Aaron Critchfield (b.1989)
~~ Updated June 5, 2006 ~~
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