Susanna Maria5 Orner
(John4,
Jacob3, felix2, Ulrich1),
born 14 October 1801(5b) in Hanover, Northampton, Pennsylvania and
christened 22 November 1801 (Sponsors: Jacob Arner and
wife Margareth [the paternal grandparents] )(5b); died 12 May 1880(14) probably in
Clinton County, Pennsylvania; married by
1822 in Bald Eagle, Centre (now Clinton), Pennsylvania to John
W. Bitner (son of John W. Bitner and Susanna Nestlerode) who was born 02 May 1802(14)
in Liberty, Centre, Pennsylvania and died 25 February 1861(14) in
Beech Creek, Clinton, Pennsylvania. He was a stonemason and a farmer.
1850 Census: John Bitner, page 008, visit
112/112, Beach Creek, Clinton, Pennsylvania.
1860 Census: John Bitner, page 064, visit
124/128, Beech Creek, Clinton, Pennsylvania.
1870 Census: Susan Bitner, page 371, visit 091/095, Beech Creek, Clinton,
Pennsylvania.
They are buried at Blanchard Reformed Church (now
Blanchard United Church of Christ) in Liberty,
Centre, Pennsylvania.
Children:
+ CHRISTIAN6 BITNER, born 08 November
1822;
married Isabella McGhee Sterling.
+ EMALINE
L.6 BITNER,
born 18 September 1824; married George Fulton Miller.
+ JOHN W.6 BITNER, born 26 July 1826; married ELIZABETH C.6 BERRY; moved to Centre County,
Pennsylvania.
Margaret Eliza6 Bitner, born
10 September 1828; died 29 September
1912; married 14 July 1850 to George Kessinger (son of Adam T.
Kessinger and Elizabeth Henderson, and brother
of Elizabeth Ann Kessinger who married Jacob5
Orner) who was born 19 September 1825 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania and
died 06 July 1873. He was a farmer. 1860 Census: Geo Kessinger, page 019, visit
1759/1750, Bald Eagle, Clinton, Pennsylvania.
1870 Census: Geo. Kessinger, page 349, visit 042/042,
Bald Eagle, Clinton, Pennsylvania.
1880 Census: Margaret Kessinger (“married”), page 530A, line 34, Bald Eagle, Clinton,
Pennsylvania. They are buried at Brown’s
Cemetery at Mill Hall, Clinton, Pennsylvania.
Known children: John
David Kessinger, born 30 October 1851;
Erie Elizabeth Kessinger, born 20 August
1853; Susan Delilah
Kessinger, born 29 May 1855; George Madison Kessinger, born 24 January 1858; Thomas Jefferson Kessinger,
born 12 November 1859; Magdalena Emily Kessinger, born 29 April 1862; William Alonzo Kessinger,
born 20 August 1865; Julia
Gertrude Kessinger, born 08 May 1867.
Elizabeth6 Bitner, born 21 March
1831; died 17 May 1920; married 02 May 1878 to Anthony
Wayne Gardner (his second marriage) who was born 28 September 1827 in
Howard, Centre, Pennsylvania and died 29 September 1912. He was a farmer. 1870
Census: Elizab Bitner (single, with
mother). 1880 Census: A. W. Gardner, page 093, visit
161/168, Howard borough, Centre, Pennsylvania.
1900 Census: Anthony Gardner, page 225, visit 280/289,
Howard borough, Centre, Pennsylvania.
1910 Census: W. Anthony Gardner, page 268, visit
037/040, Howard borough, Centre, Pennsylvania.
They are buried at Blanchard Church of Christ. She had no children. [He had at
least four children with his first wife.]
Abraham B.6 Bitner, born 11 November 1833; died 19 December
1910 in Liberty, Centre, Pennsylvania;
married first 01 March 1856 to Martha J. Trexler
(daughter of William Trexler and Elmira
White) who was born 02 September 1839 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
and died 15 December 1901 in Liberty;
married second 15 July 1903 to Elizabeth Harvey
who was born about 1848 in Pennsylvania. He was a farmer. 1870 Census: Abraham
B. Bitner, page 571, visit 106/107, Liberty,
Centre, Pennsylvania. 1880
Census: A. B. Bitner, page 568, visit 118/120, Lamar, Clinton,
Pennsylvania. 1900 Census: Abraham B.
Bitner, page 009, visit 013/013, Bald Eagle, Clinton,
Pennsylvania. They are buried at Blanchard
Church of Christ. Children: William F. Bitner, born 15 February and died 26 February
1858; Irvin T. Bitner,
born 15 April 1859; Fleming
McClellan
Bitner, born 22 May 1862, married 1884-85 to Mary C.
______ who was born about March 1860 in Pennsylvania; Ernest Delmont Bitner,
born 19 October 1864; Della
May Bitner, born 28 May 1867; Ira Mason Bitner, born 98 April 1870, died 06 September
1874; Fulmer Elias
Bitner, born 26 May 1876(40), he was a pipe fitter(40); Tillie L. Bitner,
born 13 November 1878, died 28 May 1880;
Blair B. Bitner, born 24 July 1883(40); Grover Cleveland Bitner,
born 10 February 1885(40), he was a clerk for the Pennsylvania
Railroad(40).
Sarah6 Bitner, born about October
1835; died 12 January 1923 in Clinton
County; married 04 December 1856 to Adam Myers who was born about January 1830 in Pennsylvania
and died 07 November 1912. He was a farmer. 1870 Census: Adam Myers, page 442, visit 055/056, Dunnstable, Clinton,
Pennsylvania. 1880 Census: Adam Myers, page
500, visit 249/263, Dunnstable, Clinton,
Pennsylvania. 1900 Census: Adam Myers, page
064, visit 051/051, Dunnstable, Clinton,
Pennsylvania. 1910 Census: Adam Myers, page
162, visit 047/049, Dunnstable, Clinton,
Pennsylvania. Known child:
John Franklin7 Myers, born 18 September 1857
in Pine Creek, Clinton, Pennsylvania;
married first by 1880 to Maggie ______ who was
born about 1857 in Pennsylvania; married
second 1893-94 to Lydia Ella ______ (her second
marriage) who was born about November 1864 in Pennsylvania. He was a farmer.
1880 Census: John Myers (with his parents). 1900 Census: John F. Myers, page
064, visit 052/052, Dunnstable, Clinton,
Pennsylvania. 1910 Census: John F. Myers,
page 162, visit 046/048, Dunnstable, Clinton,
Pennsylvania. Known children with first
wife: Adam Edward
Myers, born about 1880-81, married second 1909-10 to Emma
R. Bonnell (daughter of John H. and Mary A. Bonnell)
who was born about 1888 in Pennsylvania;
George H. Myers, born about November 1887.
Children with second wife: Carrie E. Myers, born about January 1895; Corson Lewis Myers, born 22
January 1898(40).
Julia Armstrong6 Bitner, born
30 November 1838; died 16 July 1913 at
Lock Haven, Clinton, Pennsylvania;
married first by 1856 to (Corporal) Matthias Grow
(son of C. W. Grow and Anna Eliza
______) who was born 22 November 1833 in Pennsylvania and died 03
December 1862 in Findlay Hospital at Washington, DC from wounds suffered during
the Civil War; married second 1860s to David Stevenson (his second or later marriage)(son of John Stevenson and Fannie Brown)
who was born 20 August 1820 in County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland and died 13 April
1886 at Lock Haven.
Matthias was a carpenter.
He served in Company C, 137th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during
the Civil War. Julia received a widow’s pension (Certificate #6716);
Application #15214 filed 19 March 1863.
One or more of their children received a minor’s pension (Certificate #118904);
Application 163335 filed 27 February? 1868 by O. T. Noble,
guardian. [Note: Matthias’ mother also applied for a dependent’s pension
(Application #341358), but apparently was never granted one.] 1860 Census:
Mathias Grow, page 352, visit 1701/1692, Mill Hall borough, Clinton,
Pennsylvania.
David was a blacksmith.
1870 Census: David Stevenson, page 544, visit 224/224, Lock Haven (2nd
Ward), Clinton, Pennsylvania.
1880 Census: David Stevenson, page 644, visit 066/070, Lock Haven (2nd
Ward), Clinton, Pennsylvania.
1900 Census: Julia A. Stevenson (widow), page 164, visit 241/262, Lock Haven (2nd
Ward), Clinton, Pennsylvania.
1910 Census: Julia A. Stevenson, page 035, visit 208/235, Lock Haven (2nd
Ward), Clinton, Pennsylvania.
They are all buried at Highland Cemetery
at Lock Haven. [David had at least five children from a previous marriage.]
Children with first husband:
Alva S.7 Grow, born 28 July 1856; died 09 November 1907; married first September 1883 to Elizabeth W. Cummings who died December 1895; married second 1897-98 to Annie
______ who was born about January 1868 in New York. He was a printer;
later a newspaper reporter. He was elected as Clinton County Register &
Recorder in 1891. Biography on page 588, Commemorative
Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, published by J. H. Beers,
Chicago, Illinois, 1898. 1870 Census: Alva S. Grow (student at orphans school), page 578, visit 004/005, Marion,
Centre, Pennsylvania. 1880
Census: Alva S. Grow (single, with stepfather David Stevenson). 1900 Census:
Alva S. Grow, page 022, visit 110/120, Philadelphia
(E.D. 1017), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He is buried at Highland Cemetery
at Lock Haven. Known child with first wife:
(Major General) Malcolm Cummings8 Grow,
born 19 November 1887(40);
died 20 October 1960; married
first 1907-08 to Jennie P. Seitz who was born about
1887 in Pennsylvania; married second
1930 to Winifred Rogers. He was a physician; he
graduated from Jefferson Medical
College at Philadelphia
in 1909. He was a WWI veteran (Imperial Russian Army 
and U.S. Army) and a WWII veteran (U.S. Army
Air Corps). He registered for the WWI Draft at Washington,
DC. His WWI journals were published in Surgeon
Grow: An American in the Russian Fighting,
published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York City,
1918. He became the first Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force on 01 July 1949. The Malcolm
Grow Medical Center
at Andrews Air Force Base is named after him. The U.S. Air Force’s Flight
Surgeon of the Year each year receives the Malcolm C. Grow Award. 1910 Census:
Malcolm C. Grow, page 039, visit 227/190, Philadelphia
(E.D. 1180), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1920 Census: Malcolm Grow (married but alone; Lieutenant Colonel in U.S. Army
Medical Corps), page 173, visit ---/581, Camp
Dodge, Polk,
Iowa. 1930 Census: Malcolm C. Grow
(“single”; physician in Army Medical Corps), page 041, visit 078/077, Wilbur
Wright Field [now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base], Greene, Ohio. He is
buried at Arlington National
Cemetery in Arlington,
Virginia. He apparently had no children.
Susan O.7 Grow, born 20 January 1858; died 30 September 1869.
William G.7 Grow, born 18 February 1862; died 23 January 1875. 1870 Census: William G. Grow (student
at orphans school), page 578, visit 004/005, Marion,
Centre, Pennsylvania.
Children with second husband:
Mary Catherine [?Belle]7 Stevenson,
born about 1868; died 18 September
1889; married 20 January 1886 to W. Fleming Rich who was born about February 1862 in
Pennsylvania. They possibly had no surviving children.
Harry Armstrong7 Stevenson, born 28 June
1870; died 10 July 1934 at Lock
Haven; married 1893-94 to Anna Elizabeth Boyer who was born about June 1869 in
Pennsylvania. He was a locksmith; later he owned a sporting goods store. 1900
Census: Harry Stevenson, page 133, visit 022/022, Lock Haven (1st
Ward), Clinton, Pennsylvania.
1910 Census: Harry Stevenson, page 005, visit ???/???
[page mostly unreadable], Lock Haven (1st
Ward), Clinton, Pennsylvania.
1920 Census: H. A. Stevenson, page 178, visit 194/299, Lock Haven (2nd
Ward), Clinton, Pennsylvania.
1930 Census: Harry A. Stevenson, page 167, visit 277/348, Lock Haven (2nd
Ward), Clinton, Pennsylvania.
Known child: Caroline
Stevenson, born about 1905.
+ Nathaniel
Mitchel6
Bitner, born 26 May 1840; married Elizabeth
A.6
Orner.
Elvina H.6 Bitner, born 01 February
1844; died 26 December 1940 at Lock
Haven, Clinton, Pennsylvania; married 10
April 1867 to David Salmon (his second marriage)(son
of John Padfield Salmon and Jane
T. Freedol) who was born 19 July 1844 in Clinton County and died 11
February 1918 at Lock Haven. He was a mason; later a builder and contractor. He
served in Company E, 93rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the
Civil War. 1870 Census: David Salmons, page 572, visit 110/110, Lock Haven (4th
Ward), Clinton, Pennsylvania.
1880 Census: David Salmon, page 678, visit 112/112, Lock Haven (4th
Ward), Clinton, Pennsylvania.
1900 Census: David Salmon, page 204, visit 393/424, Lock Haven (4th
Ward), Clinton, Pennsylvania.
1920 Census: Ella B. Salmon (widow), page 204, visit 022/022, Lock Haven (4th
Ward), Clinton, Pennsylvania.
1930 Census: Ella B. Salmon, page 168, visit 321/398, Lock Haven (2nd
Ward), Clinton, Pennsylvania.
They are buried at Highland Cemetery
at Lock Haven. Known children:
George O.7 Salmon, born about September
1869; died 18 November 1953 at
Binghamton, Broome, New York; married
1897-98 to Katherine E. ______ who was born about
March 1873 in Pennsylvania. 1900 Census: George O. Salmon, page 204, visit
394/425, Lock Haven (4th Ward), Clinton,
Pennsylvania.
Arthur Bitner7 Salmon, born 23 January
1872; died 15 February 1920 at Lock
Haven; married 1901 to Eleanor C. Gearhart who was born about 1873 and died 1955 at
Lock Haven. He was a purchasing agent. 1910 Census: Arthur B. Salmon, page 051,
visit ???/??? [page mostly
unreadable], Lock Haven (3rd Ward), Clinton,
Pennsylvania. 1920 Census: Arthur B.
Salmon, page 184, visit 028/028, Lock Haven (3rd Ward), Clinton,
Pennsylvania. 1930 Census: Eleanor C.
Salmon (widow), page 180, visit 206/248, Lock Haven (3rd Ward), Clinton,
Pennsylvania. They are buried at Highland
Cemetery. Known child: Richard T. Salmon,
born 01 May 1902(17), died 04 December 1889(17), married
1927-28 to Ruth S. ______ who was born about 1904 in
New York, he was a commercial artist, 1930 Census: Richard T. Salmon, page 135,
visit 039/039, Orangetown, Rockland, New York..
(Doctor) Leon Trudeau7 Salmon,
born 28 July 1875(40);
married 1901-02 to Marguerite Holcomb who was
born about 1875 in New Jersey. He was a physician. 1900 Census: Leon T. Salmon
(single, with Geo Roman?), page 190, visit 274/257, Lambertville (2nd
Ward), Hunterdon, New Jersey.
1910 Census: Leon T. Salmon, page 207, visit 038/038, Lambertville (3rd
Ward), Hunterdon, New Jersey.
1920 Census: Leon T. Salmon, page 233, visit 300/302, Lambertville (3rd
Ward), Hunterdon, New Jersey.
1930 Census: Leon T. Salmon, page 077, visit 069/069, New
Hope borough, Bucks, Pennsylvania.
Known children, born in New Jersey: John T. Salmon, born
about 1902, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps; Phillip A. Salmon, born about 1904, he was an electrical engineer.
Hezekiah P.6 Bitner, born about
1846-47; died about 1907 in Holmes
County, Ohio; possibly married
after the 1870 census in Ohio to Martha R. ______.
1870 Census: Hesekia P Bitner (single, with mother).
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