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He was descended on the maternal and paternal sides by pioneer families. His father was John Mohn, whose grandfather emigrated to America from Germany in 1753 and settled near Reading, Pa. Dr. George Calvin Mohn’s father was born in Berks Co., Pa. in 1831 and was five years old when the family moved to what is now Sndyer County. There he was a carpenter but later devoted his time to the sawmill work. He was a leading Republican and held public offices in Snyder County. He was a Lutheran and married Barbara Stine in 1852. Stine was born in Snyder Co., Pa. in 1829. Children of John Mohn were: 1. Alice, married William Hartman of Centerville; 2. Henry, was in the sawmill business with his father; 3. George, C. M.D.; 4. Charles, M.D. a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, and practiced at Jersey Shore, Pa.; 5. John E., a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, owner of two drug stores at Jersey Shore, Pa.; 6. William, in business with his father at Centerville; 7. James O., M.D. at St. Mary’s, Pa. in 1894; 8. Thomas E., a railroad agent at Muncy, Pa. If I understand the “Biog. Record of Central Pa.” correctly, Ludwig Mohn was born in 1730 in Hanover, Germany, and came to America in 1753 to Reading, in Berks Co., Pa. Ludwig had a son, Peter who had John, b. Sept. 23, 1788, near Reading, and married Elizabeth Reppard (b. May 15, 1793). They had six children: 1. Leah, md. Thomas Hartley; 2. Peter, d. bachelor in 1869; 3. Sallie, md. Noah Kerster, moved to Ohio; 4. Julian, md. P. H. Markle; 5. Amelia, md. Isaac Culp; 6. John, b. 1831 in Berks Co. moved to Union when he was about five years of age. This means the father, John, moved to Union County in 1836 and died at Centerville, March 2, 1861. His wife died Aug. 20, 1868. Dr. George C. Mohn got his early education at Centerville, Selinsgrove and Valparaiso, Indiana, after which he taught school for three years. He then entered the College of Physicians at Baltimore and graduated in 1882. He then began his practice at Laurelton where he also had a drug store. In 1883, he married Laura A. Showers of Centerville (whose ancestry goes back to the 1600’s.) The 1850 Census for Union County (out of which Snyder County was formed) shows in Center Twp. John Mohn 61, wife Catherine is 55 and son John is 17. The Census records also show the Stine family only two doors away. George Stine is 45, wife Catharine is 47 and children Mary, John, Barbary, Christian, George, Rachel and Catharine. Dr. George C. Mohn engaged in the drug store business for about eight years and soon acquired considerable capital. His practice was from Laurelton, to Mifflinburg, to Cherry Run. The doctor traveled with horse and buggy and pulled teeth, delivered babies and amputated whatever. His home services were $5. In 1892 he became a member of the Laurelton Lumber Company, which made lumber, shingles, slath and shipped timber and ties for mines and railroads, with general offices at Sunbury, Pa. It was one of the largest of that line in Pennsylvnia. The firm owned some 25,000 acres of timber. The executive department of this in 1898 consisted of S.W. Rutherford, president; Dr. G.C. Mohn, vice president; Charles Steele, secretary and treasurer. The company owned and controlled seventeen miles of narrow-guage railroad called the Laurelton and Pine Creek railroad. The business was built up from the portable sawmill to the big business of 1898. Their product was mainly virgin timber growth of white and yellow pine, and went to the largest consumers in the country. They did business largely with the anthracite mines and were noted for their quick shipments; their plant at Laurelton being on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and only 19 miles from the main or larger railroad from Shamokin. They had the largest body of yellow, white pine and hemlock in the central part of the state. The paid up capital was $100,000. He sold the Laurelton Lumber Company in 1902. The Linden Hall Lumber Company was a manufacturer of lumber and shingles, with offices at Sunbury, Pa. This firm owned 10,000 acres of timber land in Center and Huntingdon Counties. The executive group in 1898 consisted of M.F. Nagle of Shamokin, President; Charles A. Meek, vice president; Dr. G.C. Mohn, superintendent; and Charles Steele secretary and treasurer. The plant at Linden Hall was busy twelve months of the year, and their customers were the largest buyers of railroad and timbers in the country. G.C. Mohn and S.W. Rutherford were large stockholders. They had a narrow-guage railroad fifteen miles long. Dr. Mohn served three terms in the legislature. He was interested, along with Dr. Glover and William Pursley, in securing the site for the Laurelton State Village. Dr. George Mohn was one of the founders of the Lewisburg Trust Company, chartered June 5, 1907, opened in the present site of the Focht Printing Company (1965). Dr. G.C. Mohn was a member of the Board of Directors. He was interested in the bridge at Lewisburg, Pa. He was a Free Mason, an ardent Republican and Lutheran. He sold his lumber business in 1902 and moved to Lewisburg in 1905. He again established a lumber business. Later he moved to Kentucky and established a lumber company there as well. In 1883, Dr. G.C. Mohn married Laura A. Showers, native of Centerville and had a daughter Ruth B., born March 18,1892. She married Neil Baker. She attended Bucknell in 1911. She died Oct. 18, 1975. Laura had a son, Noah Baker who married Margaret Earl. Neil Baker died suddenly Aug. 4, 1963. Dr. George Calvin Mohn died June 4, 1914. His wife Laura died in 1943 and both are buried in the Lewisburg, Pa. cemetery. © Copyright 2008 by Mifflinburg Telegraph Weekly Newspaper Top of Page |
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