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Johnsonville Bangor PA John F Stier Store Post Office 1908 RPPC RARE Real Photo:
$295.00
SUPER - RARE Original - Old Real Photograph PostcardPost Office & John F. Stier StoreJohnsonville / Bangor area, Pennsylvania
ca 1908
For offer - a very nice old Postcard! Fresh from an estate in Upstate NY. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, antique, Original - NOT a Reproduction - Guaranteed !! Nice scene. Very rare. Possibly an unique, one of a kind photo. John Stier served as postmaster for a while here, and was a prominent figure in the area. See below for his bio. In good to very good condition. Wear to edges, and ding to upper rh corner.Please see photos. If you collect postcards, 20th century history, American history, Americana, occupational,etc., this is a nice one for your paper or ephemera collection. 3238
John F. Stier owned and operated a large general store in Johnsonville on the site of a pottery works that was previously owned by his father, Michael Gilbert Stier, and grandfather, Jacob Stier. The pottery works was brought to Johnsonville from Kintnersville by Jacob Stier in 1846 and converted to a large dry goods and feed store by John F. Stier in 1876. The store also served as the post office with John F. Stier holding the position of Postmaster for a number of years.
At the age of ten, John F. Stier began to clerk in a store at Johnsonville, and later was for one year similarly employed in Altoona, PA. In 1876 he opened the dry goods business in Johnsonville. Politically he was a Democrat and socially held membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at East Bangor, and the Knights of Pythias at Johnsonville. (Extracted from "Portrait and Biographical Record", (Chapman Publishing, 1894), pgs. 495-496)
John F. Stier of Upper Mt. Bethel Twp. left a will, written 18 May 1925 and probated 23 May 1933. He bequeathed his private cemetery lot that had been purchased from his mother, Rachel Stier, to Bangor Trust Co. and directed that he was to be buried in the southwest corner of the lot by the side of his first wife, Margaret A. Stier. He then defined exact spaces in the cemetery lot for his daughter, Jennie M. Wolf, son Gilbert A. Stier, son William J. Stier, and daughter Grace Reimer, and their families and descendants. He bequeathed $1,000 to Bangor Trust Co. for perpetual care of the cemetery lot; his life insurance to his second wife, Rosa Rutt; and the remainder of his estate to his four children. Lastly, he appointed all four of his children the executors. (Estate file B-257, will book 38, pg. 371, Northampton County Government Center, Easton, PA)
(Note: Apparently some of John F. Stier's children declined their opportunity to be buried in their father's private cemetery lot. Only Gilbert A. Stier and William J. Stier are buried a small village formerly known as Roxburg, founded by Gilbert Johnson, from which it derived its name, is situated in the southern portion of the township. The first log building was erected by John Strouss about 1818. A pottery was started here in 1830 by a Mr. Keller, and about 1832 a small frame tavern was erected by William Mann. Jacobus Creek rises about one mile west of the village, and, flowing east about 7 miles falls into the Delaware River at Portland. This creek, about 1870, furnished water power to 4 flour mills, 2 saw mills, 3 slate factories and a foundry. The village at that time contained a store and post office, a tavern, a carriage shop, a hub and spoke factory, a blacksmith shop, a cabinet shop, a pottery, and several dwellings.
William J. Heller et. al, History of Northampton County Pennsylvania and The Grand Valley of the Lehigh, The American Historical Society, New York, or West Bangor, to differentiate it from its immediate neighbor East Bangor, is a borough located in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located 32 miles (51 km) north of Allentown. It had a population of 5,187 as of the 2020 census.
Bangor is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 borough was settled about 1760 and first incorporated in 1875. The founder and first Chief Burgess of Bangor was Robert M. Jones, an emigrant from Bangor, Wales. He was the prime mover in the establishment of the slate industry in Northampton County. Slate quarries pepper the area, but only a few are still functioning. A life-sized statue of him, dedicated on September 24, 1914, remains in the town center.[5] The influence of Bangor, Wales is visible in the stone walls, square gardens, and flowers, and greenery that mirror those of its Welsh namesake. Also like Bangor, Wales, Bangor, Pennsylvania has piles of slate residue and shale reminiscent of the area.[6]
The population of Bangor was 2,509 in 1890; 4,106 in 1900; 5,369 in 1910; 5,687 in 1940; and 5,187 at the 2020 census. The Bridge in Bangor Borough and Real Estate Building are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[7]
Johnsonville Bangor PA John F Stier Store Post Office 1908 RPPC RARE Real Photo $295.00
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