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Manuscript Minute Book for the Tremont Savings Association, kept by Joseph Stoffler, of Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Association, minutes written in German, 1877-1890
Two volumes, 269 totaling pages as follows: Volume One: contains 14 pages of pasted in printed material, including: the printed Constitution & By-Laws of the Association, printed in both German and in English, plus 3 manuscript pages which carry a list of the names of the original members, 112 names in all, small quarto, measures 7 ¾" x 9 ¾", bound in half red leather, marbled paper covered boards, front board and a couple of leaves loose, binding worn, scuffed, rubbed, otherwise good. Volume Two: contains 252 manuscript pages, plus blanks, quarto, bound in full calf, spine nearly detached, boards and spine worn, scuffed and rubbed, entries dated 15 October 1877 to 5 March 1890. Of these 252 pages, 248 are in manuscript (written in German, in ink and in a legible hand) and 3 pages contain printed annual reports in English, pasted in, (6th -1879; 7th – 1880; & 9th -1882) for the Tremont Savings Fund Association, plus 1 loose manuscript page tucked in.
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The
Tremont Savings Association was a bank aimed at serving Pennsylvania’s German
speaking community.
Joseph
Stoffler (1823-?)
Joseph
Stoffler was a well-known resident and for many years a borough officer of
Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Andrew and Mary A.
(Engeszer) Stoffler, and was born in Neudigen, Baden, Germany, on October 15,
1823. His father was also a native of Baden, and successfully followed the
trade of glazier throughout his entire life. Andrew Stoffler died in Baden, on
July 29, 1863, at the age of eighty-one. Religiously he was a prominent and
conscientious member of the German Catholic church, of which he was treasurer
and secretary for a period of about forty years. His marriage to Mary A.
Engeszer resulted in a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters.
Joseph
Stoffler received his education and learned the trade of window-sash making in
his native land. In 1854 he immigrated to the United States, landed in New York
City, and first received employment in a chair factory in New York City. After
five months' service there, he accepted a position in a cabinet-making
establishment, which he left in 1855 and removed to Tremont, Pennsylvania, where
he continued that trade, and in which he became a master workman. For eighteen
years he continued to follow this business in conjunction with that of
carpentering.
In
politics, Mr. Stoffler was always an active Democrat, and in 1885, under the
administration of President Cleveland, he was appointed postmaster of Tremont,
which position he efficiently filled until relieved during the administration
of President Harrison, in 1889. He was also a member of the school board for a
period of twelve years in succession, during which time he held the position of
treasurer. For two years he was treasurer of the borough of Tremont, and
acquitted himself with honor.
In
1867 he became a director of the Tremont Savings Fund Association, also called
simply the Tremont Savings Fund, and afterward became book-keeper for that
institution, which position he held for twenty-three years, or to the time of
the dissolution of that corporation.
About
1872 he was elected collector of Tremont borough, and again reelected in 1890
and 1893. Fraternally, he was a member of Tremont Lodge, No. 45, I. O. O. F.,
of which he was Past Grand.
In
1855, he married Catherine Egge, of Tremont, a daughter of Xaver Egge, of
Germany. This marriage produced five children: Anna, Frederick, Joseph and
William G., an employee of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company;
besides one child who died in infancy.
Mr. Stoffler was identified as a member with the church of the Immaculate Conception in Tremont, and was an upright and conscientious man, always registering his conduct on the side of high moral and Christian endeavor.
