My Genealogy Hound

LEWIS S. LENHART, who is now Clerk of the Orphans’ Court of Allentown, has the honor of being a native of the Keystone State, for his birth occurred in Berks County, on the 4th of September, 1863. He is the second in order of birth in a family of three children, whose parents were Levi H. and Sarah J. (Kistler) Lenhart. The paternal grandfather, Benjamin Lenhart, was born in Berks County, of German descent. The maternal grandfather was Stephen J. Kistler. The parents of our subject were also natives of Pennsylvania, the father born in Berks County and the latter in Lehigh County.

No event of special importance occurred during the childhood and youth of our subject, his days being quietly passed. After attending the common schools, he supplemented his primary advantages by further pursuing his studies in the Kutztown Normal, of Berks County. He thus became a well informed man, and to his knowledge he has greatly added by reading, observation and experience in later years. After leaving the normal he engaged in teaching in Lehigh County for three years, and then became proprietor of a hotel in Fogelsville. He embarked in that enterprise in 1884, and has since carried it on. Under his able management it has been made to yield him a good income, and has proved a profitable investment. In 1890 he was made Clerk of the Orphans’ Court at Allentown, and entered upon the duties of the position in January, 1891, to serve for a period of three years.

On the 21st of June, 1883, Mr. Lenhart was united in marriage with Miss Louisa Wendling, a daughter of David Wendling. The wedding ceremony was performed in Fogelsville, and by their union were born two children, a daughter and a son, named Mary E. and Charles E. The parents are well known people of this community, and have a large circle of warm friends.

Mr. Lenhart exercises his right of franchise in support of the Democratic party, and is a warm advocate of its men and measures. Socially he is connected with Macungie Lodge No. 231, I. O. O. F., and is also a member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle. He is a young man, wide-awake and enterprising, and his support is ever cheerfully given to the advancement of those enterprises which are calculated to prove of public benefit. In the discharge of his duties as Clerk of the Orphans’ Court he has ever been found faithful and true, leaving no task neglected but every labor performed.