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FREDERICK T. ASCHMAN, chemist, was born in Hudson City (now Jersey City Heights), N. J., September 26, 1858, and is a son of Frederick T. and Mar­tha E. (Davis) Aschman. The former was a native of Switzerland, who immigrated to New York, where he met and married Martha E. Davis, of Ann Arbor, Mich., a daughter of Gen. Martin Davis, one of the pioneers of Ann Arbor. Mr. Aschman, Sr., was head of the silk importing house of F. T. Aschman & Co., of New York, and died at Hudson City, September 4, 1867, leaving four children, Frederick T. being the eldest of the family. On his death-bed Mr. Aschman requested his wife to educate the children in Europe, and in the spring of 1868 she crossed the Atlantic with her family, and our subject spent eight years in the schools of France and German Switzerland. He returned to New York in 1876 with the intention of entering his father?s old firm. His mind, however, had a scientific bent, and in the fall of 1877 he entered the School of Mines of Columbia College, and graduated in May, 1881. In the meantime he had made a trip to Europe, in 1880, where the balance of the family still were. He worked in New York during the summer of 1881, and the following autumn accepted the position of chemist for the Wheeler Iron Company, at West Middlesex, Penn. In the spring of 1882 he made a second trip to Europe, and there married Marie Zolikofer, of St. Gall, Switzerland, and returned with his wife to West Middlesex, where she died June 17, 1883. He remained in West Middlesex till the spring of 1884, when he came to Sharon and opened an office as general analytical chemist, and has since done a large and successful business, being the only general chemist in the Shenango Valley. Mr. Aschman was again married, April 15, 1866, to Mary D., daughter of William C. Bell, one of the pioneers of Sharon. A daughter; Dorothy B., is the issue of this union. Mr. Aschman and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church of Sharon, in which body he fills the office of deacon. He is a Republican in politics, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity.
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1910 Census
William Hargenrader 44 W Pennsylvania Clarion Head of Household Relation Name Age Birth Place
Wife Catherine B 37 Pennsylvania
Son Frank J 16 Pennsylvania
Daughter Josephine A 15 Pennsylvania
Son Ora A 13 Pennsylvania
Son Henry A 11 Pennsylvania
Daughter Lena M 09 Pennsylvania
Daughter Anna C 07 Pennsylvania
Daughter Mary P 05 Pennsylvania
Son William S 02 Pennsylvania
Sister Susan 54 Pennsylvania
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Listed as Comfort's widow in Civil War Pension Records
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Possible... Caledonia Cemetery
Hill, ____; s. of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.; b.Oct.12,1876 d.Jan.1,1877
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Assumption that Albert DeValangin is the same person as Thomas John Albert DeValangin.

It is said that Thomas' son, Albert was spirited to American by his adoring Uncle. Thomas and his wife travelled to America to retrieve Albert, but he (Thomas) went insane. At that point, he was committed to a hospital in Baltimore, where he died.
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At a large house on Hermes Hill, afterwards (in 1811) occupied by "Sinner-saved Huntington," the converted coal-heaver, a useful man in his generation, resided, in the last century, from 1772 till his death in 1805, Dr. de Valangin, an eminent Swiss physician, who had been a pupil of Boerhaave. He called this hill "Hermes," from Hermes Trismegistus, the fabled Egyptian king, and discoverer of chemistry, to whom fawning Lord Bacon compared James I., because, forsooth, that slobbering, drunken monarch was king, priest, and philosopher. De Valangin?the inventor of several useful and useless medicines, including the "balsam of life," which he presented to Apothecaries' Hall?was the author of a sensible book on diet, and "the four non-naturals." The doctor, who was a man of taste and benevolence, married as his second wife the widow of an eminent surveyor and builder, who, says Mr. Pinks, had recovered £1,000 for a breach of promise, from a lover who had jilted her. He buried one of his daughters in his garden, but the body was afterwards removed to the vaults of Cripplegate Church. In his book (1768) De Valangin particularly mentions the increased use of brandyand-water by English people. His house was remarkable for a singular brick tower or observatory, which was taken down by the next tenant.

From: 'Pentonville', Old and New London: Volume 2 (1878), pp. 279-89. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45098. Date accessed: 12 April 2007.