James Buchanan Shively In Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

 

James B. Shively Death Certificate

James Buchanan Shively was born on 11-Nov-1856 and died on 2-Dec-1918 in Chester County, PA. He was the son of Solomon Shively and his first wife, Rebecca Embick. James, also referred to as J. B. Shively in the records, was married first to Anna Lovella Hefflefinger on 6-Feb-1889.  She was born on 7-Sep-1862 and died on 5-Apr-1906 in Cumberland County, PA. She was the daughter of David and Elizabeth Hefflefinger. James Shively was married second to Nellie Caldwell on 31-Jul-1907. She died in 1912.  James married a third tiime on 1-Dec-1917 in Chester County, PA to Mrs. Kline. She may have been Laura Beihn (Biehn) who was married to Horace Kline. One known daughter, Helen E. Shively, was born Aug-1892 to James Shively and Anna Hefflefinger.  Helen married George G. Gayman.

The following newspaper obituary was found in The Chronicle, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, Thursday, December 5, 1918, Page 1, Column 6 and Page 4, Column 1:

SHIVELY

Dr. James B. Shively, a former prominent Shippensburg physician, died at his home in West Chester early Monday morning after a brief illness from a complication of diseases.

Dr. Shively was born near Chambersburg, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Shively. During his young manihood he studied medicine, graduated from Jefferson Medical College and began the practice of medicine in Greenvillage, associated with the late Dr. David Maclay. Later he opened an office in Shippensburg where he conducted the practice of medicine a score of years or more, enjoying a large practice and the esteem of a wide circle of friends.

In 1911 he moved to West Chester, where he had since continued in his profession. Dr. Shively was prominent in his profession and possesed many admirable qualities. He was a member of the West Chester Presbyterian Church and during the past year served as deacon in his church.

His first wife who was Miss Anna Hefflefinger, died in Shippensburg twelve years ago.

He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs. George G. Gayman, of Doylestown, and four step children.

Funeral services were held at the Shively home yesterday morning. The body was brought to Shippensburg last evening and interment was made in Spring Hill Cemetery this morning. The Rev. J. D. Lindssay, of the Presbyterian Church officiating at the grave.

The following was found in The Shippensburg Chronicle, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, Thursday, April 12, 1906, Page 3, Column 5:

Death Of Mrs. Anna L. Shively

Mrs. Anna L. Shively, wife of Dr. J. B. Shively, died at her residence on East Main street, Thursday afternoon, after an illness of a month from a complication of diseases. She was the daughter of David Hefflefinger, of Newburg, Cumberland county and was born in that place, September 7th, 1862, and was in her 44th years. She was married to Dr. J. B. Shively, February 6th, 1889, at the home of her parents, by Rev. S. S. Wylie, her pastor, and for the past sixteen years, Mr. and Mrs. Shively have resided in this place, where they enjoyed a wide circle of acquaintances. Mrs. Shively endeared herself to many by her charming personality and bright disposition. She was a most devoted wife and mother. She will not only be missed in her home and by her intimate associates, but in the church where she was a faithful worker taking such an active part in the missionary circle of the Presbyterian Church, of which she had been a member for a number of years.

It was a strange co-incident that she was taken ill about the same time as her pastor, Rev. Dr. W. A. McCarrell, and died a few hours after he had passed away and was burined just a few hours after his intermenet. Besides her husband and one daughter, Miss Helen, to mourn the loss of a faithful wife and loving mother, her aged parents Mr. and Mrs. David Hefflefinger, of Newburg, and these brothers and sisters; William Hefflefinger, of Newville; Milton and Ellis, of Harrisburg; Clarence, of Denber, Colorado; Mrs. George McCoy, of Chambersburg[ Mrs.  Alice, wife of Rev. J. A. Burkholder, of Franklintown, York county. The funeral services were held at her late residence, Monday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock conducted by Rev. Thomas MCarrell, of Mechanisburg, and Rev. George C. Henry.  Interment was made in Spring Hill Cemetery. The pall bearers were, Messrs. Dr. Entrekin, J. E. Boher, J. W. McPherson, W. H. Robertson, G. W. Hines and J. A. Kell.

Dr. Shively wishes to extend thanks to all friends who kindly aided in any way, during the illness and death of his wife.

The account of the second marriage for James B. Shively was recorded in the Carlisle Evening Herald, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Wednesay, July 31, 1907, Page 1, Column 3:

Pretty Morning Wedding

Dr. James E. Shively, Of Shippensburg, And Miss Nellie G. Caldwell, of Pittsburg, Wedded In Carlisle

The home of Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Polsgrove, 122 North Hanover street, was this morning the scene of a very pretty home wedding, when their friend, Miss Nellie G. Caldwell, of The Children's Home Society, of Pittsburg, became the bride of Dr. James B. Shively, of Shippensburg, Pa., at 7:30. The rooms was beautifully and tastily decorated with palms, ferns, and smilax. The bridge stood in veritable fairy bower. The ring ceremony of the Methodist Episcopal Church was used, the Rev. J. B. Polsgrove, officiating. Miss Rhoda E. Reeser, of Carlisle, played the wedding march from "Lehengrin", and during the ceremony DeKeven's "Oh, Promise Me" was rendered softly and impressively; "Hearts And Flowers" was the effective finale.

The bride wore a Princess of white batiste, elaborately trimmed with lace over white taffeta, with a white picture hat, and carried a trailing bouquet of bridal roses and maidenhair ferns. The groom wore the conventional frock coat.

After the ceremony an elaborate wedding breakfast was served at the New Wellington, the parlor being especially decorated for the occasion. Mr. L. Harold Harris, of Carlisle, gave the toast to the bride. The nuptials being very private, only the immediate friends attended. Those present were Miss Helen E. Shively, of Shippensburg; Mrs. Dr Dugal, of Milton; Miss Anna Scott, of Orbisonia; Miss Emma Smith, of Harrisburg; Mrs. Dr. Welsh, of Waynesboro; Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Polsgrove, Mrs. M. A. Harris, Mrs. L. H. Harris, Miss Rhoda E. Reeser and Mr. Caryll Welsh, of Carlisle, and Mrs. Margaret Hunter, of Shade Gap.

The couple left of the 10.44 train for an extended trip of six weeks, to New York, Buffalo, Niagara, Canada and the Thousand Islands. After their return they will reside in Shippensburg, where the groom is a prominent physician.

The misinformation in this article is typed as found. This article was taken from The Record-Herald, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, August 28, 1912, Page 6, Column 2:

MRS. JOHTN B. SHIVELY

Word was received in Shippensburg Monday of the death of Mrs. Shively, the wife of Dr. John B. Shively, who practiced in that city for several years. Deceased was the second wife of the doctor, and had lived in Shippensburg about four years. She was operated on in West Chester, Pa., Thursday last, but died Saturday, not being able to recover from the ordeal. Interment was made in Shade Gap Tuesday.

James Shively And Elizabeth Hunsberger Who Lived In Chester County, Pennsylvania

A Shively researcher has requested help on finding additional information on James Shively and wife Elizabeth Hunsberger who lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Their names on the death certificates for two of their children is all that is known about them.

The death certificate for Mary Mahalah Shively Sheeder who was the daughter of James Shively and Elizabeth Hunsberger was located in the Pennsylvania Death Certificates.  She was born 19-Mar-1833 in Chester County, PA.  She married Samuel Sheeder (Sheader) in Chester County on 29-July-1854.  Mary died on 19-Apr-1914 in Chester County, PA.  She was buried n East Vincent Cemetery.  

The death certificate for Franklin J Shively who was the son of James Shively and Elizabeth Hunsberger was located in the Pennsylvania Death Certificates.  He was born 1-Oct-1836 in East Coventry, Chester County, PA.  He married 1st Sarah Trout who died in 1840 and 2nd on 25-Feb-1892 to Catharine Davidhuser Hilkert. Franklin Shively died on 24-Aug-1907 in Montgomery County, PA.  He was buried in Pottstown Cemetery.

William T. Shively was a son of Franklin Shively and Sarah Trout.  He was born on 11-Apr-1872 and died 1-Aug-1963.  He was married to Sarah Engle. William T Shively was a clothing merchant.

William T. Shively

The following newspaper obituary for William T. Shively was extracted from The Pottstown Mercury, Pottstown, PA, Friday, August 2, 1963, Page 1, Column 1:

Ex-Clothier W. T. Shively Dies At 90

Mosheim's Treasurer Began Career In 1888

Former Executive Preferred Selling

William T. Shively, the dean of Pottstown clothiers, died Thursday morning in the Elizabethtown Masonic homes. He was 90.

Mr. Shively, a guest at the Masonic homes since Nov. 2, 1960, died at 8:40 a.m. after a short illness preceded by a "general weakening".

A Pottstown native and longtime 517 North Charlotte street resident, Mr. Shively entered the home two and a half years after the death of his wife, Sarah (Engle) Shively, March 6, 1958.

Mr. Shively, treasurer of S. Monsheim and sons, a former High street men's clothier, for the 30 years prior to his retirement in 1952, was a clothing salesman for the firm most of his life.

He began as a 16 year old errand boy in the store, then owned by the late Samuel Mosheim, on Aug. 23, 1888 at $3 a week.  He sold almost from the start, although, he recalled later, "I was really hired as an errand boy".

Mr. Mosheim and he were the only two in the store when Mr. Shively was employed.  The store was situated on the South side of High street new the Hotel Shuler.

REMINISCING in The Mercury during the 30s about "gay 90" men's clothing, Shively chuckled about the ready made suits offered to Pottstown men at the time.

"They came only in three models", he remembered.  "There were only shorts, longs and stouts in suit sizes.  If you were of the "in between size", you just purchased the nearest size and pulled them in!"

Suits, when Mr. Shively entered the trade, sold at $10, "and if you wanted a real suit you 

William Shively

paid $15."

The Mosheim store moved to 207 High street in 1897.  Later Mr. Mosheim's sons, Maurice and Edward, entered the business.  After the death of Mr. Mosheim, the firm was incorporated in 1922.  Mr. Shively was one of the incorporators and became treasurer.  The store was sold at his retirement Oct. 28, 1952.

"But I'm still a salesman", he declared, some 15 years after becoming a store executive.

Mr. Shively liked to serve the public, a Mercury store in 1937 (his 49th year at the store) declared.  It added he didn't think there was any such thing as "a real mean customer".

"If they are that way you generally can lay your finger on the trouble by looking to the salesman.  He, nine times out of ten, made them that way".

An "INVETERATE cigar smoker" who enjoyed bass fishing, he was born in Pottstown April 11, 1873.  He was the son of the late Franklin J. and Sarah Shively.

Born on Chestnut street, his family moved to Fricks Lock when he was six years old.  He attended the old Riverview school there until he was 12 when the family moved back to Pottstown.  He completed his grammar school education here.

Mr. Shively began his 66 working years at 14, carrying papers for two years before starting at the clothing store.

Shively met his wife shortly after he became a clothing salesman.  She was then Sarah Engle, daughter of the late William and Matilda Engle, Stowe.

Although she and her future husband were confirmed in the same class at Emmanuel Lutheran church, they didn't become well acquainted until they met at a dance.  They were married Oct. 1, 1895.

Shively is survived by a son, C. Russell Shively, 268 Grace street; a grandson, Robert R. Shively, 858 Feist avenue, and two great granddaughters.

Funeral services will be tomorrow at 11 a.m. from the Schumacher and Reber Funeral home, 359 King street, with the Rev. Dr. Luther A. Krouse, pastor of Emmanuel Lutheran church, officiating.

Graveside services will be conducted by the Stichter lodge 254 F and AM.

Interment will be in Mt. Zion cemetery.

James Buchanan Shively, M.D. Who Practiced In Cumberland And Chester County Pennsylvania

James Buchanan Shively was born in November 1856 and died on 2-December-1918 in Chester County, PA.  He was the son of Solomon Shively and his first wife, Rebecca Embick. James, also referred to as J. B. Shively in the records, was married 1st to Anna Lovella Hefflefinger on 6-February-1889.  Anna died in 1906. She was the daughter of David Hefflefinger and Eliza Baker.  James was married 2nd to Nellie Caldwell on 31-July-1907.  He was married a third time in 1917 to a Mrs. Kline. One known daughter, Helen E. Shively, was born in August 1892 to James Shively and Anna Hefflefinger.   She married George G. Gayman. Several printed records were located which give additional information on the life of James Buchanan Shively.

Extracted from Medical Men Of Franklin County 1750-1925, By Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D., Chambersburg, PA., Published by The Medical Society Of Franklin County, 1928, page 269:

James Buchanan Shively, M.D.

J. B. Shively was born in Greene Township, the son of Solomon Shively.  He was educated in the common schools and read medicine with Dr. David Maclay in Greenvillage.  After attending the usual course of lectures he was graduated M. D. in 1887 from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.

He practiced medicine in Greenvillage 1887 to 1896 in partnership with his preceptor and then removed to Shippensburg, Pa.  After about ten years practice in Shippensburg he located in West Chester, Pa., and followed the profession there until his death some years later.

His wife's family name was Hefflefinger.

Located in The Patriot, Harrisburg, Penna., Thursday, August 1, 1907, Page 9, Column 3:

(Note from this newspaper article the middle name for James is recorded as Bruce not Buchanan).

Shively-Caldwell

The home of Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Paulsgrove, 122 North Hanover street, was the scene of a very pretty wedding on Wednesday morning when their friend, Miss Nellie G. Caldwell, of the Children's Home Society of Pittsburg, was married to Dr. James Bruce Shively, of Shippensburg.  The wedding took place at 7:30 o'clock.

Dr. and Mrs. Shively left on the 10.44 train on a wedding trip of six weeks to the Thousand Islands and parts of Canada.  Upon their return they will reside in Shippensburg, where the bridegroom is a prominent physician.

From Chester County, Pennsylvania there was an unidentified obituary for James B. Shively:

Dr. James B. Shively

After months of lingering illness, Dr. James B. Shively passed away early this morning at his home at the corner of Church and Chestnut streets.  Dr. Shively came to West Chester in the spring of 1911, from Shippensburg where for years he had been a successful physician, making a speciality of diseases of the eye.  Although omparatively a newcomer here he made many friends, being cordial and kindly disposition, always ready to render a service whenever possible and doing many kindly acts unknown to any but the persons who benefited by them.  Dr. Shively was about two years ago elected a deacon in the first Presbyterian Church and as long as health permitted was earnest in the discharge of the duties attached to that office.

He is survived by a widow, formerly, Mrs. Kline, of Abington, near Philadelphia, to whom he was married a year ago today.

He also leaves a daughter, Mrs. Geo. C. Gayman of Doylestown.

Additional information on the lineage of James B. Shively can be extracted from a biography of his father, Solomon Shively.  Located in the History Of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Illustrated, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, IL, 1887, page 790:

SOLOMON SHIVELY, farmer, P. O. Green Village, was born April 16, 18180, on the old homestead in Greene Township, this county.  The family traces its ancestry to French Huguenots who left their native country from Switzerland, from which place the great-grandfather of our subject emigrated to America.  He was married and had a son born on the ocean, Jacob, the grandfather of our subject.  The great-grandfather settled in Lancaster County, Penn., where he died at a good old age.  He had another son, Henry, whose descendants are still living in Lancaster County.  Jacob was a carpenter and farmer, and lived many years near Shippensburg, where he owned a farm; later he moved to near the residence of his son, John, where he built a house, and where he and his wife died.  they had the following children:  Samuel, John, Jacob, Henry, Daniel, Barbara, Nancy, Elizabeth and another daughter, name unknown.  Of these, John, a farmer, was born in Lancaster County.  He married Hannah, daughter of Henry Rhodes.  She died at about sixty years of age, the mother of six children:  Nancy (deceased), Solomon, Eliza, John, Daniel, and Rebecca (deceased).  John Shively, Sr., came to Franklin County about 1806, where his father bought about 250 acres of land, of which our subject, Solomon, has 120 acres.  John Shively, Sr., was a man who took a deep interest in political matters and was a strong Democrat.  He and his wife were members of the United Brethren Church, and he held several township offices.   Solomon was educated in this township, and for the last five years has lived in Green Village.  He has been twice married; first to Rebecca, daughter of John Embick.  She died in December, 1879, aged sixty five years.  She bore her husband twelve children, seven of whom are living:  John, Hannah, Sarah, Harriet, James, Jacob and Frank. Of these James is reading medicine with Dr. Maclay, of Green Village.  Our subject married for his second wife, Mrs. Catharine Gontz, nee Embick, a sister of his first wife.  Mr. Shively in a member of the Lutheran Church.  Our subject's brother, John, read medicine with Dr. Richards and attended one course of lectures, but his health failed and he died in the Isle of St. Croix, West Indies.