BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF
JOHN BALLIET.
Pages 555 & 556
John
Balliet, grandson of Stephen and Magdalena Burkhalter Balliet, and son of
Stephen Balliet and his wife, Susan Iherie, was born Nov. 13, 1819 at Ballietsville,
North Whitehall township, Lehigh Co., and remained during boyhood at the home
of his parents. After limited
advantages of education he entered the Lehigh Charcoal Furnace, owned by his
father, and in various capacities made his services valuable while becoming
familiar with the business. In
connection with his brothers, Paul and Aaron, he ultimately became owner of the
property, and later its superintendent.
He afterward made East Penn Township, Carbon County, his residence, in
connection with the position of superintendent of the East Penn Charcoal
Furnace. After its partial destruction
by a freshet it was rebuilt, and subsequently leased by Mr. Balliet, who for
many years operated it successfully.
Aside from these interests, he is the owner of a planing mill and
lumber-yard, and largely engaged in real estate operations, and the erection
and improvement of buildings. He is a
considerable land-holder, and the possessor of many farms under successful
cultivation. He removed to Bowmansville,
where he has large interests, in 1872, and which for many years was his
residence. Mr. Balliet was united in
marriage to Amanda Rehrig of East Penn Township, to whom were born children:
Isabella (Mrs. Victor Bowman), Alice Emma (deceased), Lewis F, Emma Jenetta
(Mrs. John Semmel), Amanda Sabina (deceased), John William, Benjamin Matthias
(deceased), Martha Sophia, Harry Charles, and Charles David (deceased).
Mr. Balliet is in politics a Republican, but not a strong partisan. He is a director of the Slatington Bank, and one of the shareholders in the Lehigh Furnace, at Allentown, and the Lehigh Valley Furnace, at Coplay. He is also, with his brothers, interested in extensive iron-ore beds in Lehigh County.
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From
The History of the
Counties of Lehigh & Carbon, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
By
Alfred Mathews &
Austin N. Hungerford
Published
in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1884
Transcribed
from the original in 2005
by
Lisa
Weierbach
Web page by
March 2005