Surnames: Chatland, Green, Manton, Bosler, Lenhart
William Chatland, a worthy citizen of Brownsville, where he has resided for the last thirty five years and is one of the foremost businessmen of the place, having been engaged in the baker business ever since he came to Brownsville in 1854.
At present he is carrying on an extensive cracker manufactory in partnership with his son-in-law, George W Lenhart, and under the firm name of Chatland and Lenhart. They have the reputation of making the best water cracker in the market.
William Chatland was born at Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, June 9, 1811. His father, William Chatland, was a citizen of Meriden, a borough six miles north of the city of Coventry and in the same shire. He died in London in 1819 in the forty first year of his age. The mother of
the subject was named Priscilla Green, a native of Brier Hill, Staffordshire, England. She died in 1814 when her son was but three years of age.Mr Chatland was givein charge of his grandmother who died when he was ten years old. His uncle, Joseph Chatland, a prosperous baker, then took charge of him till he was thirteen years old when he was apprenticed to lear the trade of a baker with David Claridge, who was at that time a famous baker in the city of Coventry.
When through his apprenticeship he spent ? and one half years in London where he was employed in two first-class houses. He then returned to Coventry, established himself in the bakers business and was married to Miss Elizabeth Manton, daughter of William Manton, a farmer of Berkswell,
Warwickshire. He remained here about six years when he migrated to the United States with his wife and three daughters and arrived in New York, April 20, 1844.Shortly after landing he left for Pittsburgh on the old "Bingham Line," remained a short time in Pittsburgh and finally settled at Washington, Penna, where he lived for about eight years and carried on the bakery and confectionary business.
In 1852 he organized a company of fifteen persons and went overland to California. In Sacramento he bought out a bakery and operated it with success, but was compelled by sickness to quit the country. He now returend to Washington, Penna, where he had left his family, not being satisfied with the outlook for business at that place, he removed to Brownsville in 1854 and established himself in business in the full line of his trade. For eighteen years he continued alone in the business, when Mr Lenhart became his partner.
Mrs Elizabeth Chatland, his wife, died in Brownsville, January 28, 1874, in the sixty first year of her age, leaving three daughters: Elizabeth Chatland, the eldest, married Theodore Bosler, a son of Dr Bosler of Mechanicsburg, Penna, now living at Dayton, Ohio; Miss Mary Ann Chatland, the second daughter, resides at home with her father; Sarah Chatland is the wife of George W Lenhart.
Mr Chatland was raised in the faith of the Church of England, and he and his family are members of the Protestant Episcopal church. He is now a vestryman in the church at Brownsville, and has been for many years past.
Since 1848 Mr Chatland has been a prominent member of the F and A M. He was District Deputy Grand Master for Pennsylvania for fifteen years; District Deputy High Priest for sixteen years; Eminent Commander of St Omer's Commandery, No 7, of Brownsville for about eighteen years and is proud of his record as a Mason.