Edward T. DORNBACH (TURNBAUGH)

                   History of Luzerne, Lackawanna and Wyo. Counties, p. 248
Family Bible of Miss Elizabeth Walters, Drums, Pennsylvania, daughter of Daniel Walters and Eliza Ann Turnbach.
Genealogy of the Schwenkelder Families, p. 738 and 779
Personal interview with William Archibald Dornbach (Turnbach)
Schuykill county History by Beers 1916, p. 543 (An account of Dornbachs of
     Minersville, Schuylkill county; William J. Dornbach born near Berlin and came
     to Pennsylvania because he had relatives there.)

       Edward Dornbach (Turnbach,) agent for the Atlantic Dynamite Company, Hazelton, Pennsylvania is a descendant of an illustrious Revolutionary soldier, being a great-grandson of John Turnbach who served in the Pennsylvania ranks under Gen. Anthony Wayne.  The advent of the Turnbach family in America dates back to 1728, when the father of John Turnbach, with a colony of Germans, emigrated to America, owing to religious difficulties which had arisen in the Fatherland during that period.
       The subject of this sketch was born in White Haven, Pennsylvania, 25 Jul 1848 and is the fifth in a family of ten children born to William and Maria (Drescher) Turnbach, both of whom were born in this country.
       Edward was reared and educated near White Haven and when quite young, began working in the mines at Nekley, Ebervale and Stockton.  This he continued until Seventeen years of age when he went to Drifton and was engaged by Coxe Bros. & Co. as shipping clerk from 1869 to 1883, in which year he came to Hazleton and engaged in the dynamite business.
       In 1884 he admitted Mr. Monroe into partnership, the business having since been known by the firm name of Turnbach and Monroe.  Mr. Turnbach was united in marriage 9 Aug 1870 with Miss Hannah E., daughter of Jacob and Mary (Weaver) Hartranft, natives of Berks County, which union has been blessed with six children, namely: William A., John J., Edward R., Mary B., Prentiss and
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