The Proeger Family · Generation 5 — great-great-grandparents

James Harris Timberman Sr.

Louise's grandfather · 1858–1919

James Harris Timberman Sr.

New JerseyConfirmed

Louise's grandfather · 1858–1919

Born
June 1858
Buried
at Mt. Greenwood Cemetery on 5 June 1919
Parents
John H. Timberman & Rebecca Anna Harris
Married
Louise Emma Harbauer
Sources
14
Images
8

Life in the order the records give it

Death1886
He is the father of James Harris Timberman Jr., and the two men are easy to confuse: the son is 1886–1919 and died in Ohio; this man is 1858–1919 and died in Pennsylvania. They died four months apart in the same year. The son's 1919 Ohio death certificate names him as "J. H. Timberman Sr", born New Jersey, which is what ties the two records to each other S79
Birth1858
Born June 1858 Confirmed
and settled across three independent sources. The tree carried 4 January 1858 and was wrong. His 1919 Pennsylvania death certificate writes line 6 out in words — June / Fourth / 1858 — and its age-at-death field, 60 yrs 11 mos 30 ds against a death of 3 June 1919, agrees with itself S93. The 1900 census of Wilkes-Barre, taken nineteen years earlier while he was alive, records him as born June 1858 and gives age 41 at the 1 June 1900 census date — right for the fourth of June, and wrong for the fourth of January S139. The 1860 census has him at 2 years old at Salem, New Jersey, which agrees again S94
Work1900
A Veterinary Surgeon Confirmed
and the trade is recorded twice, nineteen years apart: on the 1900 census as his occupation at 41 S139, and again on line 8a of the 1919 death certificate S93. ⚠️ On both records the occupation exists only in the image — Ancestry's transcription of neither carries it. It is the clearest thing this line has to show for reading pages at full resolution instead of trusting an index
Census1884
🆕 In the 1884 Wilkes-Barre directory, aged about 26, he was a veterinary surgeon with office and home at 96 Public Square, and advertised as “Dr. J. H. Timberman … Member of Penn'a College of Veterinary Surgeons” S375
sixteen years before the 1900 census; added 24 September 2026.
Census1860
The 1860 census puts the whole household at Salem, Salem County, New Jersey: John Timberman 34, Rebecca A. 37, James H. 2, Esther A. 14 and John H. 7/12 S94. ⚠️ That places the family at Salem in 1860; it is not itself a statement of where the two-year-old was born. New Jersey is confirmed by the 1900 census's nativity column and by the son's Ohio certificate; Salem County is the household's place, and the stronger of the two claims
Death1870
Louise first appears at seven in Philadelphia in 1870 S175, and in 1880 at 17 in the house of her widowed mother Eva Harbauer, 149 Noble Street S176. A Jas Timberman, 22, boarded in the next house, 151 Noble Street
his age, and identified by name and age only.
Census1900
In 1900 the directory lists him as a veterinarian, business and house at 8 E. Union, Wilkes-Barre S178; by 1910 the family lived at 293 North Main Street, where the census gives his trade as doctor in general practice S177.
Death1919
He died 3 June 1919 at Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, one day before his sixty-first birthday, of carcinoma of the prostate of a year's duration, at 60 South Washington Street. He was buried at Mt. Greenwood Cemetery on 5 June 1919; the undertaker was W. E. Doran & Sons and the return was filed on the 4th
certificate 69731, registered 642, district 667 S93
Two small things on the certificate are deliberately not turned into facts. The informant is a W. Timberman of West Virginia — the surname is legible at full resolution, the given initials are not, and they have not been expanded into a guess. And Ancestry indexes the entire 1900 household as "Limberman"; the enumerator's looped capital is a T, so that is a transcription artefact and not a name variant to be recorded. What is still open above him is his father: John H. Timberman's own parents are not found, and he is absent from the 1850 New Jersey census index across 194 Timberman results. The New Jersey Births and Christenings Index (1660–1931) is the next place to look, and it would also be the only document that could put a second, independent source behind 4 June.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents1858
The day, 4 June, is now settled. The Upper Alloways Creek township return of births, made on 15 July 1858, gives June 4 1858 at Allowaystown and names his parents John Timberman & Rebecca, his father a carpenter S374; added 24 September 2026.
Siblings1864
🆕 His sister Rebecca Timberman Harbauer (1864–1944) married Henry C. Harbauer; her death certificate names the same parents, John Timberman and Rebecca Harris S579. So a Timberman brother and sister both married Harbauers. That Henry C. was Louise Emma's brother is not yet proven. added 25 September 2026.
Parents1826
His parents are confirmed by his own death certificate: father John H. Timberman (b.~1826), mother Rebecca Anna Harris (b.~1823) S93 Confirmed. His middle name Harris is his mother's maiden name, carried forward
and then given to his son as well, which is why three generations answer to the same three words
Marriage1863
He married Louise Emma Harbauer
on the site's older reading of the dates she is simply "1863–1934"; the 1900 census fills her in. She was born June 1863 in Pennsylvania of two German-born parents, and the same sheet records three children born, three living S139
Children1870
At twelve, in 1870, he worked in a cotton mill at Gloucester City, New Jersey S189. By 1914 he practised as Timberman & Church, veterinary surgeons, rear 15 N Main S190; his son Albert N. named him next of kin in 1916 at 60 S. Washington St. S200.
Marriage1886
The marriage is dated to about 1886, and the derivation is worth stating plainly: the 1900 schedule records them as married 14 years, which counts back to 1886 S139. ⚠️ No marriage record has been retrieved, and a years-married column is a round number given to an enumerator, not a register entry. It is corroborated from an unusual direction
their eldest son was born October 1886 — which brackets the wedding tightly but also means the census figure and the son's birth are describing one and the same year with no room to spare
Children1900
The 1900 household is the only place all three sons appear together: James H., Oct 1886, at school at 13; George W., Feb 1892; and Albert, Aug 1893 S139. They are at house 8, dwelling 38, family 44, Ward 5, 2nd Division, enumerated 1 June 1900 by John Shadrach. Only the eldest has a page of his own here; George and Albert are recorded and not yet traced

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Page sheet 2B, lines 71–75 of 1900 U.S. Federal Census — Wilkes-Barre city, Ward 5, 2nd Division, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; SD 6, ED 159, sheet 2 B, house 8, dwelling 38, family 44, enumerated 1 June 1900 by John Shadrach (Ancestry coll. 7602, record 47094515; image 4115129_00218) · full resolution 3933 × 3947 px, DeepZoom level 12, 64/64 tiles

1900 U.S. Federal Census — Wilkes-Barre city, Ward 5, 2nd Division, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; SD 6, ED 159, sheet 2 B, house 8, dwelling 38, family 44, enumerated 1 June 1900 by John Shadrach (Ancestry coll. 7602, record 47094515; image 4115129_00218) · full resolution 3933 × 3947 px, DeepZoom level 12, 64/64 tiles — page sheet 2B, lines 71–75

Federal census · 1 June 1900

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Page 20A of United States Federal Census, 1910; Wilkes Barre Ward 16, enumeration district 166, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; NARA T624, film 1371; indexed on FamilySearch

United States Federal Census, 1910; Wilkes Barre Ward 16, enumeration district 166, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; NARA T624, film 1371; indexed on FamilySearch — page 20A

Census · 1910 · page Sheet 20, letter A

Confirmed because the census page puts the whole family in one household nine years before the death certificate was written, and every name and birthplace matches it: head James H Timberman, 51, born New Jersey; wife Louise, 46, born Pennsylvania; son James H Timberman Jr., 23, born Pennsylvania. The Ohio certificate independently names "J. H. Timberman Sr" of N.J. and "Louise Harbauer" of Pa. as the parents of the man who died at Cambridge in 1919.

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Page sheet 20A of 1910 United States Federal Census — Wilkes-Barre Ward 16, ED 166, sheet 20A (Ancestry coll. 7884, record 120845508, image 4450036_00989) · **S177**, 3 May 1910

1910 United States Federal Census — Wilkes-Barre Ward 16, ED 166, sheet 20A (Ancestry coll. 7884, record 120845508, image 4450036_00989) · **S177** — page sheet 20A

Federal census schedule · 3 May 1910

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Page no. 69731 of Pennsylvania certificate of death, file no. 69731 — Luzerne County, Wilkes-Barre, registered no. 642, filed 4 June 1919 (Ancestry coll. 5164, record 870597; image 41381_1521003238_0722-02796) · full resolution 2884 × 2700 px, DeepZoom level 12, 36/36 tiles, 3 June 1919

Pennsylvania certificate of death, file no. 69731 — Luzerne County, Wilkes-Barre, registered no. 642, filed 4 June 1919 (Ancestry coll. 5164, record 870597; image 41381_1521003238_0722-02796) · full resolution 2884 × 2700 px, DeepZoom level 12, 36/36 tiles — page no. 69731

Vital record — death certificate · 3 June 1919

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James Harris Timberman Sr. · Sources

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14 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S79James Harris Timberman Jr. — Ohio certificate of death, 24 January 1919. State of Ohio, Bureau of Vital Statistics; Guernsey County, registration district 470, primary registration district 8717, registered no. 26, file no. 3039; Ohio, Deaths, 1908–1953, FamilySearch ARK 1:1:X8KB-Z38. Read from the certificate image on 15 September 2026, not from the index. Gives: Jas. H. Timberman, born 23 October 1886, birthplace Pa.; died 24 January 1919 at 9 p.m., city of Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio; occupation inspector, B. & O. R. R.; cause of death influenza, the attending physician certifying four days' attendance; father J. H. Timberman Sr, born N.J.; mother Louise Harbauer, born Pa.; informant Mrs. Jas. H. Timberman, Gallatin, Tenn.; buried Gallatin, Tennessee, 27 January 1919. This is the record that turned the Timberman parents from Probable to Confirmed, and the only source on this page for the cause of his death. Two cautions, both on the face of the document: the stated age of 31 is an arithmetic error — 23 October 1886 to 24 January 1919 is 32 years, and the FamilySearch index copies the mistake forward; and the cause of death is a handwritten word on 1919 microfilm, read here as Influenza on letter count, the four-day course and the date, not transcribed from type. The informant is his widow, so the parents' names are her testimony — corroborated independently by the 1910 Wilkes-Barre census, which is why the tag is Confirmed.
  2. S93PA Death Certificate — James Harris Timberman, d. 3 Jun 1919, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, PA. Father John H. Timberman, mother Rebecca Anna Harris. Certificate no. 69731, registered no. 642, registration district 667. Ancestry collection 5164, record 870597; image 41381_1521003238_0722-02796, read from the image at full resolution 2884 × 2700 px (DeepZoom pyramid level 12, 36/36 tiles) on 21 September 2026. CONFIRMS James Harris Timberman's parents. His middle name "Harris" = mother's maiden name. The image carries three things Ancestry's transcription does not. (1) Line 6 is written out in longhand words — June / Fourth / 1858 — which settles the birth date against the tree's 4 Jan 1858; line 7's age at death, 60 yrs 11 mos 30 ds against a death of 3 Jun 1919, agrees independently. (2) His occupation, line 8a: Veterinary Surgeon. (3) Residence 60 South Washington St., Wilkes-Barre; cause of death carcinoma of the prostate, duration one year; buried Mt. Greenwood Cemetery, 5 June 1919, undertaker W. E. Doran & Sons; filed 4 June 1919. The informant is a W. Timberman of West Virginia — the surname is legible, the given initials are not confidently legible at this resolution and are not expanded into a guess.
  3. S941860 US Federal Census — John Timberman household, Salem, Salem County, NJ. John Timberman, 34; Rebecca A, 37; James H, 2; Esther A, 14; John H, 7/12. NARA M653, Roll 707, Page 43. Ancestry collection 7667, record 55012827. Places the Timberman family at Salem, NJ in 1860 with James age 2.
  4. S1391900 U.S. Federal Census — the James H. Timberman household, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Ancestry collection 7602, record 47094515, image 4115129_00218. Supervisor's District 6, Enumeration District 159, Ward 5, 2nd Division, sheet 2 B, house 8, dwelling 38, family 44, enumerated 1 June 1900 by John Shadrach. Read from the image at full resolution — 3933 × 3947 px, 21 September 2026; read-only, nothing accepted, attached or edited. Lines 71–75: James H. Timberman, head, June 1858, age 41, married 14 years, Veterinary Surgeon, born New Jersey of New Jersey parents; Louisa E., wife, June 1863, age 36, 3 children born, 3 living, born Pennsylvania of German parents; James H., son, Oct 1886, At School; George W., son, Feb 1892; Albert, son, Aug 1893. The third independent source for the June 1858 birth. The tree carried 4 January 1858; the 1919 Pennsylvania death certificate [S93] gives June / Fourth / 1858 in longhand, and this census, taken nineteen years earlier while he was alive, gives June 1858 and corroborates itself on the age column — 41 at the 1 June 1900 census date is right for a 4 June birth and would be 42 for a 4 January one. ⚠ The day is not on this page: a 1900 schedule carries month and year and no day, so the fourth is not given here; the 1858 township birth return settles it S374. He is already a Veterinary Surgeon here, nineteen years before the certificate records the same trade — and, as there, the occupation exists only in the image and not in Ancestry's transcription. Ancestry indexes the entire household as "Limberman"; the enumerator's looped capital is a T, and that is a transcription artefact, not a name variant.
  5. S1751870 U.S. Federal Census — the Harbauer children, Philadelphia, 31st District. Ancestry collection 7163, record 5628177, image 4278818_00714; page 96, enumerated 25 June 1870. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. A household continued from page 95: Lewis 25, Maroco finisher; Henrettia 22, dress maker; Annie 20, milliner; Adaline 18; George 15 and Henry 9, at school; Louisa, 7, born Pennsylvania, both parents foreign-born, at school; lodger Jacob North 26, packing-box maker, born Kurhessen. 🔑 The earliest record of Louise Emma Harbauer — age 7 fits the June 1863 birth. The same siblings and Jacob North are with the widow Eva Harbauer in 1880 [S176]. ⚠ The parents are on page 95, which was not fetched. Ancestry's inferred father Lewis is wrong — Lewis, 25, is the eldest brother. No father is published.
  6. S1761880 U.S. Federal Census — Eva Harbauer household, 149 Noble Street, Philadelphia. Ancestry collection 6742, record 225860, image 4244458-00660; SD 1, ED 190, page 11, enumerated 5 June 1880; house 149, dwelling 85, family 109. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Eva Harbauer, 55, widowed, keeping house; Henry 25 and George 19, sons, morocco dressers; Louisa, 17, daughter, single, "In store"; then Jacob North 35, box maker, with his wife Adoline 28 (the Adaline of 1870), Clara 8 and Albert 5. 🔑 Louise's mother is named: Eva Harbauer, a widow by 1880. 🔑 In the next house, 151 Noble Street, boards "Jas Timberman", 22 — the age of James Harris Timberman Sr, born June 1858. Neighbours in 1880, married about 1886 [S139]. The identification is by name and age only and is stated as such. ⚠ The birthplace columns on this page drift against the name rows — Louisa's line carries Bavaria three times, Eva's Pennsylvania/Ireland/Ireland. Ancestry's born Bavaria for Louisa is built on the drift; 1870 and 1910 both say Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania stands.
  7. S1771910 U.S. Federal Census — James H Timberman household, 293 North Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Ancestry collection 7884, record 120845508, image 4450036_00989; Ward 16, ED 166, sheet 20A, enumerated 3 May 1910. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. James H, head, 51, born New Jersey, "Doctor, general practice", own account; Louise, wife, 46, born Pennsylvania of German-born parents, three children born, three living; James H Jr 23, clerk at a coal company; George 18; Albert 16; a servant, Helen, 14 or 19, born Bohemia. 🔑 The page writes Louise — not Louisa, and nowhere Larissa. ⚠ "Married 20 years" on both lines puts the marriage near 1890; the 1900 sheet's 14 years and James Jr's age both put it in 1886 [S139]. 1886 stands; the 20 is recorded, not adopted. ⚠ "Doctor" is his own trade as a veterinarian [S178] [S139]; it is not published as a physician.
  8. S178Williams' Wilkes-Barre City Directory, 1900, page 259. U.S., City Directories, 1822–1995, Ancestry collection 2469, record 156790457, image 2698300. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. "Timberman Jas. H., veterinarian, 8 E. Union, h do" — business at 8 East Union Street, house the same. 🔑 A second record of the veterinary trade, from his own return, and the family's 1900 address. ⚠ Ancestry indexes the entry as Union Timberman — the street taken for a given name. Louise is not named; directories list the householder.
  9. S1891870 U.S. Federal Census — John Timberman household, Gloucester City, Camden County, New Jersey. Ancestry record 27598502; page 83, enumerated 8 July 1870. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. John Timberman, 40, house carpenter; James H., 12, works in cotton mill; John H., 11, the same; Rebecca, 6; the house kept by Rebecca Osborn, 62. 🔑 James Harris Timberman Sr at twelve, and a sister, Rebecca (c.1864). ⚠ His mother is not in the household; that is recorded, not read as a death.
  10. S190Polk's Wilkes-Barre City Directory, 1914, page 430. Ancestry record 190005467. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Timberman & Church (James H. Timberman and Harry R. Church), veterinary surgeons, rear 15 N Main; James H. jr resides at 340 N Main; Albert N., reporter. 🔑 The practice had a partner by 1914, and the family had left 293 North Main [S177].
  11. S200Pennsylvania veterans' service card, Mexican Border 1916 — Albert N. Timberman. Ancestry record 60763399. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Albert N. Timberman, 22, born Wilkes-Barre, reporter; Battalion Sergeant Major, 3rd Field Artillery; next of kin "Dr. J. H. Timberman, Father, 60 S. Washington St., Wilkes-Barre". 🔑 A son of James Harris Timberman Sr, named with his father on the same card.
  12. S374Salem County, New Jersey — Return of Births, Upper Alloways Creek Township, 4 June–17 December 1858, p. 139, line 1. Ancestry record 706930. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed James H. Timberman, male, born June 4 1858 at Allowaystown, son of John Timberman & Rebecca; father a carpenter, residence Allowaystown; recorded 15 July 1858. The first contemporary record of his birth; it settles the day, which had rested on his 1919 death certificate alone. A tree birth of 4 January 1858 is wrong.
  13. S375Boyd's Wilkes-Barre City Directory, 1884, p. 245. Ancestry record 143141099. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “Timberman James H., veterinary surgeon, 96 Public sq., h do (see adv)”, and his advertisement: “Dr. J. H. Timberman, Veterinary Surgeon. Member of Penn'a College of Veterinary Surgeons. Office, No. 96 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre, Penna.” The year is from Ancestry's title for the volume; it is not printed on the page.
  14. S579Pennsylvania certificate of death no. 9339 — Rebecca Timberman Harbauer, Philadelphia, 23 April 1944. Ancestry record 604549062. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Mrs. Rebecca Timberman Harbauer, born 10 August 1864 in New Jersey, died 23 April 1944 at 4840 Pine Street, Philadelphia; widow of Henry C. Harbauer; father John Timberman, mother Rebecca Harris, both born in New Jersey; informant Louise G. Harbauer, of the same address; burial at Arlington, Merchantville, New Jersey.

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