Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 1

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin, 1837-1917; Hand, Alfred, 1835-; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921; Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 1026


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GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF


THE WYOMING AND LACKAWANNA VALLEYS PENNSYLVANIA


UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF


REV. HORACE EDWIN HAYDEN, M. A.


Corresponding Secretary and Librarian, Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Wilkes-Barre, Penn., and Member Historical Society of Pennsylvania


HON. ALFRED HAND, M. A. SCRANTON Member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania


JOHN W. JORDAN, LL.D. Of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania


"Knowledge of kindred and the genealogies of the ancient families deserveth the highest praise. Herein con- sisteth a part of the knowledge of a man's own self. It is a great spur to virtue to look back on the worth of our ine."-Lord Bacon.


"There is no heroic poem in the world but is at the bottom the life of a man."-Sir Walter Scott.


VOLUME II


ILLUSTRATED


THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY NEW YORK CHICAGO 1906


INDEX


VOL. II


PAGE


Ackerly, Albert


468


Adkins, S. B .. 489


Aitken, John :


288


Akerley, Byron F.


475


Alexander, Joseph


265


Booth, Charles W 507


Bour, John S. 5,38


Bourke, Michael J 545


Bowman Family 500


Bowman, Charles


C.


381


Brace, James H.


521


Brader, James C.


3.49


Branning, Eber


2.18


Bray. Thomas


429


Brenton, Joel 505


Brenton, Richard S. 312


Breymeier, Charles N


377


Brink, Raymond A


138


Broad, William J.


548


Brodhead, Emmett 484


Brooks, James 600


Brooks, Rees G. 17


Brown, George W 425


Brown. John J. 284


Brown, Josiah


473


Brown, Thomas 283


Brundage, A. W. 250


Brundage, Frank D


508


Burke, W. J. 430


Burlington, John


A


359


Burr, Charles A ..


I33


Burschel, Henry H.


5,38


Busch, John W


255


Cable. Edgar 3-18


Callender, Jonathan H.


292


Calpin, P. F.


495


Campbell, Charles H


316


Campbell. William H


378


Carney, John 2.18


Carpenter, Jesse B 433


Carson, Thomas


429


Carter, Marvin P


22


Carter, Pulaski


19


Carter, Pulaski P


22


Cartwright, John T 393


Casper. Arthur A .. 587


Casselberry, Henry


B


470


Caswell. Francis


423


Cease, Henry E.


466


PAGE


Cerruti, A. S


I51


Chase, Edward H 312


Clase, Thomas J.


569


Cole, Emanuel C.


435


Collins, Ira H ..


394


Comegys, Cornelius 195


Connell, James 281


Conrad, Louis


223


Cool, Charles


H.


605


Cool. James


58g


Coolbaugh, Edwar


H


594


Coon, Alfred H


616


Cooper, Frank


512


Cooper, George


R.


426


Coppin, James


H.


404


Corbett, Melvin


]


218


Cornell, Harry 614


Cosgrove, John 430


Courtright, William


F


432


Coyne, Francis R.


109


Crawford, James L.


12


Croft, James


403


Crotzer, William M.


390


Dakin, Charles F


543


Dale, Thomas H.


309


Daly, James V.


44I


Dangel, Stanislaus


A


32


Davenport, H. J. 425


Davies, Evan C. 535


Davies, Henry P.


89


Davies, Henry P., Jr. 89


Davies, Margaret


220


228


Davis, David D 416


Davis, David


474


Davis, William H.


2II


Dean Family


175


De Lacy, Patrick. 123


Delahunty, Joseph P 620


Deeble, 'Solomon


414


Dickson, George L


IO


Dickson, Thomas


6


Dimmick, J. Benjamin


33


Dippe, Walter H. 351


Dixon, M. J. 352


Dodd, William H. 112


Dolph Family


38


Dolph, Blanche L


39


Dolph, Edward S


39


Boies, Henry M.


I


PAGE


Boland, John J


252


Bolling Family 504


Bolling, Robert


504


Bonham, Winfield S


499


Algar, Jeremiah


387


Allen, John 427


Amerman, Lemuel


I30


Appleman, William


J


547


Armstrong, Amon


019


Armstrong, John M


6II


Armstrong, Joseph O


611


Arner, Thomas ] 501


Arnold, Samuel W. 279


Atherton Family


I55


Atherton, Dolph B


201


Atherton, Henry F


1.44


Atherton, John D.


156


Bache, Thomas C. 373


Badman, James H. 418


Barker, Frank S .. 137


Barker, Samuel G .. 136


Barton, Amos A.


370


Barton, Edith 184


Battenberg, Charles C. 277


Bayley, John W. 516


Beardsley, Howkin


B


180


Becker, John J.


42.4


Beers, Charles C.


350


Belin, Henry


214


Belin, Henry, Jr. 211


Bell, Joseph G. 289 Bell, William 286


Belles, Andrew J. 413


Belles, Charles D ..


494


Bennett, Alexander


518


Bennett, Robert G.


609


Berge, Frederick W


220


Berge, William H


346


Berger, Frank 495


Bergin, James E. 487


Berkheiser, John K


550


Berry, Jacob M ..


421


Beyea, Benjamin D.


464


Birkbeck, Thomas


J.


554


Bishop, Fred J.


129


Blair, Bryce R ..


Blair, William T.


551


552


Camp. Edmund


575


Davis, William


222


Davies, Thomas D


iv


INDEX


PAGE


Donohue, Timothy J 623


Down, Howard C. 60


Drake, Clarence F 503


Drake, George K 259


Edsall, Henry L. 359


Edwards, Henry M 128


Ellis, William N


407


Engle, Louis


468


Engle, George W.


307


Engle, William W


Enke, Alfred A.


Evans, Charles D 380


Evans, George W. 542


Evans, Joseph


356


Evans, Thomas W


434


Evans, William A 389


Everhart, Isaiah F 55


Everhart, James M.


57


Fahringer, William C. 440


Fairchild Family 59I


Fairchild, Charles L 593


Fairchild, Henry S .. 59I


Fairchild, William


A


593


Fallon, Edward J. 473


Fallon, Patrick


474


Fassold, Christopher H


428


Fatzinger. Wesley A


2.16


Fedder, Samuel L. 354


Fenner, James K. P 341


Fellows, John 11 IO.4


Filer, Frank W. 399


Fisher, Herman A 584


Fisher, James H. IOI


Fisk, Celestia E. 492


Fisk, John B .. 19I


Fitzsimmons, Thomas 348


Foley, Michael J 423


Ford, Thomas G. 403


Foster, Rufus J. 331


Foster, Thomas J. 75


Fleischman. Jacob 583


Flynn, John I 39


Frace, William S. 437


Francis, John D 423


Francis, John R.


512


Frantz, Fred W. 326


Frederick, Joseph


481


Fruehan, Conrad


89


Fruehan, John G.


93


Fuhr, Frank


269


Fuller Family 116


Fuller. Arthur C. 117


Fuller, Edward L.


36


Games, Gomer 505


Garrison, William J.


5.56


Gebhardt, Augustus


277


Gerbig, Adam V.


276


Gerbig, C. Herman.


276


Gibbons, John J. 2.49


Gildea, Thomas J.


275


Gilhool, Timothy J


249


Gilmartin, Daniel J


532


Hughes, George H-1


298


PAGE


Hughes, Hugh H. 498


Hughes, Reese 279


Hull. George M .. 436


Hunter, Fleming F 491


Huntley, Thomas


415


Hutchings, Sampson 479


Jacob, J. F. 291


Jackson, Thomas B. 84


Janes, Christian 192


Jayne, William J. 386


Jenkins, Thomas


H


535


Jermyn Family 44


Jermyn, George B 44


Jermyn, Joseph J. 44


John. Owen D. 516


Johns, John R. 528


Jones, Benjamin G. 416


Jones, Charles E. 347


Jones, Cyrus D. 40


Jones, D. E .. 378


Jones, Evan 545


Jones, Harry E. 382


Jones, Lewis


573


Jones, Thomas P


360


Jones, Thomas \V. 4II


Kadz, J. Albert 215


Kehr, J. George


527


Keiner, William 380


Kelley, William


377


Kelly, William A


134


Kemp, John 344


Kemp, Matthew S.


343


Kennedy, John J.


390


Harvey, Olin F


360


Kennedy, William


D


21


Harwood, Ralph 254 Keoghi, Charles J. 49I


Hatten, Alfred 122 Kern, George L. 317


Kerstetter, Oliver S. 386


Kiefer, Charles 205


Kiefer, Henry 205


Kittle Family 314


Heuser, Philip


5.36


Kittle, Ephraim


R


314


Henwood, Charles 230 Kline, 510


Kohlbraker, F. H


395


Kowalski, Francis 268


Kramer, George 329


Kunkel Family 344


Kunkel, Henry 345


Kunz, Rudolph


199


Kutzki, John


187


Kyte, Thomas 315


Laciar, Jacob D. 597


Lake, David 11. 602


Lampman, A. Frank 575


Lance, Oscar M.


339


Lance, William S.


3.39


Langstaff, Daniel


243


Lansing, James A 106


Larkin, Madison F


85


Lape, Alvin 489


Law, Archibald F 110


Law, James P


216


Lawall Family


595


PAGE


Golden, Michael 152


Graves, Isaac S. 460


Graeber, Jacob F. 506


Gregory, William N 389


Greenburg, Charles F 232


Greene, F. H. IIO


Griffin, Joseph 138


Griffin, Silas


524


Griffith, Thomas


522


Griffiths, John B.


27I


Gromlich, Jacob


545


Grover, Frank J


83


Gruver, Ziba 321


Guthrie, George W. 315


Guy, John 241


Haas, Conrad 557


Hailstone, John 428


Hailstone, William G. 427


Haines, A. D .. 549


Ilall, Byron J. 255


Halloran, Michael C. 499


Hallstead, William F 40


Haltzel, Harry L.


321


Haltzel, Henry S 322


Hamilton, John


375


Hannah. Hugh M 1 35


Hand, Alfred


127


Harding, Palmer


615


Harris, Henry E.


476


Harris, Lester


3.30


Harsch, Claude G. 304


Hart, Daniel L. 318


Hart, Theodorus 582


Hartman, George J 597


Haverly, George H. 291


Heil, Joseph 517


Henderson, Frank P 540


Hendrick, Eli E.


94


Hess, L. Floyd. 576


Hibbs, William 1 612


Hilderbrant, John A 506


Hilderbrand, Jacob 527


Hill, Daniel 490


Hines, Alva A. 353


Hodur, Francis ISS


Holcomb, James W 431


Holland, Richard J 329


Holley, Samuel L 375


Hollister, F. Lee. . 311


Hollister, Joshua P 530


Hollister, William H 398


Holly, Richard A. 544


Honeywell, Hiram M 434


Houck, Emmett 130


Howe, Lyman H. 579


Howell, Thomas 553


Howell, William G. 424


Hoyt, Edward E.


602


307


408


V


INDEX


PAGE


Monie, William C. 485


Moore, Charles E.


354


Morahan, John J. 357


Moran, Dominick J.


223


Peck, William J. 583


Perkins, Henry 3.36


Perkins. William


T


335


Perrin, Charles J 447


Perrin. Calvin


444


Perrin, Morgan L 448


Perry, James 418


Phillips Family 599


Phillips, Albert


599


Phillips, Edward P


496


Phillips, John


619


Phillips, R. A.


185


Phinney, Elisha


153


Pickrell, Thomas


420


Porter, John T 232


Post. Edgar C .. 174


Potter, Charles W 253


Powell, Dan


262


Powell, George W


519


Powell. James J.


485


Pressman, John


263


Prestwood, J. H 475


Price, Charles W'. 356


Price, John


410


Price, .


327


Price, William C.


465


Pritchard, John D


126


Protheroe, Thomas 284


Randall, Charles W 462


Randall, J. B ...


412


Randall. Zura


463


Rapson. Nicholas


296


Reap, John 397


Reddington, Thomas E.


438


Reed, George B. 477


Reed, R.


400


Rees, Morgan J. 441


Rees. R. Willis


102


Reese, Richard


J


285


Rees, William W 509


Regan, John E.


502


Reid, John W.


448


Reilly, Peter F.


261


Reiman, Henri


484


Repp. William. 524


Reynolds Family 23


Reynolds, Elias S. 483


Reynolds, Harry C. 31


Reynolds, William H.


537


Reynolds, J. Seymour 233


Rice Family 570


Rice, James N 187


Rice, William H. 571


Richmond, William


H


67


Rickard, Albert


G


340


Rinsland. Philip


237


Ripple, Ezra H 163


Robertson, John A. 1 59


Robertson, William 523


Robinson, Edmund J.


179


Robinson, Richard


520


Laycock, Robert K 555


Lavin, John 534


Lentes, John 443


Lewis, Morris D 438


Lewis, William J II3


Lillibridge, G. J 282


Linen, James A. 4


Little, Ernest K.


Llewellyn Family


596


Llewellyn, George J


596


Lloyd, David L


410


Lloyd, Herbert G


383


Lloyd, Morgan


J


507


Lloyd, R. J. 288


Lloyd, Thomas D 392


Lockard, Alonzo 383


Long. George A. 127


Lotz, Conrad W. 345


Lynett, Edward J. 240


MacDonald. William 239


Machell, Leonard 621


Mackender. Henry


W


263


Mackin, Edward


305


Mackin, Michael J


539


Maines, Harrison E 284


Mangan, Thomas 613


Manly, Michael D 530


Marks, Lloyd E. 624


Marple, Enoch


601


Marshall, H. F


533


Marshall, John 483


Martz, Nathan W 306


Marvin, Merton F 313


Matlack Family 603


Matlack, Granville T 604


Mattes Family 363


Mattes, Charles C. 369


Matthews, Charles P 152


Matthews. Walter L 153


Marvin, Merton E. 313


Nay, Alfred W. 374


May. W. A .. 46


Mayberry, Charles B 379


Meck, Pierson A. 373


Megargel,


Isaac


327


Megargel, Roy C .. 329


Mellen, Charles O 27I


Mengel, Samuel P 384


Merrifield, Edward 225


Metz, Henry 179


Mill Family 39I


Miller, Gilbert C. 338


Miller. Stephen


H


579


Mills Family


269


Mills, Frederick W 270


Mills, Jason J. 504


Mills, John E. 270


Minton, Silas J 2II


Mitchell. Andrew. Jr. 272


Moesel, Frederick 144


Parry. Thomas W. 405


Panli, Francis S. 223


Pearce, Charles W


100


Pearce, William


96


PAGE


Peck, Fenwick L 182


Peck, John D. 78


Peck, William 11 71


Morgan, Benjamin G 210


Morgans, Harry 513


Morgan, Harry


489


Morgan, Joseph 503


Morgan, George M 40I


Morgan, William


H


419


Morris, Thomas M 322


Morse, Alfred M 5TI


Morse, Lewis 510


Mosier, Frank C. 165


Muir, Evan M .. 401


Mulley, Ambrose 233


Mulley, George M


235


Muskitt, James W 515


Myers, Eugene A 526


Myers, Otto D. 216


McAlarney. Charles 568


McCabe, John 500


Mc Clave, William 238


McClellan. Patrick H. 406


Mc Clintock, Thomas B 227


McGahren, John


558


McCarry, Timothy 533


Nagle, Conrad 400


Nash, Matthew 409


Naylor, Frederick W. 236


Naylor, William H. 387


Newton, George B 282


Nicol, Andrew 79


Nicol, Andrew B. 81


Nichols, Francis M 334


Nicols, John 444


Nordt, William A 452


Nyhart, H. U ..


355


Nyhart, Jacob T. 43


Olmstead, W. H. IT5


Oplinger, Adam R. 431


Oplinger, Lemuel S. 431


Opp, John A 588


Orr Family 559


Orr. Albert S. 559


Orr, William G. 560


Ormston, Wallace 243


Ott, Casper 267


Owens, Henry J. 179


O'Brien, George


F


573


O'Brien, Thomas


417


O'Connor, Thomas


519


O'Hara. John F


482


O'Malley. Michael J 415


O'Neill Family 586


O'Neill, Daniel L 586


Paine, Hendrick E 63


Parfrey, Aaron T. 529


Moffat, John G. 261


Mongan, P. H.


251


Monie, Thomas 43


PAGE


Lawall, Elmer H. 595


vi


INDEX


PAGE


Spencer, Edward 190 WValp. Oscar E. 35I


Warner, James M. 156


Warren, Everett 458


Warren, William H. 357 Watkins, Evan G. 254


Watres, Harold A


62


Watres, Louis A 60


Watrous, John


406


Watson, William L. 604


Watson. Willoughby W 212


Watt, John E .. 302


Watt, William W.


274


Watt, William E. 303


Watts, Thomas H


38


Weaver. William G. ..


300


Webster. Jacob W.


387


WVeida, Jerome B 622


Weil, Isaac A. 618


Weiland, George W. 48 1


Weiland, Theodore H. 264


Welles, Albert H.


303


Wenner, Halley M


355


Wernet, Xavier 376


West, Ambrose 449


West, Joseph 451


West, Robert 452


West, Thomas


450


Wetterau, Christian F. 308


Whipp. William


621


White, William D.


598


Whiteman, Francis A


.132


Whitson. Samuel -188


Thomas, Edward


384


Widner, Andrew J


536


Thomas, John T.


396


Wien, Abraham F


522


Thomas, Maurice L. 494


Thomas, William J. 408


Thompson, Crandall W.


266


Thompson, Elias


49


Thornton. John W 492 Williams, A. D .. 278


Tibbett, Owen 485


Tregellas. George


530


Trescott Family 293


Trescott, Mary


S.


296


Trescott. Rush 296


Tripp, Henry


472


Tripp, Ira


90


Tripp, Leander S. 92


Van Bergen, Joseph B. . 206


Vanderburg, James


H.


526


V'andervort, William 200


Van Sickle, Frederick L .. 285


Vosburg, Burr B.


417


Wagner, Albert 416


Wahlers, August 257


Walker, John P. 440


Walker, Malcom E 371


Wallace. Newton A


546


Walter, John F.


467


Walters. Philip


571


Warg, Jacob H


421


WValp. Irvin P.


404


PAGE


Robinson, Robert 626


Robinson, Tylman C. 454


Rogers, Oswald 385


Rommel, Mrs. C. P. 446


Ryman Family 599


Ryman, John J 600


Sahm, John T. L 585


Sames, Henry


174


Samson Brothers


228


Sanderson, George


50


Savage, Elizabeth 253


Savage, Frank


358


Schappert, Jacob 352


Schappert, N. Louis. 574


Scheuer, John, Sr.


203


Schener, Henry


203


Schilling, Thomas


E.


258


Schlager, Charles


221


Schlager, Walter


L


2.45


Surber, John


239


Schrader, Frederick


200


Schroeder, Conrad


193


Schultheis, Anton 189


Schwartz, Frederick


2


Schwenk, J. Fred


540


Scott, Joseph E.


487


Scranton Family I40


Scranton, Joseph A I 42


Sears, Charles H. 258


Seely, Henry J.


492


Sencostouski, Frenk


419


Seybert, Uriah 412


Shedd, Charles H. 235


Shepherd Family 563


Shepherd


Family


(Jona-


than)


613


Shepherd, George


565


Shepherd, Harry C.


564


Shepherd, James G.


14


Shepherd, Miles


614


Shepherd, William C. 564


Shepherd, William H1 563


Shiffer, Frank E. 608


Shippey, Charles H 513


Shippey, John B.


260


Shlanta, Alex 50I


Shonk, Albert D. 566


Shonk, John 566


Shupp, Andrew 589


Shupp, John


590


Shupp, Peter 337


Silkman, John


219


Simpson, Harry 392


Sliwinski, John 486


Smith, Garrett 541


Smith, Henry P 47 1


Smith, John B. 539


Smith, John B


I91


Smith, Joseph


326


Smith, William T


I20


Snyder, Grier B ..


345


Spoerl, Christian S. E. 342


Sprague, Thomas 183


Stackhouse, Charles


P.


324


Stark, Fred W 346


Stark, John M. 389


Steell, Joseph H.


Stegmaier Family 194


Stegmaier. Geo. J.


457


Stevens, Elibeas F. 567


Stevenson, William M 66


Stiff, William C


607


Stillwell Family 1.46


Stillwell, Frederick


IV


149


Stillwell, Richard


148


Stillwell, Saron B 150


Stocker, James D. 478


Stone, Emory 493


Stone, William B. 422


Stooks, Frank


326


Sturges, Edward


B


I18


Schooley, Harry B


326


Sutton, Cyrus O


265


Weissman, Jacob


520


Swallow, Welding


M.


525


Swallow. William 11 547


Swartz, Henry


497


Swift, John J 273


Sykes, Sam 198


Tasker, . James 433


Tasker, William


557


Taylor, Eugene 53I


Taylor, William H 47


Thomas, Charles 1


317


Thomas, David W 388


Wilcox Family 208


Wilcox, Octavus S. 350


Wilde, Beider \V.


40 I


Wilde, William J 320


Williams, Evan J. 374


Williams, Henry I 439


Williams, John E. 549


Williams, Lewis T 432


Williams. Richard S. 578


Williams, Thomas J. 256


Williams, Thomas


R.


398 *


Williams, William H


477


Williams, William 251


Winter, John 414


Winton, Aretus H. 196


Woodhouse. Edward S. 185


Woolworth, Charles S.


216


Worden, G. W ...


556


Wright. Fred A.


55I


Yarrington, William L.


28 I


Young, F. M.


260


Young, James


287


Young. Lazarus R.


615


Zeidler, John


2.42


Zeidler, Miss Maggie


2.42


Zimmerman, Frank


514


Shepherd, Edward S.


565


Thomas, William O ..


4II


Wilcox, William A


209


456


PAGE


1


Au Bois


THE WYOMING AND LACKAWANNA VALLEYS


HENRY MARTYN BOIES was born in Lee, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, August 18, 1837, the first son of Joseph Milton and Electa Caroline Laflin Boies. His paternal an- cestors were Huguenots, who after being driven from France by persecution, tarried awhile in Scotland and Ireland before settling in America in the early part of the seventeenth century. The official records of the town of Blandford, Massa- chusetts, frequently mention William, Samuel, Reuben and David Boies as playing an important part in the development of the town and in the affairs of the Commonwealth during the eigh- teenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth century. But more characteristic of the family was a profound and lofty religious spirit, man- ifesting itself in personal character and loyalty to the Christian church.


The boyhood of Henry Martyn was spent in Saugerties, New York, to which his parents had moved. At fifteen years of age he was sent to school at Keene, New Hampshire. He entered Yale College in 1855 and graduated in 1859. His first business experience was in Chicago where for a few months he represented the Laflin, Boies and Turck Powder Company. Returning from the west he formed a partnership with George W. M. Silver, under the name of Silver & Boies, for freight and passenger transportation on the Hudson river, with headquarters at Tivoli, New York. The business of the firm was varied, buy- ing and selling grain and lumber on their own account and as agents for others, even becoming bankers for producers and customers. The ven-


ture was successful but not sufficiently expansive to hold a young men of energy and originality. In 1863 Mr. Boies sold his interest and went to New York, where an unfortunate speculation swept away his capital. After a brief clerkship in New York city, he and George H. White formed the Sutherland Oil Company, to operate in West Virginia. Mr. Boies was superintendent and manager. In 1861 he married Miss Emma G. Brainerd, daughter of the Rev. Thomas C. Brainerd, D. D., a Presbyterian minister of Phil- adelphia. Three children were born to them ; the two eldest, Mary and Carrington, died in in- fancy. Henry Whiting being the only survivor of the union. Mrs. Boies died in 1868.


February 17, 1870, Mr. Boies married Eliza- beth Linen Boies, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Marvine Dickson. Of this union there were six children: Mary Dickson, died July 8, 1876: Joseph Milton, died April 27, 1898; a son died in infancy: three children survive their father : Ethel Marvine, David, and Helen Eliza- beth Boies.


In 1865 Mr. Boies moved to Scranton as a resident member of the Laflin, Boies & Turck Powder Company. He superintended the estab- lishment of two factories, one near Archbald and the other at Moosic. The business was success- ful and resulted in the formation of the Moosic Powder Company, of which he became president. Later this was allied with the Laflin & Rand Powder Company, and still later both concerns became identified with the Du Pont interests. Appalled by the number of accidents arising


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from the careless use of gunpowder, Mr. Boies set himself to eliminate the danger. This he did by inventing and patenting a paper cartridge, fitting the diameter and length of the drill hole. But to obtain this result he found it was neces- sary to invent a peculiar kind of paper-flexible, water-proof and not liable to crack. The inven- tion came into extensive use and greatly reduced the risk of blasting.


On March 1, 1872, Mr. Boies was one of the incorporators of the Third National Bank of Scranton, which he served as a director for ten years. By his foresight and ability he was a large factor in carrying the bank through the dis- astrous financial panic of 1873. His business standing was now beyond question and it was no surprise when he was elected to the presidency of the Dickson Manufacturing Company, one of the largest and most successful enterprises of the country, now known as the Allis Chalmers Com- pany of Scranton. His next experiment was with car wheels. He invented a steel tired wheel which involved three patents: first a car-wheel having corrugated center with radial corruga- tions, and a car-wheel having a die-forged corru- gated center ; second, a press for forging car- wheels ; and third a composite wheel, the combin- ation of fastenings of which prevent the tire from slipping toward the outside, and having other safety requisites. He then organized a company for the manufacture of these wheels, which was first merged in the Steel Tire Wheel Company, and afterwards in the Railway Steel Spring Company. After the selling of his car-wheel plant Colonel Boies remained in the powder bùs- iness until it became merged in the E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Company, with which he was associated at the time of his death.


But business, though carried on so exten- sively and successfully did not by any means ex- hatist Colonel Boies' resources. Graduating from college just before the Civil war, he en- tered the Ellsworth Zouaves in Chicago. One of the most poignant disappointments of his life was that circumstances prevented his participation in the great national struggle. He was offered a commission, but business complications involv-


ing interests that were not his own forced him to decline. But he soon became a member of the National Rifle Association, located in New York, and he aided in establishing the first rifle range on this continent, at Creedmoor, New York. In the year 1877 the rights of life and property in the city of Scranton and throughout the anthra- cite coal region were seriously jeopardized by a long and tempestuous strike and by the myster- ious and sinister activity of the "Molly Ma- guires." To guard the interests of the city, the Scranton City Guard was formed, and in Octo- ber, 1877, fired into a mob numbering thousands of strikers who had descended in disorder upon the city. Mr. Boies then called a meeting for the purpose of effecting a permanent organiza- tion, and the Scranton City Guard became a Na- tional Guard battalion, with Companies A, B, C and D sworn into the service of the common- wealth. Henry M. Boies was unanimously elected major. An armory was built and a rifle range established. Major Boies established the office of inspector of rifle practice, which is now a regular and indispensable part of every military organization. He also inaugurated the distribu- tion of marksmanship badges, since universally adopted in the National Guard. In October, 1878, under the National Guard reorganization made by Governor Hartranft, in the interest of greater military efficiency. the Scranton City Guard was constituted the Thirteenth Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, with Henry .M. Boies as colonel. He was an indefatigable worker, giving two or three days each month to visiting and inspecting the companies lying out- side the city. The fine showing of the Thirteenth Regiment may be attributed very largely to his painstaking and intelligent leadership. Another new feature which Colonel Boies introduced into the National Guard was the creation of a regi- mental school for officers. This experiment at- tracted considerable attention in military circles and made him conspicuous throughout the en- tire National Guard service of America. Col- onel Boies has been called the "Father of Rifle Practice." To stimulate this branch of the ser- vice he presented a solid silver trophy, designed


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by Tiffany & Company, to surmount a regimen- tal flagstaff, to be competed for by the several regiments of the State. It was won and held by his own regiment, and is known as the "Boies Palma." He was a frequent contributor on mil- itary subjects to the "Journal of the Military Ser- vice Institution," and to other magazines. His commission expired in October, 1883, when he declined re-election.


In 1887 Governor Beaver appointed Colonel Boies a member of the board of public charities of the state of Pennsylvania, to which he gave fifteen years of intelligent and faithful service. Governor Beaver declared that "from the day that he accepted the appointment until the day that he laid the duties of the office down, there was no man in the commonwealth who served in that exceptional relation with so much fidelity and so much intelligence and with so much success as did Colonel Boies." The permanent fruit of this experience will be found in his two books, "Pris- oners and Paupers," published in 1893, and "The 'Science of Penology," 1901. "Prisoners and Paupers" is valuable for its comprehensive col- lection of facts, and contains his deep personal thought and study upon the problems toward the solution of which it is directed. "The Science of Penology" was the first attempt to formulate :as a science the principles and experiences of the world's thought upon criminology. The volume was addressed to the general public, appealing especially to "Legislators, Statesmen, Religious Leaders, Lawyers." It advocated a revolution in criminal law, insisting upon the indeterminate sentence as the basis of all real justice. Three other principles are strongly emphasized ; the re- formatory method for the treatment of crimin- als, measures preventative of crime to be applied to presumptive criminals, and the juvenile court as a check upon the development of juvenile offen- ·ders into professional criminals. The book con- sists of eighty-three propositions logically ex- pounded and copiously reinforced and illustrated. There is no other book so well adapted as a text book for students desiring to become acquainted with the rudiments of penology. It has been




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