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alfred He and
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
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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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