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Major Robert C. Miner married, September 23, 1925, Elizabeth Chace Carter, of Newtonville. Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Miner maintain their principal residence in Wilkes-Barre, in which community they attend the First Presbyterian Church. They have one daughter, Elizabeth Caroline, born May 28, 1927.
THOMAS MORGAN LEWIS, district attorney of Luzerne County is regarded as one of the leading men of the community. His father, Morgan V. Lewis, came, like his wife, Gwenny (Morgan) Lewis, from Wales, to the United States when a child. He was for thirty-five years foreman of the Avondale Mines of the Glen Alden Coal Company of Luzerne County. He is a Republican, residing now in Plymouth.
Thomas Morgan Lewis, son of Mofgan V. and Gwenny ( Morgan) Lewis, was born in Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1891. He was reared in Plymouth attending the public schools in boy- hood. Later he began working for the Glen Alden Coal Company, serving in various capacities over a period of four years. He studied at the Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, where he was graduated in the class of 1913. Then he entered the law department of the University cf Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1916 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Passing the Pennsylvania State Bar Examination, he was admitted to practice in the county, State and Federal courts. Mr. Lewis main- tains offices at No. 1200 Miners Bank Building, Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania.
Successful as his practice has been, in political life Mr. Lewis has advanced most rapidly. He is a Re- publican, having served as chairman of the County Speakers' Committee for five years, and as district
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chairman of the Fifth Legislative District of Luzerne County for 1924-25. He was assistant district attorney from April 1, 1924, to November 3, 1926, under Arthur H. James, present Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania, and it was during his service in that capacity that Mr. Lewis won prominence in several important cases. On November 3, 1926, Mr. Lewis was the unanimous choice of the Court of Luzerne County to fill the unexpired term of Arthur H. James, who resigned to accept the aforementioned office.
In 1927 Mr. Lewis aspired for a full term in the office of the district attorney. He was unopposed for the Republican nomination and at the primaries secured the nomination of all political parties. Mr. Lewis is attorney for the boroughs of Plymouth and Shickshinny in Luzerne County, and a director of the First National Bank of Plymouth, and The Wilkes-Barre Brick Com- pany. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club and the Greater Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, both of which organizations he has served as president; a member of the Wyoming Valley Country Club. the Franklin Club and many fraternal organizations. Mr. Lewis is married and continues to live at Plymouth, Pennsylvania.
HON. JOHN NESBITT CONYNGHAM-Promi- nently associated with operating companies in the anthra- cite coal fields of Pennsylvania, and with financial and other corporate interests in different parts of the country, John N. Conyngham, of Wilkes-Barre, is a member of an ancient and honorable family whose line traces to distinguished representatives of the Scottish peerage. Mr. Conyngham also gives close attention to the main- tenance of large and valuable agricultural holdings, in the cultivation of which he takes a deep and pleasurable interest. He devotes a goodly proportion of his time and means to the support of charitable and philanthropic enterprises in the Wilkes-Barre area.
The Scottish progenitor of this well-known Pennsyl- vania family was Right Rev. William Conyngham, D. D., born in 1512-13, and bishop of Argyll, who was a young- er son of William Conyngham, fourth earl of. Glencairn in the peerage of Scotland. This William Conyngham was educated for the church, matriculated at the Univer- sity of St. Andrew's, 1532; made provost of Trinity College, Edinburgh, 1538, and raised to the See of Ar- gyll by James V, February 1, 1539.
Very Rev. Alexander Conyngham, M. A., was the grandson of Bishop William Conyngham, of Argyll, Scotland. In 1616 he was naturalized as an English subject ; was the first Protestant minister of Inver and Kellymard, County Donegal, în 1611 ; ordained Prebend of Inver, 1611, and that of Kellymard, the same year, both in the Cathedral of Raphoe; vacated Kellymard in 1622, and Inver in 1630, on succeeding to the Deanery of Raphoe, by patent of April 27; installed, June 22, 1630, when Dean Adair was consecrated Bishop of Killaloe, 1629-30. He was born about 1580, died Sep- tember 3, 1660. Dean Alexander Conyngham, of Rap- hoe, is said to have had twenty-seven sons and daughters, four of the sons attaining their majority : 1. Alexander, died during the lifetime of his father. 2. George, of Killenlesseragh, died without male issuc, of whom further. 3. Sir Albert, who was knighted and whose grandson became Marquis Conyngham, of Mount Charles. 4. William, of Ballydavit.
George Conyngham, of Killenlesseragh, County Long- ford, by will dated May 5, 1684, proved November 25, 1684, devised lands to his brother, William, of Bally- davit, to his nephew, Alexander, of Aighan, and his brother, Andrew; and named his brother, Sir Albert Conyngham. William Conyngham, of Ballydavit, County Donegal, by will, October 8, 1700, entails on his nephew, Alexander, of Aighan, all his land in County Donegal, with bequests to others of the family. Alexander Conyng- ham, of Aighan, gentleman, by will, December 27, 1701, entails land on his eldest son, Richard Conyngham, of Dublin, merchant, and on Richard's male heir, in default of which to his second son, Andrew, and on his male heir, in default of which to said Richard's right heir. These very lands ("Conyngham Reminiscences," page 185) thus limited on Richard's right heirs are found, in 1721, in possession of Captain David Conyngham, of Ballyherrin and Letterkenny, the son of Alexander Conyngham, of Rosguil, Ireland, whose will ( March 21, 1778) conveyed the estate to his son, David Hayfield Conyngham, whose eldest son. Redmond (2) Convng- ham, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, by law would have inherited it, but at whose instance his father broke the entail, disposing of the estate for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Alexander Conyngham, of Rosguil, County Donegal, had, among his ten children: 1. Rev. William, rector of Letterkenny, who died in 1782, aged ninety-one years. 2. Captain David, of whom further. 3. Adam, of Cran- ford, died in 1729, father of Captain John Conyngham, who served with General Braddock when he was defeat- ed by the Indians, in 1755. 4. Alexander, died without issue, leaving his estate to his nephews. 5. Andrew.
Captain David Conyngham, of Ballyherrin and Letter- kenny, Ireland, married Katherine O'Hanlon, daughter of Redmond O'Hanlon, one of the Royal Standard Bear- ers of Ireland, dispossessed by Cromwell. They were the parents of children : 1. Redmond, of whom further. 2. Isabella, married David Stewart. 3. Mary, married Rev. Thomas Plunkett, and they had William Conyngham, Lord Chancellor of Ireland; Baron Plunkett, and Cap- tain David Plunkett, of the American Army, 1776-83. 4. Alexander, died in Philadelphia, October 14, 1748. 5. Hannah, married Rev. Oliver MacCausland, Rector of Finlangen, Ireland. 6. Catherine, married Colonel Sir David Ross, of Ireland. 7. Isabella Hanlon. 8. Martha. 9. Margaret. 10. Lydia. 11. Elizabeth. The last four- named daughters died unmarried.
Redmond Conyngham, Esq., son of Captain David and Katherine (O'Hanlon) Conyngham, and the founder of the American family of that name, was born in Letter- kenny, Ireland, in 1719, and died there January 17, 1784. He came to Philadelphia before the Revolution, and rose to prominence as a citizen. He was a member of the mercantile house of John Maynard Nesbitt & Company. He returned to Ireland in 1766. He was succeeded in the business of J. M. Nesbitt & Company by his son, David Hayfield, of whom further. He served Christ Church of Philadelphia as vestryman and warden, and was one of the founders of St. Peter's, continuing as a member of the United parishes of Christ and St. Peter's until his death. Redmond Conyngham married, January 13. 1749, in Philadelphia, Martha Ellis, born in Phila- delphia, February 13, 1731, died in Derry, Ireland, April 15, 1768, daughter of Robert and Catherine Ellis, her father a prominent Philadelphian, ironmaster and county justice. Mr. and Mrs. Redmond Conyngham were the parents of five sons and seven daughters, of whom was David Hayfield, of whom further.
David Hayfield Conyngham, son of Redmond and Martha (Ellis) Conyngham, was born in Philadelphia, March 21, 1750, died March 3, 1834. He was an ex- tremely patriotic citizen, and was one of the organizers of the first troops of the Philadelphia City Cavalry. In 1775, he succeeded his father as a partner in John May- nard Nesbitt & Company, and in the following year the latter returned to Ireland to spend the rest of his days. Later he became the senior member of the firm of Conyngham & Nesbitt, and attained the status of one of leading merchants of Philadelphia. The house of Conyng- ham & Nesbitt, of which he was the head, came grandly to the succor of Washington and his starving forces, in 1780, in a crucial hour of the Revolution. The firm ad- vanced about five thousand pounds, and this proved a mighty factor towards relieving the sufferings of the soldiers. This generous and patriotic act was made the subject of .heartfelt thanks to the firm by Washington himself and by Robert Morris, whose genius as a finan- cier was placed at the disposal of the Revolutionary cause. The gift, or loan, enabled Washington to main- tain the field with a renourished and encouraged force in its movement against the British. David Hayfield Conyngham married, December 4, 1779, at Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, Mary West, born in 1758, died August 29, 1820, daughter of William West, a prominent Phila- delphia merchant, and Mary Hodge, his wife, daughter of William, Jr., and Eleanor (Wormley ) Hodge. They were the parents of ten children: 1. William, born Sep- tember 13. 1780, died September 20, 1780. 2. Redmond, born September 19, 1781; married Elizabeth Yates, daughter of Hon. Jasper Yates of Pennsylvania. 3. Mary Martha, born August 18, 1783, died February 16, 1792. 4. Catherine, born August 29, 1786, died at Towanda, Pennsylvania, May 14. 1839: married, October 2, 1806, Ralph Peters. son of Hon. Richard Peters of Pennsyl- vania. 5. William, born July 7, 1788, died March 11, 1789. 6. Hannah, born January 6, 1790, died in 1869. 7. Mary. horn February 11, 1793, died June 27, 1895. 8. David, horn February 6, 1795, died September 1, 1853. c. Elizabeth Isabella, born May 6, 1797. 10. John Nes- bitt. of whom further.
Hon. John Nesbitt Conyngham, LL. D., youngest child of David Hayfield and Mary (West) Conyngham, was born in Philadelphia, December 17, 1798. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, in the
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class of 1817, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, making his Master's degree in 1820, and received the degree of Doctor of. Laws from his alma mater in 1866. As an aspirant for the bar he studied law under the preceptorship of Hon. Joseph B. Ingersoll, a well-known attorney of Philadelphia County. Early in 1820 he re- moved to Wilkes-Barre, and on April 3 of that year was admitted to the bar of Luzerne County. He rose steadily in the esteem of the bench and his legal brethren, and in April, 1839, he was commissioned judge of the common pleas in the Bradford and Susquehanna districts, and, in 1841, by exchange with Judge Jessup, he assumed the judicial office in Luzerne County, eventually, under appointment from Governor D. R. Porter, becoming president-judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, which then comprised the counties of Susquehanna, Bradford, Tioga, Potter and Mckean. For practically thirty years he filled the judicial office with dignity and intelligence, characteristics which were pre- eminent in his long and useful life. Luzerne was sub- sequently added to the district by an act of the Legisla- ture. Through subsequent changes, the district was made to include Luzerne County only. His political views dif- fered on many points from those held by the Federal administration then in power, but regardless of that fact he was reelected to office in 1861. At the outbreak of the Civil War he gave his cordial support, moral and financial, to the cause of the Union, and exerted the great influence and prestige of his judicial position for the promotion of the success of the Northern Army. In 1870, on his resignation from the bench, he was made the recipient of a tribute in manuscript form from the bar of Luzerne County, judges of the United States Supreme Court and members of the judiciaries of Pennsylvania, bearing attest to his excellent character as a man and to his splendid qualifications as a judge. Judge Conyngham represented Luzerne County in the Legislature in 1840; for twelve years he was a trustee of Wilkes-Barre Academy; at the time of his death he was president of the Wilkes-Barre Tract Society, president of the Luzerne County Bible Society, president of the American Church Missionary Society, vice-president of the American Sun- day School Union, and of an institution of deaf mutes in Philadelphia. He served twice as burgess of Wilkes- Barre and was president of the Borough Council in 1849-50. He was a member of the first board of direc- tors of the Wyoming ( Pennsylvania) Bank, and one of the original members of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, which he served as vice-president in 1866-67 and as president in 1869. He was a vestryman of St. Stephen's Church, Wilkes-Barre; a delegate to a special convention in Philadelphia, in 1844, held to con- sider the question of electing an assistant bishop in the diocese; and subsequently was a delegate to every Gen- eral Convention, save one.
Hon. John Nesbitt Conyngham married, December 17, 1823, Ruth Ann Butler, born January 11, 1801, died July 3, 1879, daughter of General Lord and Mary ( Pierce) Butler, the former the eldest son of Colonel Zebulon and Ann (Lord) Butler, of Lyme, Connecticut, and Wilkes-Barre. Colonel Butler was the military com- mander of Wyoming as lieutenant-colonel of the 24th Connecticut Regiment, a soldier from his youth, rising from ensign of the Colonial forces to colonel of the Ist Connecticut Regiment of the Continental line, which rank he held when the Revolutionary War ended. He commanded the American forces at the battle of Wyo- ming. A personal friend of Washington, the Commander- in-Chief reposed implicit confidence in him. To John Nesbitt and Ruth Ann (Butler) Conyngham were born : 1. David, born June 17, 1826, died in April, 1834. 2. Colonel John Butler, a distinguished soldier of the Civil War, born September 29, 1827, died May 27, 1871 ; never married. 3. William Lord, of whom further. 4. Thomas Dyer, born December 11, 1831, died in New York, No- vember 6, 1904. 5. Major Charles Miner, born July 6, 1840, who distinguished himself as an officer in the Civil War, and became prominent in mining, manufacturing and mercantile interests of his section of Pennsylvania. 6. Mary, married Charles Parrish, of Wilkes-Barre. 7. Anna Maria, married Right Rev. William Bacon Stevens, D. D., LL. D., Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Dio- cese of Pennsylvania.
The death of Judge Conyngham occurred February 23, 1871, as the result of an accident. On his way to Texas in that month to bring home his invalid son, Colonel John Butler Conyngham, he fell on the railroad at Magnolia, Mississippi, and was so severely crushed under the wheels of a passenger car that he died shortly after the acci-
dent. His last words were: "I know that my Redeemer liveth." In his honor, the name Conyngham School was given to the public institution on St. Clement's Street, Wilkes-Barre.
William Lord Conyngham, third son of Hon. John Nesbitt and Ruth Ann ( Butler) Conyngham, was born in Wilkes-Barre, November 1, 1829. For many years he was active as a member of the firms of Parrish & Conyngham, coal operators, and Conyngham & Paine, commission merchants. For thirty-six years he was asso- ciated with Joseph Stickney in Wilkes-Barre and New York as Conyngham & Company of Wilkes-Barre, and Stickney & Conyngham of New York and Boston; J. Hilles & Company, Baltimore, Maryland; James Boyd & Company, Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ; Boyd, Stickney & Company, Chicago, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri, agents for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's anthracite coal, north, south, east and west. He was connected with many business enterprises of the Wyoming Valley also; a life member and former vice-president of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. He was a loyal Republican all his life, a mem- ber of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church, Wilkes- Barre, which he served for many years as vestryman.
William Lord Conyngham married, December 6, 1864, Olivia Hillard, daughter of Oliver Burr and Harriet A. (Roberts) Hillard, of Charleston, South Carolina, and Wilkes-Barre. Mrs. Conyngham was descended from Captain David Hilliard (original spelling), of Little Compton, Rhode Island, son of William Hilliard, of that town, 1650; from Joseph Hilliard, of Norwich, Connecti- cut, and his wife, Freelove Miner, great-granddaughter of Lieutenant Thomas Miner, of Salem, Massachusetts, 1630, and Stonington, Connecticut, deputy to the Gen- eral Court of Connecticut and prominent in church and colony. Lieutenant Miner's son, Captain Ephraim Miner, ensign, captain, justice, and for years deputy to the Gen- eral Court, and his wife, Hannah Avery, daughter of Captain James Avery, who was equally prominent in the colony, were the grandparents of Freelove Miner, who was the only daughter of Lieutenant James Miner, of New London, Connecticut, and his wife, Abigail Eldridge, daughter of Captain Daniel Eldridge. Joseph Hilliard, of Norwich, was the father of Lieutenant Joseph Hil- liard, of Killingworth, Connecticut, who served in the Revolutionary Army, and was the father of Oliver Hil- lard (note change of spelling ), born in October, 1773, mar- ried, in May, 1800, in Philadelphia, Ann Eliza Crawford, and settled in Charleston, South Carolina. Oliver Hil- lard was the father of Oliver Burr Hillard, for many years prominent as a merchant in Wilkes-Barre. Mr. and Mrs. William Lord Conyngham were the parents of three children: 1. John Nesbitt (2), of whom further. 2. William Hillard, a review of whom appears else- where in this work. 3. Ruth Butler, who died in infancy.
John Nesbitt (2) Conyngham, eldest child and son of William Lord and Olivia (Hillard) Conyngham, was born in Wilkes-Barre, September 13, 1865, and he re- ceived his preliminary and college preparatory courses in schools of his native city, and graduated from Johns Hopkins Preparatory School, New Haven, Connecticut. He then entered Yale University, where he took a special course in the Sheffield Scientific School. After leaving Yale, he first took a position as secretary and treasurer and time-keeper with the Annora Coal Company, in the development of their properties, and also became super- intendent of that company. For many years he was associated with his father in the operation of his coal properties and distributing concerns, and became one of the most prominent men in the coal trade. An idea of the importance and ramifications of his associations in the trade is to be had from the following list of his present and former connections : He is a former presi- dent of the West End Coal Company at Mocanauqua, 1893, and of the Tioga Coal Company, New York ; direc- tor of the Staples Coal Company, and Staples Transpor- tation Company, Massachusetts; director of the Parrish Coal Company; director and vice-president of the Red Ash Coal Company. He is vice-president of the Miners' Bank; director of the Anthracite Savings Bank; presi- dent of the Bretton Woods Company, of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire; president of the Standard Register Company, of New York City; director of the Havana Marine Company, Cuba, and president of the Muskegon County Traction and Light Company, Michigan.
One of the principal channels of Mr. Conyngham's energy and thought is his farming interests, in which he has a keen pleasure and healthful diversion-this may be said to be his principal hobby, and one that he has turned to very good account. His political preferences
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all lie within the province of the Republican party, to which he gives both moral and substantial support. His philanthropic and civic interests comprise the Luzerne County Humane Association and the United Charities of Wilkes-Barre, of both of which institutions he is president : the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, which he serves as director and treasurer. He is a member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, and his social organizations include the Westmoreland Club, Wilkes-Barre, the Union League Club, Metropolitan Club, New York Yacht Club and Piping Rock Club, all of New York City. He helps perpetuate a fine family tradi- tion of religious fellowship through his own member- ship and active interest in St. Stephen's Protestant Epis- copal Church, to which so many of the Conynghams have belonged.
John Nesbitt Coyngham married, April 18, 1895, Bertha Robinson, daughter of John Norris and Mary ( Moore) Robinson, of Wilmington, Delaware. Mr .. and Mrs. Conyngham are liberal supporters of civic and welfare organization work in Wilkes-Barre community life, in whose circles their presence and influence arc highly appreciated.
GEORGE RIDDLE WRIGHT-The Wright fam- ily of which George Riddle Wright, leading member of the Luzerne County Bar, is a worthy member, proceeds from John Wright, who came to America in 168t with William Penn's colony of immigrant Quakers, and be- came the founder of the village of Wrightsville, Bur- lington County, New Jersey. He held commissions under King Charles II as justice of the peace and captain of militia. He married Abigail Crispin, daughter of Silas Crispin, the elder, and his wife, Mary (Stockton) Shinn, daughter of Lieutenant Richard Stockton, prominent in the annals of Long Island and New Jersey. The line of descent from John Wright to George Riddle Wright is through the following:
(II) Samuel Wright, son of John and Abigail ( Cris- pin) Wright, was born in Wrightstown, New Jersey, in 1719, and died in 1781; he married Elizabeth Haines, daughter of Caleb Haines, of Evesham.
(III) Caleb Wright, son of Samuel and Elizabeth ( Haines) Wright, was born at Wrightstown, January 14, 1754; married, in 1779, Catherine Gardner, daughter of John Gardner, and in 1795 removed to the "Susquehanna Country." He purchased a farm and settled on it in Union Township, Luzerne County, two miles ahove Shick- shinny, where he remained until 1811, when he returned to New Jersey, where he and his wife died and were buried in the Friends' Burial Ground at East Branch, Upper Freehold, Monmouth County.
(IV) Joseph Wright, son of Caleb and Catherine (Gardner) Wright, was born May 2, 1785, and was ten years of age when his parents removed from Wrights- ville to the "Susquehanna Country." When his father returned to New Jersey he was already married, and he was the only member of the family who remained in Wyoming Valley. He lived in Plymouth more than half a century, engaged in merchandising and took a prominent part in the affairs of the town. Although Joseph Wright was a loyal Quaker, he believed in bear- ing arms under certain circumstances, and we find him in Captain Halleck's company which in the War of 1812 marched to the defense of Baltimore. He attained the rank of sergeant, and for his services later was awarded one hundred and forty acres of public land. He mar- ried, June 15, 1807, Ellen ( Hendrick) Wadhams, widow of Moses Wadhams, and daughter of John and Eunice (Bradley) Hendrick, who was a descendant in the fourth generation of Daniel Hendrick. Joseph Wright died August 14, 1855, and his wife August 6, 1872.
(V) Hendrick Bradley Wright, eldest child of Joseph and Ellen ( Hendrick-Wadhams) Wright, and father of George Riddle Wright, was born April 24, 1808, at Ply- mouth, Pennsylvania. In his youth he assisted his father on the farm and attended winter terms of school at Plymouth: in 1826 he entered Dickinson College at Carlisle; at the end of his junior year he withdrew from college and entered upon the study of the law in the law office of John N. Conyngham at Wilkes-Barre, and was admitted to the bar November 8, 1831. About a year later he was appointed deputy attorney-general for Luzerne County, and in November, 1833, he was re- appointed by Attorney-General Dallas. In August, 1835, he resigned on the ground that he was "politically op- posed to the State administration." The anti-Masonic Party was at its zenith at this time in Pennsylvania; Wolf, Democrat, was governor, and in his campaign for reelection he was defcated by Ritner, nominee of
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