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Despite his exacting professional duties, Mr. Jenkins has been a liberal participant in the civic affairs of his community. Mr. Jenkins served for several years as a member of the board of managers of the Kislyn School, maintained by Luzerne County, for delinquent children : also for several years was chairman of the Borough of Kingston Planning Committee, until he resigned in 1926. He is popular and respected in social circles, being a member of many prominent local organizations. He is a member of Phi Nu Theta ( Electic Society) of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut; Mystic Seven; Wesleyan Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and the Socratic Literary Society. He is affiliated, fraternally, with King- ston Lodge, No. 395, Free and Accepted Masons: Cald- well Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; and Irem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, of Wilkes-Barre. He holds membership also in the Patriotic Order Sons of America.
John Evan Jenkins married, April 3, 1895, Katharine B. Mitchell, daughter of the Hon. James Mitchell, of Remsen, New York, and Sarah G. (Thomas) Mitchell. Of this union there are two sons: Mitchell and Hugh Coban. Both sons are members of their father's law firm, and all four members of this family-father, moth- er, and sons-are graduates of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut. Mrs. Jenkins is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society, and since her marriage has been particularly active in the social life of Kingston. For several years she was president of the West Side Women's Club; one of the organizers of Kingston Civic League which preceded the Women's Club; and was one of the organizers of West Side Welfare Associa- tion. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins and their sons reside in Kingston. They attend the Kingston Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Jenkins for many years served as a mem- ber of the board of trustees and as superintendent of the Sunday school.
BENJAMIN DORRANCE-The progenitor of the family of the surname Dorrance in the United States and the ancestor from whom was descended Benjamin Dorrance, late of Kingston, was Rev. Samuel Dorrance, a Scotch Presbyterian from Ireland, graduate of Glas- gow University, licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Dumbarton, who came to New England “bringing with him satisfactory testimonials of his ministerial char- acter and standing from several associations in Scotland and Ireland." ("History of Windham County, Connecti- cut.") On April 17, 1723, the people of Voluntown, Con- necticut Colony, called upon Rev. Samuel Dorrance to preach the gospel in that town, at a stipulated salary of sixty pounds a year, with fifty pounds settlement money for installing himself in the community. Rev. Dorrance had five sons and one daughter; and of these two sons, Jolin and George settled in the Wyoming Valley, upon lands held by the family at the present time (1928).
Lieutenant-Colonel George Dorrance, son of Rev, Sam- uel Dorrance, was one of the notable characters in the history of the Wyoming Valley, and founder of the family here, for his brother John died, unmarried, in July, 1804. Lieutenant-Colonel George Dorrance was horn March 4, 1736, and on July 4, 1778, the day follow- ing the tragic affair at Wyoming, a prisoner and weak- ened by suffering and a severe wound, his captors killed him. A hero and a patriot, as he had lived, so he died. He married (first) Mary Wilson, and had Sarah Susannah, who married Samuel Tubbs, also Elizabeth who married Dr. Seth C. Whitney. Colonel Dorrance married (second) Elizabeth (perhaps Murphy), she later married Jabez Fish, and had Robert, who was killed in an engagement with the Indians, November 4, 1791; Ben- jamin, of whom further: Gershom, who shortly after returned to Voluntown, Connecticut.
Colonel Benjamin Dorrance, oldest son of Lieutenant- Colonel George Dorrance, was born in Voluntown, Con- necticut, in 1767, died August 24, 1837. He was a child when his family removed to the Wyoming Valley and settled in the locality where he afterwards lived and which for many years was part of the borough "Dor- ranceton." The Borough of Kingston consolidated about 1922. He held his rank of colonel in the State Militia and was commonly so addressed. He was sheriff of Luzerne County, member of the State Legislature in all some fourteen years, and was one of the organizers and first president of the Wyoming Bank of Wilkes-Barre. He married, November 25, 1795, Nancy Ann Buckingham, daughter of Jedediah and Martha (Clark) Buckingham, and a descendant through her father of Thomas Buck- ingham, Puritan ancestor of the American Buckinghams. Colonel Dorrance and his wife, Nancy Ann Buckingham, were the parents of three sons.
Rev. John Dorrance, eldest son of Colonel Benjamin and Nancy Ann (Buckingham) Dorrance, was born in Kingston, February 28, 1800, and died April 18, 1861. He graduated from Princeton College, A. B. in 1823, from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1827, and was or- dained in November of that year, by the Presbytery of Mississippi. In 1833 he was called to the First Pres- byterian Church of Wilkes-Barre, where he continued until his death. Princeton conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1859. He extended the field of his labors throughout the county, and was known in Nanticoke, Newton, Pittston, Providence and Scran- ton. He married, December 6, 1827, Penelope Mercer. and they had eight children.
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Colonel Charles Dorrance, second son of Colonel Ben- jamin Dorrance and Nancy Ann (Buckingham) Dor- rance, was born in Kingston January 4, 1805, and died January 18, 1892. Like his father, he held the rank of colonel in the State Militia, and was so addressed. He was a farmer, president of the Luzerne County Agricultural Society from its organization in 1858 until 1868; he was appointed a commissioner of the Luzerne County Prison, and was president of the board through- out his connection with it. He was president of the Wyoming National Bank, succeeding his father, from 1835 until 1892; president of the Wilkes-Barre Bridge Company, of which his father was an incorporator, in 1816; and a member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society for thirty-four years. He married, August 28, 1845, Susan E. Ford, daughter of James and Maria (Lindsley) Ford, of Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania ; and they were the parents of seven children: I. Ben- jamin, of whom further. 2. Maria L., born August 31, 1848, died July 27, 1849. 3. Annie Buckingham, born May 6, 1850: married Sheldon Reynolds, died October 4, 1905. 4. James Ford, born April 19, 1852; married Elizabeth W. Dick. 5. Charles, born August 2, 1854, died in Chicago, September 16, 1914. 6. John, born Septem- ber 27, 1856, died in Kansas City, Missouri, March 13. 1914. 7. Frank P., born January 8, 1859, died March 6, 1864.
Benjamin. Dorrance, eldest son of Colonel Charles and Susan E. (Ford) Dorrance, was born in Kingston, Au- gust 14, 1846. His early education was acquired in the Presbyterian Seminary, Troy, (now called Wyoming), Pennsylvania, and in Wyoming Seminary, Kingston. He graduated from Princeton College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1868 and received the degree of Master of Arts in 1871. Meanwhile he read law in the offices of Andrew T. McClintock, LL. D., of Wilkes- Barre, and was admitted to the bar, August 20, 1870. In all he practiced his profession, in Wilkes-Barre, about eighteen years, when impaired eyesight compelled him to lay aside professional work, and he turned to farming pursuits, at Dorranceton, and incidentally to horticul- ture. For a number of years he was president of the Wyoming Commemorative Association, succeeding Calvin Parsons; he was a member also of the Wyoming His- torical and Geological Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society of England. Benjamin Dorrance married, May 22. 1872, Ruth Woodhull Strong, daugh- ter of Schuyler Strong, of Bath, Steuben County, New York, and his wife, Frances (Cruger )- Strong, descended from Elder John Strong, of Windsor, Connecticut. where he was a resident as . early as 1630. From Elder John Strong, who later removed to Northampton, to Ruth Woodhull Strong, wife of Benjamin Dorrance, the line of descent followed to Thomas; to Selah; to Selah, (2) ; to Selah, (3) ; to Major Nathaniel (who was killed by the British and Tories, November 6, 1778) ; to Selah, (4), to Schuyler; who married Frances Cruger; and from Schuyler and Frances (Cruger) Strong, to Ruth Woodhull (Strong) Dorrance, of the eighth generation from Elder John Strong. The Crugers were of Hugue- not ancestry, who escaped the massacre at St. Bartholo- mew and formed a temporary home in Altoona, in the Duchy of Holstein, Germany. The branch from which Mrs. Dorrance was descended was brought to America by the father of General Cruger, in 1768. Benjamin and Ruth Woodhull (Strong) Dorrance were the par- ents of . three children: I. Anne, born June 26, 1873, graduate of Vassar College, 1895, F. R. H. S. 2. Frances, born June 30, 1877, graduate of Vassar, 1900, with honor, elected to Phi Beta Kappa. 3. Ruth, born August 9, 1879, died February 13, 1895."
Benjamin Dorrance enjoyed the most cordial of friend- ships throughout his useful life, was constantly active in affairs directed toward the good of Wilkes-Barre and Kingston, and an honorable member of an honorable fam- ily. When he died, January 23, 1922, at the age of sev- enty-six years, there were many, indeed, who mourned his loss. His widow survived him three years, and died in the family residence in Kingston January 21, 1925.
MAURICE B. AHLBORN, M. D .- According to neighborhood philosophy, a man does best in business or professional life away from his native town. That this does not always hold good is proven in the case of Dr. Maurice B. Ahlborn, who has made a highly commend- able record as physician and surgeon as a native and practitioner of Wilkes-Barre. Dr. Ahlborn was horn at Wilkes-Barre, April 30, 1877, son of Frederick Christian and Henrietta (Teufel) Ahlborn, deceased, of this city,
who were members of families distinguished in State and local affairs.
Dr. Ahlborn received his education at the following institutions : the public schools and the Harry Hillman Academy at Wilkes-Barre, the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, which he entered in 1894, and from which institution he grad- uated with the class of 1898 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After graduating here he took post-grad- uate courses in pathology, gynecology, surgery and inter- nal medicine. Desiring to still further equip himself with the best of two continents, he went to Europe and pursued his studies further. He graduated in the class of 1898 at Vienna and in the class of 1899 at Munich. specializing in surgery, which he has practiced almost exclusively ever since.
Dr. Ahlborn's contribution to Wilkes-Barre's progress and to the advancement of science and the profession may be measured by the statement of his present and past activities. He has served as pathologist and assistant surgeon for the Mercy Hospital; as associate pathologist, later associate surgeon for the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital ; and as city bacteriologist, charged particularly with the inspection of water and milk, from 1902 to 1908, for the city of Wilkes-Barre. He now holds the fol- lowing positions: Chief surgeon for the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital; consulting surgeon for the Mercy Hos- pital ; lecturer on anatomy and physiology at the Train- ing School for Nurses at the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital . He is a valued member of the Luzerne County Medical Society, and was its president in 1928; the Penn- sylvania State Medical Society and the American Med- ical Association. He belongs to the medical fraternity of Nu Sigma Nu, which he joined while a member of the student body of the Medical Department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. In fraternal order work he is a member of Wilkes-Barre Lodge, No. 442, Free and Accepted Masons; Shekinah Chapter, No. 182. Royal Arch Masons; Dieu le Veut Commandery, No. 45, Knights Templar; Keystone Consistory of the Ancient Scottish Rite Masons of the Thirty-second degree; and lrem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the My- stic Shrine. In religious life Dr. Ahlborn is a member of the St. John's Lutheran Church; in political affairs a member of the Republican party ; and in club life of the Westmoreland and Irem Country clubs. During the World War he served as a member of the Draft Board, No. 3. for Wilkes-Barre.
Dr. Ahlborn married, May 1, 1900, Eleanor Natalie Thomas, daughter of Isaac M. and Sarah Hollenback (Dunlap) Thomas, of Wilkes-Barre, and they are the parents of four children : 1. Hervey Dunlap, born April 14, 1901 ; in business at Wilkes-Barre. 2. Sarah Hollen- back, born March 30, 1908, a student at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. 3. Henrietta Teufel, born December 21, 1910. 4. Eleanor Natalie Ahlborn, born December 24, 1917.
· REV. LEVI L. SPRAGUE, D. D., L. H. D .- The oldest head of an educational institution in the State of Pennsylvania, and the longest in continuous service in such capacity is the Rev. Levi L. Sprague, D. D., L. H. D., president of Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pennsyl- vania, which has enjoyed its greatest prosperity under his scholarly and efficient management.
Born in Beekman, Dutchess County, New York, De- cember 23, 1844, Dr. Sprague is the son of Nelson L. and Laura (Spencer) Sprague, and a descendant of one of the oldest of Rhode Island's colonial families. Jona- than Sprague settled in Providence in 1675, having in- herited sixty acres of land from his father, William Sprague, who lived in Hingham, Massachusetts. A deputy from 1695 to 1714, he was the speaker of the Rhode Island House of Deputies in 1703, and was active in the Baptist communion, and occasionally a preacher. The family remained in that denomination for many years, but a few years before his death, Nelson Sprague allied himself with the Congregational Church. On the maternal side Levi L. Sprague descended from John Spencer, who was one of a band of forty-seven people who removed from Massachusetts in 1652, and took up a grant of five thousand acres of land in East Green- wich, Rhode Island. Also on the distaff side, he num- bers among his ancestors Theophilus Whaley, an officer of the Parliamentary Army whose regiment took part in the execution of King Charles I, in 1649. In the middle of the eighteenth century some of the Spragues settled in Putnam and Dutchess counties, New York, and about the same period, some of the Spencers also founded new homes in Dutchess County.
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In 1847 Nelson Sprague moved his family to Pennsyl- vania, and lived in several villages doing business as a carriage maker, but in 1858, he retired to a farm near Le Raysville, Bradford County, owing to impaired health. Here Levi L. Sprague had the good fortune to come under the influence of Chester P. Hodge, a teacher who had studied at Wyoming Seminary and Union Col- lege. At the age of seventeen years, while still a student at Le Raysville Academy, Mr. Sprague taught school, excepting for a term he spent at the Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York. When Professor Hodge went West to practice law, he became principal of Le Raysville Academy, at that time being but twenty years of age. In 1866 Mr. Sprague entered Wyoming Seminary as a student.
It was then but a small institution, opened for students in 1844, under the auspices of the Oneida Conference but was presided over by the Rev. Dr. Reuben Nelson, a man of great energy and vision. On completing his studies under this great schoolmaster, Mr. Sprague was elected principal of the seminary's College of Business. He became a student of law under the late Hon. W. W. Ketcham, but eighteen months later, having decided that his real vocation was the Christian ministry, he sub- stituted theological study for that of the law, and in 1874, joined the Wyoming Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Sprague continued as principal of the College of Business, and in 1882 was elected president of the seminary, being the fourth man to hold that post. The first, Dr. Reuben Nelson, after twenty-seven years of service, was made publishing agent by the General Conference of 1872 of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church with headquarters in New York. The second, the Rev. Y. C. Smith, held the position for one year, 1863, while Dr. Nelson acted as presiding elder. The third, the Rev. Dr. David Copeland, held the post ten years.
With the growth of the Wyoming Seminary, its presi- dent has grown rich in academic honors. In 1879 Alle- gheny College made him an honorary Master of Arts, and in 1886 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Wesleyan University. In 1886 Rutherford College, North Carolina, gave him the degree of LL.D., and in 1920 Syracuse University conferred upon him the de- gree of L.H.D.
Dr. Sprague is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Kingston Lodge, Pennsylvania; Shekinah Chapter, No. 182, Royal Arch Masons; Dieu le Veut Commandery, No. 45, Knights Templar ; Irem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Caldwell Consistory at Bloomsburg : holding the thirty- second degree in this order.
On December 22, 1869, Dr. Sprague married Jennie E. Russell, of Otego, New York, a niece of Dr. Nelson, former president of the Seminary. Mrs. Sprague died September 16, 1921. Dr. and Mrs. Sprague were the parents of two children: I. Laura J. Sprague, of King- ston, Pennsylvania. 2. E. Russell Sprague, a physician of Rochester, New York, who married (first) Helen Breese Graves, of Syracuse, New York, their daughter, Elizabeth Louise, being born November 11, 1905: he married (second), Margaret Ferguson, of Lockport, New York, and they have one son, Ferguson, Kingston, Pennsylvania.
EDWARD F. RYMAN, of No. 224 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, was born November 24, 1878, at Dallas, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, a son of Theodore F. and Eliza (Barnes) Ryman, both now deceased. Theo- dore F. Ryman was born in Dallas Township, August 23, 1845, and died in Wilkes-Barre, September '4, 1919. He was a son of Abraham Ryman, born August 21, 1817, and his wife, Jemima (Knukle) Ryman, born Septem- ber 12, 1817, both of whom were descendants of pioneer New Jersey and Pennsylvania families. Abraham Ryman was one of the pioneers in the lumher and sawmill trade in Northeastern Pennsylvania. In those days the lumber dealer manufactured the lumber that they sold, and this brought the family into direct contact with the virgin timber-tract districts. Theodore F. Ryman was asso- ciated for many years with his father, Abraham Ryman, under the firm name of A. Ryman & Sons. He was one of the very successful men of Wilkes-Barre, and at the time of his death was head of the firm of A. Ryman & Sons; president of the Hazard Manufacturing Com- pany ; a director of the Vulcan Iron Works, the Miners' Bank, all of Wilkes-Barre; the Pennsylvania Lumber- men's Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Philadelphia : and a director of the Eureka Lumber Company, of
Washington, North Carolina. Theodore F. Ryman mar- ried, September 16, 1874, at Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, Eliza Malvina Barnes, a native of Wyoming County, who was born May 16, 1845, and died October 1, 1919. Of this marriage there were two children: I. Thad- deus B., born July 18, 1875, in Mehoopany, Pennsylvania ; graduate of Yale University in 1897; died October 2, 1922, unmarried. 2. Edward F., of whom further. Theo- dore F. Ryman was a staunch supporter of the Repub- lican party. He and his wife were attendants of the Presbyterian church.
Edward F. Ryman received his early education at the Harry Hillman Academy, Wilkes-Barre, and later at- tended Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. Immediately after the completion of this course of study he returned to Wilkes-Barre and entered his father's lum- ber business. In June, 1920, he purchased full interest in the concern and founded the E. F. Ryman Lumber Company. This he conducted, as president, until 1924, when he sold his entire interests and retired from active business.
In his political views Mr. Ryman is a staunch sup- porter of the Republican party. In his fraternal affilia- tions he is a member of Wilkes-Barre Lodge, No. 109. Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and has twice served as vice-president of the Phillips Academy Alumni Association of Andover, Massachusetts ; he also is a mem- ber of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Wilkes-Barre Camera Club, and the Wyom- ing Historical and Geological Society. Mr. Ryman is now living, retired, at his home in Wilkes-Barre. In tracing his family genealogy, on his mother's side he is a descendant of William Whipple, who, in 1776, was one of those who assembled at Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, and added his name to the American Dec- laration of Independence. Mr. Ryman is a communicant of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Wilkes-Barre.
PROF. HARRY H. ZEISER, Superintendent of Schools of Wilkes-Barre, and one of the most promi- nent educators in the northeastern part of this State, was born January 5, 1872, in Nescopeck Township, Lu- zerne County, Pennsylvania. He is a son of Victor B. and Samantha J. (Lutsey) Zeiser, both now deceased. The Zeiser and Lutsey families were among the early settlers of Southern Luzerne County; the grandfather of Harry H. Zeiser, John N. Zeiser, a farmer of Luzerne, and a son of John Nicholas Zeiser, a minister of the Reformed Church, who founded, about 1810, the first Reformed Church circuit in the southern part of Luzerne County ; he died in 1835. On the maternal side, Professor Zeiser traces his lineage to the grandfather Richard Lutsey, a soldier during the American Civil War. Rich- ard Lutsey was killed at the Battle of Spottsylvania. Virginia, in the engagement which took place around the Court House there. He held the rank of sergeant in the 96th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. His father was John Lutsey, 2d, a farmer of Slocum Township, and a son of John Lutsey, who was the first settler in the southern part of Luzerne County, clearing land there for himself about 1783. Victor B. Zeiser, father of Professor Harry H. Zeiser, was also a farmer. By his marriage to Samantha J. Lutsey he became the father of a large family, of whom six of the children grew to maturity : 1. John R., of Endicott, New York. 2. Adlow, a contractor of Nescopeck Borough, Luzerne County. 3. Harry H., of whom further. 4. Katherine, a graduate nurse, residing in Wilkes-Barre. 5. Mary, who married Fred Semner, of Wanamie, Luzerne County. 6. Edna L., who married Guy Conner, of Lewistown, Pennsylvania.
Harry H. Zeiser, third son and third child of Victor B. and Samantha J. (Lutsey) Zeiser, received his early education in the public schools of Nescopeck Township. When he was eighteen years of age he began his work as a teacher in a school at Dorrance, Luzerne County. At the end of one year there, however, he resumed his education at the Pennsylvania State Normal School, Bloomsburg, graduating from there in 1892. He returned to Luzerne County and taught school for another year in Nescopeck Borough. In 1893 he entered Lafayette College at Easton, Pennsylvania, was graduated with the class of 1897, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Immediately afterward he returned to Wilkes- Barre, and taught school until the spring of 1916, when he was appointed assistant superintendent of the school system of Wilkes-Barre. So well did he perform the duties of this office that two years later, in 1918, he be- came Superintendent of Schools for Wilkes-Barre. He was reappointed to this office in 1922, and again in 1926.
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Under Professor Zeiser's able management, the school system has been raised to a high standard of efficiency and there are more than fifteen thousand pupils enrolled.
'Professor Zeiser has been a generous contributor to civic movements on public affairs in his community. In his political views, he is a supporter of the Republican party. He is a member of the Rotary Club, and he has contributed much toward the general betterment of his vicinity. He is popular in social life, and is a member of many societies which pertain to his profession, such as the National Education Association, and the Penn- sylvania State Educational Association. He is also affi- liated with the Wilkes-Barre Lodge, No. 61, Free and Accepted Masons; the Shekinah Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Dieu le Veut Commandery, No. 45, Knights Templar, and Irem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Wilkes-Barre.
Professor Harry H. Zeiser married, December 28, 1897, Margaret E Smith, daughter of John E. Smith of Nes- copeck Township, and they are the parents of three chil- dren : 1. Bruce R., a graduate of Lafayette College, who married Louise Hunter and by her became the father of two children, Bruce Hunter Zeiser, and Robert Hunter Zeiser, and is now living with his family at Providence, Rhode Island. 2. Myra Jean, a high school teacher at Wilkes-Barre. 3. Margaret J., who resides in Wilkes- Barre. Professor and Mrs. Zeiser maintain their resi- dence in Wilkes-Barre, where they attend the First Presbyterian Church.
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