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Richard J. W. Templin married, December 31, 1912, Edith Elliott, of Shamokin, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of the following children: Richard E., Evelyn M., Jeanne E., William C. B., Philip R .. Mary E., Rob- ert. deceased, Merle T., and Ralph W. The family resides in Dallas.
MARJORIE EDNA REED, M. D .- Of the many physicians of Luzerne County, there is none who is ac- corded a higher degree of respect and esteem by their fellow-practitioners than is given so freely to Dr. Mar- jorie Edna Reed, who by her ability has placed herself in the foremost rank of those who ply the art of healing.
Dr. Reed was born in Lee, Luzerne County, on July 2, 1896, the daughter of John E. and Ella D. ( Partington) Reed, both natives of Luzerne County, the former born in Hazleton and the latter in Plymouth. Dr. Reed acquired her early education in the public and high schools of Plymouth, graduating from the latter in 1914. She then attended Hiram College, at Hiram, Ohio, and graduated with the class of 1918 as a Bachelor of Arts. For one year she taught school at Dorranceton, now Kingston, Luzerne County, and then entered the Women's Medical College at Philadelphia, graduating in 1923 with her degrec as Doctor of Medicine. For a year she officiated as an interne at the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital at which time she was the first woman interne to have been admitted, and then located in Plymouth, where she now enioys an extensive and lucrative practice, being the only woman physician in this town. Dr. Reed is an active member of the county and State medical societies and is
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also a member of the American Medical Association. She is on the staff of the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, and has charge of the Baby Welfare Clinic in Plymouth. Her political allegiance is to the Republican party, but she has never taken an active part in that field. Her religious affiliations are with the Christian Church of Plymouth.
THOMAS A. CURLEY-A business man of unusual ability and wide experience, Thomas A. Curley estab- lished himself as a plumber and heater in Wilkes-Barre in 1913, and has engaged in this business very success- fully since that time, employing now about twelve men. Mr. Curley is connected with many local enterprises and is the owner of nine properties many of which he has im- proved with fine modern buildings which are a credit to the community and to Mr. Curley's great interest in its development.
His father, Patrick J. Curley, a miner, was born in Ireland, in 1843, and died in 1908. His mother, who before her marriage was Mary Riley, was also born in Ireland and is still living. Thomas A. Curley was born in Sugar Notch, July 23, 1886. He attended the local public schools, and at the age of nine was forced to begin work, taking a position in a coal braker, where he re- mained until 1903, at which time he had become assistant outside foreman. In 1903, he resigned this place to take up the plumbing and heating trade, and after ten years, in 1913, he was able to go into business for himself. Aside from this work, he is president and a director, and has been since its organization in 1923, of the Peo- ple's State Bank of Newtown in Wilkes-Barre, and in 1922 he erected the modern brick building now occupied by the bank, a store, and five apartments, the title to this property remaining in his hands. During the past few years Mr. Curley has made many improvements on Hazel Street, all separate but adjoining: 1. Bank building, three stores, five apartments. 2. Store and of- fices. 3. Store and two apartments. 4. Store, three apartments and single house. 5. Double block. 6. Three single houses.
Politically, Mr. Curley is a member of the Democratic party, and he is affiliated fraternally with the Knights of Columbus, fourth degree; Lodge No. 109, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Alhambra Caravan, No. 4, and Division, No. 18 of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Hose Company of Han- over Township, Pennsylvania, and secretary and treas- urer of the Newtown Fern Club. He and his family at- tend St. Leo's Roman Catholic Church.
In June, 1917, Thomas A. Curley married Annabel Earley, of Pittston, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Anthony F. and Mary Earley of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Curley are the parents of two children: 1. Mary, born January 10, 1919. 2. Thomas, born in June, 1922. The family home is at No. 606 Hazel Street, Wilkes-Barre.
ENOCH WALTON GARRISON-As president of the First National Bank of Shickshinny, Enoch Walton Garrison heads an institution in the establishment of which he played a prominent part, and to which he has devoted most of his time and attention since 1907. when he accepted the position of teller. His rise to his present position is the result of continued service of a high order of merit.
Mr. Garrison was born on November 1, 1854, at Shick- shinny, Pennsylvania, a son of Nathan Garrison, born in Salem Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, now deceased, and of Rachael ( Line) Garrison, who was born in Conyngham Township, Luzerne County, also now de- ceased. His father conducted a general store for many years in Shickshinny. Enoch Walton Garrison attended the public schools of his birthplace, and when still a boy, began work in a local coal breaker. After a period of three years, he took up the practice of telegraphy, accept- ing a position as telegraph operator for the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, at Shiekshinny. Later he became station agent here, and for more than twenty years, he maintained his connection with the rail- road. In October, 1900, when the First National Bank was established in Shickshinny, Mr. Garrison was one of the organizers, and a member of the original board of directors. In 1907, he resigned as station agent to accept a position as teller with the bank, and with this institu- tion he has since remained, winning rapid but merited promotion. Finally, on March 15, 1921, Mr. Garrison was chosen president of the bank. In this capacity his executive ability together with a sound judgment in the
matter of business trends and property values, have made his services of the utmost value.
In general Mr. Garrison supports the principles and candidates of the Republican party, although in this mat- ter he exercises considerable independence of choice. For the past several years he has been treasurer of the Shickshinny School Board, having also served on another occasion as a member of this board. He is affiliated fraternally with the Free and Accepted Masons, in which organization he is a member of Shickshinny Lodge, No. 354, and was treasurer of this lodge for a period of more than ten years. Mr. Garrison has always liberally supported worthy civic and charitable movements. He and his family worship in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1880, Enoch Walton Garrison married May Winans, of Shickshinny, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Winans of this place, the wedding taking place in June. Mr. and Mrs. Garrison are the parents of three children : Helen, Marion, and Ruth.
ROBERT H. STROH, M. D .- One of the most pop- ular and progressive young physicians to enter the prac- tice of medicine here, is Dr. Robert H. Stroh, who since December, 1927, has made his home and carried on a practice of general medicine in this town. He is of the homeopathic school of physicians and is enjoying a con- stantly increasing clientele. He is the son of William J. and Helen ( Keeler ) Stroh, his father, who is a florist, was born at Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, in 1863, and his mother was born at Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1868. His father has been interested in raising flowers for many years and continues in the florist business and in charge of Forty Fort Cemetery.
Robert H. Stroh was born at Forty Fort, Pennsyl- vania, on October 28, 1897, and educated in the public schools of that place completing the public school course by graduating from the Forty Fort High School in the class of 1916. He then had one year at Lafayette College at the end of which period he entered the serv- ice of the United States Army and was assigned to the 109th Artillery, Medical Sanitary detachment. He was overseas for eighteen months with the rank of sergeant. In May, 1919, he was honorably discharged from the service and immediately entered upon the study of medi- cine at the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1924, and in 1926 graduated from that school with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He then served as interne at the Woman's Homeopathic Hospital, Philadel- phia, for a term of one year and afterwards he came to Wyoming, December 1, 1927, and took up the general practice of medicine here. He is connected with the Wyoming Valley Hospital in charge of the obstetrical department. Dr. Stroh is a member of the County Medi- cal Society : the State Medical Society ; the American Medical Association ; the State Homeopathic Society, Wyoming Valley Homeopathic Society, North Eastern Pennsylvania Homeopathic Society, and the National Homeopathic Society. Dr. Stroh is a member of Lodge No. 468, Free and Accepted Masons; holds the thirty- second degree in Caldwell Consistory; member of the Shrine, and belongs to the Phi Upsilon Rho Fraternity and the Ptolemy Society. His religious affiliation is with the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1927, 1)r. Robert H. Stroh married Elizabeth Gould Mehorter, daughter of Mrs. S. A. Mehorter.
REV. WALTER A. GORMAN-As pastor of St. Charles Borromeo's Roman Catholic Church, in Sugar Notch, Pennsylvania, the Rev. Walter A. Gorman has worked tirelessly for the moral and spiritual growth of the community. Realizing that these ends are best served by constant contact with his parishioners and the power of an inspirational example, he has been unusually active in ministering to the sick and troubled, and has taken a prominent part in the daily life of Sugar Notch. Father Gorman was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, June 24, 1^70, a son of Walter Gorman, who was born in Ireland in 1836, a retail grocer in Scranton for forty- eight years, and well-known there until the time of his death in 1908, and of Anne ( Fallon) Gorman, who was also born in Ireland in 1844, and who died in 1918.
Walter A. Gorman attended the public schools of Scranton, and later entered St. Michael's College, in Toronto, Canada, where he completed the classical course and afterwards taught for one year. At the end of that time, he began his theological studies in St. Mary's
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Seminary, Baltimore, where he was graduated in 1896. For three years he was curate to Bishop Hoban in Ashley, Pennsylvania, and for two years, from 1899 until 1901, curate to the Rev. J. J. Loughran, at Minooka, Penn- sylvania. For five years thereafter, he was curate to Monsignor Coffey, in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, and then for five years pastor of Bentley Creek and Ridgebury. For ten years he was pastor of the church in South Waverly, Pennsylvania, coming, finally to Sugar Notch in August, 1920, as pastor of St. Charles Borromeo's Roman Catholic Church, and in this position he has since remained, Father William J. Ward, curate, since September, 1927. About December, 1928, a convent and St. Charles School will be completed, the latter to ac- commodate three hundred and fifty pupils, at a cost of $150,000.
During the World War, Father Gorman was very active in Waverly and the vicinity in connection with the various drives, and he served as one of the "Four Minute Men" there. Politically he is a member of the Demo- cratic party, and is affiliated fraternally with the Knights of Columbus.
Throughout the long period of his ministry, Father Gorman has been a builder, a constructive worker in both temporal and spiritual affairs. He has refused to com- promise his ideals, but has never forgotten the humanity of man.
E. D. WOISARD, D. D. S .- Over thirty years ago a young dentist came into Pennsylvania and located at Pittston, where he established himself professionally. During that long period of continuous labor in his field Dr. E. D. Woisard has won for himself an enviable reputation, professionally, socially and fraternally, has reared a family and become one of the substantial citi- zens of the community. Aside from his professional work he Has always taken an active interest in the advance- ment of the causes that have been for the benefit of the majority of the population, ready at all times to lend his time or labor without thought or recompense. These attributes have brought to him a host of friends through- out the district, whose loyalty has been both pleasing and valuable to him in his career. His high grade of citizen- ship is worthy of emulation by the younger element who are beginning their careers, an example of benefit to all. Mr. Woisard was born in Norwich, Connecticut, March 12, 1869, a son of Joseph Henry and Adele (Dupont) Woisard, of French-Swiss descent, and acquired his edu- cation in the elementary schools and at the University of Ottawa, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1890. This prepara- tion was followed by a course at the New York College of Dentistry, which graduated him in 1894 with the additional and professional degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. His first professional location was in Water- bury, Connecticut, but he removed to Pittston in 1895 and has been since that time a resident and practitioner here. He is a member of St. John's Roman Catholic Church and resides at No. 8 North Main Street, Pittston. Dr. E. D. Woisard married, in 1895, Frances Elizabeth Kelley. They are the parents of the following children : 1. Roland E., a graduate of Harvard University, 1918, with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery, now prac- ticing in Brooklyn, New York. 2. Eugene E. 3. Lionel A., a graduate of the dental college of Harvard Univer- sity, class of 1925, now practicing in Brooklyn, New York.
JOHN O'DONNELL MANGAN-For two genera- tions the mercantile house of Mangans has been one of the leading establishments of Pittston, where it was founded by Thomas Mangan in 1865, who conducted it until June 1, 1899, when he retired and turned the busi- ness over to his son, John O'Donnell Mangan, its pres- ent proprietor. The senior Mangan was born in the County Mayo, Ireland, and emigrated to America when he was eighteen years of age, locating in Hawley, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, and engaging in a general mer- cantile business there. About the time of the close of the Civil War he removed to Pittston and founded the establishment that ever since has been in active operation, carrying a full line of ail commodities, to which his son later added a bakery and retail store for its wares. Thomas Mangan died in Pittston, June I, 1905. at the age of sixty-eight years. He was very active in civic affairs and served in numerous capacities in financial and commercial enterprises, among these being directorships in the Miners' Savings Bank and the City Electric Illumi- nating Company. He was a member of St. John's Roman Catholic Church of Pittston and married Mary O'Don-
nell of this city, a daughter of James O'Donnell, one of the leading merchants and citizens of this district. There were several children of this union, but two of whom. reached the age of maturity, one being John O'Donnell, of whom further, and the other his sister, Margaret, now the wife of M. J. Milhall, an attorney of this city.
John O'Donnell Mangan was born in Pittston, October 20, 1876, and was educated here in St. John's parochial schools and at Georgetown University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1900. He then entered the Mangan establishment as successor to his father and continuing its success, enlarging as business demanded and finally adding the bakery, the entire enterprise being said to be the oldest mercantile business in continuous operation in Pittston. Mr. Mangan is a director in the Miners' Savings Bank and in the City Electric Illuminat- ing Company, has served on the Board of Education and is a member of St. John's Roman Catholic Church. He is a trustee of Pittston Hospital, for many years having been secretary, and is secretary of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
John O'Donnell Mangan married, October 16, 1901, Grace O'Malley, daughter of Mrs. B. A. O'Malley, of Pittston, Pennsylvania, who died October 17, 1903, leav- ing two children: Thomas and Grace. Her widower married a second time, November 4, 1909, Grace Garvey Horan, daughter of P. J. Horan, of Dunmore, Pennsyl- vania. They are the parents of the following children : John C'Donnell, Jr .; Rosemary, Clara, Joseph Horan, and Margaret. The family reside at No. 1004 Susque- hanna Avenue, West Pittston.
OSCAR WILLIAMS, D. D. S .- The profession of dental surgery in Luzerne County has an able repre- sentative in Dr. Oscar Williams, who has been in prac- tice there for ten years. He is prominently associated with the organized interests of his profession in the county and is the executive head of his fellow-prac- titioners in the Nanticoke Dental Society. Service in the World War was patriotically rendered by Dr. Wil- liams in the hospital branch of the navy, and he has accomplished a fine work for Newport Township as dental inspector of the public schools.
Born in Nanticoke, August 11, 1897, Dr. Oscar Wil- liams is the son of Evan J. and Rebecca (Evans) Wil- liams, the former, a native of Wales, was engaged in the real estate business, vice-president of the Nanticoke National Bank, and a director of the Susquehanna Lum- ber Company, died March 3, 1927; his wife, a native of Wales, died in December, 1925. The son, Oscar, made a good record for scholarship in the grade and high schools of Nanticoke, graduating from the latter school in 1916. He then entered the School of Dentistry, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in the class of 1919 with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. In August of that year he went to Glen Lyon, where he has built up a large and desirable practice from among the best families. Recognition of his professional standing was made by his fellow-practitioners in the Nanticoke area when they elected him president of the Nanticoke Dental Society, whose interests he promotes, while maintaining with his fellow-members' assistance a high code of professional ethics. He also lends a coopera- tive spirit in his connection with the Luzerne County Dental Society, of which he is a valued member.
Dr. Williams is an ardent supporter of the faith and practices of the Republican party. During the World War he was attached to the hospital branch of the United States Navy, and was honorably discharged in Decem- ber, 1918, after rendering particularly meritorious serv- ice in that important department. Having returned to his" native Luzerne County, he finished his education at the university, and then took up his work at Glen Lyon, where he has ever since held the confidence, esteem and patronage of a goodly number of the inhabitants. Since 1923, le has filled the position of dental inspector in the schools of Newport Township, and the standard of health and efficiency has been noticeably improved since he took up the work, for which the authorities in charge are grateful.
Fraternal life finds Dr. Williams highly placed in the Masonic order. He is affiliated with Cauldwell Con- sistory of the Scottish Rite, of Bloomsburg; Blue Lodge No. 541, Free and Accepted Masons; and Irem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. By right of his service in the war he is a member of the American Legion, and belongs also to Hose Company No. 1, of Glen Lyon. He and his family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Dr. Oscar Williams married, September 9, 1919, Emma
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Hansen, daughter of Harry and Ella Hansen, of Alden, and they are the parents of a son, Robert Leonard, born August 28, 1921.
DR. JACOB P. KUSCHEL-Though he has been engaged in practice here in Pittston as an optometrist for more than a quarter of a century, Dr. Jacob P. Kuschel is still (1928) a student and learner, as well as an expert in his field of optometrical practice. A graduate of the Franklin College of Optics and Ophthal- mology, Dr. Kuschel has done post-graduate work in the Pennsylvania State College, and received a special diploma from the State as late as 1918. He is well known throughout a wide area surrounding Pittston, and is successfully taking care of a large clientele.
The Kuschel family originally came from France, where the name was spelled Kuzel. At the time of the Inquisition the ancestors of the branch to which Jacob P. Kuschel belongs left France and settled in Germany. Christian Kuschel, the paternal grandfather of Mr. Kus- chel, was one of the many fearless and enterprising men who had the courage to leave the unsettled conditions and the many difficulties of the old country and seek a new world where opportunity opened her doors to honest effort. He settled in Pennsylvania, and worked as a wood courier. The maternal grandfather was Conrad Schultz, . who came to this country in 1853 and settled in Pittston, Pennsylvania, where he worked at his trade as a shoe- maker. His wife was Anna ( Hildebrandt ) Schultz.
Ferdinand J. Kuschel, father of Dr. Jacob P. Kuschel, was born in Crakow, Prussian Poland, son of Christian Kuschel, mentioned above. He learned the trade of the wheelwright and also became a miller, but he came to this country with his parents and as a young man went out to St. Louis, Missouri. Early in the period of the Civil War, he enlisted for service and was on active duty throughout that conflict, serving under General Siegel and Colonel Osterhaut. He enlisted in August, 1861, in the Pioneer Corps, participated in most of the major engagements of the conflict, in the Southern cam- paigns, including Vicksburg, and was one of the men who were set at work digging the tunnel which was used in blowing up the fortifications at Vicksburg. He was slightly wounded. but was able to continue in active serv- ice during nearly all of the period of his enlistment. In 1865, when the war was over, he came to Pittston, Penn- sylvania, and engaged in business for himself as a wheel- wright, following that trade to the time of his death, which occurred September 5, 1913, at the age of seventy- six years. He married Elizabeth Schultz, daughter of Conrad and Anna ( Hildebrandt) Schultz, who died August 18, 1927, at the age of eighty years and four months, and they were the parents of six children: 1. Ferdinand H., of Pittston, Pennsylvania, who is an automobile painter, of Pittston. 2. William C., who is a moulder at Quakertown, Pennsylvania. 3. Christopher J., engaged as an auto painter at Lansdale, Pennsylvania. 4. Jacob P., of further mention. 5. Susie, who married George Walker, of Rush, Pennsylvania. 6. Elizabeth, wife of Jacob Schach, a tailor of Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Jacob P. Kuschel, son of Ferdinand J. and Elizabeth (Schultz) Kuschel, was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1883, and received his early education in the public schools of Pittston and in Wood's Business College. Later he continued study in the Bowman Techni- cal School, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and then entered the Franklin College of Optics and Ophthalmology. When his course there was completed, he still further added to his equipment for his work by post-graduate courses in the Pennsylvania State College of Optometry, and 1918 he received a diploma for work done by the State through the Eyesight Survey and Service Corporation. Mean- time, in 1903, after completing his professional study in the Franklin College of Optics and Ophthalmology, Dr. Kuschel opened offices in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and here he has been successfully engaged in practice to the present time (1928) completing a period of service of more than a quarter of a century. As has already been stated, he has never ceased study, and his many patients know that when they go to Dr. Kuschel they can be sure of receiving not only expert attention, but the advantages of the latest and most advanced discoveries and inven- tions of the profession. Progressive, hard-working, thorough, eminently the scientist and student, Dr. Kus- chel believes that all of life should be characterized by growth in knowledge and in experience, and he con- sistently lives up to that belief in the profession which he has chosen and which he has followed for so many years. He is a member and a past president of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Optometric Association ; also
a member of the Pennsylvania State Optometric Asso- ciation, and of the American Optometric Association ; and among his professional associates he is very well known and highly regarded. He is a member and Past Master of Valley Lodge, No. 499, Free and Accepted Masons, having served as Master in 1916; of Pittston Chapter, No. 242, Royal Arch Masons; Wyoming Valley Commandery, No. 57, Knights Templar; and of Irem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; also of Irem Temple Club. His clubs are the Kiwanis Club and the Craftsmen's Club. During the World War Mr. Kuschel was a second lieutenant in Company E, 2d Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve Militia. In his religious affiliations Dr. Kuschel is identified with Trinity Episcopal Church, in the affairs of which he is very active, serving as a member of the board of vestry- men and as financial secretary. In his church, fraternal, and club associations and activities, Dr. Kuschel is as faithful and as dependable as in his professional prac- tice, and he has a host of staunch and admiring friends in Pittston and in the neighboring districts.
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