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Mr. Kirkhuff married, in April, 1913, Fannie Scott, daughter of James and Margaret (Craig) Scott of Ashley, Luzerne County. They adopted a little girl in 1920, Jane Scott Kirkhuff, born January 22, 1919.
FRANK A. CRONAUER, D. D. S .- Highly skilled in his profession, and with a con- stantly growing practice, Dr. Frank A. Cro- naner is in the class of leading dentists of Wilkes-Barre, with a bright future before him. He laid the foundation for his success with a complete education in modern dentis- try, and is ever alert to the constant im- provements and discoveries that are arising in the profession of oral surgery. His clien- tele is large and growing, his friends innum- erable, many of them from his boyhood.
Frank A. Cronauer was born in Wilkes- Barre, September 29, 1898, son of Nicholas and Josephine (Supply) Cronauer. His father is engaged in the restaurant business, his mother died at the age of fifty-seven years, leaving eleven children, Frank being the fifth. He attended the parochial and public schools of Wilkes-Barre, where he grew to manhood. He was graduated from the Wilkes- Barre High School in the class of 1917, and then took up the study of dentistry at the Baltimore State Dental College, Baltimore, Maryland, from which he was gradnated with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1925, after which he established himself in practice in Wilkes-Barre.
Dr. Cronauer is a member of the Luzerne County Dental Association, and American Dental Association, and belongs to the dental college fraternity of Psi Omega. Politically, he is a Republican, and is a communicant of St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church of Wilkes-Barre.
Frank A. Cronauer married, December 20, 1923, Verna Rovinski, of Wilkes-Barre, and they are the parents of a daughter, Elizabeth Lois.
ELLSWORTH W. LYNN-Proprietor of Lynn's Pharmacy, at No. 689 Market Street, in Kingston, better known as Kingston Corners, Ellsworth W. Lynn is prominent in the business circles of Kingston, and is well known in Wilkes-Barre, of which he is a native.
Mr. Lynn was born September 27, 1889, a son of Charles J. A. and Emma (Olson) Lynn, the father having for many years been a foreman in the employ of the Kingston Coal Company, the mother deceased. Charles J. A. Lynn was born in Sweden, and he, as well as she who later became his wife, came to Luzerne County with his parents, when a child, nearly sixty years ago. In this county he met and married Emma Olson, and of this union were born children: 1. John T., elec- trical engineer, employed by the Delaware & Hudson Coal Company. 2. Ellsworth W., of whom follows. 3. W. L., Doctor of Medi- cine, Brooklyn, New York. 4. Carl H., drug- gist, in business with Ellsworth W. Lynn, Kingston. 5. Florence L., wife of Clarence Pearson, of Kingston. 6. Elmer J., electrician, with the Kingston Coal Company. 7. Helen, registered trained nurse, in the General Hos- pital, Wilkes-Barre. 8. George, a student in public school, at Edwardsville and Wyoming Seminary. During the last twenty-six years Charles J. A. Lynn has been foreman for the Kingston Coal Company. He is an earnest, conscientious man of good intelligence, con- stantly interested in the things transpiring around him, a pleasant, friendly personality, who, while he has not accumulated a great store of the goods of the world, has given to it many fine children who have taken sub- stantial places in life, and is content, indeed, in considering what they have done. Both
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he and his good wife early inculcated in their son, Ellsworth W. Lynn, those princi- ples of thought and conduct which have re- mained with him into manhood, have made his character so largely, and in equal meas- ure have assisted him to construct the suc- cess that he has created. Emma (Olson) Lynn died on Thanksgiving Day, 1911.
In the public schools of Wilkes-Barre Mr. Lynn received his academic training of pre- paratory degree. He graduated from Wilkes- Barre High School with the class of 1905, at the age of sixteen years. In due time he entered the Philadelphia College of Phar- macy, and graduated with the Degree of Pharmacy in 1911. He returned to Luzerne County, for a period was clerk in Swainbonk's Drug Store, Wilkes-Barre, then, in 1912, en- gaged in business for himself in Kingston, where he has since continued, with good prosperity, His establishment is known as the largest and most modern of drug stores in the West Side. Mr. Lynn is a member of Kingston Lodge No. 395, Free and Accepted Masons; Shekinah Chapter, No. 182, Royal Arch Masons; Dieu le Veut Commandery, No. 45, Knights Templar; Keystone Consistory, at Scranton, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, thirty-second degree; Irem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and member of Kingston Lodge No. 709, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows; Wilkes- Barre Lodge No. 109, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks; Patriotic Order Sons of America; Fraternal Order of Eagles; and the Irem Temple Country Club. He is a stockholder in the Kingston Bank & Trust Company, a director of the West Side Build- ing & Loan Company, the West Side Mort- gage Company and of the Pennsylvania Wholesale Drug Company, of Wilkes-Barre. Constantly Mr. Lynn participates in move- ments designed for the public welfare, and seldom is there such a movement put in motion that fails to receive his support. He is known as one of the most public-spirited and forward looking of Kingston's com- munity members, a man of commercial and fraternal influence who has voice, too, in affairs political. Toward charity he is gen- erous, and in his own manner of life and method exemplary. His talents in business are extensive; his judgments in business such as to be sought after by associates, and to he of particular valne to those financial insti- tutions with which he is connected. Mr. Lynn finds pleasant recreation in musical circles, and is a musician in Irem Temple Band and MacLuskie's Shalimar Band at Wilkes-Barre.
JOHN J. GALVIN-A newspaper man for eleven years, Mr. Galvin is now a theatrical manager, and as such, manages the Poli Theater, which shows high-class vaudeville and the best run of feature motion pictures, catering to a splendid clientele and in its management reflecting the finest ideals of public entertainment. Mr. Galvin was born at Fort Plain, Montgomery County, New York State, on June 13, 1874. His parents, Thomas and Ann (McManus) Galvin, were both of Irish birth and came over here as young people.
John J. Galvin attended the public schools of his home town and then entered newspaper work, a field in which he remained for about eleven years in various towns in different parts of New York. The theatrical world held alluring appeal to the energetic young man and he did work as press representative for the various theatres of Wilmer and Vin-
cent in New York State for about six years, centering his activities in Utica and cover- ing the Mohawk Valley. Later, he became manager of a theatre at Portsmouth, Vir- ginia, and then assumed managerial control of one of the Poli Theatres at New Haven. In 1912, he came to Wilkes-Barre as man- ager for a Poli Theatre here, in which capac- ity he has remained ever since. In 1925, this theatre was taken over by the Union Theatre Corporation, although retaining the old name. It is a large house, with a seat- ing capacity of twenty-two hundred and is most ably conducted by its popular manager.
John J. Galvin is a Republican in his poli- tics and a communicant of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. He is a past-president of the Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis Club and a mem- ber of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 42, of Little Falls, New York.
LOUIS WATRES JONES, M. D .- Born and reared in Wilkes-Barre, Dr. Jones has spent practically all of his life there, excepting only some six years, during which he attended college and medical school in Philadelphia. His deep attachment to his native city may be seen from the fact that, immediately after having completed his medical education, he returned to it, served as an interne in one of its hospitals, and then established himself there in the practice of his profession. Though one of the younger generation of Wilkes-Barre physicians he is rapidly build- ing up a large and important practice and is gaining for himself a fine position and repu- tation in the community.
Louis Watres Jones was born in Wilkes- Barre, February 16, 1901, a son of Iorwerth and Emma (Evans) Jones. Both his parents are natives of Wales, where his father was born in 1857. The latter has been for a num- ber of years general superintendent of the Spring Brook Water Supply Company of Wilkes-Barre. Dr. Jones received his prelim- inary education in the public schools of his native city and, after having been graduated from Wilkes-Barre High School with the class of 1918, entered the University of Penn- sylvania in Philadelphia. There he took a pre-medical course for the first two years, after which he transferred to that institu- tion's Department of Medicine, which latter he attended for the next four years, gradu- ating from it with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1924. He then gained further practical knowledge and experience by serv- ing for one year as an interne at the Wilkes- Barre General Hospital. Since then he has been established in the general practice of medicine in Wilkes-Barre, with offices at No. 314 East South Street. He is also one of the staff of the State Tuberculosis Clinic. Dr. Jones is a member of the American Medical Association, Pennsylvania State Medical So- ciety, Luzerne County Medical Society, Lehigh Valley Medical Association, Barton Cook Hirst Obstetrical Society, Wyoming Welfare Association, the Sigma Nu Fraternity, the United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania and Laurel Run Rod and Gun Club. He holds member- ship in Lodge No. 61, Free and Accepted Masons, Caldwell Consistory, thirty-second degree, and Irem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In politics he is a supporter of the Republican party and its principles, while his religions affiliations are with the Presbyterian Church and more particularly with Grant Street Presbyterian Church of Wilkes-Barre.
Dr. Jones was married, September 14, 1927.
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at Wilkes-Barre, to Bessie Buckingham of Wilkes-Barre, a daughter of Frederick and Meta Buckingham. Dr. and Mrs. Jones make their home at No. 79 Davis Place, Wilkes- Barre.
ELLISON S. KIRKHUFF-Purchasing agent for the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Com- pany, Mr. Kirkhuff has been with the same organization for forty years, and, in point of time of service, is the oldest in either the managerial offices or clerical department.
Ellison S. Kirkhuff was born at Snyders- ville, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, a son of John and Susan (Slutter) Kirkhuff, deceased. John and Susan (Slutter) Kirkhuff were the parents of eleven children, of whom six are now (1930) living: Stogdell; Mary; Ellison S., of whom further; Margaret, widow of J. H. Schappert; Andrew; and Winifred.
Mr. Kirkhuff received his education in the public schools of East Mauch Chunk, and while yet a young man became a clerk in the employ of the Central Railroad of New Jer- sey, at Ashley, Pennsylvania, then took a place as trainmaster's clerk, at Ashley, after- ward removing to Wilkes-Barre to the offices of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Com- pany, as payroll clerk. After several years of this he went into the plumbing and steam- fitting business for a time, later abandoning it for a clerkship with the coal company. Soon he was promoted to chief clerk and afterward made supervisor of stores, then made purchasing agent, which important position he continued to hold until he re- signed in October, 1928. He is a Republican and a Protestant and member of a number of fraternal organizations, including the Landmark Lodge, No. 442, of the Free and Accepted Masons, Shekinah Chapter, No. 182, Royal Arch Masons; Dieu le Veut Com- mandery, No. 45, Knights Templar; the An- cient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; the Irem Temple Country Club, the Franklin Club, and the Craftsman's Club. An outstanding figure among men in Wilkes- Barre who have created successes for them- selves from means not tendered on the silver salver of wealthy or even well-to-do birth, Mr. Kirkhuff occupies a high position, a re- spected position, in the social and commercial circles of Wilkes-Barre, where he lives, with his family, at No. 54 Carey Avenue.
Ellison S. Kirkhuff married Lillie Huns- berger, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, daughter of Robert and Mary (Hanke) Hunsberger, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkhuff are the par- ents of three children: 1. Robert, an elec- trical engineer in the employ of the New Jersey Zinc Company, at Palmerton, New Jersey, married Aura Miller, and is the father of two children, Ellison and Jean. 2. Ellison Lawrence, a civil and construction engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad, stationed at East Aurora, New York; married Esther Doster. 3. Morilda Lillian, married Edward Snackenberg of Brooklyn, New York, where they now reside.
THE HOYT LIBRARY of Kingston was opened to the public on January 2, 1928, with a collection of 4,327 books. The public was eagerly awaiting its use. At the end of the year 4,500 readers had taken out borrowers' cards. The number of books issued for home use was over 100,000 and the collection amounted to 10,000 books.
The first Library Board consisted of: Mr. E. M. Rosser, president and treasurer; Miss
Frances Dorrance, secretary; Mr. Frank S. Crane (President Borough Council) ; Mr. Rus- sell J. Hoyt; Mr. Abram Nesbitt, 2d; Miss Myra Poland; Mr. G. Murray Roat (Burgess).
Each member of the staff of five had been professionally trained for her work. The librarian, Miss Margaret Jackson, was an accredited teacher of library methods and book selection.
At the opening ceremonies Dr. L. L. Sprague of Wyoming Seminary led in prayer and Mr. B. W. Davis, attorney for the borough of Kingston, gave the history of the library movement. He said: "The Building was the homestead of Samuel Hoyt, born 1815. The father of Samuel Hoyt was county engineer, and his son helped him in this work. Frank W. Hoyt, the son of Samuel Hoyt resided here and finally took up his residence in Delaware County, near Philadelphia, where he resided at the time of his death.
"The first information that we have in the history of the gift is in the date of the will of Frank W. Hoyt. That will was dated March 25, 1903. Mr. Hoyt's death occurred April 11, 1909. Under date of May 18, 1909, a letter was received by Burgess W. H. Chapin in which it stated that under the will of Mr. Hoyt the Hoyt homestead was given to the borough of Kingston to be used as a library and reading room.
"On May 21, 1909, a call went out to the citizens of the borough to meet in the audi- torium of the Main Street School Building. That night there were between two and three hundred citizens there, and by a reso- lution passed, the town council was author- ized to notify the executors of the Hoyt estate that the gift was accepted, and on June 7, 1909, at a meeting of the town council a resolution was passed and forwarded to the executors."
As in 1909 the borough had no money with which to remodel the building, buy the neces- sary books and pay a library staff, it was decided to continue to lease the building as a dwelling (the lessees were successively O. M. Lance and Dr. J. E. Scheifly) and to save the rental as an organization fund.
On February 20, 1911, an ordinance was passed by the Borough Council stating that the president of council and two others to be chosen by him were to be appointed as a committee, to be known as the Hoyt Library Committee. Also that the borough would appropriate $500 annually for this work. By the efforts of the Council and the goodwill of the citizens work of organization was undertaken and completed between May, 1926, and January 2, 1928, when the library was opened to the residents of Kingston.
DORRANCE FAMILY-The Dorrance fam- ily has long been distinguished in the pro- fessions and in various worthy callings, and prominent in the advance , of Pennsylvania for generations. The strain of a fine Colonial ancestry runs through the family line, in which were representatives who fought with distinction in the Revolutionary War.
The founder of the family in America was Rev. Samuel Dorrance, a Scotch-Irish Pres- byterian and graduate of Glasgow University, who arrived in the first quarter of the eighteenth century and was settled as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Voluntown, Connecticut, on December 23, 1723, continu- ing as its spiritual head until his death, November 12, 1775. He had five sons and one daughter, and two of the sons served in the
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Revolutionary Army. John and George, of the latter see further, settled in the Wyo- ming Valley on lands held by the family down to the present time. John is said to have returned to Voluntown.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Dorrance, son of Rev. Samuel Dorrance, was a hero and pa- triot, whose name and deeds stand out with shining distinctness in Wyoming Valley history. He was born March 4, 1736, died July 4, 1778, the day following the massacre at Wyoming, when, a prisoner and weakened by sufferings and a severe wound, he was killed by his captors. He had led various armed parties against the Indians and Tories, and had succeeded in dispersing them. For this he appears to have been made the espe- cial object of savage vengeance. In 1777 he led a company of eighty men against an Indian camp on Wyalusing and put them to rout. As lieutenant-colonel, he commanded the American left wing under Colonel Deni- son, July 3, 1778. He had been a private in a Connecticut regiment of light horse, and in the autumn of 1775, he was commissioned lieutenant in a Connecticut regiment of militia for Wyoming, He was promoted to major of his regiment and to lieutenant- colonel, serving in the latter rank until July 3, 1778. He was the founder of the family of Dorrance in the Wyoming Valley in Pennsyl- vania. Colonel Dorrance was twice married. Of his children was Benjamin, of whom further.
Colonel Benjamin Dorrance, youngest son of Lieutenant-Colonel George Dorrance, was born in Voluntown, Connecticut, in 1767, and was a child when taken by his father's family to the Wyoming Valley, to settle in the locality, which has since been called Dor- ranceton. As a boy Benjamin Dorrance was in Forty Fort at the time of the battle of Wyoming, and later was esteemed an author- ity on the events of the stirring times in the valley. He served as sheriff of Luzerne County and as a member of the State Legis- lature for seven years. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Wyoming Bank of Wilkes-Barre. His title of colonel was given through his holding office in that rank in the State Militia. Colonel Dorrance married, November 25, 1795, Nancy Ann Buckingham, born in 1767; died Febru- ary 2, 1834, daughter of Jedediah and Martha (Clark) Buckingham. She was a descendant of Thomas Buckingham, the Puritan ancestor of all the American Buckinghams, whose name figured prominently among the settlers of Quinnipiac (New Haven) and Milford, Connecticut. Colonel Benjamin and Nancy Ann (Buckingham) Dorrance had three chil- dren: John, of whom further; Charles, who lived and left family; and George, who died in infancy.
Rev. John Dorrance, D. D., eldest son of Colonel Benjamin Dorrance and his wife, Nancy Ann (Buckingham) Dorrance, was born in Kingston, February 28, 1800, and died April 18, 1861. He was minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Wilkes-Barre from 1833 until his death in 1861. He was honored by Princeton College with the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1859. During his pas- torate at Wilkes-Barre the Wilkes-Barre Female Institute was founded, in 1854, under the auspices of his church. He married, De- cember 6, 1827, Penelope Mercer, who died January 7, 1860. They had eight children. The line continues through a son of his brother, Colonel Charles Dorrance.
Colonel Charles Dorrance, second son of Colonel Benjamin and Nancy Ann (Bucking- ham) Dorrance, was born in Kingston, Janu- ary 4, 1805, ad died January 18, 1892. lle was a gentleman farmer, proprietor of the model "Dorrance farm," and rose from captain of the Wyoming Volunteers through the grades to colonel in the State Militia. He was presi- dent of the Luzerne County Agricultural So- ciety for ten years from its organization in 1858 and served as president of the Luzerne County Prison Commission; as president of the Wyoming Commemorative Association, president of the Wyoming National Bank, president of the Wilkes-Barre Bridge Com- pany; and was a member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. He mar- ried, August 28, 1845, Susan E. Ford, daughter of James and Maria (Lindsley) Ford, of Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, born November 27, 1828, died March 6, 1892. They had seven children, of whom was Benjamin, of whom further.
Benjamin Dorrance, A. B., A. M., F. R. H. S., eldest son of Colonel Charles and Susan E. (Ford) Dorrance, was born in Kingston, August 14, 1846. His education was received in the Presbyterian Seminary, at Troy, Penn- sylvania; Wyoming Seminary, at Kingston, and Princeton College, from which he was graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1868, and re- ceived the degree of Master of Arts in 1871. He was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Wilkes-Barre about eighteen years, when impaired eyesight compelled him to abandon professional work. Thereafter he devoted himself to farming pursuits, and incidentally to horticulture, at Dorranceton. For many years he was president of the Wyoming Com- memorative Association, and also a member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society and a Fellow of the Royal Horticul- tural Society of England. Benjamin Dor- rance married, May 22, 1872, Ruth Woodhull Strong, daughter of Schuyler Strong, of Bath, Steuben County, New York, and his wife, Frances (Cruger) Strong, descended from Elder John Strong, of Windsor, Connecticut. Elder John Strong was born in Taunton, Eng- land, in 1605, and was one of the settlers of Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630. He was a General Court deputy, a developer of the Windsor (Connecticut) settlement, one of the founders of Northampton, Massachusetts, and the first ruling elder of the church in that town. He married for his second wife Abigail Ford, daughter of Thomas Ford, who bore him sixteen children. Thomas Ford came in the "Mary and John," was one of the found- ers of Dorchester, an early settler of Windsor, and removed with Elder John Strong to Northampton, where he died in 1676, sur- vived by one hundred and sixty descendants. From Elder John Strong, of Northampton, to Ruth Woodhull Strong, wife of Benjamin Dorrance, the line of descent follows to (ii) Thomas, of Northampton, one of Captain John Mason's troopers; to (iii) Selah, of Setauket, Long Island; to Selah, Sr., (iv) married Han- nah Woodhull, sister of General Nathaniel Woodhull, killed on Long Island during the Revolution; to Major Nathaniel Strong (v), killed by British and Tories. November 6, 1778; to Selah (vi), who married Ruth Wood- hull, daughter of Captain Ebenezer Wood- hull; to Schuyler (vii) Strong, who married Frances Cruger, daughter of General Daniel Cruger, of Steuben County, New York; to Ruth Woodhull Strong (viii), who married Benjamin Dorrance, of Dorranceton. The
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Crugers are of Huguenot ancestry, who escaped the massacre of St. Bartholomew and fled to different countries for refuge. The branch from which Mrs. Dorrance was de- scended settled in the Duchy of Holstein. The father of General Cruger came to America in 1768, and settled in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, where Daniel (General Cruger) was born, December 22, 1780. The family removed to Newtown (Elmira), New York, where the father became a merchant. Daniel learned the printing trade, then studied law, was ad- mitted to practice; enlisted for the War of 1812 and served throughout that conflict, after which he became a member of the Assembly, Speaker of the House, member of Congress, and Deputy Attorney-General. He died in Wheeling, West Virginia, in June, 1843. Children of Benjamin and Ruth Wood- hull (Strong) Dorrance:
1. Anne Dorrance, eldest daughter of Ben- jamin and Ruth Woodhull (Strong) Dorrance, was born on the Dorrance farm, Kingston, June 26, 1873. She was educated at the Wilkes-Barre Institute and Wyoming Semi- nary, graduating from there in the class of 1891. She received the Bachelor of Arts degree at Vassar College in 1895, and upon her return home became associated with her father as partner in his rose-growing busi- ness; she continued in this until the green- houses were closed in 1918 owing to the stringency in coal during the war.
Miss Dorrance was elected school director of the Borough of Dorranceton in 1911, which office she held until 1923, when the consolida- tion of Dorranceton and Kingston necessi- tated the retirement of directors from the double board at the expiration of their elected terms, in order to reduce the board to legal size. During these twelve years Miss Dorrance was for many years president of the Dorranceton School Board, which office she was holding at the time of her retire- ment. In 1927 Miss Dorrance was elected school director of the Kingston School Board and in 1929 reelected with overwhelming majority for a term of six years. She has been president of the Kingston School Board here since her election to membership.
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