Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Part 131

Author: Stocker, Rhamanthus Menville, 1848-
Publication date: 1887
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : R. T. Peck
Number of Pages: 1318

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Orlando A. Eldridge (R. E.), 1812-1816, Mary A. Taylor, 1818-1884 ; Saml. B., Wm. H., Edwin S .- S. B. Eldridge.

Saml. D. Townsend, N. Y., Sally M. Benjamin ; Lewis, Mary (Morgan), Adelia, Jerome, Cornelia, Theodore. Res. 33 yrs.

Robt. Eldridge, Groton, Ct., 1st Sally Sylvester ; Jas., Orlando, Lydia, Eliza : 2d Dorathe Collard ; Chas., Jennie .- A. J. Ainey ..

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Theoda, Geo. I., Loretta (Davison), Fanny, Lyman, Hattie (Lindley), Thos. L., Wm. H.

Benjamin Jackson (J. J.), Hannah Lily; Eleanor, Eliza, Mary, Benj. S., Bianca, Joseph .- C. F. Perigo. John Stroud, Elvira Kingsley; Wm., Frances, John.

C. Marvin Chapman (G. C.), Mary Adams (Wm. A.); Will, Burt, Geo. Florida .- Wm. Mead.

Daniel Torrey, 57-1857, Betsey Smith (I. S.); 58- 1862 .- L. Richards.

Chas. C. Daley, Lucy Wilcox ; Chas., Julia, Lucy, Louisa, Alvin, Harriet, Frances, Horace, Wm. T .- E. T. Stephens.

Ira W. Curtis, Eunice Oakley (T. O.); Fernando, Clara.

John Robinson, 1st - Holenback ; Caroline (W. P. Sterling) : 2d Olive Howard (S. H.); Chas., Olive, Nancy, Mary, Hersey .- F. A. King.

Edwin Tiffany, 1812-1857, Sophronia Smith (L. S.); Malvina E .- M. E. Mckeever.

JAMES MONROE NEWTON .- The first record we have of this family is that the father of Samuel New- ton removed from Scituate, Massachusetts, and settled at Ledyard or Groton, New London County, Con- necticut, and that in regular line of successive genera- tions from this ancestor, Samuel, Jr., Christopher, Agrippa, Asa (1767-1848) and Eunice Allen (1767- 1849) Newton, followed by their son, Samuel Allen Newton, have occupied the homestead there. Family tradition says that the progenitor of the Newtons settled in New England soon after the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620, and the seven generations here- in given seem to authenticate the tradition. Samuel Allen Newton (1791-1863) was a teacher of wide re- pute in his native place, Groton, and there for twenty winters instructed the youth of the common schools. He served in the War of 1812, and did coast-duty, and was a fife major in the old State militia of Con- necticut. He married, in 1815, Mary (1795-1876), a daughter of Isaac and Amy Gavitt Babcock, of the same place. The latter after her husband's death, in Connecticut, came to this county and settled near Dimock Corners with her children. Eunice Allen's father, Captain Samuel Allen, was killed in Fort Griswold during the Revolutionary War, and his name is inscribed on a marble tablet with others who so gallantly withstood the British on that memorable occasion. Agrippa Newton, the great-grandson of Samuel above mentioned was called out to defend New London at the time it was burned by the British in the same war, but was not in any engagement. Samuel Allen Newton removed with his wife and family, in 1834, from Groton, and sailing in a sloop to New York, thence via the Hudson to Rondout, the Delaware and Hudson Canal to Honesdale, and by team the remainder of the way, arrived in the north- ern part of Brooklyn township. Here he purchased of Judge William Jessup, agent, one hundred and twenty-five acres of land, which was his homestead

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until his death. He subsequently added by purchase ing a wife and one son. She is the present wife of Jason Wright, of Hopbottom. James M. Newton, before mentioned, owns the homestead and has con- tinued its management since his father's death. He obtained his early education in the home schools, and under the private instruction of his father. His life- work has been farming, and the appointments of the old homestead show the work of a thrifty and judicious agriculturist. He united with the Susque- hanna Grange years ago, and is interested in all that seventy-five acres more. In 1840 he built the present residence. Upon the solicitation of his neighbors, he opened a select school at his home in 1839, known as the Newtonville Institute, where many, who are now the business men of the community, obtained their most advanced education from books. He was a natural mathematician, a natural mechanic and a surveyor, and he was apt in music, which he loved and ardently practiced. Both himself and wife were devoted members of the Presbyterian Church of benefits the farmer and improves the condition of its

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Brooklyn. The eldest son, Isaac A., born in 1819, died in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, leaving a wife and two children ; James Monroe, born at Groton, Connecticut, October 12, 1821, succeeded his father on the homestead; Jenette, 1824, was first the wife of Martin L. Catlin, of Bridgewater, and after his death married Dann S. Watrous, of Brooklyn ; Henry Franklin, 1826, formerly connected with the fork manufactory at Montrose, is a farmer in Dimock ; George F. (1836-69), died at Holly, Michigan, leav-

laborers. The family is identified with the Methodist Church at Brooklyn.

His wife, whom he married in 1856, is Frances E. Slauson, who was born at Ridgefield, in Fairfield County, Connecticut, May 26, 1837. She is a daugh- ter of Jesse B. (1809-69) and Fannie Mead (1808-82) Slauson, who removed from Connecticut in 1853, to this county, and in 1856 settled near Birchardville, where their son, Edward B., now resides. They were members of the Forest Lake Methodist

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Church and were buried in the cemetery there. Their other children are Edward B., born in 1840 ; Mary Eugenia (1843-77), wife of Charles Leet, died at Montrose; Jesse B. Slauson was a hatter by trade and carried on that business at Ridgefield, but after settling in this county he was a farmer. The chil- dren of James M. and Francis E. Newton are, E. Dora, a graduate of the Montrose Academy in the class of '76, and a teacher for twenty terms ; married, in 1885, Frederick Hohn, a native of Germany, who landed in Philadelphia in 1865, and resides on his farm nearly adjoining the Newton homestead; Fan-

Watrous family may be found in the Bridgewater township history.

Joseph (1794-1875), second son, born in Chester, Conn., removed with his parents to Middleburg, N. Y., and in 1816 married Dolly (1795-1835), a daugh- ter of Usher Benjamin, of the same place. In 1817, with his wife, he came to Bridgewater, and settled near the present site of Mott's woolen-mill, where he resided until 1830, when he bought four hundred acres of land from the John B. Wallace tract, situate on the Milford and Owego turnpike, in southeastern Bridgewater, where his son, Charles F., resides in

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nie M, for some time a milliner at Montrose, also married, in 1885, Edward G. Lee, a farmer in Brook- lyn ; Edward Weeks and Louisa Ella Newton.

DANN SPENCER WATROUS .- His paternal grand- parents, Benjamin (1772-1820) and Lucy (Spencer) (1770-1839) Watrous, natives of Chester, Middlesex County, Conn., settled in the town of Middleburg, Schoharie County, N. Y., in 1797, and in 1818 removed to Bridgewater, this county, and settled where their son Spencer Watrous now resides. They had a family of twelve children, most of whom married and raised families, and were residents of Susquehanna County. A further sketch of the

1887. In 1844 he built the present residence, and for many years thereafter kept a public-house for the accommodation of travelers on this great highway to New York, but his main business was farming. Both himself and wife were members of the Baptist Church at Montrose, and reared their children under Christian instruction. They were as follows: Har- riet, born in 1817, widow of the late Ezra S. Kent, of Brooklyn; Henrietta (1819-75), was the wife of Charles Kent, of Brooklyn; Dann Spencer, born August 26, 1820; Orlando, 1822, resides at Montrose ; Bradford Orson, 1824, a farmer in Brooklyn ; Anscl Wesley, 1826, of Bay City, Mich .; Sarah Augusta

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and Augustus T. died young ; Lucy Maria, 1831, is the wife of Charles F. Perrigo, of Brooklyn. By his second wife, Lucinda Wilson, whom he married in 1836, from Smithfield, Bradford County, he had children-Charles F., born in 1836, served in the late Rebellion, and resides on the homestead ; Addison, 1838, of the firm of Watrous Bros., merchants, at Waverly, N. Y .; Mary J., 1840, the wife of Moses Harkness, died in Smithfield, Bradford County ; and William L., 1846, served in the navy during the late Rebellion, and is of the firm of Watrous Bros., at Waverly. By his third wife, Ann Wilson, a sister of his second, he had no children.

Dann Spencer Watrous, the eldest son, improved his district school education by a short term of in- struction under the noted teacher, Samuel A. Newton, who kept a select school at his own home in the ' neighborhood. He married, in 1843, Sarah Ellen Bard (1822-84), a daughter of John (1794-1854) and Almeda Wilson (1800-35) Bard, of Bridgewater. Her mother was the daughter of Stephen Wilson, the first settler, and the first child born in Bridge- water after its settlement. Their children are Almeda B., born in 1845, wife of Irvin W. Oakley ; and Dolly Amanda (1848-61). Dann S. Watrous was early inclined to the use of tools. After his marriage lic settled on a part of the homestead, and took up the carpenter and joiner trade, which he has followed since with great success. In 1851 lie bought one hundred acres of land in northern Brooklyn, of Nicholas N. Townsend and Ira D. Bell, then very much run down, and only having poor buildings thereon. Hc at once set about bringing the land into a higher state of cultivation, and in 1857 erected his present residence, making the doors, sash, mouldings and all fine work and the entire structure, himself, which, when completed, was said to be the finest farm residence in the township. He built the Universalist Church edifice and two stores at Hopbottom, and the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches and the Kent & Eldridge store at Brooklyn Centre, besides many other of the most substantial residences in the township and vicinity. His life has been one of great activity, and unassisted, he has made a competence for himself and family. He lias served his township as judge and inspector of elec- tion, school director, supervisor, auditor and poor- master, and is in politics a Republican. He has been a Past Grand of Odd Fellows' Lodge, No. 313, Brooklyn, for thirty-four years, and a member since 1850. He was Master of Brooklyn Grange, No. 246, and one of its organizers, and he is also a Past Master of Susquehanna Grange, No. 74. His second wife, whom he married in 1885, was Mrs. Jenette Catlin (born April 28, 1824), widow of the late Martin L. Catlin (1818-80), to whom were born, by her first marriage, Harry N. Catlin, residing on the Catlin homestead in Bridgewater ; and Mary O., wife of Marion E. Griffis, of Dimock. Jenette was the

daughter of Samuel A. and Mary Babcock Newton, who settled in Brooklyn township from Ledyard, New London County, Conn., in 1834, a sketch of whose family is in Brooklyn history.

Galen V. Adams (W. A.), Susan M. Garland (T. G.) ; Adelaid (Jones), Eva, Emmett .- A. W. T. Kent.

Saml. S. Benjamin, N. Y., 56-1866, Margaret Borthwick, 68-1875; Nelson, Geo., Lyman, Mary (Eldridge), James .- A. L. Warner.

Joseph L. Reynolds (A. G. R.) Silance E. Rogers, (G. B. R.) ; Elizabeth, Georgianie, Edmund, Joseph .- J. D. Blaisure.

Wm. Bloomfield, Polly Tiffany (P. T.); Emeline, Herbert .- A. Blake.

Asa Tewksbury, Nancy Pratt ; Geo. W., Edwin .- L. F. Porter.

John T. Perry, N. J., Nancy Lewis ; David, Harriet, Wm. L., Sarah (Adams), Ann (McVicar), Eliza (Dolawy) .- M. B. Grennell.

Geo. McAlpine ; 1st ch. Lucinda, Lydia, Jas. 2d Lucy M. Giddings (C. G.); Frances, Saml .- J. B. Quick.

Johnson Quick, N. J., Harriet Estile; Sarah, Catharine (Tewksbury), Alva, Joseph, Alice (Tits- worth), Thos. E .- A. A. Quick.

Christopher Thayer (H. T.), Sally Tewksbury (D. T.), Wm. Stanton, Lydia M. Williams, (R. W.), Ettie, Clark .- B. Woodward.

Jas. Waldie, Scotland, 1st Ann Shaw ; Nancy (Giles), Jas., Amanda (Hutson), John, Alexander, Tyler, 2d Emily Kent (J. K.) .- E. W. Penny.

Powell G. Burch, N. Y., Lovina Y. Palmer; Caroline, Amret, Morgan, Abigail, Mary, Caleb, Curtis .- F. H. Tiffany.

O. G. Hempstead (G. D. H.), Eliza O. Tyler ; Delos, Earnest, Wm. O., Minnie, Harry .- L. F. Porter.

Amos G. Hollister, Emeline Tiffany ; Eliza (Kent), Preston, Cora (Baily), Sarah, Wm. H., Duane.

Henry W. Dennis (colored), Angeline ; Wm., Napoleon, Sumner .- N. Dennis.

Iaac Tewksbury (E. T.), Abby Squier ; Harriet, Ed- mund, Curtis, Rhoda, Rufus, Ephraim, Lyman, Per- melia .- Mary Loomis.

JAMES W. ADAMS .- Of the very few men of this county who lived over a century, one was John Adams, a native of Massachusetts, and a Revolution- ary soldier, who came to Harford in 1837. He was then ninety-two, but it was his wish to spend his last days with his son James, who had come here about 1825, and who himself had served in the War of 1812. After his one hundredth year he made a pair of shoes in a day, and did his work well. Four let- ters were written by him when he was one hundred and one years old, and published before his death in a Massachusetts paper, which have been preserved, and evince a wonderful retention of mental faculties, cultivated and improved after his maturity, his early

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advantages being but few. He died in 1849, aged one hundred and four years, one month and four days, and was buried in the cemetery on the hill east of Brooklyn Centre, where also James Adams, his son, was interred. The latter died at the age of seventy- six, in 1855. John Adams' wife was Joanna Munro. By his first wife, Dolly Dickerson (1779-1818), whose father is said to have fired the first gun at Lexington on the part of the colonists, James Adams had chil- dren,-Nancy (1800-59) married Loren B. Gates, re- sided in Harford for a time and went West; Dolly, (1802-28), a Mrs. Brooks, of Massachusetts ; James,

ter of Ohio Whitney, of the same place, by whom he had children,-Luther B., born 1829, a chair manu- facturer of Ashburnham; Dolly died young; Ohio Whitney, 1833, resides at Junction, N. J., and is an engineer ; Francis A., 1835, an engineer, residing near Junction, N. J., at Charleston ; James Whitney, born at Ashburnham, October 21, 1839; and Joseph Henry, 1841, drowned in a tannery pit at the age of four. James Adams married, for his second wife, Mary H. Smith, of Brooklyn, who was born April 12, 1815. She was a daughter of Latham A. Smith, whose father, James Smith, and family settled in Brooklyn

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(1804-80), father of James W .; Elizabeth D. (1806- 70), wife of John Boynton, of Groton, Mass .; Jonas (1808-70) died in Harford; Joanna Munro (1811-49) was the wife of Laban Capron, of Harford. By his second marriage, to Lucy Sartell (1792-1864), he had children,-John S., born 1820, of Harford ; Lucy E., (1821-82); wife of Alfred Jeffers, of Lenox ; Sarah M., 1824, wife of H. N. Smith, of Lenox ; Mary Ann died young ; Andrew Jackson, 1828, resides in Har- ford; and William B., 1831, of Hopbottom.

from Connecticut, in 1813. The present Dr. Smith, of New Milford, and the late Dr. Smith, of Susque- hanna, are her brothers. James Adams was a mo- rocco manufacturer in Ashburnham. In 1850 he re- moved thence and bought the Smith homestead in Brooklyn, containing two hundred and fifty acres, situate on the old State Road. He erected a tannery in 1865 on his farm, and continued business as a farmer and tanner until his death. He was a self- reliant, industrious, judicious and honest man, and without any pecuniary assistance made a competence

The second son, James Adams, a native of Ash- burnham, Mass., married Mary B. (1809-47), a daugh- | which was divided among his children at his death.

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James W. Adams was eleven years old when his father came to Brooklyn. His boyhood was divided between attending school and assisting his father on the farm. Upon reaching his majority he cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, in 1860, and in August, 1862, enlisted as sergeant Company A, Captain Geo. L. Stone, One Hundred and Fifty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, for nine months' service. He was in the skirmish near Hagerstown, and in the memorable battle of Gettysburg. He was mustered out July 29, 1863, after serving some eleven months. Returning home, he managed the business for several years be- fore his father's death, and succeeded him in the ownership of the farm and home property, by pur- chase of the heirs of the estate. He has served his township as school director, supervisor three terms, and as one of the board of judges of elections. He was one of the charter members of the Grand Army Post, No. 143, Brooklyn, and siuce its first election after its reorganization, in 1878, he has served as com- mander of the post. For one year he was assistant inspector of the district comprised of Wyoming and Susquehanna Counties. In 1861 he married Sarah J. Perry, a daughter of John T. and Nancy (Lewis) Perry, who was born in Wantage, Sussex County, N. J., April 22, 1841. Her parents removed thence to Brooklyn in 1844, and subsequently settled at Brooklyn Centre, where her father manufactured wagons until his death. Their only child is Mary W., who married, in 1886, Charles A. Sickles, of Scranton. John T. Perry's children are David C. and Wm. L., farmers in Brooklyn; Harriet, wife of David Rutan, of Elmira, N. Y .; Ann, wife of M. Mc Vicar, a blacksmith, residing at Brooklyn; and Eliza, wife of O. M. Doloway, a merchant at Brook- lyn Centre.

Other persons who at various times have lived or been assessed in the township are Luther Catlin, Geo. Risley, Elijah Birge, Wm. Birge, David Merriman, Geo. Maynard, Uri B. Gillet, Lewis Follet, Wm. Bis- sill, John Davis, Orson Reed, Calvin Beebe, W. R. Griffith, Palmer Williams, Clark Peckham, Timothy Penny, Christopher Penny, John Goss, Hiram Rock- well, Flavel M. Williams, Leonard Ashley, Prentis Lyman, J. D. Farnam, Josiah Williams, Henry Knapp, Rachel Langstaff, Francis Perkins, Horace Little, Richard Potter, Cornelius Rhodes, Nathan Lathrop, Erastus Allen, John Sullivan, Ebn. Fisk, J. H. Boyd, Obed Johnson, Isaac Morgan, Jas. Beards- ley.

OLD MILLS .- Below the old orchard, on land now of Samuel Mead, in a cozy semi-circular basin on the east margin of the Hopbottom, is the spot where the first grist-mill, built by direction of John Nicholson, stood. Traces of the escape-race are still to be seen, and only a few years ago the interlocked timbers of the wheel-pit were removed to clear the ground. The dam was some eighty rods above -- a little above the present dam-and the water was taken in a race

along the left bank. A negro miller presided here until starvation forced him away. The next was a saw-mill built by Isaac Tewksbury & Sons about 1805, and stood just at the southeast corner of the new cemetery. Three or four years after, Joshua Miles, Sr., built a grist-mill near it. A saw-mill was built by John Seeley & Sons on the place now owned by A. L. Warner. A carding-mill was put up. by Joseph Guernsey just west of the house now occupied by Theodore Reynolds. A grist-mill was built by Justice Kent just above the boundary line as now settled, close by the site of the Jewett saw-mill on the border of Bridgewater. The Truesdell grist-mill stood (about 1830) near where the Nicholson dam was. This mill-site was occupied by a saw-mill kept up for some years by F. Whipple, and by Harrison Dowd; and Geo. McAlpine used it for a bedstead-fac- tory. A saw-mill was early built by Ammi Ely (1st) and Lebeus Rogers, at the outlet of Ely Lake. A. G. Reynolds replaced this by a carding-machine and feed-mill which is no longer standing. Alfred Tiffany & Son, Nelson, built a saw-mill on Martin Creek, near the residence of the latter, who afterward added a grist-mill, neither of which is standing. Charles Tiffany also had a saw and feed-mill a mile above, near his house. James Oakley built a saw-mill at what is now Alford, which has been rebuilt, and a plaster and feed-mill added near by-now operated by Wm. H. Tiffany. Elisha Mack, Sr., put up a saw- mill on Horton Creek, at Mack's Corners. A large factory, run by steam, for sawing, planing, lathe- work and furniture-making, has taken its place, now conducted by E. P. Mack & Sons. In 1812-14 a cotton-factory was built by Edward Paine (in which others were interested) a mile below the village. The machinery was hauled from Philadelphia by Samuel Yeomans and Thos. Bagley with ox-teams, taking twenty-three days. The investment proved unprofit- able, and was soon transferred to John Seymour (Harford) & Co., and in 1825 to Cyril Giddings & Co., and was converted into a wool-carding and cloth- dressing establishment, under charge of Lucius Rob- inson. It was last used by Geo. McAlpine as a furni- ture-factory, and is no longer standing. But Brook- lyn's greatest mill-builder was Joshua Miles, Jr. He put up his first grist-mill a little above the (cotton) " factory," and afterward built another still farther up. This finally went into the hands of Horace Thayer, and Tewksbury & Thayer, and then to Wm. Watterson. It was burnt and rebuilt, and is now owned by M. Caldwell. Mr. Miles also built a saw- mill above this, and then another still above. This was rebuilt, a little higher, by H. Tewksbury and C. C. Thayer, and is now owned by M. Caldwell. Later (about 1822) Mr. Miles built (near the saw-mills) an oil-mill (linseed), with carding-machine in upper part; and about 1825 he began a large paper-mill, in which printing-paper was made of bass-wood fibre, wrapping-paper of straw, etc., and writing-paper of

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rags. Just as its machinery and processes had been perfected after years of trial, it was burnt in 1842.

INDUSTRIES .- Beside ordinary farming, dairying (now chiefly in connection with the "American Dairy Company "), fruit-growing, etc., in which the people have been and are engaged, the following are lists of mechanics, etc., down to the present time :

Carpenters .- Charles Gere, Elijah Morgan, Joshua Miles, Sr., Joshua Miles, Jr., Edward Packer, Jeremiah Spencer, Rufus Holdridge, Justice Kent, James l'acker, I. H. Sterling, J. Lines, Sr., George Bagley, Abel Hewett, Rowland Miles, Nelsou Williams, James Hewett, D. B. Bagley, L. W. Kellam, Chester Tuttle, Wu. Hewett, R. O. Miles, J. Lines, Jr., Present .- J. H. Stanton, A. S. Waldie, M. B. Grennell, D. S. Watrous, J. J. Roper, Conger Tiffany, A. E. Tewksbury, A. A. Quick, M. S. Quick, I. S. Tewksbury.

Blacksmiths .- Joshua Saunders, Eph. Howe, J. C. Sweet, Robert Rand, George Newbury, J. B. Hill, Jac. Aney, H. R. Kittle, Noah Hickock. Thomas Howe, William T. Walker, George Crandall, N. J. Vergason, Ansel Vergason, Samnel Westbrook, Hart Roberts, John Potts, Asa Day, D. M. Yeomans, G. W. Palmer. Present .- J. and P. Dorau, J. L. Bookstaver, M. McVicar, J. Hill.

Shoemakers .- J. Chapman, Joshua Jackson, S. B. Blake, Isaiah Haw- ley, Joshua Fletcher, Abel Hawley, Peter Williams, G. M. Gere, John Sabin, Jesse Bagley, S. L. Kellam, Edmund Garland, C. C. Daley, E. K. Howe, Joseph Jackson, I. M. Dewitt, Win. Chase, J. D. Richardson, F. Whipple.

Cabinet and Furniture .- Asa Crandall, Elijah Newton, Wm. Specna- gle, Edward Otto, Wash. Bagley, Alfred Mack, Thos. Sterling, Ebnr. Gere, M. L. Mack.

Coopers .- Stephen Randall, Stephen Williams, Isaac Tewksbury, L. K. Tewksbury, Thos. Oakley, Wm. Phillips, Amos Tewksbury.

Wagon-Makers .- Ephm. Garlaud, Abram Kimber, J. T. Perry, J. Quick. Present .- T. E. Shadduck.

Hatters .- J. R. Adams, Andrew Rogers.

Masons .- Isaac Williams, A. B. Merrill (stone), David Bissell (stone). Present .- A. Blake, B. O. Watrous, E. S. Tewksbury (stone), E. T. Ste- phens (stone).

Tailors .- Thos. Garland, E. F. Roberts, P. Reynolds, D. A. Titsworth, W. W. Monroe, -- Groves.

Harness Makers .- F. Whipple, J. White, O. A. Lines, E. N. Barney, B. T. Case. Jedediah Lathrop, saddler.

Tanners .- Jeremiah Gere, Aaron Dewitt, R. F. Ring, Patk. Nugen (deer-skin), Samuel Adams, F. Whipple.

Hotel-keepers .- Noah Tiffany, Arunah Tiffany, Samuel Yeomans, Seth Bisbee, Stephen Breed (no liquors), Jesse Bagley. Present .- L. H. Frink (Alford), J. O. Bullard (no liquors). See "predecessors " of J. O. Bullard.

Asheries .- Jas. Noble, S. K. Smith, E. L. Gere.

Merchants .- 1st, James Noble and Jairns Day (in " Abbey," early in 1823), 2d, Edward L. Paine (in his own store, west of Malvina Tiffany's house, in May, 1823), R. T. Ashley (1831), F. W. Bailey, George M. Gere, James Jackson, Henry Gere, S. W. Breed, E. S. Kent, Nelson Tiffany, Skidmer Tompkins, Edwin Tiffany, James Smith, E. Mckenzie, O. G. Hempstead, O. A. Eldridge, Robert Eldridge, F. W. Allen, C. Rog- ers, O. W. Toot, M. T. Very, Wm. Craver, G. P. Tiffany, D. A. and A. Titsworth, A. W. Kent, S. B. Eldridge, Ammie and Luther Ely, O. M. Dolaway, C. M. and W. Craver, A. C. Dolaway, J. H. Guun, N. F. Hine ; at Alford, Loam Hinds, J. C. Lee, Wm. McMillan, F. E. Tewksbury, W. H. Tiffany (grain), J. B Very, Perry Sweet.

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Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Part 131

Author: Stocker, Rhamanthus Menville, 1848- Publication date: 1887 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : R. T. Peck Number of Pages: 1318

Author: Stocker, Rhamanthus Menville, 1848-
Publication date: 1887
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : R. T. Peck
Number of Pages: 1318