Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Part 144

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

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As a boy, Mr. Oakley evinced strong business ap- titude, and was recognized as reliable and energetic, and his career affords a valuable lesson to others in carving out a fortune for themselves. In 1861 he married Emeline, daughter of John and Esther Dim- mick Williams, of Herrick township,-a direct de- scendant of the historic Roger Williams. She died in 1864, leaving no living issue. In September, 1878, Belle L. Trippe became his wife. She was born at Freetown, Cortland County, N. Y.,-the daughter of Septimus (born in Oneida County, N. Y., in 1817) and Minerva Slocum Trippe, and granddaughter of Isaac Trippe (1793-1867), a native of Saratoga County, N. Y., son of William Trippe, a soldier of the Revolution. Her maternal grandfather was Henry Slocum, related to General Slocum, of Union army fame; also to the first settlers at Scranton, which was formerly known as "Slocuni's Hollow."

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The result of the union of D. K. and Belle L. Oak- ley is one child,-Clarence D., born December 2, 1884. They both hold membership in the Brooklyn Pres- byterian Church, though, on account of their resi- dence at Scranton, they are attendants at the First Presbyterian Church of that city.

WATSON JEFFERS .- Nathaniel Jeffers (1762-1833) married Eunice Fowler, and resided in Coventry, Tolland County, Conn., where he was a farmer and tanner. He served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, towards its close, being then twenty years old.

In the fall of 1822, with his son, Sebra Jeffers (1793-1870), and three daughters,-Fanny (1790-1882, Betsey (died 1835) and Adeline (died 1865),-he came to. Harford, this county, and bought one hundred acres of land of Austin Jones, the homestead of the family since, and in 1887, the property of his grand- son, Watson Jeffers. The daughters remained here. Fanny had married Eldad Loomis in 1807, whose family settled in Harford in 1824. Betsey was the wife of Ezekiel Titus, one of the nine partners who settled in Harford in the spring of 1790, and Adeline became the wife of Col. Asa Spicer, also of Harford. Nathaniel and Sebra returned to Coventry the same fall, and the next spring (1823) removed with the remainder of their families to their new home. The other children were Eunice (1803-72), the wife of Ira Carpenter, of Harford, and William, who died on the homestead in 1829. Mrs. Nathaniel Jeffers was a member of the Congregational Church at Har- ford, and both herself and husband were buried in . the cemetery there. Sebra Jeffers, the only surviving son, succeeded to the home property. He had learned to be a tanner with his father, and to do farm-work. During the War of 1812, and before and after that period, he had engaged in driving the old stage- coaches, and during that war carried many loads of soldiers and sailors, who were crossing the country from New England to the lakes to man the vessels of war on Lake Erie and the border waters, and coast defenses. He was a man of pure motives and honest purposes in life, a substantial citizen, and, with his family, attendants of the same church in Harford. He survived his father thirty-seven years, honored and respected by all who knew him. His wife, whom he married in 1817, was Eveline Lyman (1796- 1865), a daughter of William Lyman, a ship-carpen- ter at East Windsor, on the Connecticut River, where she was born. Their children are Henry B. (1818- 64), a farmer, died in Iowa; Alfred L., 1819, a farmer, in Lenox, has six children; Laura (1821-40), died unmarried ; Mary (1823-57), was the wife of Otis B. Titus, of Harford, and died leaving one son, Alonzo E, adopted as Alonzo E. Tiffany, of Harford; George F. (1826-68), died in Harford, leaving three children; Emily W., 1830, first the wife of Alonzo E. Carpenter, and after his death married D. P. Tiffany, Esq., of Harford; Watson, born where he now resides, October 31, 1831 ; Charlotte A., 1835, for some time

a teacher, is the wife of Henry Squires, a merchant of Pittsburgh ; Louisa A., 1839, widow of John Gal- braith, a taxidermist of New York, resides in West Hoboken, has one child, William Galbraith; Alpha M. (1841-79), was the wife of Hosea Tiffany, and died at Owatonna, Minn., leaving two children, Watson and Bert. Watson Jeffers succeeded to the homestead, and in 1877 supplanted the old home residence with his present fine farm-house. He obtained his early education at the home district school and at the Harford Academy, and for four terms was a teacher in the same district. All the appointments of his place show the work of a thrifty and intelligent farmer. He has been interested in school matters at home and throughout the township, and during his service of ten years as a member of the Board of School Directors nearly all the districts, in the township were supplied with new school- houses. He has filled successfully various other offices of trust in his township. He was an early member of the Harford Agricultural Society, and has contributed annually to the support of farm interests in connection with its yearly fairs. In boyhood he was converted, and united with the Methodist Church at Harford, where he served for many years as a teacher in the Sunday-school, and remained a member of the church until 1881, when he became a member of the Congregational Church, where his wife is also a member. He was one of the charter members of the Good Templar Lodge at Harford, and is an advo- cate of temperance reform and prohibition principles, both by his words and acts. He was drafted during the late Rebellion with his two brothers, George F. and Alfred L. The brothers were both exempted, but Watson put in a substitute to serve in his place, and was afterwards a supporter of the Union arms both with his means and money. He married in 1865, Betsey M. Oakley, who was born on the Oakley homestead, in the same neighborhood, May 31, 1836. She waseducated at the Harford Academy, and was for several terms a teacher. Her parents were Mill- bourn (1802-83) and Nancy Carpenter (1804) Oakley, and her grandchildren, Jotham (1770-1841) and Sarah Millbourn (1768-1839) Oakley, whose sketch is in this volume. The children of Watson and Betsey M. Jeffers are Henry and Addie Jeffers.

TAXABLES 1813 .- William Abel, David Aldrich, Joshua Adams, Noah Aldrich, Ebenezer Bailey, Joseph Blandin, Jacob Blake, William Bascom, Laban Capron, Orlen Capron, David Carpenter, John Carpenter, Jona- than Carpenter, Cyrel Carpenter, Obadiah Carpenter, Elias Carpenter, Cyrus Cheever, Nathaniel Claflin, Nathaniel Claflin, Jr., Linsley Claflin, James Chandler, Robert Chandler, Charles Chandler, John Coourod, William Coonrod, Wheaton Capron, Moses Dutcher, Jacob P. Dunn, Charles Ellsworth, Eliphalet Ellsworth, Eliab Farrar, Warner Follet, Ezra Follet, Noah Fuller, John Green, Aaron Greenwood, Whiting Griswold, Nathan Guyle, Oliver Gratracks (North Harford), Stephen Harding, Perry Harding, Thomas Harding, Benjamin Harding, Jesse Harding, Ebenezer Kingsbury, Rufus Kingsley, Richard McNamara, Nathan Munson, Jotham Oakley, W. Powers, Oliver Paine, F. Peck, Abel Read, Caleb Richardson, Lyman Richardson, Ichabod Seavor, Abi- jah Sturdevant, Ezra Sturdevant, Silas Sturdevant, Wells Stanley, Abi- jah Sweet, Asahel Sweet, Onley Sweet, John S. Sweet, Thomas Sweet,

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Stephen Thacher, Moses Thacher, John Thachier, Nathan Thacher, Elkanah Tingley, Darius Tingley, Thomas Tiffany, Thomas V. Tiffany, Dalton Tiffany, Hosea Tiffany, Amos Tiffany, Arunah Tiffany, Tingley Tiffany, Ezekiel Titus, Reuben Terrill, John Tyler, Joab Tyler, Samuel Thacher, Jabez Tyler, William Tripp, Elias Van Winkle, Edward Wamand (Gibson), Thomas Wilmarth, Walter Wilmarth, Ebenezer Whitney, Orange Whitney, Oliver Ellsworth, Joseph B. Streeter, Ezekiel Barnes, Amos Barnes, John Skyrian.

A military organization was required in 1798-99. Obadiah Carpenter was the first officer. Thomas Tiffany was commissioned justice of the peace in 1799, and Hosea Tiffany a few years afterwards, the former having resigned. On the erection of Sus- quehanna County this commission became void. Joab Tyler and Laban Capron were commissioned in 1813. Mr. Capron resigned soon after, and Hosea Tiffany, Jr., was commissioned. He resigned in 1826, and Samuel E. Kingsbury was commissioned. Mr. Kingsbury died in 1831, and Hosea Tiffany was re-commissioned. He died in 1836, and Payson Kings- bury was commissioned. He resigned in 1839, and John Blanding was commissioned. Since 1840, under that Constitution, John Blanding and Amherst Car- penter ; Wm. C. Tiffany, who was admitted to the bar in 1834, was elected twice; Alvin J. Seymour, L. F. Farrar, 1849; Amasa Chase, 1850; Dexter Sib- ley, 1853 ; E. N. Loomis, 1855; Dalton P. Tiffany has served since 1860; W. C. Tiffany, 1863; Henry M. Jones, 1869; E. M. Osborn, 1873-78 ; C. S. John- ston, 1884. Harford has furnished for the legal pro- fession Ebenezer Kingsbury, Jr., Wm. C. Tiffany, N. S. S. Fuller, Judge Farris B. Streeter, Judge H. W. Williams, Rienzi Streeter, Jno. K. Gamble, died while a student. Jas. Adams is a student now.

Harford Lodge, No. 445, A. Y. M., was chartered June 3, 1869, and instituted December 29, 1869. The charter members were C. C. Edwards, W. B. Guile, L. R. Peck, G. J. Babcock, G. L. Payne, C. H. Miller, A. A. Eaton and F. H. Tiffany. It came on hard times, and the dues were so high that the lodge could not sustain itself, and it was suspended in con- sequence thereof.

David L. Hine was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1815, and came here in 1822. He cultivated a farm of one hundred and forty-five acres in South Harford for a number of years, and sold it about fifteen years ago to George Resseguie. Mr. Hine was one of the founders of the Agricultural Society, and has been one of the executive committee nearly every year from its organ- ization, until last year he resigned. The executive committee fix the time and place of holding the fairs and constitute the positive working force in its management. No man has done more for the suc- cess of the society, both as an organizer and director than Mr. Hine. Among those who have served with him are Watson Jeffers, Nathaniel Tompkins, I. H. Parrish, Penuel Carpenter and John Leslie. He also acted as school director eighteen years, and was elected as a high-tax man. The school-houses were originally built by the different neighborhoods in

which they were located. They did service for their day and generation, but the time came when new and better ones were needed. Some districts that had comfortable houses did not want to be taxed to help build houses in other districts. The matter stood in this way until the school-houses needed re- building. In order to build properly, it became neces- sary to get a special act of Legislature permitting the directors to levy a larger amount for building pur- poses. Enough high-tax men were finally elected to form a majority of the board. Seven new school- houses were built, including the graded school build- ing at the village, and two were bought that had been recently built by the district during the time Mr. Hine was director. Two new school-houses have been built since, which makes eleven in the town- ship, Henry M. Jones and Watson Jeffers also served on the board during that struggle. Mr. Hine holds that "whenever a man accepts an office he should either attend to its duties or resign." Porter Hine, his son, taught here a number of years, is the present teacher at Nicholson, and resides in Brooklyn.

LEVI R. PECK .- The New England home of this branch of the Peck family was at Litchfield, Conn., and their progenitor of the family from England was Deacon Paul Peck, an early settler of the seven- teenth centery. One Deacon William Peck, another branch, born in London, England, in 1601,was one of the charter members of the New Haven Colony, in 1638. The grandparents of Levi were Elijah and Hannah (Harrison ) Peck, of Litchfield, whose children were Almon, died at Albany, on his way here; Rhoda the wife of Truman Clinton, died in Ararat ; Clarissa, wife of a Mr. Woodruff, died in Livingston County, N. Y .; Mahala was a Mrs. Harrison, of the same county ; Lucy, wife of Norman Kilbourn, of Connecticut, died in 1872, whose grandson is Dwight C. Kilbourn, an eminent lawyer; Freeman (1788-1864), died at Harford, where he spent most of his life ; and Dr. Elijah Peck, who came to Harford in 1830, where he practiced medi- cine for eighteen years, when he returned to Con- necticut, where he died, in 1872. After the death of Elijah Peck his widow married Ebenezer Marsh, and after his death she became the wife of Timothy Skinner, whose son was a Governor of Vermont.

This Freeman Peck (formerly spelled Freemond) settled in Harford, from Litchfield, in 1806, and bought, in 1809, of John Sweet, sixty-nine acres, near the Orphans' School. He was a blacksmith by trade, but a man of considerable enterprise, and one of the first members of the Univeralist Church of Brooklyn, in 1826, and a Royal Arch Mason. His house was the first one painted in the township. He built on this place a blacksmith-shop, where he did business until 1844, when he sold the property. He also bought, in 1811, of Reuben Tyrrell, a farm about one mile southeast of the village, and erected the present two-story residence in 1822. This he managed himself after 1836, and here the family resided after

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1838. In 1842 he built the present three-story grist- mill in Harford village, owned it until 1.854, and sold it to S. B. Guile and Charles H. Miller. His wife, whom he married in 1813, was Eunice Otis (1791-1870), a native of Norwich, Conn., an orphan girl, who came to Brooklyn with the Gere family, and was a teacher there in the early history of the township. Her sister Clarissa married Thomas Oakley, of Brooklyn. Their children are Elijah (1814-35), educated for the ministry, died upon reaching his majority ; Simeon H. (1815-49) served in the Commissary Department in the Mexican War,

ford Academy, and by study at home. He remained at home doing farm-work until the age of twenty- three, and in 1846 rented his father's grist-mill, which he run for five years. He was the successor of G. G. Pride, in mercantile business at Harford (Eaton & Peck) for fifteen months, a farmer on the Tucker place from 1854 to 1860, which he owned, and after a residence for three years near Harford village he purchased the homestead of his father, where he has since resided. Here he erected a barn, in 1870, at a cost of three thousand two hundred dollars, which was built in sixty days, one of the mostspacious and finest

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and died in Natchitoches, La .; Freeman H. (1817-76), a teacher and farmer, died at St. Croix Falls, Wis .; Clarissa (1819-41) ; Harriet (1821-55), was the first wife of Truman Bell, of Hopbottom, formerly of Lenox; Levi R., born in Harford December 1, 1822 ; Nancy, 1825, married, in 1845, John S. Adams, and resides adjoining the Peck homestead, and has children-John F., Simeon H., Herman G., Charles M., Marion E., James S. and Nina M. Adams ; Charles M. (1827-63), died in California, was a master- mason ; George W., 1829, a mechanic, resides in Har- ford. Levi R., son of Freeman Peck, obtained a good education from books at the district school, at Har-

structures in the township. Upon leaving the mill, Mr. Peck, in connection with his farm-work, engaged extensively in the sale of agricultural implements throughout the county. He was a pioneer salesman in implements and Champion saws, and since 1851 he has sold four hundred and forty horse-powers, one thousand mowing-machines, and as many horse- rakes, one thousand five hundred cross-cut saws, besides other farm implements. In 1869 his sales, mostly in the country, amounted to thirty-five thou- sand dollars. He was one of the founders of the Harford Agricultural Society, in 1857, and contrib- uted the lumber for Agricultural Hall. He has

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served on the executive committee of the society for several years, and frequently been an exhibitor in its fairs. He became a member of Warren Lodge, Mont- rose, F. A. M., in 1851, and remained there until the organization of the Live Oak Lodge at Harford, where he has been a member since. In politics he voted for James K. Polk, for Fremont and Lincoln, and was a stanch supporter of the Union in the late war. He enlisted upon the first call for troops by President Lincoln, went to Harrisburg, but upon ex- amination was rejected for disability. He was away from home three weeks, during which time he served as quartermaster and purser of the company raised at Montrose, Capt. Charles Warner, and for the Dimock company. He subsequently volunteered a second time, but was again rejected, and remaining at home, supported the war with his time and means. Mr. Peck has enjoyed a robust constitution and a power- ful physique, and his life-work has been full of activity and labor. He is an intelligent farmer and a thorough agriculturist. He is independent in thought, and firmly iutrenched in his own views of the doctrines of the Bible. He married, in 1849, Deborah A. Smith (1824-82), a woman of fortitude and excellence, a daughter of Latham A. and Sally New- ton Smith, of Brooklyn, and a sister of Dr. L. A. Smith, of New Milford. Their children are Evelyn A. (1854-80), was the wife of Lewis F. Peck, of Har- ford; Dr. Dever J. Peck, born in 1856, educated in the Harford High School, a teacher for eight years, read medicine with Dr. Blakslee, of Harford, and was graduated from the University Medical College of New York in the class of '86, is a physician at Sus- quehanna (he married Carrie Rogers, of Bradford County, a teacher for several years in the Orphans' School, in Harford) ; Ernest L., born in 1860, mar- ried Julia E., a daughter of Ira D. Barnes (and Susan Benjamin), son of Ezekiel Barnes and grandson of Nehemiah Barnes, who died in Gibson, in 1839, aged seventy-eight.

HARDING NEIGHBORHOOD .- In the month of De- cember, 1800, Stephen Harding came into South Harford, and purchased an improvement of a man by the name of Hallstead, which consisted of a log saw- mill, located on the Nine Partners' Creek, and a log house. In 1806 he purchased this land of William Poyntell. He sold the place to his father, Thomas Harding, about this time, and went to Gibson and built a saw-mill. His father died in a few years, and he returned, and resumed work in the saw-mill, which he continued to run until he died, in 1842, aged sev- enty. He had two wives, and reared a large family of children, among them Amasa (who lived and died here), Arabella, Harry, Lucy, Esther, Lavina, Stephen R., John, Olive, Lydia and James C. and Elijah C., who now own the homestead.

Benjamin Harding, half-brother of Stephen, lived on the place adjoining, and raised a large family, none of whom reside in the township. Perry Hard-

ing, another son of Thomas Harding, lived in the neighborhood. He was killed by the cars, at Peck- ville, when eighty-four years of age. One of his sons, Alva Harding, resides in Salem, Wayne County. Israel Harding lived where George Resseguie now lives, and raised a large family, all of whom are dead.

William Coonrod or Conrad, a Hessian who was brought over to this country by the British, to fight the colonies, lived on the Van Winkle Creek. His son-in-law, Nathan Forsyth, had the place after he died. Forsyth died in 1862, aged seventy-three, and Polly, his wife, died in 1878, aged eighty-three. They are both buried in the Harding burying-ground. John Brundage was an old settler on the east side of Van Winkle Creek. . His sons were John, Daniel, George, William and Joseph. Sally Ann, Phoebe Ann, Abby Jane, Mary Ann and Nancy were the girls. Jacob Dunn and family were here early. Peter V. Dunu is the only one of his children that remained in the place. Joshua K. Adams first lo- cated near the Pulk ; he afterwards lived and died on the "Muscle Crag," where George Stevens now lives. Joab Fuller first settled where Andrew Gow now lives. His sons were Harlan, Henry and Nelson. Henry retained the homestead, and Harlan lived where Ludwig Conrad lives. Hezekiah Pellet, Oliver Weatherby and Jared Woodward lived in the vi- cinity.

Joseph Peck came from Connecticut in 1822, and started on "Muscle Crag," and subsequently bought the Isaac Blake place, and died there, aged eighty- six. His son, Collins Peck, resides there now. Philena, wife of James Powers, of Gibson; Hannah M., wife of Joseph Powers, who resides on the Perry Harding place; Darius and Mary M. were the chil- dren.

Jacob Blake was an old settler, and resided where James Rogers now lives. Aaron Thayer was also here early. Several of his children taught school. Miss Molly Post taught the first school here, in a log house on the hill back of the mill. It had a stone chimney, and was called Molly's Castle. The schools were mostly in private houses in the pioneer days here. Mrs. Powers remembers attending school in nearly every private house in that neighborhood. Mrs. Clark taught her own children and her neigh- bors' in her own house. Sally Read, Ruth Engle, Maria Lines, Davis Thayer and Louisa Thayer, chil- dren of Aaron Thayer, were teachers. There is a Baptist Church here, and one of the first churches in the county was organized here; but it stands empty now; the members have moved away, until Joseph Powers and wife and Miss Mary Peck are all there are remaining. Jonathan Smith and Stephen Hard- ing were among the constituent members. Elder Mack was one of the early preachers among them.

Aaron Thayer came to Harford in 1820, from Med- way, Mass., and located in the Harding neighbor- hood, near the mill, and in about one year he re-

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moved to the East or Guile Hill, and remained there a number of years, when he removed near the Lenox line, and finally died, at the residence of his daugh- ter, Mrs. Allen, near the Orphan School. His chil- dren were Cyrus Amanda, wife of Asahel Carpenter ; Loisa, wife of Preston Richardson, and after his death she became the wife of Rev. Edward Allen; Alma, wife of Emulous Tiffany; Louisa, wife of George Blakeslee; Margaret and Jemima, married in Ohio ; F. D. Thayer, superintendent of the Honesdale Water-Works, is the only one now living.

ELKANAH TINGLEY FOLLET .- His father, Warren Follet (1775-1830), came from Attleborough, Mass ,

forty years before his death and cleared considerable of the land. His wife was a member of the Baptist Church at Maxley, and most likely in her younger days belonged to the Harford Baptist Church, where her parents worshipped and were among its founders.

Their children were Cyrus, born 1801, died in Ohio ; Hiram, 1803, died at Danville, Pa., leaving children, John and Betsey ; Sylvia P. (1804-42), wife of Leonard Corse, of New Milford, left children, Laura and Alvira; Elkanah Tingley, born Dec. 9, 1805, died Oct. 6, 1886; Ovid, 1807, resided on a part of the homestead during his life and left children,-Virgil, George, William, Edgar, Ezra, Corintha, Celestia,

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at the age of twenty, in 1795, and settled on about seventy acres and afterwards bought one hundred and twenty-one acres of land in the northeastern part of Harford, where he erected his log house and began clearing his land. He married, in 1800, Patty (1782- 1865), a daughter of Elkanah Tingley, who joined the Nine Partners' settlement the same year as his own settlement. Her mother was an Aldrich. War- ren Follet afterward built a frame house, which, in turn, was supplanted by the residence of his son Elkanah, erected in 1868. He resided on this place

Julia, Emma and Henrietta; Robert, 1810, a farmer in Pitcher, N. Y., has children, Oscar and Della; Chloe T. (1812-53), wife of Wisner Belknap, of New Milford, left children,-Patty A., Julius, James, John, Josiah ; Warren, Jr., died young ; Charles, 1823, re- sided in Franklin and had children, Demila and Ophelia ; Patty P., 1828, the wife of Jacob Sebel, of Sheffield, Ill.

Elkanah T. succeeded to the homestead by pur- chase, and after selling seventy-five acres of it to his brother Ovid, had one hundred and sixteen acres left.

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Here, where he was born, he spent his life. He was an industrious farmer, added sixty-seven acres to his real estate and made other improvements. He was honest in his business relations, temperate in his habits, a man of strict morality, and had a conscien- tions regard for the rights aud desires of others. He married, in 1862, Helen Blanding, who was born in the same neighborhood Oct. 17, 1834. She has been a member of the Baptist Church at Maxley's since seventeen years of age. Her father, Sabinas Blaud- ing (1798-1846), a Presbyterian, joined at the age of nine at Harwood, married Sophironia Bronson (1813- 71), a member of the Baptist Church, who bore him children,-Evelinc, died young; Helen (Mrs. Fol- let) ; Marshall, born 1835, resides in Bureau County, Ill .; Herbert, 1837, a farmer in New Milford; and Emory S. Blanding died yonng. By her marriage to Gilbert Witter, after the death of her first husband, Sophronia had one child, Mary Witter, 1850, wife of Orlando B. Harding, of Gibson. Sabinas Blanding was the son of Joseph Blanding, who settled where Mr. Gillespie now resides in 1795, and came here with the Follet family. Joseph's wife was Hnldah Mar- tin, and his children were Joseph ; Hnldah, wife of John Dunn, of Harford ; Sabinas ; Elona, 1804, wife of John L. Tiffany, of Mount Pleasant, and after his death married Solomon Sherwood, of the same place ; Martin ; Charles ; Aden ; Reba; John ; and Mandana, wife of Amasa Trobridge, of Great Bend. Sophronia Bronson was the daughter of Hosea and Helen (Pease) Bronson, early settlers of Jacksou. The only child of Elkanah and Helen Follet is Warren H. Follet, born June 16, 1863, and married Nora, a daughter of Henry and Amanda (Foot) Chase, of Harford. He succeeds to the homestead, which has been in the family nearly a century.

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Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Part 144

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