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Garret Berry.
Albion Moody.
Samuel Berry.
Thomas Miles.
Henry Barkley.
Hugh McCollum.
Samuel Barkley.
Adonijah Moody.
Joseph Baker.
Thomas Northrop.
John Baker.
Jason Newton. Loren Newton.
William Baker.
William Baker (2d).
Thomas Parke.
Stephen Bolles.
John Pneuman.
Andrew Bolles.
John Reynolds.
John Bolles.
Israel Reynolds.
Julius Beach.
John Rosencrants.
George Bagley.
Philemon Robinson.
Francis M. Babcock.
Perrin Ross.
William Burhight.
Mark Raymond.
Amos Burdick.
Joseph Raymond,
Levi Burdick.
Horatio Roberts.
Theron Beak.
Thomas J. Risley.
Wm. D. Cope.
Proctor Risley.
Thomas Carrier.
George Risley.
Samuel Curling.
Joseph Reese, Jr.
Jolın Carmichael.
Philander Stephens.
William Ely.
Milton Stepliens. Simon Stephens.
Charles Eddy.
Hubbard Smith.
Robert Eldredge.
William Smith.
James Eldredge.
Joshna Smith.
Orlando A. Eldredge.
E. W. Smith.
Elisha Fargo.
Richard Stone.
Simeon Evans.
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Jason Fargo.
Reuben Spencer.
Jabez Giles.
David Stout.
Thomas Giles.
George Stout.
Daniel Giles.
Preston Tiffany.
Elisba Gates.
Dalton Tiffany.
John Gates.
William Tucker.
Neliemialı Gregory.
Sylvanus Tyler.
George Gates.
Moses Tyler.
Richard Gerritson.
Royal Tyler.
Libbens Gavett.
Mason Tingley.
Richmond Gavett.
Jacob Vosburg.
Abisha W. Gray.
John Woodhouse.
Abijah Gregory.
Enoch Walker.
Levi B. Gurnsey.
George Walker.
Jolın Goss.
Randall Wilmot.
Latham Hewitt.
Cyrus Whipple.
William Harkins.
Stephen Woolsey.
Israel Hewet.
Gordou Williams.
John Howard.
David Young.
William Hoar.
George Young.
Oliver Heald.
Andrew Young.
Stephen Hazleton.
John N. Young.
Elisha Hazleton.
William Young.
Gideon Hempstead.
Davidson Young.
Asa Lathrop.
Saw-mills were owned at this period by James Lathrop, Amos Burdick and Elisha Fargo. Asa Lathrop had a grist-mill. The blacksmiths were Gideon Hempstead, Jacob Ainey and Rufus Allen. William Smith was the wagon-maker, and William Young the tanner. John Baker was the inn-keeper.
In 1836 the Register mentions Julius Beach as an enterprising farmer who has done much for the introduction of the mulberry into the county. He presented to the cabinet of the Montrose Lyceum a skein of beautiful silk (white)- the first silk manufactured in the county.
(The morus multicaulis fever was at its height in the county three years later. )
From a newspaper of the period we take the following :
" Mr. Avery Bolles, of Dimock, in the fall of 1835, procured a kernel of a superior kind of seed wheat, sowed it separately, and in August, 1836, gathered the product and laid it aside. A few days ago he shelled it, counted the kernels, and found them to number one thousand one hundred and ninety-eight."
DIMOCK VILLAGE, the most important busi- ness point in the township, is on the corner of the old State road, running east and west, where it crosses the Wilkes-Barre turnpike. From this circumstance it is sometimes called "Dimock's Four Corners." It is also a station on the narrow- gauge railroad. The location is pleasant, but its nearness to Montrose has acted against its be- coming a place of great size or business activity.
It contains Baptist and Presbyterian Churches, a public-house, three stores, a good school-house and more than one hundred inhabitants.
" About 1819 a number of emigrants, mostly from England, settled at what is now Dimock Corners, which they called New Birmingham. Among them was Thomas Bedford, said to have been wealthy, and to have furnished his reputed brother-in-law, Thomas Emerson, the funds to erect the hotel now standing on the corner. A Mr. Hicks opened a store, and a Frenchman by the name of Major, a cabinet-maker and a local preacher, also crected a house, and carried on business. After a few years most of them sold out and left." 1
The hotel had a large sign giving its name as the " Birmingham House," and was for many ycars preserved as a curiosity. The hotel was sold to Joseph Baker, who was succeeded by his son John, who kept it until about 1860. On the breaking out of the war Captain Elijah B. Gates left the tavern to enter the service, and was succeeded by Philander S. Babcock. The house became the property of T. B. Williams and was placed in good repair by him. Among the later landlords have been N. H. Sherman and Thomas Dolan. A second public-house was opened in an old building remodeled for this purpose, before 1837, by Caleb Barnes, and was kept by him a few years. F. M. Babcock, G. W. Lewis, John Foster, Lyman Sherman and J. J. Thompson followed, when it was given over to private use, remodeled and is now the residence of T. B. Williams. Before the building of the Delaware and Lackawana Rail- road both those houses enjoyed a large patron- age. April 13, 1818, a post-office was es- tablished, called Springville Four Corners, though the office itself was kept. nearly a mile from, the Corners, on the next hill north, by John W. Robinson, who afterwards sold to Wm. D. Cope. The house was the one for which Asahel Avery had made preparation ; it was burned in 1830, when Mr. Cope lost with it the most of his furniture.
" Woodbourne" post-office was a continuance of this, Enoch Walker, postmaster from 1824 until 1830, when it was removed to the Corners, receiving the old name, and Perrin Ross was
1 Miss Blackman.
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appointed postmaster. He kept the office in his residence in the Major house, opposite the hotel, where later lived Dr. Dennison. January 14, 1833, the name was changed to Dimock, and December 28, 1833, John Baker was appointed
postmaster, and kept the office at his hotel. In 1854 he was succeeded by George W. Lewis, who removed the office to the place kept by him, the lower hotel. Since that time the appointees have been, in 1861, Elisha B. Gates; October, 1861, A. N. Moody ; 1862, Philander S. Bab- cock ; 1863, J.W. Carrier ; 1864, Alfred Miles ; 1874, Daniel T. Handrick ; 1885, Harvey T. Allen. The office has daily mails.
In addition to those already mentioned as merchants, Richard Stone had a good store in a large double house, where S. A. Crocker now lives, about 1830-36. He built the store-house which was occupied by L. H. Woodruff after the latter period. The latter came from Brad- ford County, but had previously been a teacher in Binghamton. After trading here about thirty years, he removed to Wilkes-Barre. That building was afterward occupied by G. W. Struppler, who traded several years. Next came Harvey Allen. The building was burned down January 1, 1884, and the present building was crected on its site by the occupant of the store, Harvey Allen. George Stevens opened a store in the opposite corner about 1840, and sold to Benjamin Thompson, who built the resi- dence adjoining. Here have traded a large number of persons, the last occupant being N. F. Hines, in 1886.
A third stand was established by Hiram Blakeslee, who is still there in trade. For a time he also manufactured clothing. Henry Babcock was in trade in the house now occupied by Charles M. Tingley, and M. G. Shoemaker was at the Wilber shop.
As practitioners of medicine, there have been at this place Dr. Ben Adam Dennison, about 1830, who died in Dimock ; Dr. A. C. Blakes- lee, a number of years, and with him for a time Dr. P. L. Brush ; Dr. J. E. Barnes was in prac- tice at a more recent period, remaining about five years ; and Dr. N. C. Mackey, Dr. Foot, Dr. Freeman and Dr. Gulick remained shorter periods.
Joseph Ainey was an old-time blacksmith, and in more recent years C. C. Mills carried on wagon-making quite extensively. The spacious shops he erected are not fully occupied at present.
East Dimock post-office was established June 9, 1862, and George L. Williams was the postmaster. He was succeeded by George C. Giles. The office was intended to serve the Parkvale section of Dimock, and was kept part of the time in Brooklyn township, near that locality. It was discontinued July 16, 1883.
ELK LAKE is a post hamlet in the north- western part of the township, seven miles from Montrose, and has a fine location south and west of the lakes. It contains several mills, shops, a store, a good school-house and about a dozen residences. The post-office was established August 31, 1842, with the name of ELK LAKE, and Charles J. Lathrop was the first postmaster, who kept it in his store, near the mills. He was succeeded by Orrin F. Fargo, November 13, 1850. On the 15th of December, 1855, the name was changed to LATHROP LAKE, and William F. Lathrop had the office until April 19, 1861, when Philander A. Stephens was appointed, and the post-office again took the name of ELK LAKE, which it has since retained. Stephens kept the office at his house several years; then it was removed to the store, at the Corners, where it yet remains. He was suc- ceeded as follows : in 1866, by William A. Kel- logg ; 1867, William M. Crane; 1874, George Stephens ; and since the fall of 1885, Marion E. Griffis. The office has a daily mail, on the Auburn route to Montrose.
C. J. Lathrop was an early merchant, selling goods several years prior to his having the post- office near the mills. In 1847 Wilson Bard started a store in a building which was changed into a residence for the miller. J. H. Hall and Justus Hickox also traded in a small way. Justus Smith, in 1856, removed to Springville, and was the last at the mills. About 1865 W. A. Kellogg opened a new stand near the Corners, south of the lakes, but, two years later, sold to Leabody & Crane. John Leabody followed, . and was succeeded by the firm of Leabody & Stephens. On the death of Leabody, George
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Stephens became the sole owner and traded until 1884, when he sold out to Marion E. Griffis, the present merchant.
On the outlet of the lakes is the site of the old Lathrop Mills, which have been operative the past eighty years. The present mill was built soon after 1830, and has had many owners, among them being Scarle & Lathrop, W. A. Kellogg, Fargo & Lathrop, Wells & Bard, E. & F. Fargo, John Young, Young & Woodruff, and the present, J. G. Cart. It is still quite a good custom mill. The saw-mills on the stream, above and below the mill, are not now in opera- tion. The upper mill, last owned by E. Fargo, was moved to Rush, where it was carried on by George Fargo. The lower, or Lathrop mill, has been abandoned.
South of the Corners, on the Auburn road, a steam lumber-mill was erected, half a dozen years ago, by J. Estes, who sold one-half interest to Edgar Burdick. Soon after, the latter dis- posed of his interest to Byron Allen, and the establishment is now carried on by Estes & Allen. It contains machinery to cut lumber, shingles, to plane, and to grind feed. Five men are employed.
Near the head-waters of White Creek, in the southwestern part of the township, Sylvanus Tyler put up a saw-mill, which was operative until 1856, when it was removed to make place for one of the best flouring-mills in the county. Both saw and grist-mills were now operated by water and steam-power, and much business was done. In October, 1883, the property passed into the hands of Jefferson and Francis Dough- erty ; but the mills were burned down in 1884, and a small feed-mill only now occupies the site. Small saw-mills in this locality have been abandoned.
On the Meshoppen, in the southeastern part of the township, the water-power was improved in the early part of the century to operate saw- mills, which were owned by the Parke family. The country in this section remaining heavily timbered, the water-power was constant, and the place was deemed a good site for more extensive mills. The prospect of having the narrow-gauge railroad built up this valley added to this view and encouraged the Honorable Ben
Parke to build the finest flouring-mill in this part of the State. The mills were completed in 1868, at a cost of $30,000, and included first- class milling machinery, saw and lath-mills. The water was carried to the mills through a trunk four feet in diameter and six hundred feet long. The enterprise appears to have been fated to ill-luck from the beginning. Soon after the trunk was completed, part of it was swept away by a freshet. The railroad was built to the west of the mills; the patronage was not large enough to make the investment a paying enterprise, and other circumstances prevented the proprietor from realizing his anticipations. He sold the Parkevale property, including the mills and a large tract of land, to George Keiser. In April, 1882, the mills were destroyed by fire, and the dam was afterwards torn away. In 1886 there was nothing to distinguish Parke- vale from ordinary farm property. The locality has romantic surroundings, and while the resi- dence of the Parke family, was one of the best- known spots in the county.
On the Meshoppen, near the Brooklyn line, mills are operated by Eugene Lathrop; and other mills on this stream have passed away. On the outlet of Cope's Pond, whose power had been increased by dams, two saw-mills were operated as the property of John W. Robinson, and were located but a short distance apart. Lower down the strcam was a saw-mill owned by R. Gavitt and Samuel A. Brown, which was later the property of Marcus Hinkley. An earlier mill had been carried on by Preston Tiffany. Soon after 1810 a man named Ely had a carding-mill on this stream, taking the water directly from the falls. The machinery was removed, but the building still stands on the E. T. Tiffany farm. The Hinkley mill, on this stream, was first gotten in operation about 1820.
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS .- Aside from the interest manifested in common schools, Dimock has liad several schools of a higher order, which were well attended and deservedly popular. The oldest of these was Woodruff's Academy, established at Dimock, prior to 1850, by L. H. Woodruff, and conducted by him as a private enterprise. He was himself a success-
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ful educator, and taught a few years, occupying a building which had been erected for this purpose. Subsequently young men from college taught, the last instructor being his son, Clar- ence Woodruff. After this the building was used as a public hall, but it has recently been changed into a tenement.
Prior to the late Civil War the Literary Society of Dimock erected an academy building twenty-two by forty feet and two stories high, in which select schools were taught by B. M. Stone, William H. Baker, H. V. Thompson and others. By arrangement with the trustees of the building, one room was used for public schools, which have been continuously tanght in that building since 1860. The Literary Society consisted of fifty-six members, each owning one or more of the five-dollar shares, which created a fund to erect the building and maintain the school. I. P. Baker, B. M. Stone and others were elected trustees, and the prop- erty is now held in trust by Judge Baker, the society for many years having only a nominal existence. There were, in addition to the schools in this building, lectures and literary meetings, which moulded and educated public opinion. The upper room of the building forms a hall, in which religious meetings are now held.
It is probable that these schools were at least the indirect means which led many of the young men of the township to engage in pro- fessional occupations ; and, as a result, Dimock has furnished a larger number of lawyers and doctors, in proportion to its population, thian any other township of the county. Among those claimed either as natives or as citizens, who engaged in these avocations, are the following :
Physicians: I. B. Lathrop, of Springville ; E. L. Blakeslee, of Montrose ; Riley Blakeslee, of Harford ; Riley Blakeslee, of Philadelphia ; John G. Woodhouse, died at Laceyville; Thos. Harkins, of Iona; A. C. Blakeslee, of Nichol- son ; Albert Ainey, of Brooklyn Centre ; David Ainey, of New Milford ; Addison Newton, of Illinois ; Jonathan Miles, of Lackawanna Coun- ty; Edward L. Brush, of Springville; William Dolan, of Scranton; John Dennison, of Wilkes- Barre; Frederick Dennison, of Mehoopany.
Attorneys : William Ainey, of Allentown ; William Wells, of Pottsville; E. L. Blakeslee, of Montrose ; Nahum Newton, deceased ; Miller Allen, of Montrose; Elhanan Smith, of To- wanda; Clarence Woodruff, of Scranton ; and William M. Main, who had finished his studies as a law student, but died before being admitted to the bar. The township also claims Judge Wilmot, on account of his residence in Dimock for a short period.
THE DIMOCK BAPTIST CHURCH was organ- ized June 3, 1834, by a council composed of delegates from the neighboring Baptist Churches. Eight males and seventeen females entered into membership, nearly all having letters of dismis- sion from the Bridgewater and Auburn churches. Jonathan Miles was chosen deacon and Elijah B. Slade clerk. Five days later, June 8th, the church received its first addition of membership, when Elder J. W. Parker baptized a number of persons, among them being Mason Tingley, later and for many years a deacon. Then came as preachers at occasional periods Elders Davis Dimock, J. W. Parker, J. D. Jones, J. B. Wor- den, Elijah Sturdevant and others. Elder Jon- athan Melvin was the first settled pastor, com- ing in June, 1841. Successive ministers of the church have been Elders P. Frink, James D. Webster, Isaac Gray, J. W. Parker, J. M. Barns, H. H. Gray, Wm. Tower, Harvey Kingsbury, John E. Barns, T. F. Clancy. In March, 1867, Elder A. L. Post commenced his ministry, giving the church full time, and con- tinued his service until his death, in 1879. On the 1st of April, 1880, Elder J. A. Eldred entered upon a pastorate which continued a little more than two years. In 1884-85 the pulpit was vacant, but there was occasional preaching by supplies. Since May 1, 1886, Elder S. W. Cole has been the pastor on part time, serving also the church of Auburn.
Though there have been so many ministerial changes, the church has had quite a large aggre- gate membership, about one hundred and fifty persons in all having belonged. The present. membership is seventy-three, and the affairs of the church appear to be in good condition.
Besides Jonathan Miles, the deacons of the church have been William Baker, Mason Ting-
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ley, E. G. Baker and Alpheus Burdick. The latter is the present deacon, and has served the church twenty-two years, being for a long time a contemporary of the venerable Deacon Tingley, who, being incapacitated by age, was succceded in 1875 by E. G. Baker.
The clerks of the church have been, in the order of their election, Elijah B. Slade, Adoni- jah Taylor, Mason Tingley, D. B. Smith, E. M. Tingley, Alonzo Woodhouse, Urban Smith, M. K. Tingley, and Philip D. Burdick since Nov. 14, 1863.
The church edifice at Dimock was begun by the people of that community without reference to denominational distinctions, each contributor receiving stock in the building. In 1851 members of the church secured the unfinished building, and through the efforts of Deacon Tingley it was completed for the use of the Baptists, though open to all sects for funeral purposes. It is a plain, almost square, two- story building, and, having galleries in the sides, has ample seating capacity. In 1886 it was in a fair state of preservation. The early Baptist meetings of the township were held in the vicinity of Elk Lake, and embraced a num- ber of attendants who did not become a part of the membership of the present church.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DIMOCK. -A preliminary meeting having in view the organization of a Presbyterian congregation at Dimock was held Aug. 19, 1854, when it was decided to form a church Sept. 16, 1854. At the designated time the following persons were enrolled as members, most of them having withdrawn from the Montrose Church for this purpose : L. H. Woodruff, Jacob Wallace, Wm. B. Dean, Robert Foster, Charlotte Beach, Caroline Thompson, Eunice Bolles, Helen Bolles, Eliza Scott, Catherine Wallace and Nancy G. Maine.
Meetings were held in the academy building, and April 16, 1855, nine trustees were elected, when the congregation became an incorporated body, with a view of building a house of wor- ship. Various causes acted to prevent, and the congregation became so weak in the course of a few years that, at a meeting held Aug. 10, 1865, but six members attended. Jacob Wallace was
elected treasurer and L. H. Woodruff secretary. In 1868 there were ten members in good stand- ing, and E. W. Woodhouse and wife joined at a meeting held this year, when L. H. Woodruff was elected a ruling elder. The Rev. Harrison preached occasionally and was followed by the Rev. George Spaulding. The organization of the congregation not having been kept up, it was again incorporated, with the present name, Nov. 17, 1870, to ercct a church edifice on one acre of land, which had been donated for this purpose by L. H. Woodruff. The trustees se- lected were E. W. Woodhouse, A. W. Maine and J. M. Wallace. In 1871 the present edi- fice was erected, and was thereafter used as the regular place of worship. It is a neat frame structure with a shapely spire, and in 1886 was under the control of Trustees T. B. Williams and Jacob Wallace. In 1873 the Rev. Arthur Folsom became the stated supply and continued several years. Edward W. Woodhouse and Asa Dewey were elected elders, but removed, and in 1886 the congregation had no elders and but half a dozen members. The affairs of the church sadly need reviving.
Methodist meetings have been held in Dimock almost since the period of its settlement, but no house of worship has been provided nor a per- manent organization established. Near the cen- tre of the township several classes have existed for a period of years ; but, yielding to the in- fluences produced by the changes of population, they have gone down, to be revived at some fu- ture period. The present class was organized in 1875 by the Rev. H. G. Harned, preacher in charge of the Springville Circuit, with twenty-five members, and H. F. Newton class- leader. Meetings were held in the Presbyterian Church at Dimock until the spring of 1886, since which time they are held in the Literary Academy building. Norman E. Travers is the present leader of the class, which has twenty members. The members continue to be a part of Springville Circuit.
At Elk Lake an appointment was taken up during the pastorate of William Shelp, and while the Rev. F. A. Doney was the preacher in charge, in 1876, a great revival occurred, continuing for a period of six weeks, and re-
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sulting in eighty conversions. In July, 1876, a large number were baptized and added to the church, and meetings have sinee been regularly held. The school-house has been supplied with a pulpit and an organ, which are the property of the class, which meets there for preaching serviees every two weeks. The mem- bers number twenty-four, and belong to Rush Cireuit. A Sabbath-school of fifty members is maintained.
Near Dimoek Station are the eamp-meeting grounds of the Wyalusing Camp-Meeting Asso- ciation of the Methodist Episcopal Church- a body which became incorporated August 15, 1877, on the petition of the following persons : I. P. Baker, C. S. Gates, H. Crocker, Jr., G. W. Sterling and A. W. Tiffany. The association has thirteen direetors who eontrol its affairs. The capital stoek is limited to twenty thousand dol- lars, divided into shares of ten dollars eaeh. The grounds were located in 1875, and consisted of twenty-three acres, about twenty acres being shaded by young and thrifty trees, on a gentle hillside. Here is an unfailing spring of pure water, and other natural advantages make it a desirable location. The grounds have been improved by the erection of two hundred and forty cottages, a chapel thirty by fifty-eight feet, and a new boarding tent. The meetings are held annually for a period of eight days and are oeeasions of great interest.
The eemeteries of Dimock are located with reference to the convenience of the different seetions of the township, and are small plots of ground, preserved and improved by the people living in their neighborhood. The land for the one at Dimoek was donated by Mason Tingley. Other burial-grounds are in the northeastern part of the township, at Elk Lake, and in the south western part, in the Tyler neighborhood.
JOHN L. LAKE .- His grandfather, John Lake, of Hunterdon County, N. J., had an ex- tensive business as auctioneer, was a farmer and a prominent politieian and served as sheriff of the county. His father, Abraham (1796-1874), married Susan Garrison (1793-1861), was a farmer and a large dealer in horses and stoek. He was reputed to be a good judge of horses, and his opinion was sought in their sale by men
far and near. He removed with his family to Knowlton township, Warren County, N. J., where he purchased a farm, which, with the as- sistanee of his sons, he cleared of debt. Sub- sequent to the removal of his son, John L. Lake, to Dimock township, this eounty, he also settled here, where he died. The Garrison family were settled near Phillipsburg, N. J. The children of Abrahan and Susan Lake are Elizabeth, born in 1819, wife of Jacob J. Beek, resides at Hainesburg, N. J .; John L., born in Hunterdon County, September 20, 1828; Wil- liam G. (1822-60) was a farmer in Auburn township, this eounty, where he died; Mary Jane, born 1825, is the wife of E. L. Cool, a farmer in Bridgewater; Rachel, born in 1827, the wife of Ira K. Raub, a farmer in Spring- ville ; Dian (1830-54); Abraham (1832- 48); Isaac G. (1834-82) was a farmer and stock dealer in Bridgewater, and was aceiden- tally killed. One of his sons is of the firm of E. C. & M. L. Lake, merehants at South Montrose.
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