Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Part 76

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

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Eaton ; the next by Samuel Thomas; the next by Ezra Tuttle; the next by Captain Jeremiah Spencer."

Aaron Taylor, a native of Connecticut, set- tled on the Susquehanna in 1796, but, in 1806, came to the southwestern part of Springville, having a farm on the turnpike. He was the father of Aaron Taylor, Jr., who afterwards settled in the Kasson neighborhood. The same year Wells Carrier came to the township.

In 1807 Jeremiah Rosencrants came from the lower part of the State and made a clearing in the township northeast of Spring Hollow. He was married to Sally Strickland, whose family came a few years later. They had sons named Jeremiah and Samuel, and daughters who married Abiathar Tuttle, Benoni Tuttle and Oliver Gray.

STRICKLANDS. - Jonathan Strickland, Sr., came from Waterbury, Conn., in 1808, and settled on the Meshoppen Creek, in the eastern part of Springville, the present residence of his grandson Theron, where he died in 1816, his wife, Susanna, having died the year previous. Two of his sons stopped at Easton, Pa .; another son, Jonathan, Jr. (1773-1853), mar- ried Polly Sutton (1772-1866), sister of Samuel Sutton, Sr., an early settler of Springville, and in 1812 came from Russell Hill, Wyoming County, and settled on the farm where Samuel Shook now resides, with a family of eight chil- dren. Two of his daughters also resided in Springville; one married Samuel Sutton, Sr., and the other was the wife of Jeremiah Rosen- crant. His youngest son, Sylvester, came with the parents to this homestead.1

Sylvester Strickland (1791-1876) married, in 1811, Rachel Taylor (1792-1868), daughter of Obediah and Rhoda Taylor, the former of whom died in 1830, and the latter in 1855. Sylvester was pleasant and genial in his manner, social in his disposition, rather easy-going in business matters, but possessing sound judgment and discretion. His wife was a woman of great strength of character, sterling sense and strong mind, yet possessing the kindest of hearts and an affectionate disposition. She was a great worker, and the trials and discomforts of a

1 The political affiliations of the Strickland family to the present gen- eration have been with the Whig and Republican parties .;

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pioneer life were met with an energy and zeal that have left their lasting impress upon her children. She was the counselor of the family and neighborhood, and "Aunt Rachel," as she was called, died respected and beloved by all who knew her, and her wise counsel and ad- vice was remembered and followed long after her decease. Their children were Harriet C. (1812-79) married Calvin Rogers, of Spring- ville; Ezra, born July 19, 1814; Isaac (1816)

children) ; John, 1822, married Mary C. Kint- ner, has a family and is a farmer, residing in Springville; Alfred, 1824, now residing in Kansas ; Philander, born March 3, 1826 ; Ruth Ann, 1827, wife of Elder P. T. Maryott, a re- tired Baptist clergyman, residing in Spring- ville, and their children are Calvin, Hattie, Clifford, Frederick, Philander, Rachel, Vernie and Florence Maryott ; Theron, 1830, married Susan Shook, 1843, a daughter of John and

Ezra Strickland

married Rachel Jayne, a daughter of Judge | Lydia (Albert) Shook, of Northampton County, Jayne, of Wyoming County (he was a Pa. (he succeeded to the homestead farm, where he now resides ; they have children,- Allie, Jennie, Clark and Jesse); Clarissa (1831- 83) was the wife of Martin Park, and resided near Nivin, in Springville township soldier in the late war, was a member of Com- pany E, Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry, and died in the service, leaving a family of children) ; Susanna A. (1819), the widow of Theron Marcey, of Tunkhannock ; Rhoda E. The old house erected by Sylvester is still standing, although a commodious farm-house was some years ago erected by his son Theron. He and his sons mainly cleared up the farm, and the family circle of the children remained (1820-87) was the wife of Joseph W. Fisk, a native of Springville, where he kept a hotel for a time, and afterwards removed to Whiteside County, Ill., where she died (they had seven

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unbroken by death for a period of thirty-three years.

EZRA STRICKLAND, the eldest son of Sylves- ter and Rachel Strickland, was born in Spring- ville, and, when old enough, attended the pri- vate school taught by Hannah Parke in the log house of her brother, Colonel Thomas Parke, situated at what is now called Parke Vale, to reach which he had to travel two miles through the woods. He next attended a school taught by Esther Prichard in his father's log house. He was a hardy young man, of robust constitution. As soon as old enough to wield an axe he assisted his father in felling the forest and clearing the land. Thus he was early inured to hard work, and life at this time presented only its practical side ; but the lessons of in- dustry, perseverance and economy that he then learned were most valuable to him in after life. At the age of seventeen he purchased his "time" of his father for forty dollars, and afterwards took large contracts of wood-chop- ping and clearing of land. Though his educa- tional advantages were limited, he made good use of his time while at school, and afterwards added to his book-knowledge by home study. After leaving home he taught sehool several winters, and for a time was engaged in lumber- ing on the Lehigh River. In 1834 he bought a woodland tract of fifty acres of Colonel Parke, which he cleared up and which he now resides upon, although he has added to his original purchase considerable real estate. In 1839 he married Eliza Ann Parke (1806-81), daughter of Colonel Thomas Parke (1769- 1842) and Eunice (Champlin) Parke (1768- 1857), who came from Newport, R. I., in 1796, and were the first settlers in Dimock. Mr. Strickland, although past his thrce-score and ten, is still the active manager of his farm, and during the years of his busy life has eleared nearly three hundred acres of the native forest, and his home-farm attests his industry and farmer-like care. His business methods and business transactions evince good judgment and sound financial views. He lias not sought office, but has served his township as auditor and supervisor. His wife, although of delicate health, was a lady of rare intelligence and

Christian excellence, and was a member of the Episcopal Church at Springville. No children blessed their marriage, but Mr. Strickland is assisted in the care of his home by his niece, Miss Florence Maryott.

PHILANDER STRICKLAND was born at the homestead in Springville, and with the other sons assisted his father in clearing up the farm and improving the home until he was twenty years of age. His early educational advantages were limited and meagre, but what book-knowl- edge he gained he afterwards added to by ob- servation and experience. He early learned that life's duties were practical, and to suecess- fully meet them required perseverance and pluck. He worked out by the month the year before coming of age, and upon attaining his majority, in 1847, he purchased one hundred and ten acres (part of Drinker's Meshoppen tract) and began life for himself. This farm, which is his present homestead, was at that time only a farm in name. There was only about four acres cleared, and the purchase money (five and a half dollars per acre) was mainly in his own two willing hands. But energy, perseverance, industry and economy are bound to sueceed, and with these he was well stocked. To get money to pay for his farm he worked out during the farming season, and in the winter he made from the white ash, which here abounded, boat oars, and in the spring following would market them in Balti- more. He erected a house the year he bought the farm, which he occupied until 1868, when he built his present pleasant and commodious residence. In 1852 he married Susannah John- son (1831-75), daugliter of Benjamin A. and Zeluma (Lindsley) Johnson, who first settled in Bridgewater, but subsequently removed to Springville, where they died. Their children were John H., 1855, a farmer of Lathrop, who married Nancy Parmenter, of Springville ; Phebe A., 1862, wife of D. T. Eastman, of Lathrop. In 1877 he married his present wife, Celia B. Pierpont, born in 1834, a daughter of Rufus Pierpont, of Lathrop. After the decease of her father her mother married Levi Linds- ley, of Easton, Pa. Miss Pierpont's sisters are Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, of Waterbury, Conn .;

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Abigail, wife of William Shelp; and Mary, who was the wife of John H. Ainey, of Springville. Her half-brothers and sisters are Rachel, wife of Dennis Johnson, of Springville; Levi, a mer- chant of Scranton; Rufus, who farms the homestead in Lathrop; and Fanny, wife of Wm. L. Beardsley, of Kansas. Mr. Strickland is one of the representative farmers of this county, and his buildings and all the appoint- ments of his farm give evidence of industry

in 1876 ; Amanda, married Hiram Osterhout, and moved to Missouri; Mahala, married for her first husband James Ball, of Springville (her second husband was a Mr. Rhinevault, of Forest Lake, and after his death she married Jeremiah Rosencrant, whose first wife was her sister Eliza-she died at New Milford, nearly ninety years of age); Rebecca was the wife of Leonard Prichard, of Springville; Elisha, now seventy-five years of age, a farmer of Spring-

Philander Strickland

and thrift and intelligent management. He has served his township for two terms as assessor and also as auditor, supervisor and school di- rector. Both himself and wife are members of the Springville Methodist Episcopal Church.

IRA A. STRICKLAND is the grandson of Jonathan Strickland, Jr., whose children, be- sides Edward (1808-78), the father of Ira A., were Asa, who resided in Lathrop, where he died at the age of seventy ; George, resided on a part of the homestead in Springville and died

ville; Jonathan, died in Iowa; and Seth, re- siding in Bradford County, Pa. Edward Strickland married, in 1835, Mary Knights (1810-77), daughter of Amasa Knights, who married a Quaker lady named Aldrich, and came to Lathrop in 1816. Her parents after- wards removed to Illinois, where they both died-the father of cholera and the mother of small-pox. Their children are Ira A., born January 13, 1838; Orrin, 1840, resides at Maynard, Iowa ; Emma, 1845, widow of Wil-

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lard Root, of Waterville, Conn .; Eliza, wife of M. F. Button, of New Milford. Before his marriage he purchased a woodland tract of ninety acres, adjoining the Strickland home- stead, erected a house and moved into it the spring following his marriage. This he cleared up, improved, and in 1859 erected the present dwelling-house. He was a careful, industrious farmer and a man of sterling integrity in his

acres to the original farm, and he manages his extensive farming interests in a practical busi- ness way, that indicates that he has not mistaken his calling. In 1861 he married Elizabeth Mc- Cracken, born in Lemon, Wyoming County, Pa., in 1842, and was the daughter of Peter McCracken, a native of Scotland, who married Useba Avery (1815-1879), and died at West Nicholson in 1846. Their children were Henry,

Isad. Strickland

business relations ; his wife was a member of the Christian Church of Springville.

Ira A. was born at the homestead, where his boyhood was spent in attending the district school and assisting on the farm. He taught school one term, but his natural inclinations and tastes were for agricultural pursuits, and he afterwards remained on the farm. After his father's death he purchased of the other heirs their interest in his estate and succeeded to the homestead, which is now, and always has been, his home. He has added, by purchase, 135 | in educational matters, is serving his third term

Otis, Charles, Elizabeth, Daniel and Volney McCracken. These five brothers were all sol- diers in the late war, and it is said that Daniel McCracken was the first soldier to enlist from this county. Elisha Strickland had two sons in the army,-Peter B. and William ; the former was wounded and died before Richmond. Ira A. has two children, Daniel M. and Walter, the former born in 1865, and the latter in 1869. Mr. Strickland has served his township as aud- itor for two terms, has been deeply interested

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as school director and has satisfactorily dis- charged the duties of treasurer of the School Board for six years.

THE TAXABLES in 1815, when what is now Dimock was still a part of Springville, were as follows :

John Austin.

F. Nickerson. Israel S. Otis.

Elijah Avery.

Aaron Avery.

Chas. Otis.

Chas. Ashley.

Jolin Oakley.

Chas. Butterfield.

Seeley Oaks.

Zophar Blakeslee.

Jos. Passmore.

Merritt Blakeslee.

Henry Park.

Benj. Blakeslee.

Thos. Park.

Aaron Blakeslee.

Isaac W. Palmer.

Leonard Blakeslee.

Isaac Porter.

John Bolles.

Benj. Prichard.

Andrew Bolles.

Asahel B. Prichard.

John Bullock.

Samuel Platt.

Samuel A. Brown.

James Russell.

Thos. Brown.

Jeremialı Rosencrants.

Amos Bronson.

Jeremiah Rosencrants, Jr.

John Bronson.

John W. Robinsou.

Joel Brooks.

Daniel W. Robinson.

Leonard Baldwin.

Wm. Reynolds.

Dennison A. Baboock.

Albert Rusco.

Geo. Risley.

Isaac Babcock. Ezekiel Babcock.

Edward L. Randall. Wm. Smith

Gideon Bailey.

Henry Barkley.

Joshua Smith.

John W. Camp. Samuel Curling.

Thos. Smith.

Thos. Cassedy.

Thos. A. Smith.

Josiah Crumpton.

Elkanah Smith.

Aug. W. Carrier.

Simon Stephens.

Joseplı Cooper.

Sylvester Strickland.

James Cotton.

Jonathan Strickland.

Wm. Drinker, Jr.

Jeremiah Spencer.

Mason Dennison.

Daniel Spencer.

Francis Spencer.

Samuel Sutton.

Samuel Sutton, Jr.

Archibald Sheldon.

Jesse Scott.

Nehemiah Fox.

Titus Scott.

Elisha Gates.

Walter Scott.

Spencer Hickcox. James Hickcox. Levi Hodges.

Chas. Thomas.

Hiram Hudson.

Salmon Thomas.

Samuel Thomas. Wm. Taylor.

Ezra Tuttle.

Abiather Tuttle.

Benoni Tuttle.

Samuel Kellam. Wm. Lawrence. Allen Lawrence. Walter Lathrop. Asa Lathrop.

Wm. Tucker. Royal Tyler. Jonathan Taft.

Aaron Taylor.

Preston Tiffany.

James Lathrop.

Lewis Tiffany.

Spencer Lathrop.

Joseph Wheeler.

Allen Watson.

Wm. B. Welch.

Salmon Whitcomb.

John Lyman.

Gideon Lyman. Samuel Lyman. Jos. A. Lyman. Benj. Lull.

Polly Walter. Wn. White. W. Wilson. A. R. Tyler. Arad Wakelee. David Young. David Young, Jr.

Geo. Lagro.

Geo. Young.

Chas. McClosky.

Daniel Yeoman. Edward Goodwin.

Jas. Meacham.

Augustus Meacham.

Samuel Quick.

Edward H. Meacham.

Martin Park.

Edward Milnor.

Abel Marcy.

Wm. B. Welsh. Robt. Smales.

Isaiah Main.

David Rogers.

Samuel Sutton lived east of Spring Hollow, and died on the place which was afterwards oc- cupied by Samuel Sutton, Jr. The latter died in 1876, aged eighty years ; his wife, Betsey, 1885, aged eighty-eight. His brother, Silvester, moved to the West. His sisters married,- Phoebe, Charles Thomas ; and Sally, George Watson. The rifle of Samuel Sutton, Jr., is now the property of his grandson, William W. Prichard. It is an heirloom more than one hundred and fifty years old.

Amos Prichard came from Connecticut and settled on the hill northwest from Springville. He had sons named Asahel B., Marshall, Erastus and Isaac. The first-named was a car- penter at Springville village, living in the Henry Williams house. He was the father of sons named Miles and Orrin, and daughters who married,-Amy, H. K. Sherman, and Rox- anna, Fred. Muzzy.

Benjamin Prichard, also from Connecticut, but not relative to the above, was a pioneer blacksmith at Spring Hollow, living on the M. Riley place.

In 1815 Titus Scott came from Waterbury, Conn., and located on the hill east of Spring Hollow. In May, 1816, he brought his family and lived at this place until he was more than ninety-five years old .. In 1817 Jesse Scott, a brother of Titus, came, settling in the village, where he carried on his trade as blacksmith. He also became more than an octogenarian. Mark Scott, a third brother, came in 1822, and lived on the farm now occupied by his son, Lucius. He died in 1860, aged seventy- seven years.

In 1814 Arad Wakelee came from Water- bury, Conn., to the Barnum place, in Franklin, but three years later came to Springville and purchased a farm which had been improved, to some extent, by Samuel Pierpont. He was a public-spirited man and became very aged, dy- ing June 6, 1879, in the ninetieth year of his

Ezekiel Lathrop. Dwyer Lathrop. John Lewis. Geo. W. Lane. Thos. Lane.

James Service. Abigail Thomas.

Latham Hewitt. Israel Hewitt. Israel Hewitt, Jr. Thos. Johnson. Myron Kasson.

Caleb Fish.

Thos. Emerson. Joseph M. Ely. Asa Fisk. Pardon Fish.

Joshua Smith, Jr.

James Major.

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age. The homestead is now occupied by David Wakelee, his son. His daughter Mary mar- ried Henry J. Webb ; and Sarah M., the Rev. Luther Wolcott. On an adjoining farm lived David Wakelee, the father of Arad, and of daughters who married,-Miranda, Philander Stevens ; Esther, Horace Spafford ; and Eliza, A. Smith.

" 1 Augustine Meacham and wife came from Claremont, N. H., in 1818 or 1819, and resided here until both died in old age. William Drinker, agent of the Drinker estate, and an older brother of Henry Drinker, of Montrose, located in Springville some time between the years 1817 and 1820. He built the house where Thomas Nicholson lived many years, Hon. Asa Packer being one of the workmen. He had previously been married to Eliza G. Rodman, of Philadelphia. Upon leaving Springville he came to reside in Montrose, and occupied the house built by Charles Catlin, the present residence of H. J. Webb, Esq. He lived for a time in Union, N. Y., and after- wards in the ' Bowes Mansion ' at Great Bend. He died at the West, about the year 1836. William Drinker, a bachelor uncle of William, the agent, came and resided with the latter in Springville. He had a fondness for literature, a good knowledge of conveyancing, and was a skillful drauglitsman ; many of the maps of the Drinker estate were prepared and drawn by him. He died while on a visit to Philadelphia in 1822."

In 1835, after Dimock had been set off and numerous changes had taken place, The Taxa- bles were as follows :

Aaron Avery.

John Oakley.

Ira Avery.

Selah Oaks.

Edward S. Avery.

Joshua Odle.

Volney Avery.

John Potter.

Daniel B. Avery.

Isaac W. Palmer.

William Avery

Martin Parks.

Augustine Meacham.

William B. Welch.

Willis Aldrich.

Thomas Parks.

Samuel Monroe.

William White.

Isaac G. Aldrich.

Asahel B. Prichard.

Alva P. Aldrich.

Hector Prichard.

Charles Aslıley.

Benjamin Prichard.

Nathaniel G. Ashley.

Joseph B. Prichard.

Holmes Atwood. Harvey Buck.

Isaac Prichard.

John Bullock.

Asa Packer.

Elijah Burdick.

Isaac Porter.

Aaron Burdick.

Jonas Philips.

Zophar Blakeslee.

Willlam W. Pride.

Aaron Blakcslee.

Lyman Prosser.

Orrin Baldwin.

Ichabod Prosser.

Thomas Bagley.

Samuel Quick.

Alhert Beardsley. Daniel B. Brooks.

David H. Quick.

Enos P. Root.

Peter Brownal.

Artemus Rosencrans.

Daniel Brownal.

Jeremiah Rosencrans.

Erastus Brown.

Jeremiah Rosencrans, Jr.

Sidney Bullock.

David Rogers,

Ziba Bullock.

Calvin Rogers.

Caleb Barnes.

Archihald Blandtine.'

Robert Blandtine.

Thomas P. Risley.

James Button.

George Risley.

Amariah Bartholomew.

James Russel.

Thomas Cassedy.

Francis Spencer. Benjamin Sheldon.

John Cassedy.

Ahel Cassedy.

Cyrus Smalling,

Thomas Cassedy, Jr.

Arnold Smith.

Joseph Cooper.

Justus Smith.

Joseph Cooper, Jr.

Justus Smith, Jr.

Samuel Carlin.

Titus Scott.

Philip Conrad.

Henry Scott.

Enoch Davis.

Jesse Scott.

Jonathan Edwards.

Frederick Stephens.

Pardon Fish.

Lawrence Stephens. Daniel Spencer.

Pardon Fish (2d.)

Caleb Fish.

Ezekiel Fritz.

Benajah Fowler.

Ansel Gay.

George H. Giles.

Asahel Strickland.

George H. Gardner.

Jonathan Strickland.

George Gardner.

Sylvester Strickland.

Peter Hollenhack.

Edward Strickland.

James W. Hickox.

Elisha Strickland.

Spencer Hickox. Hiram Hudson.

Nathaniel V. Hohbs.

Amos Hall.

Jacoh Hollenhack.

Elijah B. Slade.

Comfort Huhbell.

Jacoh Shibley.

Peleg Hoadley.

Samuel Stark.

William Harkins.

Seth Stark.

John Harkins.

Myron Tuttle. Ezra Tuttle.

Hiram Jones.

Jonathan H. Taylor.

Minor Kelley.

Edmund Taylor.

Myron Kasson.

Halsey Taylor.

George T. Kasson.

William Taylor.

Stephen Lott.

Aaron Taylor.

Spencer Lathrop.

David Taylor.

Samuel Lyman.

Gideon L. Taylor.

John Lyman.

Ahiathar Tuttle.

Prentice Lyman.

John Tuttle.

Gideon Lyman.

Salmon Thomas.

Joseph A. Lyman.

Charles Thomas.

Charles F. Loomis.

Benjamin Thomas.

Porter Loomis.

Dennison Thomas.

John Mclaughlin.

Reuhen Thomas. George Watson.

Sylvester Mayo.

Joseph L. Meeker.

Amos Williams.

James Meacham.

Bradley Williams.

Anson Monroe.

Arad Wakelee.

Lewis Moody.

David Wakelee.

Abraham K. Miller.

Amos Wheeler.

Jonathan Nutt.

Williams & Stephens.

Leonard Prichard.

Thomas Nicholson.

ALBERT BEARDSLEY .- His paternal grand- father, Ephraim Beardsley, lived and died in Kent, Litchfield County, Conn., where for many years he was the hospitable landlord of the

Blackman.

Ezra Strickland.

Samuel Sutton, Jr. Sylvester Sutton. Samuel Sutton.

John Hudders.

Jeremiah Spencer. Archibald Sheldon. Nathaniel Sheldon. Milton Sheldon

Silas Rogers. E. G. Risley.

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" inn of olden time." Philonus, son of Eph- raim, left Kent in 1816 and came to the new country of Susquehanna County, then almost wholly a wilderness, and bought of John Pass- more, in Auburn township, the farm now occu- pied by his son, Jolın B. Beardsley, which he greatly improved before his death and made his homestead the remainder of his life. His wife was Mary Beach, whom he brought to their new home in 1817, with their family of four children. They were early identified with St. Andrew's Episcopal Church at Springville, and attendants there with their family. Their chil- dren are: Albert, born May 8, 1800; Susan married Andrew Bolles, of Dimock, and is now his widow ; Charles resided in Montrose for a time, and later established an extensive carriage manufactory in New York City, and John B. Beardsley succceded to the homestead. The father died in 1833, aged sixty-four. Albert Beardsley, eldest son, was born in Kent, and was seventeen years old when his parents came to Pennsylvania. He was educated in the home district school at Rush, and at Montrose Acad- emy. He was a teacher in Springville, Tunk- hannock, and for four terms he taught school in the vicinity of his birth in Connecticut. It was during these years that he formed the acquaint- ance of Eliza Gere, a native of an adjoining town to Kent, a woman of refined tastes, hos- pitable and genial, who has been the faithful wife and partner of his life now for over sixty years. She received an academical education and was a teacher for several terms prior to her marriage. She was born in Washington, Litch- field County, Conn., March 10, 1803, and they were married in 1826.

Some time after their marriage, in 1827, this couple settled in Springville, and the same year built their present residence, in which, in 1876, many friends met to celebrate the fiftieth anni- versary of their marriage, and made them happy with kindly greetings and tokens of esteem. In 1827 he taught a winter term of school in Con- necticut, and in 1828 he was the teacher at Springville.

In 1830 Mr. Beardsley was appointed a justice of the peace by the Governor, and by appointment and election held the office for

some twenty years in succession. Now, at the age of eighty-seven years, Esquire Beardsley narrates that in his entire time as Justice, judg- ment was affirmed by the higher courts in every instance, save one, when appeal was made-a high compliment to his ability, discrimination and sound judgment as a jurist. He was a warm admirer of Henry Clay, was formerly a Whig, and upon the organization of the Repub- lican party in 1855-'56, he was one of the first to endorse its principles and advocate its meas- ures. He has been identified further, officially, in the public affairs of Springville in serving as town clerk and treasurer for the township and schools. In business matters, by judicious management and economy, le has made a fair competence, and many years of his life have been spent in the capacity of a private broker.

Their only surviving child is Ellen, born in 1840, married in 1864 George A. Jessup, born in 1838, the son of the late Judge William Jes- sup of Montrose, who was educated at Montrose Academy and at Homer Academy, N. Y., now vice-president and cashier of the Scranton City Bank. Their children are : Eliza B., Albert B., Amanda Harris and George Maxwell Jessup. Mrs. Beardsley's parents were Deacon David (1767-1857) and Cynthia (Park) Gere, the lat- ter dying before her husband at about eighty, and both natives of Litchfield County, Conn. David Gere was for twenty years a deacon in the Presbyterian Church at Kent, Conn., and settled at Montrose about 1829, where himself and wife spent the remainder of their lives. Their children were: Sally, wife of Orrin Clemens, resided in Bridgewater and Great Bend, died at the latter place, leaving eleven children ; Welcome, married and resided in Kent, where he died, leaving seven children ; Pamelia, wife of Benjamin Hitchcock, a mer- chant at Montrose, removed to New York, where both died, leaving two sons; Eliza (Mrs. Beardsley) ; Cynthia, 1806, the widow of Hold- ridge Dewey of New York, resides in Jersey City and is now eighty-one years of age; Arma- luna married a Mr. Park, and is now his widow, residing at Montrose, having one daughter, Janette ; Azuba, married James Helm of Wilkes-Barre, where both died, leaving two

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Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Part 76

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