Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Part 91

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

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Mrs. Stone's parents were Joseph (1785-1861) and Eunice (1795-1864) (Beardsley) Beebe, who resided most of their lives in Apolacon township, the former dying in South Apolacon, N. Y. Eunice Beardsley was the daughter of Silas (1761-1820) and Catharinc (1770-1820) (Treadwell) Beardsley, natives of Con- necticut, who settled in Middletown, and reared a family of nine children. Joseph Beebe's father was Reuben, who came to Apolacon township from Orange County. The children of Joseph and Eunice Beebe are Marinda, born in 1810, wife of Bela Fairchild,

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died at Warren, Bradford County ; Lyman, 1812, after a residence in Forest Lake for several years, settled in Calcaska, Michigan; Avery (1813-81) died in Apolacon township, at Little Meadows, where he resided ; Lewis, 1815, a farmer in Apolacon town- ship; Allen, 1817, was accidentally injured, and died at the age of nineteen ; Reuben, 1820, a farmer in South Apolacon, N. Y .; Amorillis, widow of James E. Stone; Caroline and Catherine (twins), born in 1824, the former the wife of Samuel Treadwell, who settled in Forest Lake, some ten years ago, from Croton, N. Y. (the latter the wife of Guy Wells, of Bridgewater) ; Andrew died at the age of seven ; Juliett, 1828, wife of Cullen Darling, at Freeville, N. Y. ; Almira, 1830, wife of James F. Whalen, of Warren, Bradford County, was formerly a teacher ; and the youngest, Burrace, born in 1833, also of Freeville.

In 1813-15 among other settlers who located on the Middle Branch, were Philip Blair, on a farm below Birchardville, and Abiathar, William and Samuel Thatcher, on lands near Leman Turrell. Near here, Ezra Rice, from Vestal, N. Y., settled fifteen years later, improving a farm which was long occupied by him. He was the father of sons named Samuel, living in Apolacon; James M., of Friendsville; and George W., of Franklin township. His daughter, Eliza J., became the wife of Wm. Buffum, of Friends- ville; and Helen F., of S. B. Loomis, of Montrose. James C. Rice, a brother of Ezra, also lived in this locality, and, after some removals, died in the town- ship, aged ninety-six years. He had no family.

In 1815 Stephen Bentley, a native of Rhode Island, came from Greene County, N. Y., and bought a farmn in the eastern part of the township, on the Owego pike, where he afterwards kept an inn a number of years. He died in 1831 and his wife seventeen years later, aged about seventy-five years. None of the family remained in Forest Lake.

HENRY FREDERICK HANDRICK .- William Gaylord Handrick (1785-1866) and wife, Betsey Carrington (1790-1837), the former a native of New Milford, the latter of Woodbridge, Conn., settled with their six children in what is now Forest Lake township, on the old Stone road, in 1817, where, a year or two after- ward, he built the old red house near the tannery. He was a tanner and shoemaker by trade, and built the Eagle Tannery, on Stone Street, near his house. Here he carried on the tanning business in summer and worked at the shoemaker's trade during the winter monthis. His first residence was about two miles southwest from Birchardville, his second some two miles north on the same road leading to Friendsville, and his last-where he spent the majority of his active business life-was on the farm now owned by Jolin Delaney. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was an influential citizen of the township, was one of the county commissioners for a terin, and served as justice of the peace for twenty-two years. Both him-

self and wife were members of the old Presbyterian Church at Birchardville, and were buried in the Stone Street Cemetery. He was thrice married, but all his large family of thirteen children were by his first wife, herein mentioned. The eldest, Fanny (1806-70), was first the wife of William Small, of Chemung County, N. Y., who, after his death, mar- ried Daniel Lincoln, of Forest Lake. William B. (1808-84) assisted his father in building the Eagle Tannery, where he worked for many years; then removed to Springville, where he died two years ago. Aurelia (1810-49), wife of Charles Birchard, resided in Forest Lake, and subsequently in Covington, near Mansfield, where she died. Wakeman C., born in 1812, is a farmer in Jessup. Annis, born in 1814, wife of Judge I. P. Baker, of Dimock. Henry Fred- erick, born September 19, 1816. Daniel T., born in 1818, is a shoemaker in Dimock. Eliza C., born in 1820, is the wife of William C. Miles, of Dimock. Murwin S., born in 1824, has spent his life as a tanner, and is superintendent of a tannery at Wellsville, N. Y. Mary Lucinda (1826-47), wife of Hubbard Miles, died at Honesdale, Pa., and was buried in the cemne- tery on Stone Street. David T., born in 1822, a car- penter and joiner at Montrose. Andrew Vanness was accidentally killed when a boy attending the district school, taught by his sister. Annis and Elizabeth died young. Dr. Richardson, of Montrose, was a son of his second wife, Mrs. Lois, by her first husband. She died in 1843, aged fifty-one years.

Henry F. Handrick attended the district school in boyhood, learned tanning and shoemaking with his father, and for the last seven years before attaining his majority worked at this business at home. He further improved his education by six months' attend- ance at Mannington Academy, St. Joseph. In 1838 he purchased one hundred and eleven acres of wood- land of Robert H. Rose, which has been his homestead since. All of the improvements on this property have been made by him, and he erected his present residence in 1866. With untiring industry he made the present clearings on this farm with his own hands, and in time made its fields yield plentiful crops. In 1848 lie went to Port Jervis, where, for four years, he was superintendent of the wood department for the Erie Railroad Company ; for two years following he superintended large lumber interests at Hancock, N. Y., for C. B. Griffis.

In 1856 he went to Saginaw City, Michigan, where he superintended the salt-works, and the construction of a plank-road three miles from the river. After one year he returned home and in 1859 went to Sullivan County, N. Y., where he took charge of lumbering in- terests for two years, when, the war having begun, he returned home and has since been engaged on his farm in agricultural pursuits. He has been identified with the Grange movement of the county, and was one of the charter members of Rising Sun Grange, of which he was Master for two terms. He is also a member

A. J. Handrick

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of Pomona Grange, of which he has been Master for three terms. In connection with the Grange move- ment, he has served as District Deputy for two years. For thirty years he has been a member of the Warren Lodge, No. 240, F. and A. M., Montrose; for twenty- five years a member of the Odd Fellows' Lodge, No. 417, Friendsville, which was afterwards removed to Rush, of which order he was District Deputy Grand Master for the county for three years. Both himself and wife are members of the Middletown Baptist Church, the former since twenty-one years of age, the latter since she was eighteen.

Mr. Handrick married, in 1840, Abiah Mott, a native of the township, who was born February 13, 1820. Her father, Loami Mott (1775-1857), came from Stock- bridge, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1810, and set- tled on the farm of one hundred and fifty acres, part of which is now occupied by Gordonville, in Forest Lake township. Hc was a native of Winchester, Con- necticut, and died at Montrose. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade, built the Middletown Bapist Church and the old land-marks, the Warner house and the Birchard house, and a wool-carding establish- ment and saw-mill, as early as 1815. He was a deacon in the Middletown Baptist Church, of which the fam- ily of Mott have been members since their settlement. Her mother, Polly, who died in 1845, was a daughter of Samuel (1746-1822) and Mary Clark, who came from Stockbridge along with Loami Mott, and lived and died at his house. He was a gunsmith by trade, and had been an armorer in the Revolution. The Mott children are Merrit (born in 1796), a woolen manufacturer, died in Bridgewater, where his factory was, near Jones' Lake ; Willard, born in 1800, resides in Jackson township; Lodema, born in 1803, first the wife of Darins Bixby, of Silver Lake, and after his death the wife of John Stevens, of Frenchtown, Brad- ford County, both of whom died in Kansas, whither they had removed ; Mary (1807-68), wife of Richard Ford, of Palmyra, N. Y .; Elijah, born in 1817, resides in Dimock, whence he removed from Slatington, Pa ; and Abiah, wife of Henry F. Handrick. The family of Clark were also members of the Middletown Bap- tist Church. Orange Mott, a brother of Loami, set- tled on the lower end of Stone Street; his sons were Orange, Rev. Wm. K. Linus, Chester and Amasa. He died January 23, 1871, at over ninety-eight years of age, and had been a member of the Baptist Church for over a half-century. Orange Mott, Jr. (1800-83), a cousin of Mrs. Handrick, resided just above Gordon- ville, near the Mott homestead. He was a deacon of the Middletown Baptist Church for thirty years, a jus- tice of the peace for a long time, and served for three years as a county commissioner. His first wife was Emeline Ball; his second wife, Ruby (1820-68), was a daughter of Joseph Cole, of Forest Lake, by whom he had children,-Emma, wife of E. H. Fessenden, of Forest Lake, Ella L., and Villa S. Mott.

In 1819 William Turner and his accomplished wife

emigrated from England to join the British settle- ment in Silver Lake, but, on looking around, con- cluded to purchase the farm of Samuel Newcomb, at the foot of the lake, which was called at that time " Newcomb's Pond." Mrs. Turner very appropriately named this body of water "Forest Lake," a title which it has since borne, and which gave name to the township in later years.

"Under the transforming hand of taste, the log cabin became a charming home. The rustic gate of laurel boughs and the trellised porch lent an outward grace to the rude fence and the rough walls, while the spirit and intelligence of the occupants made the spot ' the retreat of the social, the gay and refined.'" 1 Years after she had left the place the marks of the care she had given it could be seen, and were in strong contrast with the surroundings of other pio- neers, whose life was wholly devoted to making farms.

In 1822 Mrs. Turner issued a volume of her poems, entitled the " Harp of the Beech-Woods."

Five years later her harp was mute in forest halls ; her husband finding himself unequal to the task of subduing the wilderness and making a living, aban- doned his enterprise in Susquehanna County and went to New York City, where Mrs. Turner engaged in teaching music.

The same year John Brown, also an Englishman, located near the lake. He was a man of scholarly attainments, but was no better adapted to clear up a new country than Mr. Turner, and he remained only a few years, when he returned to England.

About this time Frederick Brock, the first German in the township, located on the place formerly occu- pied by Benjamin Babcock, the locality becoming known as " Brockville." Mrs. Brock was from Phila- delphia, and in that city their son, Frederick, died in 1841, in his thirty-third year. He was known in this vicinity as a young man of excellent talents and ac- quirements. He left a widow (who died a year later) and two children, since dead. Frederick Brock, Sr., died Nov. 5, 1843, and his widow has since deceased. Michael Flynn, one of the first Irishmen in Forest Lake, occupies the Brock farm. Adam Waldie came with his wife and sisters, from Scotland, to the pres- cnt town of Dimock in 1819 ; two years later he re- moved to the farm formerly occupied by Ezekiel Griffis, for which he paid two thousand one hundred dollars. He grew weary of his situation, and as this was but part payment, the land reverted to Dr. Rose. In December, 1882, he went to Philadelphia and pub- lished "Waldie's Circulating Library," a valuable literary paper. Mr. Waldie was better adapted for literary work than farming, and though many things in the country commended themselves to him, he very wisely left it when he did.

C. F. A. Volz, a native of Wurtemberg, Germany,

1 Miss Blackman.

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came to Forest Lake soon after the Brock family, and built the house on the top of the hill, east of the lake, about 1824. He is spoken of as a highly accomplished gentleman. His farming was like that of many am- ateurs-better in theory than in practice. He named lıis place "Hope." It was near the sixth mile-stone on the Milford and Owego turnpike. His death oc- curred in 1839, after having lived a few years with Dr. Rose, of Silver Lake. His farm became known as the Case placc.

THOMAS BROWN (1786-1863) and Mary Hill (1783- 1864), his wife, natives of Nottinghamshire, England, came to America in 1819, and settled at Dimock Cor- ners, this county. In 1821 they removed to Forest Lake, where he superintended the large farm of C. F. A. Voltz for eleven years, and after that leased and worked it for four years more. Both himself and wife spent the remainder of their lives in the vicinity, and were buried in the little cemetery at Forest Lake, on the present farm of their eldest son. Their chil- dren are John, born in 1817, settled on his present farm in 1850, married, in 1844, Louisa, born in 1822, a daughter of the late James Hill, Esq., of Bridgewater; Thomas, resides on the Owego turnpike, in Forest Lake; Eliza, first the wife of Ethan Russell, and, after his accidental deatlı in a saw-mill, married Russell Southward, who died in Liberty. John and Louisa Brown's children are eight sons,-Charles Albert, Frank Thomas, Frederick James, Chester W., John Edson, George Ellsworth, Chauncey Rockwell and Lewis Hill Brown.

DYER TAYLOR (1790-1850), a native of Conn- ecticut, came to Forest Lake with Hewitt Kellum about 1810, married, in 1813, Lucinda (1792-1885), a daughter of Luther Kellum, who removed from the same State and settled in Forest Lake in 1803, with his family. In 1815 Taylor bought four hundred acres of land for four hundred dollars on Forest Lake Creek, in the southeast corner of the township, which was his homestead until his death. Both himself and wife were buried in the family grave-yard on the farm. Two of his sons now own and reside on parts of the original purchase. Their children are Comfort Salinda (1814-75), was the wife of Aral Clark, who settled on a part of the property; Betsey A., born in 1817, widow of Benjamin Clark, resides at Forest Lake; Fanny; Lucinda Eveline (1822-56), was the wife of Solomon McKeeby, of Jessup; George W., 1826, on the homestead; Jonathan Dyer, born in 1829, mar- ried Amelia, daughter of Lorenzo Stone, of Jessup, and resides on a part of the original purchase of his father.

Near the centre of the township John S. Town, a blacksmith, settled after 1820, and near the same locality lived David Baldwin, from Connecticut, who was born March 23, 1779, and died September 10, 1859. He raised a large family, the sons being Alonzo, Stanley, William C. and Henry I., the latter still living in the township. His daughters were

married as follows : Elvira to Luther Kellum ; Bertha to Azor Warner; Lavinia to Frederick Brock; Ruth to James Wiley; Adah to Thomas Peat; and Cor- delia to Nelson R. Cole.

JOHN BRADSHAW .- His paternal grandfather, John Bradshaw, a native of Connecticut, born in 1750, emigrated to the then far West, and, with his wife, Abigail Keeler, whom he married in 1775, and two children, Salmon and William, settled on a farm near Stevensville, Bradford County, Pa., in the latter part of the last century. William, born in 1784, married in 1808, Polly (born in 1786), a daughter of Abram Taylor, who had also settled in the same vicinity from Connecticut, who bore him five children, as follows : John, born March 28, 1809, on the homestead near Stevensville, died on his own homestead, in the southwestern part of Forest Lake township, June 15, 1884; Daniel died in Owego, where he resided; Betsey is the wife of Stephen Whittaker, a steamer coaster on the Atlantic sea-board; Clarinda, wife of Leonard Whittaker, of Rome, Bradford County; and Miner Bradshaw, deceased.

The eldest of these, John, was reared with the rest of the children on the home farm and became inured to labor, and besides learned the practical lessons of industry, economy and self-reliance necessary to success in a new country. He so improved his school opportunities that before and after his mar- riage he taught several terms in the district schools. He had no financial assistance in starting out in life for himself, but, self-reliant, ambitious and judi- cious, he ventured his first purchase of land of one hundred acres in Forest Lake, herein heretofore located, upon which he settled about 1835, the date of his marriage to Amy Stone, the eldest daughter of Judson (1792-1871) and Polly Turrell (1795-1855) Stone, of Forest Lake. Judson Stone had left liis native county, Litchfield, Conn., to avoid the draft in the War of 1812, and coming sooner than he intended, upon reaching his majority, in 1813, had settled on Stone Street, in Forest Lake, where he purchased two hundred and eighty acres of land, contiguous to his brother Garrad's. Polly Turrell was also a native of Litchfield County, and the daughter of Abel Turrell, the cousin of Leman Tur- rell, who married Lucy, the sister of Polly, and settled in the same township on the Owego turn -. pike, in 1810. The children of Judson and Polly (Turrell) Stone are Amy, born December 29, 1815, the widow of John Bradshaw, and residing on the homestead, where she settled after her marriage, a woman of great moral worth, a loving mother and an honored wife, who reared her children in all that makes true womanhood and manhood; Urania, born in 1818, wife of Wakeman C. Handrick, of Jessup; Julia, 1820, wife of Alanson Butterfield, of Bridgewater; Lunia (1823-54), never married ; Soph- ronia, 1827, wife of Frederick Dayton, a farmer in Jessup; Amarillus, 1829, wife of G. B. Johnson,

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residing on Stone Street, in the township ; Canfield, 1832-36 ; and Ellen, born in 1837, wife of Jeremiah Hosford, of Friendsville. When Mr. Bradshaw settled on his farm there were poor buildings and small clearings. In due time commodious out-build- ings were erected, well-cultivated and well-fenced fields yielded plentiful crops, and the handiwork of a thorough-going farmer could be seen. Prosper- ity crowned his industry, and he subsequently added one hundred acres to his original purchase, and in 1846 built the present substantial farm residence. Here he spent the remainder of his life, reared his family and died, respected by all who knew him. He cherished a high moral sentiment, a cordial hospitality to his friends, and was a man of correct habits. His every act was stamped with integrity and a pure motive. He was sought by his fellow- townsmen for responsible places in township affairs, and served as assessor, school director and in other official positions.

The children are Flora, wife of Carr Watson, of Bethlehem, Coun .; Salmon, a farmer on Stone Street ; Myron, a farmer and miller in Rush ; Judson, a large land-owner in Florida; Amarillus, wife of Byron C. Handrick, of Great Bend ; Vesta A., wife of Wellington E. Ball, on the homestead; John Miner, died at home at the age of thirty years ; and Amy Polly, died at the age of four years.

In 1838 the following were the taxables of the township, which at that time did not embrace Birch- ardville, nor the territory along Stone Street, which had not yet been set off from Middletown. Accounts of some of the leading families living there and in other parts of the township appear in special sketches added to these annals :

Benoni Austin, Joshua Allen, Hiram Allen, Perry Ball, George Ball, John Bump, Horace Birchard, Charles D. Birchard, Win. D. Birdsell, Judson Burr, Clark Burr, James Blaisdell, David Baldwin, George Brown, Thomas Brown, Horatio N. Brewster, Stephen T. Bentley, Fred. Brock, Fred. Brock, Jr., Amos Ball, Jirah Bryan, Luke Bolles, Madison Bostwick, Jesse Birchard, John S. Birchard, Jabez A. Birchard, Corne- lius Brink, Brown & Knapp, Benj. T. Case, Ebenezer Cole, Nelson Cole, Samuel Cornell, Wm. N. Cornell, David Dewees, Allen Deuel, Lysander C. Day, Thomas Doe, Benj. B. Fox, Thomas Fisher, David Green, Elisha Griffis, Abner Griffis, James Glidden, Patrick Griffin, James Griffin, George Griffin, Samuel Ilowe, Thomas R. Howe, Ephraim K. Howe, David H. Hickock, William Harvey, A. Hines, Solomon Hamlin, Polly Horton, Austin Howell, Charles Jenks, Andrew B. Jones, Luther Kellum, Luther Kellum, Jr., Michael Kain (2d), John Kain, Thomas Kain, Freeman Loomis, John Ladd, David F. Lincoln, William Lowry, Cliester Lincoln, Roswell Morse, Loami Mott, Orange Mott, Jr., Thomas Mehan, John A. Patch, James C. Rice, Ezra Rice, Alfred Reed, John Rhinevanlt, Asahel Southwell, James Slatter, Morris Sullivan, Moses Stafford, William Small, Otis Smith, Lyman Slyter, Francis Smith, David Sherman, Jacob Shay, Leman Turrell, Stanley Turrell, Joel Tur- rell, Miner L. Turrell, Abel Turrell, Abiather Thatcher, Hiram Thatcher, Orson Thatcher, Samuel Thatcher, Seth Taylor, David Taylor, Dyer Taylor, William Tomkins, John S. Town, Joseph Tilden, Augustus Tilden, Patrick Tate, Jehiel Warner, Azor M. Warner, Elisha H. War- ner, Seth Warner, Elias Warner, Samuel West, Joshua West, Jouathan West, Daniel Wood, Stephen Whitaker, Lewis Whitaker,

WRIGHT FAMILY .- Sethi Wright was the son of Seth B. and Lydia Wright, of Lebanon, Conn. He was three times married, his first wife being Miriam,

daughter of Ephraim and Miriam Wright, of North- ampton, Mass., whom he married in 1777. They liad children, Erastus, Sally, Lucina, Merilla (died in infancy), Chester, Merilla (2d), Chauncy, Moses, Mil- ton, Henry, Clark and Miles. His first wife died in 1803. The children by the second marriage were Miriam, Lydia and Polly. His third wife was a widow, Bates, who survived him; he died in 1822. Chauncey, the third son of Seth and Miriam Wright, was born in 1791, at Sharon, Conn., from which place his parents removed, when he was ten years old, to Hartwick, Otsego County, N. Y., where they resided until their death. In 1815 Chauncy Wright came to Choconut, purchased some land, and established a fulling-mill on a branch of the Choconut Creek, near the present centre of the township, and engaged in cloth-dressing and carpenter work. The following year he returned to Otsego County, N. Y., and mar- ried Jerusha Rockwell, daughter of Timothy and Lydia (Kingsley) Rockwell, born in Lisbon, Otsego County, N. Y., in 1798. Immediately after his mar- riage he brought his wife to Choconut, where he at once resumed work on his farm. and also continued the business of cloth-dressing. This he successfully carried on until 1839, when he was succeeded in the business by his son Chester. In 1842 Chauncey Wright removed, with his family, to Forest Lake, and settled on a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, near the lake and adjoining the village. He was iuduced to purchase this land on account of its fine water privilege. As early as 1829 a mill had been erected there, which, at the time Mr. Wright came, was owned by Brown & Knapp, of whom he purchased it. He at once commenced making extensive improve- ments to his farm, erected a new dwelling-house in 1843, and in 1846 rebuilt the grist-mill kuown as Huddlestone's Mill, and which had been erected in 1829. The grist-mill he carried on in his own name un- til 1868, when the property passed into the possession of his sons,-Chester and Setli R. Himself and wife were members of the Congregational Church in Choconut, and, after removal to Forest Lake, lie was an attendant and supporter of the Baptist Church, and contributed liberally to the erection of their new church edifice, as he did to all worthy and charitable enterprises. Early a Wliig in politics, he afterwards became a strong anti-slavery man, voting alone as an Abolitionist. In 1844 he was one of four in the township who voted for James G. Birney, at the time Polk was elected. Upon the organization of the Re- publican party he became one of its active supporters. He was a strong temperance man, and advocated it by precept and example from his youth up. He was a justice of the peace in Choconut for twelve years, and was a candidate on the Abolition ticket for the Legislature and other offices. He died with the esteem and respect of all who knew him, and liis ac- tive, busy life has left its imprint on the town where he lived so long. The children of Chauucy and

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Jerusha Wright are Chester, 1818; Lydia, 1820, inar- ried Philip Peckins, who was a member of Company F, One Hundred and Forty-first Regiment Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, and was killed at the battle of Gettysburg (slie subsequently married Ralph S. Birchard, of Jessup, who died in 1886); Lucina (1823-50), was the wife of Thomas D. Wrigbt, and resided in Hartwick, Otsego County, N. Y .; Matilda (1827-84), never married; Helen Mar (1829-61), never married; Seth Rockwell, 1835, married, in 1864, Emma A., daughter of Deacon L. M. Turrell, of Forest Lake, where he now resides; Sarah M., 1837, unmarried; Miriam J., 1841, wife of George A. Guernsey, who is cashier of a bank at Canton, Brad- ford County, Pa., at which place he resides. Chester Wright, the eldest son, was born in Choconut, August 25, 1818. His school advantages were confined to the district school, and when old enough he assisted his father in the business of cloth-dressing. Upon reaching his majority, having mastered the business of cloth-dressing, he purchased the establishment and successfully carried it on until 1842, when he removed to Forest Lake, and erected a fulling-mill on the site of the woolen-mill, and there continued the business of cloth-dressing. A few years later he added nia- chinery for wool-carding, and iu 1868 himself and brother, Scth R. and W. A. Southwell, formed a co- partnership, under the firm-name of Wright Bros. & Southwell, and put in machinery and looms for the manufacture of cloth. This proved a successful en- terprise, and the original firm continued it until 1876, when Seth R. retired, and Chester & Southwell, under the firm-name of Wright & Southwell, contin- ued the business successfully until 1884, when the factory was destroyed by fire and the firm dissolved. In addition to the woolen factory, Chester Wright owned a farm, which he has cultivated for more than forty years, and on which he still resides. The grist- mill, which came into the possession of himself and brother, Seth R., in 1868, they conducted several years, and then sold it to his sons, M. B. and C. F. Wright. In 1843 he married Julia Ann Nickerson (1821-83), of Forest Lake. Their children are Ellen E., 1845, wife of Captain W. A. Southwell, who was a member of Company H, One Hundred and Forty- third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers (afterwards commanded a company in the Twenty-ninth Regi- inent United States Colored Troops; he was elec- ted, in 1884, treasurer of Susquehanna County for three years ; he resides in Forest Lake); Myron B., 1847; Henrietta L., 1851, wife of Benjamin T. Glid- den, a merchant, residing in Forest Lake; Charles Frederick, 1856, was clerk and teller in the First National Bank of Montrose, from 1875 to 1881, when he removed to Susquehanna, and became a stock- holder and the general manager of the Jefferson Chemical Company and the Lackawanna Chemical Company, both companies' factories being located in Ararat township. He is also one of the owners

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Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Part 91

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