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Frederick B. Sankey was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and has been in the railroad business practically all his life, having entered the service of the Pennsylvania railroad, October 7, 1887, as a stenographer in the office of the engineer of maintenance of way in the Union Station, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On April 5, 1890, he was transferred to the chief engineer's office of the Penn- sylvania lines west of Pittsburgh, at Pittsburgh, where he remained until July 15, 1890, when he was advanced to a position in the office of the general-passen- ger agent of that system. On May 10, 1893, the year of the World's Fair at Chicago, he was appointed traveling passenger agent for the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburgh, with headquarters at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, his territory embracing all stations within a radius of one hundred miles of that city. On May 1, 1906, he was again promoted, becoming city passenger agent for the Pennsylvania lines, with headquarters at Pittsburgh, which position he holds at the present time.
Mr. Sankey is the great-great-grandson of William Sankey, who was a Rev- olutionary soldier, a private and Ranger on the Frontiers, in 1778-83. (For ref- erence see Pennsylvania Archives, third series, volume 23, page 277).
WILLIAM SANKEY came from Warrington, England, (where there is still a street named after the family, in Lancashire) to America, and settled in the Kishacauquillis Valley, now in Mifflin county. The following letter from Mr. Kelker, custodian of Records and Seals, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, gives the official record:
Mr. Frederick B. Sankey, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Harrisburg, Pa., July 5, 1901.
Dear Sir :- Yours of the Ist ult. with enclosures, and for the latter I thank you, came duly to hand, and herewith find my report :
Will book No. 1, p. 63, Register Office, Lewistown, Mifflin Co., Pa., contains the following :
Will of William Sankey of Potters Township, Mifflin Co., Yeoman, mentions
Wife-Elizabeth.
Daughters, Jane, Rachael, Elizabeth, Mary, Mary Ann, and Esther.
Sons-Ezekiel, William, John and James.
Appoints his wife, Elizabeth, and son Ezekiel-Exs.
Witnesses-Robert McKim, Joseph Alender and Richard Sency. Dated 13th April, 1790. Recorded 30 Dec., 1794.
Deed Book B, p. 331, Recorder's Office, same Town and County, recites, that on 16th May, 1794, Ezekiel Sankey and Jane, his wife, and Thomas Hendrickson, conveyed to Cornelius Hendrickson (all of Potters Township, Mifflin Co.) for 52f (pounds)-Ios, all their rights &c in 212 acres of land.
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Now to have a clear understanding, we will have to go back to ancient history. Cum- berland County was erected Jany. 27, 1750, and one of its Townships was named Armagh, and from copies of Assessment Rolls in my possession, I find that one of the residents of that section in the years 1778, 1780 and 1781, was William Sankey.
Mifflin County was erected Sept. 19, 1789, formed from parts of Cumberland and' Northumberland, and part of that section formerly known as Armagh Twp., Cumberland County, became Potters Township, Mifflin Co., and by the erection of Centre Co., Feby. 13, 1800, Potters Twp. of Mifflin, was transferred to Centre.
William Sankey was a private in Captain Robert Samuels' Company, Col. Alex. Brown's Cumberland Co. Regiment in 1782, and there is not a shadow of doubt, but that the William Sankey of Armagh Twp., Cumberland Co., William Sankey the soldier; and William Sankey who died in Potters Twp., Mifflin Co., December, 1794, were one and the same person, and that Ezekiel Sankey and wife Jane (see abstract of deed) were your great- grandparents.
Ezekiel was a Private in Capt. John Junkin's Co., 134th Regt., Commanded by Maj. David Nelson, 1812, and your Pedigree stands as stated in my former letter, viz., William (I), Ezekiel (2), Ezekiel (3), Charles Carroll (4), and yourself (5).
Now for the Ezekiel of York County. There were two (2) living in Windsor Town- ship, York County, one a married man and owning property in 1779 and 1780, and the other a single man in 1781 and 1782, and as your great-grandfather was born in 1772, they were clearly not one and the same.
I sincerely trust that the data sent will prove satisfactory to you.
Thanking you again,
I am, Very truly yours, (Signed) Luther R. Kelker. Harrisburg, Pa., July 5, 190I. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
I hereby certify to the following Revolutionary record of William Sankey :
William Sankey was a private soldier, Capt. Robert Samuel's Company, Col. Alex. Brown's 8th Battalion, Cumberland County Militia, Kishacauquillis Valley, 1782. For this reference see Penna. Archives, 3rd series, vol. 23, p. 454.
Very truly yours, (Signed) Geo. Edward Reed, State Librarian and Editor Penna. Archives.
MAJOR EZEKIEL SANKEY SR., father of Ezekiel and David Sankey, who re- sided in West New Castle, Pennsylvania, was perhaps the first permanent set- tler within the limits of Union township. He was born near Lewistown, Mif- flin county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1772. He married Jane Culbertson, who was born in county Down, Ireland, in December, 1767. Mr. Sankey came to what is now Lawrence county about the year 1798, and became one of the first settlers in Western Reserve Harbor, in Union township. Soon after the death of his father he removed to a place called Potters Mills, Centre county, and af- ter a short residence there removed to the Chartiers Valley, in Washington coun- ty, Pennsylvania, where he bought a farm and remained until 1800, when he removed to the farm at the mouth of Sankey's Run, since in Union township, Lawrence county. A few of the redskins still remained in the county and their abandoned wigwams, made of poles and bark, were numerous. The territory of Union township was then in Mercer county, recently erected, and Mr. Sankey was the first sheriff of that county elected by the people. Mr. William Byers, the first sheriff, having been appointed by the governor in 1803.
Mr. Sankey was major of one of the Pennsylvania militia regiments, and it was on the occasion of one of its musters on his farm that a recruiting officer ap- peared in the summer of 1812 and offered- the regiment the privilege of volun- teering in the service of the country in the war then just beginning between the United States and Great Britain. If the regiment accepted the proposition they were to join General William Henry Harrison, then in command in the North- west Territory, of which he was governor. The regiment declined enlisting in
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a body and the offer was tendered to the companies, who also declined, and then individual enlistments were called for, when Major Sankey and a man named William Sheriff, of the same township, stepped forward and enlisted, being the only ones from that regiment.
Major Sankey was appointed to a position in the commissary department of General Crooks' brigade, which was organized at Pittsburgh. After a short visit to Erie, to learn what the British were contemplating in that quar- ter, he rejoined Crooks' brigade at Mansfield, Ohio. He afterwards accompanied a portion of it as far west as the rapids of the Maumee, where Harrison, in February, 1813, constructed the famous Fort Meigs. Here he remained during the winter of 1812-13, returned home in the spring, and soon afterwards went to Mercer upon business, when his health, which had suffered severely by the rigor of the winter and exposure in the camp, gave way, and after lying there for some time he was brought home. He. lingered until the 9th day of July, 1813, when he expired.
The records of the Record and Pension Office, War Department, Washington, D. C., show that Ezekiel Sankey Sr. served as a quartermaster in the Fifth Battalion (Nelson's) Pennsylvania Militia, War of 1812. His name appears on the muster roll of the field and staff of that organization for the period from October 2nd to December 31, 1812, with remark: "Date of appointment in staff, October 2, 1812". Other records show that he served from October 2nd to December 2nd, 1812. The records also show that he served as a private in Captain Junkin's Company of Riflemen, Fifth Battalion (Nelson's) Pennsyl- vania Militia, War of 1812. His name appears on the rolls of that organization for the period from October 2nd, 1812, to April 20, 1813, with remarks: "Com- mencement of service October 2, 1812; ending of pay April 20, 1813; time paid for, four months, nineteen days; allowance for traveling home, 285 miles, 19 days". This organization served at Upper Sandusky and at Fort Meigs.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Harrisburg, Pa., July 5, 1901.
I hereby certify that the following is the service of Ezekiel Sankey in the War of 1812: Ezekiel Sankey was a private, Capt. John Junkin's Company, 134th Rgt. 5th Battalion, 2nd Detachment, commanded by Major David Nelson in the services of the United States, 2nd October, 1812, to 17th April, 1813. For references see Penna. Archives, 2nd series, vol. 12, p. 24I.
Very truly yours, (Signed) Geo. Edward Reed, State Librarian and Editor Penna. Archives.
MAJOR EZEKIEL SANKEY JR., was born on his father's farm in Western Re- serve Harbor, Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1807. In his youth he was engaged in various pursuits and in 1834 ran the first canal boat, "Alpha", which plied between New Castle and Beaver. Pennsylvania. In 1835 he erected the first warehouse ever built in New Castle. In the same year he was elected major of a volunteer battalion of Mercer county and served seven years. The United States Bank of Philadelphia failed in 1841 and he was appointed agent with full power to adjust the claims of the Bank against numerous citizens of Mercer county. He was engaged as contractor on the public works of several states, also on work for the New York & Erie railroad, the Pennsylvania rail- road, the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and the Sandy and Beaver Valley Canal in
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Ohio. He figured prominently in the projection of the Pittsburgh & Erie rail- road. In 1852 he became one of the incorporators of Greenwood Cemetery and was the father of the enterprise. He was prominently identified with the build- ing of the New Castle & Darlington railroad, a portion of that line now being a part of the present New Castle & Beaver Valley railroad. In 1861 he en- tered the employ of the United States government, repairing railroads destroyed by the rebels, and was a sutler to the Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was a public-spirited man and was identified with the following enterprises : New Castle Female Seminary, New Castle Opera House, New Castle Light Company, and was an incorporator of the first bank in New Castle, known as the "Bank of New Castle".
On February 9, 1832, Mr. Sankey was married to Sarah Skinner Jones, born May 31, 1811, daughter of Isaac O. and Elizabeth (Lamb) Jones. The issue of this marriage was Minerva Seely, Charles Carroll, Eben Blackley, Elena Laura, Rebecca Elizabeth, Henry Clay, James Power, William Johnson, and Lawrence and Kate (twins).
Major Sankey was a man of more than ordinary talent, of great originality and powers of invention, of unusually clear discernment and remarkable shrewd- ness, which elements combined with an irrepressible will and energy, revealed the secret of his various successes. To these characteristics he added a genial social nature, and an unusually open-hearted benevolence. These qualities, to- gether with his polite and gentlemanly bearing, stood out in most prominent re- lief.
CHARLES CARROLL SANKEY, who is one of the best-known and most highly respected citizens of New Castle, is the eldest son of a family of ten children born to Major Ezekiel Jr. and Sarah Skinner (Jones) Sankey. He was born at New Castle, Pennsylvania, August 10, 1835.
When fifteen years of age he obtained a position as chainman on an engineer- ing corps engaged in surveying a line from old Brighton (now Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania), to New Castle Junction, Pennsylvania, which is now a part of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad. Subsequently, in the years 1855-56, he was leveler on an engineering corps making a survey of the proposed Northwes- tern railroad, which line was to run from Blairsville, Pennsylvania, to the Great Lakes via Butler, New Castle and Youngstown, Ohio, of which the late presi- dent of the Pennsylvania railroad, Mr. George B. Roberts, was the assistant en- gineer in charge of the work. He also served under Mr. Roberts on a corps engaged in constructing the west end of the Dauphin & Susquehanna railroad, running from Harrisburg to Port Clinton, Pennsylvania. Mr. Sankey served as an assistant engineer on surveys of the New Castle & Beaver Valley railroad, the Pittsburgh, Youngstown & Ashtabula railroad, and the Western New York & Pennsylvania railroad.
In 1861 he enlisted in Company H, Twelfth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was on duty guarding the Northern Central railroad between Harrisburg and Baltimore, and at the expiration of his term of service entered the Ninth Pennsylvania Reserves as assistant sutler under his father. In 1865 he was ap- pointed to a position in the freight house of the Pennsylvania company at New Castle, and on December 1, 1866, was made freight & ticket agent for the same company. When the New Castle & Franklin railroad, now a part of the Wes-
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tern New York and Pennsylvania railroad, was opened for business in 1873, Mr. Sankey was appointed freight and ticket agent for that road also. He served as joint agent until January 31, 1891, at which time he severed his connection with the Western New York & Pennsylvania railroad, but remained freight and ticket agent of the Pennsylvania lines until March 14, 1895, when on account of the greatly increased business, the agency was divived at Mr. Sankey's request, and his son, Charles G. Sankey, was appointed city passenger agent. Mr. Sankey remained as freight agent until the year 1900, when he was appointed special agent, and served in that capacity until 1905. On account of having reached the age limit, he was then retired from active service on the Pennsylvania lines, after serving continuously for a period covering forty years. Mr. Sankey comes from a musical family, and his services as a singer have been in demand during the greater part of his life.
Mr. Sankey married (first) January 2, 1862, Margaret Ellen, born Septem- ber 7, 1840, daughter of David and Jane Bond McConahy, of New Castle, Penn- sylvania. Issue: Clyde Jones, born April 17, 1863, a well known Pittsburgh jeweler. Charles Grant, born September 7, 1865, secretary and treasurer of Pittsburgh Iron Ores Company, Cleveland, Ohio. Fredrick Bond, of previous mention. Laura Ellen, born December 7, 1873 (Mrs. Charles Sumner Dodson). Margaret, born April 18, 1880. The death of Mrs. Margaret Ellen Sankey oc- curred April 30, 1880, she was a member of the Central Presbyterian Church and an earnest christian woman. Mr. Sankey married (second), Lavinna Mont- gomery. To them have been born three children: Howard Montgomery, born August 27, 1884, assistant engineer, Pennsylvania lines, Richmond, Indiana. Sarah, born July 11, 1886. Marion, born December 27, 1888.
ROBERT HOBART SMITH
ROBERT SMITH, ancestor of the late Robert Hobart Smith, through whose pa- triotic services the latter was admitted to membership in the Society Sons of the Revolution, was a native of New York City, born November 20, 1752, died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 15, 1838. At the outbreak of the Revolution he was a merchant in the city of New York. He was elected captain of a com- pany of Scotchmen, he, himself, being the son of a Scotchman. The company was incorporated in Malcolm's regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Aaron Burr. Cap- tain Smith participated in the battles of Long Island and White Plains, being wounded in the latter, and under the direction of a French engineer constructed and manned a redoubt on the Hudson river to impede the passage of British ships. He was with the army in its retreat through New Jersey, at the battle of Monmouth, and his regiment re-enlisting, he was elected its major, in which capacity he served for some time. He married Rebecca Hobart and among their children was Robert Hobart, see forward.
ROBERT HOBART SMITH, son of Robert and Rebecca (Hobart) Smith, mar- ried Mary Potts and among their children was Edmund, see forward.
EDMUND SMITH, son of Robert Hobart and Mary (Potts) Smith, married Arabella Barnes and among their children was Robert Hobart, see forward.
ROBERT HOBART SMITH, son of Edmund and Arabella (Barnes) Smith, was born at Blairsville, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1852, died March 19, 1909.
LAWRENCE T. PAUL
JOSEPH PAUL, immigrant ancestor of Lawrence T. Paul, came from Ilminster near Taunton, in Somersetshire, to Pennsylvania in the summer of 1685 and settled near Abington, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county. By his wife, Margaret, he had several children.
JAMES PAUL, third child of Joseph and Margaret Paul, was born in Phila- delphia county, 1692, and died there in 1761. He was taxed in 1734 for five hundred acres of land in Abington township. He married at Radnor Meeting of Friends, June 28, 1723, Ann, daughter of Robert Jones, of Merion township, Philadelphia county, now city, of Welsh ancestry.
JOHN PAUL, third child of James and Ann (Jones) Paul, was born in Abing- ton township, April 22, 1731, died October, 1799. He married, in 1754, Sidney Roberts, born. May 9, 1729, died October 28, 1793, daughter of Robert Roberts, born in Merion, February 16, 1685, died May 17, 1768, and his wife, Sidney Rees, born in Pennaen parish, Llanwawn, Merionethshire, Wales, in 1680. Rob- ert Roberts was a son of John Roberts, of Pencoed, Wales, one of the first and most prominent of Welsh settlers in Merion in the Welsh Tract.
JAMES PAUL, eighth child of John and Sidney (Roberts) Paul, was born De- cember 23, 1770, died in 1839. He was a member of the Society of Friends, but was dismissed in 1794 for participation in military affairs during the Whis- key Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania. He married, at the Old Swedes' Church, Philadelphia, November 23, 1797, Elizabeth Rodman. James Paul was a member of the firm of Paul & Watson, who carried on an extensive East In- dia trade, with offices at Chestnut Street Wharf. He resided for a number of years at Fifth and North streets and. later on Third street next door to St. Peter's Church.
JAMES WILLIAM PAUL, youngest child of James and Elizabeth (Rodman) Paul, was born in Philadelphia in 1816. He married Hannah Clement, daugh- ter of Nathan Bunker, of Philadelphia, and his wife, Elizabeth Thorne (Cle- ment) Bunker. The latter was a daughter of James Clement, of New Jersey, and his wife, Mary (Thorne) Clement.
Joseph Thorne, father of Mary (Thorne) Clement and great-great-grand- father of Lawrence T. Paul, was born at Haddonfield, New Jersey, in 1733, died at Stephenson's Mills, Gloucester county, New Jersey, in 1823. He was commissioned August 10, 1776, captain of a company in the Second Bat- talion of Gloucester county, New Jersey State troops, and took an active part in military affairs during the whole of the Revolutionary struggle. He married Elizabeth Cheeseman, of a well known New Jersey family, later emigrating to that province from Long Island.
LAWRENCE T. PAUL was born in Philadelphia, August 21, 1854, and is a son of James William and Hannah Clement ( Bunker ) Paul.
HENRY THOMAS KENT
THOMAS KENT, the father of Henry Thomas Kent, was born in Middleton, Lancashire, England, March 27, 1813, and was the thirteenth child of Josiah and Hannah (Lightfoot) Kent, the latter of an old Cheshire family. His parents being possessed of limited means, and burdened with a large family of children, Thomas received but a limited education, although he received a deeply religious training from his pious parents, that, with his early interest in religious subjects, had an important bearing, and made a lasting impress on his whole after life. When a lad he became class leader in the chapel of his native village, and in his search for biblical texts and subjects to fit him for this responsible position he became acquainted with a translation of the writings of Emanuel Sweden- borg, and was much impressed with the great teacher's interpretation of the in- ternal sense of the Sacred Scriptures. "That religion has relation to life, and that the life of religion is to do good" was one of the maxims which Mr. Kent endeavored to carry out in all the relations of life.
Taking employment at an early age in a cotton mill he became so proficient as a weaver that he was made a foreman in that department at the age of six- teen years. Three years later he took up silk weaving which he followed until the death of his mother, in 1838. His own health failing he decided to visit his sister Sarah, who some years previously had married James Wilde, and emi- grated to Pennsylvania, where Mr. Wilde was engaged in the manufacturing business on Darby creek, Delaware county. Mr. Kent sailed from Liverpool in August, 1839, and after a stormy passage of six weeks arrived in Philadelphia, Sunday, September 30, 1839. Always a close student in his leisure hours, he determined to fit himself for a learned profession, and during his first winter in America began the study of law, at Philadelphia, boarding at the northwest corner of Broad and Chestnut streets. He soon discovered, however, that his health would not endure the confinement of student life, and decided to engage in the manufacturing business. He rented a mill on Darby creek, and began the manufacture of woolen yarn, in which he was successful until his whole establishment and stock were washed away by the freshet of August 5, 1843, memorable in the annals of Delaware county.
Undaunted by this early reverse in his business career, Mr. Kent, in 1844, rented from Thomas Garrett the mill on the site of the present Rockburne mill, on Darby creek, and again established himself in business, purchasing the plant of Mr. Garrett in April, 1845. November 16, 1846, he also purchased of his brother-in-law the mill operated by him on the site of the present Union mill, which he leased to Mr. Wilde until the latter's death in 1857, when he rebuilt the mill, and added it to his other plant. He soon built up a large and success- ful business. During the Civil War his mills were exclusively devoted to the manufacture of cloth for the uniforms of soldiers of the United States army, and from that time to the present have been largely doing government work. Thomas Kent became a citizen of the United States in 1845, at the earliest period
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which the laws of his adopted country permitted, and was always an ardent lover and supporter of her institutions, taking an active interest in political af- fairs. Too feeble in health to enter the active service during the Civil War, he nevertheless gave the Union cause loyal support during that trying period. Al- ways feeble physically, he, however, continued the active supervision of his large business to the day of his death. Though advised by his physician on leaving England in early manhood that he could hardly hope to survive a year, he lived to the ripe age of seventy-five years, with no illness sufficient to in- capacitate him from the supervision of his business. He considered his bus- iness primarily a power for good to others, and not only sought to make it such, but with great earnestness enjoined these principles upon his children, who were to succeed him in its management. He died October 5, 1887, and the busi- ness was carried on by his estate until May 5, 1890, when the Thomas Kent Manufacturing Company was incorporated, and the stock equally divided among his five children, two sons and three daughters. One of the sons, Samuel L. Kent, withdrew in 1898, and the four have continued the business to the present time.
Thomas Kent married, May 13, 1852, Fanny, born March 19, 1821, daughter of Simeon and Boadicea (Thompson) Leonard, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. She was born on the land originally granted to her lineal ancestor, Solomon Leonard, who was, with Captain Miles Standish, one of the fifty men who pur- chased the land of the town of Bridgewater, of the great Indian chieftain, Mas- sasoit. The Leonard family owned all the property along the main street of Bridgewater and the Taunton river, in what is now the central portion of the town, and was for generations one of the most prominent families of that sec- tion. Descendants of the family have been prominent in the several walks of life in different sections, and have filled positions of national importance in pub- lic affairs, in the learned professions and in the marts of trade. The late John Hay, the accomplished secretary of state in the cabinet of the lamented McKin- ley, who won an international reputation for statesmanship, was a descendant of the Leonards, of Bridgewater. The Leonard ancestry has been traced back in England to the time of William the Conqueror. Mrs. Kent is also a de- scendant of five passengers on the historic "Mayflower" in 1620, including Gov- ernor Edward Winslow, Isaac and Remember Allerton, Susanna Fuller, and Francis Cooke. She was also a descendant of many of the best families of Massachusetts Bay Colony, who came to New England between the years 1630 and 1635, and settled at Cambridge, Watertown and Lexington. Several of her ancestors took part in King Philip's and other Colonial wars, and both her grandfathers and a great-grandfather fought at Lexington and Bunker Hill, and other battles during the Revolutionary War. Among her ancestors were the prominent families of Shephard, Parker, Stearns, Stone and Hosmer. Her maternal grandfather, Captain William Thompson, born in Middletown, Massa- chusetts, in 1646, was on the muster roll of the first minute company in Middle- town that responded to the Lexington alarm, and under the command of Cap- tain William Shaw, marched to Marshfield, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775, Wil- liam Thompson being then second lieutenant of the company. He enlisted May 2, 1775, in Colonel Theophilus Cotton's regiment, and was in command of the company, November 14, 1775, and soon after that date was promoted to the
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