Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 1, Part 181

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Our subject was born May 4, 1836, in Bucking- ham township, Wayne county, and is a worthy repre- sentative of a distinguished and honored family, which has been well represented in the wars of this country. His great-grandfather, Gideon Woodman- see, one of the earliest settlers of Wayne county, having located here in 1816, aided the Colonies in achieving their independence in the Revolutionary war, and for his services later received a pension, while his son, James Woodmansee (grandfather of our subject), was a soldier of the war of 1812. James M. Woodmansee, father of our subject, was born in Connecticut, in 1812, and was only four years old when brought by his parents to Wayne county, Penn., where he was reared and educated. He was married in Susquehanna county, to Miss Lydia Griffis, who was born near Forest Lake, in Jessup township, that county, a daughter of John Griffis, one of its pioneers. Her mother bore the maiden name of Susanna Leonard, and was of English de- scent. To James M. Woodmansee and wife were born the following children : James E., the subject of this sketch ; Sylvester, who was a soldier of the Civil war, and is now a resident of Lake Como ; Ella, wife of James Kent, of Windsor, Susquehanna county ; Chester and John, who died in childhood; Nelson, who died at the age of thirty-two years, leaving a widow and one son; and Amanda, who married Martin Huffman, and died leaving four children. The father departed this life at the age of sixty-six years, the mother at the age of seventy-two. Both were worthy members of the Baptist Church, and were held in high regard by all who knew them. By occupation he was a farmer and lumberman, and in politics he was a Whig until 1856, when he joined the Republican party, voting for Fremont in that year. He served in a number of local offices, being justice of the peace for several years.

Upon the old home farm in Buckingham town- ship, Mr. Woodmansee, of this review, grew to man- hood, acquiring a thorough knowledge of agricult- ural pursuits and lumbering, but his school training

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was quite limited, being almost entirely a self-educat- ed man. Throughout life, however, he has been a student, and is especially well informed on the lead- ing questions and issues of the day. During his youth he engaged in lumbering and rafting on the Delaware river, but in 1857 started for the far west via St. Louis, thence by boat to Brownsville, Neb., a distance of 759 miles. He then proceeded on foot across the Indian reservation to Pawnee county, that State, where he pre-empted 160 acres of land and built a log cabin. After spending seven months upon his claim in order to secure it, he returned to his old home in Pennsylvania. In 1862 he received the patent to his land, signed by President Lincoln.

In September, 1861, Mr. Woodmansee enlisted as a private in Co. F, 45th P. V. I., but was after ward promoted to second lieutenant, serving as such until he was forced to resign on account of ill health, in October, 1862. Later as a private he joined the 50th New York Engineer Corps, and with the Army of the Potomac served until the close of the war.

Returning to Wayne county, Mr. Woodmansee gave his time and attention to the improvement and cultivation of his large farm until elected county treasurer in 1870, when he entered upon the duties of that office. In 1888 he was elected to the State Legislature, and in the session of the following year was one of its most influential members, serv- ing on the committees on agriculture, appropriations, pensions, ways and means, and as chairman of the geological survey. On the expiration of his term, he was re-elected, and in 1892 he returned to private life, and has since devoted his energies to his exten- sive business interests. Lumbering has been his principal occupation, he at one time owning an in- terest in three mills.

For several years Mr. Woodmansee successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits upon his valuable farm of 300 acres in Buckingham township. He was one of the organizers of the Wayne Chemical Co., of which he is now president, their first plant being erected in Buckingham township, on Equinunk creek, in 1887, and he is also interested in the chemi- cal works at Glen Hazel, Elk County, Penn., which were established in 1892. With his son Calvin E. and others he is engaged in merchandising at Star- light, Wayne county, and with his son, Frederick M., and others is interested in the same business at Equinunk, while at the former place the firm owns and operates a creamery, and also ships milk.

On January 2, 1860, Mr. Woodmansee married Miss Lavina A. Underwood, who was born, reared and educated in Preston township, Wayne county. She is a daughter of Daniel and Harriett (Fay) Underwood, and a sister of Hon. N. F. Underwood, of Lake Como. Mr. and Mrs. Woodmansee have four children : Elma, who prior to her marriage was a successful teacher, and is now the wife of Peter E. Low, editor of the Boomerang, of Laramie City, Wyoming : Calvin E., a general merchant of Star- light ; Frederick M., a merchant of Equinunk ; and Howard F .. who is attending the Wyoming Semi- 49

nary. One daughter, Jennie, died at the age of nine years. All of the children have been provided with good educations, Elma having graduated from the high schools of Pleasant Mount.

Politically, Mr. Woodmansee is identified with the Republican party, and affiliates, socially, with Scudder Post, G. A. R., of Equinunk; the Odd Fellows Lodge No. 965, of Lake Como, of which he is past noble grand; and the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandery, of the Masonic Fraternity at Binghamton, N. Y. He has made an untarnished record and unspotted reputation as a business man. In all places and under all circumstances he is loyal to truth, honor and right, justly valuing his own self-respect as infinitely more preferable than wealth, fame and position. His estimable wife is a promi- nent and active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

JAMES COLE ROSE is a well-known gen- eral farmer and proprietor of the popular summer resort known as "Pocono Farm," it being a part of the original Rose homestead in Westfall township, Pike county, and most beautifully located between the mountains and the Delaware river. It com- prises 200 acres of valuable land, well-improved with good buildings, including an attractive hotel, one mile from Port Jervis, N. Y., which will ac- commodate fifty guests. Mr. Rose is most ably managing the same, and does all in his power for the convenience and comfort of his guests.

Our subject was born December 27, 1840, upon a part of his present farm, a son of Elijah and Maria (Cole) Rose. The father was a native of New York, born at Masthope in 1813, and became a large landowner and wealthy and prominent citizen of Pike county, where he was widely and favorably known. He was a man of refined tastes. He died at the old homestead in Westfall township, in April, 1871 ; his wife, who was born in Sussex county, N. J., in 1812, departed this life in February, 1870, the remains of both being interred in Laurel Grove cemetery, Carpenter's Point, N. Y. In their family were the following children: Sarah, who died young ; James C., our subject ; Margaret J., widow of Oliver Carpenter, residing in Port Jervis; Cla- rissa, who died in childhood ; Frederick, a farmer of Matamoras, Penn., who married Fanny Cornwall ; and Mary, wife of Linn Ettsal, a coal merchant of Port Jervis.

Our subject's paternal great-grandfather was Thomas Rose, a native of Stonington, Conn., who in early life removed to Shaytown, N. J., later to Masthope, N. Y., finally to Mongaup, N. Y., where his death occurred. He was laid to rest in a private burying ground, and his grave is marked by a headstone erected by his son, Fred- erick A. Rose, our subject's grandfather, who would not permit the little cemetery to be dis- turbed during the construction of the Delaware & Hudson canal which now curves around it. The.

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grandparents, Frederick A. and Margaret (Rider) Rose, were natives of Stonington, Conn., and Orange county, N. Y., respectively, and at an early day removed from Mongaup, N. Y., to Pike county, Penn., on a raft. Here he purchased a farm from Cortland Rosencrans, and at his death was a large landowner. Both he and his wife were buried in a lot upon his father's farm which he had set aside for that purpose, having built a stone wall around it a number of years prior to his death. His chil- dren were Elijah, father of our subject; Catherine, wife of Isaac Cuddeback; Benjamin, who married (first) Mary Holbert, and (second) Clarissa Hol- bert; and Mary, wife of Ezekiel Gumaer. The maternal grandparents of our subject were James R. and Jennie (Cuddeback) Cole, residents of Sussex county, New Jersey.

James C. Rose received his education in the common schools, walking from two to four miles (and crossing the Delaware) to the school houses. He remained with his parents until his marriage October 17, 1866, at Elk Lake, Susquehanna Co., Penn., to Miss Elizabeth Martin. To them have been born five children, namely : Maud, who died at the age of seven years, and Elijah, who died when five years old, both dying of diphtheria, within three weeks of each other ; and Clarence, Marguerite and May, all at home, attending school at Port Jervis. Mrs. Rose is a native of Flatbrookshire, Sussex Co., N. J., and a daughter of James and Mary (Stoll) Martin, natives of Warren and Sussex counties, N. J., respectively. The mother died at Stroudsburg, Penn., December 19, 1896, aged sixty-six years, and is interred in Laurel Grove cemetery, N. Y .; the father is now living at Cahoonzie, N. Y. In early life he enaged in merchandising, but he now gives his attention to farming. Mrs. Rose is the eldest of his children, the others being Robert, a farmer of Susquehanna county, Penn .; James, a farmer of Scranton, Penn .; Hannah, deceased wife of Will- iam Clark, a farmer of Westfall township, Pike county ; and Joseph, also a farmer of Westfall town- ship. Mrs. Rose's paternal grandfather, Andrew Martin, was of Scotch-Irish parentage, and be- longed to a prominent and wealthy family in Ire- land, leaving home on account of some religious trouble. He was married in Warren county, N. J., to Hester Carlington, a lady of German birth, and there they ever afterward made their home. The maternal grandparents, Robert and Elizabeth (Struble) Stoll, were born in Newton, N. J., the former dying at Sanderson, N. J., where he had lived for some time as a retired merchant and pros- perous citizen.

After his marriage Mr. Rose removed to a house on a part of his present farm, and remained there until the death of his father, when he pur- chased the interests of the other heirs in the old homestead. Here he has 250 acres of valuable land, which he successfully operates in connection with his hotel business, and it is one of the best and most beautiful farms in Pike county along the Delaware.

Although he has never aspired to office, Mr. Rose has been called upon to serve as poormaster and auditor of his township. Politically he is identi- fied with the Republican party, and in religious connection he and his wife are members of the Re- formed Church. She is a woman of sound judg- ment and great general information, of vigorous thought and high moral principle; gentle, refined, unobtrusive in manner, she is withal a woman of great independence, and self reliance of character.

JOHN R. McANDREW, the present weigh- master for the Pennsylvania Coal Co. at Hawley, Wayne county, was born May 2, 1828, on the bor- der between County Sligo and County Mayo, Ire- land, a son of James and Bridget (Healey) Mc- Andrew, who spent their entire lives in that coun- try. For half a century the father was connected with the firm of Meshers, Gallacher & Co., grist- mill operators, serving as superintendent most of the time. He died in 1867, aged seventy years, and his wife two years later at the same age. Three sons constituted their family, namely: Patrick, a stone mason, who died in Paris, Ky .; John R., of this sketch; and James, a carpenter, who died in Dunmore, Penn. The paternal grandparents of our subject, Richard and Nancy (Holland) Mc- Andrew, also lived in Ireland, the former having charge of the estate of a Mr. Jones, but in 1798 he was transported to Botany Bay for no other crime than saving the life of a friend at the risk of his own. He died at the above named place in 1805. John Healey, the maternal grandfather, was a far- mer in Ireland.

The subject of this sketch remained with his parents until he was married in Ireland, in 1847, to Miss Maria Holland, who died a year later, leav- ing no children. He was later married in that coun- try, in February, 1851, to Miss Eliza Kane, who was born in County Mayo, in 1832, a daughter of James Kane, a boot and shoe merchant who died in Ireland, in 1872, in middle life. In the Kane family were four children: Maria, who died un- married in New York; Eliza, wife of our subject ; Jane, who also died unmarried in New York; and John, a veteran of the G. A. R., who died in the same place.

Mr. and Mrs. McAndrew have a family of children, of which they may be justly proud. Rev. Richard A., the eldest, now has charge of a parish in Wilkes Barre, Penn. Jane married Michael J. Healey, a wholesale merchant of Scranton, Penn., and is now deceased. Mary is living with her brother-in-law in Dunmore. Harriet is an Ursuline nun in Youngstown, Ohio. Eliza is the wife of Thomas Hawley, a railroad engineer living in Dun- more. James W., a graduate of the military school at West Point, is a captain in the 3rd U. S. I., and is now serving in the Philippines. He married Nellie Roach, of Scranton, Penn. Dr. Patrick H. is a physician, also in the army, and is at present in the Philippines. Keatie is the wife of John Creigh-

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ton, freight agent for the Erie Railroad Company at Greenwood Lake, New Jersey.

In 1851, Mr. McAndrew emigrated to the United States, and first located in New York City, where for nine months he was employed as col- lector for a sack factory. He then came to Hawley, Wayne Co., Penn., where he has since made his home, and for many years he has served as weighmaster for the Pennsylvania Coal Co. He has just completed an elegant new home in that vil- lage, where he expects to spend his remaining days. He has provided his children with excellent school privileges, and all are filling honorable and respon- sible positions in life. In the Catholic Church he holds membership, as do the other members of his family. At State and National elections he votes with the Democratic party, but at local elections, where no issue is involved, he supports the man whom he believes is best qualified to fill the office. He himself has most creditably and satisfactorily served as school director for eleven years and coun- cilman for three years.

JOHN DETRICK, a prominent resident of Milford, is the owner of valuable real estate in that village, and also has a fine farm on the bottom lands of the Delaware river in Dingman township, Pike county. As a citizen he is much respected, and his intelligence and genial manners have made him many friends in the course of his long and active life.

Mr. Detrick comes of good old Holland- Dutch stock, and his ancestors settled in Pennsyl- vania at an early period. His grandparents, John and Elizabeth (Kurtz) Detrick, were born in Northampton county, and after their marriage re- moved (in 1821) to Monroe county, where the grandfather was accidentally killed in 1827. While at work he fell from his wagon, and a four-horse team following passed over him inflicting fatal in- juries. He was buried at Centerville, Penn., and his wife, who died in 1883, at the age of eighty- nine, while visiting her son William in Warren county, N. J., was interred beside her husband. This worthy couple had the following children: William, Samuel, Andrew, Reuben, Barbara (who married Charles Lander), Lena (who married (first) Joseph Fenner, and (second) Washington Overfield), and Lavina (who married James Young).

Samuel Detrick, our subject's father, was born December 22, 1813, near Centerville, Penn., and in early manhood engaged in farming and lumbering. In 186t he removed to Pike county, settling upon the old homestead of which our subject's farm is a portion. After two years he purchased a farm at the Delaware Bridge, near Milford, and two years later he removed to Milford, where he bought lots and for some years was engaged in building houses for sale. At the time of his death he owned 180 acres of land in Pike county, and the old homestead was divided between his sons, John and Moses. He

was a man of high character, and wielded an influ- ence for good, being especially active in temper- ance work and in religious and educational affairs. For many years he served as president of the local school board, and he was a leading member of the Presbyterian Church at Milford, and of the Bible Society. While he did not aspire to prominence in political life he was a stanch Republican, and was always ready to discharge his full duty as a citizen, serving at times in minor township offices. He died May 14, 1876, and was buried in the ceme- tery at Milford. He and his wife, whose maiden name was Catherine Albert, had four children: John, our subject ; Barbara A., who died in infancy ; Calvin, a real estate dealer in Brooklyn, N. Y., who married (first) A. Stark, and (second) Jennie Mur- ray ; and Moses, a farmer, now residing in Milford, who married Adelle Burleigh.

Mrs. Catherine (Albert) Detrick, our subject's mother, was born in Monroe county, January 25, 1812, and died at Milford, October 3, 1888. Her parents, Peter and Elizabeth (Transue) Albert, resided upon a farm in Monroe county, where her mother died in 1853 aged sixty-five years, and her father in 1865, at the age of seventy-five. ' They had nine children : Philip, Henry, John, Peter, Will- ian, Catherine, Sarah (Mrs. Samuel Walter), Eliz- abeth (Mrs. J. G. Jerollman), and Mary (Mrs. Caleb DeWitt).

Our subject was born October 9, 1834, in Mid- dle Smithfield township, Monroe county, and at an early age became interested in the management of the homestead. When he was twenty-eight years old his parents removed to Milford, and he took entire charge of the farm. After nine years he purchased the old farm near Delaware Bridge from his brother Moses, and there he resided for twenty-five years, when he sold out and removed to Milford. For one year he rented a home in the village, and then purchased his present residence. Politically he is a Republican, and in religious faith he is a Methodist, being a prominent member of the Church at Milford in which he is serving as steward and trustee. During the Civil war he was drafted into the service, but paid $300 for a sub- stitute. On June 27, 1861, he was married at Mil- ford to Miss Emma Angle, by whom he has had two children: (1) Samuel, who operates the old homestead, married Laura Kaul, and has two chil- dren, Wallace G. and Ethel. (2) Frank F. died, aged sixteen years and six months.

Mrs. Emma (Angle) Detrick was born March 24, 1834, near Delaware Station, Warren Co., N. J., and belongs to one of the old families of that lo- cality. Her grandparents, Jacob and Elizabeth Angle, passed their lives there, the grandfather being engaged in agriculture. Samuel Angle, Mrs. Detrick's father, was born and reared in New Jer- sey, whence he removed to this section in 1845, 10- cating upon a farm in Monroe county, where he died in 1883, aged eighty-two years and six months. He married (first) Miss Mary Cool, daughter of

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William Cool, a well-known resident of Warren county, N. J. She died in 1836 at the age of thirty, and he afterward married Miss Elizabeth Angle, who was not related to him. By the first marriage he had children as follows: Peter, who died in childhood; Elizabeth, widow of William Finger, of Milford; Jerusha, who married Eastburne Workheiser, a miller at Potterville, Penn .; Jabez G., a farmer in Monroe county, who married (first) M. A. Posten, and (second) S. J. Van Fleet ; Sarah C., wife of Jeremiah Anderson, a farmer of near Herrickville, Penn., and Emma, wife of our sub- ject. By the second marriage there were two sons, Samuel and William, both deceased.

LEWIS PHILANDER COOKE, D. D. S., a leading and popular dentist of Hawley, Wayne county, is a native of the county, born in Salem, September 16, 1854. Thomas Cooke, his grand- father, was born in 1797, in Leicestershire, Eng- land, and there married Rebecca Barsby. Their chil- dren were: William (deceased) married Lorilla Lewis, of Unadilla, Otsego Co., N. Y. ; Mary mar- ried Griswold Johnson, of Franklin, Delaware Co., N. Y., and is now a widow; Thomas (2) is re- ferred to farther on ; and Robert and Rebecca, who died in infancy, are buried in England. The family came to America in 1830, and settled in Franklin, Delaware Co., N. Y. ; the father died in 1849, the mother in 1866, when she was aged eighty years.

Thomas Cooke (2), the father of our subject, was born June 5, 1820, in Leicestershire, England, and came to America with his parents. He was reared in Franklin, Delaware county, N. Y., and in 1845, went to Salem, Wayne Co., Penn., where he was employed in working on a farm until in 1852, when he bought the tract of ninety acres in that township ; one year later he sold this and bought another farm in the same township. This he farmed until in 1864 he enlisted in the Union army in Com- pany B, 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, under Capt. R. C. Horner, and served his adopted coun- try faithfully until in January, 1866, when he was honorably discharged at Philadelphia, having been mustered out at City Point, Va. Soon after re- turning from the army he sold his farm and pur- chased a large tract of improved land of Luther Weston in the same township, which he farmed very successfully until the winter of 1896, at which time, being at the advanced age of seventy-six years, he sold this farm and purchased a house and lot in the village of Hamlinton, where he now resides. He has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since 1860. In politics he is a Republican, but has cared nothing for official preferment. He has held the office of inspector at elections. On April 9, 1851, Thomas Cooke (2) was married to Miss Julia A. Collins. and the marriage was blessed with children as follows: Sydney W., born November 21, 1852, and married to Helen Raymond, is a mer- chant residing at Jermyn ; Lewis P., our subject, is referred to farther on ; Herbert E., born April 13,

1861, died October 9, 1862; Ella L., born August 18, 1867, married William H. Noble, a merchant of Sterling township; and Stella G., born December 20, 1876, is still at home.

Julia A. Cooke was born August 4, 1831, in Cherry Ridge township, daughter of Abner D. and Hannah (Jones) Collins, natives of Connecticut. The father was born May 22, 1795, and died Sep- tember 22, 1875, and the mother, born January 18, 1798, died on January 18, 1849, both being bur- ied in Salem cemetery. Their children were: Philander, born July 25, 1824, married Susan London, is a farmer of Lake township; Lysan- der, born October 26, 1827, married Eliza Brown, and died in California; Elizabeth, born Septem- ber 24, 1829, married Alva A. Harding, a farm- er of Wayne county; Julia A. (Mrs. Cooke) ; Hannah M., born January 12, 1834, married J. W. Slocum, of Scranton, Penn., now retired; Calista, born January 24, 1837, married (first) Capt. War- ren G. Moore, and ( second) Edward Moore (cous- ins ).

Like most farmers' sons, Dr. Cooke spent his boyhood and youth on the farm. During the win- ter seasons he obtained his education under the guidance of Prof. M. H. Race in the high school at Hollisterville, a distance of two miles from his home. At the age of sixteen he went to Hamlin- ton, Wayne county, where he served an apprentice- ship to the tinner's trade with John Nash, remaining with him three years. During the following three years he worked as a journeyman in Franklin, Dela- ware Co., N. Y., and while there studied dentistry for one year with Dr. H. R. Scott. He then attend- ed the New York College of Dentistry for one term, and on his return to Hamlinton opened an office where he practiced his profession for a year and a half. He then entered the Pennsylvania College of Dentistry at Philadelphia, and after his graduation located in Salem, where he engaged in practice until 1891, when he removed to Hawley, Six years previously he had opened an office here, where he spent three days out of each week, but now gives his entire time and attention to his extensive practice in this place.

On January 1, 1890, in Port Jervis, N. Y., Dr. Cooke was married to Miss Helen M. Harden- bergh, daughter of Frank H. and Amelia (Kellam) Hardenbergh, Rev. R. H. Craig, a Presbyterian minister, performing the marriage ceremony. Mrs. Hardenbergh is a descendant of the first settlers of Paupack, Pike Co., Penn. Mr. Harbenbergh was a conductor on the Erie R. R. from 1866 until 1890, at which time he was promoted to train master of the Delaware Division of the Erie R. R .. a position he retained until his death June 26, 1895. Mrs. Cooke was born September 26, 1865, and is a grad- tate of the Port Jervis Academy. In her religious belief she is a member of the Episcopal Church.

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Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 1, Part 181

Author: Publication date: 1900 Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 2390

Author:
Publication date: 1900
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 2390