Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 1, Part 186

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After his marriage Mr. Bogert continued to engage in business in Brooklyn until 1886, when he came to Stroudsburg, Monroe county, where he was interested in the dry-goods trade for two years. Returning to Brooklyn, he was again with Levi Brothers for two years, and then accepted a position as general salesman with S. A. Castle & Co., im- porters and commission merchants, remaining with them one year. In 1892 he became a resident of Paradise township, Monroe county, Penn., where he purchased the James Smith farm, and has since devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits with good results. He has greatly improved his place, and has purchased a tract of timber land adjoining.

Religiously Mr. Bogert, his wife and family are all members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Swiftwater, and he is now one of the trustees and steward, has served as superintendent of the Sabbath-school one term, and has always taken an active and influential part in Church work. Since attaining his majority he has been identified with the Democratic party, has held the office of clerk of Paradise township for five consecutive years, and assessor two terms. A man of large business ex- perience, he is well qualified to fill any important position to which his fellow citizens may see fit to elect him. He is well-educated and refined, and his daily life is governed by the golden rule, to do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

GEORGE HOWELL, who is now success- fully engaged in agricultural pursuits in Scott town- ship, Wayne county, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Lackawanna county, in 1845, and is a son of George and Betsy ( Price) Howell, the former born in Wayne county, in 1816, the latter in Lacka- wanna county, in 1818.

After their marriage our subject's parents lo- cated in Benton, Lackawanna county, where the father followed farming and lumbering until 1852, when he removed.to Lenox township, Susquehanna Co., Penn. Upon the farm which he there pur- chased he spent his remaining days, dying in 1879, the mother in 1889. Our subject is the eldest of the four children born to this worthy couple, the others being as follows: (2) Mary, born in Lack- awanna county, received a public-school education and married Isaac Morris, of that county, who was a teamster in the Union army during the Civil war, and is now a resident of Scott township, Wayne county. They have four children-George N., Tillie H., William H. and Laura P. (3) Will- iam T., born in Lackawanna county, in 1848, was reared in Susquehanna county, and is now living in Richland county, Wis., where he follows the shoe- maker's trade. He married Miss Yager, of that State, and they have children-Fred C., Ida, Emma and Leora. (4) S. E., born in Susquehanna county, married Miss Frances Morris, of Lackawanna county, and they now make their home in Scran- ton, Pennsylvania.

George Howell was reared and educated in the usual manner of farmer boys. Prompted by a spirit patriotism, he enlisted at Scranton, in 1864, in the 58th P. V. I., under Gen. Butler, and the regi- ment was assigned to the Army of the James. His first engagement was at Spring Hill, Va., Decem- ber 10, 1864, followed by the engagement at Cha- pin's Farm, and then the regiment went into win- ter quarters. The following spring they proceeded to Richmond, where they remained until after the surrender of Lee, and did provost duty until the fall of 1865, when they were honorably discharged at Lynchburg, Virginia.

In 1866 Mr. Howell married Miss Alice Price, of Lackawanna county, a daughter of William and Fannie Price, well-to-do agriculturists. Five chil- dren bless this union : Cora V., born in Lackawanna county, in 1867, is now the wife of Edwin Foster, of that county, and has two children, Ethel and Howard T. ; Ralph L., born in Susquehanna county, in 1870, assists his father in farming and dairy- ing : Bertha E., born in Susquehanna county in 1876, is the wife of C. D. Tarbox, of Scott town- ship, Wayne county, and has one child, Leslie; Elva E., born in Susquehanna county, in 1881, and Ina G., born in the same county, in 1887, are attend- ing the home school.

Mr. Howell began his domestic life in Lenox, Susquehanna county, where he lived for a number of years, and then removed to Scranton, where he learned the mason's trade, at which he worked

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for about six years. The following three years he passed in Scott Centre, Wayne county, and in 1895 he located upon his present farm at Chestnut Ridge, Scott township, where he has since engaged in agricultural pursuits with good success. Relig- iously he was reared in the Baptist Church, his mother being a faithful member of that denomina- tion, and, politically he has always been identified with the Republican party. He was a brave sol- dier, and as a citizen he faithfully discharges every duty that devolves upon him.

SIMPSON FETHERMAN. It has often been remarked that common sense is the most un- common thing in this world of ours, and the truth of the assertion is shown by the involuntary respect bestowed by a community upon a man of sound judgment, capable of making an independent esti- mate of men and affairs. The subject of this sketch, a well-known citizen of Stroudsburg, is a man whose opinion is sought in various lines of thought and enterprise, and his influence in the community, thoughi quietly exerted, is none the less marked.

Mr. Fetherman is of German ancestry in the paternal line, his great-grandfather, Philip Fether- man, having been the first of the family to come to America. Abraham Fetherman, the father of our subject, was born probably in Pennsylvania, and the greater part of his life was spent in farming in Monroe county, where he died in 1852 at the age of sixty years, seven months and twenty days. He owned two farms, and in addition to his general agricultural work he was engaged in distilling apple whiskey. Politically he was a Democrat, and in religious faith he was a Lutheran. His wife, Rachel Miller, who died at the age of sixty-two, was born in Monroe county, then a part of North- ampton county. They had the following children : Jacob A., a resident of Stroudsburg; Absalom, who resides in Cherry Valley, Monroe county ; Sophia, deceased, who married Joseph A. Buz- zard; Simpson, our subject ; Abraham H., of Ham- ilton township, Monroe county; Joseph, deceased ; Masias, deceased; Charles, who died in childhood ; Manasseh, a resident of Hamilton township; and A. J.

Our subject was born December II, 1831, in Hamilton township, Monroe county, where he se- cured a common-school education. From an early age he made himself useful in the work of the farm, and at seventeen he began to learn the tailor's trade at Buzzardville. This he followed at intervals until 1878 in Quakerstown and other places in Mon- roe county, and about 1856 he was interested for a time in business in Scranton, Penn., in partnership with one of his brothers. He has always been active in politics as a member of the Democratic party, and in 1871 he was elected county treas- urer for a term of two years, next changed to three vears. For three years he was supervisor of Stroud township, and for ten years he served as township collector, retiring in 1896. He and his

family are prominent socially, and he belongs to the Methodist Church and to various fraternal or- ganizations, including the Improved Order of Red Men; the Senior Order of American Mechanics, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has been an active member since 1871, having passed all the Chairs. On October 28, 1871, he married Miss E. Andrews, who was born in 1853, in Pittston, Penn., and six children have blessed their union: William died when about nine months old; Ralph Van Allen, a member of the mercantile firm of Decker & Fetherman, of Spragueville, married Miss Jennie Hannah; Flora M. is a successful teacher in the schools of Stroud township, Monroe county; Clyde S. is a clerk in the Stroudsburg National Bank; Nettie and Randall are still attending school. Mr. Fetherman places a just value upon education for his children, and has given them excellent oppor- tunities of which their native ability enables them to make good use.

DAVID C. KINGSBURY, a prosperous lumberman of Lake Como, Wayne county, has done probably more to promote the commercial activity, advance the general welfare and secure the material development of Buckingham township than any other individual. As a business man he has been enterprising, energetic and always abreast of the times, and has been rewarded by a comfortable competence.

A native of Wayne county, Mr. Kingsbury was born in Preston township, January 23, 1844, a son of Charles and Keziah (Cole) Kingsbury. The father was born in Northampton county, Penn., in 1794, and when a young man located on the Delaware river, near Hancock, N. Y., with his father, William Kingsbury, a native of Holland. There he engaged in lumbering and quarrying until 1844, when he removed to Lake Como, Pres- ton township, Wayne county, where he operated a sawmill. He also purchased a tract of government land at Preston Park, and transformed it into a good farm, erecting thereon substantial buildings and making it his home until called from this life, in 1866. His wife died on the same place in 1872. All their children were born in Wayne county, as follows: (I) Victorene is the wife of S. D. Will- iams, of Preston township, Wayne county. (2) Jane married Jesse Dix, of Canaan township, Wayne county, where he died, leaving two daugh- ters, Annie(Mrs. J. L. Sherwood) ; and Myra, wife of Col. Barnhart, of Beaverdale, Penn. Mrs. Dix afterward married Rufus Geer, of Preston town- ship, by whom she has one son, Spafford, now a resi- dent of Nebraska. (3) Abba is the wife of Free- man Lord, of Hancock, Delaware Co., N. Y. (4) William married Mahala Woodmansee, of Wayne county, by whom he had three children, and after her death wedded Samantha Stanton, of Clinton township, Wayne county. (5) Harriet married L. A. Underwood, of Preston township, and they lived

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in Lake Como until their deaths. They left a fam- ilv. (6) James, a cripple from childhood, made his home with our subject after his father's death, and there died in 1876, at the age of forty-one years. (7) Orin M. resides in Hale's Eddy, N. Y., where he is engaged in the stone quarry trade with the firm of Randal & Underwood. He married Sarah Murray, of Buckingham township, Wayne county, and has four children, Fred M., Harriet W., Roy and Lewis C.

The carly education of our subject was such as the common schools of his day afforded, and he received an excellent knowledge of business and business methods, which has been of great benefit to him in later years. Feeling that his country needed his services, he laid aside all personal con- siderations in August, 1862, and enlisted in Com- pany K, 137th P. V. I., for nine months, under Capt. Mclaughlin, of Schuylkill county, Penn., The regiment being assigned to the Army of the Potomac, he took part with that command in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Sharpsburg and Chancellorsville. On receiving an honorable discharge, in June, 1863, he returned home.

Mr. Kingsbury was married, in July, 1867, to Miss Harriet E. Hawks, of Delaware county, N. Y., a daughter of Nelson and Lurana Hawks, who in 1861 came to Wayne county, Penn., where the father died the following year. The mother now finds a pleasant home with Mr. and Mrs. Kingsbury. She has only two children, the other being Clauson I., a resident of Binghamton, N. Y. Six children have been born to our subject and his wife, viz. : (1) Jennie, born in Preston Park in 1868, was educated at Mt. Pleasant Academy, and later taught in the public schools of Wayne county. She is now the wife of Frederick Niles, of Matamoras, Pike Co., Penn., and has two children, Florence and Herbert. (2) Mary F., born December 4, 1867, died in March, 1874. (3) Lillian E., born in March, 1870, died the same week as her sister, the fatal disease of both being diphtheria. (4) Hattie A., born June IO, 1875, completed her education in the high schools of Matamoras and Mount Pleasant, Penn., and is now successfully engaged in teaching in Wayne county. (5) Mabel E., born in 1878, was educated in the Pleasant Mount schools, and is now teaching in Wayne county. (6) Harold R., born September 5, 1881, is attending school at Winwood.

After his marriage Mr. Kingsbury located at Preston Park, where he engaged in lumbering, and having purchased the old homestead there he con- tinued to make it his home for about fifteen years. In 1881 he bought the sawmill property of Under- wood & Woodmansee, at Lake Como, where he has since engaged in the manufacture of lumber, doing a large and profitable business. His wife is the owner of a good farm near Preston Park Sta- tion. She is a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which her father and mother also belonged.

In his political affiliations Mr. Kingsbury is

a Republican, and on that ticket has been elected to a number of local offices of honor and trust, hav- ing been collector six years, school director and president of the school board four years, and assess- or for the past eight years. A man of keen per- ception, of unbounded enterprise, his success in life is due entirely to his own efforts, and he deserves prominent mention among the leading and repre- sentative business men of Wayne county.

PROF. EDWIN T. KUNKLE. Perhaps no name is more closely interwoven with the educa- tional history of Monroe county than that which is borne by the subject of this sketch. For more than a century and a half his family name has been prominent in the records of Monroe county, shap- ing its history, developing its natural resources, and now giving impetus and character to its men- tal and moral growth. Beautiful Fairview Acad- emy, rebuilt and rejuvenated, standing in the quiet and peaceful village of Brodheadsville, upon the. watershed which divides the Lehigh and Delaware river systems, is the oldest institution for higher education in Monroe county. It was founded by Rev. G. G. Kunkle. Its present principal is the subject of this sketch, a young man who from earliest youth has been connected with the educa- tional interests of Monroe county, and who now ranks as one of the ablest and most progressive educators in eastern Pennsylvania.

Prof. Edwin T. Kunkle was born in Kresge- ville, Monroe county, September 16, 1868, a son of James and Elizabeth (Kresge) Kunkle. His fa- ther is a prominent merchant and farmer of that village. Our subject was reared on the farm, and in his boyhood assisted both upon the farm and in the store, at the same time attending the schools of Kresgeville. But the natural bent of his mind was neither for things agricultural or commercial. The higher education beckoned him on, at the age of fifteen, as a student in Fairview Academy, then under the principalship of Rev. G. G. Kunkle, his uncle. After attending three terms, and when only a lad of seventeen years, he began teaching district school in Monroe county, and so continued for four years. Having completed the academic course at Fairview he in 1889, at the age of twenty years, entered the Freshman class of Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Penn., and four years later was graduated from that institution, the first honors of his class being divided between himself and another. His vacations he had spent upon the farm of his father, assisting in the operations of the many busi- ness interests of the latter, the farm, store and mill. Immediately after graduation Professor Kun- kle entered his educational career, assuming the principalship of Fairview Academy, and has since been in charge of that thorough and progressive institution. In addition to his duties as principal, he is instructor in Science, Mathematics and Peda- gogics. Since the Academy, in 1893, passed into the hands of the present management, success has

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marked every year. In 1895 the institution became the property of a corporation. In 1898 the academy was rebuilt and refurnished, and the curriculum revised. The high standing of scholarship at the institution may be judged by the fact that in recent years its students have taken first honors at Wil- son's Female College, Pennsylvania College, Muh- lenberg College, and the Pierce Business School. Their laurels have also included the oratorical prize at Muhlenberg, gold medal at Allentown Female College, and the second honor at Franklin and Marshall College.

Prof. Kunkle is a member of the Lutheran Church, and when at home was choir leader of the Church at Kresgeville. He occasionally leads the choir at Brodheadsville. In politics he is a Demo- crat. He is a brilliant and talented teacher, highly respected throughout the county for his lofty char- acter and attainments, for the zeal and marked ability he has displayed in the cause of education, and for the success which has crowned his pro- fessional labors.

ADAM H. BROOKS, a leading citizen and farmer of Varden, South Canaan township, Wayne county, was born July 22, 1857, on the old home- stead, of which he is now a resident and owner.

Cortland Brooks, his father, was a native of the city of New York, born March 13, 1814. His parents dying when he was but a child, he had little knowledge of his ancestry. At the age of thirteen he was bound out to a Quaker in Orange county, N. Y., to learn the wheelwright's trade, the term of the apprenticeship being seven years. In 1835, when of age, and after he had completed his trade, he came to South Canaan, locating on the north and south turnpike, and here worked at his trade some five years, when he began farming in a small way. He purchased thirty acres of land, on which were an old house and rude barn, paying $300 for the property. His capital on his arrival in South Canaan was fifty cents, but he had health and a good trade, and that hope which inspires youth, so he applied himself with a will to do and to succeed. Year by year he added to his land and made im- provements until he possessed some 400 acres, a part of which is the 150 acres on which his son Jessup now resides, then covered partially with hemlock, and for which he paid one dollar per acre. He lived, with the exception of a few years on first coming to Wayne county, on the farm where his son Adam H. now resides, engaging throughout his lifetime in farming. In his religious views he was orthodox, and became a member of the M. P. Church. Politically he affiliated with the Repub- lican party, and he held different local offices. He was a good man, and in his death, on January 27, 1878, his neighbors and fellow citizens lost a good citizen; his remains were interred in the East cemetery.

On January 15, 1837, Cortland Brooks was married to Lucinda Swingle, the ceremony being

performed by Squire John McIntosh. Mrs. Brooks now makes her home on the old place with her son Adam H. She was born in South Canaan town- ship, May 5, 1817, a daughter of John and Sally (Wagner) Swingle, both of whom were natives of South Canaan township and there lived and died, the former on January 3, 1853, and the latter No- vember 14, 1874, when aged sixty-eight and eighty- eight, respectively. John Swingle was a farmer throughout his lifetime. He was a member of the Methodist Church, and a man of excellent character. He was the father of sixteen children, viz .: Otho, formerly of South Canaan township, married (first) Lavina Mecham and ( second) Margaret Hathaway (all are now deceased) ; Catherine married Joseph Woodward (both are deceased) ; Polly married Isaac Seely (both are now deceased) ; Elizabeth married James Robinson (both are deceased) ; Adam married ( first) Mahaley Thorp and ( second) Lucinda Schumand (the latter survives) ; Samuel married Elizabeth Curtis (both are now deceased) ; Lucinda is the mother of our subject; Barbara mar- ried Samuel Leland; Sally A. married Amos Span- genburg (both are now deceased) ; Andrew married (first) Abigail Sharp and (second) Caroline Cort- right ; James married Clarissa Sharp; Frederick and Sylvester died when young; the others died in in- fancy. John Swingle, the father of this numerous family, was the son of John Swingle, by his first wife, Catherine Moore. John Swingle ( I) was the son of Hans Ulrich Swingle, from whom sprang the Swingles of Wayne county. He located in the county in about 1784, coming from Orange county, N. Y. Mrs. Sally (Wagner) Swingle was the daughter of Adam and Mary (Wheatcroft) Wag- ner, who came from Maryland in about 1783, and located in South Canaan township, first moving into a sugar house built of logs and covered with bark, located on what in after years was the Edgar Wells farm. Their children were: Rebecca married Jo- seph Jaggars; Sally married John Swingle; Otho married Margaret Eustin; Rachel married Samuel Shaffer ; and John. Adam Wagner died in 1793.

To the marriage of Cortland and Lucinda (Swingle) Brooks came children as follows: An- drew, born March 30, 1838, is mentioned below. Sarah, born October 23, 1840, married Abraham Hafler, a farmer of Lake township. Jessup B., born April 24, 1843, who married Susan Rockwell, is a farmer of South Canaan township; Cortland, born February 5, 1845, who married Theresa Curtis, is a farmer of South Canaan township. John, born February 3, 1847, is a carpenter and mason by trade and resides at Scranton ; he married (first) Eliza- beth Swingle, and (second) Armena Swingle. Eliza- beth, born February 17, 1849, married Peter M. Mains, a lumberman of Wilsonville. Mary, born February 16, 1851, married Richard Enslin, a farm- er of Lake township. Samuel, born October 8, 1852, married to Alida Freeman, is a farmer of South Canaan. Ida, born October 23, 1855, mar- ried (first) John Glenn, and (second) James Mos-

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teller, a glass-blower of Scranton, Penn. Adam H. is our subject.

Andrew Brooks served as a Union soldier in the Civil war, enlisting first in September, 1861, in Company B, 3rd Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers. In 1863 he re-enlisted, in Company D, 54th Penn- sylvania Veteran Infantry, and was discharged July 15, 1865, after a continuous service of nearly four years. He participated in the hard services of his regiment, and was engaged in the following battles : The seven days' battle before Richmond in June, 1862; Second Bull Run; South Mountain and Antietam, September, 1862; Snicker's Gap; Berryville; Winchester; Fredericksburg; Lynch- burg ; Cloyd Mountain ; Fort Gregg ; and was taken prisoner at Farmville on April 5, three days before Lee's surrender. He married Ellen Glenn, and is now engaged in farming.

Adam H. Brooks was reared on the old home- stead, where he was thoroughly trained in the work of the agriculturist. He attended the schools of the neighborhood, and concluded to make farming his life work. On the death of his father the old home fell to him, and here he resides, caring for his aged mother. He is a very industrious man, under- stands farming thoroughly, and has prospered and made a success of his chosen vocation, his life being an example of what may be accomplished by putting forth an effort, and working to the accomplishment of a purpose. He is identified with the Grange, and is a member of the Society of A. P. A. at Gravity. In politics he is Republican. He is an enterprising and public-spirited citizen, and bears the respect of the community at large.

On March 12, 1881, in South Canaan, our sub- ject was married to Emma F. Treslar, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Brown, a minister of the M. P. Church. The marriage has been blessed by children as follows: Blanche F., born February 21, 1862 ; Bertha, born September 29, 1884, died March 29, 1886 (she was buried in the East cemetery) ; Allen R., born May 14, 1887; and Mattie M., born July II, 1892. The mother of these was born March 8, 1857, at Treslarville, Wayne county, a daughter of Allen and Mary M. ( Hafler) Treslar, the former a native of Bucks county, Penn., born in October, 1834, and the latter of South Canaan township, born May 2, 1840. He is foreman of one of the sections on the Erie & Wyoming Valley railroad, with resi- dence at Treslarville. Their children were: Emma F., wife of our subject ; Hattie A., married to Abra- ham Jaggars, of South Canaan township; Alice, married to Sanford Bishop, and living on the old homestead ; Nettie G., married to W. M. Shaffer, a merchant of Varden; Ida J., who died when three years of age; Katie, deceased in infancy ; Delia, married to John Morgan; and Charles I., an oper- ator at Dunmore, who married Bertha Swingle.

Mrs. Brooks' paternal grandfather, David Tres- lar, a native of Bucks county, Penn., married Eliza- beth Smith, born in the same county, and in an early day settled in South Canaan township, Wayne coun-

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Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 1, Part 186

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