Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 1, Part 319

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who married L. G. McMillan; Henrietta A., wife of F. B. Jewett, a farmer in Brooklyn township, Susquehanna county ; and Edward T., a clerk in a dry-goods store at Pittston, Pennsylvania.

As a boy our subject was trained to habits of industry, and for some years he assisted his father in business. In 1880 he took charge of the "Eagle Hotel," after six years renting it to Ira Wood- worth. From 1888 to 1894 he again conducted it himself, and then, after renting it for one year, remodelled it thoroughly, in 1896 selling it to H. C. Dowling. On July 1, 1898, he purchased it, and at present has it leased to Harvey T. Allen. Mr. Phinney first engaged in the livery business in 1869, and has been connected with the same ever since, with the exception of two years. In 1893 he sold a half-interest to David Van Buskirk, who bought the other half in 1895, but in the spring of 1897 Mr. Phinney again became the owner of a half-interest. Politically he is a Republican, and he is active in local affairs, having been elected in the spring of 1899 to his second term in the borough council. He and his family are prominent socially, and he is a member of the Episcopal Church and of the F. & A. M., Blue Lodge No. 507, at New Milford.

In November, 1880, Mr. Phinney was mar- ried, in New Milford, to Miss Harriet L. Bogue, and four children have brightened his home, namely: Laura, born August 7, 1884, died May 31, 1892 ; Lula, born January 15, 1889 ; Emma, born August 9, 1894; and Charles E., born December 29, 1898. Mrs. Phinney was born August 27, 1864, in Nicholson, Penn., daughter of the late Charles Bogue, who was for many years engaged in business in New Milford as a cooper and stone- mason. He was a talented musician, being es- pecially noted for his skill as a violinist. During the Civil war he enlisted in the Union army for the term of three years, and was mustered into the service August 15, 1864, at Hart's Island. The privations and hardships of camp life brought on a serious illness, however, and after three months, spent chiefly in hospitals at different points, he left the service, December 8, 1864. He was a native of Norwich, Chenango Co., N. Y., born March IO, 1837, and in his early manhood settled in Nichol- son, Penn., in 1861 removing to New Milford, where he died October 6, 1888. On May 17, 1862, he was married, at Nicholson, to Miss Urania E. Shafer, who was born in that town January 25, 1840, and is still living in New Milford. They had three children, viz .: Charles, who died in in- fancy ; Harriet L., wife of our subject; and Miss Jennie A., who resides with her mother.

CHARLES FULLER has been living a com- paratively retired life for the past five years on his farm in Auburn township, Susquehanna county, where he has passed his entire life. He was born July 12, 1841, in Bridgewater township, and was but six weeks of age when his parents, Jonas and

Clarissa (Main) Fuller, removed to the place he now occupies.

Jonas Fuller was born in Addison county, Vt., March 30, 1792, son of Josiah and Lydia (Heath) Fuller, natives of the same State, the former born November II, 1757, the latter March 26, 1761. They lived and died in Vermont, where they were buried, Josiah Fuller engaging in farm- ing and sawmilling. Their children were as fol- lows: Philomene (Mrs. John Smith), born Sep- tember II, 1782; Beulah (Mrs. Elihu Barber), born March 17, 1784; Sylvanus, born September 22, 1785; Sarah (Mrs. Hall), born February 17, 1788; Lydia (Mrs. Amos Dyke), born March 4, 1790; Jonas, father of our subject; Phoebe (Mrs. Frederick Ambler), born April II, 1796; Azariah, born August 30, 1798; Milton A., born May 13, 1800; and Sage, born December 13, 1805, married to Justin Willoughby. Jonas grew to manhood at his native place, and in 1813, when twenty-one years of age, came to Susquehanna county, Penn., settling in Bridgewater township, where he took up 100 acres of land in its primitive condition and resided until 1841. He passed the remainder of his days in Auburn township. Here, also, he took up 100 acres of new land, on which he made a clearing and erected a log cabin before bringing his family to the place, and he was successfully engaged in farming during the latter years of his life. He cleared a considerable part of his farm in Bridgewater township. Jonas Fuller was a miller and millwright by trade, and was considered the best mechanic in this part of the State. He was first married to Mary Wells, by whom he had four children, all now deceased, viz .: Almond, Ransom, Cyrus (who died in 1898), and Mary ( Mrs. Solomon Moore, deceased in 1898). His second wife, Clarissa Main, whom he met and married in Susquehanna county, was a native of Connecticut, and to this union were born ten chil- dren: Lydia A., who married Luther Jagger, now a retired resident of Auburn township; Jonas, Nel- son, Theodore, Julia A. and Andrew, all of whom died young; Harriet, who married Alpheus Craw- ford, of Bradford county, Penn .; Charles; Josiah O., a farmer of Auburn township; and Clara, wife of Lewis Biles, of Camptown, Penn. The father of this family died January 26, 1882, at the ad- vanced age of eighty-nine years, nine months, and the mother followed him to the long home Octo- ber 3, 1883, when aged seventy-six years; they were buried in the Fuller cemetery. They were worthy Christian people, and were highly respected by their neighbors and friends in Auburn town- ship. Jonas Fuller served as a soldier in the war of 1812.

Charles Fuller obtained a good education at the common schools of Auburn township and from his earliest years was trained to agricultural work on the home place, which he has for years culti- vated on his own account, though of late he has contented himself with overseeing the active work,

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in which his strength will not permit him to en- gage. The place is systematically worked, and modern methods and machinery have been intro- duced wherever possible, the farm being now one of the finest, both in appearance and fertility, in the township, and Mr. Fuller has beautified as well as improved his property, and his home and sur- roundings are pleasant, showing good taste and care in every detail. Mr. Fuller is widely known in the locality, though he has devoted himself to his pri- vate interests, giving little special attention to public matters. His political support is given to the Re- publican party.

In June, 1867, Mr. Fuller was married, in Auburn township, to Miss Retta M. Raub, and they have had three sons: Fred E., who is an at- torney in New York; Arthur J., architect and builder ; and Frank R., living at home. The fam- ily attend the M. E. Church, of which Mr. Fuller has been a member since 1892. Mrs. Fuller was born in Auburn township, daughter of David J. and Amy ( Pierson) Raub, who are more fully mentioned elsewhere.

On August 30, 1864, Mr. Fuller enlisted, at Scranton, Penn., for one year, or during the war, becoming a member of Company C, 203rd P. V. I., Capt. Jacob B. Smallwood and Col. John W. Moore, commanding, and was assigned to the Sec- ond Brigade, Second Division, Tenth Corps, Army of the Potomac. He took part in all the engage- ments and skirmishes in which his command was engaged, among which we may mention Deep Bottom, Newmarket Heights, Chapin's Farm, Dar- bytown Road, Fort Fisher, Wilmington and Ben- tonville, and was honorably discharged from the service on July 3, 1865.

F. E. CARLTON, the popular and efficient auditor of Wayne county, now serving his second term in that office, is well known as a successful educator through years of faithful service in the teacher's profession which he still continues to fol- low. His work will not be readly forgotten by the many who have been helped by him in the steep and sometimes weary path to knowledge.

Our subject's father, John S. Carlton, was a son of Hartson Carlton, a native of Connecticut, and when a young man settled in Pike county, Penn., where for many years he was one of the prominent farmers of Greene township. In Octo- ber, 1850, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Banks, a daughter of William Banks, and to them were born five children, namely: James C., who resides in Greentown, Pike county ; Will- iam H., a resident of Port Jervis, N. Y .; Samuel M., who operates the old homestead in Greene township, Pike county; F. E., the subject of this sketch; and Lizzie D., wife of Arthur J. Osborne, of Dreher township, Wayne county.

F. E. Carlton was born January 10, 1863, in Pike county, and there he passed his boyhood and youth. His early education acquired in the com-

mon schools, was supplemented by a course at the Waymart Academy, where he graduated in 1884. and in 1885 he graduated from the Mansfield State Normal School, as president of his class. In 1880 he began teaching, and for some years has been one of the most competent and successful teachers of the county.

At Hawley, Penn., November 28, 1889, Mr. Carlton was married, by Rev. G. A. Core, a Meth- odist Episcopal minister, to Miss Susie G. Cole, and they have one son, Lester, born September 19, 1891. Her paternal grandfather, Abram Cole, was a native of Germany, and on coming to the United States located in New Jersey, on the Jersey Flats, where his death occurred. Her father, James S. Cole, was born on the Jersey Flats, and when a young man took up his residence in Salem town- ship, Wayne Co., Penn., where he was married, November 24, 1863, to Miss Sarah M. Foster, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Aaron Gillett, a Methodist Protestant minister. Besides Mrs. Carlton they have two other children: Hugh G., born in December, 1867; and Anna E., wife of L. M. Bortree, of Clinton, Massachusetts.

Mr. Carlton is a recognized leader in the ranks of the Republican party in his county, and, besides the office he now so acceptably fills, he has served as township auditor in Salem township. Socially he is an honored member of the Patriotic Order Sons of America.

DEACON BURTON H. TIFFANY, one of the enterprising and successful agriculturists of Gibson township, Susquehanna county, is a repre- sentative of a prominent pioneer family. His an- cestors settled in New England at an early date, and John Tiffany, his great-grandfather, migrated from Attleboro, Mass., to Pennsylvania with a party of colonists, a break-down at Mt. Pleasant, Wayne Co., Penn., leading him to make his per- manent home there. John Tiffany (2), our sub- ject's grandfather, was a lifelong resident of Wayne county. He married Sally Biglow.

J. Sheldon Tiffany, father of our subject, was born in Wayne county April 22, 1822, and is now living in retirement at Mt. Pleasant. For many years he has been a leading member of the Baptist Church, serving as deacon and clerk, and he has also held numerous township offices, including those of supervisor, school director and poormaster. His wife, Harriet (Whitney), was born in Gibson township, November 10, 1828, daughter of Thadeus and Theresy ( Washburn) Whitney, both of whom were of good old Vermont stock. J. Sheldon Tiffany and his wife had the following children : Rupert, born July 25, 1848, is a farmer at Mt. Pleasant; Winfield, born March 4, 1851, is a farmer at Poyntelle, Penn., where he was formerly engaged in merchandising; Judson, born April I, 1853, is a druggist and merchant at Mt. Pleasant ; Emory, born September 21, 1855, is a carpenter and mechanic, residing at Mt. Pleasant; Burton H. is

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mentioned more fully below; Charles, born No- vember 4, 1861, is a resident of Seattle, Wash., where he is engaged as clerk; Minnie, born Jan- uary 3, 1865, is a stenographer at Binghamton, N. Y .; Fred, born March 31, 1868, is a merchant and Poyntelle ; Lena, born October 25, 1871, mar- ried Herbert Kishbaugh, of Herrick township, Sus- quehanna county.

Deacon Tiffany was born December 28, 1858. at the old homestead at Mt. Pleasant, and remained with his parents until he reached the age of twenty- one. He taught school for seven winters, one term at Rileyville, and during the summers worked at carpentering. He owns a farm in Gibson town- ship, and in the spring of 1885 settled upon an ad- joining farm of 205 acres, known as the old Gil- lett homestead, where he is engaged in general farming. He is a member of the Grange, and, politically, of the Prohibition party, and a leading worker in the Baptist Church, in which he has held the office of deacon for three years. On January I, 1885, he was married, at the present homestead, to Miss Emma A. Gillett, and two children have blessed their union : Ralph, born November 26, 1889. and Marion, born October 6, 1893.

Mrs. Emma A. Tiffany was born January 20, 1861, at the Gillett homestead, which is one of the oldest in Gibson township. Willard Gillett, her grandfather, was born and reared in Connecticut, and was married there November 5, 1806, to Eunice Loomis. In 1817 he came to Susquehanna county, locating at the homestead, which he cleared and improved. Col. Jacob L. Gillett, Mrs. Tif- fany's father, was born at the homestead September I, 1817, and died there December 9, 1891, his re- mains being interred in Union Hill cemetery, Gib- son township. His title was gained by service in a militia company, in which he began as a private and rose to the rank of colonel, and he held various township offices, serving eighteen years as school director. While he was not a Church member, he gave liberally to religious work, and for many years was trustee of the Presbyterian Church at Union Hill. Being a gifted musician, he fre- quently taught classes in singing, and few men of his day and locality were as active as he in promot- ing the general welfare. In politics he was a Repub- lican. On March 20, 1844, he was married, at Gib- son, to Miss Almeda E. Parmenter, and they had four children: Ulrich B., born January 12, 1845, is a farmer in New Milford township; Arletta, born July 7, 1848, died October 7, 1852; William, born August 3, 1857, died March 18, 1858; and Emma A. is the wife of our subject. Mrs. Al- meda E. Gillett was born July 20, 1821, on a farm two miles from the present homestead. Her fa- ther, William Parmenter, was born in Vermont, came to Susquehanna county in early manhood, and was married there to Dirinda Bennett, a native of Orange county, N. Y. He followed farming throughout nis life, and was a man of influence in the community, holding township offices at times.

He died December 17, 1858, and his wife died December 8, 1863, their remains being interred in Union Hill cemetery.

JOHN M. POLLOCK, who has been en- gaged in lumbering, farming and dairying in Da- mascus township, Wayne county, from an early age, is one of the respected well-to-do citizens of the township, and stands prominent among its suc- cessful, self-made men.

Mr. Pollock was born July 23, 1846, in Sul- livan county, N. Y., and is the son of Sylvanus and Ruth (Pittle) Pollock, who had a family of four children, as follows: (I) William H. was born in 1840, in Sullivan county, N. Y., was reared in Da- mascus, Wayne county, with his uncle, William Pollock, and when a young man enlisted for serv- ice in the Civil war as a member of the 50th N. Y. V. I., re-enlisting after his first term of three years expired, and served till the close of the struggle; he married Miss Frances Pinder, of Dutchess county, N. Y., and after residing in Damascus for a time they removed to Callicoon, N. Y., where he engaged in the grocery business until his death, in 1888; he left a wife but no chil- dren. (2) Hannah Pollock, born in Sullivan county, in December, 1842, came with her mother to Wayne county and grew to womanhood here, becoming the wife of Stephen Mark, of this coun- ty, who died a few years afterward leaving her with one son, Leartus; the latter married Miss Annie Mosier, and they reside with their family in Ralston, Lycoming Co., Penn. Mrs. Mark mar- ried for her second husband John Priestley, of Sullivan county, who was a native of England, and they have had eight children, of whom two, Fred- erick and Edward, are living ; they also make their home in Ralston, Penn. (3) John M. Pollock was next in the family in order of birth. (4) Anna Eliza, the youngest, was born in Sullivan county, in July, 1849, and died in 1856. Sylvanus Pollock died when our subject was three years old, and the mother remarried in 1854, her second hus- band being Jacob Potter, of Damascus, by whom she also had four children-Mary L., James W., Andrew J. and Jane M. She passed away in 1868.

John M. Pollock was reared in the family of William Rutledge, of Damascus township, and re- ceived his education in the common schools here. But his attendance was somewhat limited, for he began work at an early age, and he was inured to the duties of farm life when a mere boy. In his early manhood he was engaged in sawmilling for Mr. Jacob Rutledge for several years, after which, in partnership with the same gentleman, he em- barked in the mercantile business, for seven years running a notion wagon on the road, with which branch of the concern he was principally occupied. By strict attention to all the ins and outs of this business, and by economical habits of living, he managed to save enough during this time to en- able him to branch out on his own account, and in

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1877 he purchased a tract of wild land in Damascus township comprising 100 acres, then known as the E. Hicks property, on which he has since resided. This place is now one of the neatest and best-kept in the township, and this improved condition of affairs is all the result of the untiring energy and good management on Mr. Pollock's part, for he was even obliged to clear the land before he could commence the work of cultivation. In 1890 he erected a fine two-story residence, with all modern conveniences, and the farm is provided with a large barn, substantial outbuildings of all kinds and neat fences, systematic care and good taste being everywhere evident. Mr. Pollock's success is certainly worthy of note, for as may be seen, he started in life a poor boy, and he has attained his present high standing by thrift and careful man- agement of his interests, at the same time gaining and retaining a reputation second to none for integrity and fairness in all his dealings. Mainly through his efforts a creamery was established at Galilee in 1898, and he is president of the board of directors.

In September, 1876, Mr. Pollock was married to Miss Adaline Rutledge, the daughter of Jacob and Susan Rutledge, prominent people of Damas- cus, and two daughters have blessed this union- Nettie E., born September 13, 1878, and Annie Laura, born February 20, 1891. The eldest daughter received her early education in the com- mon schools of Damascus, and later attended the Honesdale high school, obtaining a good practical English training; she is now engaged as teacher in Damascus township. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Pollock are members of the M. E. Church of Gali- lee. He is a Prohibitionist politically, and so- cially he unites with the Odd Fellows Fraternity, holding membership in the lodge at Cochecton, Sul- livan Co., N. Y. He has held the office of school director one term, and in 1899 was elected overseer of the poor of Damascus township.

GEORGE E. RESSEGUIE (deceased) was for some time a prominent and successful educator and journalist of Susquehanna county. He was born in Gibson township, that county, July 12, 1862, a son of Charles W. and Angeline ( Wood- ward) Resseguie, natives of Gibson and Clifford townships, Susquehanna county, respectively. The father followed farming until the death of our sub- ject, when he took up the work left by his son, and was engaged in the newspaper business until he, too, was called to his final rest. He was born June 2, 1834, and died May 21, 1898; the wife and mother was born October 21, 1837, and died Au- gust 16, 1899, at Susquehanna. In their family were only two children, the younger being Ger- trude E., who resides in Susquehanna.

Our subject's paternal grandparents, Fitzpat- rick and Mary (Tewksbury) Resseguie, were na- tives of Brooklyn township, Susquehanna county, the former born February 13, 1805, the latter Au-

gust 17, 1813. They were married October 23, 1832, and died in 1889 and April 28, 1876, respect- ively, the remains of both being interred in the old Resseguie cemetery, in South Gibson, where their deaths occurred. The great-grandfather, Samuel Resseguie, was born in Ridgefield, Conn., March 12, 1776, and was married in Westport, that State, November 2, 1797, to Freelove Disbrow, who died in South Gibson, Penn., April 28, 1830, aged forty- nine years. In Clifford, Susquehanna county, he was again married, June 22, 1831, his second union being with Mrs. Nabby Miller, widow of David Miller, and daughter of Jotham and Elsa Pickrine, of Clifford. She was born May 4, 1786, and died in Lenox, March 22, 1867. Samuel Resseguie died in South Gibson September 12, 1858.

George E. Resseguie, our subject, was well educated, and from the age of sixteen until the winter of 1888-89 successfully engaged in teach- ing, being at different times principal of several graded schools in Susquehanna county. He then purchased the Susquehanna Transcript and the Susquehanna Ledger, and was engaged in journal- istic work as editor and proprietor of the Transcript and Ledger until his death, which occurred at Sus- quehanna, June 9, 1891. His remains were in- terred in South Gibson cemetery. As a Repub- lican he took quite an active and influential part in local politics, and socially he was a man of prominence in his community, a member of Jack- son Lodge, F. & A. M., and the Odd Fellows Lodge of Brooklyn township.

At the home of the bride, in Clifford town- ship, Mr. Resseguie was married, August 27, 1888, to Miss Adah E. Chamberlin, and to them came one son, Wiles W., born in Susquehanna June I, 1889. Mrs. Resseguie was a lady of culture and refinement, and was also a successful and popular teacher, following that profession from the age of nineteen until her marriage, and after her hus- band's death again taught for two and a half years, in 1893, 1894, and a part of 1895, being at length forced to resign her position on account of ill- health. She was principal of the graded school of Forest City in 1884, 1885 and 1887, and after her marriage often assisted her husband in the newspaper office. She died September 10, 1899, and was buried in South Gibson cemetery. Re- ligiously she was a member of the Evangelical Church of West Clifford.

Pulaski Wright Chamberlin, father of Mrs. Resseguie, was born in Gibson township, Susque- hanna county, December 30, 1814, a son of Levi and Mary (Lott) Chamberlin, the former a native of Litchfield, Conn., the latter of Orange county, N. Y., and a daughter of Ichabod Lott. They were married in Harford, Susquehanna county. He died in Dimock township in 1876, his wife in Lenox township, in 1874, and both were buried in Chamberlin cemetery, West Clifford. In early life they were members of the Baptist Church, but there being no Church of that denomination in

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their locality they afterward united with the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. From the age of six years until he attained his majority Levi Chamberlin lived in Gibson township, and from there removed to New Milford township, where he made his home until, in 1819, he went to Clifford township. In 1824 he located on the farm in Clifford town- ship which his grandson, Charles P. Chamberlin, now owns and occupies. His children were Pu- laski W., father of Mrs. Resseguie; Elizabeth, de- ceased wife of Warren Price; Azubah, deceased wife of Charles Wilson; Milo, who died young; Mary, deceased wife of Hiram Barnum; Catherine, who died young; Diana, widow of Jeremiah Cole- man; Elvira, who lives with her sister Eunice, in Lenoxville; Eunice, wife of William Barber, a farmer of that place; Levi, a farmer of Silvara, Penn. ; Andrew, a carpenter of Hop Bottom, Penn .; Sarah, deceased wife of Moses Cox; and Ellen, deceased, who (first) married a Mr. Babcock, and ( second) a Mr. Penny. Wright Chamberlin, the grandfather of these children, and a native of Litchfield, Conn., came to Brooklyn township, Sus- quehanna Co., Penn., in the spring of 1795. The following fall, after sowing some wheat, he went through the woods to the home of 'Squire Wash- burn, to get some chains mended, and on his way discovered some land in Gibson township which he considered very fine. He purchased the same, and moved thereon.

Pulaski W. Chamberlin remained with his parents until seventeen years of age, and then worked for neighboring farmers until he attained his majority, when he started out in life for him- self. At the age of twenty-five he took up the carpenter's trade, with which he had previously become somewhat familiar, and followed that voca- tion until he retired from active labor, in 1889. In 1842, shortly after his marriage, he removed from Dundaff to his farm in Clifford township, which he had purchased in 1840 of a land agent for the Drinker estate. At that time only a small clearing had been made, but it is now highly cultivated and well improved. Mr. Chamberlin built many mills, houses, etc., in different parts of the county, be- sides several public buildings, and chopped and cleared many acres of heavy woodland. To be near his work he lived at various places for a short time. In political sentiment he was a Republican, and he creditably filled the offices of school director, auditor and judge of elections. He was a fine his- torian and a great reader. He was not a member of any Church, but was a Universalist in religious belief, and he was highly respected by all who knew him. He died suddenly, October 28, 1899, and was buried in the family cemetery.

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Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 1, Part 319

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