Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 1, Part 328

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Publication date: 1900
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dren were born: Brakely (deceased), who mar- ried Sarah Godfrey, and was a merchant at Stewarts- ville; Andrew J., who is now in the same business, and has served two terms in the New Jersey Legis- lature; John (deceased), who married a Miss Beardsley, and was formerly connected with the store at Stewartsville; Philip F., our subject, comes next ; William (deceased), a merchant at Blooms- burg, N. J., who married a daughter of Dr. Henkel, of Newmarket, Va .; Mary, widow of Jacob Strader, of Washington, N. J .; Emma, widow of David Clark, formerly president of a bank at Danville, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Fulmer was born June 19, 1830, at Stewart- ville, N. J., where his education was begun. At the age of fifteen, on completing a course in the local academy, he entered Lafayette College, where he was graduated in 1848. His preparatory course in medicine was taken with Dr. James C. Kennedy, of Stewartsville, and Dr. William Wilson, of Beth- lehem, Penn. (an uncle), and later he attended a course of lectures at the New York Medical Col- lege, and two courses at Pennsylvania University, graduating from the latter institution in the spring of 1853. He located at Fulmersville, Penn., where he speedily built up a good practice, and he also managed his father's store and tannery there until 1866, when they were sold, and he bought his pres- ent property, then a small hotel which he rented some three years. In 1869 he took possession, and commenced to build not long after. He has de- voted his attention to his practice, adding constantly to its extent, and his ability and skill have won for him an enviable reputation. In politics the Doc- tor is a Democrat, and for twenty-five years he served as secretary of the local school board, de- clining to hold the office longer because of the pres- sure of other duties; he was superintendent of the Pike county schools from 1857 to 1866. Under Cleveland's administration he served as postmaster, and he has been delegate to several State conven- tions.

On May 25, 1865, Dr. Fulmer was married, at Wilkes Barre, to Miss Ella Bennitt, of Elmira, N. Y., and three children have blessed the union : Frank, who died at Richmond, Va., when five years old; Miss Nana B., at home : and Philip F., Jr., an attorney in Philadelphia. Mrs. Fulmer comes of good New England stock in the paternal line, and her grandfather, Platt Bennitt, who married a Miss Wheeler, of Horseheads, N. Y., was a native of Con- necticut, but settled at Elmira, N. Y., where he founded the first Episcopal Church. Her father, Wilson Bennitt (1801-1861), made his home in Elmira, and married a native of that city, Miss Mary Tuttle (1806-1858), whose mother, in her maiden- hood a Miss Cantine, was born in France, and whose father came from England and located first on Long Island, later becoming a leader among the pioneers of Elmira, being one of the first Freemasons there, and assisting in organizing the first Presbyterian Church of that city.

AMZI COOLBAUGH (deceased) was an hon- ored resident of Monroe county, and worthily rep- resented a family which has long been noted for the qualities of character that constitute good cit- izenship. The name is said to be identical with Coll- brook, and the ancestry has been traced to Germany, the first of the family to come to America being William Collbaugh, a sea captain, who married Sarah Johnson and located first in Hunterdon coun- ty, N. J., and later in this section, in what is now Middle Smithfield township, Monroe county.

Moses Coolbaugh, father of our subject, lived and died in Smithfield township, attaining the age of about sixty years. He married Miss Mary Nyce, and they had a numerous family, of whom William F. was a banker in Chicago, but is now deceased ; Amzi was second in order of birth; John is a promi- nent farmer in Iowa ; George is deceased ; M. Frank is a farmer in Smithfield township; Mrs. Catherine Kerr is a resident of Stroudsburg; Mrs. Lydia Peters resides in Summerville, Pike county ; Eloner is the wife of E. Freeman, of Montclair, N. J .; Susan, Mary and Hannah, all died unmarried.

Our subject was born and reared in Smith- field township, receiving a district school education, but in early manhood he made his home in New Jersey, where he engaged successfully in agricult- ural pursuits. After six years he removed to Stroud township, Monroe county, continuing general farm- ing there, and later he and his wife built a handsome and commodious home in Stroudsburg, where his death occurred February 28, 1896. He was a Dem- ocrat in politics, but did not aspire to official honors. As a citizen he was held in the highest esteem, and for years he was one of the leaders in the Presby- terian Church at Stroudsburg. On December 8, 1859, he was married, in Mt. Bethel, Northampton Co., Penn., to Miss Sarah J. Dildine, who with three children survives him: (I) Moses W., who operates a furniture factory at Springville, Mo., mar- ried Anna Holbrook, and has one daughter-Cath- erine E. (2) Robert Ross, who resides at home, has a coal office in East Stroudsburg. (3) Herbert F. is in Springfield, Mo., with his brother Moses.

Mrs. Coolbaugh is a lady of culture and re- finement, and is of a most retiring disposition. Her early life was spent chiefly at Mt. Bethel, North- ampton Co., Penn., but her education was com- pleted by a course in a female seminary at Easton, Penn. She now resides at the Coolbaugh residence in Stroudsburg, which is considered one of the finest in the city. On the paternal line Mrs. Cool- baugh is descended from Dutch stock, and her grandfather, Henry Dildine, who married a Miss Nyce, lived in Upper Mt. Bethel, Northampton county, attaining a good old age. Harmond Dil- dine, Mrs. Coolbaugh's father, was born in North- ampton county, and married Miss Sarah D. Ayers, also a native of that locality, who was of Scotch- Irish descent. They had four children: Mary A., deceased, who married first A. Ayers and second a Mr. Auylemeyer, of Illinois ; David H., deceased,

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formerly a merchant in Easton, Penn .; Elizabeth, who died in childhood; and Sarah J., Mrs. Cool- baugh. The father of this family died some years ago, and the mother afterward married Robert Ross, by whom she has two children: Marshall B., a farmer of Lower Mount Bethel; and Susan M., who married Art DePue, and died in Iowa.

SAMUEL REINHART, at this writing com- missioner of Monroe county, is one of Stroudsburg's leading citizens, and his sterling qualities of char- acter have won him the respect and confidence of the community in an unusual degree.

Mr. Reinhart comes of thrifty German stock and according to tradition his great-grandfather Reinhart was the first of the family to come to America. Henry Reinhart, our subject's grandfa- ther, was born in Lehigh county, Penn., and passed his life there, following the weaver's trade at Macungie. He died at the age,of sixty-two, and was buried at Blue Church, in Lehigh county. His wife, Catherine Ward, also a native of Lehigh county, survived him and spent her last years with a son at Stroudsburg, her death occurring at the age of eighty years. Her remains now rest in Scott Run cem- etery, in Monroe county. They both spoke German habitually and their respective families were known as Pennsylvania Dutch. They had nine children, of whom Silas Reinhart, our subject's father, was the youngest. Charles died in Pocono township, Mon- roe county, and was buried at Scott Run cem- etery : Thomas died at the advanced age of eighty- two and was buried in Chestnut Hill cemetery, Le- high county ; Abraham resides near Emans, Lehigh county, with his daughter ; Catherine married Abra- ham Fetherman, and was drowned at Lockport, N. Y., having fallen from a bridge while crossing a stream; George (deceased) is buried at Tanners- ville ; Silas, a farmer and weaver by occupation, died and was buried at Appenzell, Monroe county ; Eve married Isaac Widdes and resides near Scott Run, Monroe county ; David, deceased, was a farm- er in Bradford county, Pennsylvania.

Silas Reinhart, the father of our subject, was born October 29, 1814, in Lehigh county, where he remained until he reached his majority, much of the time previous to that being spent in working for farmers of the neighborhood. When twenty-one years old he located in Monroe county, finding em- ployment as a teamster, and later he purchased a. tract of wild land in Jackson township, which he cleared and improved for a homestead. He was a Democrat in politics, and in religious faith he was a Lutheran. His death occurred at his homestead in 1894, and his wife, Rachel Heller, who was born in 1817, in Hamilton township, Monroe county, also died in 1894. Of their twelve children three died in infancy. The others were: William, a grocer in Scranton ; Samuel, our subject ; Sarah, who married W. A. Wilson, of Jackson township, Monroe coun- ty : James, who died at the age of forty-five years ; Ella, widow of W. Schoch; Martha J., wife of V.

O. Merwin, of Tunkhannock township, Monroe county ; Emma, wife of Samuel T. Smith ; Delilah, who married J. F. Rinker ; and Arthur H., a resi- dent of Jamestown, New York.

Our subject was born September 9, 1843, in Pocono township, Monroe county, but he was edu- cated in the schools of Jackson township, his par- ents having removed there during his infancy. He remained at the home farm until his enlistment in Company G, 215th P. V. I. He served throughout the remainder of the war, his time being spent in garrison duty at Washington and Fort Delaware, and he was discharged July 31, 1865. On his re- turn home he learned the carpenter's trade which he followed in various places until 1896. For some time he made his home with his parents, but in 1884 he removed to Du Bois, Penn., where he re- sided a few months. Later he went to Wilkes Barre, but finally returned to Monroe county, and after a short residence in Jackson township he set- tled in Stroudsburg. During all this time he was en- gaged in carpentering, doing a good business as a contractor, and occasionally he became interested in other lines of effort. He was the first to go East for Christmas trees, which he shipped by the carload to the cities of this region, and as the venture proved to be very profitable he now has many imitators, hundreds of carloads being sent here every winter. Mr. Reinhart has always been an ardent supporter of the Republican party, and although the county is nominally Democratic, his popularity has made him a strong candidate. At one time he missed by a few votes an election to the office of sheriff, and in 1896 he was chosen to his present office of county com- missioner. He married Miss Amanda Daily, who was born in New York in 1866, and they have one daughter-Mabel.

REUBEN F. RODGERS, M. D., a prominent physician of Cresco, Monroe county, possesses the confidence of the people, among whom he profes- sionally administers and enjoys a large and lucrative practice. Gaining a valuable and varied experience for a few years after his graduation, he located in Barrett township, where for more than a decade he has most successfully practiced medicine.

Dr. Rodgers was born in 1850, in Northamp- ton county, Penn., a son of John and Mary E. (Michael) Rodgers, and a grandson of Herman Rodgers, who was born in Berlin, Germany, and when a boy came to America as a stowaway aboard a vessel. He subsequently worked out his passage money at Easton, Penn., in time becoming a builder of arks on the Lehigh river. After his marriage to Miss Andrews, of Northampton county, he set- tled near Trenton, where he remained through life. This union was blessed with seventeen children, the following reaching maturity: John was the father of our subject; Henry settled in Honesdale, where he died, leaving a family; Mary (now de- ceased ) was the wife of Jacob Musicks, a leading business man of Edenville, Ind. ; Julia is the wife of

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William Walters, of Frankfort, Ind., and has one son, Allen Henry, born to a former marriage ; Will- iam is a resident of Northampton county, Penn .; Maggie is the wife of Jacob Halleck, of Indiana ; Elizabeth is the wife of Dr. Yacht, of Petersville, Penn .; Charlotte is the wife of Gideon 'Danna, of Indiana, and their two children reside at Frankfort, in that State; Herman married and lived at James- town, N. Y., and his wife was killed by a fall while a resident of Renovo, Penn., and two of their chil- dren were fatally burned by an oil explosion ; Anna is the wife of a hotel-keeper at Fresno, Cal .; Aaron died at Frankfort, Ind .; Andrew was an undertaker at South Bethel, Penn .; and Sabilla was killed in a railroad accident in Northampton county and left four children.

John Rodgers, the father of our subject, began life as a carriage manufacturer at Bath, North- ampton county. He conducted the business for nine years, then moved to Allentown, where he became a dry goods and millinery merchant. For eight years he was proprietor of the "Gordon House," then moved to Philadelphia, where he conducted a gro- cery business until his death in 1894. Herman, his business partner, was for several years mayor of Allentown, Penn. John Rodgers married (first) Miss Mary E. Michael, who died in 1857, leaving two children : Reuben F., our subject, and Meta E., who is now the wife of Hervey Atkinson, of Ocean Grove, N. J .; he married (second) Miss Mary E. Lattimore, of Hunterdon county, N. J., a teacher in the high schools of that State, and to the mar- riage were born two children: Walter, who is now chief officer of the Prudential Life Insurance Co., of Pennsylvania ; and Cora, who married a Mr. Mor- rison, of Philadelphia. In politics the father of these children was an Old Line Whig and later a Republican.

Dr. Reuben F. Rodgers, the subject of this sketch, attended the Allentown Academy, and after his graduation he became a student at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelhia, from which institu- tion he was graduated in 1881. He began his pro- fessional career with the Hackton Bros., of Chi- cago. Subsequently he went to Frankfort, Ind., where he was engaged in practice some fourteen months, then, in 1883, he located at Bethel, Penn., remaining some time. He has since practiced suc- cessively at Philadelphia, Penn., in Sussex county, N. J., and at Tannersville, in Monroe county-at the latter village from 1886 to 1888. From Tan- nersville he removed to Cresco, Barrett township, where he has since been successfully engaged in his professional duties.

In 1884 Dr. Rodgers was married to Miss Lou- isa Whitsel, of West Bethel, the daughter of John Whitsel, a native of Prussia, Germany, who emi- grated to this country, stopping at Port Jervis, N. Y., and later settling at Bethel, Northampton coun- ty, Penn. His wife was a native of Algiers. The wife of Dr. Rodgers died in 1893, leaving no chil- dren. In politics the Doctor is a Republican. He

was reared in the Lutheran Church, and is a mem- ber of the A. P. A. at Cresco. He is devoted to his profession, and keeps well informed in medical ad- vancement throughout the world, yet he always finds time for social duties.

JACOB HARTMAN, at this writing com- missioner of Monroe county, is one of Stroudsburg's successful business men, his energy, foresight and thrift having gained for him an honorable place in life.

Mr. Hartman comes of good German stock, his paternal great-grandfather Hartman, who re- sided at Allentown, Penn., being the first of the family to come to America.

Jonathan Hartman, our subject's grandfather, was born at Allentown, but spent the greater part of his life in Hamilton township, Monroe county, where he died when about fifty years of age. He was a veterinary surgeon by occupation and in pol- itics he was a Democrat, while he was actively in- terested in religious work in his community as a member of the Lutheran Church. His wife, Mary M. Edinger, a native of Northampton county, Penn., lived to the age of seventy-two years. They had the following children: Samuel, our subject's father ; Aaron (deceased), formerly a farmer and butcher . in Hamilton township, Monroe county ; Lydia, who married Samuel Spragle and died in Hamilton township; John was a resident of Ross township, Monroe county ; and Joseph, a butcher by trade, who died at the age of twenty-eight years.

Samuel Hartman, the father of our subject, was born in 1818, and died in 1883. He was edu- cated chiefly in the schools of Snyderville, and his youth was spent on a farm in that vicinity. On at- taining manhood he engaged in practice as a vet- erinary surgeon, and this occupation he followed successfully throughout his active life, his home being in Hamilton township, Monroe county. He married Miss Caroline Shirley, who was born in 1820, in Hamilton township, and died in 1886. Our subject was the eldest in a family of twelve children, the others being Charles, a resident of Hamilton township; Catherine, who married Nathan Hufford, a stone mason of Stroud township, Monroe county : Jonathan, who was accidentally killed on a railroad when about forty years of age; Peter, a resident of Pocono township, Monroe county ; Lydia Ann, wife of David Edinger; Loranz, a brick mason in Illi- nois; Abraham, who resides in Chicago; Samuel, who died at the age of thirty-six; Maria, wife of James Edinger ; Milton, a mason, residing near Fac- toryville, Wyoming Co., Penn .; and Israel, who died when three years old.

Our subject was born February 13, 1841, in Hamilton township, Monroe county, and his edu- cation was obtained at Snyderville. He learned the mason's trade in Stroudsburg, and after following it successfully for twenty-eight years he engaged in farming. This occupation proved uncongenial, and two years later he left it and turned his attention to

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the milk business, which he has now carried on suc- cessfully since 1894. He has always been interested in political questions, being an ardent Democrat, and in 1896 he was elected county commissioner, taking office January 4, 1897. He is an excellent citizen and a man of the strictest integrity, his ster- ling qualities of character winning him many friends. Physically he is well built and vigorous, with dark complexion, showing traces of his wholesome out- door life. He and his family are identified with the Methodist Church, and are prominent in social life. In 1859 he married Miss Eva J. Staples, a well-known resident of Poplar Valley, Stroud township, Mon- roe county. Seventeen children have blessed this union : (I) Jedius, who died in West Chicago, married Miss Miller, and had three children. (2) Jarvis, who married a Miss Rinker, and has chil- dren. (3) David married a Miss Featherman, and has one child-Miles. (4) Robert E., who re- sides in Hamilton township, near Saylorsburg, mar- ried Miss Stamits, and has children. (5) May married George Lewis, of New York State, and has three children-Lizzie, Eve, and one whose name is not given. (6) Lizzie married N. Segine, and has children. (7) Carrie married George Ire, and has had three children-Edith, Morris and Sallie. (8) Jacob J., born in Hamilton township, married Miss Buzzard, and has one child-Bessie. (9) Howard is at home. (10) William married Miss Schroeder, and has two children-Russell, and one whose name is not given. (II) Charley, (12) Hattie, (13) Annie, (14) Annis, and (15) Bessie, are all at home. (16) John died when two years of age. (17) Stewart is at home.

WILLIAM DEAN (deceased) was for many years a prominent resident of Stroudsburg, Monroe county, and throughout his long and useful life he manifested the qualities of character which win and retain the confidence and respect of men.

Mr. Dean was born October 4, 1800, and in early manhood was engaged in business at Strouds- burg, as a saddler and harness maker, but later he became connected with the stage line between that city and Milford, contracting for the mails and oper- ating the route for more than twenty years. His thrift and industry brought him a handsome com- petence, and at the time of his death he owned val- uable real estate in Stroudsburg. From his youth up he enjoyed robust health, his death, on January 28, 1878, being the result of old age rather than of any distinct malady. Doubtless his correct hab- its did much to make possible his freedom from dis- ease, as smoking was the only questionable practice he ever indulged in. He was a devout Presbyterian, and his faith was for him a matter of daily living, integrity marking his every transaction. On No- vember 10, 1822, he married his first wife, Miss Catharine Lee, who died June 27, 1828, leaving one- child, Mary, now the widow of John Faunce, of Stroudsburg. On October 20, 1829, he married Miss Catharine Lander, who was born February 5, 1800,

and died December 14, 1835, and he afterward formed a third matrimonial union, this time with Miss Sarah K. Matthew, who died February 25, 1878. By the second union there were four children : Charles, who is in the paving business in Philadel- phia; Sophia L. (Mrs. Edward Brown), who is mentioned below ; Eliza, wife of G. W. Bushnell, of Scranton, Penn .; and Catharine, wife of Samuel Hoffman, of Brooklyn, N. Y. By the third mar- riage there were four children: Ann Rebecca, who died when seventeen years old; Guy Morrison and William E., both residents of New York City ; and Joseph C., who died at the age of twenty-seven.

Mrs. Sophia L. (Dean) Brown was born March I, 1832, and was reared in Stroudsburg, her edu- cation being obtained there, and on April 27, 1858, she married the late Edward Brown, who was born October II, 1812, and died August 19, 1892. Four children blessed this union: (1) William M., born May 19, 1860, married Mrs. Carrie Carr, of Flem- ington, and has had three children-Ella D., Wal- ter S. and Frank. (2) Emma died at the age of seven years. (3) Miss Carrie S., who resides at home, is a highly accomplished young lady, and is popular in the best social circles of Stroudsburg. (4) G. Clayton, born July 30, 1871, married Miss Cora Staples and resides in Stroudsburg, where he is engaged in the cigar business.

The late Edward Brown was a member of one of Stroudsburg's well-known pioneer families, and his father, Jacob Brown, was a prominent agricultur- ist in that locality, his last years being spent in retire- ment in East Stroudsburg. This worthy pioneer was a Whig in early life and later a Republican. He married and had the following children: Robert, who died at the old home in East Stroudsburg ; Edward, of whom a further account is given below ; C. Mary, wife of Charles Brodhead and mother of Hon. C. D. Brodhead, of Stroudsburg. Edward Brown was at one time a farmer in Stroud town- ship, Monroe county, and for some years was en- gaged in mercantile business at Tannersville as a member of the firm of Brown & Morgan, but dur- ing his last years he lived in retirement in Strouds- burg. He married (first) Miss Emily Morgan, by whom he had seven children: Charles, Milton, Mary, Mattie, Frank, Edward and Hettie.

JOSEPH C. LATTIMORE, now living re- tired at Dingman's Ferry, Pike county, is one of the few remaining pioneers of this region who have watched and taken part in its development from its primitive state to its present advanced condition. During his early manhood and prime he was one of the most active business men in Dingman's Ferry, and he has, in his long and honorable life, gathered a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in this part of Pike county. where he is held in venerable esteem by all who know him. He is a native of the county, born January 21, 1818, in Delaware town- ship, a son of Hugh Lattimore and a grandson of Robert and Margaret (Craig) Lattimore.

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Robert Lattimore and his family settled in Delaware township, Pike county, in 1808, migrating hither from Northampton county, this State, and here he and his wife passed the remainder of their days. He was drowned by the capsizing of a boat. Of his seven children, John married Dorothy Van Atten ; George and William died unmarried; Hugh is the father of Joseph C. Lattimore; Elizabeth married Cooper Jagger; Mollie married Ephraim Drake; and Nancy became the wife of Benjamin Frazier.

Hugh Lattimore was born June 7, 1793, in Northampton county, Penn., where he passed his early boyhood, and in 1808 he came with his par- ents to Delaware township, Pike county. He was a farmer and lumberman by occupation. He mar- ried Miss Mary Cortright, who was born in Dela- ware in 1800, daughter of Joseph Cortright, a life- long resident of that township, she being the eldest of his three children, viz .: Mary, Hannah (Mrs. J. H. Gill) and Jerusha (Mrs. Cornelius Dicki- son). Mr. Lattimore passed away February 3, 1867, in Delaware township, Mrs. Lattimore in' March, 1876, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hannah M. Steele, in Dingman township.

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Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 1, Part 328

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