Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 1, Part 334

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Politically Mr. Transue is what he calls a


"Union" Democrat, and he has ever taken an active and prominent part in public affairs. He has been called upon to serve in a number of official positions of honor and trust, having been school director, twelve years ; assessor, three years ; assistant assessor, three years ; supervisor, three years; township au- ditor, three years; judge of election; inspector of election ; overseer of the poor ; and tax collector ; and it is needless to say that his duties were always promptly and faithfully discharged. He is a consis- tent member of the Reformed Church, and for thirteen years has served as elder and deacon.


PROF. CHARLES E. MOXLEY, superinten- dent of the public schools of Susquehanna county, is one of the leading educators of the county, and the 320 schools under his charge show effects of his energetic and well directed efforts. His work has won for him many warm friends, and resulted in his unanimous re-election to an office, to which in the first place he had been unanimously elected.


Prof. Moxley comes of good old Puritan stock, his ancestors in both paternal and maternal lines having settled in New England at an early period. Jonathan Moxley, his great-great-great-grand- father, was a Revolutionary soldier, and lost his life in the massacre at Fort Griswold, Conn. His name appears on the monument erected to com- memorate the men and the event. Jonathan Mox- ley, the grandfather of our subject, came from Connecticut, in 1800. He married Elsie Read, and shortly after they came to make their permanent home in Jackson township, Susquehanna county. His brothers, Gurdon and Francis, settled in New Milford township about the same time. In 1829 he met with a serious accident, which resulted in his death the following year (1830), leaving a widow and six children. The farm he had purchased had not been paid for, and the widowed mother bravely undertook the struggle to secure their home and keep her family of children together. The oldest son in this family was Edwin B., our subject's father, who though but eight years of age, took up the responsibilities of life, and became the chief aid of his mother in finishing the payments on the farm.


Edwin B. Moxley was born January 30, 1822, and passed his entire life on the farm, for which he had worked in childhood. On January 22, 1852, he was married to Miss Eliza Jane Hall, who was born July 21, 1828, and they became the parents of four sons: Elmer H., a resident of Jackson, born December 1, 1853; Everett, born May 29, 1857, died September 25, 1858; Charles E., and Will F., of Yonkers, N. Y., born December 1, 1867. The father passed away February 13, 1899.


Charles E. Moxley was born October 4, 1866, on the old homestead in Jackson township. His education was begun in the district schools of that locality, later he entered the graded schools at New Milford, and in 1884-85 was a student in Hills- dale College (Mich.). In 1886 he began teaching


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in his native township, continuing for three terms, and for some time in New Milford township. His success being established, he was in 1889 chosen principal of the schools of Hallstead, Penn., which position he held for seven years-or until first elected County Superintendent, which occurred in May, 1896, and his re-election took place in 1899.


On July 30, 1890, Prof. Moxley was married to Matie A. Kimber, daughter of N. F. Kimber, of New Milford Boro. Two children have blessed the union, namely : Lucile M., born December 24, 1896, and Charles Reid, Jr., born January 18, 1899. Socially our subject is identified with Great Bend Lodge No. 338, F. & A. M.


The Hall family, of which Mrs. Eliza Jane (Hall) Moxley, our subject's mother, was a member, traces its descent from Edward Hall, who in 1655 settled at Rehoboth, Mass., with his wife, Esther. His death occurred there November 27, 1670. In their family were the following children : Samuel, of Taunton, who is mentioned below; Thomas, of Dedham; Andrew, of Newton; Benjamin, of Wrentham; John, of Rehoboth, and Preserved, of Hingham, Mass.


Samuel Hall, next in the line of descent, was born at Rehoboth, October 24, 1656, and made his home first at Taunton, Mass., then at Middleboro, but he was a property owner in Attleboro. He was married April 7, 1686, to Elizabeth Bourn, and their children were Elizabeth, Remember, Nicholas, Mary, Mehitable, Enoch, Ichabod and John. Most of the sons settled near Enfield, Conn.


John Hall was born about 1724, and located at Scantic, East Enfield, Conn., where he died in 1775. He was married, but the name of his wife is not known. Six sons were born to him; John, Jr., Joel, Azariah, Daniel, Levi and Hiram.


Joel Hall was born February 15, 1747, at East Enfield, Conn., and was married January 22, 1772, to Elizabeth Bush, a native of Enfield, born May 15, 1752. They had twelve children: Hannah, Joel, Justus, Israel, Martin, Loton, Asa, twins who died in infancy, Lucy, Elizabeth and Martin (named after his deceased brother).


Major Martin Hall, our subject's maternal grandfather, and a soldier in the war of 1812, was born in Halifax, Vt., January 18, 1793, and died in Jackson township, Susquehanna county, Octo- ber 24, 1887, at the age of ninety-four years. In 1815 he was married at Marlboro, Vt., by the Rev. E. Newton, to Emily Lamb, daughter of Joel Lamb. Eight children were born to them: Lury Ann, Maranda, Lucy, Samantha, Eliza Jane, Philander, Francis and Rosetta. Emily (Lamb) Hall died of smallpox in Jackson, Penn., March 14, 1865.


The Lamb family is descended from Thomas Lamb, who came to Salem, Mass., in 1630, with Governor John Winthrop, whose fleet of eleven ships brought nearly 1,000 persons, with quite a stock of horses and cattle to Massachusetts' shores. Among this number of colonists were John Lamb and his wife Elizabeth, and their two sons, John


and Thomas S. They settled in Roxbury, now a suburb and part of the city of Boston. In 1639, just nine years after they landed, the mother died, and one year later the father married Dorothy Harbittle, mentioned by Rev. John Eliot, the Indian apostle, who was pastor of the little flock at Rox- bury, as a "Godly maide, a sister of ye Church." The youngest child of Thomas and Dorothy Lamb was Abial, who was born in August, 1646. The father had died on March 28, preceding, of a fever "caused by a great could." The pious Eliot men- tions, in recording the birth, "Son of Thomas, who had left ye children to the Lord, to be their father." The records show Thomas to have been a man of some influence in the community, and one who seemed to be greatly respected by his neighbors. The widow of Thomas married again.


But little is known of Abial Lamb, son of Thomas, until 1674, when he and his wife Elizabeth and several children appear again at Roxbury, and he comes into prominence as a brave soldier in King Philip's war in 1675. A letter is on record in the Massachusetts archives especially commend- ing his bravery. He seems to have been an un- learned man, but one full of pluck and vigor. His children were Samuel, Abial, Jr., Dorothy, and Jonathan. During his later years he lived at Farm- ington, Mass., about twenty miles east of Boston. Jonathan Lamb, his son, married Lydia Duoth, now written Dearth, and settled in Spencer, Mass., where his posterity still remains. He, too, a soldier in the Indian outbreaks in the early settlement of the State. Jonathan had a son Jonathan, Jr., who was also a resident of Spencer, and Jonathan, Jr., had a son, David, and David was father of our late ancestor, Joel, who lived at Marlboro, Vt., and in Jackson, Penn., and who became the father of Emily (Lamb) Hall.


There is no doubt that the Thomas Lamb, who accompanied Gov. Winthrop, was a Puritan and that the reason for coming to America was to escape the bitter persecution of the bad reign of King Charles, who, in 1629, turned parliament out of doors and did not summon another until 1640.


TERENCE J. McMANUS, a most energetic and reliable farmer and dairyman residing on the old McManus homestead in Rush township, Sus- quehanna county, was born in County Cavan, Ire- land, August 20, 1852, and is a son of Charles and Margaret (McGovern) McManus, also natives of County Cavan, who emigrated to America in 1858, landing in Susquehanna county, Penn., on June 8, 1858. In Rush township, the father purchased fifty acres of land, and there made his home until called from this life in August, 1881, at the age of sixty- seven years. The mother died March 5, 1864, and the remains of both were interred in the Cath- olic cemetery of Rush township. They were devout members of the Catholic Church, and had the re- spect and esteem of all who knew them. In their family were the following children: James mar-


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ried Catherine Kennan and is engaged in farming in Rush township; Patrick was born in County Cavan, Ireland, August 7, 1843, and was fourteen years of age when he came with his parents to America, locating first at Geneva, N. Y. He was educated for the priesthood, and in 1858 entered the College of the Holy Angels, Niagara Falls, where he spent one year. Later he was a student at St. Bonaventure's College and Seminary, Alle- gany, N. Y., where he was graduated with high honors, and at Buffalo was ordained a priest by the Most Rev. John Lynch, Archbishop of Toronto, Canada, being assigned to the diocese of Boston, June 15, 1863. He died at Hinsdale, Mass., De- cember 25, 1874. Michael, the next of the family, married Cecelia Golden, and is engaged in farming in Rush township. Ann, wife of Martin Golden, a farmer of Middletown township, Susquehanna county, died January 10, 1899, aged fifty-one years. Thomas died July 2, 1877, aged twenty-seven years. Terence J. completes the family.


Charles and Ann (McGibney) McManus, pater- nal grandparents of our subject, were farming peo- ple, and spent their entire lives in County Cavan, Ireland, where the former died in 1865, aged seventy- five years, the latter in 1863, aged seventy-five, and both were buried in Canalley parish. Their chil- dren were Terence, a farmer, who died in Ireland: Charles, father of our subject ; James T., a Catholic priest, Monsignor and Vicar General of the Diocese of Rochester, died at Geneva, N. Y., in June, 1889 (he accumulated a large fortune and gave many thousands to the Church, besides what he left his relatives) ; Michael, a merchant, who married Ann Kennan, and died in Lockport, N. Y .; and John, a farmer of County Cavan, Ireland, who married a Miss Smith. The maternal grandparents of our subject were Thomas and Catherine (Gallise) Mc- Govern, who were life-long residents of County Cavan, where the grandfather followed farming. In their family were the following children, all of whom remained in Ireland with the exception of the mother of our subject: Patrick; Mary, wife of Peter Dolan; Margaret, mother of our subject ; Ann, wife of Michael Reilly ; Allie, wife of Patrick McGovern : Catherine, wife of Frank McGovern : Bridget, wife of Philip McManus; and Julia, wife of Thomas Nolan.


In 1858, Terence J. McManus came with his parents to Susquehanna county, and with the ex- ception of four years, he has since spent his entire life upon his present farm. One year he attended St. Bonaventure's College, in Cattaraugus county, N. Y., when sixteen years of age, and from the age of twenty-one to twenty-four was engaged in railroading at Cumberland, Md. As an agricultur- ist he has met with success, and as a citizen com- mands the confidence and respect of all who know him. Politically he is a supporter of the Democ- racy, and religiously is a communicant of the Cath- olic Church.


At Friendsville, Susquehanna county, on April


17, 1879, Mr. McManus married Miss Bridget Murray, by whom he has eight children, namely : Patrick F., Charles T., Paul T., Mary E., Louis J., Genevieve, Margaret N. and Mathias, all at home. except Patrick F., who is teaching school, and Mary E., who is at present a student in the Mont- rose High School. Mrs. McManus was born in Middletown township, Susquehanna county, April 7, 1858, a daughter of John and Mary (Kilpatrick) Murray, who were natives of County Sligo, Ireland, but were married in Friendsville, Penn., after their emigration to America. The father, who was a farmer by occupation, died April 2, 1886, aged seventy-eight years, the mother March 29, 1891, aged seventy-eight, and both were laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery in Rush township. Mrs. McManus was the only child born to them, but the father was twice married, his first wife being Ann Keely, and to them were born four children : John, who went West; Thomas, a resident of New York; James, who died on the old homestead in Middletown township, Susquehanna county ; and Mary Ann, who died unmarried.


JAY DENNISON PECKHAM, one of the most active and enterprising farmers and dairymen of Brooklyn township, Susquehanna county, owns and successfully operates the old homestead where his father, James S. Peckham, was born June 21, 1823. The grandfather, Joseph Peckham, was born in Westerly, R. I., March 19, 1782, and in Stoning- ton, Connecticutt, was married, November 28, 1813, to Miss Sally Crandall, who was born there June 16, 1793. In 1817 they came to Brooklyn township, Susquehanna county, and three years later the grandfather purchased the present homestead of the family, on which they spent the remainder of their lives. He died October 3, 1860, his wife March 3, 1882. Of their six children, four died in 1822 within nine days of each other. Those who reached years of maturity were James S., father of our sub- ject ; and Sarah, a resident of Binghamton, N. Y., who was born January 13, 1832, and is now the widow of George H. Crandall.


James S. Peckham has spent his entire life in Brooklyn township, and at an early age took charge of the home farm, as his father was in poor health. Later he came into possession of the same, con- sisting of sixty-five acres, all cleared, and has made general farming his life work. He was first mar- ried in Brooklyn township to Miss Sarah Esther Ely, a daughter of Silas Ely, and to them was born a daughter, Esther, who died at the age of nine years. For his second wife he wedded Miss Mary L. Oakley, a daughter of Daniel and Sally (Car- penter) Oakley. She was born in Harford, Sus- quehanna county, May 31, 1837, and died January 10, 1895, leaving two sons, Jay Dennison, our sub- ject, and George Thompson, who was born October 26, 1871, and is now a resident of Scranton, Penn. Daniel Oakley was a son of Jotham Oakley, who came to Harford from Thornbottom,


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Dutchess county, N. Y., prior to 1800. Elias Carpenter, father of Sally (Carpenter) Oakley, came from Attleboro, Mass., his brothers, Daniel and John, being two of the "Nine Partners," the first settlers of Harford, and in 1800, he himself helped to build and operate the first sawmill in the new settlement. In early days the Peckham family were identified with the Whig party, and later have been true Republicans. The grandfather was a soldier of the war of 1812. The father has been a member of the election board and has served as school director, but has never cared for political preferment. He is an active and faithful member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he has served as elder for over forty years, and his life has ever been in harmony with his professions.


Jay Dennison Peckham was born April 7, 1866, on the old homestead, where he was reared, and his education was obtained in the Peckham dis- trict school and the graded school at Brooklyn. At the age of twenty he embarked in business at Scran- ton, but remained there only a short time, and then returned to the farm to assist his father in its opera- tion. Here he has since remained, and in addition to its cultivation he owns and operates eighty acres of partially improved land elsewhere. He is en- gaged in general farming and dairy with good success, and keeps from twenty to twenty-five cows. In 1893, he was also interested in a creamery at Foster, and has engaged in contract work and spec- ulating in Scranton, where he also sells his products from his farm.


On October 9, 1889, in Brooklyn township, Mr. Peckham was united in marriage with Miss Annie L. Lathrop, of that township, who was born October 7, 1866, in Picture Rocks, Lycoming county, Penn., and they now have three children, whose names and dates of birth are as follows: Homer Lathrop, August 8, 1892; Myra J., May 13, 1894 ; and Florence, June 1, 1897. Mr. and Mrs. Peckham both hold membership in the Presbyterian Church, of which he is one of the trustees, and they occupy an enviable position in the best social circles of the community. He is a stanch Republican in politics, and is now serving his third term as township auditor to the entire satisfaction of all concerned.


Walter Lathrop, Mrs. Peckham's grandfather, was born and reared in Connecticut, and at an early day came to Susquehanna county, Penn., where he bought land and followed farming up to the time of his death. His wife was Polly Hart, of Vermont, and in their family were seven children, three sons and four daughters, of whom three are still living: Lorinda, widow of Jonathan Kellogg, and a resident of Elk Lake, Susquehanna county ; Lois, wife of Charles Ely, a retired farmer of Brooklyn township; and Edward J., Mrs. Peck- ham's father.


Edward J. Lathrop was born in Pike township, Bradford county, Penn., January 15, 1838, was reared in Elk Lake, Susquehanna county, and


followed farming until the Civil war broke out. He enlisted August 12, 1861, in Company F, One Hun- dred and Sixth P. V. I., and participated in the battles of Yorktown, Fair Oaks, the seven days' battle, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristol Station, Mine Run, the Wilder- ness, Spottsylvania, North Ann River, Cold Har- bor, Totopotamy, the siege of Petersburg, and the engagements of Weldon Railroad, Mine Explosion, Newmarket, Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, Ream's Station, Hatchers Run, Dabneys Mills, Sailors Creek, Farmville and Appomattox Court House. He was wounded in the left wrist at Sav- age Station, June 29, 1862, at which time he was serving as lieutenant, and was captured and sent to Libby Prison, but was later transferred to Belle Isle, where he was held for five months and a half. At Cold Harbor, June 1, 1864, he was wounded in the right shoulder, and at Boydton Plank Road, Oc- tober 28, 1864, he was wounded in the left leg. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant March 21, 1862. Being one of three to respond to the col- onel's call for volunteers to go out and burn an old church in which were hidden rebel sharpshoot- ers, who were picking off the Union officers, he was again promoted, this time becoming second lieutenant, on October 15, 1864. There being no such vacancy in his old company he was transferred to Company K. On January 17, 1865, he was com- missioned first lieutenant, and on June 8, 1865, he attained the rank of captain. He was finally dis- charged at Munson Hill, June 30, 1865, after four years of faithful and arduous service. On May 4, 1865, in Springville, Susquehanna county, Mr. Lathrop married Miss Julietta Maria Smith, who was born June 4, 1836, a daughter of Justice and Maria (Hungerford) Smith, both natives of Sher- man, Litchfield county, Conn. Her paternal grandparents were Justice and Permelia (Northrup) Smith, natives of Connecticut, and her maternal grandparents were Cyrenus and Polly Hungerford, natives of the same State. Mrs. Lathrop is the sec- ond in order of birth in a family of five children, the others being Alfonso, a resident of Avoca; Anna Eliza, wife of L. H. Bushnell, of Susquehanna county ; Mary H., a resident of Wilkesbarre, Penn .; and Emily L., who died at the age of nine- teen years. Mr. and Mrs. Lathrop have two chil- dren : Annie L. (Mrs. Peckham), and Lura Edna, who was born June 9, 1873. The father has served as commander of the Grand Army Post to which he belongs, and is also a prominent member of the Grange.


SAMUEL T. ANGEL, who passed away Sep- tember 5, 1898, was for a number of years the well-known postmaster at Angel's, Wayne county. He was one of the public spirited and valued citi- zens of his community, in early life giving his at- tention to farming and lumbering, but during his later years living practically retired at his home in Dreher township, on the North and South turnpike.


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He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jan- uary 15, 1824, a son of Charles and Eleanora (Thomas) Angel, natives of Maryland. His pater- nal grandfather, Thomas Angel, a carpenter by trade, removed from Philadelphia to Sterling town- ship, Wayne county, at an early day, and here passed the remainder of his life.


Our subject's father was a woolen manufac- turer, and for some years owned and conducted a factory at No. 4 Poplar street, Philadelphia, but owing to ill health he decided to leave the city, and in 1846 came to Wayne county. He possessed considerable inventive genius, and was the first in Philadelphia to properly put rubber in braids. He also manufactured fancy sticks, and did consider- able in the line of veneering wood. He was an earnest Christian gentleman, for many years an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He died from a stroke of paralysis, June 17, 1870, aged seventy-four years, and his wife passed away in September, 1880, aged seventy-five years, eight months and two days, the remains of both being interred in the Albright cemetery, Dreher town- ship, Wayne county. Their children were Samuel T., subject of this sketch; Charles, who was a sol- dier in the Civil war, now residing in Philadelphia ; Rev. Joseph, a Methodist Episcopal minister, now deceased ; Harvey, who died at Alexandria, Va., from wounds received in the Civil war; Clark, a farmer and lumberman of Dreher township; and Ellen and Jane, both deceased.


Samuel T. Angel continued to reside with his parents and work for his father until their decease. He engaged in lumbering until 1896, owning a third interest in a steam sawmill in connection with his brother Clark, and James Carr, but in that year sold out. For severel years his health was poor, so that he was unable to actively engage in business, but continued to manage his affairs with good success. During President Garfield's admin- istration he was appointed postmaster at Angel's, and he filled that office until his death, to the sat- isfaction of all concerned. He was a Republican in politics, and an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which his widow also belongs.


In Scranton, Penn., Mr. Angel was mar- ried, August 16, 1888, to Miss Alice Bartlow, a native of Salem township, Wayne county. She knows little of her parents, George and Jane (Bart- low) Bartlow, natives of New Jersey, as they died when she was quite small. She was their only child, and for several years supported herself. From her earnings she saved $300, which she invested in forty acres of land that she still owns.


CHARLES MELCHER CARLTON, a wide- awake and progressive business man, engaged in merchandising and farming in Dreher township, Wayne county, was born May 7, 1843, in that town- ship, when it formed a part of Sterling township. His father, Thomas Carlton, was born September 6, 1808, in Maine, and in 1814 removed to Greene


township, Pike county, Penn., with his par- ents, David and Emily Carlton, also natives of the Pine Tree State. The former died in Pike county, the latter in Dreher township, Wayne county. Their children were Hartson; Thomas ; George W .; Roxanna, wife of George Miller; Mary, wife of John Corey ; Emily, wife of Robert Bortree ; Sally, wife of Joseph Kipp; and Elizabeth, who died un- married.


In 1836 Thomas Carlton came to Dreher town- ship, Wayne county, and here became acquainted with and married Miss Harriet A. Roat, a native of Philadelphia, Penn., and a daughter of Richard P. and Mary A. (Gibbs) Roat, who were born at Mt. Holly, N. J., but resided in Phila- delphia for a number of years, in 1833 coming to Wayne county, where they spent their last days in agricultural pursuits. They had three children : Harriet A. ; Charles, who died unmarried, at the age of thirty-seven years; and Mary A., who died when young. Mrs. Carlton died in 1858, aged thirty-nine years, and was buried in Dreher township. Both she and her husband held membership in the Meth- odist Protestant Church, but after her death he united with the Methodist Episcopal denomination. He died in September, 1884, and was laid to rest in Pine Grove cemetery. He followed farming as a life work. For six years he was an efficient member of the school board of his district. His children were as follows: Richard A., born October 13, 1838, married Ruth A. Sharp, and is engaged in farming in Dreher township ; George W., born No- vember 26, 1840, is also an agriculturist of that township ; Charles M. is next in the order of birth ; Thomas R., born in June, 1845, died when young ; William D., born July 1, 1848, is a farmer in Dreher township; and Mary A., born January 29, 1851, died unmarried. George W. Carlton was born on his present farm, adjoining that of our subject, was drafted in 1861, for service in the Civil war, and be- came a member of Captain G. E. Hubble's com- pany, One Hundred and Seventy-ninth P. V. I. He was on guard duty most of the time at Chestnut Hill, was in no battle, and was never wounded. He was honorably discharged in 1862, at Philadelphia.




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