Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 1, Part 406

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John N. Sampson, our subject's father, engaged in lumbering in Wayne county for many years, and after his removal to Susquehanna in 1845 continued to follow the same occupation for twelve years, lay- ing aside all business cares at the end of that time. He was killed on the Erie railroad in April, 1865, and his wife, who bore the maiden name of Rachel Seward, died in 1856, at the age of sixty-one years. The children born of this worthy couple were as follows : Permelia (deceased) married Seymour Seeley, and resided at Walden, Delaware Co., N. Y., where they reared a large family : Nelson, a re- tired lumberman residing at Binghamton, N. Y., married (first) Pauline Williams, and (second) Prudy Kingsbury ; Rensselaer (deceased), who was a millwright and carpenter by trade, and built the first tannery at Starrucca, Wayne county, making his home at that place; George died at the age of twelve years; Charles S., our subject, is next in the

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order of birth; James (deceased) was for many years chief operator on the Erie railroad; Sally is the wife of Justine Squires, a retired farmer and lumberman of Hancock, N. Y .; Clarissa is the wife of Silas E. Dickenson, a farmer living near Hill City, N. Y .; and Margaret is the wife of Charles Cresson, of Hancock, New York.

Charles S. Sampson was born at Starrucca, Wayne county, and when a child was brought by his parents to Susquehanna county, Penn. When only eleven years old he was obliged to provide for his own maintenance, which he did by assisting the farmers in light work, and in return he received his board and clothes. In the fall of 1858 he secured employed on the Erie railroad, fist as a laborer later as a brakeman, and by attending strictly to business he was in due time promoted. In 1865 he became engineer, and still remains with the road in that capacity, having been in the company's employ continuously for the past forty years, his service giving the utmost satisfaction. He is an honored member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin- eers, and is a stanch supporter of the Republican party.

At Port Jervis, N. Y., Mr. Sampson was united in marriage with Miss Abbie, daughter of Alec and Julia (Chaffey) Simpson. Her father was born in Greene county, N. Y., January 9, 1814, and died November 13, 18 -; the mother was born in Ken- tucky, September 11, 1816, and died in September, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Sampson have seven children, namely: Charles, born in 1863, is a resident of Middletown, N. J., where he married Margaret Walling ; George, born in 1864, is an employe of the Erie Railroad Co .; Edward, born in 1865, married Mamie McGreal, and resides in Paterson, N. J .; Emma, born October 2, 1876, is the wife of Charles Cook, of Matamoras, Penn .; S. Van Etten, born January 29, 1879, is employed by the Erie Co., at Middletown, N. J .; and Nellie, born July 18, 1883, and Jennie, born February 26, 1885, are at home.

HENRY COX (deceased) was for many years one of the honored and highly respected citizens of Thompson township, Susquehanna county, where he carried on operations as a farmer. He was born in Otsego county, N. Y., in 1825, the only son of Joseph and Sarah Cox, natives of England, who on their emigration to the New World located in Otsego county, where the father followed farming during the remainder of his life. There both parents died many years ago. They had one daughter, Jerusha, who now lives in Gibson, Pennsylvania.

In the county of his nativity Henry Cox grew to manhood and acquired his education. In 1850 he was united in marriage with Miss Roxy Pope, a daughter of William and Irene Pope. She was also reared in Otsego county, where they continued to make their home for one year after their marriage and then came to Jackson township, Susquehanna Co., Penn., where the following four years were passed. In 1858 they removed to Thompson town-

ship, where Mr. Cox purchased a tract of wild land and cleared and improved a farm, erecting thereon a good house and barn. During the Civil war he enlisted in Company G, 43rd P. V. I., and remained in the service until the conflict was over. As he was physically disabled for active duty on field of battle, he was assigned to the hospital corps during the latter part of his service. He never fully re- gained his health after his return home and in 1888 he passed away, leaving a wife and two children, besides mány friends, to mourn his loss. (I) Jan- ette Cox, the elder, was born in Gibson township, in 1851, married Robert Gill, of New York State, who is a carpenter by trade and was for four years a soldier of the Civil war. They have two daughters : Mertie, wife of Linford Fuller, of Delaware county, N. Y., by whom she has three children, Guy, Vera and Clara ; and Fannie, wife of Alphonse St. Mark, of Hancock, N. Y., by whom she has one daughter. (2) Emory C. Cox, the only son of our subject, was born in August, 1854, and has spent his entire life on the home farm, which he assisted in clearing and transforming into a highly cultivated place. Since his father's death he has looked after his mother's interests, and has made many improvements upon the farm, which has been made to yield bountiful harvests in return for the care and labor he bestows upon it. In June, 1890, he married Miss Annie Symons, of Bethlehem, Penn., a daughter of William H. and Harriet (Thomas) Symons, the former a native of Cornwall, England, the latter of Australia. Mrs. Cox was born in Cornwall, Eng- land, in 1864, and was a child when brought by her parents to this country. They located in Bethlehem, Penn., where they still reside and where the daughter was educated in the public schools. Emory Cox and his wife have two children: Willie H., born in September, 1891 ; and Joseph, born in 1898.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Cox were reared in the Protestant faith, and although not members of any religious organization, always supported Church work. He was a man whose integrity was never questioned, and was a law-abiding, peaceful citizen, who had many friends in the community where he so long made his home. His political support was given the Republican party, with which his son also affiliates. The latter still resides with his mother on the old homestead, and no family in the township is held in higher respect and esteem.

PETER DENNIS ROE, an honored veteran of the Civil war, and a leading and representative ag- riculturist of Jessup township, Susquehanna county, was born in Sussex county, N. J., January 18, 1842, a son of David and Seviah (Dennis ) Roe, also na- tives of Sussex county. In 1847 the family came to Susquehanna county, Penn., and located in Jessup township, where the father carried on operations as a farmer until called from this life in 1885, at the age of eighty years. The mother died in 1888, at the age of eighty-three, and was laid to rest by his side in Bowles cemetery. Both were sincere Chris-

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tians, members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In their family were the following children: Eliz- abeth, deceased wife of Jefferson Roof; Mary, wife of Scott Baldwin, a farmer of Wyoming county, Penn .; Peter D., our subject ; Catherine, wife of Ed- gar Bowles, a farmer of Jessup township; Sarah, widow of Paul Overfield, of Meshoppen, Penn .; David M., a prominent merchant of Fairdale, Sus- quehanna county ; and Emma, wife of Thomas Pet- titt, of Susquehanna county.

The subject of this sketch has spent almost his entire life upon the farm in Jessup township, where his parents located on coming to the county. As soon as large enough to be of any assistance he began to aid in its operation, and since attaining to man's estate has successfully carried on the same. At the age of nineteen years he responded to the President's call for volunteers to assist in putting down the Rebellion, becoming a member of Company H, 38th N. Y. V. I., under Capt. William Baird. He was mustered into the United States service on Long Island, and for two years followed the old flag to victory on Southern battle fields, partici- pating in the engagements at Bull Run, Yorktown, Williamsburg and Seven Pines, but fortunately he was never wounded. He was honorably discharged at Park Barracks, New York City, June 23, 1863, and returned to his home to resume farming. Six years later he traveled quite extensively over the West, but since his return has carried on the old homestead uninterruptedly.

On February 2, 1874, in Jessup township, Mr. Roe married Miss Susan Downer, who was born in that township, November 29, 1850, a daughter of R. B. Downer, who is represented elsewhere. To them were born two children : Denton D., who mar- ried Emma Berthold, and is engaged in farming in Jessup township; and Hettie, who died at the age of fourteen years. The family is quite prominent socially, and they have a large circle of friends and acquaintances throughout the county. Frater- nally Mr. Roe affiliates with the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Grand Army of the Republic, and politically he is identified with the Republican party. He held the office of overseer of the poor for twelve years, and has been collector and supervisor.

ADAM UHL, a well-known merchant of Gree- ley, Pike county, was born February 19, 1857, in Bavaria, Germany. His grandfather, Lawrence Uhl, was also born in Bavaria, and spent his en- tire life in his native province, where he married Mary Zink.

Our subject's father, William Uhl, was born in Bavaria, June 7, 1820, and there engaged in farm- ing and stock dealing throughout life. He wedded Christiana Veolpel, a daughter of Jacob Veolpel, and she died in 1885, aged sixty-three years, his death occurring September 8, 1894. Of the children born to them, four died in infancy ; William (deceased) married Elizabeth Schroeder, came to America,

and engaged in the grocery business in New York City ; Lawrence married Charlotte Hepley, and en- gaged in business at Haverhill, N. Y., where he died ; Henry, who married Barbara Huf, is a manu- facturer of fancy wood boxes in New York City ; Adam is next in the family ; Christiana is the widow · of George Williams, and resides in New York City.

At the age of thirteen years Adam Uhl came to this country in company with his father, brothers and sister, and first found employment as errand boy in a gilder's shop in New York, learning the trade of a picture frame gilder, at which he worked some time ; meantime he also attended night school. There he was married, December 3, 1883, by Rev. Busse, a German Lutheran minister, to Sophia, daughter of William Smith.

After working at his trade some years Mr. Uhl became interested in the butcher business, which he continued for twelve years. On selling out, he came to Lackawaxen township, Pike Co., Penn., September 27, 1893, and bought a store at Gree- ley (named for Horace Greeley, who once owned property there). He has since given his time and attention to mercantile pursuits, and to the operation of a small farm, and has met with a fair degree of success in his new home. Politically he is a Demo- crat, though somewhat independent in his views, and religiously he and his wife hold membership in the German Lutheran Church. They are held in high regard by all who know them, and have made many warm friends since coming to Pike county.

ROBERT NEILD. In the respect that is ac- corded to men who have fought their way to success through unfavorable environments we find an un- conscious recognition of the intrinsic worth of a character which can not only endure so rough a test, but gain new strength through the discipline. The following history sets forth briefly the steps by which our subject, now one of the substantial agricultur- ists of Preston township, Wayne county, overcame the disadvantages of his early life.

His father, William Neild, was a native of Manchester, England, whence when a lad of sev- enteen years he came to the New World, locating on the Hudson river, in New York State. In 1840 he married Miss Rebecca Reynolds, of Delaware coun- ty, N. Y., and upon a farm in that county they spent their remaining days, his death occurring in Janu- ary, 1868, hers two years later. Our subject is one of their family of four children, the others being as follows: (I) Elisha, born in Andes, Delaware county, in 1841, married Helen Worden, of that county, and is engaged in farming in Sullivan coun- ty, N. Y. Their children were Harvey, Robert, Thomas and Ira (both of whom died in child- hood), Thomas, and Jessie. (2) Jane I. is the wife of John Winnie, of Ulster county, N. Y., and their son Elisha is the only one of their nine children now living. (3) John makes his home in Livingston Manor, New York.

In 1843 Robert Neild was born in Delaware

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county, N. Y., where he grew to manhood, acquir- ig his literary education in the public schools near his early home. When a young man he came to Wayne county, Penn., where for some time he en- gaged in lumbering. Here he was married in 1868 to Miss Marian Mallery, of Wayne county, a daugh- ter of Thomas and Christina Mallery, natives of Wales, who on coming to America located in Dela -- ware county, N. Y., whence they removed to Wayne county, Penn. After his marriage Mr. Neild pur- chased fifty acres of timberland in Preston town- ship, Wayne county, and at once commenced to clear and improve his place, erecting thereon a residence. Subsequently he owned and occupied another farm in the same township, and for a time lived in Scott township. In 1897, with his sons, he bought the property known as the C. P. Tall- man farm, in Preston township, comprising 512 acres, on which are three dwellings and substantial outbuildings. Here they are now successfully en- gaged in dairy farming.

To Mr. and Mrs. Neild were born six children : (I) Ira, born in May, 1869, received a good com- mon-school education, and he and his brother Rob- ert, with their father, now own the present home- stead of the family. (2) Willard, born in 1870, mar- ried Maggie Brush, of Delaware county, N. Y., and has one son, Harold B. He lives on a part of the home farm. (3) Osmer R., born in December, 1871, married Florence Kimble, of Wayne county, and has two children, Leslie A. and Violet M .; they are residents of Wayne county. (4) Robert B., born in 1873, (5) Roy B., born in 1879, and (6) June R., born in 1885, are all at home. Edna E., an adopt- ed daughter, was born in 1883, in Delaware coun- ty, N. Y., and is now pursuing her studies in the home school. Mrs. Neild, who is one of a family of fifteen children, was educated in the high school of Hancock, N. Y., and prior to her marriage success- fully engaged in teaching.

By his ballot Mr. Neild supports the principles of the Prohibition party, and his influence is always given to those measures which have for their object the betterment of mankind. He and his family are all earnest and consistent members of the Baptist Church, take an active and prominent part in its work, and have the respect and esteem of all who know them.

JACOB KUNKEL, a wealthy business man of Kresgeville, Monroe county, is extensively en- gaged in agricultural and mercantile operations and also owns and operates a sawmill and gristmill at that place, his success in these varied enterprises showing rare sagacity, thrift and foresight.

Mr. Kunkel is a representative of one of the oldest and most highly esteemed families of this sec- tion, being a descendant of John Kunkel, the first settler at Kresgeville, who came from Germany about 1740. This worthy pioneer married Catherine Dot- ter, and had children, as follows: Elizabeth, who married Joseph Serfass ; Katie, Mrs. Knesht ; Maria,

Mrs. Solomon Christmen; Bevy, Mrs. John Shafer ; Susan, Mrs. John Smith; Margaret, Mrs. John Win- ters; Christiana, Mrs. Abraham; Peter, Joseph, Adam, and John.

John Kunkel, our subject's father, was born at Kresgeville, February 14, 1815, and received a lim- ited education in the schools of that day and local- ity. He was a man of marked ability and held a prominent place in the local Democratic organiza- tion, serving in different township offices, while he was especially active in religious work as a member of the Lutheran Church. At the death of his parents he became the owner of the old homestead, where he followed farming and lumbering for many years. He operated the sawmill on the estate, and built the present gristmill, which he rented out to other par- ties. He died December 7, 1896, his remains being interred at Kresgeville. His wife, Sarah (Kresge), who is still living in Kresgeville, was born September 16, 1818, the daughter of George Kresge. Of their ten children, (1) William, a farmer in Polk town- ship, Monroe county, married Elnora Keller. (2) James is our subject's partner in business. (3) Ja- cob, our subject, is mentioned more fully further on. (4) George, a Lutheran minister, residing at Trevorton, Penn., was graduated from the Muh- lenberg College, Allentown, Penn., and taught school successfully for eight years, founding Fairview

Academy, at Brodheadsville. In 1880 and in 1881 he was principal of the public school at Bethlehem, Penn. He married (first) Miss Maggie Storm, and ( second) Miss Sarah Christman. (5) David, a farm- er at the old homestead, married Miss Emma J. Berlin. (6) Catherine married Sebastine Kresge, a farmer in Ross township, Monroe county. (7) Sarah married Mahlon Serfass, a farmer in Polk township. (8) Mary Ann married Reuben Kunkel, of Slatington, Penn. (9) Ellen married E. P. Kresge, a blacksmith at Kresgeville. (10) Emaline married Jerome Serfass, a farmer in Polk township, Monroe county.

Our subject was born January 19, 1845, at the old home at Kresgeville, and until he reached the age of twenty-one he assisted his father in the work of the farm and sawmill. In the spring of 1871 he formed a partnership with his brother James and engaged in business under the firm name of Kun- kel Brothers. Since 1883 they have operated the gristmill on the estate, while their farming, mer- cantile and lumbering interests have constantly in- creased in extent and value. Mr. Kunkel, like all his family, is public spirited and his influence is felt in social, religious, educational and political lines. He is a stanch Democrat in politics, and he has served nine years as school director, and for ten years past has held the office of township auditor. In religious taith he is a Lutheran, and his long services as treas- urer of the Church at Kresgeville show his de- votion to the welfare of that society.

The Kresge family, towhich our subject's estima- ble mother belongs, has been prominent in Monroe county since pioneer times, the first ancestor being

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William Kresge, who settled in what is now Polk township about 1765, on a farm which is still owned by his descendants. He and his wife, Christianna Ser- fass, both lived to the advanced age of eighty-eight years. They had the following children: Jacob; William ; George; Joseph; Sallie, who married John Serfass; Elizabeth, who married John Bouser; and Susan, wife of Peter Kunkel ; and Hannah, who mar- ried Reuben Gregory.

George Kresge, Mrs. Kunkel's father, was a prominent farmer in Polk township. He married (first) a Miss Dreisbach, by whom he had two sons, Philip and Samuel, both deceased, who were resi- dents of Monroe county. By his second marriage, to Miss Catherine Serfass, he had seven children : Thomas, who died in Lackawanna county; David, who died in Monroe county ; Joel, a retired resident of Kresgeville; Reuben, who resides at Lehighton, Penn .; Sarah, our subject's mother; Catherine, widow of John Gregory, of Chestnut Hill township, Monroe county ; and James, who died December 26, 1898.

H. S. QUICK. The pioneers of Pennsylvania were a race of men fitted to grapple with the tasks of felling forests and of bringing to a state of cul- tivation the broad and fertile acres thus cleared. The shirk had no place in an early settlement. The man of industry, enterprise and energy was the man of success. The old families have thus transmitted sterling qualities from father to son to the third and fourth generations and the solid substantial men of Susquehanna to-day are largely those whose for- bears were primitive and tireless immigrants, seeking future homes and willing to earn them.

Mr. Quick, the subject of this sketch, possesses an inheritance of that description. His grandfa- ther, Jacob Quick, a native of the Delaware Valley, born in Orange county, N. Y., migrated with his wife Rachel to what is now Susquehanna county, Penn., but was then Greenfield township, Luzerne county. He took up a tract of land and spent his life in farming, living to a good old age and rearing a family of industrious and capable children, six sons and four daughters, namely: Jacob, Solomon, Joseph, John, Timothy, Stoddard, Rachel, Ann, Mar- garet, and Jane.

Joseph, the father of our subject, was born in Susquehanna county. He was reared on a farm and married Sarah Hartley, daughter of Mark Hart- ley, of Scotch descent, but of Irish birth, who in 1792, with his wife and infant son William, mi- grated from Northumberland county to the south- ern part of what is now Brooklyn township. Several years later the Hartleys moved to what is now Lenox township. Mark Hartley became a prominent property holder. After his marriage Joseph Quick moved to Nicholson township, Wyoming county. He there followed blacksmithing and died leaving two sons-H. S. and Darius, the latter a resident of Wyoming county. The mother afterwards married Robert Jackson, by whom she had one son, Andrew 110

Jackson, now living in the State of Kansas. Her third marriage was to David Kniver, by whom she had one child, Justus Kniver, of Uniondale, Pennsyl- vania.

H. S. Quick, our subject, was born March II, 1825, in Nicholson township, Wyoming county. He there grew to manhood and at the age of sixteen began farm work. Then for twelve years he fol- lowed lumbering in Falls township, Wyoming coun- ty. He was married in Lenox township to Miss Es- ther A. Tiffany, daughter of Milton and Annie (Rynearson) Tiffany, and granddaughter of Thom- as and Chloe (Tingley) Tiffany, he a prominent pioneer of Lenox township, and a sketch of whom appears elsewhere. Annie Rynearson was the daugh- ter of Isaac and Margaret (La Grange) Rynear- son. The children of Milton and Annie Tiffany were Thomas W., of Wyoming county, Penn .; Isaac R. (deceased), formerly of Wyoming county ; Esther A., wife of our subject, born October 30, 1835 ; Adelbert M., who moved west and was never heard from; Mary P., wife of C. W. Conrad, of Nicholson, Wyoming county, Penn .; George P., of Kansas; Demonge La Grange, of Wyoming coun- ty; Sarah, widow of Gilford Tingley, of Jackson township; and Irwin Dewayne, of Kansas.

To our subject and his wife have been born five children, namely: Devele S., a railroad em- ploye of Hopbottom; Harriet, wife of Bert Van Gorden ; Josephine, wife of J. S. Hetter, of Hopbot- tom; Arthur (deceased), formerly of St. Louis and later of Moberly, Mo .; and Sadie, wife of William Betts, of Scranton, Penn. When he finished his lumber work in Wyoming county, Mr. Quick re- moved to Lenox township, Susquehanna county. There he enlisted, during the Civil war, in 1863, in Company B, 177th P. V. I., under Capt. B. F. Gard- ner, serving for nine months. After the war he lo- cated at Hop Bottom and for many years followed very successfully the carpenter and joiner trade. In recent years he has retired from active life. His pleasant home at Hopbottom he erected in 1865. In politics Mr. Quick is a strong Democrat. He has served on the borough council, and for many years has been overseer of the poor. Himself and wife are prominent members of the Universalist Church, in which he has served for several years as trustee and deacon.

J. H. COCHRAN, a worthy representative of the agricultural interests of Ararat township, Sus- quehanna county, was born in 1854, in Sullivan coun- ty, N. Y., a son of Reuben and Margaret (Scribner ) Cochran, also natives of that county. The grandfa- ther, Robert Cochran, was a native of Connecticut and a pioneer of Sullivan county, where he continued to make his home until called from this life. The fa- ther was born in 1818, and throughout his business career followed farming in his native county, where he died in 1897. The mother of our subject died in 1862.

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the county of his nativity and when a young man came to Ararat township, Susquehanna county, where for some time he engaged in lumbering, oper- ating a sawmill. In that township, in 1880, he was married, to Miss Lillian E. Washburn, who was born on the farm in Ararat township where they now reside, a daughter of Lyman and Electa ( Wash- burn) Washburn. Her father was also a native of Susquehanna county, and was a son of Lyman and Rebecca (Sparks ) Washburn, who came here from Connecticut and were among the earliest settlers of Ararat township, settling in the woods on the farm where our subject now lives. Both died in Susquehanna county, as did also the father of Mrs. Cochran. He was one of the best known men of the county and was highly respected by all. Our subject and his wife have four children, namely : Grace, Mabel, George and Fannie.

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Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 1, Part 406

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