Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 2, Part 10

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The subject of this review was reared on the home farm, and remained with his parents until thirty-five years of age. In response to the Presi- dent's call for troops, he enlisted December 8, 1862, at Philadelphia, as a member of Company M, 18th P. V. C., which was assigned to Kilpatrick's Bri- gade, Wilson's Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, and was engaged in guerrilla war- fare until June, 1863. On the 19th of that month he participated in the battle of Middleburg, which was followed by the engagements at Hanover, Gettysburg, Boonesboro, Hagerstown, Falling Waters, Brandy Station, Culpeper, James City, White Sulphur Springs, Locust Grove, Kilpat- rick's raid, Todd's Tavern, Yellow Tavern, Ash- land, Hanover, St. Mary's Church, Cedar Creek, Waynesboro, and numerous skirmishes. For three months he was confined in the hospital at Point Lookout, MId., on account of measles, and with chronic diseases, from which he still suffers. He was detailed as messenger to carry dispatches from Gen. Kilpatrick to Gen. Pleasanton, was made cor- poral in 1863, and was discharged as sergeant of Company D, Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, at Cum- berland, MId., October 31, 1865. Returning to Pike county, he remained on the home farm until 1876, when he removed to his present home in Mat- amoras, though he still retains the farm of 100 acres in Westfall township, two and one-half miles from the village, and aids in its operation as his healthı permits. . He is a prominent member of the G. A. R. Post, is a stanch Republican in politics. and for two years .most acceptably served as super- visor. He is as true to his duties of citizenship in times of peace as when following the old flag to victory on Southern battlefields.

On August 3, 1870, at Montague, N. J., Mr. Coykendall was united in marriage with Miss Sarah M. Hankins, by whom he had three children : Laura A., Maggie E. and Edith E., all at home. The wife and mother, who was born January 21. 1847. de- parted this life November 22, 1881. Her parents were Hiram and Elizabeth Hankins, who spent their entire lives in Sussex county, N. J., and were buried at Montague. Mr. Coykendall was again married, this time at Port Jervis. N. Y., to Miss Myrtella Ackerman, a native of Sussex county. N. J. Her parents, Jacob and Elizabeth ( Cole) Ack- erman, were natives of Paterson and Wantage. N. J., respectively, and both died in that State, tlieir remains being interred at Wantage. Her father. who was a carpenter by trade, was born May 30, 1810, and died December 9. 1861 : the mother was born August 11, 1811, and died in 1800. Their children were: Joshua, deceased ; Sarah J. who married (first) Edward Parliment, and ( second) William Peters: John, a resident of Williamsport. Penn. : Maria, wife of Daniel Van Sickle, of Jer- myn, Penn. : Catherine, wife of William Space, of

New Jersey; Lydia, wife of Jacob Topping, of Vir- ginia ; Francis E., who married Ama Riftle, and lives in Lindley, N. Y .; and Myrtella, wife of our subject.

DAYTON. For quite a number of years prior and subsequent to the middle of the nineteenth cen- tury the name of Dayton in Susquehanna county carried with it no little influence and force in the business life and activity of Great Bend. Such men as William, Elias, Jehiel, Samuel H. and Daniel A. Dayton, brothers, and the sons of several of theni, among whom was the late talented Dr. Sam- nel W. Dayton, all of Great Bend, and all now de- ceased, were substantial citizens, and played well their part in their different spheres of life.

These men were of distinguished ancestry, which rendered their country patriotic service in its Colonial period, throughout its trying struggle for independence, and later in the halls of its United States Congress. Early in the Colonial period of New England there came to this country from the Berkshire Hills, England, the first American ances- tor of this branch of the Dayton family. Farming- ton, Conn., was their early home here. Gen. Elias Dayton, the grandfather of the several brothers named in the foregoing, was born in 1737 at Eliza- bethtown, N. J. In 1760 he joined the British forces who were completing the conquest of Canada from the French; and he subsequently commanded a company of militia in an expedition against the northern Indians, this corps being probably a por- tion of the original "Jersey Blues." At the com- mencement of hostilities with the mother country he was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety for Elizabethtown, and served as colonel of a Jersey regiment till 1783, when he was pro- moted to the command of a Jersey brigade. Soon after the battle of Bunker Hill a British transport off the coast of New Jersey surrendered to an expedition of armed boats under his command in conjunction with Lord Stirling. He was in active service dur- ing the whole war, taking part in the battles of Springfield, Monmouth, Brandywine, Germantown and Yorktown, and having three horses shot under him. He was a member of the Continental Cong- ress, and served after the war several terms in the Legislature, was commissioned major-general of militia, and was on intimate terms with Washing- ton. Upon the formation of the New Jersey So- ciety of the Cincinnati Gen. Dayton was chosen its president, and held that office until his death, which occurred at Elizabethtown, N. J .. in 1807.

Hon. Jonathan Dayton, son of Gen. Dayton. was born October 16, 1760, at Elizabethtown. N. J. He was a graduate of the College of New Jersey in 1778, entered the army as the paymaster of his ta- ther's regiment, and hield several commissions at different periods of the war. After the peace of 1783 he was elected to the Legislature. and was chosen Speaker of the House in 1790. In June. 1787. he was appointed a delegate to the convention at

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Philadelphia which framed the Federal Constitu- tion. In 1791 he was chosen by the Federal party a representative in Congress, in which capacity he served for three consecutive terms, during the last. two of which he was Speaker of the House. In 1799 he was elected to the United States Senate. He afterward served several terms in the Council, as the superior branch of the New Jersey Legisla- ture was formerly termed. His death occurred at Elizabethtown, N. J., October 9, 1824. Hon. Will- iam Lewis Dayton, United States senator from New Jersey, the first nominee of the Republican party for vice-president, and minister to France under Lincoln's administration, was a nephew of Hon. Jonathan Dayton.

Elias Dayton (2), son of Gen. Elias Dayton, married Elizabeth Page, of Newport, and there were born to the union William, Elias, Jehiel: Mary, Mary (2), Jane, Samuel H., Daniel A., Lyman, Columbus, Cordelia and Elizabeth. The father in the early part of the century and the settlement of what is now the city of Dayton, Ohio, allured thither by other members of his father's family who had gone to the Miami Valley in its first settlement, and found- ed the city which has since borne the family name, left his Connecticut home, and with his family journeyed by wagon and ox-team to the new set- tlement. The parents and several of the children lived and died there. Later, owing to the mias- matic conditions of the locality and sickness among them, other members of the family decided to re- turn to the East, in about the middle 'thirties, and arriving at Great Bend, Penn., en route, they were so attracted by the beauty of the surrounding coun- try that they settled there for life. They had means, and brought to that settlement considerable mon- ey. They first bought and settled on the Col. Baker farm, all then being unmarried. The five brothers who settled in Great Bend, in order of age, were: ( 1) William Dayton was born in 1801, and died in 1855, unmarried. He was an active, energetic merchant and business man, and accumulated con- siderable wealth.

(2) Elias Dayton married Alvira Fish, and they had three children, one named William Page. The father was a farmer and tradesman.

(3) Jehiel Dayton was born in 1804, and died in 1872. He married Lydia Harriet Adams, who was born in 1820, and their children were: Samuel W., Washington, Jehiel A., Wallace, William M .. Mary and John, all dying in infancy or childhood excepting Samuel W. and Mary, who lived to the ages of forty-two and twenty-four, respectively. Jehiel Dayton was a farmer.

(4) Samuel H. Dayton was born Tune 10, 1810, and died October 30. 1876. He married Miss Em- ily Whitney Case, of Gibson township. Susquehanna county, her people being formerly from Groton, Conn., and to the marriage were born children as follows : William, Samuel, Pauline ( Mrs. William D. Lusk, of Montrose ). and Arabella, of whom the two first named died in infancy. The father of these

was for many years a merchant, succeeding to :: business of his elder brother, William, on the latter . death. The mother was a woman of culture an: refinement. having been educated at the Ladie Seminary at Honesdale, Penn., and at Mrs. Ingale- school, at Binghamton, N. Y. Interested in educa- tion, she was instrumental in establishing, just prior to the Civil war, a school of high grade at Great Bend, giving what was known as the Ross residence for the purpose. The school was opened by the Misses Barlow, four highly educated and success- ful teachers, whose influence was felt in the com !- munity ; these ladies were succeeded by Edwant Rogers, and he by Prof. McCord. The Barlow sisters on leaving Great Bend became members of the Faculty of the Pennington (N. J.) Conference School, a Methodist institution then in charge of the afterward Bishop Wiley, of the M. E. Church. At these schools Pauline Dayton ( now Mrs. Lusk ) was prepared for Vassar.

(5) Daniel A. Dayton was a farmier and trades- man.

SAMUEL W. DAYTON, M. D., son of Jehiel and Lydia H. (Adams) Dayton, was a native of Penn- sylvania, born in 1840, at Athens. However, when but an infant of a few weeks, he became a resident of Great Bend, which was ever afterward his home. and where his high reputation as a physician and estimable citizen was made. Possessed of an active mind, after receiving the rudiments of an educa- tion in the home school, a school at Elmira. N. Y .. and a private institution at Berkshire, N. Y., he be- gan the study of medicine under Dr. James Brooks. of Great Bend. Subsequently he attended lectures at Long Island Medical College, and also at Jei- ferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating from the latter institution in 1863, with distinguished honors. Soon after his graduation he located at Great Bend and entered upon the practice of medi- cine, and he took high rank in the profession. lle was a student, became a man of culture and refine- ment, and kept well abreast of the times in his pro- fession. He was of a kind and generous disposi- tion, with pleasing manners which made everyone his friend. In 1870 he became a member of the Susquehanna County Medical Society, which he rep- resented in 1872, 1874 and 1875 at the State Medi- cal Society. He was a man of high character. a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a usetu! member of the community. Hc died January 1. 1883. in the prime of life, on the threshold of a promising career.

In 1870 Dr. Dayton married Miss Rose Mac- Carthy, of Scranton, Penn .. who proved an active and worthy helpmeet to him during their short married life of thirteen years. She was a lady vi intelligence and beauty, and has proved to be pe -- sessed of excellent business qualifications, which have been manifested in the management of her e -- tate in Great Bend, now the village of Hallstead She was born in Canada, a descendant of the illu -- trious Gen. Harris, of St. Mary's. One child was

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born to them, Jehiel, a bright and beautiful boy, who lived to the age of five years.

William Page Dayton, son of Elias Dayton (3), was born in 1838, in the township of Great Bend, and lived a quiet, pastoral lite upon the land pur- chased by his father in the early thirties. He was educated in the little school house near his home, in the Ives district, and was a man quiet and modest in demeanor, and so honest in purpose that his friends unanimously elected him justice of the peace in 1865. He has held that office for five terms, hav- ing moved from one district to another. Always regarded as a gentleman in all walks of life, and of a deeply religious temperament, he was commis- sioned by the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Pennsylvania to hold service when re- quired. He married Lura Sisson, who was born in Great Bend in 1841, and their children were Elias. Etta. Lura, Ella, William Wellington and Pauline, the last four of whom are yet living, and making their homes on the land secured by the original Dayton purchase, overlooking the Susquehanna river.

HOMER TINGLEY, deceased. The subject of this sketch, a prominent member of the Ting- ley family, died at his home in New Milford town- ship, Susquehanna county, July 5, 1888, at the age of fifty-one years, seven months and one day. Op- portunities of honor and advancement are perhaps less numerous to the man who is content to live in the peace and quiet of agricultural life than to him who dwells in a populous center, but to the subject of this sketch, a substantial and prominent farmer, came many of the local offices within the gift of his fellow men. He had that sterling character, com- bined with a benevolent disposition and keen busi- ness sagacity, which made him eminently success- ful in whatever undertaking he engaged, and what- ever public duty he essaved to fill. He was a son of Hon. Charles Tingley, and a grandson of Elkanah Tingley, a sketch of whom appears in the history of the Tingley family.

Homer Tingley was born in Harford town- ship, December 4. 1836. He was reared on the farm, and received a good common-school educa- tion. Through his entire life he followed the voca- tion of a farmer. in 1862 removing from the old homestead in Harford township to the farm in New Milford, where he lived until his death, twenty-six years later. He was actively interested in the cause of agriculture, and was up to the time of his death a prominent member of the Grange. Among the fraternities he was an active man. In politics he was a stanch Republican. For nine years, includ- ing the last seven years of his life, he served as supervisor. For six years he was school director. and for three terms he served as poor commissioner.

(Mack) Tiffany. The Tiffany family is one of the oldest and most prominent in Susquehanna county. Alfred Tiffany was born in Attleboro, Mass., December 22, 1781, the eldest son of Thomas Tiffany, who with his family joined the "Nine Partners" settlement in Harford township in the fall of 1794, Alfred then being a lad of thirteen years. Alfred Tiffany settled and lived until his death on a farm in Brooklyn township, now owned by his grandson, E. M. Tiffany, on the old State road near Kingsley Station, on the Delaware, Lack- awanna & Western road. He was married three times. first at Salem, Penn., January 26, 1806, to Lucy Miller, who was born in Glastonbury, Conn., July 24, 1784. and died April 11, 1817. By this marriage he had six children, namely: Cynthia, born in Brooklyn township. July 22, 1806, married Eli Butler Goodrich, and died July 20, 1864; An- son, born January 22, 1808, married Sarah Bloom- field Milbourne, and died March 14, 1881 ; Clarissa, born October 24, 1809, married Walter Follett, and died in 1895; Nelson, born September 17, 1811, married Permelia E. Whitney, and died August 17, 1855; Lucy E., born June 27, 1813, married Jonas Adams, and died May 17, 1871 ; Alfred J. was born December 28, 1815. For his second wife Alfred Tiffany married, in Brooklyn, Penn., February II, 1818, Fanny M. Mack, born at Lyme, Conn., April II, 1798. By this marriage he had thirteen children, as follows : Lydia A., born September 15. 1818. mar- ried Elias N. Carpenter, and died in 1896; Joseph L .. born January 5. 1820, died April 2, 1826; Charles H., born December 18, 1821, married Emeline Oakley, and died May 30, 1895: Hannah E., born December 26, 1823. married Stephen E. Carpenter, and died June 14, 1872; Fanny MI., born October 22, 1825. married Jackson Tingley, and died August 23, 1879; Edwin Mack, born April 22. 1828, married Nancy MI. Lindsey, and died in September, 1889: Betsey N .. born April 19. 1830. married Horace M. Rice, and died Octo- ber 26. 1873: William H., born May 9. 1832. now' a farmer, merchant and miller at Alford. Penn .. married Eva Van Buskirk: Sarah M., born April 19. 1834. married George J. Benjamin, and died at Chicago, Ill .. March 18. 1879: Marvin L .. born March 23, 1836, married Lucy A. Roper, and died January 21, 1892: Franklin E., born August 3. 1838. now living at Nicholson. Penn .. married Emma I. Parrish: Harriet Adelaide, born March 5. 1842. is the wife of our subject : Newell W .. born August 11. 1844. a carpenter of Bingham- ton. N. Y .. married Lizzie Bedell. For his third wife Alfred Tiffany was married. at Lenox. Penn .. to Patience Vance. who was born at Windsor. N. Y .. October 4. 1794. and died July 12. 1860. Alfred Tiffany died February 26. 1860, and with his three wives is buried in the village centetery at Harford. pennsylvania.

Mr. Tingley was married, August 9. 1859. to Miss Harriet A. Tiffany, who was born in Brook- To Homer and Harriet A. Tingley came chil- dren as follows: William H., born May 18. 1860; lyn township, Susquehanna county, March 5. 1842, the youngest daughter of Alfred and Fanny M. i Jennette D., who married John Hart, of Jackson

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township; Hayden L., a farmer of Amherst, Neb. ; Minnie E., born September 25, 1869, married to Lewis W. Darrow, who is employed in a shoe factory at Lestershire, N. Y .; Arthur P., who is at home with his mother ; Homer J., born Septem- ber 26, 1875, a farmer of Brooklyn, who married Eva W. Tennant; Lena A. and Lulu B., twins, the latter of whom died aged two months, and Lena married Harry Ellsworth. a farmer of Har- ford; and Emma I., deceased in infancy.

WILLIAM H. TINGLEY, the eldest son of Homer and Harriet A. Tingley, was born May 18, 1860. He remained with his parents until twenty years of age, when he went to Plymouth, Penn., and worked for the Charles Parrish Coal Co. one year. Returning to the home of his par- ents he remained there until his marriage, in March, 1882, at Susquehanna, to Miss Sarah F. Van Buskirk. She was born in Searsville, N. Y., January 12, 1863, daughter of Thomas and Cor- nelia (Stevens) Van Buskirk, natives of Orange county, N. Y. Thomas Van Buskirk was born in 1839, son of Jeremiah and Amelia ( Dobbs ) Van Buskirk, whose children were: Susan, Thomas, Mary, George and Charles. Cornelia Stevens was born April 14, 1838, daughter of George and Sarah (Michael) Stevens, farming people of Orange county, N. Y., whose children were: Caro- line (wife of Denton Deyeo), William (deceased ), Howard (deceased), Cornelia ( the mother of Mrs. William H. Tingley), Granville (of Middletown, N. Y.) and Theodore. Thomas Van Buskirk came to Susquehanna county in 1873, and settled in New Milford township. Thence he moved to Jackson township, where he died January 10, 1887. His widow resides in New Milford borough. To Thomas and Cornelia Van Buskirk were born the following children: Mary H., who died young; Sarah F., wife of William H. Tingley; William, a farmer of New Milford township; George, who died young; and Albert, a wagonmaker of New Milford.

To William H. and Sarah F. Tingley have come children as follows: Clara B., born February 21, 1883, died May 15. 1885: Hattie M .. born May 25, 1884; Mabel F., born May 5. 1886; Alfred C., born July 31. 1888, died July 2, 1895; William Merle, born February 8, 1890; and Glenn E., born April 11, 1897.

After his marriage William H. Tingley settled on the farm of 107 acres in New Milford township, which he has ever since occupied and most suc- cessfully tilled. The land has been brought to a high state of cultivation. Mr. Tingley is a rep- resentative farmer, prominent, progressive, and public-spirited. He is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry, Grange No. 289, of New Milford. In politics he is a Republican. For six years he has served as school director. and in 1897 he was elected tax collector for a term of three years, be- ing re-elected in February. 1900. for three years more.

HENRY T. BIRCHARD, of the firm of Birchard & Resseguie, editors and proprietors of the Susquehanna Evening Transcript and the Sus- quehanna Ledger, from 1891 to 1900, is a descend- ant of one of the oldest families of New England and of Susquehanna county. The first American ancestor of the family was Thomas Birchard. of England, who came to this country in 1635. His wife was Mary Robinson. John Birchard, a son of Thomas, born in 1628, in England, came to New England in 1635, and in 1653, in Connecticut, mar- ried Christina Andrus.

Henry T. Birchard, our subject, is a descend- ant in the eighth generation from Thomas Birch- ard, his first American ancestor, the line of his de- scent being through John, Samuel, John (2). Jesse, Jesse T., and Asher L.

Jesse Birchard, the great-grandfather of our subject, was born in 1770, and came to what is now the site of Birchardville, in Forest Lake town- ship, in 1799; taking up land under the Connecti- cut title. In 1797 he married Harriet. daughter of Asahel Smith, a sea captain, and a soldier of the Revolution. He moved his family to his land in the spring of 1801. He and Jabez A. Birchard were the first permanent settlers in Forest Lake township, Susquehanna county, then Luzerne coun- ty, and founded the village which took their name. Jesse Birchard died in 1840, and his wife, who was born in 1773, passed away in 1859.

Jesse T. Birchard, son of Jesse Birchard. and the grandfather of our subject, was born in 1802. in Forest Lake township, and was married in 1828 to Lamira Smith, who was born in 1803 in the State of New York. They were farming people and resided about one mile below Birchardville. but later removed to Montrose. He died in 1853 and she in 1872. Their children were: Asher L., Harriet H., Caroline B., and Charles H. Of these Asher L. Birchard was the father of our subject. He was born August 21, 1829, at Birchardville. and when a lad removed with his parents to Mon- trose. He was a painter and followed this trade mainly through life. On July 17, 1851, he was mar- ried to Anna E. Mosher, of Binghamton, N. Y. They resided at Binghamton and at Montrose. Mr. Birchard dying at the latter place in 1882. Their children were: William L. and Henry T.

Henry 1. Birchard. our subject, was born July 31, 1853, at Montrose, Penn., where he was reared and attended the Montrose Academy. When but a lad of thirteen years of age. in 1866, he entered the office of the Independent Republican and learned the printing trade. The Republican was then published by his uncle. the late Homer 11. Frazier. He remained in that office under Mir. Fra- zier until the latter's death in 1876, and then under hi- successor, James P. Taylor. until 1891, with the exception of one year ( 1884) when he worked at the printing business in the city of Philadelphia. In 1891 Mr. Birchard and C. W. Resseguie as part- , ners purchased the Susquehanna Transcript, and

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4. editors and proprietors they have since published ::. The Transcript is a very newsy daily paper, well edited and judiciously managed, reflecting credit on its enterprising owners. It is the only Aly paper published in Susquehanna county, and has a large circulation. It is independent in politics. These gentlemen also conduct , the Susquehanna Ledger, published weekly.

Mr. Birchard is a man of great energy and in- dustry. He is obliging, genial and popular and merits the success with which he is meeting in the field of journalism. Thoroughly schooled in the art preservative and possessed of ability as a man- ager, the Transcript and Ledger go forth to their many readers models of the modern newspaper. Mr. Birchard is identified with the K. of P. and the Masonic Fraternity. In 1876 he married Harriet L., daughter of Elias Jagger, of Montrose, and to tliem have come two children : Ethel, who died in 1884, in her fourth year, and Charles Harold, who is aged thirteen years.

EDWIN B. BENNETT (deceased) was a highly esteemed resident of Gibson township, Sus- quehanna county, where he was successfully en- gaged in agriculture for many years. The family homestead, an attractive place of fifty-three acres, was cleared and improved by him, and his industry and good management brought a fair reward for his declining years. While he did not take an active interest in politics, he was a strong Republican, and for many years he was a leading member of the Freewill Baptist Church in his locality. He was born August 28, 1826, a son of Jamies and Juliette ( Sweet ) Bennett.

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Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 2, Part 10

Author: Publication date: 1900 Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1098

Author:
Publication date: 1900
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1098