Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 2, Part 4

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acter are not those of most men. He is a man of strong convictions, to which he is true. His will power is strong. It asserted itself when his father tried to make a farmer of him. The boy's inclination was for a mercantile career, and, with no desire to thwart the wishes of his parents, he nevertheless was impelled to follow his own bent of mind. In his veins flowed the blood of men who had battled for freedom, and of men who had achieved. At the home of his birth in New York State was a largeness of possessions that must have influenced. unconsciously perhaps, the lad's strength of char- acter. The sketch of his life is one of exceeding interest.


Mr. Johnston was born at Sidney Plains, Dela- ware Co., N. Y., March 7, 1825. son of William Strong and .Fanny ( Dickerman ) Johnston, and grandson of Hugh and Lydia (Strong) Johnston, whose broad estate of 640 acres lay upon the fertile banks of the Susquehanna river. Lydia Strong. the paternal grandmother of our subject, was the sister of Cyrus Strong, who was president of the Broome County Bank at Binghamton. N. Y. Grand- father Hugh Johnston died at Sidney, leaving a fam- ily of six children, William S., Betsey, David, Ab- ner, Edward Hugh, and Almira.


William Strong Jolinston, the father of our sub- ject, was born at Sidney Plains October 8, 1794. He adopted farming as his life pursuit, and in the neighboring county of Chenango, at Rockdale, he met and married Miss Fanny Dickerman. She was born at Rockdale September 28. 1805, daughter of a sturdy blacksmith and farmer, who was a lad in his "teens" in the Green Mountain State during the Revolutionary war, and who imitated the ex- ample of his relatives and enlisted in the cause of his country's freedom. serving as a scout for nine montlis during the closing period of the struggle.


The Dickerman family in America traces its ancestry to Thomas Dickerman, who in 1635 mi- grated from England to America and settled in Dorchester, Mass. From this ancestor the mother of our subject was of the sixth generation, the line of descent being as follows: ( I) Thomas Dicker- man settled at Dorchester. Mass .. in 1635 ; his wife's name was Ellen. (2) Abram Dickerman, born in 1639. married Mary Cooper, December 2, 1658. and (lied at New Haven, Conn., in 1711. (3) Abram Dickerman, born January 14. 1673. married Eliza- beth Glover, and died in 1748. (4) John Dickerman. born October 2, 1727. married Esther Sperry. June 18, 1752. moved from New Haven to Vermont. (5) John Dickerman, born in Vermont March 17. 1764, married, in 1789. Thankful Smith, who was born April 7. 1768, in Granby. Mass. He moved to Chenango county. N. Y., where he engaged in farm- ing and blacksmithing to old age. He died Novem- ber 6. 1848, at Guilford. Chenango county. He was a prominent member of the M. E. Church. (6) Fanny was the mother of our subject.


The father of our subject. William S. Johnston, pursned the vocation of farming in various locali-


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ties, and lived to the good old age of eighty years. He died February 19, 1875, and was buried at Dan- ville, Penn. His wife died April 9, 1869, and was buried at Chicago, Ill. Their twelve children, all born at Sidney, Delaware Co., N. Y., were as fol- lows: (I) Cyrus Smith is our subject. (2) James Perry, born November 13, 1826, married November 13, 1850, Melinda Finch, of Ottawa, Ill., and died June 1, 1851, at Milwaukee, Wis. (3) Jolin De- los, born August 3, 1828, died February 5, 1852, at Dellii, N. Y. (4) Julia Baxter, born June II, 1830, married, September 23, 1857, at Chicago, Ill., William Delon, of Raysville, Ind. He died November 26, 1857, at Chicago, and tor her second husband she married. September 17, 1866, at Raysville, Ind., Aaron Burr Steinmetz, an attor- ney. (5) William Henry, born July 12, 1832, died September II, 1832. (6) Austin Smith, born July 29, 1833, married October 2, 1852, at Cohoes Falls, N. Y., Martha Gledhill, who died at Chicago, Aug- ust 24, 1860. He again married, March 21, 1864, Elizabeth Aldrich, who died May 3, 1868. For his third wife he married, December 14, 1868, Marietta Raymond. He was engaged in the milk business at Chicago, and is now deceased. (7) Francis Howes, born July 30, 1835, died October 26, 1835. (8) Henry, born May 25, 1837; married November 10, 1859, at New York City, Amelia F. Many ; he is a watchmaker and jeweler of New York. (9) Almira Cotton, born June 23, 1839, married November 7, 1861, at Chicago, Harvy Hastings, now a farmer of Middletown Springs, Vt. (10) Edward Hugh, born May 4, 1841, married August 14, 1864, Caro- line Finley, and lives at St. Louis, Mo. ( II) Fran- ces Emogene, born May 4. 1843, married at Clyde. Ohio, October 8, 1864, William L. H. Owens, of Louisville, Ky., and she is now president of the Owens Publishing Co., of Chicago. (12) Harvey Alberti, born November 19, 1845, is now an officer in Company MI, 7th Regiment United States Cav- alry.


Cyrus S. Johnston, our subject, remained on his father's farm until he was seventeen years of age. His early tastes were for a mercantile life. but his father did not encourage them, for he wished to keep the boy on the farm. Cyrus walked ten miles to Guilford Center, Chenango Co., N. Y., and made application to the merchant there for a position as clerk. He returned home. and several months later was sent for, thus beginning his career for lfintselt as a clerk. There he remained three years. It was too slow for the ambitious young financier, and he resigned to engage in peddling jewelry on the road for Lewis Emmons, being so successful that at the expiration of a year he began business in the In politics Mr. Johnston is a Republican. For active politics. however, he has never had any taste. He served one term as justice of the peace. but de- clined re-election. and though often importuned has steadily declined to permit his name to be used a- a candidate for any office. Since 1851 he has been a member of the Congregational Church. Mr. same line for himself. For four years he carried a valise, but he had plans ahead. and the profits of the business were accumulating. From a traveling merchant to the owner of a.store was the next step. In partnership with Zerah Very he purchased. April IO, 1849, a mercantile business at Harford, Penn .. and this they successfully conducted until 1855. in i Johnston has been a man of untiring industry, and


which year Mr. Johnston erected the store building in which the business was conducted until its saie ten years later. Our subject, in partnership with G. W. Rees, then purchased a store at Hop Botte:1, Susquehanna county. Preferring Harford as a place of residence, he sold his interest in the Hop Bot- tom store to his partner three years later for $2 .- 400, and returned to Harford. For six years lie clerked for Hon. Henry M. Jones for $400 per year, but since 1874 he has retired from business.


Mr. Johnston possesses what may be called a financial mind. His shrewd business judgment per- ceives the value of things before they become appar- ent to others less favored in that respect. That invaluable attribute he has exercised freely in his mercantile and business pursuits, and the result has been the accumulation of a fair competence. He still keeps in touch with the mercantile world in the community of which he is a most substantial factor, keeping the books of E. E. Jones.


Our subject was married, September 16, 1849. at Harford, to Miss Hulda Louise Edwards, who was born in Harford township, July 1, 1827, daugh- ter of Charles and Mary C. (Chandler) Edwards. Her father was born in Rhode Island November 19, 1797, son of John Edwards, a sea captain. Charles, when a young man, twenty-four years of age, migrated to Harford township, Susquehanna county, where a year later he married Mary C. Chandler, daughter of James and Huldah ( Payne ) Chandler, who were among the earliest settlers of Gibson township, Susquehanna county. James Chandler was one of the "Five Partners" who in 1809 migrated from Connecticut and purchased a large choice tract of land in Gibson township. The children of Charles and Mary C. Edwards were James C. : Charles C .; Huldahi L., wife of our sub- ject : Mary M .. who married Dr. A. T. Brundage ; Sarah A .; Evelyn E., widow of Daniel C. Brun- dage : H. Amelia, wife of W. B. Guile. of Omaha : Frances C., wife of Rev. J. B. Davis; and Clark Stephen. To our subject and wife were born two children : Charles A., who married Elizabeth V. Mul- len, of Texas, and is a practicing physician, having located at Harford October 19. 1899: and Cyrus H .. who married Mrs. Hattie ( Watrous) Williams, and resides at Newburgh, N. Y .. where he is employed by the Bradstreet Mercantile Agency. The faith- ful and devoted wife of our subject passed away October 19. 1895, aged sixty-eight years. and was buried in Harford township. She was an active member of the Congregational Church, and a won- an of many accomplishments and graces of char- acter.


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to his large capacity for work is due in a great meas- ure his success in life. He possesses a wonderfully retentive memory, and the vigor and strength of his mind are unimpaired. He is a splendid example of a self-made man, and is one of whom Susquehanna county is justly proud.


DANIEL C. BRUNDAGE, deceased. The subject of this sketch, one of the representative and successful farmers of Susquehanna county, was born in the city of Newark, N. J., August 6, 1824, son of Parmienius F. and Lillis ( Brundage) Brund- age.


The father of our subject was born in Orange county, N. Y., October 5, 1782, son of James Brund- age, a farmer of Dutchess county, N. Y., who had served in the Revolutionary war. Parmenius Brundage in his youth acquired a knowledge of the blacksmith's trade. He married his cousin, Lillis Brundage, who was born August 23, 1785, and they moved to Benton,. Lackawanna county, where in addition to his trade Parmenius engaged largely in farming, which he followed through life. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church, and died February 9, 1862, his wife pass- ing away March 17, 1861. Both are buried in Clif- ford cemetery. The children of Parmenius and Lillis Brundage were as follows: James, born August 10, 1805, is deceased ; Betsey L., born No- vember 14, 1809, died October 29, 1819; Abner, born March 14, '1816, is deceased; Israel, born April 16, 1818, died November 3, 1819; Albert T., born November 4, 1820, is a retired physician and minister of the M. E. Church, residing at Harford, Penn .; Daniel C. is the subject of this sketch : and Amos H., born October 16, 1828, is a physician of New York City.


Our subject was reared on a farm in Lacka- wanna county, and adopted farming as his life vo- cation, settling in Gibson township. Susquehanna county. He married, October 11, 1860, at Gibson, Miss Evelyn E. Edwards, daughter of Charles and Mary C. (Chandler) Edwards, natives of Rhode Island and Connecticut, respectively. Charles Ed- wards was born November 19. 1797. in Rhode Island, son of John Edwards, a sea captain. Charles learned the carpenter's trade, and in 1821 came alone to Harford township. His wife, Mary C. Chandler, born November 10, 1802. came when a child with her parents, James and Huldah ( Payne) Chandler, from Connecticut, her father, James Chandler, be- ing one of the "Five Partners" of Gibson township, who located there in 1809. Jamies Chandler reared a family of children, several of whom became promi- nent. Charles, the eldest son, was coroner in 1824, sheriff in 1827. and member of the Legislature in 1838-39. Stephen P. and James were the other sons.


The family of Charles and Mary C. Edwards Were as follows : James C., born December 11. 1823. died in 1887; Charles C., born October 1, 1825, was a well-known physician of Binghamton, N. Y., and


died in 1898; Huldah L., born July 1, 1827, mar- ried C. S. Jolinston, of Harford; Mary M., born December 24, 1831, married Dr. Albert T. Brundage, of Harford : Saralı A., born February 25, 1834, re- sides in Harford township; Evelyn E., born in Gib- son township, July 16, 1837, is the widow of our subject ; Harriet A., born August 6, 1841, married W. B. Guile, a business man of Omaha, Neb. : Frances C., born August 10, 1843, married Rev. J. B. Davis, a Methodist Episcopal minister, of Carbondale, Penn .; and Stephen C., born Decem- ber 24. 1847, died April 27, 1868.


To Daniel C. and Evelyn E. Brundage were born two daughters: Mary A., who died at the age of twenty-one months, and Sarah L., who mar- ried W. W. Adams, station agent at Kingsley, Penn. Our subject remained in Gibson township, where he engaged in farming and also for some years was a merchant until.December, 1887, when lie retired from active life and removed to Har- ford township. While living in Luzerne county, in earlier years, he filled the office of justice of the peace, and in Susquehanna county he served as mercantile appraiser. He and his wife were active members of the Congregational Church. Mr. Brundage died at Kingsley, June 25, 1898, while on a visit to his daughter. He was "a man of many es- timable qualities, and his death was mourned by a wide circle of friends. His widow is now making hier home with Dr. A. T. Brundage, of Harford. and her daughter, Mrs. W. W. Adams, of Kingsley's.


EPHRAIM I. CARR, a leading business man of Lanesboro, Susquehanna county, has done much to assist in the development of the resources of that locality, his excellent judgment and rare executive . ability being recognized as factors in the success of various enterprises. He was born in October, 1824, at Bethany, Wayne county, Penn., and comes of good old pioneer stock. James Carr, our subject's grandfather, came from New Jersey at an early day. and settled upon a farm at Waymart, where he died in 1840. He and his wife had eight children, of whom, Thomas Carr, our subject's father, was the eldest. (2) John married and settled in Bethany. where he died leaving two daughters-Clarinda. now Mrs. John Robinson. of Honesdale. Wayne county, and Sarah, now Mrs. Depew, of Rochester, N. 1. (3) Edward married and settled at Way- mart, where he died leaving one son-F. G. Carr. who is still a resident of Waymart. (4) James mar- ried and settled in Wyoming county, near Tunk- hannock, where he died leaving one son, who is still a resident of that city. (5) Erastus married Miss Margaret Whitaker, and settled in Scott township. Wayne county, where he died : his widow now re- sides with her daughter-Mrs. Storer, in Wayne county. (6) Polly became Mrs. Wihnot. and set- tled in Ohio, where she died leaving a family. (7) Sylvia married Jolin A. Curtin, of Honesdale, where she died leaving a family of whom some still reside


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in Honesdale. (8) Nancy married Reuben Condit, and resided for many years near Waymart, but later they removed to Wilkes Barre, where they died leav- ing three children, still residents of Pennsylvania.


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Thomas Carr, the tather of our subject, was born in New Jersey in 1791, but his youth was chiefly spent in Wayne county, where he secured a common- school education. He married Miss Abigail Moore, who was born in New Jersey, and for some time they made their home at Bethany. In 1832 he lo- cated at Starrucca, where he conducted a store and hotel for a number of years. In 1851 he removed to Susquehanna, and took charge of the "Carr Ho- tel," which continued to bear his name for many years. He sold the place in 1861, as old age made business cares a heavy burden, and until his death in 1875 he lived in retirement. In politics he was an Old-Line Whig previous to the organization of the Republican party, which he supported in later years. As a public-spirited citizen he took an in- telligent interest in local affairs, and he held various offices in Wayne and Susquehanna counties. He and his wife were members of the M. E. Church, and Mrs. Carr, who died in 1865, was an active worker in the Church and Sunday-school. Our sub- ject was the eldest of a family of seven children. (2) Jane, born in 1826, at Honesdale, married Elisha Kenyon, of Susquehanna, and settled near Windsor, N. Y., where she died in 1898. leaving two children : Thomas, a resident of Alabama, and Eva, who mar- ried and resides in New York City. (3) Ann Eliza, born in 1829, married James Kirk, of Susquehanna, and removed to California, where Mr. Kirk died leaving no children. She then married John Har- desty, of San Jose, Cal., and they have two daugh- ters-Helen and Sarah, both of whom are married. (4) Thomas, born in 1831, at Starrucca, resided for some years in Beldenville, Wis., but is now one of the leading farmers at Thompson, N. D., where he owns one thousand acres of land. In 1898 he mar- keted 14,000 bushels of wheat and 1,500 bushels of oats. He married Miss Helen Pike, of Wisconsin, and has six children-Frank, Edward, Helen. Edna. Belle and Angeline, all of whom have married and settled in North Dakota. (5) Frank, born in 1836, at Starrucca, was a bright, ambitious young man, who died unmarried in California. while engaged in developing some mines. (6) John, born at Star- rucca, died in Susquehanna in early manhood.


Our subject's youth was spent in Wayne. coun- ty. When his parents removed to Susquehanna he accompanied them. being employed by his father in the hotel for some years. He was always keenly interested in political affairs, and during the Civil war served as deputy provost marshal for the Dis- triet of Susquehanna. In 1875 he married Mrs. Isabelle ( Rogers) Simons, a native of Delaware county, Penn. Her parents, Alexander and Isabelle Rogers, were born in Scotland, and spent their last years at their home in Delaware county. After his marriage Mr. Carr bought an attractive home in Lanesboro, and a fine farm adjoining the village,


and he has since been engaged in farming and in general business. He is a strong Republican, and has held various local offices in his township, in- cluding those of assessor and school director. He belongs to the Masonic Lodge in Susquehanna, and he and his family are promment in social life, his wife and daughter being active workers in the Methodist Church. Of his two children: ( I) Adda H., born in November, 1875, attended the schools of Lanesboro, and the Wyoming Seminary, where she graduated. She married Rev. M. H. Reid, a native of Albany, New York, who is now a Y. MI. C. A. missionary on the East coast of Africa. They have one son, Lawson C., born in February. 1898. (2) Thomas A., born in February, 1877, in Susquehanna, was educated at Lanesboro and in the Wyoming Seminary, and is now at home.


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HENRY J. TYLER (deceased), who was born in Harford township, Susquehanna count !. in 1835, was a son of Jared and Sally ( Hartt ) Ty- ler, a grandson of Job and Sally ( Thatcher ) Tyler, and a great-grandson of John and Mercy ( Thatch- er) Tyler.


John Tyler, who was one of the earliest settlers of Harford township, was born in Attleboro. Mass .. in 1746, and as the agent for Henry Drinker sold many farms on the Tunkhannock river. He died in 1822, his wife Mercy in 1835. She was noted for her ministrations to the sick and afflicted in the pioneer settlement. Their four . sons were John. Job, Joab and Jabez, and their five daughters were Mercy, Mary, Polly, Nannie and Achsah. Jared Tyler, who was a farmer in New Milford township. died in 1877, aged seventy-two, and his wife Sally passing away in 1874. To them were born five children: Henry J., John, Mary E .. Edward I. and Jarcd H., all now deccased except Edward J .. a farmer of New Milford township, Susquehanna county. On September 9, 1857. Henry J. Tyler married Miss Julia A. Coughlan, daughter of Obed G. and Hannah B. (Guile) Coughlan. Of this union came one child. Mary E., born August 5. 1862. who is married to Dr. William W. Fletcher. a physician of Carbondale. Penn .. and has one son. Walter Tyler Fletcher. Henry J. Tyler died De- cember 9, 1878, and on June 14, 1882, his widow married Henry Esterbrook, now also deceased.


MRS. JULIA A. ESTERBROOK was born in Har- ford township. Susquehanna county, June 30. 1838. Her father, Obed G. Coughlan, was a native vi Vermont. and a son of Joseph and Eunice ( Gra- ham ) Coughlan, whose five children were Lemuel (., a farmer of Delaware county, Iowa ; Charle -. deceased ; Obed G., the father of Mrs. Esterbrook : Julia, who died unmarried; and Mary, who also died unmarried. Obed G. Coughlan came to Sus- quehanna county when a young man, and settled in Harford township. For some years he worked un a carding machine in the woolen-mill. but later in life he devoted his attention to farming. lle mar- ried Hannah B. Guile, daughter of Samuel B. and


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Hannah B. (Coleman) Guile, natives of Connecti- cut, who became early settlers of Harford town- ship, Susquehanna county. Samuel B. Guile was a farmer, and in addition operated a woolen-mill and other early industries in Harford township. He was born in Columbia, Tolland Co., Conn., in 1781, and was of the sixth generation in descent from John Guile, who in 1630 migrated from Scotland, first settling at Watertown, Mass., and six years later at Dedham. Samuel B. Guile married Han- nah B. Coleman, a native of Coventry, Conn., and in 1820 moved with his family to Harford, where he became a very prominent citizen. He died in 1847, aged sixty-six years, leaving a large family of children. To Obed G. and Hannah B. Cough- lan were born children named as follows: Julia A. ( Mrs. Esterbrook) ; Merritt, of Chicago, Ill .; Evans P., who lived at Syracuse, N. Y., and is now de- ceased; Saniuel M., formerly of Harford, deceased ; and Charles W., deceased, who had been clerk in a drug store at Williamsport, Penn. Obed G. Coughlan died in Harford township, in 1892, aged eighty years ; his widow is yet living, at the age of seventy-eight years. Mrs. Esterbrook now lives in Harford township. She is an active member of the Congregational Church, and one of the most intelligent and highly-respected women of the town- ship. She is progressive, cultured, and interested in all the social affairs of the community, and all public matters which influence the general wel- fare.


MRS. ABBIE MATTISON, widow of the late Henry Mattison, is a highly-esteemed resident of Stroud township, Monroe county. As the wife of a pioneer agriculturist she had an honorable part in the progressive movements which have reclaimed this section from the wilderness, and her influence has been none the less valuable because exercised within the sphere of home. "Her children rise up and call her blessed," and she may well take pride in them, and in the high standing they have taken in the community.


Mrs. Mattison was born in 1828, in Stroud township, daughter of James and Rachel Hallet. . Her ancestry on the paternal side is traced to France, and the family, of which a more complete account appears elsewhere, is one of the most respected in this section.


During girlhood Mrs. Mattison attended the public schools of Stroud township, and in August, 1849, she married Henry Mattison, a native of New Jersey. Soon afterward they settled at the present homestead, which was cleared and improved by Mr. Mattison. The buildings, which were erected by him, are tasteful and substantial, and the farm is now considered one of the best in the locality. Mr. Mattison was an excellent citizen, and his death, in 1884. caused sincere grief among a wide circle of friends, whose esteem he had won by his sterling qualities of character. For many years he was a leading member of the Methodist Church at


Spragueville. While he was not especially active in political affairs, he took much interest in the ques- tions of the day, and he was an Old-time Democrat.


Mrs. Mattison is still an active worker in the Church at Spragueville, of which her husband was long a supporter. After many years of efficient labor she is now enjoying the afternoon of lite, and patiently awaiting the summons to "come higher," and join the loved companion gone before. Of her children : (1) Ellen, born in 1850, is the widow of George Bartholomew, of Moscow, Penn., and has one daughter, Lizzie. (2) Phoebe, born in 1852, married Benjamin Rice, of Spragueville, and has three children, Jennis, Albert and George. (3) Mary, born in December, 1853, married Hiram Mann, of Stroudsburg, and has five children, Clara ( wife of James Krestler, a merchant at the Water Gap), Elmer, Rena, Hazel and Ernest. (4) James, born in 1855, resides in East Stroudsburg. He mar- ried Miss Amanda Pencil, and has three children. (5) Joseph, born in July, 1858, died in early man- hood. (6) Rachel, born in January, 1860, married Abram Bachman, of Scranton, and died, leaving two children, Laura and George. (7) William, born in July, 1861, died in childhood. (8) Jennie, born in January, 1863, married Irving Bachman, of Stroudsburg, and has three sons, Albert, Arthur and Floyd. (9) Margaret, born in 1865, married Jus- tin Segrist, of Scranton. (10) Victor, born in 1866, died at the age of twelve. (II) Johnson, born in 1869, is a young man of excellent abilities and high character. He is not married, and resides with his mother upon the old homestead.




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