Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 3, Part 37

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DAVID L. BRYANT. The name of Bryant is one which will ever cling to the first century of development of northeastern Pennsylvania. Its members have been truly representative citizens -- representatives of sterling traits of character, of the privations of pioneer lite, and of the success which came to those who persevered.

David L. Bryant, a farmer of Jackson town- ship, Susquehanna county, was born in that town- ship March 5, 1843, son of Enos and Almira ( Lamb) Bryant. Enos Bryant was born in Marl- boro. \t., March 19. 1804, son of Joseph and Marcy ( Philips ) Bryant, of Marlboro, Vt. Jo- seph Bryant, who was of English ancestry, re- mained throughout life a resident of the Green Mountain State, but several of his children be- came identified with the development of Susque- lianna county, Penn. He was thrice married. By his first wife, Annie Angell, his children were as follows: ( 1) Fanny. (2) David Bryant, who came when a young man to Susquehanna. married and settled on a farm in Jackson, where he resided until his death, leaving a family. (3) Jonathan Bryant was born in Vermont in 1793. (4) Anna Bryant, born in Vermont in 1795, became the wife of Dea- con Norris, of Jackson, where they both died, leav- ing two sons-Elias and Henry-now residents of New Mexico, and one daughter-Eliza, wife of Billings Burdick, of New Milford. (5) Joseph Bryant, born in Vermont in 1797. came to Jackson and for a short time followed lumbering, later mak- ing his home in Susquehanna, where he died. He was educated for the ministry and became an cx- horter, often preaching in the Baptist Congregation. He left a family. (6) Amy Bryant was born in Ver- mont in April. 1801. For his second wife, Joseph Bryant married Marey Philips, of Vermont, and to this union were born five children, namely: ( 1)

Enos was the father of our subject. (2) Polly Bry- ant became the wife of Bowen Matterson, of Jackson, where they lived for some time and then moved to Wisconsin, where he died. His wife returned to Jackson, where she ched, leaving no family. (3) Ira Bryant, born in Vermont. in April, 1So8, married and settled in Vermont. (4) Sebe Bryant, born in Vermont in 1810, came to Jackson, married Miss Louisa Fin- ney and settled near the old home in Jackson; he later moved to Susquehanna. where he engaged in mercantile trade until his death; his wife is still a resident of that city. He left two children-Lydia, now widow of George Brown, of Susquehanna. and Olive, wife of a Mr. Bushneil, of Nievah. N. Y. (5) Alva Bryant, born in Vermont in 1813, came to Jackson, and married Elizabeth Gager, of Wayne county. and he now resides in Susquehanna. They have five children-Edward, a resident of Susque- hanna county ; Will, of Susquehanna : Paulina, wife of John Smith, of Illinois: Ira, of Wayne county ; and Fannie, of Wayne county. On December 13. 1831, Joseph Bryant married. for his third wife, Phoebe Charter. There were no children born of this union.

Enos Bryant, father of our subject, was edu- cated in his native place, and early in his 'teens mi- grated to Susquehanna county, which was then main- ly a wilderness. In Jackson township he married Miss Almira Lamb, daughter of Major Joel Lamb, who had been an officer in the American army in the war of 1812, and was a man of superior strength of body and much force of character. He had eleven children, of whom Almira. mother of our subject, was the seventh. He took up four hundred acres of land in Jackson township in 1815, and became one of the most prominent residents of the town- ship. After his marriage Enos Bryant settled in the woods on the Lenox and Harmony Pike. where he cleared up a good farm. erecting good buildings and making an attractive home in the wilderness, and there he remained through life. He was a Henry Clay Whig and later a Republican. For many years he was justice of the peace in Jackson township. He died in 1873. and his wife in 1860. Of their eight children, three -- John F .. Emily and William H .- died in childhood. The others were as follows: ( 1) Frank, born in May, 1828, mar- ried Miss Annie Curtis, of Oakland township. They resided in Jackson. where Mr. Washburn now lives, and he cleared up a fine farm and erected good buildings. He left a wife and four children, Alice. wife of Commodore Duran, of Oakland : Wallace. a resident of Paterson. N. J. ; Verne, wife of Horace Case, of Preston. Wayne county; and Butler, a resident of Delaware county, N. Y. (2) Harvey, born in January. 1830. was a soldier in the Civil war, enlisting in the 177th P. V. I .. and par- ticipated in a number of battles. He married De- mila Dann, of Danville, N. Y .. and they now reside in Harmony township. Their children are-Jen- nie. Dora, Delana. Della. Grant and Homer. (3) Frederick, born in December, 1831, was well edu-

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cated in the Harford schools and was a teacher in the county for several years. He married Miss Adelia Barrett, daughter of William Barrett, of Jackson, and they settled on the old homestead there, where he died leaving three children-Ernest, of Cincinnati; C. S., now of the old home; and Lula, wife of Lagrand Larrabee, of Susquehanna. (4) John Newton, born in March, 1840, was a soldier in the Civil war and died while in service at Fort Lincoln ; he had enlisted in Company MI, 2nd Penn. Artillery, was in service two years before his death, and was a very promising young man.

David L. Bryant, our subject, is the youngest of this family. He grew up on the old homestead, and was educated in the district schools of Jackson. In September, 1862, he. enlisted in Company MI, Ist New York Mounted Rifles, under Capt. Masten and Col. C. C. Dodge. He was sworn in at New York as a private. Among the engagements in which he participated were the following: Zuni, October 25, 1862; Blackwater Bridge, October, 1862; Providence Church, March, 1863; Charles City, 1863; Providence Church, 1863 ; James Ford, November, 1862; Isle of Wight, December II, 1862; Edenton Road, April, 1863; Scotts Mills, May, 1863; Jackson, North Carolina, July, 1863 ; Petersburg and Richmond, in May and June; West Point, June 15, 1864; Darby Town Road, December 16 to 29; at Warsaw; Seven Pines and the fall of Petersburg; at Weldon Railroad in 1864; Murfreesboro, 1864; and some other eighty-five engagements. He re-enlisted in the same company and regiment now known as the 4th Provisional Cavalry, commanded by Col. Edwin Sumner and was mustered out on November 29, 1865, at City Point, Virginia, with the rank of ser- geant.

Returning home he married, in January, 1869, Miss Abbie Lewis, daughter of George W. and Mary A. Lewis, members of one of the old families of New Milford. They settled at his present home in Jackson, where he bought the James Potter im- provement. On this place he erected a fine two- story house, good, substantial barns, and made gen- eral improvements, now owning one of the well- cultivated farms of Jackson township. His worthy wife died October 12. 1879, leaving three children : Minnie M., born in 1871, is the wife of Lewis Tuck- er, who is in mercantile business at Deposit, N. Y .; · Forest L., born April 14, 1874. also in mercantile business in Deposit. N. Y. ; and Grace L., born Jan- ary, 1877, is now the wife of W. A. Perry, of Jack- son. For liis second wife our subject in 1880 mar- ried Miss Elizabeth Lewis, sister of his first wife. She was born in New Milford in March, 1854. By his second marriage our subject has five children : Frank N., born October 21, 1881; Bertie F .. born June 24, 1883: Leon D., born May 3, 1886: Benja- min H., born June 28, 1888; and Tracy L., born May 19, 1896.

Politically Mr. Bryant has always been identi- fied with the Republican party, and he lias hield the

office of supervisor of Jackson nine years. Relig- iously himself and wife are members of the Bap- tist Church. Our subject is a prominent member of Myron French Post No. 512, G. A. R., of Jack- son. He is a worthy representative of the old re- spected family from the Green Mountain State, who settled in Susquehanna county when life was a struggle to make a home from the wilderness : through their persevering energy and honest indus- try, they, like many other New England families who came. lierc, became prosperous. They cleared up good farms, erected good homes and becanie identified with all the interests of their new homes in Pennsylvania. Their sires were honest and God- loving people who helped to establish schools and churches, and were leading men and women in their day. The present generation are men of worth and are well-known in this county as among the solid citizens. Our subject, David L., has been identified with all the local interests of Jackson from his Youth. When the Civil war broke out he offered his services and life to the Government in defense of his country, and as a soldier he did his full duty. as the many engagements in which he participated will testify. As a citizen our subject is loved and respected, for his neighbors speak of him and family in the highest terms.

TIFFANY. Of the sturdy men and women who came to the wilds of northeastern Pensylva- nia a century or more ago and made homes for themselves and their posterity, cleared up the for- ests, dotted its hillsides and valleys with churches and school houses, and otherwise aided in the es- tablishment of the grand county of Susquehanna. with its high character of citizens, none were of a better type than those coming from Attleboro. Mass .. among whom were the Tiffanys.

Along toward the close of the eighteenth cen- tury, and in the beginning of the nineteenth. there came to northeastern Pennsylvania from the New England homestead of the Tiffany family at Attle- boro, Mass., several brothers. sons of Jolin and Deliverance ( Parmenter ) Tiffany, among whom were Capt. John Tiffany. who settled at Mt. Pleas- ant. Wayne county; Humphrey, Zachariah and Hezekiah Tiffany, in New York : and Noah. Hosea. and Thomas Tiffany, in Susquehanna county-all soldiers of the Revolution. These several brothers had descended from Esquire Humphrey Tiffany. who came from England in 1663. and settled in Rehoboth, Mass., their line being through James and John.

Hosea Tiffany, son of John Tiffany. of Attle- boro, Mass., born in 1754, was the leader of the "Nine Partners" who came to the lands of Susque- hanna (then Luzerne) county in the spring of 1790 and purchased a tract of land four miles long and one mile wide, lying in what is now Harford town- ship. In 1792 hie came with his family and set- tled permanently. He was one of the county com- missioners of Luzerne county before the formation

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cated in the Harford schools and was a teacher in the county for several years. He married Miss Adelia Barrett, daughter of William Barrett, of Jackson, and they settled on the old homestead there, where he died leaving three children-Ernest, of Cincinnati; C. S., now of the old home; and Lula, wife of Lagrand Larrabee, of Susquehanna. (4) John Newton, born in March, 1840, was a soldier in the Civil war and died while in service at Fort Lincoln ; he had enlisted in Company M, 2nd Penn. Artillery, was in service two years before his death, and was a very promising young man.

David L. Bryant, our subject, is the youngest of this family. He grew up on the old homestead, and was educated in the district schools of Jackson. In September, 1862, he. enlisted in Company MI, Ist New York Mounted Rifles, under Capt. Masten and Col. C. C. Dodge. He was sworn in at New York as a private. Among the engagements in which he participated were the following: Zumi, October 25, 1862; Blackwater Bridge, October, 1862; Providence Church, March, 1863; Charles City, 1863; Providence Church, 1863; James Ford, November, 1862; Isle of Wight, December 11, 1862; Edenton Road, April, 1863; Scotts Mills, May, 1863; Jackson, North Carolina, July, 1863; Petersburg and Richmond, in May and June ; West Point, June 15, 1864; Darby Town Road, December 16 to 29; at Warsaw: Seven Pines and the fall of Petersburg; at Weldon Railroad in 1864; Murfreesboro, 1864; and some other eighty-five engagements. He re-enlisted in the same company and regiment now known as the 4th Provisional Cavalry, commanded by Col. Edwin Sumner and was mustered out on November 29, 1865, at City Point, Virginia, with the rank of ser- geant.

Returning home he married, in January, 1869, Miss Abbie Lewis, daughter of George W. and Mary A. Lewis, members of one of the old families of New Milford. They settled at his present home in Jackson, where he bought the James Potter im- provement. On this place he erected a fine two- story house, good, substantial barns, and made gen- eral improvements, now owning one of the well- cultivated farms of Jackson township. His worthy wife died October 12. 1879. leaving three children : Minnie MI., born in 1871, is the wife of Lewis Tuck- er, who is in mercantile business at Deposit, N. Y .; . Forest L., born April 14, 1874. also in mercantile business in Deposit, N. Y. : and Grace L., born Janti- ary, 1877, is now the wife of W. A. Perry, of Jack- son. For his second wife our subject in 1880 mar- ried Miss Elizabeth Lewis, sister of his first wife. She was born in New Milford in March. 1854. By his second marriage our subject has five children : Frank N., born October 21, 1881 ; Bertie F., born June 24, 1883: Leon D., born May 3. 1886: Benja- min H., born June 28, 1888; and Tracy L., born May 19, 1896. .

Politically Mr. Bryant has always been identi- fied with the Republican party, and he has held the

office of supervisor of Jackson nine years. Relig- iously himself and wife are members of the Bap- tist Church. Our subject is a prominent member of Myron French Post No. 512, G. A. R .. of Jack- son. He is a worthy representative of the old re- spected family from the Green Mountain State, who settled in Susquehanna county when life was a struggle to make a home from the wilderness : through their persevering energy and honest indus- try, they, like many other New England families who came. here, became prosperous. They cleared up good farms, erected good homes and became identified with all the interests of their new homes in Pennsylvania. Their sires were honest and God- loving people who helped to establish schools and churches, and were leading men and women in their day. The present generation are men of worth and are well-known in this county as among the solid citizens. Our subject, David L., has been identified with all the local interests of Jackson from his vouth. When the Civil war broke out he offered his services and life to the Government in defense of his country, and as a soldier he did his full duty. as the many engagements in which he participated will testify. As a citizen our subject is loved and respected, for his neighbors speak of him and family in the highest terms.

Along toward the close of the eighteenth cen- tury, and in the beginning of the nineteenth. there came to northeastern Pennsylvania from the New England homestead of the Tiffany family at Attle- boro. Mass., several brothers, sons of John and Deliverance ( Parmenter ) Tiffany, among whom were Capt. John Tiffany. who settled at Mt. Pleas- ant, Wayne county ; Humphrey, Zachariah and Hezekiah Tiffany, in New York : and Noah. Hosea. and Thomas Tiffany, in Susquehanna county-all soldiers of the Revolution. These several brothers had descended from Esquire Humphrey Tiffany. who came from England in 1663. and settled in Rehoboth, Mass., their line being through James and John.

Hosea Tiffany, son of John Tiffany. of Attle- boro, Mass., born in 1754, was the leader of the "Nine Partners" who came to the lands of Susque- hanna ( then Luzerne) county in the spring of 1700 and purchased a tract of land four miles long and one mile wide, lying in what is now Harford town- ship. In 1792 he came with his family and set- tled permanently. He was one of the county com- missioners of Luzerne county before the formation

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of the county of Susquehanna, and of the new county in 1814; was also a justice of the peace from 1799 until 1812, when Susquehanna county was erected. His eabin home stood on the present site of the Congregational Church in Harford. He had married, in Massachusetts, Anna N. Wilmarth, and their children, born before they came to Pennsylva- nia, were: Hosea, Amos and Nancy. The father died in 1833. Hosea Tiffany, Jr., was one of the county commissioners in 1822. In about 1813 he was commissioned a justice of the peace, which office he resigned in 1826, but was.again commis- sioned in 1831 and served until his death in 1836. He married Polly Sweet. Amos Tiffany as early as 1817 kept a tavern, residing in the homestead of his father, and later built what was known as the "Gow House," in Harford. Of the next generation (grandehildren of Hosea Tiffany ), William C. Tif- fany, son of Hosea Tiffany, Jr., succeeded his father to the homestead and was also a justice of the peace for a number of years.

Thomas Tiffany, son of John Tiffany, of Attle- boro, Mass., was born in 1756, and married, in 1779, Melatiah Tingley, who was born in 1762, a daugh- ter of Thomas Tingley, of Attleboro, Mass. In the fall of 1794 Thomas Tiffany with his family joined the "Nine Partners" settlement. Both he and his wife in died 1835. The children born to them in Attleboro, Mass., were Lorinda, Alfred, Thomas, Pelatialı, Tingley, Dalton and Lewis, while those born after their settlement in Pennsylvania were Betsey, Millie, Preston and Orville. The father lo- cated on a part of the "Nine Partners" traet of land, and there engaged in farming throughout life. He was commissioned a justice of the peace in 1799. Of the children. Alfred settled near Kingsley's Sta- tion, and there resided until his death, and was suc- eeeded by his son. Judson. Thomas resided north of the "Nine Partners." I'elatiah resided in Brooklyn township. Dalton was a resident of Harford, on lands adjoining the old homestead. Lewis lived ad- joining his brother Thomas, Preston lived in Dim- oek township, and Orville in Wyoming county, Tingley settled north of the "Nine Partners" set. tlement ; he was a soldier in the war of 1812.

Noah Tiffany, son of John Tiffany, of Attle- boro, Mass .. was born July 7. 1752. His first wife. Hannah (Carpenter ), was born in 1761, and died i1. 178;, and on September 25. 1786, he married Mary Olney.who was born in 1759. and died in 1837. in Gibson, Penn. He settled in Brooklyn township in 1809, and, like his brothers, Hosea and Thomas, was one of the leading men of the community in which he lived. He owned the land on which a part of Brooklyn village. in the Hop Bottom Valley, stands. . In 1810 Joshua Miles built a large frame house in the village which afterward became known as the "Ab- bey," and in this Noah Tiffany kept the postoffice and hotel in 1817. He died July 19. 1818, and was succeeded as postmaster by his son, Arunah Tiffany. Noalı Tiffany was a member of the Second Con- gregational Church of Bridgewater, organized in 67

Brooklyn in 1810, and was a deaeon of the Society at the time of his death in 1818. The children of his first marriage were: Jemima, born August 2, 1782, married, November 11, 1804, Eliab Farrar, and died April 21, 1874. Hannalı, born December 16, 1783, married, September 19, 1810, Wells Stan- ley, and died March 4, 1874. Arunah is men- tioned farther on. To the second marriage were born: Olney, born in 1787, married Mercy Mil- ler, and died May 2, 1831. Mary, born September 15, 1789, married, June 12, 1814, Charles Perrigo, and died March 25, 1819. Amy, born August 9, 1791, died' Mareh 1, 1808. Noah, born May 10, 1793, married, November 25, 1817, Charlotte Sea- ver, and died December 25, 1878. Jolin, born May 22, 1795, married Catharine Van Bramer, and died in January, 1863. Clarissa married, in 1829, David Waterman, and died January 22, 1869. Loring, born January 20, 1798, died October 24, 1805. Melinda, born October 16, 1801, married, January 11, 1825, Myron Lindsey, and died December 16, 1891.

Arunah Tiffany, son of Noah Tiffany, and the father of Hon. George B. Tiffany, of Gibson, was born Augut 8, 1785, in Attleboro, Mass., and eame to what is now Gibson township, Susquehanna county, in 1806, settling on the highest point of "Kentuck" hill, a locality that is said to have taken its name from an ineident occurring in the early settlement of the country. As related. an old Ken- tucky hunter came through the western part of Gibson township, and, being struek with the beau- tiful country, said it was "equal to old Kentuck." No one visiting this loeality ean fail to admire the scenery, so varied and pleasing, and the riel lands which make this seetion not unworthy its frequent designation-"the garden of the county." All the prominent points of neighboring townships are re- vealed with the distinctness peculiar to a elear atmos- phere. The slopes furnish unsurpassed grazing, as the butter of the township well attests. The farm- houses, with the grounds around theni. evince to the passer-by the taste and wealth of the present in- habitants. After a trip, in 1870. through Gibson and Jackson townships, a party thus wrote of them : "They are devoted mainly to dairving. We judge from what we learned during our trip that Gibson sold fully one hundred thousand dollars worth of butter last year, and that Jackson, did about the same. The farmers are thrifty and rapidly accu- mulating wealth. We saw many fine herds of cat- tle, and not one unstabled or poorly cared for." As stated, here on the highest point of "Kentuck" hill Arunah Tiffany settled in 1806. and here amid productive orchards and gardens he remained- with the exception of two years, in about ISIS and 1819, passed in Brooklyn-throughout his long life, which elosed in 1863, when he was aged seventy- eight years; and here. too, has dwelt and still re- sides his son. Hon. George B. Tiffany.

On October 1, 1809, Arunalı Tiffany married Lucy Follett, born August 29, 1791, daughter of

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Robert Follett, Mr. Follett being one of the "Nine Partners" who, in February, 1792, with his wife and daughter Lucy, accompanied Hosea Tiffany and family to the settlement previously made in what is now Susquehanna county. all traveling by ox-teams ; the women were the first white women in that section. Walter Follett, one of the sons of Robert Follett, became coroner of the county in 1836 and sheriff in 1839. In looking over the records of the Harford Congregational Church, which was organized in 1800, we see the names of Lucy Follett and Arunah Tiffany. Lucy ( Fol- lett ) Tiffany died May 6, 1836, and in 1841 Mr. Tiffany married Mrs. Clarissa ( Lawrence) Bron- son, born in East Windsor, Conn., June 23, 1801, daughter of John and Clarissa ( Higley ) Lawrence, the former being a son of Hon. John Lawrence, who for many years was State treasurer of Con- necticut, and whose wife was formerly Miss Ann Burr. Arunah Tiffany's children were: (1) Ca- lista Caroline, born September 22, 1811, married, January 1, 1835. Ebenczer Leighton, of Franklin township, who died in Honesdale, Penn., May 24, 1847. She then married, November 21. 1848, Frederick Lines, who died at Great Bend in 1888. She died January 23, 1892. (2) Ferdinand Bal- comb, born February 8, 1815, married, July 4, 1840, Chloe H. Dibble, and died August 3, 1840. (3) One died in infancy. (4) Loring Olney, botn Oc- tober 11, 1819. married, November 18, 1845, Har- riet N. Hyde, daughter of Rev. Eli Hyde : she. died in 1847, and on May 28, 1850, he married Susan C. Gregg, of Orange county, N. Y., who died in Harford township, June 17, 1878. On October. 2. 1879, he married Martha Jane Goodman, of Orange county, N. Y., and they live in Thompson town- ship, Susquehanna county. (5) Harriet Newell, born May 29, 1829, married, February 26. 1856, Ambrose F. Brundage, who died May 2, 1896. (6) Newell Schuyler, born November 3, 1833, died January 14, 1852. (7) George B. is referred to farther on.

HON. GEORGE B. TIFFANY, son of the late Arunah Tiffany, and a colleague of Hon. James W. Adams in the State Legislature from Susquehanna county, is one of the substantial men and farmers of this section. He was born June 14. 1842. on his father's farm on "Kentuck" hill. amid the beau- tiful country pictured above, where he was reared and passed his life in agricultural pursuits. In 1863, on the invasion of Pennsylvania by the Con- federate forces, young Tiffany became a member of Company D ( commanded by Capt. C. C. Hal- sey), 35th Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia, an emergency regiment that was mustered into the United States service July 2. 1863, and mustered out August 7 of the same year. Mr. Tiffany has ever taken a deep interest in military matters, and is now the colonel commanding the Eastern Bat- talion of the County Veteran AAssociation. Ile has been a member of Post No. 452. G. A. R., at South Gibson, since its organization, and is at this time

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Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 3, Part 37

Author: Publication date: 1900 Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1000

Author:
Publication date: 1900
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1000