Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 3, Part 83

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MRS. ALMA H. WANICK, an honored and highly-respected citizen of Dimock township, Sus- (mehanna Co., l'enn., comes of good old New Eng- land stock. Her paternal grandfather. George Bailey, was born in Rhode Island, and there mar-


ried Elizabeth Clark, a native of Connecticut. Later they came to Pennsylvania and located north of Scranton, being the first settlers of Bailey Hollow, where he followed farming and cabinet making. The furniture that he manufactured is still in the possession of the Bailey family. He died in the spring of 1851, and his wife passed away in 1853, at the home of her son Charles, at Waverly, then Abbington Center ; Gilbert, a Baptist minister, who them are now deceased. They were as follows : Polly, wife of Esack Franklin. of Abbington town- ship, Lackawanna county ; Webster, a merchant of Abbington Center. All of the children born to died in California, where his family still reside ; John, a resident of Benton, Lackawanna county ; Robey, wife of John White, of Dalton. Penn. : Caro- line, wife of Henry Calvin, of Dalton : Charles, who spent the greater part of his life in Abbing- ton, Penn., but died in Illinois ; and Olney, father of Mrs. Wanick ..


Olney Bailey was born in Dalton. Penn., May 26, 1817, grew to manhood in Lackawanna county, and received a common-school education. On De- cember 8, 1836, he married Miss Susan Tinkham, a daughter of Nehemiah and Catherine Tinkham, both natives of Vermont. Mrs. Bailey was born June 16, 1818. and died January 12. 1892. while Mr. Bailey had passed to the unseen world Novem- ber 30, 1887. In 1861 they came to Susquehanna county, and spent their last days in Dimock town- ship. In the family of this worthy couple were the following children: Emily, born April 4. 1838, died February 22, 1853: Hulda, born December 7, 1840, married S. Gregory, and died December 2, 1873; Jane, born December 23. 1842. married A. E. Carlin, and died January 5, 1897 : Miner K., born in November. 1844, was a soldier of the Civil war and died January 22. 1867 ; Alma H., born February 7. 1847. is the subject of this sketch : Mary A .. born April 20, 1849, married G. W. Thomas, of Dimock township, and died October 6, 1895; Rosilla. born August 13, 1851, married Elias L. Titman, of Di- mock township, and died January 16, 1897: A. S., born October 18. 1853, is represented1 else- where in this volume: Horace F., born February 8. 1857, lived in Dimock township, and died Novem- ber 26, 1883: and E. O .. born June 1, 1859, makes his home in Dimock township.


During her girlhood Miss Alma H. Bailey at- tended the local schools. assisted in the household duties and in spinning. and later engaged in school teaching. She first married Jacob Osborn. of Dal- ton, Penn., who died in 1898, but from whom she was divorced in 1885 : she then wedded Isaiah Main, of Dimock township, whose death occurred March 6, 1880. Her third husband is Jacob F. Wanick, one of the leading and representative citizens of Dimock township.


Mr. Wanick's grandfather was of German an- cestry, and reared a family of hve children. namely : Henry, Charles, William, Lydia and Jacob. The


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last named, who was the father of Jacob F. Wanick, was born in Bloomsburg, Columbia Co., Penn., Sep- tember 12, 1820, and died September 14, 1886. He remained in his native county and followed the car- penter's trade as a life work. For his first wife he married Susan Gilbert, and to them were born four sons : Alfred, a carpenter of Scranton, Penn .; Jo- seph, who died young : John, a carpenter of Blooms- burg ; and Jacob F.


Jacob F. Wanick was born in Bloomsburg, Penn., July 12, 1855, was educated in the graded schools of that place, and there learned the harness maker's trade, at which he worked for three years in Danville, for two years in Berwick, and for eleven years in Scranton. While located in Scranton, he was married in Dimock township, and on leaving that city located here, where in connection with harness making he was engaged in farming. Mrs. Wanick has thirty-six acres of land under a high state of cultivation. They raise a large amount of poultry and find a ready market for all they can supply. Politically MIr. Wanick is identified with the Democracy ; and religiously is a member of the German Reformed Church. Socially he has affili- ated with the Improved Order of Red Men for fif- teen years, and is also a member of the Odd Fel- lows Lodge at Springville, Penn., and both he and Mrs. Wanick are members of the Daughters of Rebekah, and also of the Grange.


EPHRAIM KIMBLE, the well-known and popular postmaster of Kimble, is a leading repre- sentative of the business interests of Pike county, being connected with several important enterprises. Of excellent business ability and broad resources, he has attained to a prominent place among the sub- stantial citizens of his part of the county, and is a recognized leader in public affairs.


in this document is November 25, 1748, when it went out of the hands of John Penn, the younger. one of the descendants of William Penn, the original purchaser from the Indians. Ephraim Kimble. the grandfather, married Ennice Ansley, who died in August, 1846, aged seventy-nine years, and they became the parents of four children: Eunice, de- ceased, who married Calvin Pellett, a descendant of one of the oldest families in the county: Sally. deceased, who married Israel Kelley, a native of Pike county: John, who died in that county ; and Ephraim, the father of our subject.


Ephraim Kimble (2) was born April 1, 1808, in Palmyra township, where he spent his entire life, dying there September 5, 1874. He was a lum- berman by occupation and also operated many quar- ries of Pennsylvania blue stone. When the Erie branch railroad was built by the old homestead the station was named Kimble in his honor. In Pike county he married Miss Lucy Killam, a daughter of Moses Killam, a farmer of Palmyra township. who died in 1861. He was the youngest son of Moses Killam, a native of Connecticut and an early settler of Palmyra township, though he later spent a portion of his life in New York State. He died in 1830. His father was Zadock Killam, who was probably born in Connecticut, of English parentage, and was one of the very first settlers of Pike county, his cabin being near the Wallenpaupack fort-a log fort of rough construction built for protection against the savages. Mrs. Kimble was born June 8, 1816, and died October 26, 1896. She was the second in order of birth in a family of seven chil- dren, the others being Sarah, deceased, who mar- ried O. Newton ; Eliza. deceased, who married New- come Kimble. a farmer residing near Whitewater, Wis. : Dolly, deceased, who married a MIr. Cock. a merchant of Marshall, Mich .; Maria, who was married in Michigan to Jerome Carver and now lives at Medical Lake, Wash. ; Charles, who died in 1867 at Marshall, Mich. : and Jane, wife of C. B. Turner, of Santa Clara county. Cal. The children born to Ephraim and Lucy ( Killam) Kimble are Harri- ette, now the widow of William Atkinson and a res- ident of Hawley, Penn .: Newcome, who married Lucinda Edwards and died at Hawley in 1897: George W., a resident of Lackawanna township. Pike county, who first married Harriette Baker and second Elizabeth Cooper; Jane, widow of A. W. Mckown, a resident of Honesdale, Penn. : Zachary Taylor, who married Emma Kimble and resides in Whitewater, Wis. : and Ephraim1.


Mr. Kimble is a representative of an honored family, whose identification with the history of Pike county dates from an early period in its de- velopment, his grandfather, Ephraim Kimble, Sr., being one of the pioneer settlers of northeastern Pennsylvania. He was born in Connecticut and when a young man located in Palmyra township, Pike county, but with others was driven out of the county by the Indians. He returned, however, and while employed in a sugar grove was fired upon by the Indians in ambush, and wounded, but man- aged to escape down the Wallenpaupack river, hid- ing several weeks among the rocks. He at last reached his friends in safety. He took up land in the northern part of Palmyra township and there Ephraim Kimble, the subject of this sketch, was born in Lackawanna township. Pike county. January 5, 1855, and was educated in the common schools near his boyhood home. At the age of seventeen years he became station agent at the Kim- ble station and held that position for sixteen and a half years. In the meantime. on August 10, 1881, he was married, at Equinunk, Wayne Co., Penn .. engaged in farming and lumbering, rafting much of his timber down the Lackawaxen and Delaware rivers to Philadelphia, where he found a ready mar- ket among the ship-builders. Our subject now has in his possession a deed of sale to the Manor of Wallenpaupack, Wayne Co., Penn., consisting of 12,150 acres of land, which was deeded to his grand- father and others June 6, 1808. The earliest date . to Miss Nora Holbert, a daughter of William and


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Emma (Pool) Holbert, and two sons blessed this union : Fred, born May 24, 1882, died at the age of eleven years; and Horton, born May 23, 1884, is attending the graded schools of Hawley. They have an adopted daughter, Gertrude, born March 16, 1892, and adopted July 11, 1894, at Milford, Pike county.


Mr. Kimble is the owner of over 2,000 acres of land in Pike county, much of which is covered with a fine growth of both hard and soft timber. He oversees the operation of his excellent farm, comprising 200 acres of plowed and pasture land. His quarries require the most of his attention, as he does an extensive business in Pennsylvania blue stone, making large shipments both to the East and the West. He is also interested in the ice business, having a pond that yields from six to ten thousand tons of ice, and cars are filled directly from the pond and sent to the Atlantic coast States. For twenty- one years he has been engaged in the mercantile business at Kimble and has served as postmaster at that place for twenty-five years, being the present incumbent. He has also acceptably filled the offices of auditor and tax collector, and has always given his support to the men and measures of the Repub- lican party. He is a man of recognized ability and stands high in the community where he has so long made his home. Those who know him best are numbered among his warmest friends, and no citizen in Pike county is more honored or highly respected.


MRS. HARRIET SNELL, widow of Orlando B. Snell, and in her lifetime a worthy representative of one of the highly-respected families of Rush township, Susquehanna county, was born in Scho- harie county, N. Y., November 20, 1826. Her par- ents, Samuel and Sarah ( Frier ) Devine, also natives of that county, came to Susquehanna county in 1835, and took up their residence in Auburn township, where the father died August 25, 1840, at the age of forty years. He was an excellent farmer and during his residence here he and Thomas W. James were the only men in Auburn township who owned a team of horses. After his death the mother moved to Rush township, where she passed away in August, 1850, at the age of fifty, and was laid to rest in De- vine Ridge cemetery, Rush township. She was an earnest, consistent Christian, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In her family were thirteen children, but only four lived to man and womanhood, and of these Mrs. Snell is the eldest : Ami R. married Hulda Isabel, of Bradford county, Penn., and died during his service in the Civil war : Michael is a prominent farmer of Rush township ; and Samuel died in 1863, at the age of twenty-two years. Mrs. Snell's paternal grandfather, Michael Devine, was a native of Ireland, but was only six- teen months old when brought by his parents to America. and was reared in Schoharie county, N. Y., where he continued to make his home until con- ing to Susquelianna county, Penn., about 1830. He


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located at what is known as Devine Ridge, Ruslı township, and there spent liis remaining days. He married Mary Stone, a native of New York State. By occupation he was a farmer. Mrs. Snell's ma- ternal grandfather was Peter Frier, who was a life- long resident of New York.


Mrs. Snell accompanied her parents on their removal to Susquehanna county, where she grew to womanhood. She was twice married, her first hus- band being Otis Ross, by whom she had three chil- dren : Sarah J., who died at the age of six years ; Oscar, who died young ; and Juliaette, now the wife of Calvin Woodruff, a stonecutter of Bradford county, Penn. On February 4, 1858, she was united in marriage with Orlando B. Snell, and the only child born of this union, Charles H., died at the age of fifteen years. Mr. Snell was born in Sanford, N. Y., September 15, 1819, a son of Joseph Snell. He came from Bradford county, Penn., to Rush township, Susquehanna county, in 1861. He was a farmer and lumberman by occupation, and was one of the most prominent and influential citizens of his community, having the respect and confidence of all with whom he came in contact either in social or business life. During the Civil war he enlisted in 1863 in Company F, Ist N. J. V. C. He participat- ed in thirteen important battles, and had three horses shot from under him. He was injured by one of these falling upon him, and was sent to Camp Stone- man Hospital, near Washington, D. C., where he died August 28, 1864, and now fills a soldier's grave. Mrs. Snell occupied the farm in Rush town- ship left her by her husband, and was one of the most highly esteemed ladies of the community until her death at the home of her daughter, Juliaette Woodruff, October 23, 1899, and was laid to rest in the Beavermeadow cemetery, by the side of her son, Charles H. Snell. Her home and her horse and carriage were bequeathed to her faithful and loving daughter Juliaette.


JOHN F. GALLAGHER, outside foreman of the Forest City Colliery and the present popular burgess of the borough, was born in Schuylkill county, Penn., October 27. 1858. His parents. Owen and Mary ( Brogan) Gallagher, were natives of County Mayo, Ireland, and emigrated to the New World in early life, being married in Minersville, Schuylkill Co., Penn. In 1859 they removed to Scranton, Lackawanna county. where the father worked in the mines until his death, which occurred August 22, 1887, when he was sixty-seven years of age. He had come to America in 1840. The mother also died in Scranton. June 10. 1886, and both were buried at Hyde Park. They were men- bers of the Catholic Church and were highly re- spected by all who knew them. Their children were Mary and Patrick, both deceased: John F., our subject : Catherine, wife of Patrick Malay, of Dunmore, Penn. : Owen, James. Martin, Ellen, Michael, Sarah and Edward, all deceased.


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Until his marriage our subject made his home with his parents, but at the age of eight years he. began to earn his own livelihood by working in a breaker at Scranton, and since that time has been employed in breakers and mines continuously. By trade he is a carpenter, and in that capacity was en- ployed in the mines for six years. He has also been a miner and connected with nearly every department of mining, so that he is well qualified to fill his pres- ent responsible position, that of outside foreman. Leaving Scranton at the age of seventeen he went to Old Forge, Lackawanna county, where he re- mained two years, and November 5, 1876, came to Forest City, where he has since resided. He was appointed foreman in 1886.


At Carbondale, Penn., in December, 1878, Mr. Gallagher married Miss Maria Pohren, and to them were born four children: Joseph, John, Mary and Francis. The wife and mother died in 1886, at the age of twenty-five years, and was buried in Carbon- dale. She was a native of Wayne county, Penn., and a daughter of Garrett and Mary (Neary) Pohren. Mr. Gallagher was again married, April 24, 1895, his second union being with Miss Cather- ine Shields, by whom he has two children, namely : Catherine L. and Thomas. MIrs. Gallagher was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., and is a daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Duffy ) Shields.


Mr. Gallagher is a man of considerable in- ventive genius and August 5, 1894, patented a self car oiler, which is now extensively used in mine cars. At an early day he realized the advantages of a good education and attended night school while working in the mines. Being quite bright, he picked up knowledge very readily, and is now a well-informed man. He is a Democrat in politics, and has taken quite an active part in public affairs, has been foreman of the Hillside Hose Company for the past eleven years, school director one year, member of the board of health for five years and acting as president for three years, and since 1892 has filled the office of treasurer of the borough, being re-elected each year. until he was elected burgess, February 20, 1900, for a term of three years. He is a member of the Catholic Church, and of the Knights of Columbus at Honesdale, and the Catholic Mutual Benevolent Association at Forest City. Success is not measured by the heights which one may chance to occupy, but by the distance between the starting point and the altitude he has reached; therefore M. Gallagher has gained a most brilliant success -a just reward of meritorious, honorable ef- fort which commands the respect and admiration of all.


MICHAEL J. LYNN, one of the most suc- cessful farmers and enterprising citizens of Palmyra township, Pike county, is a native of County Mayo, Ireland, and can trace his ancestry back to the tenth century, when William Lynn emigrated from Dum- barton, Scotland, to County Down, Ireland. There


the family remained for many generations, the head of each branch being extensively engaged in cattle dealing. During the religious wars in Ire- land the Lynn family, for their loyalty to the Church of England, was given a vast tract of land in County Mavo, confiscated from the Catholic own- ers. They were the only Protestant family in the neighborhood, and when the boys grew to manhood they naturally married young women with whom they had grown up-in fact three brothers married three Catholic sisters by the name of McDonald, and from that time to the present day their descend- ants have been stanch adherents of the Catholic faith.


Michael Lynn, cur subject's grandfather, was born in County Mayo, and there married Bridget Carey. He kept a tavern or country lodging-house in a wild portion of the county, and during the hunt- ing season, huntsmen. . with their packs of hounds, - filled the place, and scoured the surrounding coun- try in search of the wild game that there abounded. The following children were born to Michael Lynn and his wife: Edward, the father of our subject ; Michael ; William; Frank; Patrick ; Polly; Kate; and James, who resides in Chicago, Ill .. and is the only one now living.


Edward Lynn was born in County Mayo, in 1800, was a cattle dealer by occupation, and died in his native county in October, 1895. He first wedded Miss Mary Langin, daughter of Anthony and Mary (Malone) Langin, and to this union came the fol- lowing children: Patrick, born June 12, 1827. died in Pittston, Penn. : Catherine born October 17. 1828. widow of Frank Manley, is a resident of Palmyra township. Pike county; Mary, born November I. 1830. died young. in Ireland: Bridget, born May 6, 1832, is the wife of Martin Madden. of Blooming Grove township, Pike county ; Michael J., born De- cember 17, 1831. is the subject of this sketch: and Francis, born February 27, 1836. is interested in mining in Helena. Mont., where he resides. The mother of these died in Mav. 1836, and the father wedded for his second wife Alice Granahan. br whom he had six children, namely: John. who died in Ireland: Sarah, wife of Patrick Gilroy, of Coun- ty Mayo. Ireland ; Mary, wife of Hughey Gilroy. of County Mavo: Thomas, who died in Ireland : Anthony, who also died in that country : and James. who is now living in the old homestead.


Michael J. Lynn was born in County Mayo. Ireland. and was ninteen years of age when he came to the United States, landing in New York, on August 4, 1854, with four pounds sterling, or about twenty dollars. Ile came to Hawley, Penn., where he found work on the coal dumps, and he was after- ward employed in the mines at Pittston, Penn. He next engaged in mercantile business at Scranton. Penn., and from there removed to Chicago. 111 .. where he became a cattle dealer, but as his wife was not satisfied with the West he remained in that city only nine months. On his return he located on the property in Palmyra township, Pike county,


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which he purchased about 1864 with his hard-earned savings. Here he engaged in cattle dealing for about fifteen years, and then embarked in the butcher Imsiness, from which he retired in 1896, and he now gives his entire attention to his extensive farm- ing and lumbering interests. In connection with general agriculture he is also interested in dairying. He has over two hundred acres of land, much of which is covered with a finc growth of timber, but about one hundred acres are under cultivation, and he raises more grain than any other farmer in the county. On July 16, 1894, Mr. Lynn lost his house and furniture by fire, and he has since, at a cost of nearly $10,000, erected a beautiful residence and large barns, and made numerous other improve- ments which add to the value and attractive ap- pearance of the place. In politics he is a Democrat, but is broad and liberal in his views, and has most capably filled the offices of collector, overseer of the ¡wor, and overseer of roads. Religiously he and his family are all devout members of the Catholic Church. He is deservedly respected by all who know him as an example of a worthy self-made man.


On April 18, 1858, at Hawley, Penn., Mr. Lynn was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Heley, also a native of County Mayo, Ireland, and a daugh- ter of Michael and Catherine ( Bolane) Heley, who ummigrated to this country when their daughter Margaret was only five years old. She is the youngest of their six children, the others being Mary, wife of Patrick Lynott, of Scranton, Penn .; Catherine, wife of Patrick Durkin. of the same place : John, who was killed in the South; Ann, wife of William Collins, of St. Louis, Mo .; and Andrew, deceased.


Mr. and Mrs. Lynn have become the parents of the following named children: Edward John, born February 4, 1859, went to his uncle's in Helena, Mont., where after the outbreak of the war with Spain he enlisted in Company I. First Montana Vol. luf .. serving in the Philippine Islands : Michael H., born July 11, 1860, was married. October 7, 1891, to Mary McQuinn (he is in the butcher business at Scranton, Penn. ) ; Mary E., born December 10, 1861, i> at home: Frances J., born April 13, 1863, died November 18, 1865 : Annie P. born September 23. 1804. was married April 24, 1880. to Eugene Mayne, and they reside in Wilkes Barre, Penn. : Catherine, born April 13. 1806, is at home : Joseph F .. born De- vember 6, 1867, died March 22, 1884. having been accidentally shot while hunting: Margaret Eliza- beth, born July 8. 1860, is attending Boden's Busi- ness College, in Newark, N. I .: Theresa V., born March 3. 1872, is at home : Agnes, born October 25, 1874. died May 22, 1880: Sarah V .: born June 10, 1876. is teaching school in Pike county; Lucy R., born December 11. 1878, William E., born Septem- ber 22, 1881. and James Oscar, born July 9. 1883, are all at home: Harry T., born April 6, 1885, was drowned August 3. 1895, in the Paupac river, while learning to swim.


MAJOR P. L. NORTON. As one of the most popular citizens of Susquehanna county. the subject of this sketch, a leading resident of Lanes- boro, deserves special mention in this volume. His prominence in business life gives evidence of his ability and enterprise, and many of the best buildings in his section were built under his direction and furnish lasting monuments of his skill. Perhaps the most interesting chapter in his long and active life is the story of his gallant services in the Civil war. where he rose from the rank of private to that of major, being promoted through successive grades for his courageous conduct in the field. He was in eighteen hard-fought battles, and on two oc- casions was personally complimented by General Warren Crawford for his brave conduct and soldier- ly bearing.


The Major was born June 9. 1821. at Spai- ford, Onondaga Co., N. Y., and comes of good Colonial ancestry in both paternal and maternal lines. Billdad Barber, his grandfather, was a sol- dier in the Revolutionary army, and Moses Norton, his father, served with the American forces dur- ing the war of 1812, a cannon ball picked up by him after the battle of Lundy's Lane, being now one of the Major's cherished possessions. Moses Nor- ton was born and reared in Litchfield county, Conn., where he married Percy Barber, a native of the same county and daughter of Billdad Barber, who served four years in the Revolutionary war and was one of the sufferers at Valley Forge. After his re- turn from the army our subject's father removed to Spafford, Onondaga county. N. Y .. where he bought land and cleared a farm. In 1848 he went to Jones county, Iowa, where he and his worthy wife died many years ago. They had ten children. of whom our subject was the youngest: ( 1) Loren. born in 1880 in Litchfield county. Conn .. married Miss Lydia Bacon, of New York State. and even- tually settled at Lanesboro, where he followed farm- ing and hotel-keeping until his death. ( 2) Everest married a Miss Picket, and settled for a time in New York State, but later moved to Eaton county. Mich., where he died leaving a family. ( 3) Harmon was born in New York State, where he married. and he and his family joined with Joseph Smith of "Mor- mon fame," in Susquehana county. Later he moved to Navoo, Ill., and from there to Salt Lake City, where he died leaving a family. (4) Philo was born in New York State. He married a Miss Cowan and removed to Jones county, Iowa. where he died leav- ing a family. (5) Theda, born in New York State, became the wife of Peter Picket. of New York. and moved to Michigan, where they died leaving a family. (6) Esther, born in New York State. mar- ried Roval Pulsifer and settled at or near Little Meadows, Tioga Co., Penn., where she and her hus- band died leaving one son. Newel, now a resident of Iowa. (7) Amanda. born in New York State. married first a Mr. Newton of Tioga county, Penn .. who left one son. Philo Newton. now deceased. Her second husband, a Mr. Williams, died in Lit-




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