Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 4, Part 115

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At Clifford, August 30, 1854, Mr. Utley mar- ried Miss Anna J. Tripp. The only child born to them died in infaney. Mrs. Utley was born in Clif- ford township, May 25, 1834, a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth ( Hodson) Tripp. The father, who was a lifelong resident of Clifford township and an office holder, was born in 1813, and died in February, 1887, while the mother was born Sep- tember 14, 1816, and died in February, 1897. They were faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and their remains were interred in the old Clifford cemetery. Their children were Anna J., wife of our subjeet ; Sarah, wife of Charles Utley. of Lenoxville, Penn .; Lydia A., who died young ; and Judson. who lives on the old homestead in Clifford township. Mrs. Utley's paternal grandia- ther, Benjamin Tripp, a carpenter by trade, eame when a young man to Clifford township from New York State. Later in life he returned to his native State to do some work and died there. He had a family of children as follows: Isaae; Milo ; Benjamin; William; John; James; Eleanora, wife of Pardon Stone; and Lydia, who died when a

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young lady. Mrs. Utley's maternal grandparents were Stephen and Ann ( Forge) Hodson, natives of England, who came to America in 1821, and first located near Wilkes Barre, l'enn. A few years later the grandfather purchased a farm in Clifford town- ship, Susquehanna county, upon which he and his wife spent their remaining days. Their children were Jemima, wife of Dennis Kelly; Jane, wife of Stephen Diver; Elizabeth, mother of Mrs. Utley; and James.

G. N. BENNETT. As a farmer, merchant and mill-owner the subject of this sketch, a prominent business man of Glenwood, Susquehanna county, has rapidly developed ability and won success. He is yet a comparatively young man, whose mind is directed to future achievements rather than to the past or present.

Mr. Bennett's father is a well-known farmer, his grandfather was a noted pionecr, and his great- grandfather, James Bennett, was one of the first comers in Gibson township, Susquehanna county. He was born about 1765, it is thought in Connecti- cut, but had lived in Newburg, N. Y. He married Margaret Bush and in 1802 came to Gibson toivn- ship, purchasing a tract of 300 acres at what is now Union Hill, upon which John Belcher had made a small improvement. Here he lived until his death, in 1847, when aged eighty-two years. His wife died at the age of seventy-eight years. Their children were : Charles; Luke, the grandfather of our subject ; Rachel, who married Stephen Righter, of Thomp- son township, Susquehanna county ; John; Loren G .; and Julia, who married William Roper, of Gib- son township.

Luke Bennett, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Gibson township. He married Calista Tingley, who was born in 1807, daughter of Darius and Sabra (Yeomans) Tingley, pioneers of Harford township, and soon after his marriage he purchased 100 acres of wild land in Lenox township, cleared a site for a cabin and diligently began the arduous labors of clearing the land. He cut the timber from sixty acres and lived on the farm thus created until his death, when aged seventy-nine years. His wife died at the age of eighty-two years. Their children were : Sabra, who died young ; Julia A., who mar- ried S. M. Harding, of Shell Rock, Butler county, Iowa ; Joseph T., father of our subject ; Jane, wife of Alonzo Payne, of Lenox township; Calistra, wife of P. R. Phillips, of Lenox township; Luke, who died at Tunkhannock : Huldalı, wife of David Bon- ner, of Eaton township, Wyoming county, Penn .; and Adelaide, who died young.

Joseph T. Bennett, the father of our subject, was born March 11, 1831, in Gibson township, and at the age of three years was brought by his parents to Lenox township. He engaged in lumbering in his youth and married Angeline Marcy, a native of Lenox township, daughter of Simon and Esthier ( Phillips) Marcy, granddaughter of John and Jane ( Hartley) Marcy and of Noah and Rachel ( Dick-

son) Phillips, and the great-granddaughter of Will- iam Hartley. Simon Marcy was a native of Nichol- son, Wyoming county. To Joseph T. and Angeline Bennett were born the following children : Eugene, who died at the age of fourteen years; C. D., who married E. Benjamin, of Lenox township; Mary, who died young; G. N., the subject of this sketch ; Derusha, who married Merctta Voke, of Monsey, N. Y .; Josephine and Samuel, at home; and William, who married Dora Bell, of Lenox township. Joseph T. Bennett has been a lifelong and prosperous farmicr of Lenox township. He is a Republican in politics, casting his first vote in 1856 for John C. Fremont. He has held many local offices and is a prominent Mason, active in Grange work, and one of the most representative farmers of the township.

G. N. Bennett, our subject, was born in Lenox township, June 10, 1859. Hereceived a good common- school education, and remained at home until he attained his majority. He began life for himself on a farm, first renting a place and buying a little later. He was married, in Lenox township, to Sarah M. Bell, daughter of Galusha and Zitsa ( Smith) Bell, of Lenox township. Mr. Bennett first purchased 54 acres of land in Lenox township. Four years later he sold it and in 1893 purchased.the tan- nery farmof 174 acres, one-half of which is improved. For five years Mr. Bennett operated this farm, also conducting for three years of the time a grocery and engaging in general da ry farming. His farm he then leased to his brother, William G. Bennett, and the same year, 1898, he purchased the gristmill and sawmill at Glenwood and forty-five acres of land. He also purchased the store building and its contents from Galusha A. Grow, and is now en- gaged in general merchandising. He is an active Republican in politics, and has served as township treasurer. In 1898 he was appointed postmaster at Glenwood. He is a prominent Granger, and at one time was active in Odd Fellow work at Nicholson. He is a young man of unusual business energy and ability, and is meeting with deserved success.

JOHN J. COURSEN, who for over a half century has been actively identified with the lum- ber and agricultural interests of Pike county, and is numbered among her useful and valuable citizens, was born in Sussex county, N. J., September 13, I822.

Allen Coursen, father of our subject, was a na- tive of the same county, born July 23, 1792, and there spent his entire life engaged in the occupation of farming. On June 6, 1816, he married Miss Lucy Ayres, who was also born in Sussex county. N. J., May 18, 1794, and they became the parents of four children, namely : Harriet Amelia, born May 6, 1817, died October 25, 1821 ; Joseph Linn, born July 29, 1818, resided in Sussex county but is now deceased ; John J. is the next in order of birth ; and Allen Nixon, born March 12, 1824, married Caroline Buck and is engaged in farming in Sussex county. After the death of his first wife the father was again

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married, May 31, 1826, his second union being with Phoebe Roy, by whom he had one child, l'hobe Elizabeth, born April 8, 1827, died November 23, 1830.

As soon as old enough to be of any assistance John J. Coursen commenced to help lus father in the labors of the home farm, and during his youth he also learned the carpenter's trade, at whichi, on attaining his majority, he secured employment, con- tinuing to follow the same in connection with other work for thirty years. In 1845 he came with his father to Shohola township, Pike county, where they purchased 1300 acres of wood land near the Brink Ponds and engaged in lumbering, erecting the first sawmill in the locality, the ruins of which are still to be seen. Our subject still owns 300 acres of land, much of which is covered with a fine growth of timber, and in the winter still continues to engage in lumbering and in the operation of a sawmill. He has about sixty acres of land under cultivation and to agricultural pursuits he devotes his energies dur- ing the summer months. Politically he is a stanch supporter of the Democracy, and he has held the offices of justice of the peace fifteen years and town- ship auditor, and also been a member of the elec- tion board for a number of years. In all the relations of life he has been found true and faithful to every trust reposed in him, and has the confidence and esteem of all who know him.

On December 12, 1846, in Shohola township, Mr. Coursen was united in marriage with Miss Margaret E. Middaugh, who was born February 14, 1827, a daughter of Levi and Margaret (Van Akin ) Middaugh, and the following children blessed this union : Levi, born June 28, 1847, is deceased; Mary J., born November 4, 1848; Harriette P., born Oc- tober 28, 1850; Georgiana A., born November 13, 1852, Edward H., born December 4, 1854, and Brad- ner W., born November 6, 1856, are all deceased; Almyra A., born July 4, 1859, is the widow of Wal- ter Jacobus and resides with her parents; Allen J., born November 23, 1861, is somewhat of a rover ; he married in the West, and is now one of the gold seek- ers in Alaska; Ida MI., born April 13, 1864, is the wife of Michael Ryan, of Lackawaxen township, Pike county ; Phoebe E., born September 8, 1866, is employed in New York City; Ellen M., born No- vember 22, 1869, is the wife of Fred Le Bay, of New York City ; and Lotta A., born May 11, 1872, is the wife of Alfred Hoar, of the same place.

THEODORE CORRELL, a valued and highly esteemed agriculturist of Greene township, Pike county, owns two good farms aggregating eighty- four acres, which are under excellent culture and well improved. The buildings are of a neat and sub- stantial character, and betoken thrift and prosperity. Mr. Correll was born December 3, 1840. in Sterling township, Wayne Co., Penn., a son of Ben- jamin and Dorothy M. ( Deitrick) Correll, the former born in New York State, of American par- entage, the latter born in New Jersey, of Pennsyl- vania German ancestry. At an early day they be-

came residents of Wayne county, where the father followed farming throughout the remainder of his life. He died in 1886, aged fifty-four years, his wite in June, 1885, aged hfty-three, and their re- mains were interred in Howetown cemetery, Ster- ling township. In religious faith they were Pres- byterians, and in political sentiment, lie was a stal- wart Republican, being elected on that ticket to sey- eral local offices of honor and trust. Their children were Hannah, deceased wife of John Kipp; Will- iam, deceased, who married Caroline Bartlow ; George, deceased, who married Catherine Spellins ; Benjamin, deceased, who married Matilda Hays; Irvin, section superintendent of a railroad in Iowa, who married for his first wife Ann Hays, and for his second Mary -; Mary, deceased wife of John Smalley; Alexander, who married Rosilla Enslin and is baggage master at Hawley, Penn .; Emaline, deceased wife of Joseph M. Carlton; Elias, who married Mary -, and is a railroad conductor re- siding in Chicago, Ill .; and Theodore, of this sketch.

Until seventeen years of age Theodore Correll remained under the parental roof, and then worked among neighboring farmers until February 22, 1864, when he joined the boys in blue, going to the de- fense of his country as a member of Company D, 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry, under Capt. Kellogg. He enlisted at Easton, Penn., and was principally engaged in fighting guerillas around Winchester and through the Shenandoah Valley. He was never wounded, and when the war was over, he was hon- orably discharged at Philadelphia, July 22, 1865. Re- turning to Pike county, where he had previously worked, he purchased a tarm of seventy-five acres in Greene township, paying $1,100 for the same, but in 1876 he sold it and removed to his present home- stead, where he is meeting with a merited success in his farming operations.

On August 22, 1861, in Greene township, MIr. Correll was married to Miss Sarah E. Kyser, and they have become the parents of eight children, namely: Minnie, now the wife of D. S. Dunning, a railroad conductor of Blue Island, Ill .; Hat- tie, wife of Oscar Huston, who is engaged in the livery business in Stroudsburg, Penn .; Alice, wife of William Swepeniser, a laborer of Greene township; George, who married Lillie Connelly and is engaged in farming in Greene township; Dora, wife of James Beisecker, a merchant of Parkside, Monroe Co., Penn .; Maggie, wife of William Lee, a weaver in a woolen mill at Fersake, N. J. ; and Altha and Lila, both at home.

Mrs. Correll was born in Greene township. Pike county, in 1845, and is a daughter of Frederick and Rebecca (Akers) Kyser, the former a native of Germany, the latter of Dreher township, Wayne Co., Penn. The father, who was a sash maker by trade, became a resident of Wayne county at the age of twenty-five years, but after his marriage locat- ed in Greene township, Pike county, where he fol- lowed farming. He died in 1887, aged eighty-four years, his wife in 1888, aged eighty-two, and both

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were laid to rest in the Moravian cemetery, having held membership in the Moravian Church. Their children were Charles, deceased, who married - Dutter; Mary, deceased wife of Adeniga Drake; Julia, wife of funis Smith ; Mounda, who was twice married, being now the widow of J. W. Forney, a prominent citizen of Harrisburg, Penn., and editor of a newspaper at that place ; Robert A., who was in the army and is now a mail carrier of Keokuk, Iowa; and Sarah E., wife of our subject.

For twenty years Mr. Correll was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, but at present is not connected with that fraternity. He is, however, a member of the Grand Army Post of Newfoundland, Penn., belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is identified with the Demo- cratic party. His fellow citizens recognizing his worth and ability have often called him to public of- fice, and he has most efficiently served as supervisor, school director, poor master and constable. In 1888 he was elected a commissioner of Pike county, and in 1891 was re-elected, serving in ail six years with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of all con- cerned.

CHRISTIAN GRIMM, a retired farmer and honored citizen of Greene township, Pike county, was born in Prussia, Germany, April 10, 1832, and is a son of Christian and Christianna (Deitz) Grimm, farming people, who spent their entire lives in Prus- sia. The father was born in 1807, and died in 1883, while the mother was born in 1801, and died in 1876. Their children were: Mary, who wedded Henry Diftner, and died in Germany; Christian, the sub- ject of this sketch; Charles, who lives on the old homestead in Germany; Hannah, wife of Henry Basslette, and a resident of Barrett township, Mon- roe county ; Caroline, wife of John Summers, a farmer of Monroe county ; and Christianna, wife of Christian Fisher, of Germany.

Amid rural pursuits Christian Grimm was reared to manhood, and he remained-upon the home farm, aiding in its work until he left the Fatherland in 1852, bound for the United States. On reaching this country he located in Greene township, Pike county, and obtained employment in a tannery at Ledge- dale, Wayne county, where he remained for a year and nine months. The following year he worked for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, and then purchased a farm of fifty acres in Greene township, paying for the same $200. He at once be- gan to clear and improve the place, but at the end of seven years sold it and bought a tract of ninety acres, which he disposed of two years later. His next purchase consisted of fifty-six acres of wild land, for which he paid $650, but his untiring industry, perseverance and enterprise have trans- formed it into one of the best farms of Greene town- ship. He is now living retired, however, enjoying a rest which he so richly deserves.

In 1854. at Tannersville, Penn., Mr. Grimm was united in marriage with Miss Catherine Erback,

a native of Prussia, Germany, who died in 1862, at the age of twenty-seven years. Her parents, Val- entine and Margaret Erback, cante to America in 1853, and in 1855 took up their residence in Greene township, Pike county, where the father engaged in farming. By this union Mr. Grimm had two children: M. Caroline, now the wife of Edward Oppelt, a farmer and butcher of Newfoundland, Penn .; and J. Christian, who married Morilla Fer- ris, and is engineer in the mines at Dunmore, Peint- sylvania.

On March 19, 1863, Mr. Grimm married Miss Jane Kendrew, by whom he has three children: Edward, a farmer of Greentown, Pike county, who married Gertrude Brink; William W., who married Emma E. Rhorbacker, and now operates his father's farm; and Ella A., wife of Herbert H. Eberling, a farmer of Greene township. Mrs. Grimm was born in Quebec, England, August 23, 1843, a daughter of William and Christianna ( Colley) Kendrew, na- tives of England, who came to America in Febru- ary, 1844, and located in Covington township, Lu- zerne Co., Penn., now Lackawanna county, remain- ing there until called from this life. The father, who was a carpenter and farmer by occupation, died in February, 1888, aged seventy-seven years, and the mother departed this life in September, 1891, aged seventy-seven, the remains of both being interred in Madison township, Lackawanna county. The children born to them were: Ella, deceased wife of Frederick Womebacker : Christopher, de- ceased, who married Lavina Westcott: John, a farmer of Phillips county, Kan., who married (first ) Lettie Sayers, and ( second ) Anna Schoon- over ; Jane, wife of our subject; Hannah, deceased. who married ( first ) James Westcotte, and after his death his cousin, George Westcotte; Elizabeth wife of George W. Beisecker. of Freytown. Lack- awanna county; and William T., who married Letta Haden and lives on the old homestead in Madison township, Lackawanna county.

In September, 1862, at Milford, Pike county. Mr. Grimm enlisted in Company B, 15Ist P. V. I .. under Capt. Mott, for nine months, and participated in the battles of Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. His term having expired, he re- turned home July 27, 1863, but a few months later was drafted and had to pay $300 for a substitute, being compelled to borrow the money to do so. Fraternally he is a member of the Grand Army Post at Newfoundland, Penn .; the Masonic Lodge. F. & 'A. M., at Moscow; and the Grange; while religiously he belonged to the Moravian Church. He was naturalized at Honesdale, in 1857, and cast his first vote for Jamies Buchanan, since which time lie has been a pronounced Democrat in poli- tics. He has served as inspector of elections, over- seer of the poor two years, and collector three years, to the entire satisfaction of the general pub- lic. He came to this country with the hope of bene- fitting his financial condition, and his dreams of the future have been realized, for he is to-day one of the

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well-to-do and prosperous citizens of Greene towil- ship, and the success that he has achieved is due 'entirely to his own unaided efforts, sound judg- ment and good business ability.

E. F. LOW, a manufacturer of lumber, and .. proprietor of a stick factory known as Low Mills, in Greene township, is one of the younger repre- sentatives of the business interests of Pike county, but his ability, enterprise and upright methods have already established tor him an enviable reputation.

Mr. Low is a native of Kellersville, Monroe Co., Penn., and a son of Charles M. and Rachel S. (Keller) Low, whose sketch appcars elsewhere. On leaving the parental roof, at the age of twenty- two years, he embarked in the manufacture of lum- ber on his own account, and. for two years operated a water-mill. His present mill, erected by Krane, Kellogg & Co., in the spring ot 1885, is of eighty- five horse-power and is run by steam, having a capacity of 15,000 feet of lumber per day. In ad- dition to the manufacture of sawed lumber, he also makes 120 gross of umbrella and parasol sticks daily, and furnishes employment to ten men. His landed possessions consists of 425 acres of valuable timber land, and he has become an important factor in the business circles of his community, his popu- larity being well deserved, as in him are embraced the characteristics of an unbending integrity, una- bated energy and industry that never flags. His political support is always given the men and meas- ures of the Republican party.

On December 21, 1886, at the home of the bride in Greene township, Pike county, Mr. Low was married to Miss Minnie Kramer, and to them has been born a son, Russell E.

Charles Kramer, Mrs. Low's father, a well- known general farmer of Greene township, was born in Baden, Germany, May 30, 1841, and is a son of John and Martha ( Huthsmith ) Kramer, also na- tives of Baden. His father was a traveling sales- man and inspector of minerals, who contracted yel- low fever in South Africa, and died on his return home in November, 1849, at the age of forty-five years. The mother, with hier four sons and one daughter, came to America January 28, 1853, and located in Newark, N. J., where she had a brother living, but after a short time spent at that place she came to Greene township, Pike Co., Penn., where she dicd in December, 1897, aged seventy-seven years, and was buried in Hopedale cemetery, Wayne county. By her first marriage she had five chil- dren : Anthony, a sawyer of Williamsport, Penn., who married Clarissa Gouse: Charles, the father of Mrs. Low; Joseph, a hotel man of Reading, Penn., who married Bertha Radisader: Theodore, a sta- tionary engineer of Williamsport, Penir., who mar- ried Anna Gouse; and Bertha, wife of Henry Heberling, a farmer of Greene township, Pike coun- ty. For her second husband the mother married George Summers, who died in November, 1885, and by this union she had two children : George, who 115

married Lena Lange, and is a stonc mason at Ger- man Flats, Penn .; and France, who married Ellis Gumbel and is a merchant at Newfoundland, Penn. Mrs. Low's great-grandfather, Charles Kranier, was a farmer, who spent his entire life in Baden, Ger- many, and became quite well-to-do by speculating during the Russian war. He had three sons in that struggle, and one of them captured the copper medal man of note.

Crossing the Atlantic at the age of thirteen years, Mrs. Low's father located upon his present farnı March 8, 1853, working upon that place for seven years tor Hyronimus Rohrbacker, from whom he purchased fifty acres, paying $1.300 for the same. To the original tract he lias added until he now has 115 acres, including thirty acres of the finest woodland to be found in this section of the State. His present comfortable home was erected in 1893.

On May 7, 1866, Mr. Kramer was married, in Greene township, to Miss Minnie Angenstein, also a native of Baden, and they have become the parents of five children: Hattie, now the wife of Charles Ives, a farmer and huckster of Madisonville. Penn. ; Emma, wife of Marvin Smith, who is clerking in a store in Houcktown, Penn .; Minnie, wife of Ed- ward F. Low, of this sketch; Albert, deceased; and Arthur, at home.

On September 21, 1864, during the Civil war Mr. Kramer enlisted in Company N, 198th P. V. I., under Capt. Rafuss, of Easton, Penn., and partici- pated in various engagements, including the battles of Hatcher's Run and the Weldon Railroad. At Hatcher's Run a minie ball struck his gun, glanced and injured his left thumb, rendering it useless. Soon afterward, May 24, 1865, he was honorably discharged at Harrisburg, Penn., and returned home. He is now a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, is a Democrat in politics, and for the past thirty years has been a member of the Mora- vian Church. He has been honored with a number of official positions of trust and responsibility, hav- ing been school director for the past eighteen years, school treasurer, poormaster and poor treasurer for fifteen years, and constable for two years.

JAMES A. NIPERT, one of Pike county's most energetic and enterprising business men. is the junior member of the well-known firm of Albert Nipert & Son, manufacturers of umbrella and para- sol sticks. toys and lumber, who have in successful operation three mills, two in Pike county. located at Coreytown and German Valley, and the other at Canadensis, Monroe county. Integrity, activity and energy have been the crowning points of their success, and the business which they carry on has become one of the leading industries of the com- munity.

Our subject was born October 25, 1861, in Tobyhanna, Monroe county, a son of Albert and Mary ( Kegan ) Nipert. The father is a native of Germany, born June 3, 1836, but in 1843 he was

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brought to America by his parents, Frederick and Margaret Nipert, who took up their residence in Tobyhanna. Albert was the eldest of their five children, the others being Augusta, who married A. Haminerman and both died in America ; Anna, who died unmarried in Germany; William, a sawyer, of Tobyhanna, who married Kate Miller ; and Gustav, who married Maggie Erbauck, and is a millwright and chief engineer in Tobyhanna. The father of these children, who was a cabinet-maker by trade, died in Tobyhanna, in 1860, aged sixty-two years, and the mother departed this life at the same place, in 1870, aged sixty-four.

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Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania, including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, Pt. 4, Part 115

Author: Publication date: 1900 Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1058

Author:
Publication date: 1900
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1058