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nothing, and she could scarcely be compelled to take food or rest.
The death of Mr. Garrett occurred Feb- ruary 27, 1913. The high estimation in which he was held throughout the State was evidenced by the many kindly messages sent to him during his last illness, and to his widow after his death, by men of national distinction, including Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, formerly Attorney-General of the United States, and his business partner long years before; Hon. Walter H. Page, Minister to England; Hon. William H. Berry, collector of the Port of Philadel- phia; Hon. Rudolph Blankenburgh, mayor of Philadelphia; Isaac Sharpless, LL. D., president of Haverford College ; J. B. Ren- dall, LL. D., president of Lincoln Univer- sity; Mr. H. H. Gilkyson, a distinguished member of the Chester county bar; and many others. The epitaph of such a man might well be that of one of the world's great humanitarians :
"Servant of God, well done;
They serve Him well, who serve his creatures."
HAY, Thomas A. H.,
Leading Transportation Official.
One of the most successful and enter- prising "Captains of Industry" to be found in Easton, Northampton county, Pennsyl- vania, is Thomas A. H. Hay, who is at the head and has been the leading spirit in many of the most important undertakings in that section of the country. Possessed of executive ability and foresight to large de- gree, Mr. Hay lays his plans carefully, giv- ing due attention to the veriest detail, and success is an assured fact.
He is a descendant in a direct line of the Earl of Erroll, one of whose younger sons, Colonel Malcolm Hay, espousing the wrong political side in Scotland had to flee to save himself. This young Colonel Malcolm Hay was born in Scotland, and fled to Germany
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after a series of political reverses. He served with honor in the army of his adopted country, and settling at Swei- brüecken, Bavaria, married a young German woman. They had a son, Melchior.
Melchior Hay came to America with his two brothers in 1738, and settled on the land on which South Easton is now located. He purchased twenty-six acres of land in 1771, of Israel Morris, of Philadelphia, and a few months later, in the same year, bought three hundred and seventy-five acres from Peter Rush and his wife, all of this land being a part of the ten thousand acres originally owned by William Penn. In the column opposite the assessment of Mr. Hay's property are the words "no quit," showing that he bought the property in fee simple. Mr. Hay sold this land in 1796, and it then passed through various hands, and was used for farming purposes until the completion of the Lehigh canal. This Mr. Hay was a man of much public spirit, and donated a large lot and burying ground to the Reformed Church, still known as Hay's Chapel and Hay's burying ground. During the trying revolutionary period, Melchior Hay was elected among the first a member of the Committee of Safety, and did most efficient work. He was captain of a com- pany of one hundred and four men raised in Williams township. His patriotic spirit was transmitted to his descendants, and many of them earned distinction in the war of 1812, the Mexican war, the civil and the Spanish-American wars. At the close of the revolution, Mr. Hay purchased a large farm in the locality called Drylands, west of Easton, and much of this property is still in the hands of his direct descendants.
Melchior, a son of Captain Melchior Hay, married, and had children : Abraham Horn, Peter, Melchior, George, Charles, John and Anna.
Abraham Horn, son of the second Mel- chior Hay, married and had children : Peter, Andrew J., Thomas J., Jacob, George, Charles and Mary, all of Easton.
Captain Jacob Hay, son of Abraham Horn Hay, was one of the most successful merchants in Easton. As the head of the dry goods house of J. Hay & Sons, and of Hapgood, Hay & Company's wholesale boot and shoe house, he displayed excellent busi- ness ability, and was progressive in his methods. He became the owner of vast quantities of real estate in Easton. He pur- chased large tracts, partly within and partly outside of the city limits, his idea being to set it apart as a place for suburban res- idences of high grade. He donated much land to the public, after improving it, and laid out numerous private drives and walks at great expense, and threw these open to the public. Mr. Hay married, in 1854, Annie, a daughter of Alexander Wilson Sr., and they had children: Thomas A. H., whose name heads this sketch; Annie W., who married Hon. Asa W. Dickinson, collector of the Port of Jersey City, New Jersey ; Ida Wilson and William O.
Thomas A. H. Hay was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1855. He attended the public schools of Easton and was grad- uated from the high school in the class of 1872, after which he matriculated at La- fayette College, and was graduated from this institution in the class of 1876. He had been an earnest student, and close ap- plication had somewhat impaired his health, so that it was deemed advisable that he spend some time in the west. Accordingly, with his school chum, Russell B. Harrison, a son of the late President Harrison, he went to Montana, long before the Northern Pacific railroad was finished, and while game was still plentiful in that region. While in Montana, Mr. Hay served as as- sistant superintendent in the Helena Assay Office. At the end of three years, with his health perfectly restored, Mr. Hay returned to Easton, where he established himself in business as a merchant and real estate dealer. He was appointed United States Postage Stamp Agent at New York in 1889, and had charge of the distribution of post-
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age stamps to all post offices in the United States until the change in the administration in 1893. Mr. Hay is justly proud of being the originator of the first Commemorative or Jubilee Stamp issued by this government, the Columbian issue, and since then his ideas have been followed by succeeding adminis- trations in the various commemorative is- sues.
In August, 1895, in association with his brother, he established the Easton Power Company, of Pennsylvania and New Jer- sey, the first hydro-electric plant in his section of the country, and was elected pres- ident of this corporation. In 1897 Hay Brothers constructed the first Interurban street railway in that region, this running from Easton to Bethlehem ; two years later, one from Easton to Nazareth; in 1901, one from Easton to Bangor ; in 1903, one from Phillipsburg to Washington, New Jersey; and it is now in contemplation to construct a road to Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey, thus connecting the entire Lehigh Valley with New York by trolley. In 1904, in as- sociation with other residents of Easton and Stroudsburg, Mr. Hay constructed the Delaware Valley railroad from Strouds- bury to Bushkill, and Mr. Hay was elected its first vice-president. In 1899 Mr. Hay and his brother, William O., bought the Easton Fair grounds, developed them along practical and original lines, and at the pres- ent time this is one of the finest residential sections of Easton. A partial list of the official business positions held by Mr. Hay is as follows: Director of the Easton, Palmer & Bethlehem Street Railway Com- pany, organized in 1896; president of the Easton & Nazareth Street Railway Com- pany, 1898: director of the Easton, Tatamy & Bangor Street Railway Company, 1899; director of the Slate Belt Street Railway Company, 1899; director of the Easton & Washington Traction Company, 1902; presi- dent of the Northampton Traction Com- pany, 1903; and director of the Mont- gomery Traction Company, 1904. In 1905.
at its incorporation, he became a director in the Wahnetah Silk Company of Catasaqua, Pennsylvania.
Of an intensely patriotic nature, Mr. Hay served as a member and second sergeant in Company C, Fourth Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania, throughout the memorable strikes in 1877, which threatened such danger to the community, and the State in general. He was always an Independent Republican in his political affiliations, later a Progressive. Mr. Hay has been promi- nently identified with all the progressive movements and legislation suggested by his personal friend, Colonel Theodore Roose- velt. He was a member in 1912-13 of the Republican State Committee to draft bills putting into effect the live questions of the day, notably the Public Service Commission, Workman's Compensation, Employers' Lia- bility, Woman's Hours of Labor and Mini- mum Wage, Children's Hours of Labor, Primary Elections, and Pure Elections Law. His religious membership is with the Pres- byterian church. His fraternal association is an extended one, being as follows: Eas- ton Lodge, No. 152, Free and Accepted Ma- sons ; Easton Chapter, No. 173, Royal Arch Masons; Hugh de Payens Commandery, No. 19, Knights Templar; the Quatuor Coronati Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons, of London, England; Easton Lodge, No. 121, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Quaint and Zeta Psi clubs, of New York; the Art Club, of Philadelphia ; and the Pomfret Club, of Easton. For many years, the leisure time of Mr. Hay has been devoted to music, and he has served as president of the Orpheus Society of Easton for almost a quarter of a cen- tury. While he has never spent any time in foreign travel, Mr. Hay has been in almost every State and territory of the United States, and has visited every province of Canada and Labrador with the exception of Prince Edward's Island.
Mr. Hay married Helen M .. eldest daugh- ter of the late Major-General Thomas H.
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Ruger, United States Army, and their three children now living are: Helen Ruger, who was graduated from Wilson College; Anna Ruger, who was graduated from the Woman's College, of Baltimore, Maryland, now known as Goucher College; Ruger Nel- son, who was graduated from Lafayette College in 1906, and is now a mining engi- neer at Calumet, Arizona. They were all born in Easton.
WATERS, Bertram Howard, Physician, Professional Instructor.
The evolution of a modern scientist whose life work has been devoted largely to the task of alleviating the horrors of the great "White Plague" shows the wonderful tran- sitions that may occur in the history of any family or individual during a few genera- tions. The life history of Dr. Bertram Howard Waters illustrates in a remarkable manner the changes that have been wrought from the primitive type of early New Eng- land settlers, who were farmers and black- smiths, to the man of scientific attainments who has won distinction in the medical pro- fession.
He is a lineal descendant from the Rich- ard Waters who came to America in 1635- 1636 with Richard Plaise, a gunsmith, and settled at Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he received a grant of land, 22nd day, 3rd month, 1636, in Salem. He was the son of James Waters, an iron monger of Lon- don, and himself a gunsmith by trade. He was made freeman in 1639, wrote his will dated 16th July, 1676, and died before 28th, 9th month, 1677, when his will was proved by witnesses in open court at Salem. He married Rejoice Plaise, daughter of Wil- liam Plaise, the gunsmith, in England, who survived him ; had issue, ten children.
John Waters, son of Richard and Re- joice (Plaise) Waters, was born in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 27th day, 9th month, 1640. He settled in that part of Salem called North Fields, on Waters river,
named for him, near Governor Endicott's farm; was a well-to-do farmer, and died there early in 1707-08. His will dated Feb- ruary 14, 1706-07, was proved March I, 1707-08. He married Sara Tompkins, daughter of John Tompkins, August 15, 1663, in Salem, and had ten children.
Samuel Waters, son of John and Sara (Tompkins) Waters, was born May 6, 1675, and baptized July 14, 1678, in Salem. He moved to Woburn, ten miles from Boston, but later went to Easton, Bristol county, Massachusetts Bay, where he married Miss Turrill, but died soon afterward, leaving one child, Samuel. His widow married (second) Nathaniel Maudley, of Easton, and had issue by him, ten children.
Samuel Waters, son of Samuel and - (Turrill) Waters, was born at Easton, Bristol county, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and died at Stoughton, Massachusetts, about 1750. His will was proved August 28, 1750, at Stoughton; and named his son Daniel and his wife as executors. He mar- ried Bethyah Thayer, who, as widow of Sammuel Waters, died before January, 1759, leaving surviving issue.
Zebulon Waters, son of Samuel and Bethyah (Thayer) Waters, was born about January, 1735, probably at Stoughton, Massachusetts. He lived at Stoughton and was a land owner among the early settlers of that place. Also, he was one of the soldiers who assisted Colonel Winslow to removed the Acadians on May 28, 1755, from that region, as did also his brother, Daniel Waters. He died there May 29, 1790, aged fifty-five years and about four months. He married Allis Bradford, tenth child of Elisha Bradford, by his second wife, Bethshua Le Brocke, September 21, 1757, at Stoughton, Massachusetts. She was born November 3, 1734, died July 6, 1795, granddaughter of Joseph Bradford, who was the youngest son of Governor Wil- liam Bradford, of Massachusetts Bay Colony. by Alice Southworth, his second wife. They had ten children.
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Asa Waters, son of Zebulon and Allis (Bradford) Waters, was born February II, 1760, at Stoughton, Massachusetts. He owned land in the southwest corner of Norfolk county, immediately adjoin- ing that of his father at Stoughton, Mas- sachusetts. He served in the Revolu- tionary War from Stoughton. According to the official records of Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Rev- olution, volume xvi, page 693, his service was as follows: "Waters, Asa, Stoughton. Descriptive list of men raised in Suffolk Co. to reinforce the Continental Army, agree- able to resolve of June 9, 1779; Capt. Tal- but's co., Col. Gill's regt .; age 19 yrs .; stature 5 ft. 8 in .; hair light ; eyes, gray, ; occupation, husbandman ; nationality, Amer- ican; residence, Stoughton; engaged for town of Stoughton; reported delivered to Capt. L. Bailey; also list of men returned as received of Maj. Stephen Badlam, Superintendent for Suffolk Co., by Justin Ely, Commissioner, certified at Springfield, Sept. 20, 1779." In a memorandum of serv- ice made by himself, which has been pre- served, it appears that he did other service ; and he with others marched to West Point, New York, in 1779, where he was among the troops inspected by Baron Steuben. He died in 1845, aged about eighty-five years. Married (first) Lydia, daughter of Joseph Smith, of Stoughton, November 10, 1785. She was born January 10, 1763; and died June 22, 1809. He married twice after her death, but there were no children as issue of either subsequent wife.
Oren Waters, son of Asa and Lydia (Smith) Waters, was born November 6, 1788, at Stoughton, Massachusetts. He and his brother, Asa Waters, manufactured shovels and other tools at Easton, Mass- achusetts; and they, together with Oliver Ames, "built a cotton factory there, not far from the shovel factory." After a few years they sold their interest and Asa Waters moved to Troy, New York, where he started a shovel factory near the mouth
of the Mohawk river; and Oren Waters went on to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Oren Waters set up the first tilt-hammer in Pitts- burgh, and introduced the press for stamp- ing the shovels into shape; also the fan- blast forge for increasing the forge fires. Later Asa Waters came on to Pittsburgh, and the two brothers engaged in the manu- facture of shovels, picks, and other tools, on an extensive scale; and were the earliest manufacturers of such articles in Pitts- burgh. He married Juliet Harris, of Harrisville, Butler county, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1820, in Butler county, Pennsyl- vania. She was born April 21, 1798, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, died May 10, 1872, at Jumonville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Children: 1. Lydia Waters, born February 22, 1822, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; died unmarried. 2. Asa H. Waters, born March 4, 1824, at Pittsburgh, married, October 6, 1855, Hannah C. Steck. 3. Samuel E. Waters, born August 20, 1827; married, June 18, 1850, Ann M. Shaeffer. 4. Anna M. Waters, born August 17, 1830; married, March 19, 1863, James A. Smith. 5. Oren E. Waters, born March 18, 1833; married (first) June 21, 1855, Mary E. Maynard; (second) November 1, 1870, Esther A. Trask. 6. James Q. Waters, born September 16, 1835; married, October 15, 1861, Annie C. Price. 7. Wil- liam Webster Waters, of whom further. 8. Mary Ellen Waters, born October 5, 1840; married, November 25, 1865, Edward M. Brooks.
William Webster Waters, son of Oren and Juliet (Harris) Waters, was born June 10, 1838, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The early years of his life were spent in his na- tive city, and at New Brighton, in which last place he attended the public schools ; and where at about sixteen years of age he secured a position as clerk in a book store, where he was enabled to continue his edu- cational work by an extended course of reading. He not only thoroughly learned the business, but developed into a well edu-
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cated man, having a wide and varied ac- quaintance with current literature. He was employed by John S. Davidson from 1853 to 1860, then by his successor, R. S. Davis, until 1870, when he resigned to become superintendent of the Presbyterian Book Store of Pittsburgh, which became his principal life work. The last mentioned business association continued from 1870 to the time of his death. His life was dis- tinguished by his eminent Christian virtues, and by devotion to his church and family. He died March 28, 1905, at Sewickley, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. He married Elizabeth Loring Critchlow, daugh- ter of Rev. Benjamin C. and Eunice (Hatch) Critchlow, June 24, 1863, at New Brighton, Pennsylvania. She was born Sep- tember 21, 1839, at Slippery Rock, Pennsyl- vania, and resided at Sewickley, near Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania. Children : Evangeline Waters, born May, 1864, died in infancy ; Bertram Howard Waters, of whom further ; Daisy Waters, died in infancy ; May Waters, born May, 1869, died in infancy ; Elizabeth Loring Waters, born February 21, 1874, married, June 12, 1895, Hon. Richard Rob- erts Quay, and had issue.
Dr. Bertram Howard Waters, son of Wil- liam Webster and Elizabeth Loring (Critch- low) Waters, was born September 4, 1867, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Was educated at Sewickley Academy, Sewickley, Pennsyl- vania ; and at Princeton University, Prince- ton, New Jersey, from which he graduated in 1889, as A. B. In 1889-90 he was biolog- ical fellow at Princeton University ; studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, and graduated therefrom as M. D. in 1893. The same year he received the M. A. degree from Princeton University. He was ap- pointed interne at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, and served from 1893 to 1895; also from August to October, 1895, was interne of the Sloan Maternity Hospital of New York City. He traveled and studied
in Europe from December, 1895, to June, 1896; and since that time has been engaged in the practice of medicine, clinical and special biological work, in New York City. From 1896 to 1901 he was engaged in clin- ical work at the Vanderbilt Clinic, and the Presbyterian Hospital Clinic ; was appointed bacteriologist of the New York City De- partment of Health in 1901; and in 1906 was made assistant chief of the Division of Communicable Diseases, and chief of Tuberculosis Clinics. In 1908 he was ap- pointed lecturer of the New York State De- partment of Health, and made clinical as- sistant and instructor in the Department of Phthiso-Therapy, at the Post-Graduate Hospital, New York. In 1913, following the reorganization of the Department of Health by bureaus, was made chief of the Tuberculosis Division of the Bureau of Infectious Diseases for New York City. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, and of the Harvey Society, also of the New York State Medical Society, and of the New York County Medical Society ; member of the Princeton and the University clubs of New York City.
He married Jessica Howard Buck, daugh- ter of Jerome and Kate (McGrath) Buck, September 4, 1906, at St. Ignatius Church, New York City. She was born November 17, 1877, in Lexington, Kentucky, and is descended from Kate McGrath, of Mc- Grathiana, near Lexington.
SEIBERT, William A.,
Physician, Prominent in Public Institu- tions.
Dr. William A. Seibert, one of the most prominent and most skillful physicians of Easton, a man respected and loved by all who know him, is a worthy representative of a large and influential family that has long been located in the State of Pennsyl-
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vania, performing well their part in the various communities in which they have made their homes.
Dr. William A. Seibert, son of Owen and Matilda (Miller) Seibert, was born Feb- ruary 10, 1859. After attending the public schools of Easton, he prepared for college at Stevens Institute, from which he was graduated in 1876, and at Trach's ( Easton) Academy, whose course he completed in 1878. In 1882 he was graduated from La- fayette College with first honor and the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts. The same insti- tution later also honored him with the de- gree of Master of Arts. He received his medical training at Boston University, from which he was graduated in 1885 with first honor and the degree of Doctor of Med- icine. After serving as house surgeon of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, Boston, in which position he obtained the extended experience that has proved so helpful a factor in the success of his sub- sequent career, he located in Easton, Penn- sylvania, where he is now engaged in the active practice of his profession. His skill and ability in the diagnosis and the treat- ment of disease, and his comprehensive knowledge of the various departments of his chosen profession, have gained him the good will and the confidence of his fellow practitioners and a very liberal patronage from the public. In addition to his ex- tensive practice, he is a member, by appoint- ment of the Governor of Pennsylvania, of the board of trustees of the Pennsylvania State Hospital for the Insane, at Allentown, a member of the advisory board of Hahne- mann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia, and a member of the consult- ing staff of the State Hospital at Allen- town and of the Public Hospital of Easton. He is the author of many monographs and papers which have been read before various societies and published in numerous maga- zines. Dr. Seibert is furthermore a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy ; of the Pennsylvania State Homeopathic
Medical Society, of which he was president in 1905; of the Lehigh Valley Homeopathic Medical Society, of which he is an ex-pres- ident ; of the Lehigh Valley Medical Club; and an honorary associate member of the New Jersey State Homeopathic Medical Society, as well as honorary member of various local and county societies. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania-German Society, the Historical Society of North- ampton County, the Northampton County Country Club, and the Pomfret Club of Easton. In his college affiliations he is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, and a member of the board of trustees of the Delta Tau fraternity at Lafayette Col- lege.
DILTHEY, William Jacob, Architect, Man of Affairs.
Germany has furnished the United States of America with many citizens whose de- scendants have become distinguished as artisans, tradesmen, and in the professions. Charles Frederick (or August) Dilthey came to this country in an old-time sailing vessel, and left descendants who have since distinguished and honored the name. He was born near Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, about 1838, and died in 1901, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served his allotted time in the Prussian army before coming to America. His early ancestors were Scotch. He learned the trade of up- holsterer and harnessmaker in the army, and followed the trade of upholsterer and dec- orator in Philadelphia. He finally settled on a farm near Three Tuns, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, where he lived during the latter years of his life. He married Elizabeth Helen Hess, who came to Amer- ica from Germany in early life with her brothers.
William Jacob Dilthey, son of Charles Frederick (or August) and Elizabeth Helen (Hess) Dilthey, was born February 17, 1867, at Three Tuns, Upper Dublin town-
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ship, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, about seventeen miles north of Philadelphia, in a log cabin there standing and which dated back to Revolutionary days of "76." He received elementary instruction in the public schools of his native village, then at- tended the Central High School of Phila- delphia. He studied architecture for two years at the Spring Garden Institute of Philadelphia. While taking this course he studied at night and worked at the trade of builder by day, in order to pay expenses, and at the same time secure a practical training for his chosen vocation. In 1892 he came to New York City and secured em- ployment as draftsman in the office of Rich- ard M. Hunt, an architect. He was also employed in the office of De Lemos & Cordes, architects and engineers, and while thus employed assisted in the preparation of plans for the Vanderbilt Mansion on the Biltmore estate, near Asheville, North Caro- lina, and on both the Astor and Vanderbilt mansions of New York City, and was also with C. H. Gilbert, Van Campen Taylor, architects, in New York City.
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