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The third son of Deacon Isaiah Wilcox was Asa. He was a merchant and manufacturer, and was a member of the New York legislature from Herkimer county in the session of 1849. He has two sons living-Hon. Isaiah Alonzo Wilcox, of Santa Clara, California, horticulturist, and George Pendleton Wilcox, of Little Falls, N. Y. Mrs. George P. Wilcox is a sister of General F. E. Spinner, whose curious signature ornamented the greenbacks of a few years ago. In 1872 George P. Wilcox was one of those democrats who could not support Greely, and was on the O'Connor ticket for presidential elector. He has written considerable, principally on agricultural and metaphysical subjects.
Nathan Pendleton Wilcox, sr., youngest son of Deacon Isaiah Wilcox, was born in Danube, N. Y., May 3, 1804. He married, October 9, 1828, Lurancia Richardson, daughter of Lieutenant William and Sarah (Norton) Richardson. Lieutenant William Richardson was born in Cheshire, Mass., and settled in Madison, N. Y., with his father in early life. Ebenezer Richardson, the father, was the youngest of a family of eight brothers, four of whom married sisters, daughters of - Hall, of Boston. Ebe- nezer died about 1825, aged about eighty years. Sarah Norton was an orphan. She came from Vermont with the family of a Rev. Mr. Butler. Nathan P. Wilcox died April 24, 1833, leaving a widow and one child. He died young, but not before he had given evi- dence of the possession of high qualifications for a successful busi- ness life. He was a farmer and contractor. The old Baptist church at Nunda was built by him, then an undertaking of considerable importance, and several trusts committed to him were executed in a manner that reflected credit on his ability and integrity. He was interested in military affairs, and held commissions as ensign
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and lieutenant of infantry in the New York militia. Lurancia Richardson, daughter of Lieutenant William, was born in Madi- son, N. Y., February 23, 1808. In 1836 she married William Will- iams, of Smethport, Mckean county, Pa. When Mr. Williams died, about 1867, she came to Nicholson and has since remained there with her only son. Her age is seventy- nine years. She is a zealous, consistent member of the regular Baptist church. Mr. Wilcox was of that faith but had never connected himself with the church.
Nathan Pendleton Wilcox, jr., son of Nathan Pendleton Wil- cox, sr., was born at Nunda, N. Y., May 16, 1832. . He attended the public schools and academy at Smethport, Pa., the Nunda Literary Institute, at Nunda, N. Y., and the public schools at Rochester, N. Y. In 1847-8 and again in 1852-3 he taught school in Mckean county, Pa. He entered the store of his uncle, Jeremiah W. Richardson, at Nunda, in the spring of 1848, and remained four years. He then went to Olean, N. Y., and was employed with Smith Brothers and with N. S. Butler, mer- chants. During 1856 and 1857 he was engaged in mercantile business with J. K. Comstock as N. P. Wilcox & Co., and from 1858 to 1862 with Fred. Eaton as Wilcox & Eaton. He removed, in April, 1862, to Nicholson, Wyoming county, Pa., and has been engaged in mercantile business there continuously to 1886. He was married, October 6, 1856, at Coventry, by Rev. J. B. Hoyt, to Celestine, youngest daughter of John and Nancy (Little) Birge, of Coventry, Chenango county, N. Y. They have four children-William A., the subject of this sketch, being the eldest ; Henry Pendleton, merchant at Nicholson, and Misses Clara B., and Anna J. John Birge, of Hebron, Conn., the ancestor of John Birge, married -- Knox. They had a son, John Knox Birge, born in Hebron, Conn., about 1754. He married, September 15, 1777, Ruhamah Foote. He died May 17, 1838. Ruhamah was born October 15, 1760. John Birge, their son, was born June 18, 1789, and married Nancy, daughter of Captain Ephraim Little, of Great Barrington, Mass. He died at Nicholson, Pa., October 23, 1866. Captain Ephraim Little, of Great Barrington, was the grandfather of Ralph B. Little, of Montrose, Hon. Robert R. Little, of Tunkhannock, E. H. Little, of Bloomsburg, and George
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H. Little, of Bradford county, of whom the first three are lawyers. Of the next generation there are now at the bar George P. Little, of Montrose, son of Ralph B., WV. E. & C. A. Little, of Tunk- hannock, sons of Robert R., Robert R. Little, of Bloomsburg, son of E. H., and S. W. & William Little, of Towanda, sons of George Hobert Little. Ruhama Foote was descended from Na- thaniel Foote, who was born about 1593, married, in England, Eliz- abeth Deming, about 1615, and died in 1644. Their son, Nathan- iel Foote, born about 1620, married, in 1646, Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel Smith, of Weathersfield, Conn., and Had- ley, Mass. Nathaniel Foote, jr., son of Nathaniel Foote, was born January 10, 1647, and married, May 2, 1672, Margaret, daughter of Nathaniel and granddaughter of Thomas Bliss, of Hartford, Conn. Their son, Joseph Foote, was born December 28, 1690. He married Ann Clothier December 12, 1719. He died April 21, 1756. Ann Clothier Foote died April 15, 1740. Their son, Jeremiah Foote, father of Ruhama, was born October II, 1725, and died May 15, 1784. His wife was Ruhama, daugh- ter of John Northam.
Nathaniel Pendleton Wilcox is of large figure, fine presence, and pleasing address ; his judgment deliberate and conservative ; his temperament equable rather than emotional, seldom rising to great enthusiasm, and as seldom unduly depressed. A good academic education, added to favorable natural endowments, have fitted him for a life of usefulness, and. such his is. A residence of a quarter century at Nicholson as merchant, magistrate, sur- veyor, and man of affairs has given him a wide circle of acquaint- ances, and it may safely be asserted that he enjoys fully the respect and confidence of them all. If he has enemies they are such as by their enmity do him honor. Perhaps nowhere is he more useful than in the church. At Olean he was a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church, and when the Presbyterian church at Nicholson was organized (April, 1865) he was chosen one of its ruling elders. He has frequently been a member of the higher church courts-presbytery, synod, and general assembly. He was a member of the notable general assembly of 1869, which succeeded in consummating the union of the two branches of the church, known as the old school and the new
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school. He has been active in the Sabbath school also, as teacher and superintendent. For many years he has taught an adult bible class with marked success. He is never sensational, but, thoroughly satisfied of the truthfulness and authority of the Word, he prepares the lessons conscientiously and presents them with plain earnestness. Many have testified to the helpfulness of his instruction. Politically he has always been a democrat, as have been his ancestors back to the time when parties had their beginning in the United States. His democracy is a deep rever- ence for the constitution and a desire to transmit to succeeding generations the " best government the world ever saw," unim- paired by the centralizing and extravagant tendencies of the age. He has never held office except such local ones as justice of the peace, burgess, school director, etc.
William Alonzo Wilcox, son of Nathan Pendleton Wilcox, came with the rest of his father's family from Olean, N. Y., to Nicholson, Wyoming county, Pa., in 1862. He attended the public and private schools of the village of Nicholson, and four terms (1874-5) at Keystone Academy, Factoryville, Pa. Perhaps the most valuable part of his education was that acquired from his father-in the store. He taught a district school in Benton, Luzerne (now Lackawanna) county, during the winter of 1875-9. The years 1878 and 1879 he spent in the law office of W. E. & C. A. Little, of Tunkhannock, Pa., and was admitted to the bar of Wyoming county January 12, 1880. On January 17, 1880, he was admitted to the bar of Lackawanna county. He at once opened an office in Scranton, where he still continues. On March 12, 1883, he was admitted to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and on June 18, 1883, he was admitted to the bar of Luzerne county. Mr. Wilcox became a member of the Presbyterian church at Nicholson in 1876, and during the years 1883 and 1884 was superintendent of the Sabbath school. When he removed to Wyoming, in this county, he connected himself with the Pres- byterian church at that place. In 1882 he was chairman of the democratic county committee of Wyoming county. He is the corresponding secretary of the Lackawanna Institute of His- tory and Science, a corresponding member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, of Wilkes-Barre; also a trus-
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tee of the Presbyterian congregation at Wyoming, and a ruling elder in the Wyoming Presbyterian church. He is first lieu- tenant of Company D, of the Thirteenth regiment of the Na- tional Guard of Pennsylvania, having been promoted from a private through all the grades to his present position. Mr. Wil- cox married, April 22, 1885, Catherine M. Jenkins, youngest daughter of Steuben Jenkins, of Wyoming, whose biography has already been published on page 52 of this series of papers. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox have one child, William Jenkins Wilcox, born March 17, 1886.
At bars so crowded with legal talent as those of Luzerne and Lackawanna there is necessarily a warm competition for business - not such competition as characterizes the manufacturing industries or mercantile callings, marked by principles of under- selling, but competition having its manifestation in vigorous effort on the part of the most industrious and ambitious to do well all that they are given to do; that success may be a sign unto the next seeker after legal assistance as to where the best can be had. In this sort of competition a young man of the training Mr. Wilcox has enjoyed, and of the sturdy traits he dis- plays, is likely to secure his full share of patronage. . Without pretence or aspiration to exceptional brilliancy in pleading, he nevertheless argues a case neatly as well as thoroughly, and in those branches of practice in which well-fortified and safe opinion of the law is the thing sought, his advice is discreet and, there- fore, sound. He has made a most excellent beginning in the profession, and is in a fair way of securing a large and paying clientage.
HARRY HALSEY.
Harry Halsey was born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 16, 1860. He is a descendant of Thomas Halsey, who settled at Lynn, Mass., as early as 1637, and who came from Hertfordshire, Eng- land. He had a son Isaac, born in 1660, who had a son Ephraim,
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born in 1693, who had a son Cornelius, born in 1721, who had a son Solon, born in 1769, who had a son Henry C. Halsey, who was the grandfather of Harry Halsey. He was a native of Orange county, N. Y., and when a young man removed to the city of New York, where he engaged in the mercantile business. He died in 1882, aged eighty-two years. W. S. Halsey, son of Henry C. Halsey, was born in West Town, Orange county, N. Y., October 9, 1826. He graduated from Yale college in the class of 1846. He was a student of medicine in the college of physi- cians and surgeons, in New York city, from 1848-50; received the degree of M. D. in the spring of 1850; studied medicine in Lon- don and Paris from 1850-51; practiced medicine in Newburg, Orange county, N. Y., from July, 1851-54; practiced medicine in Philadelphia, February 1854-59; was elected professor of surgery in the Philadelphia College of Medicine in September, 1856; con- tinued in this office until May, 1859; was one of the consulting surgeons of the Philadelphia hospital from 1856-59, and was elected professor of surgery in the Pennsylvania Medical College in May, 1859. At the time of his election to this office he was the youngest professor of surgery ever elected to that office at any college in this country. He subsequently retired from this office and from the practice of medicine and engaged in the min- ing of coal, in company with William Taggart, as W. S. Halsey & Co. The wife of W. S. Halsey was Hannah Taggart, the daughter of James Taggart, at that time the largest coal operator in Schuyl- kill county, Pa., and the great-granddaughter of Colonel Charles Taggart, a native of Northampton county, Pa., who, during the Revolutionary war, was killed at the battle of Germantown. The wife of James Taggart was Elizabeth Dodson, a daughter of Joseph Dodson, of Huntington township, in this county. He was a descendant of Samuel Dodson, who in 1780 was a resident of Penn township, Northampton county (now Mahoning town- ship, Carbon county), Pa. Joseph Dodson was a brother of Abagail Dodson, who was carried into captivity by the Indians during the last named year.
Harry Halsey, son of W. S. Halsey, was educated at the Episcopal Academy, in Philadelphia, and entered the University of Pennsylvania. He did not remain there but continued his
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studies with a private tutor. He studied law with George W. Biddle, of Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar of Philadel- phia county in 1881. He then removed to New York and for two years was managing clerk in the office of ex-Judge William Fullerton. Family interests in this section induced him to come to this county, and he located in Hazleton. He was admitted to the Luzerne county bar November 28, 1884. He is an un- married man and a democrat in politics.
Mr. Halsey, it will be noted, has had far greater experience in the law than usually falls to one of his years. Mr. Biddle, with whom he studied, is one of the most eminent members of the- Philadelphia bar, and ex-Judge Fullerton, of New York, whose managing clerk he was, has a national reputation, both as a judge and an advocate. Mr. Halsey came to Luzerne, equipped by his experiences under these gentlemen, with exceptional advantages. He is a young man of quick, natural intelligence, with influential friends, is industrious, and will do well, both for himself and his clients.
MOSES WALLER WADHAMS.
Moses Waller Wadhams was born in Plymouth, Pa., August 2, 1858. In our sketch of Calvin Wadhams, the uncle of M. W. Wadhams, page 109, we gave quite a full account of the Wad- hams family. Rev. George Peck, D. D., in his " Early Metho- dism," states that Rev. Noah Wadhams, the first emigrant of that name at Wyoming. " was baptized with the spirit of Methodism and commenced preaching here and there, wherever he found an opening. He joined the Methodist church and became a local preacher. He spent his latter years in preaching and laboring with great zeal and acceptability for the promotion of the interests of the societies." At what particular time Mr. Wadhams' theo- logical views underwent a change is unknown. We quote fur- ther from Dr. Peck : "Calvin Wadhams, of Plymouth, was the son of the minister just noticed, and was converted under the
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labors of Rev. Valentine Cook. He contributed largely to the erection of a building called the 'Academy,' adapted both to the purposes of a school and of religious worship. The upper story was seated and fitted up with a pulpit and an altar, and was the only church in Plymouth for perhaps fifty years. Mr. Wadhams' house was ever open to the preachers, and was often filled full on quarterly meeting occasions." Nor was his hospitality con- fined to the people of his own religious sect-it was broad and general, and his house was open to all. Living in a frugal way and with his mind constantly upon his business, he accumulated a large estate. Labor, temperance, and economy, in his judg- ment, proved the true standards of manhood, and that made up the rule of his long and prosperous life. On February 10, 1791, he married Esther Waller, a daughter of Elijah and Susanna (Henderson) Waller-the name of the father of Elijah Waller was Samuel Waller-natives of Connecticut. Esther Waller died February 19, 1818. On April 28, 1820, he married Lucy, widow of Samuel, son of William and Tryphena (Jones) Lucas, born in 1754, lived in Greenfield, Mass., and Berkshire, N. Y., and died in March, 1819. She had no children. She was the daughter of Captain Samuel Starr, of Middletown, Conn.
Samuel Wadhams, son of Calvin Wadhams, was born in Ply- mouth, Pa. He married, April 7, 1824, Clorinda Starr Catlin, of New Marlboro, Mass. She was a descendant, on the paternal side, of Thomas Catlin, who is first found at Hartford about 1645-6 by the name of Catling. The time he came from Eng- land, or the ship he came in, is not known. He was one of the viewers of chimneys in 1646-7, and owned two lots of land on Elm street, Nos. 23 and 24, in 1646. Soon after he removed to Hartford he was appointed a constable of the town, which office he held many years. The office of constable at that time was one of the most honorable and trustworthy in the colony. He held other places of trust in the colony and town. He had a portion in a division of lands in 1673, and was living in 1687. when he testified in court and was seventy-five years old. He was probably married before he came to Hartford, and brought with him his only son, John, and his wife, as his son is not found born at Hartford by the records. He had a daughter, Mary, born
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at Hartford, and baptized November 29, 1746. A second daughter, Mary, baptized May 6, 1749. (Hinman's Puritan Settlers.) John Catlin, only son of Thomas and Mary Catlin, married Mary Marshall July 27, 1665, and settled in Hartford, Conn., where their children were born. He died in Hartford. His wife, Mary; died October 20, 1716. Benjamin Catlin, son of John and Mary (Marshall) Catlin, was born in February, 1680. He married Margaret Kellogg, and died in Harwinton, Conn., in 1767. His wife died in Harwinton in 1786. Jacob Catlin, son of Benjamin and Margaret (Kellogg) Catlin, was born in Hart- ford, Conn., June 3. 1727. He married Hannah Phelps, of Wind-, sor, Conn., was a farmer, and lived in Harwinton, Conn. He died in 1802 in Harwinton. Elijah Catlin, son of Jacob and Hannah (Phelps) Catlin, was born in Harwinton, Conn., October 13, 1762. He married Hannah Starr, daughter of Samuel and Chloe (Cruttenden) Starr. He was a physician, settled in New Marlboro, Mass., and died in June, 1823, in New Marlboro. His wife died in August, 1847. His brother, Jacob Catlin, jr., was for thirty years Congregational minister in New Marlboro. Clorinda Starr Catlin was the daughter of Elijah and Hannah (Starr) Cat- lin. The mother of Clorinda Starr Catlin was Hannah Starr, a daughter of Captain Samuel Starr. He was a descendant of Doctor Comfort Starr and his son, Doctor Thomas Starr, whose history has been given in these pages under the head of William Henry Hines (page 610), whose wife is a descendant of Doctor Comfort Starr. Comfort Starr, son of Doctor Thomas Starr, was born in 1644 in Scituate, Mass., married, in Boston, Marah, daughter of Joseph and Barbara Weld. The Indian apostle Eliot, says : " The cause of the bitter name Marah is, that the father, Joseph Weld, is now in great affliction by a sore on his tongue." He died October 18, 1693, shortly after her birth, of a cancer. Comfort Starr, soon after his marriage, went to New London, Conn., where his brother Samuel was living, but did not long remain, for March, 1674-5, " one percell of land was recorded to him and to his heires forever in Middletown, County of Hart- ford, in the Colony of Conictecutt." This original homestead of the family in Middletown was at the south corner of what is now High and Cross streets. His name frequently appears on the
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records of the town. He was elected to several local offices, and in 1679 was one of the sixty-four subscribers to purchase "a belle to be hanged up in the meeting house." Joseph Starr, son of Comfort Starr, was born September 23, 1676. He was a tailor and lived in Middletown. He was chosen tax collector in 1705, constable in 1711 and 1712, and died July 13, 1758. He married, June 24, 1697, Abagail, daughter of Samuel and Abagail (Bald- win) Baldwin, of Guilford. Samuel Starr, son of Joseph Starr, was born January 6, 1704, in Middletown; in 1734 was collector, in 1746 was grand juror, and in 1750 was selectman of the town. He died July 27, 1778. He married, August 20, 1724, Elizabeth De Jersey. She died August 26, 1768, aged sixty-five. Tradi- tion says that she and her sister were the only children of a French nobleman, proprietor of a large estate in Jersey, near the shore of France. They were left orphans at an early age and placed under the care of an uncle, to whom the estate would revert in case of their decease. He, under the pretense of sending them to England to be educated, put them on board of a ship bound for America. On arriving at New York the captain sold them for their passage money. They were brought to Middle- town, and were given as their surname the name of their native island. The elder was about ten years old at this time. The sister married a Mr. Redfield. After many years the uncle, on his death-bed, confessed his great wrong, caused letters to be written to his nieces, begging them to return and claim their rightful estate. They were too old themselves to respond, and their children did nothing about it. This romantic tradition is preserved among all the descendants of said Elizabeth De Jersey, now scattered over the country. Captain Samuel Starr, son of Samuel Starr, was born in Middletown April 25, 1725. He fol- lowed the sea from his youth and became a captain ; was on shore in 1755 and 1760, for he was elected to office in Middletown. He afterward had a new ship in which he determined to make one more voyage and then to give up the sea altogether, and accordingly sailed, November 30, 1765, from New London for the West Indies, in company with his brother, Captain Timothy Starr, in another vessel. They kept together for three days, when, a severe winter storm breaking over them, thy became
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separated, and Captain Samuel Starr with his new ship was never after heard from. He married, May 31, 1748, Chloe, daughter of Doctor Daniel Cruttenden. Hannah Starr, daughter of Samuel Starr, was born August 13, 1764, in Middletown, and died in New Harmony, N. Y., August 8, 1847. She married, December 16, 1790, Elijah, son of Jacob and Hannah (Phelps) Catlin. Clo- rinda Starr Catlin was their daughter.
Elijah Catlin Wadhams, son of Samuel Wadhams, was born in Plymouth July 17, 1825, in the same house in which his father was born. The house was built by his grandfather, Calvin Wad- hams, and is still standing. E. C. Wadhams was educated at Dana's Academy, Wilkes-Barre, Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa.," and the University of New York, graduating from the latter institution in the class of 1847. He remained in his native place and established himself in the mercantile business, which he car- ried on successfully for twenty-five years. He was a justice of the peace for Plymouth for over twenty years, and with the ex- ception of one year was burgess of the borough of Plymouth from its incorporation until his removal to this city, a period of seven years. During his residence in Plymouth he established an academical school, which he carried on for twelve years, em- ploying the teachers and looking to its interests generally. In 1869 occurred what is now known as the Avondale disaster, in Plymouth township, resulting in the loss of one hundred and eight lives. It widowed seventy-two women and made orphan children to the number of one hundred and fifty-three. Early on the morning of September 6, one hundred and eight miners entered the Avondale mine, as usual, for their daily labor, and while they were there engaged in work the shaft, constructed chiefly of combustible materials, became ignited, and soon the only entrance to the mine was filled with burning timbers, fire, and smoke. The immense wooden structure known as the breaker, above and over the shaft, also took fire and was soon reduced to ashes. Surrounding the fire on every side were hundreds of men, women, and children, the female portion of whom were making the air resound with their frantic cries of distress. Wives were wringing their hands and wailing,-" Oh my God! God, have mercy! Who'll take care of my child-
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ren !" and using every expression of endearment and of woe. Mothers were crying out for their sons as only mothers can cry, and feeling only as mothers can feel. Fathers were bewailing the loss of their first-born or the sons of their later years. Broth- ers and sisters were mourning the loss of brothers, and sweet- hearts were frantic over the immolation of fond lovers, who only the evening previous, perhaps, had strained them to their bosoms, and whose kisses were yet burning on their lips. No persuasion, entreaty, advice, or consolation served to quiet them. This state of things continued for hours, when most of the bereaved relatives became more calm as they saw every possible effort being made to extinguish the fire. During the balance of the day their out- breaks were much less frequent, although individual exhibitions of overmastering grief might have been frequently seen in the neighborhood of the fire or heard issuing from the homes of the miners. No assistance could be rendered to the sufferers from without, and, there being no means of escape, all of the unfortu- nate miners perished. Their bodies were subsequently recovered. As nearly all of those who perished had families dependent upon them for support, the suffering caused in the neighboring com- munity was extreme. The condition of these suffering families enlisted the sympathy of the general public, and generous sub- criptions were sent for their relief from various parts of the country. The fund thus raised was $155,825.10, which, by judicious investment, was largely increased. Each widow was paid $200 per year. Each male orphan under fourteen years of age and each female orphan under sixteen years received $100 for the same period. Orphans over these ages were paid $300 in full. This, in the main, was the order in which the payments were made until the fund was exhausted. At the marriage of a widow one-half of her share in the fund abated, so that she received only $100 per year. E. C. Wadhams was one of the acting coroners at the inquest over the Avondale victims, and was the president of the Avondale Relief Fund Committee. In 1876 Mr. Wadhams was elected to the state senate for a period of four years as a republican, defeating Edwin Shortz, democrat. - In 1873 he re- moved to this city and has been a resident of Wilkes-Barre ever since. He has been a director of the Wyoming bank, and after-
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