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ROBERT WODROW ARCHBALD.
becoming at the same time president judge. He continued in this position until August 2, 1888, when, upon the elevation of Judge Hand to the Supreme Court by the appointment of Gov- ernor Beaver, Judge Archbald became in his turn president judge . of the courts of Lackawanna. Three judges now compose those courts, the associates of Judge Archbald being Additional Law Judges John F. Connolly and Frederick W. Gunster. In reli- gious belief Judge Archbald is a Presbyterian, and he is a mem- ber of the First Presbyterian church of Scranton. Mr. Archbald was married, January 21, 1875, at Oxford, Chenango county, N. Y., to Elizabeth Baldwin, only daughter of Benjamin Cannon and Anna Miller. Four children have been born of this union -- Robert W., Jr., January 10, 1876; Anna, August 22, 1878 ; Hugh, October 30, 1880, and a child which died in infancy. Mrs. Arch- bald was born at Oxford, N. Y., May 29, 1850, but at an early age removed with her parents to the village of Cannonsville, in the same state, and upon the election of her father to the county clerkship of Delaware county the family took up their residence at Delhi, the county seat. In 1859 they again returned to Can- nonsville, and finally removed to Oxford in the summer of 1873. Owing to the deficiency of schools at Cannonsville, where her girlhood was mainly spent, Mrs. Archbald was sent away from home from time to time, to Cooperstown, N, Y., East Green- wich, R. I., and Oxford Academy, finishing her studies at the well known school of Miss Porter, at Farmington, Conn.
Benjamin Cannon was a native of Cannonsville, N. Y., where he was born June 17, 1818. He was educated at Oxford aca- demy and Union college (Schenectady, N. Y.) from which he graduated in 1840. After finishing his college course he spent a year in the law office of Judge Amasa J. Parker, at Delhi. He was admitted to the bar of New York city in 1843. He was county clerk of Delaware county, N. Y. from 1853 to 1859. He died at Oxford December 19, 1877. He was the son of Benja- min Cannon, a native of and the founder of Cannonsville, where he was born in 1776. He died there in 1839. The wife of Benjamin Cannon, jr., was Anna Miller, the daughter of Epaphras Miller and his wife, Elizabeth Baldwin. Mr. Miller's grandfather was William Miller and his father was Matthew Miller, who was
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ROBERT WODROW ARCHBALD.
born in Glastenbury, Conn., July 7, 1732. He married Alice Stevens, granddaughter of Timothy Stevens, a Harvard graduate, who was the first minister settled at Glastenbury in 1693. The father of Alice Stevens was Benjamin Stevens. His wife was Dorothy Olmstead. Epaphra Miller was born in Glastenbury June 2, 1778, and removed to Oxford in 1800 [as the agent of General Hovey, the owner of the town site of Oxford. He was a merchant and for nearly fifty years pursued the same employ- ment. He was identified with many plans for the growth and prosperity of the place of his adoption, and was one of the earn- est and active men of the village. None were more zealous to advance the standard of education, to open public thoroughfares and add to the beauty of the village. The wife of Epaphras Miller was Elizabeth Baldwin, a native of West Stockbridge, Mass. They were married at Wilkes-Barre July 14, 1810, by Rev. Ard Hoyt. Her great-great-grandfather was one of three brothers who came from England in 1645 and were the first settlers of Milford, Conn. Her great-grandfather was Joseph Baldwin, her grandfather was Ebenezer Baldwin, and her father was Samuel Baldwin, M. D. The latter was born November, 1756, in the town of Egremont, Berkshire county, Mass. At the age of seventeen he was one of the drafted militia of his native state and served in the continental army at different periods for thirteen months. In the year 1775 he was a "minute man," being called into active service soon after the battle of Lexington, on April 19 of that year. He joined the continental troops at Boston, where he remained three months In 1775 he was one of the volunteers who marched into Canada in prosecution of one of the most difficult and perilous enterprises undertaken during the revolutionary contest. Besides suffering from an attack of small- pox at Montreal on his way to that place, he marched in one day sixty miles on the ice of Lake Champlain. In the spring of 1777 the army under General Gates was obliged to retreat be- fore the combined British forces of the north. Mr. Baldwin returned to Egremont much reduced and enfeebled by the hard- ships and privations which he had endured. He was drafted again in the following September and once more joined the army under General Gates. He was present at the battle of Saratoga
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SILVESTER BRISTOL.
and witnessed one of the most important events of the revolution, the surrender of Burgoyne on October 17, 1777. After this Mr. Baldwin devoted himself to study and succeeded in acquiring a substantial education in the ordinary branches of English learn- ing, together with a sufficient knowledge of the languages to enable him to begin the study of medicine. At the age of twenty-eight he entered upon the practice of his profession at West Stockbridge, Mass., where he continued for sixteen years, during which time he was twice elected a representative to the legislature of the state. In the year 1800, after the death of his wife, he removed to the Wyoming Valley, Pa., where he resided at Wilkes-Barre, and Forty Fort (with the exception of two years spent in Ohio), until he removed to Oxford, N. Y., in 1819. He enjoyed an unsullied reputation as a man of integrity and good morals. He died in Oxford September 2, 1842.
The two following named persons are the only associate judges of Luzerne county, Pa., that are now living :
SILVESTER BRISTOL.
Silvester Bristol, who was commissioned an associate judge of Luzerne county, Pa., November 10, 1851, for five years from the first Monday of December, 1851, in a native of Washington, Dutchess county, N. Y., where he was born July 12, 1813. He is the grandson of David Bristol, a native of England, whose wife was Mabel Thomas, of New Haven, Conn. His father, Samuel Bristol, was a native of Dutchess county, N. Y. Silvester Bristol emigrated, when a young man, to this county, and in 1842 was elected a justice of the peace for the township of Providence, now a portion of Scranton, Pa. Mr. Bristol was for many years engaged in the hotel business-the Bristol House in Scranton and the Luzerne House in this city being among those he was proprietor of. The Bristol House in this city derived its name from him. Mr. Bristol married, in 1838, Elizabeth Daw, a daughter of Isaac
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Daw, of Connecticut. His second wife, whom he married March 21, 1866, is Sarah Wright, a daughter of Job Wright, of New York state. Mr. Bristol has six children living, five by his first wife and one by his second wife-four daughters and two sons-Samuel A. Bristol, of Asbury, N. J., and George Bristol, of this city. Judge Bristol resides in West Pittston, in this county.
DANIEL KIRTLAND MORSS.
Daniel Kirtland Morss, who was commissioned an associate judge of Luzerne county, Pa., November 23, 1871, for a term of five years from the first Monday of December, 1871, is a resident of Moss Side, near Carbondale, Pa. His grandfather, Asa Morss, was a native of Methuen, Mass., whose wife was Hannah Austin, of Dracut, Mass. The father of D. K. Morss was Foster Morss, also a native of Methuen. His wife was Roxanna Kirtland, of Durham, Greene county, N. Y., a daughter of Daniel Kirtland, of Saybrook, Conn. His wife was Lovesa Lord, of Saybrook. D. K. Morss was born January 27, 1821, at Windham, N. Y., and was educated at the Delaware Academy, Delhi, N.Y. He has filled the offices of justice of the peace and assistant United States assessor in addition to his being associate judge. He was elected a justice of the peace three times, but took his commission out but once. Mr. Morss removed to Carbondale in 1844, and followed the mercantile business until 1861, when he retired from that busi- ness and removed to his country seat, Moss Side, about a mile from the centre of the city of Carbondale. He has been proprie- tor of and ran a half dozen dairy farms, and the Lenoxville mills at Lenoxville, Susquehanna county, Pa. He is also a director in the Carbondale Miners' and Mechanics' Savings Bank. Mr. Morss enjoys the distinction of being the last associate judge in this county. On December 8, 1876, we wrote the following : "Our last associate judge, Hon. D. K. Morss, on Wednesday of last week retired from the office of associate judge of Luzerne county, which position he has held during the past five years. It
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is universally admitted that no public officer ever vacated his position whose official acts met with greater and more unqualified approbation than those of Judge Morss. He was accommodating, obliging and gentlemanly in the extreme, and most thorough and exact in the performance of his duties. We unite in the common sympathy of the bar and people of Luzerne county, and mingle our regret at the retirement of Judge Morss from the bench, and express the general sentiment of his numerous friends in wishing him a long life and the highest prosperity in whatever sphere his lot may be cast in the unknown future. Under the new constitution the office of associate judge is abolished in this county." We also append the proceedings of the members of the bar of Luzerne county on Judge Morss's retirement. On Wednesday, November 29, 1876, a meeting was held in the bar office, and tributes of a very complimentary nature were paid to Judge Morss's official relations while attending to the duties of his office, his general upright bearing, and his congeniality in social relations. Hon. E. L. Dana, A. Ricketts, Esq., Hon. L. D. Shoemaker, W. S. McLean, Esq., and others made short ad- dresses. The following resolutions were passed unanimously :
WHEREAS, At a meeting of the members of the bar, held at the court house, in the city of Wilkes-Barre, the 29th day of No- vember, 1876, the fact being announced from the bench that the term of office of the Hon. D. K. Morss as associate judge expires with the present sessions of the court, now about to adjourn, it was, upon motion of Hon. L. D. Shoemaker, duly seconded by A. Ricketts, Esq.,
Resolved, That we hereby express our appreciation of the up- right, impartial and straightforward course of the Hon. D. K. Morss while upon the bench, and of his uniform courtesy and urbanity, as well as promptness and readiness in the discharge of his official duties.
Resolved, That while we regret the separation from Judge Morss in an official capacity, we at the same time express our satisfaction that the office of associate judge in Luzerne county is closed by so excellent an example. And we respectfully pray the court that this preamble, and the resolutions therewith, be en- tered upon the minutes of the court.
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DANIEL KIRTLAND MORSS.
Judge Dana then endorsed the action of the court as follows : Now, November 29th, 1876, fully concurring in and approving of the foregoing preamble and resolutions, direct that they be filed and entered at length upon the court minutes.
Judge Morss married, December 30, 1863, Emily Gertrude Mott, a daughter of James Mott, a native of Dutchess county, N. Y., and his wife, Mary Ann Barber, a daughter of Calvin Bar- ber, a native of Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Morss have one child-Alice Minerva Morss.
APPENDIX.
Biographical sketches of the following named persons are con- tained in this volume. For general index, see end of third volume.
Page.
Adams, Henry Clay . 807
Amerman, Lemuel · 979
Anderson, James Noteman . 712
Archbald, Robert Wodrow 1016
Atherton, Thomas Henry . . 516
Atherton, Thomas M . .867
Babb, Edmund Burke 834
Bailey, Albert Marion
896
Bangs, A. W . 866
Banks, Cecil Reynolds .
. 713
Barnes, Frank Vaughan . 958
Baumann, Anthony 100I
Bennett, Nathan . 561
Bentley, George F. . 982
Bohan, Cormac Francis 625
Brace, Burrell . 901
Breck, Charles du Pont . 890
Bristol, Silvester 1035
Bunnell, Lewis Martin . 927
Burnham, Horace Blois 840
Burke, Martin Francis . 568
Burns, Ira Hale . . 912
Burr, J. E. . · 990
Burrows, Francis E. 936
Butler, Francis Lord 848
Butler, George D. . . 928
Butler, George Hollenback . 606
Byrne, M. J · 904
Campbell, Anthony Charles . 698 Chapin, Alfred Eugene . . 709
Page.
Chase, Aaron Augustus.
.899
Cohen, George Eugene . 801
Collins, Francis D. . · 995
Collings, John Beaumont . 931
Connolly, Daniel Ward . . 935
Connolly, John F. . · 959
Cooley, De Witt C · 903
Coston, Herbert H . . 978
Coughlin, Dennis O'Brien . 615
Creveling, Darryl La Porte 814
Creveling, John Quincy . 694
Dean, Arthur Denorvan . 961
Derr, Andrew Fein . 736
De Witt, George B.
. 950
Dickinson, Wharton . 988
Dimmick, Edward C. .
· 970
Dunning, Henry White. . 671
Durand, Silas H. . 889
Edwards, Henry M. . 938
Ellis, Howard . . 902
Espy, John . . 916
Everhart, John Franklin . 804
Evans, Robert Davenport . . 571
Fell, Daniel Ackley 687
Fisher, George Hollenback .675
Fitzsimmons, Frank Joseph . 996
Flick, Liddon . . 692
Foley, Thomas J. . 950
Foster, Thomas Lansford . 837
Frisbie, Hanson Zebulon
. 849
Fritz, James Madison 802
Fuller, Frederick 887
Fuller, Henry Amzi . 575
Gabriel, Charles V. 1014
Garman, John Montgomery . 666
Gearhart, Wesley H. . 922
Gibbons, William Robert . 573
Page.
Gritman, Philo Callender- 848
Gunster, Frederick William . 917
Halsey, Harry . 753
Hand, Alfred 875
Handley, John 883
Hannah, Daniel . . 908
Hannah, Hugh Moore
Harding, Henry . . 931
983
Harding, John Slosson 618
Harrington, David Chase 874
Harvey, Oscar Jewell . . 505
Hawley, Charles L. 993
Hayes, John David .
574
Hedian, George Drum
. - 725
Heery, Michael
. 924
Hill, John Nevin
· 997 Soo
Hillard, Lord Butler
Hillard, Tuthill Reynolds . 798
Hines, William Henry . . 610
Hitchcock, Frederick Lyman 879
Horn, George Scranton 944
Hotchkiss, Albert Beecher
898
Hottenstein, Allen S. . 937
Hoyt, Abram Goodwin
934
Hoyt, Edward Everett . 627
Hoyt, Henry Martyn IO13
Hull, Harry T. . . 923
Hughes, Thomas Roger · 995
Hughes, William Jay . 569
Jackson, Ernest . 538
Johnson, Wesley - 775
Jones, Harvey J. · 948
Jones, Lewis 826
Jones, Meredith Lewis · 928
Jones, William Gibson . 890
Kahler, Oliver Charles . · 949
Kauffman, Percival Coover
680
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Keck, Charles Edmund
700
Kinsey, Leonidas Campbell . 980
Kline, Clarence Winfield 549
Knapp, Henry Alonzo . 967
Lamb, Charles Loren . 960
Larned, Frank Warren . 808
Lathrop, Charles Edward . . 857
Lathrop, Wilbur F. · 969
Lathrope, William Wurts . . 901
Leach, Harold . 994
Leisenring. Jacob Shindel 945
Lenahan, James L. . 558
Lewis, William . 817
Lindeman, Henry Richard 1008
Little, Ephraim Henry . 851
Loomis, Francis Edgar . . 906
Loomis, George Peck 771
Lusk, William D. . 937
Magee, Henry Coffin 532
Mahon, Peter A. · 959
Mapledoram, Eugene C. · 970
Martin, Thomas Rebaugh 556
Mathers, Ziba . 626
Maxwell, James Lee . 836
McAlarney, Charles Wesley . 533
McAtee, Benjamin Franklin . 676
McCoy, Edward I. . 981
McDivitt, Samuel P. .
· 987
McDormott, Samuel F. . 910
McGahren, John . 535
McGovern, Edward Frank
773
McManus, Bernard
. 553
Meixell, Peter Augustus
. 729
Merrifield, Edward . 853
Mills, John B. . . 905
Miner, William Beatty . 1007
Mitchell, Ira Canfield . 897
Moore, Joseph 617
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Morss, Daniel Kirtland 1036 Murray, Thomas Sharp 332 Myers, George Peck . 935
Myers, Philip . . 856
Nesbitt, Thomas . 934
Nichols, Emmett De Vine . 559
Nichols, F. H ... 1007
O'Boyle, Peter Aloysius . 659
O'Flaherty, John . 969
O'Hanlon, Philip J. . 959
Orr, George Merritt 1015
Orr, Nathaniel Marion . 976
Paine, William Lee . 1003
Painter, Emerich Harrison . 921
Parke, Samuel Maxwell . 719
Parsons, Lewis E. . . 829
Patrick, Horatio Nicholson . 996
Patton, Henry Dudley . 730
Peckham, Danforth L. 852
Perkins George . 849
Peters, William Allison . 1008
Phoenix Charles Matthew
1002
Pitcher, Charles R. . 965
Plumb, George Henry Ruggles
. 603
Price, Samuel Britton 95 1
Price, William Carroll . 651
Pursel, Benjamin Franklin . 872
Raeder, William La Fayette 788
Ranck, John McGinnes
.913
Rank, Daniel Webster
939
Regan, Jeremiah D. - 91I
Regan, Michael . . 904
Reynolds, Sheldon . 777
Rhodes, John B. . 903
Rhodes, Joseph Clubine . 835
Rhone, Samuel Matthias · 984
Ricketts, Alexander 816
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Robinson, William C.
Page. · 900
Royce, Clark Ezek King . 920
Sanderson, George . 936
Scouton, James Robinson · 735
Shaver, James Buchanan 696
Shonk, George Washington
. 541
Shortz, Edwin
Smith, Andrew Jackson
. 564 869
Smith, Cornelius .
. 924
Snyder, Jacob Byron
. 926
Spratt, Orlando Wellington
· 911
Squier, George H. .
· 948
Stanton, William H.
. 919
Staples, Charles Boone . 658
Stark, Jasper Byron . 566
Stephens, Marlin Bingham . 750
Stewart, Franklin . 8.44
Stiles, Milton . 961
Stoutenburg, James Emmett . 929
Sturges, Edward Baker . . 925
Sturdevant, Edward Warren . 551
Taylor, Nathaniel . 537
Thorp, Moses M. . 949
Todd, Charles Wesley 873
Torrey, James Humphrey 985
Ulman, Joseph E. . 90.4
Unger, David . 939
. Umstead, Thomas Chalmers . 767
Urquhart, George
, IO15
Van Fleet, Charles Graham .
· 919
Vickery, Lorenzo D. . · 930
Wadhams, Moses Waller . 755
Wadhams, Samuel French 990
Waller, George Grant . . 842
Ward, Walsingham Griffin 852
Ward, Zebulon Marcy . 900
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Weaver, Philip Velasco .
788
Weitzel, Paul Ross 864
Wells, Thomas Fenimore
· 973
Welles, Charles Hopkins
. 908
Welles, Henry Hunter
660
Welter, Joshua Lewis
. 686
Wheaton, Frank Woodruff
654
Wheeler, Orsemus Hurd
832
Wilcox, William Alonzo
. 742
Willard, Edward Newell
862
Williams, Anthony Lawrence
653
Wilson, Henry . 867
Wilson, Milo Jones . 914
Winton, Aretus Heermans . 883
Woodward, George Abisha
. 863
Woodward, John Butler
. 690
Wright, Caleb Earl . 82.4
Wright, Robert Hunter
554
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