Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 11

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin, 1837-1917; Hand, Alfred, 1835-; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921; Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 1026

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After a long and active life, Mr. Sanderson died in April. 1886, followed very shortly by his wife. He left four children : J. Gardner, George, Anna K., and Marion, the latter being the wife of Edward B. Sturges, Esq. Mr. Sanderson ac- quired the reputation of a sound, safe, public- spirited man. As a judge of real estate values, and the probability of development, he was espe- cially sound, and made very few mistakes, and to him more than to any other citizen is Scranton indebted for the development of the spirit that has given such an artistic character to its com- fortable homes. He died regretted by all who knew him, and left a large impress on many in- :stitutions in this thriving city.

The Kingsbury family, from which the chil- dren of George Sanderson, of Scranton, are de- scended in the maternal line, was founded in America by Henry Kingsbury, who came from England in 1630 and settled at Haverhill, Massa- chusetts. He had eight children of whom Joseph was the seventh.

(II) Lieutenant Joseph Kingsbury, ser- enth child of Henry, born 1656, removed from Haverhill to Norwich, West Farms, now Frank- lin county, Connecticut, and married Love Ayer, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Aver, of Haverhill, April 12, 1679. He died April 2, 1741, and his wife died April 24, 1735.

(III) Captain Nathaniel Kingsbury, son of Joseph, settled in Andover, Connecticut, after having lived in Norwich, and married Hannah Dennison in 1709. He died in Andover, Septem- ber 18, 1763, and his wife died May 14, 1772.

(IV) Deacon Joseph Kingsbury, son of Na- thaniel, born in Hampton, May 27, 1721, settled in Tolland, and later removed to Enfield, Connec- ticut. March 5. 1745, he married Mary, daugh- ter of Sergeant Thomas and Sarah Looms, of Bolton. He was a rigid Calvinist in religion.

(V) Lemuel Kingsbury, son of Joseph, born in Bolton. November 13. 1702, married December 23, 1773, Alice Terry, daughter of Samuel and Mary Terry, of Enfield.

(VI) Colonel Joseph Kingsbury, son of Lemuel, born in Enfield, Connecticut, May 19. 1774, in 1795 removed from his father's home there to Sheshequin, then in Bradford county, Pennsylvania. He married Anna Spalding, daughter of General Simon and Ruth (Shepherd) Spalding. April 21, 1797 ( ?), and among their ten' children was Marion W. Kingsbury, born Sep- tember 18, 1816, and became the wife of George Sanderson, Sr., and the mother of George San- derson, of Scranton.

Of the Spalding family, from whom the chil- dren of George Sanderson are descended in their mother's maternal line, the records show three branches. The progenitor of one branch came from Scotland and settled in Georgia ; the other two came from Lincolnshire, England. One of the Lincolnshire branches settled in Maryland, and from it sprang the late Archbishop Martin John Spalding, of Baltimore. The progenitor of the Spaldings in this country was Edward Spalding. Sr., who emigrated from the town of Spalding, England, to America, between 1630 and 1633. His name first appears on the records of the town of Braintree, Massachusetts. His first wife. Mar- garet, died there, in 1640. 2. Benjamin Spald-

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ing, son of Edward Spalding and his second wife, married and settled in Plainfield, Connecti- cut. His son (3), Simon Spalding, born Noven- ber 7, 1714, married Annie Billings, June, 1737, and settled at Plainfield. General Simon Spald- ing (4), son of Simeon, was born in Plainfield, January 16, 1742; April 15, 1761, married Ruth Shepherd, Plainfield. Anna Spalding (5), daugh- terof General Simon Spalding, born July 2, 1771, at Sheshequin, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania ; there married Joseph Kingsbury. Marion Kings- bury(6), the eighth of the ten children of Joseph and Anna Kingsbury, born September 18, 1816, became the wife of George Sanderson, October 29, 1835.

Edward Spalding, the founder of this branch of the family, was made a freeman May 16, 1640, in Braintree, Massachusetts. This shows him to have been a member of the established church of the province, for under the old laws this was a necessary requisite to becoming a freeman. He was mentioned in a petition, dated October I, 1645, to the general court of Massachusetts, to set off from Braintree a new town for settlement. Among other names to the petition are Samuel Adams and John Adams, showing Braintree to have then included the town of Quincy. The name of Edward Spalding next appears in con- nection with the settlement of Chelmsford. The second petition was granted by the general court May 18, 1665. The northern boundary of the town, on petition of Edward Spalding and others, was extended to the Merrimac river, May 3, 1656. This extension was called New Field, and the records show that among the proprietors were Edward Spalding, Sr., Edward Spalding, Jr., and John Spalding. This New Field is probably included, as well as a part of Chelmsford, in the city of Lowell. Later a tract of land on the Mer- rimac river, near Pawtucket Fall, called Wame- sett, was sold to forty-six joint proprietors, who built on the south side extending from the Merri- mac to the Concord river. This settlement was annexed to Chelmsford in 1726, and among the forty-six proprietors were Edward Spalding, Jr .. Joseph Spalding, John Spalding, Jr., Joseph Spalding, Benjamin Spalding and Andrew Spald- ing, being the five sons and one grandson of Ed- ward Spalding, Sr.

Edward Spalding removed to Chelmsford at or about the time of the first settlement of that town in 1653, and at the first town meeting, No- vember 22, 1654, was chosen one of the select- men. He was also chosen selectman in 1656, 1660, and 1661. In 1663 he was surveyor of

New Field, afterward called North Chelmsford. From his descendants who settled in Chelmsford, there went out an immigration of about seven- teen hundred to Plainfield, Connecticut. In the Historical and Genealogical Records of New Eng- land is found among the immigrants the names of John Spalding, Joseph Spalding, Edward and Benjamin Spalding, sons and grandsons of Ed- ward Spalding, Sr. October 10, 1706, the gen- eral court of Connecticut was petitioned for more ample confirmation of title, and among the pro- prietors' names are the four Spaldings mentioned above.

General Simon Spalding was third son of Si- mon Spalding, of Plainfield, Connecticut, who was. bron November 7, 1714, and married Annie Bill- ings in June, 1737. General Simon Spalding married Ruth Shepherd, April 15, 1761. He was of the Connecticut colony emigrating to Pennsyl- vania under the name of the Susquehanna Com- pany, formed in 1754 at Hartford, Connecticut. He settled in the Wyoming Valley, now Wilkes- Barre, in 1771. His marriage, however, and the birth of his three eldest children, occurred in Plainfield. Connecticut. He first settled on a tract of land extending from the Susquehanna river toward the mountains, on which he built a house, and he and his family lived there until after the Revolution. This homestead, from the descrip- tion in the deed, was the same that Judge Ross afterward owned, and a part of the house which Simon Spalding built was supposed to be a part of the modern structure, because of the known antiquity of that part, of the Ross family on Main street. After selling that property Simon Spald- ing removed to Sheshequin, Luzerne county. It is believed that the war that was threatening between the Connecticut and the Pennsylvania claims moved Mr. Spalding to sell the disputed title affecting all the Connecticut settlers and those holding under them. The feeling resultant. from this dispute was so fierce and violent that it led to bloodshed and precipitated a feud lasting for several years, until congress interposed and by the treaty of Trenton opened the way for settle- ments. Simon Spalding was at first a lieutenant in the company of which Mr. Rawson was cap- tain, which was enlisted in the Revolutionary war, from Wilkes-Barre to Plymouth. Two com- panies originally existed, but were so reduced from various causes that at Germantown, before or after the battle there, they united. In the. fusion Lieutenant Spalding was made captain. and the rcorganized company hurried to Wilkes- Barre for the defense of the settlers against

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the Indians and Tories. The company reached Wilkes-Barre two or three days too late to be of service in a battle which ended with what is known in history as the Wyoming massacre. Captain Spalding remained with his company at Wilkes-Barre until they joined with General Sul- livan's army on its way north for the defense of the frontier. Captain Spalding and his company encamped for some time in the valley below Tioga Point, the spot where the whole army rested while awaiting the arrival from the north of Gen- eral Clinton. It was there and then that he was first attracted by the Sheshequin Valley, and he decided to remove there after the war. His brother, John Spalding, also settled there on a farm adjoining his own, and from him, on the maternal side, came the family of Welles at Tioga Point. Captain Spalding was subsequently joined to the army of Washington, was at Valley Forge and Princeton, and served during the war and to its close. The records at Washington show a settlement with him as captain in the Continental army. He was afterward made general of mili- tia, and was known by that military title.

James Gardner Sanderson, eldest son o George Sanderson, whose descent partially is shown in the foregoing genealogies, was born in Towanda, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and has lived a large portion of his life in Scranton. He is a civil engineer by profession, though not active in practicing it. He married Eliza Mc- Brair, of New York. He is a graduate of the Van Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York. He has been interested in several en- terprises notably the Union Switch and Signal Company, of which he was one of the organizers and which was afterwards sold to the Westing- house interests. He was also interested in the early development of Portland cement in this country, and the rotary kiln, so universally used in the manufacture of Portland cement, was first used by him. He is at present superintendent and secretary of the Forest Hill Cemetery Asso- ciation.

Colonel George Sanderson, second son of George Sanderson, was born in Towanda, Brad- ford county, Pennsylvania, August 22, 1847, and has been a resident of Scranton for upwards of forty-nine years, during that long period recog- nized as a leader among the enterprising and pro- gressive men whose efforts have given to the city its high prestige and commanding importance in industrial and financial affairs. After graduating from the Scranton high school he completed his education in the Pennsylvania Military Academy.

He read law under the preceptorship of Samuel Robb, Esq., in Philadelphia, and finished his pro- fessional studies in the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1869, at the age of twenty-two years. He practiced in Philadelphia for two years, and in 1873 located permanently in Scranton. While in active practice he was at- torney in several important cases. Among the most important was the case of Sanderson vs. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, in which he obtained establishment of the principle that the lease of coal lands in perpetuity was in effect a sale. and that the lessee, as a consequence, was liable for the taxes. This was a far-reaching proposition, affecting all perpetual coal land leases in the state, and its validity was affirmed by de- cision of the supreme court, to which august tribunal it was finally brought, Colonel Sanderson contending for it at every stage in the various inferior courts. Another notable case in which he was interested, though not actively, was that of Sanderson vs. Pennsylvania Coal Company, and another that of Sanderson vs. City of Scran- ton, involving the liability of an abutting property holder for the repair of street in front of his property, and in which was affirmed his conten- tion that such liability did not exist.

While industriously engaged in his profes- sion, Colonel Sanderson at the same time gave much of his attention to industrial and public af- fairs. He has long been vice-president and di- rector of the Lackawanna Trust and Safe De- posit Company, the oldest in the city, and one of the most conservative and successful of its class in the state. He succeeded his father in the man- agement of the Green Ridge estate of Sanderson & Robb, which they have developed into the most beautiful suburban district of Scranton. He also aided efficiently in beautifying the Forest Hill Cemetery, and has been for years president of the managing association known by that name. He has always been actively identified with every movement looking toward municipal improve- ments, and was for the long period of thirteen years a member of the select council from the thirteenth ward. and is now serving as president of the city sinking fund commission. For the past few years he has given little attention to his profession, devoting much of his time to his ex- tensive business and financial interests.

Colonel Sanderson earned his military title through long and useful service with the Na- tional Guard of Pennsylvania, of which he was a member for eight years. He first served (in

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1877) with the Scranton City Guards, afterwards merged into the Thirteenth Regiment, enlisting as a private in Company D. He was the orig- inator of rifle practice in the National Guard, and rose to the rank of colonel, serving upon the governor's staff as inspector of rifle practice, and in that capacity was primarily instrumental in developing that feature of the military service to such a degree as to attract the admiration of na- tional guardsmen throughout the country.

He holds membership in a number of social organizations of the highest class-the Country Club, Scranton Club, Green Ridge Wheelmen, Germantown Cricket Club, New England Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania, of which he was formerly president, and the University Club of Philadelphia. He is affiliated with various Ma- sonic bodies, including the commandery. In poli- tics he is a Republican, and he is known as an in- fluential figure in the councils of the party, and an effective advocate of its principles and poli- cies.

Colonel Sanderson married Lucy Reed Jack- son, and to them were born eight children, of whom are now living: 1. Edward Spalding, edu- cated at Cornell University, connected with the Scoville Manufacturing Company, Waterbury, Connecticut ; he married Frederika Catlin, and has one son, Edward. 2. Charles Reed, educated at Cornell University, engaged in business in Elmi- ra, New York ; he married Edith, daughter of H. S. Brooks, of Elmira, New York. 3. James Gard- ner, educated at Cornell University, graduated from Chicago Law School, now practicing his profession in Scranton ; he married Miss Beatrice D. Tyler, daughter of Professor Charles Mellen Tyler, of Cornell University, and has one child, James Gardner Sanderson, Jr. 4. Helen Louise, and (5) Marion K., both at home. 6. George Jr., preparing for college at Lawrenceville ( New Jersey) Preparatory School.

Mrs. Sanderson (nee Lucy Reed Jackson) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1846, and traces her ancestry in several branches to and prior to the fourteenth century. Data from the parish records, entries in the Herald's College, and "Genealogy and History of Watertown" fur- nish the following facts as to her line, the restric- tions of space prohibiting details of the others.

John Brown, Esquire, a magistrate of Stam- ford, Lincolnshire, England, was born in the early part of the fourteenth century, and held office in 1376-77. His son

(II) John Browne, of Stamford, England,

was born about 1364. His son

(III) John Brown, of Stamford, England,. was a draper and merchant of the Staple of Ca- lais, and was magistrate or alderman of Stamford in 1414, 1422, and 1427. He built All Saints' Church in Stamford, and is buried there dying. July 26, 1442. His wife died November 22, 1460, and lies beside him in the upper end'of the north aisle. They had three children, the second being

(IV) John Browne, of Stamford, who was also a draper, and was alderman in 1448, 1453. and 1462. He married Agnes , and died between 1462-1470. She died in 1470. Both are buried in All Saints' Church. They had four children, the eldest being

(V) Christopher Browne, of Stamford, and later of Tolethorpe, Rutland county, England. His will is dated 1516, and is proven at London, in February, 1518. He was married twice, his second wife being Agnes -, of Beding- field, Norfolk county, England. He was sheriff of Rutlandshire in 1492, and from 1500 until 1509. He allied himself with Henry VII, and assisted him against Richard III, for which serv- ice Henry VIII, in the eighteenth year of his reign, granted to his eldest son Francis, a patent authorizing him, among other privileges, to re- main with his head covered in the presence of the king. In 1480 arms were granted to him by Edward IV, as follows : In the first quarter, party per bend, argent and sable ; in bend three mascles bendways counterchanged. Before this grant the- arms were: "Sable three mallets argent," and the crest "On a wreath argent and sable a demi- stork, its neck nowed gules and wings displayed argent. In its beak a scroll bearing the motto 'apprandrg a murir.'" Christopher Browne and his wife had four sons, the second being

(VI) Christopher Browne, of Swan Hall, Hawkedon, Suffolk county, England. His will is dated May 27. 1531, and is proved in Bury St. Edmunds, July 3, 1538. He had six children, the second being

(VII) Christopher Browne, of Swan Hall, Hawkedon, whose will was dated November 24, 1568, and proved at Bury St. Edmunds, May 31, 1574. He was church warden in 1564. He had four children the eldest being

(VIII) Thomas Browne, of Swan Hall, whose will was dated December 22, 1590, and proved at Bury St. Edmunds, January 26, 1591. He died December 23, 1590. He had five chil- dren, the fourth being.

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(IX) Abraham Browne, of Swan Hall, who emigrated to Watertown, Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman March 6. 1631. He was a land surveyor and held many important offices of trust. He laid out the highway from Dor- chester Field to the Flats. His will was proved in Middlesex county, Massachusetts, October I, 1660, at about which date he died. He had six children, the fourth being

( X) Jonathan Browne, born in Watertown, Massachusetts, October 15, 1635; married Feb- ruary 11, 1661, Mary Shattuck, daughter of Will- iam Shattuck, of Watertown. She died October 23, 1732, aged eighty-seven years, and is buried at Watertown. His will is dated February 19, 1690. His children, of whom there were ten. dropped the final "e' in the spelling of the name. The fifth child was

(XI) Abraham Brown, born in Watertown, August 26, 1671, died November 27, 1729, and lies buried with his wife in the Waltham grave- yard. He married Mary Hyde, daughter of Job and Elizabeth (Fuller) Hyde, who died Novem- ber 29, 1723. He was treasurer of Watertown, 1695-1700; assessor 1705: selectman and town clerk 1712. His will is dated July 20, 1728. He was the guardian of Ephraim Williams, the founder of Williams College. He had nine chil- dren, of whom the second was

(XII) Jonathan Brown, of Watertown, born 1694, died July 25. 1758. He married Elizabeth Simonds, born in November, 1648, daughter of Joseph and Mary Simonds, of Lexington, and granddaughter of William Simonds, of Woburn, who married Judith, widow of James Heywood, whose maiden name was Phiffin. Elizabeth died August 6, 1765. Jonathan was a selectinan of Watertown in 1739-41. He had eight children, the seventh being

(XIII) Lucy Brown was born in Water- town, June 8, 1734. died in Gilsum, New Hamp- shire, January, 1815. She was married February 17. 175-, to Colonel William Bond of the Bonds of Bury St. Edmunds, England, the descendants of whom settled in Watertown in 1630. Colonel William Bond was also of Watertown. He was born February 17. 1733, and died August 31, 1776, at Camp Mount Independence, opposite Ticonderoga, and was there buried with military honors. An extract from the Boston Gasette of September 23, 1776, reads : "On the 3Ist ult., de- parted this life Colonel William Bond. He met the last enemy with the greatest calmness and in- trepidity. In his death our country has lost a true patriot and a most vigilant officer of tried

bravery." Colonel Bond fought in the battle of Bunker Hill as lieutenant-colonel under Colonel Thomas Gardner, and after the latter was killed in battle Colonel Bond took command of the regi- ment, which in November. 1775, was ordered to New York, and on April 20 went to Canada by way of the lakes. By his wife Lucy he had eleven children, of whom the youngest was

(XIV) Susanna Bond, born in Watertown, September 8, 1775, died February 27, 1803, in Brookline, Massachusetts. She married Zephion Thayer, born in Waltham, Massachusetts, Octo- ber 12, 1769. He was son of Captain Jedediah Thayer, a Revolutionary officer, and a grandson of Captain Ebenezer Thayer, of Braintree, Mas- sachusetts. Zephion and Susanna Thayer had five children, the eldest being

(XV) Lucy Thayer, born September 6, 1791, died August 23, 1828. She married David Reed. of Alstead, New Hampshire; and settled in Surrey, New Hampshire. They had seven chil- dren, among whom was

(XVI) Maria Louisa Reed, born April 26. 1815, and is now ( 1904) living with her daugh- ter, Lucy Reed Sanderson, in Scranton, Pennsyl- vania. She was married October 3. 1843. to Charles Jackson, son of Stephen W. and Lu- cretia Jackson, of Boston, and great-grandson of Major Timothy Jackson, a Revolutionary officer. who in turn was a great-grandson of Major Tim- othy Jackson, an officer in the French and Indian War. Charles Jackson died in China, leaving several children, among whom was

(XVII) Lucy Reed Jackson, born in Bos- ton, in 1816, and became the wife of George San- derson, of Scranton, Pennsylvania. There were eight children of this marriage, six of whom are now living.

DR. ISAIAH FAWKES EVERHART, a physician of the highest professional attainments, whose name is honorably inscribed upon the rolls of the medical corps of the United States army during the Civil war ; an accomplished man of letters ; and a scientist whose labors have enriched the literature of the state of his nativity, espec- ially in the field of natural history, is one of the most distinguished representatives of one of the most prominent of Pennsylvania families, whose ancestral history is written in the preceding nar- rative. Three sons of his father's brother were men of conspicuous talent. 1. Benjamin M. Ev- erhart, who died in West Chester, Pennsylvania. September 22, 1904; out of nine hundred quota- tions in a celebrated botanical volume published

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in Italy, more than six hundred were from his own work ; he left a large estate and fine botan- ical library. 2. Hon. James B. Everhart, de- ceased, a graduate of Princeton, was reared to the law, but never entered upon practice; he principally followed literary pursuits, and among his best known productions was his volume of "Miscellanies," "Everhart's Poems," and "The Fox Chase." He served in Congress from Ches- ter county for two terms. 3. John R. Everhart, a graduate of Princeton, was an accomplished physician, and served as surgeon of the Ninety- seventh Pennsylvania Regiment in the Civil war.

Dr. Everhart was born in Berks county, Penn- sylania, January 22, 1840, the youngest son of James and Mary (Templin) Everhart. He ac- quired his elementary education in the common schools in his home neighborhood, attended a nearby academy, and at the early age of seven- teen years matriculated in Franklin and Marshall College at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. There he pursued a scientific course, giving especial atten- tion to those branches in which he afterward at- tained great proficiency, and for which he mani- fested a preference from his early boyhood. After graduation from college he entered upon the study of medicine. The breaking out of the Civil war found him thus engaged, and he became connected with the West Philadelphia United States Mili- tary Hospital. then under the charge of Dr. Hayes, of Arctic Exploration fame, and with four thousand patients.

He rendered faithful and industrious service in this great institution, meantime pursuing his studies under the course prescribed by the med- ical department of the University of Pennsyl- vania, in which he was matriculant, and was graduated therefrom with the class of 1863, and was at once commissioned assistant surgeon with the rank of first lieutenant in the Eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry, and went to the front to join that command. February 9, 1865, he was promoted to full surgeon with the rank of major. July 24 of the same year his regiment was con- solidated with the Sixteenth Regiment Pennsyl- vania Cavalry, under the latter designation, and in which he retained his rank. He participated in all the operations in which his command was en- gaged. as a part of the Army of the Potomac. dur- ing the crucial battle months of the summer of 1863 and all of 186! and a portion of 1865, cover- ing all the operations under General Grant in the terrible grapple with the resourceful foe. At- tached to an ever rapidly moving cavalry column, in constant touch with the enemy, Surgeon Ever- hart's duties were arduous and incessant, and only

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Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 11

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin, 1837-1917; Hand, Alfred, 1835-; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921; Lewis Publishing Company Publication date: 1906 Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 1026

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin, 1837-1917; Hand, Alfred, 1835-; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921; Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 1026