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local affairs cast his vote for the candidate best qualified for office, irrespective of party affilia- tion. He was at death the only surviving char- ter member of Wyoming Lodge, No. 468, Free and Accepted Masons, and served all the chairs in the Blue Lodge. He became a Royal Arch Mason, joining Shekinah Chapter, No. 182, at Wilkes-Barre, and Dieu Le Veut Commandery. No. 5, and was past division commander of that body. He attended the Presbyterian Church of Wyoming.
Mr. Laycock married, December 19, 1867, Mary Elizabeth Church, born July 17, 1842, died February 22, 1895, daughter of Almond and Ruth Ann (Jenkins) Church, natives of Pennsylvania and of English origin, and a de- scendant of Colonel Jenkins, whose sketch ap- pears elsewhere in this work. One child was the issue of this marriage, Ruth Anne, born March 6, 1877, became the wife of Preistly R. Johnson, of Kingston, Pennsylvania, and died September 8, 1898.
WILLIAM J. GARRISON, M. D., D. D. S., was born in Eaton township, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1856. On the paternal side he is a descendant of a French lineage and closely related to Lloyd W. Garrison, a great reformer and humanitarian. His parents. Wells and Phoebe A. Garrison, natives of Wyoming county, reared a family of seven children, four of whom are living at the present time ( 1905) : William J., Andrew C., in the west ; Minnie, married L. L. Goles, of Chase. Pennsylvania ; and Cora A., married C. H. Johnson. Wells Garrison (father) was a veteran of the Civil war and a member of Company F, Fifty-third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded, first at the battle of the Wilderness and again at Hatcher's Run. In 1865 he was captured at Hatcher's Run, but later recaptured by the Union forces. After the close of the war he went west and died in Kansas of typhoid fever. His wife's death was caused by the same disease.
William J. Garrison attended the common schools of his native township, and the knowl- edge thus obtained was supplemented by the close perusal of books. He took up the study of medicine and dentistry at the same time, took special courses, beginning 1871, but devoted his time principally to dentistry. In 1871 he began the active practice of his professions. For a number of years he practiced in different towns, including Scranton, Pittston, Wilkes-Barre and Mauch Chunk, but in 1903 removed to Nanti-
coke. Dr. Garrison is a Republican in politics.
Dr. Garrison was married three times. His first wife was Mary A. Grish, of Jackson town- ship ; one child, now deceased. His second wife was Lizzie Bogart, to whom were born two children: Harry and Millie P. Garrison. His third wife was Mary A. Ziegenfaas, to whom five children were born: John W., Russell, Beatrice, Hazel, and Adam. Harry, his eldest son, is engaged in practice with his father. The Baptist church expresses the Doctor's religious convictions.
G. W. WORDEN. According to tradition Samuel, Peter and Joseph Worden, brothers, emigrated from England about 1760 and settled near New York. At the outbreak of the Revo- lutionary war Peter and Joseph Worden went to Nova Scotia. Samuel Worden, who was a black- smith, at once joined with the colonists and en- tered the American army. He was a soldier under General John Sullivan, and was with the famous expedition in 1779 under that brave of- ficer against the offending Indians of the Upper Susquehanna valley, and also against the Seneca Indian country west of Seneca Lake in New York state. Returning down the Susquehanna, Samuel Worden took up his abode in the val- ley, and died at Sunbury, Pennsylvania, leaving a wife and five children. One of his sons was Nathaniel Worden, a mason by trade, who in 1796 was a taxable inhabitant of Hanover town- ship in Luzerne county. In 1796 Nathaniel mar- ried Lana Line, daughter of Conrad Line, by whom he had ten children :
Samuel married Loretta Richards; removed from Dallas, in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, 1853, and died in Illinois, 1856, leaving five daughters and two sons-Samuel, Jr., and Will- iam Worden. William lost a foot in the army, war of 1861-65. John, whose life was passed chiefly in Dallas, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, and who had a large family of fourteen children. Two of his sons, John H. and Charles W., died in the service, 1861-65, and are buried in ' one grave in Dallas. Peter, who died in childhood. Elizabeth, married Joseph Ryman; had eight children ; died in Indiana. July, 1866. Abra- ham, died in Dallas, Pennsylvania, September 9, 1847; married Hannah Spencer ;1 had nine children, four of whom are still living: Benson J., a pianist. living in Plainsville, Ohio; Mahala, widow of William Hunter, lives now in Dallas ;
1. Hannah Spencer's father was Elam Spencer, who served in the American army throughont the period of the revolution.
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George W., of Dallas ; and Perry Newtown, of Dallas. Nathaniel, died young. Henry, lived at Falls, Wyoming county. One of his sons died in the Confederate prison at Salisbury, South Carolina. Joseph, died in Lake township, Lu- zerne county, Pennsylvania. Clarissa, married Joseph Richards ; settled in Fremont, Illinois. Agnes, died aged four years.
The other children of Samuel Worden, the Revolutionary patriot, were Peter, died in Han- over at the age of twenty-two years; Samuel, Junior, a hatter by trade, who accumulated a fair property in New York City, lost it by an unfortunate fire, and afterward removed to Vir- ginia ; Sally, married Abram Line ; and a daugh- ter who died young, name unknown.
When Abraham Worden died all his nine children were living, and only two sons, Sidney and Spencer, were more than six years old, while George was just six years of age. For years they had a struggle for existence, but they worked earnestly and with the true Worden spirit, and by their own efforts, aided and en- couraged by their good mother, they kept the old home farm, paid off in due season its en- cumbrance and then built up comfortable homes and fortunes for themselves; and to-day George Washington Worden and Perry Newton Wor- den are among the most forehanded and success- ful farmers in Dallas township. In consequence of the loss of their father these sons were de- nied the benefits of early and thorough school- ing, and such instruction as they were able to obtain was by attending an occasional term of winter school. When they reached manhood George Washington and Sidney (the latter now dead) purchased the homestead farm and worked together many long years, until Sidney's death in 1898. Then George bought his broth- er's interest in the property and has since con- ducted the farm alone. He was born in Dallas. March 22, 1841, and has passed his entire life in that vicinity. His efforts in life have been rewarded with substantial success, and he has educated himself by constant reading and by his observation and association with men of un- derstanding. Mr. Worden never married.
CONRAD HAAS, a progressive and suc- cessful business man of Shickshinny, Pennsyl- vania, was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1852. He is a descendant of Frederick Haas, of Ger- many, who was a soldier in a Hessian regiment, a man of large stature, being six feet five inches in height, and lived to be eighty years of age. His son, Frederick Haas, grandfather of Con-
rad Haas, was also in the same regiment, whose members must be six feet in height, and he, like his father, filled the requirements as to stat- ure. He married and had a son Conrad, whose mother lived to be one hundred years of age.
Conrad Haas, senior, was a worker in metal, and a first-class mechanic. He married Eliza- beth Gilford, who was also a native of Germany. The Gilfords are supposed to be of English ex- traction, who in early days emigrated to Ger- many and became identified with the country. In 1848 Mr. and Mrs. Haas emigrated to Amer- ica, settling in Ithaca, New York. Three chil- dren were born to them, two of whom are liv- ing : Charles, of Berwick, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, and Conrad, junior. Mrs. Haas passed away in her eighty-fourth year, and her husband also lived to a good old age.
Conrad Haas, son of Conrad and Elizabeth (Gilford) Haas, at the age of three years re- moved with his parents to Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, where he was reared and edu- cated in the common schools. In early life he learned the trade of plumber, gasfitter and boiler maker, and is an expert in metal work of any kind. While learning his trade he worked in four different states and for various firms, thus observing the methods of others and acquiring knowledge that would be valuable to him in later years. In 1880 he opened a hardware store in Hazleton, which he conducted successfully for twenty years. Mr. Haas is now engaged in the wholesale liquor and mineral water business, in which he is eminently successful. Besides his other various business interests he conducted an ice plant, which has proved a profitable busi- ness. He is one of the respected and progress- ive men of the borough, is a member of the Brotherhood of the Union, and while in Hazleton was a member of the council.
In 1871 Mr. Haas married Elizabeth Mei- krantz, and their children were Henry, Conrad Elizabeth and Minnie. In 1900, at the death of his son-in-law, Mr. Creasey, Mr. Haas took charge of his extensive bottling plant, of which he is now manager and part owner.
WILLIAM TASKER. The coal industry of the county numbers among its forces no one more trusted and efficient than William Tasker. of Moosic. He is a son of John and Sarah (Horton) Tasker, both natives of England. Their children were: James, Sarah, deceased : William, mentioned hereafter ; Kate, and Susan. All the living members of this family came to the United States and reside in Duryea and its
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vicinity. Mrs. Tasker, the mother, died in 1870, in her native land, and the father, at the age of seventy-four years emigrated to the United States and now makes his home with his son William.
William Tasker, son of John and Sarah ( Horton) Tasker, was born in 1863, in England, and was educated in his native country. In 1883, in company with the other members of the family, he emigrated to the United States and settled in Duryea. For some time he filled various positions in and about the mines, and in 1888 engaged in the grocery business on his own account. In this venture he was successful and for twelve years carried on a thriving trade. In 1900 he disposed of the business and accepted the position of engineer with the Delaware and Hudson Company, his post of duty being at the Spring Brook colliery. The fact that he still retains this position is evidence sufficient of the confidence reposed in him by the company. Mr. Tasker married Sarah Smith, whose death oc- curred April, 1887. Mr. Tasker married (sec- ·ond), January, 1893, Agnes, daughter of George and Barbara (Wagner) Miller, and they have three children : Barbara, Willie and Violet.
JOHN McGAHREN was a native of the Empire state, having been born at Ellicottsville, Cattaraugus county, New York, March 8, 1852. His father, Patrick McGahren, came from Cavan, Ireland, in 1846, and locating upon a farm at Wysox, Bradford county, soon took position as one of the substantial citizens of the place. He married Catherine Masterson, daugh- ter of the late Cornelius Masterson, a native of Trim, county Meath, Ireland, but who had emi- grated to America and was living at Newark, New Jersey, when Patrick McGahren married his daughter.
John McGahren attended the schools of his native town, and was afterward sent to St. Bon- aventure College, Allegany county, New York, whence he graduated in 1872. He soon after applied for a position in the public schools of Wilkes-Barre. His application was successful and he taught two terms, afterward entered upon the study of law in the office of Foster & Lewis. He was admitted to the bar February 14, 1876. For five years he was associated in a legal partnership with Hon. C. D. Foster, and for a still longer term sustained the same rela- tionship to Ex-Judge Garrick M. Harding, and thereby acquired advantages of which he phicked the most that they afforded. His start in life was unaccompanied by any auspicious influences
apart from the mother wit and disposition to industry with which nature had endowed him. His studies were prosecuted without meretri- cious aids, and at times amid discouragements that would have overcome less ambitions and determined young men, and his admission to the bar and entry upon active practice had only the promise which good abilities and honest use of them will always fulfill. The measure of suc- cess he has achieved in his profession equals that of any other member of the bar, and he stands well with his brother professionals and with the community at large. In 1882 he was the Democratic candidate for district attorney, and was elected for a term of three years by a vote of 10,358, as against F. M. Nichols, Repub- lican, who had a vote of 9,394. He is a Demo- crat in politics and did good service on the stump and otherwise for his party whenever called upon. His services in the office of district attor- ney were profitable to the county and brought him a reputation as a practitioner that stood him in good stead throughout his active career up to the present time. He prosecuted the pleas of the commonwealth with all necessary vigor, and yet not vindictively toward those whose misfortune it was to fall into the clutches of the violated law .. and he managed in the pursuit of these methods to secure conviction in almost every case in which justice required it, and yet avoid that per- secution which so often follows the unfairly accused. Since the expiration of his term of office, he has filled various positions of trust and confidence. He was appointed by the court, for the term of three years, on the board for the examination of law students who seek admission to the bar. He has been chairman of the county convention, and served for several years on the county committee of the Democratic party. His advice and assistance have always been freely given to his party, and as an appreciation of his services he was at one time tendered the nomi- nation for judge, and again the nomination for congress, which he declined to accept. He has established an extensive and lucrative law prac- tice, and by his legal attainments and industry occupies a leading position at the bar.
In 1889 he married Mary E., a daughter of Matthew McVay, a resident of Philadelphia, who in his lifetime was a warm and intimate friend of the lamented Samuel J. Randall. Mr. McVay was well known throughout Philadelphia as the chief of the Democratic forces in the fifth ward of that city. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. McGahren, John M. and Walter Ridgway.
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ORR FAMILY. The Orr families of the Wyoming Valley, whose several representatives in each succeeding generation for the last three- quarters of a century or more have been promi- nent factors in the civil, professional, political and business history of that region, are descend- ants of Joseph Orr, a sturdy son of the north of Ireland, who immigrated to America in the lat- ter part of the eighteenth century and settled first in New Jersey.
Joseph Orr, soon after 1800, removed to the Wyoming Valley, locating in Wilkes-Barre, pur- chasing land there May 13, 1809. He married twice; the first ceremony was performed near Water Gap, Pennsylvania, and the second in New Jersey, his last wife having been Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of Abraham Johnson, of Kingston township. The Johnsons were from Johnsonburg, New Jersey. John Johnson, treas- urer of Luzerne county in 1846-47, was a nephew of Abraham Johnson, whose daughter Elizabeth married Joseph Orr, the elder of that name. Joseph Orr subsequently removed with his family to Exeter, later purchased a tract of land in Wilkes-Barre, and afterwards purchased lands where now stands West Pittston. Still later he removed to Dallas, and died in Trucks- ville, Kingston township, Pennsylvania. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution.
Joseph Orr, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Johnson) Orr, was born in New Jersey, March 20, 1792. He came to Wyoming later and lived in Dallas and Kingston townships the greater part of his life. He was a carpenter by trade. He married Mary Tuttle, born April 18, 1791, daugh- ter of John Tuttle and wife Mary Bennett. She was daughter of Thomas Bennett, of Forty Fort, and with two sisters was in the fort at the time of the Wyoming massacre (see Myers family history), and granddaughter of Henry Tuttle, born Baskingridge, New Jersey. November 24, 1733, and settled in Wyoming, near Forty Fort, in 1785. This Henry Tuttle was a farmer and blacksmith, and was a soldier of the Revolution, and his son John was also a blacksmith and fought in the Revolution. The children of Jo- seph Orr and Mary Tuttle were: Miles Covel, born January II, 1814: Elizabeth, born Septem- ber 29, 1819: Ann Maria, born March 8, 1823 : Albert Skeer, born January 21, 1829; and Charles S., born January 13, 1831.
Albert Skeer Orr, fourth child and only sur- viving member of the family of Joseph and Mary (Tuttle) Orr, was born in Wyoming, Pennsyl- vania, January 21, 1829. During the Civil war
he was sutler of the Fifty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, also for the One Hundred and Forty- fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers in the name of Joseph Athoholdt, and for the Fifth New Hamp- shire Volunteers in the name of his brother, Charles S. Orr. He loaded two vessels for this purpose, and was one-third owner of the goods in a third vessel when Lee surrendered. He also was a wholesale dealer to supply other sut- lers, and was purveyor at General Hancock's headquarters. After his return from the service Mr. Orr was postmaster of Wilkes-Barre under President Arthur. January 1, 1872, he was elected superintendent of the Colville Passenger Railroad, which position he held until April I, 1892. He took out with others, a charter for the Wilkes-Barre and Harvey Lake Railroad, built in 1886. This was later sold to the Lehigh Val- ley Railroad. He then took out a charter for the Williamsport Railroad from Wilkes-Barre, but in its place was built the Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad, running from Wilkes-Barre to Stroudsburg to connect with the New York, Susquehanna and Western, at that point. He graded about thirty miles of this railroad. He then built the hotel at Dallas, mentioned be- low. He was actively connected with a number of enterprises in Wilkes-Barre, among which was the laying out of plots and the erection of four- teen houses, and the development of its real es- tate interests generally. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Masonic order, Lodge No. 61, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Albert Skeer Orr married, May 12, 1851, Priscilla Worden, born in Lowreytown, daugh- ter of John and Susanna ( Morrison) Worden, of Dallas, Pennsylvania. Their children were: 1. Nathaniel M., born December 12, 1851, an at- torney at Kane, Pennsylvania, and editor of the Kane Republican. 2. Emma Delphine, born Jan- uary 25, 1854, married Charles E. Eberly, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and had William and Charles Eberly. 3. George M., born January 13, 1856, in Erie, Pennsylvania, married Ella East- erline, and had Helen, Priscilla, Prudence, Ralph, Albert, Myron and Charlotte E. Orr. 4. Nellie P., born February 3. 1861, married Leslie McLean Willison, who is engaged in the western grain business in Binghamton, New York, and had Leslie McLean, Priscilla Orr, Thomas Al- bert, Alexander D., Margaret E., Marion Orr, Kenneth, Donald, Charles A., died at the age of four years. 5. Abraham Johnson, married Eliza- beth Baldwin, in Wilkes-Barre, and their daugh-
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ter Mary Gertrude married Linden Meagley, in Connecticut. 6. William Grant, mentioned here- after.
Family tradition has it that Samuel, Peter and Joseph Worden, brothers, ancestors of Mrs. Albert Skeer Orr, came from England about 1760, and settled near New York ; that at the be- ginning of the revolution Peter and Joseph went to Nova Scotia, and that Samuel, who was a blacksmith, and a pronounced Whig, left home and enlisted in the American army, and was with General Sullivan's forces sent against the offend- ing Indians in the memorable campaign of 1779. He thus became acquainted with the Wyoming Valley country. He died at Sunbury, Pennsyl- vania, leaving a wife and five children: Nathan- iel, in 1796, a taxable in Hanover, Luzerne coun- ty; Peter, who died in Hanover, aged twenty- two; Samuel, Jr., a hatter by trade; Sally, mar- ried Abram Line; and one other daughter. Na- thaniel Worden married Lana Line, and had ten children : Samuel ; John, married Susanna Mor- rison, and had fourteen children, among whom was Priscilla, who married Albert Skeer Orr, and John H., and Charles W. Worden, who died in the United States service during the Civil war ; Peter, Elizabeth, Abraham, Nathaniel, Henry, Joseph, Clarissa, and Agnes Worden.
William Grant Orr, son of Albert Skeer and Priscilla (Worden) Orr, was born in Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1872. He acquired his education in the public schools of that city, the Harry Hillman Academy, and the Nazareth Military Academy, Nazareth, Penn- sylvania. He then took up the study of medicine and matriculated in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he re- mained about a year and then left on account of ill health. Ruturning to Wilkes-Barre he soon afterward joined with his father in erecting a large sanitarium in Dallas, the son taking charge of the hotel and the mineral water departments until 1900, when he came to Wilkes-Barre and engaged in real estate and bond business, which he is now successfully following.
Mr. Orr married Carrie S. Phillips, daughter of Charles D. and Mary ( Thomas) Phillips, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the former named being a wholesale dealer in millinery goods in that city. Mr. and Mrs. Orr are the parents of the following children : Mildred Phillips, born June 7, 1896; William Grant, Jr., born Septem- ber 13, 1897: Charles Phillips, born April 5, 1899; Leslie Wilson, born May 1, 1900; and Dorothy, born July, 1904.
BOWMAN FAMILY. 1. The ancestors of the Bowman family in America was Nathaniel Bowman, "Gentleman," who came from England with Governor Winthrop in 1630. He was one of the early proprietors of Watertown, Massa- chusetts, his name being on the records in 1836- 37, but on account of High Church principles was not admitted freeman until 1636. He re- moved early to Cambridge Farms (Lexington) and settled on lands purchased of Edward Goffe, situated in the southeasterly part of the town, near Arlington line. He died January 21, 1682. His will bears date October 21, 1679, and was proved April 4, 1682. His real estate was in- ventoried as follows : House and 10 acres of land, £120; 20 acres of meadow, £50 ; 70 acres of upland unimproved, f70. He left the homestead to Francis, his eldest child. This house was de- stroyed by fire April, 1905. "History of Lex- ington.'
II. Francis Bowman, born at Lexington, Massachusetts, 1630, died December 16, 1687. Married Martha Sherman, September 26, 1661, daughter of Captain John Sherman and Martha Palmer. He had seven children. "History of Lexington."
III. Major Joseph Bowman, fourth son of Francis Bowman, was born in Lexington, May 18, 1674, died April 8, 1762. Married Phebe Barnard, daughter of John Barnard and Sarah Flemming. Joseph was one of the leading and influential men of the town, both in municipal and church affairs. He filled the office of town clerk, assessor, and selectman repeatedly. He was on the board of selectmen fifteen years, and a representative six years. He was also a justice of the peace for many years. He had nine chil- dren. "History of Lexington."
IV. Captain Thaddeus Bowman, sixth son of Joseph Bowman, born in Lexington, September 2, 1712, died New Braintree, Massachusetts, May 25, 1806. Married, December 2, 1736, Sarah Loring, daughter of Deacon Joseph Lor- ing and Lydia Fiske. Sarah died December 23. 1747. He married (second) February 8, 1753, Sybil Woolson, widow of Isaac Woolson, of Weston. He had thirteen children. He and his seven sons were in the battle of Lexington, "the opening act in the great drama of the war for independence." "History of Lexington."
V. Major Joseph Bowman, second son of Thaddeus Bowman, born in Lexington. Febru- ary 18, 1740, died January 3, 1818, in New Braintree. He married, November 22, 1764, Katharine Munroe, daughter of Colonel William
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Munroe and Sarah Mason. Joseph was an en- sign of a company of fifty men from the small town of New Braintree who marched to Boston on the report of the attack upon the company at Lexington, on April 19. He soon after joined the army and commanded a battalion at the battle of Bennington, and the other battles which re- sulted in the capture of Burgoyne. His son Joseph represented the town of New Braintree in the general court fourteen years, between 1807 and 1839. He was a member of the governor's council in 1832-33-34, and senator from the county of Worcester in 1828 and 1829. He was also president of the Hampshire Manufacturers Bank, chosen annually for twenty-one consecu- tive years. "Histories of Lexington and Cam- bridge."
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