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Dr. A. Frank Lampman attended the public schools of Wilkes-Barre, the Wilkes-Barre Busi- ness College, from which he was graduated in 1887. Kingston Seminary, and in 1889 matricu- lated at the Baltimore Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1894. He then began practice with his father, following along the same lines, and upon the death of the latter assumed his large practice and has attended to the same up to the present time ( 1905). He is connected with a number of societies in Wilkes-Barre, as follows: Lodge No. 61. Free and Accepted Ma- sons ; Centennial Lodge, No. 927, and Wyoming Valley Encampment, No. 25, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Keystone Consistory of Scran- ton ; Trem Temple, Mystic Shrine: Hoffuning Lodge, No. 41, Daughter of Rebekah: Canton No. 31, Patriarchs Militant ; Columbia Council, No. 43, Junior Order of American Mechanies ; and Concordia Singing Society. He attends the Episcopal Church.
Dr. Lampman married, June 28, 1893, Chloe S. Bryant, daughter of Charles and Ruth G. ( Stroh) Bryant, and granddaughter of Charles and Rebecca ( Wilson) Bryant, natives of New Jersey. Charles Bryant ( father) was born Oc- tober 28, 1835, in Forty Fort borough. For eight years he served in the capacity of overseer on a large farm, after which he devoted his at- tention to farming on his own account. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a Dem- ocrat in politics. On December 5. 1861, he mar- ried Ruth G. Stroh, daughter of Henry and Margaret ( Kreidler) Stroh, natives of Pennsyl- vania. and of German descent. They were the parents of five children : George : Alice, married John B. S. Keeler : Edith : Chloe S., wife of Dr. Lampman ; and Richard R.
L. FLOYD HESS, an attorney-at-law,whose office is located in Wilkes-Barre, but whose resi- dence is at Forty Fort, was born at Register, Lit- zerne county, Pennsylvania, April 5, 1876, son of Jeremiah and Mary ( Hartman) Hess.
The pioneer ancestor of the American branch of the family was Philip Hess, who came to this country from Germany early in the seventeenth century, settling in Northampton county, Penn- sylvania, where his son, Jeremiah Hess, was born and where he resided until an advanced age. Philip Hess was accompanied to this country by his brother. Philip Hess, son of Jeremiah Hess. was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania. He followed agricultural pursuits, as had many of the members of the previous generations of the family, and in addition to this was a merchant, proprietor and operator of a saw and grist mill in Huntington, and the owner of over two hun- dred acres of land in the same township. He was a member of the German Reformed Church, held all the offices in the same, and took an ac- tive part in the work connected therewith. He married Lavina Snyder Smethers, who was born in Salem, Pennsylvania, a representative of one of the oldest families in that town .. She bore him the following children: George, Josiah, Mary Ann, who became the wife of Robert Meix- ell, they reside Fairmount township: Amanda, Jeremiah, mentioned below : and Reuben, who re- sides at Ashley and is engaged as foreman of the Ashley shops. Philip Hess, father of these child- ren, attained the advanced age of almost eighty years ; his wife passed away at the age of sixty- five years.
Jeremiah Hess, son of Philip and Lavina (Smethers ) Hess, and father of L. Floyd Hess, was born at Salem township, Pennsylvania, De-
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cember 26, 1852. He was reared in Huntington township, and during his active career was a farmer and merchant, conducting both lines suc- cessfully up to the time of his decease at the early age of thirty-five years. He took an active part in political affairs, casting his vote with the Democratic party, and was elected to all the township offices. He was a member of the Or- der of Odd Fellows. He was united in marriage to Mary Hartman, who bore him two children : L. Floyd, mentioned hereinafter ; and Jennie A., wife of Albert Good, a merchant, owner and operator of three stores, who resides in Water- town, Pennsylvania. Mary (Hartman) Hess was born in Jackson township, Pennsylvania, and was one of six children, all living, born to Nathan and Luzetta ( Trescott) Hartman, namely : Eliza- beth, who became the wife of James White, of Forty Fort ; Mary, widow of Jeremiah Hess, who resides with her son, L. Floyd Hess ; Anna, who became the wife of David Pifer, a resident of Huntington township ; Adelbert. E., a resident of Shickshinny : William, a resident of Kingston, and Matilda, widow of Edmund Kester. Nathan Hartman, father of these children, was born in Union township, a son of John Hartman, who was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, fol- lowed farming as an occupation, died at the age of seventy-eight years. Nathan Hartman was one of the first settlers in Huntington township, where he followed farming all his life, and died at the age of seventy-six years. His wife, whose maiden name was Luzetta J. Trescott, and who died at the age of seventy years, was a daughter of Seth Trescott, who was one of the patentees of the land and a representative of an old and honored family. Seth Trescott followed farm- ing all his life, and died at an advanced age.
L. Floyd Hess, only son of Jeremiah and Mary (Hartman) Hess, remained on the farm until he attained the age of twenty-one years, in the meantime attending the public schools of the neighborhood. Bloomsburg State Normal school, from which he graduated, and Dickinson College, graduating from the law department thereof in 1891. During four years of this period of time he taught school. He then came to Wilkes- Barre and opened an office for the practice of his profession, which has continued since. He was also admitted to practice in the superior and the supreme courts of the state, and the supreme court of New York state. His career as a law- yer has been marked by sterling character, and a comprehensive knowledge of the law. He was the organizer and for some time secretary of the
New Century Correspondence Schools, and is one of the directors and treasurer of the National Realty Company. Mr. Hess is a member of the F. and A. N., No. 61, of Wilkes-Barre, the I. O. O. F., Wyoming Lodge, No. 39, in which he has passed through all the chairs up to vice grand, a member of the Outalissi Encampment of Odd Fellows, and a charter member of the Pa- triotic Order Sons of America, of which he is past grand and district president. He has also taken an active interest in military affairs, and is sergeant of Company F. Ninth Regiment Na- tional Guard, state of Pennsylvania. He is a member of a number of college fraternities and the Weorcan Club of Carlisle. He attends the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Hess married, July 16, 1904, Mabel Widner, who was born in Cham- bersburg, Pennsylvania, daughter of William Widner, a cigar manufacturer in Carlisle, Penn- sylvania. Mrs. Hess is the eldest in a family of three children, the other members being Rachael and Russel. The latter is traveling with Keene.
WILLIAM RITER KLINE, of Wilkes- Barre, ex-chief of police of that city, now on the police force of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, was born October 13, 1860, in Shickshinny, Lu- zerne county, Pennsylvania.
The family was founded in America by Jacob Kline, who left his home in Germany and sought a wide field in the new world, landing here in Oc- tober, 1741. A son, Daniel, was born in 1742 and served in the Revolutionary war. Daniel Kline, son of Daniel Kline, was a soldier in the War of 1812 and served under General Jackson. He settled on Fishing creek, that vicinity being then known as Kline's Row, and there reared a family of children, among whom was John J. Kline, grandfather of William R. Kline, who was born July, 1804, and whose death occurred Feb- ruary 25, 1847. He married, February 22, 1827, Hannah Rhone, who was born September 20, 1806. Their children were as follows : White- man F., born January 25, 1828, mentioned here- inafter ; Samuel R., born March 23, 1829, died January 7, 1883; Martha J., born August 20, 1830, deceased ; Cordelia, born March 23, 1832; Elizabeth, born June 16, 1835, died April 28, 1838; Louisa D., born October . 12, 1839, de- ceased ; Hannah C., born July 5, 1841, died Feb- ruary, 1870 ; Lavina A., born September 13, 1844, deceased : Mathias Leeport, born October 28, 1846, killed at the battle of the Wilderness, May IO, 1863. The family resides in Columbia county, along Fishing creek.
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Whiteman F. Kline, father of William R. Kline, was a native of Columbia county, Pennsyl- vania, born January 25, 1828. After completing a common school education he served an appren- ticeship at the trade of saddler and shoemaker. In addition to following these occupations he was also the proprietor of a general store at Beach Haven. He was a loyal and public-spirited cit- izen, and during the dark days of the Civil war enlisted as a private and served faithfully throughout the entire period of his enlistment ; he was a member of Company B, One Hundred and Ninety-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun- teers. He was an active and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and an hon- ored member of Sylvania Lodge of the Order of Free and Accepted Masons, and Shickshinny Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was united in marriage to Elizabeth Crawford, and two children were the issue of the union : Lloyd C., born June 6, 1855, died September 3, 1898; married, March 6, 1877, to Agnes Allen, who bore him two children: Ira M., who served with the United States Volunteers in the Span- ish-American war, and Edward, deceased. Will- iam R., born October 13, 1860, mentioned herein- after. Mr. Kline, father of these children, died July II, 1903 ; his wife passed away September 5, 1904.
William R. Kline attended the common schools in the vicinity of his birthplace and there obtained a practical education which prepared him for the activities and duties of life. He came to Wilkes-Barre, November 29, 1879. For a period of almost seven years he was a meniber of the police force of. the city of Wilkes-Barre, being appointed patrolman, April, 1894; ser- geant, September, 1894; and chief, April, 1899, serving as such until July, 1901, and since then he has been actively connected with the coal and iron police force of the Lehigh Valley Coal Com- pany, his duties being of a general nature, the chief of which is to accompany the paymaster when carrying funds. Mr. Kline has an en- viable military record, being among the oldest members of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, having served sixteen years in that organization. The first three years service was in the Wyoming Artillery, which at the expiration of that time was disbanded. He then joined Company F, Ninth Regiment, in which he served thirteen years, eight of this time in the capacity of first sergeant. He joined Wilkes-Barre Lodge, Knights of Pythias, October 14, 1882, and was elected captain in the uniform rank of this order
in 1901, which office he still holds ( 1905). He joined the Modern Woodmen of America in April, 1901, and in this holds the office of chief forester. He is also a member of the Interna- tional Association of Chiefs of Police. As a citizen he is active and alert in the performance of duty and aids every worthy enterprise that is calculated to advance the interests of the com- munity. December 22, 1880, Mr. Kline was married to Miss Hannah R. Merrill, daughter of Jesse Merrill, of Columbia county, who was a descendant of one of the oldest families in that locality. Jesse Merrill was the father of eight children, namely: Jesse, Thomas, deceased ; Lewis, Charles, Hannah, James, deceased ; Jen- nie, married Sterling R. Gruver, they reside in Wilkes-Barre ; Mary, married William H. Hicks. They reside in Bloomsburg. The following named children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Kline : Lilly R., May 23, 1882 ; Paul Oliver, Au- gust 9, 1884, now serving in the United States navy ; Nellie, September 22, 1886; Jennie, Feb- ruary 23, 1890 ; and Edith, February 13. 1894.
RICHARD S. WILLIAMS, a member of the firm of Williams Bros., wholesale grocers, of Wilkes-Barre, was born in Cardiganshire, Wales, a son of John S. and Mary A. (Roberts) Will- iams, also natives of Wales, whose family con- sisted of eight children, namely: 1. Mary, who be- came the wife of John Evans. 2. John. 3. Richard S., mentioned hereafter. 4. David S., the other member of the firm of Williams Bros., who came to the United States in 1868 and located in Wilkes-Barre; he married, November, 1880, Mary F. Lucas, daughter of John and Hannah (Jones) Lucas, of Pottsville, and their children are: Grace, John L., William G., Roger, How- ard Voughn and Alyn. 5. William, a twin with David S. 6. Jane, who became the wife of Will- iam Thomas. 7. James. 8. Elizabeth A., who be- came the wife of Rees R. Morgan. John S. Will- iams, father of these children, came to Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania, from Wales, in 1870, en- gaged for a period of time in the shoe business, and resided there until his death.
Richard S. Williams was educated in the schools of his native land, and during his early years developed those habits of industry, per- severance and prudence that laid the foundation for his success in life. In 1868, attracted by the possibilities afforded to young men in the busi- ness world of the United States, emigrated thither, locating in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and shortly afterward formed a partnership with
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his brother, David S. Williams, in the wholesale grocery business under the firm name of Will- iams Bros., in which they have since success- fully continued. He is a member of the Welsh Presbyterian church, a Republican in politics, aiding to the best of his ability by his vote in the success of its interests.
Mr. Williams married in 1876, Mary Thomas, daughter of the Rev. James Thomas, of Wilkes- Barre, and their children are : James, John, Rich- ard, Mary, Hattie, Robert, Henry and Walter.
STEPHEN HOWARD MILLER, who is now leading a retired life at his home in Wilkes- Barre, surrounded with peace and plenty, and . realizing to the full that there is no reward so satisfactory as the consciousness of a life well spent, was born in Pittston township, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, . November 2, 1829.
Samuel Miller, grandfather of Stephen H. Miller, was of Holland Dutch ancestry. In early life he took up his residence in the state of Penn- sylvania, settling above Pittston, where he resided thereafter and died, his remains being interred in Marcy cemetery. He followed various occu- pations, among them being farmer, preacher, physician, and undertaker. He was the father of eight children : Stephen, Martin, Lewis, Rufus, John Ruth, Amanda, and Azuba.
Rufus Miller, father of Stephen H. Miller, was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, August 20, 1802. Throughout the active years of his career he engaged in manufacturing stoves, plows, and various other articles, having a small foundry, de- riving therefrom a comfortable livelihood for his family. On January 16, 1822, he married Eliza- beth McKnight, in Providence, now a part of the city of Scranton, and at her death, June 21, 1823. she left an infant daughter, Susanna. Mr. Mil- ler chose for his second wife, Cynthia Howard, who was born May 26, 1806, in Columbus. Chen- ango county, New York, a daughter of William Howard, and their children were as follows: Mallery, born March 17, 1827, died February 7, 1895 : Stephen H., born November 2, 1829, men- tioned hereinafter ; Eleanor, born January 30, 1831 ; Mary P., born August 28, 1832; Miranda, born November 20, 1833: Moses and Aaron, twins, who died in infancy ; Elizabeth, born Octo- ber 21, 1835 ; Sarah Jane, born August 11, 1838; Azubath A., born December 26, 1840 ; and George W., born January 22, 1844.
Stephen H. Miller obtained a common school education in Pittston township, now Old Forge, the place having derived its name from an old
forge where iron was melted from the ore with charcoal prior to the use of hard coal. He gained his first practical experience forging iron for his father, continuing the same until he attained the age of twenty-one years, when he entered into business relations with his brother, Mallery Mil- ler, in the manufacturing of stoves, plows, etc., in Pittston township, this connection continuing until 1872 when his brother disposed of his inter- est in the business, removed to Wilkes-Barre and engaged in business on his own account. Stephen H. Miller continued the business alone up to 1889, when he retired from active pursuits, and since then has made his home in Wilkes-Barre. For many years he has been an active and con- sistent member of the Episcopal Church, an ad- herent of the principles of the Republican party, and a member of Bennett Lodge, No. 907, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, at Pittston, in which he has held membership for more than half a century : and of Glenwood Lodge, No. 349, Knights of Pythias, in which he has held men- bership for thirty years. Mr. Miller was mar- ried, April 26, 1855, to Mary A. Stark, daughter of John and Cornelia (Wilcox) Stark, and had : Jennie Cornelia, born January 16, 1856, became the wife of Charles S. Crane, May 3, 1881, and have one child, Joseph, whose education was ac- quired in a college in New Jersey, and who is now employed as a civil engineer in the vicinity of Jer- sey City, New Jersey. Charles S. Crane is cash- ier of the First National Bank, at Pittston, Penn- sylvania, in which he has served for thirty years. Mabel, born January 13, 1858, became the wife of Victor H. Young, October, 10, 1878, and they are the parents of one child: Chester Howard, a machinist, employed by the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Fremont Stark, born July 9, 1861, a bookkeeper by occupation, married Edith A. Clark, February 22, 1897, and their family con- sists of four children : Dorothea, Clinton. Theo- dore, and Jennie Cornelia. George Cassius, born February 7, 1864, died in infancy. Martha, born August 14, 1867, resides at home. Garrick Mal- lery, born November 14, 1877, also resides at home. H. E. H.
LYMAN H. HOWE, the pioneer and most extensive exhibitor of moving pictures in Amer- ica, and the founder of the several companies bearing his name, is a native of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, son of Nathan G. and Margaret (Robins) Howe.
Nathan G. Howe, the father, was born at Boylston, Massachusetts, August 10, 1810, and
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was a direct descendant from those sturdy and sterling pilgrim fathers that were the bone and sinew of the early and crucial days of the repub- lic. He emigrated to the Wyoming Valley in 1835 and, having settled at Kingston, soon iden- tified himself as one of the most influential and enterprising men of that period. His activities and progressiveness were not only felt in the im- mediate vicinity of Kingston, but extended throughout the Wyoming Valley. In partnership with a Mr. Houghton he established a comb fac- tory, which they operated successfully for three years. He then established a brick yard at North Wilkes-Barre on what was then known as the Old Plank Road, and another at South Wilkes-Barre, where he manufactured the brick used in the con- struction of almost all the principal buildings constructed in Wilkes-Barre and vicinity at that time. Still broadening his activities he became a contractor of extensive public utilities, and in this capacity reconstructed the abutments for the Wilkes-Barre and Kingston Market street bridge, which was subsequently washed away by the floods. He also constructed the Delaware & Hudson Railroad from South Wilkes-Barre to Plymouth, and various other railroads at Nanti- coke for the Susquehanna Coal Company. Lat- terly he built at Laurel Run the first water works and laid the first system of water pipes in the city of Wilkes-Barre. Another of his achievements was the transformation of the banks of the Sus- quehanna river along South River street from their chaotic state into what is to-day the city's pride, the river common. He was actively iden- tified with many other enterprises, public and private. In all his varied enterprises he com- manded uniformly the respect and esteem alike of his associates and community at large. In 1840 he was married to Margaret Robins, who was born in Hanover township, August 30. 1814. daughter of John and Mary (Garrison) Robins. Their children were as follows: Abigail Mary, born April 8, 1841 : Harriet Elizabeth, born Feb- ruary 25, 1843 : John Robins, born December 20, 1844: Caroline Helen, born October 8, 1846; Horace Houghton, born October 20, 1848; Ellen Dennison, born February 15, 1851 ; Emma Adelia, born May 13, 1853; and Lyman Hakes, born June 9. 1856.
Lyman H. Howe, the youngest member of this family and the subject of this sketch. at- tended the public schools of his native city, Wilkes-Barre, and the knowledge thus obtained was supplemented by a two years course at the Wyoming Seminary. He then entered into a
business partnership at Bowman's corner, on pub- lic square, with J. J. McCormick, at present ( 1905) an attorney-at-law in Cleveland, Ohio, as sign and general house painters under the firm name of Howe and McCormick. In 18- Mr. Howe disposed of his interest in the business to his partner and became a traveling salesman for several prominent commercial houses. While thus engaged, the disastrous panic that demoralized business from one end of the country to the other abruptly terminated his career and aspirations in this direction and resulted in his entering the employ of the Central Railroad of New Jersey as brakeman. From this humble position he was rapidly advanced to that of extra baggage mas- ter. He served the company in various capacities for a period of three years. Finding it too limited and confining to a man of his active temperament, and aspiring to a higher and more remunerative vocation, he purchased a Minature Coal Breaker, and by his native mechanical ability and origin- ality remodeled and developed it into a very in- teresting and faithful working model of a com- plete coal mine and breaker in miniature. In partnership with Robert M. Colburn, now ( 1905) a practicing physician of Newark, New Jersey, they made a tour through the state of Pennsyl- vania, giving a series of exhibitions. In spite of all their determined efforts and fond hopes, fate was unkind. The public withheld its patronage. The tour ended in Baltimore, Maryland, and financial failure. The enterprising partners found themselves strangers in a strange city, un- known, unsung but not quite unhonored, for through courtesies rather than means they were extended the use of a barn to store their cherished model. But it is a far cry from Baltimore, Mary- land, to Wilkes-Barre. Pennsylvania, to those whose resources are exhausted, so the partners persuasively accepted the hospitality of freight train conductors to Wilkes-Barre. The tide of adversity had ebbed to the point that comes to all sooner or later, and where the fittest show their mettle and stamina and survive and swim where others sink. If the use of this adversity was not sweet, it at all events inspired renewed grit and tenacity of purpose in Mr. Howe. Instead of abandoning his hopes he purchased his partner's interest, drew strength from former defeat, and tempted fortime again single-handed. He suc- ceeded in arranging with the officials of the Le- high Valley Railroad Company for exhibiting the- Miniature Coal Breaker at Glen Onoko, the pop- ular mountain resort for thousands of excursion- ists, and continued its exhibitions there for nine
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years with that gratifying success that comes as a grateful reward for difficulties surmounted. This was the beginning of Mr. Howe's successful career. He ultimately sold it to the Reading Railway Company for the purpose of exhibiting it at the World's Fair in Chicago. In the mean- while Thomas A. Edison had perfected the Phon- ograph, in which Mr. Howe promptly recognized a more than worthy successor for exhibition pur- poses to the Coal Breaker, as it possessed even to a greater extent the charm of novelty, and in the able hands of Mr. Howe the public at large were afforded an entertainment that was at once diverting and educational. He made of the Phonograph the same careful study that he lat- terly did of moving pictures, and which enabled him to offer the public that distinctly superior en- tertainment that has characterized all his efforts as an exhibitor.
While visiting Chicago in 1893, Mr. Howe was attracted by the Edison Kinetoscope, at that time quite in its infancy, but to Mr. Howe's re- ceptive faculties and initiative mind it disclosed vistas of new possibilities and achievement, and he quickly conceived the idea of projecting mov- ing pictures on a screen. He forthwith com- municated with Thomas A. Edison for the con- struction of a machine and was advised that he was working on the same ideas outlined by Mr. Howe. Finally Mr. Edison completed the Vito- scope and his New York representatives, Messrs. Raff and Gammon, offered him the control of ex- hibitions in the state of Pennsylvania for $5,000. He declined the offer, and had a machine con- structed with unsatisfactory results. Still un- daunted, he set himself to the task of entirely re- modeling this machine, and after practically re- constructing it and embodying many new ideas, he secured such admirable results as to make it the most advanced mechanism of its kind at that time.
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