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yours truly David . G. Farinaton. Ce tarrington. Tage
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and attributes he was an admirable man, and he left to his descendants the priceless legacy of an honored name. He was survived by his widow and all their children, and a brother, John Pearce, who died in 1903; and four sisters-Mrs. Charles Williams, and Miss Jane Pearce, of Stockton, California ; Mrs. Edward Illman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylva- nia ; and Mrs. William Battin, who lives in England.
Mrs. Pearce made her home during the last two years of her life with her granddaughter, Mrs. John F. Broadbent, where her death oc- curred. The funeral was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Rogers Israel, of St. Luke's ( Prot- estant Episcopal) Church, assisted by the Rev. Dr. G. E. Guild, of the Providence Pres- byterian Church. The pallbearers were the sons and sons-in-law of the deceased. Mrs. Pearce was a woman of an unusually sweet and gentle nature, and enjoyed the affection and esteem of all who knew her. She was survived by the following children :
William H., who served during the Civil war with Company B, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and who is a carpenter and builder in Milford, New York.
Captain Edwin W., of whom further mention is made in another narrative.
Jennie L., widow of Leander S. Tripp.
Richard C., who served with the Union army as a member of the railway construction corps, and is now an engineer on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and resides in Sayre, Penn- sylvania.
Minnie E., who is the wife of E. H. White, of New York city.
Emma A., wife of Jacob K. Smith, a promi- nent business man of Scranton.
DAVID CHASE HARRINGTON, a law- yer of commanding ability, author of various legal treatises, and now in charge of the legal department of the International Textbook Company, was born in Lexington (now Jew- ett), Greene county, New York, December 8, 1834.
His father, James Harrington, born Oc- tober 17, 1810, in Herkimer county, New York, son of James Harrington, who was a soldier in the war of 1812, and died from army fever contracted while in the service, was a carpen-
ter and builder, residing in Lexington. now Jewett, New York, in early life, whence he removed in June, 1849, to Providence, Penn- sylvania. There he was engaged in a furni- ture and undertaking business until 1851, when he purchased a part of the present site of the Coal Exchange Building on Wyoming avenue in Scranton, Pa., and erected a store and dwell- ing which was the third house built in the city of Scranton, after the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, owners of the land, laid it out in lots and sold them to others than its own employees. He completed his building and occu- pied it January 6, 1852. In 1865 he retired from business, returned to Jewett, N. Y., to live and died February 5, 1905. He was a member of the first borough council in the borough of Scranton after its organization, and was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church. He married Emeline Harriet Chase, daugliter of David Chase. She was descended from one of the oldest New England families. Her ancestor, Thomas Chase, came from England in 1629, to Massachusetts, located in the Rhode Island colony, and later removed to Holmes Hole, Martha's Vineyard Island. From him the line of descent is through his son Isaac, his son Joseph, his son Abel, to his son Zeph- anialı. Zephaniah Chase served as a private in Captain Nathan Smith's seacoast company at Martha's Vineyard and in August, 1786, removed to Lexington (now Jewett), New York. His son David, born in Martha's Vineyard, March 1, 1786, came to Lexing- ton, with his father, where, October 13, 1808, he married Abigail, daughter of Zadock Pratt. David Chase died August 27, 1874, and Abigail, his wife, born August 3, 1786, died Au- gust 20. 1849. Zadock Pratt, father of Abi- gail, was a young man when the Revo- lutionary war broke out, joined the patriot forces at Boston, and aided in throwing up the works on Dorchester Heights. He served in the main body of the army on Long Island, under Lord Sterling, and was taken prisoner in the unfortunate battle of August 27, 1776. With others he was confined in the Middle Dutch Church (now the post-office) in New York, and also in the old Sugar House, and to the last he retained a vivid recollection of the inhumanities visited upon the captives by the notorious Cunningham, the British pro- vost marshal. The surrender of Fort Wash- ington necessitated the removal of the prison-
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ers from New York, and Pratt with one hun- dred and thirty others was transferred to the Whitby prison ship.
"Doomed to famine, shackles and despair,' Condemned to breate a foul, infected air,
In sickly hulks,devoted while they lay,
Successive funerals gloomed each dismal day."
To crown his misery the smallpox broke out. (designedly introduced it was said) and of the above number only eleven survived. Returning to the army after his release he participated in the storming of Stony Point by General "Mad Anthony" Wayne, in 1779. On November 1, 1781, at Sherman, Connecti- cut, while on furlough, he married Hannah, daughter of Benjamin Pickett. She was born September 3, 1755. He returned to the army and served in the vicinity of the Highlands until 1783, when he was honorably discharged. Shortly afterwards he removed to Stephen- town, New York, subsequently removed to Middleburg, and finally to Windham (now Jewett), New York, where he lived until his death, July 27, 1828, aged seventy-three years. His son Zadock was a member of congress from Prattsville, New York. Hon. Emory A. Chase, member of the New York Court of Appeals, is a descendant of Zephaniah Chase.
James and Emeline Harriet Harrington were the parents of ten children, of whom seven came to maturity :
I. David Chase, to be further referred to.
2. Sayres B., who was engaged in the fur- niture business in Scranton until he went south.
3. Sarah P., married Zina L. Newell, and died in 1901.
4. Martha, widow of Hiram Gove.
5. Emerson G.
6. Abigail P., wife of Charles B. Jones, resides in Washington, District of Columbia.
7. Arthur N., who resides in Jewett, New York.
David Chase Harrington learned to read Before he was two and one-half years old, and at the age of ten years had mastered all that the public schools of his day and neighborhood had to offer. He subsequently pursued ad- vanced studies in a private school at Jewett, conducted by a Mr. Benedict, under whom he acquired his first knowledge of Latin. When nearly thirteen years old his father removed to Bushnellville, New York, where, about one year later, he was apprenticed to the varnish-
ing and finishing trade, which he followed until he became of age. He became skillful with the pencil and brush in ornamenting fur- niture according to the style in fashion at the time, and all the landscape oil paintings in his home were painted by himself. He accont- panied his father to Providence, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, arriving there June 22, 1849, and there remained until January 6, 1852, when they removed to Scranton. Father and son were associated in business from this time, and in April, 1856, became partners in the furniture, cabinet making and undertaking business. The son during this experience was brought in contact with Germans and gained an excellent conversational knowledge of their language-an acquisition which was of great advantage to him not only at that time. but' in later years. He united with the Presby- terian Church when fourteen years old, and was active in Sunday school work, organizing two mission schools, one in Scranton, and one in Wilkes-Barre, of which he was superinten- dent. Prior to his marriage he was a mem- ber of the choir in the Presbyterian Church, in Scranton, having learned to read music be- fore he was nine years old. He also played the cornet in the Scranton Brass Band, of which Samuel G. Barker was leader.
The Young Men's Literary and Debating Club of Scranton was permanently organized by a number of enterprising young gentlemen on the 23rd day of October, 1857. Mr. Harrington suggested its formation, was active in interesting others to unite with him, and was elected as its first president.
During the winters of 1858 and 1859, courses of interesting public lectures were given under the auspices of the club. Some of the most prom- inent lecturers being engaged, among them were Horace Mann, Horace Greeley, J. G. Holland, George William Curtis, Park Benjamin, Benja- min P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington), Bayard Taylor, William C. Prime, Esq., Dr. Isaac I. Hayes and others.
In Wilkes-Barre Mr. Harrington was also in- strumental in getting up a course of lectures, and interesting lectures were delivered by such men as Samuel M. Clements ( Mark Twain), Wen- dell Phillips, Paul B. Du Chaillu and others.
Mr. Harrington was always studiously in- clined and gained the warm favor of the Rev. Thomas P. Hunt, a friend of the family, who offered him a free scholarship in Lafayette College. It was a great temptation to the
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"young man, and his father, to whom his ser- vices were of great value, consented to his -acceptance of the generous offer. Mr. Har- rington, however, declined out of considera- tion for his father. After dissolving the part- nership with his father, he took up the study of law under the private tutorship of George D. Haughawout, Esq., in 1858. During the first year of his studies in the winter of (858, he taught public school in Dunmore, Pennsyl- vania. On May 7, 1860, he was admitted to prac- tice in the court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. November 1, 1860, he entered into copartnership with Hon. W. G. Ward, which was dissolved about the last of March, 1862, and on April 1, 1862, he re- moved to Wilkes-Barre, and August 22 follow- ing he was admitted to the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton county, Pennsylvania. In 1863 he laid aside his professional duties to respond to the call of Governor Andrew G. 'Curtin for emergency men to repel the in- vasion of Pennsylvania by the Rebel army under General Robert E. Lee. He enlisted as a private in Company K, Thirtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel William N. Monies commanding. his company being the first mustered in under that call. His regi- ment was stationed at Camp Curtin, near Har- risburg, (which was threatened by the enemy) at the time of the battle of Gettysburg. With his command he was honorably discharged July 26, 1863. Returning to his profession, Mr. Harrington extended his practice into all the courts in his vicinity as is evidenced by his admission to the following: Supreme Court of the state, June 20, 1866; Mayor's Court of Scranton, October 1, 1866: United 'States Circuit and District Courts, Western Dis- trict of Pennsylvania, August 5, 1867; Mayor's Court of Carbondale, August 16, 1867; Court 'of Common Pleas, Dauphin County, August 24, 1868; Court of Common Pleas of Wyoming 'County, April 19, 1869; District Court of Phila- delphia, December 20, 1870; Court of Com- mon Pleas, Philadelphia, December 24, 1870; United States District and Circuit Courts, East- ern District Pennsylvania, February 18, 1871 ; Court of Common Pleas, Bucks County, April 14, 1874; Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, District of Columbia, February 2, 1876; Court of Common Pleas, Schuylkill County, January 23, 1882: Court of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County, August 15, 1898; United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Rich-
mond, Virginia, December 2, 1904. He has tried and assisted in the trial of many cases in other courts in different states, where he was admitted by courtesy, for the particular case in which he appeared.
In the autumn of 1863 he was invited by Caleb E. Wright, Esq., one of the oldest, and a leading attorney in Wilkes-Barre, to become his partner, and he entered into partnership with him on equal terms. This was of advantage to both, and their business increased every year during its continuance. The health of Mrs. Harrington having become affected from malaria, her physi- cian advised removal from the valley as her only safety. As a result the partnership of Wright & Harrington was dissolved, in December, 1870, and within one week Mr. Harrington and his family removed to Philadelphia.
Mr. Harrington did not sever his connection with the legal business of the firm, and for a year or more returned every term of court to assist in the trial of the cases pending at the time of his removal. On December 25. 1872, two years after Mr. Harrington's removal to Philadelphia. the members of the Luzerne County Bar pre- sented him with a handsome gold watch, appro- priately inscribed, as a testimonial of their con- tinued regard and remembrance, thereby proving that the adage "out of sight is out of mind" does not always hold true. Mr. Harring- ton conducted an extensive practice there for over thirty-one years. Hon. F. Car- roll Brewster, during his term as attorney general of the state of Pennsylvania, was obliged to spend his winters in Harrisburg. Sum- mers he traveled in Europe. Having an exten- sive private practice in Philadelphia and four assistants in his office he made arrangements with Mr. Harrington in May, 1872, on the basis of a salary and dividing fees in some cases, to take charge of his office and practice. He gave Mr. Harrington a private office in his suite of offices where he could attend to his personal prac- tice and have his own assistant. This arrange- ment lasted nearly three years, until by reason of the expiration of his term as attorney-general he was able to resume his Philadelphia practice. As this was soon after the removal of Mr. Har- rington to Philadelphia, it proved to be of advan- tage to him, in that it brought him into connection with all the leading members of the Philadelphia bar, and extending his acquaintance and private practice. In 1887-88 he made two trips to the City of Mexico on professional business, and while there learned to speak the Spanish lan-
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guage. Since then he has lectured on his ex- periences and what he saw and learned on his trips. In 1867 Mr. Harrington compiled, col- lated, arranged and published "The Rules of the Luzerne County Court," an exhaustive volume of eighty-one pages octavo. He has also written many briefs which have gone into print, and var- ious of them have been widely circulated. Among the more important of his treatises is one on "Commerce," and "What is Doing Business, under the Statutes of the States Relating to For- eign Corporations," and another of very great import on "The Education of Minors." Part of the time during his residence in Wilkes-Barre he reported court proceedings, and local items of news for two newspapers published, one in Scranton and one in Wilkes-Barre.
In January, 1898, Mr. Harrington received a retainer from the Colliery Engineer Company, now the International Texxtbook Company, pro- prietor of the International Correspondence Schools, and has been connected with that great educational institution from that time to the pres- ent. In March, 1902, he removed from Philadel- phia to Scranton and has had in charge the legal department of the corporation, a post for which he is eminently well fitted. His duties take him not only to all parts of the country, but to Can- ada. Although seventy-one years of age, his vigor would stand for one ten years his junior. He walks with a step as elastic as a score of years ago, and he is as remarkable for his strong men- tality and great energy as for his physical powers. He is a member of Colonel Fred. Taylor Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Philadelphia ; mem- ber of the Wyoming Geological and Historical Society; member of the Luzerne County Bar Association ; Philadelphia Law Library Associa- tion ; and also of the Lackawanna County Bar Association.
Mr. Harrington married, September 1I, 1856, Ann Jannette Kemmerrer, daughter of David Kemmerrer, of Scranton. Mrs. Harrington died November 20, 1904, having borne to her husband ten children, of whom nine came to maturity, seven being now living :
I. Harriet E., wife of Madison F. Larkin, sketch of whom appears in this work.
2. Carrie H., married C. W. Reichard.
3. Lillian J., deceased wife of William L. Connell, sketch of whom appears in this work.
4. Blandina Jayne, wife of T. J. Foster, sketch of whom appears in this work.
5. Walter E., a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, who since 1887 has been prin-
cipally engaged in electric railway- work. In August, 1905, he resigned as vice-president and general manager of the New York and Philadel- phia Company to become associated with J. G. White & Company, of New York, as manager,. in which capacity he will supervise the construc- tion of all the railway, electric lighting, gas and other properties which the company may con- tract to build. His wide capabilities are attested by the numerous responsible positions he has oc- cupied. He has been electrical engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in charge of the- electric railway at Atlantic City, New Jersey ; general superintendent of the Wheeling Traction Company of West Virginia ; supervising elec- tric railway engineer for the General Electric Company in the northwestern Pennsylvania coal regions ; and for some years general manager and vice-president of the Camden and Suburban Rail- way Company, Camden, New Jersey. After the latter road was absorbed by the Public Service Corporation, he was placed in charge of all the properties of the latter south of Trenton, New Jersey.
6. Curtis J., born 1870, died September 10, 1904. He was an electrical engineer of promi- nence. He left one son, since adopted by his. uncle, Mr. Larkin.
7. Frederick A., an electrician.
8. Dora, married C. Paul Hagenlocher, su- pervisor of the Philadelphia offices of the In- ternational Textbook Company. They reside in Bala, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.
9. Ethel, second wife of W. L. Connell, whose first wife was her sister, Lillian.
IO. Mabel, born January 16, 1879, died July 5, 1879.
CHARLES W. PEARCE is a well known manufacturer and highly esteemed citizen of Scranton, Lackawanna county, where he has been engaged in business since 1888, while he has made this city his home ever since his infancy and where he has attained to distinctive success through his own well directed endeavors. His shop is situated on Green Ridge street, near My- lert street, and in his well equipped establishment he makes a specialty of building and repairing machinery of all kinds. His shop is fitted up with the most modern lathes, planers and other accessories, representing a large capitalistic out- lay, while power is furnished by a fine twenty horse power engine and thirty horse power boiler. Mr. Pearce is a practical machinist, and he has gained to his establishment a very high reputa-
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tion for the superior order of the work turned out, none but skilled artisans being employed, while the facilities throughout are the best. The result is that he has built up a prosperous busi- ness, having the patronage of many of the lead- ing concerns and individuals in this locality.
Mr. Pearce was born in Wayne county, Penn- sylvania, October 1, 1854, and in the following year his parents removed to Scranton, where he has ever since maintained his residence. He is a son of John and Minerva (Alvord) Pearce, the former of whom was born in England and the latter in Wayne county, Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized. John Pearce was born in Cornwall, England, February 10, 1826, and was there reared to maturity, while he was associated with the great mining industry in that section from his boyhood days until 1845, when he immigrated to America and took up his abode in Wayne county, Pennsylvania, where he re- sided until 1855, when he came to the Lacka- wanna Valley, as before noted, and passed the residue of his long and useful life in Scranton, where he died June 21, 1903, at the age of seven- ty-seven years. He was engineer at the Von Sorch mine for the long period of forty-three years, and was one of the valued and trusted em- ployes of the Delaware & Hudson Company, while his integrity and reliability in all the re- lations of life retained to him the unqualified re- spect and confidence of all who knew him. His widow still resides in Scranton, where she has so long made her home and where she has a wide circle of devoted friends. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also her husband, and the latter was a Republican in poli- tics. They became the parents of four children. of whom three are living, namely: George H., an engineer, residing in Scranton; Adeline, re- sides in Scranton ; and Charles W., of whom later.
Charles W. Pearce was reared to maturity in Scranton, in whose public schools he secured his early educational training, while he learned the machinist's trade in the shops of the Delaware & Hudson Company at Scranton, serving a thor- ough apprenticeship and becoming one of the most skilled and versatile workmen in his chosen line. He continued in the employ of this com- pany until 1888, when he engaged in business upon his own responsibility, laying the foundation of his present successful enterprise and begin- ning operations on a modest scale. He has shown much discrimination in his methods and has made his business forge to the front through
its own forces, so that it is substantial in character and yields satisfactory returns. Mr. Pearce is a loyal and public-spirited citizen, is known as a reliable and progressive business man and is held in unequivocal confidence and regard by all who know him. He is a Republican in his political proclivities, and in a fraternal way is an appre- ciative and popular member of Hiram Lodge, No. 261, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons. He remains a bachelor and maintains his home with his venerable and loved mother.
JAMES HENRY FISHER. Anthony Fisher, who lived in the parish of Syleham, county of Suffolk, England, on the south bank of the Waveney river, which separates Suffolk from Norfolk, on a freehold estate called "Wig- note," had a son
Anthony Fisher, 2d, who came to New Eng- land in the ship "Rose" in 1637 and settled at Dedham, Massachusetts. He was one of the original lot owners of the town. He subscribed to the Dedham covenant July 18, 1637. A part of this lot in Dedham is still in the possession of his descendants. He was a lieutenant in the French and Indian wars of 1652. He was not, according to the old records of the "Dedham church, "comfortably received into the church until March 1645 on account of his proud and haughty spirit." As the old records of Dedham put it "In Anthony Fisher we find an English- man of strong. positive points of character, with liberal means for the times, of favorable consid- eration by his fellow settlers as a citizen." He was made a freeman in May, 1645, was chosen selectman of Dedham in 1646 and 1647, county commissioner, September 3. 1660, and deputy to the general court May 2, 1649. He was chosen commissioner March 5. 1666, and again select- man in December, 1671. His son
Anthony Fisher, 3d, was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1644, was made a freeman May 6, 1646, joined the Dedham church July 20, 1645, was chosen surveyor at Dedham in 1652 and served to 1654. He was selectman of Dorchester in 1664, and was a prominent man not only in the affairs of Ded- ham and Dorchester but also in the improvement of the lands at Wollomonopoag. He had a son
Josiah Fisher, born in Dedham, May II. 1654, made a freeman in 1683, was representative in 1699, and selectman in 1697. He died in Ded- ham April 12, 1736. He had a son
Josiah Fisher, 2d. born in Dedham, Novem- ber 25, 1683, married there, September 25, 1707,
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Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon William and Elizabeth (White) Avery, who was born in Ded- ham, May 16, 1684, died there August 7, 1747. He was captain of militia, selectman 1736 and for seven succeeding years. He died intestate February 24, 1763, aged seventy-nine. He had a Soll
Jonathan Fisher, born in Dedham, August 5, 1713. He was the administrator of his father's estate. He lived with his father, and in the ad- ministration of the estate of his father the home- stead was sold. He moved about that time to New Braintree and settled in that part now in- cluded in West Hampton, where he died October 23, 1796. Abner Smith, the first settler of West Hampton, built his second house near the Fisher place, which he sold to Jonathan Fisher about 1770. This place has remained in the Fisher family to the present day, descending from father to son, from Jonathan to Aaron, to Aaron, Jr., to Jairus, the present occupant. Jonathan Fisher had a son
Lieutenant Jonathan Fisher, 2d. He was born in Dedham November 25, 1743, and was dis- missed from the Dedham church to the church in New Braintree June 8, 1766. He married, at Dedham, October 2, 1766, Catherine, eldest daughter of Deacon William and Bethia (Met- calf) Avery. She was a sister of the well-known Reverend Josiah Avery, Congregational minis- ter of Holden. Jonathan resided in New Brain- tree until the spring of 1773, when he removed into that part of Northampton afterwards in- cluded in West Hampton. In 1775 he resigned his commission in the Colonial army, and March 22, 1776, his name appears on the list of officers of Massachusetts militia as second lieutenant in the Fifth Company ( Northampton), Captain Jon- athan Wales, of the Second Hampshire Regi- ment. He was commissioned April 5, 1776, sec- ond lieutenant of the Fifth Company, whereof Jonathan Wales is captain, of the Second Regi- ment of Militia in the county of Hampshire, whereof Seth Pomeroy, Esq., is colonel. The original commission is in the possession of the widow of the Rev. James Boorman Fisher. He died of fever at Morristown, New Jersey, March 10, 1777. His widow was left by the death of her husband, so young in life, as the mother of six children. She was a most remarkable wo- man, even among the remarkable men and wo- men of that time. All their children who lived to arrive at years of maturity became noted in the annals of New England.
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