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himself, in which he is very successful. His con- tracts average from two to six at all times.
Mr. Rapson is a stockholder in the Ft. Worth Telephone Company, Ft. Worth, Texas; First National Co-operative Society of Chicago, Illi- nois ; Douglas & Lacey Company of New York ; Kewannee ( Illinois) Telephone Company ; Syl- vania Mining Company of Nevada; Mt. De Oro Mining Company of Colorado; Hayti Railroad Company of Hayti, West Indies. He is a Re- publican in politics, has been councilman of the borough, and is now president of the school board, serving for the second term in that capacity. He is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Wyoming, Pennsylvania, in which he is also local preacher, treasurer of the board of trustees, and assistant superintendent of the Sun- day school. He has been a member of the church for the long period of forty-eight years, since fourteen years of age. Although he has now attained the age of sixty-two years, Mr. Rapson is a very busy man and is a fair example of the strenuous life. He is a master Mason, holding membership in Blue Lodge, No. 446, Wyoming, and Royal Arcanum, Pittston. He was formerly a member of the Foresters and the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, of Ashley, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Rapson married, in Bovey Tracey, Dev- onshire, England, 1863, Elizabeth Ann Rodda, daughter of John and Sarah (Rapson) Rodda, of Tavisstock, England, and had ten children, namely : 1. John Thomas, died at the age of eight years. 2. William was killed in a railroad cross- ing accident at Warrior Run, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, in February, 1882. Nicholas Rap- son was also injured in the same accident, was unconscious for some time, and laid up for six. months. 3. Richard died at the age of two years. 4. Richard (2), born Wyoming, Pennsylvania, a machinist, engaged in the rock contracting busi- ness with his father ; married Emelie J. Harsch, daughter of Claude Harsch ( see sketch of Claude Harsch elsewhere in this work), and had two sons : Claude Nicholas and Charles. The fam- ily reside in Wyoming. 5. Nicholas, Jr., a black- smith, resides in Wyoming. 6. Albert Edward, a druggist, married Fannie Pettebone, daughter of Joshua Pettebone, and had one son, Albert Payne. They reside in Forty Fort, Pennsylvania. 7. Charles Frederick, a machinist, resides in Wyo- ming, Pennsylvania. 8. Anna Mand, died at the age of about five years. 9. William (2), died at the age of two years. 10. A son who died in in- fancy. All of the deceased children are buried
in the family plot in Ashley cemetery, Ashley, Pennsylvania. All of the sons are engaged in the rock contracting business with their father.
John Rodda, father of Mrs. Nicholas Rapson, was a miner in the copper and tin mines in Eng- land. He and his wife, Sarah ( Rapson) Rodda, died in England. They had children: I. Eliza- beth Ann, wife of Nicholas Rapson. 2. Emma, married Bessie Hall, daughter of William Hall, land. 3. Carrie, deceased. 4. Jane, married Thomas Stevens, of Helston, and had two children : Carrie and Edward. They now reside in Ashley, Penn- sylvania. 5. Harry, a miner in Nelsonville, Ohio, married Bessie Hall, daughter of William Hall, and had five children: Emma, Carrie, Harry, Thomas and Clyde. 6. Thomas, a moulder and prospector for Elsworth Bros., Denver, Colorado, for many years, but now engaged in the freight department of a railroad in Denver, Colorado.
GEORGE HOUGHTON HUGHES, an ac- tive and potent factor in the varied interests of the borough of Luzerne, is a representative of a fan- ily who was among the pioneer settlers of the Wyoming Valley, of Welsh origin, and who also gained considerable fame during the period of the Revolutionary war.
His grandparents were James and Hannah (Swetland) Hughes, the former having been a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of Connec- ticut origin. James Hughes was a millwright and ran the first mill in Luzerne county, Penn - sylvania, where he spent his life. (See Swet- land.)
The parents of George H. Hughes were- James and Elizabeth' Wharram Houghton Hughes, the former having been born in Shamo- kin, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, No- vember 19, 1816, and the latter in North Burton Fleming, England, February 7, 1816, a daughter of John and Rebecca ( Major) Wharram. Her uncle, Major Wharram was Lord of the Manor and heir to vast estates in North Burton (now called Burton Fleming), England. "The Cap- tain," as James Hughes was familiarly called, was educated in the school of Luzerne county, and in 1836 began trafficking on the canal, run- ning a line of boats from Pittston to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. After the canal ex- tension was completed he took his boats through the state of New York, from Pittston to Waverly and Elmira, and thence to Buffalo by the Erie canal. He continued this ocupation up to 1865, a period of almost thirty years, after which he- engaged in farming and looking after his exten -.
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sive land interests in the valley, but in 1882 re- tired from active pursuits. He was one of the first and one of the most extensive truck and dairy farmers in the county, keeping twenty horses and about sixty head of cattle on his farm. He was a communicant of the Presby- terian church, and a staunch Republican in pol- itics.
Captain Hughes married, April 2, 1848, Mrs. Elizabeth Wharram Houghton, daughter of John and Rebecca (Major) Wharram, and widow of George Houghton, by whom she had four chil- dren, namely : William, of Luzerne; Josephine, widow of A. Smith, of Luzerne: Cyrus, of Har- veys Lake: and Sarah, married Westley East- wood, of Phoenix, Arizona. Four children were also born of her marriage to Captain Hughes: Ellen, deceased : Maria, deceased, who was the wife of, Wilson J. Bishop, of Luzerne, Pennsyl- vania: George Houghton, of whom later; and Caroline, born October 30, 1854, educated in the public schools of Luzerne and Wyoming Sem- inary, graduating from the latter institution in 1876. She returned to her home in Luzerne and there remained until her marriage, October 26, 1898, to William C. Sponsler, born April 24, 1858, son of Jacob and Susan (Seybert) Spons- ler, of Berwick, where they reside on a beautiful farm. William C. Sponsler and wife reside in West Berwick, Pennsylvania. The two children of Maria Hughes and Wilson Bishop are: Bessie and Elma Caroline, who have been cared for since their mother's death by Mrs. Sponsler and now reside with her in West Berwick. Bessie was born November 16, 1880, and Elma Caroline, January 2, 1885.
George Houghton Hughes was born in the borough of Luzerne, Luzerne county, Pennsyl- vania, September 25, 1852. He pursued his studies in the common schools adjacent to his home until 1872, the following year was a student at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pennsylvania, and during the year 1874-75 attended the Millers- ville Normal school, where he completed his edu- cation. In the meantime he assisted with the work on his father's farm, later conducted a mar- ket for the sale of green groceries at Scranton, and subsequently handled the first car load of beef shipped into the city of Scranton. His half- brother, Cyrus H. Houghton, went west and shipped the first car of cattle and dressed beef into Scranton, and to these two young men is due the credit of establishing this enterprise in that city. In February, 1877, he entered Wyo-
ming Seminary and there pursued a commercial course under Professor L. L. Sprague. He then went to Florida, locating at Tallahassa, Nassau county, where he engaged in trucking, raising to- bacco and green stuff and shipping the same north for sale. He returned home on July 8, 1878, that being the year of the Centennial an- niversary of the Wyoming massacre, went to trucking, using hot beds for the purpose, and for some years conducted the largest truck and dairy farm in the valley at that time, running regularly three truck and two milk wagons, and at that time he received an order of a vessel load from England. In 1883 he turned his attentian to the raising of tobacco and the manufacturing of cigars at Wilkes-Barre, which line of work he continued for two years. He then returned to; Florida and engaged in the raising and manu- facturing of a fine grade of tobacco and cigars, which product he shipped to Hall, Ruckel & Co., of New York, druggists. His plant was de- stroyed by fire, but he rebuilt it and continued this industry until 1888, when he returned to Luzerne, Pennsylvania. He then went to Schuyl- kill county and engaged in general teaming for the Natalie Coal Company ; they later failed in business, and he returned to Luzerne and en- gaged in the lumber business, purchasing land and making props and ties for the mines. In 1897 he went to Longpond, Monroe county, pur- chased four hundred acres of land, one hundred and thirty-five of which is under a state of cul- tivation. He is a Republican in politics. He was elected street commissioner in 1891, served two . years and was re-elected for a second term. Dur- ing his four years service as street commissioner he was instrumental in the grading of the first streets in Dorranceton and Kingston, and he also served a similar period, two terms of two years each, as a member of the common council. He was appointed executor of the estate of his father, the late James Hughes, in August, 1896.
Mr. Hughes married, March 9, 1891, Hattie May Fritz, daughter of Thomas and Emma (Granger) Fritz, who was the mother of three- children by a former marriage, namely : William J. Thomas, born April 14. 1880; Bertha May. born July 29, 1882 ; and David or Day Thomas, born April 2, 1887. The children of George H. and Hattie May (Fritz) Hughes are: J. Earle. born June 6, 1892: George Herbert, born Octo- ber 16, 1898; and Caroline A., born October 18. 1902.
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WILLIAM GWYNNE WEAVER, M. D., of Wilkes-Barre, was born March 11, 1850, in Rush township, Northumberland county, Penn- sylvania, son of Jesse and Elizabeth (Bassett) Weaver, of same locality, grandson of Henry and Elizabeth (Campbell) Weaver, of same locality, and great-grandson of Michael and Margaret Weaver.
Michael Weaver (great-grandfather ), the first ancestor of this line in America, came from Germany about 1769 and first went to the city of Philadelphia, later to Berks county, and finally settled in Northumberland county where his son Henry was born, he being one of thirteen chil- dren. Michael Weaver was a captain in the Revolutionary army, being in the service seven and a half years, two years with Second Com- pany, Fourth Battalion, Northumberland county, Pennsyvania, Associators, October 8, 1776, and five and a half years with Pennsylvania Rangers, 1778-1783, in both of which he ranked as cap- tain. (See Pennsylvania Archives, second series, vol. xiv, page 327 ; also vol. xiii, page 236, third series, 23. 256,341. He was one of the success- ful men of his time, and in addition to serving his adopted country accumulated considerable wealth as shown by a copy of his will, dated 1817, and now in the possession of Dr. Weaver. Michael Weaver was probably an adherent of the tenets of the German Reformed church, but the later representatives of the family adhered to the doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Henry Weaver (grandfather), seventh son of Michael and Margaret Weaver, born about 1790, in Rush township, followed farming in the county where he was born. He was one of the substan- tial men of his time, and one of the leading mem- bers in the church. He married Elizabeth Campbell, and had among other children, Jesse, the father of Dr. Weaver, Henry Weaver, after a useful and well-spent life, died in 1860, aged seventy years.
Jesse Weaver ( father), son of Henry and Elizabeth (Campbell) Weaver, was born in Rush township, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, January II, 1811. He was reared in the vicinity of his birthplace, educated in the schools of the neighborhood, and followed farming throughout the active years of his career. He was a man of more than ordinary education and ability, a Democrat in politics, and active in church mat- ters, he being a prominent member of the Meth- odist church. His wife Elizabethi was also a member of the Methodist church and an active
worker therein, although her father was a prom- inent member of the Presbyterian church. Jesse Weaver married (first) Sarah A. Kline, born October 15, 1818, died November 7, 1842, leav- ing two children, both now dead, as follows : Charles W., a physician, who practiced his pro- fession in Shamokin, Pennsylvania: and Ann Eliza Weaver, who married Samuel Reecer. Mr. Weaver married (second) Elizabeth Bassett, daughter of Luther Bassett, born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, June 16, 1814. Her father brought the family to Rush township, Northum- berland county, Pennsylvania, when Elizabeth was but one year of age, so that she spent nearly her whole life in this state. The Bassett family, seven brothers, came originally from England, and several of them participated in the Revolu- tionary struggle. There were born to Jesse and Elizabeth (Bassett) Weaver the following chil- dren, all now living : Marietta, George B., Luther B., William G., whose name heads this sketch ; John P., and Ruth A. Weaver. Jesse Weaver died June 11, 1854, aged forty-three years, and his wife Elizabeth survived him until December 25, 1900, dying at the age of eighty-six years and six months.
William Gwynne Weaver, fourth child of Jesse and Elizabeth (Bassett) Weaver, spent his early days in his native township, and was edn- cated in the public schools there. His father hav- ing died when he was but four years of age, leav- ing a family of six young children, his mother was not able to afford the children an education beyond what was offered by the public schools of the district. He accordingly attended the pub- lic schools in the winter and worked on the farm in the summer until he was seventeen years of age, when he taught a term of four months in a country school in Montour county, and then en- tered the Elysburg Academy. The following winter he taught a four months term of school in Northumberland county, afterward continuing his studies at the Klines Grove Academy. At the age of twenty he began teaching in Shamokin, Penn- sylvania, where he continued this occupation till the fall of 1872, when he came to Wilkes-Barre and became principal of one of the city schools.
In 1875 he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1878. He then returned to Wilkes- Barre and began the practice of medicine, and during the intervening years has built up a large and lucrative practice. In addition to his private professional work Dr. Weaver is surgeon for the Lehigh Valley railroad, and one of the staff
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of surgeons for the Wilkes-Barre City and Mercy Hospitals. He has served as director and presi- dent of the Nanticoke Light, Heat & Power Com- pany. Dr .. Weaver has always taken a deep in- terest in educational work, and for twenty-seven continuous years has served as school director of Wilkes-Barre. He has been a member of the Ninth Regiment National Guards of Pennsyl- vania for fifteen years, the past seven years with rank of captain, and served as assistant surgeon and acting surgeon of the Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (same as Ninth Regiment) in the Spanish-American war. His wife, then Miss Abbott, also participated in this war, act- ing as volunteer nurse. Dr. Weaver is a mem- ber of Lodge No. 39, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Wilkes-Barre, of which he is a past grand ; Lodge No. 174, Knights of Pythias, of Wilkes-Barre ; and of Lodge No. 109, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of the American Medical Association, Pennsylvania State Medical Society, Luzerne County Medical Society, Lehigh Valley Medical Society, The Association of Lehigh Valley Rail- road Surgeons, The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, The Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the American Revolution, and the Westmoreland Club. In politics he is a Republican. Dr. Weaver has taken much in- terest in local affairs. He was the original ad- vocate of the consolidation of the separate school districts of the city, and was one of the prime workers in the movement by which consolidation became an established fact in 1890. Since that time the schools have made remarkable progress, and the uniform system brought about by con- solidation has contributed much to their present standing. He was appointed one of the orig- inal trustees of the East Stroudsburg State Normal School at its organization, and has been reappointed by the superintendent of public instruction at the end of each three years since, having recently received an appointment for three years more. Dr. Weaver also warmly advocated the change of municipal government from a spec- ial to a general charter, and those who contended for this were successful in 1898.
Dr. Weaver married, December 6, 1898, in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Abbott, daughter of the Rev. B. H. and Sarah Elizabeth (Farnham) Abbott. (See Farnham genealogy elsewhere in this work). Sarah Elizabeth Farn- ham married, June 19, 1867, Rev. Benjamin Henry Abbott, born November 13, 1831, in Barre, Massachusetts, a son of Cyrus and Mary
(Puffer) Abbott, the former named born at Framingham, Massachusetts, May 21, 1806, died September 21, 1833, and the latter born at Berlin, Massachusetts, died at Putnam, Massachusetts, 1893, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Rubin Puffer, D. D. (See Records. ) Cyrus Abbott was a farmer in Waltham, Massachusettts, where his death oc- curred. Cyrus and Mary ( Puffer) Abbott were the parents of two children ; Mary, born April 4,. 1829, died January 21, 1868, at Whitestone, Long Island, and Benjamin H., mentioned in the fol -- lowing paragraph.
Rev. Benjamin H. Abbott began his educa- tion in the public schools of Framingham, Mas- sachusetts, after which he attended Thedford Academy, (Vermont), 1853; Amherst College- ( Massachusetts), from which he was graduated A. B., 1857; Bangor Theological Seminary, one- year ; General Theological Seminary, New York city, which he attended two years, and was or- dained deacon in 1860. In 1861 he served at the- Church of the Holy Communion in New York city, and in the same year was ordained presbyter by the Rev. Bishop Horatio Potter, then assis- tant at the above named church, and was also ap- pointed chaplain of St. Luke's Hospital, New York city. He then came to Carbondale, Penn- sylvania, where he was rector of Trinity Church four years, then to Whitestone, Long Island, and served in Grace Episcopal Church twelve years. He then went to Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, where he served two years as a missionary, and then to St. Johnland, Long Island, where he was pastor in an institution founded by Dr. Muhlen -. burg for Aged and Young. After four years of service in this field his health failed and he re- turned to Carbondale, Pennsylvania, where he- resided twenty-two years, during the greater part of which time he performed missionary work.
Rev. Benjamin Henry and Sarah Elizabeth (Farnham) Abbott were the parents of nine- children : Mary Elizabeth, born May 7, 1868, Whitestone, Long Island, aforementioned as the. wife of Dr. William G. Weaver, of Wilkes-Barre. Frances Esterbrook, born July 12, 1869, resides at home. Susan, born September 19, 1871, died January 12, 1876. John Farnham, born February 20, 1873, resides at Newark, New Jersey, and is accountant for the Delaware, Lackawanna &- Western railroad. Henry Edward, born January 15, 1875, Whitestone, Long Island, residing at the family home in Carbondale. Louise Graham, born April 14. 1876, died February 12, 1877. Louis Benjamin, born August 29, 1877, is a civil engineer ; he married, April 8, 1904, Edna Law-
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rence, daughter of Isaac and Bell ( Moore) Law- rence, and resides at Frostburg, Maryland. Will- iam Avars, born January 29, 1880, at Susque- hanna, Pennsylvania, died November 1, 1890, in Carbondale. Helen, born November 7, 1882, re- sides in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with her sister, Mrs. Dr. William G. Weaver.
Dr. William G. and Mary Elizabeth ( Abbott) Weaver are the parents of two children : William Abbott, born April 19, 1900; and Elizabeth Bas- sett, born September 21, 1903. Dr. Weaver as a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Wilkes-Barre. Mrs. Weaver is a member of the Episcopal church.
JOHN EDWIN WATT, deceased, for many years an influential citizen of Carbondale, Lack- awanna county, Pennsylvania, where he was ef- fective in promoting the business, social and moral advancement of the community, was a rep- resentative of a family of Scotch origin.
Andrew Watt, grandfather of John E. Watt, was a native of Scotland. He was a wheelwright by trade, and a "workman who needeth not to be ashamed" of the production of his hands. He emigrated to this country in 1817, locating near High Bridge, and in 1825 migrated to Canaan's Corners. Andrew Watt and his wife, Mary Watt, had the following named children, all of whom attained years of maturity and were useful men and women in society : John, Andrew, Mat- thew. Agnes, Mary, Sarah, and Elizabeth Watt.
Jolin Watt, father of John E. Watt, was born, in 1809. Like his father, Andrew Watt, he was a wheelwright by trade, and in the year 1842 he moved to Carbondale, Lackawanna county, where he established a shop. 'He was a superior me- chanic and was finally induced to engage in the service of the Delaware & Hudson Company as pattern maker. It must be said of John Watt, and to his credit too, that he loved independence. His spirit would not submit to dictation except from superior minds, and this attitude on his part caused a separation between himself and the Del- aware & Hudson Company. He then turned his attention to the flour, feed and grain business, · this being about the year 1850, and he conducted this enterprise for a number of years at Provi- · dence, Pennsylvania. He then moved his busi- ness to Scranton, still retaining his residence in Carbondale, and later he moved his business to Carbondale, where he branched out in the gen- · eral merchandise trade, taking into partnership with him his sons, and the business was then con- ducted under the name of John Watt & Sons.
This connection continued until 1884, when John E. Watt, whose name heads this article, pur- chased the interest of his father and brother. John Watt was a man whose business .ability was second to none ; he was far-seeing and aggres- sive, and instead of waiting for things to come to pass he brought them to pass. He was an ar- dent believer in and supporter of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a hearty, robust man, plain and straightforward in manners, and he won the respect of all his acquaintances.
John Watt married Harriet M. Freeman, born in 1811, a native of Collin county, Connec- ticut, and they lived happily together for fifty- four years. In 1881 they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, surrounded by children, grandchildren, and a host of friends who offered their congratulations upon the happy event. Their children were as follows: Andrew, born 1833, now deceased ; John Edwin, born April 16, 1835. now deceased; Wallace W., born 1838; Sarah E., born 1842, now deceased ; and Frances B., born 1845. John Watt died at his home in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, 1885, aged seventy- seven years. He was survived by his wife, Har- riet M. (Freeman) Watt, who passed away Sep- tember 27, 1902, at the advanced age of ninety- one years.
John Edwin Watt was born at Canaan's Cor- ners, April 16, 1835. After completing a com- mon school education he became clerk for Fred- erick Grew, a merchant of Carbondale, with whom he continued in the closest relations and on the most friendly terms up to the year 1850, when he was admitted into partnership with his father. As stated above he purchased the interest of his father and brother in the business which was con- ducted under the style of John Watt & Sons, which was the leading business establishment in Carbondale, and up to the year 1885, when he re- tired from the mercantile business, he conducted an extensive and enlarged trade. His career as a business man was clean, satisfactory and lucra- tive. He was a man of a fine sense of honor and integrity, possessed a host of friends, and few, if any, enemies. In 1897 he was appointed pres- ident of the First National Bank of Carbondale, a position he filled with credit and satisfaction up to his demise. He was very conservative in his management of the banking business, shunned all doubtful risks, and his relations with his associ- ates were sociable and affable.
Mr. Watt married, in 1865, Martha B. Wells, daughter of William S. and Jane A. Wells, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. William S.
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