Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 65

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


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Caspar Wistar Morris married Anna Purves Milnor, a daughter of Thomas Milnor, judge of the associate court of Burlington, New Jersey, who was a son of William, son of John, son of Joseph, son of Daniel, of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, whose death occurred in 1685. William Milnor, aforementioned, was a brother of James Milnor, right worshipful grand master of the Masonic fraternity of Pennsylvania, 1806 to 1813. Thomas Milnor established the firm of Thomas Milnor & Son, dealers in wood, lime and coal, at Burlington, New Jersey, in 1823. He was ves- tryman and senior warden of St. Mary's Parish, Burlington, New Jersey, for fifty consecutive years. Mr. and Mrs. Morris were the parents of six children, namely: Thomas Milnor, born Jan- uary 20, 1859, mentioned hereinafter. Caspar WVistar, Jr., born March 21, 1861. Maria Milnor, born December 28, 1864, married, January 21, 1892, Richard Wistar Davids. Jacob Giles, born August 29, 1867, married 1899. Bertha Hayden, of Jeansville, Pennsylvania. Rebekah Davids, born March 23, 1870, married, October 26, 1889, Philip Fitzpatrick Heraty: married (second), September 21, 1904. John Edward Waaser. Jen- nie Frances, born August 4, 1875, married, Oc- tober 14, 1897, Norman Prentiss Sloane. Caspar Wistar Morris, father of these children, died at Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1903. "He was a good man, a true friend, a brave sol-


dier, a devoted husband and loving father, and his death was deeply regretted by a wide circle of loyal friends.


Thomas Milnor Morris, son of Caspar Wis- tar and Anne Purves (Milnor) Morris, was born in Burlington, New Jersey. January 20, 1859. He spent his early days in the town in which he was born and in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania. In 1867 his parents moved to Cecil coun- ty. Maryland, in the vicinity of Elkton, and his education was acquired under a private teacher at home, and at the Elkton Academy, which he attended until 1874. On October 28th of that year he came to Jeansville, Pennsylvania, and en- tered the employ of J. C. Hayden & Co., at this place, to learn the trade of machinist, completing his apprenticeship in 1877. He then entered their coal office as clerk, serving in that capacity for eighteen months, after which he returned to the machine shop and served as general clerk and draughtsman. He served as assistant to the superintendent until 1897. when the company was incorporated, and Mr. Morris was elected to the board of directors and made secretary to the same. In 1895 he became general sales agent for the company, which position he holds at the present time (1905). Mr. Morris is a mechanical engineer and has particularly devoted a great deal of his time to mining and water works, pumps, etc. He has established over one thous- and pumping plants throughout the mining dis- tricts of the United States, and sold the first compound and the first triple expansion pumps ever placed in the anthracite coal mines. .


Mr. Morris is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons, belonging to Hazel Lodge, No. 327, Hazle- ton, and Hazleton Chapter, No. 277, Royal Arch Masons. He also holds membership in the follow- ing organizations: Colonial Society of Pennsyl- vania ; Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolu- tion : Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States, Pennsylvania Commandery; the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Pennsylvania Commandery; Church Club of the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania ; the Pottsville Club of Pottsville ; the Country Club of Scranton ; the Laurel Club of Uniontown ; the Scranton Engineers' Club of Scranton; the Scranton Club of Scranton ; and the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society of Wilkes- Barre.


Mr. Morris married in 1886, Anna Mary Waaser, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, born October 13. 1863, daughter of John and Anna Waaser, or-


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iginally from Germany, the former named being now deceased, and the latter residing at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Morris are members of St. Peter's (Episcopal) Parish Church, of Hazleton, in which Mr. Morris is a vestryman and Mrs. Morris an officer in the Woman's Auxiliary. H. E. H.


CHARLES PAXTON STACKHOUSE, M. D. The family of which Dr. Charles P. Stack- house, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, is a repre- sentative, was founded in this country by Thomas Stackhouse, who came to Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, in 1682, and represented that county in the Colonial assembly, province of Pennsylvania, in 1711-13-15. He married Grace Heaton, who bore him several children. He died in Middle- town, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1744. He was a nephew of Thomas Stackhouse, who was a fellow passenger of William Penn, in 1682, on the ship "Welcome" from England to Philadelphia.


Robert Stackhouse, son of Thomas and Grace (Heaton) Stackhouse, was born in Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, in 1692. Prior to 1770 he re- moved to Berwick, Pennsylvania, and was among the first settlers of that section of the state, residing there until his death, which oc- curred in 1788, at the advanced age of ninety- six years.


Benjamin Stackhouse, son of Robert Stack- house, was a native of Bucks county, Pennsylva- nia. He accompanied his father upon his re- moval from Bucks county to Berwick, prior to 1770, with a colony of Friends, and his death occurred there in the year 1776.


James Stackhouse, son of Benjamin Stack- house, was a woodworker and engraver by oc- cupation, and during the greater part of his life resided in Berwick, Columbia county, where his death occurred. He married Mary Bowman, daughter of Christopher. Bowman, both of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, who bore him several chil- dren.


Joseph Stackhouse, son of James and Mary (Bowman) Stackhouse, was a native of Colum- bia county, Pennsylvania, a farmer, lumberman and foundryman, and the first of the name to locate in Luzerne county, residing for a number of years in Shickshinny valley, where his death occurred. He married Nancy Lockard, of Sum- merhill, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, and their children were as follows: Mary, deceased, who was the wife of the late Josiah Dodson, re- sided at Pond Hill. Amanda, deceased, who was


the wife of John Chapin, issue : Irving, Firman, and two children who died in early life. Alex- ander, who died in early life. Jesse, who en- listed as a soldier in the Civil war and was killed in battle. He married Margaret Hazlet, issue : Amanda, deceased : Nancy, Charles Fletcher, and Joseph, deceased. Margaret (Hazlet) Stack- house married for her second husband David Bound; they reside in Scranton, Pennsylvania .. Cyrus, who married Amelia Lanning, issue : Wellington, Ida, deceased; Emma, wife of Brit- ton Chapin ; Joseph Mason, married Myrtle Kel- ley ; Bertha, a graduate of the Bloomsburg Nor- mal school. John M., deceased, mentioned here- inafter. Nelson B., who married Priscilla Franklin, issue: Frank, Ella, Bessie ; they reside- in Berwick, Pennsylvania. McDonald, who mar- ried Cordelia Williamson, reside in Shickshinny- valley. Philip and Herman (twins), died at the age of four years. All of the sons of the above. named family who attained manhood served in the infantry in the Civil war, two enlisting in New York regiments, and the others in Pennsyl- vania regiments.


John M. Stackhouse, fourth son of Joseph and Nancy (Lockard) Stackhouse, was born on the old homestead in Shickshinny valley, Penn- sylvania, March 23, 1839. He spent his child- hood and boyhood in that vicinity, in the mean- time attending the public schools of Salem town- ship. At an early age he worked on the farm and at timbering, thus gaining great physical strength and vigor. When eighteen years of age- he left home with twenty shillings and a double bladed knife in his pocket, and began his active- career as a lumberman, in which occupation he- succeeded very well. At the discovery of coal in the Wyoming Valley, thinking that it would prove profitable to mine it at Shickshinny, John- M. and his brother Cyrus opened up a drift and started a breaker, having only one horse for power, and for some time supplied the local mar- ket. Shortly afterwards they organized the Paddy Run Coal Company and obtained a long- time lease for the ground. The members of the company were John M. and Cyrus Stackhouse and Charles R. Paxton. They acquired from fourteen hundred to eighteen hundred acres of coal land, but feeling the need of more capital, they with Lloyd Paxton, of Rupert, Pennsylva- nia, and Jerry Harmon, of Bloomsburg, Penn- sylvania, formed the Salem Coal Company, which continued to operate successfully for a long period, in fact continuing business two years after the death of John M. Stackhouse ;.


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which occurred in 1883. When about thirty-five years of age John M. Stackhouse branched out into other lines, acquiring iron and copper prop- erties, and in the early days of the oil excitement, in company with N. B. Perry, of Shickshinny, and his son, Charles P. Stackhouse, whose name heads this sketch, went to Oil City, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and was interested there for some time with moderate success. Mr. Stackhouse was a man of remarkable business sagacity and tact, upright and conscientious in his transactions, and therefore won the commen- dation of his employers and the public at large.


John M. Stackhouse married, at Berwick, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1861, Mary Catherine Lanning. Their children were as follows: Mor- rison, born February 16, 1862, died at the age of seventeen months. Annie Eizabeth, born June 20, 1863, became the wife of James Fritz (see Fritz sketch) ; they reside in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Edwin Stanton, born February II, 1866. married Lidie Keith, of Gettysburg. issue : Helen Marian, Margerie Keith, John Milton, Ruth Elizabeth, Mary Ella, and Agnes Burgoyne. They reside in Shickshinny, Penn- sylvania. Alice Gertrude, born October 3. 1867, graduated as nurse from Bellevue Hospital. New York city; she resides with her brother, Dr. Charles P. Stackhouse. Jennie May, born July 21, 1869, a graduate of Cazenovia Seminary, New York ; she married the Rev. Daniel H. Piper, of the Bloomsville (New York) conference. They reside in Bloomsville, New York. Their chil- dren are: John Stackhouse, Lewis H., and Ed- win Charles Piper. Charles Paxton, born April 19, 1871, mentioned hereinafter. Mary Martha, born October 12. 1872, graduated from Wyo- ming Seminary in music, contracted typhoid fever and died October 18, 1895, aged twenty- three years. Nancy Grace, born January 8. 1875, died at the age of three years. Bertha Amanda, born February 5. 1878, died in infancy. John M. Stackhouse, father of these children, died in 1883, of pneumonia, superinduced by exposure while inspecting a large tract of timber which he desired to purchase, there being eighteen inches of snow on the ground, and after inspecting the same he drove twelve miles, and the following day he was taken ill.


Mary Catherine (Lanning) Stackhouse, wife of John M. Stackhouse, was a daughter of Sam- 11el R. and Elizabeth (Winters) Lanning, and granddaughter on the paternal side of Amos and Mary (Lee) Lanning. She was one of eight children, namely : Mary Catherine.


became the wife of Joseph Roup, issue : Samuel, deceased ; Harry, Theodore, Cora, Archibald, Florence Ida, and Ezra. They reside in Dor- ranceton, Pennsylvania. Anna Elmira, widow of Barney Benscoter, and mother of the following children : Amos, Emmet, Mary, Elizabeth, Amanda, Hoch, Hattie and Fred. Five other children of this union are deceased. The family reside in Berwick, Pennsylvania. Amos W. married Mary Jane Hallock, issue : Ella. Sam- uel, Webster, Harriet, Emma, and one son de- ceased. They reside in Fairmount. Pennsylva- nia. Amelia, married Cyrus Stackhouse, above mentioned. Nathaniel, married Carrie Coughlin, issue : Four children, John and three who died in infancy. They reside in Shickshinny, Penn- sylvania. Willard, married Amanda Adams, is- sute: Ruth, Elizabeth, David, Ernest and Ken- ney. They reside in Reyburn, Pennsylvania. Emma, married Burton Aliger, issue: Elsie, Edith, Myrtle and Jennie. They reside in Dor- ranceton, Pennsylvania. Samuel R. and Eliza- beth (Winters) Lanning, parents of the above named eight children. resided in Shickshinny valley, removing thither from Trenton, New Jersey.


Charles Paxton Stackhouse, third son of John M. and Mary Catherine (Lanning) Stack- house, was born in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania. April 19, 1871. He attended the public schools of that town, and later pursued advanced studies at Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie. New York, from which he was graduated in 1893. and Lehigh University. In 1895 he entered the Medico-Chirurgical University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, graduating therefrom in 1898. He was resident physician in the Philadelphia Hos- pital part of the year of 1898 and all of 1899, and January 1, 1900. located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he has since practiced. He is the consulting physician at Mercy Hospital, and keeps well informed along the line of his profession by membership in the American Med- ical Association, Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley Medical Associa- tion and Luzerne County Medical Society. He is an active and prominent member of Sylvanus Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Shickshinny, of which he was master in 1900: Shekinah Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons; Dieu Le Vieut Com- mandery, Knights Templar ; Irem Temple, An- cient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ; Shickshinny Lodge. No. 180, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; Prince of Peace Commandery, Knights of Malta ; and Wilkes-Barre Council,


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Junior Order of United American Mechanics. Dr. Stackhouse married (first), April 1893, Laura Woodworth, born August 30, 1873. daughter of John D. and Susan Woodworth, of Shiekshinny, died December 10, 1893. Dr. Stack- house married (second). March 26, 1902, Mary B. Sorber, daughter of George W. Sorber, of Shickshinny. She died June 22, 1904. The re- mains of both wives are interred at Shickshinny. H. E. H.


FRED W. FRANTZ. Andrew Franz (the name is so spelled in the German) was born in Bayern, Germany, August 15, 1832. He emi- grated to America in 1854, and settled in Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania, where his business life was farming, contract well digging and stationary engineering. During the war of 1861-65, he en- listed and served as private in the One Hundred and Forty-seventh Volunteer Infantry, until dis- charged for disabilities. In 1903 Mr. Franz and his wife, Wilhelmina ( Hochburg) Franz, re- turned to Germany and have since lived in Wein- ersburg. Their children were: Helen, Andreas and William, all of whom died young ; Adam, of the firm of Jones, Frantz & Miller, and who met accidental death by cyclone in 1890; George J. and Fred W., both of whom now live in Kings- ton, Pennsylvania, and are business associates.


Fred W. Frantz, youngest son and child of Andrew and Wilhelmina ( Hochburg) Franz, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, June I, 1874, and was educated in the public schools of that city. At the age of fifteen years he left school and entered upon his business career with his brother William in Kingston, Pennsylvania, where he has since lived. Fred W. Frantz is a Democrat, active in the councils of his- party in Luzerne county, and in 1904 was a member of the Kingston borough council. He is a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard, and was in service during the famous "Homestead riots."


George J. Frantz, fifth son of Andrew and Wilhelmina ( Hochburg) Franz, married Mary Weise, daughter of Adam Weise, of Plymouth, and they have three children : George A., Helen, and Margaret Frantz.


FRANK STOOKS. For twenty years Nanticoke has been familiar with the name of Frank Stooks as that of an enterprising business man. Mr. Stooks is a son of John and Julia Stooks, natives of Poland, who are the parents of seven children, six of whom emigrated to the


United States. Five are in Pennsylvania, one- in Minnesota, and one remains in the old home across the sea. The parents came to this coun- try in 1880 and make their home with their son. Frank in Nanticoke.


Frank Stooks, son of John and Julia Stooks, was born September 6, 1859, in Prussian Po- land. and in 1876 came to the United States, settling first in Minnesota. After three years' residence in that state he removed to Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, where he has since made his home. He was employed at the mines in various ca- pacities until February, 1885, when he opened a general store, which he has since conducted with marked success. His store is situated in West Main street, and is one of the most com- plete of its kind to be found in the city. He- has been twice elected treasurer of the borough, an office which he has filled to the perfect sat- isfaction of his fellow-citizens. He is a mem- ber of Nanticoke Lodge, Order of Heptasophis, and of the Polish National Alliance. In poli- tics he is a Democrat.


Mr. Stooks married, January 22, 1884, Josie, daughter of Michael Gabrill, and the following children have been born to them: Lillian, Mary, deceased ; Lottie, Leo, Henry, Frank, and Helen.


JOSEPH SMITH. One of the foreign-born citizens who are truly useful and worthy mem- bers of the community is Joseph Smith, of Nan- ticoke. Mr. Smith was born in 1858 in Lipno, Poland, and in 1879 emigrated to the United States, settling in Nanticoke. Before leaving his native land he had learned the butcher's trade, which he intended to pursue in his adopted country. On his arrival, however, he found that an insurmountable obstacle to his doing so was his ignorance of the English language. Con- fronted with this difficulty, he adopted the best course possible under the circumstances. He entered the mines, and by coming in contact with English-speaking people, as well as by at- tending the night schools, he succeeded in mas- tering the mysteries of a foreign tongue. After several years spent in this way he took a posi- tion as clerk in a meat store, where he remained for three years. His purpose all this time was, in the first place, to become thoroughly famil- iar with the English language, and, in the sec- ond place, to acquire an intimate knowledge of the customers of his new home. This end he accomplished, and in 1885 opened a meat market, which he has conducted to the present time. He


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has one of the largest markets in the borough and keeps constantly on hand a supply of the choicest meats. Mr. Smith is held in high esteem by his fellow-citizens, and for three years has been treasurer of the borough. He is a member of Nanticoke Lodge, Order of Hept- asophs, the Knights of Pythias, Polish National Alliance, and the Order of Eagles. Politically he is a Republican.


Mr. Smith married, June 5, 1889, Cecilia Kitlowska, and they have five children : Sophia, Clara, Edmund, Lucile and Jadwiga. The pa- rents of Mr. Smith died years ago in their native Poland, but one brother, Clement, lives in Chi- cago, and three sisters reside in Nanticoke. Thus it will be seen the family is well represented in the United States.


JOHN BERTSCH PRICE, president of the First National Bank of Hazleton, in which ca- pacity he has served since March, 1901, and also the incumbent of various offices of trust and re- sponsibility in a number of leading commercial enterprises which promote the prosperity and growth of that section of the state, is a worthy representative of a family of German extraction. He was born November 17, 1864, son of Judge Samuel B. and Harriet (Bertsch) Price, and grandson of Hiram Price, originally of Lam- bertsville, New Jersey, and later of Danville, Pennsylvania.


Judge Samuel B. Price (father), a native of Hunterdon county. New Jersey, was chief clerk for the Upper Lehigh Coal Company for several years, resigning this position January 28, 1887. held the office of treasurer of Carbon county, and in 1889 was elected judge. He is a resident of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. He married Har- riet Bertsch, a native of Mauch Chunk, Pennsyl- vania, and their children were: Harrie Bertsch, born September 25, 1857, married, October 27, 1884, Margaret Smith, of . Cornwells, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and has children : Marion, Harriet and H. Katherine. Samuel Barber died March, 1904, buried at Hazleton; he married Kate Clark, and had two children: Daniel Bertsch and Samuel Clark ; they reside in Hazle- ton. John Bertsch, born November 17, 1864, of whon later. Parker Price, half-brother of Judge Samuel B. Price, resides in Pottsville, and Dr. Price, residing near Pottsville, is also a con- nection of the family.


John Bertsch Price spent his early days in Upper Lehigh and was educated in the public


schools of that place, Swarthmore Preparatory College, and Lehigh University, graduating as civil engineer in June, 1885. During vacations he spent a large portion of his time in the mines, and in 1886 went abroad. The following year he became construction engineer for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, locating at Denver, Colo- rado, which position he filled for one year, when, owing to trouble with his eyes, he had to retire from active business. He then spent two months on a cattle ranch, the following winter treated his eyes, and in May, 1888, came to Hazleton, Pennsylvania, as teller of the First National Bank, of which his father was one of the origina- tors. He remained as teller and assistant cashier until the spring of 1896, then became cashier, serving until March, 1901, when he was elected president, which office he still holds, and he is also director in the same institution. In addition to these onerous and responsible duties he is serving in the capacity of director and president of the Price Taliferro Lumber Company, Cush- man, Virginia ; director and vice-president of the Freeland Silk Mill Company, Freeland, Penn- sylvania ; director and vice-president of the Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railroad Company (parent company) ; director and treasurer in the Lanza Silk Company, Lansdale, Pennsylvania ; director and treasurer of the Diamond Water Company, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, and secre- tary and treasurer of the Hazleton Electric Light & Power Company, Hazleton, Pennsylvania. In politics he casts his vote for the candidates of the Independent ticket. He holds membership in the Sigma Phi Fraternity, Westmoreland Club, Wilkes-Barre, and University Club, Phil- adelphia.


John B. Price married, October 1, 1891, Mary Silliman, born January 21, 1868, daughter of Morgan and Martha (Levy) Silliman, of Potts- ville, Pennsylvania, who were the parents of two other daughters: Jennie S. (Mrs. Roberts) and Bessie S. (Mrs. Dr. Cole). Mr. and Mrs. Price have three children : John B., Jr., born April 29, 1893: James Silliman, born April 27, 1894 : Rob- ert Morgan, born June 16, 1895. Mr. Price and his family attend St. Peter's Episcopal Church, in which he serves as vestryman and treasurer.


ISAAC F. MEGARGEL, of the firm of Me- gargel & Brooks, bankers at Scranton, Pennsyl- vania, is a charter member and director of the United States Lumber Company ; president and director of the Allegheny Lumber Company ; di-


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rector of the Clark & Snover Tobacco Com- pany; director of the Mississippi Central Rail- road; director of the Brook Creek Coal and Lumber Company ; director in the Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad; director in the Con- sumers Ice Company ; and director in the Peck- ville National Bank.


Mr. Megargel was born in Sterling. Wayne county, Pennsylvania, in August, 1841, the son of Isaac and Calista Experience (Dayton) Me- gargel, grandson (on the paternal side) of Allen and Jane (Marple) Megargel, and (on the mater- nal side) of Giles and Lucy ( Mills) Dayton, and great-grandson of and (Jones) Megargel, who were married in Philadelphia, marriage recorded in Church Book of England (Society of Friends), and Giles and Dayton.


Allen Megargel (grandfather) was born in Fox Chase, Pennsylvania, son of - Me- gargel, who came from Scotland and was well known among the pioneer Quakers of Philadel- phia. Allen Megargel became the owner of a farm in what is now a part of the city, but later removed with his family to Pike county, where he built the first mills in that locality and became the owner of a large tract of land. He died there at the age of sixty-eight, in 1821. His wife, Jane ( Marple) Megargel, died 1835-36.


Isaac Megargel (father) was born in Fox Chase, Pennsylvania, 1797, died 1888, at the age of ninety-one. When a young man he went west and traveled through Indiana and other states, seeking a suitable location, but finding nothing satisfactory he returned to Pennsylvania and set- tled in Sterling, where he engaged in farming. For about a quarter of a century he held the office of justice of the peace, and his decisions were so just that they were never reversed by the higher courts. He married Calista Experience Dayton, born June 21, 1802, died February, 1889, and their children are as follows: Giles A., a retired business man of Peckville ; Justus A., a veteran of the Civil war, a resident of Vine- land, New Jersey; Orlando, also a member of the same regiment as his brother, and a resident of the same city ; and Isaac F. Megargel.




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