Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 7

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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death, "is it well with your soul"? he replied, "Why not?" With a perfect confidence in the saving grace of his Maker and of his prepared- ness to meet Him, he passed peacefully away, so that none could tell just the moment when the mortal became the immortal. Without having in his lifetime been a professor of religion, he had been a close student of the Scriptures, and had written views and intrepretations thereof which demonstrate the broad and analytical mind with which he had been endowed.

The children of Stephen Cromwell and Mary Laura (Capwell) Reynolds: 1. Sevalla Laura, born December 29, 1847; married Westcott Stone ; daughter of Earl Reynolds Stone. 2. Na- poleon Bonaparte, born November 6, 1849. 3. Stephen Marion, Factoryville, Scranton, and Terre Haute, Indiana, born August 4, 1854 ; mar- ried Jessie Mae Ford ; their children : Ford Pal- mer Reynolds, Jean, Stephen Marion (Jr.). (Daughter named for her father). 4. Harry Cromwell. 5. Mary Laura, born November 9, 1870; married Rev. George B. Smith ; children : Arline, born September 14, 1896. Children of Stephen Cromwell and Mary C. (Monsey) Rey- nolds: I. Lem. V., born November 27, 1882. 2. Charlotte, born April 30, 1889.

(IX) Harry Cromwell Reynolds (9), Stephen C. (8), Robert (7), George (6). Rob- ert (5), George (4), Joseph (3), Joseph (2), James (I), born May 12, 1863, at Factoryville, Pennsylvania ; married Adelaide Coltart Scott, daughter of William Arnold Scott and Adelaide Marian (Coltart) Scott Wood, December 20, 1894.

Harry Cromwell Reynolds was educated in the public schools and at Keystone Academy, Factoryville, Pennsylvania. In 1883 he came to Scranton and took a position as bookkeeper for Watson and Barber. He studied law, and in the same year became a student in the office of the law firm of Loomis & Reynolds. He was twelve years a member of the Thirteenth Regi- ment, National Guard Pennsylvania, and for two years a lieutenant in Company G. He was ad- mitted to the bar of Lackawanna county, 1886, and was subsequently admitted to the superior and supreme courts of the state and to the United States courts, and the bars of Luzerne, Wyo- ming, Susquehanna and other counties, where he now ( 1906) practices. The children of Harry Cromwell and Adelaide Coltart (Scott) Rey- nolds : 1. Adelaide Marion Scott, born December 9, 1895. 2. Harry Cromwell, Jr., born March 27, 1897. 3. Robert Coltart, born August 23,

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190I, at Ravenswood Cottage, summer home of the family at La Plume, Pennsylvania ; the two first named children were born in Scranton.

The military bent of the family is shown in the records of the family. The scope of this work has not permitted, indeed it would scarcely be in good taste, to recount in detail here the excellent military and civic record of the family. More than fifty of the name and a like number of the half blood went to the front in the Civil war, and at least four participated in the Spanish war in Cuba and Porto Rico. Some of these have of- fered up the "full measure of their devotion" upon the field of battle, from the French and In- dian wars to the last conflict. In civic life the duty they owe to their country has been well per- formed ; and if the present and future generations shall "hand down to posterity the heritage un- tarnished," then only shall they be worthy of the name they bear. Samuel Reynolds, John Rey- nolds and Ziba (Reynolds) Hinds, all of Fac- toryville, Pennsylvania, and Z. W. Reynolds, pay- master of the United States navy, were in the blockade off Havana, on board the monitor "Miantonomah."

STANISLAUS A. DANGEL. A citizen of distinctive strength and sterling character, a forceful and vigorous writer, and identified in a peculiar way with the journalistic profession, be- ing editor and publisher of the Stras Guard, of the church, and its title was then changed to its official organ of the Polish National Church and movement in America, Mr. Dangel wields in- fluence in the noble organization with which he has thus closely identified himself, while he is held in high regard as a citizen of worth and ability, maintaining his residence and business headquarters in the city of Scranton, Lackawanna county, where his paper is published.

In the year 1895 Mr. Dangel established in Scranton a local newspaper, which he entitled the Pennsylvania Weekly, and which was pub- lished in the Polish language and in the interests of the Polish people. Two years later he was one of the leading spirits in the founding of the Po- lish National Church in America, being one of the most valued coadjutors of and co-workers with Bishop Hodur, concerning whom individual mention is made elsewhere in this work, together with details concerning the movement mentioned. Upon the inauguration of the new movement the Pennsylvania Weekly became the official organ of the church, and its title was then changed to its present consistent form, the Stras, meaning "the Guard." The church represents a reformation

and its leading exponents have withdrawn their allegiance to the Church of Rome, while under the wise direction of Bishop Hodur the advance- ment has been along safe and legitimate lines, and it has been the function of the Stras to stand guard at the very threshold of this new move- ment, so important and vital to the Polish people. The paper is vigorous and aggressive in its policy, is a veritable guard and tower of strength in ad- vocating and protecting the doctrines, tenets and material welfare of the church, while Mr. Dan- gel has incidentally gained the highest esteem and the implicit confidence of his fellow country- men and is a leader in the Polish circles of Amer- ica.

Stanislaus A. Dangel was born in the famed old city of Warsaw, Poland, November 13, 1871, being a son of Alfonse and Bronislawa Dangel, representatives of sterling old families of that noble country, whose once majestic fortunes have fallen upon evil days. In the excellent schools of his native city our subject was afforded the best of educational advantages, completing his scho- lastic discipline in the famous University of War- saw. In 1894 Mr. Dangel came to America, be- lieving that under our institutions he could find a wider field for useful action and for personal ac- complishment. He first located in the city of To- ledo, Ohio, where he held a position on the edi- torial staff of a Polish newspaper for a period of six months, at the expiration of which time he came to Scranton and established the Pennsylva- nia Weekly, as before noted. He has since main- tained his home in this city, and his course has been such as to gain for him a place among the representative young business men of this section of the state, while he has gained also the social recognition due to one of his high attainments and ability. He is a valued member of the Polish National Alliance, of which he is president at the time of this writing, being in his third term of consecutive service in this important capacity. He is affiliated with several national secret societies in Scranton, and politically is a stalwart adherent of the Republican party and an active and efficient worker in its cause. During the national cam- paign of 1904 he was a member of the Republican executive committee. Mr. Dangel is a member of the Scranton Press Club, and at the convention of the International League of Press Clubs held in Detroit in July, 1905, he was elected a member of the national executive committee. On July 18, 1896, Mr. Dangel was united in marriage to Miss Mary Kryger, daughter of William and Frances Kryger, of Scranton, and they have two daugl ters, Stella and Hadwig.

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J. BENJAMIN DIMMICK, president of the Lackawanna Trust and Safe Deposit Company, of Scranton, and actively identified with various important financial institutions and commercial enterprises in that city, is widely known through- out the state for his efficient services in behalf of educational and humanitarian institutions.

The family name has undergone various changes, appearing at different times under the forms of Dymock, Dimmock and Dimick. Rev. Dr. Miller says : "The Dymocks came down from Tudor, Prince and Chief of the Welsh Marches, to David ap Madoc, some five hundred years, they being known in Wales as Dai (from Dy), Dai being in Welsh the diminutive of Da- vid. His successors were known as Daimoc, and Sir William Dymock, the sixth in descent from him, had the spelling in that form." The Eng- lish Dymocks have been the hereditary cham- pions of England. from an early period, the office having been acquired by the marriage of Sir John Dymock, in the reign of Edward III, to the sole heirship of the Marmions, in whose family the position had previously been held. The office was abolished in the reign of George IV.

Elder Thomas Dimmock (I), son of Edward, of Barnstable, England, was the first settler in this country, and the common ancestor of all of the name in New England. It is not exactly known when he came to America, but in 1635 he was a resident of Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he was a selectman that year ; a freeman May 25, 1636; removed to Hingham, 1638; and to Scituate the next year. One authority says he removed to Barnstable in 1640, and another has the year as 1639, when Barnstable was incor- porated. Thomas Dimmock was the first repre- sentative from the new town in 1640 and several times thereafter, and was ordained a ruling elder in the church August 7, 1650. Mr. Otis, in his "History of Barnstable," says Mr. Dimmock was identified with the early history of the town, and cannot be separated from it. He was a leading man, and was in some way connected with all the acts of the first settlers. He was one of the asso- ciate justices of the county court, one of the council of war, and lieutenant, the highest rank then known in the local militia. He was a man of pure life, integrity and ability, and greatly re- spected. Unlike many of his contemporaries he was very tolerant in his religious views. There is no record of his marriage, but he is thought to have married Ann Hammond, daughter of Wil- liam, of Watertown, before he settled in Barn- stable. He died in 1658 or 1659. . His widow

Ann was living in 1683, but probably died before 1686. He had at Barnstable the following chil- dren. I. Timothy, baptized by Rev. John Lath- rop, January 12, 1639-40, who was the first of the English to die at Barnstable, and who was buried June 17, 1640. 2. Mehitable, baptized April 18, 1632, married Richard Child, of Watertown, and had a family of two. 3. Shubael, baptized Sep- tember 15, 1644.

Deacon Shubael Dimmock (2), was called en- sign in Barnstable records. He was a resident of Yarmouth in 1669, but did not remain long. He was one of the selectmen of Barnstable in 1685- 86; a deputy to the common court in the same year ; and again in 1689 was ensign of the militia company. About the year 1693 he removed to Mansfield, Connecticut, which was then a part of Windham. The first mention of him in Wind- ham records is December 22, 1697, when he was chosen first on the committee to aid the select- men in settling the town boundaries. He was admitted an inhabitant of Windham, December 22, 1699, and chosen one of the selectmen the same day. He was a member of the first Wind- ham church and afterward a member of the first church of Mansfield, organized October 18, 1710, of which he was a deacon. His name stands first in the list of inhabitants to whom the patent of the town was granted, October 20, 1703, and first after Rev. M. Williams in the list of the nine organizing members of the Mansfield church. He- was the third deacon, being chosen and ordained in 1717. He married Joanna Bursley, daughter of John, in April, 1663. She died in Mansfield,. May 8, 1727, aged eighty-three years. He died October 29. 1732. Their children born in Barn -- stable were: 1. Thomas, April, 1664. 2. John,. January. 1666. 3. Timothy, March, 1668. 4. Shu- bael, February, 1672. 5. Joseph, 1675. 6. Mehit- able, 1677. 7. Benjamin, March, 1680. 8. Joanna, March, 1682, married Josiah Conant, of Wind- ham, and has only one son, Shubael, who settled in Mansfield, and was one of the most prominent and distinguished men of that town. 9. Thankful, November, 1684, married Deacon Edward Wal- do, of Windham, and was the ancestor of all the Waldo families originating in Windham. Judge L. P. Waldo, of Connecticut, and the late Rev. Daniel Waldo, of Syracuse, New York, were among her descendants.

John Dimmick (3), as he wrote his name, lived in Barnstable until 1709, when he removed to Falmouth. He married Elizabeth Lambert, November, 1689, and had the following children : I. Sarah, born December, 1690. 2. Anna, July,

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1692. 3. Mary, June, 1695. 4. Theophilus, Sep- temiber, 1696. 5. Timothy, July, 1698. 6. Eb- enczer, February, 1700. 7. Thankful, born April 20, 1704, married John Lowel. 8. David, bap- tized May 19, 1706.

Timothy Dimmick (4), son of John, settled in Mansfield. He married Ann Bradford, daugh- ter of Joseph, a descendant of Governor Brad- ford, of the "Mayflower," August 15, 1723, and had children : I. Ann, May 23, 1725, married Ebenezer Clark, of Mansfield. 2. Timothy, April 8, 1726. 3. John, March 24, 1727. 4. Jo- anna, August 28, 1730, married John Babcock, of Mansfield. 5. Josiah, March 2, 1732-33. 6. Simeon, September 19, 1735. 7. Sylvanus, June 18, 1738. 8. Oliver, December 31, 1740. 9. Dan, May 14, 1743.

Deacon Oliver Dimmick (5) lived in the parish of Mansfield. He was a deacon in the North Mansfield church, and a very good man. He married Sarah Gurley, daughter of Samuel, in April, 1764. His children were: 1. Oliver, June 13, 1766, died young. 2. Lucinda, June 25, 1768, died aged twenty. 3. Sarah, June 6, 1770, died young. 4. Samuel, March 2, 1773. 5. Dan, March 1, 1775. 6. Eunice, November 26, 1776, married Nathaniel Dunham, and had children, among them the late Austin Dunham, Esq., of Hartford, Connecticut. 7. Oliver Ward, June 20, 1780. 8. Sophia. April 30, 1782, married Levi Stuart, of Hartford, a sea captain ; she had children : Sophia, who married Mr. Benton, a publisher, and at one time a partner of the cele- brated S. S. Prentiss, of Louisville, Kentucky ; Mary Ann, who married Lewis Dunham, a law- ver of western Pennsylvania ; and -, who mar- ried a Webster; Roderick. 9. Alpheus, born March 22, 1787.

The following extract from the pen of Al- pheus Dimmick is a fine tribute to his father's memory :

"My parents were Oliver Dimmick and Sarah Gurley. The latter died in 1790, leaving me about thee years old. The former died February 10. 1823, aged eighty-three. They were both re- markable for their piety and habitual attention to religion. My mother has left behind her, both in manuscript and print, her religious experience, penned by the Rev. Mr. Storrs from her own mouth. My father was for many years deacon of the church at North Mansfield, under the minis- try of the Rev. Moses C. Welch, D. D. He was uniform and strict in the performance of family worship, and was much called on to visit the sick and discharge the last pious duties to the dead.

Although strict in the discharge of moral and re- ligious duties of a personal nature, he was never censorious toward others. He never sought, like many others, discussions and disputations about the various creeds known about in his day. All were welcome under his roof, and were prevailed if ever they attempted to weaken his faith in the system of religion by him adopted in his youth. Although I continued peacefully under his charge till twenty-one years old, I have no recollection of ever hearing him charged with the denial of justice to others, or a neglect in any way of the strictest moral duties to all. From such a character it might seem nat- ural to some to expect great rigor and exactness, not only in the moral conduct but in the religious principles of his family, particularly his children. This is true only in a limited sense. He never inclined to the use of coercive means in the in- stilling of religious principles. He took care that his children should be taught the essential doc- trines of christianity as held in the church of which he was a member, but avoided all means of force or coercion in his endeavors to inculcate them. His object was to enlighten the under- standing and leave free the will to choose and adopt for itself. He seemed fully conscious that no human means, much less force, could change the fountain spring of action."

Alpheus Dimmick (6), son of Oliver Dim- mick, was born in Mansfield. He graduated from Yale College in 1810, and in 1814 was licensed as an attorney by the supreme court of the state of New York. He at once entered upon the prac- tice of law, and some time afterward removed to Bloomingburg, New York, where he resided until his death, January 17, 1865. He was for a num- ber of years a law judge of Sullivan county, in that state, and represented the county in the legis- lature. He married Maria Carr, of Frederick, Maryland, November 5, 1818. Their children were: I. John C., born November 1, 1819. 2. Samuel E., December 24, 1822. 3. William B., 1824, resides at Lackawaxen, Pike county, Penn- sylvania. 4. George Dubois, a lawyer, died young, at Portage City, Wisconsin, in 1861. 5. Mary Ellen, married Dr. N. F. Marsh, who was a surgeon in the regular army, and who died in consequence of disease contracted during the civil war ; they had one child, Lucretia, residing at Honesdale, Pennsylvania. 6. Eliza C. 7. Virginia T.

Samuel Erskine Dimmick (7), second son of Alpheus Dimmick, in 1844 entered the office of his cousin, William H. Dimmick, Esq., as a stu-

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dent at law, and was admitted to the bar of Wayne county, May 6, 1846. He at one time en- tered into partnership with his cousin, and this association continued until the death of the latter in 1861. In addition to a large general practice he was attorney for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, the county commissioners, and the Honesdale Bank. In 1856 he was nominated by the Republicans of his district for congress, his competitor being his cousin and law partner, Hon. W. H. Dimmick. The district being Dem- ocratic, the last named was elected. Mr. Samuel E. Dimmick was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1860, 1864 and 1868. In 1872 he was elected a delegate to the constitui- tional convention of Pennsylvania. Early in 1873 he received from Governor Hartranft the ap- pointment of attorney-general of the common- wealth, and died while in office. The following proclamation was issued by the governor on the morning after Mr. Dimmick's death :

EXECUTIVE MANSION,

HARRISBURG, OCTOBER, 12, 1875. To the People of the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania :

It is with profound sorrow that I make official announcement of the death of Samuel E. Dim- mick, which took place in this city last evening. The high tone of his public life, the talents and the private virtues of this distinguished man, will be his enduring memorial in the hearts of the people of Pennsylvania. Out of respect to his eminent services the several departments of gov- ernment will be draped in mourning for the period of thirty days, and closed on Friday, Oc- tober 13, when his funeral will take place.

J. T. HARTRANFT.

The following is an extract from the Gov- ernor's message of 1876, in which he testifies to the worth of his late attorney-general :

"In October last the mortal remains of the late Attorney-General Samuel E. Dimmick, were reverently laid in the little cemetery at Honesdale.

"Three years ago the character, integrity and recognized legal abilities of this lamented man designated him for the important position he filled with so much dignity and honor, and the full measure of popularity he enjoyed at the time of his death showed how satisfactorily he discharged his responsible duties. Generous, manly and up- right in all the relations of life, and administering his high office with a stern and uncompromising fidelity to the interests of the State, the deceased attorney-general tempered his decisions with so much benevolence and courtesy that it is difficult

to say whether as a man or official he was most beloved. Of delicate health, and suffering from the affliction that resulted in his death, in re- sponse to what he believed a call of duty, Mr. Dimmick died while in attendance upon the Board of Pardons, where his merciful disposition and mature and correct judgment were invaluable helps in dispensing justice. With the public grief that deplores his loss, I may be permitted to min- gle my private sorrow, for while the State mourns for a just and incorruptible officer, the adminis- tration has been deprived of a careful and wise counsellor, and the executive of a disinterested and devoted friend."

Mr. Dimmick married Miss Lucretia M. Ben- jamin, daughter of the late Joseph Benjamin, Esq., of New York, January 28, 1855, and of this marriage were born the following children: I. Walter Erskine, born July 4, 1856. 2. Joseph Benjamin, born October 3. 1858. 3. George Du- bois, born November 29. 1859. 4. Martha. 5. Maude. The mother died at Honesdale, Febru- ary 14, 1880.

Benjamin J. Dimmick, second son of Samuel Erskine and Lucretia M. ( Benjamin) Dimmick, was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1858. He prepared for college at Adams Acad- emy, Quincy, Massachusetts, and at Phillips Exe- ter Academy, and entered Yale College in the class of 1881, where he completed the academ- ical course with the exception of the last term of the senior year, when ill health necessitated the discontinuance of his studies. He made an extended tour of Europe, and subsequently re- ceived from Yale College the degrees of Bach- elor of Arts and Master of Arts. After return- ing home he entered the law office of William H. Dimmick, and was admitted to the bar of Wayne county in 1882. In 1883 he located in Scranton and entered into partnership with his cousin, Ed- ward C. Dimmick, but shortly afterward with- drew therefrom, owing to continued ill health, and again went abroad, passing most of his time in Switzerland, until 1893. when he returned to Scranton, and there became interested in affairs rather than the practice of his profession. He is president of the Lackawanna Trust and Safe De- posit Company, and of the Scranton Lace Cur- tain Company, and a director in the Third Na- tional Bank and the South Side Bank, both of Scranton. He is a firm friend of the Scranton Public Library, and is a member of its board of trustees. Of benevolent disposition, and having a warm sympathy for the suffering and afflicted, is interested in the Scranton Society for the Pre-

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vention and Cure of Consumption, and of the Pennsylvania Oral School for the Deaf, in both of which he is a trustee. He holds membership with a number of the leading social and literary organizations-the University Club, the Yale Club, and the National Arts Club, all in New York City ; and the Scranton Club and the Coun- try Club, of Scranton.

Mr. Dimmick married, November 9, 1881, Miss Louisa H. Hunt, daughter of Dr. E. K. and Mary (Crosby) Hunt, of Hartford, Connecticut. Of this union have been born : Jeanette Hunt, July 28, 1883; Lucretia Benjamin, May 20, 1889; died January 4, 1893; and Mary Crosby, Feb- ruary 10, 1894.

EDWARD L. FULLER, president of the International Salt Company, occupies a front rank among Scranton's most successful busi- ness men. In railway circles, and in the con- duct of the International Salt Company he is widely and favorably known. He comes in direct line from one of the "Mayflower" Pil- grims of 1620-Dr. Edward Fuller- who with his wife and son Samuel disembarked from that historical vessel at Plymouth. Edward Fuller and his wife died shortly after their arrival, but their son lived to marry and rear a family. From this stock descended a long line of descendants, each generation marking the history of the country with illustrious achievements in statescraft, in the professions, in military life, in the marts of trade and the hives of industry. In the second and third generations the family is found in Connecti- cut, and from there came to Montrose, Penn- sylvania, when the country was a wilderness. The great-great-grandfather of Edward L. Fuller, Edward Fuller, married Hannah West, whose remains rest in the cemetery in Scran- ton. Their children were: Charles, Edward, Henry, Isaac, George, Mary L., Elizabeth and Deboralı.

Charles Fuller, son of Edward and Hannah (West) Fuller, born in New London, Connecti- cut, November 1, 1797, died November 29, 1881, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. In 1806 the family removed to Pennsylvania, taking up their abode in Bridgewater township, Luzerne (now Susquehanna) county, where they became inured to all the hardships and severe toil which marked pioneer life in a sparsely settled region in its primeval wildness. The son enjoyed little in the way of educational advantages, schools be- ing of short duration at irregular intervals. At

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Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume II, Part 7

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

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