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Mr. Robinson married, June 29, 1862, Lois
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Britton, born August 16, 1843, died in Carbon- dale, Pennsylvania, August 23, 1905; buried in Maplewood cemetery, Carbondale. A sketch of her family will be found hereinafter. Children were: I. Mary L., born in Greenfield, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, May 13, 1865. Married, in Carbondale, September 12, 1888, Charles F. Baker, of Jermyn, Pennsylvania, Rev. A. B. Richardson officiating. Mr. Baker was born in England, May 1, 1863, and is a member of the firm of C. D. Winters & Company. Their children are: Ida M., born May 30, 1889; Ray- mond C., .August 29, 1895; Stanley, June 3, 1898, died September 2, 1898. All were born in Jermyn. 2. Minnie, born February 22, 1870, in Greenfield, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. Married, October 15, 1890, William Rowe Moon, Rev. William Hiller officiating. Mr. Moon was born in Lambertville, New Jersey, May 25, 1867, and is in the mercantile business in Belmont street, Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Children are : Tylman R., born March 3, 1892; Rowena, Jan- uary 18, 1900; Dwight Charles, February 12, 1901 : Lois, May 26, 1904. These children were all born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. 3. Lil- lian, born December 17, 1873, in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Married, September 8, 1897, Reed Birdsall Fowler, of the same city, Rev. G. A. Place officiating. Mr. Fowler was born in Lanesboro, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1873. Children are: G. Wyland, born August 7, 1898; Evangeline D. Ette, October 26, 1903. Both born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania.
John Lippincott Britton, father of Mrs. Tyl- man Carpenter Robinson, was born in Dover, New Jersey, November 20, 1809. After his mar- riage he settled in Abington township, Luzerne (now Lackawanna) county, Pennsylvania, where they lived for two years. In the fall of 1832. with two small children, they took an overland route with an ox team and lumber wagon to Springfield, Ohio. They were six weeks in mak- ing this trip and supported themselves by farm- ing for two years. At the end of this time they returned to Pennsylvania, locating in Green- wood, Falls township, Wyoming county, about four miles northeast of Buttermilk Falls, on a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, of which but one was cleared. Here they built a log house in which they lived for fifteen years, when they built a frame house, into which they moved with their ten children.
He married November 9, 1829. Asenatlı Ross, in Falls, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania. Lemuel Stone, Esquire, performing the mar- riage ceremony. Asenath (Ross) Britton was
born in Pittston township, Luzerne county, Penn- sylvania, June 14, 1809: died May 22, 1898; they were buried in Greenwood cemetery, one-half mile west of Sheltsville. At the time of her death she had seven great-great-grandchildren. The children of John L. and Asenath (Ross) Britton were: 1. Harriet S., born October 28, 1830, Abington township, Luzerne (now Lackawanna) county ; married Jacob WV. Sickler ; died, Decem- ber 7, 1903, at Sickler's Pond, Greenfield, Penn- sylvania. 2. Mary, born August 29, 1832, Green Woods Falls township, Wyoming county. Pennsylvania ; married, May, 1852, T. B. Rhodes ; died, December 26, 1852, in Millport, Chemung county, New York. 3. Jane, born August 24, 1834, Green Woods Falls township, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania : married George Walters; died in April, 1888. 4. Charles, born September 27. 1836, Falls township, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania ; died at the age of three years by falling into a kettle of not sap. 5. Mar- tha, born December 5. 1838, Falls township, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania ; married, March II, 1860, Merrit Coon. 6. Emily, born June 25, 1841. Falls township, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania ; married, August, 1862, Philip Rivenburgh. 7. Lois, married Tylman C. Rob- inson, as previously stated. 8. Chloe, born Sep- tember 29, 1845. Falls township, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania ; married (first), Novem- ber 13, 1864, William H. Clum, who died Jan- uary 8, 1865. She married (second), Septem- ber 14, 1866, James B. Wood. 9. John, born March 26, 1848, Falls township, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania ; married. September, 1868, Helen Dickinson. IO. Rosanna, born August 4, 1850, Falls township, Wyoming county, Penn- sylvania ; died December 2, 1884.
STEGMAIER FAMILY. Charles Steg- maier, the founder of the family in the United States, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany. October 7, 1821. At the age of fifteen years he engaged as an apprentice in his native town to learn the business of brewing, and after serving as brewmaster in several of the largest breweries in Wurtemburg set sail in 1849 for America. He arrived in New York city, from whence he journeyed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in which city he secured employment with the Cor- poration brewery, afterwards with Louis Berg- doll, and during this period became acquainted with John Reichard, now deceased, the founder of the Reichard & Weaver brewery, of Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania. Mr. Stegmaier entered Mr. Reichard's employ, came to Wilkes-Barre in
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1851, and brewed the first beer in that section of the state. After serving with Mr. Reichard for several years he accepted a position with George Laurs, now deceased, at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, which position he held until his return to Wilkes- Barre.
In 1857 Mr. Stegmaier engaged in business on his own account, conducting a bottling es- tablishment for a short period of time, and later he entered into partnership with George C. Baer, now deceased, under the firm name of Baer & Stegmaier. They built a small brewery on South Canal street, near the present site of the wire bridge, which was known as the Hiet prop- erty. The kettle used was a wooden one, and the product of the brewery was stored in a deserted mine tunnel at Port Brukly, which the firm leased from George Hollenback, now deceasd. During this time the under ground vault on East Market street was built, and in 1863 the tunnel and brewery on East Market street was occupied by them. The business increased in volume and im- portance continuously until the panic of 1873, when operations were suspended. Mr. Steg- maier then entered the hotel business, which he continued until 1875, in which year he rented the Bowkley brewery on North River street and the canal, associating with him his son Christian. In a modest way he again commenced to conduct a business of his own, and father and son con- tinued their business relation at the aforesaid płace until 1880, when the former Baer & Steg- man brewery was repurchased, which is a part of the present property owned and occupied by the Stegmaier Brewing Company.
Under the careful management of father and son the business increased in a remarkable man- ner, and in order to fulfill their orders they were obliged to enlarge their facilities, and in 1894 the new brewery and storage house were built, of a capacity of three hundred thousand barrels per annum, making it the most extensive brew- ing business outside of Philadelphia and Alle- gheny counties in the state of Pennsylvania. M. Stegmaier continued his active management of the company affairs until 1902. The officers and directors of the Stegmaier Brewing Company are his sons, all of whom are members of the firm: President, Charles; vice-president, Fred J .; treasurer, Christian, and secretary, George J.
Charles Stegmaier married, January 3, 1851, Katharine Baer, daughter of the late George C. Baer. Their children are as follows: Charles, Christian E., born April 18, 1854: George J., born April 4, 1858 ; Fred J., Louise, Mary, born 1863. died 1883; and Louis, died in infancy.
For the past several years Mr. Stegmaier has spent the winters at Los Angeles, California, where he has a number of financial interests. His daughter, Mrs. Philip Forvie, who has al- ways resided with her parents at the homestead on East Market street, Wilkes-Barre, and whose husband is one of the enterprising merchants of Wilkes-Barre, in addition to having interests in Los Angeles, California, accompanies him.
Christian E. Stegmaier was born in Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania, April 18, 1854. He at- tended St. Nicholas parochial school, and after- wards entered Wyoming Seminary, from which institution he was graduated in 187?
He began business life with his father, later was admitted as partner, has been identified with the business ever since, and at the present time (1905) is treasurer of the company. He is also connected with numerous other enterprises throughout the country, among which are the Wyoming Lace Mills, of which he is treasurer and director ; Wyoming Cutlery Company, of which he is director ; Wilkes-Barre Hotel Company, of which he is a director : Wyoming Valley Trust Com- pany, of which he is a director : Plymouth Nat- ional Bank, of which he is a director ; Harvey Lake Hotel Land Company, of which he is pres- ident ; Anthracite Land Company, of which he is president ; and Kingston Land Company, Limited, of which he is a director. He is a mem- ber of the Roman Catholic church, and a Repub- lican in politics. He married, November 14, 1890, Nellie Hesse, daughter of John and Eliza- beth Hesse. No issue.
George John Stegmaier was born at Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1858. He at- tended St. Nicholas parochial school and Wyom- ing Seminary. He turned his attention to the trade of machinist, serving an apprenticeship in the Ashley shops, Jersey Central Railroad shops, Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Altoona, Penn- sylvania, and various others. Later he accepted a position as bookkeeper, collector and general office worker in his father's establishment, and is now a member of the company, serving as secretary. Mr. Stegmaier is interested in a num- ber of the leading enterprises throughout the city and county, among which is the Doran Lace Manufacturing Company, of which he is treas- urer. He has taken a great interest in politics, representing the district in the legislature in 1888-89, was a member of the city fire depart- ment for sixteen years, two of which he held the office of chief, was unanimously elected by the council in May of 1905 to fill the vacancy created
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by the death of James Mack, and for several years served as tresurer of the city of Wilkes- Barre. He married, January 1, 1889, Mary Costella, daughter of Patrick and Mary Cos- tella, and the following named children were born to them: Katharine, George J., Christian, Teddy, and Louis, who died at the age of three and a half years.
Charles Stegmaier and his sons are among the highly esteemed citizens of the city of Wilkes-Barre, have contributed largely toward its growth and development, and are staunch supporters of every worthy enterprise. They are extremely charitable, and in all their benevo- lences follow out the Golden Rule: "Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth."
MAJOR EVERETT WARREN. The name of Warren figures conspicuously upon the pages of military history in America. The fam- ily has been represented in almost every war of the country, and to one of these branches be- longed the distinguished hero of Bunker Hill, General Joseph Warren. More than a century before the family had been established in Amer- ica, the name of Peter Warren, mariner, appears upon the town records of Boston, in 1659. When more than one hundred years had passed Joseph Warren, already trained in military service, prior to the outbreak of the Revolution, became one of the organizers of the Massachusetts troops, received a general's commission and led the American army at Bunker Hill, there to meet death on the 17th of June, 1775. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, June II, 1741, and was a graduate of Harvard College, class of 1759. He then entered upon a professional career as master of the Roxbury ( Massachusetts) school, and subsequently taking up the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. James Lloyd, entered upon the practice of the profession in 1764. Those were troublous years in the his- tory of the colonists. Oppressive taxation was arousing the opposition and antagonism of a large majority of the liberty loving people of the new world, and Dr. Warren became one of the leaders in the opposition movement. The passage of the stamp act in 1765 led him to pub- lish several articles in the Boston Gasette against the course pursued by the mother country and brought him into prominence as one of the sup- porters of the American cause. A committee of safety was organized in Boston, of which he became chairman. He was chosen a member of the Provincial council, and served as presi- dent of its meeting held in Watertown, May 31,
1775. thus becoming the chief executive officer of Massachusetts in the Provincial government. . He wielded a wide influence in public affairs, and was a recognized leader in moulding public thought and action. More than a month before the convening of the Provincial congress at Wa- tertown the first blow for American liberty had been struck. His entire sympathies were with the cause, and on the 14th of June he was chosen major general of the Massachusetts forces, and three days later commanded his troops at Bunker Hill. It is said that both General Putnam and General Prescott successively signified their read- iness to take orders from him, but he refused and in the final struggle, when he was endeavor- ing to rally the militia, he was struck in the head by a musket ball and instantly killed. His statue adorns the battlefield on which he fell, and his name has gone down in history as one of the heroes who won the nation's independence.
Isaac Warren, a relative of Gen. Joseph War- ren, in a collateral line, was born at Long Mead- ow, Massachusetts, and enlisted for service in the war of 1812, but participated in no active engagement. In early life he learned the shoe- maker's trade, which he followed at Bethany, near New Haven, Connecticut. Up to that time shoes had been uniformly worn by men, and Isaac Warren manufactured the first pair of calf- skin boots for use in this country. The new article of footwear at once became popular, and his time was constantly occupied in filling the orders that came to him. Removing from Beth- any to Goshen, Connecticut, he fell dead when about sixty-three years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Leonora Perkins, was born in Bethany, Connecticut, and was of Eng- lish lineage. Her father, Israel Perkins, was a farmer of that state and an influential citizen . of his locality, well informed in all general topics of interest and so fair-minded that his opinions were frequently sought by friends and neighbors. He married Millicent Judd, representative of one of the colonial families of Connecticut. She proved an able helpmate to him, being a very industrious woman and possessing a noble Chris- tian character in keeping with her profession as a member of the Episcopal Church. She reached the very advanced age of ninety-eight years, passing away at the time of the Civil war. In- teresting events are told in connection with the early history of her family. One of her brothers was hidden in a well for forty-eight hours when the Tories went from Long Island to Connecti- cut, and thus he escaped any harm. Later he joined the colonial forces and sustained severe
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injuries while fighting with the British. Mrs. Leonora Warren died in Scranton at the age of seventy-eight years. By her marriage she had become the mother of seven children, the eldest being Israel Perkins, who for many years was a minister of the gospel and afterward became editor of a religious newspaper. He died in Portland, Maine. William Edwin, entering up- on his business career as bookkeeper, afterward became actively connected with railroad inter- ests, his first association being with the New York and Erie Railroad. Subsequently he was secretary and treasurer of the Delaware, Lack- awanna & Western Railroad, and later was em- ployed as an expert accountant by A. T. Stewart and other prominent business men of New York. His death occurred in the metropolis, but he made his home in Newburg, New York. Har- riet is married and lives in New Haven. Isaac Watts, who died in Binghampton, New York, was a contractor and builder. Harris Franklin was the next in order of birth. Cornelia Ann was the wife of Edwin Ives, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. George Frederick, a cavalry sol- dier of the Civil war and afterward aide on the staff of General Grant, to which position he was transferred by the request of the general, is now a farmer and nurseryman of Harvard, Clay county, Nebraska.
Harris Franklin Warren, son of Isaac and Leonora Warren, was born in Bethany, Connec- ticut, March 10, 1824, and about 1838 went with a brother to Newburg, New York, where for a year he was a student in the high school. Going to the west in 1843 he secured a position as bookkeeper in a large wholesale establishment in Detroit, Michigan, being in the employ of Reu- ben Towne, which position he resigned in 1848, and became bookkeeper for the wholesale mer- cantile house of Zach. Chandler & Company, of which he became the junior partner in 1850. His health failing in the west, Mr. Warren accepted a position in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as book- keeper for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the car and machine shops. For al- most ten years he was in a semi-invalid condi- tion, but finally regained his strength and lived to an advanced age. From 1854 to 1890 he was a factor in the city, and then took up his perma- nent abode at his country home in Dalton. The spirit of loyalty which has been characteristic of the family from the time of its establishment in America was manifest in him during the Civil war and he responded to the draft, but was re- jected by the medical examiner. His political allegiance was given to the Republican party.
He was married twice while in the west, first wedding Mary Ann Stroud, a native of Eng- land and an adopted daughter of his employer, Reuben Towne. Her death occurred in 1850. He married (second) Marian Margery Griffin, born near Utica, New York, a lineal descendant of Nathaniel Griffin, who was given a farm near Utica as remuneration for services in the Revo- lutionary war. The deed for this property was signed by George Washington and is still in pos- session of the family. To Mr. and Mrs. Harris Franklin Warren were born three children who are yet living : Josephine, wife of N. C. Bartlett, of Philadelphia : Annie Leavenworth, wife of F. P. Price, merchant of Scranton ; and Everett.
Major Everett Warren, born in Scranton, August 27, 1859, became a student in the public schools at the usual age and later prepared for college in Merrill's Academic School, where he studied Latin and Greek, paying for his tuition with his earnings as a carrier boy for the Scran- ton Republican and subsequently for the Scran- ton Times. Ambitious for advancement along lines demanding intellectuality, culture and close application, he assiduously applied himself to the duties of clerk and office boy in the office of A. H. Winton and subsequently was with Hand and Post. He continued his studies preparatory to entrance into college with Frank Bentley as tutor, bringing to him over three-fourths of the salary earned as law clerk. The year 1877 was the fulfillment of his hopes in one direction, for at the beginning of the fall term he matriculated in Yale University, where he soon distinguished himself in his literary and forensic studies and was graduated in the class of 1881 with the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts.
Following his admission to the bar in 1882 Major Warren became the partner of Hon. E. H. Willard, and in 1892 they were joined by Judge H. A. Knapp, the business relationship of the three being maintained until June, 1895, when Mr. Willard was appointed one of the new superior court judges by Governor Hastings. This left Major Warren as head of the firm of Warren & Knapp, and throughout the interven- ing years he has maintained a foremost position at the bar of Scranton. He is especially promi- nent as a corporation lawyer and is now attor- ney for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western. the New Jersey Central, Lehigh Valley, the Erie, the Erie & Wyoming Valley Railroad. also the Scranton Traction Company, the Lack- awanna Iron & Steel Company and the Pent- sylvania Coal Company. His success came sco11 because his equipments were unusually good, he
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having been a close and earnest student of the fundamental principles of law. Nature endowed him with strong mentality, and he had acquired that persistent energy and close application with- out which there is no success. Along with these qualities, indispensable to the lawyer, he brought to the starting point of his career cer- tain rare gifts-eloquence of language and a strong personality-and the favorable judgment which the world passed upon him at the outset of his career has been in no degree set aside or modified, but in fact has been strengthened as the years have passed and he has demonstrated his ability to cope with the most intricate prob- lems of jurisprudence, maintaining a foremost place as a representative of the legal fraternity of Pennsylvania.
It is not alone at the bar that Major War- ren has won distinction, for he is a prominent factor in military and political circles. In 1881 he became a private of Company A, Thirteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, then commanded by Capt. Louis A. Watres, after- ward lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania. Three years service in the ranks was followed by promotion to sergeant major, later he became adjutant and finally judge advocate of the Third Brigade with the rank of major on the staff of General J. P. S. Gobin. After a continuous service of more than ten years he resigned as judge advocate in 1891, and ceased to be a mem- ber of the national guard. He declined a com- mission as colonel on Governor Hastings' staff, but is advocate on Major General Snowden's staff with the rank of lieutenant colonel. His local preminence as a political leader was fol- lowed by national recognition, when in 1887 in the old Chickering Hall in New York there as- sembled the first convention of the newly or- ganized National League of Republican Clubs, Major Warren acting as representative of the Central Republican Club of Scranton, while in the subsequent election of national officers he was the unanimous choice of the Pennsylvania del- egation for treasurer. He was chosen the first of three vice-presidents when in April, 1888, the State League of Pennsylvania was organized at Lancaster, and in 1894 he was elected president by acclamation and re-elected in York in 1895. continuing at the head of the league as its chief executive officer until 1896. He is now a mem- ber of the advisory committee of the National Republican League, and his opinions have carried weight in the state and national councils of his party. He has been prominent in Republi- can affairs in his home locality, having been
secretary of the county committee, chairman of the city committee and also a member of the advisory committee of the state committee. In 1896, at the state convention in Harrisburg, he was nominated presidential elector from the Eleventh congressonal district. Political prefer- ment, however, has had no attraction for him. His interest is that of the broad-minded citizen who recognizes his duty to state and nation, and puts forth effective effort in support of princi- ples which he deems most conductive to good government and the welfare of the majority.
Major Warren married, May 31, 1883, in Scranton, Ellen H. Willard, a daughter of Hon. A. N. Willard, and they have three children : Marion Margery, Dorothy J. and Edward Wil- iard. The family are communicants of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, in which Major Warren is serving as vestryman. He has attained the Knight Templar rank in Masonry, belonging to Peter Williamson Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Lackawanna Chapter, Royal Arch Ma- sons, and Melita Commandery, No. 68, Knights Templar. He is a man of marked activity, strong individuality and notable strength of character. His efforts have been an influencing force along many lines touching the general interests of so- ciety, and he has kept abreast with the best think- ing men of the age.
ISAAC SELDEN GRAVES, M. D., a grad- uate of the University of the City of New York, and a general practitioner of Jermyn, Pennsyl- vania, where he enjoys the patronage of a large number of the most select families, was born on the home farm in Scott township, then Luzerne but now Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania, De- cember 1, 1859, a son of Albert and Margaret ( Miller) Graves, a grandson of Richard and Elmira (Tompkins) Graves, and great-grandson of Comfort and Constance Graves. Comfort Graves emigrated to this country from Ireland, and was the progenitor of the American branch of the family.
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