Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 102

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 988

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Nanticoke creek, half a mile above Nanticoke falls, where he died June 15, 1821. He had two sons : I. Lieut .- Col. Washington Lee, born 1786, died 1871, an officer in the United States army, serving through the war of 1812-15, as lieutenant, and captain 1813, and June, 1813, as deputy. He was made lieutenant colonel of Elev- enth United States Infantry, January 1, 1815. He married, June 16, 1817, Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of Rev. John Campbell, D. D., removed to Nanticoke, 1817; engaged in iron making on the Newport branch of Nanticoke creek before the canal was built, and afterward in coal min- ing for many years ; removed to Wilkes-Barre in 1869, and died there without issue September 10, 1871. 2. James S. Lee, born Dauphin county, Pa., January 3, 1789, died July 21, 1851 ; came with his parents to Nanticoke, 1804, married, 1-804, Martha Campbell, born April 2, 1792, died in Nanticoke, October 21, 1851. He had five chil- dren : Andrew Lee, born 1815, died 1882, married Sarah Jane Buckhout ; Priscilla Lee, born 1819, married Ziba Bennett (see Bennett family) ; Washington Lee, born 1821, died 1883, married Emily Thomas, and had Charles W. Lee; of Wilkes-Barre; Margaret Lee, born 1823, died 1866, married Dr. James F. Doolittle and had Priscilla Lee Doolittle, who married her cousin, Charles W. Lee, above; Mary Lee, born 1829, died 1853, married Lewis Compton Paine.

Lewis C. and Mary C. (Lee) Paine had two children : 1. William Lee Paine, died November 13, 1905, married Margaret Swetland, and had Lewis Compton and William Swetland. 2. Mary Paine. Lewis C. and Annie E. (Lee) Paine had two children : Anne Scott Paine, of whom later, and Priscilla Lee Paine.

Anne Scott Paine, eldest daughter of Lewis Compton and Annie E. (Lee) Paine, married Dr. Thomas Davis Worden, born Trenton, New New York, June 18, 1853. died April 19, 1888. He was educated at Fort Plains, New York, Ca- zenovia Seminary, Cazenovia, New York, and Syracuse University, from which he graduated . Ph. B., 1877. He entered the Albany Medical College, 1877, securing at the same time a very advantageous position in the office of Dr. Van Der Veer, Albany's famous surgeon. Here Dr. Worden remained for three years, attending lec- tures at the college ; graduating M. D., 1880. At Syracuse University he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. He began the practice of his profession at Albany, 1880, but severe illness from overstudy prostrated him. On his recovery he sailed for Europe with General Martindale in June, 1881, as his attending

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physician. After General Martindale's death he returned home and became a member of the medical staff of the Sanitarium at Saratoga, New York. His health being again threatened in 1880, he resigned his position at Saratoga, and removed to Wilkes-Barre, where for a time he entered upon business relations with his father-in-law, Lewis C. Paine, but it was never Dr. Worden's intention to give up his pro- fession permanently. During the last two years at Saratoga he had nearly completed for publi- cation a translation of the medical work of Beni Borde, an eminent French physician. In Sep- tember, 1887, his health necessitated an immedi- ate change of climate. He therefore went at once with his wife and child to Colorado Springs, where he remained until shortly before his death. Dr Worden was an earnest Christian and a com- municant of St. Stephen's Church, Wilkes-Barre. He had one child, Anne Lee Worden.

H. E. H.

CHARLES P. HUNT, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, traces his ancestry to Thomas Hunt, of the city of York, England, barrister, who was born in 1770, died in 1822. He married Rachel Bell, who was a Quakeress, and whose death occurred in Canada. They had six chil- dren: Dr. Ellwood, a surgeon in the Royal army, died in Australia ; Dr. Frederick Bell, a physician in the city of York, England, and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburg, Scotland; Lawrence, Anna, Harriet, Rachel, Francis William, of whom later.

Francis William Hunt, fourth son of Thomas and Rachel (Bell) Hunt, was born in the city of York, England, May 17, 1806, died in Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1871. He em- igrated to America in 1835. He lived for a time in Cincinnati, Ohio, and removed thence to Mes- hoppen, Pennsylvania, where he served as post- master in connection with his other avocations in life, merchandising and the lumber business. In 1845 he removed to Wilkes-Barre, and was there a farmer and general store-keeper as long as he was actively engaged in business pursuits. He also engaged in the coal business, owned, sold and handled a large amount of real estate, and was one of the well known representative busi- ness men of Wilkes-Barre. He was a director of the First National Bank of Wilkes-Barre, a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

He married, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1840, Sarah Althea Parrish, born May IO, 1817, died October 24, 1893, aged seventy-

six years, daughter of Archippus Parrish and his wife Phebe Miller, and sister of the late Charles Parrish, of Wilkes-Barre. ( See Parrish Family). They had: Ellwood Herring, born Meshoppen, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1841, now a prom- inent screen manufacturer ; Charles Parrish, born Meshoppen, July 31, 1843, of whom later ; Fran- cis William, died in infancy; Anna Mercy, of Wilkes-Barre.

Charles Parrish Hunt, second child of Francis William and Sarah Althea ( Parrish) Hunt, was born in Meshoppen, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1843. Married, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 6, 1875, Grace Staunton Lea, daughter of Judge James Neilson and Hetty H. ( McNair) Lea. He was educated in the Wilkes-Barre public schools and at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pennsylvania, but he early entered into business employment. He became clerk in the store of Rutter & Reading, hardware merchants in Wilkes-Barre, in 1859, and in 1866 a partner in the business under the firm of Rutter & Reading. He became partner with Mr. Reading in the firm of Reading & Hunt, general hardware merchants, in 1869, and so con- tinued until 1876, when Mr. Hunt succeeded to the sole proprietorship of the business and con- ducted it alone until 1880, when his brother, Ell- wood Herring Hunt, acquired an interest in the business. The firm then became Charles P. Hunt & Brother, and was so until 1893, when the senior partner retired from the concern to engage in other pursuits.

Mr. Hunt was one of the organizers of the Hillman Vein Coal Company at Wilkes-Barre, 1882, and was its treasurer and manager until 1902, when it was sold. 'He was one of the organ- izers in 1889 of the Langcliffe Coal Company at Avoca, Pennsylvania, and treasurer of the com- pany until it was sold in 1892. He is now treas- urer of the Parrish Coal Company, and a member of the firm of Parrish, Phillips & Company, coal sales agents, of No. I Broadway, New York. He is president of the Wilkes-Barre Iron Manufact- uring Company, of Wilkes-Barre, director of the First National Bank of Wilkes-Barre, the Parrish Coal Company, of Wilkes-Barre, the Vulcan Iron Works, the Hazard Manufacturing Company. and the Wilkes-Barre City Hospital. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Wilkes-Barre Institute and the Home for Friendless Children. For many years Mr. Hunt has been a member and trustee of the First Presbyterian Church, and was formerly a trustee of the Memorial Church of Wilkes-Barre. He is a member of the Wyoming Historical and Geo- logical Society, Westmoreland Club of Wilkes-

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Barre, Wyoming Valley Country Club of Wilkes- Barre, and a non-resident member of Scranton Club of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Mrs. Charles P. Hunt descends from Rev. Luke Lea, Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, who married Mary Wilson, daughter of Zac- cheus Wilson, senior, Esq., a signer of the Meck- lenburg Declaration of Independence, May, 1775 ; member of the provincial congress of North Carolina, 1776, and of the convention of 1788 which deliberated on the Constitution of the United States. Rev. Luke and Mary Lea had three sons: I. Rev. Major Lea, who married Lavinia Jarnagin, and had Luke Lea, member of the United States congress from Tennessee, 1833-37; Judge Pryor Lea, member of United States congress from Tennessee, 1827-31; Dr. Wilson Lea; and Albert M. Lea, United States army, 1831-36, lieutenant-colonel, Confederate American army, 1861-65, whose son, Edward Lea, United States navy, was lieutenant-com- mander of the United States gunboat "HarrietX Lane," 1862, killed in battle, Galveston, Texas, January I, 1863. 2. Colonel Luke Lea, senior, married Susan Wells McCormick, and had : Judge John McCormick Lea, president of the Historical Society of Tennessee. 3. James Lea, married Eliza Roddy, and had : Mrs. Judge Sam- uel H. Harper, and Major Squire Lea, M. D., major and surgeon in the United States army, Forty-fourth Infantry, 1813 ; post surgeon United States army, 1818; assistant surgeon, I821; Major Squire Lea married, 1814, Eliza Neilson, of Virginia; their children : Hon. James Neilson Lea, LL. D., born Baton Rouge, Louisiana, November 26, 1815, died Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, October 26, 1884. Married, March 16, 1841, Hetty McNair. Stu- died law with his uncle, Judge Harper, su- preme court, Louisiana, and became judge of the second district court New Orleans, 1847, and associate judge of the Louisiana supreme court, 1855. He received the degree of LL. D. in 1877 from Washington and Lee University, Virginia. He had four children besides Grace Staunton Lea, who married Charles P. Hunt : Wilson Lea ; Walter Lonsdale Lea, M. D., grad- uated Bachelor of Arts, Washington and Lee University, 1877, and practiced medicine in Wilkes-Barre; Rosa Lea; Helen Lea, married (first) Henry Holloway Lonsdale, of New Or- leans ; (second) Robert Charles Shoemaker, Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, and had : Hetty Lons- dale, married Colonel Asher Miner, Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania ; Grace Shoemaker, married 35

Dr. Charles H. Miner, of Wilkes-Barre; and Stella Shoemaker.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Hunt have had three children : I. Francis William, born December, 1875, died in infancy. 2. Lea, born September 19, 1878, educated at the Harry Hillman Acad- emy, Horace D. Taft's Preparatory School, Watertown, Connecticut, and Yale College. He is a member of the Westmoreland Club, the Wyo- ming Valley Country Club, the Yale Club of New York City, and the Wyoming Historical and Geo- logical Society. He is now in business with his father. 3. Carl, born 1880, died January 28, 1883. H. E. H.

LIEUTENANT JOSEPH WRIGHT GRAEME, U. S. N., was born August 14, 1875, son of Thomas and Ellen Hendrick (Wright) Graeme. (See Wright family.) He graduated at Hillman Academy, 1893; was appointed cadet to United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, September 9, 1893, and graduated 1898. He served on the "Iowa" in the Spanish-American war, in command of the forward port turret in battle with Cervera's fleet. He was commis- sioned ensign July 1, 1899, and served in the Philippines for three years. He was promoted lieutenant 1902, attached to the "Maryland," in Cuban waters, where he was killed by an explo- sion on the "Kearsarge," while on duty, April 14, 1906. His was a noble character, and he was of unusual promise as a man and an officer, and deservedly popular in every sphere of his young life. He married, January 15, 1903, Ethel, daughter of James A. Robinson, of New York. They had Alice, born 1904. H. E. H.

WILLIAM N. JENNINGS, formerly a lum- ber dealer of Wyoming Valley, traces his descent to an old family in England. His present home is in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and he is con- siderably interested in real estate.

Paul Bishop Jennings, father of William N. Jennings, was born at Holt, Wiltshire, England, July, 1795. By his own efforts, he earned and saved sufficient money to pay his passage to America, landed at Baltimore in 1815, and then went near Philadelphia, where he had an uncle living. Not being able to make satisfactory ar- rangements for his services, he went to the Le- high river, near Mauch Chunk, and there en- gaged in the lumbering business, putting logs and timber into the Lehigh for White & Hazard. He soon became foreman of a gang of men, and after a time took jobs delivering timber to the-

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Lehigh river. During his operations there he visited the Wyoming Valley to buy supplies for men and teams. At that time Wyoming Valley was a cheap place to buy agricultural products, as there were no means of transportation but by the old wagon road over the mountain to Easton. During these visits he became acquainted with one Joseph Tuttle, father of Elizabeth Tuttle, whom he afterwards married. Finishing his lumbering operations on the Lehigh in 1829, he moved to Grist Flats, in Windham township, Lu- zerne county. In the spring of 1851, after living there two years, he bought of Dr. Carney a farm, grist and saw mill at what is now North Mehoop- any, Wyoming county. At that time the country was wild and mostly covered with woods. He cleared a large farm and besides other business had a country store, and was very energetic and accumulated for that section and times a consid- erable fortune. He was originally a Democrat in politics, but in 1860 he left the old party and voted for Abraham Lincoln. He was a highly valued citizen of the town in which he lived, being public-spirited in a marked degree. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as was also his wife. His death occurred in De- cember, 1864. He married at Kingston, Pennsyl- vania, 1826, Elizabeth Tuttle, who was born in 1796 and died in 1893. daughter of Joseph and Mary Lee Tuttle, of Wyoming Valley. Mr. Tut- tle was a farmer and a business man. The chil- dren of Paul B. and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Jennings were :

I. Joseph T., born near Rockport, Carbon county, 1827. When about four years old, his parents moved to Mehoopany and there he lived the remainder of his life, acting in the capacity of clerk in the store of his father, and at the age of twenty-four, together with his brother, William N., purchased about two thousand acres of tim- ber land in what is known as Jenningsville. Here they erected saw-mills. The firm's name was Jennings Brothers. His death occurred in Me- hoopany in October, 1901. Joseph T. Jennings married, October 25. 1849. Sally Ann Fassett, daughter of Major John Fassett. of Windham township, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania. The children of Joseph T. and Sally A. (Fassett) Jennings are Harry S. and John B. Both were lumbermen and succeeded to the business of their father, and at the present time both are living.

2. William N., see forward.

3. Worthy, died in early life.

4. Maria, died in early life.

5. Charles, drowned in the Susquehanna river while bathing. at the age of eight years.

6. Caroline, born at Mehoopany, 1835, mar- ried E. W. Sturdevant, have two sons and three daughters, all living at this time, and they and all their children with the exception of one reside at Danville, Vermont.

7. Mary Ann, born at Mehoopany. 1837, married J. C. Kintner, had two sons and two daughters, all living at the present time (1906) ; Mary Ann Kintner died at the age of fifty.

William N. Jennings, second son and child of Paul Bishop and Elizabeth (Tuttle) Jennings, was born at Tuttletown, Kingston, Pennsylvania, now Forty Fort borough, March 3, 1829. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and at the Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pennsylvania. He remained under the parental roof at Mehoopany until he was twenty-one years of age, and then concluded to see something of the world. In the spring of 1850 he went down the Susquehanna river on a flotilla of lumber to Marietta, Pennsylvania. There he took cars on the Pennsylvania railroad to Lewistown, on the Juniata, which was the terminal of the Pennsyl- vania railroad at that time. From there he took packet boats to Pittsburg, and went over the Al- leghany Mountains from Hollidaysburg to Johns- town by portage railroads. At Pittsburg he took steamer for St. Louis, via the Ohio and Mis- sissippi rivers. At St. Louis he took steamer up the Missouri river to the town of Weston, Mis- souri, near Fort Leavenworth. At that place he bought, with his partner, a Mr. Ray, three yokes of young oxen, and from there started for Cali- fornia across the plains, across the states of Kan- sas and Nebraska, before there was a farm or farm-house in either state. They struck the Platte river at Fort Kearny, followed up the Platte to the junction of the North and South Platte rivers, forded the South Platte and followed up the north until he reached the Sweet Water river where it emptied into the North Platte ; went up the Sweet Water to its head, and then through the south pass of the Rocky Mountains, from there across the Big and Little Sandy rivers, across the Green River desert, and struck the Bear river at Soda Springs. From there they struck the headwaters of the Humboldt river, followed it down to the sink, and then across the sixty mile desert, and struck Truckee river and followed up the Truckee to its source, across the Sierra Nevada, and arrived in Nevada City, Cal- ifornia, September 15, being just four months on the passage. Here he cast his first vote, and voted for the California state officers and for location of capitol. California was admitted as a state in 1850 and this was the first state elec-

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tion. He stayed in California some four months, prospecting and investigating the opportunities for making money, but finally concluding that he preferred Pennsylvania to live in and for busi- ness, returning took sailing vessel at San Fran- cisco for Panama, and after being out forty-one days they put into a port in Central America called Realejo. By that time he was sick of sea- going, and with a few others traveled from that place to Grenada, on Lake Nicaragua, on horse- back, took a small steamer from there to San Carlos, came down the San Juan river to Grey- town in a big dugout, came from Greytown to New York by steamer "Crescent City," calling at Kingston, Jamaica. He was gone nearly a year.

In August, 1852, Mr. Jennings commenced the construction of a sawmill in what is now Jenningsville, for the manufacture of lumber, an occupation he followed for years. The market for lumber at that time was the lower Susque- hanna river. Those engaged in this business were called Susquehanna raftmen. The prices of lumber at that time were very low compared with what they are now. To avoid expense and risk of running the river, he came to West Pitts- ton to dispose of his product to avoid the river. People living on the upper Susquehanna are not aware of the difficulties of navigation of the lower portion of the stream. After living eight years in West Pittston, in the fall of 1865 he moved to Wilkes-Barre, where he continued in the same business. For some three years he had as a part- ner Samuel H. Sturdevant. In the spring of 1871 he moved to Mehoopany to repair damage caused by a cloudburst, which carried away sev- eral mill dams, causing a big loss. In the fall of 1873 he moved back to Wilkes-Barre, and con- tinued the sale of lumber with a partner, John Welles. In the spring of 1877 he moved to Tunkhannock, Wyoming county, where he stayed one year, and in the spring of 1878 went to Bradford, McKean county, which was at that time the greatest oil region that had ever been discovered, and engaged in the manufacture and sale of lumber some three years, being there when Bradford became a city. He left Brad- ford and came back to Wilkes-Barre in 1882, and located at West Union street, and has re- sided there ever since except when at his cottage on the Jersey shore, or when traveling. He has visited the Bermuda Islands and a number of islands of the West Indies, and has been in nearly every state in the Union, besides visiting England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and Italy.

Mr. Jennings has been reasonably successful

in business and the accumulation of property, and has at different times held real estate in five different states, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina and Minnesota. At the present time he has no small interest in three states and two counties of this state, in Wilkes- Barre, Luzerne county, and Jenningsville, Wy- oming county. He married, September 13, 1853, Sarah A. Hicks, born June 16, 1830, daughter of Daniel and Eleanor Sultphin Hicks. She was one of ten children. Her parents died when she was quite young and she was left to take care of herself. Mrs. Jennings is a devoted wife and mother, and is loved and respected by a host of friends. Their home is an ideal one, elegant and refined and located most beautifully. The chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. William N. Jennings are : I. Cortz Hicks, born at Jenningsville, Penn- sylvania, December 1, 1855, educated in public schools and Wyoming Seminary and then at West Point for over three years. He is now in the lumber business at Jennings, Garrett county, Maryland. He is a successful lumberman and president of Grantsville National Bank. His second wife was Mary Bowman. They have had three children: Donald Hicks, died in infancy ; Sarah Hicks and Paul Bishop.

2. Bishop Worth, born at West Pittston, Pennsylvania, May 4, 1862, was educated in the public schools at Wilkes-Barre and at Wyoming Seminary, and also at Randolph, New York. He then commenced lumbering in wilds of Sullivan county, in the Alleghany Mountains, with his brother, Cortz Hicks, 1882. He married in 1883, Eleanor Castle, of Jamestown, New York. They have two children: William Worth and Ethel May. They have also an adopted daughter, Helen. Ethel May died when some eight years old. Bishop Worth Jennings at the present time is engaged in lumbering in Jenningston, Tucker county, West Virginia. They have very large holdings of timber land in that vicinity. Jen- ningston is built and owned exclusively by him- self and his brother. He is president of the Hendricks National Bank at Hendricks, West Virginia. He was a member from Sullivan county of the state legislature for two terms, from 1895 till 1899, refusing then to take the nomination for another election.

3. William L., born October 18, 1865, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He was educated in the public schools and Wyoming Seminary and also at Randolph, New York, and is now in the lumber business with his brother at Jenningston, West Virginia. He married Fidelia Myers, of Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, and they have three

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children : William Hicks, Victoria Myers and Cortz Hicks Jennings.

Eleanor Hicks, adopted daughter of William N. and Sarah A. (Hicks) Jennings, married, March 8, 1872, Dr. N. A. Rinebolt, of Sullivan county, Pennsylvania, and now resides at Athens, Bradford county, Pennsylvania. They have three children : William J., Lewis and Eleanor.

L. HORACE GROSS, a late resident of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he bore a full share in the promotion of community affairs, and was a foremost agent in forwarding every mate- rial and moral interest, was a native of Macun- gie, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, born May IO, 1828. He was a son of John and Elizabeth (Deshler) Gross, and grandson of Peter Gross, who was an active participant in the Revolution- ary war. John Gross ( father) was born De- cember 31, 1798, in Lehigh county, Pennsylva- nia, and there spent the active years of his career engaged in the quiet but useful calling of agri- culture. He lived an exemplary life, and was highly respected and esteemed and his influence for good was felt throughout the community. His wife was a representative of the old and honored Deshler family of Bethlehem, Pennsyl- vania, many members of which are among the best citizens of that city at the present time.

L. Horace Gross was reared and educated in Allentown, Pennsylvania. After attaining man- hood he was for a number of years superintend- ent of the charcoal furnaces at Beaver Meadow, and later served for a long period of years in the same capacity in the Allentown rolling mill. Sub- sequently he accepted the position of manager of the Atlantis Refining Company, at Allentown, it being designated this way by the Standard Oil Company, of which it was a branch, and for two decades his labors and responsibilities were dis- charged with the greatest efficiency, testifying to his splendid capabilities as a man of affairs. During the greater part of this time he resided in the city of Wilkes-Barre in order that his wife might be with her mother. Mr. Gross was known as an earnest Christian, a helpful worker, ' taking an active interest in the cause of the poor and needy, and a genial, companionable gentle- man. He was a prominent member of Grace Episcopal Church at Allentown, in which he was a vestryman and warden, also superintendent of the Sunday school connected therewith, for a number of years.

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Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 102

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin Publication date: 1906 Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 988

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 988