Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 20

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

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6. William, born February 15, 1869, died February 28, 1870.

7. John Walter, born September 28, 1870 .; died December 6, 1871.

George Loveland, third son of Elijah and Mary ( Buckingham) Loveland, a senior mem- ber of the Luzerne county bar, although now re- tired from active professional life, was born Kingston, November 5, 1823: married, Lyme, Connecticut, September 29, 1869, Julia Lord Noyes, born Lyme, Connecticut, September 23, 1833, died Wilkes-Barre, June 18, 1885, She was a daughter of Daniel R. and Phebe (Griffin) Lord Noyes. Her father a son of Col. Thomas Noyes of Westerly, Rhode Island, born there Oc-

tober 3, 1754, died September 19, 1819; mar- ried January 3, 1781, Lydia, daughter of Will- iam and Sarah Rogers, of Newport. Thomas , served as colonel in the Revolution, at White Plains, Long Island ; Trenton, Valley Forge, and, it is thought, at Germantown ; was representative to the general assembly, and senator twenty years, and also was president of a bank. His father was Capt. John Noyes, owner of Stony Point : and Captain John was a son of Rev. John, a Harvard graduate, 1659, pastor at Stonington fifty-five years, a trustee and one of the founders of Yale College. Rev. John was son of Rev .. James Noyes, of Newberry, Massachusetts ; born Choulderstown, England, 1608, died Newberry, October 16, 1656; came to America in 1634 in the "Mary and John" with his brother Nicholas, and settled in Newberry in 1635. These brothers were sons of Rev. William Noyes of Choulders- town in England.

Mr. Loveland acquired his preparatory edu- cation in the Dana Academy, after which he was sent to Lafayette College. After leaving the col -- lege he taught school about three years, and then began the study of law in the office of Gen. E. W. Sturdevant. He was admitted to practice August 19, 1848, and from that time until within quite recent years has been closely identified with the professional life of Wilkes-Barre, not, how- ever, as a trial lawyer in the courts, for he has not aspired to special prominence as an advocate at the bar, but rather as a counsellor in the office. In this capacity he acquired an enviable reputa- tion, and sought to prevent litigation instead of promoting it. In his intercourse with clients he was thoughtful and conservative, and his coun- sel always was preceded by mature deliberation and as its result, his conclusions were found to be almost invariably correct. He has proven him- self a useful citizen, a conscientious lawyer, a faithful friend, and an honest Christian gentle- man. He was made an elder of the Presbyterian Church while in Kingston, and continued to fill that office after his, removal to Wilkes-Barre, where he has lived so long in the enjoyment of home 'and social companionship, and provided with all that is desirable of this world's goods to-

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make life comfortable and happy. He is a mem- ber of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, and has been for many years a director of the First National Bank of Wilkes-Barre. George and Julia Lord (Noyes) Loveland had :

I. George, born October 25, 1871 ; died No- vember 30, 1871.

2. Charles Noyes, born November 26. 1872; married June 7, 1900, Mabel Huidekoper Bond, born January 4, 1875. He is a member of the Luzerne county bar and life member of the Wy- oming Historical and Geological Society.

3. Josephine Noyes, born November 5, 1874.

Henry B. Loveland, fourth son of Elijah and Mary (Buckingham) Loveland, was born in Kingston, November 27. 1825. He was brought up on the farm, educated in the public schools and in Wyoming Seminary, and afterward taught school and worked as clerk in a mercantile store in Wilkes-Barre. During these years, however, he was incapacitated for hard study or hard work by reason of poor health. He entered upon the study of medicine, but was compelled to abandon the idea of becoming a physician on account of his healthı, and became a lumberman in the West Branch valley, where his efforts were rewarded with success and his health was restored. Later on he taught village school, and eventually set- tled down to farm life in the town of Newark Valley, Tioga county, New York.

Mr. Loveland was thrice married: (first) July 12, 1854. to Mary Alma Baird, born August 8, 1832, died September 24, 1857 ; married ( sec- ond), January 31, 1860, to Nancy Hurlbut, born September 28, 1831, died April 20, 1876 ; married (third), May 3. 1877, to Flora Amelia Loveland (John 5, Joseph 4), born October 25, 1849. His children were :

I. Henry Buckingham. born December 9, 1860; married Lucy Sergeant West.

2. Ellen Hurlbut, born October 25, 1862; died July 11, 1864.

3: Christopher Hurlbut, born March

16, 1865.

4. William, born February 21, 1867.

5. Elizabeth Horton, born January 5, 1869; married Robert Charles Patch.

6. Helen -Strong, born December 29, 1870. 7. Mary Hoyt. born March 18, 1873.

8. George Edmond, born March 23. 1875.

John Loveland, youngest son of Elijah and Mary (Buckingham) Loveland, was born in Kingston, June 23, 1828. He was brought up on the farm, and was given the advantage of a good education in the Wyoming Seminary ; and so apt was he that Dr. Nelson, then principal. offered inducements to the young student to prepare him- self for teaching, but he was dissuaded from this course through the stronger influence of his brother, who urged health considerations as the sole ground of his opposition. Following his brother's advice, he became a lumberman, select- ing the vicinity of Pittston as the field of his operations. From the outset he was successful, extending his business enterprises into other towns, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. He was for- tunate in the selection of a partner-Joseph E. Patterson-who ultimately purchased the Love- land interest in the lumbering business after the death of the latter. Mr. Loveland died July 18, 1871. The last five years of his life were spent in travel, necessitated by failing health. He was a Christian, and member of the Presbyterian Church in Scranton, and subsequently of the same church in Pittston, where he served as elder until his death. He married at New Haven, Con- necticut, March 14, 1860, Helen MI. Strong, born Somers, Connecticut, May 30, 1830, died Pitts- ton, October 27, 1886. They had four children : I. Edward Strong, born December 12, 1860; died September 19, 1861.

2. Nelson H. Gaston, born June 15. 1862; died August 8, 1862.

3. George, born November 16, 1863; died July 14, 1865.

4. John Winthrop, born October 1, 1866; married Florence Lee Partridge.

Mary Elizabeth Loveland, youngest child and only daughter of Elijah and Mary (Bucking- ham) Loveland, was born Kingston, April 20, 1833 ; married September 25, 1855, Hon. Henry Martyn Hoyt, born Kingston, June 8. 1830. Mary, died Wilkes-Barre, October 30, 1890. (See Hoyt Family). They had :

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I. Henry Martyn Hoyt, born December 5, 1856; married Nancy McMichael.

2. Matilda Buckingham Hoyt, born July 12, 1859.

3. George Loveland Hoyt, born February 20, 1861 : died March 20, 1862.

4. John Sidney Hoyt, born January 28, 1866: died February 7, 1866.

5. Helen Strong Hoyt, born May 28, 1871.

Mary Loveland Hoyt was well known in the vicinity of Kingston and Wilkes-Barre. The field for the display of her best qualities was her own home. Her children were the subject of early and constant instruction, enforced by her personal example. She had serious and sincere views of life and its duties, and never allowed herself to trifle with the solemn truths of her re- ligion ; but she always revealed the bright, sunny side of her nature, both at the home fireside and in her intercourse with friends and acquaintances in the social circle in which she moved and which she adorned. She was truly loyal to her family and friends, and extended the circle of her in- fluence in the many public assemblages she was called to enter by reason of her husband's incum- bency of the governor's chair, and the military, political, and professional world in which his lot in life was cast. H. E. H.

DARLING FAMILY. So far as obtainable records indicate the American ancestor of that branch of the Darling family under consideration was Thomas Darling, of English parentage and descent and one of the Puritans of New England. The place and date of his birth are unknown, as also is the year of his immigration and his place of settlement in the eastern colonies. This Thomas married Martha Howe. They had children, among whom was a son Eliakim, born New Hampshire, 1767, married Ruth Buck, of Bucksport, Maine, born 1775, died 1855. After marriage Eliakim settled at Buckport, where he was a shipbuilder and owner, and engaged exten- sively in commerce. He was a man of means and influence, and thoroughly loyal to America in the second war with Great Britain. During the latter part of the war of 1812-15, while at-

tempting to run the British blockade of the New England coast he was captured, but was soon afterward released.

William Darling, son of Eliakim Darling and Ruth Buck, was born in Bucksport, Maine, and came when a young man to Reading, in Berks county, Pennsylvania, where he read law, was ad- mitted to practice, and ultimately was appointed to the president judgeship of the Berks county common pleas. He is remembered as a lawyer of splendid ability, but he retired from active practice when only forty years old. In 1851 he was United States commissioner to the World's Fair, Crystal Palace, London, and while there delivered a series of addresses on the relations of Great Britain and the United States. He mar- ried, December 20, 1758, Margaret Vaughan Smith, daughter of John Smith1, of Berks county,

I. John Smith was the son of Robert Smith and the grandson of John and Susanna Smith, who emigrated from the north of Ireland and settled in Uwchlan town- ship, Cheseer county, Pennsylvania, 1720. Robert was born at sea, during the voyage to America. His grand -. father lived in the northeastern part of Ireland about the end of the seventeenth century, and his. surname was Macdonald, he being of that numerous family of Scotchmen who had crossed over the north channel into Ireland in the time of James I of England. "Just before the battle of the Boyne, as the soldier king, Wil- liam III, was personally reconnoitering in the vicinity, which was soon to become famous, his horse cast a shoe. There was, of course, no farrier in attendance to replace it, but Macdonald, in whose neighborhood the accident occurred, and who, like many other farmers in thinly populated districts was something of a mechanic, volunteered to repair the injury, shod the horse, and so enabled the king to proceed. His neigh- bors, who, like himself, were in sympathy with the cause of which William was the champion, dubbed Macdonald 'the smith,' in allusion to the service ren- dered his majesty." "With her brother John came Mary Smith, who married Alexander Fulton, removed to Little Brittain, Lancaster county, and to whom in due time was born a grandson, Robert Fulton, who has indissolubly linked his name with the history of steam navigation. Sergeant Robert Smith served with the colonists in the French and Indian wars, and after- wards during the revolution, where his services won for him an expression of thanks from the supreme exec- utive council of Pennsylvania. He was a delegate in the convention of 1776 which adopted the first state constitution, and in 1777 he was commissioned lieu-

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and his wife, Eliabeth Bull, the former having been proprietor of the once famous Joanna furn- ace, which in 1832 was operated by William Darling and furnished employment to near two hundred workmen. Elizabeth Bull was daughter of Colonel Thomas Bull, and grand- daughter of William Bull, of Chester county. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Bull, born Chester county, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1744; died July 13, 1837, was lieutenant-colonel Fourth Battalion Pennsylvania Associators, which he organized 1776. He commanded it until 1783. He was taken prisoner at Fort Washington, November, 1776, and put in the prison ship "Jersey." until discharged. He was delegate to the Pennsylvania convention 1787, 1789-90; presidential elector 1792 ; member Pennsylvania legislature, 1795- 180.I.

Children of William and Margaret Vaughan (Smith) Darling :

I. Henry Darling, D. D., president of Ham- ilton College, Clinton, New York, from 1881 to the time of his death ; moderator of the Presby- terian general assembly, 1881.

2. Mary, married Rev. Mr. Wilcox.

3. Thomas Smith, a lawyer of Reading, Pennsylvania ; died 1863.

4. Margaret, died unmarried.

5. Edward Payson, born November 10, 1831 ; died October 19, 1889.

6. Elizabeth, married William A. Drown. (See Phelps Family).

tenant of the Chester county militia ; was commissioned sheriff of the county, also justice of the peace, 1777 ; re-elected sheriff, 1778; assemblyman, 1785; retired from his military office as colonel, 1786. He died in 1822. His son Jonathan was long honorably connected with the First and Second United States banks, and with the banking history of Pennsylvania ; another son, Joseph. was a prominent iron and shipping merchant of Philadelphia; another son, John, was the iron mas- ter who owned the Joanna furnace in Berks county. General Persifer F. Smith, of military fame, and Per- sifer F. Smith, once reporter of the state supreme court, were grandsons of Robert Smith. One of his daugh- ters married Rev. Levi Bull, D. D., of the Episcopal church, and another daughter became the wife of Rev. Nathan Grier.

7. John Vaughan, born July 24, 1844; died November 10, 1892.

Edward Payson Darling, third son of William and Margaret Vaughan (Smith) Darling, born Robeson township, Berks county, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1831 ; died Wilkes-Barre, October 19, 1889 ; married September 29, 1859. Emily H. Rutter, died Wilkes-Barre. January 21, 1882, daughter of Nathaniel Rutter. Mr. Darling was for many years a leader of the Luzerne bar, and was justly regarded as one of the safest legal counsellors in Pennsylvania. Himself the son of a lawyer of wide reputation in legal circles, he was especially fitted for professional life both by natural endowment and through legal training before he came to the bar. His elementary edu- cation was required in public and private schools, and the famous New London Cross Roads Aca- demy, where he prepared for college in 1851, read law in Reading, Pennsylvania, and was ad- mitted to practice in the courts of Berks county, November 10. 1853. He practiced two years in Reading, and then removed to Wilkes-Barre, where he was admitted to practice at the Luzerne bar in 1855. From that time until his death he was a figure of commanding importance in legal circles, and rose in the ranks of the profession until he was recognized as one of the foremost lawyers in the state. He was a corporation law- yer, and also, so far as his practice would ad- mit, a counsellor on all subjects relating to the law of estates, wills, executors and trustees, hav- ing an inclination for the equity courts rather than the general turmoil and hard legal contests of the trial courts. Aside from his practice, which always was large, he was identified with some of the substantial institutions of the city ; was vice-president of the Wyoming National Bank and. of the Miners' Savings Bank : a di- rector of the Wilkes-Barre Gas Company : trustee of the Wilkes-Barre Female Institute, of the Os- terhout Free Library, of the Wyoming Histor- ical and Geological Society and of the Young Mens' Christian Association building fund. He was also an attendant at St. Stephen's Church ; and during his younger life was a member of its choir. The law partnership of E. P. and J. V.

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Darling was formed in 1874, and was continued until the death of the senior member of the firm in 1889. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Darling had three children :

I. Mary Rutter, married William Thomas Smedley, the artist, and had issue.

2. Thomas, born May 29, 1863, lawyer of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

3. Emily Cist, married Arthur Hillman, of Wilkes-Barre; had issue. (See Hillman Family.)

John Vaughan Darling, youngest son of Will- iam and Margaret Vaughan (Smith) Darling, born Reading, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1844, died at Westminister hotel, New York City, November 10, 1892 ; married, October 9, 1872, Alice Mary McClintock, born Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, January 31, 1848, and died there October 12, 12, 1900, daughter of Andrew Todd McClintock, LL. D., and wife Augusta Cist. (See McClin- tock Family). Mr. Darling was given an ex- cellent elementary education, fitted for college under Professor Kendall, and passed the Harvard examination that entered him in the junior class, but impaired health compelled him to abandon the university course, upon which he turned to journalism, and was a contributor to Lippin- cott's Magasine, the Atlantic Monthly, and for five years was associate editor of the North American Exchange and Reviewe. He studied law under R. C. McMurtrie, of Philadelphia, and was admitted to practice in 1865. He prac- ticed in that city in partnership with Morton P. Henry until 1874, when he removed to Wilkes- Barre and became junior partner in the firm of E. P. & J. V. Darling, a relation which was main- tained until 1889. As early as 1869 Mr. Darling was junior counsel for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company with James E. Gowan, and later on was recognized as one of the leading corporation lawyers of Pennsylvania. He was a cultured gentleman, fitted to grace social as well as pro- fessional life, but social enjoyments outside the home circle or the agreeable companionships of the profession found no special favor with him. He was a fine musician and passed many leisure hours in the companionship of his favorite in- strument. During the summer he went abroad,

hoping in vain to regain his health at the hands of the best medical men in Baden, . Germany. On his return to New York he died in the Westminster Hotel. His death was a ser- ious loss to the Luzerne bar, for he was one of its brightest lights, one of its best and most honor- able representatives, its recognized authority on "points of law."

Thomas Darling, son of Edward Payson and Emily H. (Rutter) Darling, born Wilkes-Barre, May 29, 1863; married June 3, 1902, Emma Childs McClintock, born September 25, 1874, daughter of Oliver McClintock and Clara C. Childs. Oliver McClintock is a merchant of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania ; a man of influence and social position : a man of strict integrity of char- acter, a philanthropist, and a political retormer ; without political ambition, and aiming solely to secure an honest administration of government in the great municipality in which he lives.

Thomas Darling was educated in the Wilkes- Barre public schools, the Wilkes-Barre Aca- demy, now known as the Harry Hillman Aca- demy, and Yale University, where he graduated A. B. 1886. He read law under the direction of his father, and came to the bar in Luzerne county in April, 1889. Upon the death of his father, Edward Payson Darling, in October of that year, Thomas became partner with his uncle, J. Vaughan Darling, as junior member of the law firm of E. P. & J. V. Darling. At the same time Frank W. Wheaton (now Judge Wheaton). came into the firm and the name was then changed to Darling & Wheaton. J. Vaughan Darling died in 1893. and John Butler Woodward replaced him in the firm, which then became Wheaton, Darling & Woodward. Still later Judge Wheaton was elected to the bench of the common pleas, and when the former retired from the law part- nership, the latter replaced him, and established the present firm of Woodward, Darling & Wood- ward. Mr. Darling is a member of the Penn- sylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, of the Wyoming Historical and Geological So- ciety, of the Vestry of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church, of the Pennsylvania Bar As- sociation, a director in the Bear Creek Ice Com-

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pany. and was for some years a member of the Wilkes-Barre city council. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 26, 1903. H. E. H.

BEDFORD FAMILY. Of five generations of the Bedford family, four have been a part of the history of the Wyoming valley for more than one hundred and ten years. Stephen Bedford, with whom our record begins, was a native of New Jersey, born in Succasunna, Morris county, and was of English ancestry. After his death the family removed to New York, settled in Ul- ster county and remained there during the period of the Revolution.

Jacob Bedford, son of Stephen Bedford, en- tered the service of his country at the age of fourteen, and was at first assigned to garrison duty. Tradition has it that he was a sturdy youngster, not large, but strong and well able to handle a musket, and his service counted for as much as that of many men of more mature years. He removed to Pennsylvania in 1792, settled in the Wyoming valley, spent his life in the region, and died in Waverly at the house of his son Andrew, August 23, 1849, aged eighty- seven years. He was quite a figure in early Luzerne county political history ; was coroner of the county, appointed November 3, 1804, by Governor McKean, and was elected sheriff in 1810 in connection with Jabez Hyde, who suc- ceeded in securing the governor's commission. Jacob Bedford married twice ; first, a daughter of Benjamin Carpenter, and, second, May 16, 1799. with Deborah Sutton, born New Castle, New York, February 8, 1773, died April 3, 1869, daughter of James Sutton, of Exeter, Pennsyl- vania.

May 27, 1787, Benjamin Carpenter was com- missioned justice of the peace and also judge of the court of common pleas of Luzerne county. In 1794 he was a member of the house of rep- resentatives. Elizabeth Carpenter, also a daugh- ter of Benjamin, married Lazarus Denison, son of Col. Nathan Denison. In 1810 Mr. Carpenter moved to Sunbury, Delaware county. Ohio. (See Denison). Deborah Sutton Bedford was one of the most devout Christian women of her day, and for more than eighty years was a faithful

member of the Methodist Church. She was in Forty Fort at the time of the massacre, and had the misfortune to witness all the distressing events of that day. Although a child of five years at the time, she nevertheless retained all the details of the event to the day of her death.

·Andrew Bedford, son of Jacob and Deborah Bedford, was born at Wyoming, Pennsylvania, April 22, 1800. He was educated for the med- ical profession and graduated from Yale College medical department. He was a man of excel- lent understanding outside of professional sub- jects as well as in medical circles, and was fre- quently honored with appointment to positions of trust. His Democracy was unquestioned, and his political integrity never was doubted. He served as a member of the constitutional con- vention of 1838, his colleagues in the conven- tion from Luzerne county being Hon. George WV. Woodward, Gen. E. W. Sturdevant and Wil- liam Swetland. From 1840 to 1846 Dr. Bedford was a prothonotary, clerk of the court of quarter sessions, the over and terminer, and of the orphans' court, and was the first officer elected in Luzerne county under the constitution of 1838. Later on he was postmaster at Waverly, Penn- sylvania. He was one of the incorporators of Madison Academy at Waverly, and of the Wilkes-Barre and Providence Plank Road Com- pany, and also of the Liggett's Gap Railroad Company, which eventually became a part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail- road Company's system. Dr. Bedford was twice married, first to Hannah Reynolds, daughter of Benjamin Reynolds and his wife Lydia Fuller (see Reynolds Family) ; second, May 19. 1874. to Mary Burtis, widow of John M. Burtis and daughter of Orlando and Olivia Porter. His children were :

I. Benjamin R., born 1828. living in Ber- wick, Pennsylvania ; retired.

2. James S., born 1829, died in Nebraska.

3. Theodore W., born 1834. died Washing- ton, D. C.

4. Sterling, born 1836, living in Waverly, Lackawanna county.

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6. George R., born November 22, 1840, of whom later.

7. Andrew P., born 1845, now living in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

8. John, born of second marriage, died young.

9. Harriet E., wife of Edward F. Leighton, of Binghamton, New York.

George Reynolds Bedford, sixth child of Dr. Andrew and Hannah Bedford, was born Novem- ber 22, 1840; married, May 19, 1874, Emily, daughter of Henry and Harriet I. (Fuller) Mills. He acquired his early education in the Madison Academy at Waverly, after which he read law in the office of Samuel Sherred, of Scranton. During a portion of this time he was clerk in the office of the prothonotary of Luzerne county. Later on he entered the Albany Law School, where he completed his preliminary studies, and where upon examination under the rules of the court he was admitted to practice in the courts of New York State in May, 1862. He returned to Wilkes-Barre and became a student in the office of Hon. Stanley Woodward, and No- vember 10, 1862, was admitted to the bar of Lu- zerne county. From that time he has practiced in the courts of Pennsylvania, a constant worker in the ranks of the profession, and without being led away by the distractions of politics and the desire for its preferment. However, in 1863. and at a time when the commonwealth of Penn- sylvania was in need of the service of every loyal son of the state, he enlisted as a private in Com- pany K, Thirteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Vol- unteer Militia, and served in the field for a period of about six weeks. Mr. Bedford is a Democrat. the son of a Democrat, and one of the strongest exponents of his party's principles in the Wyo- ming region. In 1874 he was a candidate for nomination for the office of additional law judge, but the votes of the convention were ultimately delivered to another aspirant. Since that time he has not been a candidate for office, although he has been active in the councils of his party. and not infrequently has his voice been raised in advocating; its principles and promoting the candidacy of its nominees. But he himself pre-

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Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 20

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