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fers the practice of the law, in the office and at the bar of the courts, where he is known as an honorable adversary and worthy foeman. Mr. Bedford was a director of the City Hospital, a trustee of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, and later of the First Presbyterian Church, and also of the Wilkes-Barre Female. Institute and Hillman Academy and is a life member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. For several years he was master in chancery.
Mr. and Mrs. Bedford have two sons : Paul, born June 24, 1875 ; graduated A. B. Princeton University 1897 ; graduated LL. B. law depart- ment University of Pennsylvania 1900; is now associated with his father in his profession. Bruce, born November 26. 1876, graduated A. B., Princeton University. 1897 : is an electrical engineer at Princeton, New Jersey.
H. E. H.
PARRISH FAMILY. There were Par- rishes in New England in the early years of the Colonies, and they were among the fore- most men of their time, active in affairs of government, prominent in promoting the wel- fare of the church, and earnest in their en- deavors to establish their families in comfort and provide an inheritance for their children.
Among the early immigrants to America was one Dr. Thomas Parish, who came from England in the ship "Increase" in 1635, who is mentioned in early colonial history as a physician of ability, a man of worth and a person of influence. In the early records of Cambridge this Dr. Parish (or Parris) is re- corded as a clothier, aged twenty-three years, and there are authorities that seem to con- nect him directly with the Parrish line under consideration in these annals, but no satis- factory proof of this statement is produced, wherefore it is not safe to assert at this time that Thomas Parish of Cambridge was the im- migrant American ancestor of the Parrish families of Pennsylvania, and particularly of . the family of the late Charles Parrish of Wilkes-Barre, who for years was a conspicu-
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I. Abigail, born December 25, 1763: died single, 1845.
2. Amy, born October 12, 1765: married John (or Timothy) Childs, and had Bradley, who died young, and Archippus.
3. Althea, born September 29. 1770: mar- ried James Bingham, of Bloomingburg, New York, and had three daughters.
4. Archippus, born January 27. 1773; mar- ried August 14, 1806. Phoebe Miller.
5. Abraham, born January I. 1778; married March 15, 1801, Jemima Wright, born August 25, 1780, died January II, 1823. leaving ten children. of whom their uncle. Ralph Storrs, who married Orilla Wright, took six with him to Connecticut. Abraham died 1848. Of his children Rebecca Wright Parrish married John Sax, whose daughter Jemima married An- drew Jackson Griffith (see Griffith family of Pittston) : Rebecca died single : Annie, married, 1796. Elisha Morgan, born January 28, 1773; settled in Scotland. Connecticut, and died 1858. They had John, married Eunice Kennedy, and James Lanman, married Rachel Safford.
(V) Archippus Parrish, son of Archippus and Abigail Parrish, born Windham, Connecti- cut, January 27, 1773. died Wilkes-Barre, Penn- sylvania, October. 1847; married, Morristown, New Jersey, August 14, 1806, Phebe Miller, born February 7., 1785, daughter of Eleazer Mil- ler and Hannah Mills, of Morristown, and granddaughter of Thomas Miller and Margaret Wallace, of that place. Mr. Parrish was for many years engaged in active business pursuits in New York City, where he accumulated a hand- some fortune. In 1810 he removed to Luzerne county. Pennsylvania, where he made large in- vestments which proved unfortunate, and there- by much of his property was swept away. He then embarked in mercantile pursuits, and a few years later became proprietor of the Black Horse hotel on the public square in Wilkes-Barre, where he continued until his death in 1847. Children : I. Mary Ann, born July 3, 1807. 2. Abigail, born January 26, 1809. 3. Eliza, born October 2, 18II, died December 3, 1846. 4. Bradley,
born September 26, 1812. 5. Archippus, born June 26, 1814. 6. Sarah Althea, born May 10, 1817 : married Francis William Hunt (see Hunt Family). 7. George, born May 17, 1820. 8. Gould, born May II, 1822. 9. Charles, see forward.
H. E. H.
CHARLES PARRISH (6). youngest child and son of Archippus and Phebe ( Miller) Par- rish, was born at Dundaff, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. August 27. 1826, died December 27, 1896. He was educated in Wilkes-Barre Academy, and at the age of fifteen years became clerk in the store of Ziba Bennett. After he had attained his majority, he became a partner in the - firm of Ziba Bennett & Company, and was a member of that well known and substantial house until 1856, when he withdrew to engage in coal operations and speculations in coal lands. He was an extensive buyer, a fearless investor and a good seller. His transactions were large, at times bold, and he was a splendid developer. He made money rapidly, yet he had not the for- tunate faculty always to keep it. He accumu- lated far more for others than he did for himself, and, while his business associates benefitted largely by his operations, his employees enjoyed a full share of benefits at his hands. He organ- ized the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Com- pany, and was its president for twenty years, and was also president of the Wilkes-Barre Coal and Iron Company. For twenty years he was presi- dent of the First National Bank of Wilkes- Barre. and for a long time president of the Par- rish and Annora coal companies; a director of the Northwest Branch Railroad ; a promoter of and stockholder in other roads, and for thirty years a director of the Lehigh Coal and Naviga- tion Company. For seven years he was presi- dent of the borough of Wilkes-Barre, and al- ways manifested a deep, wholesome interest in its affairs and in its progress. During the early part of the Civil war he took an active part in organizing troops for the service, and of his means gave generously for whatever work in that connection was necessary. Mr. Parrish was
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in many ways identified with the business life of Wilkes-Barre, and his worth and popularity as a citizen were well known throughout the local- ity. It was he who induced the employees of his mines to allow the entire proceeds of one day each year to be retained and made a fund for the relief of disabled miners and their families and to this fund Mr. Parrish caused to be added the entire proceeds of one day's operation of the mines. Politically he was a Republican, but his interest in politics was that of the citizen and taxpayer and not of the politician. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and a life member of the Wy- oming Historical and Geological Society.1
Charles Parrish married at Wilkes-Barre, June 21, 1864. Mary Conyngham, born February 20, 1834, daughter of Hon. John Nesbit Conyng- ham, LL. D., and his wife, Ruth Ann Butler, daughter of General Lord Butler, and grand- daughter of Colonel Zebulon Butler, of the Con- tinental line (see Conyngham and Butler Fam- ilies). Children
I. Anna Conyngham Parrish.
2. Eleanor Mayer Parrish, born -, died Washington, D. C., February 9, 1904; married January 14, 1903, Joseph Habersham Bradley Esq., of Washington. Had Joseph Habersham Bradley, Jr.
3. Mary Conyngham Parrish, died in in- fancy.
4. Katherine Christine Parrish, married August 22, 1902, Arthur Augustine Snyder, M. D., of Washington. Had Katherine Conyngham Snyder, born August 31, 1903. H. E. H.
FREDERICK BROWN PARRISH was for many years a leading representative of the busi- ness interests of Wilkes-Barre and vicinity, serving at the time of his death in the capacity of president of the Hillman Vein Coal Company and the Hanover Coal Company, vice-president of the Red Ash Coal Company, director of the
Pittston Engine and Machine Company, and a member of the Western Anthracite Joint Com- mittee. He was born at Pierremont, Rockland county, New York, November 27, 1849, the eldest son of the late George H. and Charlotte M. (Brown) Parrish, and grandson of Archip- pus Parrish and his wife. (See Parrish Family).
Frederick B. Parrish spent his boyhood days in the states of Kentucky and Wisconsin, his father's business, railroad contracting, making it necessary for the family to change their resi- dence. In 1862 the family moved from Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania,. and in 1866 to Sugar Notch, Pennsylvania. Frederic B. attended the Wilkes-Barre Institute and the Lawrenceville (New Jersey) Academy,. and thus acquired an excellent English educa- tion. In the summer of 1868, during his vaca- tion from school, he was a member of the en- gineer corps that had charge of the construction of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad from Mill Creek to Green Ridge. During the years. 1869 and 1870 he served an apprenticeship in the Ashley machine shops of the Lehigh and Sus- quehanna Railroad, and in the spring of 1870 be- gan work with the engineer corps of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company. In 1872 he was promoted to be chief of corps, and from this responsible position was advanced to assistant superintendent under his father, and in the spring of 1873 to general ·superintendent of the above named company. In 1881 Mr. Parrish was asso- ciated with his father and Hon. Morgan B. Williams in the organization of the Red Ash Coal Company, of which his father was elected president. Subsequently he served in the capa- city of general superintendent for Charles Par- rish & Company, he being a nephew of Charles Parrish. The sound wisdom, rare discernment and excellent judgment displayed in the fulfill- ment of his varied and responsible positions led later to his appointment to the presidency of the Hillman Vein Coal Company and the Hanover Coal Company; to the vice-presidency of the.
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Red Ash Coal Company, and the directorship of the Pittston Engine and Machine Company. Mr. Parrish was a man of sterling integrity and business ability of a high order, was energetic and enterprising, and few young men in the community achieved such marked prominence in business circles. An untiring and indefatigable worker, he possessed the faculty of interesting others in their work. His loyalty and patriotism were very marked, and those who knew him best esteemed him for his many sterling qualities. He was of a cheerful disposition, kind and con- siderate to those at various times under his charge, and his death was looked upon by them as a personal bereavement. He was a consist- ent member of the Presbyterian Church .. Mr. Parrish travelled extensively throughout Europe, also took a trip to the Bahamas, and the exper- iences thus gained considerably broadened his knowledge of men and affairs. In 1875 Mr. Parrish was married to Ella D. Reets, daughter of the late Charles E. Reets, for many years one of the leading business men of Wilkes-Barre. Mr. Parrish died September 3, 1885, survived by his wife and son. His son, Frederick Per- rish, is a graduate of Yale College, 1905.
H. E. H.
MCCLINTOCK FAMILY. The history of the McClintock family of the line here under con- sideration traces to James McClintock and his wife Jean Payne, of Raphoe, county Donegal, Ireland. The ancestors of James McClintock lived originally in Argylshire, Scotland, whence three sons of Gilbert McClintock settled near Londonderry, Ireland, from one of which sons. Samuel and James, descended. Samuel, son of James, emigrated to America in 1795 and settled in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania. James McClintock followed his son to America and settled in Lycoming county. Samuel died in 1812 at the age of thirty-six years.
Samuel Mcclintock married, July 15, 1806, Hannah Todd, daughter of Col. Andrew Todd, born 1752, died in Providence, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1833, and his wife Hannah Bowyer, born 1752,
died Providence, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1836, daughter of Stephen Bowyer and Elizabeth Ed- wards. Stephen Bowyer was a farmer near Providence Church. His wife died December 17, 1794. Col. Andrew Todd, born 1749, died 1833, was an extensive land owner in Trappe, Upper Providence township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and was a man of superior mechanical skill ; a member of the old Providence Presbyterian Church; a soldier in the Revolu- tionary army ; justice of the peace, May 22, 1800, to 1833. Robert Todd, father of Andrew Todd, was born in Ireland, 1697, died in Providence township 1790, married, in county Down, Ireland, Isabella Bodley, born 1700. They had nine chil- dren, of whom Andrew was the youngest. Rob- ert Todd and his wife Isabella and their six chil- dren and Andrew Todd, his single half-brother, came from county Down, Ireland, to New York, and thence to Trappe, Pennsylvania, in 1737. Three of these children were born in Pennsyl- vania and when Andrew was born his mother was fifty-two years old. Robert Todd was the son of John Todd, whose father also was named John Todd. Samuel and Hannah (Todd) Mc- Clintock had Andrew Todd McClintock.
Andrew Todd McClintock, LL. D., son of Samuel and Hannah (Todd) McClintock, born February 2, 1810, died in Wilkes-Barre January 14, ISOI. He married, May II, 1841, Augusta Cist, born 1816, died September 24, 1895, aged seventy-nine, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Hol- lenback) Cist. (See Cist-Hollenback Family). Andrew Todd McClintock was only two years old when his father died. His early education was acquired in the common schools and also in Kenyon College, Ohio, where among his fel- low-students were the late Hon. Edwin M. Stan- ton, who was secretary of war under President Lincoln ; Judge Frank Hurd, who within the last quarter of a century became a conspicuous figure in Ohio politics, on the Democratic side, and Rufus King, who was a dean of the Law School, Cincinnati.
After three years of study in college Mr. McClintock returned to Northumberland, and soon afterward began the study of law in the
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office of James Hepburn, but at the end of about a year removed to Wilkes-Barre and finished his preliminary studies with the elder Judge Wood- ward, whose law partner he became immediately upon his admission to practice, August 8. 1836. The firm style was Woodward & McClintock, and the partnership relation was maintained un- til 1839, when Mr. McClintock was appointed dis- trict attorney for Luzerne county. He discharged the duties of the office with entire satisfaction, but at the end of one year he resigned, and re- turned to his regular practice. This was the only political office Mr. McClintock ever held. Other and higher honors of a political character were offered him and were easily within his reach, but he declined them all courteously and firmly, for there was that in the character of the man that made the allurements of politics dis- tasteful to him ; he even declined the candidacy for the judgeship of the Luzerne common pleas, and that notwithstanding the united efforts of his warmest friends of the bar and others who knew his quality and especial fitness for the po- sition. He did, however, accept Governor Hart- ranft's appointment to a membership of the com- mission charged with the revision of the consti- tution of 1873, and in the deliberations of that body of eminent jurists and legists he found him- self associated with Chief Justice Agnew, Ben- jamin Harris Brewster, Attorney General Sam- uel E. Dimmick. United States Senator Wallace, Senator Playford, Henry W. Williams and the judges of the supreme court of Pennsylvania ; and in the proceedings and councils of the com- inission the opinions of Andrew T. McClintock were of as great weight as those of any of his colleagues.
Mr. McClintock was a corporation lawyer, which mere statement implies that he was thor- oughly versed in the laws relating to corpora- tions, and that his clientage was largely drawn from the associations generally known as corpo- rations. Still he enjoyed an extensive general practice, for his understanding of the law was by no means limited in any respect. He chose that branch of the practice which was most con- genial to his tastes, and which fortunately hap-
pened to be the most profitable ; hence the nat- utral corollary, a substantial fortune as the re- sult of his earnest endeavors.
From the beginning of his professional career to the time of his death he always manifested an earnest interest in the welfare of the city, its people and its institutions, and identified himself with many important measures and enterprises which would advance its prosperity. He was a director of the Wyoming National Bank. of the City Hospital and of the Home for Friendless Children, president of the Hollenback Cemetery Association and of the Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association ; an elder of the First Pres- byterian Church, and was several times a dele- gate from the Luzerne Presbytery to the gen- eral assembly of that church; a member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, of which he was vice-president 1860, 1864, 1865, 1869 to 1875, and president 1876, 1889-91. The honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Princeton College in 1870. "His life work and the commanding position he attained at the bar and in the community where he lived signify more plainly than words the measure of his abil- ities and the nobleness of his character. In stat- ure he was tall, of massive frame and endowed with great strength and endurance, dignified in bearing, yet gentle, genial and sincere in tem- perament ; the grace of his presence and the charm of his manner impressed every one who came within the range of their influence." Mr. and Mrs. McClintock had: 1. Helen Grinnan, born Wilkes-Barre, January 19, 1846, died Jan- uary 14, 1894. 2. Alice Mary, born January 31, 1848, died October 12, 1900; married, Oc- tober 9, 1872, John Vaughan Darling, born July 24, 1844. (See Darling Family). 3. Andrew Hamilton, born December 12, 1852. 4. Jean Hamilton, born February 22, 1855. died April 15, 1891.
Andrew Hamilton Mcclintock, only son of Andrew Todd and Augusta (Cist) Mcclintock, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Decem- ber 12, 1852; graduated from Princeton College. A. B. 1872, A. M. 1875 : read law with his father, Andrew Todd McClintock, and also with Ed-
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ward P. and J. Vaughan Darling, of Wilkes- Barre. and was admitted to practice in Luzerne county, January 20, 1876. He began his profes- sional career in Wilkes-Barre in association with his father. As the latter gradually withdrew from the arduous work of the office the son suc- ceeded him, and when Andrew Todd McClin- tock died Andrew Hamilton continued the busi- . ness alone, retaining the old clientage, represent- ing and protecting the interests which in former years had been entrusted to his distinguished father in the capacity of attorney and counsellor at law. Like his father, Mr. McClintock is a Democrat, but without ambition for political pre- ferment. He is vice-president of the Wyoming National Bank, a director of the Miners' Savings Bank of Wilkes-Barre, director of the Title Guar- anty and Trust Company of Scranton, a trustee of the Osterhout Free Library of Wilkes-Barre, member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and of the Wyoming His- torical and Geological Society, of which he was librarian 1883-85 and treasurer 1886-95.
Mr. McClintock married, December 1. 1880, Eleanor Welles, daughter of Charles F. Welles, Jr., and Elizabeth La Porte. Mrs. McClintock is a descendant on her paternal side from Gov. Thomas Welles, of Connecticut, first treasurer of the colony, and on her maternal side from Bar- tholomew La Porte, who was a member of the French refugee colony at Asylum, Bradford county. Pennsylvania. Their children are: An- drew Todd, born January 21, 1885; Gilbert Stuart, born December 27, 1886. H. E. H.
CIST, HOLLENBACK, WEISS, COCK FAMILIES. Jacob Cist was a son of Charles Cist, who is mentioned at length elsewhere in this work (See Wright family). Jacob Cist was born in Philadelphia March 13. 1782, died in Wilkes- Barre December 30, 1835. Charles Cist was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, August 15, 1738, died Fort Allen December 1. 1805; married, Phila- delphia, June 7. 1787, Mary Weiss, born June 22, 1762. Charles Cist was a son of Charles and Anna Maria (Thomassen) Cist. The younger Charles matriculated at the University of Halle,
Germany, April 23, 1755 : was exiled to Siberia, 1767 ; fled a political refugee to America 1773, reaching Philadelphia October 25, where he be- came printer, publisher, soldier of the Revolu- tion ; was private, in 1777, Capt. George Ester- ley's company, Col. William Bradford's regiment, Philadelphia militia.
Sarah Hollenback, who married Jacob Cist, was great-granddaughter of George Hollenback, died July 23, 1736, who prior to 1734 owned lands and paid quit rents in Hanover township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. His son, Johannes Hollenback, born September 9, 1720, died in Martinsburg, Virginia, August 9, 1783, married Eleanor Jones. Their children were baptized by the Rev. John Casper Stoever and were: Maria, born February 9, 1748; Jenny Maria, 1751 ; John Matthias, born February 17, 1752. died Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylva- nia. February 18, 1829; Anna Maria, born June 13, 1761. John (Johannes) Hollenback took up land in Lebanon township, Lancaster (now Leb- anon) county, Pennsylvania, 1750, and removed thence to Martinsburg, Virginia, where he died. John Matthias Hollenback (commonly known as Matthias Hollenback) came to Wyoming in 1769 and became a wealthy merchant ; was commis- sioned ensign Twenty-fourth Regiment. Con- necticut, under the Crown, October 17, 1775 : commissioned ensign by continental congress August 26, 1776; served in New Jersey and at Wyoming, 1776, 1777 and 1778; was justice of the peace, 1790-1829; lieutenant-colonel Penn- sylvania militia, 1787, 1792-93; associate judge of Luzerne county, 1790-1829; was first treas- urer of Luzerne county. Judge Hollenback mar- ried, Wyoming. April 20, 1788, Sarah Burritt, born Stratford, Connecticut, November 19, 1750, died Wilkes-Barre July 21, 1833, and they had children: Mary Ann, married John Lanning ; Eleanor Jones, married, August 15, 1816, Charles F. Welles; Sarah, married, August 25, 1807. Jacob Cist, and George Matson Hollenback.
Mary Weiss was the tenth of eleven children of John Weiss, born Walheim, Wurtemburg, Germany. July 20. 1721, died Philadelphia, Sep- tember 22, 1788; married, Philadelphia. October
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24, 1746, Rebecca Cox, born Passyunk, Pennsyl- vania, March 23, 1725, died Philadelphia July 3, 1808. Jolin Jacob Weiss was the son of John Jacob and Mary Elizabeth Weiss, of Germany. He was confirmed in the Lutheran Church, 1736; came to America 1740; practiced medicine in Philadelphia; took the oath of allegiance to George II 1750, and to the United States of America 1778; died September 22, 1788, and was buried in Philadelphia in the old Moravian burial ground. Col. Jacob Weiss, brother of Mary Weiss, third child and eldest son of John Jacob and Rebecca (Cox) Weiss, was one of the con- spicuous characters of the revolution on the American side. He was born September 1, 1750. He had served as mercantile apprentice to General Mifflin, and when the war came he was commis- sioned deputy quartermaster-general under him. and subsequently was transferred to General Greene's army, where he served in the same ca- pacity. In 1780 Colonel Weiss removed with his family from Easton to Nazareth, Pennsyl- vania, and subsequently built a house on the site where once stood Fort Allen.
Rebecca Cock (or Cox), mother of Colonel Weiss, was born at Passyunk, Pennsylvania. No- vember 23, 1725, died Philadelphia June 3, 1808. She was descended from fine ancestors, including three of the early provincial councillors of Penn- sylvania. She was a daughter of Peter Cock, born 1688, died 1751, and his wife Margaret Dalbo, born February, 1692, granddaughter of Peter Cock and his wife Helen Helm, and great- granddaughter of Peter Larrson Cock, born in Sweden, 1611, who came to Pennsylvania in the third Swedish expedition to New Sweden, 1641, cultivated tobacco on the Schuylkill 1644, became freeman 1648, magistrate for South River 1657, collector of tolis, Philadelphia, 1663; justice for Upland 1674 and 1676, and provincial councillor 1667. He died March, 1688-89. His wife's name was Margaret.
Margaret Dalbo, mother of Rebecca Cox, was a daughter of Peter Matson (also called Peter Dalbo) and his wife Catherine Rambo. Peter Matson received by the name, of Peter Dalbo from George Andros, of New York, 1676, three
hundred acres of land in Passyunk. He moved to Gloucester county, New Jersey, before 1685; was a member of New Jersey assembly as Peter Dalbo, 1685, and as Peter Matson, 1697. He died 1700. His wife Catherine, whom he mar- ried February 16, 1674, was a daughter of Peter Gunnarson Rambo, or Peter Rambo, Sr., who came to New Sweden, Pennsylvania, 1638-39, where he died 1698. Peter Rambo, Sr., was dep- uty from John Rising, governor of New Sweden, to answer Stuyvesant's summons for the surren- der of Fort Christina, September 7, 1655 ; mag- istrate for the South River (Delaware) 1657, and one of those who met Governor Stuyvesant at Tinicum May 8, 1658, and presented a petition for certain privileges ; commissary of the colony on the Delaware 1660-61, when he resigned ; member of the provincial council May, 1667; justice of the peace 1674-80, and one of the first who sat in Upland court. 1674.
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