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He was married September 9, 1781, to Cath- erine Wimble, of Boston, Massachusetts. After the war, by authority of the legislature, he omitted de Maresquelle, under which name he was known, and retained the name of Louis An- sart, Ansart being the family name. The record of his services during the war was under the name of Maresquelle, and it was under this name that he was married. Physically he was large, six feet in height, with a handsome, pleasing face, as a miniature in possession of the family shows. In 1784 he went to Dracut. Massachu- setts, and lived there on his farm until his death, the 22d of May, 1804. During this time he made three visits to France. The Massachusetts So- ciety Sons of the American Revolution, is about to place a tablet, if it has not already done so, and one of its official markers, at his grave in Dracut, Massachusetts.
Louis Ansart de Maresquelle's ancestry in France has not been carefully traced by his de- scendants, but from papers left by him and vari- ous letters passed from one to another of the family, the line appears to start with Jean An- sart, whose son Michael married Anna Zobide, and had Robert Ansart, who married Antoinette Perin, and had Jaques Francois Ansart, who married Petronville Gery, and had Robert Xavier Ansart (Seigneur du petit vendin), who married Quiellimine Catherine de Ware, whose son was Louis Ansart de Maresquelle.
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Catherine Wimble, wife of Col. Louis Ansart, born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1762, was mar- ried December 9, 1781, in Boston, died in Dra- cut, Massachusetts, January 27, 1849, aged eighty-six years and ten months. Her line is I. James Wimble and wife Rebecca (Waters) Wimble, married March 26, 1723, in Boston, Massachusetts, by Dr. Tim. Cutler. Had Wil- liam Wimble, born 28th January, 1726, in Bos- ton ; married. August 23, 1748, by Andrew Eliot, to Elizabeth Wright. They had Catherine Wim- ble, who became wife of Colonel Ansart.
The Wright . family line is : I. Samuel Wright and Mary (Pym) Wright married in Boston, Massachusetts, September 22, 1714, by Rev. Dr. Cotton Mather. 2. Elizabeth Wright, born in Boston, Massachusetts, twin with Mary, 24th January, 1724, married to William Wimble. They had a daughter Catherine, who married Colonel Louis de Maresquelle. Their children were Robert, Louis, Julia, married to Bradley Varnum : Betsey, married to Jonathan Hildreth, removed to Ohio and died at Dayton ; Sophia, married Peter Hazelton, and after his death a Mr. Spaulding ; Harriet, 'married Samuel N. wood; Felix; Catherine, married Mr. Layton ; Atis ; Abel, who lived to be ninety-two years old ; Fanny, who died aged seven years, and Aline, who died aged eight years.
Felix Ansart, son of Col. Louis Ansart, and his wife Catherine Wimble, was born at Dracut, Massachusetts, January 26, 1793, and died at New London, Connecticut, January 14, 1874. He attended school in Boston, and then worked in a mercantile house. Early in the war with Great Britain, July 6, 1812, he, was commissioned sec- ond lieutenant of the Third Regiment, United States Artillery. He became first lieutenant Jan- uary 30, 1815 ; captain, July 10, 1820 ; then major by brevet to rank from November 28, 1829. During the war he served on the Canada fron- tier. In 1813 he was with the expedition under General Wilkinson down the St. Lawrence des- tined for Montreal ; was in the battle at Sacketts Harbor, under General Brown: and in the battle at Oswego, New York, 1814, under Colonel Mitchell. After the war he was ordered to Fort
Washington, Maryland, on the Potomac, and re- mained there for eight years. While there, about the year 1816, he married Martha Lavinia Brown, daughter of Alexander Brown, of Prince William county, Virginia, who died at Fort Con- stitution, New Hampshire, March 14, 1828, aged twenty-nine years, leaving no children.
From Fort Washington he was ordered to a fort in North Carolina, below Wilmington, then to Fortress Monroe, then to Fort Moultrie, Sul- livan's Island, South Carolina, and at each of these stations remained about two years. About the year 1830 he was ordered to Fort Constitu- tion, Portsmouth. New Hampshire, and was in command of the post about six years. He was selected by General Winfield Scott, June 20, 1836, for acting inspector general on his staff, and to report to him at the headquarters of the Army of the South at Columbus, Georgia. When the campaign against the Creek Indians was ended, and the volunteers mustered out, he with a num- ber of other officers resigned. His resignation was accepted to take effect August 31. 1836. He then removed to New London, Connecticut, and re- mained there, with the exception of a year, until his death. For many years he was a director in the Union Bank of that city, and vice-president of the Savings Bank.
He married (second) at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, January 13, 1834, Mary Elizabeth Shannon Prescott, born August 31, 1811, Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, died July 9. 1846, New London, Conn. (Daughter of Captain Henry Prescott and Abigail Shannon Prescott.) They had the following children :
Mary Elizabeth, born at Fort Constitution, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 9. 1835; died at San Francisco, California, November 12, 1901 ; married at New London, Conn., Captain Henry Chapell and had Edith Chapell and Henry Chapell.
Felix, born at New London, Connecticut, January 28, 1837 ; lawyer. Wilkes-Barre, Penn- sylvania.
Charles Burroughs, born New London, Connecticut, February 5. 1839, died Oil City, Pennsylvania, Marchi 1, 1886; married but had no
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children. Private in Ringgold Light Artillery Company, Reading, Pennsylvania, mustered April 18, 1861, into United States three months service, then second lieutenant Company C, Twenty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volun- teers, three months service.
Louis Henry, born New London, Con- necticut, August 21, 1842, died at Pepperell, Massachusetts, July 26, 1844.
Virginia, born New London, Connecticut, September II, 1845, died July 29, 1846.
Mary Elizabeth Shannon Prescott, born Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 31, 1811, was a descendant in the paternal line of Jona- than Prescott, of Concord, Massachusetts, by his second wife, Elizabeth Hoar, who was the daughter of John Hoar, whose brother, Dr. Leonard Hoar, was president of Harvard Col- lege. Benjamin Prescott, son of Jonathan, was born in Concord, Massachusetts, September 16, 1687. He graduated A. B. at Harvard College, 1709; ordained pastor of the Third Church in Salem, Massachusetts, September 23, 1713, he afterwards moved to Danvers, Massachusetts, and died there the 28th day of May, 1777. He was the author of a number of works, to mention one, "A Free and Calm Consideration of the Unhappy Misunderstandings and Debates Be- tween Great Britain and the American Colonies." (Salem, 1768). He married (I) October, 1715, Elizabeth Higginson, born June 28, 1696, died March 20, 1722-3: married (2) June 15, 1732, Mercy Gibbs, daughter of Rev. Henry Gibbs, pastor of the church in Watertown, Massachu- setts, born December 23, 1696, died 1744, mar- ried (3), October 6, 1748, Mrs. Mary Coleman, daughter of William Pepperill, widow of the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Coleman, and who was first married to the. Hon. John Frost, of New Castle, New Hampshire. Mary Prescott, the third wife, died April 18, 1766, aged eighty years, seven months and three days. Henry Prescott, son of Rev. Benjamin Prescott by his second wife, Mercy Gibbs, was born July 25, 1737, married October 9, 1760, Mary Newmarch, daughter of the Hon. Joseph Newmarch of New Castle, New Hampshire. Captain Henry Pres-
cott, fourth son of Henry and Mary, just men- tioned, was born September 17, 1769. Cutts Shannon and Richard (Cutts) Shannon were lawyers of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Cutts Shannon married December 3, 1741, Mary Vaughan, daughter of George Vaughan and wife Elizabeth Elliott, and great-granddaughter of Richard and Elinor Cutts, of Portsmouth, and their son, Richard Cutts Shannon, born May 9, 1743, married Elizabeth Ruggles, of Boston, Massachusetts, July 23, 1773 ; and their daughter Abigail, born October 21, 1780, married Captain Henry Prescott, July 30, 1810, and their daughter, Mary Elizabeth Shannon Prescott, married Major Felix Ansart.
Felix Ansart, eldest son of Major Felix An- sart and his wife Mary Elizabeth Shannon Prescott, lawyer, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was born in New London, Connecticut, January 28, 1837. He there attended the primary schools and high school, finishing his preparatory studies at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Massa- chusetts. Was a student at Amherst College, 1855-1857, at Yale 1857-1859, graduating A. B. in the class of 1859. 'He studied law at Yale Law School, New London, Connecticut, and at Utica, New York, 1859-1861. April 4, 1861, was ad- mitted at the general term of the supreme court, held at Syracuse, to practice law in all the courts of the state of New York, and then opened a law office in Brooklyn, New York. In the fall of 1862 he taught Latin and Greek in the school of M. Churchill, Sing Sing, New York. 1863- 1865 principal of St. Mark's parish school, Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. October, 1865, took up civil engineering, became a member of the engineer corps of the Lehigh Valley Rail- road Company, then constructing a line over the Wilkes-Barre Mountain ; March, 1867, to Oc- tober, 1869, was assistant engineer in charge of a division of the railroad then building from Tunkhannock to Laceyville in Wyoming county, Pennsylvania ; October, 1869, March, 1870, was a student in the Polytechnic School Philadelphia ; 1870-1882 was practicing attorney at Tunkhan- nock, and also engaged in civil engineering. In May, 1871, was appointed chief engineer of the
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Montrose Railway Company, and had charge of the location and construction of said railroad ; 1872-1874 was district attorney of Wyoming county, Pennsylvania. 1882-1884 was assistant engineer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, his di- vision extending from Penn Haven to Pittston, Pennsylvania, after that, for a time, he was in mercantile pursuits, but resumed law practice in Tunkhannock in 1888. Incidental to his resi- dence there, he had an active interest in local affairs ; he was burgess of Tunkhannock, council- man, president of the school board, and principal of the high school for one year. In 1896 he re- moved to Wilkes-Barre and has since been iden- tified with the practice of law in that city.
Felix Ansart married, Tunkhannock, Penn- sylvania, September 16, 1874, Harriet Rowena Loomis, born January 23, 1849, in Springville, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Horatio Porter Loomis and his wife, Elizabeth Adams. Their children, born in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, are:
Louis Loomis Ansart, graduate of Tunkhan- nock high school ; graduated, 1894, at State Nor- mal School, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania ; graduate of Pennsylvania State College, B. S., 1898, post- graduate student there ; member mining engineer corps, Lehigh Valley Coal Company ; instructor in mathematics, Pennsylvania State College.
Mary Ansart, graduate Tunkhannock high school ; graduate Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa., department of typewriting and stenography.
The name Loomis originally was Lummus. Edward Lummus was of Ipswich. Massachu- setts, 1635. and from him the line runs to Samuel, then to Samuel, to John to Porter, to Horatio Porter Loomis, who married Elizabeth Adams in 1840 or 1841, and to Harriet Rowena Loomis, who married Felix Ansart.
Porter Lummus, born Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1763, graduated at Harvard College, B. A., 1786, later A. M., died November 2, 1852; married Susanna Ashley. of Claremont, New Hamp- shire, a descendant of Robert Ashley of Spring- field, Massachusetts, and of David. Ashley, his son, of Westfield, Massachusetts, whose son Samuel had a son Daniel, who had a son Colonel
Samuel Ashley, who married Eunice Doolittle, and had Susanna, their youngest daughter, born December 16, 1766, died December 1, 1846. ( See Ashley family genealogy.)
Horatio Porter Loomis, above mentioned, born in Portland, Maine, January 22, 1801, died in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, February 27, 1881, married Elizabeth Adams, November 14, 1840 or 1841, was first farmer, then engaged on public works. In 1833-34 was foreman in charge of three hundred men engaged in con- strucing the work at the head of the Delaware and Raritan canal feeder. In 1836-37 was a contractor on the Delaware division of the New York and Erie Railroad. In years 1838-39-40, he was employed in the building of the Croton aqueduct in and near New York city, part of the time as contractor, part of the time as inspector. He then moved to his farm in Springville, Su- quehanna county, Pennsylvania. In 1869 re- moved to Tunhannock, Wyoming county, Penn- sylvania. His wife, Elizabeth Adams, daughter of David Adams and Elizabeth (Sterling) Adams, granddaughter of David Adams on pa- ternal side, Samuel Sterling and Mary (Greg- ory) Sterling on the maternal side, was born May 26, 18OS, in Northumberland township, Lu- zerne (now Wyoming) county, Pennsylvania ; died April 6, 1900, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl- vania. H. E. H.
HARVEY FAMILY-The Harveys of New England in the colonial period, from whom the Harveys of the Wyoming region are descended, and from whom also numerous other families of that surname in various parts of America are likewise descendants, were of English ancestry, some of them of the nobility and of the gentry, and others of the yeomanry and the middle classes. The line of Harveys under considera- tion here were direct descendants of Thomas Harvey, and were a daughter, whose christian name is not known, but who married in England Anthony Slocum ; a son. William Harvey, and another son, Thomas Harvey, born, as were the others, in Somersetshire, England, came with them to New England in 1636, and settled first
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in the colony of Dorchester, Massachusetts. This Thomas was the progenitor of the branch of the Harvey family in these annals. He re- moved from Dorchester to Taunton, Massachu- setts, where he died, 1651. His wife was Elizabeth Andrews, and their youngest son John had a son John, who had a son Benjamin, who, in 1772 made a settlement in the town of Plymouth, in the Wyoming valley in Pennylvania, where he was a man of consequence and influence among the Connecticut colonists who occupied that re- gion.
Benjamin Harvey, son of John Harvey and his wife Sarah, was born, Lyme, Connecticut, July 28, 1722, died at Plymouth, Pennsylvania, November 27, 1795 ; married (first) 1745, Eliz- abeth Pelton, born 1720, died December 3, 1771; daughter of John and Jemima Pelton. He mar- ried (second), about 1786. Catherine Draper, widow of Major Simeon Draper. Children of Benjamin Harvey and Elizabeth Pelton : Mary, born 1746, died (unmarried) October 27. 1767. Benjamin, born 1747, died March, 1777. Seth, born 1749. died (unmarried). November 22, 1769. Silas, born 1754, died July 3, 1778. Lois, born 1756, died 1808. Elisha, born 1759, died March 14, 1800. Lucy, born 1760.
Elisha Harvey, seventh child of Benjamin and Elizabeth Pelton Harvey, was born in Lyme, New London county, Connecticut, 1758. He was fourteen years when he moved with his parents to Pennsylvania, but almost from the time of the family settlement in the Wyoming valley he was a conspicuous figure in the stirring events of the years preceding and until the close of the revolu- tion and the final settlement of the conflicting claims of Connecticut and Pennsylvania regard- ing land titles. He served during the war, and was a soldier under Sullivan in the memorable campaign of 1779, which resulted in the destruc- tion of the Indian villages of the Genesee coun- try. He was captured by the British rangers and Indians in December, 1780, and taken to Montreal. Here he was given into custody of a Seneca chief, and was taken to the Green Bay, Wisconsin, with a trapping and hunting party. He returned with his dusky companions
late in 1781, and finally was given over to a Scotch trader in exchange for a half barrel of rum. In the late summer of the next year he was exchanged for one Adam Bowman and re- turned to his home in Plymouth. Elisha Harvey married November 27. 1786, Rosanna Jameson, daughter of Robert Jameson and Agnes Dixon. They had children : Benjamin, born August 10, 1787, died March 18, 1788. Sarah, born May 4, 1789, died October 11, 1832. Elizabeth, born September 20, 1790, died May 26, 1868. Benja- min, born May 9, 1792, died March 3, 1873. Nancy, born March 19, 1794, died January 15, 1795. Jameson, born January 1, 1796, died July 4, 1885. Silas, born December 17, 1797, died May 10, 1824.
Benjamin Harvey, fourth child, second son, of Elisha and Rosanna (Jameson) Harvey, was a merchant and miller, a thorough business man, and a consistent member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church. He removed from Plymouth to Huntington township in 1816, and the scene of his active business career was laid in the town- ship last mentioned. He was postmaster at Har- veyville 1829-49; justice of the peace, 1849-54; vice-president of the Luzerne County Agricult- ural Society, 1848; and as early as 1824 was lieu- tenant of militia. He married, July 9, 1815, Sarah Nesbitt, born January 3, 1793, daughter of Ab- ram Nesbitt and wife Bethiah Wheeler. They had children : Bethiah Wheeler, born June 15, 1817, died November 21, 1884. Elisha Boaner- ges, born October 1, 1819, died August 20, 1872. Caroline Arista, born May 13, 1822, died No- vember 7, 1846. Mary Jameson, born August 22, 1824, died November 13, 1892. Abram Nesbitt, born April 4. 1827, died October 5, 1890. Ro- sanna, born September 12, 1831, died October 3, 1864.
Jameson Harvey, sixth child, third son of Elisha Harvey and wife Rosanna Jameson, was born in Plymouth township, near what is now West Nanticoke. He was a farmer, successful in his business endeavors, and a man whose in- fluence was always for good. In 1828 his coal mining operations were begun, and were
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continued for a number of years. He became an operator and was one of the first to introduce improved methods in carrying on the work of preparing coal for market. He also engaged in lumbering enterprises, and chiefly devoted his energies in that direction after 1863 when he turned over his mining interests to his sons. In January, 1869, he removed to Wilkes-Barre, where he afterward lived, and where he died, July 4, 18885. Jameson Harvey married De- cember 28, 1832, Mary Campbell, born Septem- ber 12, 1801, daughter of James Campbell and wife Margaret Stewart. They had children : Mar- garet Campbell, born October 13, 1835. William Jameson, born May 13, 1838. Henry Harrison, born September 30, 1840. Mary, born September 6, 1843.
Colonel Elisha Boanerges Harvey, second child and eldest son of Benjamin Harvey and his wife, Sarah Nesbitt, was born in Harveyville, Huntington township, Luzerne county, Penn- sylvánia, October 1, 1819. He graduated at Wesleyan University, A. B., 1845; A. M. 1848, and in August, 1845, became teacher of ancient languages in Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pennsylvania, remaining in that capacity until the following year, when he resigned and opened a private school in Kingston. During this time he read law, and November 4, 1847, he was ad- mitted to practice in the courts of Luzerne county. He then took up his residence in Wilkes-Barre, and was afterward an important factor in the life of that borough and subse- quent city. At the outbreak of the war of 1861-65 he was active in the organization of companies, and was made captain of the 'Wyoming Bank Infantry," afterward Company F. Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps, Thirty-sixth Regiment, Penn- sylvania Volunteers in the United States ser- vice. On June 26, 1861, Captain Harvey was elected colonel of the regiment and served with that command until July, 1862, when he resigned because of ill health. He returned to Wilkes- Barre, and to his profession in part, but more particularly to his earlier avocation of teaching. Both before and after he entered the army Colo-
nel Harvey was identified in many ways with the civil and political history of Wilkes-Barre and of Luzerne county. He was a good lawyer, an educator of wide repute, and a man of unques- tioned integrity of character. He died in Wilkes- Barre, August 20, 1872.
Elisha Boanerges Harvey married (first), October 8, 1845, Phebe Maria Frisbie, born Jan- uary 16, 1821, died June 7, 1849 ; married (sec- ond), July 8, 1850, Sarah Maria Garretson, born August 25, 1824, died August 22, 1875. Their children : Olin Frisbie, born September 28, 1846. Oscar Jewell, born September 2, 1851. Ella, born October 7, 1853, died January 22, 1900. Elizabeth, born August 31, 1855. Caroline Arista, born September 10, 1857, died January 8, 1867. Benjamin Nesbitt, born November 15, 1859, died May 16, 1867. Edith, born July 13, 1862. Charles Elisha, born January 23, 1865, died November 7, 1869. Gilbert Alexander, born January 9, 1869.
William Jameson Harvey, second child, first son of Jameson Harvey and wife Mary Campbell, born in West Nanticoke, Luzerne county. He was educated at the Wyoming Institute, Wyom- ing, Pennsylvania, Wyoming Seminary, Kings- ton, Pennsylvania, Professor Chase's Academy, Middletown, Connecticut, and at Edgehill School, Princeton, New Jersey. He at first intended to enter college, but changed his plans and began active business pursuits in 1859, as superintend- ent of his father's coal mining operations at West Nanticoke. In 1861 he entered the mili- tary service, began the work of recruiting, and on October 15 of that year was mustered as private, Company F, Seventh Regiment, Penn- sylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps ; elected first lieutenant Company I, November 7; promoted adjutant November 20; resigned November 25, 1862.
On his return from the South it was the in- tention of Adjutant Harvey to re-enter the service in some other command, but he was persuaded by his father to remain at home and relieve him of a portion of the responsibilities in connection with his mining operations. Accordingly in the spring of 1863 he took charge, with his brother
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Henry Harrison Harvey, of the mining works at West Nanticoke, which were thereafter car- ried on under the firm style of Harvey Broth- ers until 1871, when the property was sold. During a part of this time the firmn also engaged in the lumbering business at Plymouth, and this, after the sale of the coal property, was materi- ally increased by the new partnership of Har- vey Brothers & Co. This business was sold out in 1886.
Mr. Harvey was a director of the First Na- tional Bank of Plymouth in 1865-66. In 1870, he, with two others, secured control of the Wilkes-Barre and Kingston street railway, which, under his personal management, was developed into an excellent means of travel between those points, becoming in 1892, a part of the street rail- way system of the Wilkes-Barre and Wyoming Valley Traction Company. He is now a di- rector of this company, and has considerable in- terests in similar companies in other cities.
Since the summer of 1871 Mr. Harvey has lived in Wilkes-Barre and has been a promi- nent factor in the civil and political history of the city. He was an independent candidate for the mayoralty in 1874; was elected school di- rector in 1875 and served in that capacity until 1881, being president of the board five years ; was elected to the city council in 1885, and served in that body until April, 1898; was president of the council from 1886 to 1891, and from 1894 to 1898. He was a presidential elector in 1892, when Harrison and Reed were the candidates of the national Republican convention, and also served in a similar capacity in 1901. He was a di- rector of the Miners Savings Bank, president of the Wyoming Valley Lace Mills, president of the Wilkes-Barre Grand Opera House Company, a member of Conyingham Post No. 97, G. A. R., a member of the military order of the Loyal Le- gion, and for more than thirty years a Free and Accepted. Mason. He is the oldest living past eminent commander of Dieu Le Veut Command- ery, No. 45, Knights Templar, also a thirty-sec- ond degree Mason, A. and A. S. Rite, and a member of Irem Temple, A. A. O. N. of the Mys-
tic Shrine, and member of B. P. Order of Elks ..
William Jameson Harvey married (first) December 9, 1869. Jessie Wright, born July 20,. 1848, died June 29, 1877. He married ( second) October 21, 1880, Amanda Mary Laning, daughter of Augustus C. Laning and wife Amanda Christel, widow of Rodman Merritt. Children : William Jameson, born September 6, 1870, died July 16, 1871. Robert Rieman, born December 1, 1871, graduate Lehigh University, 1895, E. E .; superintendent Wyoming Valley Lace Milfs. Edward Darling, born February 15, 1873, died July 16, 1878. Emily Cist, born June 13, 1877, died June 16, 1877. Laning, born Feb- ruary 17, 1882. H. E. H.
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