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August 25th the regiment marched to Ross- ville, near Chattanooga, a distance of eight miles. The regiment was now reduced to 32 officers and 984 men' present. August 26th the command took train for Camp Hamilton, five miles from Lexington, Kentucky, arriving there August 27th. The war was now practically over, and preparations were made for the muster-out of the regiment under orders from the War Department. September 17th it took train for home, its strength being 35 officers and 865 men, Io offi- cers and 396 men being absent sick or on fur- lough. September 19th the regiment reached Wilkes-Barre, where nearly one hundred thous- and people were assembled to meet the gallant lads. Leave of absence for thirty days was given the officers, and the men were furloughed for the same period. During this time the regiment (on September 27th) participated in the Peace Jubilee in Philadelphia. It was finally mustered
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out of the service of the United States on Octo- ber 29. 1898, after a term of service of nearly four months.
The foregoing narrative of service may well be supplemented with the fervent but entirely truthful tribute from the pen of Colonel Dough- erty in his report to the adjutant-general of the state :
"Throughout the entire term of service, the officers and men of this command were actuated by a high sense of patriotism and devotion to their country, and under the many trying cir- cumstances which must perforce be the lot of the American volunteer soldier, no serious breach of discipline ever occurred which was sufficient in consequence to remand a single man to trial by general court martial. The discipline was at all times maintained and, though firm, never did it reach the stage of severity. No man of the Ninth Pennsylvania, from the beginning to the end, deserted his post or his regiment. It is my pleasure to testify to the patience, forbearance and strict devotion to duty of the field, staff and line officers of my regiment in a south- ern camp, where existed evils of mismanage- ment which were plainly apparent, but which were borne courageously and uncomplainingly. The hardships which they underwent they felt to be part of the fortunes of war, and perhaps but a tithe of that which might be expected in a more active and extensive campaign."
The reorganization of the Ninth Regiment Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania, after its return to duty at its home station, was effected during the month of January. 1899. Four of the original companies of the Seventh Regiment, Colonel Asher Miner (sketch elsewhere), were attached to the Ninth Regiment, making it a twelve company regiment. These companies were located as follows, and were assigned to the regiment with the following named officers : Co. G. Hazleton, Capt. Andrew Lee ;
Co. K. Wilkes-Barre, Capt. Arthur Jackson : Co. L, Wanamie, Capt. James A. Dewey ;
Co. M. Pittston, Capt. George W. Simpson.
The regiment from that time to the present has performed the usual routine duties of a regi- ment in the National Guard, and in 1902 served for forty days during the industrial disturbance of that year, being located during the time at its
armory in Wilkes-Barre and at West Side Park, Wilkes-Barre, where it maintained the peace in the community until augmented by detachments. of the Fourth and Eighth Regiments, which arrived in the valley about the middle of Oc- tober.
On May 11, 1900, there was placed in the. armory at Wilkes-Barre a beautiful bronze tablet, presented by Major Irving A. Stearns to the- memory of the members of the Ninth Regiment. Infantry, Pennsylvania Volunteers, who died during the regiment's service in the war with. Spain, at which time the governor of the com- monwealthı, the adjutant-general and the brig- ade commander were present, and the tablet was. dedicated with proper and fitting ceremonies.
WADHAMS FAMILY. The family of Wadhams had its origin in Devonshire. Eng- land, and its name from the place of its resi- dence, Wadham, which signifies "home by the- ford," in the parish Knowston, near the incor- porated town of South Molton. Lyson, in his "Magna Britannica," says: "The manor of Wad- ham, at the time of the Domesday survey, in 1086, belonged to an old Saxon by the name of Ulf, who held it in demesne since the time of Edward the Confessor, 1042. It was not im- probable that he, Ulf, might be the ancestor of Wadham, of which this was the original resi- dence. William De Wadham was freeholder of this land in the time of King Edward I, 1272,. and both East and West Wadham descended in his name and posterity until the death of Nich- olas Wadham, founder of Wadham College, Ox- ford, in 1609, when it passed to his sister's fam- ilies, and is still in possession of their descend- ants. Merrifield, in Somersetshire, came in possession of Sir John Wadham, Knight, by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Stephen Popham, and was inherited by their son, Sir John Wadham, whose descendants were. called "Wadham of Merrifield." The principal places of residence of this family in England were in the counties of Devon, Somerset and Dorset.
John Wadham, or Wadhams, as the name is.
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now spelled, came from Somersetshire, England, as early as 1650, and settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, his name being on the deeds of purchase of lands and other records of the town. His death occurred there in 1676.
John Wadhams (2), son of John Wadhams (I), was born at Wethersfield, Connecticut, July 8, 1655, resided there all his life and died in that town.
Noah Wadhams (3), son of John Wadhams (2), was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, August 10, 1695. He removed to Middletown, Connecticut, in 1736, thence to Goshen, Connec- ticut, about 1773, where he died in 1783.
Rev. Noah Wadhams (4), son of Noalı Wadhams (3), was born in Middletown, Con- necticut, May 17, 1726. He graduated from the College of New Jersey, B. A., September 25, 1754. His diploma is now in possession of Ray- mond L. Wadhams, his great-great-grandson. It has the name of the Rev. Aaron Burr ( father of Aaron Burr, who was. in 1801, vice president of the United States), as president of the col- lege. Mr. Wadhams studied theology at New Haven, Connecticut, receiving the degree of M. A. from Yale College, 1758. He was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church, and settled as the first pastor of the New Preston Society in the towns of New Milford and Wash- ington, Connecticut, at its organization, in 1757, and continued his pastoral relations to that so- ciety for eleven years. At a meeting of the Sus- quehanna Company, in Connecticut, in 1768, "the standing committee was directed to procure a pastor to accompany the second colony, called the 'first forty,' for carrying on religious wor- ship and services, according to the best of his ability, in the wilderness country," and the Rev. Noah Wadhams was chosen for that purpose. He married Elizabeth Ingersoll, of New Haven, Connecticut, November 8, 1758, and died Plym- outh, Pennsylvania, May 22, 1806. She was born October 9, 1731. and died Plymouth February II, 1793. Their children were: Noah Ingersoll. born October 14, 1761, died May 12, 1845. Anna, born November 20, 1763. died December 5, 1799.
Calvin, born December 22, 1765, died April 22, 1845. Samuel, born April 27, 1767, died Feb- ruary 4, 1785. Noah, born June 6, 1770, died September 30, 1846. Moses, born February 8, 1773, died September 26, 1804.
Leaving his family at their home in Litch- field Rev. Mr. Wadhams embarked with his flock in 1769, amid the perils which lay before them on the distant shore of the Susquehanna, in a wilderness made more forbidding because of the savage people who were in possession of the val- ley. He continued his pastoral relations until the year succeeding the Wyoming massacre, when he removed his family to Plymouth, Penn- sylvania.
Calvin Wadhams (5), second son of the Rev. Noah and Elizabeth (Ingersoll). Wad- hams, married February 10, 1791, Esther Waller of Connecticut, born June 10, 1768, died Febru- ary 19, 1818. Their children were :
Elijah, born January 3, 1792, died February 13, 1810.
Susannah, born April 18, 1796, married a Mr. Turner, and died January 2, 1833.
Clarany, born April 29, 1801, died April 2, 1805 : and Samuel, born August 21, 1806.
Calvin Wadhams married for his second wife Lucy Starr Lucas, born August 13, 1762, died September 21, 1840. He was a prominent busi- ness man of the county, also a religious man, whose charity and hospitality were all embracing. He died April 22, 1845. .
Samuel Wadhams (6) youngest son of Cal- vin and Esther (Walter) Wadhams, was born. Plymouth, August 21, 1806. He was a man of good business qualities, and inherited largely the energy, character and views of his father. He married April 7, 1824, Clorinda Starr Catlin, of New Marlboro, Massachusetts. Their children were : Elijah Catlin. born July 17. 1825, married Esther French. Esther Waller, born December 13. 1826, became the wife of Hon. L. D. Shoe- maker. An infant daughter. born October 4, 1829, died the same day. An infant son. born May 27, 1831, died the same day. Calvin, born December 14, 1833, mentioned hereinafter.
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Moses, born November 23, 1836, married Jennie Morse. An infant daughter, born March 3, 1838, died the same day.
Samuel Wadhams died December 15, 1868, in the house in which he was born, and his wife died in Plymouth, April 28, 1870.
Calvin Wadhams (7), third son of Samuel and Clorinda S. (Catlin) Wadhams, was born at Plymouth, December 14, 1833, and died at Harvey's Lake, Pennsylvania, July 20, 1883. He graduated from Princeton College, June 28, 1854, just one hundred years after his great- grandfather. He studied law with Hon. L. D. Shoemaker. Admitted to the bar April 6. 1857. He was one of the oldest members of the Wyom- ing Historical and Geological Society, from 1858 until his death, and was recording secretary 1862- 1865, 1870-1871, and president of the society 1873. He was one of the corporators and first managers of the Wilkes-Barre Hospital. He married, October 8, 1861, Frances Delphine Lynde, and their children were Mary Catlin, Lynde Henderson, Frank Cleveland, all dying in infancy, and Raymond Lynde. Mr. and Mrs. Wadhams erected a memorial church, at a cost of $125,000, this being one of the principal church ·edifices in Wilkes-Barre. Their object in so doing is fully set forth in the following extract from the deed conveying the property: "Whereas, Mary Catlin Wadhams, who was born July 20, 1862, and who died January 16, 1871; Lynde Henderson Wadhams, who was born April 8, 1864, died February 9, 1871, and Frank Cleve- land Wadhams, who was born May 7, 1868, died January 14, 1871, were all children of Cal- vin Wadhams and Frances D. L. Wadhams, and were taken away by death in early life, leaving their parents at the time childless. And the said Calvin Wadhams and Frances D. S. Wadhams de- siring to commemorate the brief lives of their chil- dren, and feeling accountable as parents, not only for the influence' exerted by their children while on earth, but for the perpetuation of good influences after they have gone to their reward, and anxious to do some act as representing the good works which they hoped of and from their children had the latter attained mature years, have erected in
the city of Wilkes-Barre a church for the wor- shop of Almighty God, intended as a house of prayer for all people. And in connection there- with a congregation was gathered and a church organization duly effected February 24, 1874, the membership numbering forty-two.'
In the fall of 1870 Mr. Wadhams organized a Sunday school in the upper part of town, which rapidly increased in membership, and at the organization of the church became attached thereto, he remaining superintendent a number of years. The work on the church was begun on Tuesday, May 21, 1872, and on Saturday, July 20, same year, the tenth anniversary of Mary Cat- lin's birth, the cornerstone was laid with appro- priate religious services. The motives actuating Mr. and Mrs. Wadhams in erecting this church are very clearly expressed in a paper which was. read on the occassion of the laying of the corner- stone.
"These children were not permitted to live long enough to exert much influence for good in the world. We, therefore, desire to enlarge that influence by erecting this edifice for the wor- ship of God. We feel that as our children can no more speak for Jesus here, they may have a. representative to do it for them; and as they cannot go about doing good, the money that would have been theirs may be profitably spent in getting others to go about doing good for them."
The church was publicly dedicated to the worship of Almighty God April 8, 1874, the tenth anniversary of the birth of Lynde Hender- son Wadhams. Mr. Wadhams formally pre- sented the church to the board of trustees, by whom it was accepted, subject to the following conditions :
Ist. That the same shall be kept and main- tained as a place for the worship of Almighty God agreeably to the principles of the Presby- terian Church in the United States of America in its doctrines, ministry, forms, and usages. 2d. That the same shall be used only for relig- ious purposes, and shall not be used for any secular purpose whatever. 3. That said Memor- ial Church shall keep and maintain the buildings and premises in thorough order and repair. 4th. That the buildings and furniture be kept reason- ably insured. 5. That every tenth pew in the church edifice shall remain forever free, and
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shall not be liable to any charge or assessment for any purpose whatever. 6. That the said Memorial Church, in case of the death of in- ability of the said grantors, shall keep in thor- ough order the lot in Hollenback Cemetery in which lie buried the said three children of the said Calvin Wadhams and Fanny D. L Wad- hams, his wife.
On May 7, 1874, the sixth anniversay of the birth of Frank Cleveland Wadhams, the first pastor was installed.
The genealogy of Frances (Lynde) Wad- hams, wife of Calvin Wadhams, is as follows :
(Deacon) Thomas Lynde, born in England, January, 1593-94, settled in what is now Char- lestown, Massachusetts, 1634, and died Decem- ber 30, 1671. He was married three times, In 1634 he married for his second wife Margaret ( Martin) Jordan, widow, who was born in Feb- ruary, 1599 or 1600, died August 3. 1662. Their children were: Thomas (Henry), Mary, William, Joseph, Sarah, Hannah, and Samuel.
Hon. Joseph Lynde, merchant, third son of Thomas and Margaret Lynde, was born June 3. 1636, at Charlestown, and died in the same town, January 29, 1726. He was married three times. His first wife was Sarah Davison, of Boston, whom he married March 24, 1665, and her birth occurred December 31, 1647, in Charlestown. They resided in Charlestown. Their children were : Nicholas, Sarah, Mar- garet, Joseph, Nicholas, Anna, Joanna, and Thomas.
Nicholas Lynde, merchant, fifth son of Joseph and Sarah Lynde, was born July 1, 1672, in Charlestown. He graduated from Harvard Col- lege in 1690, and died at Jamaica, West Indies. in October, 1703. He married Dorothy Stanton, of Stonington, Massachusetts, May 9. 1696. Their children were: Sarah, born February 23, 1700, at Charlestown, and Joseph.
Joseph Lynde, only son of Nicholas and Dorothy Lynde, was born at Stonington. Jan- uary 1, 1702. He graduated from Harvard Col- lege in 1723, was a merchant in Boston, and re- sided at Charlestown until 1775, when he re- moved to Worcester, where he died December, 1788. He married Mary Lemmon, February 24, 1736-37. She was born at Charlestown, October 19. 1717, died at Worcester, Massachu- setts, November 12, 1798. Their children were : Mary, Elizabeth. deceased; Joseph, deceased : Nicholas, Elizabeth, Sarah, Thomas, Dorothy. Anna. Joseph, Jonathan, William, Jonathan, Margaret, Elizabeth, Lemmon, and Hannah.
Jonathan Lynde, hardware merchant in Bos- ton, moved to Putney, Vermont, thence to Wor- cester, Massachusetts, thence to Whitestone. Oneida county, New York, thence to Owego, New York. He was the seventh son of Joseph and Mary Lynde, born January 25. 1753, at Charlestown, died April, 1822, at Oswego. New York. He married, April 26, 1778, Rhoda (Warner) McIntyre, widow, a daughter of Gen- eral Warner, of the revolutionary army, who resided at Hardwich, Massachusetts. She was born November 11 or 17, 1754, and died Decem- ber 12, 1818, at Oswego, New York. Their chil- dren were: ' William. Augustus, Joseph Lem- mon, and Jonathan Warner.
Jonathan Warner Lynde, jeweler, third son of Jonathan and Rhoda Lynde, was born at Put- nev, Vermont, December 19. 1788, died at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1875, hav- ing resided in that city since 1830. He married Mary Ann Jerusha Alice Cleveland, in Oswego, New York, May 20, 1830. She was born July 3. 1809, died at Wilkes-Barre, September 21, 1837, and was a granddaughter of Captain Josiah Cleveland, of the revolutionary army, and Alice (Dyer) Cleveland, a descendant of Governor William Bradford, of the Plymouth Colony. Their children were: Edward Cleveland, Mary Eloise : Frances Delphene (mother of Raymond Lynde Wadhams), who was born June 25, 1835. at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, married in that city, October 8, 1861, to Calvin Wadhams, law- yer, and their children were: Mary Catlin, born in Wilkes-Barre, July 20, 1862. died January 16. 1871 ; Lynde Henderson, born in Wilkes-Barre. April 8, 1864, died February 9, 1871; Frank Cleveland, born in Wilkes-Barre, May 7, 1868. died January 14, 1871 ; and Raymond Lynde. born at Wilkes-Barre, September 25. 1872, men- tioned hereinafter.
Dorothy Lynde, fifth daughter and eighth child of Joseph and Mary (Lemmon) Lynde, was born May 23, 1746. at Charlestown, died April 29, 1837, at Worcester, Massachusetts. She married Dr. Elijah Dix, October 1, 1771. who was born at Watertown, Massachusetts. August 14, 1747, died in Dixmont, Maine, May 28, 1809. They resided in Worcester and Bos- ton. Their children were : William. Joseph, Mary, Joseph, Clarendon, John, Alexander, Henry, and Elijah.
Joseph Dix, son of Elijah and Dorothy Dix. was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, March 28, 1778. He married Mary Bigelow, and their daughter, Dorothea (christened Dorothy) Lynde,
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born April 4, 1802, in Hampden, Maine, died July 17, 1887, at Trenton, New Jersey.
Mary Dix, daughter of Dr. Elijah and Dorothy (Lynde) Dix, is the grandmother of Edward D. Harris, of New York City.
Governor William Bradford, a lineal ancestor of Raymond L. Wadhams, was governor of Plymouth Colony in 1621, and served in that capacity for thirty-one years. He married for his second wife Alice Carpenter Southworth in 1623.
Major William Bradford, son of Gov. William and Alice Carpenter (Southworth) Bradford, was born June 17, 1624. In King Phillip's war he commanded the Plymouth troops, and in the Narragansett fort fight, December 19, 1675, re- ceived a ball in his body which he bore the re- mainder of his life. He was an assistant to his father, and deputy-governor of the colony from 1682 to 1686 and from 1689 to 1692. He mar- ried for his first wife, Alice Richards.
Alice Bradford, daughter of Major William and Alice (Richards) Bradford, became the sec- ond wife of the Rev. William Adams, the second minister of Dedham. Mr. Adams died August 17, 1685. His widow married Major James Fitch, May 8, 1687. Major Fitch was the son of the Rev. James Fitch, the first minister of Say- brook, Connecticut, in 1646. In 1660 he removed with the greater part of his church to Norwich, Connecticut. Major James Fitch was a deputy to the general assembly for several years, and one of the assistants of the colony, 1681. His first wife was the daughter of Major General John Mason ; she died October 8, 1684.
Abigail Fitch, daughter of Major James and Alice (Bradford) Adams Fitch, was born Feb- ruary 22, 1688. On October 22, 1713, she mar- ried Colonel John Dyer, of Canterbury, Con- necticut, grandson of Thomas Dyer, Weymouth, Massachusetts. Thomas Dyer was appointed a commissioner for the trial of small causes at Weymouth in 1646, and from time to time, reap- pointed until 1656. He was a deputy to the gen- eral court of Massachusetts sixteen years be- tween 1646 and 1676, inclusive. Colonel John Dyer was a deputy to the general court of Con- necticut for twenty-four years, between 1723 and
1760. He was appointed a lieutenant colonel of the Eleventh Connecticut Regiment, 1739, and colonel, 1748, which office he resigned in May, 1771. He was judge of the county court from 1746 to 1772.
Elijah Dyer, son of Colonel John and Abi- gail (Fitch) Dyer, was born September 10, 1716. He was appointed lieutenant of the troop of horse in the Eleventh Connecticut Regiment, Oc- tober, 1751, and captain May, 1754. He married . Elizabeth Williams, November 16, 1752.
Alice Dyer, daughter of Captain Elijah and Elizabeth (Williams) Dyer, was born February 28, 1754. She married Captain Josiah Cleveland January 3, 1778.
Dyer Cleveland, son of Captain Josiah and Alice (Dyer) Cleveland, was born March 3, 1780. He married Mary Austin, September 9, 1808.
Mary Ann Jerusha Alice. Cleveland, daughter of Dyer and Mary (Austin) Cleveland, was born July 3, 1809, and married May 20, 1830, Jona- than Warner Lynde.
Raymond L. Wadhams (8), youngest son of Calvin and Frances D. (Lynde) Wadhams, was born Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, September 25, 1872. Educated at the Harry Hillman Academy, Wilkes-Barre, and Princeton College, from which he was graduated B. A., June 7, 1895, and in October, 1895, matriculated in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, graduated with the degree of M. D., June 7, 1899. On July I, same year, he was appointed resident physician of Wilkes-Barre City Hospital, remaining there until July 1, 1900, when he en- gaged in private practice at 72 North Franklin street, Wilkes-Barre. In November, 1901, lie was elected to the medical staff of the Wilkes- Barre City Hospital. He is a member of the Luzerne County Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the Zeta Psi Fraternity and life member of Wyoming Historical and Geo- logical Society. He is a Presbyterian in religion and a Republican in politics.
Dr. Wadhams married, 1901, Mary Bergmann Dobbs, only living child of Charles Gordon and Agnes Elizabeth (Bergmann) Dobbs, who re- sided at 298 West End avenue, New York
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City. Their children, born Wilkes-Barre, are: Dorothy Lynde, born April 28, 1902; Agnes Elizabeth, born November 7, 1903.
H. E. H.
PAYNE FAMILY-This family was founded in America by Stephen Paine, a native of Great Ellingham, near Attlebury, county Norfolk, England, where he followed the trade of miller. In 1638 he arrived in New England, accompanied by his wife, three children, and four servants, making the voyage in the ship "Dili- gent," of Ipswich, which brought a large com- pany of emigrants from the neighborhood of Hingham. He settled in Hingham, Massachu- setts, but about 1634 removed to Rehoboth, Mas- sachusetts, where he was one of the founders and first proprietors of the town. He was the owner of large estates in that and adjoining towns, was prominent in the affairs of the church and colony, was representative to the general court for Hingham in 1641, and also acted in a similar capacity for the town of Rehoboth up to the time of his decease, August, 1679. The will of Stephen Paine is on file in the Boston State House.
Stephen Paine, eldest son of Stephen Payne, the emigrant, was born in England about 1629, and in 1638, when nine years of age, accompan- ied his parents to America. He was admitted freeman in 1657, owned extensive tracts of land in the towns of Rehoboth, Swanzey and Attle- boro, and besides being an active participant in King Philip's Indian war contributed liberally toward its cost. He married Ann Chickering, 1652, daughter of Francis Chickering, of Ded- ham, Massachusetts. He died in Rehoboth, 1679.
Stephen Paine, son of Stephen and Ann (Chickering) Paine, born Rehoboth, Massachu- setts, September 29, 1654, died 1710. He was prominently identified with the interests of the town, and was twice representative to the general court, 1694 and 1703. His first wife, Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Rev. Ebenezer Williams, died 1706 without issue. The following year he married Mary Brintnall, who bore him children.
Edward Paine, youngest son of Stephen and Mary (Brintnall) Paine, born Rehoboth, Massa- chusetts, January 22, 1710, about six weeks be- fore the death of his father. His mother, with her two children, removed to Preston, Connecti- cut, and at a suitable age Edward was bound out to a farmer, became familiar with farming in all tails, and chose that occupation for his life work. Shortly after his marriage, April 6, 1732, to Lois Kinney, who bore him eleven children, he removed to Pomfret, Connecticut, and purchased a farm in that part of the town called Abington Society, and there spent the remainder of his days. He was a man of unimpeachable integrity, and was honored and esteemed by all who knew him.
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