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bert P. and Helen Frances ( Jenkins) Barber. Captain and Mrs. McLean have one child, Wil- Swan McLean, (3d). H. E. H.
WALLER FAMILY. Joseph Waller, living in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1669, removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, founded 1639 by Roger Ludlow, and died in 1672. The two children ac- companied their mother (upon her second mar- riage) to Woodbury, where Josepli, born Boston, February 3, 1669, grew to manhood, had a family of five sons and seven daughters, and owned much land. He became in 1719 an original proprietor and resident of Litchfield (among the loveliest of New England villages, where were Judge Reeves' law school and Miss Pierce's school for girls, fa- mous as the first of their kind in the new world), as his youngest son Phineas, born October 31, 1717, was later on (1738) of Cornwall in the Housatonic valley.
Phineas Waller, born October 31, 1717, mar- ried Rhoda Taylor1, and reared a family of five sons and five daughters. He was deacon succes- sively of the First and Second churches of Corn- wall, and later removed into the western coun- try. Some years thereafter his widow Rhoda died at the home of her eldest son, Nathan, at Oquago, upon the Susquehanna. Phineas Wal- ler's brother Samuel (born March 18, 1703), was the father of Elijah whose daughter, Esther, (1768-1818) married Calvin Wadhams.
The five sons of Phineas Waller left Con- necticut at an early age. Of these, Nathan, born March 7, 1753, married, at Wilkes-Barre, May 4, 1773, Elizabeth, born March 6, 1754, daughter of Jonathan Weeks, the latter a resident pioneer from Fairfield, Connecticut, who "February 12, 1763. paid cash for one whole share in the Sus- quehanna purchase," who made his first journey to the Wyoming Valley in that year, and from
I. Thomas Taylor of Norwalk and Danbury, Con- necticut, born 1643, died June 17, 1734, married Rebecca Ketchum, whose son, Nathan Taylor, born 1682, died 1781, married Hannah Benedict, of Danbury; whose daughter Rhoda Taylor, married Phineas Waller. The average age of Thomas Taylor's ten children, and himself, was eighty-six and one-half years.
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whose house in July, 1778, seven men. includ- ing his three sons, and son-in-law Benedict, went into the battle and massacre of Wyoming, and were all slain. In 1775 Nathan Waller visited the Connecticut seashore, accompanied by his wife and infant son, Phineas. There he entered the army and was wounded at Horse Neck. in March, 1779, when General Putnam made his famous escape. His brother Levi, born April 24. 1758, enlisted at eighteen and died in the service at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1778. Ashbel, a third brother, served in the Second Regiment Connecticut line, and Daniel, a fourth, was in the Sixteenth Connecticut Reg- iment. The fifth was Joseph, born April II, 1764, and these four surviving brothers were all settled in the Wyoming valley prior to 1800: by which year Ashbel, Joseph and Daniel had passed on to Western New York and Ohio.
At the close of the war Captain Nathan Waller brought his household back to Wy- oming. He was the owner of a large amount of land above Wilkes-Barre, in it, and below it. Before 1787 he built upon his lower farm the house which still stands ( 1905) across the west- ern end of Division street. being both in Wilkes- Barre and Hanover, and where a road then led to the only river crossing. He was a man of strong physique, and in an encounter with a bear upon his lands at the Plains he killed it, breaking its spine with a pine knot he had seized for defense. He appears frequently in the early Luzerne record, and in 1792, with Zebulon But- ler and Timothy Pickering, was of the com- mittee appointed by the town of Wilkes-Barre to choose a site for the Rev. Mr. Johnson's Con- gregational church ; they selected and reported the location on the public square, on which a little later the "old Ship Zion" was erected.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century Nathan Waller bought his friend Putnam Cat- lin's large farm on the banks of the Susquehanna, at Oquago, within the limits of the present town of Windsor. Broome county. New York. and there he removed with his wife, his unmarried daughters, and his younger son Eliud Rockwell. who had married Lucy, daughter of Colonel
John Franklin, providing for the son a house and farm near his own. Nathan's house, on the high terrace on the right bank of the river1. shaded by great trees, was notably spacious and substantial, a large central chimney affording wide, open fireplaces in the rooms on each side of it, and on both the first and second floors. Here, September 18, 1822, Nathan Waller lost his wife ; and his son Eliud R. having died April 26, 1814, in his thirty-eighth year, at the home of his brother Phineas, while passing through Wilkes-Barre, Nathan induced Phineas to ex- change with him, and take the Oquago farm, while he returned to Wilkes-Barre, where he continued until his death, July 11, 1831, in his seventy-ninth year.
Nathan Waller had two sons and eight daughters, and of the latter Lydia, the eldest, married (first) 1806, Robert Christie; their only child, Albert, died in New Orleans. She mar- ried (second) Major Elijah Blackman. Lucy, the next eldest daughter, married, 1806. Philip Abbott ; their son. Merrit, became assistant sup- erintendent of the Lehigh Navigation Company, and his daughter, Stella, married E. P. Wilbur, president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad com- pany. Elizabeth, next to the youngest, married Miller Horton2 and succeeded to part of her father's South Wilkes-Barre lands. The other daughters married in New York state and re-
I. "This picturesque little valley having been set- tled but a few years nevertheless had its traditions of exciting interest as the rendezvous of Brant, the fam- ous and terrible Mohawk chief, during the frontier war in which the Wyoming massacre took place." (From a description of this farm, in Smithsonian Rep., 1885, part 2, pp. 704-5).
2. In 1816 Miller. Jesse and Lewis Horton opened a new era in stage coach traveling and in carrying the mails in Northern Pennsylvania. In 1824 these enterprising brothers contracted to carry the mails in four horse coaches from Baltimore to Owego, New York. by way of Harrisburg, Sunbury, Wilkes-Barre and Montrose, and from Philadelphia to Wilkes-Barre, via Easton ; also to carry mails from New York City to Montrose by way of Newark and Morristown in New Jersey and Milford in Pennsylvania, and com- fortable and substantial four horse coaches rolled daily and rapidly over our highways .- Pierce's Annuals.
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moved to the far west-none of them returned to Wyoming.
His son, Phineas Waller, born Wilkes-Barre, January 31, 1774, acquired land at Wilkes- Barre, built a house, and married, January 2, 1800, his first wife, Hannah, born October 20, 1772, daughter of Abraham Bradley and wife Hannah Baldwin, and sister of Abraham and Dr. Phineas Bradley, who were first and second as- sistant postmaster generals until the accession of Andrew Jackson to the presidency. Phineas Waller's wife died October 4, 1810, leaving him with' three children, all born in Wilkes-Barre: I. Abraham Bradley Waller, 'born October II, 1800, died June 26, 1867, in Delaware. He married, July 26, 1826, Frances Webb, daugh- ter of General Webb, of Canaan, Connecticut, and removed to Delaware. Children : Frances, married Eben Camp, lived at Cherry Tree, Penn- sylvania; Abraham Bradley, Jr., born March 6, 1837, went in 1858 to Nevada, died 1902; Au- gusta, born May 23, 1839, died June 17, 1902; married General John M. Wilson, of Washing- ton, D. C .; Helen, born August 21, 1843, died March 18, 1873; married a Mr. Brewster ; Flor- ence, born January 4, 1849, married E. P. Wads- worth, of Maine; Lelia W., born January 26, 1852, lives in Washington, D. C.
2. Nathan P. Waller, born March 30, 1807, died June 30, 1884, in Wisconsin, married, Feb- ruary 7, 1838, Mahala Edwards, and removed to Wisconsin, where he became a well known member of the legislature. Children: Phineas Bradley, born June 13, 1842; Mary, born Sep- tember 28, 1851; Nathan, born December 22, 1854 ; and Frances, born December 22, 1858.
3. William Lindsey Waller, born July 6, 1810, died July 9, 1887, in Washington, D. C., married July 19, 1837, Louisa Bonham, of Corning, New York, and removed to Washing- ton. D. C., where he was long in the United States treasury. Their only surviving child, Rev. William B. Waller, born June 24. 1848, and now of Greenwich, Connecticut, married May 3, 1876, Jennie, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Schenck, of Philadelphia.
In the war of 1812 Phineas responded to the
call for troops with the Wilkes-Barre Company, of which he was captain, but his command being required to accept regular army officers in place of those elected by themselves, refused to submit and returned home.
On March 31, 1814, Phineas Waller married his second wife, Elizabeth1,1 born October 9, 1780, daughter of Dr. David Hibberd Jewett and wife Patience Bulkley, of New London, Conn., and resided in the Wilkes-Barre home until 1823, when making. the requested exchange, they re- moved to the father's Windsor farm, leaving two of the children-David and Harriet-with their grandmother Jewett in Wilkes-Barre. In April, 1836, Phineas returned with his wife and unmarried children to the Wyoming Valley where he had made additional land purchases, and where his wife died February 21, 1859, in her seventy-ninth year. He died at Bloomsburg on the third of the following June, in his eighty- sixth year. While at Oquago, at the instance of Dr. Bradley, as a step toward improving the still very primitive postal service, Phineas con- tracted for and established a line of four-horse
,I. Elizabeth Jewett, second wife of Phineas Wal- ler, was a descendant of Elder William Brewster; of Charles Chauncey, second president of Harvard; of Samuel Appleton ; of the Rev. Peter Bulkeley; of the Rev. George Phillips, of Massachusetts; and of the Dennisons, Prentices, Wetherells, Latimers, and Ger- shom Bulkeley, of Connecticut. Her father served both in Massachusetts and Connecticut commands dur- ing the revolutionary war. Mrs. Waller's grandfather, Rev. David Jewett, died 1783 and devised his Susque- hanna lands to her father, who died 1814. Her mother with three of her daughters, one of her sons and negro man slave removed from New London to Wilkes-Barre in 1815, where the family lived for sixty years on Franklin street about where the Grand Opera House now stands. Here her mother died February 4, 1830, in her eighty-first year. Children: I. David, born June 17, 1772, died July, 1842. Rio Janeiro. Read law with Governor Griswold, but during a voyage to Spain became infatuated with the sea, and at nineteen com- manded a ship; was for twenty years an officer in United States navy, and afterwards of Chili. Buenos Ayres. and Brazil. He married, 1827, Mrs. Eliza Mactier, daughter of Augustus H. Lawrence, of New York ; one child, Rev. Augustus David L., born Wilkes- Barre, January 12, 1830, died New York, April 29,
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coaches which carried the mails between Utica and New York City, by way of Windsor (Oquago), New York and Mt. Pleasant, Penn- sylvania. His second son, Nathan P. Waller, who in 1835 had established a mail route from Augusta, Georgia, to Columbia, two hundred miles, succeeded him on the Oquago farm (still known as Wallersville). The family ownership of that portion of the shores of the Susquehanna ceased when the latter removed beyond the Mis- sissippi, some sixty years ago.
The sons of Phineas and Elizabeth (Jewett) Waller were of the bench, bar and pulpit, as are all their sons in turn, of the law, the ministry, and the medical profession. The children, all born in Wilkes-Barre, were:
I. David Jewett, born January 16, 1815, died December 7, 1893 : married, May 23, 1839, Julia Ellmaker: reared three sons and three daughters ; hereinafter mentioned. .
2. Harriet M., born February 10, 1817, died April 3. 1887 ; married, May, 1865, Rev. Silas M. Andrews, D. D., of Doylestown, Pennsyl- vania. No children.
3. Charles Phillips, born August 7, 1819. died August 18, 1882 ; married, April 5, 1845, Harriet Ward Stone. He was president judge of the Twenty-second Judicial District, and lived
1898, married Lizzie Dickenson ; one child survives, R. Dickenson Jewett, of Washington, D. C. 2. Charles, born June 9. 1777, lieutenant United States navy, died 1825, at Wilkes-Barre, unmarried. 3. Elizabeth, mar- ried Phineas Waller, supra. 4. Sarah, born October 8. 1782, died, Wilkes-Barre. May 15, 1857, unmarried. 5. George, born May 22, 1785, merchant at Tunhan- nock, died Wilkes-Barre, November 2, 1816, unmarried. 6. Ann, born July 6, 1787, died June 19, 1860, married, July 17, 1823, Judge Oristus Collins, for fifty years elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Wilkes-Barre. He was judge of the courts of Lancaster county. He died 1884, aged ninety-two years. One child, Rev. Charles Jewett, born June 25, 1825, superintendent of Wilkes-Barre schools and principal of Princeton pre- paratory school at Princeton, New Jersey. Now re- sides -in New York. He married Annie Rankin, of Newburg, New York: Children: Laura, married Wil- liam Parsons : Louisa, married a Mr. Tappan ; Annie, married Walter B. Howe: all reside in New York. Rev. Charles Jewett Collins married (second) Ida - -. 7. Martha , twin to Ann, died 1876.
at Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Children : Eliz- abeth Jewett, born June 11, 1846, married Wil- liam H. Stanton, and had Harriet, married Ralph Martin, lives at Honesdale; Katherine, married John Edward Barbour, lives at Patter- ยท son, New Jersey, 2. Mary Stone, born Octo- ber 3. 1858, married Harry Crowell and has children : Waller and Elizabeth W .; lives in Newark, New Jersey.
4. George Grant, born May 3, 1821, died December 4, 1888: married, October 1I, 1854, Lizzie J. Bently. One child, Bessie, who mar- ried Robert Neely, and lives in Germantown, Pennsylvania. George G. Waller was for more than thirty-five years a leading lawyer of Hones- dale.
David Jewett Waller, born Wilkes-Barre, January 16, 1815, was educated at Wilkes-Barre Academy, Williams College, Massachusetts, and Princeton Theological Seminary, having gradu- ated at Williams, 1834, and the Theological Seminary, 1837. In 1838 Mr. Waller became pastor of the Presbyterian church at Bloomsburg (on the river forty miles below Wilkes-Barre) with its extensive dependent territory, since di- vided into many pastorates. There he became ac- ive in all the interests of the community, and par- ticularly in the establishment of schools, being instrumental, the year of his arrival, in opening a classical school, of which his brother Charles, then a law student, was principal. It became in 1867 the Bloomsburg Literary Institute, and in 1872 was merged into the State Normal school of the sixth district, of which two latter institu- tions also Mr. Waller was a very active promoter and supporter. He was elected a member of the board of foreign missions by the general assem- bly of 1865, and was elected a trustee of Lafay- ette College by the Synod of Philadelphia in 1849, serving for thirty years. Although often called to other fields, he continued his pastorate until 1871, about which time he met with an accident while driving, which compelled him to ttse crutches the rest of his life, and resigned, but thereafter effected the construction of the present attractive stone church, to which he was the chief contributor. About that time he drew
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a charter for a railroad from Wilkes-Barre along the south bank of the Susquehanna to Blooms- burg, and thence by valleys of Big and Little Fishing creeks, and Muncy creek, to Williams- port, named the North and West Branch Rail- road Company. His fellow townsman, ex-United States Senator Charles R. Buckalew, who was again in the state senate, secured its enactment hy the legislature, and Mr. Waller hecame presi- dent, effecting its construction, from a junction with the S. H. & W. Railroad at Catawissa, to Wilkes-Barre in 1881-82, and continuing as presi- dent until his death, during which period it was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as lessee, and was purchased a half dozen years later by, and was formally merged into the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company. Upon the material interests of his adopted home, by the laying out and grading of broad streets and extensive tree planting, by the erection of private buildings and furthering the erection of public ones, and by aiding the introduction of manufacturies, Mr. Waller exerted an educational influence which has proven most beneficial to that attractive and prosperous county seat, whose courts adjourned and whose business was suspended on the oc- casion of his funeral. He died December 7. 1893. four and a half years after his golden wedding.
He married, May 23, 1839, in Philadelphia, Julia Ellmaker, born October 1I, 1817, who is the . youngest daughter of Levi and Hannah (Hopkins) Ellmaker, the former for many years a prominent Philadelphia merchant, in the West India trade, a director of the bank of the United States by appointment of President Jackson, a leader among the early patrons of art in the Quaker City, where he died February 9, 1835, in consequence of being thrown from his car- riage. His father, Nathaniel Ellmaker, of Lan- caster, was a senator when the seat of govern- ment was still in Philadelphia, and was, through his mother and grandmother, of French-Hugue- not descent. Children of David J. and Julia E. Waller :
I. Hannah Ellmaker, born August 30, 1840, married Colonel M. Whitmoyer ; died Nebraska, 1873 ; one child, Laura Claire, who married, June
30, 1904, Dr. Joseph Reifsnyder, resides in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
2. David Jewett, born June 17, 1846; grad- uate of Lafayette College and Union Theological Seminary ; ex-superintendent public instruction, now principal of Indiana Normal School, Penn- sylvania ; married, 1874, Anna Appleman. Children : David J., born October 20, 1876, died November 16, 1895; Mabel, born March 7, 1878; Lizzie, born April 7, 1880 ; Margaret, born June 20, 1882 ; Robert, born March 9, 1884; and Har- riet, born December 20, 1886.
3. Levi Ellmaker, born July 16, 1851 ; mar- ried, October 12, 1881, Alice MI., daughter of United States Senator Charles R. Buckalew ; hereinafter mentioned.
4. George Phillips, born April 2, 1854; edu- cated at Andover, and Franklin and Marshall; graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- phia ; was many years physician and surgeon for Chicago & North-Western Railroad Company in Nebraska : resides in Los Angeles, California. He married, May 3, 1877, Etta J. Campbell. Children : Horace N., born September 5, 1881, and George P., born May 22, 1884.
5. Julia Ellmaker, born December 12, 1855; married, April 26, 1882, Charles W. Hand, treas- urer of Presbyterian board of foreign missions ; lives in Brooklyn, New York. Children : Laura, born June 14, 1885: Charlotte, born July 18, 1887; Julia, born April 8, 1890; and Dorothy, born May 4, 1895.
6. Laura Pettit, born September 2, 1858, un- married : lives with her mother in Bloomsburg.
Levi Ellmaker Waller, born July 16, 1851, graduated from Lafayette College, 1873, attended Columbia Law School, New York, and from the office of United States Senator Charles R. Bucka- lew was admitted to the bar. He is, and for twenty-four years has been counsel for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, counsel for the Pennsylvania Canal Company, counsel for the Bloomsburg & Sullivan Railroad Company ; a di- rector of the latter company, and of the North and West Branch Railway Company ; and trustee of the State Normal School of the Sixth District. He has borne an active part in the founding and
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developement of and been officially connected with very many of the institutions and manufac- turing industries of his native town, its steam and electric railroads, and its heat, light, and water systems. Since the summer of 1900 Mr. Waller has resided in Wilkes-Barre, at No. 72 South River street. He is a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants; The University Club ; Sons of the Revolution ; Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, and other organizations. He married, at Bloomsburg. Pennsylvania, October 12, 1881. Alice MI. Buckalew, born November 24, 1856, daughter of United States Senator Charles Rollin Buckalaw.1 and wife Permelia Wadsworth. Children: Jean Buckalaw Waller, born October 22, 1884. Charles Buckalew Waller, born Feb- ruary 14, 1890; brought his family from Litch- field, Connecticut, to Huntington, in Luzerne county. Mrs. Buckalaw died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Waller, Wilkes-Barre, Feb- ruary 20, 1903. H. E. H.
CORSS FAMILY. James Corse, the first of his surname, so far as known in America, and the ancestor of a numerous line of descendants, first appears in New England history as a settler at Deerfield, Massachusetts, about 1690, and died there May 15, 1696. He married, 1690, Eliza-
beth Catlin, who then was twenty years old ; she was killed by the French and Indians on the march to Canada in 1704, when Deerfield was. sacked and laid waste. She was a daughter of John and Mary (Baldwin) Catlin. John Catlin was one of the few men in Deerfield honored by the title, "Mister." He and his wife were of the original thirty families of Brandford, Connecti- cut, who settled in Newark, New Jersey. 1666. moved to Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1633, and was prominent in town, church and military affairs until his death, being a teacher in 1676, town's at- torney 1678. and selectman 1676 to 1681. James and Elizabeth (Catlin) Corse had three children : -Ebenezer, born April 7, 1692; James, March 20, 1694; Elizabeth, February 4, 1696; captured 1704, alive in Canada, 1716.
James Corse, of Greenfield, born Deerfield .. Massachusetts, March 20, 1694, died Greenfield,. September 20, 1783 ; married, first, August 17,. 1721, Thankful Munn, born January 12, 1703-4. died July 22, 1746, daughter of Benjamin Munn, of Deerfield ; married second, July 16, 1747, Eliza- beth, daughter of Joseph Clesson, who died July 4. 1773, aged sixty-three years. He had eleven: children by his first marriage and two by his sec- ond marriage. This James Corse was a noted hunter and Indian scout. The town meetings of
I. Mr. Buckalew was a lawyer of wide reputation, and was author of a work on the Constitution of Penn- sylvania, of which instrument he was one of the most prominent framers. His life was largely passed in the public service of Pennsylvania, and of the United States. He was a successful advocate of the cumulative vote provided for minority representation, now a familiar feature in corporate and other elections. He was born December 28, 1821. In IS50, when the district was composed of Luzerne, Columbia and Montour counties, and in 1853, and in 1857 he was elected to the senate of Pennsylvania. In 1854 he was appointed special commis- sioner to exchange ratification of the treaty between the United States and Paraguay. In 1857 he resigned as senator and commissioner to revise the criminal code, and was appointed Minister of the United States to Ec- uador, resident at Quito. In 1863 he was chosen United States senator from Pennsylvania and served the term of six years from March 4, 1864. In 1869 he was re- elected to the state senate. In 1872 he was the nominee of the Democratic party for governor, and ISS8 and 1900 was elected representative in congress. He was
president of the Bloomsburg & Sullivan Railroad Com- pany, from the time of its construction (1886) until" his death, and was a director of the North and West Branch Railway Company. He died at Bloomsburg, May 19, 1899, within a year after celebrating his golden- wedding. His immigrant ancestor, Francis Buckalew, came to Long Island with his brother Gilbert in 1665. Charles R. Buckalew married, February 13, 1849, Per- melia, daughter of the Rev. Epaphras and Charlotte (Stevens) Wadsworth, born February 16, 1828, and granddaughter of Epaphras Wadsworth, a soldier of the- revolution, and wife Desdemona Marshall. Mrs. Bucka- lew descended in the sixth generation from Captain Joseph Wadsworth, who saved the Connecticut charter by hiding it in the Hartford Oak. October 31, 1687, and from Captain John Gallup, and the Marshall- Stone-Lake-Drake-Wollcott-Wilton-Cooke famil- ies of Connecticut. Epaphras Wadsworth, in 1800, brought his family from Litchfield, Connecticut. to Huntington, in Luzerne county. Mrs. Buckalew died' at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Waller, Wilkes- Barre, February 20, 1903.
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Greenfield were held in his house many years, and he held the office of fence viewer and other town offices. In 1730, with a passport from Governor Dummer, he made a journey to Canada in search of his sister, traveling by way of Fort Dummer, Otter creek, and Lake Champlain, and on his travels he established a convenient route of pass- age for the military expeditions of 1730. He was a soldier during Father Rasle's war, under Cap- tain Joseph Kellogg, and also in the French and Indian wars from 1743 to 1763. May 1, 1775, at eighty-one, he enlisted at Greenfield as a minute man in a company raised then, and fought at Bunker Hill. He left a considerable fortune at his death, including a large tract of land upon which the present town of Greenfield, Massachu- setts, is built.
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