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He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Elks, Westmoreland Club, Malt Club, the Wilkes- Barre State and National Bar Associations, the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, the State and National Bankers' Association, the Wyoming Commemorative Monumental Associa- tion, and the New England Society. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and a member of the Episcopal Church Club. Politically he is a Republican. He was elected a representative from this district to the legislature in 1883-84. During the Civil war he performed military duty as a member of the Home Guards.
Mr. Foster married. October 5, 1865, Mary Hoagland, daughter of Amos Hoagland, of New- ark, New Jersey, a man of influence and worth, and a direct descendant of Dirck Hanse Hoog- land, the first of the name who came to Amer- ica. and who commanded the vessel in which he sailed from Holland to New Amsterdam (New York) in 1667.
Dirck Hanse Hoogland, Mrs. Foster's ances- tor, came from Maerseveen, near the village of Hoogland, province of Utrecht. With his asso- ciates he was given letters patent by Governor Stuyvesant to found the village of Breuckelen (Brooklyn), New York. The Brooklyn and Flat- bush surface cars have their passenger station and stables on the site of the old Hoogland home- stead. Judge Hoagland married a daughter of Elijah Carman, who was a descendant of John Carman, of Hemel Hempstead. Herefordshire, England. He came in the ship "Lion." with Rev. John Eliot. Thomas Wakeman. Valentine Prentis and Richard Lyman, and arrived at Rox- borough, Massachusetts, November 3, 1631. He and nine others founded Sandwich, Massachu- setts, also Wethersfield and Stamford, Connecti- cut. In 1643 John Carman and John Goodman purchased from the natives 30,000 acres of land. upon portions of which Carmansville and Hemp- stead now stand. A complete history and gen- ealogy of the Hoagland family in America was published by Dr. Cornelius Hoagland and Mr. Riker, in 1891, who were familiar with the Dutch language, and transcribed the old records. These show the family to have been Prussian lords who
went down into Holland in the thirteenth cen- tury. Mrs. Foster's maternal grandfather was Rev. George E. Fisher, of Hempstead, Long Is- land, a generous and exemplary man.
Mrs. Foster is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, connected with a chapter in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, where lived her grandfather. Judge Hoagland, a judge of the court of common pleas, and also a director of the Trenton Banking Company. She is also a member of the Revolutionary Memorial Society, the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, the Holland Dames, the National Mary Washing- ton Memorial Association of the American Revo- lution, and McCall Mission.
Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Foster. The elder and only surviving child is Narcissa Florence, who married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Frank Thornton Jenkins, son of the late Thornton A. Jenkins, rear admiral U. S. N., and who served as chief of staff to Admiral Farragut during the Civil war, 1861-65.
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KULP FAMILY. The American ancestor of the Kolb (now known as Kulp) family, of which George Brubaker Kulp, the lawyer-author of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, is descended, was Henry Kolb. a native of Wolfsheim, in the Palatinate of Germany, who emigrated to Penn- sylvania as early as and perhaps earlier than 1707. He was one of the earliest Mennonite preachers in this country, and he and his brothers, Martin and Jacob, were trustees of the Mennon- ite Church of Skippack, the oldest church of this denomination, save one, in America. The ma- ternal grandfather of these brothers was Peter Schumacher, who came to Pennsylvania, arriving October 16, 1685. in the "Francis and Dorothy," with his children and his cousin. He lived in Germantown, where he was a man of consider- able importance in the town until his death in 1707. There were four brothers Kolb who came to America in 1707. Henry, Martin, Jacob and John, all of the Mennonite Church, and three at least of them were expounders of its teachings. In a biographical sketch of George B. Kulp, re- cently published, it is said that "his ancestors
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were among the leaders of the Mennonite Church, the foundation of all Baptist organizations. They refused to believe in infant baptism and in the realism of baptism without faith and repen- tance. Dielman Kolb, another brother of Henry, gave his big brain and bigger endeavour to the translation of "Der Blutige Schauplatz, oder Martyrer Spiegel," or Martyrs' Mirror. All the Kolbs (now Kulps) of the olden times devoted their efforts to good works, and from the earliest settlementĀ· of Germans in Pennsylvania to the present time there have been a large number of Mennonite preachers of the name of Kulp, par- ticularly in the counties of Bucks and Montgom- ery in this state.
Dielman Kolb, of Wolfsheim, Germany, father of Henry Kolb, was born about 1648; died 1712, and his wife Schumacher, was born 1652, died 1705. They never came to America. Peter Schumacher, grandfather of Henry Kolb, on the maternal side, was born in Kriesheim (then written Kreigsheim), a small village in the Palatinate, about 1622.
Henry Kolb came to America in 1707, and settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania; in 1709 he removed to Skippack, now in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. He was a minister of the Mennonite Church at Skippack. His will is dated February 20, 1724, and probated July 13, 1730. His wife was Barbara and his oldest son was Peter.
Peter Kolb of Perkiomen and Skippack, the oldest son of Henry Kolb, was born about 1718 and died 1748. His wife was Elizabeth E. Kolb.
Jacob Kulp, eldest son of Peter Kolb, was born March 7, 1740, and died June 28, 1818. He is buried in the Mennonite graveyard at Kulps- ville, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. His marriage certificate, by Quaker ceremony, is in the possession of George Brubaker Kulp, a des- cendant, and is dated November 6, 1766; his re- sidence was in Whitpain township, county of Philadelphia, province of Pennsylvania. He married Mary Clemens, daughter of Abraham Clemens, of Lower Salford, in the county and province aforesaid, who was a son of Gerhart
Clemens, who came to America in 1709, and pur- chased 690 acres of land in Salford, where he re- sided. The wife of Abraham Clemens was Catharine. Bachman.
Abraham Kulp was born in Kulpsville, Penn- sylvania, July 19, 1770, and died February II, 1847, in Linden, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania. Jacob Kulp had eight children of whom Abraham was the eldest son. He was twice married, first, Barbara Sellers, and second, Elizabeth Wam- pole. Barbara Sellers was a daughter of Leo- nard Sellers, who resided in Hilltown township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where he died Au- gust 24, 1805, and granddaughter of Philip Henry Soller (now written Sellers), who came to America from Weinheim, Germany, in the ship "James Goodwill." from Rotterdam, September II, 1728, with his wife and four children. He settled first near Skippack, Montgomery county, and afterwards permanently at Sellersville, in Bucks county, where he was owner of a consid- erable tract of land. The Sellers were a promi- nent family in this state both in its civil and poli- tical history.
Eli Sellers Kulp, second son of Abraham Kulp and wife Barbara Sellers, was born near Kulps- ville, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1800, and died at St. Georges, Delaware, July 6, 1849, married, first, in 1820, in Ithaca, New York, Sarah Ward, born in Mansfield, Suffolk county, New York, daughter of Jacob Ward; married (second) Sus- anna Breneiser, born in Adamstown, Pennsylva- nia, October 3, 1809, daughter of Samuel Brenei- ser and his wife Susanna Barbara Schwartz. She died in Reading, Pennsylvania, July 26. 1896. Samuel Breneiser was a son of John Valentine Breneiser, who came to America from Germany in 1730. Susanna Barbara Schwartz was a daughter of George Schwartz, born in Oley, Pennsylvania, August 19, 1752, and died in Read- ing, Pennsylvania, in 1832, and Elizabeth Nein, his wife, born in Oley, February 4, 1759, died in 1805. Eli Sellers Kulp was a teacher by profes- sion, and one of the leading educators of his day. His heart was in his work, and he gave time and energy to his duties regardless of the meagre
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compensation awarded him. He was connected with the first Teachers' Association of New Cas- tle county, Delaware, the first association in the state, as its president, and when he died the teachers of New Castle county attested their re- gard for him by the adoption of appropriate resolutions.
George Brubaker Kulp (of Eli Sellers, Abra- ham, Jacob, Peter, Henry, Dielman) was born at Reamstown, Pennsylvania, February 11, 1839, lawyer, historian, biographer, and editor of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was left an orphan at the age of ten years, and from childhood was compelled to make his own way in life. He be- gan by working on the canals and railroads wherever and at whatever he could find to do. His leisure time was devoted to study, and at the age of seventeen years he began teaching in a village school. In 1858 he removed to Wilkes- Barre, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, read law there with Lyman Hakes, Esq., and was admitted to practice in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, Au- gust 20, 1860. He then became law partner with the late Hon. W. G. Ward, of Scranton, Lack- awanna county, Pennsylvania, the firm style be- ing Ward and Kulp. In October, 1860, he was elected register of wills of Luzerne county, was re-elected in 1863, and served in that office six years. He was school director in Wilkes-Barre from 1865 to 1876, assistant assessor of internal revenue from 1867 to 1869, member of Wilkes- Barre city council from 1876 to 1882.
In January, 1872, Mr. Kulp established the Luzerne Legal Register, a law publication, of which he was the owner and editor until Janu- ary, 1904. In February, 1877, with Joseph K. Bogert, he founded The Leader, a weekly Demo- ` cratic newspaper, which in 1870 absorbed the Luzerne Union, and became the Union Leader, now the Wilkes-Barre Leader. A daily edition was issued in October, that year. Mr. Kulp re- tired from this branch of journalistic work in 1880. He is author of a "Digest of Titles of Local Laws and Titles of Corporations in Lu- zerne County from 1700 to 1874," also "Rules of the Court of Common Pleas, Quarter Ses-
sions, Oyer and Terminer, and Orphans' Court of Luzerne County," the last edition of which ap- peared in 1894; also "Families of the Wyoming Valley, Biographical, Genealogical, and Histor- ical," in three volumes, also of the historical es- says, "Indians, Teedyuscung, First Settlement of Wilkes-Barre," "Old Forge, Early Methodism," "Coal and its Antiquity, Discovery and Early Development in the Wyoming Valley," "Sab- bath and Sunday Legislation." He was the edi- tor and publisher of the Luserne Legal Register- for thirty-two years, up to January, 1904. Other notable works are his "In Memoriam, John Stew- art, Elizabeth A. Stewart," 1890, and "Life and Character of George W. Woodward," 1875. He also edited and published eleven volumes of "Kulp's Luzerne Legal Register Reports." Mr. Kulp is an active member of the Wyoming His- torical and Geological Society, and of the Penn- sylvania German Society.
George Brubaker Kulp was married on Oc- tober 4, 1864, by Rev. Reuben Nelson, D. D., to. Mary E. Stewart, daughter of John and Eliza- beth A. Stewart, of Lackawanna, Pennsylvania. She was born in Wilkes-Barre (now Plains) township, March 6, 1844. Their children are as follows :
I. John Stewart Kulp, M. D., Ph. D., born at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1866; educated at the Wilkes-Barre Academy, Yale College, and in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1889; took a post-graduate course in 1890. Studied medicine in the University of Berlin, Germany, in 1891-92, and is a surgeon in the United States Army with the rank of major. He served in the Spanish-American war and in the Phil- lipine insurrection as surgeon of the Twenty- second Regiment United States Infantry, and in. the Ambulance Company, First Division, Third Corps. He took part in General Wheaton's ex- pedition along the Pasig, General MacArthur's advance on Malolar, General Lawton's northern expedition, and various other skirmishes. He is. now stationed at Cebu, Philippine Islands. He is. a member of various hereditary and military so --
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cieties, and is author of several monogramis on medico-military subjects. He was married March 21, 1904, to Zoe Worthington Smithi, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by his cousin, Rev. George H. Lorah, D. D. Zoe Worthington Smith Kulp was the daughter of the late Henry Worth- ington Smith.
2. George Ernest Kulp, born in Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1868, died July 14, 1869.
3. Harry Eugene Kulp ; see sketch following.
4. Mary Estelle Kulp, born at Wilkes-Barre, March 30, 1873, died February 13, 1906. She married, June 26, 1894, Frederick A. Metzger, a merchant of Bedford, Pennsylvania; their chil- dren are as follows: I. Elizabeth Stewart Metz- ger, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, August 19, 1895. 2. George Brubaker Kulp Metzger, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, June 26, 1897. 3. Margaret Andrews Metzger, born in Bedford, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1899.
5. Howard Olin Kulp, born September 29, 1876, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, died De- cember 18, 1876.
6. Leroy Kulp, born in Wilkes-Barre, Penn- sylvania, May 13, 1879, died September 1I, 1879.
John Stewart, father of the late John Stew- art, of Scranton, was born June I, 1768. He resided in Lancaster or Dauphin counties until 1802, when with the rest of the family he re- moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a merchant there for many years, but owing to the war of 1812 and endorsements for friends he lost the greater part of his fortune. In 1823 he re- moved to Pittston, Pennsylvania, where he died April 9, 1829. He married in 1806, in Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, Jane Stuart, who was also born in the north of Ireland, in 1782. She was a daughter of Robert Stuart, and his wife, Nancy Aker. Her parents died in 1789, and in 1795 she came to Philadelphia with her sisters. She died November 1, 1846, at Lackawanna, Penn- , sylvania.
John Stewart, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was a son of John Stewart and his wife, Jane Stuart. He was born in Philadelphia, February 8, 1820,
and died in Scranton, Pennsylvania, April 10, 1900. He was one of the active, stirring, indus- trious men of Lackawanna Valley. He was mar- ried by Rev. Roger Moister in December, 1842, to Elizabeth A. Williams, daughter of the late Ezra Williams, of Wilkes-Barre (now Plains) township, and his wife, Mary Black, daughter of Henry Black, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth A. Stewart, his wife, was born in Wilkes-Barre (now Plains) township, February 28, 1819, and died April 8, 1900, at Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Ezra Williams was a descendant of Robert Williams, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, who emi- grated to this country from England in 1637. Ellis speaks of him as "one of the most influ- ential men in town affairs," and Farmer calls him "the common ancestor of the divines, civ- ilians and warriors of the name who have hon- ored the country of their birth." His wife Eliza- beth died July 28, 1674, aged eighty years ; he died at Roxbury, Massachusetts, September I, 1693, aged one hundred years.
Thomas Williams, son of Robert and Eliza- beth Williams, was born in Roxbury, about 1643, It is not known at what time he removed to Fair- field. He was a mariner and sea-captain. His wife was Ruth Bradley, daughter of Francis Bradley.
Sergeant David Williams, son of Thomas and Ruth Williams, was born at Greenfield Hill, Connecticut, May 9, 1689, married October 8, 1719, Dorothy Sturges, born August 28, 1700, daughter of John Sturges, son of John Sturges, the settler, whose wife was Deborah, daughter of John Barlow, one of the earliest settlers of Fairfield. David Williams died April, 1752.
Thaddeus Williams, son of Sergeant David Williams and Dorothy Williams, his wife, was born at Greenfield Hill, March 21, 1722, married November 28, 1747, Frances Case, born at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, July 17, 1727, daugh- ter of William Case and his wife, Frances Davis, daughter of William Davis, by his second mar- riage. He removed to the Wyoming Valley at an early date. He was driven from the valley at
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the time of the battle and massacre in 1778. His house and barn were burned by the enemy, his cattle stolen, his harvest almost entirely de- stroved, a spot here and there by chance only preserved. He afterward returned and resided in Wilkes-Barre and Exeter. He died April II, 1796. His wife Frances died in August, 1815.
Sergeant Thomas Williams, son of Thad- deus and Frances Williams, was born in Green- field Hill, January 28, 1757. He was a conspic- uous character during the Revolutionary war. Fired by the love of liberty, participating with the patriotic spirits of that day who were indig- nant at the encroachments of England on the rights of America, he was among the first that joined the standard of his country when the re- cruiting banner was unfurled by order of the Continental Congress. In 1782 Thomas Will- iams married Elizabeth Robinson, who was born in Greenfield Hill, November 18, 1764, daughter of Jonathan Robinson, of Bethel, Connecticut, by his second wife, Elizabeth Canfield, whom he married, April 14. 1763. He died in Wilkes- Barre township. November 12, 1839.
Isaac Williams, a lad of seventeen years, who was killed and scalped by the Indians, July 18, 1778, and to whom a monument was recently erected, was a brother of Thomas Williams, and a son of Thaddeus Williams.
Ezra Williams, son of Sergeant Thomas Williams and Elizabeth, his wife, was.the mater- nal grandfather of Mrs. George B. Kulp. He was a native of Wilkes-Barre township, where he was born September 24, 1791. He died Sep- tember 21, 1844. He married in February, 1817, Mary Black, who was born February 27, 1792, and died July 10, 1869.
HARRY EUGENE KULP, son of George Brubaker Kulp and Mary E. Kulp, was born in Wilkes-Barre, February II, 1870. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Wilkes-Barre, at Harry Hillman and Keystone academies, and the Pennsylvania State College. After leaving school he conducted farming and stock dealing at La- Plume, Pennsylvania, where he continued two years, and then moved to Rhendham, Penn-
sylvania, and there engaged in buying and selling horses and mules. This business he followed for three years, when he sold out and removed to Wyoming, Pennsylvania, and opened an office in Wilkes-Barre as a detective. In 1900 he removed his residence to Wilkes- Barre, where he has since resided. As his busi- ness increased he found his quarters much too small, and in 1904 moved to his commodious offi- ces in the Bennett building, which were especially fitted up for his business. He employs a number of men and enjoys a well merited patronage.
Not only has Mr. Kulp been successful in his. chosen profession, but he has also taken an in- terest in public and military affairs. He was. among the first to volunteer from Wilkes-Barre in the Cuban war joining Company D, Ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, with which regiment he remained until discharged at the close of the war. He has always taken an active interest in political matters, and when only twenty-two years of age was appointed postmas- ter at LaPlume, Lackawanna county, probably the youngest postmaster in the United States. One of the secrets of Mr. Kulp's success in addi- tion to his natural ability is his genial nature. While firm and decisive, he is never abrupt, but with a cordial grasp of good-fellowship he readily makes friends with those with whom he comes in contact.
Mr. Kulp married June 1. 1892. Hetty D. Brower, of Factoryville, Pennsylvania, daughter of Nicholas O. Brower, a native of Factoryville, and Mary ( Moore) Brower. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Kulp was John Brower, a native of Rhode Island. His wife was Jane Rey- nolds, a daughter of Beriah Reynolds, whose wife was Laura Baker. Beriah Reynolds was a de- scendant of James Reynolds, born May 13, 1625, probably in England. He settled in North Kings- ton, Rhode Island, where he died in 1702. His descendants were Joseph, who had a son Joseph, Jr., who had a son George, who had a son, Cap -- tain Robert Reynolds, born in 1736 at Exeter, Rhode Island. He married, January 20, 1757. Eunice Waite, daughter of John Waite, who died
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in 1806. He was a soldier in the Colonial and Revolutionary wars. Robert Reynolds left Exe- ter in 1790 to seek a home in the wilderness of northeastern Pennsylvania. After weeks of travel through the pathless forests they ar- rived in Abington, near Factoryville, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. He and two companions were the first white men to view the hills of Ab- ington. Solomon Reynolds, son of Captain Robert Reynolds and his wife Eunice, was born in Exeter, Rhode Island, September 14, 1771, married Frances Northup, and died in Abington, December 25, 1852. Solomon Reynolds was the father of Beriah Reynolds.
The mother of Mrs. Kulp was Mary Moore, daughter of Hampton Moore, a native of the state of New York, who settled near Factory- ville in 1817. The wife of Hampton Moore was Hannah Capwell, a daughter of Stephen Cap- well, both natives of Rhode Island. In a paper read at a family reunion, W. H. Capwell, Esq., says, "From all I can learn the name of Capwell comes from the French, but as there is no 'w' in the French alphabet I do not know how they spell the name, whether it was "Capell," or "Chap- elle," or "Capouille." However it may have been all now agree in spelling it in the same way, Cap- well." Two brothers, sailors it is said, landed from a French ship in Rhode Island some con- siderable time before the Revolutionary war, and from these two men the present Capwell families in America have descended. Stephen Capwell was born in Rhode Island in 1745. He was of middle size, an active man, and as near as can be learned a small farmer, who supplemented his farm by sailing on coasting ships as opportunity offered. Two of his sons became sailors, and continued in that vocation during their lives, and. to get away from the sea in the summer and fall of 1799, Stephen Capwell, his wife Hannah and his remaining family, put their affairs in shape to follow their neighbors, the Reynolds to the new El Dorado, "away out west" in Pennsylvania. He settled in Abington, near what is now Factory- ville, and died in February, 1817. The Reynolds and Capwell family did much towards developing
Factoryville and adding to its natural beauty. Mrs. Kulp was educated at Keystone Academy in Factoryville.
Mr. and Mrs. Kulp had the following chil- dren: I. George Brower Kulp, born July 29. 1895, died July 30, 1896, at Rhendham, Pennsyl- vania. 2. John Stewart Kulp, born at Wyoming, Pennsylvania, May 7, 1900. 3. Helen Estelle Kulp, born at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1904.
BRODHEAD FAMILY. Ancestors of the Brodhead family are said to have emigrated from Germany to England and settled in Yorkshire during the reign of Henry VIII. In the parish records at Royston, which are nearly perfect from 1530, the surname is spelled "Brodhead" until about 1640, when it began to be written "Broad- head," as it is still spelled by members of the fam- ily in England.
(I) Captain Daniel Brodhead, the ancestor of the American branch of the family, was a kins- man of John Brodhead, of Burton, (or Monk Bretton), West Riding, Yorkshire. Daniel was born in Yorkshire, England, and married Ann Tye, daughter of Thomas and Lettos (Salmon) Tye. She married (second) 1674, William Not- tingham, lieutenant of Captain Daniel Brodhead's company. He died January 1, 1680. She mar- ried (third) Thomas Gaston, judge of common pleas, Ulster county, New York. Ann died 1714.
Captain Brodhead accompanied the expedi- tion sent out from England in 1664 under Colonel Richard Nicholss by the Duke of York to secure the royal grant of Charles II and make a con- quest of New Amsterdam and the other Dutch possessions in the New Netherlands. He was captain of the British grenadiers, took part in the proceedings that led to the Dutch capitulation, was present at the surrender, and in the next year, September 14, 1665, was appointed com- mander of the British post at Esopus, near Kings- ton, Ulster county, New York, where he died July 14, 1667. Captain Daniel and Ann (Tye) Brodhead had: I. Daniel Brodhead, born 1661, died 1705. 2. Ensign Charles Brodhead, born
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1663, married Maria Ten Broeck. 3. Richard Brodhead, born 1666, see later.
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