Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 4

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 988

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had by this his second marriage: Anna Con- yngham, married Louis Krumbharr, of Phil- adelphia, and had George Douglass Krumb- harr, born January, 1904; John Conyngham, married Margaretta Hutchinson, and had Dorothy Willing Stevens.

7. Charles Miner Conyngham, born July 6, 1840. See below.

WILLIAM LORD CONYNGHAM, third son of Hon. John Nesbitt and Ruth Ann ( Butler) Conyngham, born Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl- vania, November 21, 1829, married December 6, 1864, Olivia Hillard, daughter of Oliver Burr and Harriet A. (Roberts) Hillard of Charleston, South Carolina, and Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania. He was for many years a coal operator in the firms of Parrish and Con- yngham, coal operators, and Conyngham & Paine, commission merchants. For thirty-six years he was associated with Joseph Stickney in Wilkes-Barre and New York as Conyng- ham & Company of Wilkes-Barre, and Stick- ney and Conyngham, of New York and Bos- ton ; J. Hilles & Co., Baltimore ; James Boyd & Co., Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Penn- sylvania ; Boyd, Stickney & Co., Chicago and St. Louis, agents for the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company's anthracite coal, north, south, east and west. Mr. Conyngham has also been largely associated with the business life of the Wyoming Valley in many ways. He has long been a member of the Wyoming His- torical and Geological Society, since, was vice-president 1881, and a life member since 1884.

Mrs. William L. Conyngham descends from Capt. David Hilliard (original form of name Hillard) of Little Compton, Rhode Island, son of William of same place, 1650; from Jo- seph Hilliard of Norwich, Conn., and his wife Freelove Miner, great-grand-daughter of Lieut. Thomas Miner, of Salem, Massachu- setts, 1630, and Stonington, Connecticut, dep- uty to the general court of Connecticut, and prominent in church and colony. His son, Captain Ephraim Miner, ensign, captain, jus-

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tice, and for years deputy of the general court, and his wife, Hannah Avery, daughter of Captain James Avery, who was equally prom- inent in the colony, were the grandparents of Freelove Miner, who was the only daughter of Lieut. James Miner, of New London, and his wife Abigail Eldridge, daughter of Capt. Daniel Eldridge. Joseph Hilliard of Norwich was the father of Lieut. Joseph Hilliard of Kil- lingworth, Conn., who served in the Revolution- ary army and was the father of Oliver Hillard, born October, 1773, married Philadelphia, May, 1800, Ann Eliza Crawford and settled in Charleston, South Carolina, as a shipping mer- chant. He was the father of Oliver Burr Hil- lard, of Wilkes-Barre, for many years prom- inent in mercantile circles here. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Conyngham had three children :

I. John Nesbitt Conyngham, married April 18, 1895, Bertha Robinson, daughter of John Robinson of New York City. Mr. Conyng- ham was educated at Yale College, taking a course in the Sheffield Scientific School. Has been long associated with his father in the coal trade; was president West End Coal Company and Mocanauqua Coal Company. He is director Anthracite Savings Bank ; president Buttonwood Coal Company, Wilkes-Barre, and Tioga Coal Company, New York; director Staples Coal Company, Massachusetts ; Worcester Coal Company, Massachusetts ; Parrish Coal Company, New York ; and Red Ash Coal Company, New York; vice-presi- dent Muskegon County Traction and Light Company, of Michigan ; president Luzerne County Humane Association, and the United Charities of Wilkes-Barre ; director and treas- urer Wilkes-Barre City Hospital; member Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Westmoreland Club, Wyoming Country Club, etc., etc.

2. William Hillard Conyngham, married February 17, 1897, Mae Turner, born Febru- ary 28, 1869, died February 22, 1902, daughter of Hon. Samuel G. Turner of Wilkes-Barre. She was a life member of the Wyoming His-

torical and Geological Society, and member of the Wyoming Country Club ; a devout and faithful member of St. Stephen's Church, un- iversally loved in life and mourned in death. Mr. Conyngham graduated Bachelor of Phil- osophy, Yale College, 1889. He is a member Wilkes-Barre Board of Trade, director First National Bank, Red Ash Coal Company, and head of Pennsylvania Supply Company, and member Westmoreland Club and Wyoming Val- ley Country Club.

3. Ruth Butler Conyngham, died in in- fancy.

COLONEL CHARLES MINER CO- NYNGHAM, U. S. V., 1861-66, fifth son of Hon. John N. and Ruth Ann (Butler) Conyng- ham, born July 6, 1840, died September 6, 1894; was educated at the Protestant Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, and Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, where he graduated A. B., 1859, A. M., 1862; admitted to Luzerne county bar August 18, 1862, but never practiced. He was commissioned captain Company A, One Hundred Forty-third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, August 26, 1862; promoted major June 2, 1863; wounded at Spottsylvania Court House, May 12, 1864; discharged for disabilities July 26, 1864 ; merchant, coal miner and operator ; president West End Coal Com- pany ; member of Parrish, Phillips & Co., coal firm, New York City, and Henry Matthews & Co., coal firm, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; president Wilkes-Barre Board of Trade and Luzerne County Humane Association ; direc- tor Hazard Manufacturing Company and Parrish Coal Company ; head of firm of Con- yngham, Schrage & Company ; inspector-gen- eral N. G. P. under Governor Hoyt ; commun- icant and junior warden St. Stephen's Protes- tant Episcopal church, Wilkes-Barre, and one of its deputies to the convention of the church ; member executive committee Luzerne County Bible Society; of Lodge 61 F. and A. M., of Wilkes-Barre; of Loyal Legion of the United States; of Society of the Potomac; of Grand Army of the Republic, and of Wyoming His-

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torical and Geological Society of Wilkes- Barre. Colonel Conyngham, in all that makes true nobility of manhood, was the peer of any man in Pennsylvania. He married February 9, 1864, Helen Hunter Turner, daughter of William Walcott Turner, Ph. D., of Hartford, Connecticut, who graduated Yale, A. B., 1819; A. M., Yale and Princeton 1821 ; Ph. D., Na- tional Deaf Mute College, Washington, D. C., 1870; author of "The School Dictionary," etc., etc. Mrs. Conyngham descends from Capt. Nathaniel Turner, of Connecticut, who served in the Pequot war with gallantry 1637; from Roger Alling, the first treasurer of Con- necticut ; from Lieut. Zaccheus Peaslee, an original member of the Society of the Cin- cinnati, William Brewster, of the "May- flower," the founder of Plymouth col- ony, etc., etc. Mrs. Conyngham is a member of the Pennsylvania Society Colonial Dames. Colonel and Mrs. Conyngham had :

I. Helen Conyngham, married Charles Alling Gifford, architect of Newark, New Jer- sey. They have five children : Alice Conyng- ham ; Charles Conyngham ; John Archer ; Her- bert Carman, died infant ; Donald Stanton.

2. Alice Conyngham, member Pennsyl- vania Society Colonial Dames.

3. Charles Turner Conyngham, died young.

4. Herbert Conyngham, graduated Ph. B. Yale University, 1895. He is a member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, the Westmoreland Club, and the Wyoming Valley Country Club. H. E. H.

WOODWARD FAMILY. The pioneer of the Woodward family in Pennsylvania was Enos Woodward, who settled in what was now is Pike county about the year 1775. The pioneer of the family in America was Richard Woodward, the immigrant, who sailed from Ipswich, England, April 10, 1634, in the "Elizabeth," (William Andrews, master), with his wife Rose and his sons George and John. Richard was admitted freeman September 2, 1635, and his name ap-

pears on the earliest list of proprietors of the plantation of Watertown. He afterward ac- quired considerable tracts of land, amounting in all to about 350 acres, and by purchase in 1640 also became possessed of a mill property in Bos- ton. He lived in Cambridge in 1660. He died February 16, 1664-5, and his estate was admin- istered by his sons. His wife Rose died Octo- ber 6, 1662, and in 1663 he married Ann Gates, born 1603, widow of Stephen Gates of Cam- bridge. . She died in Stow, February 5. 1683.

From this ancestral head the line of descent follows to George (2), John (3), Richard (4), Amos (5), the latter the father of Enos (6). the pioneer. Amos, of Canterbury, Connecticut, married, May 6, 1725, Hannah Meacham, who bore him Enos and seven other children. Amos died January 29, 1753, aged fifty-one years, and his wife Hannah died December 17, 1752.

Enos Woodward was born January 31, 1725- 6, and married December 26, 1750, Mary Ben- nett. About 1775 he removed from Connecti- cut and took up his abode in the wilderness reg- ion of the Wallenpaupack, in what now is Pike county, Pennsylvania. His settlement was made during the early days of the Revolution, and the locality in which he lived was without protection against the attacks of the Indian allies of the British. He was harrassed and repeatedly driven away during the war, but later returned to his lands and there reared. his family, died, and was buried. His wife survived him many years, dying about 1817, and was buried at Cherry Ridge, in Wayne county, a few miles dis- tant from the Paupach settlement. Children of Enos and Mary (Bennett) Woodward: I. Will- iam, born July 14. 1752. 2. Enos, born April 5, 1754: married March 2, 1781 : died August 26, 1802. 3. Hannah, born March 5, 1756; married December 12, 1777, Beach, and settled in Ohio. 4. Asahel, born January 20, died March 26, 1758. 5. Sarah. born Jan- uary 29. 1759: died November 18. 1760. 6. Mary (twin) born January 29. 1759: married (first) December 28, 1780, Matthew Clark, and (second) King. 7. Silas, born

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January 17, 1761; died March 25, 1764. 8. Asahel, born April 25, 1763; married October 6, 1787. 9. Silas, born May 10, 1765 ; married May 12, 1793; died in Wayne county. 10. Abisliai (7), see forward. II. John, born Oc- tober 30, 1769; married March 21, 1797. 12. Ebenezer, born May 13, 1772; married Septem- ber 9, 1797.

William Woodward, eldest son of Enos and Mary (Bennett) Woodward, was born July 14, 1752, died in Kentucky, February 13, 1807 ; mar- ried (first) December 10, 1772, Zilpah Maynard, who died prior to 1790. He married (second) March 22, 1791, Elizabeth Snodgrass, of Lancas- ter county, Pennsylvania. He moved to Mason county, Kentucky. He had by his second wife among others, the Rev. Enos Woodward, born April 4, 1792, married in Mason county, Ken- tucky, October 1I, 1810, Sarah Murphy, born in Frederick county, Maryland, August 19, 1791, died in Pittsburg, June 6. 1841. Mr. Woodward entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was ordained deacon August 4, 1839, and priest 1840. He was rector of St. An- drew's and St. Mary's Churches, Chester county, Pennsylvania, and of Christ Church, Browns- ville, Pennsylvania, 1841-45. They had ten children, of whom Ann Elizabeth, born in Wash- ington, Kentucky, August 26, 1829, married at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1852, Franklin J. Leavenworth. (See Leavenworth Family).

Abishai Woodward (7), son of Enos and Hannah Woodward, and of the seventh genera- tion of descendants of Richard (I), was born January 10, 1768; married in Paupach, October 6, 1789, Lucretia Kimball. A few years after marriage, having lost his left hand, the result of an accident, he abandoned farm work and fitted himself for teaching. Hd settled in Bethany, Wayne county, and held successively the offices of constable, deputy sheriff, justice of the peace, high sheriff, and associate judge. He died on his farm near Bethany, November 27, 1829, and was buried in the graveyard at that place. His widow died April 2, 1842, at Le Raysville, Brad-

ford county, where she was then living with her daughter Harriett. The children of Abishai and Lucretia Woodward, of Luzerne county, were :

I. Jesse, married Zulima Cook, and was drowned in 1818. 2. Sarah, who married, De- cember 9, 1810, Isaac Dimmick, and died Feb- ruary 5, 1821. 3. John K., surveyor, drafts- man and mathematician, married December 1, 1816, Mary Kellogg ; he died 1825. They had a son, Hon. Warren Jay Woodward, born Septem- ber 24, 1819, died September 23, 1879, who was president judge of the judicial dis- trict, president judge of Bucks county 1861-74, and of the supreme court 1824-79. He married a daughter of Judge David Scott, president judge of the eleventh district. 4. Rosalinda, married January 30, 1817. Nathan Kellogg. 5. Olive, died March 29, 1822. 6. Dency, died 1821. 7. Nathaniel Aspinwall, born April 10, 1836, died at Ft. Wayne, Iowa. 8. George Washing- ton. 9. Lucretia, died October 14, 1814. IO. Harriet, born July 27, 1819; married George H. Little, and died April 22, 1842. H. E. H.

HON. GEORGE WASHINGTON WOOD- WARD, a descendant in the eighth genera- tion of Richard Woodward, the ancestor of the family in America, a grandson of Enos Woodward, the pioneer of the family in Pennsyl- vania, and eighth child of Abishai Woodward and his wife Lucretia Kimball, was born in Bethany, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1809, and died in Rome, Italy, May 10, 1875. He sailed for Europe from Philadelphia in October, 1874, to join his daughter Lydia C., accompanied by Mrs. Woodward and her niece. A few days be- fore his death a letter was received from Judge . Woodward designating the following month of August as the time of his return home. At its date he was in good health ; in fact, he had never complained of any ailment during his absence.

When Judge Woodward was born, his father was sheriff of Wayne county, and subsequently became associate judge, an office he held until his death in 1829. As is seen from earlier par- agraphs, the family had settled in Pennsylvania

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before the Revolution. The two grandfathers of Judge Woodward formed a part of the col- ony from Connecticut which contemporaneously wich the emigration to Wyoming had occupied in the year 1774. the valley of the Wallenpau- pack. which forms the boundary between the counties of Wayne and Pike. After the battle and massacre of Wyoming the colonists were driven from their homes by the Tories and In- dians. The women and children were able to find shelter and food in Orange and Dutchess counties, in New York state, while most of the men of the colony enlisted in the Revolutionary army, and generally in different regiments of the Connecticut line. Captain Jacob Kimble, maternal grandfather of Judge Woodward. com- manded a company in the Connecticut line throughout the war. In 1783 the survivors of the settlers returned to the valley of the Wal- lenpaupack, and began that career of toil and hardship which in that day was always incident to frontier life. The colony soon became pros- perous, and soon began to send out into the world large numbers of hardy, vigorous, and unflinch- ing men. From the rugged character of the country in which they were reared, and the habits of self-reliance which their isolation in- duced, the colonists of the Wallenpaupack have always been distinguished for a peculiar physical and mental energy. Indeed, with the blood of the Wallenpaupack, Judge Woodward had in- herited the unbending courage, the resolute will, the clear. concentrated power, and the outspoken and open contempt for baseness and base men, which has always characterized the pioneers from whom he was descended.

Judge Woodward was educated at Geneva Seminary, and Hobart College. Geneva, New York. From there he was transferred to Wilkes- Barre Academy, then under charge of Dr. Orton. He read law with Thomas Fuller. of Wayne county, and with Hon. Garrick Mallery, of Wilkes-Barre. He was admitted to the bar August 3. 1830, and married, September 10, 1832. Sarah Elizabeth, only daughter of George W. Trott. M. D. In 1836 he was elected a delegate

to reform the constitution of the state. In 1841 he was appointed president judge of the fourth judicial district, composed of the counties of Mif- flin. Huntingdon, Centre. Clearfield and Clinton. In 1844 he was the caucus nominee of the Demo- cratic members of the legislature of Pennsylvania for the office of senator in congress, but was de- feated in the election by Simon Cameron, the can- didate of the Whigs and of a faction representing the Native American party. In 1845 he was ap- pointed by President Polk justice of the supreme court of the United States, but his confirmation was defeated in the senate. In 1852 Governor Big- ler appointed him a judge of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, and in the following fall he was elected for a full term of fifteen years. In 1863 Judge Woodward became the Democratic candi- date for governor against Andrew G. Curtin, but was defeated by a majority of 15,000 votes, Lu- zerne county giving a majority of 2,786 in his favor. For four years prior to the expiration of his term of office on the supreme bench he acted as chief justice, by virtue of the seniority of his commission. In 1867 and 1868 he was elected to represent the twelfth district in the fortieth and forty-first congresses. In 1873 he was elected on the Democratic ticket delegate-at-large to the last constitutional convention. He was a man of commanding personal appearance, over six feet high, and built in proportion. On the bench he was the very· personification of noble dignity, but always courteous and mindful of the rights of others. He was deeply versed in legal lore, was eminently a just and upright judge, and an earnest and sincere christian gen- tleman. He was for years a communicant of St. Stephen's Church, and a vestryman.

George Washington and Sarah Elizabeth Woodward had nine children :

I. Stanley (9). born August 29, 1833. of whom later.

2. General George Abisha, born January 4. 1835. of Washington. D. C .. commissioned cap- tain Second Pennsylvania Reserves, U. S. V .. May 27. 1861 : major April 2. 1862 : lieutenant- colonel, February 20, 1863 : major Veteran Re-

Canley Woodward.

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serve Corps, August 24, 1863 ; lieutenant-colo- nel September 25, 1863; colonel December 4, 1863. Honorably mustered out of United States service July 20, 1866. Commissioned lieutenant- colonel U. S. A., Forty-fifth Infantry, July 28, 1866; transferred to Fourteenth Infantry, March 5. 1869; colonel Fifteenth Infantry, January 10, 1876: retired March 20, 1879. Brevetted colo- nel March 2, 1867, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania ; brevetted brigadier-general 1904. He married Miss Chittenden, and had Henry and Elizabeth.

3. Ellen May, born June 26, 1836, died Jan- uary 19, 1850. See "Memoirs of Ellen May Woodward," by Rev. George D. Miles, M. A., rector of St. Stephen's Church. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, portrait ; pp. 175; Philadelphia, 1850.

4. Elizabeth, born January 2, 1838; married Eben Greenough Scott, A. B. Yale, 1858, M. A. 1863. Member Luzerne county bar, and author.

5. Lydia Chapman, born January, 1840; died -: married Colonel Elisha Atherton Hancock, son of James and Mary ( Perkins) Hancock, of Wyoming Valley, where he was born and reared. Colonel Hancock served in the Pennsylvania Volunteers, U. S. V., 1861-65 ; mustered into service as first lieutenant Company H, Ninth cavalry, Ninety-second Regiment, Oc- tober 29, 1861, for three years ; promoted cap- tain Company B same regiment, May 23, 1863. and major January 11, 1865; severely wounded at Averysboro, North Carolina, March 16, 1865, losing a leg; mustered out with his company July 18, 1865 : appointed on staff of Governor Henry M. Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, as colonel, 1879-83. . Residence, Philadelphia. (Sketch elsewhere).

6. William Wilberforce, born December 8, 1842; deceased.

7. James Kimball, born September 24, 1844 ; graduated A. B., Kenyon College, 1865; died unmarried August 16, 1887.

8. Mary Harriet, born March 1, 1849 ; mar- ried James Pryor Williamson, cashier Wilkes- Barre Deposit and Savings Bank. They had 2

James Pryor, and Harriet, who married David Crowell Percival, of Boston, Massachusetts, and had Elizabeth.

9. Charles F., born February 12, 1852, of Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania ; married Ada Knox, daughter of Judge Knox, of Pennsyl- vania. H. E. H.

HON. STANLEY WOODWARD, the eld- est child of Judge George Washington Wood- ward and his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Trott, was a prominent member of the Luzerne county bar. To the legal profession of all this central north- ern region of Pennsylvania, Stanley Woodward was best known as Judge Woodward, for he had been of their number almost half a century, and held the magisterial office of additional law judge and president judge from 1879 until his retire- ment from its duties a few years ago. From 1857 to 1879 he was a known factor in Wilkes- Barre fire department circles, and advanced through various grades of election and selection from the "drag" and "brake" to the responsible

duties of chief engineer of the department, and the remarkable degree of efficiency which the Wilkes-Barre fire department early attained was in a good measure due to the efforts of "Chief Woodward." In the capacity of assistant and later chief engineer, Mr. Woodward served twenty years, and when his services ended. in 1879, he acquired a new title-that of "Judge," by virtue of his appointment to judicial office.

During the war of 1861-65 Judge Woodward acquired a military title, that of captain of Com- pany H, Third Regiment Pennsylvania volun- teer militia, whose service Governor Curtin in 1862 deemed necessary for the defense of the state when its southern border was threatened with confederate invasion. In the next year (1863) Captain Woodward commanded Com- pany A, Forty-fifth regiment Pennsylvania vol- unteer militia in the famous Gettysburg cam- paign, and was in service at the front for three months. In one of the frequent emergency calls for troops during the years 1862 and 1863, Cap- tain Woodward raised a company of volunteers in a single night.

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Judge Stanley Woodward was born in Wilkes-Barre, August 29. 1833. His early edu- cation was acquired in the public schools. He prepared for college at the Episcopal High School of Virginia. near Alexandria, and also at the Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, where his in- structor in Latin and Greek was Professor (afterward Governor) Henry Martyn Hoyt, and from whom, a stanch republican, Judge Wood- ward, a firm democrat, received his first judicial commission in 1879. From the seminary he en- tered Yale College, when, as Kulp says, he dis- tinguished himself particularly in the literary and forensic departments of the college course, this fact being marked by his winning several prizes for excellence in English composition, and by his election at the hands of his classmates as editor of the "Vale Literary Magazine," the old- est college magazine in the United States. He · also was a member of the "Skull and Bones So- ciety." an exclusive Yale fraternity, and of which also, his son, John Butler Woodward, was sub- sequently a member.

Judge Woodward graduated from Yale A. B. in 1855. During his senior year he began the study of law in New Haven, and afterward con- tinued it in the office of his cousin, Hon. Warren J. Woodward, later a judge of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the Lu- zerne county bar August 4. 1856, and at once succeeded to the practice of his cousin, who then had entered upon his judicial duties. "From the time of his admission," says Kulp, "until his appointment to the bench by his former instruc- tor and lifelong friend, Judge Woodward en- joyed a large and lucrative practice, having been for most of the time counsel for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company. the Lackawanna & Bloomsburg Railroad Company, the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, and the Central Railroad of New Jersey."

Judge Woodward's service upon the bench was in all respects creditable to himself and his constitutents, and entirely satisfactory to the bar. His course was always characterized by fairness and impartiality, and in his rulings the

considerations which sometimes sway the judi- cial mind had no weight with him. His mind by inheritance and acquirement was judicial, and in whatever capacity he was called upon to act it was his policy to discourage rather than to promote litigation. All this and more is said of him by his fellowmen and associates of the bar.

In the political history of the state in which he had always lived. Judge Woodward had long been known as an active factor. On all the lead- ing questions of the day he entertained clear and well settled convictions, and was perfectly frank in the expression of his opinions. His fortunes had been cast with the Democratic party, and he had shared with that party its triumphs and defeats. In 1865 he was a candidate for the state senate, but was defeated at the polls by Hon. Lazarus Denison Shoemaker. In 1872 he was the nominee of his party for congress, but again was beaten by his Republican opponent, Mr. Shoemaker. In 1879 Governor Hoyt ap- pointed him additional law judge of Luzerne to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Garrick Mallery Harding. In November, 1880, he was elected to the same office, and at the end of his first term was re-elected, serving in that capacity more than twenty years. When he retired from office it was to return to the practice he had not entirely abandoned, and to the care of his personal interests and properties. He became senior member of the law firm of Woodward, Darling & Woodward, composed of Judge Woodward. his son John Butler Wood- ward, and Thomas Darling. (See Darling). Judge Stanley Woodward was one of the four founders of the Wyoming Historical and Geo- logical Society, February 11, 1858, the others be- ing Colonel John Butler Conyngham. Hon. Henry Martyn Hoyt, and Captain James P. Den- nis. He had been a member of the society for forty-six years, was vice-president in 1894. and filled the office of president annually from 1895 until his death. He was a member of Lodge No. 61. F. and A. M., and of the Westmoreland Club. and the Wyoming Valley Country Club. He mar- ried. June 3. 1857, Sarah Richards Butler. daugh-

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Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 4

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin Publication date: 1906 Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 988

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 988