Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 6

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

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Moses Ballou Wheaton, fourth son of Moses and Sarah (Ballou) Wheaton, was born Rich- mond, New Hampshire, September 9, 1790, died Jackson, Pennsylvania, December 9, 1860; mar- ried November 26, 1812, Mary Aldrich, born Richmond, New Hampshire, September 24, 1794, died Jackson, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1875, daughter of Nathaniel Aldrich and wife Cleopatra Ransdell. Moses originally had no middle name, being called "Moses junior," but under an act of the legislature he was permitted to adopt the middle name of Ballou, hence was afterward known as Moses Ballou Wheaton. He is be- lieved to have removed from Richmond, New Hampshire, to Pennsylvania soon after marriage, at least before 1815, and settled in Jackson, where he was a farmer and cooper. "He inher- ited good physique and mental stamina from his ancestors on both sides; and so did his wife. They reared their large family well, and left a good memory." ( Ballou Genealogy.) Their chil- dren were :

I. Julia Ann, born (probably Richmond, New Hampshire, reared in Jackson, Pennsyl- vania), June 28, 1813; married June 8, 1836, Horace Aldrich, and had five children.

2. Laura Ann, born November 25, 1814; died April 9, 1878; married December 22, 1835, Emory Larabee, and had six children.

3. Mary Elvira, born October 7, 1816; died December 22, 1885 : married (first) May II, 1844, Parley Potter ; married (second) January 16, 1849, Chauncey Lamb ; no children by either marriage.

4. Fostina Loanza, born August 25, 1818; married November 26, 1842, Merrick T. Whit- ney, and had five children.

5. Lydia Maria, born December 30, 1819; married September 9. 1838, Elias Bryant, and had seven children.

6. Washington Warren, born Jackson, sylvania, March 9, 1823 ; married (first) October New York; married January 6, 1850, Elizabeth Bowen. Dr. W. W. Wheaton was for many years a physician, practicing chiefly in Bingham- ton, New York; he also was a breeder of fine Jersey cattle, and did much to promote a better grade of dairy cattle in Broome county.

7. William Windsor, born Jackson, Penn- Sylvania, March 9, 1823 ; married (first) October 28, 1846, Cassandana Ruth Wheaton, his cousin, daughter of Ira Wheaton and wife Barbara Ballou ; married (second) May 1, 1873, Juliette Card ; three children, by first marriage ; two by second. William W. Wheaton was a practicing physician, a graduate of the Rochester (New York) Eclectic Medical College. He was a sur- gcon of renown and a practical dentist in connec- tion with his other professional accomplishments. His life was passed chiefly in the vicinity of Jack- son, Pennsylvania.

8. Almeda Eliza, born December 17, 1824; married (first) May 20, 1848, Henry Benson ; married (second) February 28, 1857, Henry P. Crary.

9. Thomas Jefferson, born March 29, 1826, of whom later.

IO. Cleopatra Pauline, born -: died April 30, 1845.

II. Catherine Melissa, born June 15, 1830; married December, 1852, Velosco Whitney, and had three children.

12. Nancy Ann, born July 5, 1832 ; married January 1, 1853. William Holmes, and had five children.

13. Sarah Jane, died July 23, 1838.

14. Lemira Albina, born September 15, 1837; married June 24, 1860, Stephen Jenkins. No children.

Dr. Thomas Jefferson Wheaton, ninth child of Moses Ballou and Mary (Aldrich) Wheaton, was born in Jackson, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1826. He attended the district schools of his neighborhood, and Harford Academy, an insti-

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tution of considerable reputation in its day, then under the charge of Rev. Lyman Richardson, a distinguished educator. He studied medicine with his brother, Dr. W. W. Wheaton, attended lectures at the Eclectic Medical College, Roch- ester, New York, and practiced medicine from 1849. to 1858 in Bradford and Susquehanna counties, Pennsylvania, and in Binghamton, New York. During the war of 1861-65 he was on the iron-clad monitor "Dictator." After 1858 he prac- ticed dentistry in Binghamton until his removal to Wilkes-Barre in 1873, and in the latter city until his retirement from active professional work, about thirty years ago. He married, April 10, 1851, Maria T. Woodruff, who was born June 6, 1831, a daughter of Lewis H. Woodruff, who was born Litchfield, Connecticut, February 25, 1798, died Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, June 25, 1875, and his wife Almena Hutchinson, whom he married March 21, 1830. About 1805 he re- moved with his parents to Lisle, Broome county, New York, and was educated at Hamilton Col- lege. Soon after marriage he removed to Dim- ock, Pennsylvania, where for more than forty years he was an enterprising and leading citizen. He built the first academy in the town, was largely instrumental in securing a house of wor- ship for the Presbyterian society there, donating land for that purpose, and in many ways contrib- uting to the growth and prosperity of the place. The Woodruff ancestor of this branch of the fam- ily was Matthew Woodruff, of Hartford and Farmington, Connecticut, and one of the pro- prietors of the latter town in 1640, freeman 1657, and died 1682. He had a son Matthew, born Farmington, 1640, died November 7, 1732, who had a son John, died -, one of whose sons was Samuel, whose wife was Anna Judd. This Samuel had a son, Deacon Samuel Woodruff, of Litchfield, 1723-72, whose wife was Anne Net- tleton. Their son Andrew Woodruff, born 1759, died Livonia, New York, March 27, 1847, mar- ried Miranda Orton; and their son was Lewis H. Woodruff, whose daughter Maria T. mar- ried Thomas Jefferson Wheaton and had :

I. Florence E., born March 19, 1852, died August 17, 1854.

2. Frank Woodruff, born August 27, 1855, of whom later.

3. Jessie E., born May 23, 1858. married (first) October 21, 1879, Samuel R. Rhoads, died May 23, 1882; married (second ) Henry H. Sherman; two children by first marriage, three by second marriage.

4. Kittie A., born December 2, 1866; mar- ried February 10, 1886, William S. Kelly, and lives in Wilkes-Barre; four children.

Hon. Frank Woodruff Wheaton, second child and only son of Dr. Thomas J. and Maria T. (Woodruff) Wheaton, was born in the then village of Binghamton, New York, August 27, 1855. His elementary education was acquired in the public schools, and also in the Binghamton Central High School, where he graduated, 1873. He prepared for college at the Hopkins Gram- mar School, New Haven, Connecticut, and in Binghamton, New York, under the tutorship of Rev. E. S. Frisbie, a noted educator, graduate of Amherst College, and for many years presi- dent of Wells College, Aurora, New York. He entered Yale College and graduated Bachelor of Arts, 1877. Returning from college to his home, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Judge Wheaton at once began a course of law study in the office of E. P. and J. V. Darling. He was admitted to practice in Luzerne county, September 2, 1879. Soon after he came to the bar Judge Wheaton was law partner with Daniel S. Bennet, and after his death, in 1885, with John Vaughn Darling, one of his former legal preceptors. When Mr. Darling died, Judge Wheaton became senior partner in the law firm of Wheaton. Dar- ling & Woodward, 1892-1901. The legislature at its session in 1901 created an additional law judgeship in Luzerne county, and in pursuance of the provisions of the act Governor Stone ap- pointed Judge Wheaton its first incumbent, and at the next general election in November follow- ing he was elected without opposition to the same office for a full term of ten years from January I, 1902. It can hardly be said that Judge Wheaton sought this judicial preferment, for he was senior member of one of the strongest and most successful law firms in northeastern Penn-

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sylvania, but he yielded to the expressed wishes of his professional associates, almost without dis- tinction of party, accepted Governor Stone's tem- porary appointment, and the subsequent nomin- ation of the Republican convention as its can- didate at the next ensuing election ; and, if the frank expression of the Luzerne bar can be taken as an index of the public mind, there has been no regret in any quarter that Judge Wheaton was elevated to a judicial office in 1901.

Judge Wheaton is a Republican. For three years he sat in the city council, but was elected to that office as a citizen, and not with reference to party affiliations. He became a known quan- tity in general politics, state and local, about 1897, though not for the ultimate purpose of self- advancement and interest. He was permanent chairman of the Republican State convention that nominated Governor Stone, and was county chairman for Luzerne in 1900. He is a member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological So- ciety. Judge Wheaton married, May 16, 1878, L. Maria Covell, of Binghamton, New York, born in Tolland, Connecticut, and of old New Eng- land stock. They have no children.

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FERRIS FAMILY. It is claimed that the English branches of the Ferris family were from Leicestershire, and were descended from the house of Ferriers, Ferrerr, Ferreis, or Ferris, the first member of which in England was Henry de Feriers, the son of Guelchelme, master of the horse of the Duke of Normandy, who obtained of the conqueror large grants of land in Strat- fordshire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire. It is said that he took an active part in the battle of Hastings, having invaded England with the Con- queror. From Guelchelme de Feriers and Will- iam de Ferers, Earl of Derby, descends the Fer- rers of Groby, who bore for their paternal coat of arms "gu seven mascles or, a canton erm," while their Westchester descendants carried "gu a fleur-de-lis, or a canton erm with a cres- cent for the difference" (Genealogy of the Fer- ris family).

The first American Ferris of whom there is

any known record was Jeffrey Ferris, or Fer- ries, of Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was admitted freeman, May 6, 1635, and who re- moved thence to Wethersfield, Connecticut, and thence to Stamford, Connecticut, where he was an original proprietor.

Samuel Ferris, progenitor of the line under consideration in these annals, came from Read- ing, in Warwickshire, England, before 1655, and was a Presbyterian Puritan in early Massachu- setts and Connecticut history. He was of the Stratford (Connecticut) colony in that year, and came there from Massachusetts. He had two sons, Zachariah and Benjamin.

Zachariah Ferris, son of Samuel, married Sarah Noble, and had five sons and three daugli- ters. All of their sons and one of the daughters (Hannah) became reputable Quaker preachers, and their mother, Sarah Noble, likewise was an early convert to that faith. The children were:

I. Deborah, born June 17, 1700.

2. Joseph, born September 27, 1703.

3. David, born May 10, 1707, whose pub- lished memoirs contain an interesting recital of the events of his life, and of his conversion to the Quaker teachings, whose exponent he afterward was. His descendants settled in Wilmington, Delaware.

4. Benjamin, born November 10, 1708, of whom later.

5. Sarah, born November 10, 1710, the first white child born in New Milford, Connecticut, married a Noble.

6. Hannah, born August 6, 1712.

7. John, born February 6, 1714.

8. Zachariah, born September 30, 1717.

Benjamin Ferris, born November 10, 1708, fourth child of Zachariah and Sarah (Noble) Ferris, married, 1728, Phebe Beecher, and had children :

I. Zebulon, born 1729, a pious Quaker gen- tleman, died December 16, 1778.

2. Reed, born 1730, married - Aiken1.

3. Susannah, born 1731, married - Doty, and left religious writings which are still extant among the Quakers.

4. Lillius, born 1736, married - Aiken.

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5. Benjamin, born 1738, of whom later.

6. Gilbert, born and died, 1740.

7. Edmund, born 1748, died 1750.

8. Phebe, born and died, 1754.

Benjamin Ferris, fifth child of Benjamin and Phebe ( Beecher) Ferris, born 1738, married Mary Howland, daughter of Nathaniel Howland and his wife, Joanna Ricketson, granddaughter of S. Ricketson and the Lady Ellafel, and great- granddaughter of Lord Edmund Fitzgerald. Benjamin and Mary Ferris had children :

I. Walter, born January 20, 1768, died April, 1806; married Sally Morgan.

2. Lillius, born August 19, 1769. died Sep- temper 19, 1777.

3. Wayman, born September 24, 1771, died November, 1846; married Priscilla Dodge.

4. Nathaniel, born June 29, 1775, died Sep- tember 15, 1777.

5. Edwin, born February 20, 1779, died April, 1839: married Clara Winans.

6. Peleg, born May 23, 1783, married (first) Polly Sherman, (second) Sally Sweet.

7. Eber, born May 26, 1784, of whom later.

8. Phebe, born January 28, 1788, died March, 1840.

Eber Ferris, seventh child of Benjamin and Mary (Howland) Ferris, born May 26, 1784, died December, 1852, married Betsey Ferris, his cousin, born November 19. 1787, died March, 1842. She was a descendant of Benjamin Fer- ris, the son of Samuel Ferris. By this marriage the line of descent from Zachariah and Ben- jamin, both sons of Samuel, were again brought together. Eber and Betsey Ferris had children :

I. Zachariah Benjamin, born September I, 1804, died in infancy.

2. Zachariah, born September 4, 1808, died October 15, 1825.

3. Benjamin, born May 23, 1810, died De- cember 17. 1846: married 1836, Maria Rogers.

4. Phebe Maria, born April 28, 1812, died May 16. 1816.

5. Mary, born February 8, 1814.

6. Julia A., born February 16, 1816, married 1858, Nathaniel Pierce.

7. Wayman, born March 27, 1818, married 1841, Sylvia Davis.

8. Peleg, born April 3, 1820, married, 1844. Philura H. Ingersoll.

9. Edwin Fitzgerald, born February 19, 1822, of whom later.

IO. Eliza A., born October 15. 1824.

II. Sarah A., born June 16, 1827, died No- vember 10. 1857.

12. John, born January, 1832, lived one day.

Edwin Fitzgerald Ferris, fifth son of Eber and Betsey (Ferris) Ferris, born Unadilla. Ot- sego county, New York, February 19, 1822, died Pittston, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1877 : mar- ried December 7. 1847. Margaret Steele, daugh- ter of Joseph and Sarah (Ransom) Steele. (See Ransom family). He came to the Wyoming valley with Rev. Reuben Nelson, D. D. After the opening of Wyoming Seminary, September 24, 1844, he became a teacher in that institution. He lived in Pittston many years, and in 1847 was superintendent for Lord Butler and John Butler during their early coal operations. Later he was a miller, partner at various times with James Mott, Theodore Strong, J. A. Wisner and Charles Steele, until the summer of 1861, when he was appointed to a position in the civil service in Washington. Edwin F. and Margaret (Steele) Ferris had :

I. George Steele Ferris, born April 28, 1849, of whom later.

2. Margaret Ferris, born Pittston, May 8, 1851, died May 28, 1899 : married Dr. Augustus F. Mckay, of Colorado Springs. Colorado. Chil- dren : Henrietta, Ella, Edward F., Margaret and George Mckay.

3. Ella, born June 17. 1856, died December 29. 1891 ; married Thomas Sharkey. One child : Jessie Ford Sharkey.

Hon. George Steele Ferris, eldest child of Edwin Fitzgerald Ferris and his wife Margaret Steele, was born Pittston, Pennsylvania, April 28, 1849: married, September 1, 1875. Ada C. Stark, daughter of Lewis G. and Jeanette (Muz- zey) Stark. He was educated at Columbian Uni- versity (now Washington University) Washing-

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ton, District of Columbia, and Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, graduating at the latter institution, Bachelor of Arts, 1869. In 1870 and 1871 he held a clerkship in the Treasury Depart- ment in Washington, and during that time took a course in the Columbian University Law School of that city. He graduated in June, 1871, and was admitted to practice in the supreme court of the District of Columbia. He returned to Pitts- ton and continued his law studies in the office of Conrad Sax Stark, Esq., and was admitted to the bar in Luzerne county February 10, 1872. From the day he came to the bar until he entered upon the performance of his judicial duties upon the bench of the common pleas, Judge Ferris was a constant worker in the ranks of the profession. His active practice extended over a period of about thirty years. He practiced in Pittston un- til 1895, and then removed his principal office to Wilkes-Barre, maintaining, however, his res- idence in West Pittston. He was elected judge of the Luzerne court of common pleas, Novem- ber, 1900, and assumed the judicial office Janu- ary I, 1901. He is a member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.

Judge Ferris married September 1, 1875, Ada C. Stark, daughter of Lewis G. Stark, and his wife, Jeanette Muzzey, of West Pittston. Lewis G. Stark was a descendant of Aaron Stark of Hartford, Connecticut, 1639 ; of Windsor, Con- necticut, 1643; of Mystic, Connecticut, 1653; freeman of Stonington, Connecticut, 1666; free- man of New London, Connecticut, 1669; died there 1685. His grandson, Christopher Stark, son of William Stark, lived in Dutchess county, New York, and removed when an old man with his family to Wyoming, Pennsylvania, 1769; died there, 1771. His son, James Stark, died July 20, 1777. Aaron Stark, Aaron Stark, Jr., and James Stark, of this family, were in the battle and massacre at Wyoming, and David and Aaron Stark, sons of Christopher, were killed there. ) Aaron, Jr., son of James, was in the battle, but escaped the massacre and returned to Dutchess county. William Stark, son of Christopher, came from Dutchess county and settled on Tunkhannock creek, in what is now Wyoming

county. He married Polly Cary. Nathan Stark, son of this William, was born December 28, 1768; married Dorcas Dixon, and died May 23, 1837. William Stark, son of Nathan, born Jan- uary 13, 1791, a pensioner of the war of 1812-15, was father of Lewis G. Stark, whose daughter Ada C. Stark married Judge Ferris. (See Stark family. )

Judge Ferris and wife had one child, Edwin Fitzgerald Ferris, born West Pittston, May 17, 1878. H. E. H. 2

HALSEY FAMILY. The Halsey family in England under the several variations of the sur- name dates to the time of the Conqueror, about the middle of the eleventh century, when its rep- resentatives were of the house of the Alsis. Tra- dition well supported by circumstances gives the family this considerable antiquity, and by the same means it is understood that out of this an- cient house there descended John Hals, who lived in the reign of Edward III, ( 1327-1377), a man of wealth and good repute, and doubtless one of the notables whose lives of luxury and extravagance characterized that energetic period. This John Hals was one of the English judges of the common pleas. His second son John wrote his surname Halse, and was a distinguished personage in English history, a graduate of Exe- ter College, Oxford, and successively provost and proctor of Oriel, prebendary of St. Paul's and bishop of Litchfield and Coventry. He was also known in the "War of the Roses," but achieved his greatest eminence in the affairs of church. He died, 1490. Several generations later than the time of John Halse the descendants of that house became scattered throughout the English realm, and out of it evolved those of the name of Halsey, some of them personages of distinction, in favor with the sovereign, who honored them with titles as reward of fealty. These marks of favor were bestowed on the family in several generations from the time of John Hals to the eighteenth and perhaps the nineteenth centuries.

Thomas Halsey (5), of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1637. son of Robert (4) and Dorothy (Downes) Halsey, of Great Goddesden. (William 3, Will-

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iam, 2, John 1), was a descendant of the an- cient and honorable house referred to, and was the founder and progenitor of the family on the continent of America. He was baptized at Great Gaddesden Parsonage, Hertfordshire, Jan- uary 2. 1591-2. The circumstances of his emi- gration are not known, but he came from Hert- fordshire, and as one of the early planters in New England was well possessed of lands in Lynn. Soon afterward he joined with a colony and set sail for Long Island, where he proposed to found a town at what is now North Hemp- stead, and to that end they purchased lands and extinguished the Indian title ; but the Dutch dis- puted their right of settlement within their do- main, and by force of arms compelled them to depart and take up their abode elsewhere. Then Halsey and his companions founded the town of Southampton, and set up what they fancied an independent government, with John Halsey as their leader, their law-giver, and the chiefest among them in influence and wealth; but as the colony grew stronger in numbers its members were less dependent, and on occasion Thomas Halsey was disciplined for "wilful obstinacy." Thomas was married twice; his first wife, Phebe Halsey, was killed by the Indians, 1649. His second wife, whom he married about 1660 was Ann Jones, widow of Edward Jones. His will was probated in New York City, 1679, and he left three sons and one daughter, from whom have come a goodly array of descendants, among whom in each generation have been men of char- acter and achievement.

From Thomas Halsey of Lynn and South- ampton the line under consideration here de- scends to Thomas in the second, Jeremiah in the third, Jeremiah in the fourth, Matthew in the fifth, Matthew in the sixth, and Gaius in the sev- enth, to Richard Church Halsey, M. D., in the eighth generation, who seems to have led the way of his family into Pennsylvania, and whose son Gaius Leonard Halsey, a descendant of the ninth generation of Thomas of Lynn and South- ampton, is now Judge Halsey of the Luzerne common pleas, one of the respected representa-

tives of the legal profession in the Wyoming valley.

Matthew Halsey, the second, born July 25, 1753, died January 28, 1841, was a soldier in the Revolution, and credited with having captured thirteen Hessian soldiers. He settled after the war in Otsego county, New York, and removed thence to Steuben county. His first wife was Miss Rose, his second wife was Ruth Leonard, hence the introduction of that surname in the Halsey family. It was bestowed as the middle name of Gaius Leonard Halsey, but was not used by him.

Dr. Gaius Leonard Halsey was born May 4, 1793, and was educated for the medical profes- sion, of which he was almost a pioneer in interior New York, in Bainbridge, Chenango county, and later at Kortright Centre, in Delaware county, where the scene of his life was chiefly laid. His first wife, whom he married November 25, 1815, was Mary Church, daughter of Richard Bill- ings Church, of Bainbridge, New York, and granddaughter of Col. Timothy Church, of the Revolution. His second wife was Barbara Grant, who survived him, and died without issue, 1892. His four children, all of his first marriage were :

Richard Church, born Bainbridge, New York, July 17, 1817.

Gaius Leonard, born Bainbridge, New York, May 4. 1819.

Nelson Gaylord, born Bainbridge, New York, October 19, 1823.

Lavantia, born February 2. 1822, married Dr. Goff, and removed to Illinois.

Like their father, Richard C. and Gaius L. Halsey were physicians, the latter in Unadilla, New York, and the former in White Haven, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Richard Church Halsey married Anna Sprowl, who died 1895, a member of the So- ciety of Friends, and a native of Kennett, Ches- ter county, Pennsylvania. He studied medicine with his father, accompanied him in his "rides" and thus learned his methods of practice; and he completed his medical education in a medical college in New York City. He located for prac-

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tice first at White Haven, Pennsylvania, re- moved thence to Nesquehoning, but four or five years later returned to the place first men- tioned, where he lived chiefly throughout the period of his long and useful life. During the Civil war he served as surgeon in the Army of the Potomac. Dr. Halsey died in the south, Feb- ruary 28, 1904. He had retired from active pro- fessional life about fifteen years before, and lived during the winter months in Florida where he had an orange grove. Dr. and Mrs. Halsey had two children, Gaius Leonard Halsey and Harriet Halsey.

Judge Gaius Leonard Halsey was born in Nesquehoning, Carbon county, Pennsylvania, July 12, 1845, and was educated at the Wilkes- Barre Academy, the Clinton Liberal Institute, Clinton, Oneida county, New York, and at Tufft's College, Medford, Massachusetts, where he graduated A. B. 1867. In 1866 he taught school for a time in Canton, Massachusetts, and after he secured his diploma, taught one year in White Haven, where he lived several years. Dur- ing portions of the years 1868 and 1869 he lived in Washington, D. C., where he did stenographic work, and in 1869 and 1870 he was stenographic reporter of the Harrisburg "Legislative Record." In 1870 and 1871 he was assistant sergeant-at- arms in the lower house of the Pennsylvania leg- islature, and in 1871 and 1872 was transcribing clerk in the same branch. He read law with Lyman Hakes, Esq., and Hon. Charles E. Rice, of Wilkes-Barre, and came to the bar in Luzerne county, September 9, 1872. From that time Judge Halsey has been closely and actively iden- tified with the legal profession in Carbon and Luzerne counties. He was a good lawyer in the trial courts, a safe counsellor in the office, and his thorough knowledge of the law and the interpre- tation and application of its principles was the chief means of his appointment to the bench of the common pleas in the fall of 1898 ; and his elec- tion to the same office in November, 1899, for a full term of ten years was a natural and logical sequence-a fitting tribute to his mental qualities and legal attainments.

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Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 6

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