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ond child of Dr. Charles Farmer and Lucy ( Ver- net ) Ingham, was born in Wilkes-Barre. He was educated in its public and select schools, the old Wilkes-Barre Institute, and Wyoming Seminary at Kingston. He studied civil and mining engin- eering under his father, and when his course of instruction was finished he needed no further schooling in that profession, being well equipped for its practical and thorough work. He worked under his father on the construction of the Switchback Railroad, the Nanticoke extension, and the iron bridge over the Susquehanna river, and was also with him when he (the senior Ing- ham) was with the Susquehanna Coal Company, superintendent and engineer for George McDon- ald, of New York, erected the South Street Bridge of Wilkes-Barre, superintendent and en- gineer of the Memorial Church on North street, Wilkes-Barre, and also served as assistant en- gineer under his father at Seagirt, New Jersey. He began for himself at the age of twenty-three years, and was successful from the outset. In 1877 the city council of Wilkes-Barre elected him city engineer, and have re-elected him at the end of each term of office to the present time ( 1905). When he first assumed the duties of office City Engineer Ingham put aside all private and per- sonal interests, and has devoted himself exclu- sively to those of the city. He worked eleven years without a holiday, beginning at 7:30 in the morning and working until late at night. He practically gave the best years of his life to this work. He is a member of the Westmoreland Club. He is a Republican in politics.
William Vernet Ingham married, Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1873, Kate Howell Bowman, born October 7, 1846, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Titus) Bowman, of Wilkes-Barre. Their children : Charles Farmer, born Wilkes-Barre, October 13, 1874, died July 4, 1892. William Vernet, born Wilkes-Barre, Au- gust 2, 1876, an assistant to his father ; he mar- ried, April 30, 1903, Martha Hutchins, daughter of John A. Hutchins of Wilkes-Barre, and they have a son, John Vernet Ingham, born April 13, 1905. Percy Bowman, born June 5, 1883, a stu- dent at Cornell, class of 1906, and member of the Kappa Alpha Society. H. E. H.
SHOEMAKER FAMILY. Hendrick Joch- emse Schoonmaker, the progenitor of this family, was born in Hamburg, Germany, and came to America in the military service of Holland about 1655 : he died about 1681. He married 1657 or 1658, Elsie, daughter of Jan Janse Van Breestide and his wife Eugeltie Jans, and widow of Adrian
Pieterszen Van Alcmaer. She married for her: third husband, September 6, 1684, Cornelius Bar- entse Sleight. Hendrick was ordered with his company, 1659, to Esopus (Kingston), New York, to aid the settlers against the Indians. After his company was disbanded he located. there, becoming prominent as a military man as he had been at Albany. In 1663 and 1667 he fought bravely and well against both the Indians and the English. He left seven children, of whom Jochem Hendrickse Schoonmaker was the eldest. Jochem Hendrickse Schoonmaker, born at Albany, New York, about 1658-59. died about 1730, as his will was dated December 9, 1727, and was proved No- vember 7, 1730. He married (first) August 16, 1679, Petronella Sleight, daughter of Cornelius Barentse Sleight and his wife Tryntje Tyssen Bos, all of Albany. She died 1687. He married (second), April 28, 1689, Ann Hussey, baptized June 27, 1670, daughter of Frederick and Mar- garet Hussey. Jochem Hendrickse was an orig- inal settler of Rochester, New York, a member- of its first board of trustees from 1703 to 1715,. supervisor of the town 1709-12, and captain of a company raised for the defense of the people of Ulster county against the Indians. He had eight sons and eight daughters, and during the war of the Revolution many of his descendants were among the patriots of that memorable conflict.
Benjamin Schoonmaker, sixth son of Jochem Hendrickse Schoonmaker, was his seventh child by his second wife, Ann Hussey. He was born- 1702, baptized April 19, 1702, died 1775. He married, May 10, 1722, Catherine Dupuy, bap- tized November 30, 1701, daughter of Moses and Maria (Wynkoop) Dupuy, and granddaughter of Nicholas Dupui, who came from Artois, France, 1664, and settled on the Delaware. Ben- jamin, according to Evans history of the family (New York Biog. Gen. Record, xix, 25) re- moved to Pennsylvania in 1735, and settled on lands he had purchased on the river Delaware, near Stroudsburg, in what was then Bucks (afterwards Northampton and now Monroe) county, where he lived until the time of his death. In the deeds of his lands as grantee he is mentioned as Benjamin Schoonmaker, while in his will, written with his own hand about forty years afterward, he subscribed his name as Ben- jamin Shoemaker, and his descendants in all later generations have adopted and continued to so write it. Himself an early settler in the province- of Pennsylvania, Benjamin was one of the pio- neers of the Wyoming region. Having left the- Delaware in 1763 he took up his abode in the val --
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ley on lands set apart to him as one of the pro- prietors of the Susquehanna Land Company, in which both he and his father-in-law, Moses Dupuy, were interested as grantees under the com- pany's original purchase from the Indians. Ben- jaminvand his wife, Catherine Dupuy, were the parents of two sons and six daughters. When the territory of the Wyoming Valley was first rav- aged by the Indians, Benjamin, the pioneer, re- turned to the Delaware, and died there in 1775, but several of his children remained in the re- gion and shared with the other colonies the hard- ships of the Revolutionary period.
Lieutenant Elijah Shoemaker, eldest son of Benjamin, born July 3. 1752, baptized August 31, 1760, joined with the colonists from Connecticut, and also was a pioneer in the valley. Benjamin, Jr., younger brother of Elijah, was one of the settlers at Wyoming in 1769. Before starting out upon this hazardous journey Elijah married Jane. daughter of John McDowell, of Cherry Val- ley, now a part of Monroe county, who came from Ireland. 1735. The young couple reached the end of their journey in safety and became at once prominent and permanent settlers in their new home, and were happy and successful in im- proving their farm, building for themselves and their infant son. Their happiness, however, was abruptly terminated. for July 3. 1778, occurred the ever memorable battle, in which Elijah, a lieu- tenant in one of the Wyoming companies, with some three hundred others of the settlers, were slain. Elijah was murdered in cold blood by Windecker, immediately after the action. Thus Jane was left a widow with an only child, Elijah. then only six weeks old, and they were left des- titute, for their home had been destroyed with much of its contents, and all other valuable prop- erty was carried away by the Tory and Indian invaders, who were in the service of the British sovereign. Their visitation of vengeance and wanton destruction spread desolation throughout the valley and left untold suffering in its wake. but Jane Shoemaker evidently inherited largely of her father's spirit of determination, and brought up her young son in the "way he should go" and he departed not from it, for in turn he afterward cared for his mother throughout her life, acquired a large and valuable property, and founded one of the best and most prominent fam- ilies in the Wyoming Valley.
Elijah Shoemaker, only child of Lieutenant Elijah and Jane Shoemaker, was born at Forty Fort, June 4, 1778, married. May 28, 1800, Elizabeth S. Denison, born March 7. 1777, died October 15. 1831. daughter of Colonel Nathan
Denison, who commanded one of the wings of the American forces in the battle of Wyoming under Colonel Zebulon Butler. ( See Denison family.) Colonel Elijah Shoemaker was sheriff of Luzerne county, 1815-1818, and died at Kings- ton, July 13, 1829. One of his biographers said of him: "He performed the duties of his position as sheriff with great satisfaction to the people. At that time the settlers were poor, and many of them were burdened with debt. By his leniency in the performance of his duty and by his own individual aid, many were enabled to save their little houses." Another writer said of him: "He was a strong man physically and intellectually, and was brave and fearless in time of danger. Owing to the constant peril surrounding the set- tlers of that day from predatory bands of In- dians, he took special interest in military mat- ters, and was honored with a commission as col- onel of the state militia-a conspicuous honor at that time-and some of the equipments pertain- ing to that time are still held by his descendants. His education was limited, being such as could be acquired at the country school. yet he had suf- ficient learning and culture to make him a good and useful citizen, and an honest man of the olden time." But Elijah Shoemaker was best known by the superior excellence of the large family of children born to him and his wife Elizabeth Denison. and of whom it may be said that sev- eral attained to positions of prominence in the civil and political history of the state, in the pro- fessions, and in the varied avocations of life. The children of Elijah and Elizabeth (Denison) Shoemaker were: I. Charles Denison, born July 9, 1802, of whom later. 2. Elizabeth S., born June 22, 1804: twice married ; died August 7. 1882. 3. Jane, born April 8, 1806, married John Pass- more, died October 5. 1868. 4. Elijah, born March 5. 1808, died January 13, 1863: married Jane Harrower. 5. George, born March 27. 1810, died Forty Fort. October 6, 1849: married Rebecca W. Jones. 6. Robert McDowell, born February 9, 1812. unmarried, died November 23. 1886. 7. Nathan, born April 10, 1814, died July 3, 1835, unmarried. 8. Caroline, born February 29. 1816, married Dr. Levi Ives, of New Haven, Connec- ticut. 9. Lazarus Denison, born November 5. 1819, died September 8, 1893: married Esther Wadhams. (See Wadhams family.)
Charles Denison Shoemaker, eldest son of Eli- jah Shoemaker and his wife Elizabeth Denison, born July 9, 1802. was for many years one of the notable characters of Luzerne county. He was educated at Yale College, graduated A. B. 1825,
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and upon his return home he entered upon the active political career that made him one of the most prominent figures in the Wyoming valley. He served as prothonotary, clerk of the quarter sessions court, of the oyer and terminer, and of the orphans' court, from January 26, 1824, to April 23. 1828. From that date to August 21, 1830, he was register and recorder of Luzerne county, and from that time associate judge of the county under appointment and commission from Governor Wolf. He served several years on the bench, and acquitted himself with credit in his judicial capacity, as in all other positions of trust that he was chosen to fill. For many years he was a director of the Forty Fort Cemetery As- sociation, and also was treasurer of the Pro- prietors' School Fund of Kingston. He died at Forty Fort, August 1. 1861, and the Luzerne Union said of him: "Charles D. Shoemaker, the man whose probity was the incident of inherit- ance, and whose courteous manners and kindness of heart have signalized him for nearly half a century, died at his mansion. Few men in the community were more favorably and generally known. His position in public life had brought him much in contact with the people, and it be doubted, in the many years of his official life, if any man ever received from him an unkind word or any other cause of offense. The latter years of his life were devoted to agricultural pur- suits, not, however, to the extent which might de- bar him the exercise of social enjoyment and the ministrations of an extensive hospitality. His door was ever open and his table spread. Never a roof covered a family more liberal or kind to a guest."
Charles Denison Shoemaker married (first). October 24, 1825, Mary E. Denison, daughter of Austin Denison, of New Haven, Connecticut, a descendant of Robert Denison, of Milford. She died August 1, 1831. May 18, 1835, he married ( second) Stella (Mercer) Sprigg. of New Or- leans, born August 25, 1799, died November 3, 1875. His children were: 1. Austin D., born Au- gust. 1826, educated Lafayette College. gradu- ated medical school at New Haven, 1850; prac- ticed at Wilkes-Barre: visited Europe and the West Indies, and is said to have gone ultimately to Honolulu to practice. 2. Martha Ann, born December 14. 1828, died July 1, 1844. 3. Robert C., born April 14. 1836, married Helen (Lea) Lousdale. (See Miner family, and Hunt fam- ily). 4. Frederick M., born October 19, 1837, married Caroline Shoemaker. She died March 4, 1876. 5. William N., born June 20, 1840, ad- jutant Ninth Pennsylvania Infantry, 1861-65 ;
married February 6, 1879. Ella Hunt. He mar- ried (second) Amelia (Wright) Atwater. 6. Frank L., born October 30, 1842, graduated West Point, captain Fourth United States Cavalry ; married, October 10, 1870. Fanny Bell Willis.
Elijah Shoemaker, fourth child of Elijalı and Elizabeth ( Denison) Shoemaker, born March 25, 1808, married. February 9, 1842, Jane Harrover. Elijah lived in Kingston, Pennsylvania, and was a prosperous farmer. He died January 13, 1863. Their children were: I. Martha A., born Sep- tember 22, 1848, died December 12, 1860. 2. Elijah McDowell, born December 26, 1857, de- ceased. 3. Susan A., born August 18, 1860, mar- ried a Mr. Brodhead. ( See Brodhead Family.)
George Shoemaker, fifth child of Elijah and Elizabeth ( Denison) Shoemaker, born March 27, 1810, married, January 14, 1835. Rebecca W. Jones, died March 10. 1875. George was a farmer and merchant in Kingston, and died there August 6, 1849. Their children were: I. Na- than, born December 5, 1835 : educated Lafayette College ; married, June 16, 1860, Emma Shoe- maker : died July 6, 1862. 2. Caroline S., born June 1. 1837 ; married Eugene La Bar : died Oc- tober 19, 1889. 3. Mary, born July 13, 1839. 4. George, born June 28, 1844; married, Octo- ber 10, 1872. Lillie Hoyt. . 5 Charles Jones, born December 5, 1847.
Hon. Lazarus Denison Shoemaker, youngest child of Elijah and Elizabeth (Denison) Shoe- maker, was born Kingston, Pennsylvania, No- vember 5, 1819. His elementary education was acquired at the Moravian school, Nazareth Hall. Bethlehem. and Kenyon College, Ohio. From Kenvon he entered Yale College in 1836. and graduated A. B. with honors in 1840. He read law in the office of General Edward W. Sturde- vant, of Wilkes-Barre, and was admitted to prac- tice August 1. 1842. From that time he was in constant practice except when called away for the performance of official duties in connection with the various positions to which he was appointed or elected. In 1866 he was the Republican nom- inee for the state senate, and was elected by a majority of more than two hundred votes in a district which was regarded as safely Democratic. As senator Mr. Shoemaker achieved an enviable prominence, and his influence and endeavors in support of the act for the "better and more im- partial selection of jurors in each of the counties of the commonwealth," and also of the act gen- erally known as "the registry law," were fully appreciated by his entire constituency, and by the legal profession without distinction of party. As member of the upper house he acquitted himself
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with credit, and upon his return home in 1870 was nominated by his party as its candidate for representative in congress. The political cam- paign of that year was spirited, and closely con- tested on both sides, but Mr. Snoemaker was elected by a majority of more than twelve hun- dred votes. Two years later, 1872, a presiden- tial year, he was re-elected by a still greater ma- jority. In the house he was an untiring worker ; was chairman of committee on revolutionary claims, and claims of the war of 1812, and also was a member of the judiciary committee. At the close of the Forty-third congress, Mr. Shoe- maker returned home and resumed law practice, but subsequently he held no public office except that of prison commissioner. He preferred pri- vate life and professional pursuits rather than the distractions of politics, for he never was a seeker after office, and to scheme and fawn for it he was incapable. His practice always was large and successful, and afforded abundant op- portunity for the employment of his professional skill. He easily stood with the leaders of the Luzerne bar, a worthy chieftain, and victor or vanquished, was still a knight, without fear and without reproach.
For many years Mr. Shoemaker occupied a conspicuous place in the financial and industrial development and history of the Wyoming valley, during the period of his active business career, and of his means contributed liberally to the establishment of many institutions and enter- prises in that region. Among these were the Wilkes-Barre Armory, the Young Men's Chris- tian Association, the Home for Friendless Chil- dren, the Wilkes-Barre City Hospital, the new Methodist Episcopal church, and the Home for Friendless Women. He was one of the proprie- tors of the Wyoming centennial celebration of 1878, and one of the officers of the Commeno- rative Association which grew out of it. At the time of his death he was a director of the Second National Bank, president of the Wilkes-Barre Lace Manufacturing Company, of the Spring Brook Water Company, of the Forty Fort Ceme- tery Association, of the Home for Friendless Children, one of the board of trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, a director of the Wilkes-Barre Gas Company, and of the Vul- can Iron Works. He had been president of the Second National Bank, the board of Prison Com- missioners, the Wyoming Valley Manufacturing Company, the Wyoming Camp Meeting Associa- tion, and the Wyoming Insurance Company, and had been a director of the Crystal Spring Water Company. He was a life member of the Wyo-
ming Historical and Geological Society, and vice- president, 1890-93. He was a member of the Luzerne County Bible Society, and the American Bar Association, having been one of the organ- izers of the latter at Saratoga, New York, in 1878. He also was a member of the Pennsyl- vania Society of the Sons of the Revolution. Mr. Shoemaker died September 9, 1893, having sur- vived his wife Esther a little more than four years. She died August 4, 1889. -
Lazarus Denison Shoemaker married, Octo- ber 10, 1848, 'Esther Waller Wadhams, daughter of Samuel Wadhams and his wife Clorinda Starr Catlin. (See Wadhams Family and Catlin Family.) Their children were: I. Clorinda Wadhams, born September 15, 1851, died Sep- 1904 ; married November 20, 1872, Irving Ariel Stearns. (See Stearns Family.) 2. Samuel Wadham, born September 15, 1851, died Sep- tember 20, 1877, unmarried. 3. Stella Mercer, born December 10, 1853, died March 9, 1859. 4. Elizabeth Spence, born February 1I, 1856, married, November 14, 1885, George L. Dicker- man, of New Haven, Connecticut. 5. Caroline Ives, born April 25, 1857, married, November 17, 1880, William George Phelps. (See Phelps Family.) 6. Levi Ives, born September 28, 1859 ; see forward. 7. Jane A., born October 30, 1861. 8. Esther Wadhams, born November 9, 1863 ; married, June 7, 1893, Robert Van Arsdale Norris. 9. Anna Denison, born October 15, 1866, died June 16, 1874.
Dr. Levi Ives Shoemaker, sixth child of Hon. Lazarus Denison Shoemaker, born September 28, 1859, married, November 27, 1889, Cornelia Walker Scranton, daughter of Joseph H. Scran- ton, Esq., of Scranton. (See Scranton Family.) Dr. Shoemaker graduated A. B., Yale College, 1882; M. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1886. He is a member of the Medical Association of Luzerne County. Pennsylvania State Associa- tion, American Academy of Medicine, American Medical Association, life member Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, and member Pennsylvania Sons of the Revolution. He is a member of the staff of the Wilkes-Barre City Hospital, and also serves in many other institu- tions of a similar character. H. E. H.
CHARLES FRANCIS MURRAY. Jona- than Murray, born Scotland, emigrated to Guil- ford, Connecticut, 1680, and died there August 27, 1747. He married, Guilford, July 17, 1688, Anna Bradley, born November 16, 1669, died May 19, 1749, daughter of Nathan and Esther Bradley, one of the earliest settlers of Guilford,
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freeman 1669. Nathan Bradley was appointed lieutenant about 1690, was deputy to the general court from Guilford, 1692, 1693, 1694. He with Jonathan Murray and others of Homonos- cet, in 1695, petitioned the court to be allowed to pay the minister's rates at Killingworth instead of Guilford, as being nearer. The petition was granted. Jonathan and Ann Murray had : Jehiel, of whom later; and Jonathan, born 1691, died September 14, 1716, aged twenty-five.
Jehiel Murray, son of Jonathan and Ann (Bradley) Murray, born Guilford, Connecticut, March 28, 1703, married November 12, 1733, Mary Way, of Lebanon, born 1713.
Rev. Noah Murray, son of Jehiel and Mary (Way) Murray, born April 11, 1748, died Tioga Point, Pennsylvania, May 16, 1811. He married Mary Stowe, born November 16, 1747, died March 10, 1829. Tradition says she was de- scended from John and Elizabeth (Bigg) Stowe, 1634.
Mr. Murray served in the war of the Revolu- tion. He enlisted May 1, 1775, in Colonel Ben- jamin Hinman's Fourth Regiment Connecticut Militia, and served until honorably discharged September 2, 1775. This regiment was ordered to march upon the surprise of Fort Ticonderoga and secure that post and Crown Point against recapture. It reached Ticonderoga in June and took part in the operations of the Northern De- partment. Mr. Murray reenlisted as sergeant in Captain Elizur Warner's company, Seventh Reg- iment Connecticut Line, Colonel Heman Swift, May 6, 1777, and served until again honorably discharged, wounded, October II, 1778. He was in the battles of Germantown and Mon- mouth, and wintered at Valley Forge 1777-78. He came from Connecticut to Tioga Point, Brad- ford county, Pennsylvania, 1790. He lived on lot 22, and his son Abner on lot 23, a part of the old fort ground. He was then a minister of the Baptist church, but, becoming a Universalist, la- bored most earnestly and successfully throughout that section to establish his faith, so much so that his memory is revered there until this day. In 1807 he became pastor of the Lombard Street Universalist Church, Philadelphia, but retired in 1808 and returned to Bradford county. His monument, standing in the cemetery at Spring- field. Springfield township, Pennsylvania, bears this testimony from his associates :
"Sacred to the memory of Rev. Noah Mur- ray, the first preacher of Universalism in Brad- ford county, who died May II, 18II, in the sev- enty-fifth year of his age."
"Erected as a token of grateful remembrance
by the North Branch Association of Universal- ists, September, 1867."
When the county of Luzerne was divided in 1787 by the court into districts for the more con- venient administration of justice, Mr. Murray settled at Shawnee, in that county. He was ap- pointed by the supreme executive council of Pennsylvania, November 22, 1788, judge of the common pleas for the First District, and justice: of the peace, August 6, 1780. This district in- cluded Athens township, and all lying south as far as Wysox. Judge Murray about 1791 moved to Athens, Pennsylvania, and with his son Abner purchased from the original owner, the property just west of Athens, which is still owned by the Murray heirs. Judge Murray and his son Abner were prominent in most enterprises of the new settlement, as shown by the records. Springfield township was first named Murraysfield in his honor, but after his death, most of the settlers having been born at Springfield, Massachusetts, changed the name. When that famous school of learning. "The Athens Academy" was founded, March 2, 1797, Judge Murray was the first sub- scriber, and the first chairman of the board of trustees. Mr. Murray was also an active Free Mason, taking his degrees in Union Lodge, New- town, 1794, and becoming a charter member of Rural Amity Lodge, No. 70, F. and A. M., at Athens, July 6, 1796. Rev. Noah and Mary (Stowe) Murray had seven children, of whom were: Abner, born September 4, 1773, of whom later ; Noah, born January 24, 1783, died Kos- ciusco county, Indiana, September 4, 1859, jus- tice of the peace, Athens, 1816-31, when he went west ; Sylvia, married, 1791, Lemuel Gaylord, moved to Ohio and Illinois ( Harvey p. 839), and had Horace and Sylvia.
Abner Murray, eldest son of Rev. Noah and Mary (Stowe) Murray, born September 4, 1773, died June 3, 1839 ; married first Dorothea Harris, died May 22, 1816, daughter of Jonathan and Lodemia (Tozer) Harris, who came from Col- chester, Connecticut, and bought land south of Shepard's creek, near the Susquehanna, under Connecticut title, where he lived many years. He had a son, Alpheus Harris, "a sensible and Godly man, said to have been the first man who maintained family worship in the township of Athens," and whose son, Nathaniel C. Harris, has been since 1865 president of First National Bank of Athens. Jonathan Harris was from Col- chester, Connecticut, where he was born 1750. He came to Athens 1789, and died there August 14, 1829, aged seventy-nine. His wife was daughter of Samuel Tozer, and sister of Colonel
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