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Julius Tozer, of Colchester and Athens, Penn- sylvania, a veteran of the Revolutionary war, col- onel of the state militia, and a captain in the war of 1812. Colonel Tozer's descendants still live in Bradford county. Mr. Murray married (sec- ond) Mary (Ely) White, born 1782, died May 19, 1862, aged eighty years. He was a promi- nent and enterprising business man and lived in the home erected by his father in 1809, which is at this day still in a good state of repair. He was an incorporated trustee of the Athens Acad- emy, February 27, 1813. Nancy Ely, his second wife, was a daughter of Dr. Elisha and Susanna (Bloomer) Ely, grand-daughter of Major Daniel and Ruhana (Turner) Ely, who was son of Judge William and Elizabeth (Smith) Ely, the son of Richard and Joan (Phipps) Ely, of Dev- onshire. England, who emigrated to New Eng- land, 1660, lived in Boston, Lyme and Saybrook, Connecticut. Dr. Elisha Ely was a captain in Colonel Meig's regiment Connecticut militia, January 1, 1777. Major Daniel Ely was com- missioned ensign Connecticut militia, 1728, lieu- tenant 1733, captain 1738, major 1739, deputy to the general court of Connecticut from Lyme, 1729 to 1751, and justice of the peace and quorum 1739 to 1750. Capt. William Ely was deputy to the general court from Lyme from 1689 to 1715, commissioner 1692, justice 1698 to 1715, captain 1697, and member of the council 1703. 1704 and 1714. (See Lineage of Richard Ely, by George B. Vanderpool, 1903.) Abner and Nancy (Ely) Murray had :
Edward Abner Murray, son of Abner and Nancy (Ely) Murray, born January 9, 1822, died August 10, 1854, married. 1846, Marianne Page, born November 5. 1825, died May 19, 1882, daughter of Thomas Page and his wife Anne West. Mr. Murray was educated to be a civil engineer, but the death of his father compelled him to devote his life to agricultural pursuits on the farm inherited from his father. He was a man of integrity, and was held in high esteem in the community where he lived. His wife, Mari- anne Page, born in Brinton, England, came to America with her parents and four children in 1831, in the sailing ship "Marion." The family first went to Georgetown, D. C., then to Balti- more, but later settled at Tioga Point, Pennsyl- vania, and bought what is known as "Queen Esther's Flats." above Milan, in Ulster township, Bradford county. Upon this land there was an Indian burying ground from which many graves were washed out at times by the frequent floods in the Susquehanna. Remaining graves have been opened since. holding interesting relics of
that now scattered race. This property is still owned by George Page. During the voyage of the Page family from England, Marianne kept a most interesting daily journal covering the entire voyage of ten weeks of a most perilous passage. This diary proves the courageous, devout, and cheerful nature of Mrs. Murray, combined with culture and wit. A copy of the journal is owned by each grandchild. Mr. and Mrs. Murray had seven children : I. Edward A. Murray. 2. Mari- anne Murray. 3. Edward Ely Murray. 4. Mil- lard Page Murray, married Louise T. Welles, daughter of Charles F. and Elizabeth ( Laporte) Welles, of Athens, Pennsylvania, and had Jessie Welles, Elsie, and Louise Elizabeth. 5. Charles Francis Murray, of whom later. 6. Anne Par- metter Murray. 7. Henriette Spaulding Murray.
Charles Francis Murray, fifth child of Ed- ward Abner and Marianne (Page) Murray, was born Athens, Pennsylvania, November 5. 1851; married October 2, 1878, Ellen Antoinette Man- deville, daughter of Mahlon Hathaway and Maria Adams (Axford) Mandeville, of Athens, Georgia. Mr. Murray came to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1869, and became connected with the furniture business established the same year, in the firm of Voorhis & Murray, where he re- mains today the senior member of the business. He is a member of the Westmoreland Club, the Wilkes-Barre Lodge No. 109, B. P. O. E., the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, and the Tioga Point Historical Society. Mr. and Mrs. Murray have four children: Eleanor Welles Murray, Charles Edward Murray, Marion Page Murray and Jean Guthrie Murray. H. E. H.
GEORGE HENRY TROUTMAN. Johan George Trautman came to America from Ger- many in the ship "Princess Augustus," in 1736. So far as existing records show he was a native of Zwei-Breiken, which place may have been the seat of the family in the Fatherland. In Ger- many the surname was Von Trautman, and from the tenth century the family figured prom- inently in German history, some of the ancestors being personages of influence and high position. Count Von Trautman served in the cabinet of the sovereign, his position being that of premier. In the military service were many Trautmans, and they held positions suited to their rank and were allied to and defenders of the House of Haps- burg.
Johan George Trautman, mentioned as the founder of the family in America, settled in Lan- caster, Pennsylvania, where he was a man of consequence and a gentleman. His wife's name
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was Margaret, but of her history, family and an- ·cestors little is now known. Her name appears in the list of baptisms in the Lutheran church of old Lancaster, for both she and her husband were devout followers of that faith. After the death of her first husband she married a Colonel Duf- field, of whom also little is known. Both Mar- garet and her first husband are believed to be buried in the old churchyard of the North Church in Philadelphia, in what now is Frankford.
The eldest son of Johan George and Margaret Trautman was . George Christian Trautman, whose wife was Sarah Hamilton. Their son, John Hamilton Troutman married Elizabeth Essler, who still lives. Her parents were Ben- jamin Essler and Jane (Lemon) Essler, both born in county Antrim, Ireland, and Protestants, Ben- jamin in his lifetime having been a Presbyterian elder. John Hamilton Troutman was born in Reading, Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1815. and in business life was a member of the firm of Kay & Troutman, later law book publishers under the style of Kay & Brother, of Philadelphia. He was a man of education and high moral character, and a political follower of Bell and Everett at the outbreak of the late Civil war. He died in 1865. He was the first of the line to write his name Troutman.
George Henry Troutman was born in Phila- delphia, January 18, 1841, and finished his ele- mentary education at the University of Pennsyl- vania. At the outbreak of the war of 1861 he en- listed for three months service in the Common- wealth Artillery, and at the expiration of his term re-enlisted in the Anderson Troop of Philadel- phia, afterward the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cav- alry, and served throughout the war. He was captured and held a prisoner in the Confederate prison at Huntsville, Alabama, more than six months, but after his escape returned to his com- mand and continued in service until March, 1866. During his military service he commanded for a time a battalion of Kentucky troops, and before enlisting was a member of the military family of General George S. Dodge. Before the war Mr. Troutman read law with Edward Hopper, of Philadelphia, son of Isaac T. Hopper, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, February 5, I862.
Judge Troutman's professional life has been chiefly passed in Schuylkill and Luzerne coun- ties in Pennsylvania, and during that period he has been an active figure in Republican politics, general and local. In October, 1902, he was ap- pointed judge of the orphans' court of Luzerne 'county, serving until his successor was appointed
January 1, 1903. He is now engaged in the general practice of law in Wilkes-Barre, under the firm style of Troutman, Lewellyn & Fleitz. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Wilkes-Barre and has served as teacher in that Sunday school; he also served as superin- tendent in the Sunday school at Mahanoy City, Schuylkill county, and at Hazleton. Luzerne county. He is a member and past commander of Conyngham Post, No. 97, Grand Army of the Republic, of Wilkes-Barre, of Severn Post, No. IIO, of Mahanoy City, and of Robinson Post, No. 20, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
Judge Troutman married, Northampton, Massachusetts, April 20, 1870, Rosetta Elizabeth Crossett, daughter of Robert Crossett and his wife Welthea Arms Herrick. Robert Crossett was a Huguenot gentleman, whose family emi- grated to Ireland upon the "Edict of Nantes," and from that country to America about 1710. There were many Crossetts in the American ser- vice during the Revolution, and one of them, Robert Crossett, was killed in 1776. Another of Mrs. Troutman's ancestors was Samuel Field, a Revolutionary patriot, who was at the battle of Lexington. He was a lineal descendant of John de la Felds, born in London, and one of the most illustrious ancestors of the family, being the grantee from Philip and Mary of a patent of no- bility. He gained wide celebrity in originating and publishing in London the first series of as- tronomical tables, hence he was a man of science as well as of the nobility. Mrs. Troutman was educated in the Northampton high school, and Mt. Holyoke College at South Hadley, Massa- chusetts. The children of George Henry and Rosetta Troutman are: Elizabeth Thompson Troutman, born Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, February 27, 1871 : educated in the public schools of Hazelton and Hazelton Seminary ; graduate of West End Institute, New Haven, Connecticut. She married Henry E. Rood, of Pleasantville, Westchester county, New York, assistant editor of Harper's Magasine. Three children-Kings- land, Elizabeth and Harry. Harry Christian Troutman, born Mahanoy City. Pennsylvania, January 30, 1875 ; educated in the Hazleton pub- lic schools, Hazleton Academy, Lawrenceville (New Jersey) Academy, and the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Wilkes-Barre, Penn- sylvania, and is a newspaper editor, and author. H. E. H.
CATLIN FAMILY. Thomas Catlin (or Catling), the head of this family in America, was in Hartford, Connecticut, 1645-46, where he
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owned land. He was a viewer of chimneys, and for many years a constable, an office at that time recognized as most honorable and trustworthy. In 1687 he testified that he was seventy-five years old, hence born 1612. He died Hartford, in 1690. He married in England, and had three children : John; Mary, baptized November 29, 1646, died young : Mary (second) baptized May 6, 1649. John Catlin, only son of Thomas Catlin, mar- ried July 27, 1665, Mary Marshall, died October 20, 1716, sister of Thomas Marshall, of Hartford. John was made freeman 1665. He and his father had land from Hartford, January 15, 1684. He had eight children ; of these
Samuel Catlin, eldest child, was born Novem- ber 4, 1672-3 ; married (first) January 5, 1702-3, Elizabeth Norton, who died August 14, 1724, daughter of John Norton, of Farmington, Con- necticut. Samuel settled at Litchfield, Connec- ticut. He married (second) ), May 13, 1725, Sarah Nichols, daughter of Cyprian Nichols. He had eight children by his first wife, of whom
John Catlin, eldest son, was born October 20, 1703, died 1765 ; married August 25, 1731, Mar- . garet Seymour. They had nine children: John, born July 30, 1732 ; Eli, born January 22, 1733-4; Theodore, born October 16, 1735; Alexander, born January 6, 1738-9: Margaret, born Novem- ber 4, 1741 ; Ann, born October 12, 1743 ; Ashbel, born September 10, 1745; David, born April 21, 1747 ; Roswell, born July 30, 1752.
Captain Eli Catlin, second son of John and Margaret Seymour Catlin, born January 22, 1733-4, died Hop Bottom, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1820; married Eliza -. beth Ely (or Way), who died, Litchfield, Con- necticut, April 4, 1796. He settled in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, after the Revolution, re- ceiving four hundred acres of land there sur- veyed August 20, 1792. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary army, and received a pension as captain in Susquehanna county, 1818, having been commissioned January I, 1777, and resigned May 25, 1778. He was refused a continuance of pension under the law of 1829, which prevented pensions being granted to any soldier who had any other means of support. This unfair law was re- pealed some years later. As Catlin was then aged eighty-seven, he did not live to receive a renewal of his pension. He had four children: Lois, born March 25, 1758; Polly; Putnam, born No- vember 8, 1764 : and Clara.
Putnam Catlin, only son of Captain Eli Catlin and his wife, Elizabeth Way, was born November 8, some say April 4, 1764, died 1842. He married about 1789, Polly Sutton, born September 30,
1770. He enlisted as fifer in the Connecticut: line in his father's company, March I, 1777, at the age of thirteen, and July 15, 1780, was pro- moted fifer major, serving until June 9, 1783. After the war he read law and was admitted to the bar May 27, 1786; moved to Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, later to Brooklyn, Susquehanna county, where he was a land agent. His children : Charles Catlin, born March 15, 1790; admitted to the Luzerne bar March 28, 1814; removed to Buffalo, New York. Henry Catlin, merchant in Wilkes-Barre and later Great Bend, Pennsyl- vania ; subsequently removed to Lockport, New York. George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, Penn- sylvania, July 26, 1796; educated for the bar ; ad- mitted to practice January 4, 1819; became a. portrait painter, famous world traveler, historian and Indian traveler ; died December 23, 1872. (See his History, Smithsonian Report, 1885, vol. II, pp 1-950). Eliza Catlin, married Anson Dart. James Catlin, married a sister of Benja- min Sayre, of Montrose, and lived several years in Pensacola, Florida. Mary Catlin, married Asa Hartshones, of Montrose, Pennsylvania. Julius Catlin, graduate of West Point United States. Military Academy, in the government service in the west ; was remarkable for his ability and phy- sical strength ; had a genius for art. Lynde Catlin, died young. Richard Catlin, removed south. John Catlin. Francis P. Catlin.
David Catlin, eighth son of John and Mar- garet Seymour Catlin, married Rhoda Peck and hać Erastus, David, Luther, Percy, and several daughters.
Luther Catlin, third son of David and Rhoda Peck Catlin, born October 24, 1784, Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, died February 5, 1885, aged one- hundred and one years ; married Miss Simpson, and had George, Martin, Julius, and Cynthia.
Julius Catlin, third son of Luther Catlin, born 1809, died July, 1899, married Martha Covell, daughter of Dr. Edward Covell and his wife, Sarah S. Ross, daughter of General William Sterling Ross, of Wilkes-Barre. They had an only son, Sterling Ross Catlin.
Hon. Sterling Ross Catlin, only son of Julius and Martha (Covell) Catlin, was born Wilkes- Barre,January 27, 1848,and is unmarried. He was educated in the Wilkes-Barre schools and the- Polytechnic College, Philadelphia. At the age of sixteen years he was apprenticed to learn the machinist's trade, and worked as journeyman- fourteen years. In 1863 he enlisted as private, and was appointed corporal of Company K, Thirtieth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer In -- fantry. In 1864 he went to California, and was.
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employed for some years as superintendent of floating machinery at the Mare Island navy yard. He then returned to Wilkes-Barre, and has since given his attention to farming and other interests in that city. For ten years he served as council- man in Wilkes-Barre. Mr. Catlin was elected state senator in 1904 for the term of four years. He is a member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, of Naval Lodge, No. 87, Free and Accepted Masons, California, and of Conyng- ham Post, G. A. R., Wilkes-Barre.
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THE FELL FAMILY of Pennsylvania and many others of the same surname in various parts of America, are believed to have descended from one of the most ancient families of the dis- trict of Furness Fells, the general name for High Furness, in England. There were the Fells of Swarthmoor Hall, the Fells of Longlands, and the Fells of Dalton Gate, each family having its distinct coat-of-arms; and there were also the Fells of Hawkeswell, and the Fells of Redman Hall. From these English branches of the gen- eral family the Fells of America are descended, but not all of them are descendants of the Amer- ican ancestor, Joseph Fell, who was son of John Fell, of Dane Ghyll Flan Haw, near Furness Abbey, and probably of the same family as the older Fells of Swarthmoor Hall.
Joseph Fell, the founder of the American branch of the Fell family under consideration came to America in 1705, bearing written testi- mony of the quality of his person and standing among the Friends of Cumberland in England, and commending him to the consideration of the society in America. He made his home in Buck- ingham, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, a few miles west of Buckingham meeting house, and between it and Doylestown, where he became a prominent man in the community and among the Friends and in their meetings. He married (first) in England, Bridget Willson, of Granery, Caldbeck parish, Cumberland, and (second) at Bucking- ham meeting, Elizabeth Doyle, of Middletown township, Bucks county. Pennsylvania. She was a minister in the Society of Friends, and is said to have been "a very beautiful woman, with fine complexion and rosy cheeks." Joseph Fell had by wife Bridget Willson four children; and by wife Elizabeth Doyle, seven children.
Thomas Fell, eleventh child of Joseph Fell, born Buckingham. Pennsylvania, June 9. 1725 : married February 24, 1750. Jane Kirk, daughter of Godfrey Kirk, and had six children, of whom
Jesse Fell, the pioneer of the Fell family in the Wyoming valley, was the eldest.
Judge Jesse Fell, son of Thomas and Jane (Kirk) Fell, born Buckingham, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1751, died Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylva- nia, August II, 1830 ; married in Bucks county, August 20, 1775, Hannah Welding. born Jan- uary 13, 1754, died March 7, 1816, daughter of John and Hannah Welding, of Buckingham, Pennsylvania.
Judge Jesse Fell was for many years an im- portant and interesting character in the life of Wilkes-Barre, and indeed of Luzerne county. After marriage he lived for a time near Doyles- town, Pennsylvania, and in the fall of 1785 re- moved with his family to the Wyoming valley for the purpose of engaging in mercantile pur- suits. He was a man of few words, but those fitly spoken, sensible and appropriate : grave and simple in manner, but when sure he was right, of inflexible firmness ; a man of clear mind and spotless integrity, and won the confidence of the community of which he became a citizen : a man of unusual capacity in public affairs, as well as in business generally. His penmanship was re- markable for neatness and accuracy ; and that his inind had been early trained, is shown by numer- ous essays written for various purposes. Of de- voted industry, he relieved the usual labors of his pen and official duties by perfecting with his own hands the neatest, the earliest, and the most productive garden in Wilkes-Barre. In Decem- ber, 1787, Judge Fell purchased property at the corner of Washington and Northampton streets, Wilkes-Barre, and resided there as long as he lived. A part of the old house is still standing, and on its Washington street side are still seen the words "The Old Fell House," in a way indicat- ing the comfort and hospitality dispensed by its host in "ye olden tyme," for Judge Fell. among his several avocations, once entertained travelers in his home. For many years it was the sojourn- ing place of the lawyers and the judges on the circuit, and the rendezvous of all the local cele- brities. Jesse Fell was made sheriff of Luzerne county in 1789, and held the office two terms. He laid aside the peace principles of his forefathers, and became prominent in military affairs, being appointed by Governor Mifflin lieutenant of the county in 1792, and brigade inspector in 1793, holding the latter for a term of seven years. In 1798 Mifflin appointed him associate judge of Luzerne county, a position he filled with becom- ing dignity as long as he lived-a period of more than thirty-two years.
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The people of Wilkes-Barre always had some Indian chief, and was unwilling to return to civil- office for the judge to fill, and he was nearly al- ways a member of the borough council or chief burgess. He was the first president of the Lu- zerne County Agricultural Society, in 1810; was foremost in educational matters, and active in the work of highway improvement. He made a suc- cessful experiment of burning anthracite coal in an open grate. He and his nephew, Edward Fell. made an iron grate and set it in the fire-place of his house. February 11, 1808. He invited several of his neighbors to witness the test but only two came for fear of being "hoaxed." He made this entry on a flyleaf of his "Treatise on Masonry :
"Feb. II, of Masonry 5808. Made the ex- periment of burning the common stone coal of this valley in a grate, in a common fire-place in my house, and find it will answer the purpose of fuel, making a cleaner and better fire, at less expense, than burning wood in the common way." (See his letter on the subject in Proceedings of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Volume VI.)
Jesse and Hannah Fell had eight children :
I. Frances Fell, born June 7, 1777, died No- vember 29. 1841 ; married (first), about 1798, John Milroy, a civil engineer, who came into the Wyoming valley and made his home in Jesse Fell's house : she married (second) a Mr. John- son, who died soon afterward; she married (third), June 24, 1812, Lyman Sholes, born 1779, died May 28. 1841, son of Cyrus Sholes and wife Bridget Latham.
2. George Fell, born August 28, 1779, of whom later.
3. Sarah Fell, born July 25, 1781, died Feb- ruary 23, 1828; married in 1800, Joseph Slocum, born April 9, 1776, died September 27, 1855; son of Jonathan Slocum and Ruth Tripp. Joseph Slocum was active in military affairs, was ap- pointed to judgeship of the common pleas, and was honored with many positions of trust. Jon- athan Slocum and Ruth Tripp came from Rhode Island to near Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1763, in 1774 they moved to Wilkes-Barre, where he was a blacksmith and tanner. The family were among the sufferers from the depredations of the Indians in the Wyoming valley during the Revo- lution. In November, 1778, the Indians invaded their house and killed his father and grandfather, and carried his sister Frances into captivity. The family searched for her sixty years, and she was found by Joseph Slocum and her brother in 1838. She was then living comfortably on the Missis- sinawa river, near Peru, Indiana, the widow of an
ization. Her Indian name was Maconaguah- Young Bear. In later years she was again visited by members of her family. . By resolution of congress, she and her family were exempted from obligation to remove with the other Indians to the far west. (Slocum Family and Bennett Family.)
4. Deborah Fell, born October 19, 1783 : married Edwin Tracey.
5. Thomas Fell, born June 16, 1786; died. December 8, 1791.
6. Samuel W. Fell, born March 26, 1788: died in Belvidere, New Jersey, July II, 1824; married April 17, 1811, Lydia Dusenbury, born. New Hampton, New Jersey, November 5, 1790, died March 18, 1839, daughter Henry Dusenbury and wife Lydia Swaze. Samuel W. Fell was a physician and received his diploma in medicine in 1808. He settled in Sussex county, New Jer sey, and in 1811 removed to New Hampton, same state, when at the outbreak of the war of 1812. he became captain of a volunteer company and served until the war closed. He then located in Belvidere, where he died. Henry Dusenbury was a Revolutionary soldier, and was one of Washington's aides at the battle of Monmouth.
7. Abi Kirk Fell. born February 12, 1792, died March 7, 1847 ; married January 17, 18II, John Jacob Dennis, born August 24, 1783, died December 17, 1847. He was of English descent, and a farmer in Berks county, Pennsylvania.
8. Nancy Ann Fell, born April 1, 1794, died January 15, 1834; married. Wilkes-Barre, Penn- sylvania, November 27, 1823. Dr. Isaac Picker- ing, born January 21, 1794, died December 13,. 1862, son of Isaac Pickering and wife Elizabeth Carey of Bucks county. A few years after marriage they made their home at Catawissa,. Pennsylvania, where Nancy Ann died. In 1837 Dr. Pickering removed with his children to Michigan, settling first at Leoni, and afterward in Milford, Oakland county.
George Fell, second child of Jesse and Han- nah Fell, born near Doylestown, August 28, 1779 ; married in New Jersey, Sarah Cowdrick, daugh- ter of John Cowdrick. George Fell started for New Orleans, Louisiana, about 1804, and was last heard of on the way to that city. The date of his death and place of burial are un known. It is thought he died of yellow fever. John Cowdrick's parents died on the ship which was carrying the family to America, and he was taken by Captain Hall, the master, and raised by the captain's mother on a farm about twelve miles from Philadelphia.
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