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George and Sarah Fell had children : I. Samuel Fell; see forward. 2. Jesse A. Fell, born November 25, 1803 ; died Philadelphia, February 9, 1875 ; married ( first) 1820, Patience ; they lived in Philadelphia and had three children, all died young ; married (second) Philadelphia, Julia Ann Davis, and had two chil- dren; married (third) Elizabeth Binney, born Sheffield, England, June 10, 1809; died Septem- ber 27, 1879; they had six children.
Samuel Fell, son of George and Sarah Fell, born Wilkes-Barre, November 17, 1801, died, Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania, December 19, 1839; married. Wilkes-Barre, at the house of Rev. George Lane, December 25, 1823, Mary Dingman Kyte (or Coit), born December 2, 1802, died March 24, 1864; daughter of John Kyte and wife Leah Vandermark, from the northern part of New Jersey. Samuel and Mary had children : I. Hannah Welding Fell, born Wilkes- Barre, August 18, 1825 ; married there January 7, 1847, Jeremiah Burns Dow, born Topsham, Ver- mont, January 4, 1806; died, Wilkes-Barre, Sep- tember 4, 1884, son of Isaiah Dow and wife Bet- sey Burns. Jeremiah Dow was one of the oldest, one of the best known, and one of the most re- spected men of Wilkes-Barre; was a famous schoolmaster, and taught full fifty years. Jere- miah and Hannah had eight children.
2. Sally Ann Fell, born Wilkes-Barre, No- vember 26, 1827 : married March 24, 1852, Ben- jamin Gardner Carpenter, born July 2, 1827 ; died November 11, 1889. (See Carpenter Family).
3. Charles R. Fell, born September 21, 1830; died unmarried July 3, 1878.
4. Theodore Hall Fell, born December 31, 1833, died October 18, 1872 : married, October 20, 1859, Jane E. Seibert, born August II. 1835, daughter Samuel and Agnes W. (Grove) Seibert, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Theodore H. Fell was a carpenter and builder in Wilkes-Barre.
5. Mary Delila Fell, born October 9, 1837 : married May 15, 1886, Henry Haupt Derr, born Bucks county, Pennsylvania, July 5. 1839. died, Wilkes-Barre, October 12, 1888. (See Derr Fam- ily).
6. Samuel C. Fell, born Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1839, died, unmarried, Wilkes-Barre, July 25, 1870. He was a soldier in the Sixty-First Pennsylvania volunteer infan- try during the war of 1861-65. and served three years.
H. E. H.
ALEXANDER GRAY FELL. M. D., a prominent physician of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, and well known through-
out this section of the state, is a representative of the sixth generation in descent from the founder of the Fell family in America, who was one of the pioneer settlers of Pennsylvania.
(I) Joseph Fell, the American ancestor of Alexander Gray Fell, born England, 8 mo. 19, 1668, and was a yeoman. He was educated in the common schools, and was a carpenter and joiner by trade. He emigrated to America 1704, and settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was twice married, his second wife being Eliza- beth Doyle, who came from Middletown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, but was of Irish descent. Her mother was born in Rhode Island, and Doylestown was so named in honor of her father. Mr. Fell, his wife, and her entire family were Quakers.
(II) Thomas Fell, son of Joseph Fell (1), born 6 mo. 9, 1725. All the Fells of northeastern Pennsylvania are descended from him, as three of his sons-Jesse, Samuel and Amos-went to that portion of the state and settled. He was a Quaker. He married Jane Kirk, daughter of Geoffrey Kirk.
(III) Amos Fell, youngest son of Thomas (2) and Jane ( Kirk) Fell, born in Buckingham, II mo. I, 1762, died at Pittston, Pennsylvania, 9 mo., 1825. He removed to Pittston in the fall of 1785, locating on a tract of land back of that place. He was a surveyor and school teacher, and in religious faith belonged to the Quakers. He burned coal for domestic purposes, and this was taken from an out-crop on the Brown farm. He married, II mo. 10, 1784, Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of William Jackson, of Shrewsbury, New Jersey. They had eight children : Aaron, Mercy. William, Jacob, of whom later ; Jane, Thomas Wright, Jessie, Joseph.
(IV) Jacob Fell, third son and fourth child of Amos (3) and Elizabeth (Jackson) Fell, was born 3 mo. 15, 1791, died 9 mo. 1, 1831 ; married (first) 10 mo. 8, 1814, Mary Ackley, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Ackley, and their children were : Elizabeth. Daniel Ackley, Sarah, Mercy, and Mary. Of these the only one now living is Mercy, widow of John Behee, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Mr. Fell married (second), 5 mo. 2, 1826, Eliza Johnson, and they had children : Mary A., William, Jacob. Of these, Mary A .. wife of Henry Wilbur, is the only one now living, residing in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
(V) Daniel Ackley Fell, second child and eld- est son of Jacob (4) and Mary (Ackley) Fell, born Pittston, Pennsylvania, May 29, 1817. He was a prominent building and general contractor, and erected almost all of the important buildings
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in his vicinity and time. At the time of the con- struction of the Lehigh and Susquehanna railroad he had charge of the building of the bridges, etc., and continued this arduous work until his seven- ty-eighth year. He was highly esteemed for his business integrity and sterling qualities. He was actively interested in public affairs, and during the early coal operations was engaged in mining. His death occurred in the fall of 1897. He mar- ried, January 16, 1855, Elizabeth Gray, born Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1836, died October 8, 1887, daughter of Alexander and Jane (Russell) Gray, from Huntley, Aberdeen- shire, Scotland. Alexander Gray operated the first mine in the vicinity, the old Balytrean penings, near the East End, and was afterward extensively engaged in mining operations. He was also interested in banking operations. He removed to Princeton, New Jersey, in 1866, where he died in 1873, his widow surviving him by ten years. The children of Daniel Ack- ley and Elizabeth (Gray) Fell were :
I. Mary, born April 30, 1856, died October 26, 1885.
2. Daniel Ackley, born November 23, 1858, attended the common schools of his native town ;' Wyming Seminary, Kingston; Lawrenceville School, New Jersey ; and Princeton College, from which he graduated in 1883. He was admitted to the Luzerne county bar, 1885. He is a Re- publican, and has been prominent in the business and political circles of the county and state. He served three years as district attorney for the of Dilwyne.
county of Luzerne. In religion he is a Presby- terian. He married, October 10, 1888, Frances Bertles, daughter of A. Bertles, and they have had five children : Harold Bertles, born July 18, 1889: Alexander Gray, died in infancy : Daniel Ackley, junior, born March 21, 1898; Alexander Gray, third, born January, 1900; and John Gill- ingham, born December, 1902, died January, 1906.
3. Alexander Gray, the subject of this sketch.
(VI) Alexander Grav Fell, second son and youngest child of Daniel Ackley (5) and Eliza- beth (Gray) Fell, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1861. He enjoyed the advantages of an excellent education, attending the public schools of his native city, Lawrence- ville Academy, Harry Hillman Academy, at Wilkes-Barre, and Princeton College, from which he graduated in the class of 1884 with the de- gree of Bachelor of Sciences. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1887 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He has
been an earnest worker in his profession with the natural result of well merited success and pro- ficiency. He has been a member of the surgical staff of the Wilkes-Barre City Hospital since 1890, where his services are highly appreciated. He is a member of the following medical asso- ciations: Luzerne County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1901 ; Medical Society of State of Pennsylvania, and American Medical Association. He is also a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, Wyoming Valley Historical Society. He is a Republican in politics, and served as chair- man of the Republican committee of Luzerne county in 1902.
He married, November 14, 1901, Rena Maude Howe, daughter of Thomas B. and Maria ( Cope- land) Howe, of Scranton, Pennsylvania. They have one child: Elizabeth Copeland, born Janu- ary 22, 1904. H. E. H.
CARPENTER FAMILY. William Carpen- ter was the ancestor of the Carpenters of Wyom- ing Valley. He came to America in the ship "Bevis," with his son William and his wife Abi- gail, in 1638, but the elder William went back to England in the same vessel on the return voy- age, and the son was the founder of this line of the family in America. In England the family claims to trace directly to the Tyrconnel Carpen- ters, beginning with John, in 1303, the head of the ancient line in Herefordshire, in the parish This Hereford family of Carpen- ters was very proud, and took an active part in affairs of the crown ; one of the most famous of them was John, town clerk of London, died 1442; but the English line from John of 1303 became extinct in 1853, although the American line is traced directly to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Playfair's "British Antiquities" (London, 1810) says : "The noble family of Carpenters from which the Earl of Tyrconnel is descended, is of great antiquity in the county of Hereford and other parts of England. In 1303 John Car- penter appeared. He was a member of parlia- ment in 1323 for the borough of Leskard, in Cornwall, as two years after was Stephen Car- penter for Crediton, in the county of Devon, in 1325 (the 19th year of the reign of Edward II). Henry Carpenter served in 1418 for the town of Derby, in the 35th year of Henry V."
According to "Burke's Peerage," the Tvrcon- nel branch descended from William Carpenter. of Homme, in the parish of Dilwyne, who died in 1520, and who had a son James, who had a son
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John, who left a son William, who died in 1550, and from whom the William of Weymouth and Rehoboth in the New England colony is said to have descended.
"Arms Argent, a Greyhound passant, and Chief Sable; Crest, a Grayhound's head, erased per fesse Sable and Argent." This coat of arms was granted to William Carpenter, of Cobham, as appears by the records of the Herald's College, London, 1663. subsequently found on the tomb- stone of Daniel Carpenter, of Rehoboth, Massa- chusetts, who was born in 1763.
Captain William Carpenter, son of William Carpenter, who returned to England. was born in England, 1605, died February 7, 1659: his wife Abigail died February 22, 1687. He was ad- mitted freeman of Weymouth, 1640; was repre- sentative in 1641 and 1643: was admitted free- man of Rehoboth in 1645, and elected represen- tative there the same year. Governor Bradford married a cousin of William and was his near friend, and there is little doubt that the influence of Bradford and his wife Alice induced William to settle in America. He was a man of conse- quence and means, and served as proprietors' clerk and town clerk from 1643 to 1649, and from 1642 was captain by appointment of the general court. The first three of William's children were born in England, the next three in Weymouth, and the youngest in Rehoboth.
From William, of Weymouth, and Abigail his wife, the line of descent followed to John I, who lived at Jamaica, Long Island ; to Samuel, 2, to Benjamin, 3. "a tailor": to Samuel, 4.
X Samuel Carpenter, son of William and Abigail Carpenter, married his cousin. Nancy Gardner, +who lived in Goshen, Orange county, New York, and removed thence to the Wyoming valley and settled in Plains township, Luzerne county, in the . early part of the last century. Samuel and Nancy‹ were the pioneers of the family in the Wyoming valley, and from them have descended substantial, thrifty and progressive business men ; men of high character and unquestioned integrity. Among the children were: Benjamin Gardner, born Plains, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1827, of whom later ; Emory Gardner, now living at Princeton, N. J. : Kate. married a Mr. Robertson ; Alice, married Albert H. Phillips, of Wilkes-Barre.
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Benjamin G. Carpenter, son of Samuel and Nancy Carpenter, was for many years identified with the business history of Wilkes-Barre. He was a descendant of the seventh generation of William Carpenter, the immigrant ancestor of the family in America. He was born in Plains town- ship, July 2, 1827, died Wilkes-Barre, November
II, 1889. When about four years old he re- moved with his parents to the town of Afton, Chenango county, New York, where he remained until the death of his father, about 1841. He then moved to Carbondale, where he learned the tinsmith's trade, for the young man after the death of his father was obliged to make his own way in life. That he succeeded in his business endeavors can be readily attested by hundreds of- Wilkes-Barre's most representative citizens, for he was among them and one of them for a period of almost forty years.
Mr. Carpenter came to Wilkes-Barre in 1847, and worked as journeyman in. the employ of Theron Burnet. A year later, when he attained his majority, he was taken into partnership with Mr. Burnet, a relation which was continued with fair profit for both for nine years, when Mr. Carpenter purchased his partner's interest, and at once took another partner, his younger brother, Emory Carpenter, with whom he was associated in business about fifteen years under the firm style of B. G. Carpenter & Co. During this per- iod the character of the business was materially changed ; the tinsmithing branch was continued, but the stock in trade was largely increased in other directions until the firm of B. G. Carpenter & Co. became recognized as one of the largest concerns in the city, doing a general hardware, contracting, steam heating, plumbing, and metal business. The firm erected a large building on West Market street, just off the square, 1872- 1873, and soon afterward Emory Carpenter sold his interest in the business to his brother. Then A. H. Mulford and Frank Dunsmore entered the firm, the firm name of B. G. Carpenter & Co. being retained. Walter S. Carpenter, son of Ben- jamin G. Carpenter, succeeded to the Mulford in- terest, 1875, but there was no further change in the proprietorship until after the death of the senior partner in 1889, when Mr. Carpenter's other sons, Benjamin Harold and Edmund N. be- came members of the firm : but the old style of B. G. Carpenter & Co. has been preserved to the present day.
Aside from the affairs of personal business, Benjamin G. Carpenter always was deeply in- terested in the welfare of Wilkes-Barre as a city and its institutions. He became a trustee of the Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, March, 1862, and served in that capacity until his death. He was made one of the managers of the Wilkes- Barre Water Company, May, 1864, and its presi- dent, 1881, filling this office until his death. He was one of the original directors of the Scranton stove works, established in 1870. He was an
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earnest, devoted member of the Methodist Epis- copal church from early youth to the day of his death.
It was written of Mr. Carpenter by one of his biographers that "he possessed much energy in business affairs and the fundamental principles of honesty and strict integrity had been so in- grained in his nature that they made him inval- uable in every relation among his fellows. He saw the probable effect of proposed movements very clearly, and whenever he came to a conclu- sion as to the course to pursue, he was able from comprehensive study of the situation to surround his position with arguments that carried great weight. It was always thus, so that his advice came generally to be regarded as safe and emi- nently reliable. His christianity was of a practical sort ; it shone out through deeds rather than words. He had a great heart of benevo- lence, and always gave as his means allowed toward the numerous charities of the church and outside of it. Those who knew him intimately understood his kindness of heart, the close affec- tion of family ties, and the permanent concern for the welfare and happiness of those dear to him.'
Benjamin Gardner Carpenter married, Wilkes- Barre, March 24, 1852, Sally Ann Fell, born November 26, 1827. daughter of Samuel Fell and his wife Mary Dingman Kyte. (See Fell Family). They had five children :
Walter Samuel, born Wilkes-Barre, April 5, 1853; married, April 5, 1876, Belle Morgan, born August 28, 1855, daughter of Robert R. Morgan and his wife Mary Barnet. Their chil- dren were : Robert Ruliph Morgan, born July 30, 1877 ; an infant, born January 21, 1879, died Jan- uary 23. 1879; Mary Bella, born February 15, 1881, died August 5, 1891; Walter Benjamin, born August 28, 1882, died March 16, 1884; Madge, born February 2, 1885 ; Benjamin Gard- ner, born January 28, 1886; Walter, born January 8, 1888. Walter S. Carpenter is a member of Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.
Charles Drake, born Wilkes-Barre, May 6, 1855, died by drowning May 14, 1864.
Jesse Gardner, born Wilkes-Barre, October 6, 1857 : died July 21, 1891. He was educated at Wyoming Seminary. At the time of his death he was bookkeeper for B. G. Carpenter & Co.
Benjamin Harold, born Wilkes-Barre, July 16, 1860, married Georgiana C. Taylor, daughter of Rev. George Lansing Taylor. D. D., LL. D., and his wife Eliza Minerva French. Dr. Taylor, son of John Lansing and Wealthy Ann (Alling) Taylor was graduated A. B. Columbia University,
1861, M. A., 1864, became a minister of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, was assistant editor of the Christian Advocate, 1861-1862, when he entered upon pastoral work in New York and elsewhere. He received the degree of D. D., from Syracuse. University, 1876, and LL. D., from Columbia University. Mrs. Taylor was daughter of Prof. Mansfield French, of Kenyon College, Ohio. She graduated M. L. A. from Wesleyan Female Col- lege, Ohio, and was at one time a member of its faculty. Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Carpenter have children : Lansing, born September 12, 1897; Donald Fell, born September 24, 1899; and Lucille, born August 10, 1902. Mr. Carpenter is a member of the firm of B. G. Carpenter & Co. He is also a member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.
Edmund Nelson, born Wilkes-Barre, June 27. 1865 ; educated at Wyoming Seminary ; clerk for B. G. Carpenter & Co. until his father died, in 1887, and then became junior partner in the firm ; was first lieutenant and quartermaster Ninth Reg- iment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, stationed at Camp George H. Thomas, Chickamauga, Geor- gia, during the Spanish-American war; aside from mercantile interests he is engaged in mining and prospecting in Central America and Alaska : is member of Sons of Revolution; of Foreign Wars; the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society; the Westmoreland Club ; and the Wyo- ming Valley Country Club. H. E. H.
HANCOCK FAMILY. Jonathan Hancock,. native of Snowhill, Maryland, came to Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania, about 1790-91, when about twenty-three or twenty-four years old. Coming" north he stopped at Harrisburg and married (first) Catharine Young, a descendant through maternal lines of the Foster, Redsecker and Mont- gomery families. In his early days Mr. Han- cock was a school teacher ; he was later postmas- ter of Wilkes-Barre, and engaged in various bus- iness undertakings, being a manager of the- bank at Wilkes-Barre, and also, for the times,. dealing largely in real estate. He died at Wilkes- Barre in 1830. He married (second) Mary,. daughter of William Wright, of Wilkes-Barre. By his first wife he had: Jonathan, died unmar -- ried : Catharine, married Hon. David Scott, of Wilkes-Barre, judge and member of congress : James, of whom later ; William, judge of Luzerne- county courts, married Laura Smith, of Wilkes- Barre, and Elizabeth Denison; Nancy, married James Denton Haff, of Wilkes-Barre and New York ; Mary, died unmarried. By his second wife, Mr. Hancock had : George; Charles ; Fred --
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erick : John : Martha, married James Perkins Atherton, of Wyoming.
James Hancock, son of Jonathan and Catha- rine ( Young) Hancock, was born at Wilkes- Barre, 1793, and lived there until 1827, at which time he removed to the farm at Plains, previously the property of his father. He resided there a number of years, and all his children were born in that place. After his second marriage he re- moved to Wilkes-Barre, and later to Wyoming. where he died in 1880. James Hancock married (first) Mary Perkins, daughter of David and Saralı (Ferrier) Perkins, of Wyoming. She died, and he married (second) Elizabeth Hibler, who died without issue. Squire David Perkins, of Wyoming, father of Mrs. Mary ( Perkins) Hancock, was a son of John Perkins, from Plain- field. Windham county. Connecticut, member of the first school committee of Westmoreland, and a Revolutionary soldier, killed about the time of the Wyoming massacre, under conditions which are noted in Miner's History. David Perkins was for many years justice of the peace in Kings- ton township, and was reported to be the largest landowner of Wyoming Valley. His house, by some believed to antedate the massacre, and com- monly called the oldest house in Wyoming Val- ley, is still standing opposite the intersection of Tenth street with Wyoming avenue, Wyoming- Wyoming borough being located on a part of Squire Perkins' estate. His wife, Sarah Fer- rier, was a descendant of Thomas Ferrier, who came to America with a company of his relatives, under the leadership of their kinsman, Colonel Clinton, ancestor of George Clinton, vice-presi- dent of the United States, and DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York, and of James Clinton, major-general in the Continental army. Thomas Ferrier, born of French Huguenot stock, lived on Long Island, and later in Orange county, New York. Through Sarah ( Ferrier) Perkins' sister he is the ancestor of descendants of Benjamin Carpenter. Among the other children of David and Sarah (Ferrier) Perkins were: David, cap- tain in the United States army : James, removed to New York; Zibia, married Elisha Atherton, of Wyoming : a daughter who married a Slocum ; and one married to a Carpenter. Aaron Per- kins, brother of Squire Perkins, was a Revolution- ary soldier.
James and Mary (Perkins) Hancock had :
Jonathan, born 1829, died 1891, married Eliza- beth Reynolds, of Peoria, Illinois, where he was engaged in business. He was a member of the grain shipping firm now known as "Hancock &
Company," of which his youngest brother, Colo -- nel Elisha A. Hancock, is the head.
William, born 1831, of whom later.
David Perkins, U. S. A., born 1833, died May 21, 1880; married Maria Madison, of Florida .. He graduated from West Point Academy, 1854, was made brevet second lieutenant, Seventh In- fantry, July 1, 1854 ; second lieutenant, March 3, 1855; first lieutenant, April 20, 1858; captain, May 27, 1861 ; brevet major, July 2, 1863, and brevet lieutenant-colonel, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania ; major Second Infan- try, October 24, 1874.
Sarah Perkins, born 1833, died 1881, married Dr. Benjamin Fullerton Miles, of Peoria, Illinois.
James Denton, LL. D., married (first) Ella Hitchcock, and (second) Mary Katherine Hitch -- cock. He practiced law for many years in Pitts- burg, and in Franklin, Pennsylvania, and was solicitor for the Western, New York and Penn- sylvania Railroad in Buffalo, New York. As Democratic candidate for the United States con- gress he was opposed to Hon. Galusha A. Grow, the Republican nominee. He has been president general of the National Society Sons of the Amer- ican Revolution.
Elisha Atherton, U. S. V., born 1840, married (first) Julia Reichard; (second) Lydia Wood- ward, see Woodward Family: (third) ' Rose Grier Simonton. He was major of United States Volunteers, Pennsylvania, 1861-1865. Living in Philadelphia.
William Hancock, second son of James and Mary (Perkins) Hancock. born Plains, Pennsyl- vania, August 2, 1831, died Wilkes-Barre, Feb- ruary 8, 1906, lived during his early manhood" and until middle life in California. Later, while residing at Wyoming, he was engaged in various business enterprises, being one of the founders of the Wyoming shovel works and of the Wyoming terra cotta works. He was engaged in the luun- ber business, and was also proprietor of a foundry and plow factory and of general supply stores. . He was the first burgess of Wyoming borough, and later a member of the borough council : and, there being no church at Wyoming of the com- munion of which his family are members, he at- tended the Presbyterian Church at that place, be- ing president of its board of trustees for many - years. He married, September 25, 1873, Isabella Brown Barker, daughter of the Rev. Abel Gunn Barker and his second wife, Phoebe Ann Brown Barker. Their children are: Anna Mary ; Will- iam James, of whom later; and Louise Barker.
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