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Rev. Abel Gunn Barker, father of Mrs. Hancock, was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania, in 1811, and died at Wyoming in 1886. He was an inventor of several useful devices, and at one time was an owner and operator of coal mines in the Carbon- dale region. He was the son of William Barker, nephew of Benjamin Pierce, captain in the Revolutionary army, major-general in the War of 1812, governor of New Hampshire, father of Franklin Pierce, president of the United States, and by one eminent genealogist counted as a des- cendant of the Percies of Northumberland), and his wife, Anna Gunn Barker, daughter of Abel Gunn (who, as a boy in Connecticut, entered the Revolutionary army) and his wife, Lucy Wake Lee. Abel Gunn was for many years a communi- cant of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Poughkeepsie, New York, where he lived during the latter part of his life. His daughter, Anna Gunn Barker, was one of the first women of this church in Wyoming Valley-although her hus- band was a Presbyterian-having her children baptized by Bishop White when he occasionally visited the few people of his communion in the Wyoming Valley. Among her children were: Samuel Gunn Barker, founder of the firm of S. G. Barker & Son, scale manufacturers, of Scranton (the makers of a scale invented by William Bar- ker, the first of the family in Wyoming Valley) ; Rev. Thomas B. Barker, long rector of St. John's Church, Lancaster ; and George R. Barker, for many years master of a college preparatory school at Germantown, and father of the late Right Rev. William Morris Barker, late Bishop of Olympia. By his first wife, Phoebe, daughter of Darius Williams, the Rev. Abel Gunn Barker had two children, who did not reach maturity. By his second wife, Phoebe Ann, daughter of Rich- ard Halstead and Isabella McNelly Brown, he had issue : Morton Brown; Charles W .; Isabella Brown, married William, son of James, son of Jonathan Hancock; George Henry: and Maria Louisa. Richard Halstead Brown, born 1793, died 1861, was a son of David Brown, died 1816, who with his brother, James Brown, Junior, served in the Revolutionary army. James Brown, Senior, father of David and James, Junior, came to Pittston in 1774, from Warwick, Rhode Island. His log house just above Pittston Ferry served as "Fort Brown" during the battle of Wyoming.
William James Hancock, son of William and Isabella Brown (Barker) Hancock, was born at Wyoming, October 23, 1877. He is a communi- cant of St. Stephen's Church, Wilkes-Barre; a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution ; the Wyoming His- torical and Geological Society; and the Society for the Restoration of Historic Alexandria, Alex- andria, Virgina. H. E. H.
STERLING FAMILY. David Starling, Starlin, or Sterling, as the name variously oc- curs in original records, is said to have been born in Hertfordshire, England, about 1622, and to have emigrated to Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1651. He died there 1691. He is doubtless the ancestor of the Sterlings of Bridgeport, Connec- ticut, and of the Wyoming section of Pennsyl- vania.
William Sterling, who appears in Hav- erhill, Massachusetts, and was made freeman in Massachusetts, May II, 1681, was evidently the son of David. The Haverhill records show that July 24, 1684, "William Starlin" was granted two town lots of ten acres each, one "at the Fishing River near the sawmill path," and one adjoining which was granted to him "to set up a Corn Mill at Fishing River." In 1697, after the terrible Indian massacres at Haverhill, he sold this land to Thomas Dunston, of that place, whose wife, Hannah Dunston, was captured by the Indians in March of that year, and whose tragic history is known to every schoolboy in America. About 1703 William Sterling moved with his family to Lyme, where he died January 22, 1719. William Sterling married four times: (first) Elizabeth -, died February 6, 1675; (second) December 19, 1676, Mary Blaisdell, born March 5, 1641-2, died May 29, 1681, daughter of Ralph Blaisdell and widow of Joseph Stowers; (third) April 24, 1683, Ann (Nichols) Neale, of Salem, widow of John Neale of Salem; (fourth) at Lyme, Connecticut, 1705, Mary Sayer.
He had by his first wife. all born in Haverhill : Sarah, born May 4, 1669; Abygail, born May 27, 1670 : Nathaniel, born June 25, 1671 ; Daniel, born October 2, 1672, died May 27, 1673 : Daniel (2), born September 19, 1673, the "Captain Daniel Starling" of Lyme, who married Lyme (I), June 6, 1699, Mary Fenwick Ely, widow of Rich- ard Ely, (2) May 16, 1745, Mrs. Mary Beck- with ; he was the ancestor of General William Sterling Ross, of Wilkes-Barre (see Ross Fam- ily ) : James, born February 24, 1674, died March 6, 1674-75-
By second wife, born Haverhill: Jonah, born October 21, 1677, died of smallpox December 21, 1690: Jacob, born August 29, 1678; Ruth, born December 17, 1679; twins, born May 21, 1681, died May 29, 1681.
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By third wife: Ann, born March 14, 1683-84. It is not known if he had any children by his fourth wife.
Jacob Sterling, eighth child of William Sterling, born Haverhill, August 29, 1678, died January 9, 1765, married about 1710, Hannah (Odell) Seeley, born October 20, 1679, died June 14, 1756, widow of Sergeant Nathaniel Seeley, of Fairfield, Connecticut, who died 1698, and daughter of John and Joanna ( Walker) Odell of Fairfield, son of William Odell, Concord, Massachusetts. Jacob bought land in 1715 in Stratford, Connecticut, at what is now the north- ern part of Bridgeport, and soon purchased for himself other pieces of land, living and dying at Bridgeport. He was a ship carpenter.
Samuel Sterling, of Bridgeport, Connecticut. and Braintrim, Pennsylvania, was doubtless the grandson of Jacob, his son Daniel having been born in Bridgeport, 1776. Samuel, born about 1750, died at Black Walnut, Pennsylvania, 1830. He removed from Bridgeport with his family to Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, about 1790, lo- cating at Exeter, afterwards in Falls township, (then Wyalusing township), and finally at Black Walnut, Braintrim township, all now in Wyom- ing county. Here he bought large tracts of land on which he lived until his death. Warrants were issued by Pennsylvania to Samuel Sterling, Sam- uel Sterling, Jr., James Sterling and Lucy Ster- ling for four hundred acres of land each in Lu- zerne county, which was surveyed for them Au- gust 20, 1792. Samuel Sterling had at least four children : I. Daniel Sterling, born Bridge- port, Connecticut, July 8, 1776, (see below). 2. Eleanor Sterling, born about 1785, married, Oc- tober, 1803, William Keeler, Northumberland ; she died Keeler's Ferry, Wyoming county. June 21, 1808, aged twenty-three. 3. Harriett Ster- ling, born about 1790, married, January 2, 1812, at Braintrim, Nicholas Overfield, associate judge of Wyoming county, 1851-56, and member Penn- sylvania legislature. 4. John, born December 8, 1793, married, 1813, Sarah Overfield, who died Black Walnut, January, 1874. He had: Calvin, married, May 4, 1844, Hannah W. Bond ; and John G., born 'January 28, 1823, married, No- vember 5, 1846, Betsey Osborn.
Daniel Sterling, eldest son of Samuel Sterling, was born Bridgeport, Connecticut, July 8, 1776, died Rock Island, Illionis, August 25, 1839. He was thrice married : First, Second, November II, 1800, by L. Meyers, to Sally Sut- ton, of Exeter, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. Third, about 1814, to Rachel Brooks, who was born in New York State. He came with his
father to Black Walnut, Braintrim township, Lu- zerne county, and soon after locating there be- came practically manager of his father's affairs. He opened a store and hotel at Black Walnut, bought land on Sterling (now Meshoppen) creek, near its junction with the Susquehanna river, and was for many years extensively inter- ested in lumbering, grist-milling, merchandising and farming until 1837, when he removed to Illi- nois to fill a contract at Rock Island for the United States government. Daniel Sterling had by his third marriage, all born at Braintrim :
I. Daniel Theodore Sterling, born February 20, 1815, of whom later.
2. Walter G. Sterling, born November 24,. 1821, died Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1889, one of the first bankers in that city. He- built the Music Hall which stood on the corner of River and Market streets, where now stands the Sterling Hotel.
3. John Whelan Sterling, LL. D., one of the founders and for over thirty-four years dean and professor of mathematics of the ' University of- Wisconsin.
4. Harraden G. Sterling, of the mercantile firm of James, Kent, Santee & Company, of Phil- adelphia.
5. Julius C. Sterling, merchant, Philadelphia. 6. Henry N. Sterling, enlisted in Company. B, Fifty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers, Octo- ber II, 1861, as sergeant, promoted sergeant-ma- jor November 5, 1861. Honorably discharged on surgeon's certificate. May II, 1862, and died that year.
7. Hamilton G. Sterling, of Sterlingville, (Meshoppen) Pennsylvania.
8. Irene Rachel, born April 16, 1828; mar- ried January 22, 1851, Charles Freeland Wallis, son of David and Rachel (Ransom) Wallis.
9. Julia.
IO. Sallie (Mrs. Dr. West).
II. Keziah (Mrs. McDonald).
12. Mary, married (first) James Holliday, Esquire. member of the Luzerne county bar, ad- mitted April 4, 1842, moved later to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died there. She married (sec- ond) James P. Whaling, auditor Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul Railroad.
Daniel Theodore Sterling, eldest child of Daniel and Rachel Brooks Sterling, was born February 20, 1815 ; he married 1841, Susan Ash- ley Loomis, born December 2, 1820, died May 13, 1895, daughter of Jasper Loomis. He died April 26, 1883.
While still young in years he became interested» and active in the business affairs of his father,.
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. and thus became fitted not only to sustain the bur- den that was early thrown upon him by the death of the parent, but in the honest and valuable ex- perience that fitted him to achieve success in after- life. Theodore Sterling (for he was scarcely known by any other name) was at once merchant, miller and lumberman at Meshoppen, and his career was most honorable and successful. He was known as the most prominent leader in affairs in the section in which he lived, and took an active and intelligent interest in all pertaining to the welfare of the community. An earnest friend of religion and education, he was active in the up- building of churches and schools and liberal in their maintenance. In his various lines of business he employed a large number of men, and his var- ious enterprises lay at the foundation of the com- mercial prosperity of the settlement and vicinity. The following tribute to Mr. Sterling appeared in an "In Memoriam" for private circulation, and affords a key to his beauty of character :
"The life of Theodore Sterling was so closely interwoven with the history of Wyoming county : he was so long and intimately associated with its men and measures ; was so widely known and re- spected ; his character and influence for good made so marked an impression upon those around him-that it is eminently fitting that more than a merely passing notice should be taken of his death. His life was so sternly unostentatious, his charity so silent, his good works so unobtrusive, and he was so strongly averse to anything like public adulation, that it is very difficult to write of him and do justice to the man and his memory, to speak as one should to the living, and do no violence to the tastes and habits of the dead. He was a man singularly modest in everything con- nected with self ; true to all the finer impulses of a manly nature ; liberal to a fault, and firm in friend- ship. His business and his home were his ambi- tion ; the love of his wife and children paramount to all others. He scarcely had any clearly defined aspirations beyond the Union and the home hearthstone. To the former he gave a son, dearer · to him than all save honor and unspotted name, and to the latter the devotion and labor of a long and earnest endeavor. Home was to him more than the name usually conveys. It was the ' 'gates beautiful"-a place of happiness and love. Never wife had more kind and thoughtful hus- band: never children more kind and indulgent father. They were in his thoughts at all times, under all circumstances, and their joys and sor- rows were his. They were as much a part of his · daily life as his breath, and well may their tears fall on account of his taking away, for, come
what may, they will never again find as true and unselfish a friend, or as strong an arm to lean upon.
"So thoroughly was Mr. Sterling engrossed with home and business that he had no inclination to test the questionable honors of political life. That he might have succeeded and obtained a high place is not to be doubted. One whose judgment was so sound and experience so ripened, who was so frequently called upon for advice and counsel in private life, could not but have made his mark in the broader field of legis- lation. In business affairs his integrity stood be- yond a shadow. Of him it may be written with- out the least straining of the proverb, that his word was as good as his bond. The keeping of commercial engagements was with him the high- est honor of a business man. Lenient to others when the exigency of circumstances forbade pay- ment, he never permitted such indulgence to him- self, and the business probity of the man was en- tirely in keeping with his character.
"Life may be said to have glided smoothly with Mr. Sterling. Never reaching out beyond the ordinary certainties, he escaped the financial rocks that wreck and the rapids that ruin. He was content with the solid in trade, and turned a deaf ear to the dazzling chances of great and speedy wealth; but he was successful. The evidences of plenty were not wanting about his business or home. The one met every requirement of de- mand ; the other those of refined taste and love. In a far greater degree than can be written of most men, his life was stainless-and this is the most precious legacy he could leave behind. No man did more for the community in which he lived, and as the years pass on his loss will be greatly felt in every branch of trade and artery of employment. But greatest, deepest and most lasting will be the blow to the one now wearing the weeds of widowhood, and the children whose lips will ever speak his name reverently and with ten- derest love."
Daniel T. and Susan Sterling had: I. Ad- dison Alexander, of whom later. 2. George Hollenback, died Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Jan- uary 25. 1865. In 1861 he enlisted for three years' service from October II, 1861, as sergeant Company B, Fifty-second Pennsylvania Regi- ment Infantry ; was promoted to sergeant-major of his regiment November 14, 1862, and from sergeant-major to adjutant, May 19, 1863 ; trans- ferred to Company K, same regiment, as first lieutenant, October 10, 1864. This regiment was commanded by Colonels John C. Dodge, Henry Martyn Hoyt and John Butler Conyngham. At
aastarting
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the time of his death Lieutenant Sterling was serving on the staff of Major-General Terry, of Fort Fisher fame. Lieutenant George H. Ster- ling was captured July, 1864, one of General William B. Franklin's aides. 3. Sarah Man- dane, married Charles F. Cross, of Philadelphia. 4. Arthur Hamilton, merchant, Meshoppen, Pennsylvania. 5. Jean H., married Dr. Joseph H. Pettit, of Philadelphia. 6. Theodore, died in infancy.
Addison Alexander Sterling, eldest child of Daniel Theodore and Susan Ashley (Loomis) Sterling, was born in Meshoppen, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania. He lived in his native village until he was fourteen years of age, when, having made a good educational beginning in the common schools he entered the State University of Wisconsin, of which his uncle was founder and professor. After completing the course of study he returned home and became associated with his father in the mercantile business. In 1872 he located in Wilkes-Barre. He accepted a clerical position in the People's Bank, then standing on the site of the Music Hall Block, be- ·came teller, and in 1882 became cashier, a posi- tion which he has occupied to the present time. He is also a director in the institution. He is prominently identified with a number of the most important commercial and financial corporations of the city,among them being the following : Vice- president West End Coal Company and of the Wilkes-Barre Gas Company ; director Hazelton & Wilkes-Barre Traction Company, and Hazel- ton Electric Light Company: Wyoming Light & Power Company; West Side Gas Company ; Standard Electric Light Company; president Meshoppen Borough Water Company ; District Messenger Telegraph Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer; Reader Lithograph- ing, Printing, Binding and Blank Book Man- facturing Company; and Collins-Hale Manu- facturing Company, in both of which he is also a stockholder. He has been a director in the Nesbitt Theatre Company since the erection of the edifice. In the business with which he be- came identified on first coming to this city (that of banking), he has been in longer continuous service than any others, with two or three excep- tions. He is an original member of the West- moreland Club, and served for several years upon its board of governors; also a member of the Country Club, the Benevolent and Protective Or- der of Elks; the Wyoming Historical and Geo- logical Society, and the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution. He is a communicant of 'St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church.
In 1870 Mr. Sterling married Miss Mary Hobson Beardsley, daughter of Charles and Han- nah Beardsley. Her father was a leading car- riage manufacturer in New York City,and is now deceased, as is his wife. Mrs. Sterling descends from William Beardsley, of Stratford-on-Avon, England, and Stratford, Connecticut, 1635, a deputy to the general court of Connecticut seven years ; also from Governor Thomas Welles, gov- ernor of Connecticut, 1655 and 1658, one of the charter members of that colony ; also from Lieu- tenant John Holister, deputy to the general court of Connecticut. 1645-56: also from Richard Treat, deputy 1637-44, assistant 1657-65, mem- ber of the governor's council 1663-65, and many other of the founders of New England.
H. E. H.
WELLES FAMILY. There were person- ages of distinguished prominence in various branches of the Welles family in European coun- tries, and students of ancestral history have traced them back well into the middle ages (794) where they were of "high rank in Normandy and Eng- land, with royal intermarriages for several cen- turies"-with coats-of-arms and other insignia of valorous deeds in war, conquests of court, and fealty to the sovereign. But with all these things the present work has little to do, other than to note that out of this distinguished and titled fam- ily in England nearly two and three-fourth cen- turies ago there came one who bore the name of Thomas Welles, who immigrated to America and cast his fortunes with the Puritans of New Eng- land. Behind him in the mother country were left the family titles and other evidences of noble lineage except his noble character. The broad Atlantic separated this Thomas from all that had been in the past, and he was to build anew, to found a new family, without titles, without coats- of-arms emblematic of deeds of war, but with an honorable lineage, an honest purpose, an humble heart, to walk according to divine law and the law of the colony in which he took up his abode. In due season this Thomas Welles became a leader among the people and governed over them, helped them to frame their government and ad- minister the law; and when his course was run, and the sum of his virtues had heen cast, it was found that this Thomas of noble lineage in old England had been a man of achievement in New England ; and as with Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut, so with his descendants. In each generation of those who came after him there have been men of achievement in all the walks of life, and they have suffered nothing because of
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the action of their American ancestor in exchang- ing the conditions of life in England for those in the western continent.
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Thomas Welles, of Connecticut, was a lineal descendant of the Essex branch of the Welles family in England, and was born in Essex county, in 1598. In 1635 John Winthrop, son of Gover- por Winthrop, of Massachusetts, arrived at Bos- ton with a commission from Lord Saye and Seal, Lord Brooke, and other noblemen interested in the Connecticut patent, to erect a fort at the mouth of the Connecticut river, and dispute the Dutch claim to right of possession in that region, and to protect the patented lands against in- trusion ; and in carrying out the purposes of his commission Lord Saye and Seal in 1636 visited the Connecticut valley, became discouraged with the project, and left his secretary, Thomas Welles, to carry on the work. At this time and in this connection Thomas Welles first became a part of the life and history of the colony of Con- necticut.
In both paternal and maternal lines the Welles family traces an interesting descent from that old Puritan hero, Lieutenant John Hollister, of Wethersfield. Lieutenant John married Joanna Treat, and had John, who married Sarah Good- rich and had Sarah, who married Benjamin Tal- cott, and had Colonel Elizur Talcott, who mar- ried Ruth Wright and had Prudence Talcott, who married George Welles, who led the way of the Welles family in Pennsylvania in 1798. Again, Lieutenant John Hollister and Joanna Treat had a daughter Elizabeth, who married Samuel Welles and had Samuel Welles, who married Ruth Rice, and had Thomas Welles, who married Martha Pitkin, and had John Welles, who mar- ried Jerusha Edwards, and had George Welles, who married Prudence Talcott. Benjamin Tal- cott, 1674-1727, father of Colonel Elizur Talcott, 1709-1767, was son of Sammel Talcott, 1635- 1691, who married Hannah Holyoke, and Sam- uel Talcott was son of John Talcott. The Tal- cotts and the Holyokes and the Pynchons were re- lated by intermarriages, and they were among the earliest settlers in the Connecticut valley.
With his company Thomas Welles went up the valley of the Connecticut as far as Hartford, where he settled in the infant colony at that place, which originally was called Dutch Point. He at once took an active part in public affairs ; was chosen magistrate in 1637, and served as such until his death, 1660; was elected treasurer of the colony, 1639; secretary, 1643 ; commissioner to represent Connecticut in the confederation of New England colonies, 1649; acting governor,
1654, vice Governor Hopkins, deceased ; deputy governor by election, 1654; governor, 1655: deputy governor, 1656; governor, 1658; deputy governor, 1659, and died in office January 14. 1660, at his home in Wethersfield. He was a man of means as well as influence, and was re- garded as one of the wealthiest persons in the Connecticut colony. Thomas Welles married, in England, 1618, a Miss Hunt, died Hartford, Con- necticut, about 1640 ; he married (second) Eliza- beth Foote, daughter of John Deming, of Eng- land, and widow of Nathaniel Foote. He had eight children by his first marriage.
Samuel Welles, fourth son and fifth child of Governor Thomas Welles, born Essex county, England, 1630; drowned in Connecticut river, July 15, 1675; married, Hartford, Connecticut, Elizabeth Hollister, died 1683, daughter of John Hollister, of Wethersfield, Connecticut ; married (second) Hannah Lambertson, daughter of George Lambertson, of New Haven. Samuel Welles came with his parents to Saybrook in 1636, and in that year removed to Hartford, and in 1649 to Wethersfield, where he afterward lived and died. He took the freeman's oath in Hart- ford, May 21, 1657, and was deputy magistrate at Hartford, 1657-61. Mr. Welles had six child- ren, issue of his first marriage.
Captain Samuel Welles, eldest child of Sam- uel and Elizabeth (Hollister) Welles, born Weth- ersfield, April 3, 1660, died August 28, 1731 ; married, Glastonbury, Connecticut, June 20. 1683. Ruth Rice, born Glastonbury, 1660, died there March 30, 1742. Captain Samuel was selectman, deputy to the general court, sergeant of militia,. and later captain. Captain Samuel and Ruth (Rice) Welles had six children.
Thomas Welles, fourth child, third son, of Captain Samuel and Ruth (Rice) Welles, born Glastonbury, February 14, 1693, died there May 14, 1767 ; married, December, 1715, Martha Pit- kin, born East Hartford, Connecticut, February 2, 1692, died August 15, 1788, daughter of Will- iam Pitkin, of East Hartford. Thomas and Martha Welles had nine children.
John Welles, son of Thomas Welles and his wife, Martha Pitkin, born Glastonbury, August II, 1729, died there April 16, 1764: married, March 7, 1753, Jerusha Edwards, baptized Octo- ber 1, 1732, died August 15, 1778. Jerusha Ed- wards was daughter of Samuel and Jerusha ( Pit- kin ) Edwards. Samuel Edwards was son of Richard and Mary (Talcott) Edwards, of Hart- ford. Richard Edwards was son of William and Agnes (Spencer) Edwards, of Hartford. Mary Talcott, born 1661, died April 19, 1723, was
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