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The remains of the deceased were interred in the Hollenback cemetery with military hon- ors, by Ely Post, Grand Army of the Republic. At their conclusion "Taps" (the saddest, sweet- est, of all army calls) were sounded by Sergeant Boettger, U. S. A., with the same silver bugle which he used over the remains of General Ulysses S. Grant and General William S. Han- cock. .
Mr. Bogert married. December 31, 1879, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mary E., daughter of Lorenzo D. and Elizabeth J. Patterson, of Sweetair, near Baltimore, Maryland. Two chil- dren were born to them: Lawrence Patterson, born August 12, 1881, died September 6, 1881 ; and Harold Patterson, born March 14, 1883, now residing in Wilkes-Barre, with his widowed mother. He graduated at Hillman Academy at Wilkes-Barre, and later was a student at Yale College, class 1905, and a member of the Chi, Phi fraternity there. He is now located in the International Text Book Company of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Bogert was educated at the State Nor- mal School, Millersville, Pennsylvania. After her course there she taught for one term at the Col- legiate Institute, Salem, New Jersey, from which through the efforts of influential friends, she was called to the Franklin grammar school in Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania. She achieved great suc- cess in her vocation, teaching for the love of the work, as well as for the remuneration received, and continued in this capacity until her mar- miage to Mr. Bogert. After the decease of Mr. Bogert, little more than a year after he had en- tered upon the office of postmaster, the citizens of Wilkes-Barre, without regard to politics, united in a determined effort to secure the posi- tion for Mrs. Bogert, and forwarded to the Post- office department, a petition which was acknow- ledged at the time to be the strongest paper of the kind ever presented there. As a re- sult, President Cleveland appointed her post- master of Wilkes-Barre, April 5, 1887. During her five years incumbency of the office she gave personal supervision to the details of all depart- ments of the office, controlling both clerical and carrier forces, and devoting the greater portion of her time to the work. She was also appointed by the Postmaster General to the task of county postoffice visitation, and this called out some of her best work. She personally visited forty- four postoffices in Luzerne county, making a thorough inspection, giving special instruction where needed, and affording the benefit of her knowledge in various cases where the postmas- ter labored under peculiar difficulties. The re- sult of her labor was cordially appreciated by the. Postmaster General, and her report was repro- duced at length in a printed volume containing his annual report and the statistics of the depart- ment.
About a fortnight after the completion of her official term as postmaster, Mrs. Bogert was- called back to the office by a series of sad cir- cumstances. The new postmaster being called away by the death of his father, the postmaster requested Mrs. Bogert to take temporary charge- of the office. This she did, and later, at his re- quest, accepted the position of assistant postmas- ter. Her service continued for eight years, ex- tending her postoffice labors to thirteen years. During this entire period her relations with both the department and her employees were most pleasant. She received from the department many evidences of sincere appreciation, and every courtesy from those immediately about her. At her retirement she was kindly remem- bered by the clerks and carriers of the Wilkes-
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Barre office, and the latter presented to her an artistic and exquisite pen and ink testimonial of several pages, beautifully illustrated and bound in leather. The concluding phrases were a pleas- ing tribute: "In a word she has been our friend, as well as our official superior. She has had our respect and esteem, as well as our willing obed- ience, and she carries with her into her retire- ment from the position she has so dutifully and honorably filled, the undying good wishes of her Letter Carriers." H. E. H.
JACOB WELLINGTON BOGERT, of Wilkes-Barre, sixth child of Samuel and Eliza- beth (Ranton) Bogert, was born in Columbus, September 29, 1848. He was educated in the public schools and New Columbus Academy, where he graduated in 1868. He then learned the trade of blacksmith, which for a number of years he followed at Dallas. For several years prior to June, 1903, he was pressman for the Wilkes- Barre Leader, and since that date has been an attache of the Prudential Insurance Company. He is a member of the Knights of Malta, Prince of Peace Commandery No. 69, and is deputy grand commander of the Luzerne County Dis- trict. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, No. 396. Wilkes-Barre, and Junior Order of United American Mechanics, Columbia Council. No. 43. He is a Democrat in politics.
He married, at Shickshinny, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1876, Emma Alice Seward, of Har- veyville, who was a teacher in the public schools of Luzerne county, daughter of Levi and Mary (Smith) Seward, of Huntington township. Mrs. Bogert was the organizer of the Dames of Malta, No. 20, Wilkes-Barre,and is a member of Conyng- ham Relief Corps, No. 37 ; the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and was one of the first fe- male school directors to serve in New Columbus, Luzerne county, and was the secretary of the school board for two and one-half years.
Nine children were born to Jacob W. and Emma Alice (Seward) Bogert: 1. Stanley, who is in charge of the Scripps-McRae Press Asso- ciation at Cleveland, Ohio. He represented his employers on the special car of Vice-President Fairbanks on his electioneering tour across the continent in 1904. 2. Daisy P., graduated as a trained nurse at the Wilkes-Barre City Hos- pital : afterwards she married Frederick W. Wachterhouser, and they are the parents of one child, Pauline : they reside in Staten Island, New York. 3. J. Leslie. 4. Lawrence S. 5. Fran- ces Ruth, died February 13, 1892. 6. May E.
7. Joseph K. 8. Paul J. 9. Earl F. Mr .. Bogert attends the Presbyterian church, of which his wife and family are members.
H. E. H.
EDWARD FREAS BOGERT, eighth child. of Samuel and Elizabeth (Ranton) Bogert, was born September 27, 1856. He is a native of Lu- zerne county, Pennsylvania. After the death of his brother, Joseph K. Bogert, in February, 1887, . he managed the Evening and Weekly Leader up to April 1, 1888, at which date he acquired the ownership of the Evening and Weekly Leader. which were consolidated with the Sunday Morn- ing Leader (a publication established by E. F. Bogert in November, 1885), and for fifteen. years prior to January 1, 1903, was editor, pro- prietor and publisher of the same. On April 6, 1896, he was appointed by President Grover Cleveland postmaster of Wilkes-Barre over sev- eral formidable competitiors. He was confirmed by the senate May 6, and assumed the duties of the position June 1, 1896. Although carefully looking after his newspapers and postoffice du- ties, Mr. Bogert found time for other occupa- tions that combine pleasure with business. He made himself a leader in the development of ath- letic sports in the city, being the prime mover in establishing the Athletic Park in 1886. For a number of years he served as president of the Wilkes-Barre Base Ball Club ; and is a member . of the Eastern League, composed of the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Troy and Albany, New York; Montreal and Toronto, Canada ; Providence, Rhode Island; Worcester and Springfield, Massachusetts : Newark and Jersey City, New Jersey, and Scranton and Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania, and was a director of the latter. From April, 1884, to December, 1886,. he served in the Ninth Regiment National Guard, and holds an honorable discharge. He is a mem- ber of a number of fraternal organizations, among which is the Wilkes-Barre Lodge of Elks, the Masonic bodies, including Royal Arch,. Knights Templar. Scottish Rite, Thirty-second degree, and Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Royal Arcanum, P. O. S. of A., and other orders, and has always taken an active interest in their advancement. Politically Mr. Bogert has always been an earnest Democrat, and an active worker in the interests of the party, alike through his editorial work and his personal connection. with party movements.
Mr. Bogert was married November 15, 1897, by the Rev. Dr. Henry L. Jones, to Sarah Eve-
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lyn Bates, daughter of John H. and Sara Evelyn (Caslow) Bates, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylva- nia, and granddaughter of Captain and Mrs. John F. Caslow, of Washington, D. C., with whom she had lived since childhood. Captain John F. Caslow died in Washington, D. C., No- vember 22, 1902, aged seventy-eight years, and was buried at Arlington with military honors and full ritualistic services under the auspices of Encampment No. III, Union Veteran Legion, of which he was a member. He was attached to the Army of the Potomac, and rendered merito- rious service to his country. He was a member of Meade Post, G. A. R., of Washington, and was also a Scottish Rite Mason. He was born January 29, 1824, in Londonderry township, near Harrisburg, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. His wife, Mrs. Sarah E. Caslow, died in Washing- ton, D. C., March 16, 1904, and was buried in Arlington cemetery. Captain and Mrs. Caslow were the parents of six children, one son and five daughters.
Edward F. and Sarah E. (Bates) Bogert are the parents of two children: Dorothea Caslow, born September 25, 1898: and Sara Evelyn, born March 18, 1903. H. E. H.
WRIGHT FAMILY. John Wright (I) (Samuel 2, Caleb 3. Joseph 4, Hendrick Bradley 5. Harrison 6) came from England to Amer- ica with William Penn's colony of immigrant Quakers in 1681, and was the founder of the vil- lage of Wrightstown, Burlington county, New Jersey. He held a commission of justice of the peace, and also captain of the militia, under the roval seal of Charles II. His wife was Abigail Crispin, daughter of Silas Crispin, the elder, and his wife Mary (Stockton) Shinn, daughter of Lieutenant Richard Stockton. of Long Island (1664-80) and New Jersey ( 1680-1707). After the grant of Pennsylvania to Penn, Silas Crispin was appointed surveyor-general, and sailed with William Crispin, his father and others, who were commissioned with power to purchase lands from the Indians, and to select a site for and lay out a great city. William died on the voyage and Captain Thomas Holmes was appointed his suc- cessor.
Samuel Wright (2), son of John and Abi- gail, was born in Wrightstown in 1719, and died in 1781 ; married Elizabeth Haines, daughter of .Caleb Haines of Evesham.
Caleb Wright (3), son of Samuel and Eliza- beth, was born in Wrightstown January 14,
1754. He married in 1779, Catherine, daughter of John Gardner, and removed with his family to the "Susquehanna country" in 1795. He pur- chased and settled on a farm in Union township, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, two miles above Shickshinny, where he remained unil 1811, and then returned to New Jersey, where both he and his wife died. They lived to good old age, and their remains were buried in the Friends' burial ground at East Branch, Upper Freehold, Mon- mouth county.
Joseph Wright (4), son of Caleb and Cather- ine, was born May 2, 1785, and was ten years old when his parents removed from Wrights- ville to the "Susquehanna country." Previous to the return of his father to New Jersey he had married and established a small store in Plym- outh, and he alone of the family remained in Wyoming Valley. He lived in Plymouth more than half a century, and during that period was intimately connected with its government and was one of its representative men. He was the second mercantile proprietor there, but was in business only a short time, as he devoted himself chiefly to farming pursuits. For two hundred years his ancestors had been Friends, and he steadily adhered to that faith to the hour of his death, notwithstanding the fact of his expulsion from the Society because he had married outside of the limits of the church and contrary to its discipline. Unlike the majority of the Friends he was not on principle "conscientiously scrupu- lous of bearing arms." In this respect he relaxed somewhat the rigid adherence to the teachings of the Society, entered the American service dur- ing the second war with Great Britain, and marched with Captain Halleck's company of militia as a third regiment to the defense of Bal- timore, although its services were not required. Fourteen officers and men, including Sergeant Wright and Lieutenant Noah Wadhams, were drawn from Plymouth, and all, or nearly all, were assigned to Captain Peter Halleck's company. They marched to Danville, and they were at- tached to the Thirty-sixth Regiment Militia. For his services Sergeant Wright received a United States land warrant for 140 acres of the public domain.
Joseph Wright married, June 15, 1807, Ellen Hendrick. born January 12, 1776, widow of Moses Wadhams, and daughter of John Hen- drick and his wife Eunice Bradley, who was a descendant in the fourth generation of Daniel Hendrick (who was of Haverhill in 1645, and
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had been of Hampton in 1639) and wife Dorothy Pike, daughter of John Pike, of Newbury, in 1635. Moses Wadhams was one of the four sons of Rev. Noah Wadham (he thus wrote his name), born Connecticut, May 17, 1726, a de- scendant of the fourth generation of John Wad- ham, of Somersetshire, England, who was early as 1650 settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, where he died in 1676. Noah 2d graduated from Princeton, A. B., 1754; married November 8, 1758, Elizabeth Ingersoll, of New Haven; was for several years pastor of Congregational church in New Preston, Connecticut ; came first to the Wyoming Valley, 1772, but soon returned to Connecticut ; came again in 1773 to Plymouth, Pennsylvania, as minister to that town, and con- tinued to perform the duties of his calling in that and other towns until his death, May 22, 1806.
Joseph Wright died August 14, 1855, and Ellen Hendrick Wright died August 6, 1872. Their children were:
Hendrick Bradley Wright, born April 24, 1808, died September 2, 1881 ; see forward.
Caleb Earl Wright, born February 4, 1810, died December 2, 1899 ; married April 30, 1838, Phebe Ann Fell, daughter of William Fell, of Philadelphia. Caleb Earl was educated in Plym- outh and Wilkes-Barre academies, read law with John G. Montgomery, of Danville, Pennsylva- nia ; admitted to Luzerne bar August 6, 1833 ; admitted to Bucks county bar, and practiced in Doylestown ; was president of the first borough council of Doylestown in 1838; and was ap- pointed deputy prosecuting attorney for Bucks county in 1839. He returned to Wilkes-Barre in June, 1853; was grand master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania (I. O. O. F.) 1855-56; was one of the organizers of the Wyoming His- torical and Geological Society, 1858; member of the Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association ; trustee of the Wyoming Seminary; U. S. col- lector of internal revenue 1866-69 ; member con- stitutional convention, 1873; local preacher Methodist Episcopal church ; returned to Doyles- town 1876, gave up practice and devoted himself to literary pursuits ; was author of "Wyoming ; a Tale," (1864) ; "Marcus Blair ; a Story of Pro- vincial Times" (1873) ; "On the Lackawanna" (1886) : "A Legend of Bucks County" ( 1887) ; "Rachel Craig" (1888).
Ellen Wright, born July 10, 1812: died Oc- tober 31, 1891.
Harrison Wright, born Plymouth, January 24, 1815; died August 25, 1856; married No-
vember 14, 1841, Emily Cist,1 died Wilkes-Barre,. September 26, 1894, daughter of Jacob Cist and his wife Sarah Hollenback. Mr. Wright was educated in Plymouth and Wilkes-Barre, admit- ted to practice law, November 6, 1838; appointed deputy attorney general for Luzerne county and. served until 1843 ; partner with his brother Caleb E. Wright from July, 1853, to time of Harrison's death ; elected representative, 1855; died 1856. He was "an eminent lawyer, a generous and con- fiding friend, and an upright and honest man." In the very best and most enlarged sense of the phrase, he was a man of public spirit. To the erection of our churches-to the schemes for the development of our mineral resources-to the or- ganization of our gas company-to the measures requisite to the completion of the North Branch canal-to the efforts to extend to this county the general mining law-to the establishment of our law library-his experience and liberality were- ungrudgingly and effectively extended." (Har-
I. Emily Cist was a descendant of Charles Cist, well-to-do German merchant, who settled in St. a
Petersburg, Russia, and married there Anna Maria. Thomassen. Their second child, Charles Cist, born August 15, 1738, matriculated April 23, 1755, as studi- osus medicine, University of Halle, but did not gradu- ate; entered practice and had an apothecary store in St. Petersburg; was a liberalist; joined with others in revolution to overthrow the government ; was discovered, goods confiscated, and he exiled to Siberia, 1767; es- caped and fled to America; landed in Philadelphia,. October 25, 1773; employed on Pennsylvanischer Staats- bote to translate English into German; 1775, partner with Melchoir Styner in printing office, but discontinued in 1776; enrolled as a member of the Third battalion,. Pennsylvania militia, 1777, and took oath of allegiance ; resumed business after British evacuation of city, and in 1779 established a German newspaper; 1784, with others established The American Herald and General Advertiser, soon discontinued; 1789, established, with. others, Columbian Magasine. Mr. Cist published be- tween 1781-1805 several religious and political works in at least four languages, and continued in the capacity of printer, publisher and bookseller until his death in. 1805. He was a member of the German Society of Pennsylvania ; member school committee 1782, and sec- retary of the association in 1795; secretary of a fire - insurance company in Philadelphia.
His son Jacob tested on the "black stone" (coal) discovered on the Lehigh hy Philip Genter and taken. to Philadelphia by Col. Weiss, and which he pronounced to be anthracite coal. He was one of the founders and stockholders of the Lehigh Coal Mining Company, 1792. He died of apoplexy Dec. 1, 1805, and lies buried in Moravian burial-ground in Bethlehem. He married,. June 7, 1781, Mary, daughter of John Jacob and Re- hecca Weiss, and had eight children. (See Mcclintock: Family).
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vey's "Lodge No. 61.") Children of Harrison Wright and his wife, Emily Cist: Josephine, Mrs. Hillman (see Hillman 'Family) ; Augusta, deceased; Jessie ; Mrs. William J. Harvey ( see Harvey sketch) ; Harrison (see below) ; Sarah, Mrs. George W. Guthrie (see Guthrie Family) ; Jacob Ridgway (see below).
Samuel Gardner Wright, born August 2, 1817; died March 26, 1818.
Aristeen Wright, born June 29, 1820; died . September 7, 1822. H. E. H.
HARRISON WRIGHT (6), A. M., Ph. D., eldest son of Harrison Wright (5) and his wife Emily Cist, born Wilkes-Barre, July 15. 1850, died Wilkes-Barre, February 20, 1885. He early developed those mental traits which character- ized his more mature manhood. Before he was fifteen years old he had acquired a marked taste for history and the natural sciences, and he formed at that time an interesting cabinet of spec- imens and objects illustrative of his several pur- suits. After a preparatory course of study at home he was in 1867 matriculated as a student of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, Ger- many, and in 1871 was graduated with the de- : grees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philoso- phy. He also acquired a thorough understanding of German, and became proficient in the French and Italian languages. Indeed, his versatility was remarkable, illuminating everything he undertook. His especial study in Heidelberg was mineralogy, and his excellence in his pursuit of this science induced his preceptor, the late Professor Blum (the leading mineralogist of his time) to select Mr. Wright as assistant professor of mineralogy, but a prolonged summer's absence from the Uni- versity led to the appointment of another. Much of his vacation time was spent in European travel with a view to archaeological research and the study of national customs, and thus he became a member of the Archaeological Society of Rome, and likewise was accorded honorary membership of the Papal Club, a social organization of the officers of the Papal Guard.
In 1871 Mr. Wright returned to his home in Wilkes-Barre and soon afterward took up the study of law in the office of his uncle, Andrew T. McClintock, LL. D., and was duly admitted to the Luzerne bar September 14, 1874. He never engaged actively in practice although ad- mirably equipped by native endowment and ac- quired acknowledge for a high place in the legal profession. The temptations of politics were pre- sented to him, but he declined them, and natur-
ally sought out the more congenial pursuits of literature and science, a field of unlimited boun- daries, and one in which he accomplished exceed- ingly good results. He early became a member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological So- ciety, and was its mainstay and support, and most devoted friend as long as he lived. He was its recording secretary, 1872-85; member of board of trustees, 1884-85 ; and curator of min- eralogy, 1884-85; in fact, he was the guiding spirit of the society from the day he first took an interest in its affairs until his death. The third volume of the "Proceedings of the Society" is all eloquent "Memorial" of him.
H. E. H.
MAJOR JACOB RIDGWAY WRIGHT, youngest son of Harrison Wright and his wife Emily Cist, born in Wilkes-Barre, July 7, 1856, died January 20, 1905. He graduated from Princeton College, B. A., 1879. In November, 1886, he was elected to represent Wilkes-Barre in the state legislature. He was adjutant of Ninth Regiment, and inspector of Third Brigade, National Guard of Pennsylvania ; was recording secretary of the Wyoming Historical and Geo- logical Society, 1885-86; librarian, 1887-99 : vice- president, 1900-1905, and a life member ; elected member of the Wilkes-Barre city council in 1894; became a member of Lodge 61, F. and A. M., August 5, 1889 ; was a member of Shekinah Chapter, R. A. M., and Dieu le Veut Comman- dery, K. T .: and past illustrious potentate of Irem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He was also a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, Pennsylvania Society of Colo- nial Wars, and Pennsylvania Society of the War of 1812; and the courageous and successful pres- ident of the Luzerne County Citizens' Alliance during the strike in that county in 1902.
Jacob Ridgway Wright married. December 28, 1876, Stella Rieman, daughter of Robert Gar- rett Rieman and his wife Margaret Harvey. i ney had one son, Harrison Wright, born Octo- ber 13, 1887. H. E. H.
HENDRICK BRADLEY WRIGHT, eldest child and son of Joseph Wright and his wife Ellen Hendrick, was born in Plymouth, Penn- sylvania. April, 1808. He spent his youth at home with his parents, assisting his father on the farm and attending winter terms of school at Plymouth ; but he then laid the foundation of his college course, and in the fall of 1826, entered Dickinson College at Carlisle. He was a student
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there until the end of his junior year, when he left college and took up the study of law in the office of John N. Conyngham, of Wilkes-Barre ; and was admitted to practice November 8, 1831. About a year after his admission to the bar Mr. Wright was appointed deputy attorney general for Luzerne county, and in November, 1833, he was reappointed by Attorney General Dallas. In August, 1835, he resigned on the ground that he was "politically opposed to the state adminis- tration." At this time the anti-Masonic party was at the zenith of its power in Pennsylvania. Wolf, Democrat, was governor, and a candidate for re-election, but in 1835 he was defeated at the polls by Ritner, the nominee of the anti- Masons. Mr. Wright, then twenty-seven years old, took an active part in the councils and con- ventions of the latter party in Luzerne county during the campaign of that year. In June, 1835, he was elected and commissioned colonel of the Wyoming Volunteer Regiment, Second Brigade, Eighth Division, Pennsylvania Militia, which commission he held until 1842. With the exception of time given to politics, Colonel Wright devoted himself closely to the practice of law during the years following his admission to the bar, and he soon took a high position both as a lawyer and as an advocate, his success in the trial courts before a jury being somewhat re- markable. In 1837 and 1840 he was a member of the town council of Wilkes-Barre, and from May, 1838, to May, 1839, was burgess of the borough. . In 1840 he was elected to the lower house of the state legislature, and at once became a prominent member of that body-one of the leaders of the house. He was re-elected 1841, and was chairman of the committee on canals and internal improvements and a member of the judiciary committee. In 1842 he was offered a seat in the senate, but he preferred to remain in the lower house, and was re-elected for a third term. At the opening of the session he was chosen speaker, in which capacity he was. a "thorn in the side" of Porter's administration.
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