Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 73

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 988

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V. Hon. Joseph Slocum, eldest child of Giles and Mary (Paine) Slocum, was born 30th day of rith month (January), 1706, died in Newport, Rhode Island, where he spent his early vears and received his education. He married there ( first), September 27, 1724, Patience Carr, daughter of Caleb Carr, of Jamestown. They removed to East Greenwich township, Rhode Island, where he was made a freeman in 1732, and where he became a farmer and dealer in land. He married (second), in 1743, Hannah Joseph Slocum was chosen deputy to the Rhode Island general assembly from West Greenwich in 1741-42-44. It is presumed he removed to Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania, 1769, and there died in 1778. Children by first wife : I. Joanna, born April 4, 1725, in Newport, Rhode Island. 2. Mary, born November 1I, 1726, in Newport. Rhode Island. 3. Desire, born October 1. 1731, in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. 4. Jonathan, see forward. 5. Abigail, born 7 mo. 4, 1740, in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. 6. Patience, born 9 mo. 19, 1742, in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. Children by second wife. I. Martha, born I mo. 9, 1744. married Philip Aylesworth, Jr., June 14, 1762.

VI. Jonathan Slocum, fourth child of Jo- seph and Patience (Carr) Slocum, born in East Greenwich township, Kent county, Rhode Island. May 1, 1733, married, February 23, 1758, Ruth Tripp, born March 21, 1736, daughter of Isaac Tripp, Esq., of Warwick. After marriage they purchased land in Warwick, where they resided for some time. Joseph Slocum, his brother, start- ed for the beautiful Wyoming valley with his father-in-law in 1768 or 1769, and Jonathan, leaving his family behind, soon followed and pur- chased land near the city of Scranton. On No- vember 6. 1775, he purchased lot No. 15 in the town plat on the present site of the city of Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania. He later settled with his

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family within one hundred yards of the Wilkes- Barre fort, and here his beloved daughter, Frances Slocum, was seized by the Indians, No- vember 2, 1778, and carried into captivity. "The cup of vengeance was not yet filled." as Decem- ber 16, 1778, Jonathan Slocum, Isaac Tripp, his father-in-law, an aged man, and William Slocum, a youth, were out feeding cattle when they were fired on by the Indians and the two former were killed and scalped. William, although wounded, gave the alarm, but the alert and wily foe had fled to his hiding place in the mountain. This deed, bold as it was cruel, was perpetrated in the town plat, in the center of which the fortress was located. There in a short time Mrs. Slocum had lost her beloved child, Frances, her doorway drenched in blood by a member of the family being murdered, two others were taken away prisoners, and now her husband and father were stricken down, murdered and mangled by the merciless Indians. Verily the annals of Indian atrocities written in blood record few instances of desolation and woe to equal this." His wife died May 6, 1807, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylva- nia. They had ten children : I. Giles, born January 5, 1759, died November 14, 1826; he married Sarah Ross. 2. Judith, born October, 1760, died March II, 1814, Cincinnati, Ohio. She married, February 24, 1782, Hugh Forsman. He was a subaltern in Captain Hewett's company during the Wyoming massacre, and one of fif- teen of that corps who escaped, and the only one who brought back his gun. (See Wyoming Memorial to Congress.) 3. William, born Jan- uary 6, 1762, died October 20, 1810, see forward. 4. Ebenezer, born January 10, 1766, died July 25, 1832 ; married Sarah Davis. 5. Mary, born December 22, 1768, died April 5, 1844 ; married Joseph Towne. 6. Benjamin, born December 7, 1760 ; married Phebe La France. He was a taxable in Wilkes-Barre, 1799; was appointed, 18II, postmaster of the first postoffice in Lack- awanna valley; in 1826 removed to the village of Tunkhannock, where he died July 5, 1832. His son, Thomas Truxton Slocum, succeeded to his farm and gave two acres of land, May 25, 1842, on which to build the court house when Tunkhannock was given the honor of the seat of justice of Wyoming county, Pennsylvania. 7. Frances, born March, 1773, died 1847. (The Indian captive. See "History of Frances Slo- cum. the Lost Sister of Wyoming," compiled and written by her grandniece, Mrs. Martha Ben- nett Phelps, of Wilkes-Barre, 1905.) 8. Isaac, born March 4, 1775, died 1858; married Eliza-

beth Patrick. 9. Joseph, born April 9, 1777, died September 27, 1855; married Sarah Fell. 10. Jonathan, born September 12, 1778, died 1842; married Martha Underwood.

VII. William Slocum, third child of Jona- than and Ruth (Tripp) Slocum, born January 6, 1762; married, January 4, 1786, Sarah Saw- yer, born May 12, 1764. They were pioneer residents of Exeter township. He was sheriff 1795 to 1799, when he retired to his farm in Pittston township, and was elected justice of the peace in 1806. He was among the prominent and influential men of the county. He died on the homestead, October 20, 1810, and his wife died March 16, 1832. They had nine children : I. Lemuel, born March 24, 1787; married, De- cember 20, 1812, ; they removed to Delaware county, Ohio, where he died August 24, 1830. 2. Elizabeth, born October 3, 1788 ; married (first) William Jenkins, ( second) Zenas Barnum, 1815: she died August 22, 1869, and her children reside in Scranton, Pennsylvania. 3. Frances, born August 26, 1790, died April 12, 1822; married, August 30, 1812, Eleazer Carey. 4. Laton, see forward. 5. Sarah, born August 12, 1794, died March 17, 1829. 6. Rhoda, born July 17, 1796, died May 27, 1829; married James Wright. 7. Merritt, born July 12, 1789. recorder of Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, from 1836 till death, July 11, 1838. 7. Giles, born May 4, 1801, died May 10, 1878; married Sarah Perkins. 9. William, born May 4, 1803, died May. 1856; married Ann Le Stewart.

VIII. Laton Slocum, fourth child of William and Sarah (Sawyer) Slocum, born August 16, 1792, in Pittston, Luzerne county, Pennsylva- nia ; died while attending court in Wilkes-Barre, January 16, 1833. He spent his early years in his home town, where he was educated in the public schools. He was a farmer and spent his entire life on a farm. He married, March I, 1819, Gratey Scoville, born December 24. 1796, died September 5, 1829, daughter of James and Thankful (Nash) Scoville, of Exeter township. Pennsylvania. They settled on a farm in that. town, where they always resided.

IX. William Slocum, youngest child of Laton and Gratey (Scoville) Slocum, born Jan- uary 9, 1829, in Exeter township, Luzerne coun- ty, Pennsylvania, died October 8. 1895. His mother died when he was an infant, and he was .. educated and resided in Exeter until 1835, when he went to Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, where he remained two years. He resided in Owego. New York, 1839-40, and Mokelumne Hill, Cali-

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fornia, in 1852-53. He then returned to Pitts- ton, Pennsylvania, and resided there in 1856-57, and from the latter date until 1864 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went as a substitute to the Civil war. He married, February 17, 1864, in Osceola, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, Mary Ann Hoyt, born in Osceola, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1837, daughter of Abel and Esther Eliza (Hurlburt) Hoyt. (See Hoyt Family.) They had children : 1. James Phillips, born August 16, 1865, in Osceola, Tioga county, Pennsylva- nia, died August 8, 1886. 2. \\'illiam Giles, born November 23. 1869.

X. William Giles Slocum, youngest son of William and Mary Ann ( Hoyt) Slocum, born November 23. 1869, in Exeter township. Penn- sylvania, is the only lineal descendant in the tenth generation of one of the old and highly re- spected pioneer families of Wyoming valley. He received his education in the schools of the town where he now resides with his mother in the house adjoining the one built by his grandfather. Laton Slocum. He is a gardener and farmer of great ability, which fact is evidenced by the ap- pearance of his farm, which is one of the finest in Exeter township. This sketch was abridged and written from "The History of the Slocums." H. E. H.

MACFARLANE FAMILY. The "History of the Clan Macfarlane" says: "All historians agree that the ancestor of the Macfarlanes was Gilchrist, brother to Maulduin, third earl of Len- nox, the proof of which is the charter by which he gives his brother Gilchrist a grant 'de terris superiori Arrochar de Luss,' which lands con- tinued in the possession of the clan for six hun- dred years, until the sale of the estate in 1784. and have at all times constituted their principal inheritance."

The same authority says that the Macfar- lanes of the Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania. living principally in Kingston and emanating from that central locality, are of the descendants of James Macfarlane, of Ruthglen, Scotland, born there. 1776, who was for many years a pri- vate in the British army. James, son of James of Ruthglen, born Glasgow, 1800, married Jean Hunter. It is said she was of Paisley. Scotland, a town noted for its production of-famous Pais- ley shawls, and in the factories of which she was employed when a girl. She was a cousin of the noted David Livingston. James Macfarlane came with her to America about 1830, and for several years worked in the mines at Pottsville

and Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania. He located at Plymouth, in the Wyoming valley, in 1833, and. later removed to Edwardsville. In 1843 he su- perintended the opening of the first coal mine opened in Pittston-the Butler mine, where he remained until 1851. In partnership with Alva Tompkins, he opened and operated the Macfar- lane & Tompkins shaft. In 1856 he sold out, re- moved to Plymouth and opened there and oper -- ated until his death, in 1864. the Macfarlane shaft, . now owned by the Susquehanna Coal Company. James Macfarlane was an upright man, origin- ally a devout Presbyterian, and afterward equally devoted Methodist, active in church work, and . a warm friend of education. He was an earnest Abolitionist, later a Whig, and finally a Republi- can, but never in any sense a politician.

James and Jean ( Hunter) Macfarlane had children : James, Janet. Margaret, Elizabeth, Thomas Pringle and Clarinda. 1. James, mar- ried Eliza Hillard, and had three children : Mary. married De Haven Lance ; David and William. 2. Janet, married Andrew Lindsay and had two sons : James and George. 3. Margaret, married David Madden and had three children : William, Frank and Fannie. 4. Elizabeth, married John P. Fell, son of Hugh Fell, son of Joseph Fell, son of Samuel Fell, son of Samuel Fell, son of Thomas Fell, son of Joseph Fell of Longlands. parish of Uldale, Cumberland, England, who married (1) Bridget Willson, and (2) Eliza -- beth Doyle, and who was the ancestor of many of the Fells of Wilkes-Barre and the Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania. (See Fell Family). John P. and Elizabeth (Macfarlane) Fell had three children : Emma. Charles and Harriet. The. mother of these children died October 29, 1866, and Mr. Fell married (second) Elizabeth, daugh -. ter of William and Jane Patten.

Thomas Pringle Macfarlane, son of James. and Jean, was born in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1836, and was educated chiefly in Wyo- ming Seminary, where he graduated, 1857. From boyhood he had been associated with his father in mining enterprises until the death of the lat- ter in 1864. He was then made superintendent for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Company, and two years later superintended the- opening of the Gaylord mines at Plymouth, re- maining in the capacity of general manager un- til 1871. In 1872 he opened the Black Diamond mine in Luzerne, and in 1873 went to Colorado and engaged in mining operations one year. He then returned to the Wyoming valley and for two- years was superintendent of the Kingston Coal

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Company's mines. He then leased and for about ten years operated on his own account the Chaun- cey mine at Plymouth. Later on he was for sev- eral years engaged in contracting and promoting mining operations, being a stockholder and di- rector of the Wyoming Coal and Land Company. In 1901 he was appointed postmaster of King- ston by President Roosevelt, which position he held until this office became one of the sub-sta- tions of Wilkes-Barre, 1904.

Mr. Macfarlane is a firm Republican. He was one of the members of the Plymouth council, and afterward a member of the Kingston school board. He married, 1860, Margaret McCul- lough, died 1889, a native of Nova Scotia, daugh- ter of William McCullough and wife Christian Hutchinson. Their children are: Lincoln Mac- farlane, deceased ; Jessie Macfarlane, educated in Wyoming Seminary, at home; James Macfar- lane, deceased ; Ella Macfarlane, deceased ; Sa- rah Mercur Macfarlane, deceased ; William Macfarlane, deceased : Alfred Darte Macfarlane, born December 29, 1881, educated at Cornell and Lehigh Universities, mining engineer, member of the engineering corps of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company up to 1904, when he became connected with the Consolidated Coal and Coke Company of Pocahontas, West Virginia.

H. E. H.

LEWIS LEONIDAS ROGERS, M. D. The Rogers families of the Wyoming valley of the line under consideration in this narrative were of English origin and New England ancestry. The pioneer of the family in the Wyoming val- ley in Pennsylvania was Josiah Rogers, who was born in 1720, settled in Plymouth in 1776, and. died in 1815. He shared the privations of the period immediately preceding and during the Revolutionary war, and suffered with the other settlers in the losses incident to the early years of that memorable struggle. After the battle and massacre at Wyoming, Josiah Rogers went with his family down the Susquehanna river and thence across the mountains towards Northamp- ton and Berks counties. His wife, who was greatly exhausted from the fatigue of the jour- ney, died in the wilderness, many miles from any human habitation, July 9, 1778. She was buried in the woods, a broken board being used as a spade with which to dig hier shallow grave. but the ceremony was as solemn and impressive as if accompanied with the formality of a funeral at home. On a piece of board which was placed at the head of her grave was written with char-

coal this inscription: "Here rest the remains of Hannah, wife of Josiah Rogers, who died while fleeing from the Indians after the massa- cre at Wyoming." Mrs. Rogers was fifty-two years old, and her maiden name was Hannah Ford.

After the burial of his wife Mr. Rogers and the remaining members of his family continued their journey until they came to the settlement at the Blue mountain, where they remained sev- eral months, and then returned to Plymouth. Their stay there was brief on account of contin- ued Indian troubles, and they were compelled to seek the protection of the forts further up the river. In 1779 Mr. Rogers, in company with Capt. James Bidlack, started on horseback to Plymouth to see if it was safe to remove his fam- ily there, but they encountered the savages and were compelled to turn back: unfortunately, Captain Bidlack's saddle girth broke, causing him to fall to the ground, and, still worse, to fall into the hands of the Indians. Mr. Rogers escaped unharmed, but there were two bullet holes in his coat. He stood firmly with the settlers during the later years of the war and the still later con- test over land titles, and was looked upon as one of the leading men of the settlement in his time. He died in 1815 at the ripe old age of ninety-six years. Many of his descendants are still living in the lower part of the Wyoming valley.

The line of descent of this branch of the Rog- ers family from the American ancestor is noted as follows: Joseph Rogers came from England. and his wife was Sarah Currier. Their son, Hope Rogers, married Esther Mecomb, and their son, Josiah Rogers, the pioneer of the family in the Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania, married Han- nah Ford. Their son, Jonah Rogers, married Deliverance Chaffee, and their son, Joel Rogers, married (first) Polly Linn: (second) Mary Jack- son, married September 30, 1815: (third) Amy Bonhorn. Joel Rogers was born March 7, 1780, and died July 29, 1850. His wife, Mary Jack- son, was born November 24, 1784, and died Oc- tober 7, 1836. Their children : Jose Rogers, born July 24, 1816: Joel Jackson Rogers, born March 4, 1818; Lydia Rogers, born December 24, 1819. died Sepember 13, 1844: Lewis W. Rogers, born May 22, 1822, died August 3, 1845, at Kelly, Union county ; Stephen Rogers, born April 17. 1824.

Rev. Joel Rogers was a clergyman of the Baptist Church, and a teacher whose influence was always for good in the community in which he lived and labored so long. His son. Dr. Joel

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Jackson Rogers, was born in Wilkes-Barre. Lu- zerne county, Pennsylvania, and acquired his early education .chiefly under his father's direc- tion, for he was a teacher as well as minister of the Gospel. In the winter of 1842-1843 he stud- ied medicine in New York City, and paid his personal expenses by selling books and period- icals during his leisure hours. He was regularly graduated from a medical institution, and in 1846 began his professional career in Lehman town- ship, in Luzerne county. In 1847 he removed to Huntsville, where he afterward lived and prac- ticed for a period of more than half a century. He was an active worker in the Methodist Epis- copal Church and its Sunday school for more than sixty years. At the time of his death in 1902 Dr. Rogers was the oldest member of the Luzerne County Medical Society.

Dr. Rogers married, April 15, 1851, at Trucks- ville, Pennsylvania, Sarah Caroline Rice, daugh- ter of Rev. Jacob Rice and wife Sarah Cook. Dr. Rogers and his wife celebrated their golden wedding April 15, 1901. Of their marriage five children were born, all of whom are now living, as is the mother, at the age of eighty-two years : Lewis Leonidas Rogers, born July 29, 1852, see forward ; Charles Jacob Rogers, born August 17, 1854, in Kingston: Mary Louise Rogers, born May 26, 1857, in Huntsville; Joseph Alfred Rogers, born July 7, 1859, in Huntsville ; Sarah Carrie Rogers, born October 27, 1862, married Samuel H. Sturdevant.

Dr. Lewis Leonidas Rogers was educated in the Wilkes-Barre public schools, Wyoming Sem- inary, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, the Philadelphia Lying-in Hos- pital, and the Jefferson Medical College of Phil- adelphia, graduating from the latter with the de- gree of MI. D., March 12, 1881. Later on he took a post-graduate course in gynecology under Professors Baer and Goodell at the University of Pennsylvania. His professional career was begun in Kingston in 1881, and he has since lived and practiced in that borough, although his practice extends very much beyond the limits of that place. He is a member of the American Medical Association and of the Pennsylvania State and Luzerne County Medical Societies. Aside from his medical practice, which always has been large, Dr. Rogers has been and is in many ways identified with the best interests and institutions of his vicinity. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, lecturer of hy- giene in Wyoming Seminary, and was one of the organizers and for two years president of the

Kingston Young Men's Christian Association. He taught school for six years before taking up the study of medicine.

Dr. Lewis Leonidas Rogers married, April 16, 1884, Mary Elizabeth Cushing, daughter of Joseph Charles Cushing and Hannah Rawleigh Brooks. Their children : Mary Cushing Rogers, born January 27, 1885 : Lewis Leonidas Rogers, born September 12, 1890.

Mrs. Rogers was born in Binghamton. New .York, August 18, 1855, and graduated from the Central High School of that city. She is de- scended from old New England stock, the family dating its history in America to the time of the Puritans. Joseph Charles Cushing, her father, was born in Bainbridge. Chenango county, New York, July 23, 1821, and died August 21, 1874. He was educated for the legal profession, but failing health compelled him to select some less confining occupation. He went south and trav- eled in connection with business pursuits, and later returned north and located in Bingham- ton, where he engaged in the manufacture of fur- niture. He was a Presbyterian and took much interest in church work. Politically he was a Whig, and afterward a Republican. He was a . member of Otseningo Lodge, F. and A. M., of Binghamton. His wife, whom he married in Binghamton, August 10, 1854, was Hannah Raw- leigh Brooks, daughter of Dr. Pelatiah Brooks ... and wife Sarah Mccullough. Joseph C. Cush- ing was a son of William Cushing, who was born July 25, 1792 ; married, October 25, 1818, Betsey Olmsted, who was born July 27, 1799. Hannah Rawleigh Brooks Cushing was educated in Bing- hamton at Miss White's Seminary, besides which she had private instruction in the languages. She died November 20, 1867. She was a devout Methodist and active in church work; a woman of refined literary tastes, a writer of considera- ble note, and some of her works were published. She was a descendant in direct line from Lord Brooke, who founded Saybrook, in the colony of Connecticut. Her great-grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution, one of Washington's aides, and lost an arm at Brandywine. He was brevetted for bravery in action, and was offered but declined, a pension. Her grandfather, Dr .. Pelatiah B. Brooks, was one of the earliest phy- sicians in Broome county, and a man of great in- fluence and dignity, a student all his life, to the age of eighty-six years. He was a Methodist, and in politics originally a Democrat, but at the close of Buchanan's term his party drifted away from him and left him in the Republican ranks. He -

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died in May, 1874. His wife was Sarah McCul- lough, and they had eight children.

Sarah Carrie Rogers, youngest child and daughter of Dr. Joel Jackson and Sarah Caro- line (Rice) Rogers, was born October 27, 1862. She was educated at Wyoming Seminary, and is a member of the Methodist Church, taking an earnest interest in all that pertains to the wel- fare of that society. She married, at Huntsville, Pennsylvania, December 19, 1888, Samuel Henry Sturdevant. Mr. Sturdevant was born at Har- vey's Lake, Luzerne county, May 14, 1861, and died July 5, 1903. When he was three months old his parents removed to Wilkes-Barre, where he was educated in the public schools and in Wyoming Seminary. Leaving school, he engaged with his father in the lumber business which was his chief occupation as long as he lived ; but he was otherwise identified with the business his- tory of the locality, being organizer of the Ganoga Ice Company, vice-president of the Penn- sylvania Lumbermen's Protective Association, and general manager of S. H. Sturdevant's Sons lumbering interests. He was always a busy man, successful in his operations, fair and honest in all his dealings with his fellow-men. Politically he was a Republican, and in religious preference : a Methodist. H. E. H.

TROXELL FAMILY. In Maver's "His- tory of the Reformed Church" the Swiss family Troxell is mentioned as follows: "In 1522 we find some of the priests of Sweitz advocating the doctrine of the Reformer. Among these was Balthazer Trachsel, pastor of the town of Art. and one of the eleven clerics who subscribed to the 'humble supplication' to Bishop Hugo in be- half of the free preaching of the Gospel and the marriage of the clergy-Canton of Sweitz, Switz- . erland. The name has been written in various forms-Drachsel, Drachsell, Draxel, Traxel, Trexler, Troxsell, Troxel, Troxell. In the co- lonial records of Pennsylvania it is written 'Trachsell, Traxel, Drachsel. The Troxell fam- ily of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, descend from French Huguenot, Holland and German ances- tors. Four ancestors. Troxell, Michelet, Desch- ler and Fogel, came to Lehigh county, Pennsyl- vania, 1732-33, two receiving the same coat-of- arms as Lords of Beauval and Interval by Louis XI of France, and another fought bravely under Louis IX in the Holy Land. All served on Rev- olutionary committees and were prominent dur- ing the period of the Revolutionary war, and their descendants are among the honored and

respected families of Lehigh county, Pennsylva- nia."

Peter (Drachsell) Troxell, the progenitor of the family in America, was born in Alsace, Lor- raine, 1690. He arrived in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, from the Palatinate, August 17, 1733. on the ship "Samuel," Hugh Percy, master, from Rotterdam, last from Deal, and settled at Egypt (now Whitehall township), Northampton county, where he purchased two hundred and fifty acres of land, deeded January 26, 1743. The church service at Egypt was held in the house of Peter Troxell before the church was erected. In 1757 Peter Trexler, as he is recorded, was elect- ed justice of the section known as "Egypta," which later in the year was created as Whitehall township. He served from 1757 to 1764, and was made justice also March 9, 1774, June 3. 1777. His house, built in 1744. is still standing. He died in Whitehall township. Pennsylvania. He married Juliana Catherine Deshler, and the first baptism recorded in "Aegypten" by the Rev. Goetchins was that of a son of "The respectable Peter Troxell" and his wife, Juliana Catherine. (church census of the Reformed congregation at that place.) The child was baptized October 26, 1733, and was named Johannes Troxell. Jo- hannes (or John) Troxell, son of Peter and Ju- liana Troxell, was a private in Captain Reitz's Eigth Company of Colonel Stephen Balliet's (Balliot) battalion, enlisting July 22, 1781. He had one son, Peter.

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Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 73

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin Publication date: 1906 Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 988

Author: Hayden, Horace Edwin
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 988