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Daniel Gove
Juul a Olivier
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missioned sailing master in the United States navy.
Captain Paul A. Oliver married, July 28, 1819, .Mary Van Dusen, born April 5, 1802, died at Oliver's Mills, April 22, 1878, daughter of Mat- thew Van Dusen and his wife, Lydia Brehaut, the ceremony being performed by Rt. Rev. Will- iam White, D. D. Matthew Van Dusen was a ship-builder of Kensington, Pennsylvania, who in 1795 purchased the famous "Fairman Mansion" in which William Penn lived until the Letitia House was built, and near which stood the "Treaty Tree" under which Penn made his treaty with the Indians, May, 1662. A scion of this tree Captain Oliver planted at Fort Hamil- ton, New York, and this scion General Oliver transplanted in 1892 from Fort Hamilton to Oliver's Mills, where it now stands. Captain Paul A. Oliver had several children, among whom was:
Brigadier-General Paul Ambrose Oliver, U. .S. V. He obtained his education in Altoona, Ger- many. He went to New York and there engaged in the shipping business, and later in the cotton trade with his brother George W., in New York and New Orleans. His residence was in Fort Hamilton, New York, and when the yellow fever broke out there in 1856, he organized the Fort Hamilton Relief Society, of which he was made president. Through the efforts of this society the sick were cared for, and the disease was con- fined to that locality and prevented from spread- ing to the city of Brooklyn.
At the breaking out of the Civil war General Oliver enlisted, February 27, 1862, in the Twelfth Regiment, New York Volunteers, as sec- ond lieutenant, Company E. He was promoted to first lieutenant, May 17, 1862, and captain April 13, 1864, ranking from January 1, 1864. He was wounded at Gaines' Mills, June 27, 1862, while in command of his company, and he com- manded it at Bull Run, August 30, 1862 ; Antie- tam, September 17, and Fredericksburg, Decem- ber 13, 1862. He received the commissions as major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the Fifth Regiment, New York Volunteers, in 1864 but de- clined. He was appointed and served as aide to Major-General Butterfield, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, December, 1862, to June, 1863 ; served on the personal staff of General George G. Meade, commanding Army of the Potomac, June, 1863, to September, same year ; on staff of Gen- eral Joseph Hooker, Eleventh and Twelfth Corps, Army of the Cumberland, October, 1863. to these discouragements he set himself to the task of
medal of honor from congress, May 15, 1862, for distinguished services at Resaca, Georgia. He was made chief of staff to General Butterfield, commanding the Third Division, Twentieth Corps, Army of the Cumberland, May to June, 1864, and participated in the battle of Lookout Mountain and the campaigns about Atlanta. He was subsequently transferred at his own request to the Army of the Potomac, being assigned to duty at headquarters, Fifth Corps, the Twelfth New York Regiment having been consolidated with the Fifth New York Volunteers, July, 1864. He acted as provost-marshal Fifth Corps, on staff of General Warren, until December, 1864. He was assigned to duty with General M. R. Patrick, January 4, 1865, headquarters Armies of the United States, by order of General Grant, and was made brevet brigadier-general March 8, of the following year. He was detailed to assist in paroling the Armies of Northern Virginia, Con- federate States of America, at Appomattox, April II, 1865, with General George H. Sharpe, as- sistant provost-marshal, who took the original paroles to the war department at Washington, and the duplicate paroles of that army were de- livered in person at General R. E. Lee's headquar- ters by General Oliver to Colonel Taylor, General Lee's adjutant-general. General Oliver was hon- orably discharged from service in May, 1865. During his term of service he participated in the siege of Yorktown and the battles of Hanover Court House, Gaines' Mills, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Get- tysburg, Wauhatchie, Lookout Mountain, Mis- sionary Ridge, Ringgold, Resaca, Cassville, Dal- las, New Hope Church, Pine Knob, Kulp House, Marietta, Six Mile House, Weldon Railroad, Pop- lar Grove Church, Boynton Plank Road and Hat- cher's Run. He was accorded honorable men- tion in General Butterfield's official report of the Seven Days battles, June-July, 1862; in Captain Huson's official report, Twelfth New York Vol- unteers, of second battle of Bull Run, and in the report of General Hooker on the Chattanooga campaign.
Upon his return to civil life General Oliver associated himself with his brother-in-law, the late Samuel Bonnell, Jr., in the coal business. He removed to Wilkes-Barre in 1869, where he established a small powder mill, which was de- stroved by fire, and his men killed, and himself badly injured. He then organized the Luzerne Powder Company and erected works, which were also destroyed by fire. However, undaunted by these discouragements, he set himself to the task of
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rebuilding, but the new works were shortly after- ward blown up and two of the men killed. Gen- eral Oliver then bought out the old company and established himself at Laurel Run, now Oliver's Mills, where he has since been successfully en- gaged in the manufacture of powder. The ma- chinery used is of his own invention, consisting mainly of devices by which powder can be made in small quantities, thus doing away with the dan- ger of violent explosions and reducing the risk to a minimum. In 1903 he sold his powder works to the Dupont Powder Company, since which time he has lived retired at Oliver's Mills.
General Oliver is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Society of the Army of the Potomac, the Huguenot Society, the Society of the War of 1812, and the Netherland Society of Philadelphia. He is a member of the Protest- ant Episcopal Church, and has erected at Oliver's Mills a handsome and unique log-chapel for the use of his employees, and continued services have been held therein for twenty-five years. For over twenty years of this time services were con- ducted by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, the editor of this work. (See Oliver and Gallaudet Family, by Rev. H. E. Hayden). H. E. H.
BENNETT AND POLEN FAMILIES. The ancestors of Thomas Bennett, one of the forty in the first settlement of Wyoming Valley, are said to have been a distinguished family in Middlesex, England, some belonging to the court party and others to the Puritans.
Thomas Bennett was a pioneer in forming new colonies, and joined a company in Scituate, Rhode Island. In 1708 he married Mary Elliot, and had sons: Solomon, Rockwell and Thomas, Jr., all of whom were born in Connecticut.
Thomas Bennett, Jr., son of Thomas and Mary (Elliott) Bennett, born 1728, married in 1753, Martha Jackson, born 1731. He was one of the Susquehanna Company, an association formed in Connecticut for the purpose of making a settle- ment in Wyoming. Thomas Bennett, Sr., his father, was one of the first to come and look over the noted valley, making a sketch and rude map in 1754-(Colonial Records, volume 6-35). He was also one of a deputation to meet the Five Na- tinos at Albany, 1754, to effect a purchase of the land from the Iroquois Indians, the native pro- prietors. He was to have one full share. There were many shares granted, each one paying for his portion. The Connecticut Colony purchased most of the land. Thomas Bennett located his
land at Forty Fort, but it was not until 1762 that they were able to push their way and begin a set- tlement. He was one of the forty to build the fort, his land consisting of some six hundred acres at that place. He went through many con- flicts, and returned to Connecticut three times, burying his utensils along the river bank until his return. He built a log cabin near the fort on an elevation near the bend of the river so as to com- mand a view of the Susquehanna, and on this spot his remains are interred. He was the father of several children : Martha Bennett Myers, born January 15, 1763; Andrew, born 1756, of whom later ; and Solomon, who settled in the Conisteo Valley, New York. Andrew Bennett and his father were both survivors of the Wyoming mas- sacre, 1778, and members of John Franklin's com- pany, going with Sullivan's army to Conisteo. Valley, New York, 1779, and their names are re- corded on a monument erected to the Revolution- ary heroes at that place who were with that com- pany. They returned to their homes and fami- lies, and their death occurred at Forty Fort.
Andrew Bennett, son of Thomas and Martha. (Jackson) Bennett, married (first) Mary Miller, and had three children. He married (second) 1804, Abigail Kelley, born January 13, 1776, and had eight children. His sons were: John, father of .Charles Bennett, (see Vaughan Family); Thomas, died at Williamsport, Pennsylvania ; George, died at Montoursville, Pennsylvania ; and Andrew, died at Wyoming, Pennsylvania. His daughters were: Mary, died at Forty Fort : Mrs. Jane (Bennett ) Carpenter : Mrs. Abigail (Ben- nett) Peck: Mrs. Harriett (Bennett) Chapman ; and Elizabeth, who married Henry Polen, born September 20, 1812, mentioned hereafter. The sons were mostly surveyors, interested in the lo- cation of the state canal and in forming companies to open and operate the anthracite coal deposits. Andrew Bennett, Sr., was among the first to burn anthracite coal, bringing it from the river bluffs in canoes and burning it in open grates. He was taken prisoner when fourteen years old, and en- dured many hardships, told graphically in Peck's "History of Wyoming." He died November 20, 1821.
Elizabeth Bennett, daughter of Andrew Ben- nett and his wife Abigail Kelley, born September 20, 1812, married Henry Polen. The ancestors of the Polen family were from Holland and Ger- many.
Joseph Polen emigrated to America in 1765, settled in Sussex county, New Jersey. He joined the state militia and was several times called out
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under General Wayne, mostly to defend Stony Point and forts along the Hudson river and New York, this being near the border line between New Jersey and New York. Joseph Polen had two sons: Joseph Jr., born in Holland, settled in Chillicothe, Ohio, about 1800, and later went to Maine, New England ; and William, of whom later.
William Polen, son of Joseph Polen, born 1779, resided in Sussex, where he followed farm- ing. He was drafted from New Jersey, 1814, to defend Baltimore, Maryland, from the British, for which service he received a pension of 160 acres of government land after the War of 1812 was over. He also served in Captain Hallock's com- pany after he came to Wyoming and was called to Washington. He married Christina Winters in New Jersey in 1801, and had three children : Jolin. Peter and William. They moved from New Jersey to Wyoming Valley, near Pittston, 1807, and had seven children born to them there: Henry, of whom later: Albert, Winters, David, Mary. Edith, and Eleanor. For fourteen years they lived at the head of the valley above Pittston. They purchased a farm, 1821, where the Polen school used to stand, and resided in the vicinity of Pittston for fifty-two years. Mr. Polen cleared the land himself and resided thereon until it was sold for the operating and producing of coal, this being the site of the Exeter works. Peter Polen, his eldest son, purchased land from John Jenkins about the fort and made a home for himself, re- siding there for the remainder of his life, during which time Pittston grew to a large, thriving town.
Henry Polen, son of William and Christina Polen, born 1807, in Plains, Pennsylvania, died December 27, 1878: was reared and educated near where his daughter. Miss Abbie Polen, now resides, in Wyoming, Pennsylvania. His early years were spent on a farm, and later he followed contracting and building, having the contract for the erection of bridges and other large works. Subsequently he engaged in mercantile business in Wyoming with his son Peter H., (see below), and continued the same until his retirement from active pursuits. He was identified with the Ma- sonic fraternity, having been a charter member and largely instrumental in the establishment of the lodge at Wyoming, of which he was a past master. In 1842 he was appointed captain of the Second Company, One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment, Second Brigade, Eighth Division, of Pennsylvania Militia, composed of six counties. having a commission from David R. Porter, gov-
ernor of Pennsylvania. Mr. Polen married Elizabeth Bennett, born at Forty Fort, 1812, daughter of Andrew Bennett, above mentioned, and their children, all born in Wyoming, were: George, an electrical expert in the navy yard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Thomas B., of Scranton, agent for the Central Railroad of New Jersey ; Peter H., mentioned hereinafter ; Mrs. Frances Robinson Tracy, a resident of Wyoming ; Abbie Polen, also a resident of Wyoming.
Peter H. Polen, youngest son of Henry and Elizabeth (Bennett) Polen, died February 8, 190I, was reared in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, and his education was acquired in the schools there, and at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston. He began the active duties of life by accepting a clerkship in Pittston, and when about eighteen years of age engaged in business on his own account in Wyo- ming. He took an active part in Freemasonry, and with his father and others, was instrumental in establishing the Masonic lodge at Wyoming. and was a member of the different bodies, in- cluding the Chapter. Council. Commandery, up to and including the thirty-second degree. He was also a member of the Mystic Shrine, the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the United Order of American Mechanics. He took an ac- tive part in the social affairs of the community, where he lived. He left two sons, Harry and Millburn, both of whom reside in the west.
H. E. H.
JAMES DEAN GREEN. The earliest an- cestor of the Green family of which James Dean Green is a member, was John Green, a native of England, who came to America about 1630. re- sided in Narragansett and Kingstown, Rhode Island, married Joan , who bore him five children, possibly more; he died between the years 1692 and 1695. Benjamin, son of John and Joan Green, born about 1665, was a resident of Narragansett and East Greenwich, Rhode Island : married, about 1687, Humility Cogge- shall, daughter of George Coggeshall, who was born in January, 1671 ; they had twelve children. Benjamin Green died in 1719. Henry Green, fifth child of Benjamin and Humility (Cogge- shall) Green, born about 1696, resided in Kings- town, East and West Greenwich. Rhode Island, and died February 28, 1743; married, May 15, 1724, Margaret Rathbone, born November 29, 1700, daughter of Joseph Rathbone : eleven chil- dren. Benjamin Green, fourth child of Henry and Margaret (Rathbone) Green, born July 17, 1729, was a resident of East and West Green-
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wich and Exeter, Rhode Island, and died sub- sequent to the year 1804; married, September 21, 1752. Mehitable Tripp : eleven children.
Benjamin Green, eighth child of Benjamin and Mehitable (Tripp) Green, was born in Exe- ter. Rhode Island, August 13, 1764, and died in Benton, Pennsylvania. April 22, 1855, aged ninety years. eight months and nine days. He married, January, 1787, Joanna Reynolds, born Decem- ber II. 1769, in Rhode Island, died in Benton, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1849, aged seventy-nine years, five months and twenty-three days. They moved from Rhode Island to New York about 1794, and from there to Pennsylvania about 1818. They were the parents of nine sons and three daughters : I. Henry, a physician ; he married Almira Gardner: died in Abington, November 28, 1825, aged thirty-seven years. 2. John, died in Rhode Island, aged two years. 3. Sally, married Washington Halstead ; she died in New York, December 6. 1858. aged sixty-four years. 4. Polly, married John Raymond ; she died in Waverly, April II, 1856. aged seventy years. 5. Robert, married Melissa Rice : he died in Newton, March, 1864. aged sixty-six years. 6. William, married Celinda Capwell : he died in Factoryville, October 16, 1885, aged eighty-six years. 7. Hiram, men- tioned later. 8. Lyman, married (first) Amy Cap- well, and (second) Mary Chase ; he died in Ben- ton. February 18, 1855, aged fifty-one years. 9. Nancy, married William Dean : she died in Ab- ington, November. 1863. aged fifty-eight years. IO. Murray, died in Abington, June 4, 1829, aged twenty-two years. II. Alanson. married Sibyl Dean ; in 1887 he was a resident of Sycamore, De Kalb county, Illinois, and was then the only living member of this large family. 12. Devillo, died in New York, an infant, in 1814.
Hiram Green, seventh child of Benjamin and Joanna (Reynolds) Green, born in Pennsylvania, July 8, 1801. died Factoryville, Pennsylvania, March 3. 1870 ; married, January 18, 1829, Eliza Dean, born July 10, 1805. of English ancestry. Their active lives extended from the latter part of the eighteenth to about the middle of the nineteenth century. They reared a family of five daughters and four sons, nearly all of whom are now dead: Henry Judson, born February 21, 182S, died July 12, 1864: Catherine D., born August 8, 1829. died January 5, 1881 ; Candace R., born September 2, 1831. died November 3, 1859: James D .. born April 26, 1834, of whom later. Alma Adelia. born May 21, 1836. died October 17. 1853: Melbourne, born April 16. 1839, died March 6, 1856: William Davis, born
November 15, 1841, living, 1905; Ann Maria,. born October 12, 1842 ; with her husband she was drowned in the flood at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, May 31, 1889; Laura E., born October 8, 1849, died October, 1896.
James Dean Green, fourth child of Hiram and Eliza (Dea1) Green, was born in Benton town- ship, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1834. His youth was spent on his father's farm and he was brought up to that line of work, but he was given the. benefits of a good education, at- tending the public schools of his neighborhood and Madison Academy, at Waverly, Pennsyl- vania. His business career was begun as a clerk for Myron Dean, in a general country store in Lynn, Susquehanna county, and later he was em- ployed in the same capacity in a store at Wav- erly, Pennsylvania. In March, 1855, he came to. Wyoming. Pennsylvania, and was employed first by Swetland & Pettebone. In August, the same- year, he engaged with Thomas F. Atherton, in a general store at Wyoming. continuing with him until 1859. and at the end of his service he had sufficient money to establish himself in business with S. J. Sharps, they succeeding to the pro- prietorship of the store formerly conducted by Mr. Atherton. At the end of a year Mr. Sharps. was replaced in the business by John Sharps, who was partner with Mr. Green for six years, when the latter became sole proprietor and so. continued until 1878, when he sold out the store. But he soon found himself again in mercantile- pursuits, this time in partnership with his brother, WV. D. Green, and this business continued for a few years. After thirty years in the mercantile business Mr. Green engaged with the Pittston Engine Machine Company as secretary and treas- urer, remained six years, and then retired, and is now (1905) actively engaged in the insurance and real estate business. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, a Republican, and a mem- ber of the Wyoming Commemorative Association .. Mr. Green was married (first), October 31, 1861, to Fannie Schooley, daughter of Jesse B. and Jane (Breese) Schooley. One child was the issue of this marriage, Clara E., born January 29. 1863, married. June 15, 1887. Henry M. Ives. of Scranton, and had one child. Lomie, born May II. 1889. Mrs. Green died July 12, 1867. MIr. Green married (second). October 15. 1868. Martha MI. Searle, born May 29. 1838, daughter of John and Mary (Stark) Searle. descendants of respected old families of the Wyoming and Susquehanna valleys in Pennsylvania. They had two children: 1. Mary Searle, born April 12.
Frank J. Hopper
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1870; married, January 10, 1895, Dr. Archie Carver Shoemaker, dentist, Pittston, Pennsyl- vania ; they had two children: James Samuel, born January 23, 1896: and Archibald, born Au- gust 21, 1901. 2. James Searle, born June 17. 1882, died August 5, 1882.
Mrs. James D. Green traces hier ancestry to Robert Searle, whose son, Nathaniel Searle, born June 9, 1662, married Sarah Rogers, 1694. Their son, Nathaniel Searle, born April 26, 1703, mar- ried Elizabeth Kinnecutt, December, 1725, and settled in Little Compton. Rhode Island. Their son, Constant Searle, born June 18, 1728, mar- ried Hannah Miner. daughter of Simeon and Hannah (Wheeler) Miner, May 16, 1751. He came to Pennsylvania from Connecticut, and was killed in the Wyoming massacre. Their son. Roger Searle, born Preston, Connecticut, August 13. 1762, then sixteen years of age, was in the battle with his father, but escaped unhurt. He married Catherine Scott, who bore him the fol- lowing children, all born in Pittston: Clarissa, born February 13, 1793, married Joseph Dayton, and died at Binghamton, New York. April I, 1834; John, mentioned later : Daniel, born May 17, 1797; married Joanna Stark, daughter of Henry Stark, December 20, 1825, and died at Pittston, October 13, 1879; Elizabeth, born Feb- ruary 18, 1800, married Solomon Brown, June, 1820, and died at Exeter, August 26, 1854: Me- hitable, born March 13, 1802, married Thomas Tell, March 13, 1831, died October 20, 1846; Milton, born October 10, 1804, died at Montrose, February, 1868; Leonard, born November 7, 1808, married Lydia Dimmock, October 23, 1832, died at Montrose, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1880; Rasalus, born February 1, 1812. married Anna Cross, at Milford, January 11, 1871, and died at Montrose, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1888.
The father of Mrs. James D. Green, John Searle, son of Roger and Catherine (Scott) Searle, was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, Feb- ruary 15, 1795, died October 20, 1863. He began his business career as a farmer, but later in life was one of the proprietors of a stage route from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Binghamton. New York, and during his active years was ex- tensively interested in stage and mail routes. In September. 1822, he married Mary Stark, born at Plains, Pennsylvania. February 16, 1800 (died April 16. 1891), in a house erected by her father. Henry Stark, one of the pioneer settlers of the township. ( See Stark family). The house stood where the shaft of the Enterprise Colliery is sunk, and was the finest in that section. The children of this marriage are as follows :
I. James S., born July 8, 1823, died Novem- ber 18, 1863 ; his wife, Candace Green, died No- vember 3. 1859.
2. Clarissa, born November 14, 1824, mar- ried Nelson H. Dean, now deceased, April 25, 1850, and had : James Elmer, born September 10, 1851, and Willis L., born February 5, 1857. (See Dean family).
3. Kathryn, born July 11, 1827, married Ed- win Williams, April 24, 1850, and had : James, born September 9. 1851, married Ella Dumball ; George W., born May 18, 1855, married Eva L. Shoemaker : Mary, born November 22, 1858, wife of D. Rouse, M. D .: Martha C., born April 22, 1861, wife of William Burner ; Ruth C., born Oc- tober 22. 1863. wife of Lewis Yost ; Helen, born August 24, 1866 ; and Elizabeth V., born June 24, 1869, wife of John T. Yoakum.
4. Elizabeth M., born October 5. 1829 : April 25, 1853, married Norman T. Vorse, of Ohio, and had : Charles, born September 24, 1854, lived in Des Moines, Iowa, married, August 24, 1878, Augusta Tyrrell : and Frank W., born February 5, 1856, in Des Moines, Iowa, married October 27, 1877, Agnes Newton.
5. Ruth Gore, born January 16, 1832, mar- ried September 19, 1854, James Courtright, and they reside at Kingston ; children : John S., born at Plains, Pennsylvania, July 21, 1855, married, January 17, 1877, Ellen Lathrop : children : Sarah L. and Florence, who reside at Montrose, Penn- sylvania ; Harrie Benjamin, born February 19, 1857. married March 7, 1876, Ida Wells; chil- dren : Ruth Searle, born January 24, 1877 ; Jo- sephine Wells, born July 17, 1878; and James Wells, born February 2, 1887.
6. May, born September 13, 1833, married April 23. 1857, Rev. J. K. Peck ; children : Carrie, born February 28, 1857, wife of J. Wood Piatt ; two children : William and Ruth ; Mary A., born November 28, 1861; Jesse L., born March 28, 1864, married Jennette Bryden, one child, Ken- yon Peck : Ruth C., born August 14, 1873, mar- ried Charles C. Hard.
7. John Roger, born July 30, 1835, was a lieutenant in the Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Regi- ment, and died in service at Camp Suffolk, Vir- ginia, December 13, 1862.
8. Martha M., born May 29, 1838, wife of James Dean Green. H. E. H.
FRANK P. HOPPER, superintendent of schools of Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, and widely known throughout the state as an accom- plished educator, was born near Williamsport, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, October 30,
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