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Stephen Lee and Jane Lines were married February 10, 1834, and removed to Delaware county, Ohio, where Mr. Lee cleared and im- proved a farm, at times also working at his trade of plasterer. After a residence there of six years he returned to Luzerne county, Pennsyl-
vania, locating in Wright township, where he- erected a saw mill and engaged in lumbering and farming. After a period of twenty-two years hne removed to Wilkes-Barre, and purchased the planing mill at Canal and North streets. He died in that city June 12, 1874, at the age of sixty-two years. His widow died September 25,- 1881, at her home on North street. Stephen and Jane (Lines) Lee had seven children : Conrad, of whom later ; John R., of whom later ; Mary, who at her death devised all her property (some $25 .- .000) to her nephews and nieces, died at the old homestead ; Priscilla, married M. S. Roberts, of Askam, Hanover township, and had seven chil- dren ; Amanda, married Edward Lutse, now re- tired, of Clarks Summit, and had three children ..
Conrad Lee, eldest child of Stephen and Jane (Lines) Lee, was reared in his native county, and completed his education at the Wyoming Seminary, Kingston. In his early manhood he taught school for several terms in the home neigh- borhood, and on attaining his majority went to Rome Corners, Delaware county, Ohio, where he taught school one term. The following three years he was yard foreman in the lumber depart- inent of John L. Gill & Company, at Columbus, Ohio. Returning to Luzerne county, Pennsyl -- vania, he gave some time to dealing in govern- ment mules and western cattle, disposing of them in the principal markets throughout the country .. In 1865, when but twenty-three years of age, he- was appointed outside superintendent of the. Avondale coal mines, a position which he held for twenty-one years, marked with peculiar experi -- ences. Shortly after his appointment a sudden- freshet threatened the sweeping away and entire loss of the timber for the erection of the coal" brakers which had been floated to a point just be -. low Plymouth. Mr. Lee, with the aid of his men, lashed the timbers to trees and in the morn -- ing, discovering that a continued rising of water had brought it to a convenient height, cut his lashings and floated his timbers over fields and fences to the exact spot where they were needed. The owner, John C. Phelps, coming to the river bank in the morning, and unaware of what had occurred, seeing no trace of the timber, gave. them up for lost, and considered himself thous- ands of dollars out of pocket. When the water had subsided sufficiently for him to cross the stream he found his property on the spot to which it had been conveyed by Mr. Lee, to whom he- expressed his gratitude and admiration, and thenceforward he reposed unbounded confidence in one who had served so faithfully and saga-
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ciously. During the Molly Maguire difficulties Mr. Lee was regarded with hatred by the mur- derous band, and his footsteps were dogged on various occasions, but he fortunately escaped un- hurt. While in charge of the mines the first great mining disaster in the coal region occurred, September 6, 1869, in which one hundred and eight men lost their lives. This accident was the direct. cause of the passage of the law known as the "mine ventilation law," which makes it obliga- tory to have two openings to every mine.
In his younger days at home Mr. Lee had be- come thoroughly familiar with the lumbering business through his association with his father in the mill in Wright township, and after the death of the latter, in 1874, young Conrad became in- terested in the Wyoming planing mill and lumber business at Wilkes-Barre, with which his father had been connected, and also a mercantile busi- ness in Avondale. Since 1886 he has been the sole proprietor of the planing mill and lumber business, which he has brought to large dimen- sions. Mr. Lee is also president of the George F. Lee Coal Company ; the Forty Fort Land Com- pany ; and a stockholder in the Wyoming Valley Trust Company. He was one of the original members of the lumber firm of Scouton. Lee & Company. of Parsons, Pennsylvania. He is a large owner of and dealer in real estate in Wilkes- Barre, is enterprising and public- spirited. takes an active interest in community affairs, exerting himself to further the advancement of the varied interests of the city and county. He is an active member of the Wilkes-Barre board of trade; a member of the Presbyterian Church, and in poli- tics is a Republican. In all his relations he is re- garded with entire confidence for his unassail- able integrity, while his personal qualities make him a prime favorite in whatever circle he moves.
Mr. Lee married, July 26, 1868. Agnes Weir, daughter of Martin and Jane (Govan) Weir, of Hazelton, and natives of Renfrewshire, Scotland. Of this marriage were four children: I. George, born in Avondale, September 23, 1870. He is the principal owner of a lumber yard at Parsons and another at Hanover, and of stores at the last named place and Avondale. He is the sole man- ager of the George F. Lee Coal Company, two miles below Plymouth. He married. October 10, 1893. Phiebe English, of Jersey City. They re- side in Dorranceton, and have three children : John, Phebe and Abbie. 2. Margaret Weir, born. 1872, at Avondale. She married, Septem- ber 3. 1903, Rev. John Henry Palmer, of Elmira, New York, who has charge of the parish of Hollis
on Long Island. They have one child, Mildred, born September 6, 1904. 3. Jean, born Feb- ruary 3, 1876, at Avondale, married Frank E. Donnelly. a lawyer of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and has one child, Lee Donnelly. 4. William S., born February 24, 1880, at Plymouth. He was educated at the high school in Wilkes-Barre, and is now the financial manager of his father's business.
John R. Lee, second child of Stephen and Jane (Lines) Lee, was born November 17, 1848. He was a wholesale grocer, a member of the firm of Hart, Lee & Company, of Market street, Wilkes-Barre, also vice-president and a director of the First National Bank of Plymouth; a director in the People's Bank of Wilkes-Barre; and of the Wilkes-Barre Water Company. He was a member of the city council for three years, and an active member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was affiliated with the Masonic lodge of Wilkes-Barre. He was twice married. His first wife was Emily Pell, a member of an old family of Luzerne county. His second wife was Ellen Hutchinson, who is yet living in Wilkes- Barre. They had two sons: Clarence R. and Henry L., members of the firm of Hart, Lee & Company ; and a daughter Emily.
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ABRAHAM VAN CAMPEN, a prominent and influential citizen of Dorranceton, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, and for many years inti- mately connected with its business interests. whose death was deeply regretted by the resi- dents of that town, was a representative of a fam- ily which had been settled in the United States generations previously.
(I) Andrew Van Campen the first of the name of whom we have any diflnite record, and the grandfather of Abraham Van Campen, re- sided on the old homestead at Pahaquary. New Jersey, where he spent his life and died. He married Anna Michael, and among their children was a son. Moses.
(II) Moses Van Campen, son of Andrew (I) and Anna ( Michael) Van Campen, was born on the homestead at Pahaquary, New Jersey. January 12, 1823. He was engaged in the meat business for many years, first in Pahaquary, New Jersey, and later in Plains, Pennsylvania, to which place he had removed. He was industrious and thrifty. and enjoyed the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens until his death, which occurred in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. October 26, 1885. and he was buried in Forty Fort cemetery.
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Moses Van Campen married Margaret Wal- ters, born January 1, 1828, now residing in Forty Fort. They had six children, two of whom died in infancy; and those who attained maturity are : I. Mary, deceased, married Jefferson R. Worman, now deceased, formerly of Miners' Mills, and they had three children: Bessie, May E., and Ira F. 2. Abraham, of whom later. 3. Frank- lin Pierce, married (first) Elizabeth Smith, de- ceased ; married (second). Alice Rustan, and had two children : Aileen and Charles. He resides at Forty Fort. 4. Thomas Taylor Shoemaker, de- ceased, married Mary Widger, and had two chil- dren : Moses and Howell. His widow married (second) a Mr. McDaniels, of Shickshinny.
(III) Abraham Van Campen, second child and eldest son of the surviving children of Moses (2) and Margaret (Walters) Van Cam- pen, was born in Pahaquary, New Jersey, March 2, 1851. He was educated in the private schools of Wilkes-Barre, and in the Wyoming Seminary. He commenced his business career by accepting a position as clerk in the general grocery store of a Mr. Stoddard, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl- vania, and retained this for two years. He then entered his father's business and continued with him for about eight years. At the end of this period he established himself in the trade of painting and paperhanging, and followed this occupation for the remainder of his life in Wilkes- Barre and its vicinity. Mr. Van Campen was a man of energy and force of character, alive to the needs of the time in which he lived, progres- sive, and ready to adopt any new method of whose benefit he felt convinced. His political affiliations were Republican, and he took a lively interest in all public affairs. He was a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church for many years, and his widow and family are still members of the same body. He was a member of the Patriotic Order Sons of America for about twenty-three years in Plains, Forty Fort and Luzerne. He was the first district president of that order, and delegate to the state encampment six or seven times. He was also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in Wilkes-Barre, for about four years. His death occurred at his home in Dor- ranceton, February 15, 1892, and he was buried in Forty Fort.
Abraham Van Campen married, January 22, 1873. in Parsons, Pennsylvania, Mary Elizabeth Shiffer, born Wilkes-Barre, daughter of James and Mary (Rymer) Shiffer. James Shiffer, the father of Mrs. Abraham Van Campen, was born January II, 1823, and died at the residence of his daughter, in Dorranceton, February 16, 1897.
He was the son of Henry and Elizabeth (Frey). Shiffer, of Easton, Pennsylvania, and resided in. Plains, Pennsylvania. He was a gardener by occupation and was also in the employ of the Laurel Run Coal Company. Mrs. Mary (Rymer) Shiffer, the mother of Mrs. Abraham Van. Campen, was born February 1, 1828, died at. Forty Fort, April 28, 1881, and is buried there. She was the daughter of Michael and Mary (Laubach) Rymer, of Wilkes-Barre, whose- grandparents came from Holland and resided in Parsons, Pennsylvania.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Van Campen are as follows: I. Veola May, born Oc- tober 12, 1873, resides at home in Dorranceton. 2. Otis Byron, September 10, 1875, resides in. Westmoor, Pennsylvania; he married Barbara Petch, and has one child, Edith Leila. 3. Emma Vertie, December 4, 1877, resides in Gordon,. Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, married John- F. Lewis and has one child, John F. 4. George- Welles, March 2, 1887, resides at home. 5. Edith Leila, July 1, 1889, resides at home.
GURDIN PERRIN, deceased, a descend -- ant in the eighth generation of John Perrin, the founder of this branch of the family, was born in Northmoreland township, on the old home farm, August 18, 1828. The line from. John Perrin (1) was John (2), John (3), John (4), Timothy (5), Timothy (6), Calvin (7), Gurdin (8). (See Perrin family.)
Gurdin Perrin spent his early days on the old homestead, attending the common schools in winter and working on the farm during the - remainder of the year. Later he taught school, and after abandoning this vocation worked on a farm on his own account until 1857, when he removed into the valley, locating near Pittston, Jenkins township, and engaged in the grocery business, which proved highly re- munerative. After conducting the same for a period of almost five years he removed to Yatesville, Pennsylvania, where he conducted a general store. When the Civil war broke out, his patriotic sentiments prompted him to enlist his services in defense of the Union, but he was deterred from participation there- in owing to impaired health. Mr. Perrin was a member of the Methodist Church, in which he served as class leader, steward, and on the official board. He was a stanch adherent of the principles of Republicanism, and cast his first presidential vote for John Charles Fre- mont. He was a man very well thought of in the community in which he lived, and was .
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noted for his honesty, integrity and upright- ness of character.
Mr. Perrin married, December 16, 1847, Fanny Jane Lewis, born in Orange, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1829, daugh- ter of Rev. Oliver and Cynthia (Smith) Lewis, who resided in Orange county, New York. He was known as "the weeping prophet." (see Lewis family elsewhere in this work). Four children were the issue of this marriage: I. Arminda, born September 24, 1848, died December 26, 1864. 2. Morgan Lewis, (9) born May 5, 1850, married Anna L. Searle, and had children: Ralph E., deceased ; Jesse, Ella S., and Mary N .; the family reside in West Pittston. 3. Mattie J., born June 21, 1858, married Eugene Bonstein, formerly of West Pittston, but now residing in Shick- shinny, and had seven children, three of whom are living: Lawrence Gurdin, Edward Blaine, now studying music at Leipsic, Ger- many, and Robert John Bonstein. 4. Emily A., born June 3, 1862 in Pittston, resides at home. Gurdin Perrin died December 24, 1866, aged thirty-eight years, and was buried in Northimoreland cemetery. He leaves to his fam- ily the priceless heritage of an untarnished name and reputation.
REV. JOSEPH DAWIDOWSKI. One .of the leaders of the Independent Polish National church in Plymouth is the Rev. Joseph Dawidowski, a son of John and Frances Dawidowski, of German Poland. The family consisted of eight children, three sons and five daughters, all of whom, with one excep- tion, have remained in their native land. The death of the father occurred in 1891.
Joseph Dawidowski, son of John and Frances Dawidowski, was born November 5, 1877, in Ger- man Poland, and was educated in Roman Catho- lic seminaries in his native land. Later he en- tered a Roman Catholic college in Rome, from which he graduated, and in 1890 was ordained to the priesthood. The same year he emigrated to the United States, and was sent to Detroit, Michi- gan, where he was appointed professor of Latin in the Roman Catholic Polish seminary. He re- mained in this position until 1901, when he de- cided to join the Independent movement. He was given charge of the church at Priceburg, where he remained until 1004. when he was transferred to St. Mary's Polish National church at Plym- ·outh.
This church was organized at the time of the
founding of the Polish National church, in 1897, and the following year a church edifice and parish house were erected. The membership has in- creased rapidly; and at the present time includes three hundred and twenty-five families and two hundred single members. Among this number are to be found many of the leading business men of the borough. The parochial school numbers eighty-five pupils, a noteworthy fact when it is remembered that children over ten years of age attend the public schools. Rev. Dawidowski is loved and respected by his parishoners, and his pastoral labors are reaping their reward in the growing enlightenment and increasingly higher standards of living which prevail among his people. He is also working hard to abolish the celibacy among the priests of the Polish Inde- pendent church in this country, and is also trying hard to introduce the Holy Bible and especially the New Testament into his church, and to leave out the remainder of the Roman ceremonies. All of the services are now conducted in the Polish tongue. They were formerly conducted in Latin and very few of the Polish congregation could understand it, and they were very much over- joyed when they heard the services in their na- tive tongue.
Rev. Joseph Dawidowski married in 1905, and his lovely wife is a great help to him in his religious reformation work.
DILLEY FAMILY. Richard Dilley (or Dilly, as the name was often spelled) was a na- tive of New Jersey. There were New Jersey Dil- leys in the Revolutionary war-John Dilley and Joseph Dilley, who were privates in the Morris county regiment. and Ephraim Dilley, who was also a private. There is nothing of record to directly connect these revolutionary Dilleys with Richard Dilley, but they doubtless were of the .same family. Richard Dilley removed from New Jersey to the Wyoming Valley and settled in what is now Hanover township, Luzerne county, soon after the close of the war, and in 1784 removed to the river road at Buttonwood, where he spent the remainder of his life. He died in Hanover in 1799. His wife's name is not mentioned in family records, and cannot now be recalled. They had ten children, all born in New Jersey, namely : Richard, died 1840; married Polly Voke: Susan- nah; Adam; Jerusha, married Edward Inman ; Prudence, married Edward Edgerton ; Jonathan, married Mary Magdalene Lueder. Dayton, died Richards ; John F .; Ruth. married Joel Burritt ; Nancy, married Nathan Wade.
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Richard Dilley, the eldest son, was born in New Jersey, and came with his father's family to Hanover township. He lived at Buttonwood. He married Polly Voke. They had children, namely: James, born 1792, died 1862; married Margaret Campbell. Jesse, born 1794, died 1852; married Mary Magdalene Lueder. Dayton, died about 1855; married Lorinda Marcy. Susan, born 1798, died 1879, unmarried. Sally married John Dolph. Amor, married a Quithel. Jerusha.
Jesse Dilley, second son and child of Richard Dilley and Polly Voke, was born in Hanover township, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, Febru- ary 17, 1794, and died in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl- vania, in 1852. His occupation was that of butcher and meat dealer. His wife, Mary Mag- dalene Lueder, born November 15. 1801, died March 24, 1878, was a daughter of Christian Lueder, who came from Northampton county, Pennsylvania, and settled in the Wyoming Val- ley among the early settlers. They had children, namely :
Sylvester, born January 29, 1823, died De- cember 24, 1892 ; married Mary Ann Barkman.
Anning, born December 15, 1824; married Eliza Houpt, and lives in Wilkes-Barre.
Lyman, born April 20, 1827, died April 27, 1847; killed at Cerro Gordo, Mexico, during the Mexican war.
Urbane, born September 9, 1829, died De- cember 3, 1901 : married Lydia Ann Webber.
Charlotte, born February 24, 1831, married Charles Lathrop, and lives at Carbondale, Penn- sylvania.
Butler, born June 24, 1834, married, January I, 1863, Ellen Pettebone.
Friedland, born February 27, 1836, died Feb- ruary, 1862.
Emory, born August 22, 1840, died as an infant.
Monroe, born August 21, 1842, married Jo- anna Marks. He died at Wilkes-Barre, Penn- sylvania.
Mary, born August 29, 1845, married Edwin H. Jones. Lives at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Sylvester Dilley, eldest son and child of Jesse Dilley and Mary Magdalene Lueder, was born in Hanover township, January 29, 1823, and on January 1, 1846, married Mary Ann Barkman, daughter of William Barkman and Mary Ann Preston. Sylvester Dilley was a carpenter by trade, but, like his father and brothers, engaged in the meat business and carried on a market for some years in Wilkes-Barre. He also dealt in cattle and was perhaps more widely known as
a cattle dealer dealer than otherwise. For a number of years he was active manager for the Wilkes-Barre Coal and Iron Company of its farm in Wilkes-Barre city and township, superintend- ing the agricultural operations of that farm. which then consisted of some six hundred and sixty acres of coal lands. A large portion of this land has since then been covered with dwellings. The remainder now belongs to the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company. He died Decem- ber 24, 1892. Mary Ann Dilley, his wife, died December 8, 1905. The children of Sylvester Dilley and Mary Ann Barkman were :
Delphine, born November 17, 1846, died Au- gust II, 1847-
Emory L., born March 13, 1849, died March 15, 1850.
Clara J., born March 24, 1851, married Wil- liam, son of John and Catherine Rickard, of Cornwall, England. He was born November 14, 1844. They had children :: Walter U., bori March 23, 1869. Stella, born January 12, 1871; married Clement Bossart, of Ashley. Pennsyl- vania. Emma, born December 5, 1872, married Albert Swank, and now deceased. William, born December 15, 1877, married Agnes Kline. Fred, born September, 1881. Eva, born April 6, 1883. Eddie, born April 6, 1883, died July 30, 1883. Bessie, born January 10, 1887.
Emma Augusta, born May 25, 1854, married Methusla Stone, who came to Wilkes-Barre from England, and had Etta, born March 17, 1875; married William Creter. Myrtle, born January 29, 1887. died June 6, 1887.
Lucy E., born July 1, 1857.
Ida M., born May 6, 1860.
Henry E., born March 20, 1863.
Jesse E., born December 27, 1866, died No- vember 1, 1868.
Oscar H., born January 14, 1869; married Sara S. Johnson.
Oscar H. Dilley, youngest son and child of Sylvester Dilley and Mary Ann Barkman, was born at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and was ed- ucated in the Wilkes-Barre public schools and at the Wilkes-Barre Business College. On July I, 1891, he accepted a clerkship in the office of Frank W. Larned, Esq., of Wilkes-Barre, and later read law under Mr. Larned's preceptorship. He was admitted to the bar in 1895, and until July, 1904, was connected with Mr. Larned's office. Since that time he has conducted his pro- fession alone. He has been for many years an active member of the Junior Order United Amer- ican Mechanics, and is a member of the Franklin
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Club. On May 21, 1903, he married Sara S. Johnson, daughter of Joseph and Catherine John- son, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. They have one child, Robert F. Dilley, born May 17, 1904.
Butler Dilley, sixth child, fifth son, of Jesse Dilley and Hannah K. Lueder, was born in Han- over township, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, and has spent nearly his whole life in business pursuits, except during his services in the United States army before and throughout the war of 1861-1865, and his subsequent service in the government printing office in Washington, D. C.
He was educated in the public schools, and afterward, working with his father, he took up the latter's occupation and became a butcher and meat dealer, a cattle buyer, who at one time was as well acquainted throughout the townships of Luzerne county as any man within that jurisdic- tion. · After his return from army life he resumed his former occupation, and was butcher and drover until 1868, when he was appointed proof reader in the government printing office in Wash- ington, District of Columbia, remaining there be- tween six and seven years. He then returned to Wilkes-Barre : later removed to Forty Fort, and thence to Kingston, where he has since resided. enjoying the comforts of life. In Kingston he has taken an earnest interest in local politics, al- ways on the Republican side. He was burgess of the borough six years, supervisor of Kingston township one term, and at present is a policeman and constable of Lake township. He is promi- nently identified with the work of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has contributed sev- eral interesting and valuable articles upon sub- jects relating to the late civil war. He is histo- rian of Conyngham Post, No. 97. Grand Army of the Republic. Butler Dilley married, January I, 1863, Ellen Pettebone, daughter of Oliver Pette- bone and Mary Bowman Pettebone. The chil- dren of Butler Dilley and Ellen Pettebone are :
Friedland, born January 20, 1864, died March 13, 1893 ; married Minnie Holbrook, daughter of Rev. Philip Holbrook, and had Butler Friedland Dilley, born August 26, 1886; and Helen Dilley, born January, 1888. Mary Evelena, born June 24, 1867, died March 27, 1868. Edwin Jones, born June 24. 1867, died April 3. 1868. Bertie Dyer, born December 27, 1870, died January 26, 1872. A son, born November 7. 1872, died November 21, 1872. Herbert, born January 26. 1874, died August 22, 1874. H. E. H.
JUSTUS EMORY ALTMILLER. The family of which Justus E. Altmiller, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, is a worthy representative, was
founded in this country by his grandfather, John Altmiller, a native of Hessen, Germany. He was a musician of note, and connected with a band in the German army, and after his emigration to the United States in 1863 he followed that pro- fession in addition to engaging in the coal busi- ness. He married in Lauterhausen, Hessen, Germany, Christina Reinmiller, who bore him the following children: Justus, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work: John, deceased, married Elizabeth Gicking, and they were the parents of four children : Charles, mentioned hereinafter; Elizabeth, wife of George Craig, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania; Margaret, died in Ger- many ; and twins, who died in Germany in early life. Jolin Altmiller died at the residence of his son Charles, in Hazleton, April 2. 1886. aged sixty-nine years, and was buried in Vine Street cemetery. His wife, Christina ( Reinmiller ) Ait- miller, died about the year 1849 in Lauterhausen, Germany, and her remains were interred there.
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