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Colonel Ricketts is the owner of vast tracts of woodland on the North mountain, in the counties of Luzerne, Sullivan and Wyoming, Pennsylvania, where he carries on an extensive business in the manufacture of lumber. He is also engaged in other important industries. He is a comrade of Conyngham Post, No. 97, Grand Army of the Republic; a companion of the First Class of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States ; a member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, and a mem- ber of the Pennsylvania Gettysburg Monument Commission, and was a member of the World's Columbian Fair Commission. He is also a Free Mason, and was a charter member and the first eminent commander of Dieu Le Veut Con- mandery, No. 45, Knights Templar, constituted at Wilkes-Barre in September, 1872. He is a member of the Westmoreland club, Wilkes- Barre, and was vice-president (in 1889) of its original board of directors. In 1886 Colonel Ricketts was nominated for the office of lieu- tenant-governor of Pennsylvania by the Denio- cratic party of the state (the Hon. Chauncey F. Black being its nominee for governor), but at the election in November the Republican party was triumphant, Gen. James A. Beaver being elected governor and Hon. William T. Davies lieutenant-governor. Two years later the Demo-
cratic state convention would have given Colonel Ricketts the gubernatorial nomination had he not refused to allow his name to be brought be- fore the convention. Mrs. Elizabeth (Reynolds) Ricketts is an active member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Pennsylvania So- ciety of the Colonial Dames of America, Wyo- ming Valley Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Society of Colo- nial Governors. She has also been for many years a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Wilkes-Barre.
Colonel Robert Bruce and Elizabeth (Rey- nolds) Ricketts had three children, born in Wilkes-Barre :
I. William Reynolds, born July 29, 1869; graduated at Yale University in 1892, Ph. B .; is engaged in business with his father ; is a mem- ber of the Westmoreland Club, a Companion of the second class of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and a life member and since 1898 curator of mineralogy of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.
2. Jean Holberton, born May 25, 1873.
3. Frances Leigh, born December 2, 188I. H. E. H.
SHELDON REYNOLDS, seventh child of Hon. William Champion and Jane Holberton (Smith) Reynolds, was born at Kingston, Penn- sylvania, February 22, 1844. He received his pre- liminary education at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston ; the Luzerne Presbyterial Institute, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, and the Hopkins Gram- inar School, New Haven, Connecticut. In 1863 he entered Yale College, and was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1867, and in 1872 re- ceived the degree of A. M. After leaving col- lege Mr. Reynolds spent some time in foreign travel, and then, upon his return home, entered the law school of Columbia College, New York, where in 1868 and 1869 he pursued the usual course in law. Later he became a student of law in the office of Andrew T. McClintock, Esq., at Wilkes-Barre, and October 16, 1871, was ad- mitted to the bar of Luzerne county. Although Mr. Reynolds had an admirable equipment for
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success in his profession, he preferred to devote his time to general business and to literary and archaeological pursuits. He became an active member of the Wyoming Historical and Geolog- ical Society in February, 1874, and a life mem- ber in 1889, and until his death was one of the most loyal and zealous members of the society. He was its treasurer in 1880-82; a trustee in 1884-86; corresponding secretary 1884-94; as- sistant librarian 1885 and 1886; curator of arch- aeology and history 1884-95 : president, 1894- 1895, the time of his death. He was also a life member of the Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania ; a life member of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia ; a member of the Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the Historical Society of Virginia ; a correspond- ing member of the Historical Society of Bangor. Maine, and a corresponding member of the An- thropological Society, Washington, D. C. He was one of the original trustees of the Osterhout Free Library of Wilkes-Barre, "an institution which was largely the work of his hands, and was ever an object of his special devotion," and was secretary of the board of trustees from the date of its organization until his death. He was for some thirty years a member of the Wilkes- Barre Law and Library Association, and in 1875 and 1876 was a member of the board of school directors of the Third District of Wilkes-Barre. Mr. Reynolds became a director of the Wyoming National Bank, Wilkes-Barre, 1884, continuing as such until 1892, when he was elected presi- dent. In 1883 he became a member of the board of directors of the Wilkes-Barre Electric Light Company, and in 1888 was elected president of the company, which office he continued to hold by re-election until his death. In May, 1892, he was elected president of the Wilkes-Barre Water Company. In politics Mr. Reynolds was a Democrat ; in 1880 he was chairman of the Wilkes-Barre city committee of his party, and in 1881 was chairman of the county committee. His administration of affairs was clean, straight- forward and effective, and he introduced a num- ber of reforms in the management of the party.
In 1884 he was urged to accept the Democratic nomination for state senator for the Twenty- first district. "It was universally conceded that he would fill the position admirably-that he pos- sessed just the qualifications needed in the rep- resentative of one of the most important indus- trial districts in the state in the higher branch of the state legislature. He was repeatedly urged to permit the use of his name as a candi- date, but the conditions of the contest were such as *
* * to impel him to decline."
Sheldon Reynolds was the author of various essays and monographs, some of which have been published in pamphlet form and others in different volumes of the "Proceedings and Col- lections of the Wycming Historical and Geolog- ical Society." What is perhaps the most im- portant of these publications is a paper entitled "The Frontier Forts of the Wyoming Region." which was the last work done by Mr. Reynolds, and was read before the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society in December, 1894. In May, IS93, Mr. Reynolds had been appointed by the governor of Pennsylvania a member of a commission of five to make inquiry, examine into and report to the state legislature (I) as to the locations of the various forts which had been erected by the inhabitants of Pennsylvania as a defense against the Indians prior to 1783; (2) as to the advisability of marking the sites of those forts with appropriate tablets. The re- port of this commission, including the above- mentioned paper of Mr. Reynolds, was pub- lished by the state in 1896 in two volumes. Shel- don Reynolds was, in all affairs with which he was connected, looked up to as a man of sound judgment, clear intuition and remarkable ex- ecutive ability. He had rare business qualifi- cations, and possessed the absolute confidence of the community in which he lived; he was respected by all who knew him, and was a great favorite among his intimate friends. He was popular because of the highest merit. After a long and tedious illness his death occurred Feb- ruary 8, 1895, in the fifty-first year of his age, at Saranac Lake, New York, whither he had
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gone for the benefit of his health. His remains were interred in Hollenback cemetery, Wilkes- Barre.
Sheldon Reynolds was married November 23, 1876, to Annie Buckingham, born May 6, 1850, only daughter of Col. Charles and Susan E. (Ford) Dorrance, of Kingston township. (See Dorrance Family.) Possessing a cheerful, viva- cious nature and sprightly wit, allied to gracious manners and a kindly, thoughtful consideration for others, Mrs. Reynolds attracted to herself the acquaintances of everyday life and converted them 'into steadfast friends and admirers. Intel- ligently sympathetic, and devoid of all senti- mentality, she was well fitted to accomplish many things helpful and beneficial to those in whom: she was interested; and that, unobtrusively and frequently, she did accomplish much good is well known. She was an earnest and faithful mem- ber of the First Presbyterian Church of Wilkes- Barre. She was an active member of the Wyo- oming Historical and Geological Society, the Pennsylvania Society of the Colonial Dames of America, and Wyoming Valley Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the American Historical Association, Mary Wash- ington Society and the American Forestry As- sociation. Mrs. Reynolds died at her residence in Wilkes-Barre, October 4, 1905, after a brief illness.
Sheldon and Annie B. (Dorrance) Reynolds had one child, Dorrance, born in Wilkes-Barre, September 7, 1877 ; graduated at Yale Univer- sity in 1902 with the degree of A. B .; graduated at the law school of Harvard University with the degree of LL. B. 1905; married in New York City June 30, 1903, to Mabel, elder daugh- ter of James Reuben and Sevilla B. (Hayden) Doudge, of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds have one daughter, Constance, born October, 1905. Mr. Reynolds is a life member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.
BENJAMIN REYNOLDS, youngest child of Hon. William Champion and Jane Holberton (Smith) Reynolds, was born in Kingston, on Christmas Day, 1840. In his thirteenth year he removed with his pa-
rents to Wilkes-Barre, where he has since continued to reside. He received his pre- liminary education in private schools at Wilkes- Barre, and then entered Princeton College, from which he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1872. In 1873 and '74 he was connected in a clerical capacity with the People's Bank of Wilkes-Barre, which had come into existence. in July, 1872. Early in 1881 Mr. Reynolds, who. was a large stockholder in the Anthracite Sav- ings Bank of Wilkes-Barre, which began busi- ness in February, 1876, became cashier of the: bank and continued as such until 1890, when he was elected president, which office he still holds. Under his administration the capital stock of the bank has been increased $50,000, its surplus. fund and undivided profits have been increased tenfold, and its total resources have been in- creased threefold. Mr. Reynolds is a director in the following-named important corporations : The Hazard Manufacturing Company, the Wilkes-Barre and Wyoming Valley Traction Company, the Wilkes-Barre, Dallas and Har- vey's Lake Railway Company, the Wilkes-Barre and Hazelton Railway Company, and the Han- over Fire Insurance Company of New York City. He is also a member of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, and of the- Westmoreland Club of Wilkes-Barre.
Benjamin Reynolds was married at Wilkes -. Barre, December 17, 1879, to Grace Goodwin Fuller, fourth daughter of Hon. Henry Mills and Harriet Irwin (Tharp) Fuller. Henry Mills Fuller was born at Bethany, Wayne county, Pennsylvania, June 3, 1820, the son of Amzi Fuller, born in Kent, Connecticut, October 19,. 1793, died there September 26, 1847, and his. wife, Maria, born April 7, 1799; married Feb- ruary 10, 1818; died August 24, 1885. daughter of Col. Philo and Rhoda (Goodwin) Mills, of Kent, Connecticut. Amzi Fuller, who was the son of Capt. Revilo Fuller, of Kent, was a prom- inent lawyer in Wayne county, Pennsylvania, for many years until 1841, when he removed to Wilkes-Barre. He had been admitted to the bar of Wayne county, August 25, 1816, and to the bar of Luzerne county January 11, 1822.
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Henry M. Fuller was graduated at Princeton College with the highest honors in 1838, at the age of eighteen years. Having pursued the usual course of legal studies he was admitted to the bar of Luzerne county, January 3, 1842. In October, 1848, he was, as a Whig, elected one of the representatives from Luzerne county to the Pennsylvania legislature. In 1849 he was nominated by the Whig state convention for the office of canal commissioner. In October, 1850, he was elected a representative to the thirty-sec- ond congress from the Pennsylvania district com- prising Luzerne county ; in 1852 he was a can- didate for re-election to the same office, but was defeated by Hon. Hendrick B. Wright. In 1854 Messrs. Fuller and Wright were again opposing candidates in the same district, and Mr. Fuller was elected representative to the thirty-fourth congress by a majority of two thousand and twenty-eight votes. When this congress con- vened in December, 1855, Henry M. Fuller was put forward as the candidate of the Whig and National Know-Nothing party for the office of speaker of the house of representatives, he and Nathaniel P. Banks (afterward major general of volunteers in the Union army) being the most prominent candidates for the office. After two months of wrangling, and when one hundred and thirty-three ballots had been taken, Mr. Banks was declared elected. When Mr. Fuller retired from congress in March, 1857, he removed with his family from Wilkes-Barre to Philadelphia, where he died December 26, 1860. Harriet Irwin Fuller, the wife of Henry M. Fuller, was born in 1822, the daughter of Michael Rose and Jerusha (Lindsley) Tharp. She bore her hus- band five daughters and two sons (of whom Mrs. Benjamin Reynolds is the fourth child), and died at Wilkes-Barre July 18, 1890.
Benjamin and Grace Goodwin (Fuller) Reynolds have one child, Edith Lindsley, born November 28, 1883. H. E. H.
JOHN BUTLER REYNOLDS. Elijah Wadhams Reynolds, fifth child and third son of Benjamin and Lydia ( Fuller) Reynolds, was born in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, January 18, 1813,
and died in Kingston, same state, September 25, 1869. He married November 21, 1842, Mary Lucinda Butler, daughter of Pierce Butler and wife Temperance Colt. (See Butler Family. )
Elijah Wadhams Reynolds was for many years a prominent merchant in Wilkes-Barre, and his home during the later years of his life was in Kingston, Pennsylvania. From May, 1848, to May, 1849, he was president of the town council of the borough of Wilkes-Barre, and for many years he was a director of the Wyoming Bank of Wilkes-Barre. He was always a strong Democrat, popular alike with his own party and with his political opponents, yet he declined all offers of official preferment.
Mr. and Mrs. Elijah W. Reynolds had : I. Pierce Butler, born October 7, 1844, died in Kingston, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1901 ; mar- ried Rachel Owen.
2. William Champion, born September II, 1847.
3. John Butler, born August -5, 1850; mar- ried, October 21, 1879, Emily Bradley Dain, born May 27, 1854. daughter of Nathaniel Dain, of Peekskill-on-the-Hudson, New York, a native of Lisbon, Maine, and a graduate of Bowdoin College.
John Butler Reynolds, son of Elijah W. and Mary L. Reynolds, was educated in Wilkes- Barre, in the Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, and at Lafayette College, Easton. He studied law with W. W. Lathrop, then of the Luzerne county bar, and was admitted to practice in the courts of the county November 15, 1878, and since that time has practiced his profession in Wilkes-Barre. He has at the same time inter- ested himself in various other elements of city business and public life. In 1881 he was chosen one of the examiners of the orphans' court. He is a member of the insurance firm of Reynolds & Co. He was the leading factor in the Wilkes- Barre and Kingston bridge project, organizing the company, of which he became president and general manager, and directing the building of the three iron bridges across the Susquehanna river at Wilkes-Barre, and the approaches to the same, covering the lowlands and connecting
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Wilkes-Barre with the many adjacent towns. In 1888 he organized the Westside Water Com- pany and took an active interest in it until it was absorbed by the Spring Brook Water Sup- ply Company. In 1889 he organized the West- side Electric Street Railway Company, built the road and retained his connection with the cor- poration until its consolidation with the Wyoming Valley Traction Company. In 1894, in associa- tion with A. A. Holbrook, he organized, financed and built the Wilkes-Barre and Harvey Lake Electric Railroad from Wilkes-Barre to Harvey Lake, a distance of sixteen miles, was the first president of the building and operating com- pany, and was also its general manager until its absorption by the Wyoming Valley Traction Company. He is a director in a number of local enterprises. He has never held public office except as a member of the town council, of which body he was president for two years. In poli- tics he is a Democrat, holding to the highest prin- ciples of his party. In 1888 he was elected a del- egate in the national convention which nomi- nated Cleveland and Thurman, but declined the honor. In 1890 he was the party's candidate for congress, but was defeated. In 1896 he was a prominent member of the gold-wing of the party, and as a delegate to the national convention held in Indianapolis, Indiana, aided in the nomina- tion of Palmer and Buckner. He was presidential elector, twelfth district of Pennsylvania, 1892. He is a member of the Westmoreland Club, and the Historical and Geological Society of Wilkes- Barre, and the Reform Club of New York City.
The children of John Butler and Emily Brad- ley (Dain) Reynolds are :
Dain, born September 17, 1880, died August 1881.
Pierce Butler, born July 20, 1882, graduated from Yale College in 1904, and is in business in Chicago, Illinois.
Eugene Beaumont, born December 25, 1884, student in Yale College, class of 1907.
Warren McClellan, born December 10, 1886, a student in the Chestnut Hill Academy, Phila- delphia.
Mary Butler, born March 1, 1889.
Emily Ruth, born July 4, 1890. John Dain, born March 26, 1893. H. E. H.
BUTLER FAMILY. Lieutenant William Butler was born probably about 1650, and died August 2, 1730. He was a yeoman in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1688, was made a freeman there October II, 1682, and at the time of his death was the owner of land there. He was mar- ried three times, first in 1675, to Sarah (probably Cross), born 1654, and had the following named children :
I. William, born June 15, 1677 ; died May 6, 1723.
2. Thomas, born September 15, 1682; died 1745 : was of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, where he had descendants ; married (first) probably February 16, 1719, Martha Story ; married (sec- ond), 1731-2, Abigail Craft.
3. Ralphı, born September 15, 1682; died May, 1684.
4. Ralph.
5. Sarah, born July 23, 16 -; married to John Bailey, of Newbury, Massachusetts.
6. Hannah, married November I, 1704, to Joseph Andrews.
7. Elizabeth, married to Josiah Burnham.
8. -; married to Job Giddings ; died February 27, 1708.
9. -; married to Bennett, and had a daughter Sarah.
Lieutenant William Butler was married (sec- ond), July 21, 1703, to Mary Ingalls, and had : I. Mary, unmarried in 1724. 2. Samuel, a minor in 1724, who died before 1733. 3. John, a minor in 1724, of whom later.
Lieutenant Butler was married (third) No- vember 3, 1713, (published), to Abigail Met- calf (born 1656; still living in 1724), daughter of Thomas and Abigail Metcalf. After the death of Lieutenant Butler his widow Abigail was mar- ried June 16, 1731, to Lieutenant Simon Wood.
Lieutenant Butler's will was probated Au- gust 18, 1730, and his property inventoried £1,379, 17s., 6d. He acquired his military title through service in the Massachusetts militia in
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the carly part of the eighteenth century. In va- rious contemporary conveyances recorded in the land records of Ipswich, he is referred to as "Lieutenant William Butler."
John Butler, son of Lieutenant William But- ler and his wife Mary Ingalls, was born about 1707. He was married to Hannah Perkins, (marriage published December 27, 1729), daugh- ter of Abraham and Abigail (Dodge) Perkins, grand-daughter of Isaac and Hannah (Knight) Perkins, who was a son of John and Elizabeth Perkins, quartermaster of Ipswich, 1675, the son of John Perkins, Sr., who came to Massachusetts 1630 from Bristol, England. John Butler was the owner of considerable land in Ipswich, in 1736, but disposed of it, and with his family re- moved to that part of the town of Lyme, New London county, Connecticut, later known as the North Society of Lyme. There he acquired lands as early as 1736, and there he lived until his death in 1755, engaged in farming and as a trader. John and Hannah (Perkins) Butler were the parents of nine children, viz .: I. Zebu- lon, born Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1731; died July 28, 1795; of whom later. 2. Mary, born 1738; died November 29, 1811; married before 1761, Ebenezer Brockway, son of William and Prudence (Pratt) Brockway ; had Zebulon and Ebenezer, and Captain Brockway; died Lyme, May 9, 1812. 3. Isaac. 4. John, in Wyom- ing in 1770. 5. Houghton. 6. Samuel. mar- ried 1771, Hester Brockway. He was in Wilkes- Barre in 1774-75, taught school. He later moved to Saybrook, Connecticut. 7. William. 8. Nathaniel. 9. Sarah, married (first) Gideon Pratt, (second) Mr. Wood.
Colonel Zebulon Butler, eldest son of John and Hannah (Perkins) Butler, born 1731 ; died July 28, 1795, came with his parents in 1736 to Lyme, where he continued to live until his re- moval to Wyoming valley. At an early age he entered in the active business of a trader, owning and managing one or more sloops used in carry- ing live stock and various commodities from Lyme to the West Indies, and in bringing back certain products of those islands which were in demand in the New England Colonies. He was
also the owner of a considerable amount of land in the North Society of Lyme.
As early as 1765 Zebulon Butler, then twenty- four years of age, entered upon a military career which continued with a few interruptions through the ensuing twenty-eight years. His active serv- ice in the field began in the campaign carried on by the troops of the American Colonies against Crown Point in 1756, when he ( Butler) was en- sign in Captain Andrew Ward's company in the Connecticut battalion commanded by Colonel David Wooster. In the campaign of 1757-58 he served first as ensign of Captain Andrew Ward's company, and then as ensign of Captain Reuben Ferris' "Rangers." In the spring of 1758 he was commissioned ensign of the Eleventh Company, Third Connecticut Regiment, and a few weeks later was promoted lieutenant of the same company and detailed to serve as quarter- master of the Third Regiment. The duties of this office he performed during the summer and fall of 1758 at Camp Fort Edward, Lake George. In 1759, prior to May, he was commissioned cap- tain of the Ninth Company, Fourth Regiment, Connecticut troops, and participated with that regiment in the vigorous campaign carried on in that year against Canada by the British regular and Colonial troops. Again, in 1760, Captain Butler, in command of the Tenth Company, Fourth Connecticut Regiment, participated in the campaign against the French in Canada. In 1762, as captain of the Eighth Company, First Connecticut Regiment, he took part in the noted expedition against Havana, in which he and his men suffered great hardships, sickness and ship- wreck, causing much loss of life.
From 1763 till 1775 Captain Butler seems to. have had no connection with the organized mil- itia of Connecticut. In May of the year last men- tioned, however, he was appointed and commis- sioned colonel of the Twenty-fourth (or West- morcland) Regiment, Connecticut Militia, which. has just then been established by the General As- sembly of the Colony. This office he held until October, 1776, when he was appointed and com- missioned by the Continental Congress. "Lieut- enant Colonel in the Army of the United States:
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of America," and was detailed to duty in Wyom- ing vallev. Pennsylvania. In the following Jan- uary he was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Third Regiment, Connecticut Line, in the Continental service, and shortly afterwards joined Washington's army at Morristown, New Jer- sey. In April, 1777, he was commanding a body of Connecticut troops in defense of Danbury, Connecticut, from Huntington's, Wylly's, and Douglas's battalions. In November, 1778, Lieut- enant Colonel Butler was promoted colonel of the Second Regiment, Connecticut Line, in the Con- tinental service, to date from March 13, 1778. He was in command of the "Wyoming Post" at Wilkes-Barre from August, 1778, till February, 1781, when he was ordered to join, as its colonel, the new Fourth Regiment of the Connecticut Line, encamped near West Point on the Hudson. Colonel Butler remained in command of this regi- ment, which was on duty chiefly along the Hud- son, until January, 1783, when under the consoli- dation of the Connecticut troops, he was placed in command of the "new" First Regiment. This regiment remained in camp at and near West Point until June, 1783, when the dissolution of the army was begun, and the "First" was dis- banded by orders from headquarters. Shortly afterwards Colonel Butler repaired to his home in Wyoming valley.
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