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Their deaths occurred, respectively, August 9, 1842, and May 16, 1816. (For a more de- tailed account of the life of General Ross see Ross Family sketch, which appears elsewhere in this work.)
Edward S. Loop attended the common schools of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, until 1840, when he went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he found employment in a retail dry goods store, in which he remained three years. In 1844 he returned east, locating in New York City, where he resided for about ten years, during which time he discharged the duties of bookkeeper in the dry goods house of Warner Loop & Company. In 1853 he lo- cated in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he has since continuously resided. The first year of his residence there he entered the em- ploy of the Wyoming State Bank (now the Wyoming National Bank) in the capacity of teller. His service was marked by ability and fidelity and shortly afterward he was ad- vanced to the position of cashier, in which he proved himself even more useful, and his con- nection with the institution only ceased with his retirement by resignation after a service of more than twenty-one years. It is not too much to say that during this long period, which covered the real development of the bank as a financial institution of first impor- tance in the Wyoming Valley. Mr. Loop was a prime factor and made for himself an ex- cellent reputation as a financier of unusual sagacity, besides developing great ability for detecting counterfeit money.
Mr. Loop married, December 28, 1852, Miss Cornelia B. French, daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Wadhams) French, of Plymouth. Her death occurred June 25, 1856. She left one child, a daughter, Estelle, who became the wife of Major Charles F. Larrabee, of Wash- ington, who has been connected with the land division of the Indian affairs for more than a quarter of a century, and on January 3, 1905, received the appointment of assistant com- missioner of Indian affairs at Washington,. District of Columbia. Major Larabee and his wife are the parents of one son, Sterling Loop Larrabee. On July 1, 1858, Mr. Loop married Miss Harriet A. Lauder, daughter of T. D. Lauder, of New York City. She was a native of Newburg, New York, died Janu- ary 18, 1904, and her remains were interred in the Hollenback cemetery, this being the second interment there. She was a woman
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of lovely attributes and abounded in good works. She was a devoted and consistent Christian, a lifelong member of the Presby- terian Church, and was a teacher in Sunday school from her fourteenth year. She was for many years at the head of the Missionary Society of the Wilkes-Barre Presbyterian Church, and her loving interest and constant care for its interests made it a most efficient agency for good.
Mr. Loop is one of the oldest residents of Wilkes-Barre, he having erected his present residence in 1864. He remembers distinctly when what is now Main street was nothing but farming land, with deer roaming about at will, and even the most sanguine never dreamed of its present size and importance. He is held in honor by his fellow-citizens for the usefulness of his long and busy life, and for those traits of character which mark the ideal neighbor and gentleman.
CHARLES HENRY CHAMBERLIN. The Chamberlin family, represented in the present generation by Charles Henry Charberlin, a mem- ber of the staff of the Wilkes-Barre Times, who in point of active service may be placed among the veteran newspaper men of this locality, was founded in this country by Henry Chamberlin, a native of England, who came to New England with his family in 1638, in the ship "Diligent," which sailed from Ipswich, in Suffolk, and landed at Boston (or Charlestown), August 10, 1638. He was with the company led by the Rev. Robert Peck, comprised largely of people from the county of Norfolk, and there it would seem must we look for his ancestry. At the time of his ar- rival in New England, Henry Chamberlin appears, from recent research, to have been considerably older than had been supposed. His daughter, Susan (or Susannah), who married Joseph Car- ter, of Charlestown, was, according to her own deposition, born about 1616, and his mother, called the "widow Christian Chamberlin," died at Hingham, April 19, 1659, aged eighty-one years. This shows her to have been born about 1578, and if she were his own mother, then he was probably the eldest son, and born not far from 1598.
Undoubtedly Henry Chamberlin emigrated with his family from East Anglia. About 1665 he removed to the adjoining town of Hull, Mas- sachusetts, during the last years of his life lived with his son William, and he died at Hull, July 15 ,1674, leaving a wife, Jane, and several chil-
dren. He left descendants who resided in Hing- ham, Hull, Charlestown, Boston, Scituate, Pem- broke and Bridgewater, Massachusetts; New- port, Rhode Island ; and Colchester, Connecticut.
The line of descent is traced through Henry Chamberlin, the progenitor and immigrant, to William Chamberlin, his son, who was born in England, married, had nine children, and died October 22, 1678, at Hull, Massachusetts. Joseph, son of William Chamberlin, was born at Hull, Massachusetts, 1665; married, June 8, 1688, Mercy Dickinson, born 1668, died 1735, and they had eight children. Joseph Chamberlin, Jr., son of Joseph and Mercy (Dickinson) Chamberlin, resided in Colchester, Connecticut ; he married Lydia Smith, of Hull, Massachusetts, December 26, 1720, and they had nine children. Job, son of Joseph and Lydia (Smith) Chamberlin, born at Colchester, Connecticut, February 8, 1725 or 1726; married, April 27, 1758, Diadema Dun- ham ; their children were: Aaron, born January 19, 1758; Louisa, Timothy, Jairus, Diadema, Sy- bil, and Job, Jr.
Aaron Chamberlin, eldest son of Job and Dia- dema (Dunham) Chamberlin, was born at Col- chester, Connecticut, January 19, 1758, died Au- gust 25, 1825. He removed to Delaware county. New York. On October 6, 1819, he was granted a pension of $96 per annum for services as a private of the Connecticut line, and was enrolled as a pensioner January 14, 1820. His military record is as follows: May 21, 1777, enlisted as. private in Captain Daniel Allen's company of Third Connecticut Regiment, commanded by Col- onel Samuel Wyllys, for three years, and was dis- charged May 21, 1780. The Third Regiment. was recruited mainly in Hartford county, and the rendezvous was at Middletown. During the sum- mer of 1778 it encamped at White Plains with General Washington's main army, and in 1778-79 wintered at Redding. During the operations in 1779 the regiment served in General Heath's wing on the east side of the Hudson; wintered in 1779-80 at Morristown, New Jersey, serving on outpost ; and in 1780 was with the main army on the Hudson. September 15, 1780, Aaron Cham- berlin enlisted as private in Fourth Connecticut Regiment, and was discharged December 14, 1780. In this regiment he served as lieutenant under the command of Colonel John Durkee, the. adjutant of the regiment having been Libbens Loomis, of Colchester. After assisting in repel- ling the enemy at Danbury, Connecticut, April 26 and 27, 1777, the Fourth Regiment went into camp at Peekskill, May, 1777. The regiment.
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served under General Putnam along the Hudson until January, 1778, when it joined a brigade and took a position at West Point. In 1780 the reg- iment also served with the main army on both sides of the Hudson.
Aaron Chamberlin settled in Franklin, New York, in 1789, and the military records of that state show that he served in the militia from 1792 to 1807, lastly as brigadier-general of the brigade of militia for the county of Delaware, to which position he was appointed by the governor in 1805, and resigned in 1807. He married, April 12, 1787, Wealthy Root, born October 21, 1769, died January 2, 1842. Their children were : Catherine, born December 20, 1787, died Sep- tember 12, 1822; Aaron, Jr., September 12. 1789, died April 9, 1867 ; Wealthy, February 27, 1792, died August 25, 1827; Elizabeth, January 5. 1794. died January 15, 1794; Isabel, November 4, 1795. died February 14. 1796: Chauncey, De- cember 21, 1796, died July 9, 1815 ; Mary, March 6, 1799, died September 14, 1863; Julius, Feb- ruary 26, 1801, died September 3, 1856; Deborah, February 4, 1803; William Eaton, September 6, 1805, died April 9, 1839; Susan Emily, August 23, 1807; Sarah Emeline, October 20, 1809; Sophia, June 30, 1811, died July 3, 1811 ; and Julia Ann, July 30, 1814, died September II, 1899.
Aaron Chamberlin, Jr., eldest son of Aaron and Wealthy ( Root) Chamberlin, was born at Franklin, Delaware county, New York, Septem- ber 12, 1789, died at Nunda, Livingston county, New York, April 9, 1867. He married, Novem- ber 5. 1813, Ella Chandler, born at Amenia, New York, January 5, 1794, and died October 5, 1842. She bore him five children : Jane, born March IO, 1815. died July 1, 1890; George Swift, born Jan- uary 15, 1817, mentioned hereinafter ; Charles E., born March 9, 1818, died May 8, 1897 ; Chauncey. born January 7. 1820, died November 8, 1876; and Mary F., born September 3, 1821, died April 25. 1859.
George Swift Chamberlin, eldest son of Aaron and Ella (Chandler) Chamberlin, was born at Franklin, Delaware county, New York, January 15, 1817, died at Kingston, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1897.
On his mother's side, Charles Henry Cham- berlin is descended from Nicholas Baker, who was born in England, 1610; graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge, England. 1631-32: received degree of A. B. 1631-32, and of A. M. in 1635. With his brother Nathaniel he came from England between 1631 and 1635 and set-
tled at Hingham (or Hull), Massachusetts ; he re- moved to Scituate, and in 1660 was ordained third minister of the first church of that place. In a note beginning at the bottom of page 277, "His- tory of Cape Cod," or "The Annals of Barn- stable," the following concerning Nicholas Baker appears : "At Scituate he was successful in al- laying a long feud that had existed, and his min- istry has been much commended. Cotton Mather calls him 'honest Nicholas Baker, of Scituate,' and says 'he was so good logician that he could offer to God a reasonable service, so good arith- metician that he could wisely number his days, and so good orator that he persuaded himself to be a Christian.'" In the "Records of Colony of Massachusetts Bay," vol. I, pp. 174-227, Nich- olas Baker appears in the list of deputies to the general court for 1636-1638, and (vol. 3, p. 83), November 4, 1646, he was appointed one of the commissioners to hear small causes in Hingham. He died at Scituate, August 22, 1678, leaving a large estate, lying chiefly in Massachusetts col- ony. His first wife, who was probably mother of his six children, died in 1661.
Samuel, eldest child of Nicholas Baker, was admitted freeman, Hull, Massachusetts, 1677, and an inhabitant of Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1687. He married Fear, daughter of Isaac Robinson ; four children. John, son of Samuel and Fear (Robinson) Baker, married Anna Annable, Octo- ber 14, 1696. She was born March 24, 1675, and died March 21, 1732. They had nine chil- dren. Samuel, fourth child of John and Anna (Annable) Baker, born September 7, 1706; mar- ried Prudence Jenkins, May 30, 1732 ; removed to the township of Windham, Connecticut, be- tween 1743 and 1746. They had nine children. Samuel, Jr., fourth child of Samuel and Pru- dence (Jenkins) Baker, was born at Barnstable, Massachusetts, September 30, 1740: married Lydia Smith, December 8, 1763, at Windham, Connecticut. Ephraim, born December 3, 1766, was second of the four sons of Samuel, Jr., and Lydia (Smith) Baker. He married Phebe Ed- gerton Abbott, and their children were Charles, Samuel, Abbott and Henry. Samuel Abbott, son of Ephraim and Phebe Edgerton (Abbott) Baker, was born at Salisbury, Connecticut, February 22, 1793, died Catskill, New York, February 17, 1855. He married Julia A. Chandler, of Amenia, New York, at Catskill, New York, February 18, 1815. She was born October 28, 1792, and died April 26, 1826. Their children were: Ephraim, born April 19, 1816, died January 1, 1879: Frances, born February 16, 1818, died August 27, 1819 ; Henry,
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born March 30, 1820, died February, 1896; and Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Abbott and Julia (Chandler) Baker, was born at Cats- kill, New York, January 19, 1823, and died at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, February 12, 1887. On May 25, 1843, she was married to George Swift Chamberlin, and they had two chil- dren : Samuel Baker, born January 3, 1845, died January 2, 1903 : and Charles Henry, born April 9, 1848.
Charles Henry Chamberlin, second son of George Swift and Elizabeth (Baker) Chamber- lin, was born at Catskill, Greene county, New York, April 9. 1848. In 1854, when he was six years of age, his parents removed to Schoharie, New York, where he attended the public schools and Schoharie Academy. At the age of fourteen he entered the office of the Patriot to learn the trade of printer, the paper then having as pro- prietor and editor Peter Mix, father of Colonel Simon H. Mix, who commanded the Fifty-second New York Volunteer Cavalry, and was killed at Petersburg, Virginia, in 1862. Later Mr. Cham- berlin was employed in the office of the Repub- lican, remaining there until 1869, the year of his majority, when he came to Pittston, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, and in July, 1876, was one of the founders of the Luserne Leader, which was removed to Wilkes-Barre in February, 1877. Mr. Chamberlin remained with the Leader until April, 1903, a period of twenty-seven years, and during that time served as foreman, city editor, telegraph editor, associate editor and editorial writer. On April 6, 1903, the Daily Enterprise was estab- lished at Berwick, Pennsylvania, with Mr. Cham- berlin as editor. He served in that capacity for nearly a year, and was then with the Leader again until November, 1904, since which time he has been a member of the staff of the Wilkes-Barre Times, performing the duties of proof reader and other services. With thorough training, true journalistic instinct, and broad knowledge of af- fairs in the various departments of the world's progress, Mr. Chamberlin is respected by his pro- fessional associates, and the publications with which he has been connected have been the ex- ponents of the highest interests of the community. He is a man of generous endowments of mind, of an agreeable personality, and possesses a keen literary talent ; is noted for his graceful style of writing and pleasing versification, and by his in- tegrity and social qualities has gathered around him a host of friends. He is a past master of Landmark Lodge, No. 442, Free and Accepted Masons ; a member of Columbia Council, No. 43.
Junior Order of United American Mechanics ; the Pennsylvania State Editorial Association, and the Chamberlin Association of North America. Mr. Chamberlin married, September 12, 1878, Mary Almira Adaline Howell, daughter of the Rev. J. M. Howell, of Green Ridge, Scranton, Pennsyl- vania, and on April 1, 1880, removed to Kings- ton, where he has since resided. To Charles Henry and Mary Almira Adaline (Howell) Chamberlin three children have been born.
i. Claude Howell, born Wilkes-Barre, Penn- sylvania, July 19, 1879, died at Kingston, Penn- sylvania, May 30, 1897. He attended the Kings- ton public schools and was a member of the class of 1897 of the high school and president of the literary society. He entered the commercial de- partment of Wyoming Seminary in spring of 1897, and was a student there at time of death. He was an ardent student of music, a member of the Forty Fort Cornet Band, and developed marked ability as both composer and player. He was a member of the Kingston Methodist Epis- copal Church.
2. Earl Tom Chamberlin, born at Kingston, Pennsylvania, June 28, 1881. He attended the public school and graduated from the high school, class of 1897. He entered Wyoming Seminary, where he was active in literary work, debate, etc. : served two terms as president of the Amphictyon Literary Society : was literary editor of the Seminary Opinator, and president of the Seminary Guitar and Banjo Club. While attend- ing high school he won the prize (ten dollars in gold) offered by the Rev. H. E. Hayden, of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, for the best composition on "Pennsylvania in the Rev- olution." In December, 1902, he entered the Young Stenographic School, Brooklyn, New York, and in February following accepted a posi- tion in the New York office of the American Tin Plate Company. He was later with the Equit- able Life Assurance Society (home office). the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, and the law firm of Alexander & Colby. In the spring of 1905 he accepted a position as official stenogra- pher for the T. A. Gillespie Construction Com- pany, at Pittsburg, and removed to that city. On August 10, 1904, he was united in marriage with May Crystal, daughter of James Addison and Eunice Adelia (Craft) Myers, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He is enthusiastic in church work, and during his employment in New York lived in Brooklyn, and was an active member of the Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal Church and Sunday school.
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3. Roy Bullard Chamberlin, born at Kings- ton, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1887. He attended the public school and graduated from the high school, class of 1903. He entered Wyoming Sem- inary in September, 1903, graduating with honors in college preparatory course June 14, 1905. He was active in literary and oratorical work, music and athletics ; was president of the Amphictyon Society ; news editor of "The Seminary Opin- ator ;" captain of the 'varsity basket ball team, season of 1904-05; won George F. Nesbitt ora- torical prize, February 22, 1905, and second prize Eastern Interscholastic Oratorical Association Contest at Pennington (New Jersey) Seminary, May 12, 1905. He entered Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, September, 1905, and won the Ayres freshman prize in college prepar- atory examinations. He is a member of the Kingston Methodist Episcopal Church.
Levi Howell, great-grandfather of Mrs. Charles Henry Chamberlin, born in Connecticut, May 10, 1785, died Scranton, Pennsylvania, Jan- uary 25, 1867, was a blacksmith, and later in life engaged in farming. He was in the war of 1812. He married Mary Miller, born in Sullivan county, New York, November 17, 1789, died at Wall- pock, New Jersey, April 29, 1840. Their chil- dren : Ila, born January 18, 1809, died Somerville, New Jersey, May 3, 1860; Mary Ann, born June 4, 18II, died December 21, 1878; William, born January 19, 1815, died April 4, 1822; Robert Shaw, born July 30, 1818, died January 20, 1875 ; Thomas W., born April 19, 1820, died May 28, 1838; Sarah Elizabeth, born May 19, 1822, still living at Chillicothe, Ohio; James Monroe, born September 29, 1824; and Christiana, born July 27, 1827.
James Monroe, seventh child of Levi and Mary (Miller) Howell, was born September 29, 1824, on a farm between Finchville and Howell, Orange county, New York. He studied for the ministry and completed his education at Owego Academy, Owego, New York, but owing to a throat affection was obliged to retire early from this calling. February 27, 1851, he married Ada- line Dorcas Smith, born July 23, 1823, died Oc- tober 9, 1875. Their children are: Mary Almira Adaline, aforementioned as the wife of Charles Henry Chamberlin ; and Sara Almina Adelaide, born January 9, 1855, wife of David R. Nicol, of Wilkes-Barre, a conductor on the Delaware & Hudson Railroad, and they are the parents of one daughter, Adda Margaret, born September 19, 1887. Rev. James Monroe Howell married ( sec- ond) October 15, 1879, Elizabeth S. Brown, of
Scranton, Pennsylvania, who died June 9, 1905.
On her mother's side Mrs. Charles Henry- Chamberlin is of German descent, John Smith,. her great-grandfather, having been born at Heid- elberg, 1769. The family has no record of his coming to this country, but it is known that he was living at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 1797, and removed 1799 to Tioga county, New York, where he died in 1850. He married Sallie Til- bury, born in Holland 1778, died in 1813. Their children were Richard, John and Henry.
John, second son of John and Sallie (Tilbury) Smith, was born at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania,. July 8, 1797, and died at Nichols, New York, May 31, 1888. On June 12, 1814, he married Almira Granger, born in Connecticut, February 27, 1798, died at Nichols, New York, October 17,. 1858, daughter of Joseph and Sallie (Roach) Granger, natives of Connecticut. The former died at Nichols, New York, and the latter in Michigan. To John and Almira (Granger) Smith twelve children were born : Lucinda, Cor- nelia, Fanny, George, Adaline, Dorcas, Charles, Emily, John, Almira, Joseph, Sarah A., and Har- vey. Of these four are living: John, Joseph and. Sarah A., at Owego, New York; and Almira at Hammondsport, New York.
Adaline Dorcas, daughter of John and Almira (Granger) Smith, was born at Nichols, New York, July 23, 1823, and died at Green Ridge, Scranton, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1875. On January 27, 1852, she married Rev. James M. Howell. Their children are : Mary Almira Ada- line and Sara Almina Adelaide.
Mary Almira Adaline, daughter of James M. and Adaline Dorcas (Smith) Howell, was born at Peppercotton Plains, near Branchville, Sussex county, New Jersey, December 21, 1853. Her father then traveled under the jurisdiction of the original New Jersey conference. She removed with her parents to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. in 1856, and attended the Young Ladies' Seminary and later the Academy. In 1865 the family re- moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where she en- tered the public schools, finishing in the high school in 1872. She taught in the public schools for six years, having had special preparation for the profession, and September 12, 1878, was mar- ried to Charles Henry Chamberlin, of Wilkes- Barre, and became a resident of that city. She joined the Methodist Episcopal Church when six- teen years of age, and has since been active in Sunday school, missionary society and various lines of church work. In September, 1886, she- became a member of the Woman's Christian
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Temperance Union, of Kingston, to which place the family had removed in 1880, was elected pres- ident of the organization that year, and re-elected each year for thirteen successive terms. She also served as recording secretary of the Luzerne County Women's Christian Temperance Union September 13, 1900-1905. Mrs. Chamberlin has devoted much of her time since thirteen years of age to the study of art, having been under teach- ers who received their instruction in the studios of New York, Boston and Paris. She has made a specialty of oil and water color work and china decorating, and has been awarded many prizes upon her exhibits.
RICHARD PALMER. Among the prom- inent and highly successful business men of the Wyoming valley, perhaps no one is better known or has attained to a higher degree of success than Richard Palmer, who was born in England. three miles west of Doulting. January 30, 1830, a son of William and Jane ( Hoar) Palmer. His father William Palmer, was born at Waterlip, England, 1800. He was a farmer by occupation, and emi- grated to Wales, 1837, to America 1851, re- mained until 1853, then returned to Wales, re- moved back 1875, then came again to America and located in Shenandoah, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, where he died the same year. He married Jane Hoar, who was born in Evercritch, England, in 1810, died July 22, 1897, in Shenan- doah, and the following named children were born to them : Richard, mentioned hereafter; 2. Eliza : 3. John, died in infancy: 4. Mary Ann, born 1840, married John Fudge, deceased in 1861, and the one child born to them died in infancy : 5. John, died in infancy : 6. Charles, born 1839. married in 1862. Mary Williams resides at Tam- aqua ; he is a Republican, and was elected rep- resentative of Schuylkill county in 1893: 7. Martha, born 1842, wife of William Coles of Irwin. They have a large family.
Richard Palmer received his early education in the public schools of his native place, and on leaving the school-room obtained employment in the mines where he worked until he was twenty- four years of age, when he married and sailed for this country, landing at Philadelphia April 17, 1854. From there he removed to Danville, Pennsylvania, where he engaged with Peter and Michael Grover, iron ore manufacturers. He was in the employ of this firm about seven months and then removed to Minersville, Pennsylvania, where he became associated with the firm of Manuel Bast & Company, in the coal mining bus-
iness. Here he remained until 1856, when he went to Ashland, where he was for a year in the em- ploy of L. P. Brooks. In 1857 he removed to Locustdale, where he was engaged for ten years, two of which he was mine foreman. From Lo- custdale he removed to Shenandoah. Two years later Mr. Palmer went to William Penn, Schuyl- kill county, Pennsylvania, and was there engaged from 1873 to 1897 as mine superintendent for A. C. Brooks & Company, acquitting the duties of that responsible position with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his employers. In 1897 Mr. Palmer removed to Parsons, Luzerne coun- ty, Pennsylvania, where he has erected several fine residences. He is now living retired. Polit- ically Mr. Palmer is a staunch Republican, and strongly advocates the principles of that party. He is a member of the Locust Mountain Lodge, No. 538, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a regular attendant of the Parsons Methodist Episcopal Church.
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