Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 95

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


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Mr. Cutler was twice married. First to. Sarah Phillips, of Kingston, who died two years after. They had one child, Charles H. Cutler. a prominent undertaker of Pittston. Pennsylvania, who married Lois Merrill Grif- fith. (See Griffith Family.) Mr. Reuben B. Cutler married (second). in 1855, Amanda: Beisel, of Conyngham valley, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, who survives her husband. By this second marriage there were five children : Reuben B. and Harry L., deceased : three liv- ing. all in Pittston, as follows: Mrs. Lillie Phinney, Amanda J., and Florence Cutler. brother of Mr. Cutler, Stewart H., is still liv- ing at Scranton, Pennsylvania.


DENNIS A. MACKIN, superintendent of the Central Poor Alms House. at Retreat, was born in Wilkes-Barre. Pennsylvania, July 22. 1869, the son of Edward and Mary (Dowling) Mackin, and grandson of Dennis Mackin, a native of Ireland. He married Miss Kate Hoffman. of Dutch (Holland) extraction. whose people were among the pioneer settlers of Wyoming valley. Among their children was a son, Edward.


Edward Mackin, father of Dennis A. Mackin, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl- vania, February 27, 1840. He is a prominent coal operator. having been identified with the. Delaware & Hudson Company for a period' of fifty-three years, forty years of that time.


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acting as superintendent. He was for thirty years school director in the city of Wilkes- Barre, and also served nine years on the city council. He was a staunch Democrat, and worked earnestly and untiringly toward ad- vancing the interests of that organization. He now (1906) resides in the city of his birth, Wilkes-Barre. retired from active business life. (See sketch elsewhere).) He married Miss Mary Dowling, a native of Luzerne county, and of their children five are living: Charles E., Dennis A .. Dr. Thomas H., Mrs. Sarah Moore and Florence.


Dennis A. Mackin, son of Edward and Mary (Dowling) Mackin, was reared and ed- ucated in the common schools of his native place. He subsequently entered the Wyo- ming Seminary, spending two and a half years there, being a graduate of the commer- cial department of that institution. The first eight years after leaving the schoolroom, Mr. Mackin was employed by his father, who was then superintendent of the Delaware and Hud- son Coal Company. He next became inter- ested in the general merchandise business in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in which busi- ness he still retains his interest. The busi- ness was begun in 1893. and proved very suc- cessful from the start, owing to the good man- agement and good business methods that have always characterized Mr. Mackin's work.


In 1891 Mr. Mackin was united in mar- riage to Miss Mary Hannon, the daughter of John and Anna W. Hannon, of Columbia county, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Mackin's pater- nal grandfather. Lawrence Hannon, was a coal operator of Schuylkill county, and a man of considerable means. Her maternal grand- mother was Mary Butler. Mrs. Mackin's father, John P. Hannon, was a native of Brooklyn, New York, and a man of education and refinement. He was principal of Cun- ningham township schools for eighteen years, and was also engaged at one time in mercan- tile pursuits. He is now deceased. His wid- ow, Anna W., was born in Ireland, and is still living. Their family consisted of Theobald, Mary, Anastasia, Elizabeth, and Lawrence, four of whom reside in Wyoming valley. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Dennis A. Mackin are: Kathryn, Paul, John P., Charles and Mary.


February, 1900, nine years after his mar- riage, Mr. Mackin and his wife took positions in Central Poor District Alms House, at Re-


treat, Pennsylvania, as superintendent and matron, which position they still retain (1906). There are two hundred and fifty-two inmates in the institution, one hundred and eighty-six men, fifty-three women and thirteen children, and Mr. and Mrs. Mackin are well qualified to look after their interests. being kind and humane in their attention and treat- ment.


ISAAC EVERETT LABARRE, deceased, who for a period of four decades was a famil- iar figure on the streets of Pittston and West Pittston, where he was universally regarded as a man of sterling integrity and rare busi- ness qualifications, was born in Laceyville, Wyoming county, Pennsylvania, June 4. 1843. a son of Isaac I. and Mary Ann (Everett) LaBarre, whose family consisted of five chil- dren, as follows: Henry A., of Laceyville. Pennsylvania : Mary F., who became the wife of George Kennard, now deceased: John D .. who died in 1872: Hannah J .. a resident of Laceyville, Pennsylvania, and Isaac Everett. Isaac I. LaBarre was born in New Jersey,. April 22, 1815, educated in the common schools, learned the trade of tanner, which he followed throughout the active years of his life, removed to Laceyville, Pennsylvania, at an early age, and resided there for the remain- der of his days, passing away in the year 1862. Mary Ann (Everett) LaBarre (mother) was born in New Jersey, December 10, 1807, edu- cated in the common schools of the neighbor- hood, and faithfully performed the duties of wife and mother. She died 1899.


The boyhood days of Isaac Everett La- Barre were spent in his native town, and his. education was acquired in the schools thereof. Before he had reached the age of eighteen. vears the call for troops had gone forth to defend the Union, and he was among those who responded to the same. thus showing his patriotism and love of country. For fourteen months he served as a member of Company D. One Hundred and Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, with distinction, and at the expiration of that period of time received an honorable discharge. Upon his return to Laceyville he was engaged for a short time on the engineering corps engaged in laying out the Lehigh Valley Railroad. which was being built through that territory to Buffalo, New York. He then took up his residence in Pittston. Pennsylvania, and for-


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a few years thereafter was employed as clerk in the general store of Law & MacMillan. He resigned from this position in order to become a clerk in the office of the Adams Express Company, under his uncle, the late Isaac Ev- erett, who was the agent for that company at that place for many years. Later he engaged in the commission business with the late John H. Brown as a partner, and for several years served in the capacity of local sales agent for the Butler Coal Company's products. In the business circles of his adopted city he gained a most excellent reputation, and this was borne out by his sterling qualities, firm prin- ciples, and straightforward method of conduct- ing his affairs. Ever anxious to advance the interests of the community in which he re- sided, he took an active part in enterprises which promised success in that direction, while at the same time he was not neglectful of his personal affairs. Mr. LaBarre was greatly interested in the Masonic order and had attained a high position in its ranks. He was a member of the following Masonic organ- izations: Valley Lodge, of Pittston ; Pittston Chapter, No. 242, Royal Arch Masons ; Tem- ple Commandery, Knights Templar, of Tunk- hannock; Irem Temple, Ancient Arabic Or- der Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Wilkes- Barre. He had taken the thirty-second de- gree in Masonry. About the year 1889 Mr. LaBarre negotiated the sale of the horse car line through Pittston to the traction company. Shortly after his removal to West Pittston Mr. LaBarre was united in marriage to Mary E. Grier, who was one of three children born to the late Thomas E. Grier, the others being as follows: William E., an employee in the knitting mill in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, and Blanche, who became the wife of C. C. Conrad, of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Three children were the issue of this union: T. Grier, born December 27, 1873, educated in the com- mon schools, and is now conducting a print- ing business in West Pittston: he married Bessie E. Hoover. and they have one child, Helen Elizabeth: Mary Everett, born Feb- ruary 7, 1877, educated in the common and high schools, and is now the wife of Thomas Hoover, a carpenter; Frances Louise, born March 10, 1882. Isaac Everett LaBarre passed away at the family home, No. 11 Dela- ware avenue, West Pittston, June 1, 1905. The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. George Kirkland, and the interment was in West Pittston cemetery.


WILLIAM GLASSELL ENO, insurance agent of Wilkes-Barre, was born in Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania, July 16, 1852 son of Jos- iah William and Louisa Brown (Glassell) Eno. He is of New England ancestry on the paternal side, while those on the maternal side resided in Virginia. James Ennew, Enno, Enos, or Eno, as the name is variously spelled in the early New England records, and of whom the subject of this sketch is a lineal descendant in the seventh generation, came from England and in 1646 located in Windsor, Connecticut, where his death occurred June II. 1682. He was not a non-comformist but worshipped according to the ritual of the established church, and in 1664, he, with others, petitioned the General Court, at Hartford, "for the right to receive the privileges of the church (of England) in the administra- tion of her ordinances for themselves and their children," which was denied. He was promi- nent among the early settlers of Windsor, having been chosen by the town as one of its agents to negotiate the purchase of land from the Indians, and he received for this service, jointly with his associates a tract of land known as Tilton Marsh, lying in the immediate vicinity of Simsbury Mountain. He was married three times. First, in 1648 to Hannah Bidwell, whose father, Rich- ard, came from Devonshire, England, in 1634 to Windsor, where he died in 1647, and she died there in 1679; second, in 1658 to Elizabeth Hol- combe (died in 1679), widow of Thomas Hol- combe, who arrived in Dorchester, Massachusetts, from England, in 1634, and went to Windsor the following year; third, in 1680 to Hester Eggles- ton, widow of James, of Windsor, the latter a son of Bagot Eggleston, who was born in England in 1590, arrived in Massachusetts in 1630. and in 1635 went to Windsor, where he died in 1674. James was the father of three children, all of his first union. Sarah, born in June, 1649, died in April, 1732. She married, first, in 1667. Benajah Holcombe, born in 1644, son of Thomas ( 1630) and who died in 1736: second, Samuel Phelps. who was born in 1652. grandson of William Phelps ( 1630). James was born, November 2. 1651, and died July 16, 1714. John, born De- cember 2, 1654, married in 1681 to Mary Dibble or Dibol, whose birth took place December 24. 1664. She was a daughter of Ebenezer and granddaughter of Thomas Dibol (of Dorchester, 1635), who died at Windsor in 1681. Thomas Dibol was an ancestor of Rutherford B. Hayes, nineteenth president of the United States.


James (2) Eno (James) who settled in Simsbury, Connecticut, was born November 2,


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1657, died July 16th, 1714. He married Abigail Bissell, born July 6, 1661, died March, 1728; daughter of Samuel and Abigail ( Holcombe) Bis- sell, the former of whom was a son of John Bis- sell, who was born in Somersetshire, England, in 1591, and came to New England in 1628. The children of James (2) and Abigail Eno were: James, Ann, William, Abigail, Mary, John, Sam- uel, Susannah, and David. James (3) Eno, the oldest son, married for his first wife Mary Grant, daughter of Matthew Grant, of Windsor, and was of the line of Samuel Grant, an ancestor of Gen- eral Ulysses Grant.


David (3) Eno (James 2, James I), was born in Simsbury, August 12, 1702 ; married, October 20, 1723, Mary Gillet, who was born February 29, 1702-3, daughter of Nathan (3) Gillet, the latter a grandson of Nathan (I), who came from England to Connecticut in 1634. She died in Simsbury, November 23, 1760. The children of David (3) and Mary Eno were: David, Roger, Mercy and Jonathan, all of whom were born in Simsbury. Their son Roger, (born in 1729), who spelled his name Enos, entered the Colonial military service at an early age, attaining the rank of major-general, and served in numerous campaigns, including the siege of Havana and the French war. He was associated with Gen- eral Arnold on the latter's memorable expedition through the wilderness to Quebec, but was forced by lack of provisions to return with his command by direction of his commander in order to avoid starvation. Tried by court-martial for the alleged offense of returning without orders, he was promptly acquitted with honor. Major-General Roger Enos married Jerusha, daughter of Daniel and Esther (Moore) Hayden, of Windsor, and a descendant in the fifth generation of William Hayden (See Hayden Family), who came from England in 1630.


Captain Jonathan (4) Enos. (David, 3, James, 2, James, I), was born at Simsbury in 1739 and resided there until his death, which oc- curred December 5. 1813. He was married Jan- uary 7, 1764, to Mary Hart, of Berlin, Connecti- cut, born December 26, 1744, daughter of Elijah and Abigail (Goodrich) Hart, of New Britain, Connecticut, and of the fifth generation from Stephen Hart, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630. Mary died October. 1834, at the advanced age of ninety years. Captain Jonathan (4) and Mary Eno had a family of nine children. namely : Mary, Rhoda, Jonathan, Lucretia, Elizabeth, Cynthia, Salmon, Chauncey and Abigail. Salmon Eno, who represented Simsbury in


the Connecticut Assembly in 1834, married Mary Richards, daughter of . Amos and. Lydia (Lewis) Richards. His son, Amos. Richards Eno, who became the senior part- ner of the firm of Eno and Phelps, a prominent New York mercantile house, married Lucy Jane, .. daughter of Hon. Elisha and Lucy (Smith) Phelps. Hon. Elisha Phelps was a member of Congress from Connecticut from 1819 to 1829, and his son, Colonel Jonathan Smith Phelps, was. a member of the national house of representatives from Missouri from 1844 to 1861. Abigail Eno, born February 28, 1785, daughter of Cap- tain Jonathan, married John Viets, son of Dr. Alexander Viets, a German physician who went from New York to Simsbury in 1730, and was an ancestor of Rt. Rev. Alexander Viets Gris- wold, D. D., Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Massachusetts in 1811, and chosen chancellor of Brown University in 1812.


Chauncey (5) Eno (Jonathan, 4, David, 3, James, 2, James, I), grandfather of William G. Eno, was born in Simsbury, December 19, 1782. He was a prosperous and a prominent resident .. of Simsbury, representing that town in the Con- necticut Assembly in 1834. His death occurred January 15, 1845. On November 4th, 1807, he married Amrilla Case, who was born in Canton, Connecticut, February 12, 1778-79, daughter of Fithian and Amrilla (Humphrey) Case, and a descendant in the sixth generation of Joseph Case, of Windsor, 1640. Amrilla (Case) Eno died August 22, 1860. Chauncey and Amrilla Eno . were the parents of five children, namely : Elizur Hart, born November 7, 1809, died January 16,_ 1883: Cordelia, born June 3, 1812; Chaun- cey Evelyn, born December 27, 1815; Jennette Amrilla, born May 8, 1818, died February 13, 1889 ; and Josiah William born February 23, 1820. (See below). Elizur married Sarah Elizabeth Tuller and had three children: Chauncey H .. Fanny A., and Watson E. Cordelia married Watson Wilcox, and became the mother of Addie E. and Louis W. Wilcox. Chauncey Evelyn Eno . .married for his first wife, Harriet Goodwin, and for his second wife. Maria Bacon. The children of his first wife are Harriet A. and Lewis G. Those of his second wife are Richard B. and Mary C. Jennette Amrilla Eno married Rufus Tuller and was the mother of Nellie V., Fannie A., who died May 10. 1871 ; and Chauncey Evelyn Tuller.


Josiah (6) William Eno ( Chauncey, 5. Jona- than. 4. David. 3. James, 2, James, I) was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, February 23, 1820. .


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When a young man he came to the Wyoming Valley, locating in Wilkes-Barre, where he en- gaged in mercantile business, and his long and honorable business career was attended with ex- cellent financial results. He was closely identified with some of the extensive coal interests of this section, and was one of the most prominent citi- zens of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, having estab- lished his residence there in 1855.


In addition to being one of the original incor- porators of that borough he took an active part in its local public affairs, serving as auditor in 1866; as justice of the peace for the years 1867, 1872, 1877 and 1882; and was burgess of the borough in 1870-71-73-74. From 1856 to the time of his death he was a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church. On January 23, 1851, he married Louisa Brown (5) Glassell, who was born in Tortholwald, Madison county, Virginia, October 14, 1816, daughter of John (4) and Louise Rich- ards (Brown) Glassell. Through Andrew (3) and Robert (2) she is descended from John Glas- sell, of Scotland, 1620. Josiah W. and Louisa Brown (Glassell) Eno have two children, namely: William Glassel Eno, the principal sub- ject of this sketch ; and Jeannette, who was born in Plymouth, June 22, 1857, and married Jan- uary 24, 1883, Palmer Campbell, of Hoboken, New Jersey, son of W. P. and Caroline E. S. ( Beers) Campbell, of New Orleans, Louisiana.


William Glassell Eno was educated in the pri- vate schools at Plymouth and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, then at Business College at Tren- ton, New Jersey. After his return home he was employed as shipping clerk at coal mine at Ply- mouth from 1869 to 1871, and from that date until 1874 as chief clerk at the iron works in Cumber- land county, Pennsylvania. He then entered the insurance business at Plymouth in 1874, and at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, July, 1876, became a member of the firm of Biddle & Eno and has been interested in a number of business enterprises in Wilkes-Barre.


He is a member of the Masonic Lodge Ply- mouth, No. 342, and of the higher degrees in- cluding Dieu le Veut Commandery ; also member . of Bloomsburg Consistory A. and A. S. R. Masons, thirty-second degree ; Lulu Temple Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and of Lodge No. 109. B. P. O. E. of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.


William Glassell Eno, married June 12, 1889, Miss Marion Borden, daughter of Albert Field and Annie (Royer) Borden, of Pottstown, Penn- sylvania. Her grandparents were James Wins- low and Nancy (Hewing) Borden, of Dartmouth,


Massachusetts, and she is a descendant in the sixth generation from John ( 1) Borden, who was born in England in 1637, and immigrated to New England in 1635, arriving May 5, of that year. Mr. and Mrs. Eno have two children: Josiah William, born February 26, 1890, in Plymouth, Pennsylvania ; Jean, born June 29, 1892, in Ply- mnouth, Pennsylvania. (Abridged from Rev. H. E. Hayden's "Virginia Genealogies," p. 26-9 ; and Stiles' "History of Connecticut," i, 239-248.


SHAVER FAMILY. Philip Shaver was born and spent his boyhood in the valley of the Danube river, near Vienna, Austria. It was a cardinal principle with him that a man was not really running into debt when he bought and owed for real estate at a reasonable price. He settled in Dallas, Pennsylvania, and built his house-a log house-on the hill about a quarter of a mile south of the cross roads near the resi- dence of the late James Shaver, on land after- ward occupied by Asa Shaver, now deceased. Philip Shaver was generous and public-spirited to a marked degree for the time and place. He gave land for the public burying ground, on the hill near the pine grove just south of Dallas vill- age, on the road to Huntsville, and also gave land for the Shaver burying ground, and for the first school house in Dallas township.


The exact date when the Shavers first set- tled in Dallas cannot be accurately determined. They were Germans, and most of them came from the vicinity of Newton, New Jersey. The named is spelled Shaver, or Shafer, or Shaffer. Adam Shaver, Peter Shaver and Frederick Shaver were residents of Kingston township as early as 1796. Adam was a shoemaker by trade, but in 1806 started and for several years after- ward operated an old mill in Mill Hollow. now Luzerne borough. About 1812-13 Philip Shaver and his sons John P. and William became owners of large tracts of land in Dallas and Kingston townships, and built up what is still known as Shavertown. John P. Shaver, son of Philip, was a farmer and lumberman and operated a saw mill. He was a man of energy, possessing many of his father's traits. Indeed, from the time Philip Shaver came into the region, now more than three-quarters of a century ago, both he and his descendants have been noted for thrift, enterprise, and public spirit ; and in each suc- ceeding generation lumbering and saw milling seems to have been among the pursuits of his descendants.


John P. Shaver married Sarah Montanye. a


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native of Luzerne county, and had a family of seven sons and one daughter. Joseph Shaver, one of the sons, married (first) Jane Allen, who bore him six sons: F. A. Shaver, Joseph C. Shaver, Isaac N. Shaver, W. H. Shaver, Elmer B. Shaver, and Ralph A. Shaver. He married (second) Mrs. Mary A. Snyder, whose maiden name was Bartron, and of this union there were six children, three of whom are now living: Scott L. Shaver, Maggie R. Shaver, and John B. Shaver. Mr. Shaver died February 20, 1900.


Isaac N. Shaver, son of Joseph and Jane G. (Allen) Shaver, was born in Dallas, Septem- ber 15, 1845, and was brought up to farm work, lumbering and operating a saw mill. Before he was of full age he began work with his father in the saw mill, was associated with him in later years, and eventually succeeded to the business upon his father's death. He worked hard, and not in vain, and now is in comfortable circum- stances, enjoying in addition to the fruits of his labors the respect of his fellow townsmen. He is a well-informed, and a good, straight-forward business man, having been practically self-edu- cated ; and he has added to his store of learning by observation of and contact with men in his extensive travels both in this country and in Europe. In politics he is a Republican, and for many years has been township auditor, and also auditor of the borough. In religious preference he is a Methodist. Mr. Shaver married, April 21, 1901, Estella J. Fell, daughter of George W. and Mary (Homet) Fell, and a descendant of the seventh generation of Joseph Fell, of Long- lands, parish of Uldale, Cumberland, England, the American ancestor of one of the best families of the Friends, or Quakers. (See Fell family elsewhere in this work).


George W. Fell enlisted in August, 1863. in the One Hundred and Forty-first Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was in actual service until Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia, in 1865. He lives in Harvard, Nebraska.


JACOB SPEICHER. Among the well- known mechanical engineers of the Wyoming Valley must be numbered Jacob Speicher, of Par- sons, Pennsylvania. Mr. Speicher is a son of George Speicher, who was born in Germany, in 1816, and married Ann Mary Backen, a native of the same country. They were the parents of the following children. all of whom were born in Germany: I. Peter, who was born about 1843. lives at Jermyn, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, married and has five children, and is an engineer


for the D. & H. Coal Company at Jermyn. 2. Matthias, who was born about 1845, lives near Archbald, Pennsylvania, married Frances Willz, and has ten children. Matthias was formerly master mechanic at Carbondale for the D. & H. Coal Company and is now engineer for the same company. 3. Barbara, who was born in 1847, married John Ferguson, of Olyphant, near Scranton, and has eight children. John was for- merly a store keeper, then later lived retired, and died about 1898 and was buried in Olyphant cemetery. 4. Margaret, who was born in 1849, married Peter Miller, of Archbald, and has seven children. Peter is an engineer for the D. & H. Coal Company. 5. Jacob, mentioned at length hereinafter. 6. Nicholas, who was born in 1853, married in St. Paul, Minnesota, had one child, Michola ; died in 1888, in St. Paul, Minnesota. 7. Joseph, who was born in 1855, lives in Kankakee, Illinois, married Barbara Schubert, deceased, and has two children. Joseph is an undertaker and furniture dealer. S. John, born in 1857, is in business with Joseph in Kankakee, Illinois.


Mr. Speicher, the father of the family, died in his native land, aged seventy-five years. July, 1891. Mrs. Ann Mary (Backen) Speicher died in Archbald, Pennsylvania, in 1893, aged seventy- five years.


Jacob Speicher, son of George and Ann Mary (Backen) Speicher, was born September 19th, 1851. in Sarlouis, Germany, and was educated in the schools of his native village. At the age of thirteen he came to the United States and settled in Archbald, near Scranton. At sixteen he en- tered the machine shops of the Delaware & Hud- son Railroad Company, and after completing his apprenticeship was advanced step by step to the position of assistant to the master mechanic. He was then but twenty years old, and the fact that he has ever since retained his position is the highest encomium which can be pronounced upon him. He is a member of the Knights of Macca- bees.




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