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III. Follmer Adam Hayes, second child and eldest son of William and Margaret (Follmer) Hayes, was born at Perryville, Pennsylvania, November 17, 1851, and when eight years of age he moved with his
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parents to Chatham Run, Pennsylvania, where they lived for five years; they then moved to Farragut to the old homestead, where Mr. Hayes is at present residing. He was educated at the Montoursville Normal School, the Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, and the Williamsport Commercial College, from which he graduated. He taught a number of terms of public school, and on January 31, 1876, married Louisa Clara, born January 13, 1853, youngest daughter of Charles and Christiana Stryker. The year of his marriage he was taken into business with his father at the Loyalsock mills. The firm was managed under the name of Hayes & Son from 1876 to 1890, when William Hayes moved to Montoursville. F. A. Hayes then assumed entire charge and, having purchased his father's interest, is conducting the business at the present time. Mr. and Mrs. Follmer Hayes have three children: Randall Burrows, born August 18, 1878; Walter S., born July 10, 1879; and Charles G., born March 24, 1883.
IV. Randall Burrows Hayes, M. D., eldest son and eldest child of Follmer and Louisa (Stryker) Hayes, was born August 18, 1878, at Farragut, Pennsylvania, where he received his early education in the public schools. Subsequently he took a course in the Muncy Normal school, where he was graduated in 1895, and then served one year as teacher in the public schools. In 1896 he entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and while there he took special courses, one in obstetrics at the Philadelphia Lying-In Hospital, and one in genito- urinary surgery at the Polyclinic Hospital. He was graduated with special honors, May 15, 1900, receiving in addition to the degree of Doctor of Medicine, prizes in obstetrics and diseases of the eye. In June, 1900, he became the resident physician at the Williamsport Hospi- tal, where he remained for one year, and in June, 1901, he went to Jersey Shore, where he has since been engaged in a general practice. He is a
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member of the Lycoming County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, and the West Branch Medical Society. He affiliates with Jersey Shore Lodge, No. 101, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics is a Republican. Dr. Hayes married, March 12, 1902, Sarah M. White, daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah (Callahan) White. (A sketch of the White family appears elsewhere in this work).
Walter Scott Hayes, second son of Follmer and Louisa Hayes, was born July 10, 1879, educated in the public schools, Lycoming County Normal school, and Williamsport Commercial College, from which in- stitutions he graduated. After learning the milling trade in his father's mill at Farragut, in which he worked two years, he took up telegraphy and graduating from the School of Telegraphy at Valparaiso, Indiana, he entered the employ of the New York Central & Hudson River Rail- road Company.
Charles Garfield Hayes, third son of Follmer and Louisa Hayes, born March 24, 1883, was educated in the public schools and graduated at the Lycoming County Normal school. After teaching school he spent one year as preparatory in Bucknell University, and in 1901 entered Jefferson Medical College, from which he graduated in 1905. After receiving his license to practice in Pennsylvania he accepted a position as hospital interne in Colon Hospital, Christobal Colon, Canal Zone, Panama.
Amelia Clemintine, eldest child of William and Margaret (Foll- mer) Hayes, was born October 4, 1849, married George Ebner, now de- ceased, and died in 1871. She had one son, William, born August 6, 1870, who is a member of the firm of Hayes, Pidcoe & Company, of Montoursville. Mary Catharine, third child of William and Margaret (Follmer) Hayes, born March 3, 1855, married William Koons, who died November 9, 1892. John M., fourth child of William and Mar-
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garet (Follmer) Hayes, born August 2, 1858, was educated at Mon- toursville, and at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. Mr. Hayes is a member of the firm of Hayes, Pidcoe & Company. He is a member of all the Masonic bodies, having taken all the degrees except the thirty- third. On February 22, 1882, he married Miss Jennie Fuller, born January 29, 1859, a daughter of the late James and Hannah Fuller. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Hayes are the parents of four children, as follows : J. Robert, born June 27, 1883; J. Fuller, born December 7, 1885; J. Arthur, born December 7, 1890; and William, born February 14, 1900. Margaret Emma, fifth child of William and Margaret (Follmer) Hayes, was born January 15, 1863, and is still at home. Frank W., sixth child of William and Margaret (Follmer) Hayes, born August 31, 1875, was educated in the public school of Montoursville, Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport and the Muncy Normal. May 3, 1894, he graduated from the American Horological School, this being a school for watchmakers, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the same year he opened a jewelry store in Montoursville, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, member of the Presbyterian church. He mar- ried Miss Josephine Rakestraw, daughter of J. W. Rakestraw. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have one son, Clarence Hayes.
WILLIAM BOYD CRAWFORD.
The father of William Boyd Crawford, of Cammal, is the Rev. J. W. Crawford, pastor of the Baptist church at Syesville, Pennsylvania. He married Rebecca Fisher, and six children were born to them, four of whom are living: Eva, Kern, William Boyd, mentioned at length hereinafter ; and Maggie Cooper, who is the wife of Alexander Cooper, of Allens Mills, Jefferson county, Pennsylvania.
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William Boyd Crawford, son of Rev. J. W. and Rebecca (Fisher) Crawford, was born September 14, 1874, at Bloomsburg, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the schools of his native town and at Hughesville high school, from which he graduated in 1890. His first enterprise was working in a furniture factory at Hughesville, and he next went to Danville where he was employed for two years as clerk in a general store. He then moved to Cammal, where for a time he worked at the pipe mill, but subsequently again became a clerk, which position he held until the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, when he enlisted in Company F, Twelfth Regiment United States Volunteers. After six months' service he was honorably discharged and returned to Cammal, where he entered the service of the Black Forest and Cammal Railroad Company, which position he held until 1903, when he purchased the general merchandise business which he has since successfully con- ducted, his store being well furnished and attractive. He has held the office of judge of elections and was appointed postmaster at Cammal, Pennsylvania, taking the office September 15, 1905. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Baptist church, in which he holds the office of trustee, and is a teacher in the Sunday school. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Cammal Lodge, No. 100I.
Mr. Crawford married, September 14, 1899, M. Effie, daughter of P. M. Smith, and they are the parents of one son, Harry D. Crawford, born April 5, 1901.
HIRAM JOHN WATERS.
Hiram John Waters, a well-known blacksmith of Jersey Shore, and a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1836. His parents, Jonathan and Mary (Frees)
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Waters, were natives of Northumberland county, where his paternal grandparents, who immigrated from England, were early settlers, and his grandmother in that line lived to the advanced age of one hundred and four years. His father was a prosperous farmer. Jonathan Waters and his wife both died in 1887, aged eighty-one and eighty-two years, respectively. They had a family of ten children, five of whom are now living.
Hiram John Waters was reared and educated in Northumberland county. At the age of seventeen years he began his apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade, and March 1, 1854, he came to Jersey Shore for the purpose of following his trade in the foundry of W. R. Wilson and Hirsch, with whom he remained for a number of years. In 1862 he enlisted as a volunteer for service in the railroad shops at Alexandria, Virginia, then being operated by the Federal government. At the expi- ration of fifteen months he was honorably discharged from the service. In 1864 he established himself as a blacksmith in Jersey Shore, and has carried on business there continuously and successfully to the present time. For more than fifty years Mr. Waters has resided in that town- ship, and has long been recognized as one of its enterprising and pros- perous citizens. That his ability as a mechanic has enabled him to realize some of his most earnest desires is fully evidenced by the air of comfort which pervades his immediate surroundings, and he has every reason to contemplate with pride the satisfactory results of his arduous labors. For many years he has actively participated in the public affairs of the borough, having served as a member of the council and as school director for a number of terms. Politically he is a Democrat.
On July 2, 1867, Mr. Waters was united in marriage with Miss Sarah W. Brown, daughter of William and Nancy (Wilson) Brown. Her parents immigrated from Ireland in 1844, settling in Jersey Shore.
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Her father died in 1851, and the death of her mother occurred in 1865. William and Nancy Brown were the parents of four sons and two daughters, all of whom are living. One of the former, James Brown, was twice severely wounded while serving as a lieutenant in the Civil war, and sacrificed an arm in the cause of the Union. He is now resid- ing in Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Waters have had six children, namely : William, Edward, James, Mary, Harry and Frank. William died at the age of twenty-five, and James died at the age of twenty-one years. Emma is the wife of Moses Zettle, of Jersey Shore. Mary married Hays Christ, also of this township.
HENRY MILLER.
The father of Henry Miller, of Cammal, was Harmon Miller, born 1808, died 1888, a native of York county, Pennsylvania. He moved to Waterville, on Pine creek, where for fourteen years he was the pro- prietor of a hotel. Later in life he turned his attention to farming. He married Fannie English, who was born at English Centre, Pennsyl- vania, 18II, died October II, 1874, and the following children were born to them: Michael; William, deceased; John, also deceased; Henry, mentioned at length hereinafter; Sarah J .; George; Mary A., deceased ; Martha E., also deceased; Margaret; and Julia, deceased. In 1888 Mr. Miller, the father, was run over by a Fall Brook train, receiving injuries which resulted fatally.
Henry Miller, son of Harmon and Fannie (English) Miller, was born August 22, 1840, at Waterville. He was educated in his native town, his early life, after leaving school, being spent in farming and lumbering. In August, 1862, he enlisted for a term of nine months in Company I, One Hundred and Thirty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Vol-
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unteer Infantry, and participated in the battles of Fredericksburg, An- tietam, and South Mountain. At the close of his term of service he was honorably discharged. Subsequently he was drafted, but the ties of home forced him to send a substitute. In 1864 Mr. Miller settled on his present farm in McHenry township, and by hard work and unwearied perseverance has succeeded in bringing it to a high state of cultivation. He is one of the experienced huntsmen of the neighborhood and one of the most unerring shots, years having failed to lessen his ardor or weaken his interest in the sport.
Mr. Miller married, August 10, 1863, Sarah B. Denniston, and the following children have been born to them: Harmon, deceased; William H., also deceased; Ambrose W .; Sarah E., deceased; Nathaniel; Mary ; Michael; Silas, deceased; Rhoda; and an unnamed infant.
Mrs. Miller is a daughter of Nathaniel W. Denniston, who was born in Sullivan county, New York, and in 1845 moved to Lycoming county, settling in McHenry township, Okome district, where he pur- chased one hundred acres of land. He subsequently returned to New York state, and in 1857 came once more to Lycoming county, where he passed the remainder of his life. His wife was Elizabeth Earl, a native of Orange county, New York, and their family consisted of the follow- ing children: Mary C., who became the wife of David Ott, both de- ceased ; Gilbert G .; George W .; Adelia, who is married to a Mr. Bartholo- mew; Bathsheba, wife of Michael Miller; Sarah B., who was born in 1847, at Okome, during her parents' first sojourn in Lycoming county, and became the wife of Henry Miller, as mentioned above; Rachel A., who is married to Michael Wolf; and Charles, deceased, late of Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania.
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LORENZO DOW CAMPBELL.
The ancestors of Lorenzo Dow Campbell, of Cammal, belonged to the clan which has given to the history of Scotland so many famous names. Samuel Campbell, a native of the north of Ireland, emigrated to this country prior to the revolutionary war and settled for a short time in the Juniata valley, subsequently moving to Jersey Shore, where he purchased a tract of land from a man who was compelled to leave that neighborhood on account of some trouble with the Indians. Samuel Campbell was the father of two sons: John and Robert.
Robert Campbell was a musician in the revolutionary army, enlist- ing when a mere lad. He subsequently moved to Round Island, where he bought a mill and manufactured lumber. Later he became a convert to the Baptist faith, was immersed and for many years was a successful preacher of that denomination. Mr. Campbell married Rachel Morri- son, and their children were: Samuel, who became a Baptist preacher ; George; Michael; Young; Abner, mentioned at length hereinafter ; Rob- ert ; John; Jeremiah ; Priscilla; Margaret; and Elizabeth.
Abner Campbell, son of Robert and Rachel (Morrison) Campbell, and father of Lorenzo D. Campbell, was born in 1800, at Round Island, and carried on an extensive lumber business in partnership with his brother George. Over and above their farms the two brothers owned twelve hundred acres of timber land. Abner Campbell married for lris first wife Elizabeth Gamble, and their family consisted of the fol- lowing children : Hezekiah W., Salome, Mary J., Jehiel L., Rachel, Almira, Cordelia, Eunice, Stephen, Louise and Emily. The mother of these children died in 1842.
The second wife of Abner Campbell was Rhoda, daughter of Will- iam Dugan, who was born in 1781, in Ireland, whence he emigrated to
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the United States. He married Jane, daughter of William McMasters, a revolutionary soldier, who was wounded and taken prisoner in the battle of Bunker Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Dugan were the parents of four children: Edward; Mary; Rhoda, who became the wife of Abner Campbell, as mentioned above; and John. The death of Mr. Dugan occurred in 1865. To Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were born two sons and two daughters : Lorenzo Dow, mentioned at length hereinafter ; William A., who was a veteran of the Civil war and is now deceased; Elizabeth ; and Abbie. These children were very early deprived of their father's care, Mr. Campbell dying in 1850, while in the prime of life.
Lorenzo Dow Campbell, son of Abner and Rhoda (Dugan) Camp- bell, was born March 26, 1844, at Cammal, where he received his educa- tion and has devoted himself to farming and lumbering. He has ac- quired considerable property, owning one thousand acres of land, one hundred and seven acres of which are under cultivation. On this estate are several stone quarries, producing both blue and white flagging of superior quality. He has owned his present farm since 1881, at which time he erected his dwelling-house. He has held the offices of super- visor, school director, school treasurer, auditor and judge of elections.
Mr. Campbell married, September 7. 1873, Margaret F. Miller, and the following children were born to them: Louise, born October 12, 1874, who was married to Charles Hostrander, and is now the wife of William Wolf, having a daughter by each marriage; Eva Hostrander and Anna B. Wolf; Abner J., born October 21, 1877; Harmon M., born December 10, 1879; Rhoda M., born February 8, 1887.
RILEY W. ALLEN.
Riley W. Allen, prominently identified with life insurance affairs, and a recognized authority on all matters pertaining thereto, is a native
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of the state of Ohio, born in Cleveland, June 17, 1855. He came from New England stock that emigrated from the Massachusetts Bay region to Ohio in 1832, when Connecticut made its movement for the develop- ment of the Connecticut Reserve. The characteristics of the race whence he sprung-energy, enterprise and an ambition to succeed-were early manifested in his life.
Reared upon a farm, his education was limited to that which he could obtain in the ordinary district schools before his thirteenth year. He was, however, well grounded in the fundamentals of knowledge, and in the after years he supplied his deficiencies through self-selected reading and keen observation. At the early age noted he left school to take employment with a decorator of cottage chamber suits, and so thor- oughly learned the trade that when only sixteen years old he was made manager of his department for the Cleveland Furniture Company. After serving acceptably in that position for a year he located in Williams- port, Pennsylvania, under an engagement with A. H. Heilman. Shortly afterward he accepted a position with W. A. Melhuish & Company, and when that firm was consolidated with the Williamsport Furniture Manufacturing Company, he became superintendent of its finishing de- partment.
In the early spring of 1877 it had become evident to Mr. Allen that cottage chamber furniture was going out of fashion, and he engaged in the insurance business, under the conviction that it offered a field in which style and fashion were not dominating factors, and in which a thorough equipment, independence and personality would prove com- manding qualities and lead to constantly increasing usefulness. He made his beginning at the very foundation of the insurance business- as a canvasser, and among the poor and very lowly. Diligent in his effort and prosecuting his work with a genuine enthusiasm, he proved
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his capability by substantial success, winning recognition and command- ing confidence to such a degree that he actually forced his way into the firm of A. D. Lundy & Company. From the outset he was a strongly influential figure, and he asserted his independence with a stalwart assurance founded in his business judgment and his conscience. Over- -
tures were made to his firm to change its companies, and take up deferred dividend life insurance. Mr. Allen had become a strong advocate of non-participating guaranteed service as produced by the world-famous Travelers' Insurance Company, and felt assured that there was room for this principle of insurance to thrive and develop. Thus, on prin- ciple, he declined to be diverted from approved methods, and to repro- duce himself in those which he held to be wrong, both in principle and practice. Hence, he moved steadily forward in the insurance business for the Travelers' Insurance Company, until he occupied, in one way or other, every position within its gift in the state of Pennsylvania- positions of weighty responsibility and arduous labor-in all of which he acquitted himself in such manner as to earn the sincere gratitude and esteem of his superiors, and the entire confidence of the insuring public.
When the insurance scandals of 1905 were agitating the world, Hon. John F. Dryden, United States Senator from New Jersey, wrote him, among others, for his opinion as to Federal regulation of insurance companies. To this Mr. Allen made reply : " Yes, as to life and indus- trial insurance; no, as to fire and liability insurance." In his reply to Senator Dryden, Mr. Allen proceeded to say: "The only way to cure existing trouble is to capitalize the protective tariff above legal requirements and necessities, the government to hold in trust the stock certificates and vote the stock on which the dividends are paid when earned, and the government to invest the capital and reserve, sepa- rating entirely the investment of funds from the production of business.
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The disease is graft; the cure is the knife. Separate the sheep from the goats; the purse from production; church from state. Let the funds flow out through the channels of creation. Stop congestion in centers, push the people back to the soil, and the government will have performed the function it was created for, the greatest good to the most people."
Mr. Allen is a loyal supporter of his home city and its various interests. His policy of life has ever been constructive. Optimistic in nature, he believes in building up without tearing down; in razing, to raise an improved structure. He is an active member of the Williams- port Board of Trade, an endorser of its improvement fund, and ever ready and willing to extend his aid where assistance is needed. He is a director in several local industrial enterprises. He is a member of the First Baptist church of Williamsport, and president of its board of trustees. In politics he is a Democrat, but supports the nominees of the Republican party when important principles are at stake, such as affect the stability of commercial, industrial and financial affairs.
In 1876 Mr. Allen married Miss Anna M. Scheffel, daughter of Charles and Fredericka Scheffel, of Williamsport. Of this marriage have been born five children, three of whom are now living: Carl G. Allen, who graduated as a mechanical and electrical engineer from Cornell University in the present year (1905) ; Bertha L. Allen, and Margaret L. Allen.
WELLMAN LYMAN GARVERICH.
Wellman Lyman Garverich, an enterprising business man of Jersey Shore, is of German descent, and his grandfather, John Garverich, was an early settler in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. His father, Samuel Garverich, who is a native of that county, is a highly respected resident
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of Jersey Shore, where he settled many years ago. Samuel Garverich married Ellen Fredrasy, and they reared a family of four children, namely : C. J .; Wellman L .; Elizabeth M., now the widow of John Bonnell: and Lewis F., who resides in Altoona, Pennsylvania. They also had an adopted son, Robert Garverich, a dentist, who went to Eng- land with a view of practicing his profession, and died there in July, 1904. Mrs. Samuel Garverich died in 1898.
Wellman Lyman Garverich was born in Jersey Shore, March 8, 1859. Early in life he learned the shoemaker's trade, but not finding it a congenial occupation abandoned it and returned to school in order to better equip himself for a business career. He subsequently accepted the position of lumber inspector for Messrs. Wood and Childs, with whom he remained in that capacity for eighteen years, or until 1890, when he severed his connection with that concern. He had previously purchased an established retail coal business, which he thenceforward carried on in conjunction with the retail lumber business, and in 1898 he added the grocery business to his list of mercantile enterprises, all of which are now in a flourishing condition. For many years he has experimented in the cultivation of tobacco with considerable success, and he also devotes some attention to horticulture and to the raising of poultry. In his various enterprises he provides employment for a num- ber of men, and his business ability is in other ways a great benefit to the town.
In politics Mr. Garverich is a Republican. He has been a member of the school board for the past seventeen years, and is now serving his fifth year as tax collector. For nineteen years he has been treasurer of Jersey Shore Lodge No. 101, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; has been eleven years treasurer of Jersey Shore Encampment No. 59, of which he was one of the organizers; and in 1905 was a delegate to
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the Grand Encampment of Pennsylvania. He is also a charter member of the local body of Knights of the Golden Eagle and a member of Council 178, Royal Arcanum.
ยท In December, 1888, Mr. Garverich was united in marriage with Miss Minnie, daughter of Jacob and Emma (Gates) Strayer. They have three daughters, namely: Maud, Helen and Ruth, all of whom reside at home.
THOMAS J. RITTER.
Thomas J. Ritter, a representative business man of Lairdsville, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, is a native of that state, born in Jor- dan township, July 25, 1845.
William Ritter, father of Thomas J. Ritter, was born in Muncy Creek township, 1819. He acquired a practical education which pre- pared him for the activities of life in the common schools, and his active career was devoted to farming, lumbering and general merchandising. During the Civil war, at the time when the troops invaded the state of Pennsylvania, he enlisted in the army and served with the rank of second lieutenant. He was a justice of the peace for his township, having been elected on the Democratic ticket. He was united in marriage to Lydia Renn, who was born in Franklin township, 1825.
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