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He married (first ) in 1816, Mary Ridgway, of Philadelphia, who died in 1826, (second) Cecilia Ann, born in Walton, Cattaraugus county, New York, 1806, died at Ridgway, Elk county, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1855, daugh- ter of Henry Berray, who was a farmer in Cattaraugus county, New York, died there when over eighty years old. Children of first wife: 1. Ridgway B., born at Victor, New York, February 15, 1818, died at Mount Pleas- ant, Iowa; he was with his father in the lum- bering business; moved to Mount Pleasant in 1848; the next year he went to California as a prospector ; returned to Mount Pleasant and lived on his farm; he was accidentally shot ; married Margaret Bain, from Elk county, de- ceased ; children : James R., Mary, Hudson B., Wade, Andrew Jackson, Charles. 2. Jean- nette Caroline, born at Victor, May 2, 1820, died at Ridgway, February 22, 1892 ; married Jacob V. Houk, from Beaver county, Pennsyl- vania, deceased ; he was a lumberman and mer- chant ; child, Son, died young. 3. Charles B., born at Victor, April 1, 1823, died at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, February 23, 1881 ; he was a farmer at Mount Pleasant, and was murdered by a tramp, as he was standing in his own doorway; the murderer confessed in 1911, ex- plaining that he mistook Mr. Gillis for the marshal; he married Emma J. Howard, from McKean county, Pennsylvania ; child, Emma, died young. Children of second wife : 4. Mary B., born at Montmorenci, Pennsylvania, Au- gust 23, 1829, died at Brockton, New York, February 8, 1895; married Samuel Porter, from Chautauqua county, New York, de- ceased; he was a carpenter ; children : Anna, James, Augustus, Claude, another daughter. 5. James H., born at Montmorenci, May 14, 1831, died at Melbourne Beach, Florida; a commodore of the United States navy ; mar- ried (first) Lydia Alexander, (second) Ursula Z. Canfield ; she is living, and resides in Syra- cuse, New York, in the summer and at Mel- bourne Beach in the winter ; children, all by first wife : Harry A., graduate of Annapolis; Lyle ; Irwin, a commander in the navy ; Carrie. 6. Bosanquet W., born at Ridgway, August 8, 1835 ; resides in Brooklyn, New York, and is a proof reader for the New York Times; mar- ried Martha Radcliffe, deceased; children: Frank, Martha, Cecilia, Roberta, Arnold. 7. Emma Augusta, born at Ridgway, March 7. 1837 ; resides at Portland, New York ; married James Noxon, from Chautauqua county, New
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York, deceased; he was a farmer; children : Mary, Seaborn, Sophia, Cecilia. 8. Robert S., born at Ridgway, May 1, 1840, died at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, September 13, 1907 ; president of a bank and had a large farm; married So- phia Whiting, from Mount Pleasant, and now living there; children: James, Sarah, Henry, Hugh, Ansel. 9. Claudius Victor Boughton Goodrich, of whom further. 10. Cecilia A., born at Ridgway, April 3, 1844 ; married Henry Whiting ; he is a retired mechanical engineer ; a few years ago he became blind; they spend the winters in Florida ; no children.
(III) Claudius Victor Boughton Goodrich, son of James Lyle and Cecilia Ann ( Berray) Gillis, was born at Ridgway, September 14, 1841. Having attended public school at Ridg- way, he was afterward graduated from White Hall Academy, in Cumberland county, Penn- sylvania, with the class of 1859. Immediately after leaving school in that year, he took charge of building the Pittsburgh & Erie railroad, from Sunbury to Erie. He then went out among the Pawnee Indians, one hundred and twenty miles west of Omaha, on the Loup fork of the river Platte; here he spent the summer of 1861 with his father, who was then Indian agent at this place. On June 21, 1861, he wit- nessed a victory in battle of the Pawnees over the Sioux ; about two thousand were engaged. In the fall of 1861 he was clerk in a store in Omaha, and he remained until the following year, when he went to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and in the autumn of 1862 he returned to Ridgway. Then he became captain's clerk on the United States gunboat, "Commodore Mor- ris," and was at Norfolk, Virginia, until May 3. 1864, or cruising on the James river. Then he went to Alexandria, Virginia, as clerk for Joe Styles, a government scout. Sickness necessitated his return to his home in Elk county, Pennsylvania, and he entered mercan- tile business. He served one term as county treasurer in Elk county, and one term as deputy county treasurer. January 18, 1876, he came to Kane, Mckean county, Pennsylvania, and here he has lived from that time, being for many years engaged in the drug business. He has acquired extensive interests in oil leases ; was a stockholder in and director of the Temple Theater Company until July 16, 1912, when he sold this interest. He is still a stock- holder and director in the Kane Bank and Trust Company, and was stockholder and director in the White Rock Land Company.
In Masonry he has reached the thirty-second degree, being a member of Caldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. His other Masonic bodies are: Kane Lodge, No. 566, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is past master by service; Elk Lodge, No. 379, of which he was secretary and past master by service ; Kane Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; also Elk Chapter, of which he is past high priest ; Bradford Coun- cil; Orient Council, No. 40, he having one term been illustrious grand master; Knapp Com- mandery, No. 40, Knights Templar, at Ridg- way, of which he is past eminent commander ; Trinity Commandery, No. 58, at Bradford; Syria Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Pittsburgh ; and he has been district deputy high priest. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, at Kane; the Grand Army of the Republic, Charles J. Biddle Post, No. 229, at Kane, and the Kane Country Club. He is a Democrat. Beside the political offices already mentioned, which he held in Elk coun- ty, he has for three years been school director in Wetmore township, Mckean county, and he has now for twenty-five years, been a jus- tice of the peace of the borough of Kane, hav- ing been elected to this office the first Monday in May, 1887.
'Mr. Gillis married, December 30, 1864, Anna D., daughter of Abram and Lucy A. H. Overholtzer; she was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1838, died at Kane, July 24, 1897. She was a college gradu- ate, and for a number of years before her mar- riage she taught school in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. She was a member of the East- ern Star. Her church was the Baptist. Abram Overholtzer was born in Chester county, Penn- sylvania, September 9, 1812, died at White- hall, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, March 7, 1883. His wife, a native of Lancaster coun- ty, died at Kane, aged eighty-three. Children of Abram and Lucy A. H. Overholtzer, all born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania: 1. Henry F., born August 17, 1836; tailor; re- sides at Seguin, Texas ; married Eunice Ben- son, from Elk county, Pennsylvania ; children : Dora, Daisy. 2. Anna D., married Claudius V. B. G. Gillis. 3. Louisa E., born August 12, 1841 ; married Isaac Wolf, from Cumberland county ; they reside in that county on a farm; no children. 4. Regina D., born February 9, 1844; resides in Philadelphia ; married Ezra P. Dickenson, deceased; he was a contractor ; child, Blanche I. 5. Clementine, born August
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18, 1847, died December 24, 1849. 6. George WV., born August 24, 1850, died at Kane, De- cember 27, 1885 ; unmarried. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Gillis: I. James H., born at Ridg- way, March 11, 1866; druggist; resides at Kane; married Jennie O'Day, from Kane; children, all born at Kanc: Marian, born June 27, 1890; Lucille, born in October, 1891, de- ceased ; Leonora, born August 17, 1894; Mar- guerite, born August 17, 1894; Francis, born June 4, 1896. 2. Claudius B., born at Ridg- way, December 30, 1868; graduate of Lock Haven Normal School, class of 1889 ; a general insurance agent at Kane; married Lillian E. Warner; no children. 3. Anna C., born at Kane, October 20, 1877; graduate of Kane high school, class of 1896; resides with her father ; unmarried.
SHRIEVER That women have a legiti- mate place in the business world has been so often proven by their succes in many fields that there should be none to controvert the state- ment. The business career of Miss Marie Shriever is another perfect illustration of feminine capacity, as she has risen solely by her own ability and intelligence.
She is the daughter of Jacobus Shriever, born July, 1813, in Aachen (the German name for Aix La Chapelle), a frontier city of Rhen- ish Prussia, a capital of Aix La Chapelle prov- ince. He was a University graduate and a man of a high order of intelligence. In 1835 he came to the United States, settling in Jeffer- son county, Pennsylvania, at Brookville, where he died in May, 1876. He was a manufac- turer of woolens and a merchant of Brook- ville; was ill for several years prior to his death. He was a Democrat in politics, and be- came prominent in civic affairs. He was a Catholic in religious faith and one of the pio- neers in the county, the first Catholic service in the county being held at his house.
He married (first) in Alsace, Loraine, his wife coming to Brookville with him, and there died without issue. He married (second) Veronica Schmandt, of St. Mary's, Pennsyl- vania, born February 2, 18-, died in Kane, June 23, 1911. She was the daughter of Boni- face Schmandt, a merchant of Hessen Cassell, Germany, came to the United States, settled at St. Mary's, Pennsylvania, where he lived, re- tired later, moved to Emporium, Pennsylvania. where he died aged eighty-seven years. His
wife, Frances ( Koenig) Schmandt, born in Germany, died in St. Mary's. Children of Boniface Schmandt : 1. Catherine, born in Ger- many, died in Erie, Pennsylvania ; married John Singer, a marble cutter ; children : Frank and John, deceased. 2. Veronica, of previous mention. 3. Louisa, born in Hessen Cassell, Germany, came with her parents to America when four years old; married Edmund Huff, a carpenter and lumberman, who died in Em- porium, Pennsylvania, 1911; she still surviv- ing ; children: Augustus, a conductor on the Pennsylvania railroad ; Mary, now Sister Chris- topher of St. Joseph's Convent, Buffalo; Ber- tha, deceased; Kate, deceased; Elizabeth, de- ceased ; Dora, resides in Coudersport ; Edward, deceased; William, deceased; Charles, a rail- road employee ; Edward, a hotel proprietor ; Carrie, assistant postmaster at Emporium. 4. Mary, born at St. Mary's; married Joshua Bair, a contractor, and resides in Emporium ; children : Edward, deceased ; Albert, resides at Jersey Shore ; Matie, married B. Egan, a furni- ture dealer and undertaker of Emporium; Kate, married P. Burke, of Emporium; Min- nie, deceased; Rose, married a Mr. Green, superintendent of the Iron Works, at Em- porium ; William, a photographer of Em- porium, married Harriet Auchue; Bertha, of Emporium; Leo, deceased; Frank, deceased. 5. Matilda, died young. Children of Jacobus and Veronica Shriever: 1. Marie, of whom further. 2. Elizabeth, born in Greenville, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1863: she was edu- cated at the Brookville parochial school and St. Elizabeth's School, Allegany, New York ; she is partner with her sister in the firm of M. Shriever & Company, merchants, and of the firm of M. and E. Shriever, real estate ; she is a lady of great force of character and busi- ness ability, very fond of travel, spending her hours "off duty" in European and American journeyings ; she visited California and Yellow- stone in 1901 and toured Europe in 1905. 3. Gertrude, born in Greenville, February 8, 1864: married, October 13, 1888, Joseph Kav- anagh, employed in the traffic department of the Erie Railroad Company. 4. Dorothy, born 1866, died the same year and is buried in Brookville. 5. James Boniface, born in Brook- ville, April 30, 1868; he was educated in the parochial school, taking the commercial course, and at fifteen years of age was graduated with highest honors. He then came to Kane where he was a bookkeeper for the Pennsylvania
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railroad two years ; at age of eighteen years he opened a photographic studio at Emporium, became quite noted for the quality of his work, then was in the same business in Elmira, New York, a few years, then located in Scranton, Pennsylvania ; he there organized and financed the American School of Photography, and was its president for many years; he is acknowl- edged an artist of the very highest class, his studio in Scranton being one of the finest equipped in the United States and the quality of his work of the very highest artistic merit ; his photograph of the Madonna has received favorable comment from the artists of the United States and from the famous Berlin (Germany) photographers ; he married Katie Zarps, of Emporium, Pennsylvania; child, Irene Marie, born June 21, 1895. 6. Julia F., born in Brookville, June 19, 1871 ; educated in the parochial school and Clarion State Normal ; she is now manager of the millinery depart- ment of M. Shriever & Company and like her sisters possesses rare business ability ; she ac- companied her sister Elizabeth in her Euro- pean trip in 1905 and has toured California, Florida, Cuba and the West Indies, being in Kingston, Jamaica, shortly after the earth- quake.
The father of Jacobus Shriever never came to the United States, but died in Aix La Chap- elle, Germany, when comparatively a young man. His widow came with her son Jacobus, dying in Brookville. They were both mem- bers of the Roman Catholic church. Their children, all born in Alsace, Loraine : Gertrude, Elizabeth, Agnes, Jacobus and others.
(II) Marie, eldest daughter of Jacobus and Veronica (Schmandt) Shriever, was born in Frenchville, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, August 3, 1861. She was educated in the pub- lic schools at Brookville and the parochial school of the Church of the Immaculate Con- ception. She absorbed all learning so quickly that at thirteen years of age she was granted a teacher's certificate, with the proviso that she should not use it until she was sixteen. Being barred by her youth from teaching, she worked for a time in a store at Du Bois, Pennsylvania. Her health becoming impaired, she took an outside position, continuing for eighteen months, traveling as saleswoman for a book publishing house. She was a successful agent and during the eighteen months saved from her earnings a sufficient sum to enable her to start a small store in Kane. She began business in
March, 1876, in a small room twelve by twenty- eight feet, stocked with ladies goods. Her little venture was a successful one and at the expiration of two years her business warrant- ed her removal to a larger store. The death of her father in 1876 left her the head of the family and with her business success she was able to continue the education of the younger children and to provide positions for her sis- ters on their leaving school. After twelve years successful business in millinery and ladies wear at Kane, she extended her field of operation and opened a similar store at Union City, Pennsylvania. Having proved her own powers and established a reputation as a cap- able, successful business woman, she still fur- ther enlarged, opening a store in Emporium and later another in Cambridge Springs, Penn- sylvania. These four stores were successfully operated until 1894, when she sold the outlying stores, retaining only the parent store at Kane. She admitted her sister Elizabeth to a partner- ship and another sister Gertrude as a depart- ment manager. After centering all her energy in the Kane business, she enlarged and strength- ened her lines until now hers is the leading and largest millinery and ladies furnishing store in the city.
Her acute business instincts quickly saw the opportunity for a real estate firm to profitably operate, and with her sister Elizabeth she formed the firm of M. and E. Shriever and since has added to her mercantile line a very successful real estate business. Like all chil- dren of foreign born parents, she had a great desire to visit the land from which her parents came and of which she had heard so much. In 1900 her opportunity came; she joined a Christian Endeavor party going to Oberam- mergau to witness the Passion Play there per- formed by the villagers every ten years. After witnessing their wonderful portrayal of the life of Christ, she toured the continent of Europe, visiting Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Bavaria, Holland and France, also the British Isles. She has also spent her vacation periods in American travel visiting the Pacific States and British Columbia. She was in Seattle during the chase of Tracy, the outlaw, and saw something of the intense excitement caused by the plucky but unsuccessful fight for liberty of that desperado.
While thoroughly capable and entirely de- voted to her business enterprises, Miss Shriever is not a mere dollar coining machine. She
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enjoys the fruits of success in many ways and is highly regarded in her community. She is devoted to the church of her fathers and takes active part in parish work. She was a member of the Ladies' Catholic Benevolent Association of Union City, being the first unmarried mem- ber of that branch, No. I, now transferred to No. 13 of Kane, Pennsylvania. She is a mem- ber of Court No. 2, Daughters of Isabella, organized in Meadville, the first established in Pennsylvania. In 1907 she organized a court of the same order in Kane. Perhaps when the school board refused the girl of thirteen authority to teach, they rendered her a greater service than they knew, as it drove her into the world of business, where she is a shining example of feminine business ability, while as a teacher the confinement in a school room would assuredly have resulted in a broken con- stitution, although she would no doubt have won fame as an instructor. She has nobly won fame, fought the battle of life and fairly won success from all adverse circumstances.
MARSH-LONG* The first ancestor of Abbie Louise Marsh- Long to arrive in Amer- ica, Boston, Massachusetts, was William Locke, an orphan, six years of age.
From the "Gentlemen's Magazine," vol. 62, part 2, page 789, A. D. 1792, we find that tra- dition considers the name of Locke of Scotch extraction, but if so it must have been in very early times, for when Alfred divided this kingdom into parishes the dwelling of a great man by the name of Locke was called after him Lockstown, where the family at one time became numerous. The Locke family con- sider themselves descended from a very ancient house, arguing that they gave the name to the parishes where they lived before the conquest, and do not derive their names with a De from the parishes, as is commonly the case.
In 1460 we find John Locke sheriff of Lon- don. Thomas, his son, was a merchant in Lon- don, who died anno 1507, and by Joan, his wife, left three sons, John, William and Michael. John died without issue, and was
buried in Mercers chapel in 1519, with his arms in the window, a proof that the family bore arms before those granted by Queen Mary, 1555.
William, the second son (Henry VIII.), undertook to go over to Dunkirk and pull down the "pope's bull," which had been there posted up by way of a curse to the king and kingdom. For this exploit the king granted him a freehold of a hundred pounds per annum, dubbed him knight, and made him one of the gentlemen of his privy chamber. "He had alsoe the speciall favor of the kinge to come to him when he would: the kinge dined at his house, he being the kinge's mercer."
Sir William lived to be an alderman of Lon- don, and was sheriff of the city. He received his arms ( Per fesse oz, and or, in chief three falcons volant of the second; Crest-A hand p. p. r. holding up a cushion or ) in the reign of Henry VIII., having reference to his ex- ploit of going to Dunkirk, in France, and tear- ing down the Excommunication against the king, a deed which at the present time would not be of much moment, but in the age when the pope claimed such great powers, and was dreaded and feared by the people, it might require as much moral courage as to storm a castle.
Sir William was employed by Henry VIII., having charge of his commercial affairs both at home and abroad. In the Cottonian Library, London, there are several manuscript letters from him to the king and to Secretary Crom- well, dated at Antwerp 1533 to 1538. He was, says Collins, particularly employed by Queen Ann Bullen (Boleyn) privately to gather the Epistles, Gospels and Psalms from beyond sea, in which he ran great hazard, some having been secretly made away with for attempting the same thing. He died in 1550, and by his four wives left issue of twenty or more chil- dren, and from his sons are descended the Lockes of Stepney Parish, London. John Locke, commonly called "The Great Philos- opher," was of the same family as Sir William.
Stepney Parish, anciently written Stebun- heath, is one of the largest subdivisions of London. In the records of the parish we find the following baptism, 1628: William, son of William Locke, mariner, and Elizabeth, his wife, 20 December, 1628, seven days old- subsequently-Buried, Elizabeth, wife of Wil- liam Locke, Mariner, 27 June, 1631. The father was lost at sea.
*The Ancestry and Descendants of Abbie Louise Marsh-Long .- I consider it a duty of honor and of love to help in the preservation of the virtues and victories of the "Silent Majority;" they have given their lives that we might live. Let us treasure their memories, and record their history upon the tablets of enduring gratitude and fame. The accom- panying genealogy is a condensed copy of certified family records in her possession.
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The record relating to William Locke, Jr., is as follows: "22 March, 1634, theis under- written names are to be embarqued in the Planter, Nic Trarice, Master, bound for New England per certificate from Stepney Parish and attestacon from Tho. Jay and Mr. Simon Muskett, two Justices of the Peace: the men have taken the oath of supremacy and allegi- ance.
Nicholas Davies 40 yeres
Sarah Davies 48
Servants
Robert Steven John Moore
Joseph Davies 13
James Haiward
William Locke 6
Judith Phippen"
In the will of Nicholas Davies, probated March 12, 1669, he makes a bequest to his "cossen" (nephew), William Locke, Woburn. Where or with whom William Locke resided during his minority is not known. On the 25th of December, 1655, he was married to Mary, daughter of William and Margary Clark, of Woburn.
Concerning William, Senior, he was for many years a distinguished citizen, and deacon of the church of Woburn. From the town records it appears that he had a share in man- aging town affairs. He was frequently on im- portant committees, Selectman for several terms, grand juror to the supreme court. He was possessed of great wealth his real estate transactions alone cover many pages of court records. To three of his sons he gave home- steads in Lexington, and four others were pro- vided with homes near the Lexington line.
From Bodges "History of King Philip's In- dian War," 1676, pages 66 and 91, we learn that William Locke was chirurgeon of the Massachusetts forces at Mount Hope, June, 1676. In vol. 69, page 10, is a letter dated Hadley, May 3, or 30, 1676, from William Locke to Secretary Rowson, requesting the government to forward him with the greatest speed a supply of medicine and other things for the "poor wounded." Attached to it is a long memorandum of the medicines wanted. It is evident he was a man of education.
The following is a partial list of his de- scendants to the year 1850, who took part in the military duties of their country, and those who followed a professional career.
Soldiers-90, of whom 12 took part in the Lexington fight and 2 at Concord, 6 at Bunker Hill, one of whom, Captain James Bancroft, commanded a company (he was many years in the wars and was one of the original mem-
bers of "Society of Cincinnati") ; 10 were lieu- tenants, 16 captains, 3 majors, I adjutant, 7 colonels, 2 generals. (His female descendants by marriage brought into the family 59 sol- diers and 49 officers-I ensign, 6 lieutenants, 19 captains, 5 majors, I adjutant, 12 colonels, 2 generals, I commodore and 3 governors). Officers of town and county-50, selectmen 18, deacons of the early church 9, clergymen 20, two of whom were D. Ds., and Rev. Sam- uel Locke, S. T. D., president of Harvard Col- lege. Graduates from College-63. Sen- ators and representatives-26, physicians 29, lawyers 14, judges 3. (Female descendants married 34 clergymen, 15 physicians and 13 lawyers).
Lieutenant Joshua Locke was an ensign in the army under General Winslow at Nova Scotia, May, 1755, and was the Lieutenant Locke who was in the army with General Braddock, and was wounded at the time of "Braddock's Defeat." He was also with Colonel Rogers, the famous Ranger, in New York and Canada. And he was distinguished as the only one by the name of Locke who was a Loyalist, or more generally known by the term, "Tory", and when the British evac- uated Boston he left with the army, was in the battle of Staten Island, where he met and recognized his sons, Frederick and Henry, in the American army. He eventually went to England and never returned.
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