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(IV) Isaac Newton, son of William and Isabel (Coleman) Patterson, was born in Mer- cer county, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1833. He received his education in the public schools of his native county, and at an academy in Butler county. He began his business career as a clerk in his father's store, where his ability and energy soon placed him at the head of the business, which he continued to carry on for twenty years. He was also engaged in other business enterprises on his own account, and at the beginning of the oil excitement went into partnership with his brother in the production of oil, this partnership continuing for twelve years. In 1872 Mr. Patterson re- moved to Venango county, and located at Franklin. He became one of the leading oil producers of the county. He was president of the Franklin Savings Bank for a number of years. This bank eventually failed, but not until long after Mr. Patterson had sold out his stock and resigned from the presidency. He
has always been a public-spirited man, and in- terested in all matters affecting the general welfare of the county. In politics he is a Re- publican, in early life having been an active worker for the party in local issues. He mar- ried, July 2, 1873, Ella Donzella, daughter of Hiram Thomas Frame (see Frame III). Chil- dren : Helen, married Dr. T. A. Irwin, of Franklin ; Edith Melissa, married Dr. Carl D. Foster, of Johnstown, and they have one child, Carl D. Jr., and reside in Denver, Colorado ;. Charles Leedon.
(The Frame Line).
(I) Thomas Frame, born in Dublin, Ire- land, married Lady Mary McNoll, also of Dublin. They emigrated to this country, locat- ing first at Philadelphia and later at Chester, Pennsylvania. Children: James, of whom fur- ther; John; Allie, married a Mr. Hoover; Abner ; Margaret
(II) James, son of Thomas and Lady Mary (McNoll) Frame, was born in Chester, Ches- ter (now Delaware) county, Pennsylvania, January 24, 1791. He served in the war of 1812, was with Perry in the famous battle of Lake Erie, and served on the brig "Niagara" and the schooner "Porcupine." He was one of the command detailed to shoot Bird for de- serting his sweetheart. Bird, who was an in- timate friend of his, was buried on the shore of Lake Erie. Frame returned to the spot many years later and finding the waves of the lake had encroached on the grave, he exhumed the body and removed it either to Erie or Northeast, where it was reburied. James Frame settled in Crawford county, Pennsyl- vania, where he purchased land and became an influential farmer. He was an ardent disciple of John Wesley, and one of the most active workers of the Methodist church in James- town, Pennsylvania, where he died about 1868. He married, February 28, 1816, Elizabeth Van Sickle, born December 28, 1793, daughter of Richard and Nancy (Caswell) Van Sickle. Richard Van Sickle was born in Maryland, and Nancy Caswell in Virginia. The Van Sickle family is of Holland origin, and its members who came to this country in the sev- enteenth century are widely dispersed through- out New York and other states. Various branches of the family use the form Sickles or Syckles, and it has been impossible to trace the present line.
(III) Hiram Thomas, son of James and
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Elizabeth (Van Sickle) Frame, was born about 1824, died in Westboro, Kentucky, in March, 1864. He was engaged for many years in the manufacture of wagons and the smith- ing business. At the time of the gold fever in 1849 he amassed considerable wealth in building wagons for and fitting out those bound for the gold fields in California. He himself made several voyages around the Horn to California, where he had mining in- terests. Later he moved to New Orleans, and at the outbreak of the civil war, his sympa- thies being entirely with the North, he was obliged, owing to threats against his life, to leave that city with his family and seek refuge further north. He located in Westboro, Ken- tucky, where he died before the end of the war. He was a Master Mason, member of Volcano Lodge of Sacramento, and of the Grand Lodge of California, joining the latter December 11. 1856. He married and had children : Edith, married Dr. Newman and had one daughter, Donna Bunnell, wife of H. C. Drake, of Plainfield, New Jersey; Ella Don- zella, married, July 2, 1873, Isaac Newton Patterson (see Patterson IV).
McClune, a native of
McCLUNE Indiana county, Pennsylvania, and a scion of fine old Scotch-
Irish ancestry, was engaged in farming opera- tions in Indiana county during his entire active career. He married -, and had a son, Reed, of whom further.
(II) Reed, son of + McClune, was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1813. He passed his boyhood and youth on his father's farm in Indiana county, and later learned the trade of millwright. When a young man he came to Clarion county and settled in the vicinity of Sligo, working for the Craigs and making his home with that family for a time. He was engaged in the work of millwright until a very old age. After his marriage he established the family home at the mouth of Piney creek and there resided until the outbreak of the civil war, when he moved to the Corbett farm in Piney township, near Madison Furnace. Subsequently he pur- chased a farm near Reidsburg and still later bought the McCalment farm on Piney creek, on which estate he died about 1900. He farmed and worked at his trade of millwright and also was a draughtsman, putting up many barns and repairing blast furnaces. In poli-
tics he was a Republican, but never aspired to public office. Mr. McClune married Phoebe, daughter of Edward and Sarah Corbett, who were connected with the carly Corbetts of Clarion. There were ten children in the Cor- bett family, as follows: James, was a cabinet- maker in Clarion county during his active life ; John, was a farmer in the vicinity of Ashe- ville, Ohio: Gerardus, was a farmer near Columbus, Ohio; Miles, was a frontiersman and miner in Nevada, where he died; Allen Wilson, killed in the battle of Fredericks- burg in the civil war; Phoebe, aforemen- tioned, married Mr. McClune; Sarah Ann, became the wife of Jacob King, and died in Reynoldsville ; Phinetta, widow of Robert Mills and lives at Madison Furnace; Susan, married Lindsay Wray and died in Chicago; Wynkoop, was a roamer and died somewhere in the west. Mr. and Mrs. McClune had twelve children : 1. Sarah Ann, died young. 2. John Q., died young. 3. Mary, also died young. 4. James, a farmer and lumberman in Lime- stone township, Clarion county, Pennsylvania. 5. Charles Reed, mentioned below. 6. Manela, wife of J. O. Delp; they live in Kane, Penn- sylvania. 7. Morrison, a machinist and mill- wright; resides at Galeton, Potter county, Pennsylvania. 8. Craig. a carpenter. now living in Clarion. 9. Phoebe, widow of James Smathers; lives in Monroe township, Clarion county, Pennsylvania. 10. Alla, widow of James Ogden : lives near Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania. 11. Miles, a sawyer and farmer near Clarion. 12. Rosa, died young. Mr. and Mrs. Reed McClune were devout members of the Baptist church in their religious faith.
(III) Charles Reed, son of Reed and Phoebe (Corbett) McClune, was born in Clar- ion county, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1844. He was educated in the old "8 square" school-house in Piney township. On August 1, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, Tenth Pennsylvania Reserves. Later he was transferred to the One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment, Company I, and he served in the war until June 1, 1865, when he received his honorable discharge. He par- ticipated in the conflicts at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Appomattox Court House, Gettysburg, Petersburg, Welden Rail- road, Hatchers Run and the Wilderness cam- paign. He was wounded by a bursting shell at Fredericksburg and sent to the hospital at Washington, D. C., where he remained for six weeks. He was never captured. After
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the close of the war he returned to Clarion county and for one year worked at boatbuild- ing on the Clarion river. In 1867 he went to the oil fields at Pleasantville and from there to Foster Island. In 1871 he came back to Clarion county and from that year until 1905 was engaged in the lumbering business. He operated in the forests of Clarion county, built boats, and with his partner employed an average of twenty men all the year round. In 1904 Mr. McClune removed to Callensburg and here purchased some fine residence prop- erty. He has lived retired since 1905, but still retains a moneyed interest in the lumber busi- ness with which he was identified for so many years. He is a stockholder in the Citizens Trust Company at Clarion and has some oil interests in this section of the state. In poli- tics he accords an unswerving allegiance to the Republican party, in the local councils of which he is an active factor. He has served on the Callensburg school board for the past five years, and has also been a member of the city council. He and his wife are members of the Reformed church, to whose good works they are most liberal contributors.
Mr. McClune married, July 30, 1871, Levina E. Reese, born in Clarion county, Pennsyl- vania, November 6, 1844, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Barrett) Reese. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. McClune was Andrew Reese, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was married and whence he came to Clarion county, Pennsylvania, engaging in agricultural pursuits. The maternal grand- parents of Mrs. McClune were old residents of Farmington township, where the Grandfather Barrett was a farmer. Thomas Reese was a Democrat in politics, and he and his wife were members of the German Reformed church. He met death by drowning in the Clarion river, and his widow, who never remarried, died about 1885. There were ten children in the Reese family. namely : John, Susan, Amanda, Mary, Andrew, Levina E. (Mrs. McClune), Sophia, wife of Aaron Hartman, resides in Clarion township; Sarah, married Alexander Over, lives in Licking township; Elizabeth, twin of Sarah, wife of William Clark, of Ne- braska; Thomas Jefferson, married Clara Weeter, lives in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. McClune have two children: I. Sarah Elizabeth, born June 12, 1873; wife of Elmer Hale, of Lick- ing township : they have three children: Wal- ter, Reed and Herbert. 2. Blanche Irene, born
December 22, 1875; wife of Merl Wensel, a railroad conductor ; they live in East Brady, Clarion county, Pennsylvania, and have three children : Herbert, DeVere and Elizabeth.
The early records indicate
CRISWELL that this name was spelled variously, as Creswell, Cress- well and Crisswell. The family is of Scotch- Irish derivation.
(I) Elisha Criswell, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, was born about 1770, died in Kishacoquillas valley, Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, about 1820. He settled with two of his brothers, Benjamin and Elijah, in the Kishacoquillas valley, where he acquired land, which he cleared and tilled. He married Elsie Chesney, born about 1769, died in 1856. Among his children was Robert Chesney, of whom fur- ther.
(II) Robert Chesney, son of Elisha and Elsie (Chesney) Criswell, was born in the Kishacoquillas valley, Mifflin county, Penn- sylvania, May 6, 1813, died in Richland town- ship, Venango county, Pennsylvania, in March, 1897. He was a substantial farmer and prominent in his neighborhood. He owned land in Richland township, and after first clearing and improving one farm there, he re- moved to and settled on a larger one where he remained until his death. He married (first) Mary Say, and (second) Hannah, daughter of William Nickle, of the north of Ireland. Children, two by first marriage: 1. Elsie, married Henry Neeley ; children : Will- iam, David, Harvey, James and Dora. 2. David. 3. William, born in 1845, living in Kansas; married Maria Sheffer; children : George, Lloyd, Walter and Lulu. 4. Nancy, born in 1847, died in 1863. 5. Montgomery, born September 20, 1848; married, September 28, 1874, Ellen Weaver; children: Pearl E., deceased ; Blanch P., married Charles F. Beals ; Royal G. 6. George Stuart, of whom further. 7. Silas, born February 6, 1852; married, March 30, 1876, Lucinda Reath; children : A child, died in infancy; Myrtle, Fleming, Nellie, Mary and Elizabeth. 8. Mary Elizabeth, born in 1854; married J. J. Weaver; children: Maud, Herbert. William, Wallace, Mabel. Mollie, Blanche, Reuben, a ciaughter died in infancy, and Mary.
(III) George Stuart, son of Robert Ches- ney and Hannah ( Nickle) Criswell, was born
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in Richland township, Venango county, Penn- sylvania, April 7, 1850. He was reared on the old homestead in Richland township, and was educated in the public schools and in the Em- lenton Academy, teaching school for five win- ter terms. In 1873 he began reading law, and in 1874 entered the office of H. A. Miller, Esq., of Franklin, and was admitted to the bar of V'enango county in 1875. From the time of his elevation to the bench he was actively en- gaged in the practice of law, being associated a portion of the time with the Hon. J. W. Lee, iater of Pittsburgh, now deceased, and F. W. Hastings, F.sq., of Bradford, Pennsylvania. He is a Presbyterian in religion.
Politically he has always been affiliated with the Republican party. On March 4, 1872, he was appointed deputy prothonotary and held that position for over two years. He rep- resented Venango county two terms in the leg- islature of Pennsylvania, and during the last term was chairman of the general judiciary committee of the house. Upon the resigna- tion of the Hon. Charles E. Taylor, he was appointed by Governor Hastings, as president judge of Venango county, and took the oath of office on March 7, 1895. He afterward received without opposition the nomination of the Republican party for the judgeship and was elected by a large majority for the full term of ten years. In about 1905 he was re- elected for another term of ten years, begin- ning the first Monday of January, 1906, upon which he entered and which he is now serving. Since his elevation to the bench he has proven himself to be an ideal judge, and is frequently called to other counties to preside at the trial of important cases. He is by temperament and traits of mind and character as well as by training eminently well fitted for the judiciary. Never a partisan, never rash in deciding a question before a full hearing, he presides at trials with dignity and treats all parties with the greatest courtesy and strictest impartial- ity and brings to the decision of legal ques- tions a mind naturally clear, calm and judicial, and by training easily able to grasp the con- trolling question of the case. His decisions are never warped by personal feelings or pre- judices and he has also a great capacity for care and painstaking work. As a result his decisions are rarely appealed, and nearly al- ways sustained. Judge Criswell has been a member of the city council and school board of Franklin, and at present is member of the
water commission of Franklin, and board of trustees of the State Institution for Feeble Minded, at Polk, Pennsylvania.
He married, November 26, 1879, Flora, daughter of Joseph Harrison and Eliza Mar- garet (Davis) Smith. Children: 1. Chesney Harrison, born March 25, 1884; graduate of Washington and Jefferson College, and Massa- chusetts School of Technology; chemical en- gineer at Greely, Colorado. 2. Elisha Wayne, born November 5, 1885; graduate of Wash- ington and Jefferson College, read law, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in Jan- uary, 1911. 3. George Stuart (2), born Feb- ruary 6, 1888; graduate of Alleghany College ; now teaching in the Franklin high school. 4. Richard Lee, born July 17, 1889, died in Jan- uary, 1890. 5. Clarence Crawford, born No- vember 21, 1891 ; a student.
NICHOLS Through marriage this family is connected with the Farwell, Mason and Riddell lines, all three of which are mentioned in this narrative. Nothing is known concerning the immigrant ancestor of this family, and the first represent- ative of the name of whom we have record is John Nichols, of Farmersville, New York. He married Ann Seely. Children: George, Maria, William Wallace, of whom further ; Caroline, Benjamin, served in the civil war: Ormes, killed in the civil war; John, served in the civil war.
(II) William Wallace, son of John and Ann (Seely) Nichols, was born in Farmersville, New York, October 27, 1830. He was reared and educated in the place of his birth, whence he removed to Salamanca, New York, where he died July 4, 1895. He was for many years in the employ of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad Company, which was finally merged with the Erie road. He married, in August, 1857, Mary Victoria, daughter of Lucius and Lucy (Farwell) Durkee (see Farwell X). Lucius Durkee was born in Brandon, Ver- mont, February 14, 1804, and married Lucy Farwell, February 18, 1830. He was a son of Robert Durkee, born in Brandon, Vermont, in 1780, and married Delight Polly. William Wallace and Mary Victoria (Durkee) Nich- ols had one son, Hosea Monroe, of whom further.
(III) Hosea Monroe, son of William Wal- lace and Mary Victoria (Durkee) Nichols, was born in Farmersville, New York, Novem-
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ber 26, 1859. He was educated in the public schools and Randolph Academy. On the com- pletion of his education he entered the employ of the Standard Oil Company and worked up to the position of assistant cashier of the Bradford office of that company. In 1885 he went south to Meridian, Mississippi, where he was for four years teller in the National Bank. In 1890 he came to Oil City and again entered the employ of the Standard Oil Company. In 1902 he organized the Citizens' Banking Com- pany on the South Side, Oil City, and was elected its first president, which office he now holds. He is also connected with various other enterprises in this city. He is a member of the Venango and Rockmere clubs, and in his religious faith he is a devout Methodist.
He married, March 31, 1878, Zaidee Lenore Mason, daughter of Augustus C. and Charlotte (Riddell) Mason, born August 12, 1860, died January 4, 1913 (see Mason VII). Children : I. Lotta May, born January 25, 1879, died March 26, 1881. 2. Ethel Maud, born April 19, 1880, died January 6, 1881. 3. Roy Mc- Kay, born March 24, 1881 ; married, July 24, 1905, Margaret Ellen Touhey ; children : Mar- garet Lenore, born July 13, 1906, died May 29, 1909: Richard Mckay, born April 10, 1909; David Monroe, born January 11, 1910.
(The Farwell Line).
The ancestry of this old family is traced for four generations in England prior to the immigration to America of Henry Farwell, in 1631.
(1) Simon Farwell was born and reared in Yorkshire, England, whence he removed, with his wife Dorothy to Bishop Hill, near Taun- ton, England, in 1500. He had a son George. of whom further.
(II) George, son of Simon and Dorothy Farwell, was born in England. He married a girl whose Christian name was Phillippi and they had a son George, of whom further.
(III) George (2), son of George (I) and Phillippi Farwell, was born in England. He and his wife Mary had a son John, of whom further.
(IV) John, son of George (2) and Mary Farwell, was born in England. He married Dorothy -- -, and had a son, Henry, of whom further.
(V) Henry, son of John and Dorothy Far- well, was born in England, in 1596. After his marriage he came to the United States,
settling at Concord, Massachusetts, in 1631. In 1630, at Bishop Hill, England, he married Olive He died August 1, 1670; his wife Olive died March 1, 1691. Their chil- dren : John, born December 2, 1639; Mary, December 26, 1640; Joseph, of whom further ; Olive: Elizabeth.
(VI) Joseph, son of Henry and Olive Far- well, was born at Concord, Massachusetts, where he died December 31, 1722. He served in the French and Indian war and was called Ensign Joseph. August 25, 1702, he conveyed one-third of his property to his son Henry and then removed with his father to Dunstable, Massachusetts. He married, December 25, 1666, at Woburn, Massachusetts, Hannah Larned, born August 24, 1649, died December 31, 1685. Children: Hannah, born January 20, 1668, at Concord, Massachusetts; Joseph, of whom further; Elizabeth, June 9, 1672; Henry, December 18, 1674; Isaac; Sarah, Sep- tember 2, 1683; John, June 15, 1686; William, January 21, 1688; Oliver, April 25, 1692.
(VII) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Hannah (Larned) Farwell, married, January 23, 1695, Hannah Colburn. Children : Joseph, born August 5, 1696; Thomas, October II, 1698; Hannah, May 6, 1701; Elizabeth, De- cember 31, 1703; Edward, of whom further ; Mary, February 5, 1709; John, June 23, 1711 ; Samuel, November 14, 1714; David, May 21, 1717.
(VIII) Edward, son of Joseph (2) and Hannah (Colburn) Farwell was born June 12, 1706. He married Hanna - Children : Edward, born November 23, 1731; Submit, December 19, 1733; Hannah, October 3, 1736; David ; Abel, of whom further.
(IX) Abel, son of Edward and Hanna Far- well, was a soldier in the war of the revolu- tion, as a private in Captain Thomas War- ren's company, Colonel Brooks' regulars, re- turned October 31, 1776. He settled at Mt. Holly, Vermont, and was one of the pioneers of Rutland county. He married Hannah Children : Lemuel, born January 4, 1771 ; Solomon, February 29, 1772, died in in- fancy; Abel, twin of Solomon, died in in- fancy ; Solomon, March 23, 1773; Leonard, April 16, 1776; Russell, of whom further ; Hannah, May 17, 1781 ; Betsey, July 17, 1783; James, December 14, 1784 ; Lucy, July 1. 1788, died in 1886.
(X) Russell, son of Abel and Hannah Far- well, was born July 4, 1778. He married
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--- and became father of Lucy Farwell, who married Lucius Durkee, and they were the parents of Mary Victoria, married William W. Nichols (see Nichols II).
(The Mason Line).
(I) Sampson Mason was the immigrant ancestor of this family in America. The first mention we have of him is in 1649, when Edward Bullock, of Dorchester, in the colony of Massachusetts Bay, New England, being about to depart for England and mindful of the many perils of the voyage, made his will July 25 of that year. In this will his name appears thus : "To Sampson Mason for wife's shoes." The foregoing is the earliest known record to prove the presence of Sampson Ma- son in New England. Of his early history nothing more is known than is contained in the following extract from the "History of the Baptists in America," compiled by the Rev. Isaac Backus. "Sampson Mason was a soldier in Cromwell's army and he came to America upon the turn of times in England and settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts."
On the ninth day of March, 1650-51, Samp- son Mason, designated shoemaker, purchased from William Betts his house and home lot in Dorchester, the lot containing six acres. The date of purchase of this house probably indicates very nearly the time of his marriage to Mary Butterworth. In February, 1655-56, he sold to Jacob Hewins his house and home lot and some other land. The exact date of his removal to Rehoboth is unknown but the records of the town have the following entry : "1657, December 9, it was voted that Sampson Mason should have free liberty to sojourn with us and buy houses, lands and meadows, if he see cause for his settlement, provided he lives peaceably and quietly."
From the records it is evident that Samp- son Mason had acquired considerable property when he removed to Rehoboth and then en- tered extensively into land speculations. He appears as the holder of one share of the sev- enty-nine and one-half shares in the Reho- both North Purchase, which afterward be- came the town of Attleborough, and also one of the proprietors or share holders of the town of Swansea, in which his descendants for many generations were prominent. He was one of the original proprietors of Swansea and a subscriber to the agreement which took effect when the town was incorporated by the
court at Plymouth in an order as follows: "March 5, 1668. The township of Wannamoi- sett and the parts adjacent are established as Swansey."
It is probable that Sampson Mason became a member of the First Church about this time and the family tradition that he was converted to the Baptist faith by Elder John Myles, the first Baptist minister and founder of Swansea, may rest upon a substantial foundation al- though the tendency of his religious leaning was manifest prior to this time. During his residence in Dorchester he evidently had some connection with the orthodox church, possibly through his wife, and had not then arrived at the conclusion that infant baptism was wrong, for his son Noah was baptized in 1652 without protest or any evidence of disapproval on his part ; but in 1660, when his son John was brought to baptism in the First Church of Dorchester by John Gurnell, he expressed his disapproval while giving his consent.
Though in 1672 Sampson Mason was allot- ted twelve acres of land in Swansea and erected a house upon this plot, there is no evi- dence that he removed to Swansea and his burial is recorded in Rehoboth, September 15, 1696. His personal estate was large for his time. During King Philip's war, which broke out shortly before his death, his widow con- tributed thirteen pounds, five shillings and ten pence, the ninth largest in the list of contribu- tions from Rehoboth.
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