History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 83

Author: Craft, David, 1832-1908; L.H. Everts & Co
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia : L. H. Everts
Number of Pages: 812

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Zenas Cook was the third child in his father's family. He located a farm under the Connecticut title in the hol- low in which Potterville is now situated, but abandoned it after finding his claim was worthless. Joel Cook was a brother, and came to Orwell after 1800, and is yet a resi- dent of the town. His father, Joel Cook, was a soldier for three years in the Revolution, and was at the siege of Mud Island, and in the battle of Germantown. He and his son Uri came to Orwell in 1814, and settled on the farm adjoin- ing his son Joel's. A daughter married Truman Johnson.

Nathaniel Chubbuck was the first of this family who came to northern Pennsylvania. He was born in Tolland Co., Conn., and came from there to Orwell, in the summer of 1811, and purchased the possession-right of 300 acres on the Wysox creek, on a portion of which he resided until his death, and a portion of which tract is now owned and occupied by his son, L. S. Chubbuck. The purchase was made of William Keeler, October 2, 1811. The im- provement on the tract consisted of a clearing of about two acres, with a log house thereon. It was purchased a short time previously of Mark Mesusan, who bought of William Buck. This land was surveyed to Joseph Shippen, Jr., under warrant dated Aug. 20, 1774, who, by deed dated May 14, 1819, conveyed the same to Samuel Pleasanton and Benjamin Wynkoop.

After making his purchase Nathaniel returned to Con- necticut, and on January 28, 1812, married Hannah Lovet, and at once proceeded to his new home with her. On reaching his house in February, he found the roof broken down by the weight of snow, which was from two to three feet deep. With the assistance of the few neighbors the snow was removed and the roof replaced. Here house- keeping began, a chest doing duty as a table, with shingle- blocks for chairs.

On leaving his home in Connecticut his father gave him a saddle, and requested him on the first opportunity to in- vite a minister of the gospel to preach in his house. The request was complied with by inviting Rev. Marmaduke Pearce, a Methodist minister, to his house, which for some time was a preaching-place. This was, probably, the first Methodist preaching had in the town. It resulted in the conversion of Mr. Chubbuck, and as carly as 1823 he was licensed to exhort by Rev. Jolin Griffin, then pastor, and he continued to exhort until the day of his death, under

license annually renewed. He was known throughout the surrounding country as an efficient and faithful worker in the Methodist Episcopal church, and a powerful exhorter. His brother, Aaron Chubbuck, came to Orwell two years later, in the winter, traveling the whole distance with oxen and sled. He located on the creek about a mile below Na- thaniel, on land adjoining Dan Russell, where he resided until about 1854, when he removed to Nichols, N. Y., where he now resides. He was appointed a justice of the peace in 1819, and held the position while he was a resi- dent of the county, except three years while holding the office of prothonotary, and the time he held the office of associate judge of Bradford County, which last position he was holding on his removal from the county.

The father of these two gentlemen, Nathaniel Chubbuck, with his wife, Chloe, and a daughter of the same name (since the wife of Levi Frisbie), came from Ellington, Tolland Co., Conn., in the spring of 1818, and selected several hundred acres on the hills of Orwell, in preference to lands in Wysox, now owned by the Piollets. The tract in Orwell he bought for ten shillings per acre. The farms now owned by C. J. Chubbuck, Charles Pendleton, E. C. Bull, O. J. Chubbuck, and others, are situated on this tract. The elder Chubbuck traveled the entire distance from Con- necticut with a yoke of oxen and one horse, driven by James, a son, then seventeen years old, Daniel, a boy of twelve, driving the cow. The family slept by night in the wagon.

The family is of English descent, one branch, represented by Nathaniel, settling in Wareham, Mass., and another brother, Charles, settling farther north, whose descendants are among the citizens of Canada and northern New York. Mrs. Emily E. Judson is a descendant of that branch of the Chubbuck family. Ebenezer, a son of the first Na- thaniel, who located in Massachusetts, was the father of the Nathaniel who came to Orwell in 1818. Ebenezer was in the French war, and fought under the British flag. He was also a lieutenant in the Revolutionary war. He was for some years after the Revolution a sea-captain, and on quitting that business bought a farm in the east part of the town of Ellington, Conn., where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1810 or 1811, at the age of seventy- three years, his demise being sudden and without premoni- tion. His first wife was named Burgess, who bore two sons-Ebenezer and Nathaniel-and four daughters, all born in Wareham. His second wife was Tabitha Fowler, among whose ancestry were the celebrated Fowlers whose feats of strength and exploits are commemorated in the British Museum, where the identical pine-knot with which one of them killed the bear, and the skin of the immense animal, are preserved and exhibited.

Nathaniel was born Oct. 16, 1764, and died March 13, 1825. His wife, Chloe Eaton, was born March 14, 1768, and died Oct. 11, 1832. They were married Nov. 27, 1788. They had twelve children,-ten sons and two daughters. Nathaniel Chubbuck, Jr., who settled in Or- well in 1811, born Sept. 5, 1789, died Aug. 1, 1865. He has four sons living ; Nathaniel J., John, and Lyman S., are residents of Bradford County.

Aaron Chubbuck was born Aug. 4, 1791. He married

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Frisbie

PHOTOS. BY G. H. WOOD.

RES. OF GEO. C. FRISBIE, ORWELL, BRADFORD CO., PA.

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CHAUNCEY FRISBIE was born in Burlington, Hartford Co., Conn., Nev. 16, 1787. He was the eldest child of a family of five children of Levi Frisbie and Phebe Gaylord, natives of Connecticut, and of English descent. His father did service in the Revolutionary war while in Connecticut, and at the age of forty-three years came with his family (wife and fenr children) in the year 1800, and settled in the township of Orwell, on the place now owned and occupied by his youngest son, Judge Zebulon Frisbie, be being bern after the family came to this county. His mother was one of the survivors of the Wyoming massacre, her father being killed at that time, she being only eleven years of age. The family were among the earliest pioneers of the township of Orwell. They met the obstacles of a settlement in the wilderness, and the many incidents connected with their history while clearing off the forest are matters of great interest to the rising generatien. His father died Oct. 5, 1842, at the age of eighty-four years. His mother died Oct. 5, 1852, at the age of eighty-four years, having survived ber bus- band some ten years.

The children were trained in the discipline of the New England steck, brought up in the Presbyterian faith, which is still a leading characteristic of nearly all its numerous progeny. Such were the examples of morality, temperance, and virtne placed before them by the parents as to make a lasting impression upon their minds. Chauncey received a fair education before leaving Connecticut. He spent the time before " coming of age" at home in agricultural pursuits, and for several terms engaged as a teacher during the winter seasons. As a teacher he displayed that marked executive ability which characterized his whole life. March 17, 1812, he married Miss Chloe Haward, a native of Connecticut, but who had come to this county with her sister, her father being dead. Chauncey spent his life in farming, and unaided and alone, with the help of his wife, carved out a fair competence, owning at one time some three hundred acres of land, some part of which he cleared of its original forest with his own hands. The same property is now owned and oooupied by his son, George C. Frisbie, who has erected a fine, commodious residence in the village of Orwell, a view of which, with the portraits of himself and wife, will be found on another page; and, in honor to his father, he desires to place this sketch in the history of the township where he lived, and for the interests of which he so much labored.

In palities Chauncey was in the early part of his life a Federalist, but since the time of the election of Gen. Jackson he was an unswerving Demo-

crat. He was somewhat active in political matters, and by the suffrages ef his fellow-townsmen held several important offices of trust and responsibility, being treasurer of Bradferd County at one time. He and his wife were both members of the Presbyterian church of Orwell, and are still remembered by the church as consistent members of the same, contributing liberally fer its support.

To Mr. and Mrs. Frishie were born twe children who lived to adult age, H. Z. and Pbebe Maria Frisbie. His first wife died at the age of thirty- five years. For his second wife he married the widow of the late Dr. Dudley Humphrey, of Connecticut, to whom were born two children, George Chauncey, and Rachel (died in infancy).

The father died in his seventy-seventh year, May 4, 1864, honored and respected by all who knew him. He was noted for his integrity of purpose and his scrupulensly honest dealings. His wife survived him some twe years, and died Sept. 9, 1865, aged eighty years. She was a consistent Christian woman and warmly attached to her family.

GEORGE CHAUNCEY FRISBIE was born March 1, 1831, and Oct. 17, 1855, married Miss Huldah Jane, danghter of Peter and Deberab Kuykendall, of Windham township, his wife being born April 23, 1833. Their children's names are Fred V., Hector Il., George Mclellan, Frank C., Sarah Jennie, Hansen C. (died young), Willie K., and Benjamin L.

JUDGE ZEBULON FRISBIE, whose portrait is also given above, was the youngest child of Levi Frisbie's family, and was born on the spot where he has since lived July 4, 1801. He spent his early life in farming. At the age of twenty-seven he married Miss Polly Goodwin, a native of Connec- tient, but at the time of the marriage of Orwell township. They have six children living. Judge Frisbie has spent most of his life in agricultural pursuits. In politics he was originally a Whig, but upon the formation of the Republican party became an ardent supporter of its principles ; he was justice of the peace of bis township for eighteen years in succession, fel- lowed by a term of five years as associate judge of the county. He cared for his father and mother during the last days of their lives, and now occupies the homestead settled upon by his father on first coming to the county. He and his wife are both warmly attached to the Presbyterian church, and have been members of the same since the second year of their marriage. The judge has been an elder in the church for the past twenty years. He is a man without estentation, of exemplary habits, sociable and genial, and highly respected by his fellow-citizens.

PHOTO BY GEO.K WOOD.

James Cleveland

JAMES CLEVELAND.

The subject of this sketch was born in the town of Dnanesburg, Sohen- eotady Co., N. Y., Dec. 6, 1806. He was the eighth child of a family of eleven children of Gardner Cleveland and Annis Durkee. His father was a native of Rhode Island, and of English desoent. His mother was a native of Connecticut, and her ancestors early settlers of Massachusetts Bay, and supposed to be also of English extraction. His father was prominently identified with the public interests of Schenectady county, being appointed as ite firet judge, which position he held until hie age debarred him from that office.

His parents oame to Dnanesburg soon after they were married, and leased some two hundred acres of land, and carried on farming. Here his father resided for many years, and afterwards removed to Esperance, Schoharie Co., N. Y., where the family had only resided about one year when the father died at about sixty years of age. His mother survived her hueband many years, and during the last years of her life lived with her children, and died at the very advanced age of ninety-nine years and six months, at the residence of her youngest son, Rufus D. Cleveland, near Camptown, Bradford Co.

The children of this family received that training and discipline from their parente so common among New England people as to carry ite influ- enee in morals through its generation, and give that businces ability which has been so exemplified in the family among the children.

James spent his boyhood days upon the farm at home, receiving only the opportunities of the common school during the winter season, as in those days a peouniary value was placed upon the time of children before coming of age.

At the age of seventeen years he went to learn the carpenter and joiner trade, and remained at that business until he was some twenty-three years of age, and after spending a short time in Syracuse he came to the township of Orwell, Bradford Co., Pa., and commenced work at his trade. In the year 1834, April 3, he married Miss Mary, daughter of Ebenezer Chubbuck and Lusina Crawe, of Orwell, formerly of Connectiout. She was born Oot. 20, 1799.

During the first few years after their marriage he carried on farming and also worked at his trade, and about the year 1844 added to the land he already had a purchase of one hundred acres, and since which time until 1871 he has been engaged as a farmer, and classed among the caroful buei- ness men of his township.

In politics Mr. Cleveland has taken a decided etand, casting hie first vote with the old Whig party, and upon the formation of the Republican party became an ardent supporter of its principles. Unswervingly he has etood, and now at the age of seventy-one years is identified with the ref- ormations of his day. Liberal in his views in all the best interests of society, he has contributed liberally for the support of the church of which he has been a member for some forty years, viz., the Methodist Episcopal, and his home has been open and free to the wandering and needy.

To hie first wife were born three children, Horace A., Mary E., and James G. The last one died at the age of thirty-four years, in the year 1872, in California. The mother of these children was a woman of trne love and devotion to her children, a consistent Christian. She died Deo. 9, 1839.

For his second wife he married, Feb. 24, 1840, Mise Orinda Alliga, of Orwell township, to whom were born three children, Annis O., Sarah Ellen, and Robert Oscar. The last one died at tho age of eight years, in the year 1854. His wife died Feb. 15, 1846.

For his third wife he married, May 8, 1846, Miss Ennice Dimmick, of Orwell township. To his third wife were born two children, John Cicero and Nathan C., both living. His wife died August 14, 1869. Mr. Cleveland has survived his last wife some nine years, and now resides with his daughter, Mrs. Mary E. Ruesell, who married Stephen Ruseell, grandson of Danisi Russell, one of the first settlers of Orwell township.

Mr. Cleveland has lived some forty-eight years in Orwell township; is a man free from any ostentation or show ; has always heen known among his fellow-men as a man of striot integrity of purpose; has occupied promi- nent positions of trust in his township, and the influence of this brief sketch of his life will go down to generations yet unborn.

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first Matilda Dimmick. He has a son living in Michigan and a daughter in Orwell.

Hannah, the third child, was born Feb. 16, 1793, mar- ried Joseph Hamilton, and lived many years in Windham, on the farm now owned by Hiram Taylor. They reared a family of three children,-two sons and a daughter,-all now deceased. She died August 7, 1865, her husband dying about fifteen years previously.

John, the fourth child, was born Feb. 23, 1795, and was for many years a practicing physician in Nichols, N. Y., and now resides in the city of Binghamton. Ile was sur- geon of the 1st Regiment of Engineers, Corps d' Afrique, in service at Brazos and Santiago, in Texas, in 1863-64.

Jacob was born March 5, 1797, and came to Orwell with his brother Aaron, and after a time returned to Connecticut, and married, Oct. 7, 1819, Minerva Tupper, and returned with her at once to Orwell. He located on a tract on which the house of O. J. Chubbuck, erected in 1852, now stands, occupying a small log house on the same site. The im- provement consisted of this log house, and a clearing of about an acre around it. He resided here until the autumn of 1812, when he removed to Towanda with his son, where he died October 25, 1813. His wife died two years later. They reared a family of six children,-three sons and as many daughters,-two of each of whom yet reside in the county. One son, the Rev. S. A. Chubbuck, is a mem- ber of the Genesee conference. Their youngest son, Tracy J., was a member of the 141st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served during the war. James was born April 5, 1801, came to the county with his father, and lived with him on the homestead till the latter's death. After that event he managed the farm until the youngest child arrived at majority, when the farm was divided into three parts, he remaining in the house his parents had oc- cupied. He married Pamelia Keeney for his first wife,-a sister of Simon Z. and Charles Keeney, of Black Walnut, Wyoming county, Pa. They reared three boys and a girl ; the oldest son, Carlos J., now owning the homestead, and where he resides. Charles E. is in California, Carleton K. in Nebraska, and the daughter is the wife of Francis Woodruff, of Morrison, III.

The first wife of James died in 1837, and he subse- quently married Hester Crandall, who died in 1860, and afterwards he married Mrs. Cynthia Bull, who is yet living. James and Jacob were both leading members of the Metho- dist Episcopal church.

Chloe, the seventh child of Nathaniel Chubbuck, was born Dec. 8, 1803. She married Levi Frisbie, who sur- vives her, she dying Aug. 20, 1860. Three sons and one daughter also survive her, one of whom only, Aaron G., resides in the county.

Daniel Ostrander Chubbuck was born May 17, 1805, married Polly Oakley, of Susquehanna county, and settled on the farm adjoining his brother Jacob's, where he resided twenty years, and then sold it and removed to Ulster, where he remained several years. He now lives in Mount Ver- non, Iowa. Three children of his grew to maturity,-one son, Daniel Jotham, and two daughters; one daughter only now survives.

Hollis S. was born March 13, 1800. He came to this 42

county some years after his father's family, and practiced medicine, residing on Orwell hill. He removed to Elmira, where he is now engaged in an extensive practice. Aus- tin E. was born June 16, 1810. He remained on the farm with James till his marriage, at which time he went to farming for himself, on the farmn now owned by E. C. Bull; subsequently he engaged in trade in Elmira, met with loss by fire, and some time later entered the itinerancy of the Methodist Episcopal church, joining the Genesee con- ference, was a successful pastor, and now resides in Elmira.

Francis S., the youngest of the family, was born March 10, 1812. He followed farming until 1849, when he joined the Wyoming conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and did active service as an itinerant for about twenty years, when, his health failing, he took the super- annuated connection and moved to Vineland, N. J. He now resides in Binghamton, N. Y. His wife Polly, daughter of Curtis Robinson, an early settler of Orwell, died recently. They reared three children,-a son and two daughters. Their son, Emory F., was for several years a teacher at the seminaries in New York and Pittsfield, Mass. He was an Episcopal clergyman, and went to New Orleans with General Butler as chaplain of the 31st Mass. Vols. He married a Polish lady there, but his health failed, and he came north, but never regained it, and died a few years since, his widow surviving but a few years. Rev. F. S. Chubbuck, his father, was also a chaplain in the army in Texas in 1863-64, but came north on the failing of his health.

In 1855 the Chubbuck family had eleven children of the original twelve of Nathaniel living, their united ages being six hundred years, and there had not been a death in the family for fifty-one years next preceding that date (March 23). The eleven then living had all been together but twice in their lives, once at the funeral of their mother, and once at a family gathering in June, 1853. On August 1, 1865, another death occurred in the family, at which time the aggregate sum of their ages was over 714 years ; the average age of the eleven being 65 years. The oldest was 75 years, 10 months, 20 days, and the youngest 53 years, 4 months, 23 days.

Eunice Russell, a neighbor, was once staying with Mrs. Nathaniel Chubbuck in the absence of her husband, and heard a disturbance among the fowls. She looked out and saw a large black bear, and taking down the gun made a hole in the " chinking" between the logs and shot the bear dead in his tracks.

Ebenezer Chubbuck, a brother of Nathaniel, came to Orwell about the same time as Nathaniel, and lived on the farm now occupied by Cicero Cleveland. He died about 1841, and his wife, Lucina Craw, survived him some three years, both living to a ripe old age. . Their children were Amy, who married Robert McKee, and lived many years on a farm adjoining her father's; and Fanny, who married Asa McKee, who also owned a farm adjoining her father's. Bissell, their third, after a residence of some years in Or- well, went west about 1847-48, and reared a family of seven children, all of whom went west, and those who are living still reside there. Mary, their daughter, married James Cleveland. He resided on the homestead till within a few

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years past, with their aged parents. She died in 1839. Their oldest son is the Rev. H. A. Cleveland, now of Bos- ton, a well-known minister of the gospel. One daughter, wife of Stephen Russell, resides in Orwell.

Sarah, another daughter of Ebenezer Chubbuck, married Peter Sturdevant, and Lucina, the youngest, married Ru- fus D. Cleveland. Eben Chubbuck, a son, was killed at Kellogg's Crossing, on the Sullivan and State Line railroad, a few years sinee.

George Pendleton came, in 1812, from Norwich, Conn., and settled on the place on which he now resides. His father was a seafaring man, and lost heavily in the War of 1812, and he came to this county to obviate the necessity of his children following the calling of a soldier or sailor. William Pendleton married a Pitcher, and George also,- sisters. The latter went to Norwich and brought the wid- owed mother of his wife to his home, and she afterwards married Esquire Coburn. The father's name was George, and he had a large family. He and his second son died in 1814 of an epidemie, which wasted the settlement that year.

Hampton Champlin eame from Norwich also in 1821-22, and married and settled in Warren. Noah Chaffee eame from near Providence, R. I., and John and Samuel Wheaton came from the same neighborhood, and took up the lands on which their descendants now live.

Samuel Matthews came from Plymouth in 1821 and died in 1845. He was a elothier by trade, and a single man when he eanie. He built a clothiery and then a earding machine, and subsequently built a grist-mill above the site of the present one. Griswold Matthews was a nephew, and managed the business on the death of his unele.

Alvin and Milton Humphrey were later comers to Orwell, and did not remain permanently. Deaeon Theophilus Hum- phrey was the father of Dr. Dudley Humphrey. Dr. Humphrey left surviving him two sons, James D. and The- ophilus, and two daughters.

On the tax-list of the town of Mount Zion, as the first organized township, which included Orwell, was ealled, for the year 1801, were 73 taxables, 15 of whom were single freemen, 3 of the latter being schoolmasters, 2 of them Amos and Ebenezer Coburn, and the other Edward Rus- sell. Parley Coburn was a schoolmaster too. The young men were assessed $2750, the total assessment being $6815. The assessors were Samuel Woodruff, Asahel Johnson, and James Bowen. There were 19 horses, 58 oxen, and 53 cows above the age of 4 years, 45 houses, 1 grist-mill, and 542 acres of improved lands in the town- ship. In 1806 the list of taxables in Orwell numbered 102 residents.

The first white child born in the township was Joel, son of Asahel Johnson, who was born May 18, 1799, who is still living in the toyn.

The first death that occurred among the settlers was that of the wife of Adarine Manville, who died Nov. 1, 1801. Miles Pierce, a young man, died next.

PIONEER ENTERPRISES.

The first school was taught in the township, in 1803, by Clarissa, daughter of Capt. Samuel Woodruff, in an old log house, built by Deaeon William Johnson. There were only

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History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 83

Author: Craft, David, 1832-1908; L.H. Everts & Co Publication date: 1878 Publisher: Philadelphia : L. H. Everts Number of Pages: 812

Author: Craft, David, 1832-1908; L.H. Everts & Co
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia : L. H. Everts
Number of Pages: 812