History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 103

Author: Bradsby, H. C. (Henry C.)
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Chicago, S. B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1340

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JOHN HOWIE, dealer in coal, hay, grain, etc., Ulster, was born September 6, 1853, in Ayrshire, Scotland, a son of Mathew and Isabel (McQueen) Howie, also natives of Ayrshire, who immigrated to this country, and settled in Smithfield township, this county, in 1857, where the father purchased a farm. The family consisted of five children, viz .: John, Jennie C., Jessie M. (wife of M. G. Benedict), Mary M. (married to Homer Rockwell) and Aggie. The father died in 1860; the mother lives on the farm with her son John. The subject of these lines attended the common schools up to the age of eighteen, receiving a fair English education. In January, 1886, he purchased his present business, and he now handles about one thousand. tons of hay yearly ; also from nine to ten thousand bushels of buckwheat; over five tbou- sand bushels of oats; twelve to fifteen hundred tons of coal ; and deals in potatoes, wheat, rye, etc., to a considerable extent, his business being valued at about $25,000 yearly. He also operates a farm of 100 acres, growing tobacco and other crops. He is unmarried. Mr. Howie is a member of the Equitable Aid Union, No. 244, and is Democratic in his political views.

L. T. HOYT, attorney, Athens, is a native of the place, and was born October 30, 1868, a son of Samuel B. and Matilda T. (Teller) Hoyt, the latter a native of Michigan, born May 15, 1826, the former a native of this county, born December 1, 1810, was a merchant, and carried on business a number of years ; served as postmaster in Athens, and was justice of the peace about fifteen years. Mrs. Hoyt is pro- prietress of a millinery store, and has been engaged in that business twenty-nine years. To Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Hoyt were born three children, of whom L. T. is the youngest. He graduated in the Athens high school in the class of 1886, and began the study of law with H. F. Maynard, in September, 1886. and in September, 1888, entered the law school of Cornell University, from which he graduated in June, 1889, and was admitted to the bar, September 11, of the same year. He is a member of the Fire Department and of the Universalist Church, and politically is a Republican.

F. N. HUBBARD, farmer, of Springfield township, P. O. Wetona, was born December 22, 1848, on the farm where he now resides, a son of Rev. Wakeman B. and Lurena (Merritt) Hubbard, the father a native of Massachusetts, and the mother of Columbia township. His father came to this township in 1840, and was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Churchi, and supplied many charges ; he built the first sawmill at Leona, and was an extensive lumberman; he died, December 19, 1858, at the age of forty-four years, while the mother is still living, at the age of seventy six years, with her son. Our sub- ject was the only son and the youngest of three children, all of whom are living ; he was reared on the farm and educated in the schools of the township, and attended a select school for a time. When he was ten years old his father died; he was early obliged to take the affairs of the farm under his charge, and, by the wise counsels of his mother, was able to save the farm, which was heavily involved, but which is at the present time one of the first farms of the township. January 25, 1882, he married Susie M., daughter of Rev. Ralph and Amanda

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(Chamberlain) Brooks, of Wyalusing; she was born November 10, 1854 ; her father, who was a native of Leona, a Methodist clergyman, died in 1858, at the age of thirty-four, in Burlington. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard have had born to them three children, two of whom are living: Ralph, born October 23, 1885, and Merle, born September 23, 1887. Mr. Hubbard's farm consists of 175 acres, and the principal business is dairying and stock-raising. He is a Republican, and was a candidate in the fall of 1890 for county treasurer; is a member of the Free- masons, has been a school director, and has held several offices of pub- lic trust.

J. V. HUFF, farmer and stock-grower, Milan, born in Sussex county, N. J., August 14, 1819, is the son of John and Anna (Vough) Huff, and has but slight recollection of his grandparents, but remem- bers that his grandfather, Vough, died in Sussex county, N. J., at the extreme old age of ninety-four. His parents were farmers, and natives of New Jersey, the father of English, and the mother of Dutch descent ; they died in New Jersey, the mother when forty-nine, and the father at the age of seventy-seven. J. V. received his education in the com- mon schools ; he came to this county in the spring of 1843, landing at Standing Stone; from there went to Towanda, and remained four months ; then to Milan, and purchased the farm he now owns, which consists of upward of 110 acres ; it was heavily wooded, but he cleared away a spot to build a house, and erected a small frame dwelling. He is now one of the most prosperous farmers in the township, and is sur- rounded by the comforts of life. He paid the entire purchase price of the farm with the lumber taken from the woods with which it was covered. He married Roxanna, daughter of John and Betsie (Green) Watkins, of Athens township, March 26, 1846; their children are: John W., married to Emma Hannah; Edward, married to Nora Mckinney: Henrietta, wife of Stephen VanBuren, of Ulster township; Martha D., wife of John Kays, of Sussex county, N. J .; Frances A., and Mary A., wife of Perry Elsbree, of Smithfield township. Mr. Huff is a member of the National Grange, in which he was for years a prominent member; the family are members of the Baptist Church. In political views he is Democratic. Nearly the entire township was in the wil- derness at the time he came, and the forests were full of deer and bears. The banks of Big Buck creek were lined with sawmills, and the lumber business was the only pursuit followed to any extent.

SAVILL S. HUGGINS, farmer, Springfield township, P. O. Big Pond, was born October 2, 1836, at Nunda, Livingston Co., N. Y., a son of Ira S. and Valeria M. (Pitts) Huggins. His father was a native of Aurelius, Cayuga Co., N. Y., and was a farmer and carpenter; removed to this township in the spring of 1855, and settled on the farm where the subject of this sketch now resides; he died at the age of eighty-four years, August, 1885. His mother was born in Queens- bury, N. Y., and moved to this town in 1805, at the age of two months ; was cradled in a sap trough and schooled on Grover Hill, and her father, Luke Pitts, was one of the first settlers in Springfield ; he built the first gristmill in the town, on the creek by Dr. Cory's house; this family traced their ancestry back to Sir William Pitt; the mother

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died March, 1883, at the age of seventy-nine years. Mr. Huggins, the fourth in a family of eight children, was reared on the farm, and has continued that occupation, and now is the owner of a well-improved farm of eighty-four acres, the principal business being dairying and stock-raising. He owned and operated a sawmill many years, and was largely in the lumbering business; he is a member of the Free- masons, I. O. O. F., and the Patrons of Husbandry; is also one of the directors of the Grange Mutual Fire Insurance Company, whose office is at Troy. He was married, March 31, 1862, to Mary H., daughter of Isaac F. and Lucinda (Williams) Bullock; she was born October 3, 1841, and is the only sister of William A. and C. E. Bullock. To Mr. and Mrs. Huggins have been born two children, as follows : Minnie E., born March 2, 1863, wife of Charles B. Grace, died February 17, 1890, and Eva M., born January 2, 1865, wife of Frank Voorhis. Mr. Hug- gins is a Republican is politics, has held several offices of public trust, and is a man respected by a large circle of friends.

HON. CHARLES T. HULL, county treasurer, Athens, is a native of Coventry, Chenango Co., N. Y., a son of Josiah and Mercy (Jones) Hull, tbe former a native of Sharon, Conn., and the latter of Lisle, Broome county, N. Y. Josiah Hull, who was a blacksmith by trade, removed to Athens in 1847, and died in 1881, in his seventy-fourth year; his widow died in 1883, in her seventy-ninth year. Commodore Isaac Hull, the great-grandfather of Charles T. Hull, was an eminent officer in the Revolutionary War. The subject of this sketch is the third in a family of eight children, of which six are living. He received a common-school education, and worked about five years at the steel engraving business in Athens. Responding to the call for troops. he enlisted August 16, 1862, in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-first P. V. I., and served till July 17, 1865, the close of the war. After being in the service some time he contracted typhoid fever, soon after the battle of Chancellorsville, but remained at the front until he re- covered. Returning home, he soon thereafter accepted a position as clerk in the First National Bank, Athens, and in 1871 he was promoted to cashier, a position he held until January 1, 1891. At the November election, 1890, Mr. Hull was elected county treasurer of Bradford county, and entered upon the duties of his office January 1, 1891. He is a charter member of the G. A. R., Perkins Post, No. 202. In 1878 he was elected State commander of the G. A. R., and during that year he organized the Gettysburg Encampment, and had organized about twenty-five Posts in the State. He is also a member of the Union Veteran Legion No. 28, and has held the office of aid commander- in-chief of that organization; he is a member of the Royal Arcanum, and in politics he is a Republican. Mr. Hull is one of the most sub- stantial citizens of Athens, noted for his integrity of friendship, and his unaffected retiring disposition has drawn toward him the fullest con- fidence and warmest friendship of perhaps as many of the people as any man in the county ever did. Among the old veterans of the Civil War, and the sons of the soldiers, he is esteemed the highest, and is consulted and relied upon in all their important affairs.

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JAMES HUNT, farmer, P. O. Fassett, was born in England, Feb- ruary 3, 1833, a son of Edmund and Elizabeth (Allen) Hunt, also natives of England. James Hunt came to this county, May 29, 1858, locating in Athens township; then removed to Elinira, where he lived ten years. In 1869 he came to South Creek township, near the State line, north of Roaring run, on a farm of fifty acres, purchased from William Brook. He was married in September, 1859, at Elmira, to Rebecca, daughter of William H. and Ann Fuller, natives of England. This union resulted in the birth of ten children, as follows : Anna, Sarah, William (married to Hattie Brewer, of Wells), Mollie (married to Fred Smith, a farmer), Fred, Walter, Harry, Lottie, Glennie, and Anna (deceased). Mr. Hunt is an enterprising farmer of South Creek township; in 1890 he built a new barn, and in 1891 a new residence ; the fruit upon his property is of the choicest kind. He has held the office of road-master in South Creek township with the utmost satisfaction.

JOHN F. HUNT, farmer, P. O. Troy, was born on the farm where he now resides, December 5, 1840, and is a son of Joseph P. and Elizabeth (Dobbins) Hunt. His father, who was a native of New Jersey, a son of John Hunt, settled in Troy township, in 1825, and on the farm now owned by John F. Hunt, in 1831, which he partially cleared and improved, and which he purchased of the Mormons, who removed from there to Nauvoo, Ill. His wife was a daughter of John and Rebecca (Mc Kean) Dobbins, and granddaughter of William and Mary A. (Mc Kean) Dobbins, who settled in Burlington township, this county, in 1791. He was the father of three children: Elizabeth (Mrs. Miles Kennedy), John F., and Mary A. (Mrs. Horton Ferguson). The subject of this sketch was reared on the old homestead, where he has always resided; he was in the Civil War, enlisting September 5, 1864, in Company I, Fifteenth New York Engineers, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. He married, December 31, 1867, Augusta, daughter of Charles and Julia (Ferguson) Colony, of Columbia township, and has one daughter, Grace (Mrs. Ernest Teeter). Mr. Hunt is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of the I. O. O. F., G. A. R. and Patrons of Husbandry, and is a Republican in politics.

MRS. WEALTHY HUNT, P. O. West Warren, is a daughter of William F. and Nancy M. (Eastabrooks) Corbin. Mr. Corbin was born in Nichols, N. Y., January 17, 1813, and made his home nearly all his life in Warren township, this county. He was a son of Oliver Corbin (a native of Connecticut, of English stock), a son of Clement Corbin who reared a family of twenty-two children, and it is supposed that Clement died in this county ; his son Oliver came here in 1800, and was among the very first settlers in this part of the county. 'A true pioneer who braved successfully every danger and all hardships of a wild frontier life, he survived to a great age, and died in February, 1870. He had nine children, of whom William was the third, who was reared on his father's farm and become a yeoman and successful farmer, clearing his way to fortune in the dense woods that so deeply shaded all this country, when his eyes first looked upon it ; at his death he was the owner of 120 acres of fine farm land, the deft work of his own strong and willing hands. He was married, March 8, 1838, to Nancy M.

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Eastabrooks, daughter of William S. and Wealthy Shurtliff, the former of whom died in 1825, his widow surviving until 1855; they had children, of whom two died in infancy ; those who grew to maturity were William W., who married Julia A. Gorham, and had nine chil- dren; Judson, married to Eliza Robinson, and had five children ; Nancy; Sylvanus, married to Lucy Newberry, and died in 1885; Charlotte (Mrs. Sweet Gardner), living in Scranton, and Jackson.

FRANCIS J. and WEALTHY HUNT, farmers, P. O. West Warren. Francis is a native of Tioga county, N. Y., born September 25, 1857, a son of Jesse and Abigail (Eaton) Hunt, of New York. The family came to this county in 1864, and located in Orwell township. They had three children : Francis J., Charles E. and Flora Belle (Mrs. Joseph Lawrence). Francis J. removed to Warren township in 1881, where he owns a small farm and cultivates his father-in-law's farm or estate of 120 acres. He was married in Waverly to Wealthy Corbin, and they have one son, Guy Lafrance, born January 28, 1881. Mrs. Hunt was the widow of Scott Northrup, who was killed, in 1877, by a threshing machine near Wayland, Steuben Co., N. Y., where they then resided.

F. H. HUNTLEY, dealer in confectionery, Sayre, is a native of Monroeton, this county, and was born October 19, 1858, a son of D. E. and Elma (Alexander) Huntley, natives of this county. His father who was a carriage-maker, died. in September, 1884, in his fifty-third year; his widow is now a resident of Sayre. Mrs. Huntley's great- grandfather, William Clarke, was a colonel in the Revolutionary War, and was one of the first settlers in Ulster township; her grandfather Clarke was a soldier in the War of 1812. F. H. Huntley, who is the second in a family of five children, completed his education in Susque- hanna Collegiate Institute, Towanda, attending there two terms ; then learned the carriage painter's trade, which he followed until 1890 ; on September 1, of which year, he engaged in the confectionery trade, opposite the " Wilbur House," on Packer avenue, in Sayre, whither he had removed in 1880. He was married in Standing Stone, September 17, 1885, to Miss Minnie, daughter of Peter and Sarah (Barnes) Keen, farmers, and natives of New Jersey, now residents of Sayre. Mrs. Huntley is the elder of two children, born in Standing Stone, November 24, 1856 ; she is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Huntley is a member of the Iron Hall and Royal Arcanum ; also of the Wilbur Hook and Ladder Company, of which he was foreman two years; served five years in the Pennsylvania State Militia, the first two years under Col. Stead, and the remaining three years under Col. Reynolds; politically he is a Republican.

DANIEL HURLEY, farmer and stock-grower, P. O. Myersburg, was born in Standing Stone, this county, September 20, 1849, and is a son of John and Mary Hurley, who were born in County Cork, Ire- land, and immigrated to this county about 1830, locating at Standing Stone, where they resided until death, the father dying in October, 1881, at the almost unprecedented age of one hundred and six years ; they had a family of twelve children, seven of whom are living, viz .: Timothy, a farmer ; Ellen, married to Sylvester Conklyn, a soldier in the Union Army, who deserted the army and went West ; Patrick C

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hotel proprietor at Bradford; Mary, married to William Allen, a carpenter, of Towanda ; Julia; Peter, a carpenter and builder, and Daniel. The deceased are Charles, who died when crossing the ocean from Ireland, and his tiny body rests among the coral groves of the ocean ; John fell on a circular saw, while at work in a sawmill; Arthur enlisted in Company G, Thirty-seventh P. V. I., and was captured, was a short time in rebel prisons, secured a parole, but was again capt- ured and sent to Andersonville, and the hero now sleeps among the thousands of comrades whose bones are moldering in the Anderson- ville Soldiers' Cemetery. Daniel's boyhood was passed on a farm, and he attended the district school until fourteen, when he went to work at the lumber trade there four years, and then returned to Bradford county, and was on the farm one year, when he again engaged in lum- bering, in which he passed the next four years. He now owns 140 acres of well-improved land, and is one of the enterprising and prosperous farmers of Bradford county, having accumulated his property by his own exertions. Mr. Hurley was united in wedlock August 28, 1877, with Nora Purcell, daughter of John and Johanna (Curtain) Purcell, to bless which union have come seven children, viz .: Mary, Julia, John, Theressa, Martha, Rosella and Emma. The family are members of the Catholic Church. Mr. Hurley is a Democrat, and holds the office of school director; he is the author of the excellent plan of having uniform text books throughout the county. He ranks among the rep- resentative farmers of the county, and is much esteemed by a wide circle of friends.

BURT HUTCHINS, passenger conductor, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Sayre, is a native of Junius, Seneca Co., N. Y., and was born July 8, 1844, a son of John and Harriet (Birdsey) Hutchins, the former a native of Newark county, N. Y., and the latter of Connecticut. The father, who was a farmer, and a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born August 29, 1839, and died, December 6, 1872 ; the mother, who is in her seventy-third year, resides in Elmira. Burt Hutchins is the eldest child, and has two sisters. He finished his course in the Elmira Business College in August, 1862, and immediately enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Forty-first N. Y. V. I., from Elmira, N. Y., and he participated in a number of skirmishes ; was sent to the DeCamp General Hospital, New York City, as clerk, where he remained until February 27, 1865, when he was mustered out. Returning to Elmira he clerked in a grocery store about six years, and then farmed four years, at the end of which time he was employed on the Lehigh Valley Railroad as freight brakeman ; was promoted to freight conductor in 1875, and to passenger conductor in 1882, which position he has since held. He was married, January 3, 1866, to Miss Electa A., daughter of Henry and Mary (Pollard) Hallock, natives of Pennsylvania; the for- mer of whom, a miller and sawyer, by trade, died in 1881, in his sixtieth year ; the latter died in 1883, in her fifty-ninth year; their family con- sisted of four girls and one boy, of whom Mrs. Hutchins is the fourth in order of birth. When six weeks old she was adopted by Noble and Electa A. (Dewitt) Weller, natives of Connecticut, who came to Che- mung, N. Y., about the year 1840. Mrs. Hutchins was born in Chie-

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mung, N. Y., January 1, 1845. To this marriage were born two sons, viz .: Fred N., who graduated at the Buffalo College of Pharmacy in February, 1889, and is now an apothecary in the Buffalo State Hospi- tal, and Frank J., a machinist. Mrs. Hutchins is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Hutchins is a member of the I. O. O. F., Menoka Lodge, No. 219 ; and of the Order of Railway Conductors, Division No. 10, Waverly, N. Y.

LEWIS HARLOW HUTCHINSON, farmer, Pike township, P. O. LeRaysville, was born February 10, 1852, on the farm now owned by James H. Smith, and is a son of David B. and Lydia (Ide) Hutchinson. He is a grandson of William S. Hutchinson (who moved to Pike township, November 5, 1819), and a great-grandson of Rev. Aaron H. Hutchin- son, of Vermont; his maternal grandparents were Nathaniel and Mercy (Allen) Ide, and his great-grandfather was Nehemiah Ide, a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Hutchinson spent his boyhood on the farm, attending the district school, and LeRaysville Academy. He began life for himself at the age of twenty, has been successively employed in farming, railroading, lumbering and mining, and is now engaged in farming and various other occupations, residing with his brother-in-law, James H. Smith. He was married, May 2, 1879, to Lydia Wesler, and they have one son, James Herbert. Mr. Hutchin- son is a member of the I. O. O. F., No. 371, at Dallas, Pa., and in pol- ities he is a Republican.

STEPHEN SEYMOUR HUTCHINSON, farmer, of Pike town- ship, P. O. LeRaysville, was born in Pike township, this county, April 18, 1831, a son of William and Electa (Seymour) Hutchinson, natives of New England and of English origin. In their family there were eight children, of whom Stephen is the second. His grandfather, William S. Hutchinson, came from Vermont with five children in 1818, and took up a farm of eighty acres near LeRaysville, which was then a dense forest, and many interesting stories of the privation and dan- gers are told by William who is still living, at the age of eighty-seven years. Stephen S. was married, October 7, 1862, to Martha A., daughter of Samuel and Emma (Kidder) Stevens, of English origin, the former a native of Litchfield, Conn., the latter of Waterford, Vt., and they have two children : Belle E., born July 18, 1863, married to Llewellyn Davies, a student in Cornell University, and Daisy Pearl. Judge Luther Kidder, of Monroe, Pike and Wayne counties, was an uncle of Mrs. Hutchinson. The family are members of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Hutchinson stands high among the farmers of Bradford county who have made a success of tilling the soil. He is a Republi- can in politics.

ABRAHAM M. INGHAM, physician, Burlington, was born in New York City, November 10, 1831, a son of David and Hannah (Nutter) Ingham, natives of Huddersfield, England. David was a woolen-goods manufacturer; his parents removed to America when young married people, and he and a brother were some years in busi- ness at Monroeton, and afterward farmed in LeRoy ; he spent the lat- ter part of his life in Tioga county, and died at the age of ninety-one years. Abraham was the second in a family of seven children, and

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helped his father on the farm and in the mills; was educated in the schools of Monroeton and at Harford, Pa. He studied medicine in Troy, and attended lectures in the Philadelphia Homeopathic Medical College, where he graduated in the regular course, in 1858, and entered the practice of his profession at Lawrenceville, Tioga county, the same vear, and remained there seven years; then removed to Blossburg, and after fourteen years' practice there came to Burlington, in 1887. He has always enjoyed an extensive and remunerative practice ; has been examiner for several life insurance companies, and is a member of the I. O. O. F., Freemasons and Knights of Honor; he is a Democrat in politics, and has held several places of public trust. In October, 1857, he married Martha VanDyke, of LeRoy, who was born in December, 1831, a daughter of Davis and Elizabeth (Watts) VanDyke, of German origin, natives of this county. They have had born to them three children, as follows : Lillie, wife of Edward VanDyke ; Melvin, married to Nettie Graham ; and Bertha, wife of Stephen Gurnett. He had one brother, Thomas, in the Engineer Corps in the Civil War, who served about three years.

GEORGE T. INGHAM, merchant, dealer in butter, eggs and produce, Sugar Run, is the only child of Joseph W. and Mary (Taylor) Ingham, natives of Pennsylvania, the former of whom was one of the early pioneers of Bradford county. Mr. Ingham was born in Wilmot township, this county, August 13, 1851, and was educated in the common schools, Wyalusing Academy and Susquehanna Collegiate Institute. He began life for himself at the age of twenty-one, first at milling, and two years later opened a store at Sugar Run, where he is still engaged in general mercantile business; he also operates the grist- mill at Sugar Run, which does a thriving business. Mr. Ingham was married, May 27, 1875, to Augusta L., daughter of "Major" Terry, of Terrytown, and they have seven children, viz .: Charles U., born January 28, 1876; Ernest J., born April 12, 1878 ; Harry T., born August 29, 1881; Louisa M., born January 17, 1884; Mary, born September 26, 1886; James T., born December 21, 1889, and George B., born August 24, 1891. Mr. Ingham is a member of the I. O. O. F., Clauson Lodge, at Sugar Run ; is a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church, is a Repub- lican in politics, and is at present postmaster at Sugar Run.

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History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 103

Author: Bradsby, H. C. (Henry C.) Publication date: 1891 Publisher: Chicago, S. B. Nelson Number of Pages: 1340

Author: Bradsby, H. C. (Henry C.)
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Chicago, S. B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1340