History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 73

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

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Mrs. Brown is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Brown of the Baptist Church. He is a member of the F. & A. M., Canton Lodge, No. 415; Troy Chapter, No. 261, and Canton Com- mandery, No. 64; is a member of the Keystone Grange, and president of the Union Agricultural Association. Politically he is a Republican.

I. O. BROWN, farmer. P. O. Orwell, was born July 1, 1830, in Orwell township, this county, on the farm now owned by G. W. Brown, and is a son of Uriah S. and Pearlie (Howe) Brown, the former of whom was born in West Chester county, N. Y., but came to this county in early times. He had a family of sixteen children, twelve of whom reached maturity, viz .: E. R., G. W., Mehetable (deceased), Nathan (deceased), L. O., Augustus (deceased), James H., Sallie S., Almira (deceased), Mary, Henry (who was killed at the second battle of Bull Run; he was a member of the Sixth Pennsylvania Reserves), Lucy (married to John Eastman) and Terrissa J. The father in early life was a shoemaker. carrying his kit from house to house, traveling sometimes on foot and sometimes on horseback, and there were but few of the early families of this section of the country in his day who did not know him, and avail themselves of his skill. He had purchased a home in the wilderness where, in a rude log house, he left his wife and young children alone for days, while he pursued his calling, making and mending shoes to pay for his farm ; he was killed by being thrown from a wagon by a run-away team in 1865. L. O. Brown passed his boyhood on the old homestead and at the common schools. When twenty-one he purchased a farm, and began farming, which he first followed in Windham, where he lived eight years ; then bought the farm he now occupies, comprising one hundred and thirty acres, all finely improved and well stocked. He was united in wedlock December 31, 1856, with Ellen, daughter of Jacob ' and Minerva (Tupper) Chubbuck, and to them have been born three chil- dren : Fred L., born October 11, 1860 (was educated in the common schools and at Orwell Hill Academy, and became a book-keeper in Wilkes-Barre ; he married Maggie Green); Ella M. (born December 9, 1865, died February 19, 1879), and Frank H. (born January 1, 1871. residing with his parents). The family are all members of the Methodist

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Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Brown is class leader and trustee. He has been a member for over thirty years, and an earnest worker during all that time. He belongs to the Prohibition party, and has held the office of school director.

MORRIS C. BROWN, farmer, in Springfield township, P. O. Big Pond, was born February 28, 1837, in Chenango county, N. Y., a son of Benjamin and Didama (Crandall) Brown, the former a native of Massachusetts, and the latter of Chenango county. The father, who was a carpenter and farmer, removed to this county and settled, in 1840, near where the son, Morris C., now resides, and cleared a large farm. He raised a family of nine children, of whom our subject is the third in order of birth. One of the sons, Joseph B., served all through the Civil War, and was promoted from the ranks to be captain. The father, who was a man of influence, and a faithful Christian, died at the age of seventy-five years, and the mother at the age of seventy-six years. Morris C. Brown was reared on the farm, was educated in the schools of the town, and at his majority became a farmer. He was married July 28, 1861, to Harriet Leonard, of Springfield, who was born May 10, 1845, a daughter of Carlton and Diantha (Gates) Leonard, both families having heen among the early settlers in the township; her father was a teacher in early life, was sheriff of Luzerne county, Pa., and a merchant, and died at the age of seventy-five years, in Mercer county; her mother is living at the age of sixty years. To Mr. and Mrs. Brown have been born two children : Dora E., born September 18, 1864, wife of Burdell Smith, a farmer of Springfield township ; Mamie J., born May 21, 1867, wife of Elsworth Grace, a farmer of Smithfield township. Mrs. Brown is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church. Mr. Brown is a Republican in politics, and a member of the International Fraternal Alliance of Baltimore, Md. He lias a fine farm of one hundred and seventy acres, and his principal business is now sheep raising, formerly dairying. He is a good neighbor and a kind friend, respected by all who know him.

OSCAR M. BROWN, farmer and stockgrower, P. O. West War- ren, was born October 27, 1858, on the place he now occupies in Orwell township, and is a son of George W. and Betsie (Morey) Brown, the former of whom was born in West Chester county, N. Y., in 1822, and came to this county with his father when six years old, and helped to improve this farm, occupying an old log house which stood close to the present site of the house. Grandfather Uriah S. Brown was one of the early pioneers. The mother was a native of this county, and when married resided where Dr. Conklin now lives. The father spent the greater portion of his life on the same farm, but about 1867 he purchased one hundred and twenty-six acres of timber land in Warren township, and removed to it in 1884; spent three years there, and then proceeded to Nichols, N. Y., and retired from active life. He had a family of six children : Charles W. M. Brown, M. D., of Elmira; George I. of Dubuque, Iowa; Stephen A., deceased, late of North Bend, Neb .; Martha J., married to James Baldwin ; Oscar M., and Emma L., married to Seymour Canfield. Oscar M. was born on a farm, and received his education in the common school. He is

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the only member of the family that never taught school. After reach- ing his majority, he farmed for himself, working with his father. On March 2, 1882, he was united in marriage with Elcena, a daughter of Charles and Frances (Chaffee) Dimon, in whose family there were eight children, Mrs. Brown being the fourth; the parents reside in Pike township. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Brown commenced housekeeping on one of his father's farms, where they resided for three years, and then came to their present residence. Their union has been blessed with two children : William Irving, born September 19, 1885, and George W., born September 18, 1889. Mr. Brown has fourteen cows, seventy-five sheep and young cattle; carries on a dairy and is a patron of the Orwell Creamery. The improvements on the farm he occupies were put there by his father; the house was rebuilt in 1856, and contains seventeen rooms. The family worship at the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics Mr. Brown is a Republican. He is one of the successful business mnen of the county, as was his father who started with fifty acres of land and a log house, and worked his way up, until he is now among the largest land-holders of the county; one of its strong, self-made citizens.

R. G. BROWN, miller, P. O. Grover, is a native of Canton town- ship, this county, born October 15, 1841, a son of Orrin and Nancy (Wright) Brown, natives of Vermont. Orrin Brown is a farmer, resid- ing in Canton township, and is in his eightieth year; he is a son of Solomon Brown who was a native of Vermont, and an early settler in Canton township, near East Canton, where he died. Mrs. Nancy (Wright) Brown died in 1843. R. G. Brown, who is the youngest in order of birth in a family of three sons and one daughter, was reared in Canton township and received his education in the common schools. Heenlisted October 18, 1861, in Company C, One Hundred and Sixth P. V. I., for three years, and participated in the following battles : Fair Oaks, Peninsular Campaign, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Wilder- ness, Spottsylvania, Petersburg ; was slightly wounded at the battle of Antietam, and was mustered out in front of Petersburg October 18, 1864. Returning home, he engaged in the butchering business in Canton, which he followed two years; then worked two years in the Granville tannery, and one year in the Grover tanneries for Adam Innes. He purchased an interest in the Grover gristmill with E. W. Wolcott, and at the end of one year J. C. Roup succeeded E. W. Wolcott. Ten years after going into the business he bought Mr. Roup's interest, and in two years he sold to C. A. Innes, and purchased a farm one mile south of Canton where he still resides. He began running the mill for J. H. Eastgate in November, 1889. Mr. Brown was married in Canton township January 26, 1865, to Rebecca, daughter of George and Charlotte (Gregory) Williams, natives of Luzerne county, Pa .; she is third in order of birth in a family of nine children, and was born in Canton township, November 15, 1845. Mrs. Brown is a member of the Woman's Relief Corps. Mr. Brown is a member of the G. A. R., Ingham Post, No. 91. Politically he is member of the Republican party.

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T. F. BROWN, farmer and stock grower, Wyalusing, was born September 18, 1844, in the "Old Red Tavern," Browntown, lately burned, a son of D. W. Brown, and passed his boyhood on his father's farm at Browntown, where he received a common-school education, remaining at home until eighteen. On March 8, 1864, he enlisted in Company D, Fiftieth P. V. I., and served until May 3, 1865, when he was discharged with his regiment. He received a gun-shot wound in the left hand during the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, which sent him to the hospital for about thirty days. In the fall of 1864 he again was compelled to go to the hospital, from which he was discharged ; he was in all the battles from the Wilderness to Peters- burg ; after his return from the army he was a clerk in the employ of Stowel & Hazen, Ithaca, N. Y., one year; then returned to Browntown, where he farmed until October, 1881, when he removed to Elmira and until the fall of 1883 was in the drug business with his brother, F. M. Brown, M. D .; then returned to his farm where he has since remained. He has fifty acres of finely improved farm land which he cultivates and has well stocked with horses and cattle. Mr. Brown was united in marriage, November 16, 1871, with Matilda E. States, daughter of Capt. States (deceased), and by this union there are two children : Ernest L., born May 19, 1873, and Theo. Grace, born Octo- ber 3, 1880. The family worship at the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is superintendent of the Browntown Sunday-school ; is a charter member of Jackson Post, No. 84, G. A. R., and past commander. He is a Republican and takes an active part in politics, and has filled various town offices.

ULYSSES FRANKLIN BROWN, farmer, Wysox township, was born in Monroe, this county, March 19, 1830, a son of Ruel R. and Eliza (Manderville) Brown, natives of Pennsylvania. In their family there are seven children, of whom the subject of these lines is the eldest. When but a boy Ulysses F. Brown engaged in lumbering, and at twenty-one had learned the wagon-maker's trade, which business he followed seven years. On September 13, 1864, he enlisted at Rochester, N. Y., in the Fiftieth New York Volunteer Engineers, and was later transferred to the Fifteenth New York Volunteer Engineers ; was mustered out June 13, 1865, and returned to his farm where he has since resided. He was married May 14, 1853, to Mary, daughter of Andrew and Mary (Beard) White, natives of Pennsylvania, and of Irish and English descent, respectively. To them were born eight children as follows : Orlando W., born February 24, 1855; Howard S., born November 4, 1856; Mary M., born January 27, 1858; Hattie C., born February 29, 1860 ; Earnest E., born January 8, 1862; Frankie H., born October 27, 1864 ; L. V. Veroque, born July 18, 1870, and Etta C., born January 16, 1874. Mr. Brown is a member of Steven's Post, No. 69, G. A. R., is a Republican and has held the offices of town commissioner and school director.

JOHN L. BRUNDAGE, proprietor of the "Brundage House," Sayre, is a native of Orange county, N. Y., born April 7, 1855 ; his parents, Orsamus C. and Phebe (Kimber) Brundage, were also natives of Orange county ; the father, who was a farmer, died in his native

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home in 1887, in his seventy-ninth year ; the mother died in 1886 in her seventy-third year. The great-grandfather Kimber was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. John L. Brundage, who is the fifth in a family of seven children, was reared in Orange county, N. Y., until the age of sixteen years, when he enlisted, April 24, 1861, in Company D, Eighteenth N. Y. V. I. for two years ; some of the engagements he participated in were the following : Seven Day's fight in the Penin- sular campaign, South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg ; he was mustered out April 28, 1863; and in October, 1864, he re-enlisted in Company G. Fifteenth O. V. V. I., and was in Sherman's March to the Sea. He was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, in June, 1865, and returned to Orange county, N. Y., where he remained about one year, and then went to Waverly, N. Y., where he engaged in the bakery business, and followed that about one year. He engaged in the livery business about a year, then commenced the manufacture of wagons, and followed that business five years, and then farmed for eight years in Tioga county, near Waverly. In 1883 he removed to Sayre, and worked at his trade in the locomotive works about two years, and at building and contracting ; he erected a hotel adjoining his dwelling house on Thomas avenue, which he completed in February, 1891; it is 22x60 feet in size, three stories in height, containing seventeen rooms. Mr. Brundage was married in Sussex county, N. J., in 1866, to Miss Cynthia J., daughter of Charles and Mary (Casterline) Newton, natives of New Jersey, but residents of Chemung county, N. Y. Mrs. Brund- age was born in Sussex county, N. J .. August 21, 1846, and is the eldest in a family of eight daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Brundage are the parents of two children, viz .: Charles N. and George A. Mrs. Brund- age is a member of Methodist Episcopal Church ; Mr. Brundage is a member of the G. A. R., Mallory Post, No. 285, and is post commander of the Union Veterans Union, of Sayre ; is also a member of the Patri- otic Order Sons of America, and Sexennial League. He has served one term as school director in Tioga county, N. Y., and was deputy postmaster at Wells Corners, Orange Co., N. Y., four years. In politics Mr. Brundage is a Republican.

G. C. BRUSTER, druggist, Sayre, is a native of Waverly, N. Y., and was born October 3, 1862, a son of George N. and Rosannah H. (Ellison) Bruster, natives of Tioga county, N. Y. The father was a mechanic, and died in Waverly in 1871, in his forty-sixth year; the mother resides in Waverly. G. C. Bruster, who is the youngest in a family of three boys, was reared in Waverly, and received his educa- tion in the public schools. At the age of sixteen he began clerking in a drug-store, which he followed until 1884, when he engaged in the drug business in Waverly, and then came to Sayre in the spring of 1886, and commenced in the same line. He was married in Waverly, in 1886, to Miss. Hattie E., daughter of Albert and Frances (Penney) Mullock, natives of Orange county, N. Y. She is the eldest in a family of four girls, and was born in Waverly, April 19, 1864. To Mr. and Mrs. Bruster were born two children-Ralph and Ethylen. The family are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Bruster is a member of the

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Iron Hall, Sexennial League, and International Fraternal Alliance. In politics he is a Republican.

CAPTAIN JAMES BRYANT is a prominent manufacturer in the borough of Towanda. In peace and in war this gentleman's name is indelibly inscribed upon the records of his county and country. He is a New Yorker by birth, born July 20, 1833, a son of Daniel Bryant, a family of Scotch-Irish descent; the father was a skilled blacksmith by trade. Capt. James Bryant was reared in his native Columbia county, and was orphaned when a tender child, and found himself alone to do battle with a cold and cheerless world; but his strong Scotch-Irish blood stood the lad well in hand, and he battled nobly with cold and hunger, and when he was seventeen years old bound himself an appren- tice to the wagon-maker's trade, serving three years; then worked at it as a journeyman, and the Civil War found him at his bench, but one of the first to volunteer as a private in the mustering squadron, and from private, by hard, meritorious service, he rose, step by step, to a captaincy in Company G, Fifth N. Y. C., in the three years' service. He was under fire two hundred times, and in the fiercest of the carnage at Chancellorsville, Antietam, Gettysburg, and many other sanguinary fields. His horse was killed under him at Hagerstown, and he was taken prisoner, May 17, 1864, at Poe River, Va., and was sent to Gordons- ville, Va., and had a taste of nearly all the horrors of prisons in the South ; finally was sent to Macon, Ga., but, taking desperate chances, he escaped and wandered by the dead of night, in hunger and terrible exposures, for many weary miles, but was re-captured and returned to the prison pens. Not crushed, though dreadfully sore of heart, he watched his opportunity and again made his escape, and, for- tunately, this time, blind chance led him to the lines of the Union Army, and he was saved, and the model skeleton was nursed back to life and, in time, mustered out of the service. During his entire service he had kept a diary of his personal movements, which was taken from him when a prisoner, but it afterward fell into the hands of another soldier, who carefully preserved it and returned it to its owner, when he met him at the general muster out at Washington. In the language of Horace Greeley, this little morceau will in the long future furnish some " mighty interesting reading." His discharge bears date February 1, 1865, when he returned to his native place, and, in 1867, he came to Towanda to make his permanent home. He purchased a small wagon shop and commenced the manufacture of vehicles in a small way, but has rapidly increased the trade and shop facilities, and now it is one of the prominent institutions of the borough, turning out all kinds of carriages, wagons, sleighs, carts and road wagons, and has from ten to twenty-five employes. Capt. Bryant was united in mar- riage at Kinderhook, N. Y., April 17, 1855, to Margaret N. Peer, whose people are of Dutch descent, and their children are as follows: May (Mrs. Charles Armstrong) ; Charles, who is one of the firm ; Catherine (wife of Jesse June, a civil engineer of the Lehigh Railroad), and Nellie. The family are Presbyterians. Capt. Bryant was burgess and councilman of Towanda from 1872 to 1877, and is a prominent

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member of the G. A. R., Watson Post, No. 68, and has filled nearly all its offices. Politically he votes the Republican ticket.

ABRAM BUCHANAN, farmer, P. O. Austinville, was born in Frankford township, Sussex Co., N. J., September 5, 1828, and is a son of Henry and Eliza (Brink) Buchanan. He was reared in his native county, and in 1850 located in Wells township, this county, where he resided until 1870, when he removed to Columbia township, to the farm he now occupies, and where he has since resided. In 1856 he married Margaret, daughter of Andrew P. and Anna (Case) Bow- man, formerly of New Jersey, and pioneers of Wells township. To Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan have been born three children: Irvin, Ger- trude (Mrs. Clinton A. Wolf) and Andrew Bowman. Mr. Buchanan is a prominent and representative citizen of Columbia township, as well as a leading farmer and dairyman, and raises very fine horses. Politically he is a Democrat.

SAMUEL W. BUCK, attorney at law, Towanda, was born in Pike township, this county, June 9, 1855, a son of Perley H. and Elizabeth (Northrup) Buck. His paternal grandfather, William Buck, a native of New Hampshire, is said to have been one of three original, settlers of what is now LeRaysville, this county, where he cleared and improved a farm, and died. He was the father of nine children, as follows : Matilda (Mrs. George Seymour), Mehitable (Mrs. Eliakim W. Todd), Lydia (Mrs. Simeon Brink), Lyman, William, Samuel, Perley II., Fidelia, and Panlina (Mrs. Alfred Cheeseman). Of these, Perley H., who was reared on the old homestead, has always been a farmer in Pike township, and has resided in LeRaysville since 1867. His wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter of Amos Northrup, at one time a resident of Bradford county, and of Connecticut stock ; by her he had six chil- dren, viz. : Charlotte E. (Mrs. Martin S. Prentice), George W., Mary F. (Mrs. William J. Davies), Samuel W., Walter P. and Carrie L. (Mrs. Leslie A. Codding, deceased). Samuel W. was reared in his native county, educated at LeRaysville Academy and Union College, and was graduated from the latter in June, 1876. He studied law with Davies & Carnochan, of Towanda, and was admitted to the bar in May, 1879. He served as deputy treasurer of Bradford county ten years-from 1880 to 1890 -- and commissioners' clerk eight years-from 1883 to 1890-and in 1889 was elected a member of the board of school directors of Towanda, upon which he is still serving. On Feb- ruary 1, 1891, he entered actively into the practice of law. Mr. Buck married, June 15, 1882, Amelia C., daughter of Henry C. and Agnes C. (Schermerhorn) Glen, of Schenectady, N. Y., and has two children : Agnes E. and Perley H. Mr. Buck is a member of the Presbyterian Church ; he is a Sir Knight Templar, and in politics is a Republican. In 1881 he published a compilation of the "Road Laws, and Laws Relating to Township Officers in Bradford County."

LOUDON BUDD a prominent farmer and stock dealer, P. O. Austinville, was born May 30, 1840, in Columbia township, this county on the farm where he now resides, and is a son of Albion and Aminta (Gernert) Budd ; his paternal grandfather. John Budd, a native of Maine and a ship-builder by trade, was among the pioneers of Columbia

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township, settling on the farm now occupied by subject, and died there. By his wife, Polly, he had children as follows : Polly (Mrs. Phenias Clark), Phelina (Mrs. Daniel Watkins), Albion, Thomas and Achah, of whom Albion, father of Loudon Budd cleared and improved most of the old homestead, and resided there until his death in 1856, at the age of fifty-eight. He was twice married, first time to Aminta, daughter of Peter and Ann (Budd) Gernert (pioneers of Tioga Point, and later of Columbia township, and who were natives of Germany), and by her he had six children : Anna (Mrs. Stephen Wilbur), Emma (Mrs. John Van Wirt), Albion, Harriet (Mrs. Frank Parsons; has one daughter Harriet), Deborah and Loudon ; by his second wife, Celestia Parsons, he had two children : Mary (Mrs. Williard Harris, has one son, Loudon) and Sophia. Mr. Budd was a soldier of the War of 1812, and a pen- sioner. The subject of this sketch was reared on the old homestead, where, with the exception of seven years, during which he lived in Elmira, he has always resided. He has been a buver and dealer in stock since sixteen years of age. He married February 3, 1866, Catherine, daughter of Andrew and Ann (Case) Bowman, of Wells township, this county, formerly of Sussex county, N. J., and this union has been blessed with four sons : Albion L., Leon W., Andrew Tracy (who died at the age of six years) and Wesley L. (who died in infancy). Mrs. Budd is a member of the Baptist Church. Politically Mr. Budd is a Democrat.

RUFUS C. BUFFINGTON, farmer and stockman, South Warren, is a native of Warren township, and was born on the spot where he resides, August 14, 1820, a son of Benjamin and Experience (Coburn) Buffing- ton, natives of Rhode Island and of English stock. Benjamin's father, Preserved Buffington, married an Arnold, and this old couple had nine children, of whom Benjamin, the second in order of birth, came with his father's family to this county in the first years of this century, and located in Warren township, where the parents spent the remainder of their lives among the earliest pioneers, of whom they were prominent and efficient factors in building up the new, wild country. The father improved a small farm, and died in 1851, his first wife and helpmeet having preceded him to the grave in 1823 (their family numbered five children, of whom Rufus C. was the fourth); his second wife was Rebecca Coburn. who died in 1840; his third marriage was with Char- lotte Gridley. Rufus C. Buffington has spent his life on the spot where he was born. He was educated in a limited way in the neigh- borhood subscription schools, but learned practically and well how to farm, and now has eighty acres finely improved land. He was mar- ried in Warren township. December 24, 1843, to Catherine, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Abell) Wheaton, natives of Rhode Island and of English origin, and to them were born nine children, of whom Cath- erine was the second (she grew to womanhood in Warren township, an industrious and frugal farmer's daughter, and died December 11, 1884, leaving a daughter, Emma E. (Mrs. Judson Murphy, married Jannary 8, 1873) ; Judson Murphy is the son of John W. and Delphine (Whit- aker) Murphy, natives of New York and Pennsylvania, respectively; he was reared in Warren township, and since his marriage has made

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History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 73

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