History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 74

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

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his home with his father-in-law, and manages the farm of his father-in- law, and has sixty-three acres of his own ; they have an adopted child, but no issue of their own. Rufus C. Buffington has held the local office of commissioner and collector, and in politics is a Republican.

HIRAM E. BULL, county surveyor, P. O. Towanda, with resi- dence in East Towanda, was born in Orwell, this county, April 16, 1854, and is a son of Edward C. and Mary A. I. (Stevens) Bull, natives of Connecticut and Pennsylvania, respectively, and of English origin. In their family there were seven children, of whom Hiram E. is the eldest. He was reared on the farm, educated in the common schools, and the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute. At twenty he began life teaching, and taught eight terms. In 1877 he resigned his place in the Neath School to accept a position in the city engineer's office at Will- iamsport, Pa., where he remained for three years; then located in Towanda and engaged in civil engineering and surveying. In 1886 he was elected county surveyor, and re-elected in 1889. He is a Repub- lican. On December 29, 1881, Mr. Bull married A. Elizabeth Frisbie, a graduate of Elmira College, Elmira, N. Y., class of 1878. She was born in Orwell, this county, January 2, 1855, and is the eldest daughter of Aaron Gaylord and Ordelia (Darling) Frisbie, natives of Orwell. Mr. and Mrs. Bull have two children : Mary Ordelia, born February 26, 1886, and Isabelle, born September 24, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Bull are members of the Presbyterian Church.

JOSEPH BULL, farmer, Monroe township, P. O. Liberty Corners, was born in what is now Elkland township, Sullivan Co., Pa., Febru- ary 2, 1818, the son of Francis and Elizabeth (Lambert) Bull, natives of England. They came to America in 1801, and settled in Elkland, where they remained thirty years, and then removed to the farm adjoining Joseph's on the west; they had fourteen children, of whom our subject is the seventh. Joseph Bull was reared on the farm, educated in the common school, and began life for himself at twenty- one, farming and lumbering, which he followed four years. He purchased his present home in 1842, and the next year he moved there, where he has since resided. Mr. Bull was married May 29, 1842, to Miss Anna, daughter of George and Margaret (Reed) Irvine, of Monroe;' she died April 9, 1881; they have three living children : James A .. born April 22, 1846, carpenter and joiner, Towanda, married Miss Ann Sill, daughter of Joseph Sill, of Durell ; Florence M., born February 15, 1854, and Francis P., born February 15, 1859, farmer, Monroe, married Miss Mary, daughter of Daniel and Lydia (Hollon) Cook (they have two children : Harry and Mand). The family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are strongly Democratic in their political views.

C. W. BULLARD, clothier, Athens, is a native of Wyoming county, Pa., born January 16, 1851, a son of Thadeus F. (a farmer) and Editha (Pneuman) Bullard, the former a native of Pennsylvania, the latter of Connecticut. C. W. Bullard, who is the third in a family of eight children, received a public-school education, and in 1872 he entered Sterling & Son's store at Meshoppen, Pa., and clerked two and one-half years; then went to Nebraska, remaining there until the spring

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of 1882, when he returned to Athens. On March 20, 1883, he started in business for himself, where he is now located, and handles fine clothing, boots and shoes, furnishing goods, etc .; the merchant tailor- ing department is under the firm name of Bullard & Mott, and is in the rear of the store room. Mr. Bullard has made his own way in life. He was married in Fremont, Neb., October 22, 1879, to Miss Mary Tawney, who died in 1882; by this union there were two children : Ruth and Walter (latter deceased). Mr. Bullard was married, the sec- ond time, in Athens, December 27, 1883, to Miss Ella, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Thompson) Patterson (she is the second in a family of four children), and by this union there is one child, Jessie. Mr. Bullard is a member of the I. O. O. F., Athens Lodge, No. 165; also of the Sexennial League. Politically he is a Democrat, and has served one term as councilman.

C. E. BULLOCK, farmer, Big Pond, was born in Smithfield town- ship, this county, December 4, 1845, a son of Isaac F. and Lucinda (Williams) Bullock, former of whom removed from Bristol, R. I., to this county when a boy, and settled in Columbia township with his father. The family trace their ancestry back to the "Mayflower." The grandfather, Asa Bullock, was many years an extensive cotton- mill owner, and was among the early settlers of Columbia. His mother is a native of Smithfield township, and removed with her father to Springfield in an early day, settling on the farm on which C. E. Bullock now resides, and on this property is the celebrated pond after which the postoffice is named. The farm comprises one hundred and fifty acres, under a fine state of cultivation, and productive ; there is also a feed mill on the place, which Mr. Bullock manages. He is the fourth in a family of six children-five boys and one girl; one of the brother's, Darius, was in the Civil War, participating in many hard- fought battles. Their father was an adjutant in the State Militia and held many offices of public trust in the township. Mr. Bullock's grand- father, Williams, was nearly related to the founders of Willliams College, Vermont ; he cleared up the farm which Mr. Bullock now owns, and operated two sawmills at one time on the place. Mr. Bullock was married March 31, 1881, to Addie Leonard, daughter of Clement and Orpha (Havens) Leonard, former of whom came here when a boy with his father from Springfield, Mass., and were among the early settlers; he died at the age of thirty-five years. Mrs. Bullock's brother, Tim, was a soldier in the Civil War, having enlisted twice. Mr. Bullock takes an active interest in matters, both public and private. In politics he believes in a government for the masses and not for the few. No children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bullock.

C. E. BULLOCK, insurance agent, Canton, is a native of Canton, Bradford Co., Pa., born December 16, 1858, a son of Jesse E. and Betsey G. (Gerould) Bullock. Jesse E. Bullock was a native of Ver- mont, a merchant by occupation, and served as justice of the peace a number of years ; he died in Canton, in September, 1875, in his sev- enty-third year. Mrs. Bullock died in June, 1890, in her sixty-ninth year. The subject of this memoir, who is the only child by this mar- riage, was reared in Canton and received his education in the borough

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schools, attending also Lafayette College two years. He was editor and proprietor of the Canton Sentinel two years ; then read law under M. E. Lilley, and was admitted to the bar in 1884. He only practiced his profession about two years; was assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Canton one year, and became a member of the insurance firm of Krise & Bullock in February, 1890, in which busi- ness he has since been engaged. Mr. Bullock was married in Canton, this county, in 1891, to Georgia, daughter of Holister Catlin. Mr. Bullock is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Canton Lodge, No. 415, Troy Chapter, No. 261, and Canton Commandery, No. 64. Polit- ically he is a Republican. Mrs. Bullock is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

GEORGE E. BULLOCK, capitalist, Canton, is a native of LeRays- ville, this county, and was born January 15, 1844 ; his parents, Jesse E. and Margaret W. (Wright) Bullock, were natives of Vermont and Connecticut, respectively. Jesse E. Bullock removed from Smithfield to Canton in 1858; he was a merchant, and died in Canton in 1875, in his seventieth year. Mrs. Bullock died in LeRaysville in 1848. Darius Bullock, great-grandfather of George E., was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. George E. Bullock is the eldest, and only one now living, of his parents' two sons; he was reared in LeRaysville until five years of age, when his parents removed to Smithfield, where they resided about nine years, and then came to Canton. He received an academic education ; clerked in his father's store, and afterward was associated with him in business several years. In 1869 he went West and was engaged in the hotel business in Fort Scott, Kans., and in various other business enterprises, spending most of his time in Fort Scott while in the West ; he returned in 1872, and was engaged with Burke, Thomas & Co. about four years. After his father's death he settled up the estate, and engaged in the grocery business, until November, 1890, when he sold his store. He was married in Canton, in 1876, to Harriet E., daughter of John and Patience (Hughes) Carr, natives of Tioga and Bradford counties, respectively ; she was born in this county, and is the eldest of a family of three children. To Mr. and Mrs. George E. Bullock were born three children : Jesse E., How- ard C. and Margaret M. Mrs. Bullock is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Bullock is a member of the Masonic Frater- nity, Canton Lodge, No. 415, Troy Chapter, No. 261, and Canton Commandery, No. 64; is also a member of the G. A. R., Ingham Post, No. 91. He has served three terms as a member of the borough council, and in politics he is a Republican.

WILLIAM A. BULLOCK, Big Pond, was born December 27, 1839, in Smithfield, a son of Isaac F. and Lucinda Bullock. His mother, Lucinda Williams Bullock, was a native of Springfield town- ship, and his father of Rehoboth, Mass., who came to this State in 1817 with his father, Asa Bullock, a large owner of cotton mills at one time. He settled in Columbia township. Isaac F. Bullock, who was a man of influence and a member of the Universalist Church, died at the age of sixty-six years. William T. Williams, father of Mrs. Lucinda Bullock, was an old settler in Springfield, formerly of Massa-

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chusetts, whose near relatives were the founders of Williams College in that State. He owned a large tract of land of over two hundred and fifty acres, a part of which William A. now owns; his mother died at the age of forty years. William, who was the eldest of the family, was married first in June, 1868, to Carrie Harkness, who died in May, 1876. His second marriage was August 29, 1877, with Edith, daughter of Joseph and Orpha Clark. Her father, who was a native of Ireland, came to this country when a young man. About the time of his marriage a terrible misfortune came to him, in the total loss of eyesight, but that did not make him discouraged, as some would have been, and by the united efforts of himself and his estimable wife he bought and paid for a good farm. His wife, Orpha, was born in Hector, N. Y .; her childhood was spent in Monroe and her girlhood in Springfield. She was educated in the common schools, and became an excellent teacher ; taught several years at Chemung, N. Y., and in Ridgebury and Springfield. She was married first to Clement Leonard, by whom she had three children : Ada, who died at the age of two and one-half years, and Tim and Ada, who are yet living. Her second marriage occurred with Joseph Clark, by whom five children were born : Edith, Martha, Katie, Johnnie (now deceased) and Willis; she died in 1881, loved and respected by all.

Edith C. Bullock, wife of the subject of this sketch, was born in July, 1851. She was a successful teacher before her marriage. Will- iam and Edith have had five children born to them : Grace, born January 28, 1879, who died at the age of eight months; Blanche A., born March 19, 1880'; Harry C., born January 18, 1882 ; Mary H., born February 10, 1884 ; and Katie C., born September 25, 1887. Mr. Bul- lock is a Republican, has been a justice of the peace ten years, and is serving his third term, which will make fifteen years in all; he was a charter member of the Grange, and first master. The postoffice has been in the family many years, and is now kept by Mrs. Bullock, who has been postmistress nearly eleven years. Mr. Bullock has a small farm, which he manages himself. He is a man with many friends.

GEORGE L. BUNYAN, farmer, P. O. Granville Centre, was born, October 7, 1854, on the old homestead in Granville township, this county, where he now resides, a son of William and Roselta M. (Fitz-Gerold) Bunyan. The father, who was a native of Melrose, Scotland, and a car- penter by trade, settled in Granville township about 1838, and cleared and improved the farm now occupied by his sons, George L. and Andrew, and died there. He was the father of eleven children, as follows : Mary (Mrs. John Jackson), Ann (Mrs. S. C. Wright), William, Silas (killed at Fort Johnson, North Carolina, July 3, 1863), Andrew, Frank (a soldier in the Civil War), Margaret (Mrs. Newton Landon), Jeannette (Mrs. O. Shepard), Effie (Mrs. J. W. Duart), George L. and Alice (Mrs. Dayton Saxton). George L. Bunyan was reared on the old homestead where he has always resided. In November, 1876, he married Charlotte, daughter of Albert and Sarah (Andrews) Barnes, of Granville, and has seven children : Roderick, James, Sarah, Carrie, Maggie, Helen and Rush. Mr. Bunyan is one of the enterprising and progressive farmers of Granville. In politics he is a Republican.

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MARCUS E. BURCH, drover, P. O. Auburn Four Corners, was born in Susquehanna county, Pa., November 26, 1853, and is a son of R. H. and Palma (Harris) Burch, residents of Susquehanna county, former of whom has always followed farming, and latter is a daugh- ter of Milton Harris, a prominent mill-owner and farmer of Susque- hanna county, and a leader in the financial and political affairs of his county. R. H. and Palma Burch had a family of five children, viz., Marcus E .; O. P. Y., a stockman of Colorado; Milton P., a partner of the above; L. H., a mine owner in Leadville, Col., and V. D., a farmer on the old homestead. Marcus E. Burch was born and reared on a farm, at the age of sixteen commencing business for himself, and with the exception of the years 1888 and 1889 spent in the stone busi- ness in Scranton, Pa., he has resided on a farm in Susquehanna county, where he was engaged in farming and stock dealing ; in the spring of 1891 he removed temporarily to Silvara. He was married December 10, 1878, to Luzella Lowe, only child of William C. Lowe, a prominent farmer of Susquehanna county, and this union was blessed with three children : Amelia, Emory and Ennis. The mother of these children died August 10, 1889. Mr. Burch is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Meshoppen, and is a Republican in politics.

BURCHILL BROTHERS, Arthur H., and Abraham B. and William, manufacturers and dealers in marble and granite monuments and all kinds of cemetery work, Towanda, are natives of Chemung county, N. Y., and sons of Richard and Catherine (Driscoll) Burchill, natives of County Cork, Ireland, who came to America in 1854, and settled in Chemung county, N. Y., where their father engaged in business as a contractor, in which he continued until his death. The subjects of this sketch were reared in Chemung county, N. Y .; each served three years' apprenticeship at the marble-cutter's trade, the second elder in Elmira, N. Y., and the youngest in Towanda. They established themselves in business in Towanda in May, 1878, where by careful attention to business they have built up a successful trade. Arthur H. was born in 1854, and was married January 27, 1880, to Margaret L., daughter of John L. and Mary (O'Connor) Murphy, of Susquehanna county, Pa. Abraham B. was born in 1856, and was married November 23, 1881, to Annie, daughter of Peter and Kathe- rine (Waters) McDonald, of Sullivan county, Pa., and has five children, viz .: Katherine, Ellen, Annie, John and Mary. The junior member of the firm, William, was born in 1857, and married May 26, 1890, to Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Ronan) Kendrick, of Towanda township. All the members of the firm are members of the Catholic Church, and in politics are Independent.

ISAAC BURK, engineer, and postmaster at Sayre, is a native of Easton, Pa., born April 9, 1844, a son of Jacob and Sarah (Moser) Burk, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Pennsyl- vania. The father, who was a butcher, died near Trenton, in 1850; the mother now resides in South Easton. Isaac Burk is the second in a family of three boys, of whom one died at the age of nine; his elder brother, Andrew, was killed in the Civil War at the battle of Cedar Creek, Va. Isaac Burk left Easton when he was eleven years

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old, and worked on a farm until he was eighteen years of age; then began an apprenticeship at the saddler's trade, working a short time. He responded to the call of his country for troops by enlisting, in August, 1862, in the nine-months' service, in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth, P. V. I., and went to the front; some of the important engagements he participated in were the battles of Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. He was discharged at Harrisburg, May 8, 1863, and re-enlisted in December, same year, in Company E, Forty-seventh P. V. V. I., and was with his regiment through the Red River Campaign, under Banks ; also in the battles of Mansfield, Pleasant Hill and Kane River, and was injured while helping to build a dam across Red river at Alexander ; was with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, Va. He was mustered out at Charles- ton City, December 25, 1865. Mr. Burk was married, August 8, 1868, to Edna, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Decker) Kilpatrick, natives of Pennsylvania (she is the second in a family of six children, and was born in Freemansburg, Pa., July 22, 1850). To Mr. and Mrs. Burk were born four children : William H., Sarah, Elizabeth and Edna. After returning from the army, our subject worked two years in the Bethlehem Iron Works, and in 1869 went on the Lehigh Valley Rail- road as brakeman, and a year later began firing ; in July, 1875, he was promoted to engineer, which position he held until December, 1890, when he was appointed acting postmaster at Sayre. He is commander of Mallory Post, No. 285, G. A. R., Department of Pennsylvania; a member of E. P. Hayden Command, No. 18, Union Veterans Union ; also a member of Sayre Division, No. 280, B. of L. E. Politically he is a Republican, and received the appointment as postmaster, March 17, 1891, for four years.

CHARLES R. BURRITT, jeweler, Sayre, is a native of Delaware, Ohio, and was born October 8, 1855 ; a son of Rev. Charles D. and Orpha Ianthe (Randall) Burritt, the former a native of Ithaca and the latter of Camden, N. Y. Rev. C. D. Burritt was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was president of the Delaware Sem- inary, Delaware, Ohio, when he died, May 7, 1856, in his thirty-third year ; his widow survives. The Burritts are of the same family as Elihu Burritt, " the learned blacksmith," of Massachusetts. Charles, who is the only child by the second wife, was graduated at the Fre- donia State Normal School in the summer of 1875; then went to Ith- aca, where he learned the jeweler's trade, and worked until 1881, when he moved to Bradford ; remained there nine months, and then returned to Ithaca and there resided until 1886; thence went to Bal- timore, and worked for one of the most prominent jewelers in that place about fourteen months, when he came to Sayre and started a jewelry store in May, 1887. In the fall of 1890 he completed a new brick block, 35x26, south of the " Wilbur House; " the hall above, owned by Burritt & Teed, is 50x26, and is well-fitted and furnished for a Lodge room, where thirteen different Orders meet. Mr. Burritt was married, in Ithaca, N. Y., in 1883, to Miss Emina D., daughter of Horace and Harriet A. (Steemburg) Presher, the former a native of

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Tioga county, and the latter of Saratoga county, N. Y .; Mr. Presher was a farmer, and a soldier in the Civil War; was taken prisoner and was confined in Andersonville prison eleven months, which ruined his health, and, lingering, he died in 1872 in his forty-second year; his widow resides in Ithaca. Mrs. Burritt is the second in a family of three children that grew to maturity, and was born in Tioga county, N. Y., December 14, 1860. To Mr. and Mrs. Burritt were born two children, viz .: Nina May and Edna Lillian. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; he is a member of the Patriotic Order Sons of America, Equitable Aid Union and International Fra- ternal Alliance. In politics he is a Republican.

D. M. BURROUGHS, farmer, Franklin township, P. O. West Franklin, was born in Delaware county, N. Y., November 15, 1829, a son of Hiram and Catherine (Griffin) Burroughs, both of whom were born in Delaware county, N. Y .; they came to this county in 1842, located in LeRoy township, and after one year removed to Monroeton, where they resided three years, after which they moved to Franklin township where they resided until their death. The father died Feb- ruary 27, 1875, at the age of sixty-nine years; the mother survived him seven years. Hiram Burroughs improved and cleared a farm of sixty acres of valuable land. His family were nine in number-four sons and five daughters-seven of whom are now living. The subject of this sketch, who is the fourth in the family, was reared and edu- cated in Franklin township, and always lived and worked on a farm. On September 10, 1851, he married, at West Franklin, Miss Matilda, daughter of George and Ellen Robinson, and to them have been born three sons, as follows : Daniel G., married to Delilah, daughter of John and Eliza McKeel; Remona, married for his first wife to Clara Robinson, and for his second to Miss Ella Green; and "Mc.," his youngest son, who still remains single. Mr. Robinson was one of the early settlers in Towanda, and a weaver by trade, formerly from Phil- adelphia, but a native of Scotland; he was a Revolutionary soldier. Mr. Burroughs depends mostly upon dairying, but is at the same time a general farmer. There is a mineral spring (sulphur) on his farmi ; he has a valuable sand-bank of two grades of superior building sand, Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs are members of the Church of Christ.

ARTHUR B. BURROWS, Stevensville, was born October 16, 1849, a son of Joshua and Harriet C. (Boswick) Burrows, former of whom is a representative of an old New England family, his mother being a descendant of the White family, who came over on the " May- flower." The father, who is a cabinet-maker by trade, came to Pike township, this county, in 1840, locating on the farm now owned by his son, Arthur B., and later engaged in mercantile business at Stev- ensville, but is now living in Gibson, Pa. In his family there are six children, of whom Arthur B. is the fifth. Our subject was reared on the farm he now owns, and was educated in the common school, and at Fort Edward Institute. He began life for himself, at the age of twenty-one, in mercantile business at Stevensville, where he remained ten years, and has since been employed as traveling salesman. He was married January 31, 1873, to Mary Alice Devine, and by her has

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one child, Fay Arthur, born December 13, 1873. This wife dying, Mr. Burrows married, August 19, 1879, for his second, Anna E., daughter of Thomas and Emeline (Whitney) Lyon, former a native of New York, of English-Quaker lineage, and the latter a native of Pennsylvania, of English and French origin. Mr. and Mrs. Burrows have two children : Urban J., born April 10, 1880, and Helen L., born October 21, 1883. Mrs. Burrows is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Burrows is a stanch, zealous, life-long Democrat. He purchased his present home in 1877, and has since erected the finest residence in Pike township.

J. K. BUSH, a prominent clothier and dealer in gents' furnishing goods, Towanda, is a native of Stroudsburg, Pa., and is a son of John B. and Catherine B. (Detrick) Bush, the former a native of Hartford, Conn., and the latter of Berks county, Pa. J. K. Bush, was reared in Stroudsburg and Philadelphia, received a common-school education, and in 1865 located in New York City, where, for a time, he was employed in a wholesale clothing establishment, and for several years was engaged as a contractor in painting and frescoing. In 1873 he came to Towanda, and embarked in his present business on Bridge street, where he continued a successful trade until the spring of 1891, when, to accommodate his increasing patronage, he removed to Main street, where he does an extensive business, occupying two large floors and carrying one of the largest stocks of goods to be found in Brad- ford county. He was married November 19, 1870, to Elizabeth E., daughter of Edward Lamden, of New Rochelle, N. Y., by whom he has one son, Johnson L. Mr. Bush is a gentleman of industry and energy, and is a liberal and enterprising citizen. He is an attendant of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics is a Republican.

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History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 74

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