History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 75

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

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ELLIHU BUTTLES, farmer and stock grower, of Orwell township, P. O. South Hill, is a son of Jarves and Sarah Ann .Horton) Buttles, and was born in Orwell township, November 28, 1851 Jarves Buttles was one of the prominent citizens of his day, and was born in Connec- ticut, October 16, 1800; he was twice married-the first time, October 21, 1828, to Alma Cowdrey, who was born August 19, 1805, and died July 2, 1843. By this marriage there were the following children : Otis J., born January 1, 1830, now of Herrick ; Lester F., born April 2,1831, died June, 1883; Emily J., born October 28, 1832, married to Leroy Hathway; Harlow J., born May 17, 1834; Samuel F., born January 5, 1836, died May 14, 1884 (was a member of the One Hun- dred and Forty-first Regiment, and received a gun-shot wound in the back, at the battle of Gettysburg, which finally caused his death) ; Eliza M., born October 20, 1838, married to Thomas Smith ; Juliana, born December 10, 1840, died January 12, 1860; Elizabeth A., born December 12, 1842, married to G. M. Prince. For his second wife he married, March 7, 1848, Sarah Ann Horton, born October 8, 1816, a daughter of John Horton, of Rome, and by this union there are two children, viz. : Levisa, born May 27, 1850, married to Jason Forbes, and Ellihu ; the mother of these children died August 7, 1881 ; and father October 5, 1890. Jarves Buttles came to Orwell township in February, 1817 ; he was a manufacturer of wooden bowls, and built

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a factory ; he was an eloquent Methodist preacher, and the first justice of the peace in this section. He performed many marriage ceremonies and received all kinds of payments ; there is a gentleman yet living in this county who split two hundred fence rails for Mr. Buttles to pay for his marriage ceremony. He was elected to the office of county commissioner ; he was postmaster of South Hill over forty years, that office never having been out of the Buttles family. Ellihu Buttles was born and reared on the farm he now occupies, and attended the district school until nineteen years of age, securing a good common-school education. He engaged in farming on his pleasant place, containing about forty acres, a part of the old homestead, which at one time contained over two hundred acres. He has been twice married, the first time December 31, 1872 ,to Ellen Atwood, daughter of George Atwood. She dying February 16, 1883, Mr. Buttles was married April 8, 1884, to Mary E., daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Barnes) Clark, of Standing Stone, who had a family of six children, of whom Mrs. Buttles is the eldest, born April 26 1862; her youth was spent in Standing Stone, where she received her earlier education, and she afterward attended the Towanda Collegiate Institute; then at seventeen years of age she commenced teaching, which profession she followed several years. To Mr. and Mrs. Ellihu Buttles has been born one child, Dora M. Mr. Buttles is a Republican in politics.

S. S. BUTTS, farmer and apiarist, Wyalusing township, P. O. Wyalusing, was born in Monroe county, Pa. May 25, 1833, son of Peter and Mary (Place) Butts, the former of whom was born in North- ampton county, Pa., in 1801, and the latter in Monroe county, Pa., in 1810. His paternal ancestors were from Germany, and the ances- tors on his mother's side were from Holland and Scotland. His father when fifteen years of age removed to Monroe county, where he married, learned blacksmithing, and worked at his trade until 1843, when he removed to Mehoopany township, Wyoming county, and devoted him- self to farming, until his death in 1879. They had a family of thirteen children, viz. : Hannah (deceased) ; William, a brick manufacturer and grower of tropical fruit, of Sorrento, Lake Co., Fla .; Susanna M., married to L. G. Burgess, farmer of Susquehanna county; Catherine (deceased) ; Samuel (deceased) ; S. S. (subject) ; James P. (deceased) ; Charles resides on the old homestead; Jerome S. (deceased) ; John P. (deceased) ; Theodore W. (deceased) ; Leonora F. and Frank H. (deceased). Our subject passed his boyhood in Mehoopany, was educated in the common schools and Wyoming Seminary, and began his career as a teacher, which he successfully followed many years, having a professional certificate granted him. After fourteen years thus spent he turned his attention to farming and that, combined with various other occupations, he has followed until the present. The years 1874 to 1886 he devoted to the organizing of the Order of Good Templars in Bradford and adjoining counties. In the spring of 1866 he purchased his present farm and removed to Bradford county, where he has eighty acres of finely improved land which he has well stocked, also owns the old homestead in Wyoming county, which contains one hundred and thirty-six acres. He is largely engaged in

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the bee culture, to which he devotes much attention, especially to the rearing of queen bees for market ; he has large apiaries on each of his farms. Mr. Butts was married December 1, 1864, to Ursula C. Bowen, daughter of Elias S. Bowen, of Wyoming county, and they have had two children born to them : Mary L., born February 8, 1867, died June 15, 1886, and George E., born February 19, 1871. Mr. Butts, although not connected with any church, is an earnest Christian worker, and to him is largely due the erection of the beautiful union chapel of Lime Hill, which was erected in 1881; also the organization of the public library of that place; politically he is identified with the Prohibition party.

JOHN N. CALIFF, attorney at law, Towanda, was born in Smith- field township, Bradford Co., Pa., May 29, 1839, and is a son of Hosea and Mary (Pierce) Califf. Stephen Califf, his paternal grand- father, came from Vermont to Bradford county in 1816, and settled in Smithfield township, clearing and improving a farm, on which he resided until his death. Hosea Califf also cleared a farm in Smithfield township, and died there in 1881. John N. Califf was reared in Brad- ford county, and was educated in the common schools, afterward attended Waverly Institute, Waverly. N. Y .; he read law with Over- ton & Montanye, of Towanda, and was admitted to the bar in May, 1864. For several years he was deputy register and recorder of Brad- ford county, and in 1871 he began the active practice of law in Towanda, and is recognized as a leading member of the Bradford county bar ; he was district attorney for Bradford county in 1875-6-7. He was in the Civil War, enlisting in August, 1862, in Company B, One Hundred and Forty-first P. V. I., and after six months' service he was honorably discharged on account of disability. Mr. Califf married, in 1865, Rosa, daughter of James McCabe, of Towanda. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and is a Sir Knight Templar, Scottish Rite. Politically, he is a Republican.

REV. STEPHEN A. CALIFF, Presbyterian clergyman, East Smithfield, was born in East Smithfield township, this county, Febru- ary 29, 1836, a son of Allen and Hannah (Thomas) Califf, former a native of Vermont, and latter of Rhode Island, of English descent; the family trace their ancestry to the year 1699. Gen. Warren, of Bunker Hill fame, was related to our subject's family on the mother's side. Grandfather Califf came to East Smithfield township in 1816, when his son Allen was four years of age, and here as a pioneer he commenced farming. Rev. Stephen A. Califf, who is the eldest of three children, was prepared for college at the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, Towanda, was graduated from Jefferson College and Princeton Theo- logical Seminary, and ordained in 1867. He first located as pastor at West Newark, Tioga Co., N. Y., three years ; then spent two years in ministerial labor in Wells township, this county, and three years at McIntyre, Lycoming county, whence, owing to failing health, he came to East Smithfield and remained till August, 1881, when he returned to McIntyre, where he remained till 1884, in December of which year he again came to Smithfield where, in April of the following year, he became pastor of the Congregational Church in the town of East Smithfield. Mr. Califf was married April 27, 1865, to Emily Matthews,

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who was born in Orwell, August 13, 1833, the third in a family of seven children of Samuel and Betsy W. (Fletcher) Matthews, former a native of Connecticut, and latter of Vermont ; the Fletchers trace their ancestry back to Robert Fletcher, who was born in 1592. Mr. and Mrs. Califf have had born to them five children, as follows: Alden M., born January 29, 1866, was graduated from the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, Towanda, and is now at Princeton College : Alice L. and Casper A., born July 20, 1868, attending the Institute at Towanda ; Martha and Grace died in infancy. Mrs. Califf's grand- mother, Fletcher was a Ballou, niece of Hosea Ballou and a cousin of President Garfield's mother. Mr. Califf owns and manages a farm, and is still officiating as pastor of the Congregational Church at East Smithfield. In politics he is a Republican. He is beloved by his Con- gration and a wide circle of friends.

CHARLES O. CAMP, manufacturer of spokes, Camptown, was born in Wyalusing township, Bradford Co., Pa., October 19, 1865, a son of J. D. and Mary A. (Smith) Camp, natives of Wyalusing township, and is the third in a family of four children ; the eldest, Stella, married M. H. Rockafellow, a blacksmith now residing in New York ; Alice, the second, died when twelve years of age; the youngest, also named Alice, married Elmer Cox, a farmer of Pike township. Charles O. Camp was born and reared on a farm, was educated in the common schools, and at the Camptown Academy ; when twenty years of age he began to learn the carpenter and joiner's trade, working a year with W. B. Camp, and two years with J. W. Lathrop; he entered the employ of C. H. Amsby and operated the spoke department of the latter's factory at Camptown, also learning carding, etc. In this position he remained until 1891, when he leased the factory and has since been having a successful trade in both carding and spoke manufacturing, he being a skilled mechanic and machinist. Mr. Camp was married to Mary Graham, a daughter of Richard Graham, a farmer of Wyalusing; politically he is identified with the Republican party.

GEORGE S. CAMP, farmer, P. O. Herrick, was born near Camp- town, this county, June 17, 1819. His father, Isaac Camp, was born near Hartford, Conn., January 25, 1782. His grandfather, Job Camp, was also a native of Connecticut. Isaac Camp came to Camptown in 1800, and served an apprenticeship to the millwright trade, during which time he married, February 10, 1803, Mary Polly Lacey, the eldest daughter of Ebenezer and Lydia (Pratt) Lacey, of Luzerne county, Pa., and removed to New York State. He had worked at his trade several years, and his family had increased to six, when he came back to this county and located in Wyalusing township, in the year 1816. In 1825 he purchased a farm in Herrick township, on which he remained the rest of his life, as a farmer and millwright, and died January 3, 1861 ; his wife died in February, 1876, in her ninety- second year. They had nine children : Clark C., Isaac, Joseph, Lydia A. (wife of M. Weldon), Albert G., Marietta (wife of Charles Over- peck), George S., Clarissa (wife of J. S. Crawford) and Thaddeus S. George S. Camp came to Herrick township in 1825, in his sixth year, and attended what is said to have been the first school in Herrick

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township. This he attended nine years; his first teacher being Han- nah Smith, who afterward married his brother, Joseph Camp. After leaving school he helped his father until his twenty-sixth year, when, in 1845, he married Maria Jennings, a daughter of John and Sarah (Overpeck) Jennings, the second in a family of seven children, five of whom are living. In 1849 he purchased, from his brother Joseph, a house and lot, in which he now lives. In 1850 his father divided the property, and George S. received, as his share, forty acres adjoining his first purchase. He has spent, his whole life farming. He built his barn in 1851, and an addition to his house in 1859. Mr. Camp is a member of Wyalusing Baptist Church, and is a Republican. He and his wife have had four children : Emma, wife of C. J. Vosburg ; Lou- isa, wife of C. C. Wood; Lydia O., wife of George J. Johnson ; and Priscilla.

WILLIAM HENRY CAMP, wagon-maker and blacksmith, Spring Hill, was born in Pike township, this county, November 4, 1831, and is a son of Daniel and Harriet(Bosworth)Camp, natives of Pennsylvania, and of New England origin; in their father's family there were the following children : William Henry, Theodore A., Charlotte M. (deceased), Irene G. (now Mrs. George Smith, of Philadelphia, Pa.), Reed B. and Daniel W. Our subject began life for himself at twenty-one, blacksmithing at Inghamtown, this county, remaining there two years, then went to Laceyville where he worked at his trade six years, removing to Camp- town where he worked a year and a half; then came to Spring Hill, where he has since been engaged in manufacturing and repairing all kinds of wagons, and doing general blacksmithing; indeed, it might be said that he is the only first-class wagon-maker in Tuscarora township, and has succeeded in his business generally. Mr. Camp was married October 10, 1855, to Miss Jennie, daughter of Israel and Eliza (Wells) Buck, of Wyalusing, and they have five children, viz .: Eldridge Weston (born June 7, 1858, died May 18, 1885), Lottie Estella (born March 16, 1861, now Mrs. Lewis Rutan, of Wyalusing), Elzia Harriet (born July 11, 1868, died September 28, 1884), Perrin Wells (born October 2, 1872) and Victor Eugene (born May 13, 1876). The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Spring Hill, and he is a member of the F. & A. M. at Laceyville. In politics he is an unyielding advocate of the principles of Prohibition.

A. J. CAMPBELL, a farmer in South Creek township, P. O. Wells- burg, N. Y., was born in Ridgebury township, this county, July 13, 1832, a son of John and Mercy (Worden) Campbell. His mother died when he was two days old, and when two weeks old he was adopted into the family of Calvin West, who was captain of a company of militia, and was known as "Capt. West;" he was an extensive lumber manufacturer and an enterprising man in all branches of business; he built several sawmills in his time, and was the founder of the gristmill at Wellsburg, N. Y .; also erected several dwelling houses; he pur- chased five hundred acres of land from the owners, Alexander Johnson and George Gavit, of Philadelphia ; this land was heavily timbered ; the timber, when manufactured into lumber, was shipped down the Susque- hanna river, also to New York and other Eastern markets. Mr. West

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was married four times. His first wife was Betsey Elizabeth Covill, whom he married in 1820, when he was fourteen and she was twelve years of age; to them were born seven children, all of whom grew to maturity. About the year 1871, when at the age of seventy, he dis- posed of all his property in the East, giving to each of his children about $3,000 in real or personal property or money, selling off the bal- ance, and with nearly $30,000 went to the State of Wisconsin, where he purchased a large farm and built a palatial residence, also a large stock barn and other out-buildings to correspond. He died March 28, 1886, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. Mr. A. J. Campbell remained with Capt. West until he was of age, according to a contract received from Alexander Johnson, who was boarding at Capt. West's while on business, about the time the child was adopted by him. Mr. Johnson gave the captain $5.00 if he would name the child Alexander Johnson Campbell after him, the $5.00 to be invested in sheep at $1.00 a head, the sheep to be doubled every four years, until the child became of age; this was agreed upon, and the plan carried out for a number of years, but was finally neglected altogether, in consequence of which failure Capt. West gave Mr. Campbell eighty acres of good land ; he afterward made him an heir of the estate along with his own children, giving him eighty acres more. Mr. Campbell occupied this property in 1865, and he is now living on it. He spent seven years in the West, and three years one month and eleven days in the army. During this time he married, in Harvard, III., January 4, 1864, Nancy, daughter of Edward and Jane Hogan. At the time of his marriage be was serving his country as a soldier, in Company K, Second Wisconsin Cavalry, for the term of three years, and was home on a furlough ; he served his time and was honorably discharged as corporal. To Mr. and Mrs. Campbell was born, in 1868, one son named Frank M. E. Mr. Campbell carries on general farming, and is pros- perous. Politically he has been a Republican since the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion in 1861. There is on his farm a mineral spring, known by many of the old settlers of the county as " Dick's Lick," where many deer have been slain, but the water has not yet been analyzed.

CHAUNCY C. CAMPBELL, farmer, P. O. Hoblet, born in Bur- lington, this county, November 11, 1843, is a son of George W. and Harriet (Kingsley) Campbell ; his grandfather, William Campbell, set- tled in Burlington early in this century, and was among the first set- tlers of that town. George W. Campbell was a lumberman and farmer, in which business Chauncy was reared. When twenty years of age, Chauncy enlisted in the State Militia. and after a short time re-enlisted in the general service in the Civil War, and was in many hard-fought battles. His brother, George, was also in the service, and was a prisoner sixteen months. Chauncy Campbell is fifth of his par- ents' nine children. On January 1, 1867, he was united in marriage with Tempie, danghter of Joseph and Margaret (Jerolomon) Van- Kirk, natives of New Jersey; she was born April 20, 1847, and is the sixth in a family of nine children, they being of German and French extraction. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have had four children, as fol-

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lows : Elmer O., born October 12, 1867, married to Lucy Taylor ; Joseph W., born February 20, 1871; Mattie J., born March 8, 1879, and Harrison K., born September 29, 1882. Mr. Campbell settled twenty-three years ago where he yet lives, and now owns a fine farm, being a prosperous farmer, making dairying his principal industry. He is a member of the G. A. R., and takes an active interest in the politics of the Republican party. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is one of the trustees.

DANIEL CAMPBELL, farmer, P. O. Litchfield, was born in Litchfield township, Bradford Co., Pa., August 14, 1830, on the farm now owned by T. W. Brink, and is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Struble) Campbell. Jacob Campbell spent most of his life after he was seven- teen years of age in the township where he was born, following the agricultural and lumbering business. Jacob and Elizabeth Campbell had the following named children : Eliza Ann, married to Alanson Carner, and residing at Athens ; Sally Maria, married to D. S. Chand- ler, of Litchfield ; Ralph, died in Clearfield county, unmarried ; Jacob S., married to Ann Fredrick, and living at Hyatt's Ferry, N. Y .; Daniel, Moses J., married to Mahala Russell, both deceased ; G. J., married to Phobe Perry, who died some years since; C. H., married to Isabelle Fredrick, a farmer and blacksmith residing at Litchfield ; William B., married to Mattie Campbell, of Litchfield. At the age of eighteen Daniel Campbell left school and engaged in agricultural pur- suits, which he followed several years; also carried on a lumber busi- ness in Clearfield county. He settled on a farm in Litchfield town- ship which he now owns. His wife's name was Leah Fredrick, and they have one son, who married Huldah Carmer, and is now employed as clerk in Athens. Mr. Campbell is a member of the I. O. O. F., Litchfield Lodge, No. 938, and in politics is a Democrat.

JESSE W. CAMPBELL, of the firm of De Lano & Campbell, gro. cers, Towanda, was born in Candor, Tioga Co., N. Y., December 30, 1854, a son of George W. and Evaline (White) Campbell, and is of Scotch and German descent. His parents settled in Bradford county in 1856. and are now residing in New Albany, where the father is engaged in farming. They were the parents of five children, as follows : Jesse W., Laura (Mrs. Frank Coolbaugh), Mary (Mrs. Earl Wilcox), Rhoda and George W. Jesse W. Campbell was reared in Bradford county, and received a common-school education. From May, 1879, till April, 1880, he was employed as a clerk at the " Inter- national Hotel," Towanda, by S. M. Brown ; from there he went to the "Elwell House," in the employ of O. Kellogg, where he remained nearly four years. In May, 1884, he entered the employ of Powell & Co., general merchants, with whom he remained until May, 1889, when he entered into partnership with S. S. De Lano, in the present grocery business, and they are doing a thriving trade. Mr. Campbell was married in May, 1881, to Mary, daughter of Thomas and Bridget (Supple) Fitten, of Marshview, this county, by whom he has two chil- dren : Charles and Mary. He is a member of the Catholic Church, and in politics he is a Republican.

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JOSEPH CAMPBELL, farmer, of New Albany township, P. O. New Albany, was born in Monroe township, this county, March 27, 1834, a son of John and Mary (Winter) Campbell, the former of whom, a miller, was of Scotch origin and a native of Lancaster county, Pa .; the latter was of Dutch ancestry, a native of Monroe township. The grandparents were among the early settlers in the county. The

father attended the first mill at Masontown, and then built a mill in company with Jeremiah Blackman, near the line of Monroe and Albany, and has been connected with milling and farming all his life. The subject of this sketch was reared on his father's farm, and has followed farming many years. In February, 1862, he enlisted in Com- pany G, One Hundred and Seventh P. V. I., and served one term ; in January, 1864, he re-enlisted in the same company and regiment, and served altogether three years, three months and eleven days. While on skirmish line in front of Petersburg, he was wounded by a gunshot in the left arm, which necessitated amputation near the shoulder. He was in the service until May, 1865, and enjoys the largest pension in the township. He had three brothers, four brothers-in-law and five nephews in the Civil War. Since his return home he has been a teacher, having taught sixteen terms of school. Mr. Campbell was married, December 25, 1859, to Lurinda Brown, of New Albany, born in 1842, and to this union were born two children, both of whom died in infancy. Mr. Campbell is a quiet and much respected citizen ; a Republican in politics, he is well-informed in political matters.

JOSEPHUS CAMPBELL (deceased) was born in Burlington, this county, November 13, 1818. His paternal grandfather, James Campbell, one of the first, if not the first, settler in the town of Bur- lington, was of Scotch ancestry and directly descended from the Pilgrims, and his son, the father of our subject, was born in Massachu- setts and was a mere lad when the family removed to Burlington township. The grandfather, James, died here in 1813 at a great age; he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Our subject married Asenath Miller in 1841, and to them were born five children, of whom Delmer V. and Homer C. (twins), born June 10, 1860, are now on the old homestead. Mr. Campbell was a man of influence and a Republi- can in politics ; he was county commissioner at one time, and held other offices of public trust; he died in 1874 at the age of fifty-five years. Mrs. Campbell survives him and is now aged sixty-eight years. Homer C. Campbell, who is a bachelor, owns one hundred and sixty acres of the old farm; Delmer V. owns ninety-five acres of the same; it is as fine farming land as can be found in the township. Delmer V married Julia Moscrip, daughter of William Moscrip, a farmer, a Scotchman by birth, who came to America a young man.

STERLING K. CAMPBELL. farmer, P. O. Hohlet, was born in Smithfield township, this county, January 30, 1850, a son of George W. and Harriet (Kingsley) Campbell, former of whom was born in Burlington township, and latter in Smithfield, this county; his great- grandfather was from Scotland. Sterling K. Campbell is the seventh in a family of nine children, of whom two sons, George and Chauncy C., were in the Civil War; George served through the entire conflict,

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and was a prisoner for thirteen months. Mr. Campbell, our subject, was reared on his father's farm, and has followed agricultural pursuits. He was married, November 9, 1871, to Arlett Bird, who was born November 19, 1847, and died April 14, 1884; she was a daughter of Orpheus Bird, of Smithfield. To Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were born four children, viz .: Jennie B., born September 25, 1872; Ida M., born March 31, 1874 ; Lettie B., born November 16, 1876, and Harry S., born August 28, 1878. Mr. Campbell has by perseverance and economy become the owner of a fine farm of one hundred acres, and he is a successful business man. He is a member of the Knights of Honor ; he is a Republican, and an active worker, taking an interest in the affairs of the town, and in politics in general.

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History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 75

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