History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 87

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

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OLIVER G. DUNBAR, farmer, Springfield township, P. O. Big Pond, was born August 23, 1842, in Troy township, a son of Alanson and Martha (Burk) Dunbar, natives of Springfield township. The father, a farmer, came from Connecticut in an early day, and settled at Troy with a large family ; Mr. Dunbar's great grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier ; the father lived to the age of fifty-four years and the mother to the age of sixty-seven years. Mr. Dunbar was the second in a family of eleven children, was reared on the farm and edu- cated in the schools of the township. When twenty-two years of age he enlisted in Company L, First New York Veteran Cavalry, under Gen. Sheridan, and did picket duty nine months; before this he was in the war as a teamster. He was married December 31, 1866, to Mary Jane, daughter of Alfred H. and Jane Strong, of Springfield, and who was born January 29, 1842, the youngest of the family of four children; her two brothers, William H. and Edwin C. Strong, were in the Civil War. Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar have had only one child, who died in infancy. He is the owner of a well-improved farm of forty acres, which is under a fine state of cultivation, and has been a suc- cessful business man, is a good neighbor and a kind friend; he is a Re- publican in politics, and has held the offices of school director, com- missioner and auditor several years, and also other positions of public trust; is a member of the I. O. O. F., P. of H. and of the G. A. R.

WILLIAM H. DUNHAM, a leading farmer of Windham town- ship, P. O. Windham, is a native of Bradford county, Pa., born April 5, 1834, a son of Henry and Sybil (Wait) Dunham, of New York, and German extraction. The father was a mechanic, and one of the early settlers in Windham, having come in 1806, and lived until 1887; the mother died in 1890. They had ten children, of whom William H. is the fourth. He grew to his majority on the farm, and since he com- menced life on his own account has prospered. Receiving his share of his father's real estate, he has added thereto, until he now owns ninety acres. In 1861 he enlisted in Company H, Sixty-fourth New York Infantry, Second Army Corps, and was in the battles of Fair Oaks, Harrison's Landing and Antietam, when he was seized with typhoid

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fever, and sent to the hospital in Washington; was honorably dis- charged November 20, 1862, has been an invalid continuously since, and is now a pensioner. He is a member of Warwick Post, No. 529, G. A. R., and, politically, votes with the Republican party. He was married, in 1863, to Elizabeth Hand, who was born in Windham town- ship, this county, a daughter of Alexander and Mary (Manchester) Hand. Of this marriage have been born five children : Howard (in Tioga county), Henry, Harrold (deceased), Sybil M. and William. The family are much esteemed by a wide circle of friends.

E. L. DUNKLEE, insurance agent, Wyalusing, was born in Steuben county, N. Y., October 4, 1843, and is a son of Ellis and Lucinda (Bixby) Dunklee, natives of Vermont, of English origin ; his father followed contracting and building many years, and then purchased a farm in Steuben county, N. Y., where he has resided forty-eight years; his father was born in 1813, and his mother in 1817 and died in 1887; they had a family of seven children, viz .: Eli, farmer of Cooper's Plains, N. Y .; Melvina, married to Benjamin Balcona, farmer of Curtis, N. Y .; James, of Rochester, N. Y., who served in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-first New York Infantry, was wounded at Resaca and dis- charged on account of disability from wound ; E. L .; Emma, married to Lorain Carpenter, and died in 1883; Clara, married to G. M. Bixby, a banker of Wyalusing who died in 1880; and Calista, married to Adelbert Scott, a farmer of. Campbell, N. Y. Subject was born and reared on a farm, and attended the common schools of his district until seventeen years of age. August 28, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-first New York Infantry, and after a hard service, interspersed with sickness, and spending about eleven months in hospital, and making the famous campaign with Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, and then through the Carolinas to Washington, received his discharge, and was mustered out with the company. He returned home and entered Madison University, of Hamilton, N. Y., but after a four years' course, his health failed him, and he was com- pelled to leave school ; then went to work on the farm where he remained one year; was then a traveling salesman about five years ; in 1876 he came to Wyalusing and entered the bank with his brother-in- law, G. M. Bixby, remained until the latter's death, since which time he has had charge of the Bixby estate, and been engaged in insurance business. He was united in marriage, September 25, 1872, with Grace I., daughter of Josiah and Sarah Ann (Richardson) Lewis, of N. Y. They have a family of five children : Helen, Emery J., Maynard D., Clara A. and Ellis. Mr. Dunklee is a member of Jackson Post, No. 74, G. A. R., Wyalusing, of which he is quartermaster. His family are all members of the Baptist Church in which he is an earnest worker; a Republican, and has been town clerk for the past ten years; and held the appointment as watchman in the State Senate in 1887 and 1888.

BARCLEY DUNN, farmer, P.O. Franklindale, was born in Sussex county, N. J., August 10, 1830, a son of William and Mary (Yetter) Dunn, the former of whom was born in New York, and the latter in Sussex county, N. J. William Dunn always lived in Sussex county, where he died ; he was the father of ten children-eight sons and two

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daughters-all of whom grew to maturity. Our subject, who is the seventh in the family, was reared and educated in Sussex county, N. J., at the common schools; he boated twenty-seven years on the Dela- ware & Hudson Canal, and also the Erie Canal, at which he accumu- lated considerable money ; the rest of his life was devoted to farming. After leaving New Jersey he located in Carbon county, Pa., where he lived four years, from which place he removed to Standing Stone, Bradford county, where he lived nineteen years; then removed to his present location in Franklin township, where he has since resided, twenty years. He was married, July 27, 1851, to Miss Sophia, daughter of Daniel and Ann Rough, natives of Luzerne county, Pa., and this union resulted in the birth of five children-three sons and two daughters-all of whom grew to maturity, as follows: Emanda A., Elmer, Cyrus, Clara B. and Henry W. Mr. Dunn is in easy cir- cumstances, enjoying the confidence of his fellow townsmen, whom he served faithfully as commissioner six years ; he is a general farmer, devoting himself to all branches of agriculture ; he belongs to the Patrons of Industry, and politically is a Democrat.

AUGUSTUS DURUZ, farmer, P. O. Gillett, was born near Paris, France, April 18, 1844, a son of J. P. and Mary Ann (Gordeaux) Duruz, natives of France. J. P. Duruz was a merchant, also an offi- cer in the French army. The family came to this country, November 2, 1854, and first located on Long Island, remaining one year; then came to Sheshequin township, this county, where they were two years; from there removed to Towanda and purchased the Dan Bartlett place, where he died in 1876, in his sixty-ninth year ; his widow still survives him, aged now seventy-nine years, and is living in Towanda. Their family consisted of eight children-five daughters and three sons- all of whom grew to maturity, and six are living at the present time. The subject of these lines. who is the sixth in the family, was reared and partially educated in France, and in early life learned the carpen- ter's trade, at which he worked a number of years. On July 4, 1867, he married, at Towanda, Emily, daughter of Henry and Emeline Jones; and there were born to them five children : Louise (married to Henry Sweeney, a farmer), Augusta, Charles, Eugene and Ella. Mr. Duruz moved to South Creek township in 1879, and purchased of John Livins what is known as the "Brown place," on which he is now living; he built a new house, and made many necessary improvements; is a hard-working, industrious man. He rents two farms which he oversees, besides his own which contains seventy-five acres; is a gen- eral farmer, raising grain, hay and stock; owns several blooded Jerseys, and has one very fine colt, registered ; there is an abundance of choice fruit on his place, all his own planting.

DR. CHARLES S. DWYER, physician, Springfield, was born October 9, 1857, in Smithfield, this county, a son of Rev. W. H. H. and Mary J. (Greenleaf) Dwyer, the former of whom, born in Rutland, Vt., was a Baptist preacher, and organized the church at Canton, of which he was pastor some years, as well as at Troy, Alba, Wells, Columbia, Smithfield Centre and LeRoy ; he died at the age of sixty-seven years. The mother was born in Alba, and is still living, at the age of sixty-

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three years ; the paternal great-grandfather, was born in France, and was educated for a Roman Catholic priest; his name was Devereaux, but on emigrating to this country changed it to Dwyer ; he practiced law many years at Worcester, Mass .; his son, our subject's grandfather, was also a lawyer, and was at one time judge of Essex county, N. Y., and later in life, as a Baptist clergyman, was pastor of the church at Alba and at other places in the county. Dr. Dwyer, who is the seventh in a family of ten children, was educated at Smithfield, and studied medi- cine, attending lectures at the Bennett Eclectic Medical College, Chicago, Ill .; was graduated in the spring of 1888, commenced his profession at Springfield in the fall of that year, and now enjoys an extensive and lucrative practice. He had three brothers in the Civil War, Malcom being acting assistant adjutant general at the close of the struggle. The Doctor was married, August 26, 1883, to Edna W. Teeter, of Springfield, daughter of William and Margaret (Watson) Teeter, and born February 27,1863; they have two children: A daughter, Margaret J., born March 12, 1886, and a son, Esmuld D., born August 21, 1891. Dr. Dwyer is a Republican, a member of the Baptist Church, and enjoys the confidence of a wide circle of friends; his wife is a member of the Disciple Church.

FRANK EDWARD EASTABROOK, manufacturer of lumber, lath and shingles, Stevensville, was born in Potterville, this county, January 12, 1861, a son of Edward Jesse and Emeline (Potter) Easta- brook, the former a native of Pennsylvania, and a tailor and shoemaker by trade. In his family there were six children, of whom our subject is the fifth. Frank E. Eastabrook was educated in the common school, and at Warner's Commercial College, Elmira, N. Y .; he began life for himself at twenty, and took up lumbering as his occupation, which he has followed since. In 1883 he engaged in business with Elmer F. Stevens, and they do a very large business. Mr. Eastabrook was married January 19, 1885, to Ella, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Rockwell) Stevens, and they have two children : Mildred C., born April 19, 1887, and Victor S., born July 31, 1890. Mr. Eastabrook is a member of the Presbyterian Church, of which he is Sundav-school superintendent ; he is a Republican, and at present holds the office of tax collector.

A. J. EASTABROOKS, retired, Towanda, was born in Wysox township, this county, January 3, 1823, and is a son of William and Wealthy (Shurtliff) Eastabrooks, whose nativity was Connecticut, both born of remote English ancestry, of the class of yeomen who were among the pioneers of Bradford county, and located in Wysox town- ship, where the father died in 1826. He reared a family of six chil- dren, of whom the subject of this sketch is the youngest, in the order of birth, of four sons and two daughters. The lad was favorably sur- rounded for that day, and grew to manhood on a farm with his older brother, and, following in the line of his ancestors, became a farmer. He was soon widely known as a man of probity and rare intelligence. He quitted his farm in 1850, and removed to Towanda, where he en- gaged actively in business. When the war cloud burst upon the land, he was quick to respond to his country's call, and enrolled his name in

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Company I, Sixth Pennsylvania Reserves ; was assigned as a member of the regimental band, and was wounded and lost his arm at the sec- ond battle of Bull Run, August 29, 1862; his arm was amputated, and when he was sufficiently recovered he returned to his home. President Grant appointed him to a clerkship in Washington, and he was there in that employ thirteen years, with a salary, a portion of the time, of $1,400 a year. He then returned to his Towanda home, and took his old place among the good people of the town as one of the much- respected leading men of the county, interested in all public affairs. He has built his share of houses in Towanda, and contributed well toward the general improvement of the county's capital, and is now quietly enjoying the repose of life in his elegant mansion. He was married, July 1, 1844, to Miss Mary, daughter of Russell Pratt, and a sister of Dr. D. S. Pratt; she died in 1889. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is a prominent official, as well as class leader.

C. J. EASTABROOKS, farmer and stock grower, P. O. South Hill, was born in Towanda township, this county, November 18, 1838, and is a son of Judson and Eliza (Robinson) Eastabrooks, of Orwell Hill. The father, who was born in Hartford, Conn., July 31, 1812, was a farmer and carpenter; he had a family of six children, viz .: Charles J., Elvira (married to Leonard Ross, and died), Mary (married to J. M. Davies, of Owego), Alice (married to Sands Dunham), Emma (living at home) and Edwin (died aged seven years). The subject of this sketch received his education in the common schools of the county, at the Academy of Camptown, and Towanda Collegiate Institute. He taught school until August 8, 1862, when he enlisted in Company D, One Hun- dred and Forty-first Regiment, P. V. I., of which he was made sergeant, and December 31,1862, he was promoted to commissary-sergeant, which position he filled until mustered out. He declined a second-lieutenant's commission. He served with his regiment until the close of the war, and was absent on but two short furloughs ; his duties were hard and dangerous, as he would have to issue rations at night generally, and would thus be exposed to the dangers and difficulties incident to dark- ness; he served faithfully through the term of his enlistment, and was honorably discharged, at Harrisburg, and mustered out with his regiment. After returning home he purchased the farm now owned by Vernon Tyrrell, and continued there until 1872, when he sold and went to Rome, where he embarked in mercantile business with L. R. Browning, and was there until 1875, when he again sold and purchased his present farm of 170 acres of fine land, in Orwell township, all under a high state of cultivation, which he has greatly improved, and has it well stocked with Jersey and Holstein cattle, sheep and horses; he has a match team of iron-gray draft horses that have taken first premium at fairs wherever exhibited. On September 26, 1865, he was united in wedlock with Hermine C., daughter of George W. and Emmaline (Terrel) Prince, who had a family of three children, viz. : George M., Hermine C. and Charles V. To Mr. and Mrs. Eastabrooks have been born three children: One died in infancy; Charles F. (deceased), and Charley B., born December 9, 1873. The family are

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members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Easta- brooks holds the position of trustee; he is a Freemason, and has taken the third degree; also a member of Stevens Post, No. 69, G. A. R., and is on the financial committee. A stanch Republican, he takes an active interest in the politics of his section, and has held various town- ship offices, being now an auditor of Orwell. Mr. Eastabrooks has had his own way to make in the world, and has been eminently successful. He was among the first to offer his services to his country, and in that service lost his health. He and his excellent lady have a very large circle of friends in Orwell and adjoining townships, and enjoy the esteem and respect of all who know them.

MARCUS EASTABROOKS (deceased) was born in Windham county, Conn., January 27, 1793, a son of Peleg and Rebecca (Salls- bery) Eastabrooks. He was married July 29, 1826, to Alathen Gray, of Connecticut, who was born July 30, 1800, and was a daughter of Jonas and Mary Gray, farmers. Marcus Eastabrooks came to Brad- ford county in 1820, and settled on the land now owned by Solomon Chaffee; remained here two years, and then returned to Connecticut to bring the remaining members of the family-his father, mother and sisters, Sallie and Diana. His family consisted of the following child- ren : Levi, William, Jessie (drowned while quite small), Jessie, Marcus, Sylvester (died in infancy), Sallie, Diana (married to Eleazer Allis, Jr.), William and Reuben. Marcus was married in Susquehanna county, and on coming to this county he found a log cabin already erected on his land, in which he settled and began the life of a pioneer; his first cabin had neither door, window, nor chimney, nor was it even chinked; they would hang blankets for doors, and his wife would do her cook- ing out in the yard. He had no time to finish the house, but had to cut down the trees and plant among the roots; all the cultivation the crops received was the weeds being pulled when they became too rank. That fall he finished his home, harvested his little crop and the battle with the wilderness was fairly begun ; his wife, besides attending to ber young children and other household duties, would spin and weave all the linen and woolen cloth needed to clothe the family. The farm he cleared contained ninety-five acres, and he chopped and grubbed tlie entire place, and fitted it for cultivation ; he built a small frame house in 1855, which still stands, and had a small sugar bush. Mr. Easta- brooks died, April 2, 1874, at the ripe old age of eighty-one, his wife having passed away July 7, 1877, aged seventy-seven. He was an Old- school Baptist, but never became connected with any church ; in poli- tics he was first an Old-line Whig, and then a Republican. Mr. Easta- brooks was one of the best-known pioneers of this county, noted far and near for his integrity and hospitality, sobriety and industry. No man ever went from his house hungry, or was refused the hospitable shelter of his roof ; this trait of character has been inherited by his daughters, who are noted far and near for their hospitality. To him and his devoted wife were born three daughters as follows : Nancy, born July 17, 1828, who assisted her father in his farm labors, chopping, piling brush and rolling logs as well as hoeing and harvesting grain (she married, December 7, 1858, Chauncy Tingley, who died April 11, 1859,

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and his stricken widow bowed to the sore affliction); Hannah, the sec- ond daughter, was born March 9, 1830, and Lucy, the youngest was born December 4, 1836. W. R. Pickering, an adopted brother, is where these daughters make their home. This is one of the highly respected families of Bradford county.

JAMES H. EASTGATE, superintendent of the tannery at Grover, was born in Ulster county, N. Y., October 6, 1848, and is a son of Her- man Neal and Ellen (Mason) Eastgate, the former of whom at present resides. in Scranton ; the mother died October 8, 1848. Our subject is their only child, and was reared in Ulster county, receiving a public- school and academic education ; he learned the tanner's trade in Ulster county, N. Y., with Adam Innes. In 1865 he removed to Granville township, where he remained until July, 1871, when he came to Grover, in which place he has since resided, with the exception of from May 21, 1884, until November 7, 1889, when he was in the Granville tan- neries. In September, 1889, he purchased the gristmill from Robert Innes, which was just commenced, and he completed it. He was mar- ried in Granville, October 19, 1870, to Mary C., daughter of Adam and Helen (McNeil) Innes; she is third in order of birth in a family of eight children, and was born in Ulster county, N. Y., May 15, 1850. To Mr. and Mrs. Eastgate have been born three daughters: Sarah L., Helen R. and Iantha E. Mr. Eastgate is a member of the F. & A. M., Troy Lodge, No. 806, Troy Chapter, No. 261, Canton Commandery, No. 64, and of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 687, Granville Centre, and has passed all the chairs of the Order. Politically he is a Republican.

CALVIN J. EASTMAN, blacksmith, Orwell, was born October 22, 1838, in Guilford, N. Y., a son of George W., and Lydia (Mann) Eastman; his father was a wagon-maker and carpenter and joiner, and came to Bradford county in 1840, and located in Rome township; then removed to a farm in Orwell, owned by his son, J. I. Eastman, and died there June 12, 1875; the mother is with her son. In his father's family were the following children; Willis (deceased); J. I., married to Theodora Lewis, and Calvin, who spent his early life in Rome, attended school there, learned his trade of blacksmith and worked at it eight years; then came to Orwell, in the fall of 1863, and worked twelve years ; then bought his present shop and has occupied it since. He married Mary, daughter of C. S. Smith, and to them have been born the following children, two of whom were born in New York: Eliza- beth (married to Marion Dunn); Charles W. (married to Flora Brown); Kate S. and Lewis E. The family are Presbyterians, and Mr. Eastman is trustee and chorister, assisted in the latter capacity by his wife; both are fine musicians, as are their daughters. Kate taught school in this county several years; the children were all educated on Orwell Hill. Mr. Eastman is a member of the K. of H .; is a Republican and has held the offices of township treasurer and school director. He and his family are much esteemed by a wide circle of acquaintances and friends.

JOHN I. EASTMAN, farmer and stock grower, P. O. Orwell, was born in Rome township, this county, October 23, 1845, and is a son of George W. and Lydia Y. (Mann) Eastman, the former of whom

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was born in Ashford, Conn., February 2, 1803, a son of Justice and Sallie (Farnham) Eastman, natives of that place, born in 1777 and 1778, respectively, and who had the following children : Otis (born July 9, 1801, died in infancy), George W., Lucius (born April 30, 1805, died June 22, 1870), Asa F. (born April 21, 1808, died in August, 1888), Lanson (born August 7, 1810, deceased), Hannah S. (born May 17, 1813, married to Albert Hicks), Sallie (born March 3, 1817, married to James Halbert, whom she survives), Mary Elizabeth (born July 3, 1819, married to Nathan Dickenson). The father was a carpenter and joiner, and also worked at wagon-making and shoemaking. He was married January 7, 1828, in Otsego county, N. Y., where he lived until 1841, when he removed to Rome, where he worked at carpenter- ing and wagon-making, and built the Methodist and Baptist churches ; also many residences; he lived there twenty-two years, and then removed to Orwell township, to the farm the son now occupies; he was an extensive contractor in his day, and in 1837 was overseer of the carpenters and builders on the State Capitol at Madison, Wis. He died June 3, 1875; his widow survives. To them were born the following named children : Willis (born December 28, 1829, deceased), Lucy Jane (born September 28, 1833, died August 25, 1837) ; Calvin J., John I., and Sarah J. (born September 26, 1847, married to Theodore Lewis). John I. Eastman spent the greater portion of his life on a farm in Orwell township, and was educated in the common schools. He has followed farming with good success, down to the present time, and has lived on the old homestead. He was united in wedlock December 19, 1867, with Lucy A. Brown, and to them has been born a family of six children, viz .: Willis H. (born June 6, 1869), James E. (born November 25, 1870), Lillie M. (born September 24, 1872), Flora B. (born December 15, 1875), George U. (born October 27, 1877), and Josie Irene (born November 6, 1886). The parents of our subject were both members of the Presbyterian Church, in which the father was for many years an elder. In his political views the father was first a Democrat, and then a Republican, and he had held the various town offices. John I. Eastman is a Republican, and has also held the various township offices. Mr. and Mrs. Eastman have a pleasant home, the old Eastman homestead, and has his farm well improved and stocked. He is surrounded with a large circle of friends.

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History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 87

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