History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 94

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

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1819, and was reared in Columbia township, where he now resides, engaged in farming ; his wife was a daughter of Malachi and Jane (Mason) Howland, of Columbia township, and by her he has four children : William E., Charles H., Esther (Mrs. Frank Bullock) and Mary D. (Mrs. James H. Strong). William E. Gernert was reared in Colum- bia township, educated in the common schools, and was engaged in farming until 1889, when he became a member of the firm of Strong & Gernert, dealers in general merchandise, Columbia Cross Roads. In 1872 he married Belinda, daughter of Hiram and Helen (Sherman) Chace, of Springfield township, and they have seven children : Gladys, Fannie, Grace, Warren, Harry, Lizzie and William H. Mr. Gernert is an enterprising business man and representative citizen ; politically he is a Republican.

SAMUEL W. GEROULD, farmer, East Smithfield, was born in Smithfield, May 3, 1829, a son of James and Lois (Wood) Gerould. The father, a farmer and blacksmith, was born in Newtown, Conn., May 5, 1784, and was first lieutenant, captain and then quartermaster in the State militia, and postmaster and justice of the peace in Smith- field. Jabez Gerould, his grandfather, a blacksmith, was born in Wrentham, Mass., November 1, 1748; was a soldier in the Revolution- ary War, and at the battle of Bunker Hill, for valiant service, was made captain. Our subject's maternal grandfather was also a soldier in the Revolution and one of the men who took Maj. Andre, the English spy, into Washington's camp. Mr. Gerould was a cabinet- maker in early life, and carried on that business at Smithfield Centre until 1855. when he moved to the farm he now owns of 150 acres. He was married, June 16, 1853, to Ann Ophelia, daughter of Truman and Ruth (Durfey) Beach, and who was born May 20, 1832. There have been born to them eight children, as follows: Afton B., born May 29, 1854; Flora E., born September 14, 1856; Laura Maria, born February 13, 1860, married to Warren Craig; Ruth Ida, born May 24, 1863, died March 29, 1886; Annie Lucelia, born July 20, 1865; Martin E., born September 24, 1869; Truman Wood, born September 2, 1871; Grace Ophelia, born November 21, 1874. Mr. Gerould is a careful and studious gentleman and successful in all his enterprises; he is a Republican in politics. The family are members of the Disciple Church.

JOHN F. GILLETTE, farmer, P. O. Gillett, was born in Mason- ville, Delaware Co., N. Y., in March, 1817, a son of Asa and Laura (Osborn) Gillette, the former born in Litchfield county, Conn., the lat- ter in Massachusetts. Asa Gillette was the son of Asa, a Revolution- ary soldier, who joined the army when only fourteen years of age, and served until the close of the war, being present when Cornwallis sur- rendered to Washington. Asa, Jr., removed from Masonville, N. Y., in 1833, locating in what is now Gillett, in this county, then a vast wilderness. Jesse Moore was the first settler, and built a log grist- mill, one of the stones for which is now in use as a "horse block." Ruloff Bovere was the next pioneer to come into South Creek. Asa Gillette came to this county for the purpose of manufacturing timber, and purchased a sawmill of Judge Smith, of Painted Post, which was

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built three years previously, and in which he had an interest. Mr. Gillette continued this business thirty-three years; he was a man of influence, a leading spirit in moral. spiritnal and business matters, one to whom all looked up. He was an active member and deacon of the Baptist Church; was postmaster a number of years, and also served as town clerk. In 1865 he met with an accident that proved fatal, the dislocation of his hip joint. His great desire was to see the war close before he died. His family consisted of four children, all of whom grew to maturity, and three are now living. John F., who is the second member of the family, was reared and educated at the common school in Masonville. At Southport, N. Y., October 2, 1839, he mar- ried Phebe C., daughter of Asa and Mercy Moore, and, October 2, 1889, they celebrated their golden wedding. To them were born four children : Emily E., married to George H. Denham; Mary M., mar- ried to Philander L. Pettingill ; Sarah J., married to Charles T. Fitch, and Asa N., who died in 1865. Mr. Gillette is an extensive Inmber- man, employing a number of men continually. His farm consists of 550 acres, nearly all under improvement. He has the entire confidence of his fellow-citizens, and was elected to represent Bradford county for two sessions in the Legislature; has held the office of justice of the peace twelve years ; postmaster, four years; was deacon of the Bap- tist Church twenty-five years, and follows in the footsteps of his father as a leading spirit for good. Politically, he is a Republican.

CHARLES E. GLADDING, farmer, P. O., Altus, was born August 2, 1833, in Columbia township, this county, on the farm he now owns and occupies, and is a son of Joseph and Marcy (Bullock) Gladding. The father, who was a native of Barrington, R. I., located · in Smithfield, this county, in 1816, and in 1817 settled in Columbia township, where he cleared and improved the farm occupied by subject, on which he lived until his death, which occurred when he was in his ninetieth year. His wife was a daughter of Asa and Jerusha (Allen) Bullock, and by her he had seven children, six of whom grew to matu- ity : Jerusha B. (Mrs. James M. Edsall), Emeline I. (Mrs. E. P. Shaw), Joseph N., Viall A., William P. and Charles E., George Wil- liam having died in childhood. Charles E. Gladding was reared on the old homestead where he has always resided. He was in the Civil War, enlisting August 14, 1862, and was commissioned first lieutenant of Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-second Pennsylvania Volun- teers. He participated in the battle of Chancellorsville. and was honorably discharged after nine month's service. In November, 1875, he married N. Louisa, daughter of William G. Alger, of Towanda, and they have one daughter, Cecele E. Mr. Gladding is a prominent farmer of Columbia township. He is a member of the F. & A. M., G. A. R. and P. of H. Politically he is a Republican, and was register and recorder of Bradford county for one term of three years.

L. R. GLEASON, tanner. Canton, is a native of Bolton, Warren Co., N. Y., born November 16, 1829, a son of Jacob and Sarah (Eaton) Gleason, natives of Vermont. The father, who was a prominent far- mer, was born in 1796, and in early life removed to New York, where he was married; then came to Canton, where he died in 1869; the

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mother died in the same place in January, 1881, aged eighty-six years. The great-grandfather, Jacob Gleason, was a Revolutionary soldier, and in the service along with him were three of his sons; the maternal grandfather, Brigham Eaton, was also a Revolutionary soldier, and was at the battle of Bunker Hill. Jacob and Sarah Gleason had a family of five children, four of whom died in infancy. L. R. Gleason was the second in the order of birth, and when he was but a lad his parents removed to Oswego county, N. Y., where they remained until he reached the age of ten years, when they moved to Canton, and here he commenced attending the public schools, alternating his studies with labor about the home. He so remained until he was nineteen years old, when he engaged in lumbering on his own account, which he followed until 1868. He pushed his business successfully, and at times had as many as 150 employés, and made his headquarters at Williams- port. He then changed his business and opened a tannery in Canton, in which he is now engaged, also owning and operating an extensive tannery at North Bend, Clinton Co., and also one at Driftwood, Cameron Co., same State. Mr. Gleason was twice married : first time in 1852, in Tioga county, to Martha Irvin, daughter of Benjamin and Prudence (Dunbar) Irvin, of Lehigh county, Pa., in the family of whose ten children she was the third in the order of birth, born in Lehigh county, in 1832, and died May 15, 1880, the mother of a large family, as fol- lows : The eldest three died in infancy, and the others surviving are as follows: Irvin, married to Josephine Haines, is now manager of the North Bend tannery ; John, married to Harriet Rury, is connected with the Driftwood tannery ; LeRoy, married to Minnie Bessie Mut- terbaugh, is at Driftwood; Charles, married to Minnie Rury, is also at Driftwood, and James is at the paternal home. Mr. Gleason's second marriage was with Mrs. Byron W. Clark, of Canton. They are mem- bers of the Baptist Church; in his political faith he is a Prohibitionist, and has served four terms as school director, and one term in the council of Canton ; has been many years a Freemason, and is a mem- ber of Canton Lodge, No 415.

RUFUS B. GLEASON, farmer in Springfield township, P. O. Big Pond, was born April 20, 1843, in Binghamton, N. Y., a son of Lemuel C. and Bertha (Hosley) Gleason, the former of whom was also a native of Binghamton, and the latter of Vermont. The father removed to this county in 1853, and settled at Big Pond; he was a mason by trade, as well as a farmer, and lived to the age of sixty-five years. The mother's family were among the early settlers of Spring- field ; she is still living at the age of seventy-three. Rufus B. Gleason, who is one of four children, was reared on his father's farm and edu- cated in the schools of the township. At the age of twenty-three he embarked in mercantile trade at Big Pond, which he continued five years, and has since followed farming. He was first married, Feb- ruary 20, 1865, to Mary L. French, who died February 15, 1867, and his second marriage was March 31, 1868, with Matilda Decker, who was born July 10, 1848, a daughter of Addison and Emeline (Hill) Decker, natives of Elmira, N. Y. Mrs. Gleason was the fourth in a family of eleven children-seven daughters and four sons-ten of whom grew to

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maturity. The father died in 1883, and the mother in 1878, at the age of fifty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Gleason have had born to them five children, as follows : Curtis L., born February 13, 1871 ; Richard A., born January 26, 1873 ; Mary E., born July 28, 1876; Hattie I., born June 12, 1879; Mildred A., born August 7, 1885. Mr. Gleason has made his own way in the world, and by perseverance and industry has become the owner of a fine farm of 140 acres, his principal interests being dairying and stock-raising. In politics he is an Inde- pendent, and he has been a justice of the peace, constable and col- lector, and has been entrusted with other offices of public trust. He is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry ; is a kind father and husband, and a worthy neighbor.

HENRY A. GLOVER, physician and surgeon, Windham Centre, is a native of Tioga county, N. Y., born June 10, 1851, and is a son of Anson B., and Lois M. Burton, natives of New York, where the father died in 1889, and the mother is now living. They were eminently respectable people of the agricultural class. They reared nine children, of whom the subject of this brief sketch is the seventh in order of birth. He spent his childhood on his father's farm; at a young age attended the public schools of the vicinity, and was then sent to Owego Academy. Completing his literary education, he entered the office of Dr. H. N. Eastman, as a student of medicine, where he remained diligently atten- ding to his books two years, or until Dr. Eastman's death, when he was transferred to the office of the latter's son, Dr. Robert Eastman, and was in his office as student about one year, when he attended lectures at the Buffalo Medical University, where he graduated. He then moved to Chenango county, N. Y., where he engaged in the practice of his profession, and in the latter part of 1882 he came to Windham, where he has continued in active practice, and enjoys an extended patronage. Here is a fine example of what a poor farmer's boy can do when he so determines. Dr. Glover made his own way in the world, even paying his own expenses at school, and has prospered wonderfully. His farm of 108 acres, well-improved and in a high state of culti- vation, has on it a fine display of improved stock. Here is the famous brood mare " Lizzie Carmalt," among whose colts are "Meltonian," a Messenger that at five years of age made the time of 2:363 after but two months' handling. Dr. Glover and Mrs. Knapp, daughter of Alexander and Frances Pitcher, were united in wedlock January 3, 1884. Mrs. Glover died suddenly, April 2, 1891. Dr. Glover, as was his wife, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics he is in sympathy with the Republican party.

L. S. GOFF, farmer and stock grower, P. O. Rome, was born in Rome borough, this county, August 9, 1843, and is a son of Lewis and Charlotte M. (Taylor) Goff, the former a native of Connecticut, born March 19, 1805, the latter born in this county, January 16, 1820; they were married March 27, 1840, and had four children : L. S .; George Malon, born January 2, 1847, died in infancy ; Theodore M .. born February 8, 1849. killed by falling through a bridge with a load of lumber, June 6, 1863; and Francis E., born June 12, 1853, of Buffalo. Grandfather Samuel D. Goff was born April 9, 1766, and married

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November 23, 1786, to Dorothy Hill, who was born June 30, 1768, and they had the following children : Sallie, born November 7, 1787, married to Sylvester Barns, and left numerous descendants now resid- ing in Rome; Thankful, born August 23, 1790, married to Elby Stevens, died May 16, 1824; David, born June 20, 1794, died in infancy; Anson, born June 11, 1797; Lewis, father of subject; Laura, born May 15, 1807, died in Iowa in 1886; Mary, born November 6, 1810, died May 16, 1831. The father makes his home with his son on the old homestead, and is eighty-six years of age, hale and hearty. Mr. Goff was one of the pioneer lumbermen of this section, and built several sawmills on Bullard creek ; he followed rafting down the river many years; he also operated a distillery in early times ; he would give two gallons of whisky in exchange for sixty barrels of rye. The gentle- man whose name heads this sketch spent his early life on his father's farm, attending school at, Rome until nineteen years of age; then worked on his father's mills on his farm during the summer, and when twenty-one years old he set out for himself as a farmer, which occupa- tion he has since followed. He has been twice married: first time, March 16, 1862, to Jane L. Bailey, who died August 2, 1870, and by this marriage there were two children : Delia H., born February 25, 1863 ; Berton L., born January 1, 1866. Mr. Goff married (the second time), November 27, 1871, Lydia A., daughter of Breamus and Eliza- beth (Dresser) Ells, former a native of Illinois, latter of Wysox, this county ; Mrs. Lydia A. Goff lived in Illinois until she was eighteen. Mr. and Mrs. Goff have had two children : Leon L., born March 6, 1875, died February 12, 1876, and Lizzie May, born May 13, 1877, residing with her parents. Mr. Goff owns the old homestead which contains seventy acres of well-improved land. The family are mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in his political views Mr. Goff is a stanch Republican.

E. G. GOODING, a farmer and stock-grower, P. O. Hornbrook, was born in Sheshequin township, this county, March 10, 1825, a son of George and Jane (Smith) Gooding. The father was born in Devonshire, England, and came to this country in 1820, being yet unmarried, and located in Sheshequin on a farm where he spent the remainder of his days, dying in May, 1875, aged eighty-one. The mother was born in Yarmouth, England, and came to this country a few years after the father, locating with her parents in Sheshequin ; she died in 1871, aged seventy-seven. Mr. and Mrs. George Gooding had a family of two children : E. G. and a daughter, Millina, who died aged twenty. E. G. Gooding was reared on the farm, received his education in the common schools of Ulster and Sheshequin, and acquired a fair education for the period. He remained on the farm with his father, and now occupies the old homestead, the greater part of the improvements thereon being built by himself. He was married in 1848, to Mahalev. daughter of James and Bessie (Sickle) Kipp, and of this union were born five children, as follows: George P., married to Susie Emery, and they have two sons, Harry and Otta ; Lucian F., married to Ida Towner, daughter of J. Towner, and they have one daughter, Bertha ; Ellsworth, married to Ella Morris, daughter of

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J. D. Morris, and they have one son, R. Morris ; Jennie, married to Theodore McAfee, and William E., remaining single. In political matters, Mr. Gooding votes the Republican ticket.

ABRAHAM GORE, retired farmer, Sheshequin, was born in She- shequin valley, this county, July 31, 1822, and is a son of Abraham B. and Sallie (Kennedy) Gore, the former of whom was a son of Samuel Gore, the father of two sons and four daughters: Harriet, married to William J. Lint, and is now dead ; Fanny W., married to William Bull, of Pond Hill; Abraham; C. C., of Sayre; Polly, married to Horace B. Chaffee, and Lucy A., married to Boyn Chaffee. But few names of the Revolutionary fathers are more illustrious than that of the Gore family. Abraham Gore spent his boyhood on the noted Esquire Gore farm, and attended school in the neighborhood, but being the eldest he had to work hard from the time he was old enough to trudge the field. The father died while Abraham was yet small, and he was left the main support of a widowed mother and his smaller brothers and sisters, but he struggled and did not grow weary. At the age of twenty-six he was married and commenced life for himself. The farm he now owns, containing seventy-one acres well-improved land, was inherited by liim from his grandfather, but he has made the improvements ; when it came to him it was covered with a heavy growth of pitch pine, oak and chestnut, which he converted into lum- ber; he has now retired from active farming, and his son Abraham L. manages it. He married, February 22, 1849, Eliza Jane, daughter of Josiah B. and Charlotte (Goodwin) Marshall, natives of Bradford county. The fruits of this marriage were five children : Reed, who died aged twelve; Charlotte E., who died aged two; Wallace, married to Emma Chaffee ; Albert, of Elmira ; Abraham L., married to Eliza Ann Kennedy. Mr. Gore is a Universalist in religion, a member of the I. O. O.F., Valley Lodge, and has passed all the chairs, being among the oldest Odd Fellows of the township, having joined the Lodge at Athens forty-four years ago; he is a Republican. When he first occupied his farm there were no roads in the neighborhood, and but few log houses, and the whole face of the country was wild. Abraham L. Gore, his son, now occupies the old homestead ; he was born, May 25, 1861 ; married August 14, 1887; he attended school in the Sheshequin valley, and is a prominent farmer of the county; in faith a Universal- ist, and in politics a Republican.

CHARLES F. GORE, farmer, Sheshequin, was born in Slieshe- quin township, this county, June 18, 1858, and is a son of C. C. Gore, a grandson of Abraham Gore, and a great-grandson of Samuel Gore, who settled in Sheshequin shortly after his brother, Judge Obadiah Gore. Abraham Gore is one of six children of Samuel Gore, and C. C. Gore is the fourth child of Abraham Gore. The mother of our subject was Eliza Ann Lucky Gore, born in New Jersey; his father had previously married Celia Olds, and by this marriage had three chil- dren, of whom two died in early life. Abraliam B. Gore surviving. By his second marriage there were three children: Charles F .; Francis M., who died November 13, 1889; and Joseph O., who died November 23, 1890. Francis was killed in a sawmill in Overton township, being

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struck in the face by a slab that was hurled with great force by the machinery; he was taken to Sayre Hospital where he died, living only six days. His father resides in Sayre; his mother died April 4, 1888. On November 20, 1890, Charles F. Gore opened a grocery store in the central portion of Sheshequin valley, in the building owned by W. H. H. Gore, and carried a full line of groceries, cigars and tobacco, also a general assortment for country trade, and has done a prosperous business. In the spring of 1891 he moved on the homestead of his grandfather, Abraham Gore, a part of the Samuel Gore estate. He was married October 16, 1881, to Augusta M., daughter of William and Permelia (Horton) Tuttle, of Litchfield township, both natives of Bradford county, Pa., and he has one child, William C., now aged seven. The family worship at the Universalist Church ; Mr. Gore is a member of the E. A. U., Lodge No. 13, Sheshequin, and secretary of the Lodge ; his political views are Republican.

MAJOR W. H. H. GORE, farmer, Sheshequin. The ancestor of the Gores in the United States was John Gore, who immigrated to Roxbury, Mass., from England in 1635, and history shows that he was a man of some importance, and was the first town clerk of Roxbury. He had a family of ten children, all born in Massachusetts, except the two eldest who were born in England before the immigration of their parents. Samuel who was the youngest child, and the ancestor from which W. H. H. Gore is descended, a carpenter by trade, married, August 28, 1672, Elizabeth, daughter of John Weld; he died July 4, 1692, and left a family of seven children. The third child, Samuel, born October 20, 1681, in Roxbury, Mass., a yeoman, married and had six children, the youngest of whom Obadiah, the direct ancestor of Maj. Gore, was born in Roxbury, July 26, 1714; came to Pennsylvania and located at Wilkes- Barre in 1768; was married in Plainfield county, Conn., to Hannah Parks, and had the following named children: Obadiah (who was well known as "Judge Gore," of this county), Asa, Silas (who was father of Maj. Gore's grandmother), Samuel, George, Daniel, John, Sallie (who married a Mr. Murphy) and another sister who married a Mr. Bidlack. [See chapter on "Revolutionary War," on a preceding page, in this volume.] Obadiah, the great-grandfather of our subject, was born in Norwich, Conn., April 7, 1744; married Ann Avery; had the following named children : Avery (grandfather to subject), Wealthy, Hannah, Anna and Sallie. Obadiah Gore was in the Continental Army during the Revolution, and was absent with his company on the New York frontier at the time of the battle of Wyoming, thus escaping the fate of so many of his family, Asa, Silas and George being killed, also Murphy and Bidlack, brothers-in-law. He returned to Wyoming after the massacre ; was with Gen. Sullivan in his expedition up the Sus- quehanna, holding a lieutenant's commission and serving on Gen. Sullivan's staff. The army camped two days at the mouth of a small creek on the land now owned by Maj. Gore, awaiting their boats. Obadiah then became impressed with the beauty of the valley, and determined, on his return to private life, to make his home here. He served during the entire war in Washington's army, and at its close came to this county, locating and building his first house on the land

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now owned by L. J. Culver. He was many years a justice of the peace, and was judge of Luzerne county upon its organization ; also served two terms in the Pennsylvania Legislature; he built the second mill in the county, and the first frame barn. In his day he was the foremost man of the county ; a very lion in courage, and a woman in tenderness and charity. He passed quietly away in 1821, full of years and honors.

Avery Gore, grandfather of the Major, was born in Plainfield, Conn., January 10, 1765. He was, when a lad, in Forty Fort during the Wyoming massacre, and, armed with a pitch-fork, stood ready to oppose his feeble strength against the red butchers. When nineteen years old he settled at Sheshequin with his father, and was associated with him in nearly all his business transactions. He was a member of the militia, where he received his military title. He married his cousin, Lney Gore, daughter of Silas Gore, an extensive speculator in land ; was the first postmaster at Sheshequin, held all the town offices, and died there in 1845.

Obadiah Gore, the Major's father, was the seventh child of Avery and Luey Gore. He was thoroughly educated in the Sheshequin schools, and afterward at Wilkes-Barre ; he became a dealer in lumber, and a merchant; held all the township offices, but for the past forty years he has been devoted to his farm. He was married, October 15, 1834, to Matilda, daughter of Ebenezar Shaw, and had a family as follows : W. H. H., Amelia (deceased), D. W., Marion A. (deceased), Mortimer (deceased), Adolph K., of Waverly.

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History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with biographical selections, Part 94

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