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HENRY ZIEGLER, farmer, P. O. Dupont, was born in Germany April 8, 1827, a son of Jacob and Catherine (Steinhauer) Ziegler. They emigrated to the United States in 1840, landing in New York,. August 16, from which place they journeyed to Wilkes Barre township, this county, where they engaged in huckstering. They resided in Wilkes-Barre about four years, and then removed to the borough, where, toward the close of their lives, the parents kept a saloon on River street. The father died in 1847, at the age of forty-seven years; the mother died in 1861, at the age of sixty-one years. The family consisted of twelve children; seven of whom grew to maturity, and four are now living: Henry, Mary, James and Henrietta. Our subject was thirteen years of age when he came to this country, and so received. part of his education in Germany. He was a nailer by occupation, but followed other vocations in life, making his home in Wilkes-Barre till he became of age, when he removed to Pittston township, where he became a miner. On August 14,
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1851, he married, in Pittston, Miss Catherine, daughter of Andrew and Catherine Weiskercher, and there were born to them eight children, all of whom are living, seven of them being married. Mr. Ziegler removed to his present residence in Dupont in November, 1871. He owns several houses and lots in Pittston township, besides about two thousand acres of land, some of which is valuable because of the coal supposed to be underlying it. Mr. Ziegler is a prominent man in social and political circles. He has served in nearly all the offices of the township, and is now serving as justice of the peace. Mr. Ziegler has been extensively engaged in the lumber business, and has contracted considerably in railroad building. He is a self- made man, of pleasing address, mild disposition and even temperament.
HENRY ZIEGLER, JR., landlord of the " Pollock House," Wyoming borough, was born March 1, 1852, and is a son of Henry and Margaret (Wiskewar) Ziegler, natives, respectively, of Bremen, Germany, and Pennsylvania, and of German origin, the former of whom came to America in 1841, and was a real estate dealer in Pittston township, this county. They reared a family of eight children, of whom Henry is the eldest. Our subject was educated in the common schools, and began life at the age of seventeen, working in a sawmill at Williamsport, Pa., where he remained one year; he then worked some years as manager of a large livery stable in Scranton; then four years at Newark, N. J., as buyer for a cooper shop, after which he came to Pittston, and was engaged as bartender for J. W. Davis, one year, at the end of which time he opened a saloon for himself on South Main street. Here he con- tinued business for four years, and then came to Wyoming, and rented the " Pollock House," which he has since conducted. Mr. Ziegler was married, November 30, 1884, to Mrs. Margaret Carey, daughter of John J. Owens, and widow of George Carey, by whom she had five children, viz. : Mary L. (Mrs. M. Carey), George B., William, Jesse and John. Mrs. Ziegler is a member of the Methodist Church, Mr. Ziegler of the Presbyterian; he is a member of the I. O. R. M., Caughnawaga Tribe No. 228, and of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, Lodge No. 76; in politics he is a sound Democrat.
T. R. ZIMMERMAN, farmer, Huntington township, P. O. Waterton, was born on the farm he now owns, May 31, 1844, and is a son of Henry and Amy (Chapin) Zimmer- man, natives of Pennsylvania, and of German and English origin, respectively; the father was also a farmer by occupation, and died December 17, 1878. He was a son of John and Mary (Smith) Zimmerman, also natives of Pennsylvania. Our subject is the youngest in a family of seven children, four of whom are now living. He was reared on a farm, educated in the common schools, and worked in partnership with his father on the farm until the death of the latter, when the property became his, and he has since resided thereon. Mr. Zimmerman was married, October 23, 1868, to Miss Mary, daughter of Thomas and Annie (Bird) Bachman, natives of Pennsylvania, and of German origin; she is the youngest of five children, and was born October 22, 1846. This union is blessed with six children, viz. : Myron, a teacher, at Freeland, Pa. ; Ida E., at home; Emma; Dana; Sarah A., and John. Mr. Zimmerman is a member of the I. O. O. F .; he is school director of his district, and in politics is a Republican.
JOHN ZUKOSKI, merchant, Plymouth, was born at Kalwaria, Poland, March 3, 1850, and is a son of Vincent and Agatha Zukoski, also natives of Poland. He received his education in his native land, and in 1868 came to America, where he worked in the mines at Plymouth until 1878, when he removed to the State of Nebraska, and there purchased a farm which he worked seven years. Returning to Plymouth in 1886, he established his mercantile business at No. 527 West Main street, where he has built up an extensive trade. He also has a restaurant in the block in which his mercantile business is carried on, and which he manages. Mr. Zukoski was married, in 1873, to Eva Kopp, a native of Poland, and two children were born to the union: John, who died in November, 1876, aged about two years, and Thomas, yet living. Our subject attends the Polish Church, and in politics he votes the Republican ticket.
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JAMES M. BOLAND, general insurance agent, Wilkes-Barre, was born in County Sligo, Ireland, May 9, 1864, a son of James and Ann (Biglin) Boland, who with their family came to America in 1865, locating at Scranton, Pa., where the father died March 10, same year, three days after their arrival. The family consisted of four children: Christopher G., John T., William P. and James M. The subject of this memoir was reared in Scranton, and educated in the public schools of that city. At ten years of age he began work in the Iron Works there, where he was employed until the strike of 1877, at which time he took a clerkship in his uncle's grocery, three years. In 1882 he was appointed assistant mercantile appraiser of Scranton, under F. A. Beamish, which incumbency he filled one year. Later he was a traveling salesman, six months, after which he entered the fire insurance business, continuing same for one year. In 1884 Mr. Boland located in Wilkes-Barre, and embarked in the general insurance business, in which he has since successfully continued, representing several of the leading insurance companies of the world. On September 28, 1887, he married Mary, daughter of Daniel and Dora (McGourty) Shovlin, of Wilkes-Barre, and has three children: Loretta, Annie and Ruth. Mr. Boland is progressive and enterprising, and is a well-known and popular business man. He is a member of the Catholic Church, and in politics is a Democrat.
WILLIAM JOHN BUTLER, M. D., physician and surgeon, Wilkes-Barre, was born at Branchdale, Schuylkill Co., Pa., January 17, 1863, and is a son of Michael Pierce and Mary A. (O'Sullivan) Butler, both natives of Ireland. The father was a dis- tinguished scholar, and about 1850 came to America, where he was instructor in many of the public schools of Pennsylvania upward of thirty-five years, and died in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on December 25, 1891. The subject of this sketch was reared in Pennsylvania, received his education under the tuition of his father, and when fourteen years of age entered the drug business as an apprentice, in which he served five years. He studied medicine with Dr. W. G. Weaver, of Wilkes-Barre, and was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, in his twenty-first year (1885); the same year he began the practice of his profession in Pittston, where he remained one year, and then located in Wilkes-Barre. Prior to that he was Resident Physician of the Wilkes-Barre City Hospital (1884) for six months. Since 1886 the Doctor has been permanently located in Wilkes-Barre, where he has succeeded in building up a lucrative practice.
JOHN W. LECKIE, M. D., Hazleton, was born in Baltimore county, Md., Decem- ber 12, 1835, and is the eldest in the family of four children of Robert and Maria (Mason) Leckie, the former a native of Raleigh, N. C., the latter of Baltimore, Md. The subject of this sketch was educated in his native county, receiving a very thor- ough classical training under private tutors. In 1863 he was admitted on probation in East Baltimore Conference of the M. E. Church, and was ordained deacon in 1865 and elder in 1867. He was soon after ordained at Lock Haven, and followed the calling of a minister of the Gospel until 1881, when he became interested in medicine, and began a course of study at Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, where, after taking the regular course, he graduated in 1883. He immediately afterward located at Hazleton, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice. Dr. Leckie was united in marriage, March 14, 1863, with Miss Ellen S., daughter of Ludwig and Catharine (Rahn) Study, natives of Littlestown, Pa., and to this union have been born five children, namely: Ida M., now wife of Ira J. Mandeville, of Newark, N. J .; Carrie L .; John W., a student at Hahnemann University, Phila- delphia; Mary B .; and Edwin R. S., (deceased). In politics the Doctor votes the Republican ticket; he is a member of the Homoeopathic State Medical Society; the family attend the M. E. Church.
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INDEX.
HISTORICAL.
A
PAGE
A monster cow.
.1415
A remarkable people
67
A-sparking would go. 88
Abbott family
364
Abbott, Stephen.
367, 372
Abraham's Plains
118, 1246
Act creating county
220
Agriculture ...
463
Rise and decline, 464-Societies, 464, 467,468.
Alden ... 612
Allen, George Ethan. 61
Amusements in the old time 84
Andy (The) Williams Blarney stone. .1464
Anglo-Saxon
270
An old-time dude ..
70
Annals of Luzerne county 41
Archaeologists.
20
Arks and Durham boats
257
Passing Wilkes-Barre, 277.
Arrested for treason.
58
Ashley borough.
531
Place of many names, 581-First coal mine, 531- Pees' old tavern, 532-Railroad shops, 532-Foot of planes, 533-Borough incorporated, 533- Officials, 533.
Atherton family. 342
Attorneys
Order of coming, 238-List of, 240.
230
Avoca borough .. 533 Called Pleasant Valley, 533-Railroads, churches and water supply, 533-Borough officers, 626- Classified business, 533.
Avondale (Grand Tunnel).
641
Great mine disaster, 319, 681, 1097,
B
Balliett, John.
201
Battle of Frenchtown 131
Battle of Wyoming 90
Beach Haven. 644
349
Beach, Nathan
260,
534
Bear Creek township.
Formation, 534-Sullivan's road, 534-First mills, 534-Railroads. 534-Population, 534.
Beaver Brook. 581
29
Bennett family
57, 352,
368
Bird, James.
Black Creek township. 534
Topography and drainage, 534-Mountains, 534- First settlers, 537-First mills and taverns, 537- Fern Glen, 537-Gowen, Deringer, Tank, Rock Glen, Mountain Grove, Turnbach, 537.
Blackman family. 367
Blanchard, Capt., surrenders fort. 103 Bloomingdale 642
Boy sees great sights.
87
Bridges.
264
612
Briggsville.
348
Brown, Thomas Browntown.
618
Bryant, Prince 250
Buck, Aholiab. 368
First settlers and mills, 537-Great swamp, 538- City of Rome, 538-Stoddartsville, 538.
369
Bullocks.
Butler, John. 118
Butler, Lord.
323, 327, 798
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Butler township
538
First settler has trouble with his chlidren, 539-
Mills, 539-First carding-mill, 540-Drums, 540- Honey Hole, 540 - St. Johns - Hollywood - Hughesville, 540.
Butler, Zebulon
.57,94,98
Biography of, 321-Character, 322-Appearance,
359.
C
Cambra.
588
Canals.
259
North Branch commenced, 259 - Delaware & Hudson, 284-Rise and archive thereof, 260- Built to Nescopeck, 277-First movement for a canal, 283.
Careys, the.
358
Carolana
299
Carverton
596
Ceases mill.
589
Churches in the county
422 to 450
Church family
370
Cist, Jacob
260,278,280
Civil war.
174
First gun, 178-Number of men, 178-President's proclamation, 179 - Regiments from Luzerne county, 180 to 199.
Clark, Gen. George Rogers. 127
Climate and soil.
271
Close of the year 1775.
92
Commissioners appointed
58
Confirming act ..
148
Repealed, 158, 161.
Coal 18 Coal chapter, 270 to 320-Burned in grates, 274- First known here, 274-First shipped, 277-Philip Ginter and Nicho Allen, 278-Early mining, 278 -Hazleton district, 289- Limit of output, 290- Price of coal lands, 290-Ario Pardee, 291-Coxe Bros. & Co., 297-How coal is prepared, 309-G. B. Markle, 309-Jeddo tunnel, 310-Extent of the field, 311-Directory of mines in the county, 314- Jeansville disaster, 320-Nanticoke disaster, 320 -Found at Sandy Run, 779-Delaware & Hudson shaft No. 2, 972-Baltimore mine fire, 679-First breaker in the county, 1239-First coal burned in the county, 1440.
Congress takes action. 92
Connecticut treatment of its people.
118
Jurisdiction, 221.
Conyngham, J. N ..
237
Conyngham township.
541
Wapwallopen, 541- Powder mills, 541-Harters. 967
Conyngham village
655
Cooperstown ..
596
Coreys.
369
County commissioners.
242
Clerks of, 244.
County
17,34
Courts created, 209-County limits, 220 - The
eleven townships, 224-Officials, 228-County lines
established, 244-Present officers, 247-Centen-
nial, 247.
Courts ...
230
Coxe, Judge Charles S. 300
Cranberry
582
Creeks ..
27
Culm
18
D
Dallas borough.
First in 1799, 542-First settlers, 542.
542
Beaver Lake 359
Bidlacks, The
170
Buck township
537
Crystal Ridge.
582
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Dallas township. 542 Mills, 542-Kunkle, 543-Formerly Bedford. Dana, Anderson 100
Dana family
339
Dana, Sylvester.
348
Dancing, Old time 70
Dartmouth college.
377
Decree of Trenton
142
Denison township
543
First mills, 543- Jerusalem, 543- Moosehead, 544-Ochre works, 543-Bear Creek Junction- Tunnel, 543.
Denison, Col. Nathan .94, 1349 Sketch of, 327-Marriage, 361.
Dorrance, Col. Benjamin ..
328, 850
At the surrender, 329-Son of Col. George Dor- rance and father of Col. Charles Dorrance, 329.
Dorrance, Col. Charles
.. 330, 850
Dorrance, Col. George. .98,132, 329
Dorranceton borougli
548
Dorrance township.
547
Dorrance village
547
Durkee, Capt.
100
Death on the field, 347- Roster of his company. 173 Durkee, Col. John 337
Durkee, family.
343
E
Early settlers.
50
Enrolled, 200, 50.
Ebervale.
582
Education .
22
Account of the schools, 374.
Edwardsville borough
548
Postoffice Edwardsdale, 548-Borough formed, officials and business, 548.
Elliott, Joseph.
360
Wounded and escapes 360.
Exeter borough
549
Borough offices, 550.
Exeter township.
550
Old Harding Cemetery, 551-Forts Jenkins and Wintermoot,551-First settlers, 551-Indian Park, 552-Postoffice, 552- Descendants of Stephen Harding, 954-Characteristics, 552.
F
Fade's Creek.
598
Familles of the early times. 38
Fairmount township ..
552
Mills, and justices, 552-North Mountain, 553 -- Turnpike, 554-Red Rock,554-Patterson's Grove, 554- Maple Run, 554- Rittenhouse, 554-Fair- mount Springs, 554.
Fairview township .. 554
Beautiful scenery, 557-First Improvements, 557 -Rallroads, 558-Glen Summit, 558-Mountain Top, 558-Fairview, 558.
Fell, Jesse ..
274
"Fell House " (old). 1440
Fern Glen.
537
First who came.
38
First coal burned in county 1440
Finch family
348
Fitch, Jonathan.
843
Floods and storms.
264
Pumpkin flood, 267-Tornado, 268.
Fort Jenkins. 341
Fort Wintermoot 341
Forty Fort
362, 367, 1349
Forty Fort borough.
558
Formed from Kingston, 558-First merchants. 559-Old boating days, 559-Tuttlestown, 559- Historic old fort-559-Church, 559-Foundry, 559. Forty settlers. 47
Foster township.
560
First settlers, 560-South Heberton, 560-First Improvements, 661-Jeddo, 561-Highland, 561- Drifton, 561-Sandy Run, 561.
Foundryville
582
Franklin, Benjamin
62
Franklin, John.
.58,
60
Imprisoned, 62-Record, 68-His company, 99-
Opposes the settlement, 154-Sketch of, 157-At- tempts to form new State, 220.
Family captured, 131.
Franklin township ..
562
When formed, 562-First mills, 562-Orange vil- lage, 563-Ketcham, 563.
Freeland borough .. ... First settlement, 563-Became a village, 564- Postoffice established, 564-Borough organized, 564-Collieries, 565-Water works, 565-Improve- ments and business, 566.
G
Gaylord family
368
Geological. 21
Glenlyon 614
Glen Summit 558
Gore, Daniel
274
Gore family
347
Served in Wyoming battle, 347 and 1479.
Gore, Obadiah.
272
Gore, Samuel, petition for pension .. 63,67
Grand tunnel (Avondale) 641
Gravity road.
689
Gregory
584
H
Habits and customs.
67
Hancock, James ..
19
Hanover township.
566
Lazarus Stewart and "Paxton boys," 567-The killed and those who escaped, 568-Town meet- Ings, 570-Land transfers, 569-Railroad to mines, 572-Inhabitants in 1830, 571-Mrs. I'lumb's rec- ollections, 572-Old Hanover Green, 577-Coal industry, 578.
Hardings ..
.57,112, 340
Judge Garrick M. Harding, 954.
Hartley's expedition.
123
Hartseph.
602
Harvey, Elisba and Silas.
361
Descendants, 969.
Harvey's Lake ..
27
Harveyville
588
Hazle township
580
Important coal field, 580-Jeansville, 581-Lati- mer, 581-Sugarloaf, 581-Laurel Hill, 581-Cran- berry, 582-Crystal Ridge, 581-Stockton, 581- Lumber yards, 582-Humbolt, 582-Hollywood, 582-Milnesville, 581-Foundryville, 582-Eber- vale, 582-Beaver Brook, 581.
Hazleton City 522 Berwick turnpike, 523-First settlement, 523 -- Hazleton coal company, 523-Miner's diary, 523 -Descendants of early settlers, 524-Borough In- corporated, 527-Officials, 528-Banks, business, factories, 529-Railroads, 530-Hospital, 530-Ha- zleton Business College, 876. Hunlack Creek village. 584
Heberton.
560
Highland
561
HIIl, Col. Erastus. 353
History Wyoming, Miner
398
Historical Society
459
Hobbie.
583
Hollenback township.
582
Population, 583-Settlers 584.
Hollywood
582
Honesdale.
284
Hopkins, Noah. 40
Hoyt, H. M.
.. 137, 164, 380, 1002
Hughestown borough.
583
Humbolt
582
Hunlock township ..
582
First Settlers-Hunlock Creek-Roaring Brnok -Gregory-Prichard, 584. Huntington Mills 588
Huntington township.
584
One of the "Seventeen" townships, 585-John
Franklin, 585-Early Settlers. 585-Taxables 1796, 587-Columbus Academy, 587-New Columbus, 587-Huntington Mills, 588-Town Hill, 588-Cam- bra, 588-Harveyville, 588-Register, 588.
Huntsville.
589
I
Ice Cave.
596
Inman's, Richard, notable nap.
114
Inman family.
350
How Hunter killed one, 1011.
Jutrusion law.
159
Invasions.
.44, 47, 48, 53
Irish Lane.,
641
Ives, Lucy Williams
364
Indlaus. .
.20,121,132
Franklin, Roswell.
131
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Hollenback, Mathias.
331
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J
Jacob's Plains 19 Jackson township
588
Settlement, 588-Huntsville, 589-Cease's Mills .. 589 Jail. 224
Jameson, Jolin.
Jameson family 209
Japan ..
Jeansville. 581
Jeddo.
561
Jenkins, Col. John. .61, 90, 112, 167, 332, 333, 1177
Jenkins, Steuben.
.110, 248
Jenkins township.
589
Settlement, industries, 589-Old cemetery, 590- Port Griffith, 590-Port Blanchard, 590-Inker- man, 590-Sebastopol, 590.
Jerusalem ..
543
Johnson, Wesley.
373
Nanticoke mine disaster
320
Judges of courts.
231,241,247
K
Ketcham. 363 590
Kingston borough.
First election, 590-First settlers, 593-Blind town road, 593-Tannery, 594-First store, 594-Old Hoyt house, 594-Business, 594-Officials, 595 Harveys, 969.
Kingston township.
595
Forty Yankees, 595 Its territory reduced, 596- Ice cave, 596-Carverton, 596-Scotch settlement, 596-Coopertown, 596-Driving park association, 596-Truxville, 596. 0
Klader, Capt. Samuel. 200
Koonsville. 658
Kulp, George B. .241, 272, 380, 1078
Kunkle
543
Kyttle 554
L
Lafin borough 596
Lake township ..
597
Harveys lake, 597-Mills, stores, tannery and old cemetery, 598-Outlet, 598-Ruggles, 598-Loyal- ville, 598-Fade's Creek, 598.
Larksville .
641
Latimer 581
Laurel Hill .. 581
Laurel Run borough. 600
Law and Library Association.
463
Lawyers ..
.231, 238, 240
Summary of the profession, 241-Judge im-
peached, 242.
Legislators .. 228
Lehman Center. 600
Lehman township.
598
Indian troubles, 598-Mills and stores, 599- Pike's Creek, 600.
Log cabins. 78
Long pond.
29
Loyalville.
598
Lumber yards.
582
Luzerne borough
600
About early settlers, 601-Old red mill, 601- Furnace, 602-Borough officers, 603.
Luzerne county, description. .17- 34
M
MeKerachan, Capt.
344
McCarthyville .. 618 Plainsville village. 630
. McClelland, George B. 300 Plunket's invasion. .44,
Mallery, Garrick.
237
Mammoth and mastodon. 21
Manors, Stoke and Sunbury
42
Manufacturers, early promoters.
.299, 468 to 470
Maple Run (Mossville).
554
Marauds.
107, 108, 129, 969
Marcy family. 368
Marcy township. 603 Campbell's ledge, 604-Business, 604.
Massacres. .39,41, 199, 337, 341, 372 Marvin, Uriah .. .1162 Medical. .418 to 422
Militia, Company I, Ninth Regiment, N. G. P .. .. 912 Midvale .. 630 Poor House 227 Population 29 Port Bowkley 630
Miner, Charles.
284, 337, 349, 363, 398, 503
Miner, W. P.
.249, 277, 398, 493
Miners Mills borough.
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Borough organized, business, 605.
604
Mill creek.
630
Miinesville
582
Mississippi river (Iudian name)
299
Monument.
108,118, 121
Moosehead
544
Mounds
18,20
Mountalos
28
Mud pond ..
29
Muhlenburgh 658
N
Nanticoke borough. 605 Settlement, 605-Old ferry, 606-Early coal min- ing, 606-Borough officers, 607-Banks, electric light, 607-Water works, 607-Business, 607.
Navigation of Susquehanna.
257
Steamboat explosion, 258.
Negro in America ...
270
Nescopeck township.
608
Settlers, 611-Briggsville, 612.
Nescopeck village.
611
New Columbus.
587
Newport township.
612
Prince Alden, 612-Records, 1787, 613-List of
early settlers, 614-Wanamie, Alden, Glenlyon, 614.
New State movement.
61
Newspapers.
397
North pond.
29
Nutimus.
132, 203
Ogden's escape.
50
Old Michael. 68
Oliver's Mills 600, 1224
Orange
563
Orphans' court.
233
Osterhout library.
462
Outlet.
598
P
Packer, Asa.
281
Pardee, Ario. 291
Parrish family. .1232
Parsons borough
614
Early settlers, 615-Industries, 615.
Patterson
58
Patterson's Grove. 554
Pearce, Stewart. .612, 616, 651
Perkins family. 363
Penn, Gov ...
43, 48,139
Pettebone family
353, 1245
Physicians.
418
Pickering, Timotliy .60,62
Pierce, Maj. Ezekiel. .348
Pike's Creek village ..
600
Pioneers, Characteristic
23
" Pioneer " steamboat
258
Pittston borough ..
618
Growth and population, 619-Transportation facilities, 619-Efforts to extend limits, 620-First tavern and mail, 621-Incorporated and officials, 622-Ricli deposits, 622-Manufactures, 623- Classified business, 624.
Pittston township ..
615
Formed, 616-Leading first families, 616-Block
house, 616-List of settlers, 617-Coal Interests .. 617 Plains township. 626
91
Plymouth borough
631
Shawnee flats, 631-Old burying ground, 631- First settlers, 632-Early Settlers, 632-Coal in- dustry, 632-Coal, 632-Boroughi officers, 633- Bank and industries, 633-Present business, 634- Zerah Marvin born, 1775, 1162.
Plymouth township. 634 Indian capture, 969-One of the five townships, 684-A pioneer in the coal industry, 634-Early settlers, 635-Capt. Ransom, 636-Trials and troubles, 636-Surveys, 637-Mills and stores, 638.
Postoffices
31
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362 581
1494
HISTORY OF LUZERNE COUNTY.
PAGE
Prehistoric people. 18
Press ..
397
..
Nanticoke Tribune removed to Plymouth, 767- Plymouth Index, 1102.
Prisoners.
.40. 54, 58, 107, 129, 341
Proprietaries, 42
Purchase of the Six Nations .. 139
Puritan and Quaker 37, 107
R
Railroads
260
Commissioners of the Lehigh road, 282-Eight transportation companies to the coal fields, 290- Beaver Meadow road, 717-When engineers car- ried umbrellas, 717.
Ransom, Capt. Samuel.
.57, 100
Roster of his company, 174-His house attacked 108 Ransom, Col. George P 333, 1453 Ransoms, The, in the Wyoming Massacre. 1453
Red Rock ...
554
Reform Press Association 1025
Register.
588
Religion 71
Revolution
658
Rhone, D. L.
380
Roads .. 250
Roaring Brook.
584
Rogers, Jonah, escaped from the Indians. 1300
Ross, Gen. William 351
Ross, William S. 352
Ross township ...
641
Irish Lane, 641-Men in the late war, 642-Bloom- ingdale, 642-Sweet Valley, 642.
Round pond.
29
S
Salem township
642
Waoamie.
614
Early town meetings, 643-Early settlers, 643-
Beach Haven, 644-Bellbend, 644.
Sandy Run 561
Schools ... 378
History of, 378-Pickering's efforts in behalf of, 378-First schools, 379-In Huntington, 379-Old- time books, 380-Pioneer teachers, 380-In Wilkes-Barre, 380-In Pittston, 381-In Nanti- coke, 381-Hazleton, 381-Black Creek, Dallas, Exeter and Plains, 382-Schools fifty years ago, 382-Old academies, 382-In Newport, 383-Swet- land and Bennett, 383-Old academy, 387-In Kingston, 388-Plymouth, 388-Wyoming Semi- nary, 389-In Wilkes-Barre, 389-In the county, 392-Wilkes-Barre public schools, 394. Scotch settlement 596
Searle family 364
Secord, John 97
Settlers, first and second to come 34,
42 First 200, 50-Their democracy, 57-An able State paper, 54-Doings in 1772, 211. Seventeen townships. 134
History of, 163.
Seybertsville. 656
Shad.
48
Shamokin (Ft Augusta). 39
Shades or Death 102
Sheriffs .. 229
Shickshinny borough 647
Village settled, 648-Old Furnace, 648-Canal, 649 Ship building. 263
Shoemaker family 350, 1348
Sill family. 342
Slocum, Frances 323
Slocum township. 649
Smith, Dr. William Hooker .. 354
Societies ... 451 South pond. 29 Wilcox family 373
His company, 108.
Spencer family 1380
Steamboats ... 258
Stark famliy. 354
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