History of Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming counties, Pa.; with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers, Part 101

Author: Munsell, W.W., & Co., New York
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: New York, W.W. Munsell & co.
Number of Pages: 900

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February 17th, 1864, William Sloeum (born January 9th, 1829) married Mary Ann Hoyt, daughter of Abel Hoyt. She was born November 20th, 1834. Their children are James Phillips, born August 16th, 1865, and William Giles, born November 23d, 1863. William Slocum was brought up on a farm in Exeter; commeneed business as a merchant in Pittston; sold out and retired to his farm in Exeter, where he now resides. le furnished a man to fight the Rebellion in his place, he being incapacitated by a defect in one of his eyes. He was anxions, however, to do his sbare and hence sent a substitute.

WILLIAM ABBOTT, superintendent of mines of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, is a native of England. He came to Pittston in 1850, and was married in 1872 to Emma Weeks, of Pittston.

GILBERT ALEXANDER, a native of Ayrshire, Scotland, was born in 1827, and came to this country in 1851. His wife was Margaret MeMillan, who was born in Dumfriesshire. He is employed as blacksmith at Pleasant Valley by the Pennsylvania Coal Company.

JOHN ANDERSON, superintendent of the Pittston Water Company, was born in Scotland, May 22nd, 1828. He came to America and became a resident of Pittston, where he married Miss Mary Bryden.

ROBERT ANDERSON, from Lanarkshire, Scotland, was born in 1835. His wife was Mary Davie, from Scotland. He came to America in 1865, and was for a time a miner at Hillside, but since ISTS has been mining at Spring Brook.

DAVID ANTHONY, a native of South Wales, was born in Caermarthen- shire, in 1825. He was married in 1815 to Jane Jones, of Wales, and came to this country in 1852. He is now a merchant taylor at Ptttston; was formerly a cutter with Lewis Cohen. He has been president of the borough council.

HENRY ARMITAGE, proprietor of a local express business at Pittston, was a soldier in Company B 11th Pennsylvania infantry from 1861 to 1863. He has been high constable in Pittston four terms.

GEORGE T. ASH was born in Plains township, in 1842. His wife was Elizabeth Morgan, of Pittston. He is a carpenter by trade, and is now outside carpenter at the Tompkins colliery. He has served as ward assessor one year.

JAMES S. BAKER, of Pittston, was born in Berks county, Pa. After residiug for a time in Montgomery county he removed to Pittston, where he has been since 1863, dealing in tobacco and segars. Under his management as chief of police that branch of the municipal govern- ment is most efficiently administered.

DAVID BERLEW, farmer, was born in Northumberland county, in 1820, and eame to Exeter with his unele, William Shipman, when only three years of age. He was married in 1844 to Susannah Kern, who died January 7th, 1847, and in 1849 to Phoebe Sutton, his present wife. He has been school director and held other offices. His former business was butchering.

JOHN W. BERRY is a native of Pittston, and has been engaged in eivil and mining engineering since I870. He is the author of " Mathematical Problems in Rhyme."

WILLIAM BESTFORD, a native of Durham, England, was born Decent- ber 11th, 1817, and came to America in 1849. He located in Pittston in 1850, where he has since been engaged in mining. He was first married to Miss Mary Richardson, of England. She died January 20th, 1853, and he married Esther Powall in July, 1869.

S. WHITMAN BLAKSLEE was born at Springville, Pa., February 26th, 1831. Ile was married in 1855 to Martha J. Bayne, who was born at Mauch Chunk, August 12th, 1835. There are three children and an adopted daughter in the family. Mr. Blakslee has been a railroad engi- neer twenty-six years.

MRS. RETTIE W. BOWKLEY, residing at Pittston, is the youngest daughter of Peter and Amy Wagner, and was born at Pittston, October 18th, 1862. She was married to Benjamin F'. Bowkley, of that place, Jan- uary 15th, 1880.

HI. S. BRANDON, son of James Brandon and grandson of William Bran- don (who came to liuntington township from Ireland about 1800), was born in Fairmont township, in 1847. His wife was Rose Blain, of Fair- mount. He is now engaged with Patterson & Co. at Pittston.

A. W. BREESE, of Elizabeth street, Pittston, was born in Pittston, in 1852. He was formerly fireman and since 1873 has been engineer at No. 7 slope. His father, William Breese, who was killed at Tompkins shaft in 1858, came from Wales to this country and was one of the first settlers in Oregon.

P. B. BREHONY, of Pleasant Valley, was born in 1837, in Galway, Ireland. ffe came to this country in 182; spent ten years in Australia, preceding 1867 ; was engaged in farming for a time and is now a liquor dealer and groeer at Pleasant Valley, where he is serving his third term as burgess.

RICHARD BRENTON, contractor and bricklayer, was born in 1825, in Cornwall, England ; married Ann Browning, of the same county, in 1849 ; came to America and settled in Pittston the same year. Ilis wife died December 16th, 1854. In 1856 he married Nellie A. Carney, of Wyo- ming county.

JAMES BROOKS, M. D., was born at Great Bend, Pa., in 1855. In March, 1877, he graduated from the medical department of the Northwestern University, at Chicago. He practiced for two years with Walter Brooks, of Binghamton, and then located at Pleasant Valley. In 1880 he formed a partnership with A. A. Barton, of Plains, Pa.

JAMES N. BROWN was born on the banks of the Tyne in Northumber- land county, England. He married in 1826 Mary Young, who was boru

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at. Kenton, in the same county, and came to America in 1842, and to Pittston in 1843. He has been a mine contractor and miner since.

WILLIAM BROWN, a miner at. Pleasant Valley, was born October 28th, 1846, at Garsphern, in Kirkenbrightshire. His wife, Annie G. Glenden- ing, was born at Crawford, Scotland. They came to America in 18G8. Mr. Brown is clerk of the borough of Pleasant Valley.

MYRON BROWN was born February 19th, 1840, in Pittston. He was married in 1867 to Eleanor E. Atherton, of Plymouth. They have five children. Mr. Brown is a farmer.

JAMES A. BRYDEN, superintendent of mines, was born in Scotland, in 1833, and came to Pittston in 1858. He was married in 1863 to Marga- ret Young, of Pittston.

ARCHIBALD L. BRYDEN, denler in dry goo.lant Pittston, was born in Carbondale, Pa., March 3d, 1848. He married Miss Anna A. Daman, of West Pittston, where he now resides.

J. A. A. BuRscnet, was born in Germany, in 1816. His wife was Anna Lntzinger, from Switzerland. He was revenne assessor in 1839. Ile built the Forest Castle brewery, in Exeter. His father, Peter Burschet, was with Cart Sehurz in Itis ese ipe in 1819.

CHARLES II. CAMPBELL, salesman in the lumber yard at Pittston, was born in Lancaster, Pa., March 22nd, 1835. Ile married Miss Ellenor Korts, of Easton, Pa. Mr. Campbell was formerly a railroad con- duetor.

LIENRY CAMPBELL, deceased, of Pleasant Valley, was born in Ireland. Ile came to America in 1844. Hle enlisted as a private with Company G 187th regiment and served through mnost of the civil war, losing a leg in front of Petersburg.

ISAAC CARPENTER, son of Baltzer Carpenter and grandson of Isaac Carpenter, of New Jersey, was born in Kingston, October 29th, 1835. Ile came with his father to the "old tavern at the head of the valley" when two years old, and returned to Kingston in 1847. He was married June 2nd, 1870, to Mary F. Schooley, of Wilkes-Barre. He is a gardener and farmer. His mother was Jane Ann Bennett, of the Bennett family of Wilkes-Barre.

JESSE B. CARPENTER, dairy farmer and gardener, was born in King- ston, January 23d, 1840, and came to the "old tavern" with his father, John S. Carpenter, in 1847. In 1822 he married Charlotte E. Laird, of Wilkes-Barre. He enlisted August 2 th, 1861; was wounded at the bat- tle of Antietam, and discharged December 30th, 1863, and subsequently enlisted in the construction corps.

JOHN S. CARPENTER, retired farmer, was born in Kingston, August 12th, 1811, and came in 1835 to the "old tavern at the head of the valley" with his father, Isaac Carpenter, a native of New Jersey. He married Elizabethi Schooley, who was born in Exeter, September 3d, 1818. They have two children living.

V. M. CARPENTER, agent for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, was born in North Moreland, Wyoming county, Pa., March 23d, 1832. He came to Pittston at a later date, where he married Miss Maria R. Taggart, on Christmas, 1877. His first marriage was in 1860, to Mary E. Peel, of Phil- adelphia, a descendant of Sir Robert Peel. She died in December, 1861. Mr. Carpenter's son, Joseph, is a telegraph operator for the Lehigh Val- ley Railroad Company, at Pittstou.

ENOCH C. CARTWRIGHT, miner, was born in Wolverhampton, Staf- fordshire, England, in 1826; came to America in 1848, and married Mary Ann Preston, of Wilkes-Barre, in 1855. He has formerly superintended boring and sinking shafts for coal, both in the west and here.

HENRY CHAPMAN is a native of Cornwall, England, from whenee lie came to Pennsylvania in 1866. He is a carpenter by trade, and in May, 1878, was commissioned justice of the peace at Pleasant Valley, where he now has his office.

WILLIAM E. COLBURN, the general foreman at the Hillside colliery at Pleasant Valley, has been in that position since 1874. He has been eu- gaged about the mines all his life, and was superintendent for Mr. Swoyer at Plains seven years. He was a soldier in 1864 and 1865 with Company F 203d Pennsylvania volunteers.

JOHN A. COLLIER, Butter junction, Pittston, was born at Nanticoke, in June, 1837. Ile was married in April, 1860, to Ann Gallagher, of county Donegal, Ireland. Ile is weighmaster for the Pittston Coal Com- pany. Ile has served in the school board of Pittston, and is now pres- ident of the Catholic temperance society of the State.

J. W. COMPTON, proprietor of the steain dyeing works at Pittston, is a New Jersey man. He was born in Sussex county, in 1844, and has made this his business most of his life. Ile established his present business about three years ago.

DAVID CRANSTON, a native of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and his wife, Sarah Williamson, also from Duinfriosshiro, camo to this country in 1862.

Mr. Cranstou was one of the first miners in Pleasant Valley, where he now resides, working iu the Brown colliery tunnel as early as 1864.

R. B. CUTLER, an extensive undertaker and furniture dealer at Pitts- ton, began business in ISts on Kennedy street. The next year he built the old wooden building below the National Bank, and in partnership with Mr. Haas built his present brick building in 1865.

L. G. DAMON established the first livery business in West Pittston in July, 1874. He is a native of Fulton county, N. Y., but came to Pittston in 1846 and has since been engaged iu hardware business, the paper-mill and the Pittston foundry.

REV. ISAAC E. DAVIES, who resides on Oak street, Pittston, was born at Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, South Wales. Ile was married to Mar- garet Edwards prior to coming to America in 1865. His family consists of six sons and three daughters. While in Wales he was a merchant, but sinee coming to this country he has been mining. He is a local preacher in the Baptist church.

JOHN W. DAVIES, a native of Glamorganshire, South Wales, was born in 1811. He came to Carbondale in 1832 and in 1833 was married to Mag- dalene Daniels, of that town. lle is a stone mason.

W. DELANY was born in Ireland, in 1834, and enme to Pittston in 1857. He is employed at the Columbia colliery. For about eleven years lie kept. a hotel near the head of the canal in Pittston township, where he resides.

J. P. DELAHANTY, superintendent of the West Pittston knitting- inill, was born at Brookfield, Mass., in 1822. He has been making cottou and woolen goods sinee 1834, and has been for twenty years of that time a machinist, having suggested profitable changes in Tomkin's knitting machine. Ile was married in 1846 to Emmeline Pollock, of Dutchess county, N. Y. They have three sons. They came from Cohoes, N. Y., to West Pittston in 1874.

C. G. DEWITT, a farmer at Exeter, who was born in 1821, at Decker- town, N. J., is a son of Chiariek Dewitt, who came to Pennsylvania in 1839. His mother was Esther Decker, of Deckertown. He was married in 1847 to Emeline Fitch, of North Moreland. She died in 1879, leaving two daugliters and one son.

CORNELIUS DONNELLY was born in Bradford county, Pa., in 1840. His wife, Ellen Neville, who died March 7th, 1878, was from Little Meadows, Susquehanna county, Pa. Mr. Donnelly was formerly a carriage maker, but is at present a furniture dealer and undertaker iu Pittston, carrying on an extensive business on South Main street.

BRADLEY DOWNING, grandson of Samuel Carey, a prisoner in the Wyoming massacre, is a native of Wilkes-Barre. He has been twice married-to Hellen M. Stewart (deceased) and to M. J. Baker (in 1860). He is a foreman for the Pennsylvania Coal Company, and has been in their employ nearly thirty years. He has been burgess of West Pittston.

JEFFERSON DRIESBACH, farmer, was born in 1833, in Carbon county. July 4th, 1863, he married Amelia J. Anthony, who was born March Ist, 1841, iu Monroe county. They have one child, William J. Driesbach, boru July 28th, 1873.

JOHN J. DURKIN, of Pleasant Valley, was born at Seranton, November Ist, 1851. His wife was M. A. McDonald, of Penn Yan, N. Y. He was formerly a merchant, but is at present justice of the peace, having pre- viously held various borough offices.

P. W. EARLY, of Pleasant Valley, was born at Carbondale. His wife was Ann Coleman, from Indiana. Since 1862 he has been engaged in boot and shoemaking where he now resides. He was elected burgess of Pleasant Valley in 1880.

M. J. EASTMAN, contractor and builder, was born at Rome, Pa., in 1844. He entered the army at the age of seventeen, and served three years and three months. His wife was Mary A. Keller, of Stroudsburg, Pa. He came here in 1868, and by undiverted attention has made his business a success.

SAMUEL EDWARDS, of Pittston, a retired miner, was born in South Wates, in 1814. He was married in 1835 to Rachel Williams, of South Wales, and came to this country in 1863. Two of their ten children are living. Mr. Edwards was a miner for forty-seven years and has been deacon in the Baptist church for thirty-five years.

I. W. ENRODY, the present agent for the Lehigh Valley Railroad at the Pittston junction, was born in Berwick, Columbia county, Pa., in 1818. He has been engaged as a boat builder at Manch Chunk and as railroad contractor. He was for a time in charge of coal ports for the Lehigh Navigation and Coal Company.

EVAN'J. EVANS was born in Susquehanna county, Pa., in 1840. His wite, Ellen Hughes, was born at Kingston, lle was formorly outside foreman for Waterman & Beavor at Kingston, but sineo 1869 has been

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general superintendent of the Columbia wines. He enlisted in the 2nd Pennsylvania artillery August. 12th, 1862, and was discharged in Inne, 1863.

ISAAC EVERIrr, agent for the Central Express Company, Pittston, was born in Montague, Sussex county, N. J., December 31st, 1818. His wife was formerly Miss F. 1. Brawn, of Pittston. Me. Everitt has been engaged in mercantile business.

lous PAGAN was born at Honesdale, Wayne county, in 1851. His wife wus Mary Ann Evans. He was formerly clerk in the Kingston House, but since 1877 has been proprietor of the Pittston Valley Honse at U'pper Pittston.

OHED B. FEAR, weighmaster for the Pennsylvania Coal Company, was born in England, in 1822, whence he emigrated in 1850. Ilis wife, Hannah Groves, is also a native of England.

WILLIAM FERGUSON was born in Dallas township, December 22nd, 1822. lle first came to West Pittston in January, 1847. He was married to Margaret Kiple, of Tobyhanna, Pa., May 2nd, 1847. His former busi- ness was general merchandising and farming. lle is now a merchant.

CHARLES W. FrsuER was born in Carbon county. His wife was Hannah J. Selser, of Lycoming county, Pa. He was formerly a mill- wright, but is at present manager of the Ontario colliery, at Pleasant Valley. He served three years as private in Company C of the 3d Penn- sylvania cavalry.

A. FLEISCHER was born in Austria, in 1844, and came to this country in 1866. ITe was married in 1877 to Flora Cohen, of New York. Since 1822 he has been carrying on an extensive leather business at Pittston. The business was established in 1867, by A. F. Sheetz. Mr. Fleischer also operates a tannery and a shoe factory.

JOSEPH FREDERICK, engineer at Barnum shaft, No. 2 of the Pennsyl- vania Coal Company, was born March 29th, 1839. He camne to West Pittston in 1868, and was married the same year to Ettie Shannon, a daughter of George Shannon. He served in Battery M 2ud Pa. artillery three years, and in State service tive years.

JOHN FULTON, carpenter and lumberman, was born in Canisteo, N. Y., Jannary 23d, 1835, and married Miss Mary E. Rogers, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He served seventeen months in the civil war, participating in bat- tles at Fredericksburg, Laurel Hill and other places.

O. F. GAINES, of West Pittston, was born in Morris county, N. J., in 1829. ITis wife was Helen A. Ellithorp, from Niagara, N. Y. He was assistant assessor and collector of internal revenue, and in 1877 and 1878 was sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives.

SAMUEL GARDNER, son of Samnel and Margaret Gardner, was born in Ransom, October 24th, 1851, and married Flora E. Ives, of the same township, on the 27th of March, 1873. He is a car inspector on the Le- higli Valley Railroad, and lives at Pittston. His grandfather, Richard Gardner, was one of the first settlers of Ransom.

WILLIAM R. GARDNER, weighmaster of No. 9 shaft, was born in Sus- quehanna county, in 1844, and in 1858 married Sarah Dolman, a native of England. He is a member of the board of auditors of Hughestown borough.

JAMES L. GIDDINGS, a retired farmer at 5t Parsonage street, Pittston, is a son of Dr. Nathaniel Giddings, who came to Pennsylvania from Connecticut in 1787. Mr. Giddings was married in 1834 to Mary H. Pratt, from Massachusetts.

F. W. GINZ was born in Germany, in 1816, and came to New Orleans in 1849. He was in the United States service four and one-half years; was with Fremont as civil engineer in Colorado and New Mexico, and since 1875 he has been proprietor of the Wyoming Valley House, which was built by Irvin Orr in 1837.

LEWIS GORDON, printer and proprietor of the Erening Press, Pittston, was born at Stroudsburg, Monroe county, Pa. Ile married Miss Char- lotte Melcek, of Belvidere, N. J.

W. D. GREEN, grocer at West Pittston, succeeded John S. Hurlbut in 1878 in business at the foot of Wyoming avenue. Mr. Green was a pri- vate in Company B 143d regiment Pennsylvania volunteers, and has been in business at Pittston and Wyoming.

THOMAS HALFPENNY, proprietor of the Luzerne House, West Pitts- ton, was born in England, in IS25. Ile was formerly engaged as engi- neer. He came to Pittston in 1869. His wife was Clara Hemnes, from England. His commodious hotel was built in 1856 by the coal com- pany.

N. V. HAPEMAN, a native of Greene county, N. Y., came to Pittston in 1854, in the employ of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, and is foreman of the company's car shop at Pittston. He married Caroline Swack- hammer, of New Jersey.

THEODORE HAUT, jr., editor and proprietor of the Pittston Gazette, was born at Athens, Bradford county, Pa., September IOth, 1847. He married Miss Rebecca Dymond, of North Moreland, Wyoming county, Pa.

WILLIAM HEISLER, of Exeter, has been a farmer since 1848. He was born in Monroe county, Pa., in 1811, and was married in 1850 to Lorinda White, who died February 18th, IST7, leaving three sons. Mr. H. has been president of the school board since 1874.

PETER HENRY, retail grocer, was born in Ireland, in 1837, and came to Pittston in 1869 and opened a grocery. He is a member of the royal Irish constabulary.

CAPTAIN JOSEPH HILEMAN was born in Huntingdon county, Pa. He served two years in the Mexican war, and subsequently for ten years carried on the livery business at. Pittston. He served as captain of Company Il 19th Pennsylvania volunteers, and afterward enrolled and commanded Company E 49th Pennsylvania volunteers. He is now en- gaged in the insurance business.

MICHAEL T. HonAN was born in Ireland. in 1839. His wife was Bridget Barrett. of Carbondale. He was engaged in mining twenty years, but since 1575 has kept a grocery and provision store at Pleasant Valley. He lias served several years as collector and school director of the borough.

A. C. HOLDEN, the principal harness maker in Pittston, began busi- ness in 1877. Prior to that time he was eleven years with the Pennsyl- vania Coal Company. His present business employs five men.

W. H. HOLLISTER, of Pleasant Valley, was born at Brooklyn, Susque- hanna county, Pa., in 1850. His wife was Ella Bremer, of Newton, Pa. Beginning as a clerk he has steadily advanced, until now he ranks among the first as a dealer in general merchandise.

ALVIN HOLMES, jr., was born in Exeter, January 30th, 1842; married Minnie J. Casterlin, of Orange, March Ioth, 1868, and eame to West Pitts- ton in 1872. They have one child, Herbert L. Mr. Holmes is a con- tractor and builder. His grandfather, Artemidorus Ingersoll, of New England, was in the battles of Bunker hill and Saratoga and others.

LAWRENCE HOOVER, farmer and milk dealer, was born in Morris county, N. J., on Christmas, 1820. He was married to Miss Sarah Hoover in 1810. He has himself cleared fifty acres of his present farm of fifty- four acres. He has been supervisor .;

JOHN W. HUGHES, merchant tailor, was born at Holyhead, North Wales, in 1829; eamne to Pottsville, Pa., in 1847, and in 1852 married Anna Cook, who was born in Monmouthshire, South Wales. He was in business thirteen years at Carbondate, and died at Scranton Novem- ber 12th, 1866. Mrs. Hughes afterward came to West Pittston.

JOHN S. HURLBUT, merchant, was born in Wyoming, Luzerne county, Pa., February Sth, 1829, and married Miss Cornelia E. Jones, of the same village. He is the son of Lyman Hurlbut, who was born in Wilkes- Barre, May 4th, 1797, and grandson of Napthali Hurlbut, one of the first sheriffs of Luzerne county.

J. M. ISAAC, carpenter and builder, was born in England, in 1844, and came to Pittston in 1820 and engaged in building. Iu I872 he was married to Elizabeth Kirslake. His shop is on Deck street.

DAVID G. JAMES was born in South Wales, in 1855, and came to this county in 1877. He is a clerk with J. L. Morgan, of Pittston, and is sec- retary of the Welsh Congregational church.

CHARLES A. JONES was born at Wilkes-Barre, where he now resides. He has been successively engaged as book clerk for various corpora- tions, including the First National Bank and Wyoming National Bank of Wilkes-Barre, and is now engaged in mercantile business in Pleasant Valley. He is captain of Company E 9th regiment Pennsylvania militia.

J. BENEDICT JONES, who was born in Exeter, in 1811, is a grandson of Benjamin Jones, a lieutenant in the American army during the Rev- olution, who came to Exeter from Dutchess county, N. Y., in 1804. Mr. Jones was married in 182 to Lydia, daughter of George Frothingham. He has been for years an officer in the Baptist church. Their family consists of two daughters and a son, L. B. Jones.

H. D. JUDD, of the firm of 11. D. Judd & Co., furniture dealers and undertakers, was born in Broome conuty, N. Y., and came to Pittston in 1864 and engaged in trade. In IST he was married to Hattie E. Oliver, of Pittston. He is a graduate of the Binghamton Commercial College.

HON. GEORGE JUDGE, a native of Ireland, was married to Catherine Gallagher, of New York, in 1853, and in 1554 came to Pittston and en- gaged in mining. Ile was supervisor of Pittston township three years, and a member of the Legislature in IST7 and IS78.

WILLIAM KAMMER, track carpenter, isa native of Germany, and eame to Pittston in 1852. He married Henrietta Weiskerger, of Pittston. He served in the 9th Pennsylvania cavalry in 18GI and 1862.

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WHAM HI. KERR was born in Canada, in 1844, and caine to Pittston in 1869 and engaged in blacksmithing and carriage making, which he still continues. lle was married in 1876 to Hattie Perrin, of Pittston. Residence, West Pitt-ton.

JOHN KING was born in Hawley, Wayne county. Pa., in 1855. His wife was Katie Nenlis, from Lackawanna county. He was formerly a clerk, but is now a merchant at Pleasant Valley.

JACOB Kixrz was born March 222nd, 18330. in Monroe county. His wife was Miss Eliza Shupp, of the same county. They came to Exeter in [862, and his ocenpation since has been lumbering and farming. He served in the Union army. Their children are Sally, Hannah E., Mil- lard, Flora, Wysses G .. Ida, demie and Ella.

SHERERIAn Kereuks, farmer in Exeter, was born in New Jersey, in 1827, and came to this county with his parents in 1831. He was married in 1842 to Margaret Jenkins. He has served two terms as supervisor and two as poorinaster.

DR. A. KNAPP, son of Z. Knapp, jr., who came to Pittston with his grandfather in 1798, was born in ISIS, at Pittston, where since 1855 he has carried on a drug store. Dr. Knapp graduated at Geneva Medical Col- ege in 1846, and for a time practiced in White Haven. His wife is Fran- ces S., daughter of Elisha Blackman, of Pittston.

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History of Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming counties, Pa.; with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers, Part 101

Author: Munsell, W.W., & Co., New York Publication date: 1880 Publisher: New York, W.W. Munsell & co. Number of Pages: 900

Author: Munsell, W.W., & Co., New York
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: New York, W.W. Munsell & co.
Number of Pages: 900