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USA > Pennsylvania > Wyoming County > History of Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming counties, Pa.; with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers > Part 63
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FRANK D. KOONS, proprietor of the Bristol House, was born in Har- veyville, October 12th, 1854, and married Miss Josephine Chase, daughter of Joseph Chase, of Seranton. Mr. Koons was formerly a bank teller.
JOSEPH KRAFT, merehant tailor, residenec 252 Washington street, was born in Germany, October 31st, 1832. IFis wite was formerly Miss Sarah Harter, of Wilkes-Barre.
GEORGE P. KULP, attorney at law, and editor and publisher of the Luzerne Legal Register, was born in Reamstown, Laneaster county, Pa.
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February 11th, 1839, and married Mary E. Stewart, of Lackawanna. Mr. Kulp has served six years as register of wills of Luzerne county. eleven years as a member of the board of education of Wilkes-Barre, and as IJ. S. assessor four years. For the past four years he has been a member of the city council.
L. B. LANDMESSER, attorney at law, was born in Ashley, March 5th, 1850. Ifis residence is on South street.
LEWIS LANDMESSER, retired coal operator, was born in Prussia, Ger- many, June 15th, 1822. He married Margaret Grunley, an Englishwoman, who died in September, 1864. His present wife was Philipena Matthias, of Germany. Residence 310 South street.
MRS. A. C. LANING was a daughter of Charles J. Christel, a Bavarian, who settled early in Salem township. Mr. AugustusC. Laning, for many years and until his death known as one of the leading manufacturers and business inen of the county, was a native of Owego, N. Y. He came to Wilkes-Barre many years since and engaged in enterprises elsewhere referred to. Late in life he was the president of the Miners' Savings Bank. He died May 29th, 1875.
JOHN LANING was born in Wilkes-Barre, October 7th, 1836. His wife, who was Miss Helen C. Brower, is a native of New Orleans.
JOHN S. LAW, a son of Archibald Law, was born in Dumfriesshirc, Scotland, February 8th, 1826, and in 1830 came with his parents to Car- bondale, Lackawanna county. Mr. Law, who was formerly in the mer- cantile business, is the president of the Miners' Savings Bank. Ilis wife was Miss Elizabeth Shafer of Pittston.
A. L. LE GRAND, machinist, was born in Wilkes-Barre, August 16th, 1856. 11e is employed in the Empire shops, and resides with his father, Washington Le Grand, on Sheridan street near Northampton.
LEWIS LE GRAND, wagon manufacturer, a native of Providence, R. I., was born January 13th, 1818. He married Ellen Lyons of Plains town- ship.
JOSIAH LEWIS, grocer, publie square, residenee on North street (for- merly a tanner and currier), was born in Wilkes-Barre, November 18th, 1815, and married Miss Arabella Chahoon, born in Wilkes-Barre, Deeem- ber 9th, 1819.
MAJOR GEORGE R. LENNARD, merchant, West Market street, served six years in the U. S. service. He was first captain of Company A, 52nd Pa. volunteers, wbich he organized, and was subsequently promoted to the office of major of that regiment. He also served as commissary of musters, and in the pay department at a later date. Mr. Lennard was born in Philadelphia, March 27th, 1827, and married Miss S. M. Sago, of Pleasant Valley, Conn.
C. 11. LEONARD, speculator, South Franklin street, was born in Honcs- dale, May 12th, 1841, and married Miss Kate Reichard, of Wilkes-Barrc. He was for a number of years superintendent of the Riverside and Forty Fort eval companies.
REV. FRANKLIN KLEIN LEVAN, pastor of the Zion's Reformed Church, was born in Maxatawny, Berks county, Pa., July 15th, 1831. He married Sarah Ann Ermentrout, of Reading, Pa.
GEORGE A. LOHMAN, proprietor of a hotel and restaurant, 236 East Market street, was born in Germany, November 17th, 1850, and married Caroline Schimpff, of Scranton.
W. D. LooMIS, formerly soliciting agent for the Philadelphia & Read- ing Railroad Company, and at one time employed in the paymaster's department on the U. S. Sloop Granite in the north Atlantic blockading squadron, was born in Wilkes-Barre, August 18th, 1844, and married F. Eva Stewart, of Old Forge, Lackawanna county.
EDWARD S. LOOP, retired, formerly for more than twenty-one years cashier of the Wyoming National Bank, was born in Elmira, N. Y., Feb- ruary 11th, 1823, and married Cornelia B. French, of Plymouth. 11e was married a second time, to llarriet A. Lander, of Newburgh, N. Y.
HENRY LUFT (formerly a machinist), grocer and milk dealer, 122 Sonth Franklin street, was born in Germany, January 24th, 1837. He married Miss Eliza Schmalz, a native of Buren, Switzerland.
HENRY S. MACK was born in Wilkes-Barre, June 30th, 1833, and mar- ried Ann Eliza Barnes, also of Wilkes-Barre. Mr. Mack served nine' months as assistant engincer on the U. S. steamner Sassacus during the war of the Rebellion, and is now employed as foreman of the Empire inachine shop.
THOMAS MACKIN (formerly an engineer), elerk for Mackin & Boyle, grocers, was born in Wilkes-Barre, May 14th, 1851.
S. MCCARRAOHER, attorney at law (retired), was born in Princeton, N. J., November 10th, 1818, and married Eliza G. Simpson, of Covington
township. Fle was district attorney under Governor Shonk, and was clerk of the courts from 1849 to 1852.
JOHN MAHONY was born in Hartford, Conn., December 10th, 1833, and married Miss O. T. Lafferty, of Bradford county, Pa., April 20th, 1863. lle came to Plains township in March, 1864, and to Wilkes-Barre in 1870. lle is a wholesale liquor dealer in the 8th ward and a grocer in the 1st. lle is serving his fourth term as city councilman.
W. 11. MARCY, merchant, residence 276 Main street, was born in Wilkes- Barre, October 1st, 1836, and married Susan A. Stone, of Salem, Wayne county, l'a.
MRS. VOLNEY L. MAXWELL, whose maiden name was Lydia M. Haines, was born in Wilkes-Barre, July 25th, 1813, and resides on South Franklin street. Mr. Maxwell, who was a well known attorney, was born in Montgomery county, N. Y., June 25th, 1804, and died .January 4th, 1873.
HUGH MCCULLOUGH, proprictor of a stone quarry, was born in Leb- anon county, Pa., March 4th, 1828, and married Ellen J. Kersler, of Union county, l'a.
HENRY MCDONALD, Washington near Market street, was born in Hazleton, July 13th, 1850, and married Miss Jennie Williamson, of Ash- ley. Ile was previously employed as clerk.
WILLIAM S. MCLEAN, attorney and solicitor for the city since 1874, was born at Summit Ilill, Carbon county, Pa., May 27th, 1843, and married Annie S. Roberts, of Philadelphia.
GEORGE MEDWAY, spring maker at the Lehigh Valley Railroad shops, was born in Dorsetshire, England, September 29th, 1837, and married Elizabeth Earsterling, of Devonshire, England.
CHARLES B. METZGER, confectioner. and sinee January Ist, 1880, chief engineer of the Wilkes-Barre fire department, was born in Lewishurg, Union county, Pa., November 29th, 1839, and married Annie M. Flack, of his native place.
ROOER MILLER, carpeuter and builder, 501 South Main street, was born in Wilkes-Barre, December 18th, 1832, and married Lydia McMillan, of Ransom township. He served in the State militia during a part of the late war and afterwards in the Pa. volunteers.
JOSEPH B. MILLER was born in Germany, in 1829, and came to America in 1848. He graduated at the Royal Polytechnie school of Bavaria. After arriving at New York he found employment at the Acton mills, at Cohoes Falls, N. Y. In 1850 he removed to Jersey City and worked as machinist and draughtsman at the Fulton foundry. In October, 1853, he went to Charleston, S. C., and worked as a machinist. In 1855 he came to Wiikes-Barre, aud was employed by Richard Jones as machinist and draughtsman. In 1859 he went to Montgomery, Ala. March 26th, 1860, he married Lillian Feuerstein, of Wilkes-Barre. He was master of construction in building iron furnaces and rolling mills in Shelby county, Ala. Returning to Wilkes-Barre in 1866, he was em- ployed as foremau by the Wyoming Valley Manufacturing Company, and in February, 1871, by Mr. Richard Jones as draughtsman of the Vulcan Iron Works. Mr. Miller is the inventor and patentee of the reciprocat- ing coal breaker and an improvement in mill grates.
WILLIAM F. MOFFETT, timer, now foreman in the shop of the Lchigh Valley Railroad Company, was born in Carbondale, Lackawanna county, November 25th, 1852, and married Mary E. McCann, of Scranton.
J. A. MONTZ, dealer in pictures and picture frames, formerly a dry goods merchant in Hazleton, was born at Lehighton, Carbon county, Pa., September 25th, 1846.
1. 11. MOORE, M. D., was born in Wilkes-Barre, January 21st, 1843, and married Martha J. Lueder, of Hanover township.
R. R. MORGAN, superintendent of Franklin colliery, was born at Port Deposit, Md., in September, 1821, and married Miss Barnet, of Easton, Pa.
HUGH MURRAY, general contractor, residence on Northampton street, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, May 16th, 1821, and married Eliza- beth Morton, of Renfrew, Scotland.
CHARLES NELSON carries on the business of n shipping agent.
REV. DENNIS O'HARAN, residence 215 South Washington street, is pastor of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church.
ALEXANDER P. O'MALLEY, physician and surgeon, was born in West- port, County Mayo, Ireland, October 2nd. 1851.
lloN. D. L. O'NEILL was born in Port Deposit, Md., December 10th, 1835, and married Annie McDonald, of Wilkes-Barre. lfe was formerly n teacher, is now a practising attorney, and has represented his distriet In the State Legislature.
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LEWIS C. PAINE, dealer in provisions and oils, was born March 26th, 1827, in Perth Amboy, N. J. His first wife was Mary Campbell Lee, of Nanticoke, and his second Annic Scott Lee, of Chester county, Pa. Mr. Paine was formerly a merchant, was a dealer in coal, in 1850-52 was purser on the California inail steamers. and was at different times president of the Ashley Savings Bank and the Vulcan Iron Works. He isa son of Captain Jedediah Paine, of Truro, Mass., who at the time of liis death and for many years previons was a ship- master out of the port of New York, and was a lineal descendant of Thomas Paine, who landed from England at Plymonth, Mass., in 1621.
E. II. PAINTER, attorney, formerly a school teacher, was born in Free- port, Armstrong county, Pa., February 22nd, 1844, and married Margaret Marr Derr, of Lewisburg, Pa. Ile has served as deputy register of wills for Luzerne county.
THOMAS C. PARKER, watchmaker and designer, was born at Calmore Lodge, St. George's Terrace, Birmingham, England, March 9th, 1848. He was editor of the Evening Star, a temperance paper, in 1868 and 1869, su- perintendent of the Sunday-school at the Soldiers' Home 1869-72, and has superintended the Hazle street mission school-house since 1876. He was 2nd lieutenant of the Wyoming artillerists 1875-77, and since 1877 has been captain.
F. B. PARRISH, mining engineer for the Lehigh & Wilkes.Barre Coal Company, was born in New York, November 29th, 1851, and married Miss Ella D. Reets, of Wilkes-Barre.
G. H. PARRISH, superintendent of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, was born in Wilkes-Barre in 1820, and married Charlotte Brown, of Newark, N. J.
JOHN S. PFOUTS, M. D. (for four years after the elose of the war ex. amining surgeon for pensions), was born in Jersey Shore, Pa , July 13th, 1829, and married Elizabeth Denison Reilay, of Wyoming.
CHARLES PIKE, attorney at law, was born in Wyoming county, Pa., February 1st, 1830.
JOHN P. POLLOCK, deputy treasurer of Luzerne county, was born in Corning, N. Y., February 6th, 1850.
L. PRAETORIUS, tcaeher of musie, was born in New Bavaria, Germany, in 1828. He served as band master and lieutenant in Company D, 9th Pa. cavalry during the latter part of the late war.
GEORGE N. REICHARD, brewer, was born in Wilkes-Barre, October 13th, 1834, and married Grizzy E. Gilchrist, of that city. He served for three months in the 8th Pa. volunteers at the beginning of the late war, later as captain in the 143d Pa. volunteers and was promoted to bc lieutenant colonel of that regiment and served as such to the elose of the war.
MRS. E. R. REYNOLDS (formerly Miss Elizabeth B. Hancock) was born in Kingston, September 9th, 1824, and married Joshua Fuller Rey- nolds (son of Benjamin Reynolds), of Plymouth, who was born in April, 1814, and died May 1st, 1874. He was successively a farmer, a merchant and a coal operator.
G. M. REYNOLDS was born in Kingston in July, 1838.
ELIJAH RICHARDS is a son of William and a grandson of David Rich- ards, an carly settler from Conneticut. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, December 4th, 1822, and married Phebe Ann Carpenter, daughter of Thomas Carpenter, an immigrant from England. Mr. Richards has been successively a farmer, miller and carpenter, and is employed in the repair shops of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. During the Rebellion he served a year and a half in the 9th Pa. cavalry.
JOHN RINEHIMER, foreman of the machine department of the Vulean Iron Works, was born in Hanover township December 20th, 1843, where he married Alma Blodgett.
GEORGE S. RIPPARD, formerly with Bennett, Phelps & Co., now cashier with L. C. Paine & Co., was born in Liverpool, England, January 22nd, 1845, and married Mary E. W. Hunt, of Wyoming; whose father, T. P. Hunt, a native of Charlotte Court-house, Va., eame to that place from Philadelphia in 1840, was a temperance lecturer until 1861, served as army chaplain during the Rebellion, and resided afterwards in Wilkes- Barre until his death, December 5th, 1876.
SYLVESTER V. RITTER, formerly a hardware dealer, now a lime mer- chant, residence at the corner of Northampton and Hancock streets, was born in Northampton county, Pa., September 3d, 1834, and married Mary Moister, of Wilkes-Barre.
EDWARD ROBERTS, foreman in the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com- pany's blacksmith shop, was born in Newport, South Wales, in De- cember, 1832, and married Elizabeth Kendriek, of Seranton, Pa.
JEREMIAH R. ROONEY, alderman and school teacher, is a native of Ireland.
MRS. WILLIAM S Ross, whose maiden name was Ruth T. Slocum, was born in Wilkes-Barre, December 4th, 1804. Her late husband was born August 11th, 1802, in the house owned and occupied by his widow, and died July 11th, 1868. He was a farmer, and served several years as asso- ciate judge, and held various other offices.
ALFRED C. ROTH, formerly a civil engineer, now ticket agent for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, was born in Rittersville, Lehigh county, Pa., October 25th, 1840, and married Mary Ann Heiney, who lived near Betlilchem, Pa.
JOHN RUSSELL. machinist in the employ of the Central Railroad Com- pany of New Jersey, was born in Baltimore, Md., July 28th, 1838, and married Mary Whittaker, of Oldham, England. He served three years during the Rebellion in Company C First Maryland volunteers, and was three times wounded.
G. W. RUSTAY, engineer on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, was born in Shickshinny, January 17th, 1850, and married Eveline Tinsley, of that borough.
MRS. N. RUTTER, whose maiden name was Ellen Cist, was born in Wilkes-Barre, January 7th, 1813. She married Rev. Robert Dunlap, of Doylestown. Pa., who died in Pittsburgh in 1846. Her present husband, Mr. N. Rutter, is a native of Lancaster county, Pa., and a leading hard- ware dealer of Wilkes-Barre. Residenee, River street above Market.
JOSEPH J. SANSOM (formerly a printer), of the firm of Sansom & Shaw, florists, South Main street, opposite Dana, was born in Bedford, Bedford county, Pa, April 13th, 1844.
REV. E. L. SANTEE, residence on Brown street, was born in Fairmount township, August 6th, 1848, and was formerly a farmer. He married Georgia Atherton, of Old Forge, Lackawanna eounty.
WILLIAM SCHRAGE, dealer in cutlery and glassware, residenee at the corner of Northampton and Washington streets, was born in Hildesham, Prussia, Germany, September 5th, 1831, and married Hermine Becker, of Winstorf, Prussia.
RICHARD SHARPE, residence at the corner of Ross and West River streets, is a well known business man, now of the Wyoming Valley Man- ufacturing Company.
P. C. SHERIDAN, bookkeeper, was born in Ireland, in 1849.
BYRON SHOEMAKER, shipper of coal, was born in Gilboa, Schoharie county, N. Y., December 31st, 1844, and married Alice M. Morin, of Kingston, Canada.
MRS. JANE SHOEMAKER, whose maiden name was Harrower (formerly a resident of Lawrenceville, Tioga county, Pa.), is the widow of Elijah Shoemaker, deceased, of Kingston, a well remembered fariner at Forty Fort.
DOUGLASS SMITH was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 9th, 1840, and married Mary E. Faser, of Wilkes-Barre, where for some years he has been prominent as a merchant. He was appointed postinaster of Wilkes- Barre May 1st, 1877, and his appointment was confirmed and his eommis- sion issued October 1st following.
EDWARD SMITH, machinist in the employ of the Lehigh Valley Rail- road Company, residence on North Franklin street, was born in Easton, Pa., February 24th, 1847, and married Mary Maloy, of Easton.
FREDERICK SMITH was born in 1839, in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and came to Wilkes-Barre in 1861, where heis now engaged as bookkeeper for the Vulean Iron Works. He enlisted in Company D 9th Pennsyl- vania cavalry, in April, 1861, and was discharged in September, 1865, a 1st lieutenant; was married in 1865, to Charlotte Rittersbaeher.
WILLIAM T. SMYTH, general inside foreman of Parrish & Company's mines, and formerly a miner, was born in the south of Ireland, Septem- ber 9th, 1813; was reared in North Wales, and came to Wilkes-Barre in April, 1867. His wife was formerly Miss Mary Rees, of Wilkes-Barre.
THOMAS HENRY SOLEY, foreman in the paint shops of the Lehigh . Valley Railroad Company, residenee on South Main street, was born iu Montgomeryshire, North Wales, December 12th, 1840, and married Mar- garet Jones, of Flintshire, South Wales.
GEORGE A. ST. JOHN, horse shoer, was boru in Albany, N. Y., Novem- ber 17th, 1850, and married Caroline H. Howe, of Wilkes-Barre. During the war he served a year in Company A, 199th Pennsylvania volunteers.
JOHN W. STAHL, harness manufacturer, was born in Berwiek, Colum- bia county, Pa., May 4th, 1836, and married Luey E. Weber, of Wilkes-
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Barre. He served in the 74th Pennsylvania volunteers during a portion of the late war.
CORNELIUS STARK, liveryman, North Main street, was born in Plains, January 27th, 1812, and married Lonisa Wagner, of that township.
1ION. J. B. STARK, formerly a merchant, proprietor of the Wyoming Valley Ilotel since March, 1868, was born in Tunkhannock, Wyoming county, l'a., October 23d, 1823, and married Miss Frances R. Smith, of Carbondale, Lackawanna county. lle was sheriff of Luzerne county in 1856, and State Senator in 1862.
JOHN 11. STARK, druggist, residence on Hazle street, was born in Wilkes-Barre, February 21st, 1849, and married Mary A. Gunton, of Wilkes-Barre.
MAHLON S. STARK, druggist, residence on South Main street, was born April 12th, 1854, in White llaven, and married Nora Gress, of Wilkes- Barre.
IRVING A. STEARNS, mining and civil engineer, was born in Gorham, Ontario county, N. Y., September 12th, 1846, and married Chloe W. Shoe- maker, of Wilkes-Barre.
L. E. STEARNS, photographer, was born in Ohio, October 2nd, 1846, and married 1da Eldred, of Honesdale, Pa.
ADDISON A. STERLING, from 1869 to 1872 a merchant at Sterlingville (Meshoppen), Wyoming county, Pa., was born at that place, July 1st, 1842. He is now cashier of the People's Bank.
J. HI. STRUBLE, jr., M. D., was born in Branchville, Sussex county, N. J., January 24th, 1842, and married M. R. Knight, of Stanhope, Sussex county, N. J. He served more than three years in the late war in Company B, 2nd New York volunteers (Harris light cavalry).
CHARLES STURDEVANT, retired merchant, Hanover street, was born at Skinner's Eddy, Wyoming county, Pa., November 12th, 1812, and married Fanny M. Ross, of Pike township, Susquehanna county, Pa. He served three years in the late war in the commissary department of the army of the north.
DUNNING STURDEVANT, bookkeeper, formerly a salesman, was born at Skinner's Eddy, Wyoming county, Pa., February 8th, 1846, and married Anna L. Morgan, of Wilkes-Barre.
SINTON STURDEVANT, bookkeeper, residence South Main street, was born at Skinner's Eddy, Wyoming county, Pa., December 30th, 1843, and married Augusta Stillwell of Meshoppen, Wyoming county, Pa.
WILLIAM H. STURDEVANT, bookbinder and paper bag manufacturer, East Market street, was born at Golden Hill, Wyoming county, Pa., November 18th, 1849, and married M. Angie Smith of Mehoopany, Pa. He was formerly a steamboat pilot.
JAMES SUTTON, retired merchant, North Franklin street, was born in Exeter township, December 22nd, 1826.
TOWNEND BROS., liverymen, stables at the rear of the Luzerne house, are natives of Lewisburg, Pa., and have been established in busi- ness in Wilkes-Barre six years.
JAMES TRETHEWAY, mine foreman, was born in Cornwall, England, July 14th, 1838, and married Martha Pascoe, of Cornwall. Residence, Welles street.
HENRY C. TUCK is a son of Seth Tuck, a native of England, who was for nearly forty years a druggist of Wilkes-Barre, where he died Novem- ber 17th, 1877. He married Helen Coleman of Wilkes-Barre.
WILLIAM TUCK, druggist, was born in Peterborough, England, April 25th, 1825, and married Catherine E. Dcan, of Wilkes-Barre.
MRS. GEORGE TURNER, formerly Anna Richards, daughter of William Richards, an old resident of Wilkes-Barre, was born in Wilkes-Barre. Her husband was a son of John Turner, of Plymouth, Pa. They have two sons, George and William, living in Wilkes-Barre.
J. E. VALENTINE, dentist, 102 North Main street, was born in Coates- ville, Chester county, Pa., October 20th, 1844, and married Anna M. Johnston, of Philadelphia. Hle served in Company A., 97th Pa. volun- teers, from August 22nd, 1861, to August 22nd, 1864, and graduated from the Pennsylvania Dental College in 1868.
ALEXANDER II. VAN HORN, formerly a coal operator in Carbon county, Pa., now vice-president of the Wilkes-Barre Savings Bank, and connected with the Wyoming Valley Manufacturing Company, was born in Union township, February 22nd, 1833, and married Harrlet Abbott, of Summit Hill, Carbon county.
ANTHONY VOGT, watchmaker and jeweler, Northampton street, was born in Soffingen, aud married Mary Ursula, of Wikes-Barre.
G. H. VOORHIS, furniture dealer, formerly a mechanic, was born in Springfield, Bradford county, Pa., October 16th, 1827, and married Abi- gail C. Springsteen, of his native place.
MRS. MOSES WADHAMS, formerly Miss Jennic F. Morse, residence 231 South Franklin street, was born in Wilkes-Barre and married Moses Wadhams, of Plymouth, who died March 28tli, 1878.
SAMUEL F. WADHAMS, attorney, is a native of Plymouth.
THOMAS Q. WAGNER, who has been for seventeen years employed by the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, and is superintendent of Stanton breaker, No. 7, was born in Plains township, October 8th, 1835, and married Mary Burk, of Abington, Fa.
JOHN M. WARD, of the firm of J. M. Ward & Co., grocers, was born in Ireland, May 1st, 1835, and married Miss A. Nieson, of Wilkes-Barre. He was formerly in the dry goods trade.
DENNIS WARD, of the firm of J. M. Ward & Co., grocers, formerly in the dry goods trade, was born in Ireland in 1847.
JAMES N. WARNER, dentist, was born in Huntington township, De- cember 5th, 1845.
W. G. WEAVER, M. D., Que of the directors of the school board, first district of Wilkes-Barre, and principal of the North Wilkes-Barre gram - inar school 1872-76, was born in Kline's Grove, Northumberland county, Pa., March 11th, 1858.
WILLIAM H. WEBB, engineer of the Hollenback air shaft, residence ou Sherman street, was born in Wilkes-Barre, October 18th, 1852, and mar- ried Jennie Sult, of Berwick, Columbia county, Pa.
WILSON W. WEBB, engineer at Diamond shaft No. 1, formerly a cabi- net maker, was born at Lime Ridge, Columbia county, Pa., December 28th, 1823, aud married Elizabeth Gruver.
SAMUEL C. WEBB, engineer at the Empire shaft, residence ou Sherman street, was born in Wilkes-Barre, April 4th, 1847, and married Alice M. Bisher, of Kingston, Pa. He served two and a half years in the Fifty- third Pa. volunteers during the late war.
A. B. WEIL, formerly in the clothing, now in the boot and shoe trade, No. 70 Public square, was born in Baden, Germany, February 15th, 1836, and married Miss Lowenstein, of Wilkes-Barre.
JOSEPH G. WEIR, inside superintendent at Hollenback breaker, was born in Schuylkill county, Pa., February 19th, 1844, and married Sarah Hughes, of Wilkes-Barre.
JAMES P. WELLER, civil engineer and surveyor, and county surveyor 1871-74, residence 109 South Main street, was born in Warren county, New Jersey, March 2nd, 1845.
S. S. WELLER, manufacturer of lumber, residence, Washington street below Market, was born at St. James, Warren county, New Jersey, and married Rebecca E. Dean, of Morrison, Illinois.
WILLIAM WHEELOCK, dealer in flour and feed, formerly a farmer, was born in Eaton township, Wyoming county, Pa., May 15th, 1823, and married Mary Pickett, of Jessup, Susquehanna county, Pa.
AARON WHITAKER, proprietor of the Exchange Hotel, public square, (formerly a lumberman) and sheriff of Luzerne county three years beginning 1871, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, April 2nd, 1824, and married Alice C. Taylor, of White Haven.
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