History of Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming counties, Pa.; with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers, Part 92

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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CHRISTIAN BACH, a native of Waldeck, Germany, came to Kingston in 1875, and in the same year was married to Miss Sarah J. Humphreys, of Wilkes-Barre. He is an enterprising merchant tailor of Kingston.

PETER B. BACKUS, foreman in the boiler department of the car shops at Kingston, was born in Germany, June 15th, 1846; emigrated in 1852, and married Eunice Grass, of Frederickton, New Brunswick, October 9th, 1869.

O. K. BENNETT, of Kingston, was married to Miss E. W. Lind, of Kingston, February 26th, 1876.

HENRY J. BEST, baker and confectioner, Wyoming, was born in Kings- ton, January 10th, 1841, and was married March 14th, 1863. to Eliza Hartzel, of Kingston, who was born April 2nd, 1842. Mr. Best was a member of the 7th Pennsylvania volunteers.

MRS. M. J. BEVAN was born in Kingston, in 1839. She lived in Pittston from 1860 to 1879, then moved to her present tarm.

WINFIELD S. BONHAM, engineer at the East Boston inines, was born in Kingston, May 16th, 1848. He served in the 3d Pennsylvania cavalry until the close of the late war. He resides in Kingston township.

C. W. BOUGHTIN, blacksmith and wagon maker, was born in Orange county, N. Y., in 1827, and in 1849 married Mary A. Wright, of the same place (since deccased), and removed to Kingston. In 1873 he was mar- ried to Miss Mattie Bogart of Warren county, N. J.

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM R. BRINK, station agent at Kingston, was born in Luzerne county, in 1843, and married Louise M. Fitch, of Otsego county, N. Y. He served four years in the 11th Pennsylvania cavalry, and was promoted second lieutenant.

N. W. BURGESS, Wyoming, was born in Forkston, Wyoming county, Pa., February 27th, 1826, and was married January 31st, 1850, to Adeline Patterson, of Kingston. fle is a farmer and dealer in agricultural im- plements.

WILLIAM BRYDEN, foreinan in the Kingston machine shops of the D., L. and W. Railroad, was born in Dumfries, Scotland, July 4th, 1841. Ife has been in the employ of the company since 1857.

WILLIAM CASTNER, farmer, was born in Kingston, in 1833, and mar- ried Elizabeth L'Amoreux, of Plymouth, in 1856. He was a member of the Plymouth borongh council one terin.

JAMES COLLINS was born in Danville, Montour county, Pa., in 1848, and married Mary Sullivan, of Carbondale, Pa. He is a contractor and stone mason of Kingston borough.

ALFRED H. Coox was born in Carbondale, May 28th, 1829. His wite was Miss Lorinda M. Marey, of Kingston. Mr. Coon is a contractor, builder, farmer and miller. He was the projector and builder of the Wilkes-Barre and Kingston street. railway, and was the first man in the United States to use the Trail on street railroads.

JAMES M. COUGHLIN, superintendent of common schools of Luzerne connty, was born November 12th, 1848, in Fairmount, and married Miss Mary E. Wolter, of Kingston.

GEORGE COURTRIGHT was born in Plains, April 26th, 1818, and was married December 30th, 1841, to Miss Mary Mather, of Kingston. She was born February 8th, 1823. Their children are Mary Louisa, James M., John P., William B. and Lilian Fidelia. Mr. Courtright is a fariner.

DAVID CULVER was born on the site of old Forty Fort, August 2nd, 1832, and was married August 29th, 1851, to Miss Nancy Ann Wise, of Philadelphia, Pa. Their children are: Sarah E., born September 2Ist, 1853; Stella, born August 27th, 1856; Lewis, born February 11th, 1859; Ruth, born July 4th, 1861; George W., born November 19th, 1863; Fred- erick and Fanny, born March 15th, 1570 ; Lonisa J., born August 8th 1872. Mr. Culver is a farmer and ferryman at Forty Fort.

JASPER N. CULVER, carpenter for the Kingston Coal Company, was born in Union township, in 1845, and in 1822 married Melissa Harrison, of that township. He served three years in Battery B 5th U. S. artillery during the Rebellion, also as a member of the 143d Pa. volunteers.

T. P. CULVER, farmer, was born in Huntington township, April 15th, 1837. In 1865 he was married to Miss M. J. Bowman, of Mifflin, Columbia county, Pa.

LORENZO J. CURTIS is a carpenter at Kingston. ffe was born in Ply- mouth, October 20th, 1845, and served in the 143d Pennsylvania volun- teers, Wyoming Artillery, froin 1862 until 1865. He is still a member of the Wyoming Artillery.

DANIEL R. DAVIS was born in Wales, in 1812, and was married in 1865 to Rachel James, also a native of Wales. Mr. Davis is a mine boss in the employ of the Kingston Coal Company.

JOHN R. DAVISisa native of Wales. He married Jane Eynon, of Luzerne county, since deceased. He is chief clerk of the Gaylor Coal Company at Kingston.

JOHN DENNISTON is a farmer at Mill Hollow.

IRA A. DE SILVA is a native of Luzerne county, and was born in 1854. He is a police officer and night agent at the Kingston Railroad depot.

CAPTAIN BUTLER DILLEY, cattle merchant, Kingston, was born in Wilkes-Barre, June 24th, 1834, and married Ellen Pettebone, of King- ston. He served five years in the regular army, was quartermaster of the 8th regiment in the three months service, and captain of Company D 61st Pennsylvania volunteers in the three years service.

R. Il. DODSON, of the firm of R. H. Dodson & Brother, dealers in gen- cral merchandise, is a native of Huntington township. He married Eu- reka Ludlow, of Summerville, N. J.

WESLEY DODSON, wholesale and retail dealer in general merchandise, is a native of Union township. In 1855 he was married to Desdemona Wadsworth, daughter of Epaphras Wadsworth, of Luzerne county.

J. W. DRAKE was born in 1848, in Kingston, and married Miss Mary Jane Darlane, in 1868. Ile is a miller and general merchant at Carverton.

GEORGE W. EDWARDS, loader boss for the Kingston Coal Company, was born in Hyde Park, Lackawanna county, in 1860.

JAMES D. EDWARDS, clerk for the Kingston Coal Company, was born in Hyde Park, in 1862.

THOMAS EDWARDS, miner, Kingston, was born in Ireland, in 1847. He married Mary A. Sullivan, of England. in 1863, and emigrated in 1864. He is sinking a new shaft by contract for J. E. Swoyer.

STEPHEN A. EDWARDS was born in Dallas, August 9th, 1824. He was married Angust 12th, 1848, to Miss Dorinda C. Durland, of Dallas, who was born in Franklin, September 11th, 1825. Their children are : Emma J., born May 23d, 1849; Delphine S., February 13th, 1851 ; Angelo S., De- cember 13th, 1852; Charles N .. April 10th, 1855 ; Walter B., December ISth, 1857; Garret D., November 4th, 1859; Edith Alberta, May 9th, 1870. Mr. Edwards is a farmer and a clergyman.

GEORGE W. ENGEL, founder and machinist, Mill Hollow, was born in Northampton county, Pa., in 1840. In 1822 he married Lydia G. Pette- bone, of Mill Hollow. He served three years in the 143d Pa. volunteers during the Rebellion.

LEWIS G. ENSIGN was born in Litchfield, Conn., May 7th, 1806, and married November 4th, 1830, to Miss Rebecca M. Fortner, of Deposit, Delaware county, N. Y. She died January 13th, 1855, at Wyoming, Pa. June 24th, 1856, Mr. Ensign married Mary Ann Chapin, of Wyoming. Mrs. Ensign is the daughter of Deacon Henry ffice, of Wyoming. Mr. Ensign is engaged in the watch and jewelry business at Wyoming, which business he lias followed more than fifty years.

WILLIAM P. EVANS was born in Wales, in 1825, and married Miss Ann Thomas in 1842. He came to Plymonth in 1867. He was formerly a miner, and is now supervisor.

GENEALOGICAL, AND PERSONAL RECORD.

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W. H. FAULDS, M. D., was born in Morrisville, Pa .. Jannary 20th, 1815 and was married to Miss Mary Thompson, of Berwick, July 9th, 1868. She died January 18th, 1822. and June 6th, 1877. he married Miss Ella Curry, of Danville, Pa. Dr. Faulds studied medicine with Dr. Thomp- son, of Danville, graduated from The University of Pennsylvania March I0th, ESTA, and located at Mill Hollow, Pa., April 25th, 1876, where he has since been engaged in his profession.

GEORGE II. FLANAGAN was born in Lehman and resides in Kingston. He is cashier of the Ashley Savings Bank, at. Ashley.

M. BOWMAN FOWLER was born in Espy, Columbia county, Pa., March 2th, 1849, and was married in 1869 to Carrie A. Smith, of Hazleton, Pa. Mr. Fowler is clerk of the D., L. and W. car shops at Kingston.

JOHN R. GATES and MARY GOODWIN were born in Kingston, Novem- ber 17th, 1819, and were married in 182. Mr. Gates is a farmer, and has served in various official capacities in the township and borough.

MRS. E. A. GOODWIN was born in Abington, Pa., about 1825, and was married to Philip M. Goodwin, a druggist of Kingston, in 1846. She has two sons and two daughters. Her husband died February 21st, 1874. Her maiden name was Grosvenor.

CHARLES GRAHAM is a native of Crossford, Fifeshire, Scotland, and was born April 15th, 1834. He married Miss Jane Brydon, of Dumfries, Scotland. He learned the machinist's trade, and is master mechanic of the D., L. and W. shops in Kingston. He has been in the employ of the company twenty-five years.

JOHN L. GUNTON Was born in Cambridgeshire, England, in 1817. ITis wife was Miss Jane Smith, of that county. He resides in Kingston and is a broom maker and gardener. His son W. B. Gunton was boru in Kingston, July 20th, 1858, and is a house, sign and ornamental painter.

CHARLES D. HAZELTINE was born in Kingston, in 1854, and married Miss Addic M. Mellenry, of Franklin, Pa. His business is farming.

REV. FREDERICK L. HILLER, pastor of the M. E. church at Wyoming, was born in Dover, England, in 1828, and in 1850 was married to Margaret E. Wentz, of Binghamton, N. Y. He was captain of the " Dickinson Light Artillery " in the late war, which company he assisted in raising in Broome county, N. Y.

SAMUEL HONEYWELL, farmer, was born in Dallas, in 1828, and was married December 27th, 1849, to Margaret Frantz, of Kingston, who was born June 15th, 1829.

JAMES HOWELL was born in Warren county, N. J., May 9th, 1828, and married, June 21st, 1852, Miss Kate S. Stocker, of the same county. IIc is engaged in farming and tront growing.

J. D. HOYT, of Kingston borough, was oorn there, August 13th, 1819, and in November, 1844, was married to Martha Goodwin, of Kingston. June 8th, 1853, he married Elizabeth H. Goodwin, of Kingston. Mr. Hoyt is a farmer and owner of coal lands.

H. F. JOHNSON, hardware merchant, was born in Parsons, Inzerne county, in 1847, and in 1868 was married to Lizzie Eley, of Kingston. Ile has served in various official capacities in Kingston borongh.

DR. CHARLES P. KNAPP, M. D., PH. B., was born in Wilkes- Barre, in 1853. Ile is a graduate of Lafayette College, and of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. Dr. Knapp was resident physician to the Wilkes-Barre City Hospital in 1876.

WILLIAM S. Kurz, harness maker, was born in Wilkes-Barre, in 1839, and married Mary Terry, of Tunkhannock, Wyoming county. He was burgess at Tunkhannock in 1871 and 1822.

CHARLES LAPHA was born in Kingston township, July 19th, 1815, and inarried, November 5th, 1837. Mary Jackson, of Forty Fort. who was born October 24th, 1817. Mr. Lapha is a shoemaker by trade, but at present. engaged in farming. Their children have been George W., Ruth A., Charles P., Margaret A., Matilda, Philip H., John S., Ellen E. and Rachael R .; of whom only the last two and the first are living.

MICHAEL LAPHY was born in Mill Hollow, July 13th, 1848. He was married December 9th, 1871, to Maggie A. Davis, of Wilkes-Barre. She was born in Kingston, March 22nd. 1851. Their children are Frederick C., born January 15th, 1873, and Cora May, born December 3d, 1875. Mr. Laphy was a private in Company K 18th Pennsylvania cavalry, Ile is at present ticket boss in the Hutchinson Mine, at Mill Hollow.

COL. II. A. LAYCOCK, hotel proprietor at. Wyoming, entered the military service in 1861 as Ist lieutenant in the 56th Pennsylvania vol- unteers. Ife was promoted captain in 1862, major in 1863, and lientenant colonel and colonel in 1861.

ROBERT K. LAYCOCK, carriage maker at Wyoming, was born in Kennedyville, N. J., January 24th, 1839, and married Mary E. Church, of Kingston. He established his present business in 1863.

JOHN D. LEWIS, of the meat market firm of Dymond & Lewis, was born in Exeter, in 1835, and married Louisa J. Dymond, of Exeter. Calvin Dymond was born in Exeter, in 1837, and married Angeline Lewis, of Franklin township.

HON. T. II. B. LEWIS, a native of this township, was born in Truxville, February 22ud, 1835, and married Miss Rosa M. Atherton, of Bridge-

water, Pa. Mr. Lewis is an attorney at law in Wilkes-Barre. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1875 and 1876.

ELIJAH LOVELAND was born in Norwich, Vt. He married Miss Mary Buckingham, of Lebanon, Coan., in 1815. He was one of the early settlers of Kingston and an energetic, public spirited citizen, esteemed by all who knew him. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church, and each of his sons has held the same position. His children have been Thomas B., of Lock Haven; William, who retains the old home- stead in Kingston; George, an altorney at law in Wilkes-Barre; Henry, of Steuben county, N. Y .; the late John Loveland, of Pittston and Mrs. II. M. Hoyt, now of Harrisburg.

T. P. MACFARLANE was born in Plymouth, in 1836. He married Miss M. McCulloch, of Donaldson. He is a resident of Kingston and is en- gaged in the coal business.

JOSEPH P. MASON was born in Dallas township, December 12th, 1855. He is a gardener in the employ of James Hancock, at Wyoming.

JOUN MATHERS was born in Mill Hollow, in 1813, and was married in ISH to Miss Ann Stroh, of that place. He is a millwright and farmer.

P. MCPIKE is proprietor of MePike's Hotel, Kingston.

DAVID MILES was born in Merthyr Tydvil, South Wales, in 1826, and married Margaret Hopkins, of Brigend, South Wales. He is foremau of the blacksinith department of the car shop at Kingston.

THOMAS L. MORGAN was born in Wales, in 1832. Ife married Miss Anna M. Jaines. He is outside boss for the Kingston Coal Company.

THOMAS J. MORGAN was born in Kingston, June 22nd, 1859. His wife was Miss Mary J. Jones, who was born in Wales. He is an engineer for the Kingston Coal Company.

JOHN J. MORGAN was boru in South Wales. He resides in Kingstou, and is a clerk.

WILLIAM MOSES, engineer, was born in Carbondale, in 1838, IIe mar- ried Sarah Hughes, of Carbondale (deceased), and Mary I. Ford, of Bradford county, Pa. Ile was a corporal in the 177th Pa. volunteers.

ASA MUNSON was born in Kingston, in 1827, and married Jane Harris, Ifis business is farming and fruit growing.

F. B. MYERS, farmer, was born in Kingston, Juue 10th, 1845, and was married February 16th, 1869, to Miss N. A. Mott, of Blakoly.

T. LEONARD NEWELL, bookkeeper, was born in Canton, Bradford county, Pa., May 7th, 1856. He was formerly a commercial traveler and salesman.

J. MILTON NICHOLSON is a native of Wayne county, Pa. He has been telegraph train dispatcher on the Bloomsburg division of the Dela- ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad for fifteon years; office at Kingston.

EDWARD F. PAYNE, Kingston, was born in Minersville, Pa., November 7th, 1850, and married Elsie Reith, of Kingston. He is a merchant, of the firin Payne & Perrin, and is superintendent of the East Boston inines.

WILLIAM G. PAYNE, a native of Minersville, Schuylkill county, Pa. was born July 19th, 1844, and in 1868 married Miss Ellen Roberts, of Mon- treal, Canada. He is a coal operator at the East Boston mines, Kingston.

W. G. PAYNE was born in Minersville, Pa., July 19th, 1844. His wife was Miss Ellen Roberts, of Montreal, Canada. Mr. Payne is a coal op- crator, and superintendent of the East Boston mines, near Wyoming.

CALVIN PERRIN, JR., was born November 28th, 1842, in North More- land township, Wyoming county, Pa. He was married to M. Caroline Winters, December 30th, 1864. He onlisted in Company G 210th Penn- sylvania volunteers in August, 181, and served until the close of the Rebellion. He isa merchant at Mill Hollow.

ELIZABETH POLEN, widow of the late Henry Polen, of Wyoming, was born September 20th, 1812. She is a granddaughter of Thomas Bennet, and daughter of Andrew Bennet, captured in the Wyoming massacre.

JOUN POLLOCK, proprietor of Pollock's Hotel, Wyoming, was born May 17th, 1829, in Columbia county, Pa. In 1853 he married Agnes C. Mekce, of Montour county, Pa.

SAMUEL PRINGLE was born in Plymouth, Pa., March 20th, ISIS. HFe located in Kingston in 1839, where he has since been engaged in farm- ing. He is also the owner of coal lands in Plymouth and Kingston.

SAMUEL RAUB is engaged in coul mining in Mill Hollow.

JAMES REESE was born in Kingston, in ISit, and married Miss Olive Blain, of Plymouth. They have one son, John B. Reese, born May Ist, 1876. Mr. Reese is breaker boss at the Hutchinson mine, Mill Hollow,

SARAH D. RETLAY, widow of Gilbert Reilay, was born in ISH, in her present residence, which was built in 1790. She is a granddaughter of Colonel Nathan Denison, a leader in the battle of Wyoming.

MRS. MARY BUTLER REYNOLDS WAS born al. Kingston, January 13th, 18222, and was married to Elijah W. Reynolds in 1842. Mr. Reynolds was for many years a leading merchant of Wilkes-Barre. He died at King's- ton, September 25th, 1869. Their children are Pierce Butler, William (. and John B.

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ISAAC Rice was born in Warren county, N. J., May 230, 1812, and came with bis parents to Truxville, Pa .. in ISI6. He operated a store, tannery and saw-mill from 1837 to 1856, when he located in Kingston borongh, and engaged in the mercantile and lumber business, which he still con- tinnes. He was first, married to Miss Ellen Pngh, January 24th, 1837. She died March 28th, 1840. lle next married Prudence F. Foster, Novem- ber 26th, 1840, who died January 2ud, 1867. He was married to Polly Payne, his present wife, December 10th, 1867-

T. P. Rice was born in Warren county, N. J., Angust. 5th, 1805. He was married to Sally Ann Kunkel, of Dallas, March 5th, 1829, and to Polly Rice June 2nd, 1867. Mr. Rice is at present engaged in the mer- cantile business at Truxville.

WILLIAM L. RICE was born June 5th, 1832, in Kingston township. He was married December 8th, 1855, to Lovisa Harris, of that township. lle is engaged in the manufacture of wooten goods at Truxville.

ABRAM RINKER, jr., farmer, was born in Eaton, Wyoming county, Pa., November 25th, 1839, and was married to Frances M. Burgess, of North Branch, Wyoming county, November 23d, 1865. Mr. Rinker served more than three years in the 52nd Pennsylvania volunteers.

A. J. RoAT, dealer in general hardware and mine supplies, was born in Columbia county, Pa., in 1833, came to Kingston in 1843, and married Mary A. Gabriel, of Plymouth. He was an enrolling officer during the civil war.

B. B. ROAT, a native of Kingston, was born in 1844, and was married in 1871 to Kate L. Corby, of Eaton, Wyoming county, Pa. In 1877 he engaged in trade in stoves and tinware with a capital of only $50, first occupying a small room in his dwelling; but by honorable dealing and strict attention to business his trade so rapidly increased that he was soon able to build a store of sufficient capacity to carry a large stock. Ilis patronage is now larger than that of any other house in Kingston in his branch of trade. The public has found in Mr. Roat a dealer upon whose honesty it can always rely, whose motto is small profits and quick sales.

WILLIAM L. ROBERTS is a native of Mold, North Wales. He married Charlotte Evans, of Kingston. Mr. Roberts is a miner.

MORGAN D. ROSSER is a native of Wales, and was born November 7th, 1841. His wife was Miss Mary Edwards, of Glamorganshire, South Wales. Mr. Rosser is a mine boss.

LIEUTENANT ROBERT A. SAFFORD, boss carpenter for the Kingstou Coal Company, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1844, and married Estelle Amnes, of Carbondale. He was first lieutenant in the 8th N. Y. cavalry, and served from 1861 to 1865.

REV. O. W. Scorr was born at Newbury, Orange county, Vt., Octo- ber 15th, 1842. He was educated at the Vermont Conference Methodist Episcopal Seminary, and the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. He married Miss Lucy A. Jameson, of Irasburgh, Vt. Ile entered the ministry in 1867, and was settled three years in Maine, three years in Massachusetts and six years in New Hampshire. He is the present pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Kingston.

J. P. SCHOOLEY was born in Kingston, in 1827, and married Miss Lin- dia Frantz, of Franklin, in 1849. He is a farmer.

JACOB SHARPS, farmer, was born in New Jersey, in 1807, and came to Kingston in 1816. In 1833 he married Mary A. Schooley, of Wyoming, who was born in New Jersey, in 1814.

R. McD. SHOEMAKER, farmer, was born at Forty Fort, in 1812, at which place he has becu a merchant and postmaster. Ile assisted in building the Lehigh aud Susquehanna Railroad from Wilkes-Barre to White Ilaven.

SAMUEL R. SHOEMAKER, son of Isaac C. aud Caty Ann Shoemaker, was born in Wyoming, May 1st, 1841. He was married January 7th, 1868, to Miss Jennie M. Carver, daughter of Rufus and Nancy Carver, of Wyoming. She was born March 7th, 1850. Mr. Shoemaker is joint owner and operator of the farm, grist-mill and woolen factory of the late Isaac C. Shoemaker, of Wyoming.

WILLIAM S. SHOEMAKER was born at Wyoming, February 19th, 1820, and married March 11th, 1841, to Miss Mary Tripp, daughter of Isaac Tripp, of Providence, Lackawanna county, Pa. He is a farmer and manufacturer of terra cotta ware at Wyoming. His father, Jacob I., and grandfather, Isaac Shoemaker, were among the carly settlers of the Wyoming valley. Mr. Tripp, father of Mrs. Shoemaker, was an early settler in the Lackawanna valley.

JACOB I. SHOEMAKER was born at Wyoming, April 7th, 1839. He was married December 23d, 1863, to Miss M. M. Sharps, of Wyoming, who was born October 27th, 1843. Mr. Shoemaker is engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods at Wyoming, and in a general milling business.

GEORGE W. SHONK was born in Plymouth, Pa., April 26th, 1850. He is an attorney and counselor at law at Plymouth.

WILLIAM SILVERWOOD, a native of Sheffield, England, born in 1827, emigrated to Kingston, Pa., in 1859, and February 17th, 1864, married Mary A. La Bar, of Upper Mt. Bethel, Pa. They had three children- Jennie, born February 5th, 1865, died April 14th, 1868; Willie, born Feb- ruary 20th, 1867, and Frank, born July 7th. 1869. Mr. Silverwood was a broom manufacturer. He died May 14th, 1872.

THOMAS SOMERS came to Kingston in 1856, and engaged in business as a tailor, which he has continued to the present time.

REv. L. L. SPRAGUE, A. M., was born in the town of Beekman, Dutchess county, N. Y., December 2, 1844. Ile was educated at Le Raysville Academy, Eastinan's Business College and Wyoming Semi- nary. His degree of A. M. was conferred by Allegheny College. I September, 1863, he took charge of the Le Raysville Academy at Le Raysville, Bradford county, Pa., and in 1868 was elected to his present position of principal of the commercial department of Wyoming Seminary. lle joined the Wyoming Conference of the M. E. Church in April, 1844. He was married December 2nd, 1868, to Jennie E. Russell, of Otego, Otsego county, N. Y.

WILLIE S. Tripp, son of Holden and Sally Tripp, was born November 12th, 1854, at Wyoming. His father was born October 15th, 1824, at Seranton, and died December 30th. 1870. Ifis mother was born March 31st, 1825, and died May Hth, 1878, at. Wyoming. The other children of 1Iolden and Sally Tripp are Sterling B., Marcia A., Lizzie D., Charles C. and Ira Il. Tripp.

ALANSON B. TYRRELL was born in Watertown, Conn., June Sth, 1833. His wife was Miss Susan S. Marks, of Waterbury, Conn. He is a con- tractor, carpenter and builder.

J. C. VANLOON, proprietor of a meat market, was born in East Nanti- coke, August 7th, 1842, and in 1868 married Mary E. Pettebone, of Kings- ton.

HENRY VANSCOY is the proprietor of the Kingston bakery and ice cream saloon, opposite MePike's Hotel.

GEORGE W. WADDELL, assistant superintendent of the Mill Hollow colliery, was born in Pittston, in 1853, and in 1879 was married to Carrie D. Decker, of New York city.

JAMES WADDELL was born in Scotland, in 1835, and emigrated in 1852. He married Maria Williams, of Carbondale, Pa. He has long been en- gaged in mining, and is superintendent of mines in Mill Hollow.

MRS. C. A. WAMBOLD is a resident of Kingston borough.

CONRAD Z. WARNICK, foreman in the paint department of the ear shops, was born in Monroe county, Pa., in 1842, and married Jane E. Smith, of Blairstown, N. J. He served in the 174th Pa. militia, and two years in the 3d N. J. cavalry under General Custer.

PHINEAS A. WATT, baker and confectioner, was born in Prompton, Wayne county, Pa., in 1846, and in 1870 was married to Louisa Pool, of Kingston. lle is an overseer of breaker machinery.

. REV. HENRY HUNTON WELLES was born in Wyalusing, Bradford county, Pa., September 15th, 1824. He was married October 12th, 1849, to Miss Ellen S. Ladd, daughter of General Samuel G. Ladd, of Hallo- well, Maine. Mr. Welles served the Kingston Presbyterian church as its pastor from December 1st, 1850, to April 1st, 1871, and is at present en- gaged in the home missionary work, and also supplies the pulpit of tlie Presbyterian church at Plains.

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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 92

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