History of Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming counties, Pa.; with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers, Part 95

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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The burgesses of the borough have been as follows: From December, 1857, to March, 1860, Reuben Jones; 1860, 1865, 1869, 1872, 1874, 1877, 1879, 1880, Ira Carl; 1866-68, Reuben Jones; 1873, Henry Van Scoy; 1878, C. W. Boone. The town council for 18So consisted of John Hoyt (president), Charles Graham, Abram Nesbitt, Bowen Baldwin, John Pettebone, Henry Van Scoy and E. J. Davis (clerk).

The following are the names and years of election of the justices of the peace for Kingston borough: Reuben Jones, 1858, 1862, 1867, 1872; Zebulon B. Hoyt, 1858; Alfred Daste, jr., 1866, 1871; Ira Carle, 1875; C. W. Boone, 1877.

THE VILLAGE IN 1880.

The business interests of the borough are in the hands of comparatively few persons. There are two churches, Methodist Episcopal and Presbyterian. Here is located the Wyoming (M. E.) Conference Seminary, and there are three district school-houses with four schools. Mer- cantile business is carried on by Edwards & Co., C. P. Dodson & Co., and R. H. Dodson & Brother, on Rail- road avenue; Laycock & Pringle, on Main street; J. C. Hutchinson, on the Blind Town road; and Hayward, on Page street. The large three-story brick store, on Main street, occupied by C. P. Dodson & Co. was built in 1873, and that of Edwards & Co. in 1876. The druggists of the borough are A. Goodwin, Main street and Railroad avenue; R. H. Tubbs, Main street; and Evans & Son, Railroad avenue. The hardware merchants are A. J. Root and H. F. Johnson, Main street; and B. B. Root Chestnut street. The merchant tailors are Christian Bach, on Main street, and T. Somers, on Railroad avenne. Mrs. C. A. Wambold is engaged in the cabinet and upholstering business, and the harness business is carried on by George F. Kutz, on Main street, and Charles Turpin, on Railroad avenue. The blacksmiths are Jacobs & Van Horn, and C. W. Boughtin, Main street, opposite McPike's Hotel. The boot and shoe business is conducted by Joel Walp, on the west side of Railroad avenue. The marble works on Main street are owned and operated by Chandler & Pringle. The steam planing

mill and lumber yard on Railroad avenue is owned and operated by John Keller. The hotels are McPike's, at the corner of Main street and Railroad avenue, built in 1878, of brick; the Kingston House, kept by P. Wolcott, near the railroad depot; and the Exchange Hotel, on Main street. Shops of the D., L. & W. railroad are lo- cated here, with Charles Graham as superintendent. They employ on an average 220 men annually.

The popuation of the borough is 1, 426.

CHURCHES OF KINGSTON BOROUGH. METHODIST EPISCOPAL.

In 1788, four years after the Methodist denomination was regularly organized in the United States, Rev. Anning Owen, the pioneer Methodist preacher, organized the first " class" at Rose Hill. Occasional lectures and sermons by Methodist itinerants were had until the beginning of the century, among the preachers being Revs. Valentine Cook, Alward White, Marmaduke Pearce and Elias Bowen. From ISoo to 1840 Kingston was included in a " circuit," and was served from year to year by regularly appointed preachers, the place of meet- ing being a small building erected for the purpose on what was known as Plymouth street. Among the min- isters during these forty years were Revs. H. T. Rowe, King Elwell, A. J. Crandall, George H. Blakeslee, F. H. Stanton, E. Owen, V. Coryell, and William Rounds.

In 1840 Rev. John B. Benham was appointed. Dur- ing his pastorate, in 1841, the society erected its first church edifice very near the site of the present one. The stockholders unanimously chose as building commit- tee Madison F. Meyers, Thomas Pringle, and William Hancock. The corner stone was laid in July. The edifice was built by R. Marcy, Esq., was 50 feet long and 36 feet wide, and cost $2,300; the entire expense being covered by subscription, with no debt. From this time the growth of the society was constant. The following named ministers served the society, as nearly as can be ascer- tained: 1840, 1841, John B. Benham; 1842, 1843, L. S. Bennett and William Reddy; 1844, George H. Blakeslee; 1845, 1846, P. G. White; 1847, Thomas Pearne; 1848, P. Worden.

In 1848, during the pastorate of. Mr. Worden the so- ciety was legally incorported. The incorporation act bears date April 3d, 1848, and is signed by Henry W Boughton, Thomas Pringle, Bester Payne, William Han- cock and Madison F. Myers. From 1849 to 1876 the fol- lowing ministers served the society: 1849, E. P. Williams; 1850, H. R. Clark; 1851, Asel Bronson; 1852, C. H. Har- vey; 1853, T. D. Walker; 1854, C. W. Giddings; 1855, S. S. Kennedy; 1856, W. W. Welsh; 1857, J. J. Pearce; 1858, C. Perkins; 1859, Asa Brooks; 1860, 1861, Wil- iam J. Judd; 1862, 1863, 1. Cole; 1864-66, Byron D). Sturtevant.

During the pastorate of Rev. Mr. Sturtevant the church edifice was enlarged by the addition of twenty-seven feet to the rear, making it seventy-seven feet by thirty-six feet. It was also remodeled inside.

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From 1866 to 1872 the following clergymen served as pastors: 1867-69, Ira T. Walker; 1870-72, George R. Hair.

February roth, 1872, the church was burned. With commendable promptness and zeal the society began to agitate the project of a new edifice, and meanwhile wor- shiped in the seminary chapel. The project was favor- ably received, and this effort resulted in the immediate erection of the present elegant building, with a seating capacity of 800, at a cost of $58,000. The building com- mittee consisted of Alexander J. Pringle and Abram Nes- bitt. . The service of dedication was conducted by Rev. William Penn Abbott, D. D., of New York city, and Rev. B. I. Ives, D. D., of Auburn, N. Y. At this service a large proportion of the expense of building was sub- scribed by the people. A large and handsome parsonage on the same lot was built about the same time, at an ex- pense of $6,000. From 1872 to 1880 the society was served by the following named clergymen: 1873, H. V. Talbott; 1874, 1875, Philip Krohn; 1876-78, Henry Wheeler; 1879, 1880, O. W. Scott.

At the Wyoming Conference of 1879 the following sta- tistics of the Kingston society were reported: Members, 270; probationers, 37; members of Sunday-school, 211; collected for the benevolent work of the denomination, $356; preacher's support, $1,300 and parsonage.

During a greater part of the history of the society a Sunday-school has been maintained. Madison F. Myers was the first superintendent; P. M. Carhart has served in this capacity for the last six years.

The ladies of the church maintain an "Aid Society," which has the following officers: President, Mrs. L. L. Sprague; vice-presidents, Mrs. Rev. O. W. Scott, Mrs. John Van Loon; secretary, Mrs. George K. Powell; treasurer, Miss Martha Locke. This society is very ac- tive in raising funds to assist in church work. There is also a ladies' missionary society here, auxiliary to the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. denomination. The officers are: President, Mrs. Rev. O. W. Scott; vice-president, Mrs. A. Safford; secretary, Mrs. C. C. Lovejoy; treasurer, Mrs. John Van Loon.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF KINGSTON.

The Church of Christ of Wilkes-Barre and Kingston, a Congregational church from which sprung the Presby- terian churches of Wilkes-Barre and Kingston, included in its membership a number of people living on the west- erly side of the Suquehanna. In 1818, through the preaching of two missionaries-Rev. Eleazer Barrows and Rev. Hutchins Taylor-a revival of religion was had re- sulting in the conversion of many people, chiefly in the township of Kingston. The members living in Kingston were given a separate organization by a council of min- isters at the house of Daniel Hoyt March 2nd, 1819. The original members were twenty-four in number, of whom twenty were received on certificates of dismission from the church of Wilkes-Barre and Kingston, viz .: Mary R., Daniel, Abel, Sylinna and Rucy Hoyt, Nehe- miah and Betsey Ide, Henry and Harriet Buckingham, Asa C. Whitney, Elijah Loveland, William and Salome

Ticknor, John Huff, John Gore, Nancy Dorrance, Cla- rissa Brown, Abigail and Silas H. Orcutt and Sybil Wheeler; the remaining four being received on profession of faith, viz., Ebenezer Brown, Hannah Hughes, Lucy Smith, Parthena Gordon.

The church elected Daniel Hoyt and William Ticknor deacons, Daniel Hoyt moderator and Henry Bucking- ham clerk. It was incorporated on the 23d of March, 1819, under the name of the " Presbyterian Congregation of Kingston," making it the first distinctively Presbyterian congregation established in Luzerne county. Notwith- standing its name, however, and the fact that it sent a delegate regularly to the meetings of the Susquehanna Presbytery-deacon Daniel Hoyt being the first one sent-the church continued to be Congregational in its government until the 6th of July, 1823, when John Gore, Henry Hise, Abel Hoyt, George Albright and Elijah Loveland were duly set apart to the office of ruling elder; and from that time the church has been Presbyterian in government as well as doctrine.

The Kingston church in its early days was a mission church, occupying the territory from Plymouth to Exeter and as far back as Lehman and Bowman's Creek, where lived some of its members. Until 1842 it held its meet- ings in different places, often at the house of Daniel Hoyt, on the corner of Main and Pringle streets, also at the academy, which was located on Main street near the present residence of Mrs. Elijah Reynolds. Some- times they are held at the old Forty Fort church, and sometimes in the village of Wyoming, at a small meeting house erected by Jacob Shoemaker on a lot now included in the cemetery at that place. In 1841 the congregation fixed upon a spot on the main road near the northern line of the present borough of Kingston, where they erected a tasty frame church capable of seating about 300 people, and costing about $2,500, which they dedicated on the 13th of November, 1842, and occupied until Jan- uary, 1876.

The upper portion of the congregation was organized into a church at Wyoming in 1847. A lecture-room was built, at a cost of about $1,000, in the borough of Kings- ton in 1853 for evening service and Sabbath-school pur- poses. The new brick church on the corner of Railroad and Maple streets was dedicated on the 26th of January, 1876. This church is capable of seating about 500 peo- ple, and cost, including lot, about $48,000.

For more than two years after its organization the church had no pastor, but depended for preaching upon the missionaries who visited the valley, chiefly the Rev. H. Taylor. In August, 1821, Rev. Cyrus Gildersleeve was installed as its first pastor, in conjunction with the Wilkes-Barre church; from which time, with occasional intermissions, it has had a pastor and stated public ser- vice. The following is a list of the pastors, with date of service: Rev. Cyrus Gildersleeve, August 2nd, 182 1, to 1827; Rev. Nicholas Murray, 1829-33; Rev. Alexander Heberton, 1833, 1834; Rev. E. H. Snowden, 1837-45; Rev. J. Delville Mitchell, 1845-47; Rev. J. Jermain Porter, 1847-50; Rev. Henry H. Wells, 1851-71; Rev. W. P.

RESIDENCE of PAYNE PETTEBONE, WYOMING, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA.

RESIDENCE of COL. CHARLES DORRANCE , KINGSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA.

Das J. Williams. ARCHBALD, LACKAWANNA COUNTY, PA.

Day Synchy OLYPHANT, LACKAWANNA COUNTY, PA.

JOHN CAMPBELL, CARBONDALE, LACKAWANNA COUNTY, PA.

JOHN HOSIE, SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO., PA.

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Gibson, 1871-75; Rev. F. W. Flint, pastor elect, 1876 to the present time.

From 1834 to 1837 the congregation had stated preach- ing by Rev. C. C. Corss, who occupied a large missionary field.

The following is a list of the ruling elders, with the year of their ordination: 1823, John Gore, Henry Hise, Abel Hoyt, George Albright and Elijah Loveland; 1828, Hor- ace Parker; 1836, Charles Fuller; 1838, Ezra Hoyt; 1844, Charles 1). Shoemaker and Ziba Hoyt; 1853, James W. Abbott and George W. Loveland: 1858, Samuel G. Ladd and Marshall G. Whitney; 1863, George Reith; 1867, Frederic Corss and T. H. B. Lewis; 1871, James Vannan and William Loveland; 1877, H. B. Payne and William R. Brink; 1880, M. B. Fowler, William F. Church and Amos Shortz.

The following is a list of the deacons, with the year of their appointment: 1819, Daniel Hoyt and William Tick- nor; 1823, John Gore; 1873, B. J. Cruser, Amos Shortz and Charles Hutchinson.

The membership has ranged from 60 to 170, its present number.

The Sabbath-school has long been a prominent feature of this church. Prior to 1819 there had been established a neighborhood or union Sabbath-school, which met at the academy in the upper end of the village of Kingston until the year 1842. About this time the Methodists, hav- . ing erected a house of worship in the village, established a school of their own, and the Presbyterians removed their school into their new church, where it continued until removed into the new lecture-room in the village, in :853, and finally into the new Maple street church in October, 1875. In its early days the leading spirits in the work seem to have been Henry Buckingham, Elijah Loveland and William Barker, a very large majority of the admis- sions to church membership on confession of faith having come from the Sabbath-school. Since Mr. Loveland the superintendents have been: Samuel G. Ladd, 1858-61; H. B. Payne, 1861-73; T. H. B. Lewis, 1873-78 and H. B. Payne, from 1878 to this time. The school now consists of 4 officers, 18 teachers and an average at- tendance of 160 pupils. The library contains about 500 volumes. Five of the eight ruling elders are officers and teachers. During the pastorate of Rev. J. J. Porter a branch school was maintained for a while at Mill Hol- low, and again in 1868 a school was established there under the superintendency of T. H. B. Lewis, assisted mainly by Mrs. Margaret Denison and Mrs. Amelia D. Abbott. This school continued for about two years, and became afterward the Sabbath-school of the Bennett Pres- byterian Church.

LODGES AT KINGSTON VILLAGE. KINGSTON LODGE, NO. 395, F. AND A. M.

This lodge was instituted August 8th, 1867. The char- ter members were Charles Graham, R. S. Adams, Thomas H. Niven, William Bryden, Forbes 11. Vannan, James

Vannan, Edward R. Preston, Peter Woolcot, David Miles, David 1. Sligh and James P. Wilkinson.

The charter officers were: Charles Graham, W. M .; Royal S. Adams, S. W .; Thomas H. Niven, J. W .; Ed- ward R. Preston, secretary; James Vannan, treasurer (now the oldest mason in the State).

The regular meetings of the lodge are held on Wednes- day evenings on or before the full of the moon in each month. in Masonic Hall, corner of Main and Plymouth streets.

The list of past masters is as follows: Charles Gra- ham, Erastus Hill, Frederick Corss, Alfred Darte, jr .; William H. Squarey, Alanson B. Tyrrell, Charles Hutch- inson, Hubbard B. Payne, William Bryden, William F. Church, P. Butler Reynolds, James H. Franck, Conrad Z. Warnick.

The officers for 1880 were: George H. Flanagan, W. M .; Luther C. - Darte, S. W .; John Grant, J. W .; Alanson B. Tyrrell, treasurer; William F. Church, secretary.

KINGSTON LODGE, NO. 709, 1. 0. 0. F.

This lodge was instituted May 19th, 1870, with 20 charter members.

The first officers were: A. Kline, N. G .; J. H. Franck, V. G .; J. Milton Nicholson, secretary; Amos Shortz, as- sistant secretary; P. McPike, treasurer.

The presiding officers since the organization have been J. H. Franck, Amos Shortz, D. R. Prendergast, F. F. Franck, S. P. Harder, J. H. Labar, Wm. Cortright, J. C. Van Loon, John Wallace, Alexander Nicol, J. H. Harder, Richard Payne, Alexander Scott, Robert Cooper, Robert Wallace, J. N. Colver, Joel Walp, Charles Wiggins and Ira De Silva.

The officers in 1880 were: W. J. McCreary, N. G .; Christian Bach, V. G .; Alexander Nicol, secretary; C. W. Fairchild, assistant secretary; J. H. Franck, treasurer.

There are 54 members. Meetings are held Tuesday evening of each week in Keller's Hall.

KINGSTON LODGE, NO. 1,797, KNIGHTS OF HONOR.

This lodge was organized September 26th, 1879, with 21 charter members.

The original officers of the lodge were: Dictator, A. B. Tyrrell; assistant dictator, E. C. Green; vice-dictator, J. C. Van Loon; reporter, T. I. Newell; financial re- porter, R. A. Hutchinson; treasurer, N. A. Laycock; chaplain, M. B. Fowler; G., J. A. Linn; guard, C. Wiggins; sentinel, E. C. Starbird; past dictator, C. W. Broughton.

The regular meetings of the lodge are held on the evenings of the second and fourth Wednesday of each month in Odd Fellows' Hall. The present membership is 22.

The officers in April, 1880, were: Dictator, E. C. Green; vice-dictator, J. C. Van Loon; assistant dietator, Charles Wiggins; reporter, T. L. Newell; financial re- porter, R. A. Hutchinson; treasurer, N. H. Laycock; G., J. A. Sinn; guard, J. R. Wright; S., H. F. Johnson; chaplain, H. C. Conover; past dictator, A. B. Tyrrell.

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HISTORY OF LUZERNE COUNTY.

LAKE TOWNSHIP.

TAKE township, so called from Harvey's lake, was formed from Lehman and Monroe in 1840. A small part was set back in Monroe at the division of the county in 1841. The soil, except on the mountains, is fertile, and fine fruit is raised along the base of the mountains. The population is 863, though but 597 in 1870. Harvey's lake covers 1, 285 acres; the water is of great purity. Perch and trout are indigenous; pike were placed in the lake by Hollenback & Urquhart, who owned nearly the whole of Lake township at one time. Salmon were put in the lake in 1876, by the State authorities.

FIRST INHABITANTS.

The first white man who lived in Lake township was Matthew Scouten, who was employed by the owners of the land to look after the property, as early as 1792. He cleared a small tract, where Jacob Sorber afterward set- tled, and set out a few apple trees.

Daniel Lee settled at the head of Pike's creek in 1806, and the marsh is called Lee's pond, from him. He was employed by the farmers of Plymouth to care for cattle, which were driven here to graze during the summer.

Otis Allen came from Jackson township in 1836, and began clearing in the vicinity of Lee's pond. He brought his family in the spring of 1838. During this year Jo- siah, Nathan and Stephen Kocher, brothers, moved into the township from Hunlock township, and John Jackson, Andrew Freeman, Thomas Lewis and Ephraim King arrived. In 1839 Jonah Roberts, Elon Davenport, Dan- iel Casebear, David Moss and John Fosnot came, and in 1840 Moses C. Perrigo, Jacob Sorber, Jonah Bronson and Jonathan Williams. Previous to 1845 Clarke Wolfe, Jesse Kitchen, George P. Shupp, James Hawley and Ed- ward Ide became residents.

BUSINESS HISTORY.

Hollenback & Urquhart built a saw-mill on the out- let of Harvey's lake in 1839. Joseph Frantz built the mill known as the Wildrick mill in 1843. It burned in 1879. Nathan Kocher built a small mill a mile below the site of the Beaver Run tannery in 1845. The mill now owned by S. Raub was built by Mr. Benjamin in 1847. A lath and shingle mill is connected with this one. Jonathan Williams built a small mill on Harvey's creek for Kocher & Urquhart in 1849. One was built by Otis Allen in 1860 on Pike's creek. George Snyder and Ira B. Sorber built the mills now owned by them in 1866. F. A. and E. Williams erected a steam portable mill on the site of the Wildrick mill, in 1879. The first grist-mill was put up by Hollenback & Urquhart in 1840. They built a new one in 1860 just below. A planing-mill was erected by the same parties. All the mills formerly belonging to Hollenback & Urquhart

are now (1879) the property of the Hoffman Lumber Company.

The first road through the township was chopped out by the proprietors about 1795 to induce settlement, and ran from Wilkes-Barre to Bradford county.

All the early settlers lived in log houses except Otis Allen and Jacob Sorber, who built block houses. The first frame dwelling was erected by Josiah Kocher in 1843. The Kocher brothers were carpenters, as were the sons of Otis Allen. The Allens were also millwrights. Stephen Kocher was the first blacksmith in Lake town- ship.

The first store was kept by Hollenback & Urquhart for the benefit of the men in their employ from about 1850 until 1860. F. N. Ruggles established a store near the southeast corner of the township in 1872, and sold out in 1874 to his brother C. W. Ruggles, who still continues the business. James Sorber kept a store at Booth's Corners in 1863-65. Ruggles & Shonk have a store in connec- tion with their tannery. Simeon Lewis has kept store since 1871.

The Ruggles & Shonk tannery was built in 1874. The firm had built a saw-mill in 1872, which burned in the fall of that year and was rebuilt in 1873. The tannery building is 225 by 24, and 212 stories high, and contains 46 vats. The beam house is 24 by 60. There are 14 men employed at the tannery and 7 around the mill. The tannery uses 1,200 cords of bark per year, which is peeled in the vicinity.

The Lake House, on the east shore of Harvey's lake, was built by Henry Hancock and Jonathan Husted in 1857. It is 86 by 36, with a wing 52 by 32. The propri- etor, J. W. Rhoads, has a large number of boats, and the lake is a popular resort for fishing and gunning.

CEMETERIES.

. The first person buried in Lake township was Otis Allen, who died in January, 1842, aged 56 years. He was buried in the Allen cemetery. In September, 1842, Samuel C. Allen was buried here. The first person bur- ied in the Kocher cemetery was Stephen Kocher, who died in September, 1842. The first in the West Corner cemetery was Mrs. Sarah Perrigo, wife of Moses C. Per- rigo, June 26th, 1852; the next Martin M., son of Moses C. Perrigo, May 2nd, 1853, aged 4 years. The first burial in the White cemetery was that of Eva A., daughter of Theodore Wolfe, who died August 2nd, 1872, aged 2 months; then Gabriel Valentine, a stranger who died in the vicinity. The third was Mrs. Margaret Sny- der, wife of Henry Snyder, who died September 2nd, 1872, aged 79.

SCHOOLS.

The first school in Lake was taught by Jonathan Wil- liams at the house of Otis Allen during the winters of 1842 and 1843 and 1843 and 1844. A school-house was built during the summer of 1844 on the farm of Henry Ide. The first school-house at West Corner was taught by a Mr. Williams in the winters of 1847 and 1848 and 1848

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and 1849, in the house of Nathan Kocher. A school-house was built here in 1849, and Miss Eliner Montross en- gaged as teacher. Mr. Williams also taught the first school at the outlet, during the winter of 1849 and 1850. In 1878 there were seven schools, with an average atten- dance of 119 pupils, and $1,002.21 were expended for educational matters.

MAIL FACILITIES.

Lewis Allen was the first postmaster. The office was called Lake. This office has been moved several times and is now at the Outlet Mills. J. C. Morgan is post- master. The other offices are Ruggles, Josiah Ruggles, postmaster; Pike's Creek, C. W. Ruggles postmaster; Fade's Creek, L. Hawley postmaster, and Loyalville, W. I. Booth postmaster. Mails are brought to Lake and Ruggles from Kingston three times a week; to Pike's Creek, Fade's Creek and Loyalville from Nanticoke once a week.

THE SUCCESSION OF TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS.

Supervisors .- Jonathan Williams, 1842 ; Stephen Koeher, 1842, 1843 ; John Fosnot, 1813; Lewis Allen, 1844 ; Ira Bronson, 1844-46; Daniel Casebear, 1845-48, 1865; Joseph Frantz, 1847, 1848, 1861 ; Jacob Welda, 1849-51; Jesse Kitchen, 1849; Adna T. Aldrich, 1850; Josiah Koeher, 1851-54, 1558, 1866; Joseph A. Booth, 1852-54; Henry Ide, 1854, 1855; John B. Kocher, 1856, 1860; Garret Durland, 1856; G. P. Shupp, 1857, 1562 ; Joseph Worden, 1857; F. A. Williams, 1859, 1860; J. G. Sutton, 1859, 1879; Joseph L. Bilby, 1860 ; S. Anderson, 1861; J. D. Whitesell, 1862; Moses C. Perrigo, 1863 ; William Gray, 1864; Nathan Beard, 1864; J. R. Brown, 1865; Antony Foss, 1860 ; L. R. Williams, 1867; Nathan Kocher, 1867-75; G. H. Bronson, 1869-72, 1874, 1875; Peter Wentz, 1873; Edward Williams, 1876, 1377 ; John Weber, 1876 ; George Hoover, 1877 ; L. D. Kocher, 1878; Simon Belles, 1878, 1879.

Town Clerks .- Curtis Allen, 1843; William Allen, 1844; J. Williams, 1852, 1853, 1855-61 ; G. H. Bronson, 1854; Joel Roberts, 1861-63; David Kocher, 1865 ; Stephen Scott, 1866; T. T. Kocher, 1867-70 ; W. J. Booth, 1870, 1871 ; H. Delong, 1872, 1873; F. N. Allen, 1874-77; B. W. Ide, 1878; A. J. Mecker, 1879.

Justices (with years of election) .- Ira Bronson, 1842; Nathan Kocher, 1844, 1860, 1865 ; Jonathan Williams, 1847, 1852 ; Horace Hawley, 1850 ; John G. Sutton, 1855; Levi N. Hawley, 1859; Helan Davenport, 1864; C. B. Dnrland, 1863; F. A. Williams, 1870 ; Thomas T. Kocher, 1822 ; L. N. Haw- ley, 1875; C. H. Anderson, 1877.

CHURCHES.

The people of Lake depended entirely upon preachers from other towns for several years. Meetings were held at the houses of the different settlers until the erection of school-houses. The first preacher was Elder Clark, a "Christian " minister from Plymouth. After him came a Methodist named Davie. These men preached wher- ever the people would come out to hear.

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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 95

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