History of Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming counties, Pa.; with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers, Part 97

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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MATTHIAS EROH, farmer, is a native of Hollenback township, and was born April 15th, 1832. He has been school director, collector and treasurer, and is the pres- ent supervisor of Dorrance. His wife was Miss Mary Maria Spade, of Dorrance.

C. S. FARGO, who has charge of the depot of the Cen- tral Railroad of New Jersey at Wanamie, was born at Montrose, Pa., September 18th, 1842. He married Miss Mary E. Swisher, of Mill City, Wyoming county, who died June 28th, 1878. Mr. Fargo was formerly engaged in mercantile pursuits. He served three years in the 9th Pennsylvania cavalry and has been postmaster three years.

NELSON FORTNER is a native of Conyngham, Pa., and was born February 7th, 1820. He is a farmer and grain grower. He was drafted during the Rebellion and paid $300 commutation. He married Miss Mary Ann Peck, of Salein township.

FRANKLIN FORTNER, farmer, was born August 24th, 1818, in Sugarloaf township. He is school director and township auditor. He married Miss Harriet Williams, of Nescopeck.

AARON W. GEORGE, salesman for H. H. Ashley & Co. at Wanamie, was born at Lyon Valley, Lehigh county, June 16th, 1849. He married Miss Maggie H. Love, of Plymouth. Mr. George was formerly engaged in teach- ing.

P. H. Goon is a native of Nescopeck township, and was born September 17th, 1832. He married Miss

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HISTORY OF LUZERNE COUNTY.

Catharine Fenstermacher, of Salem, Pa. He has been school director and supervisor, and is now a farmer.

Z. G. GORDON, wheelwright and blacksmith, was born September 3d, 1846, in Lehman, and married Sarah E. Rice, of that township.

JOHN GRUVER, farmer in Newport township, was born in Northumberland county, July 28th, 1807, and came to Newport in 1812. He married Miss Elizabeth Thomas, of Montgomery county, who died August 3d, 1871. He was formerly a landlord.

GEORGE W. GULDIN was born in Pottstown, Pa., Sep- tember 20th, 1851, and married Miss Mary E. Moyer, of Dorrance. His present business is farming and lumber- ing.

S. J. HARLACHER, born in Nescopeck township, Jan- uary Ist, 1824, married Miss Rebecca Eroh, of Dor- rance township. Mr. Harlacher was formerly engaged in lumbering, but is now working at his trade as a carpenter.

J. W. HARTER, a farmer and resident of Wapwallopen, was born in Salem, Pa., June 17th, 1854. His wife was Miss M. A. Weiss, of Conyngham.

A. W. HARTER is a native of Salem township, and was born January 31st, 1844. He is a farmer. Mrs. Harter was Miss Anna Eliza Whitebread, of Hollenback.

N. S. HAUSER was formerly engaged in railroading, and is now keeping a hotel at South Fairview. He was born in Schuylkill county, Pa., April 9th, 1839, and mar- ried Mary Lentz, of Lehigh county. He has been school director and served nine months in the 173d Pennsylva- nia volunteers.

ALBERT D. HAY, farmer, was born in New - Jersey, September 24th, 1854. His wife, who was of Dallas township, was Elizabeth Brace.

RENATUS HELLER was born in Sugarloaf township, October 13th, 1823. He married Miss Cathare Swearer, of Butler township. Mr. Heller is a farmer and lumber- man. There is said to be a valuable deposit of zinc ore on his farm in Dorrance.

JOSEPH HESS was born August 21st, 1812, in Conyng- ham township. He has been supervisor, assessor, school director and overseer of the poor of that township, and is now a farmer. He has been married twice.

STEPHEN HESS, farmer, was born April 5th, 1827. He has been overseer and school director of Conyngham. His wife was Miss Susan Knorr, of Brier Creek township, Pa.

JEREMIAH HESS was born in Salem township, Novem- ber 8th, 1808. He has been overseer of poor, school director, and supervisor of his township for ten years. He married Miss Sarah Walp, of Conyngham.

J. W. Houck is a native of Union township, Schuylkill county, Pa., and was born November 20th, 1841. He was married to Miss Sarah Swank, of Beaver township, Pa. Mr. Houck is a miller.

DAVID IDE, a lifelong resident of Lehman township, was born April 16th, 1825, and has served as justice of the peace twenty-one years. He has been town clerk. Mrs. Ide, whose maiden name was Jane E. Vanderlyn, was of Lehman township.

J. O. IDE, who was born in Lehman township, July 22nd, 1828, has been justice of the peace ten years, and has been D. D. G. M. of the I. O. O. F., 4th district of Luzerne county. He married Charlotte A. Wesley, of Ross township, who died August 9th, 1858, and he sub- sequently married Margaret Shires, of Lone Rock, Rich-

land county, Wis. Mr. Ide is a carpenter by trade but is now farming.

S. P. IDE, farmer, is a native of Lehman township, and was born December 10th, 1818. Mr. Ide's first mar- riage was with Mary A. Green, of Newark, N. J., who died November 3d, 1867. His present wife was Marga- ret Montanye, who was the widow of William L. Dyman, of Monroe township, Wyoming county, Pa.

JAMES JACKSON, of Slocum, who has lived in Luzerne - county forty-eight years, .was born in Northampton county, August 19th, 1826. He married Miss Lucy Ros- encranz, of Slocum. He was formerly engaged in lum- bering, but is now farming. He has been town clerk.

F. P. KENNEDY, telegraph operator at Solomon's Gap for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, is a native of Cornwall, Lebanon county, Pa., and was born July 20th, 1854. He was formerly a book agent.

J. A. KEPNER was born January 3d, 1850, in Juniata township, Perry county, Pa. He is a justice of the peace and township auditor; also a local preacher, and now carpenter at the Dupont Powder Mills. His wife was Miss Lydia Myers, of Slocum township.

ABRAM A. KETCHAM, farmer, formerly a carpenter, was born in Orange county, N. Y., July 17th, 1813, and married Maria Fuller, of Huntsville, Lehman township.

JOHN La FRANCE, of Penobscot, is a native of Scran- ton, and was born April 20th, 1842. Mrs. La France was Miss Theresa Bellows, of Salem, Wayne county, Pa. Mr. La France was a member of the 187th Pa. volunteers in the civil war. He was formerly engaged in railroad- ing, and is now a locomotive engineer.

C. O. LEARN, blacksmith, was born in Wilkes-Barre, March 25th, 1851, and married Isabella Mathers, of Taylorville.

WALTER T. LEAS, superintendent for the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company at Wanamie, was born at Tunkhannock, in 1841. He married Miss Mary T. Quick, of Wilkes-Barre. He was formerly a contractor.

ROBERT O. LEAS, outside foreman at Wanamie, was born in Logan county, Ohio, in 1836. He married Miss Margaret Moore, of Dunmore, Pa. He was formerly a carpenter and builder.

GEORGE P. LINDSAY, manager of the store of H. H. Ashley & Company, at Wanamie, was born in Plains township, September 25th, 1855. He was formerly a clerk.

REDMOND LINE was born in Hanover township, Octo- ber 26th, 1840, and married Mary Shafer, of Wright township. He was a member of the 52nd Pa. volunteers. He was at one time a lumberman, but is now an engineer on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, residing at Moun- tain Top.

ROBERT MAJOR, retired farmer, was born in Yorkshire, England, March 3d, 1809. He married Sarah Adleman, of Union township.

S. C. MANDEVILLE, farmer, was born in Dallas town- ship, September 27th, 1824, and married Frances B. Ful- ler, of Jackson township.

JAMESON MEEKER, farmer and lumberman, was born in Huntington, December 7th, 1821. He married Mary Dunbar, of White Haven.

A. J. MEEKER was born in Wright township, May 16th, 1852, and married Frances E. McKee, of the township of Lehman. He is a lumberman and has been town clerk.

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E. D. J. MEYERS, foreman in the Central Railroad car-shop at Penobscot, is a native of Whitehall township, Lehigh county, and was born January 23d, 1848. He married Elmira Viege, of North Whitehall, in that county. He has been president of the board of school directors of Wright township.

JAMES W. MOORE, who was born in Dallas township, December 14th, 1846, has resided in Slocum nine years. He married Miss Fidelia S. Hontz, of Ross township. He is engaged in farming.

WILLIAM MORGAN, of Wanamie, was born in Wales, February 26th, 1841, and married Miss Jane Fairchild, of Newport. He works in the mines. He is justice of the peace.

R. H. NICHOLAS, assistant dispatcher on the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Penobscot, was born at Wurtsboro, Sullivan county, N. Y., March 29th, 1846. Mrs. Nichols was Miss Catharine Williamson, of Ontario, Canada. Mr. Nichols served in the 47th New York vol- unteers, and has been auditor of the township.

JAMES M. NORRIS, bookkeeper of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company at Wanamie, was born at Port Deposit, Md., August 2Ist, 1852. He married Miss Grizzie G. Gates, of Wilkes-Barre.

JONAS PETER was born in Hollenback township, July 20th, 1828, and is a lumberman. His wife was Eliza- beth Whitebread, of Hollenback.

THOMAS PETER is a farmer. He was born August 30th, 1816, at Heidleberg, Pa., and married Miss Eliza- beth Radler, of Hollenback.

PHILIP PETERS was born June 24th, 1837, in Hollen- back township. He has been school director and audi- tor, and is a farmer. His wife was Miss Permelia Fens- termacher, of Hollenback.

JOHN PETERS was born in Heidleberg township, Lehigh county, Pa., in January, 1807, and is a farmer and weaver. His first wife was Miss Rebecca Radler, his second Mrs. Rebecca Fenstermacher, and his third Hannah Gresman, all of Hollenback.

NATHAN PETERS is a native of Hollenback township, and was born June 13th, 1846. He enlisted in Company A 97th Pennsylvania volunteers, October 22nd, 1864, and was discharged August 28th, 1865. He married Miss Catharine E. Eroh, of Hollenback.

JOHN T. PETERS, who is a carpenter and builder, was born December 5th, 1848. He has been a school direct .. or of Hollenback. His wife was Miss Mary C. Hess, of Hollenback.

REV. JAMES M. PRICE was born in Bloomsburg, Colum- bia county, Pa., February 4th, 1834. His wife, whose maiden name was Ellen M. Prentiss, is of the same place. Mr. Price was formerly a printer. His post- office address is Wapwallopen, Pa.

WILLIAM O. RUGGLES was born in Ross township, September 12th, 1850, and married Mary A. Ide, of Leh- man township. He is a farmer and is engaged in lumbering.

E. A. SANTEE, M. D., Hobbie post-office, was born in Union township, July 8th, 1837, and married Miss T. R. Post, of that township.

JAMES A. SARGENT, of Penobscot, has made a business of railroading, and is now a conductor on the Central Railroad of New Jersey. He served nine months in the 132 Pennsylvania volunteers during the Rebellion. He was born in Rutland, Mass., October 20th, 1841, and married Clara A. Benscoter, of Shickshinny.

AMOS SCHOBERT, merchant and postmaster at Hobbie, was born September 15th, 1842, in Hollenback, and mar- ried Sabilla G. Grover, of the same township.

WILLIAM J. SCOTT, accountant for the Dupont Powder Company, was born at Philadelphia, in 1842. His wife was Miss Mary Scanlin, of Philadelphia. Mr. Scott served during the war as a member of the 7Ist Pennsylvania volunteers.

ABRAHAM SHANTZ, of Belbend, was born April 3d, 1841, in Hollenback township. He is keg repairer at the Dupont Powder Works. He enlisted in April, 1861, in Company A 6th Pennsylvania reserve, and was discharged in June, 1864. His wife was Miss Mary Davis, of Hol- lenback township.

G. B. STEWART, of Penobscot, was formerly a ma- chinist and locomotive engineer, and is now foreman of the round-house. He has been a school director. He was born September 20th, 1844, and married Drusilla Cramer, of Nanticoke.

S. P. SWARTWOOD, an engineer on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, resides at South Fairview. He was born Oc- tober 4th, 1847, in Wright township, of which his wife, formerly Miss M. A. Carey, was also a native.

JULIUS TENSCHENT was born in Austria, January 9th, 1846. He was married to Miss Bertha Young, of Read- ing, Pa. He is a farmer and proprietor of the Dorrance tannery.

WILLIAM W. WAYNE, of Belbend, was born February 19th, 1849, in Taylorville, Carbon county, Pa., and is a millwright. His wife was Miss Mary Keller, of Hudson- dale, Pa.

WILLIAM WEISS, a native of Conyngham, was born August 4th, 1817, and died June 16th, 1878. His wife was Miss Julia Fenstermacher, of Salem.

BARNET WHITEBREAD was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 31st, 1800, and married Miss Anna Briggs, of Nescopeck.

WILLIAM WHITEBREAD was born March 6th, 1829, in Hollenback, and married Magdalena Moyer, of Hol- lenback, who died in December, 1863. He is an insurance agent. He has been supervisor, assessor, inspector, etc.

SAMUEL WILLIAMS is a native of Nescopeck and is the proprietor of the Susquehanna House at that place. His wife was Miss Abbie Noncaster, of Mifflin county, Pa.

MILTON F. WILLIAMS was born in Brier Creek, Columbia county, March 26th, 1849, and married Miss Alice S. Adams, of that place. He is a merchant and postmaster at Nescopeck. He has been driver on the canal, teamster and clerk, and overseer of poor.

The following contributed to the support of this work in the townships here represented : W. A. Baucher, William W. Cooper, J. A. Hart, W. S. Heller, Philip Weiss.

PHILIP ROBINSON, JR.

Philip Robinson, jr., was born at Lauterbrecken, in Bavaria, in 1841. He came to this country with his parents in 1854 and located in Scranton with his father, Philip Robinson, who, together with his sons, engaged in the business of brewing. The brewery was situated on Cedar street. In 1868 the firm was dissolved. Philip Robinson, jr., became the sole proprietor of the business, which was carried on in his name up to the time of his death, which occurred September 20th, 1879. Without taking a prominent part in party politics he was always a Democrat and was occasionally called upon to fill local offices, especially such as required clear business judg- ment and strong integrity, and he always justified the public trust. At the time of his death he was the Dem- ocratic candidate for county treasurer and was regarded as being by far the strongest man on the ticket. To his friends, to his family and those of the poor in his im- mediate vicinity, Mr. Robinson was endeared by his

goodness of heart, his kindness and his generous liberal- ity. He was charitable without display, generous with- ont seeking publicity, and his business integrity was of that sterling order which believes in the honorable fulfil- ment of all obligations. He was a man of abrupt address and often made antagonisms by his manner with those who did not know him well; but the undercurrent of real kindness and benevolence that moved him to liberal charities and helpfulness held to him in strong bonds of friendship all who knew him well. He was a member of Schiller masonic lodge and also of the Turnverein and Liederkranz societies.

In 1862 he married Miss Mina Schimpff, of Scranton, Pa. Children were born to them as follows: Philip, August 24th, 1864; Edmund, March 17th, 1868; Robert, December 18th, 1869; Minnie, July 6th, 1873; Otto, June 28th, 1875; Lena, August 15th, 1878.

DR. C. H. FISHER.

Dr. Charles H. Fisher was born at Owego, Tioga county, N. Y., June 12th, 1837. He is of German and English extraction, tracing his ancestry on his mother's side back to the landing of the " Mayflower," while his great-grandfather, Leonard Fisher, emigrated from Ger- many and was one of the early settlers of New York city.

Leonard Fisher was a dentist and was the first to practice that profession in New York city, if not in the New World. He served with distinction as a lieuten- ant during the Revolution and died at New York at an advanced age, leaving a large family of children. Dr. C. H. Fisher's grandfather, Brigadier General George Fisher, was one of the earliest pioneers of Tioga county, N. Y., and his father, Doctor George L. Fisher, was a den- tist and for nearly twenty years practiced in Scranton.

Doctor Fisher received a thorough academic course at the Owego Academy and was prepared to enter the sopho- more class in college when the Rebellion broke out. He at once abandoned the idea of taking a collegiate course, and with a view of entering the medical department of the army he placed himself under the private tuition of Professor H. N. Eastman, of Geneva Medical College, and took his first course of lectures at that institution in the fall and winter of 1862 and 1863. At the close of the course he proceeded to Washington, D. C., and hav- ing passed an examination before the U. S. medical board was appointed medical cadet U. S. A., and as- signed to duty at General Field Hospital No. 1, Mur- freesboro, Tenn. He served under Rosecrans during the campaign which terminated with the battle of Chickamuaga, and was then assigned to duty at General Hospital No. 1, Nashville, Tenn. While on duty at this hospital he attended his second course of lectures and graduated at the University of Nashville Medical Col- lege, in the spring of 1864. His term of service as med- ical cadet having expired, he was appointed acting assist- ant surgeon U. S. A., in which capacity he served at

Hospital No. I and Cumberland Hospital until August, 1865. Then, having passed a second examination before the U. S. A. examining board at Nashville, he was pro- moted to a full surgeoncy and assigned to duty as surgeon of the 96th regiment U. S. C. T., Department of the Gulf. He was honorably mustered out of the service with his regiment at New Orleans, January 28th, 1866. Being tendered a position as surgeon in the Freedmen's Bureau he accepted, and was assigned to duty as surgeon in charge of Freedmen's Hospital, at Shreveport, La. He resigned this position in the fall of 1866, and re- turning north attended a third course of lectures at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. Having determined to devote his attention principally to disea- ses of the eye and ear, he took a private course under Professor Noyes, at the New York Eye and Ear Infir- mary, and in the spring of 1867 hung out his shingle in the city of Scranton. He has been in contiuous prac- tice since that time and has won a wide and deserving reputation as an occulist and aurist. In 1878 he founded the Scranton Eye and Ear Infirmary, associating with himself Doctor R. A. Squire and Doctor B. H. Throop as consulting surgeons. This institution supplies a long- felt want in the Lackawanna coal regions, and although not strictly eleemosynary does a large amount of charity business. Doctor Fisher was for a number of years a member of the Luzerne County Medical Society and is a charter member of the Lackawanna County Medical Society. He took an active part in the organization of the Lackawanna Hospital, at Scranton, and for several years was connected with its medical staff. When the new county of Lackawanna was erected Doctor Fisher was appointed county physician, and he is now serving his second term in that capacity. He is also post surgeon of Lieutenant Ezra S. Griffin Post G. A. R. Doctor Fisher married Miss Mary J. Miner, of Hudson, N. Y., May 12th, 1869 .. Their children are: Jessie May, aged 10; Maud, aged 8; and Mary A., aged 4.

JONATHAN APGAR AND FAMILY.

Jonathan Apgar was born in Cokesburg, Hunterdon county, N. J., November 29th, 1811. He was the fifth in a family of ten children of William Apgar-seven sons and three daughters. Mr. Apgar received a good common school education in his native town. By trade he was a carpenter. December 20th, 1834, he married Cornelia Wiggins, of Mount Hope, Morris county, N. J. She was born at Mount Hope, February 15th, 1805. After mar- riage he settled in Flanders, Morris county, N. J., where besides working at his trade he carried on a farm, as he did subsequently at Chester, Morris county.

In April, 1853, having sold his property in New Jersey, he removed to Dunmore, and purchased and settled on the place now occupied by his daughter, Mrs. Nye. He continued to work at his trade and upon his farm in Dunmore up to the time of his death, which occurred December 6th, 1872. His wife survived him seven years, dying February 21st, 1879. She was a member of the Dunmore Presbyterian Church, and of the Rockaway Presbyterian Church in Morris county, N. J.

Their children were as follows :

Melissa, born September 25th, 1835; married to Philip Gulick March 3d, 1858; living at Clinton, Hunterdon county, N. J.

Robert D., born July 13th, 1838; died October 31st, 1842.

William W., born September 11th, 1840; died August 3Ist, 1841.

Lettie C., born December 27th, 1843; died September 24th, 1844.

Cornelia W., born January 29th, 1845; married to George Couch January 2nd, 1866; living at Phillipsburgh, N. J.

Susan A., born January 5th, 1849; married October 5th, 1875, to Irvin Nye. The latter was born at Lacey- ville, Wyoming county, Pa., March 22nd, 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Nye own and live at the homestead in Dunmore. They have two children-Harry Apgar, born October 4th, 1876, and George C., born April 27th, 1878.

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EARLY HISTORY OF NESCOPECK TOWNSHIP.

NESCOPECK TOWNSHIP.

ESCOPECK township, named from Nesco- peck creek, was set off from Newport in 1792 and then comprised also Hollenback and Conyngham. Nescopeck creek it is said takes its name from its dark color, caused by coal veins near its source; the name signifying "deep black waters" in the Indian tongue. The population of the township was 968 in 1870 and 1,205 in 1880.

The first settler, George Walker, located near the site of the grist-mill of Benjamin Evans, as early as 1786. He made improvements here, and attempted to build a mill, but was washed out by the great freshet of October, 1786, known as the "pumpkin flood." A family settled on the farm now owned by Michael Raber. They were killed by the Indians, and it was claimed that the savages were incited to the deed by Walker, who was jealous of neighbors. The feeling against him among the people of adjoining townships was so strong that he thought it safer to go west.

A road was laid out from Nescopeck falls to the Lehigh in 1787, which followed very nearly the course of the present turnpike. It was opened by authority of the commonwealth, and Evan Owens, proprietor of Berwick, was appointed to superintend its construction. The road was completed in 1789. The turnpike was chartered about 1803.

The first land grant was of that part of the Campania tract lying west of Big Wapwallopen creek, which was surveyed to Daniel Grant in 1769, and patented by George Campbell in 1773. The next was of the land on which the Evans mill stands, to Jacob Bittenbender, in 1808. Several tracts had been taken up previous to this, but the patents were not taken out.

In 1791 Jacob Smithers, Jacob Shover, Martin Aton and Jacob Seyberling settled along the banks of the Nes copeck creek. In 1807 Henry Dewespecht, Michael Harrier, Conrad Bloos, Jacob Bittenbender, jr., William Moore, Thomas Cole, Conrad Reiderich, John Henry, Caspar Henry, Michael Whitenecht, Michael Nauss, Con- rad Bingheimer, Peter Clingeman, Bernard Snyder, Jolin Rooth, George Bittenbender, George Keens, John Buss, -- Daly, -- Bassinger, and a surveyor by the name of Chesney had settled in Nescopeck. They were nearly all from Northampton county. From this time settlers came in rapidly. The Fortners, Sloyers and Smiths came about 1828, and the families of Evans and Wil- liams soon after. Jonas Buss, who settled here in 1807, is now living at Mifflin, Columbia county, at the age of eighty-nine. He still retains his memory of early events in a remarkable degree, and we are indebted to him for many facts concerning the early history of the township.

William Rittenhouse, who owned large tracts of land in this and adjoining towns, built a small log grist-mill on Nescopeck creek about 1795, as an inducement for settlers

to purchase his lands. He sold to Jacob Rittenhouse in 1 808. Nathan Beach built a small log mill on Wapwall- open creek about 1795, near the place called "Powder Hole." There were three mills on this site, and all burned by accident. A still was connected with the second one. Samuel Mifflin built a saw-mill near the mouth of the Nescopeck creek in 1795. Logs floating down the river were caught and sawed at this mill. In 1824 Henry Bowman built a large three-story grist-mill, using the same dam and water privilege. He sold this to Daniel Evans in 1838, who added a plaster mill. The mill is still the property of the heirs of Daniel Evans. John McMutria built a grist-mill above the Evans mill about 1853. He sold to J. Johnson in 1860.

A saw-mill was built by H. Haschner about 1867. A wool-carding and fulling mill was built by John T. Davis, on a branch of Nescopeck creek in 1840. J. Stephenson bought it in 1860, and still operates it, employing four persons, and making yearly $3,000 worth of satinet and cloth, flannel and yarn.

E. and J. Leidy built a forge on Nescopeck creek in 1830, containing two hammers and three fires. They made bar iron and blooms, from ore dug in Columbia county and from pig metal. Hon. Simon Cameron once had an interest in this forge. It finally passed into the hands of S. F. Headly, who enlarged the works and operated them successfully several years. The forge has been idle since 1854.

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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 97

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