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the mite society, with the contributions to the G. C. Fair, and in material to the Jessup Aid, formed an aggregate value of $788.37. This was gathered in eighteen months, and from one of the smallest townships.
DUNDAFF AID.
At the request of Miss S. M. Walker, Mrs. C. Poulson and daughter made the first effort towards an aid society in Dundaff, Oct. 1864. The latter, with several young girls, organized themselves into a committee of solicita- tion and raised $14. Mrs. P. called at nearly every house in the village, meeting, in almost every instance, with ready encouragement from the ladies, who met soon after at Miss Wells', preparatory to an organization. This was fully effected, Oct. 21, 1864, with the following officers : Mrs. Sylvester Johnson, president ; Mrs. A. Wilbur, Mrs. Bennet, Mrs. A. Phelps, Mrs. J. Hodge, Mrs. Slocum, vice-presidents ; Mrs. J. Slocum, secretary and trea- surer. Cutting and packing committees were also appointed.
The labors of these committees in all societies were very arduous, and on this account, the members took them in turn, in most cases. At Dundaff they were permanent. Miss Sally Wells, Mrs. Phelps, Mrs. Lamoreaux, Mrs. J. Weaver, and Mrs. R. Phinney, being the cutting committee ; and Mrs. Rogers, Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Dr. Reed, Mrs. Morris, and Miss Louisa John- son, committee on packing.
A room over a store was prepared for the use of the society, and consid- erable interest was soon evinced by the people of the borough and vicinity. A Christmas supper given by the ladies netted $103.76. The gifts in poultry, etc., had been very liberal. From other sources $27.35 were received during the month, and the work progressed well through the winter ; 1 firkin of butter, besides small packages; 1 firkin of pickles ; 1 barrel dried apples; 3 boxes, containing bedding, clothing, fruit-green, dried, and canned; 43 arm-slings and pads ; 2 jugs grated horse-radish (tearful eyes !) ; 21 "housewives" with towels, handkerchiefs, etc., and a variety of other articles for hospital use. The total estimate given, $161.35, is altogether too low.
The principal part of the butter was sent in the summer of 1865, $10 from Miss Walker being doubled in this investment. The money remaining in the treasury at the close of operations was given to a family in the place, the father of which had died in defence of the Union.
SILVER LAKE.
Brackney Soldiers' Aid was in operation late in 1864.
On the 27th of December the ladies gave an oyster supper at the house of Mr. William Gage, in Brackney, for the purpose of adding to their funds for carrying out the great work in which they had enlisted. They acknowl- edged the receipt of $51, as the avails of the supper, with thanks for the willingness of the people to contribute for the soldiers, adding, "We hope they will continue to sustain us in our undertaking, until there are no more sick and wounded soldiers to care for." Mrs. ISAAC GAGE was secretary.
Previous to this organization the ladies of Silver Lake had contributed to the Montrose Aid.
EAST BRIDGEWATER.
A. society of this name, of which Mrs. D. H. Wade was president, reported November 4, 1864, as having sent $12.50 to the Sanitary Fair at Philadel- phia, and to the Commission the following articles : 16 shirts, 8 pairs socks, 10 arm-slings, 2 feather pillows and cases, 2 hop-pillows, 1 bottle blackberry wine, 2 packages dried apples, 3 packages dried berries, and a quantity of bandages and lint.
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After receiving, in December, 1864, a donation of $10 from the fund en- trusted to Miss Walker, seven families of the neighborhood (quite in the northeast part of the town), assembled one evening in that month and re- solved to double it and return in supplies to the Commission. Mrs. E. W. Hawley was chosen president, and Miss Lydia M. Stephens secretary. A sum of five or six dollars was subscribed at once, meetings were appointed semi-weekly, and each person attending was to pay ten cents to increase the fund. For want of other work the preparation of apples for drying was taken up. In January, 1865, we hear of them as engaged in making cotton shirts. In February following, the associate manager reports a visit to the society " with Rev. A. H. Schoonmaker, and some of the Montrose ladies, in S. Sayre's sleigh. The former addressed us ably, and a collection was taken up." This exhibits only one of the instances in which the reverend gentle- man referred to served the soldiers' aid societies of the county, and where the associate manager was found cheering and encouraging feeble societies. Those organized late had been, in their individual members, for a long time contributors to the Montrose Aid or other societies. As an organization their contributions were estimated at $115.
SOUTH BRIDGEWATER.
February 25, 1865, this society organized, after having very materially aided the Montrose Society, and in the few months of their existence made a good record. From mite societies held in the neighborhood, they received $50 : from Miss Walker's fund, $10, and from other sources nearly $10 more, during the first two months. They forwarded 1 firkin of pickles, 2 barrels potatoes, and 1 barrel containing 42 lbs. dried fruit, 1 peck green apples, 1 bottle horseradish, 9 comfort-bags, with 6 towels, needles, pins, thread, but- tons, soap and combs; 3 pairs pantaloons, 4 pairs drawers, 3 pairs socks, 1 pair slippers, 6 shirts, 5 arm-slings, 14 handkerchiefs, 1 pillow, old muslin and reading matter.
Mrs. Naomi Barnes, pres. ; Mrs. A. Butterfield, Mrs. H. Vail, Mrs. E. C. Wells, and Misses Josephine Vail and Florence Atherton, vice-pres. ; Miss Emily H. Wells, sec. and treas.
The last mite society was held at the house of Mr. John F. Deans, July 20, 1865, and the avails were used for the purchase of provisions for the lodges instituted by the Sanitary Commission for the benefit of our disabled and returning soldiers.
A special plea had previously been published :-
UNITED STATES SANITARY COMMISSION, WOMEN'S PENNSYLVANIA BRANCH, 1307 Chestnut St., PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25th, 1865.
To the Aid Societies and Individuals contributing to the Philadelphia Agency of the United States Sanitary Commission :- We wish to make an urgent appeal to you for aid in a work which we are sure will enlist all the sympathy of your hearts, and the earnest labor of your hands. By a recent arrangement of the work of the various branches of the Sanitary Commission, it has been made the duty of the Pennsylvania Branch to collect and forward all the supplies needed for our returned prisoners, who are now constantly arriving at Annapo- lis. They are coming to us from those terrible Southern prisons, starved and almost naked-many of them suffering from neglected wounds received on the day of their capture. Of all our noble soldiers, they deserve most of our grate- ful care. To the Pennsylvania Department has been given the honor of sup- plying the Sanitary Stores, for the relief of these poor victims of the rebellion.
Everything is needed. Clothing of all kinds, hospital slippers, towels, land - kerchiefs, bandages, old linen and muslin in quantities, for dressing their wounds and sores ; delicacies of every description, pickles, dried fruit, domes- tic wines, apple butter, etc. To each one of our faithful allies in this blessed work we would say,-Will you send what your husband, your son, your brother
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would require were he one of those living skeletons who are appealing to us for help ? We do not doubt your answer.
MARIA C. GRIER, Chairman Executive Committee.
This proved a strong stimulus to all. " We shall work as if our fingers were winged," wrote one who had lost a precious brother in Andersonville prison ; and this was the feeling of many others throughout the county. One or two more societies sprang into existence (Lenox No. 2), and as follows :-
DISTRICT NO. 5, BRIDGEWATER.
Late in March, 1865, the "Grant Aid Society" was organized here, by electing Miss S. J. Harrington, president ; Mrs. C. F. Watrous, secretary ; Mrs. S. Watrous and Mrs. G P. Wells, financial committee ; and Mrs. M. L. Catlin and Mrs. Wells, cutting committee. Their first effort was to raise funds to buy oysters with which they gave a supper, April 7th following, and realized therefrom $83.25. This sum, with $10 from Miss Walker, enabled them to buy material for clothing. They met every Tuesday after- noon to make it up. Their last meeting was on June 27, '65, and the balance then in the treasury, $5.35, was given to a soldier's widow. Their funds had been less than $100, but with this they sent to the W. P. B. of the Sanitary Committee the following articles : 50 shirts, 19 pairs drawers, 2 bed quilts, 18 comfort-bags, filled with needles, pins, thread, buttons, etc. ; 2 pairs pil- lows, and 3 pairs cases; 2 pairs socks, 20 handkerchiefs, 6 pairs slippers, with 3 bbls. potatoes, 2 firkins of pickles, and a quantity of tea, sugar, coffee (un- weighed), popped corn, and reading matter. It may be safely said they doubled their capital ; and we have their own statement that they were happy in their work.
At Heart Lake, the ladies though not regularly organized, accepted $10 from Miss Walker's fund and doubled it in the purchase of butter, which they sent with three barrels of potatoes, and one barrel of dried fruit to the Sanitary Commission. Mrs. C. J. Curtis, Misses Cole and McCollum were efficient.
At last, the "cruel war was over," and the societies prepared to disband by the 4th of July, 1865. On that day a circular was issued by the Women's Pennsylvania Branch to the aid societies contributing to it, an extract from which is here given :-
" We thank you for your warm, earnest, and untiring co-operation, feeling that, if the Philadelphia Agency of the Sanitary Commission is able to look with grateful satisfaction upon results accomplished, the praise is largely due to you as faithful co-workers in this blessed ministry to the suffering. Our work is closing, dear friends, but shall we ever forget how our hearts have been knit together during its accomplishment ? Our memories of these years will never perish. The sorrow and the agony cannot be forgotten ; but, like a rain- bow upon the storm, we shall look back with ever-returning joy to the help we were enabled to give to that most noble of instrumentalities for good, whose work has been so vast and so beneficent-the United States Sanitary Com- mission.
MARIA C. GRIER, " Chairman Executive Committee "
The Sanitary and Christian Commissions turned over to the American Freed- man's Aid the stores remaining on hand.
THE WOMEN OF SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY IN ARMY HOSPITALS.
" Unfearing she walks, for she follows the Lord .- How sweetly she bends o'er each plague-tainted face,
With looks that are lighted with holiest grace !
How kindly she dresses each suffering limb,
For she sees in the wounded the image of Him !"
-From Gerald Griffin's Tribute to his Sister.
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1. Miss Ellen E. Mitchell, of Montrose, went to Bellevue Hospital, May, 1861, and spent several weeks in preparation for the service of army nurse, under the auspices of the Ladies' Relief Association, New York city. In September following, she went to Union Hotel Hospital, Georgetown, D.C., for three months. January, 1862, she was sent by Miss Dix to St. Elizabeth Hospital, Washington, D. C., where she remained about six months, when she was called home by the death of her mother ; after a few weeks she re- turned to Washington, and from there was sent to Point Lookout, Md. Here her position was very trying, and, after two months she came back to Washington, and served successively in the Warehouse Hospital, the Catho- lic church, and Union Hotel (Miss Alcott's ward). When the last named hospital was finally broken up, Miss Mitchell went to Knight's Hospital, New Haven, Ct., for three months, after which she spent ten months in the Treasury Department, at Washington ; still holding herself in readiness for Miss Dix's orders. These sent her to the battle at Fredericksburg, where she remained until the place was evacuated, and then came to Judiciary Square Hospital, serving here until the close of the war.
She afterwards studied medicine in the Female Medical College, New York, graduating in 1870; practised one year in the Infirmary there, after which she established herself as a physician at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in the fall of 1871.
2. Miss Elizabeth Richards died in the service. [See Friendsville.]
3. Miss Laurie C. Gates, of Dimock, while a teacher to the freedmen at Lincoln Hospital, D. C., spent most of her leisure during fifteen months in voluntary service to the sick and wounded.
4. Miss Lydia A. Chamberlin, of Choconut, went to Columbian College Hospital, January 1, 1863. After three months there, she was sent to Knight's Hospital, where she remained until the following autumn, when she was obliged to come home to recruit. The next spring she went to Ches- ter, Pennsylvania, performing hospital service a few weeks there, before she was sent to Chesapeake Hospital, Fortress Monroe. In August, she was called home, but returned to her post the following winter, and remained until August, 1865.
5. Miss Jane E. Bentley went, August, 1863, to Knight's Hospital, New Haven, and remained there until the following December, when she was sent by Miss Dix to Chesapeake Hospital, Fortress Monroe. Here she remained until August, 1865.
From September 4, 1866, she has occupied the position of matron in the Home for Orphan Children, at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
6. Mrs. Mary Wootton, of Montrose, went to Georgetown, D. C., Septem- ber, 1863, as matron in the Volunteer Officers' Hospital. A year later, at Miss Dix's request, she occupied a similar position at Elmira, N. Y., to the close of the war.
WORK FOR THE FREEDMEN.
From the report made April 7, 1868, by Miss S. M. Walker, to the W. P. Branch of the American Freedmen's Commission, we copy the following :-
" Though many of our self-sacrificing people felt they had already given to the soldiers all that could be spared, yet the officers of their aid societies in Montrose and Dimock reorganized for the freedmen, eleventh month, 1865, in prompt response to an appeal from the W. P. B. and Am. F. Commission.
" An aid society was also formed by the colored women of Montrose, second month, 1866. These three were the only societies formed in aid of the freed- men, but several of the adjoining townships and Harford contributed liberally towards the consignments forwarded by these societies. Small remittances in money have been received from ten townships, in response to letters addresscd to the faithful auxiliaries of the Sanitary Commission.
" 11th month, 1866, our kind friend, L. G. Parrish, offered to support a
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teacher from Susquehanna County with our assistance. Amount collected to the present time, $472.30."
Before the close of the school year, July, 1868, $47.52 were added, making $519.82.
As the teacher was engaged only five months of the first year, and four months of the second, her salary had been raised without Mrs. P.'s contri- bution ; but the latter was needed for transportation, outfit, and incidental expenses. In the meantime a number of barrels of clothing had been for- warded to destitute freedmen, eight of which were from Dimock; one box went from Uniondale-the remainder from Montrose.
Miss Walker became responsible, November, 1868, in behalf of Susque- hanna County, for the support of one teacher two years. The amount col- lected and forwarded in that time was $748.68. This covered the salary for the number of months in which the teacher was actually engaged, and, with the sums contributed by the freedmen themselves, balanced the expenses of the Commission for Miss Chamberlin to July, 1870 ($1268.50).
In October, 1867, Miss Walker had been elected a vice-president of the W. P. Branch of the American Freedmen Commission; but, after three years' service, was obliged, by failing health, to resign her position, and also the responsibility of securing funds for the support of a teacher.
Hitherto the following townships had contributed : Bridgewater (with Montrose), Dimock, Choconut, Forest Lake, Silver Lake, Apolacon, Jessup, Springville, 'Auburn, Rush, Franklin, Great Bend, New Milford, Harford, Gibson, Jackson, Brooklyn, Lenox, Clifford, Herrick, and Ararat. If any- thing was done by the townships not mentioned, it was not through the Ame- rican Freedmen's Commission, or has not been reported. It is believed that agents for the American Missionary Association took up collections for the freedmen in several parts of the county. From November 2, 1866, to Janu- ary 1, 1872, the Montrose Aid alone had collected and forwarded $786.53, besides using $94.20 for material which the society made into clothing for destitute freedmen. With a small later contribution, the amount raised by the county for the freedmen, since November, 1866, independent of agents' collections, is about $1400.
TEACHERS TO THE FREEDMEN.
1. Miss Antoinette L. Etheridge, of Montrose, went to Beaufort, S. C., November, 1863, as teacher to the freedmen, under the auspices of the Ame- rican Missionary Association. She remained in that vicinity until July, 1865, when she returned to the North. In the fall of 1866 she went to Fortress Monroe, taught four months, and was then sent to Augusta, Ga., where she taught four months before the summer vacation. In October, 1867, she went again to Fortress Monroe, and taught in that vicinity eight months ; and, again, in the fall of 1868, remaining six months. Not long after her return home she engaged as teacher in the Orphans' Home at Wilkes-Barre ; but she was too much worn to endure the position, and left at the close of the first term. Early in January, 1871, she was once more with the freedmen in Amelia County, Va., and remained until the following July ; in the fall she resumed her labors there, but, after the summer vacation of 1872, went to Wallingford Academy, Charleston, South Carolina.
2. Miss Laurie C. Gates was a teacher at Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C., from May, 1864, to July, 1865, under the auspices of the American Missionary Association.
3. Emily C. Blackman went to Okolona, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, November, 1866, under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Branch of the Ameri- can Freedmen's Union Commission, and supported by the Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia. Her school was opened in response to the call of a Southern gentleman, Dr. J. E. Tucker, for teachers for his former slaves. There were then five hundred and four negroes, young and old, under his
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supervision, and of these more than three hundred received instruction from two, three, and, for a time, four teachers in day and night schools, and in Sabbath-schools nine months. The working force of the plantation was greatly reduced in the fall of 1867, but still a large school was kept up seven months, ending July 1, 1868, when the writer returned to the North without the hope of resuming labors which had been at once the most arduous and the most joyous of her life. Members of that school who first learned there to write the letters of the alphabet are now teaching, each with a salary of $50 per month; others have passed an examination which has permitted their entrance into Alcorn University, Mississippi.
4. Miss Lydia A. Chamberlin, of Choconut, went to Okolona, May, 1867, under the above auspices, to take charge of a plantation school five miles distant from Dr. Tucker's, but she taught in the latter several weeks before her own school-house was ready. Her labors were transferred, after the first vacation, to a school opened February, 1868, in the city of Okolona, by the Pennsylvania Branch of the American Freedmen Union Commission. The salary of Miss C. was secured by the contributions of Susquehanna County and of the freedmen attending the school.
5. In the fall of 1868 she returned to the same school, accompanied by her sister, Miss Carrie E. Chamberlin. Both taught there until June, 1869, and each succeeding winter and spring until November, 1871, when they were transferred to the school at Dr. Tucker's.
6. Miss Maggie S. Baldwin accompanied the Misses C. to their school at Okolona.
7. On the 1st of January, 1869, these ladies were joined by Miss Phebe E. Lewis. In December following the Misses Baldwin and Lewis took charge of the school at Dr. Tucker's, teaching until June, 1870, and resuming the same in the fall. They closed their labors there June, 1871.
SOLDIERS AND MILITARY MATTERS.
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS WHO HAVE RESIDED IN SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY .- Asa Adams, at Bunker Hill ; Jedediah Adams, six and a half years in the war; John Adams, lived to be 104 years old; Ezekiel Avery, Benjamin Bab- cock, -- Babcock (Dimock), John Baker, Nathaniel Balcom, Joel Barnes, Ne- hemiah Barnes, Reuben Beebe, Amos Bennett, Elias Bennett, Abiel Bills, John Blaisdell, Nathan Brewster, Sr., in American and French Revolutions ; Isaac Brown, - Brownson, Jonas Brush, Captain Ichabod Buck, Nathan Buel, Isaac Bullard, John Burnham, Joseph Button, Andrew Canfield, Captain Benjamin Case (Great Bend), Putnam Catlin, Benjamin Chamberlin, Daniel Chamberlin (Choconut), Moses Chamberlin, Wright Chamberlin (Gib- son), Darius Cook, Ezekiel Cook, Ozem Cook, Henry Congdon. Dyer Crocker, John Darrow, Josiah Davis, Peter Dickey, Lieutenant David Dimock, Ed- ward Dimmick, David Doolittle, Ezra Doty, Isaac Doud, Jonathan Edwards, John Eldred, James Eldridge, Stephen Ellis, Gabriel Ely, Pardon Fish. Simeon Foot, - Ford, Silas Fowler, - Fuller, Nathaniel Gates, George Gelatt, Asahel Gregory, Abner Griffis, Stephen Griffis, Timothy Hall, Israel Hewitt, Captain Bartlet Hinds, Dudley Holdridge, Seth Holmes, Garner Is- bell, Joshua Jackson, Luther Kallam, Rufus Kingsley, drummer at Bunker Hill ; Gershom F. Lane, Hezekiah Leach, Daniel Lawrence, Captain Luther Leet, Rufus Lines, Captain John Locke, of the Boston Tea Party, 1773; Ezekiel Maine, Nathan Maxon, Joseph McKune, Jesse Miles, - - Miller, Josiah Mills, Almon Munson, Jonathan Newman, Patrick Nuang (?), Robert Nichols, Issachar Nickerson, David Olmstead, Hezekiah Olney, Thaddeus Peet, Joseph Potter, Captain Hazard Powers, Sr. (?), Henry Pruyne, Joseph Raynsford, John Renyolds, Simeon Reynolds, Caleb Richardson, Jonathan Ross, Isaac Rynearson, Bristol B. Sampson, Samuel Scott, Zerah Scott, Westol Scoville, Ichabod Seaver, Christian Shelp, David Sherer, Christopher
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Sherman, William Shufelt, Garrett Snedaker (N. Milford), Asahel South- well (?), - Staples, Captain Jarah Stephens, William Stephens, Nathaniel Stewart, Clement Sumner, Lawrence Tarpining, John Thatcher, Thomas Thatcher, Eseck Thayer, Joseph Thomas, Hosea Tiffany, Thomas Tiffany, Nathaniel Tower, Isaac Turrell, Moses Tyler, Elias Van Winkle, David Wakelee, Sylvanus Wade, Lemuel Wallbridge, Ephraim Warefield, Amos Webster, Jacob Wellman, Cornelius Westbrook, John Whitely, Enos Whit- ney, Thomas Williams, in American and French Revolutions, and lived to be 104 years old, dying in 1826 ; Barnard Worthing, Captain Samuel Wright, Simeon Wylie, Samuel Yeomans, Samuel Clark, Gideon Lyman. Total num- ber, 140.
The earliest item found respecting military organizations in this section after its settlement, is the appointment by the governor, December, 1797, of Putnam Catlin as brigade inspector for Luzerne County. A year or two later, when it was feared the country was on the eve of a war with France, the inhabitants of this section were alive to the situation. In the ' Wilkes- Barre Gazette and Luzerne Advertiser,' about this time, appeared a notice to attract the attention of "ambitious, spirited, and patriotic young men, tired of lounging about their fathers' houses, and who wish to exchange a life of tasteless indolence for that of glory," offering them a chance to join the army.
The first military movement within the limits of Susquehanna County appears to have been in 1806, when the first militia training was held at Parkevale. There is special mention of trainings there in 1807-8. In the spring of 1808, there was a " muster and inspection" at Joseph Chapman, Jr's. Thomas Parke was then colonel, and Walter Lyon major of the 129th Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia. In 1811, at a military election, William C. Turrel was chosen lieutenant-colonel ; Isaac Post and Asa Dimock, majors ; Elias Bell, Hezekiah Leach, Hiel Tupper, Amos Tiffany, Seth Mitchell, Fred. Bailey, John Bard, and Calvin D. Cobb were early captains in this regiment ; and at some time, probably, Rufus Fish, Jeremiah Spencer, and Jabez A. Birchard.
The war of 1812 furnished practical reasons for military duty. An " Ap- peal to Patriots," published in the Luzerne County papers in 1813, offered a bounty of $16 (for an enlistment for three years), and three months' pay at $8 per month, with one hundred and sixty acres of land. Those who enlisted for only eighteen months received no land.
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