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Reuben Cook,* born at Old Hartford, West Division, August 25th 1747, died at Osceola, Pa., June 25th 1829. Sarah Cole, wife of Reuben Cook, born at Flat Brook, N. J., June 1757, died at Osceola, Pa., March 25th 1833. Reuben Cook, born at Harper's Patent, on the Susque- hanna below Owego, July roth 1782, died in Brookfield, Tioga county, Pa., October 5th 1881. Philind, wife of Reuben Cook, died March 22nd 1864, aged 76 years and two months.
Permelia, Philip and Mitchell Taylor are buried here. Permelia Taylor was the mother of Philip and Mitchell. All of them died before 1810 and were buried in a pio- neer cemetery upon Barney Hill, in Elkland borough. When the A. & N. P. Railroad Company in 1882 built its grade across Barney Hill, the line entered this old- time burial ground and disturbed the resting place of its occupants. On being apprized of this fact Capt. C. B. Taylor and Charles Tubbs-descendants in the fourth generation of Permelia Taylor-gathered up the re- mains of their ancestor and re-interred them in this place. Philip and Mitchell were brothers of Captain Ebenezer Taylor.
The following are the inscriptions upon some of the monuments:
Paul Gleason died June 28th 1842, aged 63 years, 5 months and 16 days.
* Reuben Cook drew a pension from the State of Pennsylvania by vir- tue of the following law, approved by Joseph leister, governor, June 16th 1823:
"SEC. 3 .- Be it enacted, etc., That the State treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to Reuben Cook of Tioga coun- ty, a Revolutionary soldier, on order, Forty Dollars immediately, and an annuity of Forty Dollars during life; to be paid half yearly; to com- mence on the first day of January 1823."
Reuben Cook was without doubt the first white settler in the Cowan- esque Valley west of Lawrenceville. In May 1792 or 1793 he moved into Nelson township, locating on a little flat north of the present residence of Harris Ryon. He lived in a bark eabin all summer, and planted an Indian girdling to corn and turnips. In the fall of that year he built a log house, and lived in it three years. An Indian ereeted his wigwam near by, and they hunted and fished in company in the greatest friend- ship. The river was full of trout, and it was no trouble to kill a deer. Ilr never lived long in a place. At different times he owned valuable farms in Deerfield, Westfield, Osceola, and Elkland borough. In 1814 be went to Marietta, Ohio, but returned to this valley in 1820, living at Os- ceola until he died. He possessed the true pioneer spirit-was always willing to sell out and move west. He was the father of Polly, wife of Ebenezer Taylor.
Judy, wife of Paul Gleason, died Aug. 19 1839, in the 57th year of her age.
Nathaniel Seely died Oct. 15 1866, aged 77 years and II months.
Ebenezer Taylor died Nov. 14 1850, aged 82 years, II months and 29 days.
Samuel Tubbs, born Dec. 15 1794, died May 15 1870. Permelia, wife of Samuel Tubbs, born Nov. 12 1798, died July 21 1850.
Stennett Crandall died Nov. 13 1853, aged 86 years and 13 days.
Truman Crandall died March 23 1882, in his 86th year. Andrew Bozzard died Aug. 20 1858, aged 76 years, 7 months, 6 days.
Nancy, wife of Andrew Bozzard, died Nov. 24 1839, aged 55 years, 7 months and 20 days.
" Thus fade our sweetest comforts here, Our dearest friends they disappear When the loud call of God is given; They sleep in death to wake in heaven."
Emma, daughter of Andrew and Nancy Bozzard, died Jan. 6 1831, 2E 18 years, 1 month and 14 days.
My glass is out, My race is run, My work on earth Completely done.
George G. Seely died April 9 1874, in his 60th year. Julia A. wife of George G. Seely died in her 27th year.
Our father and mother are gone, They lay beneath the sod. Dear parents, tho' we miss you much We know you rest with God.
Alonzo B. Bullin died September 22nd 1865, aged 29 years.
In early life my country called, And I its voice obeyed ; By disease my body was enthralled, And now in dust is laid.
Sarepta, wife of Philip Tubbs, died July 6th 1851, aged 29 years, 1 month and 24 days.
Clarissa H., wife of Clark Kimball, died May 20th 1839, aged 27 years, 11 months and 9 days.
Adieu, dear companion, for yield thee I must, Thy spirit to God, thy flesh to the dust ; But when a few seasons with me shall be o'er I trust I shall meet thee where parting's no more.
Elijah Smith died January 29th 1858, aged 50 years, 5 months, 2 days.
Return, alas, he shall return no more To bless his own sweet home.
Thomas J., son of O. R. and Mary Gifford, died No- vember 17th 1863, aged 20 years, 9 months, 13 days.
James Blackman died March 4th 1855, aged 89 years, 6 months, 10 days.
Elizabeth, his wife, died December 14th 1855, aged 85 years.
David Taylor died May 29th 1861, aged 71 years.
My children dear, assembled here A father's grave to see, Not long ago I dwelt with you, But soon you'll dwell with me.
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Robert Tubbs died August 9th 1865, E 85 years, 4 months and 15 days.
Clara, wife of Robert Tubbs, died September Ist 1860, Æ 78 years, 8 months and 15 days.
Benson Tubbs died May 8th 1864, in the 54th year of his age. " Mark the perfect man and behold the up- right, for the end of that man is peace."
Charles Tubbs died April 25th 1842, aged 28 years, 5 months, 2 days.
Elizabeth Tubbs died December 21st 1867, aged 55 years, 8 months, 6 days. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
Maria, wife of Hoyt Tubbs, died September 22nd 1877, aged 57 years, 4 months, 24 days. She was a kind and affectionate wife, a fond mother and a friend to all. had previously left him, taking their children with her.
Rebecca, wife of John Tubbs, died June 3d 1872, aged 37 years.
A. H. Bacon died September 8th 1864, aged 51 years, 5 months and 21 days.
Benjamin Tubbs died August 19th 1873, aged 87 years, 8 months.
Ann, wife of James Tubbs, born December 19th 1819, died April 29th 1879.
Holden Brook Cemetery .- In 1855 Silas Overfield Tay- lor died, at the age of 74 years, and was buried on the farm now owned by his son Philip S. Taylor. About an acre of ground was enclosed about this grave, and since that time the public have had the privilege of using it as a place of burial free of charge. There are about 20 interments at this place.
Fair View Cemetery .- In the spring of 1882 Albert Dearman and Morgan Seely fitted up in excellent taste an area of land adjoining the grounds of the Osceola Cemetery Association, and they have applied to the court of common pleas of Tioga county for a charter of incor- poration to be granted unto them, under the name, style and title of The Fair View Cemetery Association.
CASUALTY AND CRIME.
Charles Bulkley, a son of Israel Bulkley, about ten years of age, choked to death while eating bread and milk.
Ralph, another son of Israel, went to Painted Post in June 1815 to purchase his wedding outfit. He was en- gaged to marry a daughter of Dr. Eddy Howland. The river at the Post was swollen, and when swimming his horse across he was swept down by the current, and drowned.
Elijah Smith was employed as a miller at Davenport's mill. January 29th 1858 his clothes got caught in the gearing of a revolving shaft and he was whipped about it until dead.
November 18th 1863 Jerome Gifford was setting traps for muskrats along the Island Stream not far from its mouth. It was toward evening, and in the dusk Benja- min Casbeer, who was out gunning, saw the motion of his bended body, and thought it a muskrat. He fired at the supposed muskrat, and killed Gifford.
the Cowanesque River bridge with a span of horses and lumber wagon, and having Miss Nettie Seely with him. While they were passing over the second bent from the south end it fell, and they were precipitated to the gravel bar beneath. Mr. Seely brought suit against the county of Tioga and recovered a judgment of $350 for the injuries he received.
November 12th 1866 Jeremiah De Land was felling a tree upon the lumber job of George S. Bonham, in the "Red House Hollow." The tree fell against a dry chest- nut stub, rebounded and struck De Land upon the head and shoulders, killing him instantly.
In July 1879 James Freeland jr. lived in a small tenant house on the farm of George Tubbs. His wife On her return he charged her with infidelity to the mar- riage vows. An altercation followed, in which Freeland struck her upon the head with an ax, exposing the brain through a cut four inches in length. He also chopped off several of her fingers. He then struck himself half a dozen times upon the top of the head, making as many slight flesh wounds. Both recovered from their injuries. Freeland was confined a few months in jail. Upon his release he resumed domestic relations with his wife.
FRATERNITIES AND BANDS.
Free and Accepted Masons .- Lodge No. 421 was or- ganized July 22nd 1868, with ten charter members. James Huntington Bosard was W. M., Andrew Keller Bosard secretary, and Henry Seely treasurer. At pres- ent the lodge has nineteen members. Charles Ryon Taylor is W. M., Israel Boyer secretary, and Allen Seely treasurer. The masonic hall is on the fourth floor of the Tubbs and Strait block, and the lodge meets Satur- day evening before each full moon.
Grand Army of the Republic .- Alfred J. Sofield post, No. 49 Department of Pennsylvania, was organized Jan- uary 18th 1876, with thirteen comrades, Norman Strait as commander and Orville Samuel Kimball adjutant. In 1882 the post had a membership of twenty-two com- rades, and Luke Winfield Scott was commander and Orville Samuel Kimball adjutant. The post meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month in Masonic Hall.
Knights of Honor .- Lodge No. 843 was organized January 8th 1877, with twelve charter members and the following officers: Charles Ryon Taylor, dictator; Ed- ward Elmore Bosworth, reporter; Charles H. Bosworth, treasurer. In 1882 the lodge had thirty-one members. Charles Ryon Taylor was dictator, Albert Stennett Cran- dall reporter, and Andrew J. Doan treasurer. The lodge meets every alternate Monday night in its own hall.
Knights and Ladies of Honor .- Vidette Lodge, No. 115, was organized December 20th 1878, with twenty-six charter members. Leroy Phineas Davis was dictator, Mary E. Hurlbut secretary, and Merville F. Hammond treasurer. In 1882 the membership was thirty. Albert Stennett Crandall was protector, Leroy Phineas Davis
In March 1865 George G. Seely was driving across | secretary, and Surrenda M. Davis treasurer. This lodge
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meets every alternate Monday night, in Knights of Honor Hall.
Equitable Aid Union No. 219 was organized January 18th 1881, with twelve charter members, and the follow- ing officers: John Randolph Hurlbut, president: Augus- tus Smith, secretary; L. C. Tinney, treasurer. In 1882 reading in the office of these gentlemen until he was the membership was fifteen. L. S. Heath was president, qualified to enter the Albany Medical College, in which Albert C. Duley secretary, and Henry Seely treasurer. The lodge meets every alternate Wednesday evening.
Temperance Societies .- In 1874 the woman's temper- ance crusade struck Osceola. Two societies-male and female-were organized for temperance work. Mrs. Hoyt Tubbs presided over the female society, John Tubbs over the male. No licenses have been granted to sell liquor in Osceola since their organization.
Musical Societies .- In 1844 a Jaw-Bone Band was or- ganized and performed at political meetings. The in- struments used were jaw-bones and deer antlers, with bells, cymbals, violin, tambourine, drum and bones. The members of the band were Peter Bosard, D. M. Van Zile, Allen Seely. M. D. Bosard, George Tubbs, Alonzo G. Cilley, Mancier Gleason and Philip Tubbs. They at- tended mass meetings at Westfield and Addison.
In 1855 " the Osceola Brass Band " was organized, instructed and led by Prof. I. G. Hoyt. The members of the band were Norman Strait, H. B. Cilley, Timothy Pringle, Harvey Tiffany, Isaac B. Taft, W. W. Day, Wil- liam Whiting, William Guernsey, George Beecher and John Beecher.
In 1874 " the Osceola Cornet Band " was organized, and it is still in existence. Its members have been and are Merville F. Hammond, O. S. Kimball, A. S. Cran- dall, L. P. Davis, John W. Hammond, E. M. Seely, W. H. Lewis, V. Dailey, A. S. Babcock, E. A. Mack, Frank Tubbs, A. J. Miller, A. M. Van Zile, J. Cook, W. D. Stoddard, Andrew Baker, E. Stevens and C. A. Stod- dard.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
WILLIAM THOMAS HUMPHREY,
of Osceola, was born in Bainbridge, Chenango county, New York, December 22nd 1824. In his youth he at- tended the common schools in the neighborhood of his home and made commendable progress in his studies. While not in school his time was employed in the chores and labors incident to farm life.
Considering his opportunities too limited at home he struck out for himself at 18 years of age. The first sea- son after leaving home he labored by the month on a farm to obtain means with which to procure an education. In the winter of 1842-3 he taught school near Hornells- ville, N. Y. He then attended the Franklin Academy at Prattsburg, N. Y., under Profs. Gaylord and Porter. He was here during the summer and fall terms of 1843. At the close of his academic studies he returned to the dis- trict where he had previously been employed and taught a second term. At the expiration of this term of school he returned home.
At this time he determined to study medicine and make the practice of the healing art the business of his life. He accordingly was entered as a student in the office of Messrs. "Sill & Corbin, physicians and surgeons, Bainbridge, N. Y.", in April 1844. He continued his
institution he completed his course in the spring of 1848. During those years the Albany Medical College had the services of such distinguished men as Professors March, Amsby, Hunn, Beck and others. To somewhat replen- ish his purse during these four years of study he taught a term of school at Dimmock's Corners, Susquehanna County, Pa.
May rIth 1848 he was married to Mary P. Kelsey, daughter of Heman Kelsey, of Bainbridge, N. Y.
In June 1848 he located at Addison, N. Y., and in January 1849 removed to Elkland, Pa., where by assidu- ous attention to the duties of his profession he overcame the obstacles with which a young physician has to con- tend, and built up a large and prosperous practice in the Cowanesque Valley and the adjoining towns. In April 1857 he removed to Osceola, where he has since resided.
At the opening of the war for the Union he was among the first to respond to the call for troops. The United States could not accept the services, under the first call, of all who offered. Governor Andrew G. Curtin was equal to the emergency. He saw that every patriot was needed for the defense of the country. He recommended the immediate organization of at least fifteen regiments, exclusive of those already called into the service of the United States. His recommendation was acted upon and the fifteen regiments known as the " Pennsylvania reserve corps " were put into the field. Dr. Humphrey was mustered into the 13th regiment of the reserves as assistant surgeon, May 21st 1861. This regiment was variously designated and popularly known as " the Kane Rifles," "the Bucktails," "First Rifles," and the 42nd regiment Pennsylvania volunteers. Dr. Humphrey shared the fortunes of this regiment during the winter of 1861-2 and the following summer, and by his attention to his duties very much endeared himself to the men under his care. We reproduce a contemporaneous estimate from the "COL. CROCKETT " letters to the Agitator, written by Orderly Sergeant Orrin M. Stebbins, of Company A. It is as follows:
"CAMP PIERREPONT, VA., NOV. 17, 1861.
" Dr. Humphrey, from Osceola, is now sick in hospi- tal with typhoid fever. His illness is very much re- gretted by this regiment, for he is kind to all and has nobly done his duty. His position is one of importance, and no one in the regiment will be more missed."
In due time he recovered his health, and continued with the " Bucktails " until September 12th 1862, when he was promoted to the rank of surgeon and assigned to the 149th regiment Pennsylvania volunteers, which was largely made up of men recruited in Tioga county. This regiment was designated the " New Bucktails." At the battle of Chancellorsville, in May 1863, Dr. Humphrey
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was assigned as brigade surgeon of 2nd brigade 3d divi- sion Ist army corps. He served in that capacity about two months. He was then assigned as surgeon in chief of the 3d division, which position placed him on the staff of Major General Abner Doubleday. After the Pennsylvania, July 11th 1843. death of General Reynolds at Gettysburg General Dou- bleday succeeded to the command of the first corps. During the time that he held this command Dr. Hum- phrey was acting medical director of that corps. Dur- ing the battle of Gettysburg Dr. Humphrey had his hos- pital in the Catholic church, and when the town was captured by the rebels, on the first day of the battle, he with his sick and wounded was taken prisoner of war. The rebels despoiled him of his horse and saddle, his operating case of instruments and medical stores. While the wounded soldiers under his charge did not occupy his time he watched the varying fortunes of the battle from the belfry of his church-hospital. As he was a prisoner the continued slaughter gave him no additional labor. 'On the afternoon of the third day of the battle, in company with a rebel major, from his tower of obser- vation he beheld the terrible cannonade and the charge of Pickett's division-the last blow from the concen- trated might of the rebel army. He saw the rebels hurled back in confusion from the Union lines. It was hard for him to conceal his exultation. The rebel major did not attempt to conceal his chagrin, but poured out vol- leys of oaths and maledictions upon the heads of the despised Yankee conquerors. The doctor was recap- tured the next day, when the town was reoccupied by our troops.
His regiment was actively engaged in all subsequent campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. He was with it, caring for the sick and wounded, in the battles of the course in July 1864. He was awarded by the faculty Wilderness, at Spottsylvania Court-House, upon the North Anna Creek, at Bethesda Church and Mechanicsville { programme. In 1865 he entered the law department of Road. Later it took part in the siege of Petersburg, the Michigan University, at Ann Arbor, from which he was graduated in March 1867. At school he was always a member of some literary society: at Union Academy, the Amphictyon ; at Alfred, the Orophilian; at Union College, the Philomathean, and at Ann Arbor was one of the founders of the Omega Club. He took an active part in the debates and literary exercises. battle of Hatcher's Run and the raid along the Weldon Railroad. January 17th 1865 he resigned his commis- sion on account of ill health, having served in the army three years and seven months. He at once returned home, and entered upon the practice of his profession as soon as his health would permit.
In 1865 he was elected to the House of Representa- tives at Harrisburg, and re-elected in 1866. During the last session he served on the committees on Railroads, Municipal Corporations, Counties and Townships, and was chairman of the committee on Election Districts. In 1874 he was again elected a representative of the peo- ple, and served during the sessions of 1875 and 1876. During these two years he was a member of the commit- tees on Appropriations, Education and Counties and Townships.
Since the expiration of his official term he has resumed the practice of his profession, with the same zeal and vigor that he exhibited in his earlier years. At the pres- ent writing (1882) he has a family of three children-a son and two daughters.
CHARLES TUBBS
is a son of James and Ann (Gleason) Tubbs. He was born in Elkland township (now Osceola), Tioga county,
His paternal ancestor, Samuel Tubbs, who arrived at New London, Connecticut, in 1663 and died in 1696, was the founder of the family in America. His great- grandfather Samuel Tubbs emigrated from Connecticut in 1762 to the Wyoming Valley, Penn .; was a Revolu- tionary soldier under Captain Robert Durkee; was en- gaged in the battles of Germantown and Brandywine; participated in Sullivan's expedition against the Indians, and continued in the service until the end of the war. His grandfather Samuel Tubbs settled upon the Cowan- esque in 1811. His father was a successful farmer. His maternal grandfather, Paul Gleason, immigrated to the Cowanesque Valley from Dudley, Worcester coun- ty, Massachusetts, in 1809.
Descended thus from New England ancestors he early developed a taste for learning, which in his youth was gratified at the common schools of the neighborhood where he was born. When 13 years of age he was sent to Union Academy; S. B. Price principal. He subse- quently studied two years at that institution under Prof. A. R. Wightman. In 1860 he taught school at Osceola; at Union Academy as assistant; at Mill Creek, in Tioga . township, and for a few weeks in 1861 at Wellsboro Academy, after the resignation of Prof. M. N. Allen. He then entered Alfred University, which at that time was presided over by Prof. William C. Kenyon. In. 1863 he was admitted to Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., from which he was graduated in the classical the college honor of a place upon the Commencement
His health failed while at Michigan University. He returned home and abstained from his studies. In the summer of 1867 he visited Washington and traveled in the south with a view of improving his declining strength. He gained slowly but perceptibly, and was advised by medical authorities not to enter upon the practice of the profession he had chosen. A more active and out-of- door life than the routine of a lawyer's office was deemed essential to his health. He then engaged in agricultural and other business pursuits, at home, upon his father's farm.
In 1869 he served as transcribing clerk of the House of Representatives at Harrisburg.
From the time he attained his majority he has taken an active interest in public and political affairs-always
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attending elections and the caucuses and conventions of date. the Republican party, of which he is a member. In 1876 and in 1878 he was the presiding officer of the Re- publican county convention. In 1878 and in 1880 he advocated the principles of the party of his choice from the stump, making a tour of the county.
In 1880 he was nominated without opposition for one of the representatives of Tioga county in the Legisla- ture. He was elected, and during the session of 1881 served upon the Judiciary (local) Elections, Federal Re- lations and Judicial Apportionment Committees. Dur- ing the session he was appointed by Governor Hoyt a member of the commission upon prisons. In the pro- tracted senatorial contest of that session he was one of the fifty-six Republican members who refused to join the caucus that nominated Henry W. Oliver for U. S. senator and to vote for him in the joint convention of the two Houses. He carried out the instructions of his constit- uents to vote for G. A. Grow as long as he was a candi-
Upon the retirement of Mr. Grow from the con- test he voted for Thomas M. Bayne, and then heartily joined in the movement to unite the warring factions which resulted in the election of Hon. John I. Mitchell to the United States Senate.
His votes as a legislator are uniformly recorded against the schemes of the oil, telegraph and railroad monopolies which burden the industrial and material resources of the State. On the other hand they are recorded in favor of the rights of labor and the interests of education.
In 1882 he was renominated without opposition and re-elected as a representative.
He was married October 22nd 1879, to Sylvina, daugh- ter of Ard Hoyt and Lucinda Bacon. They have one son, Warren, born June 29th 1882.
NOTE .- In the history of Deerfield George Strawbridge, brother of James, was erroneously mentioned as the latter's nephew, and Jane, sister of George, was spoken of as his daughter, John S. laid no land warrants in Deerfield. The account of the Strawbridge family in the foregoing history of Osceola is the correet one.
WM BACHE
RESIDENCE OF LAUGHER BACHE, WELLSBORO, PA.
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WILLIAM BACHE SEN. AND JR .- A. B. EASTMAN.
WELLSBORO BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
WILLIAM BACHE.
William Bache, son of William and Bridget Laugher His wife Elizabeth died in January 1845, and in 1849 he Bache, was born in Bromsgrove, Worcester county, Eng- land, December 22nd 1771, and emigrated to America in 1793, locating in Philadelphia May 3d. He was married Adaline Robinson, sister of Chester and J. L. Robinson. Of his two children by his second wife but one is living, namely Mary Adaline, wife of William engaged thereafter for a time in cutting profiles and Kress. His wife Adaline died October 11th 1852, and traveled extensively in the United States and the West he was subsequently married to Mrs. Lydia Maria Davison, daughter of Palmer Nichols. She bore him no children.
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