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India islands. He was married in Philadelphia, Novem- ber 28th 1811, to Miss Anna Page, Rev. Dr. Pillmore officiating. Their children were: William, Laugher, Sarah (wife of the late Judge R. G. White), John, Harriet iness man. He was treasurer of the Wellsboro Academy (wife of Charles Miner, of Honesdale, Pa.), and Anna (wife of the late A. P. Cone). Mr. Bache came to Wells- boro in 1811, on a visit to his friend John Norris, and in 1812 made that place his permanent residence.
He immediately purchased town lots in Wellsboro, and lands in the township of Delmar, and erected a store- house. He was the first merchant in Wellsboro. His store and dwelling stood on the southwest side of the present public square. His goods were purchased in Philadelphia, and were usually drawn by Eben Murray, a colored man, who had been manumitted by William Wells, one of the first settlers of Wellsboro or Delmar.
Mr. Bache has continuously resided in Wellsboro since his birth, and is the oldest citizen of the borough who was born in it. When he was born Wellsboro was a mere Uncle Eben, as he was familiarly called, had been given hamlet, and the county of Tioga a wilderness, save here by his master a team of four horses and a large Cones- and there a settlement. His boyhood and early man- hood were spent among the stirring scenes of pioneer life, and in his profession he has traversed the hills and valleys of Tioga county, and knows every section or warrant of land. Fortune has smiled upon him and re- warded him for his toil and industry, and he is now, in the evening of his age, in his beautiful home, enjoying all the comforts which a competence of this world's goods can bestow. He is still active, in the full possession of his mental faculties, and blessed with good health-a type of the hardy, industrious and intelligent pioneers of Tioga county. toga wagon, and was a trustworthy teamster, whom Mr. Bache could trust to haul safely from Philadelphia his stock of merchandise for his little store in the wilderness of Tioga county. Mr. Bache was an active and energetic business man, and quite prosperous. While he was doing a benevolent act in assisting a neighbor to cut a winter's supply of wood a tree fell on him, whereby he lost his right arm. He however recovered from this ac- cident, learned to write with his left hand, and continued his business. He gave his children advantages of edu- cation which were liberal under the circumstances, and they became men and women of character and position. He died in 1845, and was buried in the cemetery on ALONZO B. EASTMAN. Academy Hill; but his remains were subsequently re- moved to the present beautiful city of the dead west of Wellsboro.
WILLIAM BACHE JR.
William Bache jr. was born in Wellsboro, October 26th 1812, and is a son of William and Anna Page Bache. He received his education in the schools of his native town and learned the profession of land surveying, and when about 26 years of age he became the agent of sev- eral large landed estates. For many years he was an active surveyor and a dealer in farming and timbered lands.
sister of the late Judge Nichols. By her he had one daughter, Sarah, who became the wife of Alfred Nichols.
Mr. Bache has ever been an active and energetic bus- many years, borough treasurer, manager of the Law- renceville and Wellsboro Plank Road Company, the first president of the First National Bank of Wellsboro, and about forty years a vestryman in the Episcopal church. He also took an active part in securing the building of the Lawrenceville and Wellsboro railroad, and all other enterprises calculated to build up the material interests of Wellsboro and the surrounding country.
A. B. Eastman was born in a log cabin in the wilderness of Danby, Tompkins county, N. Y., April 13th 1843, and is of English and German descent. His father, who was a farmer, settled on a high hill (which was afterward called Eastman Hill) in the dense forest, three miles from Will- seyville, and there cleared an opening and built a log house. Hence Alonzo's early life was hedged in with many disadvantages. From his early life he desired to follow some profession, but circumstances obliged him to delay his cherished plan, and several years were devoted to other pursuits.
In March 1858 his parents, with a family of four boys and two girls, moved to Pennsylvania and settled on the farm first taken up about the year 1804 by Hon. William
He was first married December 25th 1839. to Miss Elizabeth Nichols, daughter of Archibald Nichols and Hill Wells, from Delaware, from whose family Wellsboro
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derived its name. After a three days' journey on foot 40 years of age he may be said to have but entered upon Alonzo and his father arrived at the new home, with a his professional career. His past success justifies the small herd of cattle and sheep. At this place years of hope of his friends that his future will be brilliant and of hard labor were spent, in removing stones, splitting rails, still greater usefulness to his fellow men.
building fences and erecting new buildings, together with general farm work, which gave our subject opportunity only for winter schools.
the field hospital (a tent) near Bristoe Station, Va .; he was moved December 13th to the division hospital near Mountain Run. The December winds were too cold for the sick to dwell in cloth houses, so on the 26th he and about 300 others were moved to Culpepper, Va., and sheltered in a brick church. After partially recovering charged, and returned home.
As he regained his health he took up the study of dentistry and pursued it under the instructions of Dr. P. Newell, of Mansfield, and Dr. R. C. Kendell, of Troy, Pa. He visited Wellsboro and was earnestly solicited to open an office there. Accordingly in March 1866 he lo- cated at Wellsboro, and by prompt attention to the wants of his patients and skillful practice in all branches of his profession, built up an extensive practice.
In 1867 he introduced and brought into general use the vitalized air or nitrous oxide gas to relieve pain, which has prooved to be a blessed boon to suffering hu- manity; and by daily administrations of it he has gained thousands of testimonials as to its happy effects. In November 1869 he introduced the first dental engine ever used in the county, and he has continually added inventions and improvements; but while devoting so much time and study for the removal or restoration to usefulness of defective teeth, he emphatically recognizes the truth of the old adage that " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure," and has made the pres- ervation of the natural teeth a specialty, keeping pace with the advancements of the art.
to make happy many firesides. In December 1880 he took an active part in the organization of the First Bap- tist Church of Marsh Creek, the first church organization in that settlement. It commenced with a membership of 27. Dr. Eastman has won a prominent position, but at
DELOS H. WALKER.
Delos H. Walker was born in Covington, November From the outbreak of the civil war in 1861, and the 25th 1835, and June 9th 1860 he married Julia A. Frost, enlistment of an elder brother, Alonzo bore an increased a native of the same township. burden of home labor, until the summer of 1863, when He is a farmer by occupation, his farm being located three miles southwest from Covington borough. From 1863 to 1873 he was an employe of the Morris Run Coal Company in the several capacities of weigh-master, he entered the army and went to the front, at a time when the army was marching night and day, through mud and rain. By lying on the wet ground he became sick, and on the 23d day of November 1863 was taken to bookkeeper, etc. During the years 1874, 1875 and 1876 he was deputy sheriff, and for three years thereafter he was high sheriff of the county, residing during the time at Wellsboro.
James S Coles, of Wellsboro, was born in Chemung from a severe illness Mr. Eastman was honorably dis- county, N. Y., in 1833, and in 1853 married Miss Char-
JAMES S. COLES.
lotte L. Moore, of Chenango county, N. Y. In 1858 Mr. Coles came to Stony Forks, Delmar township, and engaged in the mercantile business, and in 1871 he came to Wellsboro and embarked in the drug business, which he still continues. In 1876 in company with W. R. Coles, he purchased the "Coles Hotel" which under their judicious management has become deservedly pop- ular with the traveling public.
TIOGA AND ELMIRA STATE LINE RAILROAD.
The Tioga and Elmira State Line Railroad, together with the coal mines at Arnot, and the Arnot and Pine Creek Railroad, was purchased by the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company in January 1882, and on the 6th of May a transfer of the property was made. The officers now are: President of the Tioga and Elmira State Line Railroad Company, Hugh J. Jewett; vice-president, J. C. Guthrie; superintendent, L. H. Shattuck; general passenger and freight agent, C. C. Drake. Since the property has passed into the hands of its present owners it has been put in thorough repair. The company is preparing to use locomotives for hauling out coal from the mines, and has made ex- tensive preparations in the way of blasting down the top of the gangways and introducing a complete and certain
At the age of eleven he was converted and united with the church, and he was ever after seeking and de- siring to promote the cause of Christ and humanity, He mode of ventilation by means of a large and expensive was one of the leaders who August 9th 1868 organized fan. The vice-president, Mr. Guthrie, is giving his especial attention to all matters pertaining to the mines and the railroad. Mr. Shattuck, the veteran superinten- dent, is still in charge. Mr. Drake, who has since the the first Baptist Sunday-school in Wellsboro, and served as superintendent for many years. In the summer of 1877 he instituted a union aid society, and as time would per- mit went out on the mission of organizing and establish- building of the road in 1876 been the passenger and ing free circulating libraries, giving stereopticon enter- freight agent, still continues at his post. There is no tainments, and thereby sending out thousands of volumes | more thoroughly equipped railroad in this section than the Tioga and Elmira State Line Railroad under its pres- ent management.
The Arnot and Pine Creek Railroad is finished to Hoyt Bros.' tannery, and will be continued to Pine Creek, a distance of five miles, in the near future.
A. B. Eastman.
BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX.
BRIEF SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND LEADING CITIZENS .*
BLOSS, COVINGTON AND HAMILTON TOWNSHIPS, BLOSSBURG, COVINGTON AND FALL BROOK BOROUGHS.
FRANK D. ANDREWS came to Blossburg July 4th 1872, from Attica, Wyoming county, N. Y., where he was born February 18th 1837. His wife was Miss Eliza Walsh, of Warsaw, N. Y. Mr. Andrews is a wholesale dealer in liquors.
DELEVAN F. AYLESWORTH, the younger of the firm of Aylesworth Bros., was born in 1853, in Rutland, Tioga county. He married Miss Martha Evans, of Blossburg. In 1878 he and his brother John formed a copartnership
JOHN AYLESWORTH is the elder of the firm of Ayles- worth Bros. He was born in Maryland, Otsego county, N. Y. His wife was Miss Anna Davis, of Morris Run, Pa. In 1873 he came to Blossburg and commenced business as proprietor of the Blossburg meat market, which is now carried on by him and his brother Dele- van. The firm does a large business and employs sev. eral men.
WILLIAM G. AYLESWORTH was born in 1825, in Otsego county, N. Y. In 1848 he married Miss Lucy Bailey, of Richmond, Tioga county, Pa., and removed to Blossburg in 1873.
CLARENCE HUGHSON BAXTER is the editor of the Blossburg Register. He was born in New York city, October 28th 1857. Having graduated from the New Jersey State High School in June 1873, in the following January he visited the United States of Colombia, and was there nearly three years in the office of the U. S. consul at Barranquilla. On his return he was engaged on several newspapers in Hornellsville and Elmira, and in October 1881 he assumed the position of editor and business manager of the Blossburg Register, owned by S. N. Havens.
ALBERT M. BENNETT, born at Canoe Camp, Septem- ber 13th 1839, came in 1849 to Covington, where he has been in business since 1867. He was in partnership with his father, J. C. Bennett, up to 1878, when the latter retired. Mr. B. married Miss Fannie Smith, of Covington.
N. E. BOTCHFORD, the principal bookkeeper for the firm of Hoyt Bros., Blossburg, was born November 3d 1856, in Woodland, Ulster county, N. Y.
STEPHEN BOWEN, manufacturer of coke, Blossburg, has been a resident of Tioga county 42 years, and has been sheriff of the county. He was born May Ist 1829, and is a native of Wales, as also his wife, formerly Miss Ma- ria Williams.
ANDREW J. BROWN'S native place is Hector, Tompkins county. N. Y., and 1828 the year of his birth. He mar- ried Miss M. M. Bartell, of Sullivan, Tioga county. In 1864 he enlisted in Company H 7th Pa. cavalry, and served to the close of the war. He came to Blossburg in 1872, and has been engaged in the grocery business since 1879. He is also a carpenter.
GEORGE H. BROWN was born in 1843, in Mansfield, Tioga county, Pa. He enlisted in 1863 in Company C and they have since carried on the Blossburg Meat Market. 5th N. Y. heavy artillery, and was honorably discharged July 19th 1865. In 1868 he located again at Mansfield, but removed to Blossburg in 1870, and in 1881 estab- Jished himself as a dealer in hardware and manufacturer of tin, copper and sheet iron ware.
MRS. SARAH E. CALDWELL .-- Her native place was Newton, Sussex county, N. J. She was married in 1852 to Frederick J. Caldwell, of Covington, Tioga county, Pa., who died in 1871, aged nearly 40 years. Since that time Mrs. Caldwell has been proprietor of a store at Blossburg for the sale of groceries and fancy goods, with a restaurant in connection therewith.
W. V. CALKINS .- This gentleman occupies the respon- sible position of train dispatcher at Blossburg. He was born January 31st 1857, in Charleston township, and is unmarried.
FRANK CHURCH is a resident of Morris Run, and fore- man in the machinery rooms of the company there. He was born in 1847, in Berkshire, Tioga county, N. Y., and married Miss Emma Bogart, of Addison, Steuben county, N. V. In 1878 and 1880 he was elected supervisor of the township of Morris.
WILLIAM CODNEY, son of Samuel and Dorcas Codney, was born in 1836, in Luzerne, Warren county, N. Y., and moved with his parents in 1846 to Mill Creek, Tioga county, Pa. He married Dorcas E. Warner, of Lyons- ville, Crawford county. In 1862 he enlisted in Company H 146th regiment Pa. volunteers, and served through the war. Soon afterward he entered the service of the Tioga Railroad Company, and he has been a conductor since 1879, residing at Blossburg.
JOHN COOK was born at Stockton-on-Tees, in the county of Durham, England, in 1831. He came to America in 1841; located at Reading, Pa., and removed thence to Blossburg in 1848. He married Miss Mary Harris in 1851, by whom he has six children. His business is that of a mason. He has been inspector of election, and treasurer of Blossburg borough five years.
* Many other biographical sketches, embraced in the body of the work, may be found by reference to the Table of Contents.
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GEORGE D. CRANDAL, M. D .- Dr. Crandal's birth oc- curred February 20th 1843, in Pike, Bradford county, Pa. His wife was Miss Anna Hoyt, of Nelson. Dr. Crandal lives at Blossburg, and his practice is large and in- creasing.
F. C. CUNNINGHAM is the proprietor of the Seymour House, Blossburg. Born near Baltimore, Md., in 1815, he came north and married Miss Betsey Appling, of Mas- sachusetts, and settled in Blossburg in 1875. Under his management the Seymour House has been well patron- ized and prosperous.
JOHN J. DANIELS was born in 1828, in South Wales. His wife was Miss Anna S. Jones of the same country. He came to the United States in 1850, and located in | Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1852 he settled in Blossburg.
R. W. DAVIS .- His parents, John and Mary Davis, were born in Wales, in 1835 and 1836 respectively. Com- ing to this country they settled in Blossburg, and after. ward removed to Mansfield. Their son R. W. was born April 22nd 1863, at Corning, N. Y., and is now book. keeper in the office of the Fall Brook Coal Company at Fall Brook; was formerly weighmaster.
WILLIAM B. DAVIS, who is keeping a hotel at Coving- ton, was formerly a miner. He was born in Montour county, Pa., May roth 1843, and married Mary J. Her- man, of Morris Run.
MARTIN DFITSHE'S birthplace was in Baden, Germany, and the year of his birth 1825. Shortly after his mar- riage there to Theresa Hasp, in 1851, he came to Ameri- ca, and located at Syracuse, N. Y. In 1861 he was in the west and enlisted in the 51st Ohio volunteers, Com- pany G. He served two years; was wounded three times in one day at Murfreesboro. He came to Bloss- burg in 1866, and has served as police officer two years.
WILLIAM DODDS was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, in England, in 1839. Coming to the United States in 1863 he first located at Winslow, N. J., and in 1867 at Bloss- burg. He is a glass flattener. He first married Miss Sarah Mather, of St. Ellen's, Lancashire, England, and afterward Miss Anna Lydiatt, also a native of England.
JOHN F. DWYER has been overseer of the schutes at Fall Brook since February 18th 1881. He was born at Morris Run, November 6th 1854, and married Catharine Hain, of Painted Post, N. Y.
CHARLES H. ELY's birthplace was Montreal, Canada, and 1851 the year of his birth. He removed to Pennsyl- vania and engaged in the business of glass blowing. He married Miss Viola Nitrowr, of Covington, Tioga county, and now resides in Blossburg.
HUGH PLATT ERWIN, merchant tailor at Blossburg, and for the last fifteen years a justice of the peace, was born at Jersey Shore, Lycoming county, May 19th 1826. Mary M. Sofield, whom he married, was a lady of Wells- boro. Mr. E. was a musician in the 7th N. Y. during the Rebellion.
EVAN F. EVANS, as his name implies, is of Welsh blood. He was born in Wales, in 1846. He married Miss Mary Jane Phillips, and came to the United States in 1874. He first located at Plymouth, Luzerne county, Pa., and afterward removed to Blossburg.
CHARLES FISH resides at Arnot. He was born in 1829. in Cornwall, England, and in 1850 married Susannah Pasmore, of the same county. In 1869 they came to this country and settled at Arnot. Mr. Fish was a miner there ten years, and then engaged in the hotel and livery business, which he still follows. He has seven children living.
EDWARD GAVIGAN, born in county Westmeath, Ire- land, in 1831, married Bridget Kinsella, of county Meath, and came to America in 1849. He first settled at Utica, N. Y., then at Corning, and in 1866 removed to Bloss- burg. By occupation he is a supervisor of the Tioga railroad track.
ALEXANDER H. GAYLORD, Blossburg, is the son of Elijah and Love Gaylord, formerly of Vermont, where Alexander was born in 1816. They removed to Tioga county in 1818, and lived in Sullivan and afterward in Covington. Elijah Gaylord was a soldier in the war of 1812, and lived until 1872. Alexander Gaylord's wife was Diana Hinson; they were married in 1845. He is proprietor of the Coal Run mine. employs five men, and produces 2,000 tons annually. He was postmaster 12 years, commencing in 1846; has also been burgess and supervisor.
WILLIAM R. GILMOUR,-Lanarkshire, Scotland, is his native place, and 1828 was the year of his birth. He there married Miss Jane Densmore. He removed to this country and settled in Blossburg in 1852, and in 1854 removed to Morris Run, where he is a superintendent of mines. He has been school director in Morris Run five years. His parents were James and Jane Gilmour, who died in Lanarkshire.
BREWSTER J. GUERNSEY was born in 1827, at Mont- rose, Susquehanna county. In 1853 he was united in marriage with Miss Mary D. Donaldson, of Dover, Ill. He has been station agent of the Tioga Railroad Com- pany at Blossburg since 1866. He has two sons, Peter B. and Lucius W., in responsible places in the company's employ. His father was Joseph W. Guernsey, of Che- mango county, N. Y., and his mother Anna Brewster Guernsey, who settled in Tioga in 1828, where Joseph WV. and Jonah Brewster established the first store in the village.
JOHN P. HARRINGTON is by occupation a printer. His residence is at Elmira, where he was born December Ioth 1863. He is at present pursuing his avocation in Blossburg.
WV. A. HICKS resides in Morris Run. Elmira is the place, and 1840 the year of his birth. His wife was Sarah Fuller, of Elmira. In 1878 he came to Morris Run and engaged in mining. His parents were Hiram and Mary Hicks. His father, who was a builder in El- mira, died December 10th 1875.
ASA D. HUSTED is a resident of Blossburg, though born in Canton, Bradford county, in 1826. He married Miss Rebecca Richter, of Blossburg, in 1847, and they have five children. He is a prominent member of lodge No. 489 1. O. O. F.
JAMES H. JOHNSON resides at Morris Run. He was born in Corning, N. Y., in 1844. His wife was Mary Reef, of Mansfield, Pa. His parents, John M. and Jane Johnson, moved in 1840 from Binghamton to Corning, where his father was a merchant 16 years and died in IS70.
JACOB JONES is the proprietor of the old Blossburg coal mine, and employs five men, with an average annual production of 1,500 tons. He has been a member of the common council and a school director. Wales was his birthplace, and the year of his birth 1832. He mar- ried Miss Rachel Jones in 1856, at Blossburg.
PARKER M. JONES follows the business of mining at Morris Run. He was born in 1849, at Syracuse, N. Y., where his father, Charles Jones, manufactured salt for the Onondaga Salt Company. His mother was . Rebec- ca Jones. His wife was Miss Anna Montgomery, of Morris Run.
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MICHAEL KELLY, born in 1830, in county Kerry, Ire- land, married Bridget Healy, of the same county. He came to America in 1851, and located at Corning, N. Y., in the grocery business. Losing heavily by fire in 1866 he moved to Blossburg and engaged in the same busi- ness. In 1870 the business passed into the hands of his wife, and it is now carried on for her by their sons John W. and Michael Kelly, who are building up an enviable trade.
LYMAN W. KIFF resides in Blossburg. He was born He was elected burgess in 1876 and served nine in Bradford county, in 1839, and married Melvina D. months.
Townsend, of Tyrone, Steuben county, N. Y., in 1864. He entered the employ of the Tioga Railroad Company in 1864 as brakeman, and still remains in the company's service.
He received a good conimon school education, and when 23 commenced the study of medicine, graduating from Castleton Medical College in 1828. He settled first at Langdon, N. H .; afterward at Covington, Pa., and in 1863 at Blossburg, where he now resides. He first mar- ried Fanny Briggs, of Shrewsbury, Vt., by whom he had the age of 62.
six children. She died in 1854 and he married Lucy Dike, of Covington, Pa., who died in 1872. In 1874 he married Miss Fanny Andrus, of Covington, Pa.
JAMES S. KIRKWOOD, formerly a miner, is now a store Munro. John C. Munro resided in Pottsville from 1832
clerk at Blossburg. He was born in Holytown, Lanark- shire, Scotland, April 3d 1855. Hannah Cook, of Bloss- burg, became his wife. Mr. K. came to Blossburg a year ago, after living nine years in Arnot.
MARTIN G. LEWIS, son of Dr. E. W. Lewis, was born at Watkins, N. Y., August 29th 1844, and married Jose- phine J. Magee, daughter of James Magee, of Toronto, Canada. Mr. Lewis located in Morris Run in 1869, and was assistant bookkeeper and engineer of the Morris Run Coal Company four years. In 1873 he removed to Blossburg, where he is weighmaster and bookkeeper for the Tioga Railroad Company. He was the first town clerk of Hamilton township; member and secretary of the Blossburg school board; is chief engineer of the fire department, and has taken an active interest in political matters.
LETSON LOWNSBERRY is the son of Letson and Cyn- thia Lownsberry, formerly of Canoe Camp Creek, where he was born in 1837. His wife was Miss Roxana Gil- lette, of the same place. Mr. Lownsberry is a railroad , the counting house of Edward Rice's dyeing establish- ยท engineer by occupation, and lives at Blossburg.
JAMES W. MAHER was born November 22nd 1852, in Tioga, Pa., and married Katie E. Kerwan, of Blossburg, where they now reside. He is a railroad engineer.
JOSEPH H. MARTIN .- This enterprising druggist is a native of England, born in the year 1852. Having emi- grated to the United States he located in Blossburg, and is actively engaged in the pursuit of his business.
W. H. MCCARTY .- Addison, N. Y., was Mr. McCarty's birthplace, and April 7th 1855 the date of his birth. He removed to Blossburg in 1864, and commenced business July 24th 1877 as a grocer and provision dealer, which he has successfully prosecuted until the present time.
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