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Jackson.
LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP AND LAWRENCEVILLE.
CHARLES BARBER, carpenter and joiner (post-office Somers Lane), has lived in Tioga county from his child- hood, and was born in Steuben county, N. Y., in 1846. Mrs. Barber was Miss Hattie Brownell, of Tioga. Mr. Barber enlisted in 1862 in Company A 149th Pa., and served three months; re-enlisted in 1864, in Company A 49th N. Y., and served to the close of the Rebellion.
HENRY B. COLEGROVE is a son of Thomas and Polly Colegrove, who removed from Steuben county to Cort- land county, N. Y., and thence to Lawrence, Pa., in 1839 Soon afterward Thomas bought the farm on which his son now lives, and here he died in 1858, aged 66. H. B. Colegrove was born in Troupsburg, Steuben county, N. Y., in 1832, and in 1852 married Miss Susan Terryl, of Lawrence. He served in the 36th Pa. militia and the 189th N. Y. in 1863-65. He is now engaged in lumbering.
HIRAM DAVIS, son of Silas and Nancy Davis, was born in Sullivan county, N. Y., in 1830. His parents removed while he was a child to Delaware county, N. Y., from which he came in 1851 to Lawrence, buying his present farm of 120 acres. He married Miss Marion A. Pepper, of Rome, Bradford county, Pa.
BRADLEY DEUEL was born in Lawrenceville, in 1828. He worked at his trade as a boiler maker in Utica and Rochester, N. Y., until 1875, when he returned to his native town, where he is now farming. In 1849 he mar- ried Matilda Davis, of Lawrence. Three of their five children are living. She died in 1872, and in 1874 he married Phoebe Lawson, of Rochester. His father, John C. Deuel, born in Dutchess county, N. Y., came to Lawrenceville in youth and engaged in chair-making. He married Matsey Cole, of Lawrenceville, and had ten children. He was a soldier of 1812. He died in 1859, aged 72.
ALLISON H. EVANS was born in 1821, in Springfield,
DARIUS GEE was born at Beecher's Island, in 1832, and in 1855 married Miss Sophia McCollum, of Farmington. He came with his parents to Middlebury when quite young, and lived there until of age. In 1879 he located at Nelson, and in the spring of 1882 at Lawrenceville, where he is living retired from business.
WILLIAM GRAHAM is a native of Horseheads, N. Y., and is a farmer. He was born in 1831, and came to this county in childhood. In 1853 he married Miss Mary J. Williams, of Cayuta, N. Y. He was a member of the 207th Pa. regiment in 1864-5, and was wounded at Fort Stedman March 25th 1865. His father, George Graham, born in Philadelphia, in youth located in Chemung county, N. Y. He married Betsey Derrick, of Philadel- phia, and had ten children; eight are now living. He came from Potter county to Lawrence in 1837, and died at Cayuta, N. Y., in 1872.
REV. SAMUEL GRINELL was born in Delaware county, N. Y., in 1798. He married R. Roe, of that county, by whom he had seven children; six now living. He came to Tioga county in 1826, locating in Middle- bury. In the same year he was licensed by the Baptist church of Tioga to preach; was ordained in 1831, and was employed in the ministry through life. His first wife died in 1841, and in 1843 he married Miss Parstal. He died in 1872. He was widely known as a minister, and respected by a large circle of acquaintances and friends.
NATHAN GRINELL, like his father, Rev. Samuel Grinell, is a native of Delaware county, N. Y. He was born in 1824, and in 1856 married Miss Eliza G. Wyant, of Orange county, N. Y. In 185 t he came from Tioga to the Cowanesque Valley and engaged as foreman in the Tompkins saw-mill. In 1870 he bought his present farm of 150 acres.
DYER INSCHO has a farm of 100 acres in Lawrence. Bradford county, Pa., and died in Lawrence in 1881. His father, Obadiah Inscho, came in youth from England His first wife, Abigail Havens, to whom he was married in 1846, died in 1848, having borne him one child, a daughter. In 1849 he married Miss Laura M. Havens, by whom he had four children. The parents of A. H. Evans, William and Sally, removed in 1836 from Brad- ford county to Elkland, where Mr. E. was in mercantile partnership with Joel Parkhurst till 1840. He then bought and removed to the present farm of Mrs. Laura M. Evans, where he died in 1845.
to Delaware county, N. Y. and there married Miss Jud- ith Jennings; three of their twelve children are living. About the year 1800 he came to Tioga county, stopping a short time in Lindley, Steuben county, N. Y .; bought 200 acres of wild land on the east bank of the Tioga River in Lawrence, and built a house opposite the site of the covered bridge above Lawrenceville. Here he died In 1823. D. Inscho was born in Lawrence, in 1810, and married Eunice Baldwin, of Lawrence.
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ALFRED M. KNAPP was born in Vermont, in 1805. Miss Catherine Ridgely, of Clarion county, Pa., by whom His first wife, Sally Hart, of Danby, N. Y., died in 1840, he had fourteen children, seven of whom are now living. having borne him seven children. His second wife died ,He was drafted and called to the lines in the war of 1812. soon after their marriage, and he subsequently married He died at his residence in Lawrence, in 1861. His widow still survives, aged 83 years. Miss Elizabeth Middaugh, daughter of Joseph Mid- dangh. Two of their three children are Mrs. A. Sherwood, of Mansfield, and Robert E. Knapp, of Lawrenceville. Their son Joseph F. died of consumption contracted during his service of nearly three years in the 149th Pa. regiment. Mr. K. is a farmer,
GEORGE T. LOSEY, Lawrenceville, is a justice of the peace, having been elected in 1877 and re-elected in 1882. He was formerly a contractor and builder. He was born in Hackettstown, N. J., December 19th 1835. and married Mary J. Hoyt, of Manchester, Vt.
JOSEPH MIDDAUGH .- The earliest recollection of this pioneer finds him at Newtown Elmira), to which place he went from Reading, Pa. He married Miss Sally Hart, of Reading, by whom he had ten children, of whom seven are now living. He came to Tioga county from Newtown about the year 1800, and located in the town- ship of Lawrence, near Somers Lane, where he took up 130 acres of wild land, a portion of which is now owned by his son-in-law A. M. Knapp, above mentioned. On this place he remained until his death. He died in 1855, at the age of 75 years.
TRUMAN C. MIDDAUGH, farmer and lumberman, was born in 1840, in Lawrence, and in 1871 married Miss Addie Tilford, of Eaton Rapids, Mich. He served three years 1861-64 in Company F 57th Pa. volunteers.
ALLEN F. PORTER came to Mansfield in 1871 and in 1874 to Lawrence, where he has a farm of 125 acres. He is a native of Troy, Bradford county, and was born in 1837. In 1864-5 he served in the 112th Pa., regiment (heavy artillery . In 1868 he married Sarah J. Tremain, of Lawrence.
SIMEON POWER, M. D., born in Vermont, in 1784, married Miss Polly Inscho, of Northampton, Pa., by whom he had seven children. He came from Vermont, in 1805, to Lawrenceville, and established a medical practice which took him on horseback as far as Wil- liamsport, Coudersport, Bath and Elmira. He was the second sheriff of Tioga county, serving three years; was appointed associate judge in 1851 and served five years. He died in 1863, aged 80.
SIMEON I. POWER, son of Dr. Simeon Power, was born in Tioga, in 1820, and married Miss Celinda Lind- ley, of Bradford county, in 1844. He was sheriff of the county in 1858-61. He is now a farmer.
D. L. POWER is a son of Simeon I., last mentioned. He was born in Lawrenceville in 1845. In 1872-74 he was in Nebraska, where he bought 150 acres of land. In 1874 he returned to Lawrenceville and married Miss Etta H. Gorton, of Caton, Steuben county, N. Y. He has a farm of 60 acres.
THE REEP FAMILY .- The first of this family in Tioga county seems to have been Jacob Reep, who came with his family from Kingston, Pa., to the township of Law- rence about the year 1796. Leaving Tioga Point in a canoe, he brought them to Newtown (now Elmira), where his wife left him, and with one child journeyed across the mountains to Lawrenceville, bringing with her a horse and cow, while her husband pursued his journey up the river with his craft until he reached his place of destina- tion. The family located first on the farm now owned and occupied by George I .. Ryon, afterward removing farther up the river to the old Reep homestead farm, now owned and occupied by the heirs of Peter Reep, where Jacob died in 1829. Peter Reep, a son of Jacob, was born at Kingston, in 1790, and came with the family to Lawrence when a child six years old. He married
HENRY ROFF, a son of Christopher and Sarah Roff, was born in Delaware county, N. Y., in the year 1794. He married Sabrina Earley, of Bath, Steuben county, N. Y., by whom he had eleven children, of whom nine are now living. About the year 1829 he located in the town of Erwin, Steuben county, and in 1838 removed to Beecher's Island Nelson , Tioga county, Pa., where he remained one year. Thence he came to Lawrenceville, and purchased 200 aeres known as the French farm, in the Tioga Valley. Here he remained until his death. He died in 1878, at the age of 84; his wife died in 1873, aged 75.
HORACE ROFF, son of Henry above mentioned, is en- gaged in lumbering, and has a farm of 170 acres. He was born in 1830. during the residence of the family in Delaware county, N. Y. His wife was Miss Maria Ames, of Jackson, this county.
HON. JOHN RYON, the father of George L. Ryon, was a native of Connecticut, and in early life removed to Southport, N. Y. Thence he went to Elkland in 1807, and engaged in trade and farming. From 1814 to 1828 he was in one or the other house of the Legislature. From IS2S he was canal commissioner three years; then associate judge for many years. He married Susannah Tubbs, of Southport, and had eleven children, of whom eight are living. He died in 1859, at Lawrenceville, where he resided in 1848.
GEORGE L. RYON was born in 1813, in Elkland. Mrs. Ryon was Miss Hannah Hammond, of Southport, N. Y. Of their children George W. graduated at Lima, N. Y., studied law with his uncle John W. Ryon (see page 75), and is now practicing at Shamokin. With him there in the same profession is his brother William W., who pur- sued his studies at Shamokin, and is deputy sheriff of Northumberland county, A. F. Ryon, a brother of these, graduated at Alfred University, studied law with John W. Ryon, and is practicing at Loek Haven. G. L. Ryon has a farm of 103 acres.
WILLIAM S. SMITH, farmer, was born in 1844, in Law- rence township. In 1878 he married Miss Anna M. Wilson, of Winfield, Pa. In 1862-3 he served in Com- pany A 136th Pa. volunteers. He has been town clerk since 1878. His brother L. F. Smith served three years 1861-64) in the 86th N. Y. and was wounded in the Wilderness. Joseph M., another brother, also served in a New York regiment.
ROBERT W. STEWART is a native of Ireland, and was born in 1820. He is a carpenter and joiner by trade, but has a farm of 225 acres. He came to America in 1837 and located in Greene county, N. Y. Since 1840 he has lived at Lawrenceville. He has been auditor nine years. He married Miss P. A. Cady, of Lawrence, in 1846.
REV. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR was born in Char- leston, S. C., in 1818. He married Mrs. Margaret Stev- ens, of Northumberland, Pa. He studied theology under Bishop Gadsden, of South Carolina, by whom he was ordained to the deaconate in 1840, and was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Chase, of New Hampshire, in the Church of the Ascension in the city of New York, in 1842. He has mostly during his ministry been engaged in literary work; has lectured much, and contributed from time to time to the secular and religious press. Had he been an ambitious man he might have attained to eminence as a preacher. He is at present connected with the diocese of central Pennsylvania under Bishop Howe. He has lived in Lawrenceville twelve years.
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LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.
WILLIAM W. BASTIAN was born in Jackson, in 1857, and in 1881 married Addie, daughter of Daniel and Kate Heyler, of Liberty. By occupation he is a butcher, of the firm of Heyler & Bastian, who commenced business April ist 1881 and employ four men.
JOHN H. CHILDS, son of Richard and Margaret Childs, was born in 1836, in Monturesville. He married Miss Ellen WILLIAM NARBER was born in 1832, at Hughsville, Pa., and married Miss Harriet A. Moor, of Jackson, Pa. In 1856 he entered the mercantile business with Mr. Miller, of Athens, Pa., in 1860; they have five children. Mr. C. claims to have been the first man to enlist from Tioga county in the civil war. He joined Company G Sebring, afterward with Mr. Moor, and the firm is still roth Pa. volunteers in 1861, for three months; re-enlisted Narber & Moor. Mr. Narber has been postmaster at March roth 1864 in Company G 7th Pa. cavalry, and Liberty since 1869. served to the close of the war. He engaged in the mercan- tile business in 1880 in Nauvoo; in 1882 became proprietor of the National Hotel, and was appointed postmaster.
SAMUEL HARTMAN was born in 1823, in Williamsport, Pa. they have two children living, and have lost one. Mr.
His wife was Mary A., daughter of Isaac and Christiana Werline. In 1861 he engaged in a general mercantile bus- iness in Liberty, which he still carries on. He has adopted five children, one of whom, Joseph Hartman, served four years during the civil war; another is in the regular army. Mr. H. is a son of James and Margaret Hartman.
JOHN HARTSOCK, son of Daniel and Mary Hartsock, was born in Liberty, October 5th 1836. He was a mer- chant the first three years after attaining his majority, and has since been a farmer. March 23d 1864 he mar- ried Mary, daughter of Matthew and Mary Decoursey, of Liberty. His children are Mary A., Henry E., Harriet E., William C. and Clara C.
RICHARD H. HARTSOCK was born in Liberty, in 1832. He married Miss Julia Miller, of Jackson, in 1858. He is a dealer in general merchandise. His parents were Daniel and Mary Hartsock.
JOSEPH HEYLER is a son of John and Elizabeth Heyler, and was born in Nauvoo, in 1860. Formerly a farmer, he four survive. is now engaged in blacksmithing.
ALBERT G. KRAIS is a son of Ludwig and Dorothea Krais, and a native of Wurtemburg, Germany. He was born in 1838; came to this country in 1861, and bought out the tannery of his brother Gottlieb in Liberty, which he carried on for several years, when he sold it and pur- chased 50 acres of land. In 1879 he became one of the firm of Vail. & Krais, which turns out about 5,000 sides of leather annually. In 1866 he married Anna, daughter of Christian and Mary Biser; they have five children.
GOTTLOB KRISE was born in Wurtemburg, in 1831. He married Mary A. Messner. He came to America in 1848 with two brothers, and located at Liberty. With the exception of a three years' tour in the west he has been engaged in farming and tanning; he now finishes 6,000 sides of leather annually.
JONATHAN KREGER was born in 1820 at Shamokin Creek, Pa. He is a son of John and Hannah Kreger. The father in 1824 took up 125 acres of wild land in Jackson. This farm is still owned by the son, who is also a carpenter, cabinet maker and undertaker, with a place of business in Liberty. In 1845 he married Miss Nancy Landis, of Liberty; of their eight children six survive.
CHARLES A. MILLER was born in Jackson, Pa., in 1840. His wife was Miss Clara Sebring, of Liberty, Pa. In
1857 he began as clerk in the store of Werline & Miller; in 1860 became a partner; in 1861 closed the business and engaged in lumbering. He afterward engaged in farming, but in 1872 bought out Mr. Sebring and became one of the firm of C. A. Miller & Bros. In 1880 he built the elegant brick block which the firm now occupy.
PERRY MILLER, son of John and Catherine Miller, was born in Jackson, in 1837. He married Miss Mary A. Casselberry, of Liberty, in 1868; of their eight chil- dren four survive. He enlisted in 1864 in Company B 8th Pa. volunteers; was twice wounded, and served to the close of the war. He is now a farmer, owning 56 acres.
DAVID OSTROM, son of John and Permilia Ostrom, was born in Tompkins, N. Y., in 1831. He settled in Liberty in 1846, and married Miss Catherine J. Foulkrod; Ostrom was drafted in 1862 and furnished a substitute. In 1866 he purchased the farm on which he now resides.
GEORGE S. SCHNEIDER was born October 14th 1844, in Liberty, on the farm he now occupies. In 1879 he married Mary, daughter of Frederick and Mary Heyler, of Morris. Their children are Anna and Mary C. The parents of Mr. Schneider were John and Catherine Schneider.
ROBERT C. SEBRING, son of Jonathan and Sarah Sebring, was born in 1819, in Liberty. In 1844 he mar- ried Miss Phebe Reed, of Trout Run. Four of their eight children are now living. Mr. Sebring has long been a prominent business man, having been merchant, farmer and hotel keeper, which last is his present business.
MICHAEL SHEFFER, of the firm of M. Sheffer & Sons, manufacturers of carriages, wagons and sleighs, is a son of John and Susanna Sheffer. He was born in Liberty, in 1821. In 1843 he married Mary E., daughter of Wil- liam and Hannah Cox. They have had five children;
He established himself in 1839 as a car- riage maker.
FERDINAND G. THOMAS was born in Otsego county, N. Y., February 7th 1822, and is a. son of Sheldon Thomas. Since 1849 he has carried on a farm, and since 1869 has been engaged in the mercantile business. In 1850 he married Leah, daughter of William Frederick, of Liberty. Their children living are William E., Elva J., lda E., Emma F. and Elmer M .; they lost a daughter named Ada L.
WILLIAM F. WESEMAN, M. D., is a native of Hanover, Germany, and was born in 1822; was graduated at the University of Gottingen, in 1851; came to America in 1852; located first in Northumberland county, Pa., and in 1855 at Liberty. He enlisted in 1864 as first lieuten- ant under Colonel Cox, in Company B 207th Pa. volun- teers, and was quartermaster until the close of the war. He is now practicing medicine at Liberty.
GEORGE R. WHEELAND is a lifelong resident of Lib- erty. He was born at Nauvoo, December 14th 1827. He is employed in coopering and farming; was formerly engaged in lumbering. He served nine months in the 207th Pa. volunteers. He married Mary A. Beck, of Jackson, Lycoming county. He has been school direc- tor, treasurer, etc .; was twice elected magistrate in Jack- son, but declined to qualify.
ISAAC F. WHEELAND was born in Liberty, in 1845. His wife was Miss Mary Adela Lichtenthaler, of Mon- turesville, Pa. He enlisted in 1862 in Company G 13th Pa. cavalry; was in numerous engagements and was wounded several times, but served to the close of the war. He was elected magistrate in 188r.
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MIDDLEBURY TOWNSHIP.
HENRY ADAMS was born in Tioga county, Pa., in 1857. to Tioga county to locate in 1857. He has held several township offices, and was a member of the 136th regi- ment Pa. volunteers, and captain of Company A.
Abram Adams, his father, was from Vermont, and came to Tioga county in 1830; he died in 1879. Henry's mother, whose maiden name was Jerusha Pratt, is still living. She is a native of New York State.
HARRY BEERS was born in Bradford county, in 1835, and came to Tioga county in 1857. He has also been a resident of Wayne county, Pa. He was married in 1864 to Miss S. F. Wells, of Saratoga county, N. Y. He is at present foreman of the tannery at Niles Valley.
GEORGE C. DANIELS and MRS. SARAH A. DANIELS, his wife, reside at Keeneyville, and are among the oldest in - habitants of that part of the county. Mrs. Daniels is a daughter of Jesse Keeney, one of the earliest settlers in the county. She was born in Onondaga county, N. Y., in 1803.
JARED DAVIS JR. was born in Cortland county, N. Y., in 1831, and came to Tioga county with his parents in 1846, locating at that time on Pine Creek. He was mar- ried to Sarah A. Ogden, of New Jersey, in 1854, and has four children. He has held several township offices, among others that of assessor for six years in succes- sion.
ABRAM FARR was born in Windham county, Vt., in 1844, and came to Tioga county with his parents in 1854. His wife was Jennie L. Terwilliger, a native of Broome county, N. Y. Mr. Farr is a clerk in the store of O. B. Lowell & Co., at Niles Valley.
JOHN A. FLETCHER, postmaster at Niles Valley since 4879, is a native of Tioga county, and was born March 5th 1838. He was married in 1865 to Rosette Niles, of Niles Valley. He was a member of the 45th Pennsyl- vania volunteers, and lost an arm in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6th 1864.
GEORGE W. FOSTER was born in Steuben county, N. Y., in 1844, but has resided in this county since 1864. He was married in 1865 to Nida Lake, of Dutchess county, N. Y., and has three children. He has for seven years been superintendent of the tannery of O. B. Lowell & Co. at Niles Valley, where he now resides.
WILLIAM M. FRENCH was born in Steuben county, N. bury, January 31st 1827, and was for many years a resi- Y., in 1831. His father, Moses French, was an early settler in Middlebury township. William M. was married | from Vermont, and came to Tioga county many years to Catharine Smith, of Wellsville, N. Y. His post-office is Keeneyville.
FRANK HAMMOND was born in Tioga county, in 1856. His parents were natives of Warren county, N. Y., and located in this township, in 1850. Mr. Hammond was married to Amy Thurston in 1877. He is at present postmaster at Hammond, and also has a store.
CAPTAIN JOHN J. HAMMOND is a native of Warren county, N. Y., and was born in 1822. In 1847 he mar- ried Betsey Crayton, of Greene county, N. Y. He came
GEORGE D. KEENEY came to this county when six years of age, with his parents, who located near Tioga in 1832. They came from Cortland county, N. Y., where George was born in 1826. Mr. Keeney married Jane A. Drew, and they have seven children. He was a justice of the peace 15 years in succession. He has been ex- tensively engaged in lumbering, and is at present in the same business at Keeneyville.
A. A. McLEAN was born in New York State in 1814, and came to Tioga county in 1835. He was married to Mary J. Potter in 1838, and they had thirteen children, eight of whom are still living. Mr. McLean was post- master at Hammond nine years.
AUGUSTUS NILES, M. D., was born in this county, No- vember ioth 1853. He married Mary Knuppenburg in 1875, and has one child. Dr. Niles graduated at Bennett Medical College, Chicago, Ill., in 1875, and at once com- menced the practice of medicine at Nelson. He re- mained there three years, and then removed to Keeney- ville, where he now resides.
MRS. JANE CLOOS PALMER is a daughter of Newberry Cloos (deceased), who was born in Tioga county in 1813 and was a resident of the county until his death, which occurred in 1880. Mr. Cloos was married to Cynthia Church, of Troupsburg, N. Y.
GEORGE W. PECKHAM was born in Middletown, R. I., in 1829, and married Matilda A. Potter, of Chatham township, Tioga county, Pa. Her father, Mr. E. Potter, is one of the oldest residents of Middlebury township.
C. J. SMITH was born in Mckean county, Pa., in 1840, and came to Tioga county with his mother in 1846, lo- cating in Farmington township. He was married in 1866 to Mary A. Stevens, of Tioga county, and has five chil- dren. He was a member of the ist Pennsylvania rifles four years; has also been justice of the peace, and is at present proprietor of a hotel at Keeneyville.
HENRY A. STEVENS (deceased) was born in Middle- dent of his native township. His parents were originally ago. Mrs. E. M. Stevens, his wife, is still living.
JAMES M. STEVENS was born in 1839, in this county, to which his parents removed from Vermont. He mar- ried Theresa Smith in 1861, and they have four children. Mr. Stevens's parents were among the early settlers of Tioga county.
HORACE F. WESTBROOK was a native of Chemung county, N. Y. He married Rachel M. Prutsman in 1856. He was a member of the 57th Pennsylvania volunteers, and died in 1862 at Malvern Hill.
MORRIS TOWNSHIP.
HENRY F. BARROW, son of William and Hannah Bar- CHARLES BLACK is a native of Lycoming county, born in 1842. He married Miss Lucy Campbell in 1855, and has one child. He came from Liberty to Morris in 1880, and engaged in lumbering. In 1881 he opened the Woodland Hotel, in Morris. row, was born in Union, Pa., in 1844. He married Julia E., daughter of John and Rhoda Fetter, of Union. Of their five children two survive. He enlisted in 1863 in Company B 188th Pa. volunteers, and served through the war. In 1870 he settled in Liberty; in 1882 in GEORGE BLACKWELL, son of William and Sarah Black- Morris, where he is foreman in the Morris steam saw-mill. I well, was born in Morris, in 1821. In 1847 he married
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Mary A., daughter of John and Frances Campbell. They have five children living. He enlisted in 1862 in Company A 149th Pa. volunteers; was in numerous bat- tles; was wounded five times; was promoted from private to first lieutenant, and was honorably discharged in 1864. He is now engaged in farming.
THOMAS BLACKWELL, son of Enoch and Mary E. Black- well, was born at Lloyd's, in 1853. His wife was Miss Jennie Wilson, of Morris. They have three children By occupation Mr. Blackwell is a clerk. He has been assistant assessor one year.
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