History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania, Part 101

Author: Mathews, Alfred, 1852-1904. 4n
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : R.T. Peck & Co.
Number of Pages: 1438

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The children of Stephen and Mary Day, in the order of their birth, are,-Jane (1790- 1871), was the wife of Moses Ward, of Beth- any, and mother of Rev. Elias O. Ward, of the

CHARLES FAATZ.

Charles Faatz, son of Christian, and grandson of Christopher Faatz, was born Oc- tober 7, 1829, on the place where he now re- sides, and where the family first settled soon after they came from Saxony. Christopher Faatz and Jacob Hinds, natives of Saxony, emigrated to Philadelphia in 1808, and, being unable to pay their passage money, served two

Lewis Day

same place ; Elias, born 1792; Barney (1794- 1856) settled in Ohio, where he died ; Harriet (1796-1804) ; Benjamin B., born in 1798, re- sided in Ohio and reared a family, but died in New Orleans. He had one son, who was shot by the Indians; another son, Benjamin B. Day, Jr., is president of the Washington Ter- ritory Senatorial Council, in 1886. Mary J. (1801-1862) was the wife of Levi Ketcham, of Bethany. Damaris, born in 1804, is the widow of the late Hon. Ephraim W. Hamlin, and re- sides in Bethany, in 1886 ; Edwin S. (1810- 1866), and Lewis Day.

years after their landing to repay the amount due. Fortunately for Christopher Faatz, he was bound to a glass manufacturer of the eity, a business he had learned in his native country, and he soon showed his master that he was a proficient glass-blower. At the end of his ser- vice, he rented the glass manufactory, and in due time saved money enough to send for his wife,-Elizabeth Hinds, sister of his eompan- ion, and his two ehildren, Christiana and Chris- tian, and bring them to Philadelphia.

Soon after the arrival of his family, he be- came manager of the glass-works at Roekville,

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on the Delaware, and afterwards at Woodstock, N. Y., where he remained until 1816, when he and Jaeob Hinds removed to the western part of Dyberry township, Wayne County, pur- chased some six hundred aeres of woodland, and erected a glass manufactory, which was carried on by Faatz & Hinds and other firms until the glass interest was transferred to Hones- dale.

Christopher Faatz and wife were Lutherans

in Dyberry township ; Stephen S., a glass-blower, resides in Honesdale; Nieholas died in Michigan, and was a farmer ; Caroline is the wife of Joseph Bodie, one of the old residents of Dy- berry township.

The eldest daughter, Christiana, was the first wife of Nicholas Greiner, and after his death the wife of Henry Downing, a land agent, and died in Dyberry ..

The eldest son, Christian (1798-1868), was

Charles Faalz

in religious persuasion, and traveling ministers held their meetings in their house, until many years afterwards, when a school-house was ereeted, and served for a place of worship. He died in 1828, aged sixty years. His wife sur- vived him, and died about 1850. Their other children, born in this country were: Charles, a glass-blower, of Weedsport, N. Y .; Jacob, a glass-maker, died near Prompton, in 1856 ; Christopher, a glass-eutter and farmer, resides

some twelve years old when he came with his mother to Philadelphia, and at onee began to learn the business of a glass-blower, and eon- tinued with his father in this business as long as he carried it on, and was manager for other firms afterwards, in that place and at Dundaff. He succeeded to one hundred aeres of the orig- inal purchase of land, most of which he eleared and prepared for crops, and ereeted buildings thereon. He was a man of correet habits, led

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an honorable and useful life, possessed sterling characteristics and sought to fulfil the full du- ties of a father and good citizen. He was a strict adherent of the Lutheran doctrines, and had all his children baptized in his own house. He was self-sacrificing, tenacious of principle and right, and labored for the good of others. He was frequently selected to fill the highest offices in the township, and every trust confided to his charge, whether of a public or private nature, found in him a noble exponent of hon- esty and integrity. His first wife was Matilda (1799-1844), daughter of Abraham and Sally Brink. His second wife, whom he married in 1845, was Catherine, widow of George Hopkins, of Clinton township, by whom he had one daughter, Hattie, wife of William Varcoe, of Damascus. His third wife, was Sarah Tripp, whom he married in 1852, who bore him one child-Sarah, wife of William Griffis, of Car bondale. The children by his first marriage are : Lucinda, widow of George Payne, of San- dusky, Ohio ; Jacob, of Wood County, Ohio ; Betsy, wife of Sumner Isham, of Dyberry town- ship ; Nancy deceased, was the wife of John Shirmer, of Scelyville ; Mary deceased, was the wife of William Stiles, and resided in Clinton township; Charles; George, a farmer of Oregon township ; Andrew, a farmer in South Canaan ; Adeline, widow of Simon Hopkins, of Clinton, and Edward, who resides on a part of the or- iginal purchase.

Of this large family of children, Charles Faatz succeeded to the homestcad of his father, and has spent his life as a farmer. He has served his township as supervisor, school director and assessor, and is its treasurer in 1886. He has been identified with the Bethany Methodist Church since 1853, was steward of the church during that time, class leader for many years, and for the past fifteen years superintendent of the Sunday-school. His wife, Clarissa, born August 27, 1831, married May 6, 1851, is the daughter of George and Catherine (Bunting) Hopkins, before named. Her father was a na- tive of Winfield, Conn., and settled in Clinton township, Wayne County, while a young man. He was a silk weaver by trade, but followed farming in this county. He died in 1833, aged

sixty-four years. Her mother died at the age of fifty-six, in 1851. Their children are : Samuel, died in Kansas, in 1885, aged sixty- four ; David, an inventor, resides in New York; Simon, died in 1870; George, a builder in Philadelphia ; Ann Elizabeth, wife of William Olver, of Dyberry, Clarissa, and Julia M., wife of William Box, of Dyberry.

The children of Charles and Clarissa Faatz are : Lillie, wife of Martin Balkcom, of Dy- berry ; Cora C., wife of Phene Bodie, of Dy- berry ; Jasper H., and Judson B. Faatz.

ALBERT BUTLER

came from New Hartford, Litchfield Coun- ty, Conn., in 1840 and settled on eighty-five' acres of land one mile south of Bethany, in Dyberry township, upon which he resided and which he farmed until a few years since, when he retired and settled in Bethany, where he now resides, in 1886. He is a carpenter by trade, and has worked at this business, as well as farm- ing, since his removal here. He has been identi- fied with Dyberry township as school director, assessor and clerk, taken an active interest in lo- cal matters, and as a member of the Methodist Church he has served as trustee and recording steward. He was born March 9, 1814; mar- ried, in 1838, Harriet (1816-66), a daughter of Orin and Harriett (Pettibone) Cadwell, who for a time resided at Simsbury, Hartford Coun- ty, Conn., until he was married and then, in New Hartford, whence she left with her hus- band for Wayne County, Pa. Her father died in the West; her mother is living, in 1886, at Bristol, Conn., at nearly ninety years of age. The children of Mr. Butler by this marriage are Susan Jane (wife of Henry O. Hurlburt, a jeweler in Philadelphia), Celia Augusta (wife of William A. Gaylord, prothonotary of Wayne County) and William T. Butler, residing on the homestead farm and a teacher. By his second marriage, in 1870, to S. Melissa, a daughter of Jonathan D. and Mary (Cramer) Simpson, he has one son, Albert S. Butler. She was born May 5, 1843.

Mr. Butler's father, Jared, was a farmer and resided in Litchfield County, where he died

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about 1860. His mother, Eunice, a daughter of Thomas Couch, of Norfolk, Conn., died in 1837. Their children are Timothy (died at Colebrooke, Conn.), Almon (died at his brother Albert's), Albert (subject of this sketch), Wil- liam (died in Iowa), Merriman M. (died at Colebrooke), Jared Sullivan (resides at Nor- folk, Conn.), Alia (married a Mr. Allyn) and Laura (the wife of Nathan Starr Corrington, of Cook County, Ill.

His grandfather, Jared Butler and wife, Elizabeth Doggester, were farmers and reared their family at Norfolk. He died there in 1822,

Albert Butter

aged seventy-five years. The paternal great- grandfather of Albert Butler was Nathaniel, and the family is of English origin.

Jonathan Drake Simpson (1792-1860), a native of Chatham, N. J., was the son of Isaac Simpson, a native of Holland, who served in the Revolutionary War. His mother's family name was Drake and their church relation Presbyterian, of which he was a member in his younger days. At the age of eighteen he eulist- ed and served as a drummer in the War of 1812, at Sandy Hook, and after his discharge

he served in the New Jersey State militia as first lieutenant. He learned how to carry on a grist-mill and was well practiced in Mahogany veneering sawing, at which business he worked until about 1822, when he was asked to locate at Seely's Mills (now Seelyville), Wayne County, Pa., and take charge of the newly erected grist-mill at that place, which he attend- ed for many years. Soon after settling at See- lyville he bought a large tract of land, compris- ing most of the hill-sides in view of that promising mill site, but entering largely into the lumbering business, the spring's floods swept his stored logs and lumber suddenly away and left him deeply in debt. He was a man highly esteemed by all who knew him. In 1827 he married, at Seelyville, Mary Cramer (1809- 67), a Christian woman and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for over forty years. Their children are Ann Eliza, Helen Amanda, Mary Emily, Susan Beach (died in Iowa) Carolina Elizabeth and S. Melissa Simp- son. One son, Jonathan Drake Simpson, loyal to the Union cause during the late Civil War, served with the Northern troops, was taken prisoner and confined in a rebel prison where he is supposed to have died. He left a widow and one child-Lotta Simpson.

HENRY VAN DEUSEN.

Henry Van Deusen (1794-1868) and his wife, Louisa Dobel (1798-1879), daughter of John Dobel, both natives of Great Barrington, Mass., came from that State in 1833, with their three children, and settled in Dyberry town- ship, Wayne County. There they spent the remainder of their lives. They were interred in the cemetery at Honesdale. The Van Deu- sens resided for a time on the place now owned by Mr. Bullock. The father gave it to his sons, and subsequently bought the farm of one hun- dred and twenty acres on the Dyberry, upon which he erected the present residence, the prop- erty being owned in 1886 by his daughter, Mrs. George E. Baker. Henry Van Deusen was one of the most esteemed and substantial eitizens of the township, a man of temperate and correct habits, of strong mind and good judgment, and

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of sterling integrity in all his business re- lations.

He had a good English education, and his written papers drawn by himself, together with his methodical and business-like way of keeping his accounts, attest not only his general intelli- gence but somewhat of his scholarship. He was an attendant of the Episcopal Church before coming to Wayne County, and interested in matters of church afterwards, but there being

children of Henry and Louisa Van Deusen are Mark, born May 4, 1823, married Sarah E., eldest daughter of George E. Baker, mentioned in this sketch, and resides in Oregon township, where he is closely identified with its interests, and has served as school-director and supervisor ; George H. (1829-1883), served his township as supervisor, was a good citizen, resided on the homestead with his sister, and there died, un- married, and Carrie E. Van Deusen, wife of

George & Baker

no church herc then, he never united with any religious denomination, although he represent- ed the highest type of morality and was a con- tributor to religious work.

His father, Isaac I. Van Deusen (1767-1831), was a farmer and tanner, at Great Barrington, and married Christina Spoor (1765-1830), by whom he had the following children : Nicholas, died in Illinois ; Henry, Catherine (1791-1874), was the wife of Isaac Wheeler, of Victor, N. Y., and left a family of children at her death. The

George E. Baker, residing on and owning the Van Deusen homestead. Mrs. Louisa (Gobel) Van Deusen's mother was Elizabeth Griswold. Mark Van Deusen's children, the only persons of the third generation in Wayne representing the Van Deusen family are Frank, Carrie E., Hattie, George and Leslie Van Deusen.

Cflenny ny Van Buren

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GEORGE E. BAKER.

George E. Baker, born May 22, 1822, in Rhode Island, on the line between that State and Connecticut, came with his parents, Ezra Baker (1790-1881) and Elizabeth (Bennett) Baker (1792-1879), in 1831, and settled near Rileysville, in Lebanon township, Wayne Coun- ty, where Virgil Brooks now resides. The parents resided in that locality the remainder of their lives, were much esteemed citizens, zeal- ous supporters of the Free Will Baptist Church, and raised their children under religious instruc- tion and influence. They were interred at Ri- leysville. Their other children were Elmira, died at the age of thirteen years and Stephen, a twin brother with George E., resides in Oregon township ; George, grandfather of George E. Baker, resided in Rhode Island, and married Phebe Taylor, a sister of William Taylor, father of Mrs. Jehiel Justin, of Lebanon. He was a well-read man, and although a farmer by occu- pation, was a somewhat public man, and repre- sented his constituency in the State Legislature. He died about the year 1840, aged sixty-eight years.

George E. Baker early learned what hard work meant, but had the usual opportunities of the district school, which he improved. His life-work has been that of a farmer. He first married in 1846, on New Year's day, Emily E. (1825-1873), daughter of John and Millany (Huntington) Lincoln, of Lebanon township, formerly from Connecticut. By this marriage he had children, viz : Sarah E., wife of Mark Van Deusen, before mentioned; Harriet A. (1848-1885), was the wife of George W. Kim- ble, now of Dyberry township; Lydia J., wife of George A. Kimble, of Oregon township; Marcia M. and Lucy E. (twins), the former, wife of Nicholas Humbley, and the latter, wife of Frank Kimble, both of Oregon township. For his second wife Mr. Baker married, Decem- ber 20, 1883, Carrie E., only daughter of Henry and Louisa (Dobel) Van Deusen, heretofore mentioned. She was born June 20, 1831, and was, therefore, two years old when her parents came to Wayne County. They reside upon the Van Densen honicstead, on the Dyberry Creek. Mrs. Baker regrets that she has no picture of

her father to insert in this work, but has fur- nished his autograph for engraving herein.

CHAPTER XXI.

LEBANON TOWNSHIP. 1

LEBANON is bounded on the east by Damas- cus, south by Oregon and Dyberry, west by Mount Pleasant, north by Buckingham and Manchester. It contains about thirty-seven square miles. A large portion of it is covered with woods ; the hemlock, ash and basswood is mostly gonc. The principal timber is hard and soft maple, beech, birch, black and white ash, basswood and hemlock with pine and spruce in swamps. Some butternut, chestnut, hickory and elm.

The surface of the township is generally uneven ; some parts are very rough, ledges and detached rocks covering a considerable portion of the hillsides, especially along the larger streams. The general course of the streams is south. Near the northern part of the township, a ridge called Laurel Ridge runs nearly east and west, dividing the waters of the Delaware and Dyberry. The soil produces good crops of corn, oats, buckwheat and potatoes. Some good crops of wheat and rye have been raised, but the soil is better adapted to grazing than tillage. In the northeast corner is a lofty hill called " Big Hickory." In a ledge of rocks on lands of James Gethin, some beautiful specimens of quartz have been found and in a cultivated field near by, Mr. Gethin frequently plows up small quartz. Upper Woods Pond is a noted resort for fishermen. At the Lower Woods Pond the Delaware & Hudson Company have a reservoir for feeding the canal. These with Duck Harbor comprise all the ponds of much size in the township.

EARLY SETTLERS .- Commencing at the west line of the township on the Newburgh turnpike one finds the old Stevens placc. Silas Stevens from Vermont took up lands on both sides of the turnpike about 1810 and commenced keep-

1 The data concerning this township was gathered, and the chapter was mostly written by Philo S. Bass.

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ing tavern in 1812, which business he continued most of his life. He was succeeded by his son William, who some years ago disposed of his real estate to Robbins Douglass. Silas Stevens appears to have been of an inventive turn of mind. At one time he constructed a churning machine to run by water. He also built a threshing machine setting up a perpendicular post in the barn so that it would turn around. In this he placed a horizontal shaft which would also revolve ; this he filled with pegs reaching the floor ; he then spread the grain in a circle around the upright, hitched a horse to the outer end of the shaft and started, but how much grain he threshed is not known. He married Esther Merrill. Their children were Alfred, Merrill, William, Malby and Palina, (Mrs. Benajah Carr).

The next farm on the east, on the south side of the road was that of John Douglass, also of Vermont and a brother-in-law of Stevens. His wife was Sybil Merrill. He died many years ago and was succeeded by his only son Robbins, who died 1876. There are two of his daughters still living, Mrs. Seth Yale of this town and Mrs. John Rutledge of Damascus. Robbins Douglass was succeeded by his son Gates H., who resides on the old homestead.

The next farm on the north side of the road was that of Joseph Bass, who came from Wind- ham County, Conn., in 1815. His wife was Lucy Gager. He died in 1843, leaving four sons : Thomas H., Jason G., John W. and Gilbert P. Bass. The latter who lives upon and owns the old homestead is the only living member of the family.

The next settler on the east was David Gager, who came from the same place and with Joseph Bass, whose wife was a sister of Gager's. Gager cleared up his farm. There are two of his sons still living in Wayne County, Horace W., of Lebanon and Edwin B., of Dyberry.

On the south side of the turnpike, opposite the Bass farm, Elisha Lincoln settled in 1817. He lived upon the farm until 1837 when he moved west. P. S. Bass, the only son of G. P. Bass, owns the front of the farm and Francis Halligan the rest.

The next farm on the east and opposite the

Gager farm, John Lincoln, a brother of Elisha, settled in 1817. In 1823 he settled on the farm now owned by his son-in-law, Hiram Wright ; he kept a hotel for many years, and was postmaster at Rileysville a long time. He had three sons,-John, Steadman and Giles ; and two daughters,-Mrs. H. Wright and Mrs. George Baker. Mrs. Wright is the one living in this township at present. Mr. Lincoln died at the residence of H. Wright in 1867; the Lincolns were from Connecticut. P. S. Bass lives upon the front of the old farm of John Lincoln, C. H. Scudder owning the rear.

The next farm on the north side of the road was settled by George Parkinson early in the present century. He was probably the first settler in West Lebanon, as his old house was the only one upon the old road, which at this point ran half a mile north of the turnpike. The old place has passed through many hands ; the Robinsons, Stephen Hoyt, P. G. Goodrich, Esq., J. Stacy and others being its owners. It is now owned by C. H. Scudder and William Murphy.

Opposite the Parkinson place Benajah Carr settled about the year 1814 ; the land was given him by his father. Carr cleared up his farm, sold out to C. H Scudder and went West in 1849. None of the family remain in the town- ship.

Passing on, the next place on the south side of the road is the Wheatcraft farm, settled by Edward Wheatcraft, of Frederick, Md., about 1803. The farm is now owned by G. H. Douglass and Charles Bennett. Opposite the Wheatcraft farm Willet Carr, a brother of Benajah Carr, located. He sold out to Walker Harrison and moved to Preston township, on the farm now owned by J. L. Sherwood.

Turning to the north, between the Parkinson and W. Carr farms, and passing on we find William Murphy on the west side of the road owning a part of the old Parkinson farm. Be- yond him on the east side of the road lives Matthew Lestrange, owning a part of the Harri- son farm, which was cleared by Jesse Harrison, a son of Walker Harrison. Galen Wilmarth and Michael Moran owned and lived upon it previous to Lestrange. Off the road, east of

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Lestrange, Edward Moran settled about forty years ago. In 1884 he sold to James B. Megivern and bought the Ralph Case farm in Clinton. On the west side of the road lives Michael Lestrange, on a farm cleared by his father, Patrick Lestrange, who now resides in Mount Pleasant. Passing on north we come to the farm cleared by Thomas Moran, now de- ceased. It is now occupied by his son and widow. Moran and Lestrange came here about forty years ago. The next place is one settled on by Patrick Rogers about thirty years ago. Rogers and his wife have been dead some years. His sons remain upon the farm. Passing on we find P. O'Neill, Peter Hughes and Thomas McKenna, who have recently settled here. Going south from the turnpike, on the road be- tween the B. Carr and Wheatcraft farms, and south along the road leading to Honesdale, we find Samuel Latourette, for many years a resi- dent on the farm originally taken up by Sey- mour Spafford ; still passing on south we find on the east side of the road a farm taken up by Lester and John Spafford, owned more recently by John Latourette, and at present by Francis Cunningham, of Herrick Centre, Susquehanna County. Farther south on the west side of the road is Benjamin E. Gager, and on the east side is Nelson Latourette. Still farther on, and on the west side of the road is James Gethin. The three last named have cleared up their farms within the last few years.

On the east side of the road is an old place first taken up by John W. Bass, who chopped down twenty-five acres of timber. He sold his interest in the place to one Perkins, who left it about 1837, when Peter Latourette became the owner. It is now owned by his grandson, George Latourette. South of this to the south line of the township is an unbroken wilderness. David Spafford made a commencement off the road west of S. Latourette, on the land now owned by the latter. Seymour Spafford was a cousin of the other three. John and David married daughters of Joseph Bass. Lester married an Arnold, of Prompton. John Spafford left one son, Joseph B., now an en- ginecr at Carter's factory, Providence, Luzerne County ; and three daughters,-Mrs. M. Silsby,

Mrs. William Love and Mrs. John Fordham. John Spafford died at Mount Pleasant some years ago, David went to Michigan, where he died, and Lester died near Stockport, N. Y.

Returning to the turnpike and passing on east beyond the W. Carr place, on the north of road, we come to the farm first settled by one Simons, who built a house on it and was burned out. He removed to Susquehanna County, where some of his descendants still reside. This farm is owned by heirs of John Wilmarth, son of Galen Wilmarth. , Benjamin Wheeler and Philo Spencer, of Mount Pleasant, married Simons' daughters. East of Simons place, on the north side of the road, lives Horace W. Gager on a farm owned by Elijah Gillett. Joining this on the east are lands taken up by Hugh Gammell, of Vermont, who for his second wife married a sister of Gillett's. Gammell must have been here as early as 1810, for in 1813 he had an orchard set out, now owned by E. E. Yale, son of J. E. Yale. Opposite Gam- mell's a man named Duncan commenced and put up a house of hewn logs, but never finished it. Peter Latourette before named settled on it next, and he sold to Joseph Bennett, who died there. Charles Bennett, his son, now owns the farm. James F. Yale married a daughter of J. Bennett, and Ezra E. Yale another. Below the Bennett farm, on the south side, is a farm formerly known as the Quinctt place, from Francis Quinett, who once lived there, but at present occupied by the widow and son of John E. Yale. Nearly opposite this place, but a little farther east, the father of John and David Howell, late of Mount Pleasant, was located be- fore 1813.

The next farm on the east, lying on both sides of the turnpike, was cleared up by Seth Yale, who came from Connecticut to Mount Pleasant in 1806. In 1813 he settled here. He was once county commissioner and for many years justice of the peace, and as such he never had an appeal taken from his decision. He always counseled settlement rather than law. He had more hair-breadth escapes than any hunter in the vicinity. At one time having shot an otter on the ice at " Lower Woods Pond," in going after it the ice broke with him

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History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania, Part 101

Author: Mathews, Alfred, 1852-1904. 4n Publication date: 1886 Publisher: Philadelphia : R.T. Peck & Co. Number of Pages: 1438

Author: Mathews, Alfred, 1852-1904. 4n
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : R.T. Peck & Co.
Number of Pages: 1438