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Kimble and Thomas Schoonover. It is an inter- esting fact, attested by this signature, that both names have undergone orthographic change since that time. Walter Kimble signed himself Kimbale, and Mr. Schoonover wrote his name as Schoon- hover. In 1835 or 1836, the old school-house on the road to Bethany was built on land that is now included in the Seely orchard, at Seelyville.
Who first taught there is not now known, but a number of men who have since become prominent in the county, sat on its pegged seats and wrestled with the three R's. The school-house at Leonards- ville was built in 1839, and has since been the place at which occasional religious meetings are held.
Until 1857, a district school was the only educa- tional facility afforded to the people of Seelyville. This was first held in the old log school-house that stood in Col. Seely's orchard, and, in 1842, was moved to a frame building, now occupied by Mrs. Margaret Bissle as a residence. The latter build- ing was used until 1858, when the present graded school was completed. Seelyville was made an independent district the preceding year, and Prof. W. G. Trim, now of Jermyn, was the first teacher. After serving faithfully for fourteen years, he gave place to Miss E. J. Avery, who in turn was succeeded by Mr. W. T. Butler, the present incumbent. In 1885, about one hundred scholars were enrolled.
The early records of Texas school district have not been preserved, and few details of the early history of free education are known. The first election return on record is that of 1839, two years after the erection of the township, and no school directors appear in the list. The following were elected after that time :
List of school directors in Texas township, from 1840 to 1876.
1840 .- William R. McLaury, Benj. F. Kimble.
1841 .- Russell Spencer, James Miller Harvey.
1842 .- Putnam R. Williams, David Kirby, John P. Darling (for one year).
1843 .- Richard L. Seely, Daniel P. Woodward.
1844 .- Benj. F. Kimble, Phineas Arnold.
1845 .- Daniel Eno, Daniel Blandin.
1846 .- Michael O'Neil, Chapman N. Root.
1847 .- Joseph C. Rundlett, David W. Hoyt.
1848 .- Daniel Blanding, Levi S. Demming.
1849 .- Daniel Schoonover, Ezra Genung.
1850 .- Ezekiel G. Wood, Robert J. Knapp.
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1851 .- David Beardslee, George Mauer. 1852 .- Hiram Dibble, David Beere.
1853 .- Putnam R. Williams, Ezra M. Genung. 1854 .- William L. Gainford, Amory Prescott. 1855 .- David Blandin, Asher M. Atkinson.
1856 .- George Menna, Samuel B. Coston.
1857 .- Amory Prescott, Ephraim White, Robert J. Knapp (two years).
1858 .- Thomas Grier, Daniel Schoonover. 1859 .- Samuel B. Coston, Marcus B. Keen.
1860 .- W. W. Holbert, A. Prescott.
1861 .- Timothy Fox, E. V. Clark. 1862 .- Edward Baker, Robert Hawkey.
1863 .- Amory Prescott, Walter Beardslee.
1864 .- Gilbert White, Henry Winter, John Henni- gan (one year).
1865 .- John Hennigan, William Dodge. 1866 .- Lewis M. Sears, Walter Beardslee.
1867 .- James C. Birdsall, Samuel Saunders. 1868 .- John Hennigan, John Schriner. 1869 .- Lewis M. Sears, J. E. Mandeville. 1870 .- John Hennigan, John Gallagher. 1872 .- Jacob Laus, Richard Bryant.
1873 .- Eugene Dorflinger, Gilbert White.
1874 .- John Hennigan, Samuel Saunders.
1875 .- Robert E. Bailey, Albert B. Ward. 1876 .- Wyman Kimble, Andrew Coar.
The Texas school district has nine buildings, and last year five hundred and forty pupils were enrolled. The tax levied amounted to $3,310.80, of which amount, one thousand dollars was for building purposes. Twelve teachers are employed, and the township will bear a fair comparison with others in the county. The present directors are Philip Ryan, president ; Michael Heermann, Treas- urer; J. Adam Kraft, secretary ; Samuel H. Brown, Lawrence McGuiness and Fred. Horst.
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BIOGRAPHICAL.
DAVID BUNNELL.
David Bunnell (1783-1855), a native of Middle Smithfield, Monroe County, Pa., came from Wall- pack, N. J., in 1804 and settled at Bethany, Pa. on the place now owned by William Stephens, where he erected the residence found there in 1886. On March 5, 1805, he married Parthenia Kellam (1786-1875), of Palmyra, Pike County, and re- moved to his new home at Bethany, Wayne County. He was a blacksmith by trade, and is said to have been the first of that trade to settle at that place. He cleared much of the tiniber from
his farm, and carried on blacksmithing in the shop which he built in settling there, while he resided at Bethany. There being meager accommodations for strangers visiting the place at court-time, Beth- any being then the county seat, he used to accom- modate boarders at his house on these special oc- casions. For many years he served as justice of the peace. Both himself and wife were members of the Baptist Church at Bethany, and their gener- ous hospitality, intelligence and support of every good work, are remembered by those now surviv- ing, who were their neighbors. In 1839 he sold his property at Bethany, and, with his sons (Henry, Pike and John K.), bought some seven hundred and fifty acres, mostly a wild tract of land, partly in Dyberry, and partly in Texas townships, upon which he settled. For one summer he resided on the most improved part of it, where his son, Pike, afterwards resided, in Dyberry township, and he erected in 1840, the present residence' of his son John K. Bunnell, at Bunnell's Pond, on another part of this tract in Texas township, to which he removed, and at the outlet of this pond with his sons, the same year he erected a saw-mill, and be- gan lumbering and clearing off their land, and fit- ting the soil for crops. Fifteen years after this David Bunnell died. His wife survived him twenty years, and died at the residence of her daughter, Eunice B., at Bethany. Both were in- terred at Honesdale. Their children are as follows: Rockwell, born April 2, 1806, survives in 1886 and resides at Prompton, Pa .; Eleanor (1807- 1843), was the wife of Isaac Olmstead and resided at Bethany ; Eunice B., born January 6, 1810, now deceased, was the wife of Brooks Lavo, of Bethany ; (1811-1872); Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1813-1856) ; Charles F. (1815-1868), re- sided in Oxford, N. Y., where he died ; John Kel- lam, born January 14, 1817 ; Sarah E., born De- cember 11, 1820, is the wife of Rev. Gilbert Bailey, D.D., of California ; David S., born November 19, 1821, is a contractor in Philadelphia; Harriet A., born May 21, 1824, died a young woman ; Abigail Jane, born October 9, 1826, is the widow of William Stockdale, who was a merchant of Springfield, Ill.
Henry Buunell, second son of David, was born at Bethany, October 17, 1811, had the usual op- portunities for an English education, with other
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boys, at his native place, but was taught in early life that industry, economy and a purpose in life, are necessary elements of character to succeed in business and to make a good citizen. In 1836 he married Amanda Page, at Harford, Pa., and for some time after his marriage resided at Montrose, Pa. About 1839 he joined his father and brothers in the purchase of the large tract of land herein referred to, and from that time until his death made his home on a portion of it, at Bunnell's
of Mr. Bunnell, got a start for his present large for- tunc. During Mr. Bunnell's life-time the families were very intimate friends.
Henry Bunnell was a man of large business ca- pacity, a friend to the poor man, and always ready to lend them any assistance that would better their condition, and he sought to fulfil the full duties of the citizen. He was a member of the Baptist Church at Honesdale, to which he gave liberally, and was active in the work of the church. His
HENRY BUNNELL.
Pond. He was more largely engaged in lumber- ing than farming, and in 1860, after the great freshet that swept away the old saw-mill, he built another upon the same site, also a tannery, and he also erected the pleasant residence now occupied by his widow, adjacent to the saw-mill grounds. Many years ago he purchased a timber tract in Oregon township of five hundred acres, upon which he erected a saw-mill, and, after carrying on the lumber business there for several years, he sold the property to William Penwarden, giving him ample time for payment. Mr. Penwarden was then a man without wealth, and, by the timely aid
wife died in 1853. Their children are David Montgomery, residing at Bunnell's Pond, owns the saw-mill, and, in 1869, built a grist-mill near it on the site of the tannery, which had been built by his father about 1860, and was burned in 1869; Louise Priscilla, died at the age of twenty years ; George F., deceased ; Mary E., wife of Romain Bump, of Kansas; William H., deceased ; Calvin P., resides at Tanner's Falls ; and Amanda (1853- 1880), who was the wife of John Bellamy.
Henry Bunnell married for his second wife, in 1855, Lydia A. Schofield, who died in 1859, leav- ing children,- Judson Willard, a merchant of
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Honesdale, and Irving Washington Bunnell, of Aldenville, Pa. His third wife, who survives him in 1886, and causes his engraving to be placed in this work, whom he married in September 26, 1861, is Mary, a daughter of Gershom Bunnell (1804-1869), and Anna C. Bergstrasser, born in 1808, and now survives, of Wallpack, N. J., to which place Henry, father of Gershom Bunnell, removed from Middle Smithfield, Pa., with his family about 1808. This Henry Bunnell was a
John Kellam Bunnell, fifth son of David and Parthenia (Kellam) Bunnell, was born in Bethany, Wayne County, Pa., January 14, 1817, and was the youngest of the three sons who joined their father in the purchase of the large tract of land in 1839, herein described.
In common with all the children of this large family, he in early life became inured to hard work, and learned from the best of tutors-his parents-that those who succeed in life must lay
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brother of David Bunnell, who settled at Bethany in 1804, and their ancestry may be further traced in an account written by Thomas G. Bunnell, editor of the New Jersey Herald, at Newton, N. J., and published in the history of Sussex County, of that State, by Everts & Peck. Mary Bunnell was born in August, 1834, and, by her marriage to Henry Bunnell, has children,-Edward Elmer, William Fletcher, Ida Belle, Harry Horatio and Elory Pike Bunnell.
the foundation for success in their industry, correct habits, energy and good judgment. All these things John K. Bunnell observed in boyhood, and added to them such an cducation from books as the school of his native place afforded.
He succeeded to one hundred and eighty acres of land of this purchase at Bunnell's Pond, upon which is the residence built by his father and sons in 1840. Besides engaging in the general clearing up and improvement of this farm, and in the con-
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struction of suitable buildings thereon for farm purposes, he has for over twenty years past given his attention to dairying, selling the products of his dairy, in milk, in Honesdale and vicinity.
He averages to keep on this farm from twenty- five to thirty-five well-bred dairy cows, and by ex- cellent care of his stock, and good quality of fodder supplied them, he has been able to furnish his patrons the richest quality of milk. It is safe to class Mr. Bunnell along with the intelligent farmers of Wayne County in everything that per- tains to agriculture and dairying. He has served his township (Texas) as supervisor and been other- wise officially identified with its interests, and he has for many years served on the board of trustees of the Methodist Church at Honesdale, of which both himself and wife have been members for over thirty-five years. He married in 1841, Ann S., a daughter of John and Joanna (Spettigue) Brons- combe, who is a native of Devonshire, near Corn- wall, England, born on New Year's Day, 1823. John Bronscombe (1790-1863) and his wife, Joanna Spettigue (1788-1858) came with their family to Berlin township, Wayne County, from England in 1830, resided there eleven years, and then settled at Bunnell's Pond where they died. He was a well-educated man, was a teacher for many years before coming to this country, and here, was almost invariably selected as clerk at the polls on election day, and on other occasions when accuracy, neat- ness and dispatch in business were necessary. The other children of John Bronscombe are Rev. Henry Bronscombe, an eminent clergyman of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church for forty-four years in Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth, wife of Seth G. Whiting, of Colebrook, Conn. The children of John K. and Ann S. Bunnell are Carrie Amelia, wife of Oliver W. Stanton, of Tunkhannock, Pa .; Hattie E., wife of Henry Webb, a farmer at Bethany ; Frank C., a farmer in Texas township; Emma E., wife of Charles R. Brady, D. D. S., of Honesdale ; and John Kellam Bunnell at home. One son, George G., born in 1844, died in 1863, and another, William B. Bunnell, born in 1847, died in 1860.
WILLIAM L. FERGUSON.
father, James Ferguson, born in Glasgow, Scotland, August 16, 1771, came to Barnet at the age of thirteen years, with his mother, a brother (Alex- ander) and sister. The mother married again a Mr. McIndoe, and resided at McIndoes, on the Connecticut River, and died at her son Alexander's at Lyman, New Hampshire, at nearly one hundred years of age. James was a farmer in Barnet, mar- ried Margaret, daughter of Andrew Lackie of the same place, who was born July 12, 1788, and died April 14, 1878. He reached the remarkably great age of one hundred years and nearly six months, dying February 4, 1872. Both himself and wife belonged to the Presbyterian Church, and reared their children under Christian influences. Their children were James, a farmer of Barnet township Vt .; William L .; Alexander, a millwright, went West ; and Jennette, wife of Alexander Summers, of Barnet.
William L. Ferguson was reared on the home- farm and became inured to hard work. His early education was confined to the district school. At the age of seventeen he left home to carve out a fortune for himself, and, traveling some two hun- dred miles to the north of the White Mountains, through a wilderness country, with his pack on his back, reached Bangor, Me., where he was engaged as a carpenter on the Bangor and Old Town Rail- road for one summer in building bridges and cul- verts. He was also engaged, in like manner, on the Boston and Lowell Railroad a few years afterwards. He further prosecuted his book education at New- bury and Concord academies, and by faithful ef- fort was soon found proficient enough to be a teacher, and taught for several terms in Vermont. In 1839 he left his native State, came to Wayne County, Pa., and for several winter terms taught school in various places in the county. As a boy he had made the acquaintance of Miss Laura L., daughter of Oliver T. and Martha (Dutton) Spald- ing, who was born in Waterford township, Vt., June 16, 1831. Their school-day acquaintance ripened as years went on, and on December 7, 1853, they were married at Lowell, Mass., and im- mediately settled in Dyberry township, Wayne County. Here he engaged in farming and lumber- ing. He continued there in the lumber business for five years, rafting his lumber from the head-
William L. Ferguson was born in Barnet town- ship, Caledonia County, Vt., July 9, 1818. His waters of Dyberry Creek to Honesdale, thence
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down the Lackawaxen to its confluence with the Delaware, and via that water route to Philadel- phia, the great market for the large quantities of lumber of Eastern Pennsylvania.
In 1858 he removed to Cherry Ridge town- ship, at what is now called Collins' Mills, and was there engaged in manufacturing and shipping lumber for twelve years. In 1870 he settled in
ship. Mr. Ferguson was originally identified with the Democratic party, but allied himself with the Republican party soon after its organization. His children are Harvey H., of Mount Pleasant town- ship, and Elmer E. and Flora, at home. Mrs. Ferguson's father died in Waterford, where he had spent his life, a farmer, in 1859, aged sixty-two years, and her mother died four years later, at the
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Equinunk, and continued for fifteen years more in | age of sixty-one years. Their children are Sophro- the same business. He was therefore engaged in nia, wife of Nathaniel Olcott, of Concord, Vt .; John W., of St. Johnsbury, Vt .; Laura L. ; Cur- tis R., of Lunenburgh, Vt .; and Martha Jane, wife of Samuel P. Kneeland, a civil engineer in the South, who served in the laying out and construc- tion of railroads during the late Civil War; and one son, Oliver T. Spalding, Jr., who died a young man, in 1863. the lumber trade in Wayne County for a period of thirty-two years, and is well known throughout this section of the State as an active and through- going business man. In 1885 Mr. Ferguson settled at Seelyville and retired from active business. While a resident of Buckingham and Dyberry townships he served several terms as school director, and he also served as supervisor of the former town-
HISTORY OF PIKE COUNTY.
CHAPTER I.
Civil History-Taxables in 1814-Erection of the County -Public Buildings-Effort to Remove Seat of Justice to Blooming Grove-Lists of County Officials.
A VERY considerable portion of the history of Pike County is contained in the first section of this volume-the first seven chapters, which apply to the territory herein treated, as a whole, and in Chapter I. of that portion of the work devoted to the history of Wayne County (of which Pike was an integral part from 1798 to 1814). The county was erected by an act approved March 26, 1814, and then in- cluded a portion of what is now Monroe, and which was set off in 1836.
There is some early documentary history pertaining to Pike County which is of interest, and has not heretofore been given publicity.
The old township of Upper Smithfield was practically co-extensive with the county as at present constituted, and, therefore, we present the record of the earliest action tending toward the settling of that township, which contains the names of the most prominent residents in 1750.
Petition for township in what afterward became Upper Smithfield.
"To the whershipful (worshipful) the Judges of the Court of General Sessions, held at Newton, in the County of Bucks, the 4th day Dec., 1750. The peti- tion of the inhabitants of Minisink and others humbly sheweth, That, whereas, your petitioners in general are the remotest livers from the Honorable Court, and on account of the want of a road, not only the inhabitants, your petitioners, are sufferers, when . . . requires them heard down to or above Andrew Ding- man's, to whose place on Delaware there is already a road laid out, distant from the upper inhabitants about 15 miles ; and whereas, it is evident that a road,
although laid out according to law, is little regarded unless included under a township, your petitioners humbly pray that there (their) case may be taken into consideration ; that a road be ordered to be laid out from near Tunis Madock's in1 Delaware, to Andrew Dingman's aforesaid, and a township to be bounded by Bushkill on the south, to which creek there is a township, by Delaware (river) on east, and by land belonging to the . . . the N. and W .- and your pets. (petitioners).
" Cornelius Van Aken.
Herman Rosen Kranz.
Dan'l Brodhead. John Quick.
J. Swartwoudt. Samuel Dupue.
Edwn. Scull. Aaron Dupue.
Jno. McMichle.
Cornelius Dewitt.
John Pierce. Herman Rosa Kranze.
John Van Etten.
Teman Middagh.
Derrick Bush. Andrew Dingman.
" As to the twt. (township), it is ordered that the pets. (petitioners) do exhibit a Plan of the twpt., as they propose it to the next court that the court may be better judge thereof."
As Upper Smithfield appears in the list of townships in 1752, it would appear that it was erected about the same time that Northampton county was.
The following petition for the division of Upper Smithfield township, which then in- cluded nearly all of Pike County, appears on the Road Book of Northampton County in 1766 :
"Upon the petition of divers Inhabitants of the township of Upper Smithfield, setting forth that the said petitioners labor under great inconveniences upon the account of the largeness of the said township, which renders it inconvenient and expensive for the Inhabitants to assemble upon the necessary business of the township : Praying the Court to divide the said township, and for that purpose to appoint proper per- sons to make such division, whereupon it is considered
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and ordered by the court that Benjamin Shoemaker, Hanes Van Etten, William Jeans, Andrew Dingman, Emanuel Gonzales and Abraham Westbrook, or any four of them, do view, and if they see occasion, to divide said township according to the prayer of the said petition."
These viewers probably favored the division, as Delaware appears among the townships there- after.
The following is a list of the taxables in Upper Smithfield and Delaware townships (which then included nearly all of that part of Pike County which was then inhabited) for 1781 :
UPPER SMITHFIELD.
Josephus Cole.
John Quick.
Leonard Cole.
James Rosencrance.
Cornelius Dewitt.
Joseph Reeder.
Jacob Dewitt.
John Steward.
Benjamin Balie.
Jabez Rockwood.
Cornelius Dewitt, Jr.' Joseph Shobes.
John Brown.
Charles Rigway.
William Camron.
Jonathan Rosencranse
Abraham Dutcher.
Levi Van Auken.
Enos Cook.
James Rosencranse.
Morgan Dushay.
James Van Auken.
David Cook.
John Rurson.
Henry Decker.
John Van Sickle.
John Cross.
Hugh Ross.
James Decker.
Simon Westfall.
Abraham Cole.
Jonathan Seeley.
Casper Edwards.
James Wells.
Peter Curtuto.
William Stone.
Elias Middagh.
James Wells, Jr.
Benjamin Carpenter.
Henry Snoak.
C. H. Middagh.
William Wells.
Elisha Middagh.
Israel Wells.
William McCarty.
John Evans.
James Quick, Jr.
Single Freemen.
Herman Rosencrance.
Philip McCarty.
Lewis Conklin.
John Van Auken.
James Reeder.
DELAWARE.
John Brink. John Rosencrance.
Benjamin Brink.
Adam Shick.
Theodore Norton.
Catherine Conselus.
Daniel Courtright.1
James Swartwood.
Jobias Hornbeck.
Daniel Dimmick.
Benjamin Courtright.
Bernardus Swartwood.
William Castor.
Thomas Swartwood.
Henry Courtright.
Helmas Chambers.
Solomon Van Auken.
Joshua Dewitt.
Henry Courtright, Jr.
Ebenezer Taylor.
Joshua Vanzant.
Joshua Drake.
Andrew Dingman.
Isaac Van Campen.
Jacob Van Sickle.
Thomas Vansickle
Nehemiah Huntly.
John Decker.
Isaac Van Gordon.
Meckle Wolf.
John Maforg.6
John Emons.
John Van Etten.
Emanuel Gonsaulis.
John Scott.
Ludwig Hover.
Widow Westfall.
Ezekiel Schoonover.
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2 Inn-keeper. 5 Justice of peace.
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Single Freemen.
Emanuel Van Etten. Isaac Decker.
Ezekiel Decker. Levi Courtright.
Abraham Decker. Abraham Van Gordon.
Upper Smithfield in 1814-the year that Pike County was organized -- contained the fol- lowing taxable inhabitants :
Samuel Anderson.
Sanford Clark.4
George Biddis.
Thomas Gay.
John Brink. Justice Overton.
William Brink.
William Patterson.
Alvin Brown.1 John Paterson.
George Bohannon.2
John Poth.
Francis Burns.
Jacob Quick.5
John Biddis.
Cornelius Quick.
Arthur Bohannon.
Henry Quick.
Ira Belknap.
Matthew Ridgway.
John Blockman.
Abraham Rockwell.
John Broadhead. Lucius Rockwood.
Gabriel Cory.
Henry Smith.
James Barton.
James Shelby.
David Jennings.
Jonas Simons.
Daniel Rowley.
Farries A. Smith.
John Walker.3
Abraham Thorn.
Joseph Connor.
Robert L. Travers.
William Donnelly.
William Watson.
William Landing.
John Cox.
Samuel Vangood.
William Cox.
Fram Monroe.
Garrett Van Auken. John Van Auken.
Ann Dewitt.
Samuel Decker. Jeremiah Vandemark.
Wilh. Van Gordon.
Alexander Ernest. John Folk.
Abraham Derwin. David Van Auken. Elias Decker. Elias Van Auken. Cornelius Decker. Alex. Van Gordon. Ezekiel Decker. Gilbert Van Gordon. James Van Gordon.
Henry Van Campen. David Wheeler.
Joseph Jackson. Joshua Jackson.
Samuel Whithead.
John Johnson.
Amos Wood.
Matthew Kerr.
Henry Decker.
John Watson.
Joseplı McCarty.
Menod Westbrook.
Henry C. Middauglı.
James Mulling. William Nyce.
Cornelius Cox.
Jacob Dewitt, Jr.
Reiner Dewitt .- John Van Auken.
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