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OLIVER S. DIMMICK, for many years a lead- ing attorney at this bar and those of the neigh- boring counties, was the third ehild and first son of Dan and Jane (Aerts or Smith 3) Dim miek, and was born in Milford June 11, 1804. He read law with his unele, Alpheus Dimmiek, at Bloomingburg, N. Y., and entered praetiee at Milford. In 1836 he was elected to the State Legislature, and served in that position for two terms. He was afterwards chosen as associate judge of Pike County, which offiee he held for several years. He was the founder of the
' For genealogy and original form of name, see chapter on the Wayne County Bar.
2 For a sketch of this eccentric, but distinguished char- acter, see the chapter upon Stroudsburg.
3 See sketch of Dan Dimmick in this chapter and of J. J. Aerts or Dr. Francis J. Smith, in chapter on Stroudsburg.
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flourishing village of Matamoras, and through his efforts the fine bridge across the Delaware at that place was erected.
He married Maria, daughter of Jacob Horn- beck, February 19, 1826. He died at Port Jervis, N. Y., in October, 1877, his wife sur- viving him. Their children were Lucinda, wife of S. O. Dimmick, of Port Jervis; Milo H .; Mary, who married Lucien F. Barnes, a law- yer of Milford, deceased (they were the parents of Edward Barnes, who is now an attorney-at- law); Priscilla, deceased ; Jacob H., of Port Jervis ; and William H., an attorney, living at Honesdale.1
MILTON DIMMICK was born in Milford June 26, 1816, and was the eighth child and sixth son of Dan and Jane (Aerts or Smith) Dimmick. After receiving an excellent education he read law and was admitted to the bar of his native county at the age of twenty-one (1837). He continued in active practice up to the time of his death, April 3, 1851. He was a good law- yer and much-loved man. The Doylestown Democrat, shortly after his death, said of him : " We shall long remember the happy and agree- able hours passed in Mr. Dimmick's society. He was a ripe scholar, a profound lawyer and a kind and affectionate husband and father. He has not left behind him one living soul that re- calls his memory with unkind feelings."
Mr. Dimmick married, in 1842, Sarah Eliz- abeth, daughter of the Rev. Edward Allen, a Presbyterian clergyman. Their children were Edward C., who removed to Honesdale and later (1862) to Mauch Chunk, where he became an attorney ; Alice, who married J. S. Carpen- ter, of Newark, N. J .; and Kate.
MILFORD BAR.
NATHANIEL B. ELDRED was admitted No- vember 16, 1816. He moved to Bethany and became presiding judge of the courts.
JESSE OLMSTEAD came from Connecticut and was admitted November 19, 1816. After prac- ticing law a few years in Milford he left the place.
HON. BENJAMIN A. BIDLACK came from
Wilkes-Barre to Milford, where he practiced a few years. He was twice a member of Con- gress and died in New Grenada, while United States minister to that republic.
DANIEL MIFFLIN BRODHEAD was a well- known and successful practitioner at the Pike County bar, and one of the best-known citizens of Milford of his time. He was born in 1796, probably at Kittanning, Pa. He went to school at Morristown, N. J., then studied law and began its practice at Milford. He remained there until 1832, and then removed to Phila- delphia, and engaged in the lumber trade and real estate business. At one time he owned the American Sentinel, a Democratic newspaper of Philadelphia. In 1842 he removed to Forest- burg, Sullivan County, N. Y., and engaged in the manufacture of lumber. He was there offered the nomination as district judge by both parties, but declined office. He was a Douglas Democrat and earnest supporter of the Union cause during the war. From Forestburg he removed to Port Jervis, N. Y., in 1848, and from there he removed to Black Lake, Sullivan County, N. Y., where he had purchased an ex- tensive tract of lumber land. In October, 1864, he died while on a visit to his son-in-law, Col. Samuel Fowler, at Franklin Furnace, Sussex County, N. J. He was buried at Port Jervis, N. Y.
Mr. Brodhead was an able lawyer and a strong man in general intellect. He was both a safe counselor and effective pleader. He was noted for his courtesy and affability. He was a shrewd politician of decided influences and a patriotic citizen. He was a hospitable man, and, particularly while living in Philadelphia, entertained many distinguished men. He held intimate relations with James Buchanan, Gov- cruor D. R. Porter, Simon Cameron, Commo- dore Charles Stewart, of the United States navy, and other prominent Pennsylvanians.
He was twice married. His first wife, to whom he was united just after coming to Mil- ford, was Eliza, daughter of James Barton, Esq., of that place, she being sixteen years of age, and he only about twenty. They were the parents of nine children. These were Catha- rine Elizabeth; John, a lawyer of Philadelphia;
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Barton; Henrietta Laura, who married Col. Samuel Fowler, of Sussex County, N. J. ; Ed- gar, who served through the Mexican War and the Rebellion ; George, of Port Jervis; Thomas, of Philadelphia ; Henry, an attorney of New York City ; and Daniel Mifflin, Jr., who was first lieutenant of the Fourteenth Regiment United States Infantry, and mortally wounded at the battle of the Wilderness. All of these children were born at Milford.
Mrs. Brodhead died at Port Jervis in the spring of 1852, and Mr. Brodhead was married again, in 1854, to Mrs. Margaret E. Clinton, widow of Hon. James Clinton, of Orange Connty, N. Y. She died about a year previous to her husband, in 1863.
WILLIAM C. SALMON was born in Montrose, and read law in his native village witli Colonel Lusk, where he was admitted to the bar. Shortly after September 13, 1842, he was ad- mitted to the Pike County bar, and immediately entered the active practice of his profession, which he continued until his death, in 1856. During the time covered by his practice he was one of the ablest lawyers in the place, and he was so regarded by the public generally, as he had a good practice. His wife was S. Augusta Clark, a granddaughter of James Barton, who lived adjoining the Sawkill House. Mr. Sal- mon lived on the homestead, which is occupied by his widow now.
JOHN STROUSE, a lumberman from Wilson- ville, was admitted to the Pike bar, and was associate judge one term. He subsequently moved to Easton, where he became interested in iron-works and banking, to his pecuniary loss. He died in Easton, and his widow, wlio was a daughter of Judge Halsey, lives with her brother-in-law, Colonel John Nyce, of Hawley.
LUCIEN F. BARNES studied law with Wil- liam C. Salmon, in Milford, and was admitted to the Pike County bar about 1860, and prac- ticed his profession successfully until he died, Angust 4, 1868. He was considered the miost brilliant member of the Milford bar during his practice.
HONORABLE DANIEL M. VAN AUKEN was born in New Jersey January 15, 1826, was graduated at Union College in 1852, and
studied law with John B. La Forge, and was admitted to the bar in 1855, and the same fall was elected district attorney. He was elected a member of the Fortieth Congress in 1868, and re-elected to the Forty-first Congress, receiving seventeen thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight votes against ten thousand three hundred and twenty-three votes for Jolin Tor- rey, Republican. In 1874 he was a candidate from Pike County for presiding jndge of the Twenty-second Judicial District of Pennsylva- nia. The conferees, after balloting several thousand times, finally nominted Van Auken, William H. Dimmick permitting him to be nominated after the Wayne County Herald and the leading Democrats of Wayne County had hoisted the name of Honorable Frederick M. Crane for that office. This action produced a split in the Democratic vote, and insured the election of Charles P. Waller, the Republican candidate, by a small majority over Crane. Judge Waller died after about seven years of his term had expired, and, in 1882, Van Anken again received the indorsement of Pike County Democracy for the judgeship. George S. Purdy, after a severe contest with W. H. Dimmick, received the indorsement of the Wayne County Democracy for the same office. The conferees representing the two contestants, after balloting a great many times, finally disagreed, and, as a result of this division, Henry M. Seely was elected presiding judge by a small majority over Purdy. Mr. Van Auken is the oldest member of the Milford bar now living.
JOHN D. BIDDIS, son of Chas. R. Biddis, read law with Lucien Barnes and was admitted to the Pike County bar in 1867. He was elected to the office of district attorney and held that position by re-elections for thirteen years. He was elected State Senator in 1882 for a terni of four years. After serving in the two regular biennial sessions he resigned in order to accept a position in the International Revenue Department at Washington.
CORNELIUS W. BULL is a native of Pike County and was born in Westfall township January 5, 1845. His inclinations in boyhood were toward a professional rather than a busi- ness life, and, although most of his minority
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was spent on his father's farm, and attending the district school, both proved in his case, as in the case of many others, a sure foundation for practical ideas and a successful professional and business life. He completed his prelimi- nary education at the " Eclectic Hall," at Mil- ford, and at " Mount Retirement Academy," in Sussex County, N. J. In 1863 he began teach- ing school and for two terms taught the school in Milford. In the same year he began reading law with the Hon. D. M. Van Auken, of Mil- ford, and, after prosecuting his studies for four years, in connection with his school-work, he was admitted to the bar of Pike County in 1867, and at once entered upon a partnership with his preceptor, which continued until 1871. Mr. Bull then opened a law-office in Milford for himself, where he has since practiced his profession. He has taken an active part in the political arena of his county, has several times been elected a delegate to the State Con- vention and was once chosen a member of the State Democratic Committee.
His first wife, Julia A., a daughter of John T. Cross, whom he married in 1870, died in 1871. In 1877 he married Anna R., a daugh- ter of George Nyce, by which union he had children-George R. and Jemima Bull.
His father, Rosencranse C. Bull, of Holland origin, was born in Pike County June 10, 1816, and resides in Westfall township. His mother, Jemima Westfall, of French Huguenot extrac- tion, was born June 21, 1817, and is a daughter of Cornelius Westfall.
COLONEL JOHN NYCE was born in Sandy- ston township, Sussex County, N. J., July 22, 1831. His father, Major John W. Nyee, fol lowed the occupation of a farmer, and in early training-days was connected with the militia organizations of the State, where he earned his title. The son followed the routine of farm- life, attending the public schools of the day, where the foundation of his education was laid. He was united in marriage, December 28, 1853, to Martha Allen. He moved to Monroe County, and at Stroudsburg studied law with the Hon. Charlton Burnett. War having been declared, he was active in organizing men to put down the Rebellion, and went into service June 11,
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1861, as second lieutenant of Company F, Thirty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves. His first promotion was adjutant, of the regi- ment ; June 1, 1862, promoted major ; No- vember 9th of the same, for meritorious service, was appointed colonel of the One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Militia. Mustered out with regiment August 7, 1863, at Philadelphia. The war record of Colonel Nyce was most honorable, and he carried the sears of many battles to his death. At Charles City Cross-Roads he received a sabre stroke across his right arni ; at Malvern Hill was shot through right arm and received a shell wound in the knee ; at the battle of Antietam was shot through the right lung, and injured his hip by falling from his horse when shot. The soldiers appreciated the worth of their gallant com- mander and presented him with a valuable ehro- nometer, which he highly prized and always carried.
Colonel Nyce returned to Stroudsburg for a few months, and, in April, 1864, came to Mil- ford with his family and entered the profession of law, having been admitted to practice in the Monroe County courts in February of the above year. He was successful, and enjoyed a large and growing business. In politics he was a Democrat, but accepted the Greenback nomi- nation for State Senator against Hon. Allen Craig, of Carbon County, in 1878. Although defeated in the district, he polled a flattering vote in this county. He was elected chief burgess of Mil- ford a year ago (February), and was re-elected at the last local election without opposition. In the Methodist Church, of which he was a mem- ber, he was an active worker, and was superin- tendent of the Sunday-school until failing health prevented his attending to the duties. He died several years ago.
JOHN H. VAN ETTEN was admitted to the Pike County bar in September, 1870. He came from an old Pike County family. His wife is a daughter of Rev. Peter Kanouse.
J. AUGUSTUS PAGE was admitted December 20, 1876, and died in Milford in 1883.
HARRY T. BAKER read law with his brother- in-law, JJ. Sergeant Price, in Philadelphia, and Hon. D. M. Van Auken, in Milford, and was
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admitted to the bar at May Term, 1876. He has resided in Milford since 1871, where he has a fine residence and office at Third and Ann Streets.
JOHN W. NYCE and HAMILTON ARMSTRONG were admitted to the bar September 24, 1877.
M. M. VAN ETTEN was admitted February 25, 1878. C. A. NEWMAN was admitted to the bar in September, 1880, and is now distriet attorney for Pike County.
CHAPTER III.
MILITARY-SOLDIERS IN THE WAR OF 1812 AND WAR OF THE REBELLION.
WAR OF 1812-14 .- There were a few soldiers from Pike County in the War of 1812, but it is impossible to ascertain the names of all. The following were chiefly from Pike and that portion of Northampton County which is now Monroe. Some whose names are included in the roster were from Lehigh County, but as it is impossible to effect a thorough separation, the entire roll is presented :
ROLL OF CAPT. JOHN DORNBLASER'S COMPANY.
Muster-roll of Captain John Dornblaser's company, belonging to a detachment of Northampton, Lehiglı and Pike County militia, commanded by Lieut. - Col. Christopher J. Hutter.
Captain, Dornblaser, John. First Lieutenant, Bush, John V. Second Lieutenant, Winters, John. Third Lientenant,.
Fenner, Frederick (elected 10th October, 1814).
Ensign, Smith, David. Sergeants, Hartzell, Jacob.
Tecl, Nicholas. Barret, Henry.
Drummer, Saylor, Isaac. Fifer, Hockman, Jonas.
Privates,
Deitz, John.
Miller, Henry.
Rape, George.
Morris, Obed.
Snyder, Peter.
Van Horn, Cornelius.
Ward, John.
Barr, Adam.
Ostertack, John.
Cooper, Joseph.
Young, John.
Davis, William.
Shafer, Joseplı.
Clark, John.
Nolf, George.
Bureau, William.
Hoffert, Samuel.
Arndt, Jacob.
Bunstein, Jacob.
Smell, Samuel.
Walter, Conrad.
Erie (or Ihrie), Conrad.
Young, Adam.
Gower, John.
Stocker, David.
Myer, Henry.
Willower, George.
Serfas, George.
Miller, Abraham.
Serfas, John.
Wimmer, Joseph.
Fisher, Dewald.
Price, Freeman.
Crisman, Jacob.
Kehler, Leonard.
Klinetrup, John.
Hutmacher, J. (disch. Oct. Mack, John. 17, 1814).
Posty, Thomas.
Kehler, Daniel.
Miller, George (disch. Oct.
Wineland, Christian.
17, 1814).
Stoufer, John.
Swenk, John.
Stocker, Jacob.
Brewer, James.
Gangwehr, Jacob.
Smith, Christopher.
Holman, Jeremiahı R.
Merwine, Jacob.
Nye, Lawrence.
Huston, John.
Nye, Andrew (disch. Oct. Rinker, George. 20, 1814). Rees, Samuel.
Steiner, Joseph.
McGammon, Alexander.
Miller, Daniel.
Strunk, Peter.
Hahn, Peter.
Faulk, John.
Hahn, George.
Coolbaugh, Garret.
Myer, George. Jayne, Peter.
Schick, Peter.
Bunnel, Barnet.
Keyser, Jacob.
Place, Jacob.
Geres, Frederick.
Adams, John.
Swartwood, Jacob. Horman, Frederick.
Winner, John.
Winans, Samuel.
Fisher, Philip. Kincaid, Sylvester.
Crawford, John.
Vandemark, Peter.
Beard, John. Vanetter, Anthony.
Shepperd, David.
Howe, John.
Lowman, John. Impson, Robert.
Evans, David. Vansickle, William.
Stine, Jolın.
Steel, Isaac.
Barr, James.
Courtwright, Levi.
Kester, Philip.
Watson, George.
Morrison, John W. Hartzell, John.
Fenner, Fred'k, promoted. Corporals, Stocker, Samuel. Brady, William.
Kester, Leonard.
" CAMP MARCUS HOOK, October 21, 1814. " I certify, on honor, that this muster or pay-roll exhibits a true state of the company, - Regiment, Pennsylvania militia, now in service of the United States, and the remarks set opposite the names are ac- curate and just, to the best of my knowledge.
"JOHN DORNBLASER, " Captain.
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" I believe the above to be a correct muster, or pay- roll.
" CHRIST. J. HUTTER, " Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding."
SOLDIERS IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. -The only full company of volunteers from Pike County in the Union army during the War of the Rebellion (1861-65), was Com- pany B, One Hundred and Fifty-First Regi- ment, nine months' service.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIRST REGIMENT, COMPANY B .- The One Hundred and Fifty-first Regiment (nine months') was recruited and or- ganized in the fall of 1862 at Camp Curtin. The commanding officer of the regiment was Colonel Harrison Allen, of Warren County, and the lientenant-colonel was George F. McFarland, of Juniata. Companies A and C of the One Hundred and Fifty-first were recruited in Sus- quehanna County, B in Pike, F in Warren, D in Juniata, E, G, H, K and part of I in Berks, and the remaining part of I in Schuylkill. Company B was mustered into service October 20, 1862, to serve nine months.
The regiment left Harrisburg on the 26th of November, 1862, and proceeded to Washing- ton, and from thence crossed the Potomac into Virginia, first camping at Arlington, and, a few days later, marching to Alexandria and Union Mills, more than twenty miles out, where it was placed on picket and the duty of watching the movements of guerrillas, who then infested that region. In February following, it was transferred from that duty, and marched to Belle Plain, where it was attached to the First Brigade of the Third (Doubleday's) Divi- sion of General Reynolds' army corps. The camp which it occupied at this place was a very exposed one, and much siekness among the members of the regiment was the result.
In the Chancellorsville campaign of 1863 the regiment, with its divisions and corps, crossed the river, on the 2d of May, at United States Ford, and at once moved to the battle- ground, to occupy that part of the line from which the Eleventh Corps had been hurled by the terrific onslaught of the forces of Stonewall Jackson. During the heavy fighting on Sun- day, the 3d, the regiment was posted between
Germania and Ely's Fords, confronting the enemy, and much of the time under a very heavy fire, but not otherwise actively engaged. This position it continued to hold through the remainder of the battle. On Wednesday, the 6th, it moved back to the north side of the Rappahannock, and encamped near White Oak Church.
From this point it moved north ward early in June, and marched to meet the columns of General Lee's army in its invasion of Mary- land and Pennsylvania. It reached Gettysburg on the 1st of July, just when Buford's cavalry opened the battle. The regiment, then under command of Lieutenant-Colonel McFarland, was at once placed in position on the left of the corps line, and soon afterwards moved forward into the conflict. Several changes of position followed, and regiment after regiment was forced back by the withering fire; but the One Hundred and Fifty-first steadfastly held its place till more than one-half its number had fallen, when it, too, was compelled to retire, which it did with deliberation and in order, taking a new position in the rear of the semi- nary. This position was also found untenable, and it then retreated somewhat precipitately through the streets of the town, losing a mmnn- ber of men taken prisoners on the way, and finally halting at Cemetery Hill, where, on its arrival, its strength was only ninety-two men, though this was soon aftewards increased by the coming in of about twenty men who had been cut off during the retreat from the semi- nary. In this new position the regiment re- mained until nearly the close of the second day's fight, when it was ordered to the support of the Third Corps ; but, in the confusion of the field, it became separated from its con- mand, and, with the Twentieth New York, which was in a similar dilemma, it moved to the left of the Second Corps and took a posi- tion which the two regiments held until the afternoon of the following day, when they moved rapidly in to help repel the final grand charge of the Confederates, which closed the battle.
The services and conspicuous gallantry of this regiment in the great struggle at Gettysburg
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were thus set forth in the report of the corps commander, General Abner Doubleday :
"At Gettysburg they won, under the brave Mc- Farland, an imperishable fame. They defended the left front of the First Corps against vastly superior numbers ; covered its retreat against the overwheln !- ing masses of the enemy at the seminary west of the town, and enabled me, by their determined resist- ance, to withdraw the corps in comparative safety. This was on the first day. In the crowning charge of the third day of the battle the shattered remains of the One Hundred and Fifty-first Pennsylvania, with the Twentieth New York State Militia, flung themselves upon the front of the rebel column, and drove it from the shelter of a slashing, in which it had taken shelter from a flank attack of the Vermont troops. I can never forget the services rendered me by this regiment, directed by the gallantry and ge- nius of McFarland. I believe they saved the First Corps, and were among the chief instruments to save the Army of the Potomac and the country from un- imaginable disaster."
The losses of the regiment at Gettysburg amounted to three-fourths of its total effective strength,-sixty-six men and two officers being killed, twelve officers and one hundred and eighty-seven men wounded and one hundred missing, out of a total of four hundred and sixty-five men and twenty-one offieers, who entered the fight. Among the wounded were Lieutenant Benjamin F. Oliver, of Com- pany D, and Lieutenant-Colonel George F. McFarland, whose wound resulted in the loss of one leg (which was amputated on the field) and the severe mutilation of the other.
From the field of Gettysburg the remnant of the regiment moved with the other troops in pursuit of the enemy, on the 6th of July, and reached Williamsport, Md., just as the beaten army of General Lee was commencing the pas- sage of the Potomae into Virginia. Five days later the One Hundred and Fifty-first, whose term of enlistment had then nearly expired, was relieved at the front, and moved to Harris- burg, where, on the 27th, it was mustered out of service and disbanded.
Following is the roster of the Pike County company (B) :
Officers.
Oscar H. Mott, capt., disch. March 8, 1863.
Lafayette Westbrook, 1st lieut., pro. to capt. March 9, 1863.
John H. Vincent, 2d lieut., pro. to 1st lieut. March 9, 1863.
Robert M. Kellogg, 1st sergt., pro. to 2d lieut. March 9, 1863.
Herman Frank, pro. to Ist sergt. March 9, 1863; wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1, 1863.
Stephen Hezard, sergt.
Henry Cuddeback, sergt.
William A. Salmon, sergt., disch. by S. O. Feb. 10, 1863.
Thos. M. Beardsley, sergt., pro. from private March 9, 1863 ; killed at Gettysburg.
Henry Smith, sergt., pro. from corp. Feb. 11, 1863; killed at Gettysburg.
William Sutton, corp., captured at Gettysburg.
Ira Pellett, corp. George W. Kimble, corp.
James Hatten, corp.
Nelson De Witt, corp.
Wesley Watson, corp., pro. Jan. 5, 1863.
Jacob C. Schorr, corp., pro. Jan. 5, 1863.
Charles Bates, corp., pro. Jan. 5, 1863; wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1, 1863.
Francis E. Hazen, corp., pro. Feb. 11, 1863; died at Acquia Creek, Va., June 4, 1863.
David Miller, corp.
James S. Smith, corp., disch, on surg. certif. April 14, 1863.
Privates.
Robert J. Andrews.
Andrew J. Appleman.
E. C. Appleman, died at Belle Plain, Va., April 15, 1863.
Jesse R. Burrus.
John Blackmore. Simeon Brink.
Benjamin C. Bonnell, captured at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1, 1863.
John Buckingham, captured at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1, 1863.
Joseph A. Brickley.
George Burrus, captured at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1, 1863.
Charles Burrell, died at Union Mills, Va., Dec. 10, 1862; buried at Nat. Cem., Arlington.
Charles Blackmore, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1, 1863.
Solomon D. Brink, killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1, 1863.
Ira B. Casc.
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