History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania, Part 164

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

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GEORGE W. SEIP, for the brief period that he resided in Stroudsburg, left a reputation for activity that is seldom acquired after a much longer time. He first settled in Tannersville March 14, 1862, and moved to Stroudsburg May 15, 1866, where he remained till October, 1874, when he removed to Philadelphia. He is now at Reading, connected with the Eye and Ear Infirmary of that city.

WILLIAM H. SEIP, brother of the above, settled at Tannersville in the spring of 1859, but removed to Bath in a short time, where he still resides.

J. ANSON SINGER settled at Brodheadsville in the spring of 1883 ; was graduated at the Uni- versity of the City of New York just pre- vious.

Several doctors have for a short time settled at Delaware Water Gap, but the proximity to Stroudsburg seems to have given the invalids there a preference for the established physicians

of Stroudsburg, so that their stay has been very brief. Joseph B. Shaw, however, has prolonged his residence there until he seems to have made it his local habitation. Dr. Shaw was born at Cape May City, N. J., September 17, 1845. His father, being a sea-captain, removed to Phila- delphia, which gave the son an opportunity to attend the schools there. After his academic education he passed four years in a drug-store and graduated from the College of Pharmacy in 1866. He then established himself in the same business at Darby, Pa. During this time he studied medicine with his brother-in-law and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1877. In 1879 he removed to Delaware Water Gap, and has succeeded in fixing himself there permanently.

DR. JOSEPH H. SHULL is a descendant in the fourth generation of Elias Shull, who resided at an early period in the western portion of North- ampton County, Pa. The family is of German origin, but the exact time of their emigration to this country is not known. Philip, son of Elias and grandfather of Dr. Shull, originally resided at what was known as the " Dutch Set- tlement," in Northampton County. He married Margaret Bryant, of English descent, and had a family of children, of whom Elias was the father of Dr. Shull. His wife was Margaret Eakin, a representative of an old Scotch-Irish family, and to them were born five children, of whom the subject of this sketch was second. The others are JJohn E. Shull, principal of the borough schools of Stroudsburg ; Jennie, wife of Peter Ross, of Bangor, Pa .; Philip, a far- mer in Union County, Pa. ; Samuel Eakin, principal of the schools at South Easton ; and Elias, engaged in the printing business in Cleve- land, O. Dr. Shull's father was a farmer, a member of the State Legislature from North- ampton County.

Dr. Shull was born at Martin's Creek, North- ampton County, Pa., August 17, 1848. His earliest education was derived at the district school at that place, and was followed by a special course of study under his uncle, Alex- ander S. Shull, and at Blairstown Academy, N. J., under A. A. Stevens, principal. He sub- sequently entered Lafayette College, Easton, in

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the class of 1873, but did not complete the cur- riculum. After a year at college life he engaged in teaching in Easton, and began the study of medicine with Dr. Q. E. Snyder, continuing with Dr. Traill Green, of Easton. He then attended medical lectures at the Long Island Hospital College for a term, but subsequently entered Bellevue Hospital College, New York City, where he completed his medical educa-

successful and continuous practice in Strouds- burg since the period of his location there. He is recognized as one of the most skillful and re- liable practitioners of Monroe County, and his services and medical knowledge are in constant demand. He is one of the most energetic and studious citizens of Stroudsburg, and is con- stantly adding to his store of knowledge and ex- tending the sphere of his usefulness. Having

tion and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in February, 1873.

Immediately after graduating he began prac- tice in the hospital connected with the college, and remained there nine months. Late in the year 1873 he returned to Stroudsburg, Pa., and entered upon the active practice of his profes- sion. With the exception of the absence of a few months in 1874, during which time he traveled in the West and South, he has been in

been called as an expert witness to testify in several important cases in the courts of Monroe and Northampton Counties, he formed the idea of acquiring the legal profession also, and after twoyears of special preparation in the office of Colonel Charlton Burnett, of Stroudsburg, was duly admitted to the bar of Monroe County in 1877, after a satisfactory examination. He was thus one of the few men in the State who is a member of both the legal and medical profes-

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sions. He has engaged in the practice of law to some extent, but is chiefly occupied at the present writing in the practice of medicine and in looking after various business enterprises with which he is identified. He is largely in- terested in the development of the slate interests of Northampton County, and part owner of the Monroe Democrat, of Stroudsburg. He is an ardent supporter of the principles and policy of the Democratic party, and one of the leaders in that organization in Monroe County. He is the presiding officer of Barger Lodge, No. 325, F. and A. M., of Stroudsburg, a mem- ber of Martin's Creek Lodge, I. O. O. F., and connected with other organizations and enter- prises calculated to promote the material or so- cial prosperity of the community in which he resides. He married, May 1, 1873, Miss M. V. Flory, of Bangor, Pa., and has three chil- dren,-Claude, Samuel and Lucille Shull.

DR. F. W. SOPER succeeded Dr. J. W. Flick in practice in 1884 in Stroudsburg, where he remained till November, 1885, and removed to Philadelphia.

DR. SAMUEL STOKES came to Stroudsburg from Bucks County about 1820. He first as- sociated with his practice the business of an apothecary, there being no supplies of that kind obtainable nearer than Easton. He grad- ually made it his business, and with the inter- mission of three years at Kellersville, resided in Stroudsburg until his death, in 1858. Dr. Stokes' residence and place of business was that now occupied by Hon. S. S. Dreher.

DR. W. E. GREGORY was graduated in medi- cine in the spring of 1877, and selected Scioto as a place of settlement. He is at present a member of the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Pennsylvania.

DR. E. GREWER was graduated at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in the spring of 1873. His first settlement was at Maple Grove, near Bushkill, in 1878. With the interruption of about one year, he has resided there until the present time. Dr. Grewer has acquired quite a reputation for skill in surgery.

DR. W. J. GULICK removed to Stroudsburg in July, 1881, and is acquiring an extensive practice.

The name of Grattan became one of the most celebrated of the last century. In the person of Henry Grattan the world enjoyed oratory almost equal to that of Demosthenes. The lines of Lord Byron will be remembered,-

"With all that Demosthenes wanted, endowed, And his rival or master in all he possessed."

THOS. GRATTAN, a grandson of Henry, was born in Parsontown, County Kings, Ireland, June 23, 1796. He was educated in Dublin, where he passed a full collegiate course in the arts, and upon graduation turned his attention to the study of medicine. Under the direction of his uncle, he became assistant in an infirmary. His marriage, in 1816, led to a rupture with his uncle, and he emigrated to America. He set- tled in the northern part of the county now Monroe and later near Marshall's Falls. His practice in Ireland gave him remarkable skill as a surgeon, which he exhibited on several critical occasions, and is said to have never left a patient crippled. His rare exhibition of skill in his profession rendered him a distin- guished person in all other respects. His gen- erous nature, stimulated, perhaps, by familiarity with the lowly and the pauper population in his native land, induced him to never neglect a call for the service he could so effectively ren- der. Regardless of his own comfort and ap- parently of his own health, he was attentive to every applicant. Thus Dr. Grattan lived and labored till April 12, 1864, when he died at the age of nearly sixty-eight. Another of the name, Matthew George Grattan, was born in Ireland May 6, 1818, and was brought to America when only three months old. His parents came and settled in Smithfield, while his medical education was pursued at Geneva, N. Y. He returned to Smithfield and entered upon the duties of his profession, which he pur- sued only a short time, as he died January 25, 1849. His talents were of a superior order and his character unblemished. Monroe Coun- ty feels a just pride in having adopted them.

DR. GEORGE H. RHOADS was born in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., January 9, 1857. He obtained an education chiefly in the public schools of Philadelphia, supplemented by an

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academical course at Wilmington, Del. He was graduated in medicine at Jefferson College, Philadelphia, in the class of 1879, and selected Tobyhanna as a field for medical practice, with a fair prospect of success.

DR. J. W. FLICK is a native of Germany ; was graduated at one of the medical schools in Philadelphia in 1879. His preparatory studies were pursued at Dover, Del. His settlement in Stroudsburg was followed by unusual success. Desirous of doing still better, he removed to Scranton in 1881, whence, after a few months, he removed to Honeoye Falls, N. Y.

DR. SAMUEL L. FOULKE was born in the vicinity of Stroudsburg, graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1874, but has confined his attention principally to a drug-store.

DR. GEORGE W. DUNGAN, a native of the western part of the county, settled in Strouds- burg, June, 1876, and remained until 1884, when he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His practice was homœop- athy, and after his first Conference appointment at Tannersville, he still continued the practice of medicine at Stroudsburg, until his removal from the county.

DR. NATHANIEL C. MILLER, a son of Philip Miller, of Stroudsburg, and grandson of the late Charles Miller, of Monroe County, and also of Hon. Jacob Cope, of Northampton County, was born in 1848. He began the study of medicine at the early age of sixteen, with Dr. A. R. Jackson, and was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1870. He has been in active practice ever since his gradna- tion. As a surgeon, he has performed some remarkable operations, specifically, by amputa- tion at the shoulder joint and of the arm above the elbow. He holds high rank as a physician and surgeon in the town and county, and is a contributor to the medical journals.

DR. SIMON E. MILLER, born in Stroud town- ship, 1848, also read medicine with Dr. A. R. Jackson, and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1870; practiced in Monroe County ten years, when he removed to Wiscon- sin, where he at present resides.

The name of Walton many years ago was prominent in the medical professon, and has

been perpetuated to the third generation with distinction and renown.

DR. WILLIAM DAVIS WALTON was born at North Wales, Montgomery County, Pa., December 24, 1781, and received his medical education at the University of Pennsylvania. He soon after settled at Stroudsburg, where he was engaged in active practice till November 18, 1863, the time of his death.

DR. SYDENHAM WALTON, son of William D., was educated at the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1833, and, in connection with his father and uncle, divided the practice of the town and county. He was highly esteemed as a citizen and physician. He was born April 30, 1812, and died June 3, 1873.

DR. CHARLES JENKINS WALTON, son of William D., was born at Stroudsburg Septem- ber 8, 1815, was graduated at the Geneva Medical College, and practiced till May 22, 1856, the time of his death.

DR. DAVIS D., son of William D., was born October 12, 1822, graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, and practices still in Strouds- burg, where he first commenced his profession.

DR. WILLIAM PALMER WALTON, son of Davis D., was born October 6, 1817, and was educated at Geneva Medical College. He prac- ticed in connection with his father to the time of his death, in 1880.

DR. THOMAS CAREY WALTON, son of Syden- ham, was born in Stroudsburg in 1854, studied medicine under the direction of his uncle, Davis D., was graduated at the University of Penn- sylvania in 1878, and settled in Stroudsburg as the third generation of the Walton family. He finds constant employment in the duties of his profession, and sustains well the reputation of the family name.

DR. J. P. MUTCHLER, a native of Warren County, N. J., studied medicine under the direc- tion of Dr. Amzi Le Bar, with whom he was associated in practice for a year, and at present with Dr. J. H. Shull. He graduated in 1875.

DR. CHARLES VAIL, a native of New Jer- sey, was settled in Stroudsburg before the organization of the present county. He had a large practice and was a successful physician. He died about 1836.

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DR. WILLIAM P. VAIL, brother of Charles, succeeded him at his death, and was also highly esteemed in his profession and as an earnest Christian gentleman. He removed about 1848 to Johnsonsburg, Warren County, N. J., where he resided about twenty-five years. He now re- sides at Roselle, N. J.

DR. JACKSON LANTZ.1-At an early period of our colonial history the ancestor of the Lantz family, of Sussex County, N. J., emi-

the homestead where he lived and died, in 1827, in his eighty-fourth year. His wife, Mary, reached her eighty-seventh year. The family name has different spellings, according to locality : Lance, Lants, Lents and Lantz, the last being probably the correct one.

Jacob Lantz married and had born to him three sons and six daughters, who lived to maturity, namely,-George, Peter, Jacob, Mar- garet, Anna, Mary, Sophia, Eliza and Barbara.

Jackson Lants.

grated from the province of Alsace, Germany. Jacob Lantz was born in Germany in 1741, and settled on his Hampton farm (now known as the Dunn farm), situated between Newton and Washingtonville, Sussex County, N. J., about 1759. He added other acres to his possessions, at one time owning the present site of Washingtonville. But the Dunn farm was

The daughters were married as follows : Mar- garet to Peter L. Struble; Anna to Peter Smith ; Mary to William Snook; Sophia to Peter Hendershot; Eliza to John Anderson ; Barbara to Antone Longcore. The sons also married and settled in their native county, with the exception of Peter, who finally located in Bradford County, Pa., where he raised a family consisting of two sons and four daughters. Jacob settled at Andover, N. J., and had five

I For early history of dental surgery, the reader is re- ferred to page 218, this volume.

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children, namely,-David, George N., Mary, Catharine and Eliza. George, the eldest son of the second generation, and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, married Catherine Hand, and about 1790 settled in Frankford township, on a farm now owned and resided on by his son William, located about seven miles northeast of Newton, where he died. The land was mostly a forest; but industry, energized by a laudable desire for competence, soon trans- formed the forest into good farm land, and the price of his labor being high and land compara- tively low, he soon greatly added to his posses- sions, and at his death was the owner of five or six farms.

The result of his marriage with Catherine Hand was ten children (seven sons and three daughters), namely,-Maria, Jacob, Peter, George, John, Susan Ann, Robert, William, Martha, David H., all of whom married and settled in their native county, except Robert, who located in Yates County, near Penn Yan, N. Y., married a Miss Baily and raised a large family.

George Lantz died Angust 27, 1847, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. A few years before his wife, Catharine, had died, in the seventy-third year of her age.

Jacob Lantz, the ancestor, and his three sons were in the Revolutionary War, Jacob at an early date and his sons at a later period. Ad- jutant-General Stryker's published reports and rosters of the soldiers from Sussex County, N. J., state that George and Peter Lantz served as privates, and a Sergeant Lantz, whose given name is not stated, is recorded in one of Pay- master Gaston's reports of the date of 1780.

George Lantz was drafted in the War of 1812, but peace being soon after declared, he saw no service.

In 1829, Peter Lantz, the father of the sub- ject of this sketch, married Margaret, a daugh- ter of David Demarest, a thrifty farmer residing in Frankford township (now Lafay- ette), Sussex County, N. J., about six miles northeast of Newton. On the death of Mr. Demarest, in 1825, his farm fell to two of his sons,-Cornelius and Gelliam,-afterward, by purchase, to Cornelius alone, and subsequently,

at his death, to Joel C., who owns and now re- sides on the same.

The family name, which is spelled in three different ways,-" Demarest," "Demorest," " Demerest,"-is . of Huguenot extraction. Parts of the family originally settled in New York and in Canada. During the War of 1812 they warmly espoused their respective. sides of the contest. Friendly, and frequently exchanging visits, each side knew that his country was in the right. The family, in that war, gave a general to the Canadian army, and captains and lieutenants to the American army.

Peter, immediately after his marriage, set- tled on one of his father's farms and devoted his attention to farming. In due time he had born to him eight children,-seven sons and one daughter,-whose names were David A., Jackson, William H., John W., Martha Ann, George W., James W. and Peter W., all of whom lived to maturity, except William H., who died July 30, 1850, aged sixteen, and Mar- tha Ann and Peter W., who died in infancy.

David W. settled in Hightstown, Mercer County, N. J .; John W. and James W. in Brooklyn, Iowa ; and George W. in Waverly, N. Y. John W. and George W. each served three years in the Union army, in the late Re- bellion.

Peter Lantz died in Hightstown, at the resi- dence of his eldest son, David A., October 7, 1877, in his seventy-second year. His wife, Margaret, died at Lafayette, N. J., in 1867, in her fifty-eighth year.

The earlier years of Dr. Jackson Lantz were passed upon his father's farm, and his cduca- tional attainments were governed necessarily, to a great degree, by the facilities afforded at district schools. To the educational acquire- ments of his earlier days, however, he subse- quently greatly added, by judicious private study and investigation. In August, 1885, he received a diploma from the Chautauqua, Literary and Scientific Circle, as a graduated member, having pursued the prescribed four years' course of study and passed a satisfactory examination, being the first graduate of Monroe County from that institution.

In 1850, in his nineteenth year, after learn-

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ing the art of daguerreotyping, he purchased a complete establishment (the art of portrait-mak- ing by solar light having been but recently in- vented by the celebrated Frenchman, Da- guerre), and commenced the duties of life by following the portrait-making business, which he continued for over two years, thronghont the northern section of New Jersey and the contigu- ous territory of New York and Pennsylvania. During that time he also engaged in the study of dental science, under the direction of Dr. John J. Case (now of Newton, N. J.), and com- pleted his course on plate-work with Drs. Wil- cox and Sproull, of New York City. In Sep- tember, 1852, having received a thorough pre- paratory training, he established himself as a practitioner of dentistry at Stroudsburg, Pa., where he has since enjoyed a large and snccess- ful practice. His work is of a general charac- ter, including all the branches of dental science and mechanical skill connected with the profes- sion, of which he is an assiduous student, and in regard to the development of which he keeps himself thoroughly informed.

Since taking up his residence in Strondsburg, Dr. Lantz has identified himself closely with the business interests of the place. In connec- tion with Colonel Burnett and Thomas A. Bell, he assisted in organizing the Monroe Banking Company, in 1868, which, after a time, merged into the Monroe County Banking and Savings Company, and finally became, under new or- ganization, the First National Bank of Stronds- burg. He is the largest owner of the stock of the Stroudsburg Street Railway Company, and is also largely interested in the affairs of the Van Fleet Fruit-Jar Company, he being half-owner of the patent. He is ell- gaged extensively in blue-stone flagging, at Henryville, and owns two quarries at that place. He served as a member of the School Board of Stroudsburg, for seven years ; is a member of the Stroudsburg Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he has also been officially connect- ed; has been, for over twenty-five years, a faithful Sabbath-school teacher, and, one term, assistant superintendent. He is one of the trusted and estecmed residents of the place in which he has established his home. It was

during his term of office as chief burgess that the lower part of the town, including a part of Main Street, was carried away by the freshet of 1869. To meet the contingency, the members of the Town Council became personally re- sponsible for the payment of a portion of some fifteen thousand dollars of indebtedness, which was subsequently legalized by act of the Legis- lature and assumed by the town authorities, and the necessary repairs were thereby promptly undertaken and pushed to a speedy conclusion. In this instance, as well as in that of the flag- ging of the street-crossings, as well as in other public positions, the influence and executive skill of Dr. Lantz were strongly and favorably exerted. In addition to the offices already re- ferred to, he served several years as borough audi- tor, six years as notary public and eleven years, consecutively, as secretary to Town Council.

Though born and bred a Democrat, the doc- tor was among the first to join the Republicans when the questions agitating the country led to the formation of that party, in 1856. He served several years as chairman of the County Repub- lican Committee, and, as a member of the State Central Committee, was delegate on several occasions to State Conventions, and alternate to the National Convention in 1878.

Thongh most firmly believing in the princi- ples of the Republican party, he conld not resist the temptation, in 1872, to partly stray from the Republican fold, and stepping aside, worked and voted for the success to the Presidency of Horace Greeley, at whose feet, so to speak, the doctor had sat for more than twenty years, drinking in the political principles and policy as taught by the New York Tribune. But when that campaign was over, and Mr. Greeley so overwhelmingly defeated, the doctor's firmly- fixed principles led him straight back to the Republican camp.

He married, May 18, 1882, Snsan E., dangh- ter of the late William Angle, formerly of Sus- sex County, New Jersey, but finally of Smith- field, Pa., and stepdaughter of Nicholas Ruster, of Stroudsburg. Mrs. Lantz is a lady of culture and refinement, and received a diploma from the Chantanqua Literary and Scientific Circle at the same time as her husband.

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CHAPTER IV.

EDUCATION IN MONROE COUNTY. 1

No records exist concerning the earliest schools of Monroe County. That there were schools within the region now comprising the county long prior to the Revolution seems altogether probable when one reflects that there were settlements along the Delaware River early in the eighteenth century, but no docu- mentary proof of those primitive educational establishments remains, and no one has been able to fix an exact date of the building of a school-house prior to 1810. The earliest school of which any one appears to have any recollec- tion, says Mr. Morey, was the one on Keever's Hill, in Stroud township, on the public road leading from Stroudsburg to the Wind Gap, and outside of the present borough limits. The citizens chiefly instrumental in building this school-house were Daniel Stroud, John Stroud and Mr. Hollinshead. It was a log structure, built after the model of the log houses of those days. The first teacher was a Mr. Curtis. He gave instruction only in the ordinary English branches. This was prior to the year 1800, but the exact date cannot be given. In the year mentioned, or possibly a little earlier or later, the school was moved to a stone building within the present borough limits, situated where Greene Street now is, on a lot adjoining the Friends' Meeting-House.

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History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania, Part 164

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