History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania, Part 192

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

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CEMETERIES.

THE STROUDSBURG CEMETERY .-- The ap- plieation for the incorporation of the Strouds- burg Cemetery was made to the judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County by the following gentlemen : Stroud Burson, Silas

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V. Drake, Simon Barry, Thomas M. McIl- liany, S. J. Hollinshead, Wm. T. Baker, Robert Brown, R. S. Staples, Edward Brown, J. H. Stroud, John Edinger, A. Reeves Jackson, Wm. Davis, Joseph Troch, David Keller, John De Young, Jeremy Mackey.

The decree of incorporation was granted May 26, 1864, and at a subsequent election the fol- lowing officers were chosen : William Davis, president ; A. Reeves Jackson, secretary ; Rich- ard L. Staples, treasurer ; and Samuel S. Dreher, James Boys, Jacob L. Wyckoff, Wm. S. Rees, A. Reeves Jackson, Richard L. Staples and William Davis, managers. A proposal was received from Jacob Singmaster, Esq., suggest- ing the gift of a lot of about seven acres west of the borough, on condition that the sum of one thousand dollars was expended in fencing and improving the ground, which proposition was accepted. The work of improvement was com- pleted and the demand for lots so great as to render an addition to the grounds necessary. A piece of ground was therefore purchased of Henry Singmaster in 1879, embracing seven acres and forty-two perches, and added to the original tract, the whole being substantially fenced and laid out in plots. The location of this cemetery is picturesque and attractive. Well-kept walks lead in all directions, while trees, shrubs and flowering plants add to the beauty of the spot. Many graceful and impos- ing monuments mark the last resting places of former citizens of Stroudsburg.

A cemetery situated on the road to East Stroudsburg, and midway between the two boroughs, now in disuse, was purchased and devoted to purposes of burial at the beginning of the present century. Among the old fam- ilies whose names appear here are those of Staples, Christian, Bush, Dutot, Robeson, La Bar, Bender, Morris, Burnet, Bartron, Hollinshead, Stroud, Kerr, Werkheiser, Boys, Bickley, Loder, Burson, Starbird, Rees, Brown, Dar- ling and Ransbury. Special interest attaches to this spot as being the last resting-place of Jacob Stroud, the founder of Stroudsburg, and his wife, Elizabeth, a daughter of John McDowel.

A burial-place owned by the Society of

Friends (Orthodox), and now abandoned, lies at the west end of the borough. Among the fam- ilies who have used it as a place of burial are those of Stokes, Postens, Farner, Hallock, Bell, Brown and Jansen.

The Hicksite branch of the society have also a burial-ground within the limits of the bor- ough, which is used at present. The families of Brown, Sites, Palmer, Flagler, Wintermute, Mellick, Miller, Smiley, Phillips, Walton, Foulke and Rafferty bury within this inclosure.

SOCIETIES.

BARGER LODGE, No. 325, FREE AND Ac- CEPTED MASONS .-- Barger Lodge was organ- ized on the 6th of October, 1858, and the char- ter granted by Hon. Henry M. Phillips, then Right Worshipful Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. The charter members were Dr. A. Reeeves Jackson, Hon. John De Young, Samuel Mellick, Charles D. Brodhead, William T. Baker, Jacob Stauffer, Robert W. Swink, Abram Edinger, Isaac S. Case, James H. Wal- ton, James A. Pauli, Charles S. Palmer.

Mr. Phillips, of the Grand Lodge of the State, not being present, N. F. Marsh, D. D. G. Master, acted in his stead.

The following members of the fraternity on this occasion composed the Grand Lodge: Wil- liam Barger, P. G. M., acting as G. M .; R. A. Oakford, S. G. W .; E. P. Kingsbury, J. G. W .; E. C. Lynde, G. Sec .; N. F. Marsh, G. M. ; Abram Edinger, S. G. D .; James A. Pauli, J. G. D. ; Samuel Mellick, G. Tyler.

Deputations from the various lodges at Mauch Chunk, Easton and Mount Bethel, Pa., were present and assisted in the ceremonies. The lodge being instituted, the following mem- bers were elected and installed as its first officers : A. Reeves Jackson, W. M .; John De Young, S. W. ; William T. Baker, J. W. ; Robert W. Swink, Sec. ; Samnel Mellick, Treasurer. A hall was leased, fitted and furnished and the meetings of the lodge continued to be held at that place until the 9th of June, 1873, when more commodious rooms were secured and oc- cupied. A disastrous fire on the 19th of July, 1885, rendered another change necessary, when the present quarters in Greenwald's Hall, on

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Franklin Street, were secured. In 1866 a con- mittee was appointed to secure a lot for build- ing, and a site on the southwest corner of Eliz- abeth and Centre Strects being recommended, was accordingly purchased. This lot was re- leased for ten years to J. S. Williams, who again leased twenty-five feet of the property to Wil- liam S. Flory. A committee was appointed to erect a building conjointly with Mr. Flory, the third floor to be devoted to the uses of the lodge. The third interest was then sold and a lease of the hall secured for ten years, after which it was furnished at a cost of two thon- sand seven hundred dollars and dedicated on the 10th of February, 1873. In April, 1882, the building was purchased by the lodge and occupied until the fire above mentioned, which also occasioned the loss of furniture, regalia and many valuable books and papers. The erection of a new building is, however, speedily contemplated. The present officers are Joseph H. Shull, Worshipful Master; Edwin Shafer, Senior Warden; James W. Cooke, Junior Warden ; Edward Baltz, Treasurer ; Amzi Le- Bar, Secretary ; James Mahlon, Senior Dea- con ; Cicero Gearhart, Junior Dcacon ; A. B. Wyckoff, Senior Master of Ceremonies ; Hiram W. Kistler, Junior Master of Ceremonies ; Wil- liam C. Drake, Pursuivant; J. B. Woodward, Chaplain; Robert Thomas, Tyler ; Represen- tative to the Grand Lodge, Peter S. Williams ; The trustees are Benjamin S. Jacoby, Jacob K. Shafer, Peter J. Young, William Dreher. The Past Masters are James A. Pauli, Hon. Samuel S. Dreher, William T. Baker, George W. De Long, J. S. Williams, Benjamin S. Jacoby, Alonzo B. Shafer, Hon. C. D. Brod- head, Peter S. Williams, George E. Stanffer, William S. Barger, Amzi Le Bar, Archibald A. Dinsmore. The present membership is one hundred and ten.

PORT PENN LODGE, No. 136, I. O. OF O. F. -This lodge was instituted February 13, 1846, by Jolin Dickson, D. D. G. M., of Easton, Pa., its charter members being Samuel Hay- don, Joseph J. Posten, Henry M. La Bar, M. G. Grattan, William Meyer and others. Its meetings are held at Odd-Fellows' Hall, on Main Street, on Saturday night.

Its present officers are Isaiah Slutter, N. G. ; Frank Norcross, V. G .; John E. Sny- der, Secretary ; N. H. Shafer, Assistant Sec- retary ; Edward Baltz, Treasurer ; Joseph L. Bowers, Representative to Grand Lodge.

IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN .- MINISINK TRIBE, No. 195, of this order, was organized February 17, 1873, its charter members being B. F. Morey, Samuel Hood, S. Fried, C. Mick, J. T. Palmer, Wm. Appenzeller, Jacob Michaels, Wm. B. Bell, Lewis Kenist, N. H. Shafer, Fred. W. Born, D. R. Brown, Evi Rosenkrans, Ed. Singer, P. Born, J. K. Shafer, J. S. Fisher, Uriah Slutter, C. R. Andre, N. Ruster, S. Featherman, E. Peck, A. O. Greenwald, V. Kautz, E. Smiley and Ed. Baltz.

Its first officers were Simon Freed, Sachem ; D. S. Lee, Senior Sagamore ; H. B. Hitchcock, Junior Sagamore ; B. F. Morey, Prophet ; J. S. Brown, Chief of Records ; P. Born, Keeper of Wampum.

The Past Sachems are Simon Fried, B. F. Morey, M. D. Heller, J. S. Fisher, M. Miller, J. Appenzeller, D. G. Palmer, Chas. D. Wal- lace, Ed. Fisher, U. Slutter, S. S. Williams, J. W. Cook, Ed. Baltz, N. Shafer, P. Born, F. Born, C. Mick, S. M. Dreher, J. Mick, M. Evens, M. B. Turner, J. Gangher ; B. F. Morey, Past Great Sachen.

Its officers for 1886 are A. Heller, Sachem ; Ed. R. Wallace, Senior Sagamore; T. C. Brown, Junior Sagamore; S. M. Dreher, Prophet ; S. S. Williams, Chief of Records ; Chas. D. Wallace, Keeper of Wampum.

STROUDSBURG FIRE DEPARTMENT .-- The citizens of Stroudsburg feeling the necessity for some systematic protection against fire, a company was organized and negotiations were opened for the purchase of apparatus. Among . the members of the first company were M. B. Postens, Jno. Stokes, Darius Dreher, Peter Born, Frank Landis and Mason Tock. M. B. Posten was elected captain, and Jno. Stokes, president, the latter being appointed a committee of one to purchase the apparatus. He bought a hand-engine in Philadelphia, which was christened " The Humane," the company being known by the same name. In

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1865 the name of the organization was changed from " Humane " to " Phoenix," and a larger hand-engine was purchased from a fire company at Easton. In 1867 the company, desiring a building in which to keep their apparatus and hold their meetings, organized a lottery for the purpose of raising money to defray the ex- pense of building. The enterprise was a success. A lot was purchased by the company, on Frank- lin Street, near the court-house, and a substan- tial briek building, with a tower and bell, erected on the same. The property is owned by the company, which is a chartered institu- tion, and is a volunteer company of great merit. In 1871 the borough purchased a Clapp & Jones third-class steamer, of forty-five hundred pounds weight. Besides the steamer, the bor- ough owns two hose-carriages, about one thou- sand feet of linen hose of the Eureka make, and a Silsby steam heater, by means of which the hall and apparatus room is warmed and about ten pounds of steam is always kept in the en- gine. The attachments between the heater and the engine are automatic and require no atten- tion whatever when an alarm of fire is given. The company have, at their own expense, added to the engine a Prunty relief valve and a shut- off and spray nozzle. By means of the last two attachments, the nozzle-men have entire control of the stream, shutting it off and turn- ing it on at their pleasure. This enables them to change their positions, move the hose, pass through buildings not on fire, ascend aud de- seend ladders, and in many ways gives them better' control of the fire. Besides, all undue pressure is taken off of the hose. The engineer now need not watch the stream and be con- stantly stopping the engine. When the nozzle- man turns off the stream the relief valve takes the water and passes it back into the pumps. This is kept up until the stream is again turned- on at the nozzle. The company also have an antomatic arrangement by means of which the gas in the apparatus room is lighted whenever there is an alarm of fire at night, and they are now experimenting on an apparatus to ring the bell on the tower automatically. The company consists of thirty able-bodied men, of which J.G. Keller is chief ; N. H. Shafer, foreman ; Wm.

Posten, assistant foreman ; Geo. F. Dreher, engineer ; Charles Sehoeh, assistant engineer ; H. Dodd, fireman; H. S. Wolfe, presi- dent ; J. J. White, vice-president ; A. J. Van O. Linda, secretary ; Geo. Shackelton, assistant secretary ; and M. E. Miller, treas- urer. J. G. Kelleris now serving his eleventh year as chief officer of the company. T. C. Brown and H. G. Huston are the only charter members now in the organization. The water supply as furnished by the Stroudsburg Water Company is very inadequate, the pipes being too small to supply the engine. Aside from that, the town is well supplied with water, hav- ing three ereeks-the Pocono, on the west ; the McMichael, on the south and the Brod- head, on the east-and two raees from which the steamer can draw, as necessity requires.

THE STROUDSBURG LIBRARY .- The Strouds- burg Library was organized about the year 1833. The organization was effected mainly through the exertions of John Jordan. Liberal eontri- butions of books were made by those who took an interest in the projeet, principally by Mr. Jordan, Daniel Stroud, Rev. J. T. Field and Peter S. Hollinshead, whose names appear on the blank leaves of several standard works in the library. The privilege of putting up a building was generously granted by the Ortho- dox Friends on their meeting-house lot, where it still stands.

The number of volumes is about one thou- sand three hundred. The taste for sensational reading has perverted the reading taste, within the past three years, so as to cause the patronage of the library books to be too small to pay the expenses of keeping it open. It has there- fore been temporarily closed.

COMPANY F, THIRTEENTH REGIMENT NATIONAL GUARDS OF PENNSYLVANIA .- This company which has its headquarters and armory located at Stroudsburg, having been in existence but little more than one year, has necessarily but a brief history. It was organiz- ed by Rogers L. Burnett, a graduate of West Point in the spring of 1884, who, discerning the material for a good company in Stroudsburg, communieated with Colonel Hiteheoek, the commander of the regiment in Seranton, and

Hamry Singmaster

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was by him instructed, after a season of discour- agement and disappointment, to proceed in his laudable endeavor. The company was formed on the 31st of December, 1884, under the supervision of Colonel Hitchcock and other regimental officers, and at once proceeded to drill for participation in the ceremonies attend- ing President Cleveland's inauguration. Mr. Burnett was chosen captain ; Harry S. Wolf, first lieutenant ; and John B. Williams, second lieutenant ; and the following non-commissioned officers appointed in the order named: Ser- geants, M. E. Miller, Jamcs Lynch, John Decker, Frank C. Kerr, Ray Brittain ; Corporals, Calvin De Young, George Brown, Thomas Spragle, Irwin Rhodes, Theodore Murray, Bert Stanton, George Michaels and Frank Posten, the last-named corporal being also color bearer. On the occasion of the inaugural ceremonies the company received complimentary mention from their commander for excellence in drill. The company participated in the brigade encamp- ment at Mt. Gretna Park, Lebanon County, in July, 1885. Captain Burnett tendered liis resignation, which having been accepted, John B. Williams was unanimously chosen to fill the position, and Sergeant Frank C. Kerr was elected second lieutenant. Sergeant Miller had meanwhile been promoted to the first lieuten- ancy, made vacant by the resignation of Lieu- tenant Wolfe. The company is now in a very promising condition, its organization being as follows:

Officers .- Captain, John B. Williams ; First Lieu- tenant, M. E. Miller ; Seeond Lieutenant, Frank C. Kerr ; Sergeants, James Lyneh, Ray Brittain, Calvin De Young, Theodore Murray, George Brown ; Cor- porals, Irwin Rhodes, Thomas Spragle, Bert Stanton, Horace Heston, John Gordon, Dimmiek Edinger, Edward Nixon; and Will H. Ramsey, Color Cor- poral.

Privates .- George Allegar, George Boys, John Barton, Eugene Bowlby, Charles Depue, Jabez Detriek, Arthur Dreher, Eugene Emery, Edward Fuller, George Gordon, Edward Freeland, Peter Heberling, Peter Kunkle, George Kleekler, Howard Mansfield, Ben Nixon, Thomas Nixon, Clark Nace, James Pope, Simon Ruth, Dan Rhue, Sam Stark, H. Seiple, James Schoch, Harry Tock, R. Wolff, John Walter, Syd. Walton, George Born, James Zabriski, H. Gordon, Joseph Hill, Dimmiek Posten, S. W. Lineor, G. H. Terry, Homer Kinney, George Hufford, | red and twenty-nine perches, for the sum of two

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John Decker, Frank Posten, Howard Hill, Sam Dreher and Joseph Taylor, drummer.

WADSWORTH POST, No. 150, G. A. R .- This post was organized by Department Com- mander John M. Vanderslice, on the 14th of November, 1879, its charter members being O. C. Jansen, R. W. Reynolds, Charles Yetter, Wilson Pierson, Josephus Williams, M.D., P. S. Williams, J. S. Williams, F. Knighton, D.D., H. B. Hitchcock, Harry Wolfe, W. R. Ben- nett, S. S. Lee, Stephen Giersch, B. F. Dungan, Solomon Kintner, Edward Nivel, John Mc- Neal.

The post for some time occupied the Keller building in Stroudsburg, but for the past five years has held its meetings in Williams' Hall. It numbers ninety-six members, is in a very satisfactory condition financially., and in every respect prosperons. Its roster for 1886 is as follows : Henry Puterbaugh, Post Commander ; Caleb Rinker, Senior Vice-Commander ; George Mount, Junior Vice-Commander ; Harry Wolfe, Adjutant ; A. C. Jansen, Quartermaster ; A. Le Bar, M.D., Surgeon ; John L. Staples, Chaplain ; J. N. Shively, Officer of the Day ; Willian Gor- don, Officer of the Guard ; Lewis Walters, Quar- termaster-Sergeant; John S. Staples, Sergeant- major. The Past Post Commanders are A. C. Jansen, Charles Yetter, P. S. Williams, Harry Wolfc. The council of administration is as follows: A. C. Jansen, W. R. Bennett and P. S. Williams.

HENRY SINGMASTER .- On the 19th day of September, 1749, the ship " Patience," Hugh Steel, captain, brought to this country two hundred and seventy passengers from the Duchy of Würtemberg. Among these was John Adam Zangmeister, who settled in Bucks County. His son Adam, when a young man, went from Bucks County to Millerstown, Lchigh County, Pa., where he obtained employment in the tanncry of the Rev. Jacob Van Buskirk, whose daughter, Lydia, lie afterwards married. Mr. Van Buskirk was one of the early pastors of the old Trappe Church, and is buried at Hack- ensack, New Jersey. After his death Adam Singmaster bought his farm, May 27, 1810, con- taining one hundred and four acres and one hund-

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thousand five hundred and ninety-five pounds. He settled thereon and reared a family of seven sons-John, Jacob, Reuben, Samuel, Henry, William and Charles-and one daughter, Sarah, who married William Miller, and resided at Allentown, Pa.

Adam Singmaster was one of the grand jurors of the first Court of General Quarter Sessions of the peace held at the borough of Northampton, for the county of Lehigh, No- vember 30, 1813. He died July 28, 1820. Jacob, his son, born January 1, 1805, became one of the pioneers of the tanning business, and started out in Juniata County, where he built for himself a large tannery. He was the founder of Tannersville, this county, where he built two large steam tanneries. He also built one at Stroudsburg, where he died, a bachelor, in March, 1874, leaving a large estate, which he had accumulated during a long, active and industrious life. He was a man of high character, a useful and influential citizen, and for many years one of the prominent business men of Monroe County.

Samuel Singmaster, another son of Adam Singmaster, resides in Iowa, where he and his sons are engaged in stock-raising and import- ing horses from France. He owns a great deal of land, some of which he purchased directly from the Indians.

William Singmaster, another of Adam Sing- master's sons, was one of the earliest set- tlers of Missouri, where he owned considerable land. During the gold excitement he joined a company of his neighbors, who, with their ox- teams, crossed the Rocky Mountains into Cali- fornia, where they engaged in gold-digging. A few months after his arrival there he died, a bachelor, and was buried where Sacramento City is now situated. Charles and Reuben also lived in Missouri. John was the only one of the brothers who remained in Lehigh County. After his father's death he moved upon the old homestead, where he engaged in farming and tanning until he died, December 5, 1877, at the age of eighty. He left a number of descend- ants.

Henry Singmaster was born on the homestead, in Lower Macungie township, Lehigh County,

October 19, 1813. He passed his earlier years in the family of his sister, Mrs. William Miller, in Philadelphia, where he received an excellent education. For a few years he clerked in the store of his brother-in-law, in Philadelphia. He then learned the tanning trade with his brother John in Macungie. Subsequently he joined his brother Jacob in the tanning business at Lick- ing Creek, Juniata County. His brothers Sam- uel and Charles were also interested with Jacob at that place. At a later period the business was carried on there by Henry Singmaster and William Miller, and upon the removal of the latter to Allentown, Pa., Henry ran the tannery enterprise alone, conducting in connection there- with a store, farm and saw-mill at the same point. He subsequently engaged in farming in Bucks County. On March 21, 1871, upon the solicitation of his brother Jacob, he removed to Stroudsburg, Pa., for the purpose of assisting the latter in looking after his varied and ex- tensive interests. There he continued to reside until his death, on June 7, 1885.

Henry Singmaster was a man of more than ordinary intelligence, a great reader, and pos- sessed of a vast amount of general information, which had been accumulated during a long life by close study and extensive travel. While en- tertaining decided political views, and manifest- ing great interest in the support of the ends and principles of his party, he never aspired to pub- lic place or position. He was strongly Lutheran in his religious tendencies, and assisted in build- ing a church of that denomination at Licking Creek. The church at Stroudsburg was also indebted to him for many liberal contributions, and it was through his influence that the large debt of the church due to the estate of Jacob Singmaster was remitted. According to the terms of his will, the residue of his estate, after the death of his wife, will pass to the Lutheran institutions at Gettysburg and Philadelphia. He led a plain, straightforward, earnest life, avoiding ostentatious display and securing the respect and confidence of all. He married Ro- sauna, daughter of Charles F. and Rosanna (Gibbenger) Smith, formerly of Juniata County, who now occupies the splendid family mansion at Stroudsburg erected by Jacob Singmaster,

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and in which her husband afterwards resided. Mrs. Singmaster's parents live at Logansport, Indiana.

WILLIAM S. REES .- September 12, 1682, a party of seventeen arrived in Philadelphia from Wales, having all purchased land in the Penn Indian purchase, in what is now Montgomery County, and among them were three Reeses,- John, Edward and Evan Rees,-and in 1780 (nearly one hundred years after), Samuel Rees, a son of Samuel Rees and grandson of Evan Rees, came into Northampton County (now Monroe), with his compass 1 (being then a young man only twenty years of age), to follow the business of surveying, and October 4, 1792, he married Rachel Stroud and returned to the place where he was born,-" Trappe," Montgomery County,-where he resided until about 1806 (and during that time was a member of the Assembly of Pennsylvania), when he returned to Stroud township (then Northampton), Monroe County, and lived on the farm left by Colonel Jacob Stroud to his daughter, Rachel Rees (née Stroud), about one mile west of Stroudsburg, and during most of the time was a justice of the peace, (where Sheffield Reynolds now lives, on what is now known as the Snydersville road).

The frame house and barn that he built on the place are still there, intact. On that farm he raiscd a family of ten children. Hannah, who married Daniel E. La Bar, a surgeon and an uncle of the present Judge J. D. La Bar, of the Monroe courts. She, Hannah, died at De- lavan, Wis., in 1856. Stroud, married to Chris- tiana Butz, whose grandfather, Michael Butz, came to America from Germany about 1683- 84 and also settled in Montgomery County. He died 1872, aged seventy-seven years, in Iowa.

Elizabeth died single. Julia Ann, who mar- ried and is now living at Highland Park (near Chicago), Illinois. She was born February 4, 1799, and is now in her eighty-eighth year, with good health, hearing and eyesight, and the only one of the family living now. Sally, married to Giles Slocum, of Kingston, Luzerne County, Pa., a nephew of Frances Slocum, the girl cap-

tured by the Indians when a child in the Wy- oming Valley. Daniel, who was a physician and died in 1833 of typhus fever, at Strouds- burg, unmarried. Evan, a lawyer, and who died at Easton in November, 1835, unmarried. Edward, a physician ; he practiced in Kentucky for twenty years, then married and settled at Jacksonville, Ill., and died there December 13, 1882, leaving a family. James Hollinshead Rees, surveyor, practiced in this county from 1830 to 1834, when he went to Chicago, Ill., and died there September 20, 1880 ; married, but no children. Ann Strond Rees, who went to Wisconsin about 1850 with her mother and sister, Julia Ann, married a Dr. Sales and died in 1858, childless. Samuel Rees died at Strouds- burg January 16, 1841, in his eighty-first year. Rachel Rees died at Delavan, Walworth County, Wis., in 1854, at the advanced age of seventy- nine years, eleven months and twenty-four days.

William Stroud Rees, the present clerk of the county commissioners of Monroe County, is the eldest of twelve children of Stroud and Christiana Rees (née Butz), is the only one of the family living, and was born July 9, 1819, in a frame house that stood on the corner where the American Hotel stands, and is now the old- est citizen of the borough of Stroudsburg that was born within the limits of the borough ; is now almost sixty-seven years of age and is a well-preserved man. When about ten years old, in 1829, his father moved out of the borough into Stroud township, in a house he built near the spoke factory, and now known as Goforth's, where he lived, and from the age of twelve to fifteen, or three years, worked on the farm and lived with his grandfather and grandmother on the farm. He went there on his twelfth birth- day, July 9, 1831, and left there in October, 1834, and on the 7th day of June, 1835, about one month before he was sixteen, he left home, in company with his father, for Manch Chunk, intending to learn the trade with his father, who was a carpenter. But when they got to Mauch Chunk his father went to work for George Law, who had a contract to build a bridge across the Lehigh, at Easton, and the work being of a kind too heavy for him, he started out on his

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History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania, Part 192

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