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evergreens and deciduous trees and shrubs, through which shady walks and drives wind in all directions about the well-turfed, carefully- kept plots, each sacred to some home circle.
The entrance to the cemetery is by a bridge over the Dyberry. The stream forms a gentle but everlasting line of demarkation between the little cities of the living and the dead, and its dark waters flow on peacefully as the waters of Lethe.
The cemetery was originated by a company organized under the provisions of a State char- ter, granted January 26, 1854. The act named as incorporators Russell F. Lord, Thomas H. R. Tracy, Samuel E. Dimmick, John Torrey, Stephen Torrey, Richard L. Seely, James R. Dickson, Francis B. Penniman, Zenas H. Rus- sell, John F. Lord, Amory Prescott, Richard Henwood, James M. Brookfield, Eliphalet Wood, M. A. Bidwell, Rufus M. Grenell, Sol- omon West, Charles Tehlager, George Bretten- bacher, Oliver Hamlin, Charles P. Waller, Wil- liam R. McLaury, Germain L. Keator, Henry Dart, Samuel Allen, H. B. Beardslee, Stephen D. Ward, William Turner and Coe F. Young.
The organization was duly perfected and named the Honesdale Cemetery Company. At a meeting of the incorporators held on February 11, 1854, Thomas H. R. Tracy was chosen chairman and F. B. Penniman secretary ; Messrs. C. P. Waller, Richard L. Seely, Samuel E. Dimmick, Samuel Allen and Coe F. Young were appointed a committee to draft by-laws.
For some time the company remained in a condition of partial activity and transacted no business which was deemed worthy of mention in its minute-book. In the winter of 1858-59, however, its affairs were energetically pushed, and by February 18, 1859, forty shares of stock had been subscribed, at one hundred dollars each, by the following persons :
R. F. Lord, 4; John Torrey, 4; R. L. Seely, 4; Z. H. Russell, 2; Stephen Torrey, William F. Wood, Coe F. Young, J. K. Patmor, Isaiah Foster, I. P. Foster, William H. Foster, F. B. Penniman, W. W. Weston, M. L. Tracy, W. J. Fuller, James R. Dick- son, William R. McLaury, E. F. Torrey, D. P. Kirt- land, Ezra Hand, B. B. Smith, William Reed, M. B. Bennett, Eliphalet Wood, C. P. Waller, John McIn- tosh, F. M. Crane, S. D. Ward, C. Hornbeck, R. Hen- wood, each one share.
On March 5, 1859, at a meeting held at F. B. Penniman's office, Z. H. Russell presiding, Messrs. Waller, McLaury, Smith, Ward and W. H. Foster were appointed a committee to examine various tracts of land, with reference to their availability for cemetery purposes. This committee reported, at a meeting held on the 2d of the following May, that parcels of land were offered by H. B. Beardslee (forty acres for $2000), D. Schoonover (fifteen acres, at $150 per acre), G. Russell (quantity not stated, at $100 per acre), Gilbert and Patmor (indefinite quantity, at $200 to $300 per acre), John Tor- rey (eighteen acres at $2400). At a subsequent meeting it was decided to test the choice of the members in regard to location of the cemetery. This was done by ballot, and the Torrey tract received a majority of three votes over all of the other proposed sites. Mr. Torrey having in the mean time abated his price for the land four hundred dollars, it was agreed that it should be purchased for two thousand dollars.
At the meeting of May 2, 1859, Russell F. Lord had been elected president and R. L. See- ly, Eliphalet Wood, William H. Foster, Zenas H. Russell, William R. McLaury and F. B. Penniman managers. Under these officers the purchase of the land was confirmed and steps were immediately taken for laying out the cemetery, inclosing it with a wall, except along the Dyberry, building a bridge over that stream, making various improvements and generally beautifying the grounds. Much of this work was carried on under the immediate supervision of F. B. Penniman and Stephen Torrey.
The first grave was opened in the new ceme- tery for the reception of the body of Dr. Wil- liam F. Denton, who was buried November 21, 1859.
On the evening of Friday, November 25, 1859, services inaugurating the opening of Glen Dyberry Cemetery were held at the Pres- byterian Church, Rev. Dr. Scott, of that church, Rev. Uriah Scott, of the Episcopal, and Rev. Mr. Grenell, of the Baptist Church, making addresses, and Mr. F. B. Penniman appearing on behalf of the board of managers and deliver- ing an informal address.
The first public sale of lots was held on
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Saturday, November 26th, when forty-nine lots were sold. Russell F. Lord obtained the first choice, bidding fifty dollars for the privilege.
In Glen Dyberry are buried the following soldiers, the greater number of whom, as will be noted, were engaged in the War for the Union, 1861-65 :
David Beers, a soldier of the War of 1812.
Joseph D. Simpson, a soldier of the War of 1812. Banajah Haskins, a soldier of the War of 1812.
Corporal Joseph Schofield, Duncan's United States Artillery, Mexican War.
Captain James Ham, Company M, Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Captain Charles C. Brown, Company M, Seven- teenth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Sergeant William H. Hurlburt, Company C, Sixth Pennsylvania Reserves.
Sergeant Edmund M. Clark, Company M, Seven- teenth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Sergeant William T. Hall, Company C, Sixty- seventh Pennsylvania.
Sergeant William H. Van Kirk, Company C, Sixty- seventh Pennsylvania.
Corporal James Northcott, Company M, Seven- teenth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Dr. J. M. Starnes, assistant surgeon, Eleventh Missouri Cavalry.
Thomas Benney, Battery C, Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery.
John Benney, Battery C, Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery.
Martin Groner, Company H, Fifty-second Penn- sylvania.
Thomas J. Firth, Company B, Third Pennsylvania Reserves.
L. B. Sherwood, Company I, Eighty-fourth Penn- sylvania Volunteers.
Frederick Zahn, Company F, Third New Jersey Cavalry.
Albert L. Rowley, Company L, Fifteenth New York Heavy Artillery.
George M. Cole, Company B, Thirty-fifth Pennsyl- vania Militia of 1863.
Andrew J. Dennis, Company K, Eleventh United States Infantry.
William W. Valentine, Eighth Pennsylvania Militia of 1862.
Robert Barclay, of the United States Navy.
John B. Lisk, Company G, Third New York Ar- tillery.
John Schofield, United States Volunteers.
H. T. Justin, Company C, Sixth Pennsylvania Reserves.
David J. Richmond, Company G, One Hundred and Forty-first Pennsylvania.
A. R. Howe, Company D, One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania.
George Britenbaker, Battery C, Second Pennsyl- vania Heavy Artillery.
RIVERDALE CEMETERY .-- This burial-ground, opened in 1885, lies immediately north of Glen Dyberry, and may in time rival its beauty. It is the property of a corporation. Joseph Nochals, who formerly owned the land, made some improvements upon it with a view of establishing a burial-ground, but sold it to W. A. Gaylord and Henry J. Tarble in 1883. At the May Term of court, 1885, a charter was granted to the Riverdale Cemetery Company, which consisted of H. J. Tarble, president ; P. J. Cole, treasurer; F. P. Kimble, secretary ; J. J. Curtis and W. A. Gaylord. To this company Messrs. Tarble and Gaylord deeded the property on May 16, 1885, the consideration being five thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. The capital stock is divided into one hundred and twenty shares at fifty dollars each. The grounds have been laid out by Mr. Robin- son, of New York, former overseer of Green- wood Cemetery, and it is the intention to im- prove them as rapidly as possible and to sell plots.
The German Lutherans, the German Catho- lies and the English Catholics also have bury- ing-grounds.
In the German Catholic Cemetery are buried Captain James Loeven, William Blesser, John G. Holzknecht, Frederick Stolte and Nicholas Shearer (all of Company C, One Hundred and Twelfth Pennsylvania Volunteers) Alexander Maier and Frederick Krong.
In the German Lutheran Cemetery are the graves of Caspar Havrich, of Company C, One Hundred and Twelfth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and Henry Languth.
In the old Catholic burying-grounds lie the remains of John Baker, of Company C, Sixth Reserves.
SOLDIERS' MONUMENT .- The most conspicu- ous object in the beautiful little park or public square is a monument reared to perpetuate the names of Wayne County men who fell in the War of the Rebellion. Measures were taken toward the rearing of this monument before the
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war was really ended, and it was one of the first erected in the State. A meeting to organize the Monument Association was held June 1, 1865. The president was Coe F. Young ; the Vice-Presidents, Otis Avery and Z. H. Rus- sell ; and the Secretaries, J. C. Delezenne and E. F. Torrey. F. B. Penniman read articles of association agreed upon by the Ladies' Aid Society and addresses were delivered by Rev. J. J. Doherty, F. D. Haskins, C. S. Minor, Esq., L. F. Borcher and G. G. Waller, Esq. The society was then organized by the election of the following officers : President, Mrs. John Torrey ; Secretary, Mrs. Sophia Russell ; Treas- urer, Mrs. S. D. Ward ; Managers, Mrs. J. C. Gunn, Mrs. Ezra Hurlburt, Mrs. John R. Watts, Mrs. Russell F. Lord, Mrs. S. E. Dimmick, Mrs. Richard Henwood, Mrs. James Birdsall, Mrs. Samuel Allen, Mrs. L. O. Grenell, Mrs. William Seaman, Mrs. F. B. Penniman, Mrs. L. Socrgel, Mrs. C. F. Young, Mrs. C. S Minor, Mrs. Stephen Torrey, Mrs. Aaron Cum- mings, Mrs. J. C. Delezenne, Mrs. Patrick McSone.
The society of which these ladies were repre- sentative members carried on the movement for the ercction of a soldiers' monument indefat- igably, and raised money by various means -- by subscription, by the holding of fairs and festi- vals and by the sale of the products of their unwearying fingers. A very large number were interested and active supporters of the project, but there were three who, by common consent, are awarded especial credit for the work that was accomplished. They were Mrs. F. B. Penniman, Mrs. J. C. Gunn and Mrs. J. C. Delezenne.
The corner-stone of the monument was to have been laid September 4, 1866, but as the Council did not deeide upon the location, it was deferred until July 4, 1867. On that occasion the late Mrs. Ezra Hurlburt, whose son died in the service, was awarded the honor of breaking the ground. The contract for the monument was entered into with Joseph B. Leach, of Brooklyn, in August, 1868.
The dedication of the monument took place September 9, 1869, Governor John W. Geary being the speaker. Rev. C. S. Dunning presided
over the meeting, which was very large. The dedication service was very impressive. A great throng of people were in the streets and the public square and a procession paraded in the afternoon.
The monument thus secured by the patient work of the ladies (at a cost of over five thou- sand dollars) and dedicated in the presence of a great assemblage by the Governor of the State,. is of Quincy granite, is pedestal in form and surmounted by an excellent bronze figure, life- size, of a soldier at parade rest. The height is about fourteen feet. The inscription and names of the fallen soldiers are as follows :
1869.
THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED
BY THE
LADIES' MONUMENTAL ASSOCIATION OF WAYNE COUNTY
TO THE MEMORY OF OUR DEAD WHO FELL,
"That Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, should not perish from the earth."
CAPT. JAMES L. MUMFORD.
J. H. Bryant. H. McKane.
H. C. Pulis.
M. Rollison.
G. Scambler.
A. Rollison.
J. J. Thorp. W. Holdron.
R. Barhight. J. L. Reed.
C. Thorp. G. Compton.
J. Markle. N. Warder.
WV. Rix. D. Freer.
E. Jordan.
W. Kellum.
D. Seibold.
N. G. Hand.
J. G. Griggs, J. Johnson.
A. Graham. T. Bourke.
D. Palmer.
N. Foy.
G. Palmer.
R. Kirtz.
A. F. Elmendorf.
M. Devitt.
S. E. Elmendorf.
L. Cole.
O. K. Stears.
E. Haven.
S. F. Davall.
J. D. Simpson.
J. E. Chubb.
P. Ennis.
I. Thomas.
J. Kraughan.
J. Wallace.
J. Mclaughlin.
C. N. Bagley.
J. C. Anthony.
D. Howell.
D. Wall.
O. Wolf.
H. Buchanan.
S. Gilcrist.
I. Knapp.
S. H. Cross.
Z. N. Lee.
J. H. Simpson.
WV, Brotzman.
T. Noddin. H. Case.
W. E. Martin.
H. Kinney.
R. Martin,
C. H. Munroe.
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G. H. Hoover.
G. H. Palmer.
A. K. Pruden. E. S. Hufteln.
J. Shiever.
N. J. Simpson.
N. Thorp.
J. H. Wilds.
B. Pell.
G. W. Simpson.
IV. Hunter.
D. Woodward.
G. Pell.
A. C. Starbird.
A. Benjamin.
D. Darling.
J. Simpson.
J. W. Smith.
W. W. Valentine.
A. J. Darling.
O. Gillett.
J. H. Worth.
E. Taeubner.
J. Hull.
S. Bidwell.
W. Short.
C. Neihart.
C. M. Griffis.
H. Bidwell.
J. Ogden.
F. Wilcox.
P. P. Knight.
F. Bidwell.
J. Ogden.
A. S. Ludwig.
W. Randall.
E. Bidwell.
J. Northcott.
F. Metzger.
R. Humphrey.
S. Peet.
S. Hines.
E. E. Fisher.
D. Martin.
W. Brooks.
J. Keifer.
G. Metz.
J. O'Niel.
O. Brooks.
J. H. Belknap.
H. Nelmes.
M. Kingsbury.
J. Mann.
O. Chamberlain.
W. F. Hurlburt.
A. B. Hall.
G. Hathrill.
T. C. Brigham.
D. Burton
T. Coddington.
T. Bryant.
V. D. Brigham.
D. S. Charles.
A. Martin.
W. Tamblyn.
H. B. Wood.
W. Carney.
J. W. Waller.
D. C. Lathrop.
W. E. Dodge.
G. Frace.
J. Elmer.
M. Stevens.
J. Lukens.
G. M. Cole.
H. C. Wright.
G. H. Stevens.
D. L. Brown.
H. Price.
F. O. R. Benjamin.
D. Maloney.
G. D. Parsons.
J. Brown.
I. J. Bradshaw.
E. W. De Reamer.
C. T. Jackson.
W. H. Gifford.
G. M. Grotevant.
S. Strong.
J. A. Dodge.
T. Clark.
J. W. Frampton.
L. N. Purdy.
E. G. Belknap.
C. Haines.
G. W. Warner.
A. Little.
G. Parsons.
H. West.
E. W. Freeman.
H. Lynch.
J. B. Hauser.
G. J. Price.
A. L. Chittenden.
J. Hathaway.
J. B. Muzzy.
A. B. Hathaway.
O. Wilcox.
J. E. Dart.
J. J. Rude.
W. T. Hall.
A. D. Stark.
G. Ortnung.
J. Mckeon.
CAPT. OLIVER MUMFORD.
Lieut. H. F. Willis.
Lieut. A. E. King.
D. Lake.
G. G. Andrews.
D. McGowan.
A. J. Swingle.
W. C. Bently.
J. J. Cummiskey.
D. B. Torrey.
W. J. Thomas.
WV. S. Hoffman.
L. Spangenberg.
J. Jackson.
J. J. Monk.
G. W. Welton.
C. P. Andreas.
M. V. Tyler.
E. Torpyn.
M. Wood.
A. L. Rowley.
B. Lord.
I. Crago.
J. Markle.
D. Carpenter.
J. Jones.
R. Clift.
B. Sherwood.
H. A. Thurston.
WV. Rhodes.
B. S. Merwin.
J. Price.
J. Bronson.
J. Brigliam.
N. J. Van Orden.
N. Tyler, Jr.
J. E. Taylor.
P. G. Griffin.
J. W. Cobb.
J. Hauser.
G. A. Taylor.
H. Shaffer.
J. M. Easby.
S. D. Ward.
H. Whittaker.
S. HI. Thomas.
J. N. Stevens.
G. W. Haynes.
D. Reynolds.
S. Dobson.
J. C. Rockwell.
G. D. Slocum.
E. Lake.
H. T. Angel.
F. Baird.
G. Seely.
O. S. Hoffman.
E. O. Polly.
N. Wilbur.
J. T. Whittaker.
T. Newman.
H. Nicholson.
A. H. Stewart.
T. Sterling.
W. Surrine.
D. Dickins.
L. Crone.
R. Whitney.
S. H. Thomas.
C. Dickins.
A. Jordan.
H. Keersey.
W. C. Thomas.
G. W. Dickins.
J. Elmore.
C. H. Cole.
I. Hill.
J. Dickins.
M. L. Denslow.
J. Hardwick.
S. W. Jayne.
T. Kennedy.
D. A. Denslow.
CAPT. JAMES HAM.
E. M. Clark.
J. Tobin.
F. Zahn.
E. Dexter.
J. E. Bagley.
E. J. Bunnell.
E. W. Farnham.
H. J. Borchers.
C. Henwood.
D. Avery.
J. Baker.
A. E. Gleason.
J. B. Karslake.
A. Niles.
T. Benney.
J. Best.
A. Broat.
J. D. Hamlin.
F. Marshall.
H. Conklin.
N. G. Hurd.
J. Cole.
H. Nye.
J. M. Gavett.
W. Surplice.
J. R. Garton.
L. Bailey.
D. Howell.
T. J. Firth.
I. Frampton.
E. Jones.
W. Cory.
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R. Harford.
J. F. Jackson.
A. Colbath.
O. L. Bath.
E. S. Bayley.
G. S. Brown.
H. J. Wheeler.
G. P. Enslin.
R. Buunell.
J. S. Kennedy.
J. Emery.
E. Lake.
L. Slote.
A. Clock.
L. Burleigh.
W. Upright.
A. Mattison.
J. F. Barnes.
D. Mattison.
D. Swingle.
G. W. Marks.
A. London.
A. J. Marks.
T. Woodward.
D. Sutliff.
J. Helmes.
M. Hickney.
B. Curtis.
W. Cole.
H. Brigham.
J. G. Boss.
G. Foler.
D. Dibble.
J. A. Adams.
B. Boults.
D. Catterson.
J. Bray.
P. Swartz.
O. Tyler.
L. Appleman.
W. H. Wilcox.
J. Cauth.
C. Lees.
S. Shearer.
J. S. Sutliff.
E. Cramer.
J. F. Wright.
L. Jordan. .
E. O. Haines.
J. Rollison.
A. Huffman.
C. A. Weed.
J. S. Marricle.
H. Harrison.
J. G. Ross.
G. W. Brown.
D. Brazee.
J. Tobee.
N. P. Knapp.
J. Adams.
N. T. Andrews.
J. H. Schoonmaker.
MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN .- The fountain in the public square is a memorial of the national centennial, and, like the soldiers' monument, is the result of woman's work. On the 4th of July, 1876, a society, which had been organized for the purpose of establishing this memorial, inaugurated the movement by securing sub- scriptions to a fund for the building of the fountain and gave an entertainment for the benefit of the same. Mrs. H. M. Seely was president, Mrs. Robert J. Menner secretary and Miss Carrie Petersen treasurer, while other active members of the society were Mrs. Wil- liam H. Dimmick, Mrs. J. J. Curtis, Mrs. Ben- nett, Mrs. Dunning and Miss Anna Wilbur. The work of raising funds was carried on as fast as possible, but with many disadvantages, and the fountain was finally finished and for- mally delivered to the Town Council on July 4, 1879. It cost about eleven hundred dollars.
THE CELEBRATION OF THE NATIONAL CENTENNIAL,-The one hundredth anniver- sary of American independence was fittingly
observed in Honesdale. The celebration prop- erly began on Sunday evening, July 2, 1876, by a union service of the Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist and Episcopal congregations in the park, the large audience using the platform and seats erected for the 4th. Revs. J. A. Mets, A. J. Van Cleft, E. P. Miller and C. S. Dun- ning conducted the services, the latter gentle- man preaching the sermon, taking for his text Psalm 147 and 20th verse: "He liath not. dealt so with any nation." It was a most learned, patriotic and able discourse, and was listened to with marked attention and deep in- terest by the large numbers in attendance. The entire congregation united in singing " Corona- tion," " Hold the Fort " and " America," with deep feeling and emotion.
On the 3d preparations were elaborately made for the observance of the following day. Public and private buildings, stores and resi- dences were decorated with evergreens and bunting, and in the evening the citizens gener- ally prepared for illuminating their residences and places of business. At nine in the evening a torch-light procession began its march through the streets, and the night, or the greater portion of it, was given up to various enthusiastic dem- onstrations.
The morning of the 4th was announced by the firing of the old cannon upon Irving Cliff, and at eight o'clock the national colors were flung to the breeze from a lofty staff, raised the day before on the same height. About the middle of the forenoon a procession began to march the streets. It consisted of various civic and military organizations, a body of soldiers of the late war, several allegorical representations, bands of music, etc., the whole under the mar- shalship of Colonel Coe Durland.
At the court-house the procession broke ranks, and the exercises of the day were then com- menced in the park. The American Hymn' was first sung, and prayer was then offered by Presiding Elder L. W. Peck. Hon. E. O. Hamlin read the Declaration of Independence and H. M. Seely, Esq., delivered the oration. Rev. C. S. Dunning pronounced the benedic- tion and the great audience slowly dispersed. A free dinner was provided in the court-house,
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and, although "a whole ox and four sheep had been roasted, four thousand clams baked " and an immense quantity of other food prepared, the banquet proved insufficient to meet the demand. The ladies of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the Fountain Memorial Society also served dinners and supplied immense crowds. The remainder of the day and the evening were oc- cupied with various celebrations and festivities, and it was late in the night when the crowd, | Conn. Mr. Jadwin moved to Carbondale
Jeremiah the emigrant ; 2d, Robert ; 3d, Robert ; 4th, John ; 5th, Henry B. Jadwin, father of C. C. Jadwin. The first four generations were planters ; and Henry B. was the first that chose a different occupation. He left his native State and located in Canaan, Wayne County, Pa., in the year 1830. In 1832 he married Alice G. Plumb, of that place, a daughter of Ezra and Hannah Plumb, from Litchfield County,
La la. Jadevia
estimated to be the largest ever assembled in the borough, was wholly dispersed.
CORNELIUS C. JADWIN is a descendant of Jeremiah Jadwin, who came to America about the year 1683 and located on the peninsula formed by the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. Jeremiah was accompanied to the colonies by his brothers Joseph and John. Joseph settled in New York, and John settled in Virginia. The line of descent from Jeremiah Jadwin to the subject of this sketch is as follows : 1st,
where he passed the remainder of his life, dying in 1876, at the age of seventy-three. Of his eight children, six are now living,-Orlando H., the oldest son, is a wholesale druggist in New York City ; Cornelius C. is a druggist at Hones- dale, Pa. ; Henry B., Charles P., Jolın S. and Thomas S. are druggists living in Lackawanna County, Pa.
Cornelius C. Jadwin was born at Carbondale, Luzerne (now Lackawanna) County, Pa., March 27, 1835. He attended the public schools of
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the place until he was twelve years of age, when his father took him from school to assist him at his trade. He worked with his father until he was eighteen years of age. During these six years of labor he spent his spare moments in close study,' overcoming obstacles which would have crushed a boy of less natural ability and force of char- acter. At the age of nineteen he was elected a teacher in the Carbondale schools. He was the two hundred and eighty-seventh person ex- amined in Luzerne County, under the new public-school law, by the first couuty superin- tendent of that county, and obtained the seventh first-class certificate granted by him. He taught school four years, during which time he and his brothers, Orlando H. aud Henry B., purchased a book-store in Carbondale, and added a drug department, which business was conducted under the name and supervision of O. H. Jadwin ; here Cornelius C. took his first lessons in theo- rctical and practical pharmacy. At the age of twenty-three he left the avocatiou of teaching, and having sold his interest in the drug and book business to his brother, O. H. Jadwin, he entered the employ of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company as a civil engineer, first carry- ing the axe and chain. At the end of three months he was promoted to the head of a party, and remained in the employ of the company until he took a position as mining engineer with Jones & Co., at Olyphant, Pa. During this time he purchased a half-interest iu a con- tract for furnishing coal to the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, from a mine in Arch- ibald. A general strike took place, and fearing that his venture would not terminate profitably, he sold his interest and returned to Carbondale and took charge of his brother's (O. H. Jad- win) drug-store. May 8, 1862, he and O. H. Jadwin bought the drug business of Purdon & Seely, at Honesdale, Wayne County, Pa., and commenced busiuess under the firm-name of Jadwin & Bro. This store was under the sole supervision of C. C. Jadwin, and continued as a partnership business until November 1883, when C. C. Jadwin purchased his brother's in- terest and became sole proprietor. In 1869 Mr. Jadwin and S. A. Terrel built the block, on the corner of Eighth and Main Streets, known as
the Masouic Hall building, now occupied by them. In 1866 Mr. Jadwin became associated with J. M. Crary, of Liberty, N. Y., now of Hackensack, N. J., in the compounding and sale of Jadwin's Subduing Liniment. Since that time they have compounded and sold several other medical preparations, which, like the liniment, have become celebrated.
In politics, Mr. Jadwin is a consistent Re- publican, and since 1865 he has been very active and influential in the management of the affairs of the party in Wayue County, having acted for several years as chairman of the County Committee, and having beeu delegate to the County Couventions, and also representative or Senatorial delegate to State Conventions. Since 1872 he has been a member of the local Board of Education nearly the whole time, and for several years was president of that body. In 1880 he was elected a delegate to the National Convention of the Republican party at Chicago, and the same fall was elected to represent the district composed of Bradford, Susquehauna, Wyoming and Wayne Counties in the Forty- seventh Congress. In Wayne County he ran eight hundred and twenty-eight votes ahead of Garfield for President, receiving eighteeen thou- sand two hundred and twenty-three votes in the district, against thirteen thousand six hun- dred and two for Robert A. Packer, Democrat, nine hundred aud sixty-six for J. Burrows, Greenback candidate, and two hundred and sixteen for L. Smith, Prohibitionist.
He made a consistent and honorable record iu Cougress, familiarizing himself promptly and thoroughly with the processes of legislation, zealously guarding the interests of his constitu- ents, writing and replying to about seven thou- sand letters during his term. He was a member of the committee on the revision of the laws and on war claims. In 1882, by virtue of the traditionary custom of his party, a renomina- tion to Congress was due to Mr. Jadwin, but through the machinations and devices of ambi- tious members of the party, who lulled his suspicions by assurances of fidelity and the certainty of his renominatiou, he was defeated, and Colonel Edward Overton, of Bradford County, was nominated. Mr. Jadwin's Wayne
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