Portrait and biographical record of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 79

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Publication date: 1897
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Owen Garvey and wife, were early settlers of Car- bondale, where they spent their last days. The mother of our subject resides at Williamsport, at the age of seventy-eight.

The Doctor obtained his primary education in the public schools of Dunmore, and the knowl- edge there acquired was supplemented by study at St. Mary's College in Wilmington, Del., and other institutions of learning. Soon after his grad- uation at the age of twenty years, he went to Cal- ifornia, where he successfully engaged in teach- ing until elected county st. > 1s

for Calaveras County, in which capacity he served for two terms. For the following four years he filled the office of under sheriff of the same coun- ty, and in 1878 was honored by an election to the State constitutional convention from Calaveras County, serving on the legislative committee of which General Terry was chairman. During the session, which lasted one hundred and fifty-six days, there was much of importance and interest that occurred.

Returning east in 1880, the Doctor began the study of medicine, and in 1884 graduated from the College of Physicians & Surgeons in Balti- more, Md. The following year he took the post- graduate course, and in 1885 located permanently in Dunmore, where his skill and ability soon won for him recognition among his professional brethren. As a close student he keeps fully abreast with the discoveries and advancement made in the science, and has become one of the most eminent and popular physicians of Lacka- wanna County. He is a scholarly, cultured gen- tleman and holds a high place in social as well as professional circles.

In Dunmore was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Garvey and Miss M. A. Collins, by whom he has two sons, Frank C. and Eugene A. Her father, Judge Thomas Collins, was born in Clou- fain, parish of Kinnawley, County Fermanagh, Ireland, June 24, 1811, and emigrated to the United States in 1839, locating in Ulster County, N. Y., where for three years he was employed in a rolling mill. He then spent a short time in New Jersey and Maryland, but did not make a permanent settlement. In 1845 he came to Wilkesbarre, Pa., where he secured a position as

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hammer man in the iron works, and being a powerful man, as well as prompt in the discharge of his duties, he soon rose in favor. In a short time began taking work by the ton, and by in- dustry and attention to the details of his business was soon receiving $10 per day for manual labor alone. He prospered and two years later removed to Hyde Park, where he engaged in merchandising in connection with the iron busi- ness. In 1849 when the Pennsylvania Coal Com- pany began the survey of their railroad between Pittston and Hawley, he took a contract for the construction of two miles of the road, and re- moved his family to Dunmore, where he erected a large store building, and did an extensive mer- cantile business until 1851, when his property was destroyed by fire, sustaining a heavy loss. Nothing daunted, however, he immediately re- built and continued business until 1866, when he was elected associate judge of the courts of Luzerne County, a position he filled with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constitu- ents. Previously he had served as justice of the peace for ten years, and in 1857 he was nomi- nated for county recorder of Luzerne County, but went down with the rest of the Democratic ticket in the flood of the Know Nothing party which swept the state that year. He was a pains- taking and impartial judge and acceptably filled that position for five years. He had also served as school director. About a year before his death he was stricken with paralysis and died January 9, 1878.

Hon. Frank D. Collins, a brother of Mrs. Gar- vey, was born at Saugerties, Ulster County, N. Y., November 5, 1844, and from a boy lived in Dunmore. He was a student in St. Joseph Col- lege of Susquehanna County, Wyoming Semi- nary, and completed his literary studies at St. Thomas College in Philadelphia, after which he engaged in teaching in Dunmore for some years. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1866, and three years later was elected dis- trict attorney of the mayor's court of Scranton, serving until 1872, when he was elected to the state senate on the Democratic ticket, represent- ing the district which then comprised Luzerne, Monroe and Pike Counties. In 1874 he was a

candidate for Congress from the eleventh Penn- sylvania district, familiarly known as the "Shoe- string" district, embracing the counties of Mon- roe, Pike, Carbon, Columbia, Northumberland, and a part of Luzerne which took in Dunmore and the eleventh, twelfth, nineteenth and twen- tieth wards of Scranton and a slice of the Hazle- ton district. He was re-elected in 1876, ably rep- resenting his district in the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congress. In 1878 he ran for judge on the Democratic ticket in the new county of Lackawanna against Judge Hand, Republican, and Judge Stanton, the Labor candidate, which resulted in the election of Judge Hand. Mr. Col- lins did not again enter politics until 1888, when he was the Democratic candidate for member of Congress, in the twelfth district, which then com- prised only Lackawanna County, but was de- feated. He continued the prosecution of his chosen profession in Scranton until called to his final rest November 21, 1891. He wedded Miss Mary McNichols, who died about eighteen months prior to his death, leaving two children who now find a pleasant home with Dr. Garvey and his estimable wife.

J ONES PINNELL is proprietor of an iron and brass foundry on the corner of Drinker and Apple Streets, Dunmore, where he has a modern plant, and a well-equipped building, 45×40 feet. Here he does all kind of jobbing and mine work, having built up a large trade in his special lines. In 1887 he patented Pinnell's sash weight, which he has on sale and which is one of the best devices of its kind in existence. He is also the patentee of a can top straightener, made of aluminum, and an indispensable adjunct of the Mason fruit jars. His first invention was a belt tightener, and he has since devised many other useful articles.

The parents of our subject were Robert and Mary (Hyam) Pinnell, natives of England. Rob- ert and his brother, Charles, were the only mem- bers of the Pinnell family who emigrated to America, and both of them settled in New York. Robert, who was a blacksmith by trade, opened a shop in Delaware County, N. Y., in 1849, estab-

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lishing his home in Bovina, where he remained fifteen years. In 1864 he removed to Dunmore and became an employe of the Pennsylvania Coal Company in their machine shops, remaining there until he retired. He died at the age of sixty- three. His wife also died in Dunmore. Of their three children two are living, Jones and John W., the latter engaged in the foundry business in Green Ridge.

Born in Bovina, Delaware County, N. Y., May 6,, 1850, the subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools there and in Dun- more high school. For five years he served an apprenticeship to the moulder's trade in the foundry of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, under John Deacon, one of the finest moulders ever in this county. He was then employed in the Dickson works, with the Delaware, Lacka- wanna & Western Railroad and Lackawanna Iron & Steel Company, after which he went back to the Pennsylvania Coal Company. He started for himself upon a small scale, but by attention to details has built up a good business. He is a man of worth and principle, in politics always an adherent of the Republican party, and fra- ternally a member of the Heptasophs. In Dun- more he married Clara, daughter of William Bailey, formerly principal of the Green Ridge school. She was born in Waymart, Pa., and died in Dunmore June 1, 1888, leaving five chil- dren: Mrs. Lizzie Oliver of Dunmore; Edward, a moulder, with his father; Wesley, a machinist, with the Pennsylvania Coal Company; Howard and Nettie, at home. A daughter, Clara, died at five months.

J I ONATHAN ROMIG WINT was born in Saucon, Lehigh County, Pa., September 28, 1808, and died in Providence, Scranton, July 26, 1888. The family of which he was a member originated in Germany, where the name was spelled Windt. The first of the family in Amer- ica was his great-grandfather, John Andrew Windt, who was born in Dausenheim, Germany, October 9, 1714, and died August 8, 1779. He was a son of Johannes Heinrich and Anna Sophia (Herr) Windt, the latter the daughter of a land-

graf. His wife, who was a daughter of John Michael and Anna Lydia (Landgravine) Miller, was born in Yinstadt, Germany, May 16, 1716, and died in 1809. Their remains were interred in St. Paul's cemetery, in Upper Saucon, Lehigh County, where they made settlement about 1740.

The grandfather of our subject, John Henry Wint (or Johannes Heinrich Windt), was born March 27, 1743, and married Catherine Herr, who was born in 1749, and died April 5, 1827; his death occurred November 28, 1798. Their son, John Henry, our subject's father, was born in Saucon March 16, 1779, and had two brothers who served in the War of 1812. His wife, Eliza- beth, daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Romig, was born November 6, 1781, and died October 12, 1861. He departed this life February 8, 1842. Of their eleven children Jonathan R. was third in order of birth. In boyhood he learned the miller's trade and operated a mill at Allentown until 1845, when he came to the Provi- dence section of Scranton. The Jeffrey mill was then newly erected and of it he took charge, first in the employ of others, and later in his own inter- ests, he having purchased it. About 1861 he left the milling business and from that time until his death devoted his attention to the oversight of his property interests.

In 1836 Mr. Wint married Miss Euphemia Johnston, who was born in Easton November 12, 1818, and died in Scranton January 21, 1892, aged seventy-three years. She was a daughter of Lewis and Hannah (Piatt) Johnston, and a granddaughter of William and Margareta Piatt. Of their twelve children eight are still living, namely: Mrs. Charles Pabst, of Wilkesbarre; Mrs. E. L. Riggs, of Spokane, Wash .; Louis H .; Maj. T. J., of the Tenth United States Cavalry, who served through the Civil War and is now stationed in Montana; I. J. Wint, of Carbon- dale; Mrs. S. W. Edgar, of Scranton; E. A., of Scranton, and Mary J.

The last forty-three years of the life of our subject were spent in Providence, of which bor- ough he was the first burgess, and served for many years on the school board. In 1854 he built and took possession of the house in which he resided until his death. He was a charter

FRANK CARLUCCI.

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member of the Providence Presbyterian Church, which was organized October 5, 1846, and as- sisted in the erection of the edifice. He was its first ruling elder, being elected to that office im- mediately after the organization of the congre- gation. For a time he superintended the Sun- day-school, and also started a Sunday-school in Dickson City. Frequently he represented the Providence Church in the presbytery and synod. He was known as Deacon or Elder Wint and was respected for his upright Christian life. He was a diligent student of the Bible and thorough- ly practical in his ideas of Christianity, carrying his religion with him into the everyday affairs of life.

F RANK CARLUCCI. The stone works owned and operated by this gentleman are the largest in northeastern Pennsyl- vania and are fitted up with all modern improve- ments. They are located at No. 730 Scranton Street in the city of Scranton. Among the im- portant contracts which he has had may be men- tioned those for the stone work in Hotel Jermyn, Elm Park Methodist Episcopal Church, Traders Bank, high school, Henwood's and Matthews' blocks, German Presbyterian Church, Gould building, new addition to court house, board of trade, and the two statues of Columbus and George Washington in this city; besides Pitt- ston Bank and depot, Honesdale Bank, Amer- ican and Anthracite Hotels in Carbondale, and many buildings in other cities.

Born near Naples, Italy, in April, 1862, the subject of this article is a son of Carlos and Grace (Napoliello) Carlucci, natives of the same place as himself. His father and grandfather engaged in business as stone contractors, and the latter is still living. The maternal grandfather, Nich- olas, was a merchant of Italy. Our subject is one of nine children, all of whom are in Scran- ton. The first twenty years of his life were passed in his native land, where at the age of fourteen he began to learn the trade of a stone cutter and carver under his father, and when eighteen he began as a contractor for himself.

Coming to America in 1882 Mr. Carlucci set- tled in Syracuse, N. Y., but in the fall of the same

year he removed to Scranton, where he was en- gaged in railroad work for a short time and then took a position with Jere Williams, later was with Schroeder. In 1884 he started in business as the senior member of the firm of Carlucci & Bro., in Lackawanna Avenue, where he takes contracts for every kind of stone work. From his yards there is a siding to the Delaware, Lack- awanna & Western, which facilitates transporta- tion. He is a member of the Scranton Board of Trade, and prominent in business circles.

Identified with all the Italian societies of Scran- ton, Mr. Carlucci has at different · times been president of them all, and is now honorary pres- ident for life. Among his people, many of whom reside in this locality, he is a recognized leader, and his influence is used for the benefit of his fellow countrymen. He is president, and was organizer of, the only Italian paper published in this part of the state, "Pensiero." Fraternally he is identified with the Benevolent Protective Or- der of Elks. He has organized several Repub- lican political clubs, and has been a member of county and city committees. In Masonry he be- longs to Union Lodge, Lackawanna Chapter, Coeur de Lion Commandery No. 17 and Mystic Shrine. In 1896 he returned to his birthplace and revisited the scenes familiar to him in youth.

In the movement looking toward the erection of the Columbus monument, Mr. Carlucci took an active part. Not only was he the originator of the plan, but also served as president of the com mittee having the work in charge. Contribu- tions were given by Italian citizens, in recogni- tion of the great discovery of their countryman, Christopher Columbus. October 1I, 1892, on the anniversary of the day America was discov- ered, the statue was unveiled where it now stands, on the northwest corner of the court house square, facing the west. On that day there was the greatest parade ever seen in this city. Mr. Carlucci made the presentation speech, which was responded to by Mayor Fellows.

Not only in work among people who have come from Italy has Mr. Carlucci been energetic. but he has also been effective in promoting the art of which he is an able exponent. He organ- ized the School of Mechanics and Arts, in which

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young men are trained in the work of stone carv- ing. His quarries at Nicholson and Forest City, opened by himself, are equipped with the latest improved machinery for quarrying building and flag stone. In his chosen occupation he has been very successful, and justly occupies a high place among the citizens of Scranton.

S AMUEL M. IVES, superintendent of the Dodge mines in Lackawanna Township, was born in Madison Township, Lacka- wanna County, September 20, 1859, the son of Irwin and Lucinda (Krotzer) Ives. His father, who was a native of Susquehanna County, re- moved from there to Dunmore, this county, and for several years engaged in teaching school. About 1855 he settled in Madison Township, where he purchased a farm. From that time he gave his attention to the cultivation of his place and to teaching school. In addition he carried on a lumber business, owning his own sawmill. His death occurred on the home farm in April, 1892. He was one of the representative men of the township, a leading member of the Christian Church, and a public-spirited citizen who aided in enterprises for the benefit of the community. His wife, who was a native of Madison Township, is still living and is now seventy-two years of age.

The primary education of our subject was ob- tained in the district schools of Madison Town- ship. When his father removed to Dunmore and opened a lumber yard, he was given the ad- vantages of the city schools and for a time at- tended the normal school in Scranton. Much of his time in youth was spent in assisting his father in the lumber yard. In 1880 he began to work in the blacksmith's shop of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, but remained in the position only about six months, leaving it to go outside the mines. He learned the work of every department in connection with clean- ing and preparing coal, an experience which has been invaluable to him. In 1881 he was given a position in the office of the Manville mine of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western at Green Ridge and remained there until 1888, when he was promoted to the position of outside foreman

of the Hyde Park mine. In April, 1892, he was given a similar position at the Dodge mines, which have an output of one thousand tons per day and furnish employment to four hundred men. Here he has since remained, discharging the duties of the position in an acceptable man- ner.

By his marriage to Miss Ruth Dilley, of Dun- more, Mr. Ives has four children, Harry D., El- mer R., Lydia and Samuel M., Jr. A pronounced Republican in his political views, he was a dele- gate to the county convention of 1896 and is now a member of the county committee. He is a member of Hyde Park Lodge No. 339, F. & A. M., and Lackawanna Lodge No. 291, I. O. O. F., at Scranton. With his family he holds member- ship in the Baptist Church.

G I EORGE A. CLEARWATER, of Scran- ton, was born near Middletown, Orange County, N. Y., and was one of seven children, of whom himself and Leonard G., a farmer of Wayne County, are the only survivors. His father, Abraham, was born in Ulster County, N. Y., and in early life settled in the town of Wallkill, Orange County, where he cultivated a farm. Later he removed to Binghamton, thence to Guilford, Chenango County, and from that place to Wayne County, where he died at seventy years. He married Nancy Godfrey, who was born near Bloomingburg, Sullivan County, and died in Wayne County, Pa., at the age of sixty-four. Her father, Daniel Godfrey, was proprietor of an old stage coach line between Newburg and Monticello, N. Y., for a long num- ber of years.

The subject of this sketch, who was the young- est of his father's family, spent the first twelve years of his life in Orange County, after which he accompanied his parents to Binghamton, thence to Chenango County, and at the age of fifteen began clerking in Unadilla, N. Y. For three and one-half years he was in the employ of White Brothers. In the spring of 1857 he went to Nebraska, making the trip by rail to Iowa City, thence by "prairie schooner" for three weeks. From Omaha he went to Bellevue, Neb., on the Missouri between Omaha and Platts-

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mouth, and embarked in the general mercantile business under the firm name of Clearwater & White. The hard times that soon followed ob- liged him to close out the business in the spring of 1858. Under the same firm name he began as a general merchant in Nebraska City, but shortly afterward sold out and returned home via St. Louis.

Going to Pittston, Pa., in the fall of 1858 Mr. Clearwater, in partnership with an older brother, Charles, began in the clothing and merchant tailoring business. Three years were spent there. In 1862 he went to Chicago, where for two years he carried on a grocery business on the corner of State and Madison Streets. Then returning to Wayne County, he married and for a time carried on a general store in Salem. In the spring of 1878 he came to Scranton and at once engaged in the wholesale confectionery, to- bacco and cigar business, first in Wyoming Ave- nue, later in Lackawanna and then in Penn Ave- nue, under the firm title of Smith & Clearwater. After ten years he sold out to his partner. He was one of the incorporators of the Green Ridge Lumber Company and was its secretary for three years, but while he still retains an interest, he is no longer actively connected with the organiza- tion. From its inception he has been interested in the West Ridge Coal Company and is one of its directors. He is also a director in the Sub- urban Electric Light Company, in which he was one of the original stockholders. Besides his residence at No. 1603 Monsey Avenue, he owns other valuable property in Green Ridge.

In Salem, in 1864, occurred the marriage of Mr. Clearwater to Miss Leonora F. Hamlin, who was born there. Her father, Butler Hamlin, who was a merchant of Salem, secured a change in the postoffice of Hamlinton, locating it at Salem, and he was the first postmaster, holding that position for more than forty years. For a number of terms he served as associate judge of Wayne County. He died at Hamlinton at seventy-five years. In the Republican party he was prominent and influential among local work- ers. In educational work he was long an active factor, and the excellence of the public schools of his locality was largely due to his efforts. He

married Selinda Rathbone, who was born in Norwich, Conn., and of their five children who attained mature years, all but one are living. Mr. and Mrs. Clearwater are the parents of two sons: Herbert Butler, who was educated at Cornell, later graduated from the University of Pennsyl- vania, and is now a dentist in New York City; and Maxwell R., member of class of 1899, Scran- ton high school.

Politically Mr. Clearwater is a stanch Repub- lican. For five years while in Salem he was treasurer of the school board. For one term he represented the thirteenth ward in the common council. Fraternally he is connected with Salem Lodge, F. & A. M. In the Green Ridge Pres- byterian Church, he has been president of the board of trustees for eight years. During this period he assisted in building an addition to the first church, and later helped in erecting the large church on the hill.

R EV. NATHANIEL J. McMANUS. One of the most influential churches within the diocese of Scranton is the Church of the Holy Rosary, of which Father McManus has been the rector since November of 1888. The records of 1896 show that there are eight hundred and seventy families in the congregation, the total population of the parish being five thousand two hundred and thirty-five. In addition to the church there is a parochial school, where the pu- pils, usually numbering seven hundred or more, are instructed by fifteen sisters of the Order of the Immaculate Conception. Besides the usual branches, music and painting are taught, and especial attention is given to cultivating within the child's mind high ideals and lofty aspirations for life. Adjoining the church, at No. 316 Will- iam Street, stands the parsonage, built by the present rector, and complete in every particular, having in front a stone pavement and curbing, neat fence, beautiful lawn and artistically ar- ranged grounds. The residence is heated by steam and the walls are frescoed in cheerful and harmonious tints. In size it is commodious, being three stories in height, with the main part 44x44 and the annex 18x24 feet in dimensions.

Born in County Cavan, Ireland, February 24.

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1842, the subject of this article is the youngest of the five sons of Patrick and Mary (Plunket) McManus, both of whom were born in Ireland and remained there until death. He was edu- cated in Cavan College, graduating from the classical department in 1863, and the following year came to America. In September he entered St. Charles Preparatory Seminary, Glen Riddle, Pa., and one year later became a student in St. Charles Borromeo Theological Seminary, in Eighteenth Street, Philadelphia. After a course of four years he graduated in 1868 and Decem- ber 27, of that year, he was ordained to the priest- hood in St. Peter's Catholic Church, Scranton, by Rt .- Rev. William O'Hara, being the first priest ordained in and for the diocese of Scranton, and the only one living among those ordained at that time.

The first position held by Father McManus was that of assistant to Rev. Edward Fitzmaurice of Dunmore, and while there he had charge of missions along the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, between Scranton and Dela- ware Station on the Delaware River. Among these missions were those at Moscow, Goulds- boro, Tobyhanna Mills, Oakland, Henryville, Spragueville, Stroudsburg, and Water Gap, all of which are now comprised within the parish of Moscow. After carrying on this work for two years he was appointed rector of St. Peter's Cathedral in Scranton, where he served from 1870 to 1874. In the latter year he was made pastor of St. Thomas' Church at Archbald and during the thirteen years of his pastorate there he completed a church and placed the finances of the congregation upon a solid foundation. In November, 1888, he was appointed pastor of the Church of the Holy Rosary, succeeding the Very Rev. Father Whitty, who had presided over the parish from its organization in 1870 until his death in 1887.

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Portrait and biographical record of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, Volume I, Part 79

Author: Publication date: 1897 Publisher: New York : Chapman Publishing co. Number of Pages: 1068

Author:
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: New York : Chapman Publishing co.
Number of Pages: 1068