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THE HISTORICAL JOURNAL.
Two Dollars per Annum, in Advance. Single Numbers, Twenty Cents.
A monthly publication, devoted entirely to the preservation of scraps of local history in Northwestern Pennsylvania, with reference occasionally to statistics, finance and manufactures.
Address all letters and communications relating to literary matters, subscrip- tion or advertising to
JOHN F. MEGINNESS, Editor and Publisher,
WILLIAMSPORT, PA.
WILLIAMSPORT, MAY, 1887.
TO THE READER.
THE HISTORICAL, JOURNAL is started for the purpose of collect- ing and preserving fragments of local history, which, if not put in a permanent form, will soon be lost forever. Special attention, therefore, will be given to gathering incidents of early times. reminiscences of pioneers, Indian antiquities, necrology and lon- gevity. Statistics and manufactures will also receive some attention. The chosen field is a comprehensive one, as it embraces the charm- ing valley of the West Branch of the Susquehanna, the romantic region of the Juniata and the Northwestern counties of the state. This great district is rich in historical events associated with the advancing column of civilization more than a century ago, as it gradually forced the original occupants of the soil over the mountain barriers and on towards the setting sun.
As the price of subscription has been placed low, in order to bring the publication within the reach of all, the publisher does not expect to reap any great pecuniary reward, but his work will be more a "labor of love" than of profit. But if those who are inter- ested in rescuing from oblivion much of our local history will aid in the enterprise with their patronage, their voice and their in- fluence, a mass of material can be gathered and put on record which, if it does not seem of great value to us, may be of inesti- mable value to our posterity.
The announcement of the monthly has been received with a warmth of welcome from the press which was wholly unexpected.
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That there is an increasing taste among the people for that which improves the mind, and therefore carries it to a higher plane of in- telligence and refinement, is apparent to the most casual observer. In this category may be classed a desire to read and preserve local history. This, in a large measure, may be attributed to the quiet but irresistible influence of that mighty educator, the press. And viewed in this light it is not strange, perhaps, that our humble pro- ject should be so encouragingly received. Another evidence of this is found in the kindly offers of many persons to contribute valuable matter for publication pertinent to the subject.
The first number of THE HISTORICAL JOURNAL can hardly be regarded as a fair sample of what it will be, until fairly under way, as a new publication is always attended with some draw- backs.
It now remains for the interested to make the enterprise a suc- cess, by making it self-sustaining. And in this connection we would impress upon all the fact that Time, the remorseless destroyer . moves on ceaslessly like the rippling current of a river, and halts not to preserve the works of inan nor the records of his deeds. Nowhere is this sentiment more beautifully illustrated than in the eloquent words of Taylor, in his Long Ago, when he says:
A wonderful stream is the River Time, As it runs through the realms of Tears, With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme, And a broader sweep, and a surge sublime As it blends with the ocean of Years.
If the aid which is promised is forthcoming, there will be reason to believe that our labors will not be wholly in vain; that all our history will not be quickly buried beneath the ever flowing stream which is finally swallowed up in the Gulf of Eternity.
ACCORDING to the Addison Record, Mrs. V. B. Wetmore, of Canisteo, has in her possession an old family heirloom in the shape of a rocking chair that is 130 years old. It was originally the property of her great-grandmother, who lived in Revolutionary times. The children for five generations have been lulled to sleep in this " old wooden rocker," and it is still in a good state of preservation, waiting to do the same service for future generations.
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BUSINESS OF TWENTY-TWO NATIONAL BANKS.
Few persons are aware of the extent of the National banking business in Williamsport. At the close of business on the 4th of March the city banks reported their condition to the comp- troller at Washington as follows :
BANKS.
Loans.
Deposits.
Capital.
Surplus.
Undivided Profits.
West Branch.
$643.355 45
$732.189 39
$100.000
$100,000
$56.631 55
First National.
613,24 90
479,041 03
254.950
100,000
35,256 40
Williamsport National ..
317.771 72
314,383 85
100,000
100,000
7,231 $5
Lumberman's National.
266.237 83
194.567 04
100,000
30,000
10,643 98
Lycoming National.
344,125 06
329.289 0T
100,000
61,000
940 19
Total
$2,184,739 01 $2,049,490 40
$684,950
$391.000
$120.703 97
December statement.
2,175,587 90 2,071,633 86
654,950.
362,000
144,917 82
Difference
$9,151 11
$22,143 46
₹29,000
£24,213 85
The totals show an increase in loans of $9.151.11 as compared with the exhibit for December last, and a decrease in deposits of $22.143.46. The loans exceed the deposits in the present state- ment by $135.248.61. The two national banks of Money report their condition as follows:
BANKS.
Loans.
Deposits.
Capital.
Surplus.
U'ndivided Profits.
First National ..
$163,406 90
$162,878 51
₹100,000
$11,700
$6,164 10
Citizens National.
+1,532 35
53,105 72
$50,000
11,300
3,635 17
Total.
$234,939 25
$215,994 23
$150,000
$23,000
$9,799 27
December statement.
208,347 ST
165,675 41
11.300
13,969 58
Difference
$26,591 38
$150,308 92
$150,000
$11,700
$4,170 31
By adding the totals of the Williamsport and Muncy banks we have the following result :
BANKS.
Loans.
.Deposits.
Capital.
Surplus.
Undivided Profits.
Williamsport banks.
$2,184.739 01 $2,049,490 40
$684,950
$391,000
$120,703 97
Muncy banks.
234,939 25
215,984 23
150,000
23,000
9,799 27
Total for the county
$2.419,678 26 $2,265.474 63
$834,950
$414.000
$130,503 24
December statement.
2,383,939 77 2,237,809 27
$34,950
342,000
155.957 10
Difference
$35.738 49
$28,165 36
៛72,000
$29.553 56
In this aggregate the loans and deposits show an increase as compared with the December statement, whilst there is a falling off in the surplus and undivided profits. Consolidated, the deposits, capital. surplus and undivided profits show a total of $3,644.927.87.
On the 4th of April Messrs. Cochran, Payne & McCormick
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opened a bank in the splendid new building on the corner of Fourth and William streets. They have experience, a capital of $250.000, and will do a general banking business. Preparations are also be- ing made to start a Merchant's National bank, with a capital of $100,000, in the building on the corner of Third and Pine streets. This will give Williamsport six national and two private banking houses, in addition to her Savings Institution, which is a large and thrifty house.
Beginning at Sunbury and counting the national banks of Lewisburg. Milton, Watsontown, Muncy, Williamsport, Towanda, Canton, Wellsboro, Lock Haven, Bellefonte, Clearfield and Em- porium, we have a total of twenty-two. They made the following exhibit in their 4th of March statements :
BANKS.
Loans.
Deposits.
Capital.
Surplus.
Undivided Profits.
Total Williamsport banks.
$2.184,739 01 $2.049,490 40
$654.950
$391.000
$144.917 82
First National. Sunbury
154.819 44
623,535 25
200.000
40.000
72.497 19
Lewisburg National.
220.832 46
409,210 33
100,000
100.000
7.707 0%
Union Bank. Lewisburg.
165.155 13
126,502 86
100,000
15,500
T, SOS 44
First National, Milton.
202,625 16
160,352 45
100.000
42.500
5,995 40
Milton National.
225.964 52
146.327 94
100,000
64.000
7.213 28
Watsontown National ..
126,885 72
125.999 15
60,000
20.500
4.573 30
Farmers Nat'l. Watsontown ..
63,595 66
54,752 52
50,0:0
2,000
1.059 79
First National. Towanda ..
654.255 55
672,876 50
125,000
100.000
19,053 53
Citizens National. Towanda ..
395.246 03
337,554 81
150,000
30.000
4.753 70
First National, Canton ...
113,365 -3
92,194 01
50.000
10.000
2,195 TO
First National. Wellsboro .....
363,196 63
316,122 50
100,000
50.000
62.123 77
First National. Look Haven ..
566,166 76
451,802 9:
180,000
100,000
21,00% 69
First National. Bellefonte ....
423.515 33
411,415 27
100,000
50,000
15,715 39
County National. Clearfield ..
440,101 12
430,088 43
100,000
70,000
6,757 22
First National, Emporium. ...
$5,352 37
73,797 67
50,000
S,397 60
Total.
$6,621,282 27 $6,701.556 29 $2,399,950
$1,097,200
£401,631 16
First National, Muney
163,406 90
162.878 51
100.000
11.700
6.164 10
Citizens National. Muncy.
71,532 35
53,105 72
50.000
3,635 1:
In the above table it will be observed that the largest deposits reported by any one bank is by the West Branch of Williams- port, which are $732,189.39. The next largest is the First National of Towanda, which reports $672,876.50 on deposit, and the third by the First National of Sunbury, $623,535.25. It may be curious to note that the consolidated deposits, capital, surplus and un- divided profits of these twenty-two national banks foot up a grand total of $10.607.343.45, showing an excess over loans of $3,979,- 061.18. This is certainly a splendid financial exhibit for com- paratively a small section of the state, much of which is very mountainous. It shows the resources of the people, which are mainly derived from manufacturing. And if the business of the
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state and private banks in this district were embraced in the statement, the totals would be swollen at least a million and a half more.
NOTES ON LOCAL BOOKS.
A FEW years ago David Wilson, of Union City, Erie county, published a neat little pamphlet of fifty pages, entitled Olden Times, which gives a history of the settlement of Union township and vicinity. Itcontains many interesting reminiscences of pioneer days.
D. MASON & Co., of Syracuse, N. Y., have in course of publica- tion separate histories of Warren, Clearfield, Clarion and Jeffer- son counties. Messrs. Warner, Beers & Co., of Chicago, histories of Franklin, Montour and Columbia, Bucks and Beaver counties
MR. C. F. HILL, of Hazleton, contemplates writing a history of that region of the Susquehanna lying between Berwick and Sun- bury. He has accumulated much information as to early times in that section, which will be valuable.
THE Political Handbook of Berks County, by Morton L. Mont- gomery, a member of the Bar, is a local work of great value. It is complete in all its statistics and historical facts within its scope from 1752 to 1883.
REV. DR. LOGAN has written a History of the Scranton City Guard, which will soon be issued from the press. It will deal with a stirring period of Scranton's history.
W. S. MONROE is writing a historical and critical work on The Poetry of Wyoming for the Scranton Argus. It will run through several numbers of that paper.
WE take pride in saying that among the earliest voluntary sub- seribers to THE HISTORICAL JOURNAL were Governor James A. Beaver, Secretary of the Commonwealth Charles W. Stone, and Adjutant General D. H. Hastings. Subscribers have also been re- ceived from as far away as Colorado and Washington Territory.
THE June number of THE HISTORICAL JOURNAL will contain a biographical sketch and portrait of the late Judge J. K. Whitmore, of' Ridgway, Elk county.
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NOTES ON NEWSPAPERS.
IN June, 1868, J. M. M. Gernerd started a bright little paper in Muncy called Now and Then. It was devoted to collecting and preserving local history, and was exceedingly interesting and valu- able. After appearing, as its title indicated, until February. 1878, it was discontinued. much to the regret of a large circle of readers. Nineteen numbers were published.
MR. J. B. G. KINSLOE, editor and publisher of the Clinton Re- publican, Lock Haven, (the oldest and largest weekly in Clinton County,) celebrated the 67th anniversary of his birth April 5th. He is a veteran printer and editor, and his friends unite in wishing him many more returns of his anniversary.
MR. C. B. GOULD, editor and publisher of the Cameron County Press, is one of the oldest editors in this part of the state. He established his present paper twenty-one years ago, and he had been in the harness long before that time in other places.
THE Orbisonia Star, Huntingdon county, is about the size of a lady's lace mouchoir, and it is just as delicately made up. Two bright little girls edit it, and the dainty little thing is delightful to look upon.
THE Miltonian was established in 1816 by General Frick. In the 71 years of its existence it has passed through many hands. It is now edited and published by Joe Logan ..
A LITTLE paper called The Popgun was started at Laporte, Sullivan county, in 1868, by C. F. King. It soon popped out.
How. C. D. ELDRED, who resides just outside of the borough limits of Muncy, on the highway leading to Milton, reports that he recently found in the cellar of his residence several specimens of glass made at the works at Lewis Lake. They are about 7 by 6 and made after the form of "bull's eye" glass. Nearly all traces of the glass works founded at the lake by George Lewis a hun- dred years ago have disappeared, and handsome cottages will soon occupy the site. The house in which Mr. Eldred lives was built 74 years ago by George Webb, a Quaker, and, as he expresses it. "was an honestly built brick residence," as it is still firm and good for many more years to come.
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NEARING THE END OF A CENTURY.
THE oldest man in Lycoming county to-day -- so far as known- is Adam Hart, of Clinton township. He was born at Turbotville. Northumberland county, May 6, 1788, and is within a few days of being 99. He is in good health, is quite active, and converses intelligently about events of the long, long ago.
SAMUEL TITUS was born November 27, 1795. on what is known as the Dr: Charles Lyon farm, on Loyalsock creek, a short distance above Montoursville, and came to Williamsport when he was one year old. He is in his 92d year and has lived in Williamsport for 90 years. For many years he has been deaf, but otherwise he enjoys good health. reads the daily papers and loves to tell an anecdote.
Another old resident of Williamsport is Reuben Derby. He was born in Windom. Connecticut, March 21, 1794, and has just completed his 93d year. Mr. Derby first came to Williamsport in 1837, fifty years ago, but he has not been a resident of the place all that time. He resides with his daughter, Mrs. Ayres. enjoys good health. reads the papers regularly and loves to converse with his friends.
JOHN KING, of Piatt township, is one of the oldest native resi- dents of Lycoming county. He is in his 93d year, having been born July 5, 1794. For 64 years he has lived within half a mile of his birth place, which he left when he married. His wife died November 13, 1865. He is almost totally blind and quite feeble.
ACCORDING to the Lock Haven Daily Democrat, John Delong. of Sugar valley, Clinton county; is in his 95th year, but to look at him one would suppose that he was not more than 60. He can read without spectacles and has his third set of teeth. Mr. De- long has been a noted man for years, and at the present time he is engaged in a business which calls for much traveling about the country. This is indeed remarkable, and it is doubtful if the ven- erable gentleman has his equal in the United States.
HENRY ROYER, of Rebersburg, Centre county, recently closed his 91st year. He attends church regularly on Sundays and is able to stroll about town and chat with his neighbors. He is a remarkably active man for his age.
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RIPE SHEAVES GATHERED BY THE REAPER.
MAJOR WILLIAM POWER ELLIOTT, of Lewistown, Mifflin county, died April 2, 1887, aged 94 years, 2 months and 18 days. He was born at Lewistown, January 12, 1793. He commenced learning the trade of a printer in 1807, and in 1811 founded the Juniata Gazette, which he edited and published for a number of years. At the time of his death it was believed that he was the oldest living editor and printer in the world. He served in the war of 1812, was near by. on detached service, when the battle of the Thames was fought, and distinctly remembers hearing the sound of Perry's guns when he gained his victory over the British fleet on Lake Erie. Major Elliott knew Simon Girty, the white renegade, and once visited him in his cabin near Malden. He was married in 1814, and his wife died 13 years ago, aged 77. They had 14 children, 11 sons and 3 daughters, and ont of that number only one daughter and two sons survive. The editor of THE HISTORICAL JOURNAL visited him in February last and wrote a two column in- terview, which was published in the Gazette and Bulletin of February 14th. He found the veteran in an excellent condition of mind, and he talked freely of old times and related many personal reminiscences of the distinguished men he had met three quarters of a century ago.
MRS. HANNAH TALLMAN, who died at Pennsville, Lycoming county, March 20, 1887, aged 93 years, 11 months and 6 days, was in many respects a remarkable lady. Her life extended back to . the very days of the pioneers, and she witnessed many marvelous changes and improvements. The Muncy Luminary, in sketching her life, says :
Mrs. Tallman, who was the fourth child of Jacob and Hannah Clayton, was born at Wilmington, Del., April 14, 1793. In 1794 her father moved to Little Fishing creek, where he remained until 1805, when he moved to Big Muncy, pur- chasing a tract of land from William Hurl. Mr. Clayton soon began the erection of a dwelling house and grist mill. On December 20. 1815, Hannah Clayton was married to Daniel Tallman, and they immediately moved to Williamsport. where they lived until 1837, when they returned to the Muney Valley, purchasing land from Merey Ellis in Muney Creek township, the property being now owned by Mathew Tallman's heirs, and in close proximity to where her husband resided and died in 1864, aged 73 years. Mrs. Hannah Tallman was the mother of ten chil- dren, of whom tive are living: Dr. William Tallman, of Tullytown, Bucks
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county; Jeremiah Tallman, of Turbotville; Amos Tallman, of near Pennsville ; Mrs. Dr. Tomlinson, of Montoursville, and Mrs. Salina Webster, of Pennsville. About twenty-five grandchildren and twenty great-grandchildren survive to cherish her memory.
MRS. LYDIA ROUSH, widow, of Freeburg, Snyder county, dicd March 31, 1887, aged 82 years and 2 months. She was buried in the old cemetery one and one-half miles north of the town, where the ancient graves are almost invisible from lack of attention. hav- ing for years past been covered with weeds and moss. Mrs. Roush was a native of Mahanoy township, Northumberland county, where she was born January 31, 1805. She was the oldest and last to die of eleven brothers and sisters. Her descendants numbered 173, of which twenty have departed this life.
MRS. CATHARINE DETWEILER, of Mifflinburg, Union county, died March 24, 1887. aged 94 years and 15 days. She is supposed to have been the oldest person in that county. Mrs. Detweiler was born in Lebanon March 9, 1793. and married in Mifflinburg to John Detweiler May 2, 1822. Her husband died December 22. 1880. She resided with her son Reuben and daughter Susan in the old homestead, where she had lived for 62 years continuously. Another daughter, Mrs. Carskadden, is a resident of Lock Haven.
WILLIAM RITCHIE. who died in Lock Haven. March 12, 1887, was born in Bald Eagle Valley, July 28, 1806. He was, there- fore, 80 years. 7 months and 14 days old at the time of his death. The greater portion of his life was spent on his farm near Dunns- town. The Lock Haven Express. from which these facts are gleaned, says that he served 15 years as a school director in Wood- ward township, overseer of the poor for eight years, and he was for many years collector of all taxes assessed in his township.
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JOHN P. SUMMERS died in Milton, March 12. 1887. aged 81 years. 7 months and 11 days. He was born in Philadelphia, July 29, 1805. and had lived in and about Milton for 53 years. Five children survive him, four daughters and one son. Their names, in the order of their ages, are : Mrs. Samuel Follmer, Milton ; Mrs. Amanda Kase, Bellville, Ill. ; John A. Summers, Milton : Mrs. Notestein. Milton ; Mrs. Truckenmiller, Milton.
SENECA FREEMAN, whose death is reported by the Cameron County Press as occurring at his home in Emporium on the 9th
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of February, 1887. aged 92 years, was a resident of Wayne county for a long time, where he followed the business of lumbering. As early as 1817 he removed to the present site of Emporium, but soon afterwards went to live in what is now Potter county. In 1839 he returned to his old home, where he resided up to the time of his death.
MRS. MARY McEvoY, who died in Lancaster Monday evening, April 4th, had almost rounded out the phenomenal age of 103 years. She was born in Ireland and came to this country at an early age. Nearly her whole life was spent in Lancaster. She remembered distinctly the stirring scenes and incidents of the Irish . revolution of '98, and up to the last her memory never failed her.
MICHAEL SWARTZ, who died at his home in the borough of Beech Creek, Clinton county, on the 4th of April, 1887, was in the 96th year of his age. He leaves 11 children. 35 grand- children and 33 great-grandchildren.
GORDON, in his quaint old Gazetteer of 1832, says: "Williams- port, value of taxable property in 1829: real estate, $26,034: per- sonal, $14,744. About 150 dwellings. 1 German Lutheran and 1 Methodist church, neat court house and county offices of brick, 8 stores and 8 taverns."
THE HISTORICAL. JOURNAL is anxious to gather returns of elec- tions held in Lycoming county previous to 1840. Any one having such returns will confer a favor by sending them in.
Ix announcing the early appearance of THE HISTORICAL JOUR- VAL, the Jersey Shore Herald says: "Every man in the West Branch Valley should encourage this commendable enterprise."
JEFFERSON county has a Pine creek, but it is not as large as the Pine creek which separates Clinton from Lycoming county. The latter is a mountain river.
AT the October election, 1808, Lycoming county gave Simon Snyder, for governor, 702 votes: Ross, Federalist, none ..
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Hon. J. K. WHITMORE, (AGED 55 YEARS.)
THE HISTORICAL JOURNAL.
A MONTHLY RECORD.
"Out of monuments. names, wordes. proverbs, traditions, private records, and evi- dences. fragments of stories, passages of bookes, and the like, we doe save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time."-BACON.
Vol. 1. JUNE, 1887. No. 2.
HON. J. K. WHITMORE, OF RIDGWAY.
TUDGE JOSEPH K. WHITMORE, the subject of this sketch,* was a true Pennsylvanian, and " to the manor born." His birth occurred September 27, 1832, in a little hamlet nestled among the hills of what was, at that time, Armstrong County, but by division has since been added to Clarion. His father was John Whitmore, Esq., a well known farmer, who never left the old homestead, remaining there until 1875, when, at an advanced age, he was called by the Master of the Vineyard to give an account of his stewardship. Mrs. Whitmore, his mother. still resides with a son, at the old home, in good health, and has reached and passed her eightieth mile-stone on the earthly pilgrimage. To-day dream- ing by the old hearthstone, her thoughts are of the past and of the future, both sad and hopeful. Stirring the smoldering embers of the dead past. bright sparks of a glorious hope fly upward to the skies.
Joseph was one of a family of eight children, all of whom
*To the courtesy of the Elk Democrat THE HISTORICAL JOURNAL is indebted for this sketch and portrait of deceased. In referring to the life and character of deceased that paper says: " In the exalted work of the church, in the politics of state, in the feverish circles of business, and in pleasurable associations, Judge Whitmore acted with prominence. Church, state, business, society, in his death have suffered a loss. A widowed wife, fatherless children and near relatives, it is true, bear quite alone a peculiar burden of unmeasurable sorrow ; they, more than all others, appreciate his loss, but he being a man of affairs, belonged to the com- munity as well, and hence a large cirele of people stand with uncovered heads.".
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lived to reach maturity. His early years were spent on the old farm in active duties, for the Whitmores were an industrious family, and in that day much of the labor was done without ma- chinery. In the winter season young Whitmore trudged for a few weeks to a neighboring school of the old type, and received instructions in the rudimentary branches, but at this time fortune frowned. Clarion County coveted a part of Armstrong, and got it; the division line took in the Whitmores, but not the seat of learning, and the Armstrong County people refused to let those set over in Clarion attend the school after the division, hence it was that young Whitmore was deprived of every opportunity to be- come educated in boyhood. To this circumstance he often referred in after life. Nothing daunted, however, he sought employment for the winter in a grist mill. having tastes for that kind of work. and giving his attention to farming in summer with his father and brothers, he thus toiled ahead until one day he reached his ma- jority, and " struck out" for himself. He went to Richardsville, Jefferson County, and while there sought the hand of, and married in September, 1854, a daughter of James Moorhead, of Brockway- ville, and then located in that place a few months later, when his young wife, who was of rather delicate constitution, was prostrated by a severe attack of typhoid fever, under which she slowly sank and finally died in January, 1855. A little later, Mr. Whitmore resolved to add to his limited education, and entered Alfred Uni- versity at Alfred Centre, N. Y., where he attended for two terms, working hard, and as a result he became fairly olucated. In September, 1859, he went to Ridgway and went into the employ of Hyde & McVean as clerk. Here he at once exhibited those qualities of business tact, of carefulness and accuracy, of sterling integrity, which have ever since characterized the man. Since that day to the day of his death, except two years, he had been in some way or other. either working for, or in partnership with J. S. Hyde, one of his first employers on going to Ridgway. No doubt Mr. Hyde, who is one of the acutest observers of men. saw in him the first time they met a person to whom he could tie : in short. in whom he could place implicit confidence. He served for him as clerk, superintendent of mills and in various other capacities, for more than twenty-five years. The service he rendered was highly appreciated and will not be forgotten.
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