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D. H. LAKE, M. D., born in England in 1863. Came to Youngstown, Ohio in 1872, and thence to Scranton in IS7S. Entered Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, remaining three years, when he returned to Scranton and took up the study of medicine in connection with teaching. Graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, April, 1885. Entered the Philadelphia (Blockley) Hospital as a resident Physician, where he remained fourteen months; then in November, 1886, located in Kingston and Edwardsville, where he has since practiced his profession. His father, Rev. Lot Lake, was for eight years pastor of the Congregational Church at Scranton. He is now located in Knoxville, Tennessee, as pastor of the Knoxville Congregational Church. Married in December, ISSo.
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GEORGE M. PACE was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania. Graduated from the Com- mercial College of Wyoming Seminary in 1881. Entered the mercantile business, dealing exclusively in teas and coffees. Moved to Kingston in 1891. Purchased the Philip Good- win estate on which he had erected a business block. Mr. Pace deals extensively in real estate. 1
ANEURIN EVANS was born at Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1855. Son of Rev. D. E. Evans, M. D. Educated in the public schools. Graduated from Wyoming Seminary in 1872, and the Commercial College in 1873. Learned the drug business in Plymouth, Penn- sylvania. In 1877 established the present drug firm of Evans & Son, Railroad street, in Kingston.
DAVID S. CLARK was born in Plains township, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. At- tended school at West Pittston. Followed blacksmithing for twenty years. Served in the Rebellion in the Second Pennsylvania Volunteers; was in the service two years. Was Postmaster at Centermoreland, Wyoming county, and appointed Postmaster at Kingston, Pennsylvania, in 1889. Has been Commander of Conygham Post and is Treasurer of the Kingston Fire Department.
GEORGE DANA KINGSLEY was born at Blakely, Lackawanna county, Pennsylvania, January 31, 1858. Was educated in the common schools at Scranton and at Whitestown Seminary, near Utica, New York. Was employed as weighmaster for a number of years, and later as Foreman of Avondale Colliery, which position he now holds. He is a member of Kingston Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Shekinah Royal Arch Chapter, and Dieu le Veut Commandery. Now resides in Kingston.
CHARLES J. TURPIN was born in Ohio. Came to Kingston, Pennsylvania, in his youth, and was educated in the public schools and at Wyoming Seminary. Was a Sur- veyor for five years, and in the mercantile business until he established his harness business on Railroad street, which he still conducts in connection with the real estate business. He served in the Army of the Potomac in Company D, 143d Regiment, for one year.
MICHAEL GARRAHAN, the subject of this sketch, was born in what is now a part of Plymouth borough, July 4, 1848. In 1860, with his father, he removed to what is known as the "Avondale Farm," where the next twenty years of his life were spent. In the year 1869 he married Miss Maggie B. Hutchison, a person of considerable intellectual attainments and more tham ordinary spirituality of mind. For the next ten years both were actively engaged in home mission work, as far as other duties would allow. Owing to the failing health of his wife and family, a change of residence became a necessity. Mr. Garrahan re- moved to Kingston in 1880, where he now resides.
HERMAN C. MILLER was born at Leipsig, Germany. Educated in the schools of that city. Came to this country in 1847, and has been in the Furniture and Undertaking busi- ness for forty years. Served in the War of the Rebellion over three years in the Fifty- Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers (Colonel Hoyt's Regiment). He is Secretary and Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Volunteers' Association of the Fifty-Second Regiment, and has served as President of the Tri-County Funeral Directors' Association and Vice- President of the State Association, and as School Director and Town Councilman of . Kingston borough.
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CHRISTIAN BACH was born in Rhoden, F. Waldack, April 10, 1850. Was educated in his native town. Learned the trade of Tailor at home. Spent several years in Frankfort- on-the-Main and Wiesbaden. Came to the United States in 1871. Came to Kingston in 1875 and established his present business of Merchant Tailoring. Mr. Bach was the originator of the Electric Light, Heat and Power Company of that place and is its President. One of the originators of the Kingston Young Men's Christian Association, and has taken an active interest in all borough and church matters.
W. L. MYLES, the subject of this sketch, is a typical Cambro-American, having first seen the light of day at Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, April 25, 1848. His father had to toil hard to procure the means of support, but by practicing economy and diligence, the parents were enabled to give their son the benefit of a few years' education in the parish school. At the tender age of eleven years he was apprenticed to the dry-goods business at The Cloth Hall, in his native town, and followed that business until, with his parents, he emi- grated to America in the spring of 1867, and settled with them at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. In 1869-70 he was employed by the Morris Run Coal Company as weighmaster, and 1870- 74 we find him as book-keeper in the employ of Connell & Company, Meadow Brook Colliery, Scranton, and Co-Operative Store, Hyde Park. He then returned to Johnstown, (having married in 1870 to Miss M. Llewellyn of that ill-fated town,) and opened a grocery establishment. He was afte. ward employed at "The Checkered Front," Pittsburgh, from which city, in 1877, he came to Wilkes-Barre and entered the employ of D. C. Jeremy, where he remained until 1885, when he accepted a position of trust and great responsibility with Edwards & Company of Kingston, which position he has held up to the present time, where he may be found trusted and respected by his employers. He does not confine him- self to the pressing demands of his business, in the discharge of which he is most capable, but delights to aid in the promotion of every good cause that has for its object the elevation of his fellow men. The Young Men's Christian Association elected him as their first President, which positson he filled for nearly eighteen months.
JAMES D. EDWARDS was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1862. Moved to Plymouth and later to Kingston, Pennsylvania. Educated in the public schools of Ply- mouth. Entered the office of the Kingston Coal Company in 1879, and is now paymaster. Mr. Edwards lives in Edwardsdale. Has been School Director for four years, and takes an active part in local affairs.
CALVIN DYMOND was born in Exeter township, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, Sep- tember 17, 1837, and attended the township schools. Became a clerk in Exeter. Engaged in farming, and in 1868 opened with Mr. Lewis of Kingston, Pennsylvania, the meat stand of Dymond & Lewis. Served four terms as Town Councilman and three years as Assessor. In 1887, with Mr. Lewis, built Dymond & Lewis Hall. He deals in and owns considerabie real estate, and takes an active part in borough affairs.
HENRY KUNKLE, M. D., was born at New Ringgold, Pennsylvania. Educated in the public schools and State Normal School at Kutztown, Pennsylvania; graduated from La- fayette in 1887. Studied medicine with Dr. Wenger at Reading. Graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore in 1889. Practiced in Brooklyn, New York. Removed to Kingston in 1889. Member of the Luzerne and Lehigh and State Medical Societies. Received the degree of A. M. from the Lafayette College in 1890.
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CLINTON W. BOONE was born in Huntington township, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, March 16, 1832. Educated in the public schools. Became a Carpenter and Builder. Moved to Arkansas. Enlisted as a private in September, 1866, and served four years, being promoted a Sergeant, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant ; in 1864 was promoted Captain, and the last year of the War was commander of a battalion, and was mustered out of service September, 1865. Returned to Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and in 1875 moved to Kingston. In 1877 was elected Justice of the Peace of that town.
RALPH B. VAUGHN was born at Wyalusing, Pennsylvania. Educated in the public schools and at Wyoming Seminary. Telegraph Operator for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and at the present time Freight and Coal Agent for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad at Kingston.
C. W. BOUGHTIN was born in Newbury, Orange county, New York. Educated in the public schools. Came to Kingston, Pennsylvania, in 1849, and established his present busi- ness of Carriage Making and Blacksmithing. Has served the Borough of Kingston as School Director, Assessor, Town Council, and other offices.
ALANSON B. TYRRELL, born in Watertown, Connecticut, on June 8, 1833. Was edu- cated in the public schools of that place. Learned his trade as carpenter and joiner in Waterbury, Connecticut. Came to Wyoming, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, in 1855, and began building breakers in 1857 through the Anthracite coal field, and was the most exten- sive breaker builder in the United States. He moved to Kingston in the year 1874, where he died. Was married in the year 1855 to Miss Susah S. Marks, of Wyoming, Pennsylvania, formerly of Waterbury, Connecticut. Had served his borough as Councilman and School Director. Left four children-Esther M., a graduate from the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia; Jennie M. (Mrs. C. E. Roat), resident of Kingston ; Fred. W., resident of Wilkes-Barre, an accountant and also in the grocery business in Kingston; B. Frank, resident of Kingston, an accountant and grocer in Kingston.
P. BUTLER REYNOLDS was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Son of C. W. Rey- nolds, well known in the valley in his day. His mother was a daughter of Pierce Butler, descendant of Zebulon Butler, commander at the Massacre. Mr. Reynolds was educated in public schools of Wilkes-Barre and at Wyoming Seminary at Kingston. Was surveyor of Luzerne county from 1874 to 1875, and is well known as a Mining and Civil Engineer. At the present time is senior member of the insurance firm of Reynolds & Company of Wilkes-Barre.
ELLIOTT R. MORGAN was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania. Educated at Sunbury and Danville, Pennsylvania. Assistant postmaster at Danville for seven years. Became Secretary of the Kingston Coal Company in 1882. Has been a member of the Kingston Town Council, and officer in the Masonic Lodge and Knights Templars.
JOHN D. HOYT, born in Kingston, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1819. Son of Ziba Hoyt and Nancy Hurlbut Hoyt. Brother of ex-Governor Henry M. Hoyt, Elizabeth (wife of Abram HI. Reynolds), and Anne (wife of Rev. Charles Corss). Lived in Kingston all his life. For many years Trustee and Elder in the Presbyterian Church. Father of Anne Elizabeth (wife of George Shoemaker), Martha (wife of Dr. Frederick Corss), Abram C. Hoyt, Augusta Hoyt, Edward E. Hoyt. Esq., and Henry M. Hoyt, Jr., Esq.
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ADAM CLARK LAYCOCK was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1826. Entered Wyoming Seminary the first year that institution was opened. Was a wheelwright and followed other employment, and in 1866 moved to Shickshinny and assum- ed charge of the Salem Coal Company's store for five years. Moved to Kingston in 1876 and was employed in Edwards & Company's store. Traveled for Chapin & Pringle, marble firm. Deputy Warden of Luzerne County Prison for two years and elected Warden in 1887. Established with Mr. Chapin the firm of Laycock & Chapin, marble and granite business, in Kingston. Was a candidate before the Convention of Luzerne county for Sheriff. Mr. Laycock has taken an active part in Luzerne county politics.
FRANK HEIME, son of Oliver Helme, was born in Kingston August 7, 1816. Educated in private schools in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the old Academy in Kingston, Pennsylvania. Moved to Wilkes-Barre in 1823, and removed to Kingston in 1831. Went in the cabinet business with his brother. In 1858 purchased the farm where he now resides.
CHARLES GRAHAM, JR., was born at Scranton, Pennsylvania. Son of Charles Graham, for many years Master Mechanic of Delaware, Lackawanna and Western shops at Kingston. Mr. Graham was educated at Wyoming Seminary and Lehigh University. Became Fore- man of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western shops at Kingston in 1883 ; General Fore- man in 1886; Master Mechanic in 1891. Mr. Graham began working at the trade of ma- chinist in 1876, and at thirty years of age he became Master Mechanic. He is Past Master of Kingston Masonic Lodge.
WILLIAM LOVELAND was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1821. He was the second son of Elijah and Mary Buckingham Loveland, whose families were among the. Puritans who came to Connecticut about 1630. He received his education in the old Academy on Main street, Kingston, and at Dana's Academy in Wilkes-Barre. Mr. Love- land has always been a farmer. At his father's death he assumed control of the family homestead in Kingston. He has aided to develop and sustain the most important local interests. As a business man he has ever been active and prominent. He has been for years an officer and member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Loveland identified himself with the Republican party at its organization and has been deeply interested in its progress to the present time, although never an active politician. In 1856 he married Lydia Hurlbut of Arkport, New York, a granddaughter of Christopher Hurlbut, a surveyor well known in the Wyoming Valley in the pioneer days and a native of Connecticut.
REV. L. L. SPRAGUE, A. M., D. D., born December 23, 1844, in the town of Beek- man, Dutchess county, New York. Educated at Wyoming Seminary. Completed a college course by private study. Degree of A. M. conferred by Alleghany College and that of D. D. by the Wesleyan University. Was principal of LeRaysville Academy in 1865. In 1868 was elected Principal of Wyoming College of Business and in 1882 President of Wyoming Seminary. Joined the Wyoming Conference in 1874. Has been continuously teaching since 1868.
REV. F. VON KRUG, born in Darmstadt, Germany, 1850. Educated in the schools of the same city. Attended school one year at Heidelberg. Came to this country in 1869. Preached at Bloomingburg, Ohio, seven years. Came to Kingston in December, 1886, as pastor of the Presbyterian Church.
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ALEXANDER GRAY FELL, M. D., was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1861. Graduated from Princeton College in 1884, and the University of Pennsylvania in 1887. Member of the medical staff of the Wilkes-Barre City Hospital in 1890. Located at No. 42 North Washington street, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he is now located. Member of the Luzerne Medical Society. Son of D. A. Fell. His grandfather, on the maternal side, was brought here from Scotland to work the old Baltimore mines. He sank the Empire and a number of other shafts.
CHARLES ORION THURSTON, born in Barre, Vermont, February 23, 1857. Graduated, with honor in chemistry, from Dartmouth College in 1884. Principal Colebrook Academy, Colebrook, New Hampshire, 1884. Principal Newport, New Hampshire, High School, 1885-6. Professor of Science and Mathematics Marston's University School for Boys, Baltimore, Maryland, IS87-S. Professor of Science Wyoming Seminary since 1889.
JOHN H. RACE, a native of Pennsylvania, was born March 10, 1862. Being the son of a Methodist minister, his early education was much interrupted by the periodical removals from place to place. When but a lad of fifteen he began earning his own livelihood, being engaged as a clerk in a general dry goods and grocery store. Later he was employed as a clerk in the postoffice at Tunkhannock, the county seat of Wyoming. From this place he entered Wyoming Seminary. During his preparatory school years he supported himself by keeping the books of the institution. Graduating from the Seminary in 1886, he entered the College of New Jersey at Princeton. Took the full classical course, and graduated from College in June, IS90. In March of the same year he was admitted as a probationer to the New Jersey Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and appointed to Island Heights, New Jersey. During the summer of 1890 he was elected to the Department of Rhetoric in Wyoming Seminary.
RUFUS B. HOWLAND was born in Danby, Tompkins county, New York, September 15. 1851. He prepared for college at the Ithaca Academy and at Wyoming Seminary. Enter- ing Cornell University in 1869, he graduated in 1872 with the first class that took the full course at that institution. In 1873 he was elected to the Chair of Mathematics in Wyoming Seminary, which position he still holds. From 1877 to 1881 he also taught the Natural Sciences in the same institution. In 1887 he published a volume entitled "Elements of the Conic Sections."
HUGO V. STADLER was born in Constance, Germany. Educated at his native place and Berlin. Studied music under prominent masters and finished at Berlin. Taught music in that city. Came to the United States in 1867, and taught music in New York for three years. Came to Kingston in 1871 : became Musical Director of the musical depart- ment of Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, and has filled that position successfully for twenty-three years. Under his direction the musical department of Wyoming Seminary has become one of the largest in this part of the State.
WILLIS L. DEAN, born in Waverly, Pennsylvania, February, 1857. Educated at Mad- ison Academy and the Wyoming Seminary. Taught in Lowell's Commercial College, Binghamton, New York, from 1873 to 1875. Elected Professor of Penmanship in Wyoming Seminary and Commercial College in 1875, and when Dr. Sprague was elected President of the Seminary, in 1883, he was promoted to the Principalship of the Commercial College, which position he still holds.
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E. I. WOLFE was born at Mahlenburg. Pennsylvania, and was educated in the public schools and at Huntington Mills Academy He has held various positions in the public schools of the valley, including principalships at Plymouth, Beach Haven and Nanticoke, and is now in charge of the Teachers' Preparatory Department of Wyoming Seminary. In addition to his duties there, he has published four annual issues of the Luserne Institute, a paper' circulating largely among the educators of the State; and the "Practical Speller," an advanced work in orthography. He is quite popular as a lecturer at local Institutes, and has established a very successful summer school for teachers at Wyoming Seminary.
FRED. M. DAVENPORT was born August 27, 1866, in Salem, Massachusetts. Seventeen years ago he moved with his parents to New Milford, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, and has since been a resident of this State. His course preparatory to admission to college was taken at Wyoming Seminary, from which institution he was graduated in 1885. The succeeding four years were spent in study at Wesleyan University, Middletown,"Connecti- cut. In IS89 he was engaged as instructor in Greek and Latin at Wyoming Seminary. In addition to his work as teacher, he did considerable lecturing and preaching, and was the Wyoming Conference Secretary of Epworth Leagues. The family to which he belongs is a branch of the old English Davenport stock, whence come likewise the Davenports of Plymouth. Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Yonkers, New York.
REV. MANLEY S. HARD, D. D., is fifty years old. He was born in New York. Was graduted from Syracuse University and was President of the Alumni Association for two or three terms. He has been Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Churches in New York State, as follows: First Church, of Ilion; Centenary Church, Syracuse; First Church, Ithaca ; Presiding Elder of Elmira District ; Hedding Church, Elmira; First Church, Canandaigua; Centenary Church, Binghamton, and later Presiding Elder of Wyoming District. He was a member of the General Conference in 1884 and ISSS, and one of the Secretaries of both bodies. He is also a Trustee of Syracuse University; Wyoming Conference Seminary, and a Manager of the New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble Minded Women. Ilis present residence is Kingston, his first living in Pennsylvania. Now one of the Secretaries of the Church Extension Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
THOMAS F. HEFFERNAN was born in Plymouth Township in 1871. Educated in Wyo- ming Seminary. Teacher in the Plymouth Township schools, and in January, 1892, became Assistant West Side Correspondent for the Wilkes Barre Record and the Times. In May of that year assumed the entire charge of that department.
GEORGE HOLLENBACK BUTLER, born in Kingston Township, Luzerne county, Pennsyl- vania, September 2, 1857. Is second son of James M. Butler. Was educated at private schools. Read law with E. P. and J. V. Darling. Was admitted to the bar of Luzerne county in 1881, and is now engaged in the profession. He is a Republican in politics. Has been elected Burgess of Dorranceton Borough a number of times and also a Justice of the Peace. Is married and has one son, John Lord Butler.
THOMAS DAVENPORT CARLE, son of Ira, of Kingston, was born in Kingston, Penn- sylvania, April 7, 1846. Educated in the public schools. Spent eight years in the West with an engineer corps and finally returned to Kingston in 1878. Now resides in Dorrance- ton where he has a store and is contracting in stone work and excavations. Married Mary Gervey, of Memphis, Missouri. Hlas six children.
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DR. CHARLES PAXTON KNAPP, of Wyoming, Pennsylvania, was born at No. 24 Nortli Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, August 13th, 1853, and is the son of George and Ellen Eliza (Hurlbut) Knapp. The doctor's ancestors are of Anglo-Saxon origin, and cane early to this country-the Knapps in 1630, the Ilurlburts in 1635, and both took part in the early Indian wars and were soldiers of the Revolution and war of 1812. Dr. Knapp is a graduate. of Lafayette College. Easton, Pennsylvania, and of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City. He began the practice of medicine in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, June Ist, 1878. June 30th, ISSo, he married Cora Josephine Knapp, of West Pittston, Pennsylvania. They have two children, Elizabeth and Karl. Since residing in Wyoming Dr. Knapp has been a member of both Borough Council and School Board, and is one of County Visitors of the State Board of Public Charities. He is a member of the D. K. E. Fraternity and P. M. of Wyoming Lodge No. 468, F. & A M., also a member of Luzerne County Medical Society, Pennsylvania State Medical Society, American Medical Associa- tion, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine. The Knapp and Hurlbut fam- ilies have been connected with Wyoming Valley from an early date, the former becoming residents here in 1798, the latter in 1779. The first cording machine of which we have any record was owned and run by Col. Naphtali Hurlburt at Old Forge in 1805. Col. Hurlbut was also Sheriff of Luzerne County in 1825. His wife, Olive (Smith) Hurlbut, was daugh- ter of Dr. William Hooker Smith, a respected practitioner of medicine in the valley for nearly fifty years and who, with James Sutton, built and operated a forge of 400 pounds of iron capacity in twelve hours, at the falls of the Lackawanna from ore procured from the surrounding hills, in 1789. George Knapp, in connection with Gould P. Parrish, built and operated two powder mills on Solomon's Creek and four mills on Wapwallopen Creek (now owned by the Duponts), with 300 kegs per day capacity, in the 50's. He also introduced the manufacture of bricks by machinery in Wilkes-Barre in the 60's. Zephaniah Knapp was a local botanist and horticulturist of some repute, and his son, Dr. Avery Knapp, of Pittston, is also a geologist and botanist of local repute, and chronicler of the doings of half a century ago.
GEORGE LANDON MARCY, son of Rev. Nicholson B. Marcy, was born in Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, May 31, 1856. Educated in the public schools and Monroe Academy. Early life was spent on a farm. Taught school. Followed the trade of carpenter and painter and is now a contractor and builder at Dorranceton. Active in church work and takes an active part in temperance work. Married Miss M. U. Frear, of Beaumont, Pennsylvania, July 20, 1878.
EDWARD D. SCHOOLEY was born in 1864 in Monroe Township, Wyoming county, Penn- sylvania. Went to school at the Monroe Academy, Beaumont. Taught school seven years. In 1882 came to Kingston and rented the D., L. & W. farm, which he has farmed since. Married in 1883 to Miss Mary Evans, of Wyoming county.
JOHN J. McDONALD was born in Edwardville, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1870. Attended the public schools and Wyoming Seminary. Coal inspector for the Kingston Coal Com- pany. Sale clerk. Coal inspector and weighmaster for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. In 1892 established with Thomas S. Lawless the business of furniture dealer and undertaking in Kingston. Purchased his partner's share in 1893 and continues the business.
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