The Sterling genealogy

WILLIAM STERLING OF HAVERHILL, MASS. 623
2839 t Sarah Covell Maffet, b. May 27, I860; m. Charles J.
Stevens.
2840 t William Ross Maffet, b. May 22, 1863; m. Xenia E.
Johnson.
1372 ELIZA ROSS ATHERTON (sister of the above), b. at
Wyoming, Penn., Mar. 10, 1831 ; m. at Wilkes-Barre, Penn., Jan.
19, 1853, Charles Abbott Miner, b. at Plains, Wyoming Valley,
Penn., Aug. 30, 1830, son of Robert Miner, b. Aug. 17, 1805 ; m.
Jan. 3, 1826, Eliza Abbott (b. Oct. 22, 1806, d. Aug. 18, 1846),
and d. Dec. 9, 1842. Robert was son of Asher Miner, who m. Mary,
dau. of Thomas Wright, and a descendant of Thomas Miner
(1608-30) of Stonington, Conn. (See Hist, of Stonington, Conn.,
R. A. W 7 heeler, 1900.)
The Hon. Charles A. Miner represented the city of Wilkes-
Barre in the State Legislature for two terms ;
was a member of the
city council for a number of years, part of the time its president
has been president of the Wilkes-Barre City Hospital ;
president of the W 7 ilkes-Barre Academy ;
eleven years
twenty-one years a direc-
tor of the Wyoming National Bank and in 1901 its vice-president;
was honorary commissioner of Pennsylvania at the Exposition at
Vienna in 1873, and delegate to the National Republican Convention
in 1900. He is president of the Miner-Hillard Milling Com-
pany, a trustee of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society,
and a warden of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal church. The
principal mill of the Miner-Hillard Milling Company is built upon
the foundation of the original mill built by Thomas Wright (Mr.
Miner's great-grandfather) in 1795. This mill was run succes-
sively by his son-in-law, Asher Miner, his grandson Robert, his
great-grandson, Charles A., and his great-great-grandson, Asher
Miner, present manager.
Children
2841 Elizabeth Miner, b. at Plains, Dec. 18, 1853; unm. ; living
at Wilkes-Barre.
2842 Robert Miner, b. at Plains, Oct. 31, 1855; d. Nov. 28,
1856.
2843 William Ross Miner, b. at Wilkes-Barre, July 30, 1858;
d. Aug. 28, 1867.
2844 t Asher Miner, b. Nov. 3 4, I860; m. Hetty McN. Lonsdale.
2845 Sidney Roby Miner, b. at Wilkes-Barre, July 28, 1864;