Prominent men : Scranton and vicinity, Wilkes-Barre and vicinity ...

Prominent Men of Wilkes-Barre and Vicinity
Bk. Mem. State Les^is. in 1SP7-8, from the
1st Le^is. Dist. Mem 120th Regt., P. V.
Maj. 9th Rt-Kt.. N. G. P. Col. G. A. R.
Mfiii. City Council.
* JACOB ROBERTS
896
Born England, Dec. 27, 1819—*March 7, IPo:^.
Married Amelia Allen Roberts. Coal Operator.
CHARLES F. HUBER
897
Born Pottsvillo, Pa. Married Nellie Andrews
Dauprherty, Sept. 12, 1894. Mining
Engineer. Gen. Supt. L. & W.-B. Coal Co.
ROBERT A. QUIN
S9S
Born PottPviUe, Pa., Jan. 17, isnl. Educated
Pottsville. Pa. Mari'ied Minnie E. Thickin.s.
Mgr. of Coal Cos. Dir. W.-Barre City Hospital;
Guar. & Trust Bk., Shamokin, Pa.
Mgr. Susq. Coal Co.; Mineral R. R. & Min.
Co. ; Summit
Branch Min. Co. ; I^ykens
Val.
Coal Co.: Nanticoke Water Co.; Lykens
Water Co.; Lytle Coal Co.
GEN. CHARLES BOW. DOUGHERTY
899
Born ^^'ilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. S, 1860. Educated
Pubh'c Schools, M^ilkos-Barre, and
Emerson In.s., Washington, D. C. Married
Anna Posten. Eeb. U, 1883. Chief Clerk Coal
Cos. Penn'a R. R. Priv. 9th Regt. Inf., 1S81.
Sergt., 1st Lieut., Mai., Eieut. Col. and Col.
and Brig. Gen. of 9th Regt. Inf., N. G. P.,
July 14, 1897. Mem. State Armory Bd. ; Sons
of Revolution; Military Order Foreign
Wars, Naval and Militia Order Spanish-
American War; Ex-Com. Board of Trade.
JOHN ROBISON EDGAR
900
Born Espey, Columbia Co., Pa., Nov. 17, 1851.
Educated State Nor. School, Bloomsburg,
Pa.; Wyo. Sem., Kingston, Pa. Married
Josephine Elizabeth Moore. Feb. 10, 1876.
Paymaster Susq. Coal Co., W.-Barre, Pa.
Sec. and Tieas. ^^'estmoreland Club, W.-B.
*GEN. HENRY M. HOYT, LL. D.
901
Burn Kingston, I'a., June 8, 1830— *Dec. 1,
1892, at W.-Barre. Educated Wyo. Sem.,
Laf. and Wm. Colleges. Married Mary E.
Loveland, Sept. 25, 1855. Lawyer. Add. Law
Judge, Luz. Co. Courts in 1867. Gov. State
of Penn'a, 1879-1883. Col. 52d Penn'a Vols,
and was brevetted Brig.-Gen. U. S. Col.
Int. Rev., 12th Dist. of Pa., 1869 to 1873.
Author of "Protection versus Free Trade"
(1886), 435 pp., 8vo., and various published
addresses and essays on historical and other
subjects.
*GEORGE W. WOODWARD
902
Born Bethanv, Wayne Co., Pa., March 26,
1809—*May 10, 1875. Educated Hobart Col.,
Geneva, N. Y. ; Old
W.-Barre Acad. Mar-
ried Sarah Elizabeth Trott. Sept. 10, 1832;
Mrs. Edward Macalester, 1871. Judge Sup.
Court of Pa. Lawyer. Mem. of Cong., 1867.
Pres. Judge 26th Judicial Dist. of Pa., 1856.
Hon. Mem. F. & A. M., Lodge 61. W.-Barre.
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WARREN JAY WOODWARD, LL. D.
903
Born Bethany, Wayne Co., Pa., Sept. 24,
1819_*Sept. ?3, 1879. Educated Acad., W.-
Barre. Married Catherine Scott, May 23,
1847. Justice of the Sup. Court. Lawyer.
Pres. Judge Berks Co., 1861-1871.
* STANLEY WOODWARD
904
Born AV.-Barre, Pa.. Aug. 29. 18:«-*19(K;.
Educated Yale Coll. Married Sarah R. Butler,
June 3, 1857. Lawyer. Pres. Wyo. Hist.
Soc. Judge of Com. Pleas Court, Eleventh
Jud. Dist. of Pa. for 21 years, beginning 1879.
^EDMUND L. DANA
905
Born Eatonville, Wyo. Co., Pa., Jan. 29,
1S17—*April, 1S89. Married Sarah Peiers.
Lawyer. Judge Com. Pleas Court, Luz. Co.
Capt. Mexican War. Col. 143d Pa. Vols.
CHARLES B. DANA
906
Born Circleville, O., Aug. 12, 18;«. Educated
W.-Barre, Pp.. Married Ellen Wright Learn,
March 26, 18.'6. Alderman 12th Wd. Mem. 1st
Council of the City of W.-Barre.
*GARRIEK M. HARDING
907
Born Exeter, Luz. Co., Pa , July 12, 1827—
*May 19, 19W. Educated Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa. Married Maria Mills Slossore.
Oct., 1852. Atfv-at-Law. Pres. Judge of
Luz. Co., 18:0-1880.
JOHN LYNCH
908
Born Providence, R. 1.. Nov. 1. 1843. ICducated
W\o. Sem. Married Mary C. Lena ban,
Jan. 24, 1877. Admitted to Bar, 1865. Pres.
Judge Luz, Co. Was Citv Att'y, 1S73-1S74;
Reg. of Wills, 1860, Law Judge, 1890 to 1901.
*EDWARD P. DARLING
909
Born Berks Co., Pa., Nov. 10, 1831—*Oct. 19,
1889. Edu. New London Corn Roads Acad,
and Amho'se Coll. Married Emily H. Rutter,
Sept. 29. 1859. Lawyer. Pres. Osterhout
Free Library; V.-Pres. Wyo. Nat. Bk.
Miners' Sav Bk. Trus. W.-Barre Acad.;
W.-Barre Female Ins.
THOMAS DARLING
910
Born W.-Barre. Educated W.-Barre Public
Schools, W.-Barre Acad., Yale Coll. Married
Emma Shields McClintock, June 2, 1902.
Dawver. Mem. Select Council, W.-B,arre,
1900-1901.
JOHN BUTLER WOODWARD
911
B.trn W.-Barre. Pa., April 3, IStil. p::ducated
Yale Coll. Married Marion Hillard. Jmie 6,
1888. Lawyer. Mem. of Firm of Woodward,
Darling & Woodward.
JOHN S. HARDING
912
Born W.-Ba;re, Pa.,
Yale Coll. Married
Aug. 2:i. 1859. Educated
Mary B. Brown, Jan.
25, 1899. Att'v-clt-Law.
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