. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . illage. It con-tains three stores, a blacksmith shop, shoe shop,wagon shop, post-office, church and Sterling Lodge, No. 959, I. O. O. F., wasorganized in September, 1879, with the followingcharter members : Rev. J. F. Warner, B. , W. J. Wallace, Lewis Simons, George WAYNE COUNTY. E. Cliff, Willam Yates, Daniel Bortree, R , A. C. Angel, B. L. Deckard, WilliamStevens, A. C. Howe, John H. Catterson, John , M. J. Webster, P. T. Howe, J. R. Sinuuet,S. T. Olmstead, Robert McLaiii and J. R. l


. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . illage. It con-tains three stores, a blacksmith shop, shoe shop,wagon shop, post-office, church and Sterling Lodge, No. 959, I. O. O. F., wasorganized in September, 1879, with the followingcharter members : Rev. J. F. Warner, B. , W. J. Wallace, Lewis Simons, George WAYNE COUNTY. E. Cliff, Willam Yates, Daniel Bortree, R , A. C. Angel, B. L. Deckard, WilliamStevens, A. C. Howe, John H. Catterson, John , M. J. Webster, P. T. Howe, J. R. Sinuuet,S. T. Olmstead, Robert McLaiii and J. R. lodge is in good financial condition andmeets over Hamlins store. They contemplatebuilding a hall for lodge purposes. 1830 came to Sterling and engaged in the Lumberbusiness, forming a partnership with his brother-in-law, the lamented James M. Noble, whose su-perior qualities of mind and heart rendered theirintimate association for a long term of years mostagreeable. In March, 1840, the lumber firm of Noble &Hamlin bought the mercantile business of Wil-. 4fr#.J&t ^c^; BIOGRAPHICAL. WILLIAM E. HAMLII William E. Hamlin was born in Litchfield,Herkimer County, N. Y., June 7, 1811, and cameto Wayne County when his father, Dr. Asa Ham-lin, moved into Salem township, in 181(5. Hisbrothers, the late Hon. O. J. Hamlin, DarwinHamlin, and his surviving brother, Hon. B. , had located at Smithport, McKean Coun-ty, Pa., and while still in his teens he went therewith a view of making that his permanent home,but liking Wayne County best, he returned, and in liam T. Noble, and commenced merchandising, andfrom this time, with the exception of about twoyears, he continued in the mercantile businessuntil January 1, 1879, at which time he sold hisinterest to his son, with whom he formed a part-nership in 1869. October 18, 1840, he marriedDeborah Ann Noble, of Sterling. He was com-missioned postmaster at Sterling in 1849, holdingthe office without interruption through all thechanges of admini


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