. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . orical character to thepress, and was for years a correspondent of theMilford Herald and Dispatch, a stanchDemocrat. He was elected county commissioner PIKE COUNTY. 957 in 1851, and served four years as county treas-urer, five years as associate judge, five years ascounty auditor, and was a member of the Legis-lature when he died, besides being town clerk,justice of the peace and school director thirty-eight years. There is a small Methodist Churchnear this place. Rowlands, which is only about one milebelow Westfalls, was first start
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . orical character to thepress, and was for years a correspondent of theMilford Herald and Dispatch, a stanchDemocrat. He was elected county commissioner PIKE COUNTY. 957 in 1851, and served four years as county treas-urer, five years as associate judge, five years ascounty auditor, and was a member of the Legis-lature when he died, besides being town clerk,justice of the peace and school director thirty-eight years. There is a small Methodist Churchnear this place. Rowlands, which is only about one milebelow Westfalls, was first started by H. Rowland, who came to Lackawaxen better to be first in a hamlet on the mountainsthan second at Rome, and he is undisputedlythe first in that township. Hon. George H. Rowland. — SamuelRowland and his two brothers came to NewYork from Ireland in 1720, and settled inDutchess County. His son, Samuel Row-land, Jr. (1722-1800), had a son, Robert Row-laud (1746-1812), who was justice of the peacein colonial times, and reared a family of chil-. with his parents in 1828, and beginning someyears later, when a young man, carved out ahome and a fortune on the side of the Erie Railway passes through here, andthe station is named in his honor. He has astore, farm, and had a mill which has beenrecently burned. Mr. Rowland, when helocated in the wilderness among the rocks,proceeded on the Caesarian theory that it is dren, among whom wasGarrandus (1776-1834),grandfather of our subject, born at Troy, N. Y.,who lived and died near Saratoga Springs, inSaratoga County, N. Y., on a farm owned, in1886, by his youngest son, Joseph, now seventyyears old, and the only surviving son of twelvechildren. Garrandus Rowland married a Miss Davis,and reared a family of children. He was a ! WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA fanner and carpenter anil joiner, and resided inSaratoga County, N. Y. Samuel H. Rowland,a son of Garraudus, was born in SaratogaCounty, Nov
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