History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . 1887 to 1897; GeorgeH. Rifenbary, from April 1, 1897 to the presenttime. The Home had on January 1, ]912, ninetyeight inmates, seventy-six males and twenty-twofemales. The monthly pay roll for house andfarm labor averages about $ per products of the farm for the vear 1911,amounted to $6, The in-esent director,* and officers are as fol- JHLWAUKIE is a pretty litUe village nestled among tlie hillsof Ransom township. It is located on Gard-ners creek about four miles east from the vil-la
History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . 1887 to 1897; GeorgeH. Rifenbary, from April 1, 1897 to the presenttime. The Home had on January 1, ]912, ninetyeight inmates, seventy-six males and twenty-twofemales. The monthly pay roll for house andfarm labor averages about $ per products of the farm for the vear 1911,amounted to $6, The in-esent director,* and officers are as fol- JHLWAUKIE is a pretty litUe village nestled among tlie hillsof Ransom township. It is located on Gard-ners creek about four miles east from the vil-lage of Ransom and about two miles south ofNewton Centre. The first settlement was made sometime be-fore 1820 by William Brink, on the farm nowowned by Charles Stine. A little later, Hor-ace Twitchel settled where Milwaukie is nowbuilt, and in 1824 erected a saw-mill. PhineasSherwood came about the same time. In 1825,Joseph LeTier made a clearing and built a loghouse on the farm now owned by Mrs. JohnBeyrent. About 1840, or sometime before,Barnev Dersheimer settled the farm now ownecl. RANSOM HOME.—Rear View. lows: Gomer Jones, president; Patrick LI. Dur-kin, secretary; Michael J. Brennan, treasurer;Thomas J. Llewellyn and John H. Mullin. Ransom Coal Storage Plant About 1905, the Lehigh Valley Coal Com-pany purchased about 500 acres of land in Ran-som, including the farms formerly owned byJohn Saxe, Amos Saxe and John Stout, and partof the D. M. Huthmaker farm. The plant wasbegun July 1, 1905 and finished about one vearlater at a cost of $500,000. The first coalwasstored in March, 1906. The plant is run by electricity, which is gen-erated by two 325 horse poAver engines ^^•ith di-rect-connecting dynamos. The plant has acapacity of about 360,000 tons. There wereabout 100,000 tons in storage Jan. 1, twenty to thirty men are employed. Devlin is foreman. by Milton \V. Petty; David Huthmaker on thefarm now owned by Thomas J. Huthmaker;jVlex. Beemer on the farm now o
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