History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . f Revolu-tionary fame. HISTORY OF TOWNSHIP 111 Since their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Bieseckerhave resided at their present home, on theKnapp farm, where he has been engaged indairying and truck farming. In the Spring of1884 Mr. Biesecker purchased the Corsehusfarm, adjoining the Knapp homestead, for$5,000 aiid finished paying for the same fouryears later. Mr. Biesecker has been a member of the 0. F. MilAvaukie Lodge, No. 267, for overtAventy-five years, and also a charter member ofNewton Grange
History and directory of Newton and Ransom townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; . f Revolu-tionary fame. HISTORY OF TOWNSHIP 111 Since their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Bieseckerhave resided at their present home, on theKnapp farm, where he has been engaged indairying and truck farming. In the Spring of1884 Mr. Biesecker purchased the Corsehusfarm, adjoining the Knapp homestead, for$5,000 aiid finished paying for the same fouryears later. Mr. Biesecker has been a member of the 0. F. MilAvaukie Lodge, No. 267, for overtAventy-five years, and also a charter member ofNewton Grange No. 251. in 1887, when they traveled through the middleWest. The second time was in 1893, when theyattended the Worlds Fair at Chicago, and visit-ed friends in several states this side of the Rockyj\Ioun tains. Mrs. Biesecker is a cousin of Silas C. Swallow,a candidate for jDresident on the Prohibitionticket in 1904. Mr. and Mrs. Biesecker have four children,namely: (1) Arthur S., born Aug. 12, 1878,and graduated from Wyoming Seminary andState College, and is now Traveling Electrical. RESIDENCE OF G. W. BIESECKER Mr. Biesecker cast his first ballot for the Pro-hibition Party when twenty-one years of age,and has since been allied with this party. Heis a member of the Methodist Church, being atrustee and steward for about twenty-five has been superintendent of the M. E. Sun-day School since 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Biesecker were sent as StateDelegates to the International Sunday SchooolConvention which was held in San Francisco,Cal., June 20-27, 1911. They spent a monthsight-seeing on the Pacific Coast and in the farWest. On their return trip they visited severalweeks among relatives of the middle West. Mr. and Mrs. Biesecker made two previoustrips to the western states. The first time being Inspector for the Lackawanna R. R. Co., withheadquarters in Scran ton. He was marriedJune 11, 1908 to Miss Norma G. Decker ofFalls. (2) Mary Belle, born Oct. 5, 1880. Sheattended Wyoming
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